Isn't this obvious, the Black Turban Army let 20,000 cavalry feed 40,000 horses, and its main cavalry force is undoubtedly exposed, and there must be an ambush in secret, which is forcing the Xian army to go out to seize the horses, and if you are not careful, you may fall into the trap.

However, if the horses of the Black Turban Army are not taken away, the Black Turban Army will overshadow the Xian Army by a few points in terms of number and formation, and the only advantage of the Xian Army is the cavalry, but the number is not superior.

In addition to the 60,000 war horses brought out this time and the remaining inferior pack horses captured, there were more than 30,000 middle- and lower-class war horses and pack horses on the banks of the Yongxing River of the Xian Army, totaling 100,000. Regardless of whether the Xian State has the national strength to raise 100,000 military horses, and the Black Turban Army has 70,000 miscellaneous horses, if it is dragged to the Longyuan Heavenly King to defeat the main force of the Xu State, it is very likely that horses will be dispatched to support the Xianguo battlefield, and the Xian cavalry will have no advantage at all.

Once the troops are close to each other, it is difficult to achieve a decisive victory, especially when the two sides are facing each other, and the cavalry is an interspersed force, not a decisive force. Therefore, as long as the Black Turban Army drags the cavalry of the Xian Army with cavalry, the Black Turban Army can still crush the Xian Army with the absolute number of infantry troops, and it is really a fool's dream to expect the Liang State and the Jin State to make a move at a critical moment.

The eyes of the generals all fell on Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) at this moment, and seeing that he was silent, Xu Jin asked quickly:

"General Wei, what did Governor Ye ask you, will this horse be taken or not?"

Bai Liyan continued to twist his short beard, the clouds on his brows gradually dissipated, and the gloom of Fang Cai immediately dissipated, and he said:

"There will be a plan at the end, can you try it?"

Ye Xin's eyes lit up and said:

"Speak quickly!"

"Now that the stallion is in mating season, why doesn't our army use the mare as bait and hook the stallion of the Black Turban Army first?"

As soon as the words came out, the generals laughed:

"General Wei, do you think that the horse can also be hit by a beauty, hehaha......" Gu Zhong laughed, and with this smile, one of the missing front teeth was immediately exposed.

Bai Liyan said with a straight face:

"This plan does not require a large number of our troops, just do a good job of responding, and at the same time can take a considerable number of horses, you might as well give it a try."

Xiao Qu said at this time:

"If General An Wei said this, the mare can hook the stallion, what if the mare is hooked by the stallion."

"Hehaha...... What General Xiao said was extreme, hehaha......" Gu Zhong leaned forward and smiled together.

Baili Yan Road:

"Beautiful men do have a plan, but ninety percent of those who have a beautiful man's plan are successful, and it is difficult to say what a beautiful man does."

This animal is different from humans, males are impulsive species, basically there is a hole to drill, while females are usually merit-based admission, like to see first.

Therefore, the success rate of the beautiful male plan in the animal kingdom is extremely low, unless the male animal exudes an unusually strong male hormone charm, but in terms of the horse in the hands of the Black Turban Army, it is almost impossible to pick out a handsome and chic, red rabbit in the horse, and a dragon and phoenix in the horse, and a first-class horse that exudes an abnormally fascinate mare male hormones.

Since the Tang Dynasty in China, all stallions that are not bred have to be castrated, so the stallions after castration are commonly known as geldings. The stallion is easy to estrus, it is not easy to control after estrus, and it is easy to cause danger, so it is castrated, in fact, this is why the cavalry of the Song Dynasty is not good.

After the Song Dynasty lost the three major horse farms in the north, most of the war horses in their hands were castrated, and good war horses could not participate in breeding, which led to the degradation of horses, and the cavalry could not do it over time. The mare is not as strong as the stallion and is usually used as a pack horse, so the cavalry of the Song Dynasty is quite weak.

Nowadays, there is a lack of understanding of these biological phenomena, and the stallions are not castrated, and the mares account for more than half of the war horses, and the pack horses account for more than half of the mares. At present, there are 15,600 mares in the army, which can be used as bait, which is enough to attract more than half of the more than 40,000 war horses outside Shaoping City. And this law is not without precedent.

In the Anshi Rebellion that year, Li Guangbi used a mare as a bait to lure Shi Siming's rebel war horses, and as a result, thousands of war horses were lured. At this time, if it can be concocted in the same way, the loss of the Black Turban Army will definitely be not small.

The plan of using a mare to lead a stallion caused everyone to laugh, Ye Xin estimated that he was hungry for food, thinking that a beauty could seduce a man, and the mare was estimated to be okay. Besides, I really haven't heard of a beautiful man's plan.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Xin gladly accepted despite the opposition:

"General Wei, how to implement this plan, you and everyone."

"No." Bai Liyan stepped forward and said: "Our army can take advantage of the night to remove the barricades from the ten-mile boundary between Shao Ping and Chen Hanxin's department of the Black Turban Army, open a gap, and use two thousand people to drive all the mares through the gap one after another, all the way to the grassland east of Shao Ping.

At the same time, the 5,000 cavalry were separated by three miles, and the mare went to the east of Shaoping, blocking the cavalry of the Black Turban Army. In order to prevent Chen Hanxin's troops from moving, our army transferred another 10,000 people to confront Chen Hanxin head-on in order to contain Chen Hanxin's troops. The rest of the men stayed at the garrison to meet the army. ”

"What if the Black Gold Traitors send troops to attack our army at night?" Xu Jin asked.

"Absolutely not."

