Han Dao world

Chapter 270

Chapter 270
Go to humble people to understand.

On the grassland, the weak and the strong prey on the strong, and the old wolf who was expelled from the wolf pack has only one way to die.

If they can't show enough strength, the Han people may not be interested in helping them put down the rebellion, but they must be interested in swallowing them up.

They picked out ten warriors, and they had a contest with the Han army on the bank of Fen River.

The results are jaw-dropping.

Everyone, including Liu Xie himself, felt that the Huns would be defeated, but not completely.

After all, riding and archery is the ancestral art of the Huns. Even if the Han army has one or two masters of riding and archery, they will not be able to form a comprehensive crush. The Huns will win with a high probability.

But I don't know if it's the Huns who are really dying, or the Huben servant is too brave. In the first riding and shooting competition, the Huben servant actually crushed the Huns.

Ten Huben servants, each with twelve arrows and a target of fifty steps, the worst one hits six arrows, the best hits ten arrows, and the average hit rate is more than eight arrows.

The Huns only had about seven arrows, and the worst one only hit three arrows, which was a disgrace to all the Huns.

You can't win in riding and shooting, and you can't watch the others.

Holding a spear in close combat, at the first charge, seven Huns were picked off their horses, and only two servants of Huben fell from their horses.

Dismounting and fighting, Huben's servant also easily defeated his opponent and won a complete victory.

At the end of the competition, the faces of all the Huns, including Huchuquan, turned green.

Liu Xie, who was watching the battle, patted his knees and smacked his lips.

"Shan Yu, don't you need to compare?"

Hu Chuquan felt ashamed and agreed repeatedly. "No need to compare, no need to compare."

The last item is team battle. You don't need to look at it to know that the Huns will lose.

There is no advantage in individual battles, and there is no chance for group battles.In terms of mutual cooperation, Hu Chuquan, who has seen the training of the Han army, is too aware of the gap between the two sides.

"What's going on here?" Liu Xie looked puzzled, not hiding his disappointment.

Hu Chuquan blushed, speechless.

Aiken on the side said: "Your Majesty, just like a horse, even the best horse on the grassland will become weak when it reaches the Central Plains. We have been fleeing for several years, neither getting food supplies nor replacing horses. It’s not as good as before. If we can return to the grassland, within a few years, we will recover our strength and become His Majesty’s most valiant hound.”

Liu Xie looked at Aiken in surprise.

This kid is very smart, at least better than Hu Chuquan.

No wonder he was able to live so long between the Wei and Jin Dynasties and gave birth to a strong son.

"Is that right?"

"Yes... yes." Hu Chuquan lowered his head, not daring to look into Liu Xie's eyes.

Liu Xie nodded, signaling the end of the competition.

He wants the Huns to see the gap in strength between the two sides, recognize their identities, and stop thinking about their share, but it's not for a moment of pleasure.

In the future, they will lead the way in the grassland battle.

Under Liu Xie's signal, Guo Wu and others exchanged feelings with the Huns who participated in the competition, talked about martial arts, and gave them the swords they had around their waists as gifts to show their closeness.

Holding the exquisite and sharp ring-shou knife, the Xiongnu warrior who had just been beaten with blue eyes and swollen nose turned into joy and smiled happily.

Unlike the misunderstanding of later generations, the Huns did not use machetes, they also used ring-shoudao.Some are trophies picked up from the battlefield, and some are imitations made in imitation of the Han army's standard, but in any case, they cannot be compared with the ring-shoulders presented by the servants of Huben.

This is a fine product made by Anyi Tieguan, a real hundred-refined knife.

Courtesy is reciprocal, and the Huns can't take out their weapons, so they use other things instead.Some are treasured jewels, some are their own mounts, and some are elaborate horn bows.

Taking advantage of this enthusiasm, Liu Xie ordered Yang Biao to hold a banquet to entertain the Huns, and let the ministers and ministers participate together.

Yang Biao understood that civil and military officials who ordered people to pass on messages and banquets must let the Huns see what is the prestige of the Han family.

The emperor crushed the Huns with force, so that the Huns did not dare to be arrogant and despise them.They want to conquer the Huns with civilization, make the Huns feel ashamed and yearn for it.

While Yang Biao was preparing the banquet, Liu Xie chatted with Hu Chuquan and Aiken.

Liu Xie asked the question that Aiken just mentioned, and it was also his doubts all the time.

Why is there always a shortage of horses in the Central Plains?
Regarding this question, Hu Chuquan and Aiken actually couldn't say clearly, but they all knew one thing.

The number of horses transported from northern Xinjiang to the Central Plains is very large, thousands of horses every year, sometimes even tens of thousands.In the past two years, there have been constant wars in the Central Plains, and horse trading has become one of the most profitable businesses.

An ordinary horse is worth three to four thousand dollars on the grasslands, but sold in the Central Plains, it is worth at least ten thousand.

The price of war horses is higher, usually between [-] and [-].

Excluding consumption, profits are still considerable, and doubling is basically guaranteed.

With the Taihang Mountains as the boundary, there are two routes for selling horses: one is to go south through Yanmen and Taiyuan, and the other is to go south through Zhuojun and Zhongshan.

The horses in northern Xinjiang could not be transported directly to the Central Plains, and the horses would die in large numbers due to unacceptable water and soil conditions.The Horse Chamber of Commerce chooses to recuperate for a period of time in the middle, so that the horses can adapt to the climate and forage of the Central Plains, and then go south.

On the commercial road between Yanmen and Taiyuan, Taiyuan is the most frequently chosen stopping point for horse merchants.

Because Taiyuan has a large amount of mountainous land and pastures are available, it is easier for horses to adapt to the process from grazing to breeding.

As for Liu Xie's question, Hu Chuquan proposed a possible answer: Although the lifespan of a horse is not short, it can live for [-] to [-] years, but the real usable time is very short, only [-] or [-] years.

As for war horses, unless they are carefully bred, few can keep their condition for more than ten years.

Liu Xie understood a little bit.

Unless the fertile land is turned into pastures like the Mongols, the Central Plains cannot solve the problem of the source of war horses and can only rely on the northwest region.Based on the current conditions, it is the three states of secluded and cool.

Other places may produce horses, but they cannot have enough war horses.

The gradual demise of the Yueqiying is inevitable, so that later generations do not know whether the Yueqiying is a cavalry battalion composed of Yue people, or it means that the Yueqiying has superb riding skills and can climb mountains and waters.

In fact, when the Yueqi Camp was set up in the Han Dynasty, the land of Baiyue was still barren and there were still horses available. However, as farming was gradually implemented in the land of Baiyue, there were fewer animals like horses that relied heavily on pastures, and the Yueren cavalry was not as good Hu Bing in northern Xinjiang disappeared in the depths of history.

Liu Xie felt that he had grasped the key point, that horse trading was definitely a big business.

Controlling the warhorse resources in one's own hands can not only solve some financial problems, but also influence the situation in Shandong.

What kind of horse you want to sell, how much you want to sell, and who you want to sell to are all means you can use.

Furthermore, even if there is no war, the Central Plains still needs a large number of horses for transportation and postal transmission, and there are a lot of them every year.

If horse legs are a plug-in to human legs, controlling the source of horses in the Central Plains is tying the legs of Shandong people.Although it will not make it difficult for them to move, at least it can control their speed and range of action.

Such a strategic high ground must be in our own hands.

The originally vague strategy gradually became clear, and it became possible to realize it.

(End of this chapter)

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