Chapter 19 Improvement of Military Equipment

Li Jie turned to the crowd and said, "What kind of crossbow do the cavalry use?" "The Tang Dynasty army generally used four types of crossbows, the winch crossbow had a range of 700 steps (900 meters), the opening crossbow had a range of 230 steps (345 meters), the horn bow and crossbow had a range of 200 steps (300 meters), and the single-bow crossbow had a range of 160 steps (240 meters). Qin Fang arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, all the cavalry uses crossbows, with a range of about two hundred and forty steps!" Li Jie nodded: "How many rounds can two thousand archers and two thousand cavalry fire when the other party rushes over?" At this time, Li Tang stepped forward and arched his hand, "Your Highness, if it is a cavalry, it can shoot three rounds according to the range, and if it is an infantry, it can shoot ten rounds!" Li Jie nodded, "You can think about it, three rounds of 12,000 arrows, ten rounds of 40,000 arrows, plus the short spear of the sword and shield soldiers, I don't require accuracy as long as the density, after such a blow, I think the opponent's first round of attacks may not have many people!" This way I can have fewer deaths on my side! Everyone shouted in unison, "Your Highness is generous, I am willing to serve my life!" ”

Li Jie asked again, "Is there a winch crossbow?" Qin Fang replied, "There are only ten!" Li Jie nodded, "Well, it's not much, try to do a few more." Send another one to my village, I want to improve it! Qin Fang arched his hand and said, "Oh! "Are there blacksmiths and carpenters in the army?" Li Jie asked, and Qin Fang replied, "Yes, there are dozens of blacksmiths and carpenters" and "Order them to come over!" A quarter of an hour later, dozens of blacksmiths and carpenters stood in front of Li Jie, and Li Jie drew on the ground with a tree branch, "Two feet thick, four feet long, the iron sheet is rolled up to this size, can it be done?" A blacksmith said, "Your Highness, the villain can do it!" Li Jie nodded, "The interface must be strong, and there will be three iron bars outside!" "Blacksmith Surrender" No! Li Jie said, "After it is done, hand it over to the carpenter, seal one end with hardwood, and hit the hemp rope in the middle, and notify me when it is done!" "Everyone has given up"! ”

"How many are there in the army?" "Three" "No, too little, at least twenty" ""Oh" "Let them come." Looking at the three Lang Zhong in front of him, Li Jie asked, "How do you treat the wounds of knives and guns?" "Ichiro ** hand" returned to His Royal Highness, washed with water and bandaged. As soon as Li Jie turned around and saw Yu Chi Baolin, Yu Chi Baolin suddenly felt bad, and was about to hide from Li Jie and shouted, "Yu Chi Baolin!" Yu Chi Baolin had no choice but to give up her hand: "Humble duty!" "Come here," Chef Chi Baolin came over helplessly. Li Jie turned over his hand and pulled out his waist knife from the guard next to him, and slashed at Yu Chi Baolin's arm, a three-inch wound turned outward, spraying blood, "Why did Your Highness cut me!" Chef Chi Baolin covered her wound and shouted, "Take you to an experiment", "But there are cows and horses in the army!" "Oh! I forgot! "Looking at Yu Chi Baolin, who wants to cry without tears", come, lie down! Looking at Yu Chi Baolin, who was lying down, Li Jie smiled and said, "Come on, bring a bowl of salt water!" As soon as Pauline heard that she was about to run when she sat up, Qin Fang glared, "Lie down!" Pauline lay down, and Li Jie said to Lang Zhong, "See every step I do!" ”

A few Lang Zhong hurriedly gave up their hands, "Oh! Li Jie washed his hands in salt water and said, "This is called disinfection, which can prevent the wound from suppurating!" Then he added, "If the patient's wound is suppurated and he has a high fever, fill a wooden bucket with hot water and put the patient's legs in the water, and the water cannot be cold and continue to heat the water." This can reduce the fever of the patient! Then Li Jie asked Pauline, "Are you ready?" Pauline nodded in horror, and when she saw him nodding, Li Jie showed a reassuring smile......

Hehe..... Console.... "Go, get a rope." The rope was brought to Li Jie and said, "Tie it!" Looking at Pauline who was tied up, Li Jie said to Qin Fang, "Stun him!" Everyone was stunned, Li Jie touched his head, "I'm sorry, I forgot that there is no anesthetic!" Qin Fang looked at Cheng Moyu helplessly, Cheng Moyu smiled evilly and stepped forward and slashed at Pauline's neck, Pauline's eyes rolled and fainted.

Li Jie asked Lang Zhong to bring scissors and medical knives to scrub them with salt water, and said, "The knives must be boiled in hot water before each use, and the time is fragrant!" He also said to Lang Zhong, "If the wound is suppurated and there is rotten flesh, it must be cut off with a knife, and it must be cut clean, and no trace can be left!" He also ordered a needle and thread to be soaked in salt, "There should be a small hook at the tip of the needle, and then the wound should be stitched with thread!" Li Jie pointed to one of Lang Zhong, "You, come here and stitch!" Stitch a needle and tie a knot, the stitches don't need to be too tight, and the wound doesn't collapse! That Lang Zhong trembled and picked up the needle, "Calm down!" It's like sewing clothes! Pauline woke up in pain, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that her arm was being sewn with a sewing needle, and she fainted in pain. Looking at the sewing wounds and the people who were in a cold sweat, Li Jie said, "With this method, many people who shouldn't have died can survive!" Qin Fang, ordered people to buy a large number of hemp boiling powder, if not, look for mandala flowers, the more the better! "The people inside the tent knelt down! The people outside the tent knelt! The whole army knelt down! Yu Chi Baolin didn't expect that this scar would become his pride! Because the whole army is saying that the general was wounded! This also makes this kid very proud!

