Sometimes, ironclad is not invincible.

Nowadays, the armor of the Datang ironclad soldiers weighs thirty-six pounds, the armor of the deputy general weighs forty pounds, and the armor of Yunchu weighs about fifty pounds, plus sabers, bows and crossbows, short blades, round shields, throwing guns, long weapons, grain bags, water bladders, blankets, and the weight of ordinary ironclad soldiers is generally about eighty pounds.

If in the situation of riding two horses in the plains, the burden of the ironclad soldiers is nothing, in the mountains, where the war horses cannot walk, even if there are auxiliary soldiers to help, it will greatly weaken the combat power of the ironclad soldiers.

A soldier who can carry a weight of 80 pounds and run 10 miles on the plain still has the strength to put into battle, and in the mountains, he can run 35 miles to blow up his lungs.

In the Tang Dynasty, Longyou Mountain was a densely forested environment, not to mention the entire southwest, Li Chengxiu, who had been to the southwest to fight, said that their general had taken them to kill a giant python with a body length of five zhang.

He also said that the poisonous bees there are half a finger long, and even if they seem harmless to humans and animals in Guanzhong, ants that can be wiped out with a soak in urine and a pot of boiling water can eat people in the southwest forest.

There are tigers in the mountains, all kinds of leopards and bears and all kinds of wolves, lynx can easily tear people's necks, there are pigs and dragons in the water, there are big fish that eat people as food, he has even seen his own partner, who was bathing in the river well, suddenly he convulsed and fell into the water, pulled it up and saw that the person was dead.

Rhinoceros, elephants appear there in herds, these things seem to eat grass, and move slowly, once angered by them, the rhinoceros will run more than a horse, and those who do not die to provoke it will not stop, and elephants are very clever, they even know to hide during the day and come to steal camp at night...... With such a big hoof, if you step on it, even an ironclad soldier will be trampled into a can of meat paste in a transformative ironarmour.

The grass is full of poisonous snakes, poisonous scorpions, poisonous centipedes, poisonous spiders, and even some toads are poisonous, and you must use cotton to block your ears and eyes when you sleep at night, otherwise, there will be the kind of grasshoppers with many feet who use their ears and eyes as a breeding ground for children and give birth to children in them......

On the trees, in the grass, there are grasshoppers everywhere, and when they smell people, they will elongate their bodies one by one, and from a distance, they will look like small branches, as long as people and horses pass under the trees, that thing will fall like raindrops, and a bullock can be sucked into a skinny corpse by these locusts in one night.

Then there are mosquitoes, there are mosquitoes in Chang'an, but the mosquitoes in Chang'an are nothing compared to the mosquitoes in the southwest.

This is not the most terrible, the climate there is humid, sometimes there is no sun for a month or two, when the clothes are never dry, the feet will rot, the crotch will rot, some soldiers feel that the crotch is itchy and unbearable, grab a handful, and end up grabbing a handful of skin.

Many soldiers were worried that if one day they grabbed the crotch of their pants and grabbed their own children and grandchildren's bags with their balls, it would be too miserable.

Therefore, fighting in the southwest, those barbarians in the southwest are nothing, the main objects of the soldiers are the above things, if the barbarians can leave the mountains and enter the plains, a hundred ironclad cavalry can defeat ten thousand people.

"How did those barbarians fight these things?" Yun Chu asked with a smile.

Li Chengxiu thought for a moment and said, "They seem to be used to it." ”

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "It's not that I'm used to it, but you haven't seen those who died." ”

Li Chengxiu said: "Master, are you saying that they will also die?" ”

Yun Chu smiled: "This is natural, this is the reason why for countless years, those barbarians have lived in such a large area and the population has not increased, if you stay in the southwest for a long time, you will find that the number of people in their village has basically remained in a constant state."

This is the habit you are talking about, they have had a long struggle with nature, and finally they have formed a fragile and constant relationship with nature, and only by keeping so many people can they get food from the forest, less than these people, nature will swallow them, and if there are more than these people, that forest will not be able to feed so many people.

Every time they move, it is actually an adventure, if they succeed, they can live in peace, and if they fail, they will be wiped out.

Where they are familiar, they know where to find food, where there is salt they need, where the water is drinkable, where there are the least poisonous insects, and even where the land is suitable for slash-and-burn farming.

Leaving the familiar place, they are actually the same as the Tang army, they need to face the dangers you face, they don't have as much food as us, their equipment is not as good as ours, and they don't have as much medicine as us, so if they also fight against nature in an unfamiliar environment, they have no advantage in front of us.

In your struggle against the barbarians in the southwest, you will always find no one for them, in fact, it doesn't matter if you find anything, as long as you drive them away from their familiar living environment, it will be a heavy blow to them. ”

Li Chengxiu thought for a moment and said, "Master thinks that after we find their settlement, we should stay for a while longer, instead of leaving when we find no one?" ”

Yun Chu smiled: "What do you think is home, do you think any place is suitable for settling down?" The reason why home can be called home is that it must be a place where all of us can live in peace.

