Chapter 57 In the fifth quarter, Lin Hu's riding skills shocked Zhao Yong

Yu Yanshui originates from the Rouxuan Mountain in the depths of the desert grassland.According to the current location of Zhao Yong's horse team, as soon as it comes out of Zhuolu Mountain at the intersection of Yanshui and Zhishui, it is Lin Hu's sphere of influence.Although the Hu people live by water and grass, there is no definite boundary, let alone a fixed garrison, but it is a fact that Zhao's army cannot control this place.Zhuolu Mountain used to be a famous mountain where the Yellow Emperor fought against Chi You. Although Lou Huan stationed 6,000 cavalry here, it could only play a role in grabbing the throat, but it was far from stopping the barbarian cavalry who came over like dark clouds.Going forward, the Yuyanshui River Valley was originally a passage for horse merchants, especially the avenue for the trade between Yan and Zhao countries and the Hu people. However, because the Zhao army could no longer resist the Hu people's plunder, this business route has gradually declined in the past ten years.The horse team galloped north on the ancient business travel road swaying in the weeds, and three days later, they entered the Rouxuan Grassland.

Entering the Rouxuan Grassland from the southeast, you can see a green hill winding across the boundless green in the distance. Over this round and undulating mountain range, you will find a vast freshwater lake, surrounded by countless swamps and small lakes. A perfect nomadic getaway.On the east bank of the Great Lake, the Yuyan River flows from the northern valley, and splits a long channel in the mountains to the southeast. The Linhu people call it Changchuan.At the eastern foot of the Changchuan Mountains is the cavalry camp of the Linhu tribe, which is naturally also the headquarters of Linhu Shanyu.Looking from a distance, cattle, sheep and horses are scattered on the grassland, tents are scattered all over the field, and people are shouting and neighing, it is actually full of vitality.

"Your Majesty, I will camp here, and the barbarians will come when they see it." The guard general who was on horseback with Zhao Yong reminded in a low voice, "In case of danger, the road to the southeast is wide." Going into the tiger's lair, what are you afraid of?" Zhao Yong waved his hand resolutely, "Straight into the Changchuan base camp. Remember, I am Wu Sidan, a horse merchant from the state of Zhao. Let's go!" With a flick of the horse's rein, he flew to the tent at the foot of the mountain first. .The guard general was in a hurry, and as soon as he rode out over Zhao Yong's horse's head, he raised his voice and shouted: "The Zhao Guo horse dealer has arrived, please see Lin Hu Danyu—" In the big cowhide tent at the foot of Changchuan Mountain, Lin Hu Danyu He was discussing with more than a dozen tribal leaders about the way to go south to autumn, when he suddenly heard the horseshoes rushing outside the tent, and the voice of people was faint, and he saw the guard cavalry stepping in: "Report to me Shanyu, Zhao Guoma merchants ask to see you!" Hu Danyu was stunned, how dare Zhao Guoma merchants come to Lin Hu?His eyes widened: "Let him in." Lin Huqi took a long stride and turned around, shouting, "Zhao Guo's horse merchants are in the money!" Zhao Yong entered in response, and it was Hu Li who bowed and waved his hands: "Zhao Guo's horse merchants are in the money!" Wu Sidan, a horse merchant, met Lin Hu Shanyu!" "Usi Dan? Is he really a Zhao country horse merchant?" Lin Hu Shanyu blinked his slender eyes quickly.

"Usdan was originally a merchant from the Eastern Hu. Because he sold horses for the Zhao country for many years, his family moved to the Zhao country 30 years ago." Lin Hu Danyu laughed and said, "That's it! The Zhao people have long since become ditch mice It’s a rabbit, can such an eagle fly out? Tell me, how many horses do you want? Which buyer do you want?” “Three thousand horses. It’s still for Zhao Guo.” "For Zhao?" A tribal leader arrogantly rubbed his nose and said in a long voice, "It's like a benzene bear. Can Zhao people know how to ride horses?" "Can Zhao people know how to ride horses?" Wu Sidan spread his hands He shrugged repeatedly, "There are 100,000 cavalry in Pingcheng of Yanmen, isn't it Zhao Guo's? They have to replace many war horses every year." Then peel off 100,000 pieces of human skin and make it the allantoic of my Linhu woman!" The voice fell, and there was a burst of laughter in the tent.

