“110...？” Cheng Chumo showed a frowning expression and said, "That's too short, how can this Wadao man ride...?" ”

"Hey...!" Zhang Yaozu on the side said with a smile: "Actually, the people of Wadao are not high, like Cheng Tuan will go to Wadao, that is a giant, and there will be many women who will take the initiative to find you at night." ”

"Really?" A smile appeared on the corner of Cheng Chumo's mouth.

The height of this Wajima Shinobu, that is definitely a thing worth discussing, everyone should know that Wajima Warring States Period, this period is like the Three Kingdoms period of China, which can be described as "heroes". Some well-known figures such as Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Kamishi Kennobu, and Takeda Shingen all emerged one after another during this period.

I'm sure you've all heard of the people above.

Among them, Takeda Shingen's subordinates have a mysterious cavalry unit, because of their bravery and good fighting, all the daimyo of Wajima are terrified... This is the Takeda Akaken team.

The so-called "akabi" refers to the red armor.

Because Wajima is heavily influenced by China, China values red, and Washima is naturally also precious. The core of the Red Reserve is the cavalry with the most noble status in Wajima.

Takeda Shingen only pays attention to one word in the use of soldiers..."fast". As the so-called "soldiers are fast", in the words of his favorite "The Art of War", it is "as fast as the wind". As soon as the Takeda family's Akabi team appeared, they showed their unusually strong strength.

In 1555, a conflict broke out between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen of Echigo Province, known as the Second Battle of Kawanakajima. In this battle, the Red Reserve defeated the Uesugi family's vanguard of up to 8,000 men with only a weak force of 800 men.

After several battles, the cavalry of the Red Reserve made great contributions to the Takeda family. In the Battle of the Tripartite Plain, a Red Reserve vanguard cavalry of Takeda Shingen beat the famous Tokugawa Ieyasu to the head. No matter how you look at it, the cavalry of the Red Reserve was the strongest cavalry unit in ancient Wajima.

But you must know that the best horses in Wajima at that time were Kiso horses!

But it is this kind of short horse that has made the most powerful Red Reserve cavalry in ancient times, which is really incredible!

If I had to explain, there was only one reason... That is, the Wajima people are shorter. In ancient times, the height of the Wadao people was generally only 1.4 to 1.5 meters, at least 20 cm shorter than the Chinese.

According to the same ratio, the Mongolian horse ridden by the Chinese is 135cm, minus 20cm is 115cm, which is exactly the same height as the Kiso horse.

In other words, with the short stature of the ancient Japanese people, they are more suitable for riding shorter horses. Therefore, the red reserve cavalry composed of short Kiso horses can make the people of Wajima fearful.

Hehe... So people who generally tout the Wajima Warring States period basically don't discuss height with you, and that's a hard injury.

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"Your Highness... Although I can't get you too many qualified war horses, however, there are also outliers among the Kiso horses, and during this time, because we are also the Tang Dynasty, we have also collected about a thousand qualified war horses, and I can dedicate them all to His Highness. ”

After Zhang Yaozu finished speaking, Xue Rengui on the side couldn't wait to say: "One thousand horses is just enough for our Tiger Cavalry Regiment, please rest assured, our Tiger Cavalry Regiment will definitely exert its greatest combat power." ”

"General Xue Tuan, you...!" Yu Chi Baolin looked at Xue Rengui speechlessly and said, "It's too bad, all the horses are wrapped up at once, and our scouts also need horses." ”

"yes... We can't all give you horses for the Tiger Cavalry, and so do our scouts. Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu also stopped together.

Li Zhan looked at the way everyone was fighting for horses and laughed: "You guys... Uncle Zhang's horses are all given to the Tiger Cavalry Regiment, and I will transfer two more Changle boats to Dengzhou, and those two boats will be used to load the scout's horses. ”

"This can...!" Yu Chi Baolin didn't speak.

followed Li Zhan and said, "Brothers... The sea is full of dangers, this time you followed me so risky, Li Zhan thanked you first. After speaking, Li Zhan bowed to everyone present.

"Brother Zhan...!" Cheng Chumo, who was on the side, helped Li Zhan and said with a smile: "See you outside, although I call you Your Highness, we all know that you are still our brother Zhan and our brother."

So we're all happy to die for you.

I didn't see Niu Qi crying at home because he didn't come, and it is the glory of our brothers to be able to follow your side. ”

After Cheng Chu finished speaking, everyone nodded one after another.

