?Why was Ma Chao so excited when he saw Zhao Xing? Because he felt that he would definitely follow Zhao Xing to enter the pass and fight a big battle next time, which was much more comfortable than being entangled by those princesses in Yanqi all day long. "

Zhao Xing didn't open the pot and asked Ma Chao with a smile: "Meng Qi, what princess in Yanqi Country do you like? I'll host the wedding for you!"

Ma Chao's face was suddenly flushed and he didn't know what to say. The two brothers Ma Dai and Ma Xiu, who were following Ma Chao, suddenly burst into laughter, as if they finally found a good opportunity to watch the big brother being defeated.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xing's next words made the two of them shut up quickly. Zhao Xing said: "You two are smiling so happily. It seems that they have to marry a few princesses and come back to discipline them!"

When Zhao Xing joked about Ma Chao, this guy was only twenty years old now, and his two brothers were only sixteen or seventeen years old, both uninformed young birds. When he heard about marrying a wife, he would be inexplicably panicked.

My brothers were scared by Ma Yun after getting married. Although Zhao Yun spoke less before marrying Ma Yun, he often drank wine and played cards with his brothers. Since marrying the Ma family's eldest daughter, Zhao Yun spoke less and had no time to come out to drink with his brothers. Even the matter of playing cards could not be mentioned.

Although Ma Yun-Te is the sister of Ma Chao's brothers, he is now very strong in the Zhao Mansion, which makes his brothers look very glorious. But when they think of Zhao Yun who is being controlled by him, they can't help but feel panicked. If they marry a wife in the future, they will be as stinky as Jack Ma, would they have to go from a little wild horse to a Jiaju with a bridle covered with reins?

It is precisely because of this inexplicable marriage phobia that the three brothers were nervous when they heard that Zhao Xing asked them to marry a wife.

After making fun of the three brothers of the Ma family, Zhao Xing had important things to do next. Now Ma Chao has brought 20,000 Xiliang cavalry and 30,000 Yanqi, a mixed cavalry of the Shan Kingdom. How to bring this chaotic force out of combat effectiveness has become an urgent task.

There was a new situation that attracted Zhao Xing's attention - he was a human being in two lives. He discovered the camel soldiers for the first time. When he was in the special operations camp in the last life, he heard his comrades mentioning that there were still camel soldiers in the depths of the Gobi Desert, but Zhao Xing had never seen them. This time, Ma Chao brought nearly 5,000 camel soldiers (in fact, including Yanqi and Shanguo, which will be collectively called Yanqi Cavalry in the future).

Zhao Xing knew in his heart that camels were an important mount in arid and semi-arid areas. When fighting in these areas, riding camels was sometimes even more beneficial than war horses. In the Middle East in the Middle Ages, camel soldiers were prevalent, and the crusaders who rode on horseback suffered many great losses. The most famous one was the Arab cavalry led by Saladin, who once beat the Romans to the point of fart.

According to Zhao Xing's analysis, there are two main reasons for the Roman cavalry to suffer against the Arab camel soldiers: one is natural factors. The war horses are not suitable for desert combat, and the Crusaders are heavily armored and do not adapt to the hot environment. The other is that in terms of command, Saladin rarely uses head-on conflicts and is highly mobility, but the Crusaders are long-distance raids, and supply is a problem, which basically depends on the soldiers' will.

If you really attack head-on on a flat and open terrain, the cavalry is more dominant. After all, the cavalry's attack and defense capabilities are far higher than those of the camel cavalry.

Zhao Xing asked someone to measure the speed of the camel soldiers among the Yanqi cavalry. The final conclusion was that the speed of the bimodal camels was eight to twelve miles per hour, while the dromedary camels were significantly better than the bimodal camels. When carrying people, they could still travel twenty-five to thirty miles per hour. Moreover, the dromedary camels can run for a long time, and the longest can be eight or nine hours without stopping. Perhaps the knights riding on the camel's back may be exhausted, and the camels are fine.

