Horses, especially important in the age of cold weapons, are extremely precious.

According to the statistics of the Han and Emperor periods, the food consumed by one war horse can be eaten by twenty-five people.

Moreover, horses need to be fixed on the horse farm, and even the site needs to be built by the mountains and rivers.

In spring, the mountainous sunny slope zone is used as spring pasture, and the transition to the central meadow grassland. In summer, the mountain forests, meadows, and grasslands turn to the highlands, with a cool climate and abundant water and grass; In autumn, the snow in the high mountains turns from high places to low land, and turns into autumn nests; In winter, they return to the plains, deserts, valleys and grasslands, where there is no snow and pasture can be found.

The cost of raising horses in the mountains is also extremely expensive.

Therefore, even if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty greatly promoted horse politics in the Western Han Dynasty, horses are still a scarce commodity to this day.

Even because of this, when the Han army was strong, it directly regarded the nomads in the border counties as horse breeders, and plundered each other's horses through war from time to time.

Among them, the most famous is Duan Cheng Pingqiang, who has more than 7 million cattle and sheep and more than 1.5 million horses.

However, in the face of Xianbei, the Han army was often plundered, and the consumption of horses was huge, coupled with the continuous famine, many horse farms could not be sustained.

Previously, the main ministry also requisitioned horses one after another, and it is understandable that there were no horses in the imperial court.

Notice that the imperial court, the market, and the horse dealers still have horses in their hands.

It's just that the price is expensive, and the price of a fine war horse is about 200,000 yuan.

If Yang Ming chooses to buy it by himself, 500 horses will be 100 million yuan!

The Yang family is true, but after all, the family of scholars can't come up with so much money.

This is something that Yang Ming never expected.

According to his estimates, even if there is a shortage, it is probably the same as the armor, some are missing, not all.

Of course, it is impossible for Cao Jie, who invited himself to be the operation of Sima of other departments, not to see it, and it is not ruled out that he was targeted.

Back at home, Yang Ming began to think.

By the next day, he had a plan.

During the Western Wei Dynasty, in order to deal with the enemies of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, the Son of Heaven, established the government military system based on the Turkic tribal system according to the situation of his country.

The government military system was used in the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties later, and Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty created the Tang Dynasty with a population of 10 million because of the strong combat effectiveness of the government soldiers.

Of course, at this time, Yang Ming did not want to make any government military system in the Eastern Han Dynasty at this time, because the government military system relies on the uniform field system, and the premise of the uniform field system is the premise that the national land is more.

At this time, he was thinking of a certain operating rule in the government military system.

The so-called government soldiers are soldiers in wartime and farmers in leisure time, exempted from conscription, and prepared for war by themselves.

That's right, prepare for war!

The knights of the Three Rivers are mostly children of a family, and their families are well-off, so don't they have a few horses at home? Can't you bring your own horses?

Among the five hundred soldiers recruited by Yang Ming, there were only one hundred and twenty people from the Han family, so all he needed to consider was the need for these one hundred and twenty people.

One hundred and twenty horses cost twenty-four million.

This amount is within the scope of what Yang can try to solve.

As for the armor, there is no way, even if the children of the family have the money to make armor, they don't have the guts, and it is a capital crime to hide armor in ancient times.

So he can only find Yang Ci or Liu Kuan to see if he can put pressure on the treasury and let him give more.

From an optimistic point of view, with only three hundred pairs of armor, can it be difficult to defeat two three-males?

In this way, the problem can be solved.

So, he found the Wang brothers and asked them to pass on the news of their own horses first.

His previous analysis was only theoretical, and it was difficult to keep the children of the family and could not provide it, so it still needs to be based on the actual number of people.

"Shaojun, the Wang family can help with the matter of horses." It's just that what Yang Ming never expected was that after listening to his plan, Wang Ze actually spoke directly.

The two Wang brothers are quite different, the elder brother Wang Rou was born burly and tall, and his martial arts are outstanding, while the younger brother Wang Ze is gentle and elegant, and has a strong belly.

"I have a big Han horse, the best quality of the Liang horse in the west, followed by my and the state horse, not much, so if you want a horse, I will write a letter home, and the horse will be sent to Luoyang in a few days." Wang Ze continued.

Yang Ming was overjoyed when he heard this.

Wang Ze said that he actually didn't think about it, after all, Taiyuan County, where Jinyang is located, is the most populous county in Bingzhou.

But his wife has never been married, so he is not easy to open this mouth.

Now Wang Ze took the initiative to say that the situation was naturally different.

Perhaps because he was afraid that Yang Ming was still worried, Wang Ze then said: "The Wang family has quite a channel in the land of annexing the state, and they can buy good horses at a low price, and the Wang family can bear the cost together, so there is no need for Shaojun to worry about it. ”

Yang Ming immediately waved his hand when he heard this: "I'm afraid this is inappropriate." ”

"Shaojun, there is nothing wrong with it, since the Wang family has married Shaojun, it is a family, and I hope that Shaojun will not refuse." Wang Ze gave up his hand and used the big gift.

