In this era, there will never be a shortage of elite soldiers, such as tiger and leopard riding, such as white horse righteous servants, such as trapping camps.

There will never be a shortage of elite soldiers, as long as you are willing to spend money, you are willing to spend resources, there will always be results.

But since the elite soldiers of this era have their limitations, they are too capable of eating generals.

Of course, all armies in this era need to rely on the ability of generals, which is the limitation of the times, and Ma Jian has not dared to think that he can rewrite the art of war.

But in Ma Tan's view, many times the elite part needs to have its own subjective initiative. After all, you are using such good resources and spending a lot of money to smash your combat power, and it is still too much of a loss to simply obey orders.

Not only do you need to know how to execute orders, but most importantly, you need to learn how to execute them perfectly in a better way.

And the loyalty of elite soldiers is also a problem, most of the time they are still only paid to the military.

"Such an elite soldier is equivalent to a puppet with infinite strength, and can only rely on the ability of the informant to exert its own value. These are not the elite soldiers I think they are, they are just soldiers who can fight. ”

Ma Jian made his own evaluation of this, and his attitude was as resolute as ever. Zhuge Liang was in a trance for a while, feeling that this scene was so familiar.

Well...... It's still the same horse who likes to brag, and it hasn't changed at all.

"So what does this have to do with the clergy writing and literacy?" Zhuge Liang raised his eyebrows, gently fanned the fan and said lightly.

"Naturally, there is a relationship, and there is a big relationship!" Ma Yan's face was serious, and his expression suddenly became serious.

"Let me ask the Prime Minister, if you were given 100,000 Luoyang Taixue gentlemen who can fight well, would your Northern Expedition be easier?"

"They're going to take down my big man's logistics." Zhuge Liang said with kindness.

Ma Tan: Embarrassed

"In fact, many times the elite soldiers know a little bit about the art of war, and they can always give you some surprises."

"For example, when I was training in Anding County, the soldiers below could send me a few big flags with the word "Wei" every three or five days. ”

"Although it won't be long before General Wenchang will send someone to go back. But this is enough to show that the combat power of letting the elite soldiers read and hyphenation is improved, even very high! ”

Don't care whose flag you rob, you can say whether the subjective initiative is strong or not.

"Moreover, the elite division is owned by the state, and it should understand the importance of loyalty and patriotism. If they can't read and write, and don't understand what filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, and shame are, then they are no different from regular soldiers. ”

"In this way, once a jackal has a rebellion, the elite that the Han has painstakingly trained may cut down on the court itself!"

Ma Tan is not a dreamer, at least he is not the kind of cerebral palsy who dares to call for equality in the Three Kingdoms. But while accepting and embracing reality, Ma Jian still has some ideas of his own.

For example, when it comes to cultivating elites and making them have faith, Lao Ma really wants to try. It was a very good goal for Ma Tan to make a group of Qiang soldiers understand that they were loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and swore allegiance to the Han Dynasty to the death.

After all, he Ma Tan has always wanted to die, but he still wants to leave something for the prime minister to Shu Han before he dies. And try to cultivate some talents as much as possible, even if the prime minister can't use it, it will not be reduced to the extent that only Jiang Wei can take the lead in the Northern Expedition of Shu Han in the future.

And this method of elite soldiers is the answer given by Ma Yan.

"Do you have any basis for this art of war?" Zhuge Liang was interested for a while, and at this time he couldn't wait to take a feather fan and point a little Ma Jian to say,

"You can always give me something new."

Of course, this time Ma Tan's idea is still a little whimsical, but it does have merit.

In this era, various wealthy families have a very strict control over knowledge. Even the art of war is not something that ordinary people can learn, so no one has ever tried to teach the priesthood.

Can't teach your own family, so you can teach others?

Of course, it is not completely absent, and many wealthy families will teach private soldiers to be loyal to their families when training private soldiers. Some generals who try to rebel may cultivate their own soldiers as henchmen.

But those are all for their own interests, like Ma Tan, who is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and is so detailed that he can read and hyphenation, and he has indeed never seen it.

Whether this is useful or not, Zhuge Liang can't say. But it does sound like that, and what Ma Tan said is the truth.

It's a pity that the cost is too high, if every soldier can get an education......

Zhuge Liang narrowed his eyes, but shook his head and shook off the idea.

If you can't do it, you can't do it.

"So how sure are you that you can train an elite who is loyal to the big man?" Zhuge Liang shook off his whimsical thoughts and asked calmly.

"I don't know, I'm trying this set of tactics myself, after all, I don't want to engage in military affairs when I'm bored......"

"Huh?" Zhuge Liang suddenly stopped, and looked at the sword hanging on the side.

"There are immortals who entrusted me with a dream and gave me a copy of the art of war, saying that I am a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, take this book and help the Han family." Ma Jian shook a spirit, hurriedly got up, and said with a clear eye.

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In the end, Ma Jian was blasted out by Zhuge Liang, and ordered him to honestly deal with military affairs first.

Don't let the deputy general be responsible for everything, you will never command the large corps to fight, how will you take over the burden of Shu Han's military power in the future.

In addition, Zhuge Liang also gave Ma Jian an extremely difficult task for him.

stimulated Lu Xun on the other side, so that he couldn't hold back and take the initiative to fight.

"Stimulate Lu Xun to take the initiative to fight? This difficulty is much more difficult than letting Zhao Kuo win in vain. Ma Jian was very dissatisfied, and he was very confident in Zhuge Liang's attitude.

It means that since you Ma Jian can stimulate Hao Zhao to take the initiative to fight, and you have to kill you, then you can also stimulate Lu Xun.

Isn't this pure slander, who in the world doesn't know that I, Ma Yan, is a gentleman.

"Forget it, send someone to spread the news, whether Lu Xun is willing to fight or not depends on the sky."

Ma Tan waved his hand, casually wrote a few small stories on the paper that were not very directive, and ordered the soldiers to find a way to pass them on.

"By the way, send someone to send a box of gifts to the Governor of Eastern Wu."

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"Ma Tan wants to give me a gift?" Lu Xun frowned, looked at the messenger in front of him, and said.

"That's right, General Fenwei has come to give you a gift when he sees that you are sticking to it." The messenger nodded and replied.

Lu Xun frowned, and his intuition told him that Ma Tan was doing something.

Now that the Shu army and the Wu army have been facing each other for more than two months, the battle situation has not taken a good turn at all. Not only that, but the Shu army also continued to attack their camps, and I heard that Cao Wei's side had already entered and exited the main force, and planned to take the opportunity to attack Yangzhou.

At this time, Ma Jian sent someone, I'm afraid it wasn't here to stimulate him.

Looking at the box in front of him, Lu Xun pondered for a while and took it over, and opened it himself to see what it was.

Since it's a gift to the manager, it's not dangerous.

"What did General Han Fenwei send?" Lu Xun asked while opening the box.

"General Fenwei loves horses' sparse horse manure!" The messenger replied fluently.

Lu Xun's hand to open the box froze, and the box in his hand suddenly felt heavy.

(End of chapter)