The biggest advantage of bimodal camels over dromedary camels is that they can carry heavy objects and are very suitable for long-distance recharge in desert terrain. If Zhao Xing wants to confront countries in central and western Asia in the future, logistics supply transportation will be particularly important.

After understanding the pros and cons of the camel soldiers, Zhao Xing secretly decided to try to form a cavalry unit composed of war horses and camels in the Western Regions, and the Xiliang army, which was close to him, naturally had to undertake this glorious task.

Some people say: A lean camel is bigger than a horse. This is true. Some huge bimodal camels can even ride three to four people on their backs, and their height is almost the same as that of an elephant. Even a smaller dromedary camel is one head taller than an ordinary war horse. The main reason is that the camels have long legs and long necks.

Some people also say: War horses are afraid of camels because the smell emitted by camels will scare the horses. This is a bit nonsense. After a little adaptation, the war horses can move in the same team as the camels. As for the smell, it is even more untenable. After training war horses, even if they encounter lions, they dare to step on them, let alone camels.

Zhao Xing's idea was that when the cavalry expeditions westward, a war horse would be equipped with a double-peaked camel, a war horse would be equipped with a manned horse, a camel carries food, fresh water and a certain amount of arrows, so as to ensure that the logistics supply of the expeditionary force would not be too tight. The expeditionary cavalry would no longer be equipped with heavy jockeys for a period of time, and until after encountering the cavalry legion of the Qin (Roman) Empire in the future, a heavy cavalry regiment would be formed according to the situation.

These are all later stories. The problem facing Zhao Xing now is to integrate the 5,000 Han cavalry who guarded him, the 20,000 Xiliang cavalry led by Ma Chao, and the 30,000 Yanqi and the cavalry of the Shan Kingdom that accompanied him, to form a combat power that is both offensive and defensive.

Just imagine, when Zhao Xing secretly commanded 50,000 troops wearing Hu's uniforms and riding camels into the Sanfu area and threw thunder into the top of Chang'an City, the expressions on Huangfu Song and his son's faces would definitely be very exciting.

In order to achieve the purpose of training and integration, and also give Huangfu Song, who was eager to try in Chang'an area, Zhao Xing decided to continue to stay outside Yumen Pass, while conquering the front and rear trains (sound ju) the state of the army to train, while waiting for the situation in Guanzhong area to change.

The Cheshi Kingdom, whose original name was Gushi, was located on the eastern edge of the Junggar Basin, guarding the gap in the Tianshan Mountains. The capital of the country is Jiaohe City (now northeast of Turpan, Xinjiang). Here, Loulan is connected to the south, Yanqi, Kucha and other countries in the west, Wusun is connected to the northwest, Xiongnu is connected to the northeast, Hujie.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Gu Shi was very troubled by the Han envoys who had passed by, so he often attacked and robbed the envoys sent by the Han Dynasty, or acted as eyes and ears for the Huns, asking them to send troops to attack and intercept Han envoys.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, Zhao Ponu ordered Zhao Ponu to defeat Gu Shi, which was intimidating the Western Regions of Wusun, Dayuan and other countries. Later, Gu Shi was renamed Che Shi. Because it was far away from the Han territory, it was still close to the Huns, which still posed a great threat to the Han envoys who passed by.

During the reign of Emperor Ling, the remnants of the Northern Huns, located north of the Cheshi Kingdom, were completely driven to the west of Kangju by the Xianbei people. However, the arrogant Xianbei people were attacked by Zhao Xing, Bingzhou. Now, no one dares to claim that they are descendants of the Xianbei people in the northern desert. Otherwise, the first person to come up to take action was the Yansheng cavalry led by Yan Xi.

Without the suppression of the Huns and Xianbei people, and the Qiang people in the Xiliang region have been in trouble for a long time, the officials and army of the Han Dynasty have not arrived here for decades. This time, it happened to be left to Zhao Xing and Ma Chao and others to practice, and by the way it also sounded a wake-up call for the Wusun Kingdom in the northwest. ~ See the first release without advertisements, please come to "

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