Chapter 1082 Huyanda's Capture Team
On the prairie more than 200 miles northwest of Chifeng City, nearly a thousand knights were galloping on the vast and lush prairie. The reason why they are called knights is because in addition to the 500 cavalry among them, there are more than 500 people who are obviously dressed as ordinary herdsmen.
This was Huyanda and his party who left Chifeng and went to the prairie to catch horses. Huyanda has a very special existence among the Tang army, not only because he is Huangfu Chaobo's minister of Long Qian, but also because he is a horse trainer, and a master-level horse trainer. Therefore, he had already reached the official position of Zhonglang General at a young age. He had nearly 4,000 people under his command: a team of 1,000 cavalrymen, 128 horse trainers, and more than 800 horse-catching herdsmen. and horse herders numbering nearly 2,000 people.
This thousand-man team of cavalry is the escort team that usually goes out to capture horses. To put it bluntly, when Huyanda and others encounter danger on the grassland, the cavalry will block the holes of the guns. After all, in Huangfu In Chaobo's eyes, a thousand cavalrymen are not as good as one Huyanda. Not to mention Huyanda, even an ordinary senior horse trainer can't do it.
As for the 128 horse trainers, in addition to Huyanda who is at the master level, there are 15 seniors, 32 seniors and 80 juniors. If an ordinary war horse is trained at Huyanda's level, it can basically be done once an hour, and it can basically be successfully trained.
But other horse trainers are different. Advanced horse trainers can train two horses per day, intermediate horse trainers can train one horse per day, and beginner horse trainers can train one horse every two days. The lower the level, the lower the success rate. Therefore, Huyanda and his group of more than 100 people can theoretically train more than 3,000 war horses in a month. However, after removing the influence of various other factors and the source of the horses, they can eventually exceed 1,000 horses every month. Very good.
The foreigners on the grassland basically tether horses to catch them, which is the basic condition for domesticating horses. The more than 800 people under Hu Yanda are basically masters of horse roping. Their skill levels are all advanced, and their riding skills have also reached advanced levels. Of course, the horse trainers' horse-roping skills are also very good, basically advanced, not to mention their riding skills.
As for the remaining two thousand or so ordinary herdsmen, they are just raising horses and riding horses.
A large group of knights galloped on the grassland. A few miles to ten miles in front of them, there were several small groups of knights galloping on their horses. However, they were not running aimlessly. Every once in a while, they would Someone got off his horse and looked carefully at something on the grass.
Soon, a group of knights seemed to determine what was going on. With a whistle, the whole group of knights hit their horses and ran further ahead. A quarter of an hour later, the pair of knights began to return, running towards the direction of the large group of knights. Soon they met with the large group of people. The leader quickly ran to Huyanda Horse and reported loudly: "General, a medium-sized wild horse herd was found ten miles northwest of the front. Judging from the situation, it should be a group of more than a thousand horses. herd of wild horses.”
When everyone heard this, they were all very happy. They had been out for a few days, but they only encountered some small herds of three to five hundred wild horses. Such wild horse herds were basically war horses and riding horses. There are very few good horses, let alone horse-level horses. Now we have finally found a larger herd of wild horses. If we are lucky, we might be able to catch dozens of horses.
Huyanda nodded, and just as he was about to speak, another pair of knights came back. The leader reported loudly and excitedly: "General, a large herd of wild horses was found in the northeast, at least five thousand in number!"
"Ha, great!"
"Finally found it! General, let's get started!"
What everyone didn't expect was that Huyanda's eyes lit up, and then he said: "Give me the order, turn the army around, and first deal with the group of medium-sized wild horses in the northwest!"
When everyone heard this, they were all stunned: "General! Why is this?"
Huyanda looked at everyone around him with a smile and said, "Why, no one can imagine it?"
Several people nearby shook their heads to express that they didn't know.
One of them said: "General, what is in the northeast is a large herd of wild horses. It may be the same herd of wild horses we saw at the beginning!"
He also specially emphasized the word "at the beginning".
Huyanda looked at him with a smile and said, "Is that the one with the maroon horse king?"
"Uh-huh……"
"Are you still afraid that they will run away, or that they will be caught by others?" Huyanda said with a smile;
"It would be a pity if Gongsunzan and his horse trainers caught him!"
"Just them?" Huyanda said with a look of contempt; "A herd of three to five hundred wild horses is not enough. Do they dare to go to a herd of three to five thousand wild horses?"
When everyone heard this, they all suddenly realized, yes, the highest level of Gongsun Zan's horse trainers was only intermediate, which was not enough to handle a herd of wild horses of this level.
When they thought of this, everyone felt relieved.
Hu Yanda arrived again: "There is another reason. We caught the horse king as soon as we arrived. What will General Wangmen think if he finds out? There is also the territory to the north of Longhua. I don't know if it has been built yet. I am going to wait until it is built. Then send King Ma directly there instead of sending him to Chifeng first and lock him up first!"
After everyone heard this, they all suddenly realized, yes, after all, this is someone else's territory, it's okay if you get it, but it's not right to act like a good boy in front of the master!
"That's right, that's right. We can just keep silent and make a fortune. There's no need to provoke others, hehehehe!" Everyone laughed together;
"Okay, pass the order, assemble, and start working!" Huyanda smiled and whipped the horse trainer who spoke, and gave the order;
"Woo woo woo..."
With his order, the desolate sound of the horn echoed over the grassland again, and soon, the scattered cavalry gathered towards the large group of people and horses.
A quarter of an hour later, more than a thousand knights went to the medium-sized wild horse herd in the northwest, and there was only silence on the grassland after a while.
Huyanda led a thousand knights and spent two days to finally capture this herd of about two thousand wild horses. A total of 12 fine horses, 268 good horses, and 429 war horses were captured. The remaining horses fled in all directions, and they will be gathered by other wild horse herds after a while.
A day later, Huyanda led more than a thousand knights back to the camp in the northwest of Chifeng, and there were nearly a thousand wild horses of various levels returning with them. Upon receiving the news, Wang Men rushed to the camp immediately and drooled at the sight of nearly a thousand horses. You know, the horse trainer under his command often went out to catch wild horses, and each time he would only bring back a hundred or so horses at most.