"Wusdan," Lin Hu Shanyu giggled, "I think you are also a barbarian, so I advise you to sell the horse to the Yan State. It's gone, even Zhao Qian is useless." "No!" Wu Sidan's face suddenly turned red, "Yan Guo destroyed my Donghu foundation, how can Wu Sidan sell a horse to him?" "Oh?" Lin Hu Shanyu's eyes flickered, "Lin Hu people don't want Zhao Qian , but how do you buy horses?" "Usidan only uses silk, linen, jade and gold coins, not Zhao coins." The yellow-haired leader laughed loudly, "Shanyu, it's good to sell it to the Zhao people! Three months later, I will be Lin Hu's horse!" "Okay! Sell it to Zhao Guo!" The leaders laughed in unison.

"Brother Wu Sidan wants to do this, so be it." Lin Hu Shanyu's gray beard trembled, "How many horses did you bring? Can you drive three thousand horses on the road?" "A hundred horses, a circle of people Thirty, this is a common practice in horse trading." "No, no, no!" The yellow-haired man waved his hands again and again, "Zhao's horse master alone can drive thirty horses? The sun has come out from the west sea! Wu Sidan, you can only use gold coins to hire me from Linhu to trap horses." "No, no, no." Wu Sidan stared in surprise, "My horse riders are all experts selected by General Zhao Jun, Lou Huan, and he said they are foolproof!" "Ah! Lou Huan?" Amidst people's contemptuous laughter, the yellow-haired man spat loudly, "A loser, a meat-headed bear, dare to talk big like an old raven? Usdan, use thatch as a mallet! Hahahahahaha!"

"Is Lin Hu the ring horse master really good? How much can he drive alone?" Wu Sidan stared wide-eyed.Lin Hu Danyu smiled coldly: "Dai Heba Leng, your clan has opened the eyes of Brother Usdan." The yellow-haired man suddenly got up and walked to Wu Sidan: "Brother, get out of the tent." After saying that, he strode out of the large cowhide tent, and waved to a strong man with a machete in his belt outside the tent, "The horn of the Yellow Banner clan!" The scimitar brawny took off the horn horn hanging on his waist belt with a hey sound, and in an instant, the sharp and thick whining sound of the horn sounded melodiously, and after a sudden pause, the sound of the four wild horns echoed across the grassland.Only when Wu Sidan and the yellow-haired leader Dai Heba Leng walked to the front of Zhao Guo's cavalry, they saw thousands of horses coming behind Changchuan like dark clouds amidst the rumbling thunder, and their momentum was really like the raging tide of the river and the sea. wilderness.Daihe Balen waved his hand again, and the horn of the strong man blew three short and sharp beeps immediately, and the vast and unrestrained Ma Hai rumbled and solidified within a stone's throw away.Wu Sidan looked at it from a distance, and saw the huge herd of neighing horses in a radius of two or three miles. There were only a dozen or so knights swimming around the horse herd, and they were all riding on bare-backed horses without harnesses!There was no time to exclaim, and the fields on the southeast, north, and south were filled with the sound of rumbling waves again, and thousands of horses filled the vast grassland in an instant.With the sound of short horns continuously, the three Ma Hais gathered one arrow away from their respective directions, forming a huge empty pasture in the middle.

At this time, Lin Hu Shanyu and the other leaders also left the big tent, climbed up to the earthen platform with a big banner outside the tent, and smiled from a distance: "Dai Heba Leng, don't take it too seriously!" Ah." "Don't worry, Shanyu, do tigers and leopards have to be serious about skinny deer?" Dai Heba flicked his yellow hair covering his shoulders, then turned around with an arrogant smile, "Brother Usdan, our horses 60,000, and there are no more than a hundred knights grazing during the day. Tell me, how many horses does each person drive?" "Is everyone like this?" Usdan looked surprised and unbelievable.Daihe laughed loudly: "Okay! Brother Usdan said that not all members of my clan are like this? The old man just said, I only call young women from the clan, and you can choose arbitrarily to compete. , is it worth fighting like warriors like me?" After saying that, he waved his hand, and three long horns sounded from the strong man beside him.The sound of the trumpet was still echoing in the grassland and valleys, and there were large swaths of white clouds floating from the mouth of the Changchuan Mountains and valleys. Although they were not as powerful as the horses, they were as leisurely as the wind and the clouds. It is a young man and a woman who are colorful and separated. "Okay!" Wu Sidan clapped his palms suddenly, "Patriarch Dai He then pointed out the three teenagers."

