There was a reason why Liu Lan, who was originally going to hold on, left suddenly, because on the night of repelling the Xianbei people, the group of people was surrounded by a group of wild beasts again, and there were pairs of green eyes everywhere under the hillside, looking at them faintly, and the bloodthirsty and fierce light in those eyes made the whole team nervous.

They thought they were steppe wolves, only to find out after this group of beasts attacked that they were not steppe wolves at all, but wild dogs of the grassland, which was comparable to the terrifying existence of tigers and leopards!

They are huge, and their black fur stands upside down like steel needles! In the grassland, if the attack power of each wild dog is comparable to the lethality of the tiger and leopard, in terms of team combat, they do not lose to the wolves, so the real king of the grassland is not the wolves, but the wild dogs in front of them.

Looking at the surrounding scenery, Liu Lan realized that this should be a tributary of the Tuhe River in Chifeng.

Although wild dogs are more aggressive than tigers and leopards, brutes are always brutes, and perhaps they are more ferocious, but their weaknesses are also more pronounced.

Under the leadership of Liu Lan, under the attack of flames and arrows, the grassland wild dogs were killed and retreated without injuring a single person, but this group of beasts was extremely vindictive, and they appeared again on the second day, only this time their number was reduced and Liu Lan soon found the leader, and after the wild dog leader was killed with an arrow, he led everyone to start heading towards the Garo Department!

At noon on this day, they were looking for a place to rest when they heard the sound of rushing water in the distance, and after everyone pushed away the bushes of grass, Liu Lan couldn't help but squint his eyes, and a lake like a mirror appeared in front of him, reflecting the dazzling afternoon sun!

Like a sparkling jewel dotted in the grassland wilderness, the sparkling light ripples on the surface of the lake.

"Ahh In such a hot and dry weather, everyone took off their clothes and jumped into the lake to take a bath as soon as possible, but Zhang Zheng, who has always been cautious, in order to ensure everyone's safety, still assigned the troops to patrol, and now they are in an environment that cannot be careless, and no one can say whether there will be a patrol or brigade of Xianbei people nearby.

But Liu Lan told him that he was safe here, and that he didn't need to be so careful for now.

Sima Bacao fed the foal and explained to Zhang Zheng that the grass here grew so luxuriantly, reaching a person's height, that there were no troops or herdsmen here, and Xianbei was no longer like in the past, because they had already demarcated the area in the era of Tanshi Huai.

Therefore, it is very safe here, and even if there is a situation, it will be at most one or two Xianbei patrols.

Zhang Zheng also wanted to feed the little red horse, but unfortunately it didn't buy it, so he could only pull the grass for Sima while asking him why he had such a conclusion, Liu Lan took the tender grass and said with a smile that because the sheep will cut snow and eat grass roots in winter, the grass close to the Han realm is only a few inches high, while the grassland in the depths of the grassland has reached a height of one person, this is because the snow in the depths of the grassland is thicker, and the sheep cannot dig the thick snow to destroy the grass roots, so the grassland is better.

And this place is close to the Han border but the pasture is so good, it can only be said that the herdsmen have never come here to graze, and even the herdsmen have never been here, and the Xianbei army will not pass from here, so if there are really Xianbei people, it will only be one or two patrols!

Zhang Zheng was convinced, especially after waiting until night to leave, and did not notice anything unusual.

In the Han Dynasty, there were no pure soldiers, everyone had to serve in the military, but in addition to military service, there were very few generals or good families on the border who wanted to join the army and rely on military merits to obtain knighthoods and officials, but more soldiers were just ordinary people. Ordinary people reach adulthood at the age of twenty, and when they reach adulthood, they are required to serve in the military, and there are three types of military service. One is the central "guard" soldiers, the other is the "soldier" of the border county, and the other is the local "service" soldier, also called the county soldiers.

There are two main branches of the central army: one is called the southern army, the other is called the northern army, and the local good family takes turns to be a guard in the central government for one year, with good treatment, usually wearing and eating, and the round-trip travel expenses are all responsible for the state, and when they first arrive and return to the county at the end of the period, they can get the banquet of the Han emperor.

But the garrison in the border county is different, and you have to bear the cost of qiē, although the duration of the garrison is also very short, only three days. It looks very simple, but after all, this is a bad habit in the Warring States Period, how big can the land area of the Seven Kingdoms be at that time, that is, now one or two provinces, from the homeland to the frontier in a day or two, but the Han Dynasty unified the whole country, if the Youzhou soldiers were assigned to Jiaozhi, or the Yizhou soldiers were assigned to Huiji, although it was only three days of military service, but it would take more than half a year on the way.

And you have to bring your own clothes and food, which will be troublesome, but the Han court did not make any changes to the military service law that was completely out of line with the times, but added a clause to replace military service with money, and one hundred yuan a day can be exempted from military service, but since this is a kind of flexibility, should these people who buy military service hand over the money to the service soldiers, and he will pay him three hundred yuan for one more day, so that the people who have no money to buy military service can also subsidize some households, but unfortunately this bad habit of the Han generation has not been improved.

Therefore, although Liu Lan's team is only ordinary people, their tactical literacy is not bad, because many people have served in the army and have mastered the most basic combat skills. Of course, not everyone's combat qualities are the same, but the civilians who have served in the Northern and Southern Army for a year are the best among them, not only are they skilled in bows and horses, but also their fighting skills are also good.

However, in this team, Liu Lan did not reuse the people who had served in the northern and southern armies, he knew that if he wanted to train a unit into an army, the most important thing was the prestige of the general, but the prestige of the general was not to arrange the management of capable cronies, so he chose Li Xiang, Liang Da and Zhang Zheng among the three captains!

During the meal, Li Xiang said that the soldiers were very attentive and had already mastered how to crack the Xianbei Three Knives.

Liu Lan laughed and said: "If it's useless, of course they won't learn, but for them, if they hear the word 'life-saving', even if they don't eat or drink, they have to work harder, and they are not slower than you to learn." "

Li Xiang was slightly stunned, in fact, when they first learned, wasn't it because Sima said that they could deal with Xianbei talents? Later, the number of people increased, and even some people were better than him, but Sima still met these people who mastered combat skills how to crack the Xianbei Three Swords, and remembered the first time Sima showed the knife technique, each style looked inexplicable to them, and they couldn't see any fame, but when Sima Ru faked the Xianbei Three Swords to fight with them, he knew how useful the cracking method was, and he was immediately surprised and even touted Sima Wugong's martial arts, and pondered such a set of martial arts moves to restrain the Xianbei people.

After dinner, the troops left the lake at noon and walked a few miles, and when it was almost time, Liu Lan looked around to observe the environment, waved his hand, and ordered to rest in place!