In mid-August, as the Battle of Youzhou progressed, all eyes of the world were focused on it. In the teahouses and restaurants www.biquge.info the pen and the fun pavilion, many speakers were holding newspapers to report, and when they finished speaking, many military strategists suddenly appeared.

In the Internet era, there are keyboard military experts. In the Tang Dynasty, with the popularization of newspapers, many lip service military strategists appeared. I like to comment on the war the most. Everyone talks highly, as if his grandson is possessed, Zhuge Liang reappears, and he looks like the best in the world.

Just as Li Chen felt when he visited the Military Academy, most men have the passion to guide the country. Even if it's too much of an addiction.

However, occasionally some people put forward insightful opinions, thinking that the imperial court should not send troops at all, and it is good to send a few feudal towns to reinforce them, and fight against those barbarians to see who has consumed whom. Datang has the Grand Canal to supply, I don't believe how long the people of Youzhou can last.

Indeed, in fact, Du Mu also objected, thinking that there was no need to send troops, and the imperial court did not need to send troops, as long as a few feudal towns were sent to fight against the people of Youzhou. However, compared with those who talk about military strategists, he certainly has more to say.

When he became a squire of the military department, he had initial contact with some confidential information of the imperial court, and he pointed out that although Youzhou had already begun to hoard grain and grass, it was limited after all, and besides, Chang Pingsi was also making trouble.

Datang's Changping Division is the largest grain merchant, and at harvest time every year, it buys grain from the people at a high price, and then sells it at a low price. The regulation of prices in Datang has made many grain merchants hate itchy, and they are helpless. In the end, I had to follow up.

Of course, following up doesn't mean losing money. It's just a matter of making less. The so-called high and low prices are only relative to those grain merchants. The purchase price is higher than theirs, and the selling price is lower than theirs, mainly to preserve the capital. However, compared with the carelessness of the government, grain merchants actually make money.

From this, a group of grain merchants was also derived. In order to alleviate the drawbacks, do not let those officials of the Changping Division have a chance to go up and down. Li Chen adopted the bidding method. It is a batch of grain and grass, how much rice, transported to a certain place, how much, bidding, the low price wins.

The cost is calculated as the price at which the imperial court hired workers and transported them to this place. Based on this price, openly look for merchant transport, and whoever can transport the same grain at a lower price can win the bid.

Gossip is far away, just because of this, Chang Pingsi is the biggest grain merchant, and the people of Youzhou want to hoard grain and grass? Have you asked Tsunehira Division? When it was found that the Youzhou army had signs of hoarding grain and grass, Chang Pingsi exerted his strength, and it was difficult to purchase grain and grass, in addition to normal use, and transport it to Youzhou.

Of course, it's not that there are no merchants to transport it over, and Youzhou's anti-will has not been revealed, so it is not good to publicly restrict it, but after all, there are many less.

Therefore, Du Mu's reason is that as long as he blocks Youzhou, he can win the thief and his accomplices. However, Li Chen objected. Let's let the Shence Army attack.

There are several reasons, first, he doesn't think he will lose. There is no reason to lose with advanced rifles. Not to mention the use of Ferguson rifles with long range, high accuracy, and fast rate of fire, even smoothbore flintlock pistols can abuse those cavalrymen. He didn't think he was going to lose.

Second, those nomads are not fools, there is no food here, what if they make a detour and invade from other places?

Simply, while they gathered in Youzhou, a pot of stew. Save him the trouble of sending troops to fight the grassland in the future, and give them a hard blow while they come over by themselves. Therefore, Li Chen advocated letting the Shence army attack, and by the way, the third point was carried out to show the prestige of the Shence army, so that he could restructure the feudal town in the future and reduce resistance.

Fourth, Li Chen was worried that the party members had settled down, but as time went on, God knows if there would be any repetition and a quick decision, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

I can't tell anyone about this, I can only think about it myself. After all, the soldiers are fierce and the war is dangerous, and no one dares to win the ticket. Except for Li Chen. Although Li Chen was also hanging in his heart, he believed that unless there was any accident, the Shence army would win.

These people, obviously they have never served in the army, but they speak like a soldier who does not use their tactics in the court, and it is their loss. Chang'an Theater, on the second floor of the restaurant, dressed in a tight-fitting beard, a woman with outstanding demeanor, looked at the group downstairs who had just seen the Three Kingdoms, and was dissatisfied with the strategy in the Three Kingdoms, and began to argue, and finally talked about the Youzhou military affairs, and said disdainfully.

