The next day, inside the Jianmen Pass, the Jianmen guards the military academy field, the rising sun in the east of the earth, for a while, the glow is thousands, shining on the elite soldiers wearing black armor and holding sharp weapons in the school field, it looks mighty!

And the most conspicuous of the thousand soldiers standing on the field at this moment is Mu Fan, who was just appointed by Li Qing as the captain yesterday, at this moment Mu Fan is holding a spear and wearing a military uniform, although it is also black armor, but in comparison, Mu Fan's armor is much more exquisite than the armor of ordinary soldiers, and at the same time, the safety factor is also doubled. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, even if science and technology were developed in ancient times, limited by development conditions, Datang's annual steel output was very limited, except for other uses such as making currency, and production tools, the iron that could be used to build armor every year was very limited, and it was precisely because of this that some of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Datang were still wearing leather armor, and in comparison, the degree of protection of leather armor was undoubtedly much less than that of iron armor.

But after all, Datang is Datang, for those frontier soldiers who are stationed in the frontier all the year round to protect their homes and defend the country, the emperor of Datang has never been stingy, of course, because today's Datang is focused on the north, which directly leads to Datang's military spending is also focused on the north, so compared with the soldiers of Jiannan Road and Lingnan Road, the probability that the other ones will be wearing iron armor is undoubtedly much greater.

Nowadays, most of the troops of the Tang Dynasty are Mingguang armor, of course, there are a few chain mail and fish scale armor, Mingguang armor pays attention to protecting the whole body, and chain mail and fish scale armor are not whole body armor, they can only do some important protection for the human body such as the chest, shoulders and head, naturally, compared to Mingguang armor, the latter two armor is undoubtedly much inferior.

Looking at the Tang Dynasty today, all the soldiers who can be equipped with Mingguang armor, in addition to the rare elite divisions under the major festivals, looking at the interior of the Tang Dynasty, the one who can achieve this kind of super luxury lineup is undoubtedly the Yulin Army and Longwu Army of the current Tang Emperor, which is what ordinary people call the Beiya Fourth Army.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty had many armors that could equip soldiers, but Mingguang armor was able to dominate the family, and it was indeed very brilliant. Really to say, the Mingguang armor is just a further transformation of the previous armor, increasing its flexible collar, and it is more convenient to fight, a former soldier, in order to increase their own safety factor, the armor worn is iron armor, and the link between each part is also very stiff, which greatly reduces the flexibility of the soldier.

Mingguang armor, it is to learn this lesson, so in the previous armor on both shoulders equipped with a similar leather shawl, chest and shoulders and other places can be detached and removable, no longer as rigid as before, if the early foreign wars of the Tang Dynasty can be won nine times out of ten, in addition to the Tang Empire's national strength at its peak, soldiers dare to fight and dare to kill, Mingguang armor also plays a very important role in it.

After all, the two armies are fighting, if you want to kill the enemy, the first thing to ensure is that you will not be killed by the enemy in the first place, and the Mingguang armor undoubtedly plays a great role in protecting their own life safety.

After all, it has the skill of the dragon, as the army that Emperor Xuanzong is very fond of, coupled with the reason for the proximity to the water, looking at the fact that the Tang Dynasty can compete with the four armies but in terms of equipment, I am afraid that there is really no, even if it is now the army under An Lushan, who is extremely favored by the Tang Emperor.

Maybe An Lushan's army in the last years of Tianbao can compete with one of them, but now it is only five years of Tianbao, and An Lushan is still a long way from his road to hegemony, and there are still so many people in the court today who can suppress An Lushan, this ambitious politician.

Not to mention anything else, the most obvious of which is that Li Linfu, who has been standing behind Li Qing, is now the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, in the memory of Li Qing's later generations, whether it is the official history or the wild history, it depicts An Lushan's very jealousy of Li Linfu, and it can even be described as fear.

Maybe in the eyes of many people, An Lushan, it doesn't have to be like this, with the grace of the Tang Emperor, and now he is also the envoy of Fanyang and Pinglu towns, holding hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and everyone knows very well that those are not just rabble people who are just used to make up the number of people, those are all war-baptized divisions, real elite divisions, compared to those defenders in the mainland who may not know what war is for a lifetime, much more elite.

But despite this, every time An Lushan sees the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he is sweating like rain (this is not human, but scared), although there is a slight exaggeration, but there is no doubt that An Lushan is very jealous of Li Linfu, Li Linfu was alive, An Lushan has been forbearing, but since Tianbao eleven November, Li Linfu died, and then An Lushan did not endure for three years, he unscrupulously raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, and the iron cavalry smashed Chang'an!

Because in the eyes of An Lushan, as soon as Li Linfu died, he no longer had the slightest need to scruple about anyone, maybe if Emperor Xuanzong was twenty years younger, he would be able to suppress An Lushan, but reality is reality after all, heroes are short of breath, no matter how heroic Emperor Xuanzong was, but the years will not only change a person's face, but sometimes it will destroy a person's ambition.

Tang Xuanzong, who was once a young man in charge of the army and ruthless, after Zhu Wei, supported his father to restore the throne overnight like a dragon going to sea, and then ruthlessly punished Princess Taiping and the party, and then inherited the throne and became the master of the Tang Dynasty.

However, it is such a heroic emperor, when Tianbao heard An Lushan raise troops against the Tang Dynasty in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, his first reaction was not to hurry up and formulate defensive measures, but not to believe, so a full week passed, when the war reports on the border came again and again, the Tang Emperor really believed that An Lushan, who was favored by himself, rebelled, but it was precisely that An Lushan was given a week, and the Tang Empire missed the best opportunity to extinguish it before the fire of An Lushan's rebellion became a prairie fire.

Although, after eight years in the end, the Tang Dynasty still crushed the rebellion, but in the process of quelling the chaos in the past eight years, the prosperous rivers and mountains that the six generations of emperors of the Tang Empire worked hard to create after more than 120 years have been destroyed in one fell swoop, and the Tang Empire, which once led the world trend and made the four Yi guests subdued, has since collapsed!

Whenever I read this history of blood and tears, I feel a burst of sadness, falling from the clouds, since then the Tang Empire has been bullied, although after thousands of years of vicissitudes, there are still countless Chinese sons and daughters who call themselves Tang people, but it is no longer possible to pursue that feeling, that is the pride of a nation that once stood on the top of the world, once the self-proclaimed "Tang people", so that countless people envy, but now these two words often bring downright regret to the Chinese women.

Maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, Emperor Xuanzong's performance is very funny, but such a seemingly funny thing happened to Emperor Xuanzong, the emperor, which is sad and lamentable!