People in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu and Han respected together

Chapter 196
boom! boom! boom!
The dull sound of horseshoes kept ringing, first hurriedly, then slowly, and finally calmed down.

I am wearing a vest, and there is another person on my back. This person is also wearing heavy armor. When the horse runs, it has an unrivaled momentum!
Li Yao rode his horse for a while, and finally stopped slowly. After experiencing the addiction of armor riding, the feeling was really good, exhilarating, exciting, fearless, and made people feel excited.

Armored riding is very strong, but it is too expensive. People need armor, and horses need vests. If you want to bear this kind of weight, you can't be an ordinary horse, you need a horse that is one in a thousand.

Normally, three to five war horses are needed to transport knights, heavy armor, weapons... and at least two auxiliary soldiers to help put on heavy armor and mount horses. Therefore, the manpower, material resources, and financial resources required to form a hundred armored cavalry... can completely form three hundred elite assault cavalry, or even five hundred elite rangers.

This consumption is really terrible, not something that ordinary forces can afford, but whoever let Li Yao have a reckless younger brother, it will be safer with these heavy armors.

After returning to the military factory, Li Yao got off the horse with the help of others.

Otherwise, relying on a stirrup would not be able to bear his current weight. The main weight would be the thick cloak, which is an important accessory. If you wear it, you will be a heavy cavalryman, and if you don’t wear it, you will be a cavalryman.

The split design is also to adjust the combat arms in time according to the actual situation after going to the battlefield.

After putting his feet on the ground, Li Yao took off his helmet by himself, took a long breath, and then looked at the person in charge who was waiting at the side. He was very satisfied with the heavy armor, so he directly asked the key question:
"Sun Guanshi, what is the output of this heavy armor?"

Sun Da, who is strong and strong and was appointed as the steward by virtue of his armor-making skills, immediately responded when he heard this:
"Major General, the output of this kind of heavy armor is very low. There is only so much pig iron sent by the iron smelter every month. Our various departments divide it up and down, and we can get even less. Then we process the pig iron into refined iron, and then use refined iron to make heavy armor. People need armor, and horses also need armor. Even if we skilled craftsmen can make armor pieces through hydraulic forging, it will take a long time to make a set of heavy armor. The key is that it consumes too much iron..."

When he said this, Sun Da also had a painful face. He was a manager and also a craftsman. Li Yao chose people from among the craftsmen.

However, during the process of building the heavy armor, Sun Da's eyelids jumped. Originally, he could build three sets of armor, but now he can only build one set of heavy armor. This consumption is terrifying.

Li Yao was not too surprised, he had already thought of this situation, so he nodded and continued:

"I will find a solution for the iron thing, you just need to build more heavy armor, first build a hundred sets, and then it depends on the situation!"

After Li Yao said that, Sun Da naturally didn't dare to refute:
"Follow the order!"

Then Li Yao smiled and said:

"In short, I am very satisfied with this set of heavy armor. The relevant craftsmen have rewards, and I will go to collect them later!"

Sun Da saluted respectfully:

"Thank you, Major General!"

Leaving the military factory, Li Yao crossed the river while thinking, and went to the military camp across the river from the military factory.

population...population...population...

With enough population, more iron can be smelted.

What they lack now is the population. Even if the people live well now, dare to give birth, dare to raise, and want their children to grow up, it will take at least 15 years. When the children grow up, it will be too late.

Looting the population is urgent!
After entering the barracks, they found Li Wenhou. Before Li Yao could say anything, Li Wenhou said:
"Ayao, you came just in time. I wrote Zhongying a letter last year, and this year he wrote back to me. While reminiscing about the old days, he also said that those Kanto people refused to accept him. Now they want to fight him. He wants me to make peace and ease the relationship with Boyu. They have fought a lot in the past few years, and they want us to support him. In the future, we will send troops together to kill those Kanto princes..."

Speaking of this, Li Wenhou frowned tightly, with a rather indifferent expression on his face, and what he said next showed his attitude:

"These Guandong people just can't see that we Liangzhou people live well. If we raise troops, we will rebel, and if they raise troops, they will be King Qin. Whatever we do is wrong, what they do is right, what a bunch of bastards!"

Hearing this, Li Yao already had a rough idea of ​​the situation, and understood that it was impossible to ask for Dong. As for helping Dong... so he said:

"Father, Father Zhong is not an outsider, he is both a fellow villager and a friend. It is no problem to help us make peace, but if he wants our support, or even send troops to Kanto together, Father Zhong has to express..."

"Now that he is the Prime Minister of the Great Han Dynasty, no matter how we let my father be a general and a state shepherd, we can also show some prestige, and if we are just a prefect, we really don't have much momentum against those Kanto princes!"

After the words fell, Li Wenhou thought for a while, and felt that what Li Yao said was very reasonable. Now that the big man is appointed a general and a state shepherd, it is still very prestigious.

After all, Li Wenhou is only the prefect of Jincheng and the captain of the Qiang guard. Dong Zhuo can be the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, but he can't be a general or a state shepherd.

So he laughed and said:
"I'll write to him right away. He's not what he used to be, and I'm not what I used to be. Now I have a strong army and tens of thousands of cavalry. Why can't I be a general, state shepherd!"

After finishing speaking, Li Wenhou looked at Li Yao, and he said in doubt:
"By the way, Ayao, what's the matter in rushing over here?"

Hearing this, Li Yao immediately got down to business:

"Father, our army has not been able to popularize iron armor. It is because there is not enough iron production. There must be enough people for mining and iron smelting. What we are short of now is enough people..."

"So I thought, we have to plunder more people, why not go to the big and small Yu Valley, the place south of Cizhi Hequ, to plunder the population of Zhong Qiang, or go to the west of Chiling, to plunder the population of Fa Qiang, those places outside the Great Wall, although the weather is bad, but there are also a lot of ancient Qiang tribes, they don't have good armor, weapons, defeating them is not difficult..."

"We don't need to send out troops on a large scale. Every time we send some elite cavalry to plunder people and livestock, we don't want to kill them this time. We just rob people and livestock. With the population, we can dig salt and mine. As for the livestock, we will give those elite cavalry to increase their enthusiasm..."

"They either take the initiative to surrender or passively accept plunder. If they dare to unite and attack us, we still have tens of thousands of cavalry near Jincheng. How can we be afraid of some Qiang tribes outside the Great Wall? We catch as many as they come. Anyway, we are short of people!"

(End of this chapter)