Li Zhan also showed a relieved smile when he looked at everyone, his vision was still not wrong, this group of brothers was good.

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Three days later... Set sail .... According to the route provided by Li Zhan, fourteen Changle ships had a total of 7,000 men and 400 horses, and they also carried all kinds of weapons and armor, including stone crossbows and fierce fire oil tanks.

This time, Li Zhan wanted to go to Wadao to have a look, because the sea route was really dangerous this time, so Li Zhan didn't bring Fengming, Li Sheng and others... Li Zhan was followed by fifty people from Ying Lao, Gao Hu, and Li Jingmen.

Standing on the deck and looking at the sea, the sky is unobstructed, and the scenery stretching on both sides of the strait is like a mural with no beginning and no end. And more magnificent and agile than the murals. The clouds are flying and the waves are surging, and the scenery is changing.

It's just that the people who can enjoy such a scene are people who don't get seasick, and there are still many people in Li Zhan's Tiger Army who are seasick, but fortunately, Li Zhan has already expected such a result and brought a lot of medicine over, otherwise it will be troublesome.

Now Datang's navigation technology has just begun to grow.

For example, monsoon navigation... China's understanding of the monsoon is very early, and the use of sails as a power navigation began in the Xia Dynasty 4,000 years ago. The Chinese have long mastered the monsoon patterns of the western Pacific and northern Indian Oceans, and have applied them to navigational activities.

In fact, Yingxun of the Eastern Han Dynasty has already mentioned in "Customs and Customs": "There is a plum wind in May, and Jianghuai thinks it is a trade wind." "Plum Blossom Wind" means the southeast monsoon that occurs after the rainy season. During the Han Dynasty, people could only make use of the monsoon to make ocean voyages.

However, the use of monsoons is relatively passive. Fa Xian, a senior monk of the Jin Dynasty, visited India by sea and had to wait for the monsoon to reach Java for five months.

In the Tang Dynasty, the use of the monsoon was much freer, and due to the great improvement of the technology of Li Zhan's Changle boat, it was already possible to achieve "the wind comes from all directions, but the head is not feasible", that is, in addition to the direction of the head, the ship can move in the other seven directions. This technique was only mastered in the West after the 16th century.

There is also astronomical positioning and navigation... During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, maritime navigation technology was already associated with astronomy. During the Warring States period, people had made quantitative observations of the 28 constellations and some stars, and achieved gratifying results, and combined sea navigation with astronomy, using the North Star as the direction of navigation. During the Warring States period, the magnet "Sinan" was invented. But its use is mainly used for land-based positioning. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the sun and the North Star were mainly used as maritime navigation symbols.

On the basis of astronomical navigation in the pre-Qin period, the navigation technology in the Qin and Han dynasties was further improved.

According to the Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles, the astrological books of sea navigation in the Western Han Dynasty had 12 volumes of "Astrology of the Stars in the Sea" and 22 volumes of "Miscellaneous Matters of the Five Stars in the Sea", totaling 136 volumes, which may be the astronomical experience and laws summed up by Chinese seafarers in the process of carrying navigation.

The content should be to record the position determination of constellations, planets, etc. during the voyage to confirm the route.

The development of astronomical positioning in the Tang Dynasty was mainly reflected in the geodetic technique of using the altitude of the North Star in two places to determine the change in the distance between the north and the south.

Li Zhan was even more ruthless, directly using the "re-torque" instrument to measure the height of the North Star from the ground, although there is a certain gap with the actual number, but this is the world's first actual measurement of the meridian, after Zhang Yaozu mastered it, he could directly use the height of the North Star to locate and navigate.

This made our Zhang Yaozu excited, and he felt a little like a god when he looked at Li Zhan, because Li Zhan was really too godly and knew too many things he didn't know.

In the end, Li Zhan also invented the water floating needle... Although it is said that the predecessor of the compass "Sinan" came out as early as the Warring States period. But this round spoon-shaped direction finder, which is machined from a natural magnet, is clearly not suitable for use on rough seas.

Li Zhan invented a more advanced water floating needle... The method is very simple, it is "a needle across the center of the lamp, floating on the water, and also a guide, but often biased in the C position". Since the surface of the water in the container always tends to remain level, no matter how the ship sways in the sea, the pointing effect of the water float needle is quite stable.

This was of great significance for improving the accuracy of the ship's navigation, more than four centuries before Columbus made the same discovery when he crossed the Atlantic to the "New World" in 1492, and according to Zhang Yaozu, if he had encountered such technology earlier, his fleet could have gone wherever it wanted.

