Blue Sky Camp.
On the huge school field, there were two cavalry teams participating in today's competition standing on the left and right sides. The Lantian cavalry led by Guan Xing all had their heads drooped and felt a little lost.
The Xixiaochang cavalry on the other side were all very excited, because they defeated the many with less, and actually defeated the Prime Minister's cavalry.
On the general stage, Emperor Liu Chan walked slowly to the stage and said loudly: "Soldiers, today this is just a competition. Although my cavalry won by luck." Liu Chan looked at the Lantian cavalry and said with relief: "This
It doesn't mean that your strength is not as good as my cavalry, it just means that they have an advantage in equipment."
As he spoke, Liu Chan picked up a short bow.
This short bow is much shorter than the common bows used by archers. Every cavalryman in Xixiaochang has one.
This is the knight's crossbow made by Liu Chan.
As Liu Chan spoke, he took out a short arrow and put it on the short bow. Then he pulled hard, and the short arrow immediately flew out of the string.
However, its range is much closer than that of common archers' arrows, and its range is about fifty steps.
After shooting an arrow, Liu Chan said: "From today on, all the cavalry of the Han Dynasty will be equipped with this kind of knight crossbow." Then he took out a saber, which was also a specially crafted weapon for him this time.
This saber is slightly different from the scimitar of the Lantian cavalry. The blade is longer and has a health groove on the blade. If the two cavalry have to come into contact in the end, this saber can not only chop but also stab.
Zhuge Liang and others behind Liu Chan also had such sabers and short bows in their hands. Zhuge Liang looked at these two new weapons carefully.
He finally understood why he lost so quickly today.
The cavalry he trained here before actually also trained knights in riding and archery. However, the commonly used bows and arrows were not convenient to use on horseback because the crossbows were too wide and not conducive to running.
After practicing for so long, the soldiers’ shooting skills are actually not very good.
In today's contest, he didn't even think about using bows and arrows. Instead, he thought of letting two cavalrymen fight on horseback to defeat him.
Liu Chan's cavalry had no intention of engaging him in hand-to-hand combat from the very beginning, let alone engaging in a horse fight.
After Liu Chan gave a brief instruction, he and Zhuge Liang returned to the Lantian Camp Command Post.
Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang were the only two people left in the room.
Zhuge Liang carefully looked at the short bow and saber several times before smiling and saying: "Your Majesty, although this short bow is good, its range..."
Previously on the school field, he looked at the arrows shot by Liu Chan. The range was only fifty or sixty steps, and it seemed that the effect was not very good.
Liu Chan said with a smile: "My dear, when the cavalry is galloping, it doesn't actually need a long range. When our army reaches about fifty steps away from the enemy, we can shoot. The cavalry moves fast, and this kind of lethality is already
Enough."
This kind of short bow allowed the future Mongolian cavalry to defeat the arrogant European heavy armor soldiers, and the Eurasian continent was frightened by the news.
It will be able to have such power hundreds of thousands of years later, let alone the Three Kingdoms era, its advent, let alone its effects.
And today's competition actually illustrates all this very well, because before the instruction in the school field just now, Zhuge Liang also checked and found that more than 3,000 of his 5,000 cavalry were hit by feather arrows.<
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If these feathered arrows are all arrows with arrowheads, that means that more than 3,000 people will be killed or injured today.
If the opponent is allowed to shoot for a while, how many of the five thousand people will be left?
Even if they rush and fight, they may still be annihilated in the end.
So when Liu Chan said that the crossbows used by the cavalry did not need a strong range, Zhuge Liang agreed, and then he looked at the saber.
While Zhuge Liang was looking at the saber, Liu Chan took out the stirrups, saddles, horseshoes, sabers, sabers, and knight's crossbow drawings from his arms, placed them in front of Zhuge Liang, and said with a smile: "Father, these drawings are for me today.
I have left it all to my prime minister. I know that my prime minister is very proficient in this, and I hope that after he improves it, he can equip the whole army."
Zhuge Liang took the drawings and looked at them one by one, and exclaimed: "When it comes to inventions and creations, I dare not compare with your Majesty. Your Majesty is the genius in this field."
Listening to Zhuge Liang's praise, Liu Chan couldn't help but laugh secretly, thinking that I don't know much about inventions and creations, it's just that I know more about nearly two thousand years of history than you do.
If it weren't for the fact that I had to look up various information for writing novels in my previous life, and you asked me to make these things, I wouldn't be able to make them even if I were killed.
However, it is also a wonderful thing to be praised by Mr. Zhuge, the god of the Three Kingdoms.
The two briefly communicated about weapons and equipment for a while, and Liu Chan said curiously: "Father, I have something to ask you."
"Your Majesty, please speak!" Zhuge Liang said.
"Now the world is still divided into three pillars," Liu Chan said calmly: "Although I occupy the three states of Yiyong and Liang, Wei and Wu are still strong. How should I deal with it next?"
This is a question that Liu Chan has been thinking about recently. Although the Han Dynasty is no longer the Shu Han in history and lives in a corner of Yizhou, it also has the bargaining chip to aspire to the world.
But, facing Qiang Wei.
What path should the big man take next?
"Gather up your strength and wait for the opportunity." Zhuge Liang said.
