Chapter 217 Killing the Horse

Ma Liao also arrived after hearing the news, and arrived before the person arrived: "Governor General, is it Meng Hu's army that sneaked into Gushan Military Horse Farm?"

Ma Sifeng nodded reverently and said, "Who else can be there besides Meng Hu's army? Even if Xinghe Manqi wants to go south, he lacks courage!"

After saying this, Ma Sifeng shouted sternly: "Ma Liao!"

Ma Liao quickly took two steps forward, straightened his chest and responded: "Here!"

Ma Sifeng shouted: "Immediately assemble the Fourth Regiment and follow my supervisor to help Gushan Military Horse Farm!"

Meng Hu's alone army arrived far beyond Ma Sifeng's expectations, because the previous information also showed that Meng Hu's alone army had been playing hide-and-seek in the northwest province and Yue Meng and Li Yu's two special condemnation teams. Unexpectedly, they flew to the northern province so quickly, and they really set their sights on Gushan Military Horse Farm!

If Lord Shi Miyuan had not expected it, I would have been afraid that Meng Hu would succeed this time!

But even so, the current situation is still not optimistic, because the other three cavalry regiments of the Fourth Division are still on their way to Xiaogucheng and will not arrive until tomorrow evening as soon as possible. Before that, Ma Sifeng could only use the Fourth Regiment stationed in Xiaogucheng to restrain Meng Hu's army.

Of course, it is unlikely to defeat Meng Hu's army with the Fourth Regiment. Fortunately, the Fourth Regiment only needs to entangle Meng Hu's army. As long as the other three regiments of the Fourth Division arrive, Meng Hu's lonely army will be unable to fly. In the face of the northern light cavalry with absolute advantage, Meng Hu's army will be destroyed no matter how brave and good at fighting.

Ma Sifeng is not solemn Yuan, nor is it Li Yu. He is a pure imperial soldier. He will unswervingly implement the military orders of the Ministry of War.

"Yes, I'll gather the army now."

Ma Liao agreed with a loud promise and took the order.

However, after less than a cup of tea, Ma Liao hurried back to the central army's tent and said to Ma Sifeng angrily: "Governor, it's broken!"

Ma Sifeng frowned when he heard this and asked, "What's wrong?"

"War Horse!" Ma Liao said in anger, "The three light cavalry brigades have all been pulled out of the way, and they can't walk at all."

"What did you say!?"

Ma Sifeng was shocked when he heard this. If this is the case, then the matter would be tricky!

If the three light cavalry brigades of the Fourth Regiment cannot rush to Gushan Military Horse Farm on time, the guard brigade stationed in Gushan Military Horse Farm will not last long. Once Meng Hu's army captures the war horses in the military horse farm, their mobility will inevitably increase greatly. Not to mention entangling them, even capturing their whereabouts will become quite difficult!

By the evening of tomorrow, when the other three cavalry regiments of the Fourth Division arrived, I was afraid that Meng Hu's army would be far away a hundred miles away, and the initiative in this war would be completely in Meng Hu's hands. With Ma Sifeng's understanding of Meng Hu, once the situation evolved like this, it would be basically impossible for the Northern Army to encircle and annihilate Meng Hu's army.

"Weizhi will investigate now!" Ma Liao shouted viciously, "So many war horses have diarrhea at the same time. This is definitely not an accident. Someone must have deliberately made trouble from it. Weizhi must investigate this matter to the bottom!"

"You're foolish!"

Ma Sifeng shouted anxiously, "Now is not the time to hold people accountable, nor is it the time to investigate the problem. The most important thing now is to quickly rush to the Gushan Military Horse Farm. Even if you can't save tens of thousands of war horses in the military horse farm, you must hold Meng Hu's army tightly until the other three cavalry corps of the Fourth Division arrived."

"Yes!" Ma Liao responded urgently, "Nei will lead troops to the Gushan Military Horse Farm!"

Ma Sifeng pointed at the head: "The entire army marched quickly to assist the Gushan Army Horse Farm. Meng Hu's lonely army had only three or four thousand people, and there were more than 20,000 war horses in the Gushan Army Horse Farm. They didn't need so many war horses, and they could not march with war horses. So as long as we can arrive as soon as possible, we can still regain the war horses. As long as we take back the war horses, our three brigades of cavalry can entangle them until the other three cavalry regiments arrive!"

"yes!"

Ma Liao agreed with a loud promise and took the order.

Ma Sifeng took a deep breath and turned around to shout at the captain behind him: "Let's go, we'll go to Gushan Military Horse Farm too!"

Gushan Military Horse Farm.

Meng Hu's army had completely controlled the entire horse farm. The northern police force responsible for guarding the horse farm was really sparse and collapsed without almost any decent resistance. There was nothing we could do about it. These police force were originally a mob who lacked training and had never seen blood. In addition, they were attacked by the barbarians at night, and if they were not disintegrated, they would be a ghost.

