Wushuang Wudi of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 66 Building a Ranch

"It's getting late, you should go back to Pinyang City first, and have a good rest! In two days, I will send someone to escort you back to Chang'an City! Wait for me to return from the battle!" Lu Bu did not put his accustomed Marquis on his lips, road.

"Okay! I'll wait for you!" Cai Wenji nodded.

"Come here! Protect her!" Lu Bu ordered, and the estimated escort team increased from 40 to 80 people.

Cai Wenji looked at Lu Bu, and left reluctantly.

Seeing her figure disappear into the distance, Lu Bu breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing what it was like.This, it seems that the development is a bit fast, but, never mind!Ha ha!

As the sky gradually began to darken, Lu Bu gave up his plan to personally lead the troops to the north, and waited anxiously in place.It would be best if the four hundred cavalrymen who hadn't come back found it. If they didn't find it, I would go out tomorrow to check it out!
In Pinyang City, the lights had already been turned on, and the night was still falling. The soldiers next to him handed out ordinary meals, but Lu Bu didn't care, and finished them in a hurry.After waiting for a while, I heard the sound of countless horseshoes in the distance, and the large army returned.Lu Fang and a knight hurried over.

"How is it?" Lu Bu asked quickly, very concerned.

"Marquis Wen! We have contacted them! This is the other Sima of the [-] cavalry!" Lu Fangxi said.

"Subordinate Ma Zhong, pay homage to Marquis Wen!" Sima Dao of the other department began to report the situation. "Let me tell Marquis Wen, we chased and killed the Qiang people all the way, and pursued them towards the north. In a few hours, we traveled about seventy miles and killed more than a thousand enemies. Later, we met the Qiang people in a grassland with a water source near Suyang. A ranch! There are hundreds of guards in the ranch, I will break it after a bloody battle, and I dare not make decisions without authorization, so I guard there and take care of the ranch!"

"Oh? Very good! It's normal for some Qiang people to slip through the net! How's the situation in the ranch?" Lu Bu nodded in approval and asked.

"The ranch is not big, only about [-] horses of different sizes! However, there is a herd of wild horses nearby, the scale is not small, there may be close to [-] wild horses!" Biebu Sima Zhong said.

Lu Bu was a little disappointed when he heard that there were only [-] horses in the Qiang ranch.However, he couldn't help being very excited when he heard that there were nearly [-] wild horses in the herd.

"Good! In this way, our army has another place of production of war horses! This is an important military resource!" Lu Bu said happily. This time, the lost war horses can finally be replenished!
"By the way, what did you say is your name? Ma Zhong?" Lu Bu asked with a strange expression on his face.Ma Zhong, could it be Ma Zhong who is said to be the number one soldier in the Three Kingdoms!Ma Zhong, the "No. [-] fierce general", has an impressive record of capturing Guan Yu alive and shooting Huang Zhong!However, that is Ma Zhong from Soochow.It seems that with a population of tens of millions, names with two Chinese characters are still prone to duplicate names.

"No! It's my subordinate!" Biebu Sima Mazhong replied in confusion, why is Marquis Wen's face so strange?

"Haha! That's right! Ma Zhong, I will order you to be the Marquis of the Beizhong Army, with a rank of six hundred stones and a temporary command of one hundred cavalry! In charge of our army's ranch, you should find a way to enclose those wild horses within the range of the ranch In the future, we will provide military horses to our army on a regular basis! This will be converted into your military merits according to a certain amount! The specific scope and amount will be communicated to you by Du Ji, the military adviser of the General’s Mansion! I will lose you, and when the time comes, I will fight on the battlefield with me again!" Lu Bu ordered, and he was appointed as an official to dispel his doubts.

"Promise! This subordinate will definitely handle this matter well!" Ma Zhong said hastily, although the number of people under his leadership has decreased, the position has been raised!Moreover, Marquis Wen values ​​this matter and himself so much, as long as he does well, rewards are indispensable!

Until Lu Bu didn't pay much attention to it, in the age of cold weapons, the power of cavalry is too strong, as long as it is used well, every minute will determine the chance of victory on the battlefield!He is a master in commanding cavalry, so he naturally pays more attention to the reserve resources of war horses.In the near future, the defeat of [-] to [-] Qiang soldiers by [-] cavalry is an example of a battle; in the farther range, a large number of war horses will also be needed to conquer nomads in the future.

"Benhou feels that there may be more horses scattered in this area than this. You need to worry more! If there is not enough manpower, there happens to be a group of Qiang people who are good at herding and know how to breed war horses among the captives. Make good use of them! Also pay attention to keeping Be vigilant!" Lu Bu warned.

"No!" Hou Mazhong of the Northern Central Army said.

The matter of the ranch is over, and Lu Bu also breathed a sigh of relief, "The soldiers are tired after fighting for a day, let's go to the city to rest! Of course vigilance is also indispensable!" Lu Bu finally said, turning his horse's head, and headed towards Pinyang City go.Thousands of riders followed him in formation, walking slowly.

After resting in this county for a day, and personally sending Cai Wenji to Chang'an City, Lu Bu led another 6000 riders and headed towards Xinping County.

It can be said that it is a battlefield life of sleeping in the open and sleeping.

At this moment, Lu Bu did not choose to march in a hurry, but marched at a normal speed. Excluding the contact scouts, it was estimated that it would take 6 days to return to the battlefield in Xinping County.

In this way, the entire raid campaign took only nine days. After these hours passed, the war in Xinping would naturally start long ago.

Lu Bu said in his heart that he trusted Zhang Liao's ability, but he was still worried.An army lacking cavalry is very dangerous, and Zhang Liao's troops are still at a relatively disadvantaged position.Not every war is won by the powerful person!
Cao Cao is far better than Xu Rong, but Cao Cao was defeated by Xu Rong once; Sun Jian, a tiger in Jiangdong, was far better than Liu Biao in battle, but he lost to Liu Biao and lost his life!As for Cao Cao's defeat by Zhang Xiu three times, and Zhou Yu's defeat by Cao Ren, there are many such battles.The battlefield is like this, not only to learn to win, but also to learn to lose.

However, haste makes waste, six thousand cavalry marched thousands of miles, fought a big battle, and then rushed back in a hurry. If one didn't notice, it might be the one who Pang Juan chased and killed Sun Bin, but died tragically under a big tree. It looks like it!Lu Bu remained calm and marched as usual, bringing confidence and encouragement to the soldiers.

At this time, just as Lu Bu thought, a big battle was about to start near Xinping County.

It turned out that on the second day after Lu Bu left, Ma Teng and Han Sui's coalition forces had already moved forward to Han Piao County.It was the small county town between Linjing and Xinping that Jia Xu had reminded me of.On the third day after Lu Bu attacked the Qiang people, the allied forces of Ma Teng and Han Sui had already approached the city and set up camp thirty miles away from Zhang Liao's main force.

On the day when Lu Bu started his return journey, Ma Teng and Han Sui just launched an attack on Zhang Liao's troops.

(End of this chapter)