Chapter 323: War Retro
Wei Qinghuo's great achievements in getting sick, that was piled up with countless money and grain, that continuous war, completely buried the family wealth accumulated by Wenjing, and now the base area is richer than other places, but compared with the entire Han Dynasty when Wenjing ruled at the beginning, it is still very different, and it is not the same at all.
Another point, in the face of the cavalry of the grassland people, must be dealt with with cavalry, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in order to crusade against the Xiongnu, the implementation of horse politics in the country, it took ten years to organize hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and at this time, where to find the hundreds of thousands of war horses? There are still donkeys, but imagine the scene of the mighty soldiers riding donkeys to conquer the grassland, and everyone can only cover their faces.
In the face of all the difficulties raised by the ministers, Lu Peng suddenly had a big brain, so he turned to Wu Tao and said, "Now you immediately rush back to our military base in the Savage Valley, immediately mobilize all the carpenters, and start building chariots with all your might." ”
Tian Feng immediately stood up and objected loudly: "The redevelopment of the charioteers of the ancient era is definitely a historical retrogression, it is a waste of money and labor, and I firmly oppose it." ”
Wu Tao is a person who only looks forward to the main horse, although he also thinks that his lord is unreliable to rebuild the chariot, which is definitely a kind of labor and money, but he did not come out to object, but sat there pondering and observing, waiting for the lord's explanation.
Under Lu Peng's unbridled thinking, his subordinates have already had a blind worship of him, as long as it is the plan proposed by Lu Peng, it will definitely be unexpectedly different.
Lu Peng stood up and explained: "The chariot has been galloping on the land of the Central Plains for thousands of years, and the reason why it was driven out of the stage of history by King Zhao Wuling is because in the face of various terrains in the Central Plains, the cavalry is more flexible, the charioteers are more cumbersome, and they are more unsuitable for the changeable terrain of the local Central Plains. ”
Lu Peng straightened up and said with wisdom: "In the face of the grassland people, our kung fu is not as good as theirs, but our soldiers can stand on the chariot and give full play to the advantages of our Han nation's weapons and equipment, especially in the grassland area, which is flat and broad, more suitable for the galloping of the chariot, nothing can be limited to one time and one place, and it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions, which is fundamental." ”
made such a decision, in fact, Lu Peng didn't really want to develop the charioteer, because that thing was indeed bulky and too expensive, in Lu Peng's heart, his inspiration flashed, but it was a follow-up armored personnel carrier.
Looking at the civil and military ministers with a confused face, Lu Peng began to explain his advanced consciousness: "Everyone knows that the Central Plains lacks horses, the infantry has developed to the extreme, the war has developed to the extreme, it is the cavalry of the grassland nomads, it is impossible to break through, the reason why we have been pressed and beaten by the grassland people, the fundamental reason is the mobility of our infantry, defeated, but can not pursue, expand the results of the battle, defeated, but chased and killed by the grassland people, this is that we have defeated the grassland people ten times, hundreds of times and thousands of times, but as long as we fail once, is the reason for the possible extinction of the country and the extinction of the species. ”
People who have a little military common sense here can empathize with Lu Peng's concept, but in their eyes, this is a dead knot and there is no way to solve it.
"But I have a way around it." Lu Peng was full of confidence and assured like a civil and military minister.
The civil and military ministers in the hall were in a commotion, if it was really like what the lord said, it could solve the knot of thousands of years, then the Han nation, the nomads of the grassland, would be a complete crush.
"My method is actually very simple, that is, to use a fast and light chariot to carry our elite infantry, when facing the nomadic cavalry, we immediately set up our Han nation after a thousand tempered formations, or attack or confrontation, in the victory, we immediately let our elite infantry, on the chariot, pursue the enemy, destroy the enemy."
The lobby immediately became silent, slowly began, and became heated again.
This is definitely a method that has never been done before, and no one has ever done it since.
Two horses drawn a light chariot can fully carry 20 infantry, if there are thousands of such chariots, crisscrossing the grassland, once they encounter the enemy, these soldiers immediately jump off the chariot, set up the most familiar formation of the Han people, confront the enemy, strike at the enemy.
If the battle is defeated, these chariots can be surrounded into a fortress to resist the enemy's attack, and victorious, those victorious warriors, jumping on the chariots, can carry out long-range pursuit of the enemy.
Mi Zhu clapped his hands: "These chariots can carry a few fewer people, and you can also directly load your own military supplies on them, which reduces the pressure on logistics and supplies." ”
Wu Tao said happily: "Because this chariot is not really participating in the war, it can be made simple and light, for example, the heavy chariot carriage is changed to a rattan weave, which is light and can be repaired at any time." ”
Zhao Quan also said happily, "In fact, there is no need to use war horses for all of these chariots, ordinary camels and horses can also be used, even if they are mules, it is really not possible to use donkeys, and then you can use oxen, anyway, as long as they can drag the chariots, let our soldiers continue to attack, and then attack, we will achieve our goal." ”
Lu Peng leaned on the table, looked at his civil and military ministers, brainstormed, and constantly perfected the idea of this armored personnel carrier that he proposed, and said with emotion: "Who said that the thinking of ancient people was complacent? But what is missing is a person to guide me, for example, I am their guiding light, I just lit a torch in front of them, pointing out their way of thinking, then they will use their endless wisdom and imagination to perfect the whole idea, wisdom, in fact, is just, as long as you light a spark. ”
"I can also provide a new type of carriage that is more suitable for the flat area of the grassland and has a larger loading capacity, the four-wheeled carriage, which will not only reduce the load-bearing burden of the animals pulling the cart, but also be responsible for dragging, and let them run faster."
For this novel four-wheeled carriage, everyone again objected, because the four-wheeled carriage did not appear in the Central Plains, and everyone also saw his huge transportation volume and the benefits of reducing the physical strength of the cart-pulling livestock, but there is a key problem here, that is, the Chinese have not solved, or thought of the problem of the four-wheeled carriage turning.
So, Lu Peng tore a piece of cloth and directly drew a four-wheeled vehicle steering device on it, which was simply outrageous.
When everyone here understood it, they could only sigh and regret why they didn't think of it. In this way, not only does it increase the amount of transportation, but also increases the speed, which is simply an artifact.