Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 129 Ma Teng's Shock

When Cai Yan's father and daughter's carriage drove into Dongshi, Ma Chao proposed to go to his father Ma Teng to second some people first.

When he arrived at the barracks, Ma Chao went in without any hindrance, because the soldiers here were all Ma Teng's former subordinates, and no one dared to stop their major general.

General Ma Teng of Anxi is deeply appreciated by Dong Zhuo. Although he is still under Xu Rong's command for the time being, he alone controls the Ma family army of more than [-] people.

Xu Rong knew that he would definitely not be able to merge the 2 people under his command, and the supply in Luoyang City was so scarce, so he simply shifted the responsibility of the east gate of Luoyang to Ma Teng and asked him to lead the [-] people himself. Ideas to solve the problem of eating.

But Ma Teng was a new general after all, and he kept hitting a wall to give gifts several times. Seeing that there was not much food in the camp, if there was no supply, he could only ask his subordinates to sell war horses for food.

At this moment, Ma Teng was worrying about food and grass, when he suddenly heard the voice of his son Ma Chao from outside.

"Father, give me five hundred soldiers, I need them urgently!"

"Urgent? My son is not studying with Liu Yu, why do we need so many people?"

Ma Chao knew Cai Yan's true identity, and he was afraid that he would not be able to leave the city after telling his father the truth, so he made up a reason.

"Master wants to go back to Hulao Pass to visit relatives, so I boasted in front of Master that I took over the task of escort!"

"So that's how it is. Since your teacher's wife is leaving the city, let's give you 300 more people!"

Ma Teng had already known from his son that Liu Yu was a dark chess game arranged by Dong Zhuo to join the royalist faction, so he would quietly help Liu Yu in matters related to Liu Yu.

Soon Ma Teng transferred [-] soldiers from the barracks to Ma Chao.

The carriage drove slowly out of the east gate of Luoyang, Ma Chao turned around to bid farewell to his father and quietly tucked him a letter and a piece of iron.

"This item is very important, father, it's better to go back and study it, and my master wants to invite you to meet with General Niu Fu tomorrow, and say that there is a way to help you solve the problem of food shortage!"

After Ma Chao finished speaking, he turned around and left, but Ma Teng wanted to laugh happily, because Niu Fu was in charge of all the supplies of the Xiliang Army. There is finally a way out.

It's just that thinking about the two things his son gave him just now, and he was very cautious, it seems that there must be something tricky in it.

After returning to the barracks, he screened back to the left and right, and then carefully checked these two things.

First of all, the iron plate is an irregular figure, much like the capital U in the English alphabet of later generations.

Does Ma Teng know any letters, he looked at it for a long time but couldn't see what the iron plate was for, so he had to open the letter to see if there was a detailed explanation in it.

The letter was in Ma Chao's handwriting, which explained the name and function of the iron plate as soon as it came up.

It turned out that the U-shaped iron piece was the horseshoe that Ma Chao had built in the past few days based on the drawings.

"... This object is like wearing iron boots on the horse's shoe. It not only greatly increases the horse's long-range attack and endurance, but also reduces unnecessary damage to the horse. Such a treasure can be called a cavalry artifact. !"

Ma Teng was born in Xiliang and is proficient in cavalry and horsemanship, so after reading only a part of the introduction, he immediately knew the power of the horseshoe, so that he quickly put the horseshoe away before reading the entire content of the letter, for fear of being caught by others. People saw it.

"This horseshoe looks ordinary, but ordinary people would never think of such an exquisite invention!"

Ma Teng knew his son's weight very well, and Ma Chao could rank among the young people in terms of force, but he definitely could not think of such a superb invention.

"Could it be that this horseshoe...was taught to my son by Liu Yu!"

Ma Chao became a teacher of Liu Yu, and at first he heard that Liu Yu did not teach martial arts and art of war, which made Ma Teng complain a little. Only now did he realize that what his son learned from Liu Yu might be more powerful than martial arts and art of war.

Thinking of this, Ma Teng couldn't help but feel gratitude and admiration in his heart.

It's just that when he opened the letter again and continued to read, he was surprised to find that Ma Chao also mentioned two other equally superb cavalry equipment.

This time Ma Teng couldn't calm down at all, he read it again with his eyes wide open, and finally confirmed that Liu Yu also taught his son to improve saddles and stirrups.

Although he didn't see the real thing, but from the description in the letter, he can feel that these two inventions and improvements are as amazing and powerful as the horseshoe!
Cavalry is the strongest in land battles, and the appearance of the three treasures of cavalry will surely double the combat power of cavalry!
Not to mention the huge combat power that these equipments brought to the cavalry, just the mass production of these three pieces of equipment will definitely bring in endless wealth.

Thinking of this, Ma Teng's hands trembled with excitement.

"Liu Yu is so selfless... Could it be that he wants to ask me?"

But after he finished reading the letter, he didn't see a single word to ask him. It was just that Ma Chao reminded him at the end of the letter, don't forget to follow Liu Yu to meet the general Niu Fu tomorrow.

"Report..."

Ma Teng was awakened from the shock by the messenger's report.

"What's the matter?"

"Reporting to General, Wei Xuzheng, Lu Bu's deputy general, is going out of the city with 300 people, saying that he was ordered to go out of the city to inquire about news!"

Wei Xu was Lu Bu's adjutant and his brother-in-law at the same time, so all the military officers in Xiliang looked at him highly.

And recently, various ministries in Xiliang have frequently sent teams out of the city, saying that they were spying on the military situation, but in fact they were just to raise food.

Everyone tacitly agreed that Ma Teng didn't want to offend anyone, and there was no need to report to the Taiwei's Mansion because there were only 300 people, so he went to the city gate to have a look and then directly ordered to let them go.

It's just that for some reason Ma Teng always felt that Wei Xu and his group were a little strange.

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After Wei Xu led his troops out of the city, he ran all the way to the northeast. After chasing for about five miles, he saw Ma Chao's team.

"Who is leading the team ahead? Where are we going?" Wei Xu blocked the way first with a big knife in his hand.

At this time, Ma Chao jumped out of the car and said angrily, "These are the subordinates of the captain of Chengmen. Who are you to block my way!"

Wei Xu saw that Ma Chao was young and didn't look directly at him, but the carriage in front of him caught his attention.

"Why does this carriage have the words Liu's Mansion? Are Cai Yong and his daughter sitting inside?" Wei Xu shouted loudly and ordered his men to surround the carriage.

Then he steered his horse and leaned over, and wanted to use a big knife to pick up the door curtain.

At this moment, Ma Chao made a sudden move. He kicked a pawn away and stabbed Wei Xu's horse with the spear he had seized.

The war horse jumped up and down in pain and threw Wei Xu off the horse.

"...My boy, how dare you stab my war horse!" Wei Xu was so furious that he raised his sword and was about to chop.

But Ma Chao didn't have the slightest fear, and sneered contemptuously, but focused his attention on the war horse just now.

"If this war horse is equipped with saddles and stirrups, you won't have to be thrown off when you sit on it. The master's invention is really brilliant!"

(End of this chapter)