Without these foundations, what is home? ”

Li Chengxiu said: "If we stick to their settlements, they will come and rob them sooner or later?" ”

Yun Chu sighed and said: "The biggest weakness of the barbarians is that they don't have overnight food, if they are lucky enough to find a place to feed them, they will naturally not come back, if not, they will naturally come back, otherwise, it will be a dead end."

I think that they must be trying to expand the scope of their lives in every possible way, and they are trying their best to search for all the places that can provide them with means of subsistence, but they have not found them on weekdays, so why can they find them in wartime?

This doesn't make sense from a probabilistic point of view. ”

Li Chengxiu said: "Master, if you go to the southwest this time, the disciple will please." ”

Yun Chu smiled: "It's not just you who want to go, Yun Jin, Wen Huan, Guangsi, Sisi, you all have to go, this is an excellent opportunity to expand your horizons and feel nature." ”

Li Chengxiu said: "Senior Sister Sisi is also going?" ”

Yun Chu sighed and said: "I don't know why, this kid just likes to fiddle with poisons, and he is tired of it, often shouting that he wants to go to the southwest and Lingnan, thinking about getting more poisons to study, if I don't take her there, I'm worried that she will steal it."

It's too early to say that, though.

Wait a while, you will put the euphorbia that the master represents on the roof of the Shangzhu Kingdom, so that others will not think that our family is timid when they hear the war, speaking of which, we are also a military family of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Nine military merits turned into a pillar country! An iron halberd can be inserted to boast of the lintel.

Yun Chu's achievements are great, the same halberd has three handles, Yun Chu never inserts this thing on the roof on weekdays, worried about being struck by thunder during thunderstorms, and now, it's time to plug it in.

The flags hanging on the three halberds are different, the one on the far left is hung with a tattered five-rank general flag, the right is hung with a tattered four-rank general flag, and only in the middle hangs a brand-new general banner from the third grade.

The first two flags are the ones that Yun Chu used in the army, and only the middle flag is the title given by the emperor after returning from a hundred battles.

When the three flags fluttered on Yun Chu's mansion, the generals and guards of the family began to put on armor when they entered and exited again, and the soldiers in the Yun clan also left home one after another in armor and reported to the Yun clan's mansion.

And Chang'an, the government soldiers of the two counties of Wannian have begun to assemble under the call of Jun Cao, and once the imperial military order is issued, they can immediately form an army.

At the same time, Yun Chu's invitation to fight has already been Pegasus to Luoyang, and the southwest has been defeated, if no one in the army dares to ask for help, it will be a shame for the Tang Dynasty.

Since the news of the fiasco in the southwest war reached Luoyang, Li Zhi's one-eyed eye was like the eye of a poisonous snake, looking at anything, looking at everyone was cold, he couldn't have imagined that his elite eight thousand iron horses went to the southwest, not to mention killing those barbarians like chopping melons and vegetables, but brought him back endless shame.

Since he went to Mount Tai to seal Zen, the generals of the Tang Dynasty have handed him two poor answer sheets in two successive battles.

Although Xue Rengui hit the Khitan and Xi coalition forces in the wild boar field, most of the men and horses of these two departments have fled to the area of Baishan and Heishui, and scattered into the vast snowfield with 500 people.

Fortunately, there are mountains of battles, which makes Li Zhi's mood slightly better, and so many battles show that the martial artists of the Tang Dynasty have not yet been timid.

Wu Mei saw that Li Zhi was struggling to look at those battles with one eye, so she whispered: "Southwest barbarians, scabies is just a minor disease, it is not worth Your Majesty's anger." ”

Li Zhi raised his head and looked at Wu Mei and said, "Scabies minor disease? When I was young, my illness was also a minor illness of scabies, but now? ”

Wu Mei said: "Send good generals to destroy it as soon as possible." ”

Li Zhi's arm waved vigorously, and he pointed to the battle invitation all over the ground and said: "There are many people here who ask for war, but I don't see Wang Fangyi, who is most familiar with the war in the southwest.

What does this mean, it shows that the two of them are not sure to exterminate these barbarians, and they are so cowardly that they are also worthy of being my Tang general? ”

Wu Mei pondered for a moment, took out a document from her sleeve and handed it to the emperor, "Your Majesty, Yun Chu asks for battle." ”

Li Zhi first glanced at the fire paint seal on the song, and then at Wu Mei and said, "What, now even the documents of the military department, do you want to read them first?" ”

Wu Mei said: "Your Majesty is suffering from illness, and the concubines have to think more about Your Majesty." ”

Li Zhi used a silver knife to pick up the fire paint, and while opening Yun Chu's note, he said, "I am still alive." ”

(End of chapter)