Chapter 316 Ma Chao wants to be the King of Kushan!
Chapter 316: Ma Chao wants to be the King of Kushan!
Outside Xuchang City,

The mighty cavalry came roaring and first engaged in battle with the Hun cavalry.

The Great Khan of the Xiongnu was killed in battle.

The last 25,000 Hun cavalry were slaughtered under the crushing force of the heavily armored cavalry.

In this world, the Huns have actually been completely destroyed.

There are still hundreds of thousands of women, children, and elderly people left in the tribes in the northern grasslands. They cannot organize a decent fighting force, and it takes several years for the little men in the tents to grow up.

During these years, they were ownerless.

Will Cao Cao give them a few years?

Or is Liu Wu willing to wait for the children in those tents to grow up to be men who can ride horses and play the bow?

impossible……

The strong prey on the weak, and they have no say over whether to die or not.

Even if the King of Wei and the King of Chu ignore them, what about the Xianbei people in the north?

There is such a vast land with abundant grass and water in the south of the desert. With so many women, how many children can they give birth to?

There are so many children. If we capture them now and train them for a few years, they will become perfect slaves...

Sunset

Zhang He got up from the ground. He was injured, but the wound was not fatal.

The defense line outside the city had as many as 20,000 infantrymen, but they were scattered and routed by Liu Wu's heavily armored cavalry.

As a general who had faced heavy armored cavalry, Zhang He was desperate...

can't stop it,
I can't stop it at all...

He looked at the Chu cavalry that had already left in the distance and felt very depressed.

Looking up at the top of the city wall, Cao Mengde was still there in silence, as if he had lost his soul.

Time passes little by little,
It's night.

Fifty miles outside Xudu City,

The Chu army set up camp...

The bonfire is small, facing the starry sky.

Where the king's flag and banner stand tall is the central army tent.

At this time, in the account,

Liu Wu had already taken off his armor, and large pieces of horse meat were already placed on the table.

Taking out a dagger from his waist, Liu Wu cut off a piece and put it into his mouth, chewing and drinking.

There were two tables on the left and right sides of the tent, and Gao Shun and Ma Chao were also feasting heartily.

They rushed all the way from Luoyang and fought a series of battles, which made them exhausted.

"We captured tens of thousands of war horses in this battle, and many of the Xiongnu's horses died as well. We didn't let Cao's soldiers take advantage of us. We dragged them all back, enough for us to eat for three to five days." Ma Chao choked a little after he finished speaking, and quickly offered some wine to help him along.

At this time in the military camp, except for a few sergeants on duty, most of the soldiers were busy skinning, deboning and stewing meat.

The whole barracks was filled with the aroma of meat...

After eating about two kilograms, Liu Wu stopped eating: "When we were in Jingzhou, we managed to get a few thousand draft horses and allocated them all to the Xianzhen Camp."

"This has caused displeasure among other troops."

"But since the Western Expedition, war horses have become more and more abundant. Who could have imagined that tens of thousands of war horses were seized under the city of Xuchang..."

"Since the conditions are met, I plan to form a cavalry of 200,000 men when I have time. These are serious cavalry, not the Huns' cavalry..."

Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It seems that the King of Chu is not only targeting China..."

Two hundred thousand serious cavalry,

Is it necessary to unify China?
No need!

It’s really unnecessary!

To sweep the caves in Liting and conquer the northern desert, do we really need 200,000 cavalry?

After all, Ma Chao had stayed in the northwest for a long time, and had followed Liu Wu on the expedition to the Western Regions, so he knew many things that people in the mainland did not know.

In addition to Yumen Pass, there are various countries and city-states in the Western Regions.

But after crossing the Pamir Mountains, there is a bigger world.

The Great Yuezhi people migrated westward from Liangzhou, crossed the Pamir Mountains, and established a large empire with a population of nearly 15 million.

Further west, there is an empire called Parthia.

Going further west is the focus of the Silk Road, the Roman Empire, which was called Daqin by the Han Dynasty.

The size of the Roman Empire was almost the same as that of the Han Dynasty...

In front of Ma Chao and Gao Shun, Liu Wu revealed his thoughts.

If you want to go on a long expedition, you must have cavalry. Ma Chao and Gao Shun are both cavalry commanders. They will be needed in the future and will be of great use.

"If my lord trusts me, Ma Mengqi is willing to be the second Zhou Gongjin!"

Ma Chao expressed his position.

Controlling thousands of miles of territory and being crowned a king, what an honor it is!
If this is possible, then Ma Chao's glory will far surpass that of his ancestor General Ma Yuan!
"Mengqi, there's no need to be so excited..." Gao Shun smiled, then bowed and looked at his lord: "My lord, you must be thinking that after you take down Cao Mengde, the world will basically be unified."

"It would be a pity to train these soldiers with great difficulty and then retire to the countryside. It would be better to go out and fight to expand the territory."

"Just like in the Western Regions, the soldiers who followed the lord to fight all became nobles, owning large amounts of land and slaves..."

Liu Wu nodded: "That's right."

"It's a pity to let them go back to farming. They are all men who have fought with me. How can I bear to let them go back to being farmers?"

"It would be better to provide them with fine clothes and delicious food, and let them and their descendants guard the outer territories for the lonely town."

"Just like when Duke Zhou divided the feudal lords."

"In this way, even if there is rebellion and unrest in the border areas a hundred years later, it will all be internal strife within China, just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."

Ma Chao bowed his hands in admiration and said: "My lord, your broad mind is truly unprecedented! Ma Chao is willing to die for you!"

At this time, Ma Chao's heart was extremely hot, and he was secretly picking out a territory...

Mo Nan is unlikely, after all, it is too far away from the Central Plains.

Mobei is too cold and bitter, you'd have to be crazy to go there, and there's no guarantee that they'll be divided into fiefdoms...

The Northeast is connected to Liaodong, so even if we pass through it, we will still be a puppet emperor.

Kushan...

That is a country with a population of tens of millions. If Liu Wu can give his full support, Ma Chao thinks it is worth a try. After all, its king has been captured, and its 200,000 elite troops were annihilated at the city of Yishi, causing great damage to the country's vitality.

"My lord, I personally think that we can conquer Kushan!" Ma Chao had made no secret of his purpose.

Gao Shun chuckled: "The Kushan King is in our hands, and most of the 200,000-man army has become slaves under the rule of the Western Regions Protectorate. Naturally, we can take advantage of them."

"However, we still have to get past Cao Mengde first, right?"

Ma Chao could only suppress his restless heart...

Sit back and drink and eat meat.

Liu Wu did not mention this again, but secretly said in his heart: I have already promised Zhou Gongjin the title of King of the Western Regions. If you want to be the King of Kushan, that's fine. But if you change your mind, don't blame me...

"Report!"

Outside the central army tent, a soldier reported: "Someone from Cao's camp is visiting!"

Liu Wu raised his head suddenly, his expression somewhat uncontrollably excited, "Who is coming?"

The soldier said, "I can't see clearly. The man is wearing a black robe and doesn't say a word. He is guarded by elite soldiers and accompanied by scholars..."

"quick!"

Liu Wu stood up immediately. He was so excited that he couldn't control himself no matter what: "Quick!"

"Please invite him in!"

(End of this chapter)