Yang Wanli is the most emotionless of the five brothers for the imperial court, because among the five brothers, only Yang Wanli is a real commoner, like Lin Huan, who is actually from a big family, just a side branch.

"Although the fifth brother's words are also reasonable, once the military disaster starts..."Yue Liang sighed.

"Ma Lang, tell me what you're going to do first." Lin Huan asked.

Ma Qiang nodded and said, "My suggestion can be summed up in one sentence, if you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone." Think about protecting yourself first, and then think about relieving the world.

It's almost July now, we still have about half a year, in this half a year, I plan to continue to recruit displaced people, and then train a township brave who can go to the battlefield to defend the country, Youzhou's Taiping Road once the incident is probably not under seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses, although most of these people are ordinary people, the armor is not even, the battle formation is not familiar, but the number is too many, especially once they burn down the village, coerce the people, it is not difficult to develop to hundreds of thousands.

Compared with the quantity, we have to pay attention to quality, so our hometown bravery, must be elite, my assumption is that all of them are armor soldiers, the number of people is at least three thousand, in addition to Wuhuan owes us a lot of favors this time, we can borrow cavalry from Wuhuan again, we will train some cavalry ourselves, with such strength, we are more than enough to protect ourselves. ”

Lin Huan and the others nodded, where is this more than enough, such a force can already seize the government and occupy the county.

"The advantages and disadvantages of Taiping Dao are obvious, the advantage is that the court is unprepared, and the disadvantage is that the soldiers and horses of the court are more elite than them, especially in border states like Youzhou.

Therefore, their strategy must be to complete the battle and concentrate all their forces to attack Luoyang and the prefectures.

Our Changping and Jixian are very close, if the Taiping Dao army really concentrates its forces to attack Jixian as I expected, then we can attack it, if the Taiping Dao strategy is different from what I imagined, with this army and horses, we can also entangle the Taiping Dao and wait for Lu Longsai's border army to come back. Ma Qiang felt that he might have scared the five elders, so he cheered up again.

Lu Longsai is the Xifeng Pass of the later generations, it is the garrison of the Han Dynasty, there is a battalion of border guards here all the year round, from Lu Longsai to Jixian about 300 li, the border cavalry can not be reached in five days even if it is slow.

Although the Youzhou Yellow Turban in history killed Liu Wei and Guo Xun, there was no news later, and it was thought that it was jointly exterminated by the Youzhou border army, county soldiers, and Xiangyong.

Thinking about it this way, the combat power of the Youzhou Yellow Turban is not very strong, and it is a suitable experience pack for the novice village.

"People are simple, I heard that there is another drought in the Central Plains, and if you want to come to the displaced people, it will be all over the place, as long as you have money and food, it is not difficult to recruit three or five thousand people, but how to get together the armor? If you make a private armor, you may cause a big disaster. Yue Liang asked Ma Qiang.

"Mainly armor, blades and bows and arrows can be purchased." Lin Huan added.

The so-called armor, is iron armor or heavy leather armor, most of the time in ancient China allowed the people to have knives, guns and even bows and arrows, but it was forbidden to have armor, so in ancient times, when a person wanted to rebel, he would definitely turn out some armor from his house as evidence, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the private soldiers of the local wealthy families were already open, and even often cooperated with the official army to fight, but still did not allow a large number of armor, otherwise it would be considered to have bad intentions.

As for the light leather armor, it is not limited, like the light leather armor made by the folk that Lin Huan wore in Dasong Village before, and the defense power of the leather jacket worn by the Wuhuan people is not much different, and the heavy leather armor, its comprehensive defense can be compared with the low-level iron armor, after all, the thickness is placed there.

This thinking is a bit similar to the United States in later generations, and the United States in later generations also controlled heavy body armor much stricter than guns.

Of course, the reason why the United States did not allow the proliferation of heavy body armor in later generations may also be the fear that the police will not die enough.

"There is also grain and grass, if you want to raise thousands of soldiers and horses, you need tens of thousands of stone of grain and grass a month, considering that once this battle is fought, it may take years, at least prepare to hoard three months of grain and grass, preferably for a year, and also need a large number of livestock to run the grain and grass, by the way, you also need auxiliary soldiers and people, this is also money."

Yes, Ma Qiang looked at these five old men and began to calculate how much money was needed, and then began to make a list, what tents, axes and saws, clothes and quilts, Ma Qiang saw that this list was getting longer and longer, these five people had all been on the battlefield, and naturally knew that fighting a war was fighting logistics, and no matter how much money, food, and ordnance were prepared, it was not too much.

All in all, Ma Qiang found that his budget seemed to be completely insufficient.

Ma Qiang especially understood why Liu Bang put Xiao He first, and after the five elders counted the required ordnance, money and food to Ma Qiang according to their previous experience in the army, Ma Qiang directly felt that one head was too big.

Let's talk about the military strength first, according to the plan of the five elders, I am going to train a battalion of village warriors, that is, 5,000 people.

If you want to raise 5,000 people and horses, you need to prepare more than 10,000 stone of grain in January, not including vegetables and meat and the essence of war horses.

Ma Qiang's rough calculation, that is to say, these 5,000 people and horses do nothing, eat more than 3 million yuan from him, and then hoard half a year's worth of grain and grass, even if according to history is the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising in February, military grain and grass also need 150,000 stones, which is about 50 million yuan.

Ma Qiang's sweat came down all at once.

Speaking of ordnance, I don't dare to use 100 steel, ordinary iron ring-headed knives also cost 800 yuan, ordinary bows also cost 5 or 600 yuan, crossbows are more expensive, 2,000 yuan, and ordinary armor can't be taken without 10,000 yuan.

And that's not even counting the needed people's clothes, daily clothes, tents, etc

In this way, if you are armed with 5,000 armor soldiers, don't talk if you don't prepare 70 or 80 million yuan for equipment, plus people eat horses and settle in or something, prepare 100 million first.

It's over, it's broke!

In this way, it is estimated that 200 million, 200,000 yuan!

Anyway, how rich is the Yuan family, how can there be tens of thousands of soldiers together, and that Zhang Fei, I forgot to ask him how much money he has, and he can pull out an army for Liu Bei.

How can it cost so much to raise an army! No wonder Liu Hong has to sell his official position to raise money after beating the yellow scarf.

But thinking about Cao Songdu's one billion to buy the captain, Ma Qiang felt that he was too poor...

In fact, Ma Qiang misunderstood here, first of all, the local wealthy clan's Xiang Yong usually doesn't need money, and secondly, Xiang Yong's ordnance is self-prepared, and only a few elites will be equipped with iron armor by the main family.

As for the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Han Dynasty, their main sergeants are even more in the nature of military service, and only officers need to pay Yulu.

All in all, because Ma Qiang's various foundations are too poor and he has no right to rule, the cost of building the army has risen sharply compared with others.

If Ma Qiang is now a Taishou, the equipment accumulated in the county arsenal over the past generations will be enough for him to arm tens of thousands of people, but unfortunately, let alone Ma Qiang, Sun Jian at this time is still dangling at the county order level.