Ma Jun, whose courtesy name is Deheng, is currently serving in the Wei Dynasty.
When Cao Rui got the three-bow bed crossbow, the first thing he thought of was Ma Jun, who was good at inventing, but Sima Yi seemed to have guessed the emperor's thoughts.
"Weak minister Ma Jun, pay homage to His Majesty!"
Ma Jun entered the imperial study and saluted Cao Rui.
Cao Rui asked: "Ai Qing, can you recognize this thing?"
Ma Jun looked at the three-bow bed crossbow carefully, shook his head slightly, and said, "I don't know, I don't know."
In fact, Ma Jun already knew, because General Sima Yi had already told him about this matter yesterday. Although he had indeed never seen the three-bow bed crossbow before, Sima Yi had already told him about it, and of course he knew about it when he was asked to accompany him into the palace today. What does this mean?
What's more, in the previous battles in Guanzhong, the Wei Dynasty was defeated by Shu's powerful crossbows twice.
In fact, when Sima Yi defeated Wuguan for the first time, he was studying the matter of strong crossbows, but he never got the right method.
At this time, I saw this three-bow bed crossbow with my own eyes.
Ma Jun suddenly became excited, and he carefully watched every link.
He looked carefully and kept nodding.
"Wonderful!"
"Wonderful!"
Seeing Ma Jun's praise, Cao Rui asked: "Can Aiqing create this thing?"
After letting Ma Jun enter the palace, Cao Rui naturally hoped that the Wei Dynasty could also possess such a killing weapon. Ma Jun immediately bowed to Cao Rui and saluted, then nodded and said: "Wei Chen made it."
"Okay!"
Cao Rui was overjoyed: "Then please ask your beloved to build thousands of three-bow crossbows for me in the Wei Dynasty." He paused for a moment, and then said seriously: "I have better three-bow crossbows than those of Shu." Crossbow."
"No!"
Ma Jun immediately agreed.
"Hmph!" Cao Rui said casually: "If we fight against Western Shu again in the future, I will let them taste the power of my Wei Dynasty's three-bow bed crossbow."
Cao Rui was secretly proud because he now owned a three-bow bed crossbow. He had never dared to fight with Shu before because Shu had a three-bow bed crossbow.
Now, he is not afraid anymore.
Just——
What he didn't know was that the Han Emperor Liu Chan, who was far away in Guanzhong at this time, also laughed loudly: "Cao Rui should be very proud now, hahaha!"
Knowing that Sima Yi had repelled Ke Bineng's rebellion, Liu Chan naturally knew that Sima Yi must have obtained the three-bow bed crossbow that Zhuge Liang gave to Ke Bineng.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhuge Liang frowned and said: "Cao Rui got the three-bow bed crossbow, why is your majesty so happy?"
"Xiangfu!" Liu Chan rolled his eyes and said, "Don't you think Xiangfu is happy?"
Zhuge Liang was speechless. After all, he gave Ke Bineng the three-bow crossbow, and then asked Cao Wei to obtain the three-bow crossbow through war. At this time, he asked Liu Chan why he was happy.
Seeing that Zhuge Liang was silent, Liu Chan immediately changed the subject and said excitedly: "Father, how is your cavalry training going?"
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When Zhuge Liang heard this, he was immediately puzzled.
Because he didn't know why the emperor suddenly asked him about this matter. In the past, he had never cared about state affairs, but today he took the initiative to ask about the training of the cavalry.
"Return to Your Majesty!"
Zhuge Liang said calmly: "We are currently training."
After all, it has only been a few months since the Han Dynasty acquired these war horses. Training a cavalry that can fight is not something that can be done overnight.
When Liu Chan heard this, he smiled and said: "Father, how about I make a bet with you?"
"Bet?" Zhuge Liang was stunned when he heard this and thought to himself: What happened to the emperor today? First he was happy because Cao Wei got the three-bow bed crossbow, and now he wants to make a bet?
"Well!" Liu Chan said seriously: "Aren't I training the five thousand horses sent by Ma Sheng?" Liu Chan said with a smile: "I want to use my five thousand cavalry to challenge them in half a year.
Take a look at Wanqi trained by Xiangfu."
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Liu Chan's words surprised Zhuge Liang.
Five thousand battles and ten thousand cavalry.
"Your Majesty!"
As soon as Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, he was overtaken by Liu Chan: "My dear father, don't push me away, and don't think that ten thousand cavalry can't win against my five thousand cavalry."
Zhuge Liang was even more confused.
Because he originally wanted to say that if Wanqi faced off against Five Thousand, it would be a bit weak to win.
But what does Liu Chan mean?
Is it possible that your five thousand cavalry can defeat my ten thousand cavalry?
"I am confident that I can defeat my father-in-law's Wanqi." Liu Chan said with certainty.
"Oh???" Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Your Majesty, are you serious?"
"Seriously!" Liu Chan said: "If I can't defeat Xiangfu's Wanqi, I can agree to any request of Xiangfu, any request will do."
Seeing how confident Liu Chan was, Zhuge Liang also became interested.
"Okay!"
Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Then I will wait for your majesty's cavalry!"
Dare to make a bet with Zhuge Liang, Liu Chan naturally has some confidence. In the past two months, Cao Wei has been busy dealing with Ke Bineng, and the Han Dynasty has also been busy because of Ke Bineng's envoy and the envoy sent by Soochow.