"Brother Usdan," Daihe Baleng said with displeasure, "since a word has been made, how can I ask the old man to do it for me?" "That's okay, it's the blue one, the white one, and the black one." Wu Sidan gave some casual pointers to the flock of sheep among the horses, then turned his head and said loudly to Zhao Guo's horse team, "Zhao Guo's horse masters, come out and compete with young Lin Hu for three masters, if you don't If I have the ability, I, Wu Sidan, will hire Brother Linhu!" "Hi!" The horse team made a loud noise, like thunder.The knights of the Zhao Kingdom had already turned pale. If they hadn't shouldered a heavy responsibility, these elite warriors might have exploded already.But seeing Zhao Yonghun acting as if nothing had happened, he could only suppress his anger.Now that the monarch gives an order, who is not very excited?The general wanted to go out in person, but considering that Lin Hu was a young man, he forced himself to bear it. He waved his hands and called three names in a low voice, and three young knights stepped forward, and they just raised their hands and took off the harness from the belly of the horse. The horse has a long pole and gallops out.At this moment, three Linhu teenagers also came flying horses from outside the flock of sheep. They were wearing narrow-sleeved short clothes and tight trousers tightly wrapped by a pair of high-waisted leather boots. In comparison, it is another style.Dai He waved his hand: "Six bundles of scattered horses, sixty each!"

The brawny man's horn sounded immediately, and in an instant, he heard six sharp and long whistles from the Linhu knights outside the horse herd, and saw six galloping horses flying out of the surging sea of ​​horses in six directions. Run wildly deep into the grassland. "Start up the horse!" Dai He yelled loudly, the blue, white and black Linhu youths flew out with arrows almost at the same time, and the red knights of Zhao Guo also launched at the same time, and the six horses were divided into six directions and scattered in six pieces. The horse goes away. In fact, in the contest of driving a group of horses, the first thing is the contest of riding skills.Not good at riding, don't talk about rounding up the horses, I'm afraid it will be difficult to connect the scattered horses.Generally speaking, the foundation of whether riding skills can be fully displayed is the harness. A bare-backed horse without saddles, bridles and stirrups must be a great difficulty for the Central Plains knights.At present, the three knights of the Zhao Kingdom are all well-equipped horses, and they are naturally approaching the horses at a gallop, and they seem to be faintly ahead of Lin Hu.As soon as they flew, the knights of Zhao Kingdom shouted hello in unison!The three Linhu youths are all bare-backed horses with only one bridle.For a knight, no harness means that he can only use his legs to clamp the horse's belly to keep his body stable, and even the best steed cannot be completely free from bumps. will fall off the horse.What's more, the young man is short and short-legged, and good horses are big-bellied and broad-backed. To reach the speed that surpasses the horses and keep making sharp turns with the horses, the difficulty for the young man to control the horse is much greater than that of an adult knight.Even so, the three Linhu youths galloped freely on their horses, and suddenly approached the horses at the same pace as the Zhao knights!Zhao Yong also seldom joined the anti-Hu army, and he has more experience of galloping on the grasslands. Naturally, he knows the difficulties of young knights, so he was amazed by seeing them, and couldn't help shouting: "Okay!" Laughing: "Guanghuifei is not a Linhu horse, I have to do something right away!" In this moment, I saw three Linhu teenagers had already caught up with the galloping leading horse, and two or three of them spun sharply, long and short. The horse pole flew out like lightning and caught the head horse's neck. The head horse suddenly neighed, and galloped away with the young knight, followed by the horses behind.Just when the horses gathered in a group, the young man Lin Hu let go of the lead horse's harness, and with a loud and long whistle, the lead horse neighed and led the group of horses back.Young man Lin Hu galloped on his horse, sometimes before the horses and sometimes behind the horses, whistling and shouting, the horses galloped in an orderly manner without any chaos.From front to back, it's just a meal time.

