Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 160 Zhuge Liang's New Opponent (For Order)

By the time Zhao Yun, a staunch pro-Han advocate, calmed down, Ma Di had already vomited heavily, leaning against the corner of the wall and gasping for air.

Originally, this was just a trivial matter and had nothing to do with face.

But from the corner of Ma Su's eyes, he saw Zhang Xiu shrugging his shoulders outside the door, laughing loudly, and didn't come to rescue him!

It exploded on the spot.

Slowing down in one breath, he beckoned Zhang Xiu to come forward, and asked with a long face, "It is known that five thousand stones of food are enough for five thousand soldiers of our army for five days, how much food and grass do ten thousand soldiers need for ten days?"

Hearing this, Zhang Xiu's brain exploded, and after a long time of mental calculations, he replied uncertainly: "Ten thousand stone grains?"

To be honest, Zhang Xiu was stumped by this question. He couldn't read a single word, and even though Ma Su, a mathematician, taught him math for a long time, he was still half-baked.

Addition and subtraction within [-] takes a long time.

He was right! ... Ma Di was taken aback, and remained silent for a moment, then slapped his thigh.

"Bastard! As a high-ranking general, it takes so long to count!" Ma Di scolded Zhang Xiu angrily, and took out a yellowed "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" from his arms, and threw it into the latter's arms, sinking. He said: "You will be fined to copy this book a hundred times in one day!"

"I can't finish copying, military law!"

"Yes." Zhang Xiu hugged "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" angrily, and left with a sad face.

Ma Su let out a long breath, feeling extremely relieved.

Zhao Yun looked at Ma Di speechlessly, endured for a while, and finally couldn't help but interjected: "Youchang, isn't that right? According to the assumption that 5000 people use five thousand stones for five days, shouldn't 1 people live for ten days?" Is it [-] stone grains?"

"Zhao Moujiu fought in all directions with the prime minister and was taught by the prime minister, so he will definitely not make a mistake."

"How about you do the math?"

"..." Ma Di glanced at Zhao Yun expressionlessly, and quickly changed the topic: "Old General Zhao, I intend to select [-] elite warriors from each of the Shaodang Qiang and Xianling Qiang tribes and train them into an army. If there is a change in the world, let him personally lead the cavalry to attack Wuwei, and then order a general to lead the soldiers of Xixian County to attack Tianshui. In this way, we can first occupy Liangzhou, then encircle Longyou, and watch Guanzhong... a great event will be accomplished!"

"I don't know what the old general wants?"

Hearing this, Zhao Yun's eyes instantly brightened like stars.

At his age, he has lost any interest in most things, such as women and money, but when it comes to training cavalry and commanding cavalry, then he is very energetic.

As a general, who wouldn't want to have a tiger and wolf army as fast as the wind and lightning?

"It's a great deal! It's a great deal! This errand, Zhao has taken over!"

Ma Di nodded, ordered another desk to be moved, placed it a little farther away from Zhao Yun, and began to write and draw on it, calculating the cost of forming [-] elite cavalry.

Horses are readily available, and every household of the Qiang people has horses, and it is easy to pick out [-] good horses.

Soldiers are also ready-made. The Qiang people grew up on horseback and are skilled in riding. Once they form an army, their combat effectiveness is leveraged.

In the past, the Xiliang iron cavalry that killed Cao Cao's beard and discarded his robe was built on the basis of the Qiang people.

The question now is, how much does it cost to build a team of 2 elite cavalry? A complete set of armor, weapons and equipment is extremely expensive.

Although there is plenty of money in the Shaodang Qiang treasury, due to a series of problems such as lack of iron and iron smelting craftsmen, the previous Qiang kings had plans to form elite cavalry to resist Wei's self-reliance, but they were all forced to stop. .

Shu and Wei, countries with the most developed iron-smelting technology, both restricted the export of iron to surrounding foreigners.

After Cao Cao was imprisoned by the Xiliang army with spears and horses, he could not take care of himself, and immediately issued an order that Wei Guo should not sell a large amount of finished iron to surrounding foreigners.

In the Shu Kingdom, the mountain roads are difficult and transportation is inconvenient, so the Qiang people usually can only buy from the countries in the Western Regions.

However, the iron smelting technology of the countries in the Western Regions has still come out of the 1.0 Stone Age, and it is still far away from the 3.0 refined iron quenching era in the Central Plains, so let’s not mention it.

Therefore, for a long period of time, the very brave Qiang soldiers could only fight against Wei and Shu with the most rubbish equipment, and they were often arranged clearly by the two countries.

