No. 1379: Rescue Liu Bei

If the world's weapons and equipment are divided into a level, the weapons and equipment of the Qin army will definitely rank first.

Benefiting from Qin Hao's technical support, the Qin army's total steel production and steel quality are much higher than those of other princes, so the weapons and equipment created are naturally not bad.

In addition, the weapon forging skills of the Qin army are the top-notch, so the weapons and equipment created are naturally not comparable to other princes.

In fact, the Qin army also sells weapons to the outside world, of course, what is sold is only eliminated equipment, after all, it is useless to keep these equipment, and it is not sold for money to reduce financial pressure.

As for the newly created new equipment, even Qin Jun himself has not all popularized it, so it is naturally impossible to take it out and buy it.

Although the equipment sold by the Qin army to the outside world is obsolete equipment, even if it is eliminated, it is still a top-level equipment that is both practical and cheap when it is taken to other princes.

Therefore, the equipment of the Qin army is the most sought-after in the arms sales market, basically as long as there is a plan to sell, there will soon be princes to come to buy it, and the supply exceeds demand.

The major princes are not stupid, they buy the equipment of the Qin army, first, it is really easy to use, and it can directly improve the combat effectiveness of the army. The second is to crack the skills of the Qin army's equipment in order to improve the forging technology of his own arsenal.

However, even if it is the equipment eliminated by the Qin army, the forging skills contained in it are not so easy to crack.

In this regard, the princes invested a lot of manpower and material resources, just to crack the equipment forging technology of the Qin army, but unfortunately it had little effect, but the only gains were enough to upgrade their military industry to a level.

The new equipment of the Qin army is the top weaponry, and after any army is equipped, its combat power will definitely be greatly improved, even if it is the long-weakened Northern Navy.

After Li Jing became the Taishou of Beihai, he would inevitably be harassed by the princes of Qingzhou, and even attacked, and the basis for keeping Beihai was that the combat effectiveness of the Beihai Navy should be strong enough, but it was not possible to improve the combat effectiveness of the army in a short period of time.

Therefore, Li Jing thought of using the new equipment of the Qin army to improve the overall combat effectiveness of the Beihai Navy, so that he could get through the most difficult initial stage after becoming the Taishou of the Beihai.

Qin Hao naturally knew about this point, but he shook his head and said: "Our naval army is still very weak, once the princes along the way intercept it, they will not have the ability to protect themselves at all, so they can only go back and forth to Qingzhou once." ”

"That's ......"

Li Jing couldn't help but be a little disappointed in his eyes, and then asked: "Then in addition to the three thousand cavalry, how many things can our army's navy bring?" ”

"Up to 10,000 sets of infantry equipment."

Li Jing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Lord, the last general only needs 5,000 sets of infantry equipment, and the other 5,000 sets of equipment, how about replacing the last general with a strong crossbow?" ”

"This ......"

Qin Hao glanced at Li Jing strangely, and said in his heart, this person looks loyal, but he didn't expect to be so shrewd.

The Northern Navy has been weak for a long time, even if they are given the best equipment, their combat power will not increase much in the short term, but the strong crossbow is different, the soldiers only need to obey the command of the pretend, and be responsible for releasing arrows in one direction, as long as the pre-war training is good, the weak chickens can also defeat the elite soldiers.

Therefore, for the Northern Navy, the strong crossbow is the most lacking weapon and equipment, but the value of the strong crossbow is not comparable to that of a knife and a gun.

After Qin Hao pondered for a while, he said, "I can only give you five thousand strong crossbows at most." ”

"That's enough."

Li Jing was suddenly overjoyed, he was only going to ask for 3,000 at first, but he didn't expect the lord to give 5,000 openly.

In the end, Qin Hao and Li Jing finalized the lineup for entering the Beihai, in addition to the five generals and two civil ministers, there were also three elite cavalry of the Tiger Battalion, as well as 5,000 infantry preparations and 5,000 strong crossbows.

Because Kong Rong was also in a hurry, Li Jing decided to get married in advance, and took Yin Shi Niang to Beihai to hand over to Kong Rong on the second day of the wedding to prevent long nights and dreams.

After dealing with the Beihai incident, there was another thing that gave Qin Hao a headache, that is, Xuzhou Liu Bei's request for help from the imperial court.

Since the beginning of Qin Hao's Luoyang court, Tao Qian is the most staunch supporter, and now although Tao Qian has stepped down, the new Liu Bei has implemented Tao Qian's political ideas and still respects the Luoyang court, so the court is actually not easy to let Liu Bei fend for himself.

But if he saves Xuzhou at this time, he will definitely offend Zhu Yuanzhang, which will affect Qin Hao's plan to subdue Daming, after all, the relationship between him and Daming has only eased, and once he offends Zhu Yuanzhang at this time, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

However, if Liu Bei is not saved, the Xuzhou army with only one Xiapi County will be difficult to resist Zhu Yuanzhang's encroachment, and once Zhu Yuanzhang completely occupies Xuzhou, he will definitely go on to conquer the Central Plains or Hebei, which will undoubtedly affect the army's follow-up strategy.

Therefore, saving and remedying Liu Bei has become a dilemma for Qin Hao, and he can't discuss this problem with others, after all, the matter of subduing Daming must be carried out in secret, and even his own people can't reveal a single thing before he succeeds.

After pondering for a long time, Qin Hao finally decided to save Liu Bei, not for anything else, but to delay Zhu Yuanzhang's unification of Xuzhou.

Qin Hao didn't intend to subdue all the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, so he didn't care if he would offend Zhu Yuanzhang, what he cared about was that by offending Zhu Yuanzhang, he would offset the relationship between him and the Ming court.

To save Liu Bei, it must be saved, but in order not to offend the Ming Court, at least he will not offend the Ming Court on the surface, so this rescue plan, Qin Hao is ready to carry it out in secret.

Although he will send people to support Liu Bei this time, he will hide their true identities and disguise them as bandits to help Liu Bei, and as long as Zhu Yuanzhang has no evidence that can be hammered, he will naturally not be able to destroy the relationship between Qin Hao and the Ming Court.

Zhu Yuanzhang's talent lineup is quite luxurious, the commander has Xu Shiji, who is second only to Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty, Luo Shixin, who is second only to Li Yuanba, and Fan Zeng, who has an intelligence of 101, and many generals such as Xue Ju, Xue Rengao, and Xiang Zhuang.

The fierce generals under Liu Bei are only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and the only ones Wenchen can take are Chen Deng, Sun Qian, and Jian Yong, and it is simply hellish difficulty to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang with such a lineup.

Since Qin Hao started summoning, there have been not a thousand but eight hundred characters so far, but Liu Bei hasn't even caught a single one.

In this regard, I don't know whether to say that Liu Bei was so bad that he couldn't get it alone, or if he was lucky enough to avoid everyone.