The soldiers are very fast. After settling the people, Liu Shan specially sent the people several miles away, and then drove the horses to catch up with the army moving forward. After the people left, Liu Shan's subordinates were only left with troops. Due to the lack of the drag of the people, the army could finally march quickly.

According to the guidance of the people brought by Li Yi, the army soon arrived at a relatively large town. Under the already scorching sun at noon, Liu Shan saw Yandian written under the blue-gray city wall. Liu Shan didn't know where it was, but when he walked from the surrounding area of ​​Luoyang, Liu Shan probably walked to the near future Sanmenxia. Because he led the people all the way, these roads had been going for ten days.

When he arrived at Yandian, someone had already left the city to greet him. The person who came was a slightly fat man with a big beard. Looking at some burly and tough middle-aged man, Liu Shan thought that this person should be younger because of his beard. The person who came was wearing brocade clothes and did not wear official robes, but through the thin clothes, Liu Shan could still feel that this person should be from a corpse and should be a big official because he had a long-term official majesty.

Behind him, there were more than a dozen officials from Yandian.

"I'm the mansion led by Liu Shan. I am Chen Biao from the Prince's Mansion, here to wait for the general's steward." As soon as the visitor spoke, his voice was like a bell. Although he was polite to Liu Shan, he could not hide the tone that seemed to be speaking to the servants.

"General Chen is waiting here for a long time, and Liu Shan is ashamed of taking responsibility." Although Liu Shan was not used to the other party's tone, he would not have had too many interactions with this person when he went to Liangzhou. Moreover, this person was waiting for him here, obviously giving him weapons and armor. He would not have been skating with this person because of a few words.

The two of them started to greet each other, and Chen Biao had already led Liu Shan into Yandian. In the city, Chen Biao directly handed over the armor that the prince gave to Liu Shan to Liu Shan. Liu Shan led people to check carefully and paid special attention to the number of bows and arrows and crossbows. It seems that the King of Qin deliberately asked the prince to prepare more crossbows for himself. At this time, there were no less than 500 combat crossbows here. In addition to the combat crossbows that Liu Shan originally owned, Liu Shan's team of 6,000 people had already had two thousand combat crossbows.

Liu Shan was surprised that the equipment of this peasant army was so advanced at this time. If Liu Shan had not said it, who would have thought that this peasant army would not have been like an ordinary peasant army and still needed to fight with an iron fork hoe. As for armor, Liu Shan dared to guarantee that his subordinates would have no problem with two sets of armor.

Of course, Liu Shan still has to pretend to be poor. Who would give himself something if he doesn't pretend to be poor? You obviously have excellent equipment in the entire army, but it's a bit unreasonable to ask for equipment.

Chen Biao asked Liu Shan to check his weapons and armor, and then took Liu Shan to see the military horses and the prepared food and grass vehicles.

Because food and grass are supplied along the way, Liu Shan did not replenish a lot of food and grass in Yandian at this time, but the prince gave Liu Shan three thousand war horses this time. Moreover, after arriving in Liangzhou, there were a batch of war horses to replenish in Liangzhou.

Liu Shan smiled and accepted all the gifts from the prince. It seemed that the prince had bleeded this time. The supplement of so many weapons and war horses should have been assigned by the King of Qin. At this time, the King of Qin entrusted it to the prince. The prince's bleeding this time was bleeding.

After checking all the things, Liu Shan took people out of Yandian. Because outside Yandian, there was a Liu Shan army waiting for Liu Shan. The army was holding all Liu Shan’s belongings and pretending to be poor in Yandian just now, so Liu Shan asked these people to set off with their belongings first and we should meet up quickly.

As soon as the two armies gathered, everyone distributed armor and weapons one after another. The clothes they changed were really unwelcome and they were already thrown away. The armor and weapons of their own were lying in the car. The banner of Liu Shan's front army also changed, turning into a flying Tang flag.

The entire army array also changed at this time. Liu Shan gave Zhang Biao and Chen Hu the cavalry orders, and on the way to Liangzhou, he taught everyone to ride horses. Because Liu Shan knew that reaching the boundary of Liangzhou was equivalent to reaching the edge of the desert grassland, he was no longer facing infantry from the Central Plains, but the fierce Turkic cavalry. If his people could not even ride horses, they would not be able to run away at that time.

Of course, these cavalrymen also had their opinions on this order. Liu Shan was not a dictator, so of course he listened to everyone's opinions.

Everyone's opinions are very concentrated.

What if they refuse to learn?

This is your business. You can find a way for yourself. If someone really refuses to learn, you can tie him to the horse with a rope. They will get used to it after spending a long time on the horse.

What if they are afraid of horses?

Then you ask him if he is more afraid of horses or tigers. If they are afraid of horses, they can lock them up with tigers, let them learn to contact tigers, learn to be friends with tigers, and even ride tigers to fight instead of horses, so I will be happier.

Where to find a tiger?

Along the way, the people all said that there were big insects on the mountains nearby, so why don’t you catch one?

There is no reason or condition. I can learn how to ride a horse. If anyone can't learn it, I will turn all the infantry into cavalry. Hehe, I will let those who can't ride a horse run for me from behind.

After Liu Shan's order was issued, the army began to complain and suffer.

These peasant troops had been familiar with oxen before and had seen horses, but not many people had ridden them. At this time, these people were asked to ride horses. When they saw the war horses, their legs were trembling and they were not willing to ride.

"Ah! Look, look there, women are riding on horses, and you big men dare not ride horses, are you embarrassed to lose them?" So, on the next road, Yi'er and Aunt Yun's three treasure apprentices became a standard textbook. Once someone refused to learn, they were immediately scolded by Liu Shan's cavalry and pointed at Yi'er or the three girls who were riding on horses not far away to show them.

