Chapter 185: The Musket Team Arrives

The group came down from the city wall, Niu Jinda originally arranged for Li Su to go to the house specially prepared for him in Songzhou City to rest, but Li Su refused, he asked Niu Jinda to prepare a room for him in the Songzhou camp, these days he is ready to eat and live with the soldiers, one is to boost morale, and the other is also to enhance the relationship between him and the soldiers, and leave a good impression in the army.

And Li Su's style made Niu Jinda's good impression of Li Su even greater, he thought that Li Su would be the kind of aristocratic child who was flying and domineering, but he never thought that Li Su was so approachable.

Niu Jinda sent someone to clean up the room for Li Su, Li Su and Rongda wandered around the Xicheng camp, Zhu Youzhi and Xue Rengui went to arrange for the people to dig a trench, and Qin Huaiyu sent a fast horse to check the distance traveled by the musket team and estimate when they would reach Songzhou.

When Li Su left Yizhou, he ordered 5,000 musketeers to march out of Taoyuan and march to Songzhou, led by Li Su's guard captain Wu Wei, after half a year of training, these soldiers have learned how to use the shotgun, this siege of Songzhou in order to defeat Tuyuhun in one fell swoop, Li Su decided to treat them as trump cards, with soldiers using sixteenth-century armor and bows and arrows, Li Su believed that it was enough for Tuyuhun to drink a pot.

At first, Li Su was reluctant to expose the musket so early, his original purpose was to use the musket team as a secret force for overseas colonization, and the use of compound bows and high-strength armor against these natives in the Tang Dynasty was enough.

But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and this musket will be known to Li Shimin sooner or later, including the armor and weapons equipped in this army, Li Shimin can't not know, Niu Jinda is Li Shimin's henchman after all, and it is impossible for him not to sue Li Shimin about these things. Rather than hiding it, it is better to tell Li Shimin directly, so that Li Shimin will not suspect him of bad intentions, so he sent the compound bow to Chang'an, and Li Shimin did not have any other reaction in the end.

As for the other nobles who wanted to extort this weapon from Li Su, Li Su was not afraid at all. The production line is in the hands of Li Su, what can they do? And Li Su now has the ability to argue with them, he doesn't believe that these nobles can still force him to rebel, so from another aspect, Li Su is no longer afraid of exposing this weapon.

That same evening. Li Su and Niu Jinda and other generals dined with the soldiers in the canteen of the barracks, although the food here is short of oil and salt, but Niu Jinda and others still eat very fragrant, according to Niu Jinda's words, he has fought for more than ten years, and has never seen such good food in the army.

The soldiers learned that the one who ate with them in the canteen was the current king of Chengdu. And after eating the same thing as them, the eyes of Li Su were obviously different, and at this time, Li Su's unattainable image became more down-to-earth in their hearts.

After dinner, Li Yu went back to the barracks to rest, while Xue Rengui and Qin Huaiyu organized 3,000 people to quietly go out of the city under the escort of the soldiers after nightfall, and quietly dug a trench one mile outside the city at night, the purpose of the war was to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost. This is the true meaning of the sophistry of soldiers, those who do not use strategy and directly take hard action are the real military idiots, advanced equipment does not represent a qiē, in the history of war those advanced equipment of the enemy was defeated by the natives everywhere, therefore, Li Su did not lose sight of all because of the superiority in equipment, or adopted cautious tactics, and he could pit Gu Hun a little bit.

At this time, in the king's tent of the Tuyuhun camp, Murong Fuyun was drinking goat milk wine and eating roast mutton with his generals. The maniacal laughter in the tent was mixed with the intermittent sobbing of women, and the generals of Tuguhun all showed lewd faces. The color of evil, his eyes patrolled back and forth on the naked ** woman beside Murong Fuyun.

These women are all Tang Dynasty women looted by Tuyuhun from Liangzhou, and in Tuyuhun's camp, they are not even as good as cattle and sheep, and they are humiliated every day. Life is better than death, and there is no longer any desire to live in their empty eyes, just like the walking dead, insensitive.

"King Tianzhu, you said that there is really countless wealth and food in this Yizhou City, is this all true?" Murong Fuyun's thick palm woman groped back and forth on her delicate skin, these women were the most outstanding among the women who were plundered, and one of them seemed to be from a famous family in the Tang Dynasty, feeling the smooth touch in his hand, Murong Fuyun showed a greedy gaze in his eyes, compared to those ugly women in the tribe, there were many such women in the land of the Central Plains, how much he wanted to grab them all and enjoy them every day.

