Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 70 The War Horse is Coming (recommendation)

Back at the barracks, Zhang De ordered Fang Dali to be brought up.Fang Dali has been selling private salt for many years, so he naturally guessed what Zhang De asked him to do. When he saw Zhang De, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "If you have any orders from the adults, the younger ones must obey!"

Zhang De looked at Fang Dali and said, "You are selling private salt?"

"That's right, the small one is the leader of the Haisha Gang!" The Haisha Gang is a gang in Donglai that specializes in selling private salt.

Zhang De said with a smile: "In the future, you should stop selling private salt and sell something else!"

Fang Dali was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What do we sell if we don't sell private salt?"

"You can sell whatever I ask you to sell, but I will share [-]% of the money you make!"

Fang Dali still didn't understand, and asked puzzledly: "My lord, please tell me clearly, I'm a vulgar person, I don't understand what your lord means!"

Zhang Dedao: "Let me make it clear. In the future, if you sell private salt, I, Beihai Mansion, will give you guides, but there will be other things on the guides. You sell private salt as usual, and you will give me [-]% of the money you earn!"

Zhang De's method is a bit similar to the smugglers of later generations, selling dog meat under the guise of sheep.And Fang Dali was also thinking about it, if there is a guide from Beihai Mansion, the journey should be smooth, even if the sale is private salt, but because Zhang De is Zhang Rang's son, no officials on the road would dare to make things difficult.In this way, the brothers at least don't have to live the days of licking blood with knives. After all, the Han Dynasty's punishment for selling illegal salt is still very severe.In the past, I exchanged my brother's life for money, but now I am making a steady profit. Although the income is less, I don't have to worry about it every day, and I am afraid that if I say "no" today, I will not be able to get out of this gate.Thinking of this, Fang Dali said: "Thank you, sir, for rewarding Haisha with a bite of food. The villain will definitely do his best!"

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After Fang Dali was arranged, Zhang De transferred Zong Bao to stay at the Donglai camp, in the name of helping Donglai to wipe out the remnants of the bandits, but actually controlling Donglai County.

After arranging the affairs of Donglai, Zhang De was going to return to Beihai, but before that, Zhang De had to find someone else, Donglai Taishi Ci.

So, the next day, Zhang De and Huang Zhong went to Taishi Ci's house.Along the way, Zhang De was thinking about how to fool Tai Shici into going to Beihai.After all, there are not many talents under Zhang De's staff now, so if he can fool one, he can fool one!
Before reaching Taishi Ci's house, he heard shouts of killing coming from the direction of Taishi Ci's house.Zhang De couldn't cry, so he rushed over and saw more than 20 people besieging Tai Shici, and there were still more than a dozen people lying on the ground.

Seeing that Tai Shici was being besieged, Zhang De quickly joined the battle group with Huang Zhong.In this way, the pressure on Tai Shici was greatly reduced.Huang Zhong and Tai Shici were both highly skilled in martial arts, and Zhang De did not give it to him for nothing, and he also had a few blows. In a blink of an eye, most of the people who besieged Tai Shici were injured, and the rest of them turned around and ran away when they saw that the three were strong.

Zhang De and the others did not chase after them, and entered the house with Tai Shici.Zhang De first asked: "Brother Taishi, who are these people, why are they besieging you?"

Tai Shici sighed and said: "Hey, these must be sent by the state officials. I heard that I came back to make trouble for me. It seems that I have to go out to avoid disaster again!"

After hearing this, Zhang De thought that Zhengchou had no excuse to fool Tai Shici, and hurriedly said: "Brother Tai Shi, why don't you go to Beihai with me! I think that as long as you are in Beihai City, the state officials will not dare to trouble you. You can also come here Be filial to my aunt!"

