Ask Luo Yang whether the food and salary for the fifth battalion of the Northern Army is worth one billion a year!
But after all, it was the number reported by the state animal husbandry, and Tian Feng couldn't directly reply that it was no good.
He had to at least hear the reason.
After all, for the upright Tian Feng, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the problems in Jizhou.
He neither wanted to favor Zhu Hao nor Liu Jian.
He just wanted to make Jizhou peaceful and peaceful and return everything to the way it was before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Therefore, no matter how false the amount Liu Jian said, he still had to discuss it carefully with the other party.
Tian Feng considers himself a very reasonable person.
"Um……"
"Even if only one of the twelve or three among the seven or eight hundred thousand people can be strong, the bandits can still gather an army of more than sixty thousand strong mountain people!"
Liu Jian smiled and said, "I don't want to either, but you just said it yourself. Mountain thieves are good at traveling across mountains and rivers. The environment of the Taihang Mountains is complex. We can't attack and can only ambush outside. But in the thousands of miles of plains in Jizhou, there is no place to ambush.
Apart from using the elite cavalry army, I cannot guarantee victory..."
This Liu Shijun is also a man who has experienced battles for a long time and is good at using soldiers. The question he mentioned is indeed a difficult one.
Liu Jian smiled and said: "Since you, sir, also know that if you want to break through the Black Mountains, you need to use cavalry battle formations, you will naturally not think that my request just now is too much."
"Mr. Yuan Hao, do you think I want more than one billion?"
Tian Feng said expressionlessly: "Six hundred and eighty million dollars."
"Cavalry formation?" Tian Feng was stunned and said, "That makes sense."
"Although this post horse is cheap, you can get one for about seven to eight thousand dollars. If all the pavilions and post houses are equipped with enough, at least several hundred horses will have to be recruited. Wouldn't this cost another two million dollars?"
"The land of Jizhou is not suitable for ambushes. There are so many bandits and bandits that we have to use elite cavalry to defend them in battle formations before we can defeat them all at once!"
Liu Jian smiled and said: "I don't want you to be familiar with military aircraft."
Tian Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing this.
"How to transport the food and fodder for these four thousand people and four thousand horses?"
Liu Jian came to the shelf beside the hall, took off his long sword, then came to the map, pointed with the scabbard:
"Among the Taihang Mountains, there are the Wutai Mountains, Hengshan Mountains, Yunzhong Mountains, Taiyue Mountains, Sumu Mountains, etc., which are intertwined by Fenhe, Sangqian, Hutuo and other rivers,"
"There are still one to two years of food rations for two thousand people."
Tian Feng lowered his head and looked at the map spread out on the ground.
"Are there two thousand pairs of mysterious armors left?"
Did he really do nothing during the three months he came to Jizhou?
Yes, he did not do anything serious. He just built himself a big mansion in Yecheng.
This person...is the true hero!
He finally understood why, in just a few years, he, a young boy from a border county in Youzhou, was able to grow up to a vassal town in Fangfang!
"There are still two thousand soldiers' pay for the Han army."
"Two thousand cavalry must be accompanied by two thousand infantry and crossbowmen, right?"
He was carefully prepared.
"Please give me your orders!"
Then, Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan were seen striding towards Liu Jian.
"Besides, this is just cavalry, why don't I recruit infantry?"
Tian Feng was a little hesitant when he heard this.
Liu Jian clapped his hands and said, "Here comes someone!"
However, he spent these three months to thoroughly study the overall situation and situation of every county in Jizhou, as well as the situation of each family in every county in Jizhou!
What he said today was definitely not what he said on the spur of the moment.
"Bring me the map!"
Tian Feng is a wise man. When he heard this, he already understood that he had been tricked by Liu Jian.
"Don't we have to requisition the peasants' mules and horses? Isn't this money?"
Not long after, Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan were seen commanding several white soldiers to take a roll of maps to the center of the hall, unfold them and place them in the center of the main hall.
Liu Jian smiled and said: "Since Sir also said that it is necessary to set up an ambush and annihilate it, then I would like to ask Sir, the land of Julu in Wei County is a vast plain with very few mountains. If you want to ambush, where should you ambush?"