Bai Liyan affirmed, and Xu Jin asked:

"Why is that?"

"Because the Black Turban Army is counting on our army to go east to snatch the horses, it must leave a reasonable flaw, so that we will fall into it, but we do not know that thousands of our army drove the mare over, but the army stopped at the west of Shaoping to confront each other, and then the Black Turban Army will not know the motive of our army, and dare not rush to send troops.

And our army took advantage of the helplessness of the Black Turban Army, drove the horses to the pasture, and used the mare to lead away the Black Turban Army stallions. Then he came out from the north and passed through the enemy's Song He defense area, which caught the enemy guarding the Chen Hanxin defense area by surprise. ”

"Wouldn't it be unimpeded to return to the original road, the barricades in the Song He Defense Area have not been cleared, how to pass." Gu Zhong asked.

Baili Yan was confident, and said without hurry:

"The carriages, carts, and horses are all facing west, so their ploughs and nails are fixed on the opposite side, and they must not be shaken when they collide from the front.

If our army passes through the Songhe Defense Area, the Black Turban Army will not be able to expect it, but will wait for our army on the same road. By the time our army crosses north, it will be too late for the Black Turban Army to deploy again. ”

During the estrus period, animals will emit secreted odors, which can be as far as several kilometers or even more than ten kilometers, and wolves can even spread the smell up to 700 kilometers away.

After the mare moved to the pasture, the horse was released in situ a few miles away from the Black Turban Army, and the estrus smell secreted by the mare spread rapidly under the blowing of the wind, and when the stallion smelled the smell of thousands of mares of various colors appeared at the same time, the desire impulse brought by this temptation was far stronger than the stimulation produced by a few or dozens of mares.

This horse also has an IQ, and most of the mates compete for the right to mate, when the number of mares is very small, only a few stallions can obtain the right to mate through wrestling, so not all stallions in heat will participate in group fights caused by mating rights.

But if the number of mares is so large that two or three stallions can be divided into one mare, it will stimulate the enthusiasm of a large number of stallions, arouse their desires, and thus lead more stallions to mares.

At that time, without waiting for the Black Turban Army to react, several miles away, the stallion was restless, following the scent of the mare and began to move, at this time forcibly suppressing the stallion, and it was easy to be attacked by the stallion.

The Xianjun drove the mare to turn around and go north, taking the stallion further away, the stallion saw the mare turn around and flee, the smell began to change, and the instinctive desire drove the stallion to speed up and gallop, and even the stallion under the crotch of the Black Turban Army did not obey the call, where was there any combat effectiveness.

When the cavalry of the Black Turban Army pursued halfway, the 5,000 elite cavalry of the Xian Army followed behind, riding a stallion that had already fired more than a dozen cannons, tasted the taste of a mare, and vented the fire, and killed a person who was caught off guard halfway, and he was not allowed to lift the rebels to turn over the eggs on his back alone.

To say that the Black Turban Army set up this plan is also extremely ingenious, putting his pockets to let the Xian Army get in by himself, and he is also willing. Baili Yan is a human being in two lives, and his IQ and strategy may not necessarily be higher than this person, but his insight and cognition are indeed what he does not have. You have your Zhang Liangji, I have my ladder over the wall, it is true that the ancients could not be bullied, but modern people are not cowards.

Ye Xin was inclined to take the horse, and the other generals were suspicious of the "beauty plan", Xu Jin still asked uneasily:

"General Wei, what if the mare doesn't listen to the call?"

"It's very simple, just give them a taste of the sweetness and confess the Lord."

"That'...... What is sweetness? ”

"Early tomorrow morning, set up two hundred marching pots ten miles west of Shaoping, boil water in the pot, sprinkle salt and seedlings and green ears, and then boil, boil out the fragrance of salt and grass, and keep boiling, add water to continue boiling after boiling.

Tonight you have to feed the mare with salt cubes, so that the mare remembers that when she cooks the salt and green ears tomorrow morning, she will also feed the mare with salt cubes, so that the mare will remember the direction clearly. Even if one or two horses are hooked by the Black Turban Army, as long as the reins are not tethered, the horse's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, and as long as the salt grass here is kept boiling, the horse will find it by itself. ”

Nowadays, feeding livestock is still limited to a single forage and food crop, and the relationship between salt and livestock is far less understanding than the relationship between humans and salt. As long as the horses are fed salt, it can enhance the horse's good impression of people, and at the same time, it can also increase the excitement of the horse, mark a general direction in their memory, and then smell the smell of salt and green ears, and they can find it back by themselves.

After talking a lot, Bai Liyan took a sip of water and continued:

"In addition, after our army has intercepted the horses, we should consider crossing the river and retreating along the south bank to the Yongxing River, and I will ask the Governor of Dadu to see this matter."

"Well, with their horses, the traitors are bound to take revenge on our army, and it's time to withdraw their troops." Thinking of this, Ye Xin looked at Xu Jin: "General Xu Jin listens to orders." ”

"The last general!"

"Order your department to send 500 men to collect the ropes needed to cross the river from the whole army, and if there are any deficiencies, take local materials and weave rattan, straw ropes, and hemp ropes, so as to prepare for crossing the river and tying the pontoon bridge.

He ordered General Xiao Qu to lead his headquarters to follow General Wei of the vanguard battalion to rob horses tomorrow. General Gu Zhong's headquarters and General Xu Jin's headquarters stayed at the garrison to take care of the horses, and the governor of the capital led 10,000 people to Chen Hanxin's camp to contain the rebels, and all the generals understood. ”

"Obey the orders of the Grand Overseer!"