Tai Shici is a filial son, and he was very moved after hearing Zhang De's words.Ever since he fled to Jiangdong, he has missed his mother all the time. Now that he has such an opportunity, how can Tai Shici not be moved.Although Zhang De is Zhang Rang's son, after getting along for many days, Tai Shici found that Zhang De is not a bad person, and Zhang De's reputation in Qingzhou is not bad since he came to Beihai, recruited refugees, and made extensive use of land.In the end, Tai Shici decided to go to Beihai with Zhang De.

This time Zhang De can be regarded as a fruitful return. Not only did he control the private salt dealers in Qingzhou area, but he also recruited Tai Shici and Wang Xiu.

As soon as I got back to the Beihai Prefect's Mansion, before I entered the door, I heard someone shouting again: "Uncle Thirteen, are you back!"

When Zhang De heard it, he knew that it was Zhang Xing, the second son.Sure enough, he saw Zhang Xing running out of the house with half a chicken leg in his hand and half a piece of chicken skin stuck to his beard. Regardless of the greasy hands, he gave Zhang De a bear hug.I just heard Zhang Xing shout: "Uncle Thirteen, you miss me so much, I wanted to go to Donglai to find you, but that Chen Gong just wouldn't let me go!" Lai ruined Zhang De's affairs, so he kept stopping Zhang Xing from going to Donglai.

Zhang Dexin said that this kid had been kept by Zhang Rang's side as his bodyguard, why did he come here, and hurriedly asked: "Zhang Xing, why are you here!"

Zhang Xingdao: "Uncle Thirteen, I brought you horses. They are more than 2000 good Xiliang horses. They had already arrived in Luoyang, but Grandpa was afraid that these Xiliang horses would not be able to stand the climate of the Central Plains, so he stayed in Luoyang. After raising it for a few months, I sent it to you."

After Dong Zhuo took office in Xiliang, he prepared three thousand horses for Zhang Rang. Although Zhang Rang said he wanted two thousand horses, it was impossible for Dong Zhuo to give only two thousand horses.So I picked 200 horses for Zhang Rang and sent them over.From Liangzhou to Luoyang, some horses naturally fell ill due to acclimatization. In addition, Zhang Rang also kept more than 500 horses for his own use. In the end, more than [-] war horses were sent over.

As soon as Zhang De heard that the horses were coming, he thought it was good, and he would have cavalry.Immediately call all the generals to pick the horse.

Seeing all the generals under his command joyfully picking up the horses, Zhang De was also very happy in his heart.I finally have cavalry in my hand!

But what kind of cavalry should be formed gave Zhang De a headache.Originally, Zhang De wanted to build a light cavalry similar to the Mongolian cavalry.But Zhang De also knew that the soldiers recruited by Beihai couldn't be as good at shooting as the cavalry on the grassland no matter how they were trained. If they formed a light cavalry that was not good at shooting, the effect would not be great.Besides, Liangzhou horses are different from Youzhou horses. Liangzhou horses are bigger and good at assault, but their endurance is not as good as horses on the prairie. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang iron cavalry later went straight to fight, and charged directly when encountering the enemy .

Zhang De dismissed the idea of ​​building cavalry archers. It seems that if he wants to build cavalry archers, it is best to recruit Xianbei or Wuhuan cavalry. He should build a team of heavy armored cavalry himself.

Heavy armored cavalry, both men and horses wear armor, is undoubtedly the tank of this era.Moreover, there were no heavy cavalry at the end of the Han Dynasty.But if heavy armored cavalry is established, two thousand horses can only have at most one thousand heavy armored cavalry.Because the heavy armored cavalry is at least one man and two horses, usually put the armor on one horse, and change horses to charge when fighting, but because the horses carry too much weight, they can only charge short distances at most, and it is not suitable for long-distance raids.

More importantly, heavy cavalry is too expensive!
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PS: There are finally cavalry, although there are not many, but it is enough for the time being, and we will expand the number of recruits in the future.To be honest, I don’t know much about cavalry, so I hope enthusiastic readers will give me some advice!This is today's Chapter 2, please recommend!

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