Chapter 394: I Want to Revive the Tang Dynasty...
The night is the clothes, and the stars and the moon are the companions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Li Chen took a group of people and swayed back to Daming Palace from Taiji Palace. When I came back, I took a shower.
The weather is very hot today, Li Chen opened the lotus showerhead, and the cool water flowed out of the shower head. Wash away the fatigue and boredom of the day.
He still likes to take a bath alone, although someone can serve, but this kind of thing is still a pleasure to come alone, anyway, there is a shower head, Li Chen has "invented" a lot of convenient bath supplies, such as a long-handled brush, which can be easily brushed to the back. You don't have to let someone rub your back.
Of course, occasionally I wash it with other people, with a few concubines, and that's fun. This is not enough for outsiders.
(O musket.) Li Chen took a bath while thinking about the problems he was thinking about along the way. Isn't it time to put the study of muskets on the agenda?
It should be very necessary, after all, the future is the era of thermal weapons. Now developed in advance, coupled with technical secrecy, can make China lead the world for many years.
However, it is difficult to say that it was the Mongol expedition to the west that introduced gunpowder to the West. But the Mongols were not kind enough to teach the Europeans how to make gunpowder. I don't know if it was the Europeans who deliberately spied on the gunpowder technology that led to the outflow of gunpowder technology.
Or, the Europeans discovered the power of gunpowder and discovered the secret from alchemy on their own. After all, gunpowder is rumored to have been discovered by those Taoists who were alchemizing during the alchemy process. Westerners also have alchemy similar to alchemy. It's hard to say that they wouldn't have had a recipe for gunpowder a long time ago, but they didn't pay attention to it before.
Well, when Gundam and them arrive at Kyoshi, and Kyoshi's research institute opens, let them figure out a way. It's best to do it in one step, directly get into the tunnel pistol, arquebus, and forget it. The arquebus, if it rains, it can't be lit, and the tunnel gun, when it rains, take something to cover it, and you can avoid strong shots. As for the **** gun with higher stability, don't think too much.
As for how long it will take, it's hard to say. Anyway, this process does not hinder his plans. If you can't get the tunnel gun done in three or five years, it's impossible not to use troops in three or five years. Even if it is developed in three or five years, it will take a long time to mass production. I don't know how long it will take to really realize the installation.
Even, to study tactics, to study how to use them on the battlefield, is a problem. Europeans, quite simply, are lined up to shoot anyway. If the other party does not have a musket, use the musket to bully others. If there is a musket, fight whoever gets a soldier, discipline and training are better. The British are the best at this.
France is a big land force, and Britain has the strongest navy in everyone's mind. But he knew that in many battles, the British army defeated the French army. The British had to train and shoot in line to the extreme, and they dared to compress the firing distance to twenty meters.
During the march, the French fired three rounds, but the British were still stubborn enough to press the army to twenty meters, regardless of casualties. As a result, the French army was crushed by a single round of fire.
Can China learn from this? Unless the opponent is stupid, or forced to fight. Otherwise, who will hit this musket queue.
No line columns, just kidding, why do Europeans use line columns? Because before the appearance of Mini bullets, the accuracy of the musket was very poor. had to spell out the line and use firepower to compensate for the lack of accuracy.
The Chinese also pay attention to formations and queues. It's just that China is a big place and the terrain is complicated. Cold weapons, you can use the knife. Hot weapons, unless it is the kind of cartridge shell bullet, which is easy to load, otherwise it is very troublesome when it is close to the body.
Why are knights very popular in Europeans, the most famous thing for the French is the knight charge. Why did the Chinese gradually withdraw from the stage since the Sui and Tang dynasties, or even a little earlier, more than a thousand years ago, during the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao was dressed and shot, and cavalry replaced chariots.
Because of the topography, there are too many countries in Europe, basically countries next to each other, and countries are small. As soon as a war starts, the two sides have no depth at all, and once they are deep, they will go deep into other countries. This leads to the fact that the two sides can only fight in a certain range. In this situation, the heavy cavalry is very popular. It's all the way.
Why the Mongol cavalry could sweep across Europe is not to say that the Mongol cavalry was stronger than the plate knights. It's about being tactically flexible and creating a situation where you can fight more and get less.
The musket line is used in China, as long as the opponent is not in the head and needs to be treated, the fighting spirit and training are not too bad. The musketeers did not necessarily have an overwhelming advantage, and close quarters were almost inevitable.
Of course, he could have invented the bayonet, so let's fight the bayonet nearby. However, a bayonet is not as useful as a broadsword. Don't forget, when it comes to the Anti-Japanese War, there are still broadsword teams, and the firepower can't compete with the Japanese army, so they fight in close combat.
There is also the problem of rain. Unless it is a **** gun, even if it is a tunnel gun, in case it is too late to build a canopy on a rainy day, the musket is not as good as a burning stick.
'Well, when I think about it, I don't even know what musket to study. After taking a shower, Li Chen came out, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Rushing through the cool and refreshing, let him think more and more.
