Chapter 40: Change
Li Jiancheng is Li Jiancheng after all, the number two person in the Li Tang Dynasty, and his words have enough weight.
The problems that Luo Shixin had been entangled with for a long time were all solved because of Li Jiancheng's words. People are better than people, and they are really infuriating!
Two hundred military horses and a thousand knives were delivered from the military headquarters.
Two hundred military horses can be sent, and as Luo Shixin expected, Li Tang will not be able to even take out two hundred horses in a tight financial situation. A thousand Mo knives surprised Luo Shixin, it is not a matter of one or two days to build weapons, especially the Mo knife casting process is complex and the cost is extremely high, even if the forging room is fully implemented, it is difficult to succeed in a short time. It is also because of this that after Modao and Tang, they disappeared in the tide of history. It's not because the Mo knife is not practical, but because the cost is high and the forging is cumbersome, which is prohibitive.
Therefore, even if Li Jiancheng agreed to give a thousand Mo knives, Luo Shixin also felt that it would be at least two or three months later, how could he expect it to be delivered so quickly. But Luo Shixin was so happy that he happily ran to inspect the goods.
Seeing the goods, Luo Shixin suddenly realized: the texture of the handle Mo knife is uneven, and some of them still have rust, all of which are old goods for some days.
Thinking about it, even if there was Li Jiancheng's order, the military department did not plan to spend manpower and material resources to forge a Mo knife for Luo Shixin.
There are policies and countermeasures, Li Jiancheng asked them to equip the right Xiaowei with a thousand Mo knives, but he didn't say that they must be completely new. Although the Modao weapon is not practical, it is not completely unused. Some soldiers and generals with heavy tastes still like to use it, and the spoils of war in each place after the end of the war are usually transported back to the military headquarters. Weapons that can be used can be re-honed and forged, and those that cannot be used are smelted to make new weapons. The Mo knife is not an ordinary sword, it is not easy to damage, and the accumulation of a lot of soldiers naturally accumulates an old-style Mo knife. It's just that the practicality of the Mo knife is not high, and no one has picked it up or repaired it.
The military department got Li Jiancheng's order, so he simply picked one of them with better quality, spent most of the day polishing it, and sent it to Luo Shixin.
Luo Shixin didn't know whether to cry or laugh, although the style of the Mo knife was a little old, but the blades have been newly polished, and the effect is the same, but the style is not very good-looking, it can only be said to be a defective product, not a defective product that cannot be used. The point is that these defective products allow the right Xiaowei to go straight to training without wasting two or three months of waiting time.
Luo Shixin remembered that after Li Tang was about to dominate the world, the Turks began to fear Li Tang's strength, and moved troops against Li Tang almost every year.
The military department disobeyed the yin and perfunctory him with defective products, but inadvertently gave Luo Shixin more than two months to buy.
Luo Shi said confidently: "Write down this account first, and wait for Lao Tzu's Modao team to raise its prestige, and then I will come to deal with you." ”
With a military horse and a Mo knife, Luo Shixin began to rectify the right Xiaowei.
The previous training was only to exercise the physical elements of the soldiers, and did not deliberately carry out the training of the troops. Now that everything is ready, it's time for change.
These days, Luo Shixin is not a dull head and brain, this person's body is like Confucius said that the culture has its own strengths and weaknesses, there are outstanding riding skills, there are outstanding endurance, there are explosive strength, there are outstanding arm strength, there are outstanding eyesight.
Luo Shixin had already asked Mo Hu'er to classify these: needless to say, those with outstanding riding skills are inevitable candidates for cavalry; Outstanding strength is suitable for being a strange knife hand; Those with outstanding explosiveness are suitable for being a striker, and those with outstanding eyesight are naturally archers.
It is not unreasonable for Li Jiancheng and those people in the military department to not be able to see through the Mo Dao, it is true that the Mo Dao team does have the power to destroy the nature, but it has a congenital disadvantage and poor mobility. Mo knife soldiers must hold a Mo knife of fifty catties and wear heavy armor, and the mobility can be imagined.
The Turks are not a bunch of idiots, and they rush up with their heads when they look at such a group of ferocious knife formations. You must know that the Turks are not only good at riding, but their archery skills on horseback are also a must, and they can put the lower half of the Mo knife down just by flying a kite. If this problem is not solved, it is an empty word to deal with the Turkic cavalry with a Mo sword.
In fact, the Mo knife team is not a personal Mo knife, its real strength lies in the perfect combination of crossbowmen, archers, spearmen, knife soldiers, cavalry, and Mo knife soldiers.
Luo Shixin is an enthusiast of ancient weapons in later generations, and he has an in-depth understanding of Mo Dao, and he just knows the basic tactics of Mo Dao: he has the knowledge of later generations, and Luo Shixin has experienced a hundred battles, and he has recently made up for military theories.
The only pity is that Li Jingyuan is in Jingzhou as the inspector of Jingzhou Thorn History, otherwise discuss with him and let Li Jing, the founder of this formation, point out, it will be no better.
In response to this change, Luo Shixin held a small meeting, which was more like a meeting than an order.
Luo Shixin trained the 2,500 soldiers under his command into a Mo Dao team, and he didn't give Xue Yong, Mo Hu'er and a cadre of generals a chance to discuss at all.
Fortunately, one of Xue Yong and Mo Hu'er has already convinced Luo Shi's confidence, and the other is even more obedient, otherwise there may be some trouble. As for the others, they have some objections, but they are also soft-spoken and not to be worried.
"Xue Yong, your task is the heaviest, and a thousand Mo Daomen will be the main force for us to defeat the enemy in the future, and we must not be sloppy." Luo Shixin was the first to appoint Xue Yong, and after many days of getting along, Luo Shixin saw Xue Yong's strengths very thoroughly. He has extraordinary strength, steady play, solid basic skills, and not weak explosiveness, which is simply a godsend. Let him command the Mo Sword Soldiers, that is not appropriate.
"The end will definitely live up to high expectations!" Xue Yong sat down very steadily.
"Mo Hu'er, the battle team will be handed over to you, believe in yourself, you have that ability!" Compared with Xue Yong, Luo Shixin values Mo Huer more, he is similar in age to him, lively and active, enthusiastic, easy to mingle with the soldiers, so that the soldiers serve him, and his martial arts are also good, he is a talent worth cultivating, and he is also the commander of the commando in the army.
Mo Hu'er looked a little excited, jumped up and said, "Don't worry, general, Mo Hu'er will definitely work hard, just wait to see my results." ”
The rest of the spearmen, crossbowmen, and archers also arranged their own leaders, so that they mainly trained the strengths of each class, and did not care about the weaknesses or cover up the shortcomings.
As for the cavalry, it was naturally trained by Luo Shixin himself: a change that affected the battle situation of the Tang Dynasty unfolded silently here.