Chapter 6 Really Awesome "Boom...bang..." "come out!" "Everyone come out and gather in the compound!" "Line up according to the teams and behave yourself!" "The king is coming soon! Hurry up, little guys!"... Time flies, and three days have passed. Early this morning, Li Dingguo heard shouting outside the door and the sound of sticks hitting the wooden door. During the past three days, Li Dingguo and hundreds of other orphans had enough food and drink every day, which was really a very comfortable life. Compared with the precarious life before, it is really like heaven and earth, there is no comparison at all. These orphaned teenagers are all very young and have strong resilience.
After three days of rest with good food and drink, their little faces were basically glowing. In terms of spirit, it is completely different from before. The panel in Li Dingguo's sea of consciousness showed that there were no other changes in his attributes, except for his physical attribute value, which increased from three points to four points. Obviously, this is the healthy state of this body. Li Dingguo did not dare to delay and quickly stood up and walked quickly with everyone to the courtyard in front of the warehouse. "queue!" "Get in line for me now!" "No talking, be quiet!" "From now on, whether you want to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, or return to your previous life, it all depends on your luck!"... Under the shouting and command of a dozen soldiers, hundreds of beggar orphans here quickly lined up into ten teams. Moreover, it looks much tidier than it did three days ago. They haven't been just eating and doing nothing for the past three days. In the past three days, apart from eating and resting during the day, we spent our time learning how to gather and line up. This is also necessary. On the one hand, it can train these teenagers' discipline and obedience. On the other hand, it allows them to exercise after eating and drinking enough, so that they will not become useless. Although they had only undergone three days of initial training and rest, these beggar orphans were all obedient due to the temptation of sufficient food supply. No one dared to cause trouble, for fear of being driven out and returning to their previous life of having no food to eat and being insecure from day to day. None of these beggar boys who have been able to survive tenaciously in an environment where natural disasters and man-made calamities are becoming increasingly severe are fools, otherwise they would not have been able to survive to this day.
Even because of their own miserable experiences, they are much more sensible than those rich young masters. "Da da……" Li Dingguo and his men had just finished lining up when they heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the direction of the compound's main gate. A moment later, the gate of the courtyard opened and three knights rode slowly in on their tall horses. These three horses looked very tall and strong, much more majestic than any horses Li Dingguo had seen in his previous life! The most bizarre thing is that there is a thick layer of scales underneath the hair on their necks, heads, bellies, backs, limbs, and even hooves! These scales correspond to the color of the horse and actually grow out of the warhorse’s own skin! Li Dingguo had seen this kind of war horse several times. However, even in the entire Dingbian City, it is said that there are only a dozen horses in total. This is only possible because there are several wealthy families in the city. This is the standard equipment of elite cavalry in this magical world: the dragon-scale horse. Even if ordinary people get this kind of spiritual beast and warhorse, they cannot afford to raise it. They not only eat ordinary food such as grass and soybeans, but also need to eat magical rice, magical beans, magical grass, etc. regularly. The resources consumed in raising a dragon-scale horse are enough to train a very good warrior servant. No matter which spiritual beast or which warrior it is, their daily consumption and cultivation needs are not just ordinary food, but also various natural treasures, spiritual herbs and roots, in order to maintain their own cultivation needs and allow their cultivation to continue to improve. However, wild natural treasures, spiritual herbs and roots basically grow in places where demons and monsters lurk, and are very dangerous. Therefore, most of the officials, noble families, wealthy families, or royal families have their own spiritual fields and spiritual animal gardens. The qualities of spiritual fields vary, and various qualities of spiritual rice, spiritual herbs, and spiritual roots can be grown. The same goes for the Spirit Beast Garden, which is their base for raising various spirit beasts, especially spirit war horses. Because spiritual beasts and war horses are the most practical, everyone basically focuses on training spiritual beasts and war horses. I heard that there is an even more powerful dragon-scale horse than the Jiao-scale horse! However, Li Dingguo's original body has never been seen. According to rumors, there were no more than a thousand dragon-scale horses in the entire Ming Dynasty. But the Tatars outside the Great Wall are different. Outside the Great Wall, not only can Jiao-scale horses be seen everywhere, but even Dragon-scale horses are not too rare. Basically, every large tribe has a few of them. I heard that the Later Jin Tartar tribe entrenched in Liaodong had no less than three thousand dragon-scale horses. The fundamental reason for this huge disparity is that most of the spiritual grass pastures are outside the Great Wall, and the Ming Dynasty has lost almost all of them. The size, quantity and grade of the spiritual grass pasture are directly related to the qualifications and number of spiritual beasts and war horses. Whether it is a Jiao-scale horse or a Dragon-scale horse, they have very good combat capabilities and can even compete with monsters of the same level. They are very intelligent, no less intelligent than human children, and have innate skills. Once they show their power, it will be difficult for warriors of the same level to defeat them.
Therefore, the unity of man and horse is easy to achieve with the cooperation of the spirit beast war horse. It should be said that the value of each spiritual beast warhorse is much greater than the combined value of ten ordinary warriors. The Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong has now captured a county town, which is also an important place on the border, but the spoils of war are only a dozen dragon-scale horses. In fact, within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there were countless ordinary cattle, sheep and horses. Only the spiritual beasts and war horses are extremely rare. The reasons are self-explanatory: on the one hand, there are not many spiritual grass pastures in the current Ming Dynasty, and most of them are of low quality. On the other hand, the precious resources required to cultivate spiritual beasts and war horses are simply too many. Even those wealthy gentry and thousand-year-old families who are as rich as a country cannot afford to support many. Because the training of warriors also requires the consumption of a large amount of precious resources. Any force must give priority to the cultivation of its own outstanding talents to avoid creating a gap and becoming a wedding dress for others, and being swallowed up by others without leaving anything behind. Ordinary horses cannot be used as war horses, mainly because there are too many monsters and demons in this world. Once you encounter one in the wild, you will have diarrhea on the spot, or even be so scared that you lose your soul and flee in all directions. Zhang Xianzhong and his men came riding on mighty and majestic war horses, which made the eyes of hundreds of beggars and orphans brighten. They stared at the three dragon-scaled horses with eyes full of envy. There is no way. Such a majestic warhorse is too eye-catching, especially for these young people. Who doesn’t want to have one to ride for fun? It is true that their status and position are very humble, but which young man does not have a dream in his heart? Even if it is beyond our capabilities and unrealistic, it will not hinder our aspirations in our hearts. (End of this chapter)