"Okay, didn't Uncle say it, I don't agree with your words, but I swear to defend to the death that you have the right to speak, and your mouth is on others, and you are not allowed to talk to others." ''Tsk, it's worthy of being the child's mother, that's right.'' ''Smelly big head, dare to entertain me, see how I clean you up.'' ’

It was Ah Xiang and Datou who spoke, and the two were talking and fighting, Li Chengyuqing coughed and said, "We are gathered together today to celebrate our first naval brother, be serious." ’

'Go, Li Liangping, it's not that we don't know each other, Liangping, did you say that my sister is not serious. Li Yining glared at Li Chengyu, turned his head and asked, Well, like a sailor, he had a black face, but he was very shy A man said.

'Yes, yes, Sister Yining is very serious. He seemed shy, but reacted quickly, and nodded hurriedly when he heard the words. Seeing him like that, Li Yining didn't embarrass him, and raised a glass to see him off, and they, the junior, will become the first mate of a naval warship in Datang.

It's the navy, not the navy. One is to run in the river, and the other is to run in the hyder. Li Chen wanted to build a navy before. Now, the first full-fledged naval warship is about to be launched.

You said, Datang also has a very good army. Yes, but you can't run to the open sea. There are seven types of boats in the Tang Dynasty, including building boats, ship boats, fighting ships, walking boats, yachts, sea falcons and wheel ships.

However, it basically does not meet Li Chen's requirements. For the building ship, Datang can build a five-tooth warship, but it will probably capsize as soon as it goes to sea. The other kinds of ships, which are basically the same, are designed for river warfare, and they want to let them go out to sea? Unless Li Chen wants to lay off the navy army, use funeral expenses and pensions to replace the cost of placing them.

That's right, Tang Shuijun won the battle and taught little Japan a hard lesson to be a new man. However, the mouth of the White River... Could it be Baihaikou? Listening to the name, you also know that it is not too far from the land. Moreover, these naval warships are either not large enough to go to the open sea, or they are too small. It had to be redesigned. Even the sailors have to be rebuilt.

This battleship, built quite quickly, is based on the previous Fei-class merchant ships. Developed from this foundation. How effective it will be is to be tested. Li Chen selected officers and soldiers from the Tang Dynasty Navy, and sent some outstanding students from the navigation school to join.

This ship will not be built too fast, too much, and will be improved as it is built. Because there was really no foundation before. Naval warships can only provide reference, after all, there are many gaps in the river and the sea. You can't use old experience to build ships.

This ship was named Mingzhou, to commemorate Mingzhou, a place that has a commemorative erection for the navigation of the Tang Dynasty. In the future, it will be Mingzhou.

It was a fast warship, designed primarily to deal with pirates, with the advantages of speed, range, and steering, at least in the first place.

It has two decks, a second deck, with reserved gun emplacements for future modifications. There are planks that lift the lid to push the cannon out. However, ballistas are currently used. This thing was made by Li Chen at the research institute, and the artillery was excessive.

This is a kind of use of animal tendons, such as cow tendons, to catapult stones to inflict damage, or to siege cities. Different from the traditional Chinese counterweight catapult, although the range is not as good, but the size is small, it does not take up space, and it can be fired horizontally, which will not be like the traditional counterweight catapult, because it has a very long arm and needs a relatively high and wide space to launch.

As for why not install artillery? Because it is still trying to test fire, especially for the navy, the naval gun is specially designed, so it can only be used to replace the artillery.

The ballista is a universal weapon on Li Chen's merchant ships. Li Chen remembered that when he first played the Great Voyage, no one was loading the merchant ships, unless you went to practice combat and replaced the warships with merchant ships. But that's just a rush to fight, etc., and everyone is eager to squeeze out every space to load goods.

On the one hand, you try to earn as much as possible, on the other hand, it is useless for you to pretend, and in the face of regular pirates, you are a loser. But in these days, it is simply impossible. Every merchant ship is armed to prevent robbery, or to rob people who can be used.

The Mingzhou class is a kind of cruiser, or destroyer. Anyway, Li Chen initially positioned the ship, which was an auxiliary warship. It is considered a kind of general-purpose ship, and in the future, on this basis, battleships will be developed. It can also be used as a naval training ship, and it will also be used as a ship for the main force to repel pirates. If it weren't for the unfinalized type, fifty to a hundred of these ships would have been built.

The most distinctive feature of this ship is the mainmast, which is made of some hardwood, and has metal rails embedded in it. The kind of support cables that can be seen in ordinary Western sailing ships are integrated into this metal track, which on the one hand maintains the steering force of the ship, and can still eat the wind in eight directions.