The reason why Ma Teng and Han Sui's Xiliang army was invincible was because they were originally Han subjects, and they could buy ironware, armor and various equipment from the big Han.

But now these problems are no longer a problem, the iron smelting technology of Shu is very developed.The artery-level road leading to Xixian County will also be repaired soon, and transportation will no longer be a problem.

As long as you get iron and equipment, it shouldn't be difficult to form the first cavalry in the true sense of the Shu Han, and then face Wei Guogang?
At that time, I won't have to adopt the method of shrinking back and not fighting as soon as I meet Wei Jun.

Ma Di thought to himself.

After three days and three nights of research, the math wizard finally figured out all the costs.

To put it simply, forming an elite cavalry force of 2 requires [-] horses, [-] sets of harnesses, [-] sets of armor, helmets, weapons, bows and arrows, and a series of equipment.

Not counting the cost of horses and soldiers, on average, each cavalry costs 60 yuan, and the total cost of [-] cavalry is [-] billion.

In other words, to form this cavalry, three-fifths of the money burned in the treasury of the Qiang State was lost at once.

With this result, Ma Di was shocked and regretted.

These well-equipped cavalry can actually move 3 yuan.

Whether it was an ambush fire attack, or Jianwei digging canals and flooding the city, the Shu soldiers under his command also damaged a lot of equipment while defeating the Wei army.

It seems that in future wars with Wei, we will try our best to use the tactic of persuading surrender.

Violence should never be used unless absolutely necessary.

Ma Su secretly made up his mind.

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Wuzhangyuan, the camp of the Shu army.

Zhuge Liang looked helplessly at Liu Yan, the chariot general and supervisor who was chattering.

This time he sent troops to Xiegu, Zhuge Liang brought an army of [-]. As soon as he entered the border of Guanzhong, he immediately fell in love with Wuzhangyuan, a natural fortress.So while ordering the generals to divide their troops to capture the surrounding counties, they also ordered the soldiers to build fortifications on the Wuzhang Plain.

This time, Zhuge Liang had enough confidence.

Firstly, the Shu army is not short of food, and secondly, grain transportation roads are being built rapidly.In less than three months, the road can extend from Hanzhong to Wuzhangyuan.

To put it bluntly, he is planning to fight a protracted war this time.

But Liu Yan, the supervisor of the army, has a different view.

Liu Yan is a native of Lu State in Yuzhou. During Liu Bei's stay in Yuzhou, he enlisted Liu Yan to work.Because Liu Yan and Liu Bei share the same ancestry and surname, and they are very handsome and good at talking and talking, they are treated favorably by Liu Bei, and they often follow Liu Bei to socialize as guests.

In the summer of the 19th year of Jian'an (214), Liu Bei defeated Liu Zhang to obtain Yizhou, and appointed Liu Yan as the prefect of Guling County.In April of the third year of Zhang Wu (223), Liu Bei passed away.In May, Prince Liu Chan ascended the throne and changed Yuan to Jianxing.Liu Yan was granted the title of Marquis of the Capital, and his official position was second only to Zhuge Liang and Li Yan. He also served as a Wei Wei, a Chinese army division, and a rear general. Later, he was promoted from a rear general to a chariot general.

Although Liu Yan held a high position, he did not participate in the state affairs of the Shu Han. He was only appointed by Liu Chan to symbolically lead more than a thousand soldiers to follow the prime minister Zhuge Liang and offer some criticisms and suggestions.

It was Zhuge Liang's initiative to ask Liu Yan to join the army.

Because of Sima Yi's countermeasures before, he had no choice but to call him back to Sichuan, which made the Northern Expedition half-way.

In order to avoid such a situation from happening again, Zhuge Liang deliberately brought Liu Yan with him when he sent troops this time.

He originally thought that Liu Yan knew his own weight and was just a tool man with eyes.

But unexpectedly, Liu Yan did not have this awareness.

From the beginning of the dispatch of troops, Liu Yan has been dictating his marching formation.

Moreover, Liu Yan's ostentation in the army is also very high-profile, even more high-profile than the commander Zhuge Liang. His carriage, horses, clothes and food can be called extravagant and luxurious.

This made all the generals feel resentful.

The tents of all the generals are very private spaces, how can they look around randomly?

You must know that everyone is a general, and there are no women in the army.Usually, I can only practice martial arts to relieve stress.

If Liu Yan rushes around like this, if he sees some scenes of one-on-five or one-on-ten that shouldn't be seen, where will everyone's face be put?

(End of this chapter)