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Chapter 56 Grasp the Heart

The Xianbei people are nomadic peoples. Basically, every household will release horses and shepherds. When they go to the battlefield to fight, they usually ride horses they raised since childhood. Such horses can be used directly as war horses without training.

The horse farm is a place where horses are raised and war horses are trained. Because every household raises horses, the Xianbei people did not need to raise horses specifically. However, after the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the country, the Xianbei people who escaped from Jimen Pass lacked a large number of horses. In the first ten or twenty years, they could only set up horse farms in places with abundant water and grass, so that the number of horses could be increased as soon as possible.

Now more than 40 years have passed, the number of horses of the Xianbei people is already sufficient, but the horse farms established decades ago have not been abolished. The four ministries of Yuwen each have horse farms, and the size of the Qigui tribe is smaller than that, with only a few thousand horses. The king's tent of Yuwen Zhao's headquarters has four or five horse farms, and a total of 70,000 to 80,000 horses were raised.

Li Xin took advantage of the emptiness of Qigui tribe and dispersed the Qigui tribe in just one meeting. However, Qigui tribe was not a particularly small tribe. He still had 80,000 or 90,000 tribe members in the tribe. Li Xin just dispersed their soldiers. If he continued to fight, three thousand people would not be enough to see in front of these Xianbei people who had crossbows in every family.

So after Li Xin took advantage, he immediately ordered a retreat.

Hundreds of heavenly thunders were thrown down, and at least thousands of people were injured in Qigui's tribe. This place is not within the pass. There are also strong alcohol disinfection and doctors to treat it. Outside the pass, no matter what kind of wound it is, you have to rely on your own body to resist. Even if you are scratched by the thunder's pottery, you may lose your life because of tetanus.

Moreover, Li Xin ordered fires to be set everywhere. It was already autumn and winter, and the fire would spread quickly. In this way, the casualties of Qigui's tribe may reach 2,000 people, or even more.

More importantly, the young and strong people of Qigui tribe have been transferred away by Yuwen Zhao. The tribal warriors who came out to fight against Li Xin today were the last people in Qigui tribe who could fight. Except for these people, the rest are basically young and old.

The remaining combat power of Qigui tribe was greatly damaged, so they would definitely think about calling back the ten thousand young men who had been transferred from Yuwen Zhao...

The three thousand cavalrymen said there were a lot less, but they couldn't say too much. They were still very flexible when retreating. Only half an hour after Li Xin gave the order, these cavalrymen retreated from the Qigui tribe and ran towards the Qigui tribe's horse farm led by a middle-aged man wearing Xianbei costume.

At this time, it was already early morning, and the moonlight was paved, vaguely illuminating the road ahead.

Ye Mao followed Li Xin on a horse and sighed, "Uncle Master, we finally touched the vicinity of Qigui's tribe. After only half an hour of hitting, my hands didn't get hot, so I pulled it away. It was really unprofitable."

Mr. Ye glanced at Li Xin and continued, "Jiu's defense line was blown up by...the sky thunder. We will kill in. Not to mention defeating the Qiu's tribe until the tribe is exterminated, at least 10,000 or 20,000 people will be killed!"

Li Xin sat on the horse, looked back at Ye Mao, and said lightly: "After just half an hour, we lost three or four hundred lives from the Qigui tribe. Almost everyone in these Xianbei people are good at shooting. If they continue to fight, it won't take long to turn us into hedgehogs there."

Ye Mao scratched his head and continued to ask, "Then what are we going to the horse farm to do?"

"Go and get some food, and then grab the horses from the horse farm."

Speaking of this, Li Xin narrowed his eyes and smiled: "The amount of Qigui tribe is not enough. Next is the Helan tribe. If we can handle the Helan tribe again, Yuwen tribes will definitely have conflicts, and Yuwen Zhao will also withdraw from Jimen Pass in advance."

The Yuwen department has only one million people together. This time, Yuwen Zhao has gathered nearly 200,000 troops near Jizhou. According to one household and five members, one person has already sent out one person to fight in each household. This scale of conscription is absolutely impossible in the pass.

It is quite difficult to be able to compete in one of ten or even twenty or twenty.

The reason why the Yuwen Department was able to achieve this scale was that, firstly, everyone had no food to eat, so they had to go to the Great Jin Dynasty to grab it. Secondly, Yuwen Zhao's own tent put in more than half of the troops, so that he could call on the other three departments to contribute their efforts.

But... it stops there.

Sooner or later, they will leave Jimen Pass and return outside the Pass.

There is no way, strong combat power may allow one side to win in one war and two wars, but this kind of war that rises to the national war level will ultimately fight not combat power, but population, national strength and financial resources.

These determine the extent to which the war can be fought and how long it will take.

With the current abilities of the Yuwen tribes, after they took Jimen Pass, even if the Great Jin did not resist, they would just grab more food and people in the northern border. Once they had enough, they would naturally return to the outside world to digest this wealth, which was unlikely to threaten the great Jin country.

It is also for this reason that the capital did not particularly like the situation in the northern border, because neither the emperor of Weiyang Palace nor the prime minister of Shangshutai knew in his heart that no matter how fierce the trouble was in the north, it was simply that more ordinary people died in the north and could not threaten the country of the Jin Dynasty.

And the anti-army in the southwest that can fight against the imperial guards is a real threat!

The chaos in the north can be cleaned up slowly when you free up your hands in the future, but the situation in the southwest cannot be delayed for a day!

Of course, if the imperial court does not curb it, the Yuwen Department will grow rapidly after this incident. If it can enter the pass frequently from now on, ten or even decades later, the Yuwen Zhou, who once stepped onto the Central Plains, is likely to reappear again.

Ye Mao followed Li Xin and frowned.

He said, "Uncle Master, the Helan tribe is the largest tribe except for King Yuwen Zhao's tent. Not to mention three thousand people, even if we join more than 10,000 people, it is unlikely that there will be any threat to the Helan tribe..."

The Helan tribe is a large tribe with a population of nearly 300,000. Although Yuwen Zhao has drawn more than 30,000 strong spirits, it is estimated that the tribe still has tens of thousands of combat power. It is almost impossible for Li Xin to deal with the Helan tribe like he did with Yuwen Zhao.

Li Xin rubbed his temples and said slowly: "In order to win Jimen Pass, Yuwen Zhao put in great strength. His tent has at least 100,000 people. Now the tent is extremely weak."

While riding a horse, Marquis Jing'an said lightly: "Yuwen Zhao is a good royal family in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but the Northern Zhou Dynasty has been destroyed for more than 40 years. Few people will recognize him as the royal family. Since the Helan tribe is the second among the Yuwen tribes, there is no reason not to want to be the boss."

"It will be easy to find a breakthrough by grasping this mind. At most, let the court give the Horan tribe a title of king."

The two of them were talking while walking.

Under the bright moonlight, you can already vaguely see the Qiguibu horse farm.

With the bright moonlight, Li Xin looked in front of him, then turned around and said to Ye Mao, "According to the information I received, there are about seven or eight hundred people guarding this horse farm, all of whom are young and strong from Qigui's tribe. Can you take it down before dawn?"

The warlike Ye Mao's eyes shone and he patted his chest hard.
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