In Guangyang County, Youzhou, the county where Guangyang is governed, you can vaguely see the gray stone walls, and three fast horses mount the dry official road, raising a brief puff of dust.

Among the three riders, a strong young man had a bruised nose and face. Zhang Fei, um, was beaten by his father.

From the careless smile on Zhang Fei's face at this moment, it is easy to see that this kid is definitely a typical person who only cares about food but not about fighting.

There were nomadic Xiongnu who were expelled from Yanmen. Although there were some Xiongnu troops in Han Dynasty, it was very rare to visit the native Xiongnu people outside the Great Wall. Zhang Fei was very interested in this and had a fun mentality of going out to gain knowledge.

The Xiongnu were attacked by the Xianbei, and they also sent the Xiongnu to seek refuge in the Han Dynasty. However, the border gate did not send out a troop recruitment to the Youbin area. Obviously, the Xiongnu group that was attacked should be a small and marginalized tribe.

Speaking of the Xiongnu, the general impression of them in later generations is that they are barbaric, ferocious, powerful, and cruel.

However, in fact, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, this ethnic group, which was praised by later generations, was somewhat suspected of being beaten into dogs.

The Xiongnu first originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is ridiculous to say that they could only obtain living resources by looting because of the poor living environment.

After all, they owned vast grasslands, and in that era BC, everyone's living environment was generally the same.

It is inappropriate to say too much about the specific evaluation of this ethnic group.

In short, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Xiongnu began to plunder China, and then Guan Zhong defeated them and drove them away.

The melee of the Warring States period created a lot of chaos in the land of China. Naturally, no one had time to target the Xiongnu. It also gave the Xiongnu a chance to breathe and reproduce, and took advantage of the situation to plunder the land of China.

Afterwards, the kingdoms were unified, and the First Emperor built the Great Wall to guard against the Huns.

The people of Lao Qin did not attack the Huns even half-heartedly. Faced with the evil reputation of the people of Lao Qin, the Huns also had to shrink from their eggs.

The period when the Huns truly became famous for their ferocity should have been during the fierce fight between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu.

No one greeted them anymore, so the Huns began to take advantage of the situation and rob them.

After Liu Bang and Xiang Yu finished fighting, the land of China was almost destroyed.

At that time, the Xiongnu were in full swing, and Liu Bang had to make peace with the Xiongnu. Although they claimed that the Xiongnu had lived in peace with the Central Plains for sixty years, they had always caused harm to the Han border areas.

As a result, during the period of Emperor Wu, the barbarian Liu Che began to capture the Xiongnu and torture him to death, until he overturned the Xiongnu royal court. The Xiongnu surrendered to the Han, and the Xiongnu fled.

At the same time, after the Xiongnu, the Donghu Xianbei, who emerged in the Mongolian grassland, also tried to defeat the possibility that the Xiongnu could not take care of themselves. The Xianbei also took advantage of the Han Dynasty to overthrow the Xiongnu and occupied the Mongolian grassland.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to save his life, Dou Xian, who came up with a new idea to fight against the Northern Huns, defeated the Northern Huns with one vote, and more than 200,000 people from the Eighty-one Division of the Northern Huns surrendered.

Having said so much, generally speaking, it is to explain that the Huns, who were praised to the heavens in later generations, were good at taking advantage of the situation in the land of China.

And even though China experienced various chaos in the Spring, Autumn, Qin and Han Dynasties, by the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huns were really suspected of being turned into dogs.

But even the Huns who were reviled like this have caused misfortune everywhere in history, whether it was the rebellion before the Three Kingdoms or the more distant period of the Five Husties disrupting China.

This also led to Liu Cang's extremely bad sense of the Xiongnu, so he came to the Han Dynasty to seek asylum? Speaking of the Xiongnu, Liu Cang's subconscious mind was to rob and kill whenever he could.

The three of them were traveling together. Since Zhang Fei was here, Liu Cang's presence was naturally indispensable. Instead of Zhang Fei riding a war horse, Liu Cang was riding a rented pack horse.

The broad back is slightly concave, and the overall body is even thicker than Zhang Fei's war horse. This is a horse mainly used for carrying heavy objects. It has quite good strength, but its flexibility and speed cannot be compared with that of a war horse.

