Chapter 405: Blood Horse
As soon as this word was uttered, Zhou Xu suddenly felt as if he had suddenly realized something. Even though he was an outsider who had no knowledge of horses, he had heard of the name of the Ferghana horse.
Then he couldn't help but take another look at this sloppy-looking pony.
The look in his eyes seemed to say, "Good boy, I didn't realize you are quite important!"
It was not known whether the pony sensed the meaning in Zhou Xu's eyes, but it snorted and glanced at him sideways, its eyes full of vigilance, appearing quite smart.
During this period, Ma Guotao continued to explain.
"In the original world, my horse farm mainly breeds purebred Akhal-Teke horses, also known as Ferghana horses, so I know a little bit about this breed."
Just as Ma Guotao was saying this, a question suddenly popped up in Zhou Xu's mind, and he couldn't help but ask...
"By the way, it is said that the sweat of this Ferghana horse is red. Is this true?"
"Fake."
Ma Guotao gave this answer very straightforwardly, without any hesitation.
"According to research, there are two reasons why the Ferghana horse is called 'Ferghana' in my country."
"On the one hand, the skin of the Arabian horse is very thin, and the sweat glands are well developed. Some Arabian horses with light-colored coats such as silver-white will have their body temperature rise and blood flow speed up after strenuous exercise, and their skin will become noticeably red, giving people the feeling that they are sweating blood."
"On the other hand, it is also due to the coat color. The Arabian horse also has a bay color. Affected by the coat color, after a lot of sweat soaks the coat, it looks like it is sweating blood from a visual point of view."
"I see."
After listening to Ma Guotao's explanation, Zhou Xu looked as if he had learned something new.
Looking at Zhou Xu's expression, Ma Guotao, who had been very excited before, made up his mind after a little hesitation.
"Your Majesty, I would like to make a suggestion regarding the follow-up arrangements for this pony."
"You raise it."
"I hope this pony won't be sent to the battlefield, or used as a war horse."
Hearing this, Zhou Xu was stunned at first, and then, as if he realized something, he guessed what Ma Guotao was thinking.
"Do you want to breed it?"
"Yes."
Ma Guotao nodded quickly.
"I don't know if we can find a second horse of this breed. Rather than taking the risk of sending it into battle, we might as well use it to breed and adjust the bloodline of our existing war horses so that we can breed war horses with better bloodlines in the future."
Ma Guotao's thoughts at this time, to some extent, coincided with Zhou Xu's.
From an ordinary person's perspective, when encountering this kind of Ferghana horse, the first image that comes to mind is most likely the image of a fierce general riding a Ferghana horse and being invincible on the battlefield.
But from the perspective of people like them who are engaged in development, it is safest to not use it as a war horse but to breed it as a breeding horse from the beginning.
After all, once you go to the battlefield, there is a risk of death.
Needless to say, Zhou Xu and Ma Guotao easily reached a consensus on this matter and decided to breed the foal as a breeding horse.
In this way, this spring, after recovering from the consumption accumulated during the winter, the Great Zhou quickly entered a stage of rapid development, and the days were relatively stable and busy.
At the same time, on the Lizardman Continent, the reconnaissance team led by Silk and Drogo were not living a peaceful life at all.
After all, their current situation is quite different from that of Drogo and the others at that time.
How many people did Drogo and his crew have at that time? The Lizardmen didn't take that small number of Centaurs seriously.
Under this premise, Drogo and his companions came here to find their own people.
Therefore, when they are being chased, they just need to run as far as they can. The Lizardmen cannot chase them endlessly.
But this time it was different, they came with a mission.
Their mission is to confirm whether the Lizardmen are fighting with other enemies while causing sabotage in the rear of the Lizardmen, forcing the Lizardmen to search for them. This is to tie down the Lizardmen's forces and, with the help of the Lizardmen's enemies, bring more casualties to the Lizardmen, thereby reducing the pressure on their own side.
This task forces them to come out and do something from time to time.
And every time they do something, they have to bear the corresponding risks, which is something the centaurs led by Drogo did not need to do before.
"Hurry up! Break out from this side!"
On this day, their hiding place was discovered. Under Soros' command, the more flexible and agile green lizard infantry cooperated with the dragoons to quickly form an encirclement.
Drogo shouted as he led the way, while Silk looked left and right along the way, following closely behind the team that led the way led by Drogo.
As cavalry units, their frontal breakthrough capabilities are far superior to those of the Lizardmen's Dragoons.
As a fragile infantry unit, the Green Lizard Infantry are even less likely to stop them.
But the recent large-scale hunt by the Lizardmen and the continuous siege and blockade against them have really made them physically and mentally exhausted.
After a brief internal discussion, Drogo and Silk both felt that it would be better to run away first, rest for a while, and then fight back.
Accompanied by splattering blood and flesh, they penetrated the blockade formed by the green lizardmen infantry from the front. At the moment of breaking out, a burst of tiny sounds of breaking through the air suddenly came from the empty hill not far away.
Silk and the others who were following behind, with their excellent eyesight, saw clearly what was attacking them. It was a bunch of black spikes like needles.
The attack came too suddenly, leaving Drogo and his men no time to dodge and were hit on the spot! At the same time, the empty hill suddenly experienced a strange distortion, and along with this distortion, green-skinned lizardmen appeared there one by one.
These lizardmen are about 70% similar to the green-skinned "Baltu", but there are subtle differences.
They have a pair of large and protruding eyeballs like light bulbs, which can rotate to give them a wider field of vision.
The long tail has a slightly curled tip. Although the body is hunched, one can still see that their hands and feet are more slender. When standing up straight, their height should be taller than that of an ordinary 'Baltu'.
At this moment, these relatively special lizardmen were holding a plant trunk that was almost half a person's height.
Then put one end in front of your mouth and blow hard.
At that moment, there was a slight sound, and a black spike suddenly shot out from the hollow trunk and shot towards Drogo and his group who had broken through! (End of this chapter)
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