'Chang'an for a month, the sound of thousands of households pounding clothes, the autumn wind blowing inexhaustibly, always jade Guanqing, He Riping Hulu, the beloved man went on an expedition. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info', at the beginning of August, Chang'an was already cool, and the two armies set off on an expedition, Li Chen couldn't help but think of this, Li Bai's midnight Wu Song. Autumn Song.

Although this is a description of a wife who hopes for her husband's return, she hopes that the war will be settled as soon as possible and her husband can return safely. However, it is also quite appropriate.

On this day in mid-August, Li Chen, his children and concubines admired the moon, and several children ran around the courtyard, Li Chen looked at it with a smile. Seeing that they were tired and thirsty, they ran back to drink some water, eat fast mooncakes, or barbecue meat. He continued to fool around.

Originally, these things can't be eaten like this, moon cakes are too greasy, high in calories and not nutritious. The same is true for barbecue, eating meat alone will cause nutritional imbalance and constipation. But today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Li Chen indulges them for a day. Even if they just eat moon cakes, he doesn't care. They ran around the palace and didn't care.

Li Chen didn't care, he saw a child fall, and he was nervous for a while, but no one went up to help, so he saw the child, got up, patted his clothes and pants, and continued to play like no one else.

Li Chen didn't raise the child too squeamish, regardless of boys or girls, if he fell, he fell, he got up by himself, no one was allowed to help him, and it was useless to cry. This is Li Chen's way of education, no matter who says it, even if Zheng speaks, he will not change, he will try not to raise children into greenhouses and flowers.

'Lord, Lord, tell us a story. Probably tired from the test run, several children threw themselves at his feet, hugged their legs, and asked him to tell a story. The children liked him and feared him, because he was sometimes very strict, and what he liked was that he was sometimes very accommodating and would tell them stories.

'Lord, is there really a rabbit on the moon?' ''I want to see Chang'e.'' "Wu Gang is more pitiful, master, can you tell the Jade Emperor to let Wu Gang stop cutting Gui." Several children had to speak, which made Li Chen laugh. The healthy women who are waiting around them also cover their mouths and snicker, and their children's words always make people feel funny and warm.

'All right, boys, it's time to go to bed, it's okay to go to bed too late.' After playing for a while, the story was told, moon cakes and barbecue were also eaten, Li Chen sent the children to bed, and several children were reluctant, turning back three times one step at a time, wanting to see if Li Chen would change his mind. It's a pity that they are doomed to disappointment, and they have no choice but to be rushed to bed.

As for whether they will sleep obediently, that is a certainty, Li Chen and the others will have to go to the ward rounds. He smiled and turned his head, looking at the lights of Chang'an, under the advocacy of Li Chen, eating moon cakes and barbecue, it became a scene of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chang'an, looking from the Daming Palace, Chang'an City was dotted with sparks, like stars in the sky, covered by the bright moon, and fell into the mortal and the like.

Looking at this scenery, Li Chen thought, the so-called good at the top, and the bottom must be effective, it is not unreasonable. In fact, he didn't advocate much Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue, and only roasted it himself in the palace, but somehow it became popular. He couldn't help but think of Youzhou again from Chang'an, thinking of the army under Youzhou City, did he eat barbecue...

Under the city of Youzhou, hundreds of thousands of troops are facing each other across the Sanggan River. When the news came that 300,000 foreign coalition troops jointly attacked the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army in Hedong Town had already retreated, and they also had to guard against the attack of Shanxi. Fortunately, there were no troops originally sent to Hengji Town, and troops were dispatched. In addition, Ziqing also sent troops to support, and the front line can be maintained.

The most important thing is that Datang really didn't take these aliens into account. Although the Tang army has not been defeated since the defeat of the Turks, there has never been a strong foreign race in the north, even the Uighurs, and in the end they were beaten by the Tang Dynasty, although a large part of the reason was because of their civil strife.

In mid-August, Shen Ce's left and right army of 40,000 people arrived in Zhuozhou. This is also the camp of the Tang Army, Youzhou is opposite, and the most important thing is that there is the Grand Canal here, which is convenient for supply.

Originally, when you arrive in the Eastern Capital, you can take a boat and go north along the Yongji Canal, but the task of transporting grain in the Grand Canal is very tight, and the Tang Army in several towns is not counted as the Shence Army, and there are 100,000 people. Counting the consumption of horses, plus the consumption of the Shence army, the capacity of the Grand Canal is very tight.