After staying in the barracks for three days, Li Jie made strict regulations on the sanitation and domestic water of the barracks, that he must drink boiled water, go to the toilet in a specified place, and take a bath once every seven days. It is strictly ordered that the whole army must strictly abide by it, and those who violate it will be punished with ten military sticks. Early in the morning of the third day, a barrel was placed on a mound of earth, and the sides were fastened with iron bars. Li Jie glanced at Xue Liang and nodded, Xue Liang ran over and put the fire rope into the bottom eye, then poured in ten catties of gunpowder, and then put a cloth bag into it. The gunpowder was brought over by Xue Liang in person, and the cloth bag was filled with a pound of gunpowder according to Li Jie's request. Lighting the fire rope, Xue Liang turned around and ran, with a loud "bang", the cloth bag flew out of the iron cylinder and landed nearly three hundred meters away, and there was another loud "bang". When the smoke cleared, Li Jie led people over, "hissed" everyone gasped, and a pit of nearly two meters appeared in front of everyone. Li Jie is very proud of "no conscience cannon", this is a big killer! Looking at the people who had been petrified, Li Jie said, "Continue to read the test shot and see how many times it can withstand it!" I will touch the production of gunpowder! If there are not many people, I will use gunpowder to see if my gunpowder is strong or if they are powerful! Then he turned around and went back to the barracks, and the whole army looked at Li Jie with a fanatical gaze! Li Jie saw a strong self-confidence in their eyes! No one can beat my self-confidence!

On the way back, Li Jie saw that the farmers had already begun to harvest grain. Because there is no need to pay food this year, everyone's face is full of smiles. Li Jie really wants to see such a smile every day, but reality tells him that it is impossible! When he returned to Huangzhuang, he called the manager and ordered him to buy 200 catties of wine. He also ordered someone to call the blacksmith in the village, and asked the blacksmith to choose an iron lid that could cover the cage drawer. There is a hole in the lid to fit a tube that bends outward. In the evening, when everything was ready, Li asked Ma Liu to pour the wine into the pot and ordered Xue Liang to make a fire. Put the cage drawer on the pot and plug the gap between the cage drawer with a cloth. The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the wine was churning in the pot. The alcohol content in the Tang Dynasty was very low, basically around 20 degrees, so you will feel that everyone in the Tang Dynasty was quite able to drink, like Li Bai was called a wine fairy. And what Li Jie had to do was to distill and purify, and gradually there were water droplets at the mouth of the pipe, Li Jie dared to take the wine jar hurriedly, and after a while, a trace of water began to flow down more and more. After a busy day, two small jars of wine were loaded on it, and a strong aroma of wine spread, and there was immediately a feeling of relaxation and pleasure. As soon as Xue Liang smelled the aroma of this wine, he knew that the so-called fine wine he drank in the past was just swill in front of this wine, and it was not worth mentioning at all.

Looking at the greedy Xue Liang, Li Jie reluctantly poured him a bowl, Xue Liang couldn't wait to put it under his nose and smell it, took a deep breath of enjoyment, and drank it dry with the last sip. When Li Jie saw this, he hurriedly stopped him, the ancients had good wine, but they drank low-alcohol alcohol, you let him drink a sip of more than 40 degrees of Erguotou, and still don't just put him down?

But Xue Liang's mouth was anxious, Li Jie stopped him lightly, and after a mouthful, Xue Liang only felt a fire refining from his mouth into his throat, straight to his internal organs, and his stomach immediately turned over and over, it was like a fire dragon rolling between his chest and abdomen, unspeakably uncomfortable, unspeakably Shu Tai, after a stunned experience, he sighed: "Good wine and good wine are nothing but that." Then one fell backwards and fainted.

Li Jie was helpless, so he ordered someone to come in and help Xue Liang back to the room to rest. Ma Liu's surprise said, "The little one has never seen such a spirit!" Li Jie smiled, "Although this wine is strong, I don't drink it, but I want to send it to the army to clean wounds, and this thing can keep many people alive." "Ma Liu arched his hand" His Royal Highness is noble, and we will swear to follow! After two more nights of busy work, two hundred catties of wine were steamed out of seventy or eighty catties of wine, Li Jie ordered Ma Liu to take people to send the wine to the army, and told Qin Fang that this thing was only used to clean wounds.

In autumn and July, Huangchao crossed the Yangtze River from quarrying, and the financial army of 150,000 people occupied He, Chu Erzhou without a fight, and entered the siege of Tianchang and Liuhe, and the army was very strong. Gao Jiao complained to the imperial court, and sent people to send a large amount of gold and silver, and the envoys of various festivals also sent a large amount of gold and silver, so that Xizong was happy and worried, and the joy was that sure enough, the envoys of the festivals in various places sent gold and silver for the name, and they were worried that the situation in Huainan had deteriorated, and the officials and soldiers were afraid of war. However, Xizong still pushed the boat down the river, issued an order to reprimand Gao Biao, and ordered Li Jie to be the governor of Youzhou as the envoy of Lulong Jiedu, and to seal the Kaifu Yi and the three divisions to observe and dispose of the envoys, and concurrently lead the Huainan Jiedu envoy.

Li Jie has the holy decree in his hand, and he has everything he wants, but how much he hopes that the world will be peaceful and the people will live and work in peace and contentment. You can also do what you like and use your own abilities to slowly change the country! But now, he must use his sword and gun to eradicate those selfish villains, for the sake of the new Datang! He had to fight! He believes that a different Datang will salivate from his hands! And this is also his inevitable mission!