Zhuge Liang's blitzkrieg thought coincided with Lu Bu's thoughts. He should not be underestimated by the ancients. He was so wise.

"Will Cao Cao and Yuan Shao be prepared?"

Zhuge Liang shook his head: "If a cavalry is one man and two horses, it can march 150 miles a day. Only the tiger and leopard cavalry in Cao's army can reach this speed, but their number is small. The horses need a lot of food and cannot afford horses. However, our Xuzhou has a lower-cost iron horse army. If you don't eat grass or food, you can march 200 miles a day, and you can completely beat Cao's army."

Zhuge Liang was born with sensitivity to military affairs. According to his judgment, Cao Cao's elite soldiers are definitely no more than 50,000 now. As for the 100,000 troops of bragging, they are all strong men and garrisons. When they pick up the spear at the critical moment, they will be soldiers.

Cao Cao's territory is so large that the defenders in each place are only three or five thousand, and even Xu Du only has more than ten thousand troops. If he can concentrate his superior troops, he will have 40,000 to 50,000 people, and he can guarantee that he will march about 150 miles a day and will definitely sweep across the Central Plains.

Why? Because the enemy reinforcements have not arrived yet, the battle has been completed here.

We always fight with more and less, and with strong fight with weak. Moreover, the battle between the princes is not a deadly battle. Once the opponent's power is strong, many surrender.

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless, because it is an open conspiracy and irresistible.

Lu Bu bowed: "Brother Kong Ming, come to our army as a counselor. Let's end the disputes in the world together, achieve great unification as soon as possible, and let the people live a happy and healthy life as soon as possible."

Zhuge Liang was not arrogant because Xuzhou was in full swing at this time and was at its peak.

"Light should devote himself to his lord's attention until his death."

Lu Bu was overjoyed: "I got Kong Ming, and I would be like a tiger adding wings."

The conversation was too speculative, and the living room was no longer suitable. The two came to the big tree in the backyard. Zhuge Liang asked: "How many cavalry can the lord gather now and how many iron horse soldiers."

"The Xuzhou headquarters actually had eight thousand cavalry of Xuzhou, three thousand cavalry of Cao Xing's vanguard army. The Lusu army had six thousand iron horses, Gaoshun army had one thousand camps, and ten thousand iron horses. The Zhao Yun army had six thousand cavalry of Youzhou. And the cavalry is mainly one army and one horse, but in recent years there have been more than 10,000 reserved horses."

"Are the trapped camp a cavalry or infantry?" Zhuge Liang still didn't know these secrets of the Xuzhou Army.

"The camp belongs to the elite army. When they get on horseback, they are cavalry, and when they get on the city, they are infantry. They are equipped with strong endurance Hun horses."

Zhuge Liang calculated that the force was a little less. The total cavalry was only 20,000, and the Iron Horse Army was only 16,000.

"Lord, can there be more Iron Horse Army? The most inseparable from infantry attacks and camps. If there are ten thousand Iron Horse Army, it would be perfect. Xuzhou has a big family and there are too many places to defend."

Lu Bu thought for a moment: "I remember that I could still transfer 10,000 infantry, but these people have practiced how to ride an iron horse. It takes only ten days to recover and form effective combat power, with a total of 46,000 troops. If it is not enough, you can recruit troops."

Zhuge Liang shook his hands repeatedly: "No need, soldiers are important, not many, and more troops are dispatched and contacted is a big problem, and it is still as if the number of troops is small. With 46,000 troops, as long as the command is properly, it is enough."

Lu Bu had lunch at Zhuge Liang's house and really stewed the fat chickens Zhuge Liang had raised at the time.

Zhuge Liang had nothing to clean at home, so he packed his luggage, brought a little book boy, and followed Lu Bu to Xuzhou.

Zhuge Liang was appointed as the counselor and lieutenant, and was appointed as Lu Su. He was under Chen Palace.

Lu Bu had no objection to Zhuge Liang in this way. He knew his position very well. After all, Xuzhou is developing so strong now, it is inseparable from Chen Gong's hard work.

With the arrival of autumn, the annual autumn training of the Xuzhou army began.

Because the weather is too hot in summer and the training intensity is relatively low, after a summer, the morale of the soldiers has become lazy, so autumn training is required.

The autumn training is a whole, including the city defense camp, patrol battalion and the constables of various counties.

Lu Bu began to mobilize troops secretly. Needless to mention the enemy, few people in the Xuzhou army knew what Lu Bu was going to do.

In the name of La Lian, a 16,000 Iron Horse Army was transferred from Xuzhou to Teng Kingdom, including the 10,000 Danyang soldiers directly under Lu Bu and the 6,000 troops from Lu Su.

Then we began to train eight thousand Xuzhou Iron Cavalry.

There are still many problems with the cavalry of Xuzhou. The horses they used were originally tall horses produced in Xiliang, which were one and a half feet taller than the Huns. Now it is impossible to have one person and two horses, and it is definitely impossible to have a tall horse from Xiliang. Not to mention that they don’t have that much money, no one can sell them even if they have money.

Only equip the grassland horses, and after all the selection, Iron Hoof Horses were selected. The iron hoof horses purchased from the Iron Hoof Tribe are not good-looking, but the price is cheap and the endurance is good.

But the empty horses followed him and the Xiliang horse ran for 100 miles first. After changing the horse, does the iron hoof horse still have the ability to march fifty miles more? Moreover, it is not only about traveling fifty miles more, but also the ability to catch the enemy suddenly.

Xuzhou Iron Cavalry are all riding masters, so they can adapt quickly with a new horse.

Feng Xiong led his troops to conduct experiments first and drove him from Xuzhou to Xia Pi.

The journey was exactly 180 miles, and there were several inns along the way without worrying about the forage.

As soon as the sky was dawn, Feng Xiong led two thousand cavalry out of Xuzhou to the south gate. As soon as he got on the official road, he accelerated and ran slowly. Each Xuzhou iron cavalry pulled an iron-hoofed horse behind him, and the short iron-hoofed horse was calm and resolute.

The original team of two thousand cavalrymen became even larger after two thousand iron-hoofed horses, and the smoke and dust raised were like five or six thousand cavalrymen.

He trotted all the way, and his horse's hooves stomped on the official road.

It took an hour and a half to rest for half an hour to have breakfast, and let the horse rest. Then it marched for another hour.

Feng Xiong looked at his condition and found it was OK. Xiliang horses are a good horse in the world, and it is still OK to march for hundreds of miles.

"Stay camp in front of you to rest and continue to march after dinner."

"yes."

The cavalry seems majestic, but in fact it is very hard. When resting, the cavalry must take care of the horses as soon as possible. First, remove the saddles on the horses and let the horses roll on the beach to activate blood.

Then feed the horses water, and the horses can only eat them when they are eaten.

Feng Xiong put the big gun in his hand to the side, took off his helmet carelessly: "This pony is OK. It's not tired yet for more than a hundred miles. It's time to ride them on the remaining road after a while."

The commander next to him smiled and said, "Don't worry, Deputy General Feng, this horse is raking hard, it's okay to run eighty miles."

"I hope so, but I just ran 180 miles a day and my legs were really worth it."
Chapter completed!