Therefore, the Shence Army has come and gone along the way. More than 1,000 miles and more than 10 days of walking, it was very easy for the Shence Army. However, it is not easy.

Because the Shence Army is full of armor all the way, the team has maintained the consistent strict and uniform footsteps of the Shence Army, which makes people look sideways, and what is even more surprising is that even if they have been walking for more than ten days, their spirit, as if they have just set off, the more surprising they go.

Because it is overland, many places that pass through are thoroughfares, and there are many people who see them. A lot of people just watched the excitement. Only the generals saw the doorway. Strong army, this is what everyone agrees on.

Different classes have to see different things, and some low-level soldiers only see the equipment of the Shence Army. The whole body is like an iron man. As for the more senior officers, even some of the more grass-roots ones, they all know that the most important thing in battle is to keep the formation in order. They now see these Divine Strategies Army, the kind of march that is so consistent that they don't even need to stop and form a team, but they can imagine that this is a very disciplined and strictly trained army. They even imagined fighting the Divine Army, and that pace alone made people feel pressured.

Those generals see more, this army is terrible. The spirit can be maintained after a long journey, and the team is not chaotic, and they are still fully armed. This kind of physical fitness is too good, plus their discipline, want to beat them, unless they are in one go, or in more circles. Otherwise, it will be difficult to defeat them, and once they are deadlocked, they will collapse first.

The only thing that I can't understand right now is the cavalry. The top armor has to be an infantry army, and the cavalry does not have it, but the configuration of one person and two horses makes people's eyes hot. The strangest thing is that their guns. This made many people look down on this cavalry and think that it was just a good thing.

The length is the same as that of the traditional horse lance, zhang eight. However, in terms of material, it is different from the traditional horse lance. It is indeed different, if the traditional horse lance is used, Li Chen's cavalry will not want to become an army at all. Why is it difficult to train Chinese cavalry, horse lance is a key.

A lance, like a bow, takes three years to complete. Well, even if Li Chen prepares the materials in advance, it will not be completed quickly. Even if it's a rush, it's hard. First of all, the yield is very low.

The horse lance has to be composed, and the main trunk of the high-quality tough wood should be selected as the material, and the wood should be made into a sheet object of uniform thickness. I don't know what it's like, go and see the traditional bamboo basket, the kind that is traditionally used to sift things, hole by hole.

Then, glue the scorn piece by piece. The material is better to make a bow and make a wood, otherwise mulberry, oak, and rattan can be, and the worst is bamboo. The lance made in this way is elastic and bends, and it will not stab a person down because of the impact force, and you will fall off the horse or break the bones of your hand because of the shock force.

After sticking, the outside should be wrapped around the hemp rope layer by layer, and the hemp rope should be dried through, and then coated with lacquer and wrapped in kudzu cloth. You think that's the end of it? This action has to be repeated many times until it is slashed with a knife, constantly and without cracking, as if it has been struck by metal, and it is completed.

Therefore, no matter how fast a horse lance is, it can't be fast, these steps can't be omitted, and if they are omitted, it will be a defective product, and it won't take long. In comparison, the gun head is relatively simple, but it also needs to be built by Seiko, and the materials used are also very particular.

Waste so much effort and spend so much time, it doesn't mean that there is, the yield rate is less than 50%, 40%. Come to think of it, a horse lance is not only difficult to make, but also expensive. This is the reason why Li Chen did not train cavalry. No time, no money.

How expensive is a horse lance? For example, I don't know what age it is, anyway, at that time, Datang still had the Western Regions. A low-level general stationed in the Western Regions was careless when he suppressed bandits, and was touched by someone. Nine of his men died, and three of them died. What's worse is that everyone has become a bare pig, patronizing and fleeing for their lives, and losing all their equipment, and now when he goes back, he is dead.

He gritted his teeth and looked for Hu Shang, and his family heirloom took the horse lance to mortgage. Changed equipment and manpower. In the end, he relied on the mortgage in exchange for something, and eliminated the gang of more than 30 thieves.

Changed for what? Quite simply, he changed twenty-five sets of fully European knightly gear. There were plate armor, cavalry spears, knights' swords, and thirty Arabian horses, which were also armored, not leather armor, metal armor, and six Byzantine knight captives.

It's not over yet. Later, the low-ranking general was still beheaded. Because, in the Tang Dynasty, horse lance and Mo knife were both controlled products, and the people were not allowed to possess them, and they were also prohibited from exporting. The merchant, who had been replaced by the lance, actually ran away, harmed the low-ranking officer, could not find anyone to redeem the weapon, and was finally beheaded.