Now he is no longer inclined to take the initiative to send troops to Cao Wei. He is more inclined to let himself develop and grow first, such as improving national power and strengthening military strength. When the time is right, he will choose the opportunity to send troops to dominate the world.
"How long will it take?" Liu Chan asked.
But as soon as Liu Chan finished speaking, Zhuge Liang asked: "Your Majesty, do you think I, a big man, can fight against Cao Wei?"
"Not yet!" Liu Chan said.
Although Cao Wei experienced the defeat in Guanzhong, it has not shaken at all. Even though the Han Dynasty has strengthened its weapons and equipment, it has an enhanced version of the three-bow bed crossbow, and now it also has new cavalry equipment.
But based on these, I want to leave Tongguan east and fight Cao Wei decisively.
At least Liu Chan really doesn’t have that confidence now.
"Your Majesty is wise!" Zhuge Liang said: "Although Cao Wei has suffered several defeats, among the current Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei is still the strongest in terms of strength. If the Han wants to compete in the Central Plains, he still needs to wait for the opportunity."
"Yeah!" Liu Chan nodded, and then asked: "Father, I don't know how I, a big man, need to improve my national power next."
Since it is not possible to confront Cao Wei head-on for the time being, and now that the Han and Wei Dynasties have made peace with each other, the two sides have temporarily stopped fighting, which gave the Han Dynasty a rare chance to breathe.
In the past few months, Liu Chan naturally knew that Zhuge Liang intended for him to learn how to govern the country, so today was a rare opportunity to ask the prime minister for some advice on how to govern the country.
For example, how should Dahan develop next?
Zhuge Liang did not answer immediately, but took a sip of tea, thought for a moment, then stood up and walked to a map beside him.
When Liu Chan saw this, he also walked over.
Zhuge Liang's feather fan moved gently on the map, and he looked back at Liu Chan from time to time. Finally, when the feather fan slowly moved to the west, Liu Chan couldn't help but said: "The Western Regions?"
When Zhuge Liang heard this, he nodded slightly: "Your Majesty is wise. At this time, the Central Plains is beyond the reach of my great Han Dynasty."
As he spoke, he drew a circle around Yiyongliang and said: "My big man has now occupied the three states of Yiyongliang and the Hetao area." As he said, he specifically pointed to Liangzhou and the Hetao area: "Hetao
, Liangzhou was originally the place where Cao Wei raised horses, but now it has become the place where we, the Han Dynasty, supply war horses."
"It doesn't take too long. It only takes five years, veteran." Zhuge Liang affirmed: "In five years, I, a big man, will have an invincible cavalry. If there is a change in the Central Plains, I, a big man, will be able to send troops."
Go east and conquer the Central Plains in one battle."
"Best friend!" Liu Chan also agreed.
"Now, there is no war between Han and Wei." Zhuge Liang added: "We, the Han Dynasty, can take this opportunity to open up the channels to the Western Regions and traffic our refined salt, tea, silk, Shu brocade and other items to the countries in the Western Regions, thereby increasing the national fiscal revenue.
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"Yes!" Liu Chan nodded affirmatively.
It has to be said that Zhuge Liang had the foresight to open up the Western Regions. In fact, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court attached great importance to the Western Regions. Ban Chao, Zhang Qian and others once sent envoys to the Western Regions in order to strengthen ties with the West.
Even hundreds of years later, the Tang Dynasty still cared about the Western Regions.
However, starting from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains was in chaos, and the Western Region was actually somewhat deserted. During the previous Battle of Liangzhou, the territory of the Han Dynasty only extended westward to the vicinity of Jiuquan.
So when Zhuge Liang proposed developing the Western Regions, Liu Chan naturally expressed his approval. He smiled and asked: "I don't know, how do you plan to open up the Western Regions?"
After all, there are many small countries in the Western Region. It is not easy to open up this way to make money. Is it difficult to conquer one country at a time?
If so, wouldn't this rare and stable environment have to drag down the development of the Han Dynasty again because of the war?
Zhuge Liang did not answer directly, but asked instead: "What do you think, Your Majesty?"
Liu Chan was speechless. He originally wanted to ask Zhuge Liang how to open up the Western Regions, but instead of asking him, he threw the question to him.
"Courtesy first, then troops!" Liu Chan said casually: "First send envoys to the countries in the Western Regions. If they are willing to submit to my great Han Dynasty, then that's it. If the countries in the Western Regions are unwilling to submit, my Great Han Dynasty can march westward and destroy them one by one."
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Zhuge Liang was stunned. Why did this emperor love to use swords and guns so much?
Do you always want to be destroyed by others?
Don’t we have any gentler means?
Before Zhuge Liang could speak, Liu Chan added: "Rather than letting the countries in the Western Regions surrender to my Han Dynasty and be friendly with each other, I prefer to directly destroy the countries in the Western Regions, and from then on let the Western Regions become my Han Dynasty's back garden."
Facing the two countries Wei and Wu in the Central Plains, the Han Dynasty still has no chance to win a battle, but for these small countries in the Western Regions, Liu Chan feels that it is not impossible to destroy them.
As soon as Liu Chan finished speaking, Zhuge Liang was stunned. He did not expect that Liu Chan would have such an idea and actually directly destroy the countries in the Western Regions.
This——
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This chapter has been completed!