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But Liu Chan was relatively leisurely, because he still didn't need to worry about state affairs, so he suddenly felt sympathy for Cao Rui, who was also the emperor.
Because Cao Rui cannot leave state affairs completely to ministers like him.
There are many things that he needs to personally deal with.
Liu Chan doesn’t need it.
Domestic affairs are handled by Xu Shu, the imperial censor, and Prime Minister Zhuge Liang is responsible for military matters.
As an emperor, he just sits in the harem all day long, eating and drinking with the concubines, and then doing some things he likes.
For example, in the past two months, in addition to accompanying his concubines in the harem, he spent most of the remaining time at Chang'an West Campus and Zhao Yun's house.
Because he had previously given the drawings of later generations of stirrups, saddles, horseshoes, sabers, sabers, and knight crossbows to the old general Zhao Yun, and asked Zhao Yun to arrange the manpower to build them according to the drawings.
Zhao Yun was naturally overjoyed to get this mission.
In the past few years, because of his old age, the prime ministers were unwilling to take him with them when they went to war. They said that the old general had spent his whole life in the army, and now he should enjoy his old age. If he encountered a larger war, he would be asked to take action.
But Zhao Yun has plenty of time to live there.
So after getting Liu Chan's drawings, he paid special attention to them and stayed in the workshop to check them personally almost every day.
After nearly two months of hard work, all the new equipment Liu Chan gave him were built.
Among them, the horseshoe is relatively easy to make because it is small. Within two months, all the 5,000 Liangzhou horses for Liu Chan have been equipped.
Especially after the first pair of horseshoes was made and nailed to the hoof of a war horse, he realized how important these horseshoes were.
Knowing the benefits of horseshoes, he naturally worked harder and asked the craftsmen to hurry up and make them.
Five thousand Liangzhou war horses are all shoed.
However, Liu Chan did not stop the craftsmen in the workshop, but asked them to continue making work, because Wei Yan had previously sent more than 10,000 war horses to Lantian Camp.
Of course, there are also the original cavalry of the Han Dynasty, and they all need horseshoes.
However, Liu Chan did not immediately ask them to send the horseshoes to Zhuge Liang directly.
He would wait until half a year later, after competing with Zhuge Liang, before sending these over.
As for the remaining saddles, stirrups, sabers, sabers, and knight crossbows, the production speed is relatively slow. After all, there are only more than 200 people now.
However, Liu Chan put forward his suggestions.
That is to produce horseshoes, stirrups, saddles, sabers, knight crossbows, and sabers in this order. Of course, the first priority is to produce horseshoes, stirrups, and saddles first, because these three items are needed immediately.
The morning of August 23.
Chang'an West Campus.
The horses, all of which have been shoed, are lined up neatly on the training ground. The five hundred horses at the front are even equipped with saddles and stirrups.
Liu Chan is very satisfied.
"Soldiers!" Liu Chan said loudly: "I have prepared all the war horses for you, and the new equipment will gradually be equipped for you."
"I will help you with the equipment."
"Your ability," Liu Chan said, "relies on your own hard work every day."
"If you want to become an invincible cavalry, train hard day and night for me; if you think you are a loser, leave my team as soon as possible and go back to your hometown to nurse your children."
As soon as Liu Chan finished speaking, the knights couldn't help laughing.
Naturally, they will not think that they are wimps.
Moreover, with the new equipment given by the emperor, especially the soldiers who have been equipped with stirrup saddles, they can clearly feel that with these new stirrup saddles, they will appear more calm on horseback after training in the past few days.
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The other soldiers naturally look forward to it every day.
I look forward to equipping them with new stirrup saddles soon.
And of course there are horseshoes.
When there were no horseshoes, they did not dare to train too hard every day, because during training, the horses' hooves would also be consumed.
But it's different. Their horses are all shoed. If they want to become stronger, they can gallop and train without any scruples every day, as long as they don't feel tired.
What's more important is that since they joined the emperor's cavalry team, their food has also been greatly improved, and they will have at least one meal of mutton every day.
Because Wei Yan and Zhang Bao occupied the Hetao area, then Liangzhou also returned to the Han Dynasty.
So there is really no shortage of mutton in Chang'an City now.
Liu Chan naturally knew very well that if these soldiers were to train hard every day, the food would have to keep up.
As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run fast, you must let it eat well first.
Liu Chan has always been generous when it comes to food.
The soldiers were well fed and equipped with good equipment and horses. Of course, these soldiers were not willing to leave this army easily. So when Liu Chan said that if he was a loser, he should go back to his hometown to nurse his children. Instead of being angry, they would laugh loudly.
Laugh.
Because they want to be invincible cavalry, not wimps.
After some instructions, five thousand cavalry began training under the leadership of Guo Huai, Tian Mu, and Yang Tongshan.
Next to the Chang'an West Campus, there is an open field, which is very suitable for cavalry training. Liu Chan felt relieved when he saw the cavalry galloping continuously.
"The rise of the Han Dynasty is just around the corner."
After sighing, Liu Chan turned around and asked Zhao Yun, the veteran general who accompanied him to watch the training: "Teacher! How do you think these cavalry should be trained so that they can be truly invincible?"
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This chapter has been completed!