Yang Ming looked at the man in front of him, and probably understood the other party's thoughts.

This is the charcoal in the snow, and it is the most remembered.

Of course, more importantly, this Northern Expedition is indeed dangerous, and the Wang family must try their best to protect him.

Because if he dies in battle, then five hundred horses, five thousand horses, will be meaningless.

On the contrary, Yang Minghuo can have the opportunity to rely on him, a rookie, to quickly re-enter the political stage.

Thinking of this, Yang Ming was no longer polite and nodded in agreement.

Just when the Wang family gave him a dowry in advance, it is.

Within two days, Yang Ci sent someone to tell Yang Ming that the matter of armor had been decided.

When Chao Situ and Taiwei made a move, it naturally came to pass.

Even, there are surprises.

Of the 300 armor that you have applied for, there are still 50 pairs of three-layer armor!

The three-layer armor of the Han Dynasty was not wearing three-layer armor, so it was impossible to fight at all, and it was not a three-layer combination of chain mail, piercing armor and cotton armor in later generations.

At this time, the three-layer armor, the innermost layer is to cover the neck, similar to the small armor of the vest, which can cover the chest and shoulders; The middle layer is the chest and back armor, which can cover the front chest and back; And the outermost layer is the heart goggles.

In this way, there are three layers of armor on the chest.

This is the meaning of the negative three-layer armor charge in the Han book.

The average armor rate of the Eastern Han Dynasty was about 40%, and the armor rate of his other tribe was 100%, even 120% for a single layer of armor!

And all of them are tall, skilled bow horses, and equipped with excellent war horses.

After some operation, Yang Ming's 500 soldiers are real 500 elite soldiers, and there is absolutely no water.

This kind of elite soldiers, if they encounter Xianbei cavalry, as long as they command properly, it is easy for a Han to reach Wuhu.

After the armor was in place, Yang Ming's other troops began training at the Luoyang schoolyard.

Five hundred elite soldiers lined up in the school field, dressed in strong and stubborn clothes, especially the fifty soldiers wearing three-layer armor, and the bronze mirror of the heart protection shone brightly, attracting the attention of others for a while.

Yang Ming looked at the scene in front of him, and his heroic feelings spontaneously arose.

He doesn't have the literary brilliance of Cai Yong, but at this time, Li He's Tang poem has unconsciously appeared in his mind:

Why don't the men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures. Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if you are a scholar and a marquis!

Good man, you should gallop on the field!

Not far away at this time, Cao Poshi was looking at the sergeant on the school field, already dumbfounded.

As a captain of Yue Cai, he naturally has free access to the school, and today he was ordered by Cao Jie to monitor Yang Ming's department.

Before, he didn't think that Yang Ming could recruit any soldiers from his department, but he never thought that in just a few days, Yang Ming not only recruited, but also such a well-equipped elite soldier!

When he was stunned, the five hundred sergeants had already begun training.

Although he is a new recruit, he has no strings when archery, outstanding endurance when wrestling, and top quality of individual soldiers.

Compared with the Yue Qi under his command, which is dominated by Yue people, he has won a lot.

The quality of the source of soldiers is too critical.

At this time, he was already glad to greet the servant first, otherwise if these five hundred soldiers were cavalry, it would be difficult to start even if he arrived in Mobei.

In a blink of an eye, it has been more than ten days.

Cao Poshi hid in the shadows of the school field, eating watermelon, and looked at Yang Mingbu, who was training in the distance, with a sad expression.

The speed of training of these 500 people was beyond imagination, and it had only been a few days, and when the formation was formed, it was already forbidden to advance, and the advance and retreat were orderly.

To be able to have such speed, in addition to the source of troops, high morale is also crucial.

These sons of good families are all full of morale and want to work with Yang Ming, the upstart leader of the family, to make contributions in this Northern Expedition.

The army will be drawn out one after another for almost half a month, and it is conceivable that Yang Ming's division will be an elite division by then, and all that is lacking is battlefield experience.

Other departments, elite soldiers, before they set out to fight, Yang Ming had already broken Cao Jie's moves one by one.

Cao Poshi was already thinking about planning carefully with Cao Jie and Na Tian Yan at this time.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside the door.

He was already a little upset, so when he heard the sound, he summoned a attendant and asked him to go and see what was going on.

In a short time, the attendant returned, and stopped talking.

"Why is that?!" Cao Poshi got up angrily, holding a watermelon, and was about to smash it.

The attendant hurriedly explained.

Cao Poshi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and the watermelon in his hand fell without knowing it.

Yang Ming also happened to finish communicating with Wang Ze beside him at this time, and he also got up with a smile, and the two went to the door together.

At this time, at the entrance of the school field, from the door to the outside for a few miles, there was a lot of black pressure.

Strong legs, dark and strong body, radiant horse's head.

Yang Ming saw the scene in front of him, and he couldn't stop smiling.

His dowry has arrived!