When Gao Yong and Kemo led his troops to set out from Maruto City, Deng Ai and his son, who led five thousand light cavalry, almost swollen the hindrance of the war horse with a horse whip.

It is not an easy journey to travel from time to time, five days and six hundred miles, especially the bumpy and uneven roads in ancient times, as well as wooden wheels without any shockproof, and the bumpy horseback horseback. The rapid and rapid march is enough to kill the soldiers and war horses.

In modern society, not only are there high-speed rail and automobile transportation vehicles, but also highways and national highways are built straight, making it very convenient to reach a certain place. However, it was different in ancient times. Emerging march not only tests the perseverance of soldiers, but also tests the endurance of war horses, which are more fragile than imagined.

Deng Ai almost gave up all the heavy things and only brought the dry food needed for five days. The soldiers were all three horses, riding one under their crotch, two behind them, tied them with long ropes. Only by constantly transferring can one marching quickly and quickly, riding only one horse can easily exhaust the war horse.

Of course, even so, the war horses are extremely tired.

Because the three horse soldiers rode one of them, the difference was that they carried about a hundred pounds of soldiers, and the distance they ran was the same, and the physical strength saved by bearing and saving weight was probably half of the physical strength.

This is not like the post station’s letter-style horse exchange. Each post station can change the tired horse, and then change to another one with high energy. The post station transmits expedited documents. Through the shift system of post station’s change of people and horses, the fastest can reach 600 miles without interruption in a day.

The Yan army penetrated deep into the enemy's territory, which was also the basis for ensuring most of the marchs.

If you will fall behind and die soon, you will generally lose nine-tenths of the staff to achieve your goal.

Five thousand light cavalry companies ran for four days, with a large number of war horses killed and injured. The soldiers did not lose much, except for some soldiers who fell to death due to the rapid galloping of war horses.

On the fourth day, the army had rushed for more than 500 miles, less than forty miles from Heshenggu City. At this time, the 5,000 light cavalry were exhausted and exhausted. Most of the war horses led by them were dead, leaving only one man and one cavalry.

Deng Ai looked into the distance and thought that eight or nine hundred soldiers had died. He was so chaotic that there were still only a few people left. He shouted: "The whole army obeys the order, three of them are in a row."

Although the Yan army, with a chaotic formation, was exhausted, the general had an order and hurriedly listed it in the 331st row, and the last two soldiers were left.

Deng Ai nodded and said loudly: "List it into five people in a row."

This time the queue is more rhythmic, with a fast 551 row, with one soldier left at the end.

Deng Ai said: "Another listed as seven people in a row."

The soldiers were not sure about the reason, so they continued to intersperse left and right, fill in the gaps and adjust the remaining ones, forming a row of seven people, and finally five soldiers were left.

Deng Zhong was also stunned by his father's move. He didn't know what he was selling in the gourd. He said strangely: "What kind of formation is this? It's so simple?"

Deng Ai closed his eyes, after a while, opened his eyes and said lightly: "There are still 4,016 soldiers here."

"This - how does this calculate?"

Deng Zhong immediately widened his eyes and there was still nothing left.

He smiled calmly and explained: "Eighty or nine hundred people died in the army, and the remaining soldiers were two of the 33, two of the 55, one of the 57, five of the 77, one of the 100 times, two of the 21 times, and three of the 15 times, and then add the 105 to 105 until it does not exceed 4,100, and then you can get it."

Deng Zhong seemed to understand but nodded, remembered his father's teachings carefully, and was inexplicably curious about such deductions and asked, "Father, I have never heard you mention such deductions before."

Deng Ai sighed and said depressedly: "In the past, a hero was useless in his power. He was a father who was in poverty for half his life. He faced small things about farming and resting the people all day long. He never had the opportunity to lead troops to fight. The little learning was passed on to you, and there was no room for display. I was fortunate to be appreciated by the king and able to show his ambitions in his heart. Even if he died, he would not be hated. The king named me the general and gave you the vanguard. It was precisely because he hoped that you, my father and son could do a great cause for the country of Yan, leave a name in history, and sang it forever. It would be enough to comfort my life."

Deng Zhong was moved. Thinking of his negligence, he leaked the secret army's actions, which almost implicated his father. He couldn't help but clench his fists and said seriously: "It was the child who was wrong, almost causing a disaster. The king is magnanimous. If he cannot defeat the enemy and trap the city, I would rather die."

Deng Ai thought that his son had finally made some progress and no longer recklessly, and nodded, "If you can think so, then remember these words. In the future, you should think about it again and again, thinking twice before doing things. You will not be too outrageous if you make mistakes. It is getting late, and the whole army will rest for a day to adjust, and will recover its strength tomorrow and attack Heshenggu City."

Now it is less than 60 miles away from Heshenggu City and can arrive in half a day, but now the entire army is exhausted. If you don’t rest and adjust for a day, and rashly attack and participate in the war, these 4,016 soldiers may collapse.

Deng Ai and his clothes were sleeping, and the soldiers also lay down to sleep. Some of them didn't even cover the blankets and fell asleep in the grass. After marching for more than a hundred miles a day for four days, the Yan army's legs were almost as heavy as lead.

Once I lay down, snoring sounds everywhere.

Everyone rested for a day, and the next day it was dawn, and most of their physical strength was basically restored. The dry food they brought had been eaten. In order to arrive as soon as possible, Deng Ai almost gave up any weight that delayed his progress and controlled all the food and grass that the man chewed and horse feeded for six days.

On this sixth day, there was basically no food.

This is not a joke. If you reduce the weight and raise the soldiers more energy, run a step further, and have a greater chance of survival. It can be said that soldiers have almost no other weight except armor and weapons on their bodies.

Deng Ai said to his personal soldiers: "Now arrange to kill horses, cook horse meat and eat it, and then attack Heshenggu City after a full meal."

The personal soldiers smiled bitterly and had to do so. In the troubled times, wars lasted for years, a war horse was more valuable than seven or eight slaves.

In the fifth year of Yuanshou in the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Han was extremely short of horses to conquer the Huns, and the highest bid was 200,000 yuan to buy it.

Nowadays, soldiers are not full of their stomachs and have no energy to fight, so they have to kill their horses and cook.

Fortunately, a war horse was 800 kilograms, and horse bones accounted for 20% and horse meat still had 600 kilograms. The Yan army killed 60 horses in one breath, picked out the sick and dying horses, peeled them off, separated the bones and flesh, and boiled the first mate's horse bones, and took them out in boiling water. Sixty horses got more than 36,000 kilograms of horse meat, each person could get nine kilograms of horse meat, which could be used as food for three or four days.

After all, the upcoming attack of Heshenggu City is also a fierce battle.
Chapter completed!