Chapter 874: Killer Feature

Regarding Sima Zhao's move to spend a lot of money to redeem Wang Yuanji, Sima Yi was noncommittal, although the price this time was quite large, but for the Sima clan, who now holds the power in the world, it seems to be nothing.

At the beginning, in order to cultivate dead soldiers and cultivate power, the Sima family has always been stretched thin in terms of economy, and even faced difficulties several times, but fortunately, these have survived, and now the Sima family has the power in the world, and there is no need to think about financial resources, even if it is such a huge ransom, for the Sima family, it is just a drop in the penny.

And to take back Wang Yuanji, it is the face of the Sima family that cares about it, as the wife of Sima Zhaoming, let her live in the enemy camp for a long time, which is indeed detrimental to the reputation of the Sima family.

But after really picking up Wang Yuanji, Sima Zhao regretted it, knowing that this was a buy-one-get-one-free deal, so Sima Zhao might as well let Wang Yuanji fend for himself in Bingzhou, and save him from embarrassment.

How to deal with Wang Yuanji and the children she brought back has become Sima Zhao's most difficult matter, and it seems that Wang Yuanji can't do it after he retires, not to mention that the Sima family still needs to rely on the power of the Wang family in the court, if Wang Yuanji is divorced, Sima Zhao may become the laughing stock of the world.

So Sima Zhao could only grit his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, he threw all his hatred on Cao Liang's body, eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood raw, Sima Zhao was more active than anyone else in the matter of sending troops to merge with the state.

In the past, when he was in Luoyang, he didn't have that ability, but now that Sima Yi's army has returned to Luoyang, the strength is enough to crush Cao Liang, and when to send troops has become Sima Zhao's most urgent thing.

As for Wang Yuanzhao, she had already been beaten into the cold palace by Sima Zhao, although she still had the status of Sima Zhao's wife, but since she returned to Sima Zhao's mansion, she had never seen Sima Zhao's face again.

Sima Yi didn't know all this, and Sima Zhao was also difficult to talk about, not to mention that Sima Yi was now focused on government and military affairs, and he didn't have time to pay attention to family affairs.

Therefore, Sima Yi is smiling at the two sons' active invitation to fight, the attitude of the two sons is good, but against Cao Liang, Sima Yi thinks that he can't be in a hurry, at least in a short period of time, he can't rush to attack.

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Cao Liang had a relatively stable life in the New Year of the second year of Jiaping, and since he learned the news that Sima Yi had transferred a large number of war horses from Liangzhou to Beijing, he could basically conclude that Sima Yi would not launch an attack on Bingzhou in the near future.

Because Sima Yi called so many war horses was not untargeted, if he just replenished some war horses, he would not need so many numbers at all, and such a huge number of war horses would be called at once, then there is no doubt that Sima Yi is ready to build a new and large number of cavalry teams.

The training of cavalry does not mean that it can be achieved overnight, it does not mean that a cavalry can be formed by preparing a few war horses, and the training of cavalry takes a lot of energy and a long time.

Obviously, it was the last battle of Shangdang that made Sima Yi deeply stimulated, and realized that if he wanted to fight with the Bingzhou army, he could not rely on infantry alone, and he had to form a large cavalry.

Although the Sima army did not have a lot of cavalry, in the entire army proportion structure, the infantry still occupied the lion's share, and with such an army structure, the mobility would naturally be a little worse.

Sima Yi realized the importance of cavalry and increased the training of cavalry, which shows that in the next battle of annexing states, Sima Jun's cavalry will inevitably be menacing, and Sima Yi's strategic change has given Cao Liang a wake-up call.

Now that Sima Yi controls Cao Wei's power and has huge manpower and material resources, it is not difficult to form a super-large cavalry force.

As for the Bingzhou Army, having three cavalry battalions and 30,000 cavalry is already touching the ceiling, and with the current financial and manpower resources of the Bingzhou Army, it is indeed difficult to increase the number of cavalry.

Cultivating a cavalry costs the equivalent of ten infantry, this kind of expensive price is indeed difficult for any army to bear, and Sima Yi did his best to build a huge cavalry this time, which really brought a lot of pressure to Cao Liang.

According to the information transmitted back from Luoyang, Sima Yi transferred at least 50,000 war horses from Liangzhou this time, even if he can't train 50,000 cavalry, conservatively estimated, at least about 40,000 cavalry can be added, plus the number of cavalry that Sima Jun originally had, Sima Yi expanded the cavalry to 70,000 or 80,000, there is no problem.

Sima Yi mainly played the cavalry card, which was to form a crushing trend against the Bingzhou army, because Sima Yi also realized that the elimination of the Bingzhou army would be the last battle of his life, and he wanted to clear the way for the Sima family's power to reach the top.

In the last battle of the upper party, Sima Yi returned with a feather, so this time Sima Yi must be extremely well prepared before attacking again, without absolute certainty, Sima Yi will not attack easily.

The advantage of the state army is indeed reflected in the cavalry, but the experience of the battle of Shangdang proves that this advantage is also very small, and the two sides ended in a draw with 25,000 cavalry against 30,000 cavalry.

If Sima Yi more than doubles the number of Sima army's cavalry, it will inevitably crush the cavalry of Bingzhou, which is estimated to be Sima Yi's final strategic concept, and he is desperate and does his best to build a huge cavalry, just for this decisive battle of Bingzhou.

Now the pressure has been placed on Cao Liang's side, and the generals of the state are also offering suggestions one after another.

Some people suggested that the Bingzhou Army should also expand the number of cavalry to fight against the Sima Army, but such an arms race could easily drag down the economy of the Bingzhou, after all, Sima Yi took most of the world's resources to improve its combat strength, and the economic foundation of the Bingzhou was weak, and there was not enough financial resources to arm more cavalry.

Some people suggested expanding the flat box car formation, after all, the actual battle in Hanoi proved that against the cavalry, the flat box car formation was indeed effective.

But the problem is that the flat box car has poor mobility, if Sima Jun does not take the initiative to attack, the flat box car will almost become an ornament, and the method of using the catapult to crack the flat box car Cao Liang can think of it, not necessarily Sima Yi can't think of it, after the defeat of Hanoi, Sima Jun is probably already studying the flat box car, and then it is difficult to play that kind of miraculous record.

Therefore, to deal with cavalry, the flat box car can only be an auxiliary means, and the real confrontation is still to ride and ride.

The generals were talking about it, but Cao Liang was confident, because there was a killer weapon in his hand that was useless.