Looking at the three Zhao Guo knights again, they were in a great embarrassment.These three knights were the real horse masters in the army. They are outstanding in riding skills and war horses. The horse routine is naturally much higher.Although the group of sixty horses may be a little more numerous today, the grasslands are good for galloping, and depending on the riding skills of the good knights who sit on the horses, they will definitely not lose to the boy Lin Hu.However, apart from taking a slight lead at the start of the gallop, the Zhao Jun knights continued to encounter embarrassments.First, the first knight chased after the leading horse, and the leading horse kept making sharp turns and circles, five or six consecutive rounds, and the knight's harness pole could not be stretched out.At the same time, when the other knight stretched out his horse pole, the rear end of the horse pole was wrapped by a large skirt that was blown by the wind. The sleeves that were more than one foot wide were pocketed, and he turned his head in a hurry, and the horse pole was put on the neck of the mount without leaning to one side.Even so, the handle of the horse's pole was still tangled in the sleeves and skirts, so that the holster around the neck of the mount could not be loosened. The horse was unknown, so it dragged the knight and galloped wildly, straight into the sea of ​​thousands of horses! "The stupid bear is going to die! The horses are going crazy!" Dai He yelled loudly, then leapt onto a bare-backed horse beside him and galloped across the grassland like lightning.The general of Zhao Guo's cavalry team was shocked, and with a wave of his hand, three riders flew out to catch up with their horse poles.Zhao Yong was also puzzled, even though Dai He was very capable, how could he get into the surging sea of ​​horses with his bare hands?How to subdue the crazy horse?In the blink of an eye, Dai He had already flown close to Wangyang Mahai, but when he heard a terrific howling, the horses suddenly dispersed to avoid the frightened horses.Dai He screamed and rushed into the group of horses, rushing from left to right, unexpectedly followed the crazy horse, all of a sudden, he shook his arms, raised his arms and shouted, and shot straight out like an arrow with a noose , It was actually put on the neck of the startled horse!The startled horse suddenly stood up and let out a long cry, then snorted and circled around for a few times and finally settled down.At this time, there was also a master Lin Huma who entered the horse herd from the outside. He jumped off the horse and scooped up the bloody knight under his armpit and flew out of the horse herd.The three later knights of the Zhao Kingdom just arrived, took over their companions and galloped to join the team. "Zhao Ren is like a stupid bear! If he wants to scare the horses crazy, I will skin him!" Dai He Pegasus came back, still furious, "Wusdan, Zhao Ren is also called a knight? He only deserves to be called a bear!" The corners of Wu Sidan's mouth twitched a few times, but he laughed: "Headman Daihe, can you trap a horse with this noose?" "Ahahahahaha!" Daihe burst into laughter, "A real Linhu knight can You have to use a noose! Putting on the pole is done by the dolls. Wu Sidan, you said that the Zhao Guoma master can’t even get past my dolls, and you’re yelling to expel Sanhu, my mother is so funny!" Usdan gritted his teeth tightly, and smiled silently for a long time: "Headman Daihe, Usdan originally offered three hundred good horses, how about buying three of your high-class horsemen?" "That's easy!" Daiheba He snapped his fingers in a daze, "Wu Sidan obeys me, Lin Hu, and I will give you a gift without a high price!" After saying that, he waved to the distance, and three young and strong men strode over, obediently Standing with hands down.Dahe Balen pointed and said, "The three of them are my slaves, look, here is the brand mark." With a big hand, he tore off a young man's collar, and saw a black eagle-headed figure impressively attached to it. A large piece of fleshy red background!Dai He slapped the young man on the back, "You wait for the three women to stay and be my bitch! From now on, your master is Usdan, understand?" The three of them lowered their heads. The heads all gave a high-pitched sound, and then they all bent down and crawled under Usdan's feet with a high-pitched sound. "This is called the master's identity." Dai He laughed, "Step on each of them, be ruthless!" "Are they all top horsemen?" Usdan's mouth twitched again. "Don't you believe in old Daihe?" Suddenly, Daihe's face turned dark. "Of course I believe it. I admit it!" Usdan stepped out suddenly, and the three slaves shouted loudly: "Thank you, master!" Two days later, Usdan's cavalry drove 600 horses southward. up.There were three slave horse masters chasing the horses in circles, but they didn't need Zhao's knights to do it at all.Along the way, Wu Sidan didn't say a word, but just bowed his head and meditated all day long.After entering Deping City, the horses stayed behind, and Wu Sidan immediately ordered that the three slave horse masters should all be given the surname Zhao, named warrior knights, named after dragons, tigers and leopards, and act as personal guards.At this time, the three slaves knew that this was the monarch of Zhao, and they were very excited, expressing their allegiance to the master repeatedly and not wanting an official title.Zhao Yong said with a dark face, "There are no slaves in Zhao State. From today onwards, the three of you will be Zhao Jun's equestrian instructors. But if you have military merits, you will be rewarded. If you make a mistake, you will not be pardoned!" The three of them After a burst of astonishment, they suddenly cheered and jumped, and they all prostrated themselves at Zhao Yong's feet and cried loudly.The guard general was stunned, he wanted to say that these three people still need to be investigated, but seeing Zhao Yong's face, he dared not speak out to persuade them.