In the past, many people's understanding of horses in the Han Dynasty was like that in ancient times, except for the war horses that carried people to charge and kill, other horses were eliminated from the war horse team as weaker individuals, scum and dirt, unable to be reused, thin and weak.

But just like the pack horses Liu Cang rode, including draft horses with stronger pulling power, they were actually different breeds from war horses during the Han Dynasty. Perhaps the analogy of oxen and buffaloes is easier to understand.

They all have advantages that war horses cannot match, and they are also an integral part of military horses in the army.

As the name implies, the main function of war horses is fighting. They are more flexible, more wild-tempered, and less easily frightened. With a little training, they dare to bite and collide with the enemy in front of them, even in the presence of swords and fire.

In previous film and television works, the war horses that were frightened at every turn and dashed all over the streets were absolutely nonsense.

If you scare a war horse, it is most likely to open its mouth and bite you, with all kinds of blood on it, and give its owner the most suitable position to attack you.

Anyone who comes up with the tactic of beating gongs and firing cannons to shock the cavalry will definitely be called a fool. That is simply giving adrenaline to the war horses.

Among the several types of horses that are mainstream today, war horses are undoubtedly the most expensive. This is understandable. For humans, things related to killing will always be more expensive.

In addition to war horses, the pack horses and draft horses of the Han Dynasty were also independent horse breeds, more like indigenous Chinese than war horses.

They have stronger strength and even stronger physiques than war horses. They are mainly responsible for the army's baggage. Pack horses are good at transporting and draft horses are good at pulling.

These two types of horses are generally gentle and timid. It is basically impossible to form an elite cavalry, and they have many shortcomings when used in frontal battlefields, but don't think of them as weak.

Among the people, draft horses and draft horses have irreplaceable value for war horses, and they are also the protagonists in the construction of development, city, city defense and other projects.

It's not that people don't want war horses to do their jobs, it's that war horses simply can't do the things they can do.

During this period, people paid attention to war horses, as well as the lineage breeds of pack horses and draft horses.

If you find a wild-tempered one among the draft horses or draft horses, congratulations, it should be able to sell for a price far higher than that of a normal war horse.

How do you put it, how do you think those so-called Jueying, Lu, and Dark Clouds Treading Snow came from?

A pure war horse, no matter how optimized its bloodline is, is still a war horse. It cannot have the strength and endurance of a pack horse and a draft horse.

Although people are more concerned about the productivity of war horses, as the saying goes, if you give it a try, a bicycle will become a motorcycle.

If you encounter more special draft horses or draft horses, many people are willing to use war horses to match them. If you show a weak personality, you will lose. What if you have a bad temper?

Different from the messy horse system of later generations, the packhorse Liu Cang rode had a stronger body than Zhang Fei's war horse. Except that the body hair was shorter, the body shape was somewhat similar to those war horses in the European Middle Ages.

Different from Zhang Fei's idea of ​​having fun, Liu Cang was really thinking about whether he could go to the Xiongnu to fight in the autumn wind.

Because they set out a day late, it is estimated that the Xiongnu team has already approached Guangyang, where Han envoys will contact them and may arrange their lives, and may even mobilize troops to help them regain their original pasture.

The destination was changed to Guangyang. In addition to Liu Cang and Zhang Fei, there was also Liu Bei who borrowed a war horse from Liu Deran's family. He was going to Guangyang to meet friends.

Speaking of which, Liu Cang was quite speechless towards the old man of the Liu Deran family.

Liu Yuanqi, Liu Deran's father, is also the clan uncle of Liu Cang and Liu Bei.

You know, his war horse is the only war horse in the village. In addition to letting the villagers practice riding, Liu Deran would not agree to ride it out for a while, but Liu Yuanqi would not agree.

But Liu Bei lent it out as soon as he asked for it.

Cai Yong's different treatment of Liu Cang and Cai Yan can be said to favor boys over girls, so Liu Yuanqi's closeness to Liu Bei is really hard to understand. Or can it only be said that Liu Yuanqi prefers Liu Bei?
Chapter completed!