The minister who was called the King of Tianzhu by Murong Fuyun sat in the first position, compared to Murong Fuyun's bronzed skin and deep sunken eye sockets, the unique appearance of the grassland tribe, the appearance of the King of Tianzhu and the Tang people was somewhat similar, he smiled flatteringly: "Khan, the merchants who do business with Tuyuhun are all rumoring the wealth of Yizhou, it is said that there is a workshop base called the Tang Chamber of Commerce in Yizhou City, which is producing all kinds of rare goods every day, and the wine that Khan is drinking now is said to be produced by that Chamber of Commerce, Merchants who went to Yizhou were carrying cartloads of gold and copper coins, and it is said that there was a large vault dedicated to storing these things. ”

The magnetic voice of the Tianzhu King was full of temptation, so that the Tuyuhun generals who sat down were all boiling with blood, their eyes were red, and they couldn't wait to break into Yizhou City now and loot it, Murong Fuyun's breath became heavy when he heard this, he and the Tang Dynasty had never really surrendered to the Tang Dynasty for several years, every time the Tang army came, he ran, and as soon as the Tang army left, he came, which made the Tang army's army have a headache, and Li Shimin also compromised with him with the princess and relatives because of this, originally this time he planned to let his son Zunwang marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, But the words of the Tianzhu King made him change his mind, and his greedy eyes were aimed at Yizhou, and for this reason he even did not hesitate to attack the city with a large army, and Tuyuhun's army has always been bad at attacking cities, but it is clear that he has been carried away by wealth and beauty.

One of these Tuyuhun generals still keeps a clear head, he is Murong Shun, Murong Shun was originally the daughter of the Sui Dynasty clan princess Guanghua and the son of Murong Fuyun, who was made the crown prince after birth, and later has been a proton in the Tang Dynasty, and was sent back to the Tuyuhun Khanate by Li Yuan during the Wude years, but after he went back, Murong Fuyun had re-established the prince, although Murong Shun was very unhappy, but there was nothing he could do.

When Murong Fuyun planned to attack Songzhou, Murong Shun persuaded him, he lived in Chang'an for several years and understood the strength of the Tang people, even if Tuyuhun successfully attacked Songzhou Shun and plundered Yizhou this time, but he would also face the revenge of the Tang Dynasty, but Murong Fuyun obviously trusted the son of King Tianzhu who had been outside as a proton.

"Father Khan, the Tang army is brave and good at fighting, and the defenders of Songzhou are well-equipped, and the armor they wear is something I have never seen before, so it's better to be careful!" Murong Shun said hesitantly.

King Tianzhu glanced at Murong Shun, and said with disdain in his eyes: "His Royal Highness the Famous King has been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, forgetting that he is still a Tuguhun person, how can he actually speak for the Tang Dynasty." ”

"You!" Murong Shun stood up angrily, he glanced at the generals in the big tent, and saw that they were all looking at him with a strange look, Murong Shun felt desolate in his heart, and finally snorted and turned to leave.

The west city wall of Songzhou City is sandwiched between two high mountains, about 1,500 meters long, one night 3,000 people just dug out a ditch two meters wide and one meter five deep, but this is far from meeting the requirements of trench warfare, but fortunately Tuyuhun's siege equipment does not seem to be built, there has been no movement, so the people also dug the trench for five days in a row, every morning with straw cover and cover the old soil to leave, and repeat the excavation at night.

In these five days, the musket team finally arrived in Songzhou City and was stationed in the Xicheng camp under the arrangement of Wu Wei.

"Your Highness, what is this?" The telescope had already surprised Niu Jinda, and the army of five thousand people had made him very happy, but it was incomprehensible to see that this group of soldiers were not wearing armor, but were just carrying a strange stick on their backs.

Li Su didn't plan to sue him now, he would naturally see it on the day of the war, so he said to Niu Jinda: "You will understand in a few days." ”

Niu Jinda had to give up when he heard this, and Li Su didn't say that he couldn't ask again.

After dealing with Niu Jinda, Li Su asked Wu Weidao: "How many bullets are allocated for each person?" ”

Wu Wei replied: "Taoyuan's inventory has been brought, and there are only thirty paper shells and bullets on each person. ”

Li Su nodded, guns are easy to produce, but bullets are difficult to make, this is the problem faced by thermal weapons, so, there is no strong industrial base can not support the thermal weapons war, if it is not for Li Su imported seamless steel pipes from modern times, just these 5,000 guns are enough for him to produce for three years and five years, but steel pipes can be tricked, but bullets can't be tricked, this paper shell bullet can only be produced one by one, and it is precisely because of this problem Li Su feels that it makes no sense to give the gun to Li Shimin, even if he gives him a full set of technology, he can't produce it, Even if it can be produced, the high price is not something that the current Tang Dynasty can afford.

There were only thirty bullets per person, which made Li Su depressed, so to speak, the musket team could only be sent to the field at a critical moment, otherwise they would be completely abolished after the bullets, and he would have to rely on these cold weapon troops.

Just when he was struggling with when to use the musket team, Qin Huaiyu came in from outside and brought him a good news, the so-called heavy reward must have a brave man, this notice was posted for five days, and finally someone provided a mountain path from the city to the outside of the city. Tips: The new domain name "www.hh23.cc" has been activated, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!