"Your subordinate obeys!"
Lü Bu quickly understood Zhang Huan's intention, nodded, accepted Zhang Huan's order, and strode outside.
Zhang Huan then glanced at his generals and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, go back immediately and put away the stirrups and horseshoes in the army. We can't let the Xianbei people learn these things..."
"Also, immediately have all cavalrymen change into infantry equipment!"
"promise!"
The officers and soldiers rushed back to the camp and began to make arrangements according to Zhang Huan's instructions.
Through correspondence with the emperor, Zhang Huan also learned that the Xianbei people were an extremely adept learner and a very troublesome nomadic tribe. Therefore, in the emperor's eyes, the greatest enemy of the Han Dynasty in the future would definitely be the Xianbei people.
Zhang Huan did this to create the illusion in front of the Xianbei that the Han army had more infantry than cavalry, and that they were better at defense than offense, in order to deceive the Xianbei and lower their guard.
Soon, Lü Bu mustered five thousand cavalrymen and left the Bingzhou camp, heading towards Chu Qian's troops.
Gao Shun also mustered his five thousand infantrymen and brought them outside the camp, lining them up on both sides of the official road.
On the other side, Chu Qian and his group, having traveled for most of the journey, were now less than twenty miles away from the Bingzhou camp.
"I never imagined that Bingzhou would change so much. When I left last year, this place was all wasteland. I never thought that in just over half a year, so much farmland would be cultivated..."
Looking at the vast farmlands on both sides of the official road and the people still busy reclaiming wasteland, Chu Qian's face was full of smiles.
"Boom!!"
Just as Chu Qian was full of praise, a thunderous sound of hooves approached from afar and reached everyone's ears.
The marching column suddenly stopped. Chu Qian and the Han soldiers beside him were not surprised but delighted when they heard the sound of hooves, because this was within the territory of the Han Dynasty, and only the Han cavalry could make such a commotion.
Soon, a large banner with the Chinese character "汉" (Han) came into view.
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