Well, it is true that later the Europeans used muskets in full force, as the main force on the battlefield. However, seriously speaking, the musket is not as efficient as the crossbow arrow when the **** gun comes out.
In terms of range, the Tang Army's crossbow arrows can reach three hundred meters, the accuracy is still very high, and the power is also good. The effective killing range is almost 100 meters.
As for the musket, it must have an effective range of about 60 or 70 meters. In the face of an opponent in armor, it is about 50 meters?
And the rate of fire of the musket is also poor, three shots a minute, which is considered very fast. What about crossbow arrows? Five times a minute, not as fast as a bow and arrow, but much faster than a musket.
Both are crossbow arrows in terms of range and accuracy. The difference is that crossbow bolts are easier to heal. The wounds caused by bullets are more troublesome, and lead bullets are more toxic, and the lethality after entering the body is far better than that of crossbow arrows.
Replacing crossbow arrows with muskets doesn't seem to be necessary. The Tang army's pursuit of long-range firepower has reached an outrageous point, and the replacement of muskets, not to mention the habitual problem, will reduce the intensity of firepower a lot alone.
As a result, after thinking about it like this, Li Chen felt that there was no need to make any muskets. As for the problem of insufficient lethality of crossbow arrows, in fact, it is only necessary to smear poison on the arrows, or even learn from the nomads, and put excrement on them.
'You should have studied artillery first, I'm a pig's head.' Li Chen patted his head, he should have thought of this a long time ago. Artillery can be used to conquer fortified cities, and it can also be used to increase the lethality of the battlefield with scattered bullets.
The matter of muskets can be postponed and the artillery will be studied first. It just so happened that the ordnance supervisor was moved deep into the mountains, and it was ready to begin.
After taking a bath and thinking about the world, Li Chen went to see his daughter again. Lying in the special cradle, sleeping sweetly, Li Chen looked at her with pity, and wanted to touch her, but he was afraid of waking her up. talked to Chao and asked his daughter how she was doing today, and Li Chen left.
Li Chen then went to visit Yang Er and Xiaohong, who were pregnant. Before entering the palace, the two were originally called master and servant, but they were actually sisters, and now they live together, corrected, it should be said that they live in the same palace, different rooms. Even the pregnancy is on the way.
Li Chen first lay on Yang Er's belly, listened carefully to the child's voice, and then lay on Xiaohong's belly, smiling.
'Baby, come out safely, I'm waiting for you.' Don't make too much fuss in your mother's belly, and when you come out, you can make any fuss you want. Li Chen spoke to the two children through his belly, amusing the two girls.
Everyone, how can you hear that the child is so young and still in the belly. Yang Er said with a smile. Who says they can't hear it, they can feel it. Li Chen was full of words. It's a pity that he doesn't know anything about prenatal education, otherwise he would have considered whether to implement prenatal education earlier.
However, if you think about it, it's really not promotable. The problem of Datang babies should start by trying to improve the survival rate of newborns. However, it remains to be seen how this will be done.
I talked to the kid, and I talked to the kid. Li Chen returned to Zichen Hall and slept. The next day, Li Chen got up early to open the Chang Dynasty, there was no big thing to decide, and the meeting was dismissed after a while, and they were busy with their own things, and then Li Chen received the news from Li Deyu to see him. Li Chen summoned him in the Yanying Palace.
'Why don't Aiqing take two more days off, you have worked hard all the way, and I also asked people to spread the word to let you rest for two more days. The saint forgave his sins and thanked the saint for his care, but when he heard that the saint swept away the demonic atmosphere of Chang'an, he was eager to enter Beijing as soon as possible and meet the saint. ā
'Come, give me a seat.' A young eunuch brought a chair. After a period of cleaning, most of the Ma Dang family was cleared inside the Daming Palace, and some of the remaining were young eunuchs.
The internal servants of this palace, Li Chen is still thinking about how to choose. And a new eunuch? To be honest, he didn't really want to. The eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty are the fiercest calamity, especially the other dynasties, it can be said that there are no bitter people before, and there is no one after them.
If possible, he really didn't want to use any eunuchs. Not only does he not use it, but even his descendants cannot use it. Don't look at it and say that he has suppressed the power of the eunuchs. This kind of inferior root, with the slightest opportunity, is easy to recur. Let's take Wu Zetian as an example, after her, Empress Wei and Princess Taiping all tried to follow suit, and for this reason, they even poisoned their husbands who had always loved themselves and were obedient.
The power of example is endless, it can be said that since the Tang Dynasty has been in Anshi, Li Fuguo has risen, and the eunuchs are like cancer, entangled with the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for Li Chen's birth, this Tang Dynasty would definitely not be able to get rid of the shadow of eunuchs.
Even if Li Chen used a surgical method to cut off this tumor, he was cautious and cautious, and he was careful about the resurgence of eunuch power. In this case, how dare he rest assured that he would replenish a new eunuch.
'Li Xiang, I want to revitalize the Tang Dynasty.... After the greetings, Li Chen and Li Deyu started a conversation, which was destined to remain in history. (To be continued.) )