Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

16 Not doing Zhao Kuo to make meritorious deeds, Lu Bu offered Ma Shuangbao.

"My subordinates' surname is Lu Bu and his courtesy name is Fengxian." Lu Bu replied to Li Xin with a smile.

"Oh? You already have words?" Li Xin asked curiously. In this era, men usually only had words when they were twenty years old.

"We usually get the words for our children very early in our hometown." Lu Bu made up a random reason to evade Li Xin's curiosity.

"Hahaha, then the customs in your hometown are quite interesting. Okay, let's talk about the important matters. Just now, Fengxian said that I was right because I took into account General Wang's words. Although I had the royal tiger talisman given by the king, most of the soldiers here followed General Wang for more than ten years, so I had to take into account these aspects.

Since the capture of Jicheng a few days ago, General Wang has been stationed here to rest and recuperate his troops, but he did not immediately attack the rest of the Yan State. This is because the Chu State, in the south of our Great Qin, is now gathering domestic soldiers and hoarding troops in Yan, Ying, and Chengfu, threatening our front line of Wan County in the Great Qin State. Therefore, the king is preparing to mobilize most of the troops in Jicheng to attack and destroy Chu State first, and then turn around to eliminate the remaining Yan State and other places.

The King of Chu was about to ask me to lead the army to fight, but he was worried that our army would not have enough prestige, so he sent me here to make some military achievements in Yan State when I was gathering food, grass and weapons in the country, so that it would be easier to act when I command the army in the future.

My plan is to select a group of elite soldiers and march into the hinterland of Yan State day and night. One is to shock the enemy and let the defeated generals of Yan State dare not look south when our army goes south. The other is to make some military achievements to let the soldiers in the army know that I, Li Xin, are not Zhao Kuo, who is talking about war on paper!" Li Xin said with a determined look on his face.

When Lu Bu heard the last sentence "Let the soldiers in the army know that I am not Zhao Kuo who talks about war on paper", he felt a little strange. Because although Li Xin did not damage the vitality of Zhao Kuo in his later history, the 200,000 soldiers who fought against Chu with Li Xin south were basically swallowed up by Chu, so that in the end, the Qin Wang Zheng, who had always been favorable, was shameless and invited the veteran Wang Jian, the "Dinghai Ding Needle", to destroy the Chu State. (In fact, there is another hidden truth in Li Xin's defeat.)

Therefore, Li Xin was also regarded by later generations as young and energetic, underestimating the enemy, and the existence of a character like Lian Po back then - Wang Jian, and the title of "Zhao Kuo II" was also put on Li Xin's head. (Zhao Kuo replaced the veteran Lian Po as the commander of the Zhao army, and was finally defeated by Bai Qi, the Wu'an Jun of Qin, and the 400,000 Zhao army was killed.)

However, the character Li Xin seemed to suddenly disappear in later historical records. There were neither documents saying that he was killed by the State of Chu in front of the formation nor that Li Xin was finally sentenced to death by the King of Qin. However, Lu Bu knew that at least Li Xin's descendants seemed to live quite well, and later a famous "Flying General" appeared.

"General is preparing to lead his army to chase King Xi of Yan?" Lu Bu pretended to be surprised.

Li Xin nodded: "Yes, although it has been a long time since General Wang captured Jicheng, according to my spies from Qin, Yan Wang Xi and Yan Prince Dan did not retreat to Liaodong immediately, but summoned the defeated army of Yan in a town a hundred miles away from Jicheng. I just wanted to take advantage of the time when they thought our Qin army had no intention of advancing north, and lead the cavalry to attack overnight. If they could seize the head of Yan Wang Xi in one battle, then great things would be expected!"

"If the general is ready to use the cavalry, his subordinates are willing to offer two cavalry weapons to the general." Lu Bu handed the stirrups and horseshoes taken from the two horses he died in battle to the Li Xin table.

"This is..." Li Xin played with the stirrups and four horseshoes that Lu Bu gave him, and looked at Lu Bu with confusion.

Lu Bu smiled slightly: "This is a stirrup, which is used to strengthen the balance of the horse knight. It allows the knight to hold weapons with both hands on the horse, and also allows a sergeant with poor riding skills to easily complete the technique of bow and archery on the horse. And I call these four horseshoes, which are specially nailed to the horseshoes. The war horses with the best hoofs can avoid the hoof cracks."

"What!! This stirrup allows any sergeant to set a bow on the horse? And this horseshoe can prevent the hoof from being cracked?" Li Xin looked at Lu Bu in shock.

As a general of Qin from Longxi, Li Xin had seen the rangers whistling by the Western Qiang and the Xiongnu and other famous grassland tribes. Compared with the Western Qiang, which had a good relationship with the Qin, the cavalry of the Xiongnu, that is, those who can bend bows and shoot arrows on horseback, Li Xin remembered it in his heart.

After Qin captured the land of Zhao, conflicts with the newly prosperous grassland tribe of the Xiongnu were increasingly frequent. Li Xin led a group of Qin soldiers to confront more than hundreds of nomadic cavalry who came to plunder. The speed of coming and going like the wind and the sprinting method that made Li Xin finally lost nearly half of the soldiers, but only captured dozens of Xiongnu cavalry. It was from that time that Li Xin gradually became interested in the cavalry that had never paid attention to the Central Plains.

Now these two gadgets offered by Lu Bu can actually help an ordinary soldier to the level that only those string control men among the grassland nations can do, which makes Li Xin happy. Because the cavalry in the Central Plains not only is the horses not as good as those of the string control men of the grassland nations, but also the riding skills are not the opponents of the string control men of the grassland nations who live on horseback every day.

However, as long as Qin equipped the two treasures offered by Lu Bu, coupled with the proud casting skills of the Central Plains and the numerous rich mineral resources, defeating the string-controlling men in the north who always violated the border, is definitely just around the corner!!

"I will immediately send these two little things to Xianyang to hand over to the king. Fengxian, you have made great contributions just after entering my Qin army camp today!!" After Li Xin personally used Lu Ze's mount to experiment with the effect of stirrups, he couldn't help but pat Lu Bu's shoulder and laughed.

"General, if you want to send troops in these few days, you can find a large number of ropes. Just imitate the length of the stirrup and put two rings on both ends, and you can also use it as a simple stirrup. If you want to use horseshoes, you can wait to build it in the future." Lu Bu said his suggestion as the momentum.

"Okay! I'll ask General Wang to prepare three thousand pairs of simple stirrups for me now. After I select three thousand elites tomorrow, we will go and hunt down King Xi of Yan." Li Xin's personality was so arrogant that he had to do whatever he thought of. After asking Lu Bu and the other two to rest in the camp next to him first, Li Xin hurried to Wang Jian's tent with the stirrups and horseshoes.

;
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next