My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 200 Chaos is the ladder

The eight hundred cavalrymen behind him were so encouraged to see that their commander was so brave and killed the bandit leader in just a few rounds. They immediately followed Gao Shun and attacked the panicked Xianbei people.

When the Xianbei people under Hutuo saw that their clan leader and commander were dead, the escape bloodline in their blood was activated again.

The Hu people have always been like Lu Bu possessed when the situation is favorable, and like Han Xuan possessed when the situation is unfavorable.

They fled in all directions.

Gao Shun immediately ordered the 800 cavalrymen to be divided into eight teams of 100 men and pursue the enemy in all directions.

Now the Hu people have lost their courage and fallen into collective panic.

Even any random guy can chase dozens of Hu people by himself.

This is also the reason why one Qing soldier could chase and kill hundreds or thousands of Ming soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, they were only concerned with escaping and did not dare to look back to fight with the pursuers. They just needed to outrun their companions.

At the same time, in Luwu.

Su Shuang and the remaining Xianbei soldiers also faced a nightmare.

After receiving Lu Yi's instructions, Cheng Lian personally led thousands of auxiliary soldiers and carried spears. With the cooperation of his companions on the city wall, he killed all the Xianbei people except Su Shuang without much effort. Only Su Shuang was left, still screaming crazily. He was knocked unconscious by Cheng Lian's punch and captured.

"Now that the Xianbei bandit leader Hutuo is dead, this is the perfect opportunity to crush Hutuo's tribe!"

Lu Yi, who had been paying close attention to the situation, shouted and immediately gave orders to the entire city of Luwu.

"We have everything. Go out of the city and chase after the fleeing Hutto soldiers!"

"promise!"

All the auxiliary soldiers responded with great enthusiasm.

They saw the Xianbei people's frightened looks.

At this moment, the fear of the Xianbei people has been completely replaced by the desire for military merit.

They are now just auxiliary soldiers and do menial work in the caravan.

If you want to go one step further and be treated like one of the Eight Hundred Iron Cavalrymen, you need to perform and prove yourself through military exploits.

However, Lu Yi's selection criteria are very strict.

After half a year of defending Luwu, only two hundred people were promoted to formal men by Lu Yi because of their outstanding performance and physical fitness, and temporarily joined the personal guard directly commanded by Lu Yi.

And their treatment immediately underwent a drastic change.

The other one thousand or so auxiliary soldiers who were still doing menial work saw this and felt jealous and envious in their hearts.

Now that he saw an opportunity to give a down-and-out guy a beating, he hardly needed Lu Yi's orders.

With a loud bang, the city gate and suspension bridge of Luwu were lowered again.

Under the leadership of Cheng Lian, they stepped on the dense corpses of Xianbei people in the corridor of the north gate and rushed towards the defeated Xianbei soldiers who were fleeing in panic like headless flies.

"Cheng Lian!"

"Human heads are secondary. Pay attention to capturing more horses!"

On the top of the city wall, Lu Yi was in high spirits and shouted loudly to Cheng Lian who had already left the city.

"Yes!" Cheng Lian also looked at the stray horses running around because no one was watching with shining eyes.

Every Xianbei person was equipped with a horse.

The same is true for the Huto tribe.

He led 10,000 men to attack Lüwu, and each man and his horse had at least 10,000 horses. And the two times he attacked Lüwu, he sent the Xianbei vanguard to dismount and attack the city on foot.

Although the two groups suffered five to six thousand casualties among the Xianbei vanguards.

But their horses remained intact at Huto's main camp.

This resulted in the number of horses in Huto's camp being two or three times that of the fleeing soldiers.

So many horses were galloping all over the mountains.

Although some horses were killed or injured due to the war, there were still quite a few horses that were still lively and running around.

If these horses were outside the Great Wall, their value would not be high, about 10,000 coins.
But once inside the Great Wall, the price would skyrocket. One horse could be sold for at least 20,000 coins, and if it was sold through Zhen’s channels, the price would skyrocket even more.

Moreover, the Han-Xian offensive and defensive war has now begun in full swing, and the horse smuggling trade in the north has been completely interrupted. Only Xiliang can still obtain some horses through the Qiang people.

However, the price of transporting a horse from Xiliang to Hebei is not much cheaper than buying a horse.

All the care, feeding and transportation along the way costs money.

Therefore, at such a time of war, the price of war horses will be even higher!

However, Lu Yi was not smart enough to sell such a precious resource as war horses at such a precious time to gain military merit.

Chaos is the ladder!
Lu Yi was a powerless man just a small border county chief, and the horse smuggling trade he relied on had to be interrupted due to the invasion of the Xianbei people.

Therefore, it is even more necessary to take advantage of this hard-won opportunity to rapidly strengthen oneself in order to obtain more wealth, accumulate more weapons, and gain more and greater military merits.

Although Bingzhou had been ravaged by the Xianbei, it had become the state with the smallest population in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, the people of Bingzhou had been competing with the Hu people since childhood. After being partially assimilated into the Hu people, they were not only tough, but more importantly, at a time when double-sided stirrups and horseshoes had not yet been invented, almost everyone could ride a horse, and their riding skills were not much inferior to those of the Hu people.

Therefore, as long as he had enough horses and equipment, Lu Yi could instantly recruit a large number of excellent cavalry seeds.

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry is king!

The Bingzhou Cavalry can be regarded as the king of kings, along with the Youzhou Cavalry and the Liangzhou Cavalry!
Now almost every household in Bingzhou has been killed by the Xianbei people, and every household has a blood feud with them.

Under such national hatred and family feuds, if Lu Yi raised the banner of resistance against the Xianbei people, he would surely attract a lot of people and could raise a large number of cavalry in an instant.

Therefore, for Lu Yi, horses were now more important than the heads of the Xianbei people.

Xianbei heads cannot be produced repeatedly and can only be considered a one-time reward.

Having horses meant having means of production, so they could take the initiative to attack the Xianbei people in order to obtain more heads.

The relationship between them is very simple, and it is impossible for Lu Yi to make a wrong choice.

Under Lu Yi's order.

Gao Shun divided his troops into eight groups and did not fight the enemy directly.

Instead, they mainly pursued the defeated Xianbei soldiers, maintained mental suppression on them, and kept them in a state of mass panic.

If they found any Xianbei defeated soldiers trying to gather, they would combine one or several cavalry forces to rush and defeat them all at once.

Never give the Xianbei people a chance to regroup.

On the other side, Cheng Lian led more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers who were still able to move in Luwu City out of the city to participate in the pursuit.

However, Cheng Lian was taken care of by Lu Yi. Apart from attacking and killing some defeated soldiers who blocked the way along the way, all his focus was placed on capturing the scattered war horses of Hutuo's troops.

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(End of this chapter)