Zhuge was reborn, killed the old thief Sima

Chapter 718: The ruthless gangsters who don’t make people worry
"General Zhang Yan, how do you feel about this armor?"

In a hidden mountain valley somewhere in the Taihang Mountains, Ma Di, the "strategist" of the Yongliang bandit Mi Fang, was discussing with Zhang Yan the Han army armor that had just been sent.

The armor, which was as black as ink, seemed to be able to feel the temperature of the stove.

Sturdy but a little weird
After Zhang Yan carefully studied it, she finally decided to wear it herself.

"This" Zhang Yan moved her arms carefully, rotated her waist, and frowned even more tightly, "this armor is good, strong and has more places for shelter.

But it seems to work a little awkwardly.”

When Zhang Yan said this, he directly raised his arms, because after adding thick arm armor, Zhang Yan could clearly feel the weight of his arms.

Even when swinging the knife, there is still a bit of suffocation.

Well, it's awkward!
Looking at Zhang Yan who kept finding faults, Ma Su didn't show any dissatisfaction on his face. Instead, he directly asked his followers to record these opinions.

Then he gave a special warning.

"These things must be sent to Shangdang as soon as possible, handed over to Ma Jun and reported to the Prime Minister."

"promise!"

After saying this, Ma Su continued to encourage Zhang Yan to send troops.

"General Zhang, now I, Bingzhou, am also in a tight financial situation and have insufficient food and grass.

Therefore, there are not many things that can be given to the general. These things are all squeezed out by me by tightening my belt.

The Prime Minister also exhausted all his efforts in order for the general to gain a foothold in Taihang.

In this way, general, let's use these armors and weapons to fight first. If there are any deficiencies, you can tell me.

The boy will definitely tell the Prime Minister the truth, and then let the craftsmen improve it, waiting to give the general better armor and weapons next time. "

Ma Su's words may not sound like much at first, but if you think about it carefully, you feel that there seems to be something wrong with them!
At this time, Zhang Yan really needed to send troops quickly, because Zhuge Liang did not give him these things in vain.

He would have to use a small coal mine to exchange for these armors and weapons. If not, then these things would be gone!

For this kind of asking price, even Zhang Yan, a giant bandit who had been in Taihang for decades, felt that it was too dark.

But now that he is under the roof, he can't look for Cao again. After all, he can see that what Cao wants is for him to station in Taihang and harass Bingzhou.

Both sides have the same idea, he is in Taihang Mountain, following Zhuge Liang, at least he doesn't have to face Cao Zhen!

It is much easier and more comfortable to deal with some thieves like Wuhuan than to deal with the regular army between Cao and Liu.

As for the troubled times in the future, it is not easy for him to survive, so there is no way to think about the future.

He sighed helplessly, and then immediately rushed towards a group of Taihang Mountain bandits that he had already scouted out with hundreds of well-dressed soldiers and horses.

This bandit is a mixture of Han and Hu, including Han bandits and Wuhuan horsemen. They gather in this mountain and often cause harm to Bingzhou.

Those who are not powerful are not old people from the Taihang Mountains. They are just "poor people" who were forced into the mountains by the troubled times. Now they have become the most hated existences.And Zhang Yan decided to bring them back to normal.

"kill!"

In the darkness of night, Zhang Yan personally led his soldiers and horses to the unknown low mountain, and easily opened the opponent's simple camp.

With a roar, flames spread, the camp was massacred, and the bandits suffered heavy casualties.
After the sound of fighting stopped completely, Ma Di led his people up to help Zhang Yan clean up the battlefield, counting the battle damage and many gains.

By the way, the soldiers were taken back again, the damage in various places was registered, and then a few samples were taken away and sent directly to the Shangdang.

At this time, Shangdang already had more than a hundred huge furnaces, which were filled with coal and various fire starters, and there were huge bellows that the apprentices kept pushing and pulling.

This is the largest "steel filling" place in Shangdang County, a group of Han official workshops personally managed by Pu Yuan, Ma Jun, Zhuge Liang and others.

Ma Su's people sent the armor and records. Ma Jun and Pu Yuan immediately took apart the armor, then compared them one by one with the records sent by Ma Su to find problems.

And a large number of craftsmen were invited to try again and again, and finally settled on an improved plan and continued to start a new round of forging.

After that, the second version of the armor was sent to Zhuge Liang. After Zhuge Liang was able to verify it, he sent it into the mountains.
Regarding this cumbersome process, many people under Zhuge Liang's command did not understand why it took so much effort to do this.

But Zhuge Liang always smiled and said nothing about this. Some things really cannot be said.

Improving armor and weapons is a simple matter, but Zhuge Liang really can't take care of it himself now.

And this is not something that can be changed immediately when Zhuge Liang joins in.

The improvement of armor requires repeated tests, and it is not even as simple as chopping. For the test of armor, the best place is naturally the battlefield.

But the lives of the great men's athletes are still quite precious, Zhuge Liang couldn't bear to let them go to the battlefield to fight the enemy with this immature armored weapon.

Therefore, I will leave this matter to you to Zhang Yan. Considering Zhang Yan's frequent fighting in the future, this is indeed the best choice for testing armor and weapons.

After each fight, Ma Su would record all the problems and send them back to the workshop, and then make improvements and continue testing.

Until finally there is a kind of armor that Zhuge Liang is satisfied with.
Of course, in order to prevent Zhang Yan from feeling uncomfortable, he specially arranged some food, grass, money and silk as rewards.

It can be regarded as the price for letting Zhang Yan help him.
Well, this money has now been swallowed by Mi Fang, and then he also swallowed charcoal, copper and iron from Zhang Yan
In the end, some of them were collected and sent to Zhuge Liang every month as their own achievements, and the other part was sold to Jizhou and Youzhou, and even Wuhuan people and Xianbei people.
Now in Jizhou alone, dozens of forces, large and small, have inexplicable transactions with him.

The most normal transaction here is the reselling of copper, iron and salt.

Nowadays, Mi Fang can even send an extremely beautiful girl from the Western Regions to a certain family in Hebei, and then the girl from the Western Regions ends up sleeping with Cao Rui.
Not only that, Sima Yi's biological son Sima Shi also obtained hundreds of fine horses and armor and weapons for 5000 people from him.

As for other messy things, he, Mi Fang, didn't dare to touch them.

For example, now, Mi Fang kept rubbing his chin as he looked at the young man in front of him who he had bought back.

"Are you Lu Su's son?"

"You also know the whereabouts of Zhuge Ke. Tsk tsk tsk. Cao Zhenqing is suppressing Jiangdong. There are a lot of fish that have slipped through the net."

(End of this chapter)