Chapter 136: Kebi can worry about tomorrow

Among the 10,000 horses, there will be a horse king like the yellow lion or the white shadow.

But this refers to the herd of horses, if it is only a herd of hundreds or thousands, even if you catch 10,000 horses, you will not be able to see the real horse king.

A herd of 10,000 horses is rare even in the savannah.

Even after a year, you may not be able to find a group.

Last time, it was lucky, and the horses happened to appear near Shanggu County and were discovered by Zhao Hui's people.

Normally, the huge herds of horses are in the depths of the grassland, which is a truly uninhabited place.

Only in those places where there is tender water, fertile grass and rare human tracks, it is possible for thousands of horses to gallop.

Although Heifeng Village has sent people to the grassland to search for horses, the people sent out are too small for the entire grassland, and even if it takes them a year, they can't search the entire grassland. Not even half of it.

As long as these tribes on the grassland help, there is a greater chance of finding the horse king.

Xianbei was scared by Zhao Hui, and Karasuma was scared by Gongsun Zhan.

Now the Xianbei people and the Karasuma people are relatively low-key, and it is rare to see them in Youzhou and Zhou, and there are grassland tribes who have come to loot.

Zhao Hui did not completely prohibit people from the steppe tribes from coming to Shanggu County.

As long as there is no malice, Zhao Hui welcomes them to come to Shanggu County and conduct normal trade exchanges.

They can trade their cattle and sheep, as well as wool and goat's milk.

These things are also very much needed by the people of the Han Dynasty.

"Several tribes have agreed to go looking for the Horse King for us." Wu Youcai said.

Although many tribes have migrated far away from Shanggu County, there are still many tribes who can't hide, so they can only agree to Zhao Hui's request.

Moreover, some tribes want to take this opportunity to have a good relationship with Zhao Hui, not to mention that their tribe is safe and secure, and they can also ask the Modao team to help them in the future, annex other tribes, and make their tribe the ruler of the grassland.

At this point, Zhao Hui had thought about it before.

If he secretly supports a steppe tribe, let this tribe gradually eat away at other tribes.

But the habits of the grassland tribe made it impossible for Zhao Hui to guarantee whether the tribe he supported would obey his orders after unifying the grassland.

This tribe that unifies the grassland, with a great chance, will not only not be his help, but will become his biggest threat.

If it can't be his own help, like now, a divided grassland tribe is the most beneficial for Zhao Hui.

Gongsun Chan and him have always fought against the power of the grassland tribes.

In the past few years, there have been only a handful of tribes in the grassland where 10,000 people have gathered, and most of the tribes have only one or two thousand people.

The grassland tribe, whether it is facing Zhao Hui's Modao team or Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong, they have no advantage.

In the vast grassland, the wind blows the grass and the grass is low to see cattle and sheep.

Even though many spies were sent to the prairie, it was impossible to monitor the entire prairie.

Now there are only more than twenty grassland tribes exposed to Zhao Hui's sight.

Moreover, they may migrate to other places again at any time, and when Zhao Hui sends people over again, they may have already moved to other places hundreds of miles away.

It is very difficult to spy on the steppe tribes. Even if a lot of manpower and material resources are consumed, it is difficult to achieve the desired results.

Moreover, the people sent by Zhao Hui were all accustomed to living in the Han Dynasty, and they were not only easy to get lost in the grassland, but also found food as a great challenge.

Zhao Hui sent a lot of spies to the grassland, but not everyone could come back.

In addition to those who were trapped in the grassland because they were disoriented and lacked food, there were also some people who were found by the tribe and killed.

The spies sent to the steppe are more dangerous than the intelligence officers sent to the Central Plains.

But Zhao Hui couldn't afford not to take care of the tribes of the grassland.

Shanggu County is backed by the prairie, if when he fights for hegemony in the Central Plains later, the grassland tribe will give him a look in the back, Zhao Hui will not be able to stand it.

In order to defeat Cao Wei, Zhuge Liang secretly invited the Huns and asked the Huns to cooperate with him to attack Cao Wei.

If you don't have full control over the steppe tribes, then you have to keep them divided.

Zhao Hui sent so many spies into the grassland, the purpose was to control the movements of those big tribes, know the pace of their expansion, and then send cavalry to strike at them when necessary.

Let these tribes, never one, be able to threaten the large tribes of Upper Valley County.

Now on the grassland, the only tribe that has the potential to threaten Shanggu County is the Kebineng tribe.

The previous Budugen tribe had been suppressed by Zhao Hui, and now they had already migrated thousands of miles away. There are only about 10,000 people in the tribe.

And the tribe of Kebineng, which now has 50,000 people, is not counting those small and medium-sized tribes that are attached to Kebineng.

Judging from the news from the spies, the population of the tribe attached to Kebineng should not be less than 50,000.

In the steppe tribes, men over the age of fifteen can follow the tribe to fight.

The Kebineng tribe can easily form a cavalry with a number of about 30,000.

If they had given Kebi a little more time, they could have assembled an army of 50,000 cavalry.

This is definitely a force to be reckoned with, more than the number of soldiers in Zhao Hui's hands now.

If it was before, Kebineng would have been unable to hold it anymore, and with tens of thousands of cavalry, he broke into the territory of the Han Dynasty and carried out countless burning, killing and looting.

But now there is Gongsun Zan in Youzhou on the surface, and Zhao Hui's Black Wind Village in secret.

Even if he could gather 50,000 cavalry, Kebineng would not dare to start a war casually.

In the past, they were grassland tribes, even if they couldn't beat them, they could also run on war horses.

But now if they fail, they may never return to the grasslands.

The bitter lessons of Budugen and other tribes on the grassland, Kebinengke has always seen it.

And if Zhao Hui wants to deal with Ke Bineng now, it won't be enough for a while.

Zhao Hui is now full of calculations, and he is only two thousand cavalry.

If the infantry is dispatched, the army moves slowly, and Kebi can have enough time to deal with it, they can fight if they want, withdraw if they want, and all kinds of noises are enough to make Zhao Hui's infantry exhausted.

The best way to deal with the steppe tribes on the other side is to use cavalry against cavalry.

However, the number of cavalry of Zhao Hui is too small now.

The gap between two thousand cavalry and the tens of thousands of cavalry of Kebineng is still too big.

Moreover, the tribe of Kebineng is now thousands of miles away from Shanggu County, and if the news leaks on the road, the two thousand cavalry will almost never return.

If they don't harass and suppress the Kebineng tribe, then if they continue, it is very likely that Kebineng will reunite Xianbei, and then their eyes will move to the rich Han.