Li Zhan smiled slightly at Zhang Yaozu's statement, he admired Zhang Yaozu's fearlessness, and Li Zhan felt that he could still use Zhang Yaozu in the future.

Out of these navigation techniques, Li Zhan also made some defenses against sepsis, because Li Zhan knew that the European Age of Exploration was an era of human exploration of the world, and it was also a great era.

For the seafarers of Europe at that time, there was something more feared than the storms of the sea, and that was sepsis. Modern people naturally know that sepsis is caused by a lack of vitamin C in the body. Seafarers are adrift at sea and cannot dock. Naturally, fresh vegetables and fruits could not be replenished, and the crew had a high chance of sepsis.

Sepsis is terrible, and the mortality rate is almost 100%.

In order to replenish the vitamin C of the Tiger Army, Li Zhan made a lot of large wooden barrels, and vegetables were grown in this wooden barrel, and with vegetables to eat, in that case, the probability of sepsis for the crew would be greatly reduced.

However, the ships of the European Age of Discovery were small in size and carried limited materials, and they only relied on pickled food as food, and without vitamin supplementation, they were prone to sepsis.

The most admired is Zheng He, Zheng He went to the West during the period of a huge fleet to go to sea collectively, carrying all kinds of materials on board, and Zheng He carried a relatively complete navigation map at that time, which can accurately find many islands on the sea, and can replenish materials on these islands in time, and vegetables and fruits can be supplied in time.

In addition, such a huge fleet goes to sea, doctors and medicines are indispensable. Crew members can get timely treatment when they get sick, so the chance of dying is much lower.

Just when Li Zhan made all the preparations to go to Wajima, the war was still going on in Wajima at this time.

Zhang Yaozu's small city is still resisting, although the number of people is small, but Zhang Yaozu's small city is strong, and the Tang people have a habit of hoarding grain, so the people in the city are not hungry.

In addition, Tachibana Satomi's army is only about 10,000 people, and Tachibana Satomi doesn't want to fight on a large scale, first, she doesn't want to kill the relationship, and secondly, Tachibana Satomi doesn't have so many troops to consume with Li Cheng.

After all, the real enemy of Satomi Tachibana is not Li Cheng, but the other two forces.

It is also because of this that Li Cheng has been able to persist until now, but everything ended today, why... Because Satomi Tachibana is ready to use herself as a blackmail.

Li Cheng and Li Jing'an were talking in the room in the small city, Li Jing'an looked at his father and asked, "Dad, did you say that Uncle Zhang has arrived in the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"I don't know...!" Li Cheng looked at his daughter and said: "Jing'an, this is not something you should think about, what you have to do now is to have a good fetus, that is the flesh and blood of you and Li Zhan, if you think nonsense, it will not be good for the fetus in your womb." ”

"But... But...! Speaking of this, Li Jing'an's tears fell: "Dad, I don't want to, it's all my fault, if I don't come to Wadao, then there will be nothing at all."

But now, Dad, I really regret it, I regret it. ”

Seeing his daughter's tears flowing out, Li Cheng on the side hurriedly comforted: "I don't blame you, I really don't blame you, if you want to blame, blame your father, why did you bring you in the first place, hey... I didn't expect that your mother to be so shameless, oh my God...! ”

Just when the father and daughter were bitter, suddenly, someone came to inform Li Cheng and Li Jing'an that Tachibana wanted to see the two.

"What the hell is this guy doing again?" Li Cheng subconsciously looked at Li Jing'an.

Li Jing'an shook his head slightly, followed Li Cheng and said, "Let's go... Let's see what the hell you're up to as a mother... Jing'an, you can rest assured, no matter what the hell she does, Daddy will protect you. ”

Li Jing'an nodded slightly, and followed the two to the city.

It's just that what is different from the past is that in the city, what Li Cheng and Li Jing'an saw was not the angry Tachibana Satomi, what they saw was Tachibana Satomi in plain clothes.

When the three of them looked at each other, Tachibana Satomi's tears fell, and she looked at her daughter and shouted, "Jing'an... You've won, I'm leaving... Just yesterday, the Soga clan attacked a city in my Kyoto and killed thousands of people, all of whom were my people.

I can't make you understand my intentions, so I'll take all this alone, and you and your father will go... I'm going to fight for my people. ”

After all... Tachibana Satomi turned the horse's head and retreated with the army, but this retreat messed up Li Jing'an's heart.

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