"My legs became weak and tremble when I saw the horse. I really didn't dare to go up."

"Get the rope!"

"What are you going to do?"

"Brother Liu Shan has never been a domineering person, nor am I. In this way, I will give you three ways, one is to learn horse riding well for me. The second is that I have someone tie you up on a horse and learn horse riding. The third is that I will ask you to pull you behind a horse and watch me learn horse riding behind a horse."

People who tremble their legs when they see a horse will stop trembling their legs. Learn, isn’t it just riding a horse?

The army headed towards Liangzhou, and the prefectures passing by the mountains had prepared food and grass for the army. Liu Shan was really not worried about food and grass. Liu Shan walked along the way and asked people to purchase crossbows, arrows, bows and war horses. Originally, these things were not something that could be bought and sold normally, but Liu Shan was a Tang army and bought these things for the army, so the meaning was naturally different.

Of course, Liu Shan would not pay for these things. He was going to war for the Tang Dynasty and had to pay for it himself. This was impossible. Moreover, Liu Shan was poor and had no money. So, the prince originally sent him to lead the way in Liu Shan's army, but the people who actually monitored Liu Shan complained loudly. They often had to make white slips to various prefectures and promised the payment for the goods. No, the goods and silver will arrive soon.

With the prince's white strips, nothing is hard to buy, but I can't buy. Liu Shan likes the prince's white strips so much, which is much more useful than the white strips of his era.

The car that Liu Shan accompanied was full of crossbow, arrows, feathers, arrows, bundles, piled up like hills.

These things are required to deal with cavalry. Liu Shan would not make less preparations. He would rather prepare more than less.

The purchased military horses were quickly equipped into the army, and the peasant army that Liu Shan began to bring out quickly became cavalry.

When the army left Tongguan and Hangu Pass entered Qinchuan, Liu Shan's army had basically transformed into cavalry. As for a small number of stubborn people who were unwilling to learn horse riding and could not learn it, Liu Shan asked them to run behind the cavalry as he promised.

Often, the cavalry began to run wildly on the road at the beginning, and the infantry behind could still follow. Gradually they needed to run and follow. Gradually they could only see the wolf dust stirred up by the cavalry in front. When the cavalry rested, these infantry still needed to sweat profusely in the sun. When they finally caught up with the cavalry in front, the brigade was about to set off again.

So, the infantry at the beginning also asked for war horses and learned to ride horses desperately. No one wanted to live a day when they ran with their legs and their stomachs were roaring.

The army did not pass by Chang'an, and detoured by Chang'an, and headed towards Liangzhou through the northern part of Weishuiyuan.

Time has moved towards September. At the beginning, Liu Shan must have not arrived in Liangzhou in September, but when all the troops were converted into cavalry, the speed of the march had significantly accelerated. Moreover, Liu Shan asked the army to detour Chang'an and march to the northern part of the Wei-superior Highway, which also significantly saved time.

After the army marched out of Qinchuan, Liu Shan had discovered that there were fewer and fewer farmers along the way, and the prefectures and counties became larger and larger. Naturally, the number of prefectures and counties became smaller and smaller.

Even, Liu Shan saw the shadow of the desert several times.

As the army advanced northward, the weather became colder and colder day by day. Liangzhou belonged to the later generation of Wuwei, Gansu, and was the most prestigious north. Due to the surrounding geographical reasons, the weather here is no longer as hot as the Central Plains in September.

Even later, a poet said that the north wind blew the white grass and snow fell in August.

The climate of this place can also be seen.

When Liu Shan arrived at the border of Liangzhou, it was just September.

The guards at the border warmly met Liu Shan, and treated Liu Shan and the officers who accompanied him with wine and meat.

The defending general naturally had to be enthusiastic and he was here to hold on. Recently, the Turks have repeatedly invaded, and the Turks have been gathering troops in the northern part of the Liangzhou border, which is obviously a large-scale invasion of the south. He had been forced to suffer a long time ago. At this time, reinforcements finally came. Finally, someone supported such a hard life with him and took on the defensive responsibility of the border. Of course, he had to be enthusiastic.

If there was nothing wrong with the border, he would naturally hate those who were robbing power with him. However, at one time and another, the enemy soldiers were approaching, and he would like someone to support the situation, not himself.

Liu Shan doesn't like the courtesy of the officialdom and knows the ideas of the border guards. In the disaster and crisis, no one is willing to stand on the front line.

When the guard general learned that Liu Shan had brought a team of 6,000 people, the guard general clearly showed a look of disappointment. The Turkic soldiers were like hungry wolves, like wolves on the grassland. At this time, six thousand soldiers were sent from Chang'an. How can we fight in Liangzhou?

When Liu Shan saw the other party's expression, he knew that the other party thought he had few soldiers. Fortunately, Liu Shan had not told him that the soldiers he led were still farmers holding hoes last month, otherwise he would probably scream.

At this time, it is not the time to reduce the enthusiasm of the border troops to guard the pass, Liu Shan would not say it, let alone the prince's people. They would only say that the soldiers brought by Liu Shan are all elite soldiers, and they are all good soldiers who can fight ten.

The Liu Shan they brag only with the presence of the sky and the ground. The Liu Shan was embarrassed to listen to those words, and Liu Shan felt ashamed and felt that his ears were a little hot. If they could take those words seriously, Liu Shan probably could sweep the Turks alone and level the northern desert.

After the prince's men praised Liu Shan and his army, the guard finally had a little confidence in his heart.
Chapter completed!