"Don't dare, don't dare. How dare you show off your crude way in front of the envoy?"
Sure enough, Liu Jian said calmly: "For two thousand elites, I calculated based on the most basic configuration of one horse and two horses. The price of a good war horse should be between 150,000 and 200,000 yuan per horse. I will sit on it."
The Xiongnu Great Green Partridge that I bought in Zhuo County back then was purchased for 400,000 yuan. Naturally, we cannot all match such an expensive good horse to the Jizhou knights, so I will take one of them and pay 170,000 yuan for a good horse.
One ride and two horses, a total of four thousand horses, Mr. Yuan Hao, can you calculate how much it costs?"
Tian Feng looked at Liu Jian deeply.
"This...well, not much."
Later, Tian Feng bowed to Liu Jian and asked, "May I ask your envoy, what is the rationale for forming an army of one billion? Please teach me so that Tian can study this matter carefully with the princes of various counties."
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"If the princes of Jizhou really want to ask Liu for help, then they won't want to harm me, right?"
"This is just the money for the war horses, but what about the food for these four thousand good horses? The war horses worth 170,000 yuan have to eat better than people!"
You can deal with many things if you can!
Why don't you give me military pay? Just give me food!
Tian Feng cupped his hands and said: "You are just a scabies thief in the mountains. Is it too much for you to have such a military equipment?"
"There are also two thousand fine iron swords and spears."
"only!"
"Mr. Tian, perhaps the princes of the counties, when fighting against thieves, want to save money. It doesn't matter if they don't win. There will be a next time. But what I want is to win with certainty! I lost, Luo
I am the one who issued the edict to blame Yang, and the responsibility lies with me, not the princes of the counties. Sir, do you understand this?"
"Across Hebei, You, and Meridian, you can overlook Zhongshan, Changshan, Julu, Zhao, and Weijun in the east. You can defend yourself from the south but not from the north. Bandits and bandits roam freely among them, either to capture Zhending, or to capture Quyang, or
Take the Yuan family, or take Wu'an"
Jizhou, Hebei Province, is mostly plains. It can be said that there are many flat areas. There are indeed not many places suitable for ambushes.
What is outlined above is the counties and prefectures in Hebei Province.
"Then according to the envoy's wishes, how should we break it?"
"The thieves are good at traveling in the mountains. They travel in the mountains and ridges all year round. They traverse mountains and rivers as if they were walking on plain ground. If we fight with them in the mountains, they will be trapped by three armies. Naturally, we have to lure them out of the mountains, set up ambushes and annihilate them!"
First of all, you are not planning to fight Xianbei or Qiang rebellion.
Is it necessary to do this in a local war?
Only now did he finally understand this young man.
"In short, the thieves are in the dark, but I am clear. Where do they want to fight? But if our soldiers and horses enter Taihang, they will be like entering a maze. There are high mountains and mountains, and they are afraid of being slaughtered at will. I would like to ask Mr. Tian, how is this battle?
beat?"
After all, Tian Feng is a man of great talent, and Liu Jian's problems will naturally not trouble him.
but!
"The thieves in the Taihang Mountains are large and small. It is said that there are more than 700,000 or 800,000 thieves who have entered the mountains as thieves."
"The Taihang bandits are overlooking several counties, and they are not sure where they are coming from. The soldiers of the three armies are fighting across states. Don't the post stations in various places not need a large number of post horses to send messages? In order to obtain fighter opportunities?"
"To defeat 60,000 thieves, and it spans several counties, I will dispatch two thousand elite cavalry, not much, right?"
Of course there are many!
Yes, your calculation is indeed correct!
But how can we use troops to settle accounts these days?
But when it came to this point, he had to continue listening.
Is this just a group of Montenegrin troops useful?
Besides, your configuration is obviously based on the configuration of Yu Linlang, the elite of Luoyang Sanhe and the six central counties.
Tian Feng sighed, and at this moment, he actually felt admiration for Liu Jian.
Because he understood that the price of one billion yuan must not be agreed upon in the end, and Liu Jian must also know that the negotiation could not be reached.