In the blazing flames, Xiong Batian strode to Meng Hu and said loudly: "General, our army has completely controlled the entire military horse farm. Except for a few enemy troops and a small number of war horses that flee, the vast majority of the other enemy troops have become our prisoners, and there are also a large number of war horses in the horse farm, which are now ours."

Meng Hu nodded and said coldly: "Kill all the prisoners, no one will be left!"

Xiong Batian stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, shouting in a grim voice: "Yes, no one left!"

"besides……"

Xiong Batian was about to turn around and leave, but Meng Hu stopped him again, "There are those war horses, select 6,000 good horses from them, and the rest... slaughter them all!"

"What?" Xiong Batian was shocked when he heard this, "War horses are also killed?"

"Yes!" Meng Hu shouted in a deep voice, "You cannot leave the extra horses to the Northern Army, otherwise it will cause endless harm."

"Why?" Xiong Batian asked in confusion, "Isn't it good to drive these war horses back to the grassland? Besides, it won't affect the speed of the marching with the war horses, and it's better to transfer?"

"What do you know!?" Meng Hu said coldly, "Implement military orders!"

Xiong Batianxin agreed unwillingly and left unhappily.

Jia Wudao next to him wanted to follow up and persuade Xiong Batian, but I would forget it. It is not easy to explain this matter clearly to Xiong Batian, a simple-minded barbarian. In fact, Meng Hu didn't know how precious the war horses were to the barbarians on the Great Wilderness. If possible, Meng Hu was willing to bring these war horses, and the marching of the war horses would not affect the speed of the marching. He could even transfer, making the mobility of the Meng Hu army better, and there was no need to worry about the forage required for war horses, because in the northern provinces, there were grasses needed for war horses everywhere.

But after repeated weighing the pros and cons, Meng Hu still gave up this idea. There is only one reason, that is, safety considerations!

If you bring so many war horses to march, the target will be too large and it will be easy to be captured by the rangers of the Northern Army. Once the Northern Governor Ma Sifeng leads a large number of cavalry from the Northern Army to catch up, it will not be fun. Meng Hu will not be so arrogant that he thinks that he can eat the entire Northern Army with just two thousand barbarian cavalry.

After Xiong Batian took the order, Meng Hu turned around and asked Jia Wudao: "Old Jia, is there any news from Zhang Xingba?"

"Oh, there's news already."

Jia Wudao responded quickly, "Just just received a quick horse delivery from General Zhang Xingba, saying that he had fed the war horses of Xiaogucheng garrison. It is estimated that the garrison in Xiaogucheng will not be able to come to rescue tonight. Now, General Xingba's guards have rushed to Mao Town as planned."

Maocheng is located on the south side of Gushan Military Horse Farm and Xiaogucheng, backed by Maoshan and facing Maohe River.

There are about eight or nine hundred families in Maocheng, with a total population of about three thousand. Maocheng is about a hundred miles away from Gushan Military Horse Farm, and less than fifty miles away from Xiaogucheng. From Xiaogucheng to Maocheng, if you marching quickly, you can arrive in less than two hours. If you are running and marching quickly, it will take half a day to arrive at the fastest!

When it was almost dawn, Zhang Xingba's guards arrived at Maocheng Xiaowai.

According to Meng Hu's original plan, Zhang Xingba's guards will seize Maocheng with lightning speed and capture a small number of guards and all the people stationed in the city. No one is allowed to leak out! As for why the people in Maocheng were captured, Zhang Xingba was not very clear. Anyway, it was enough for him to execute military orders.

It was the darkest time before dawn and the most relaxed guards of the Maocheng Guards. Although Zhang Xingba's guards were exhausted after a long and marching fifty miles away, they finally attacked Maocheng without any effort. A security squadron stationed in Maocheng, along with nearly 3,000 people in the city, escaped.

Less than two hours after Zhang Xingba's guards attacked Maocheng, Meng Hu also led more than 2,000 barbarians to escort more than 500 military craftsmen and more than 6,000 war horses. It took nearly a hundred miles from Gushan Military Horse Farm to Maocheng. In addition, it took a lot of time to slaughter the war horses and strip off the guard robe, so more than 2,000 barbarians arrived two hours later than Zhang Xingba's guards.

Just as Meng Hu led more than 2,000 barbarians to Maocheng, Malia's Fourth Regiment also rushed to Gushan Military Horse Farm panting. However, in front of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment, there was an extremely bloody scene. The grass in the horse farm was full of guard corpses. What was even more unbelievable was that the stables were full of war horse corpses, thousands of war horses were slaughtered, and many war horses were not dead, and they were still twitching in the pool of blood and whining...

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, and it was clearly heard about more than ten miles away. The blood flowed from countless war horses and guards almost dyed the entire military horse farm red, and the real blood flowed into a river!

"Crazy, what a madman!"

Ma Liao looked at the super terrifying scene in front of him and murmured, "I actually killed even the war horses. What a madman!"

I don’t know when Ma Sifeng had already arrived behind Ma Liao.
Chapter completed!