On the one hand, it is possible to make the hard sail bigger, but the difficulty in the past is that the mainmast is too high and can easily break. The sail requires a lot of ropes to reduce the pressure on the mast. Now switching to this is a no-brainer. This is the result of years of hard work by the Royal Academy.

Although the mainmast cannot be as tall as a soft sail due to the limited cost, after all, the hard sail is better for wind power, and it doesn't matter if it is not so tall, and the effect is also very good.

This makes the Mingzhou class very fast, even if the volume increases and the displacement increases, the speed is not lost to any ship, and it is possible to pursue it.

'I wish the soldiers ahead, and the horses will be successful. I wish our junior brother all the best. In the restaurant, Li Chengyu and his party only drank a little wine, ate some food, and dispersed. Finally, I would like to wish the soldiers ahead of me success.

At this time, on the front line of Youzhou, the war situation was not tight, and they fell into a sea of joy, and one by one, the soldiers happily moved back a pot of clay pots, unsealed them, poured out pieces of meat inside, and roasted them on the fire.

The saliva next to him was about to flow out, and he desperately urged the roast people to hurry up, "What's the hurry." The soldiers in charge of the barbecue were not pleased. 'Everybody is fixed, eat early and eat late. ''Nonsense, how rare it is to be able to eat meat, you are not in a hurry, you are the last. ’

This Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue conference was lively for three days. In Zhuozhou, where the Shence Army arrived on August 15, a Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue meeting was held that night, and then it lasted for two days, for a total of three days.

Not everyone roasted meat for three days in a row, and it was not the imperial examination, but the front-line soldiers, divided into three parts, in order to avoid Youzhou and the Saiwai coalition army, launched an attack, one day was held, and it was held for three days in a row.

Speaking of which, Li Chen said that he didn't know why Chang'an had the Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue habit, it really should be beaten, and there would be such a habit to rise, in fact, it was all related to him.

First of all, you have to have meat to roast meat. In modern society, there is no shortage of material supplies, and buying a portion of meat to roast is nothing more, but in ancient times, it was rare to see meat all year round, and you wanted to barbecue? One person can be terrific to get one or two pieces, not to mention, after roasting this time, don't think about seeing meat this year.

Being able to grill meat means that the meat supply is sufficient. Where does the meat come from? It's chicken, duck. Li Chen promoted poultry breeding in the place where the original party members lived, of course, he will not forget it in Datang. Chickens grow fast and can be killed in a year.

This makes farmers flock to it, as long as a few eggs, a year or two down, you can raise a litter of chickens, and you don't have to care about it, it's great to feed it with some rice bran. If it is a great calamity, people will not have to eat, but all the soil will be eaten, not to mention rice bran.

But it's okay now, Datang is not so miserable. Therefore, a large number of chickens and ducks are raised by the people. This has also led to an increase in the supply of meat.

Not only chickens and ducks, but also sea fish. The fish meat is spiny and less, and it is also very suitable for grilling, Li Chen promoted the development of Datang marine fishery, and now it is becoming more and more effective. Fish catches are growing every year. Salted fish, smoked fish, constantly on the market.

In addition, chickens and ducks grow fast, even if it doesn't take long to persuade the agricultural judges to promote the breeding of chickens and ducks, it has already made the people in many places in Datang eat meat, and it will not be as urgent as before.

In this way, there is the foundation for the rise of Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue, which in a way is a symbol of the progress and prosperity of the people of the Tang Dynasty. However, in the short term, there are still some relatively well-off families who can barbecue meat, and they generally work hard all day long, even if they can eat it, they are reluctant. Once you grill the meat, it will still be bitter for many days as before.

However, this is temporary. With the increase in the number of people raising chickens and ducks, as well as the new party members, there will only be more meat in the future. After all, in this era, there is really no shortage of vacant land.

The soldiers are enjoying the last supper, the officers are meeting to discuss, to have a combat meeting, and the war is about to begin, and how this battle should be fought. Li Chen authorized Shi Xiong to be the sole master. Shi Xiong was in good spirits and his face was full of red light, as if he had returned to a familiar battlefield and given him new life, but most people did not react to this.

They didn't know that before Shi Xiong set off, he was sick and dying, and they only felt that the old general should be old and strong. Then they were speculating whether war was going to be declared today. How will this battle be fought? Will it continue to procrastinate?

Then, Shi Xiong gave them a refreshing feeling that the battle could still be fought like this. (To be continued.) )