These are twenty pieces of artillery purchased from Xiyi. Oriental Reading Network. It was unloaded from the ship only the day before yesterday. Hurry up and send it to the capital.

These are important weapons for strengthening national defense, and there are fifty of these guns.

Its thirty imperial courts left imitations. The remaining twenty emperors wanted to give it to Zhu Yunchang. Let him take it to consolidate the border defense in the northwest. Although his heavy cavalry was able to withstand the attacks of the Warats, the Warats, a steppe tribe, grew up on horseback. And they live by water and grass, and they are not burdened by the palace.

It would be almost impossible for the Ming army to completely defeat them. Because there are many cavalry in the army, in the vast grassland, once the Ming army is scattered in the unfamiliar grassland station, it is easy to be divided and surrounded by Warat's light cavalry, and then annihilated one by one.

Moreover, most of the Han people's physique is not as good as these nomads, if they are in these battlefields for a long time, they will be unaccustomed to the water and soil, and the plague will break out, and they can only be slaughtered by others at that time. More important is the issue of logistical supply.

The nomads eat mutton and drink mare's milk, and as long as there is water and grass, cattle and sheep can survive. They had a constant supply of food, and they would also make beef and mutton into jerky for military rations.

This food is easy to preserve and can be stored for a long time, and these nomadic cavalry do not need to make a fire to cook for the rest of the month. The mobility of the troops was greatly enhanced. What they drink daily is mare's milk wine, which, like jerky, can be stored for a long time.

Mare's milk wine is warm in nature, and has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving tendons, invigorating blood, and strengthening the stomach. It has always been the main drink of the nomads, and as long as mare's milk wine is present, their soldiers will not be afraid of the cold of winter and nights.

Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, often served it in a precious gold bowl to reward meritorious officials.

In addition to jerky, mare's milk wine, they also have cheese. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming army had captured a large number of such materials in the course of the war with the Mongols.

This food is a common food of nomadic peoples such as Mongolia, and it is made from cow's milk, goat's milk, mare's milk and other foods that are coagulated and fermented. The shape is similar to regular tofu, but it is not tofu. It is named because it resembles tofu. Many soldiers of the Han army jokingly called this food milk tofu.

Some of the taste is slightly sour, some are slightly sweet, and the frankincense is rich, and it is often soaked in milk tea to eat, or to go out as dry food, which can quench thirst and satisfy hunger.

These things have a characteristic, which is easy to carry, easy to preserve, and does not need to eat too much to ensure the need for calories for the day. It can greatly reduce the consumption of materials.

But on the other hand, the Han people are not good, in the previous Ming Taizu period, there were also many generals of the Yuan army, Zhu Yuanzhang did not treat the Mongol troops like Ran Min, but mixed them into the Ming army. Therefore, there were many Mongol generals in the Ming army.

However, these people all defected because of the tyranny of Emperor Yuan Shun, but after all, they were all Mongols, and they all felt shameless to face their ancestors, so these surrendered generals followed the example of the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty and changed their Han surnames. Use Chinese names, Chinese characters.

They once suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang implement this kind of military ration on a large scale in the army to enrich the long-distance running ability of the Ming cavalry. Reduced supply issues. In this way, the problems of long distances and insufficient logistical supply will be solved, and it will not be possible to form effective combat effectiveness for a long time. In this way, there will be no problem that the grain route will be cut off by the enemy's cavalry, and the troops must be withdrawn.

However, the logistics supply is insufficient, the water and soil are not adapted, and they cannot adapt to the long-term living conditions of the grassland and Gobi, and their physique is weak, and the horses are not as strong as the nomadic horses. This is the shortcoming that the Han people have been unable to overcome in the face of nomads since ancient times.

This is also the main reason why the Ming army has been holding on to the Great Wall fortress since the beginning of the dynasty, and it is also an important reason why the Chinese nation has been unable to completely eliminate these nomads for thousands of years.

Moreover, they also suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang, especially the cavalry, should follow the living habits of the Mongols in the army, so that they could form effective combat effectiveness for a long time. Only then can the cavalry of the Ming army be driven straight into the grassland like a sharp sword out of the sheath.

It avoids the problems of long transportation and supply lines, the inability of the Han people to adapt to the life of the grassland, and the weak physique.

Their advice was very good, and they explained in one sentence the shortcomings of the Han army for the nomads.

But for the Ming Dynasty, which has just undergone a change of dynasty and is in ruins, these are very unrealistic suggestions, and the Ming Dynasty is not capable of realizing these.

Moreover, in the face of a large number of armaments such as jerky, cheese, and mare's milk wine, as the Han nationality is mainly agricultural, it is not comparable to the nomadic people who are mainly engaged in animal husbandry. And for a predominantly agrarian country, these things cannot be produced in large quantities.

In the past China, during the reign of the Mongols, the Mongolian nobles also demolished the farmland houses of the peasants and planted pasture grass to raise a large number of cattle and sheep. However, they ignored the fact that the peasants also had to eat, which was one of the triggers for the outbreak of a large-scale peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang can't take the old road, and for the Han people, rice noodles are items that can be produced on a large scale, and compared with cattle and sheep, the advantage of rice noodles is that the maturity time is short, it can be produced in large quantities, and it can also be used to cultivate the people.

Cattle and sheep need at least one to two years to grow, and small-scale farming cannot reach the level of military and civilian use, and large-scale farming cannot be done in the original land where there is a lack of pasture.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang has reservations about this unrealistic suggestion, although these suggestions directly solve these practical shortcomings, but they are unrealistic in the face of reality.

And there is a more practical problem, the nomads' houses are tents like military tents. As soon as the enemy strikes, they can quickly move. The mobility of the nomads is not something that the Han people can do.

And the Han people are not a warlike race, so after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he changed his previous strategy, from the long-distance cavalry of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the strategy of Qin Shi Huang's permanent defense and close attack.

The so-called permanent defense is a long-term guard, and a close attack is to destroy the enemy within the range of attack that one's own troops are capable of.

And these guns are the best weapons for close defense. Zhu Yunchang likes these things very much, and he has a few of them, but they are all old artillery pieces that have captured the Mengyuan army.

And the new ones are the latest ones.

He was sitting alone in the emperor's mansion for him, waiting for news and the arrival of some people.

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