From this, we can see how expensive this horse lance is. So that Hu businessman can even ignore business. Its value is still being exchanged for twice or even more than three times the value of these equipment, so that the businessman, once he gets it, can even give up the long-term business.

Scared to death, a horse lance is so expensive. Even if it's the best, it's too expensive. How do you want Li Chen to equip it?

So how is it equipped now? To put it simply, the new army had to ride guns, no wonder they thought it was strange. Because it's all made of cork.

What are the corks? Applewood, pine, cypress and other woods. All belong to the cork wood. Weird, isn't it? Timber that grows in the tropics, such as Huali wood and red sandalwood, are all hardwoods, among which Brazilian Titim is the most popular, which is said to be as hard as iron and will sink when put down in water. On the contrary, the cold zone grows usually cork.

The new army will have to ride a gun, which will no longer be the traditional one that is difficult to make, but will use the kind of material that can be discarded in European countries.

If you have some impression of European knights, let's say a movie and TV series, about European knights in the Middle Ages. Their spears, when stabbed, shattered.

It is to use the way the gun is broken to protect the knight. This is very common in modern times, and we can often see that a sports car collides with an ordinary kind of vehicle, and as a result, the sports car is knocked beyond recognition, and on the contrary, the ordinary car is fine.

In fact, this is the use of components to fly, so that the force will not be transmitted, so as to protect the driver. Sports cars are designed for high speeds. Why are there often speeding accidents in sports cars, and as a result, those XX who cause accidents are often fine, this is the truth. Drive an ordinary car at the same speed, and you don't need to drive it to the hospital, just send it directly to the funeral home.

European knight guns, the barrel of the gun is broken, and the knight is protected. This is also the secret of Li Chen's new army, they can do it without reservation, and stab it with all their might, without worrying about hurting their hands or falling off their horses. This made the training of cavalry much easier. There are even other benefits. This is to wait for them to go into battle, waiting for the enemy to find out.

Well? What to do if the gun breaks, you ask? There is a knife, and with the power of horsepower, as long as you rush over, you can make a hole in the enemy.

'Is it finally here?' On Youzhou City, the generals of the Youzhou Army are watching. The first one is one, dressed in fine clothes, and looks quite handsome, as long as you don't look at his chin. The wide cheeks, even visible from the back of his head, completely ruined his looks.

However, no one cares about this at the moment, they are all relieved, and the spies report that they saw a team of troops under the banner of the Shence Army and drove into Zhuozhou.

Of course, it is not visible from here. Looking at it is just a kind of anticipation. Finally waited for the main master. Now that the Shence Army has arrived, it means that this battle is about to begin.

If you don't start, Youzhou can't stand it anymore. 200,000 troops, known as 300,000, came to Youzhou, ate Youzhou and wore Youzhou, which put Youzhou under a lot of pressure. Even, the discipline of those alien races is corrupt, and the people are constantly suffering, which makes the people of Youzhou hate Zhou Pan to the core.

Zhou Pan can't help it, he can't control these people, the only thing he can do is to protect some areas and prevent the families of those officers and soldiers from being harassed and Youzhou City, otherwise, he will lose even the last bit of military heart, so there is no need to fight. The rebels will directly take his head and ask him to surrender.

In fact, the best strategy for the imperial court is to consume. At present, there is a confrontation on the Sanggan River, and the most uncomfortable thing is the Youzhou army. Tang Ting's burden is relatively small. Although it is necessary to transport grain thousands of miles, there is a Grand Canal, and the burden is much easier.

Therefore, in this way, the Shence army attacked, and it was against the Youzhou army, as long as they defeated the imperial court Shence army, it would be a victory. At that time, taking advantage of the new defeat of the imperial court and the unstable morale of the army, the results of the war can be expanded.

As for why not attack? Preemptively break the Tang Army's defensive line. It's not that they didn't fight, they didn't win. The Tang army was impregnable across the Sanggan River, not that it could not break through, but that it had to break through, and the sacrifice would be greater. Nobody wants to do that.

Of course, they can play to the advantages of having more soldiers, and they can have many tactics. The problem was that at that time, the Sanggan River was still very large and inconvenient to cross. When the water is slower in autumn, the Shence Army is here again, so let's just wait.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, with the arrival of the Shence Army, the situation is about to erupt, and the battle of Youzhou will start. Attention of the world. (To be continued.) )