The Great Song Dynasty wanted to move the capital to Li Liangzuo, and it was impossible to stop it no matter what, unless a war broke out between the Xia and Song dynasties, and Li Liangzuo took all of them before the Song family moved south, but this was impossible; The southward relocation of the Song dynasty has become an unchangeable fact, and Li Liangzuo can only re-plan and re-layout the matter of destroying the Song Dynasty.
Xingqing Imperial Palace, in the Imperial Garden.
Li Liangzuo is admiring the latest firearms sent by the Firearms Research and Technology Agency, under Li Liangzuo's tips and thousands of days and nights of painstaking study by craftsmen in Daxia, he finally made a magic weapon for this era, Li Liangzuo stroked the new firearm in the box and was very excited, this new firearm is a bird gun.
Li Liangzuo asked Jin Shoucheng, who was standing beside him, "Jin Aiqing, you made this bird gun?"
Jin Shoucheng replied: "The old minister no longer has such energy when he is old, this is the youngest son of the old minister, Jin Bohang created it according to His Majesty's will." ” "Oh, since that's so soon, let him come to me."
Li Liangzuo said with a smile.
"Humble duty, Jin Bohang greets Your Majesty" "Aiqing, let's be flat" Li Liangzuo looked at the young man in front of him and asked, "I ask you, this fire gun was made by you." ” "Your Majesty is doing it under the lowly system."
"Then you tell me how far this firebolt can be effectively fired?"
"Your Majesty, between a hundred and two hundred steps."
Hearing such an answer, Li Liangzuo shook his head and continued to ask: "Then what is the output of this firecracker?"
"Your Majesty, about twenty strokes a month."
"Twenty poles, what year and month will I be able to equip the army," Li Liangzuo said dissatisfied; "I have a few requirements for you, first, the range of the firearm must be increased, it must exceed the range of the crossbow, and now the range of my Great Xia Empire's individual crossbows is between two hundred and three hundred steps, and the firearm can't even reach this range, why do I want him to increase the output, the output is too low, and I have no way to equip the troops."
"I understand, but Your Majesty, what you need to make a firecrackle is the fine iron of the fine iron, otherwise it will be easy to blow up."
Li Liangzuo's previous life was born in blood metallurgy, and he also knew this situation very well, although the weapons used by the Xia army now were the best steel in the entire era, but they still could not reach the strength of making bird guns, in order to avoid exploding, so they could only increase the weight of the barrel, which invisibly increased the requirements for soldiers.
After careful consideration, Li Liangzuo said: "In this way, before the requirements of fine iron are not met, the main thing is to increase the range, I require that the range of this firearm can reach 600 steps, and it can shoot accurately, since it cannot be installed in large quantities, it must be the best of the best."
"Yes, I understand" "Little Fuzi, go find two people and try the power of this firebolt" "Bang, bang, bang" After a few shots, the smell of gunpowder in the whole air is the most liked, and it is also the most familiar taste, although the firecracker has been made, the power is not small, but the accuracy is very low, ten shots were released in a row, only four shots were on target, far from meeting Li Liangzuo's requirements, and the loading speed of the firearm is slow, Li Liangzuo is still far from the desire to build a pure firearms army, and for a long time in the future, the firearm still cannot replace the important position of the bow and crossbow in the Xia army.
Since there was gunpowder, Li Liangzuo has always dreamed that he can build a musket army, with such an army Xia Army can sweep the world, but the reality is cruel, since the establishment of the Great Xia Empire Firearms Research and Technology Agency, Li Liangzuo has invested a lot of money in the development of firearms, and the final result is still not satisfied, after all, this is a long process of scientific and technological accumulation, this era can make firearms is beyond history, but it is still far from Li Liangzuo's requirements, After all, the current firecrackers are not comparable to the bows and crossbows used by the Xia army in terms of range and rate of fire.
"Father, the sons and daughters look at the power of the firecracker, do you think we should equip the Praetorian Guard with a batch of hundreds of rods, after all, our Praetorian Guard is a firearms unit," Li Yue said after finding Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo said to Li Yue: "The technology of the fire gun is not mature, and it is not as good as the bow and crossbow in terms of range and accuracy, so what do you say I am equipping him for?"
"Father, although the power of the firebolt is not as good as the bow and crossbow now, but one day it can surpass the bow, and at that time, there is no corresponding firebolt soldier, and it also needs to be temporarily cultivated, which is not a big delay in time, Erchen means that they will first use the current firearm to train, and become a qualified firebolt soldier, once there is a new type of firebolt, it can quickly form a combat effectiveness."
Li Liangzuo thought about it and felt that what Li Yue said made sense, so he agreed: "Okay, I approve you to equip you with five hundred firearms, and you will personally take them to train and accumulate experience." ” "Yes, Erchen took the order," Li Yue said happily.
Although Li Yue was not sent out to serve as a feudal official, Li Yue's power was not smaller than that of those princes and princes, and he mastered the only large-scale use of firearms in the Great Xia Empire, and this army not only has sharp firearms, but also the combat effectiveness of its soldiers is also off the charts, most of them are veterans trained by Li Liangzuo himself, and have experienced the Northern Expedition, the Western Expedition and the previous wars against the Song Dynasty, and his combat experience is very rich, which is the elite of the Xia army.
After obtaining Li Liangzuo's approval, the Firearms Research and Technology Administration began to vigorously produce this batch of firearms, according to the previous production schedule of 20 strokes a month, these 500 strokes will take at least two years, the anxious Li Yue simply could not wait, and required that it must be delivered within three months, forcing Jin Bohang to speed up the production progress, and transferred a large number of blacksmiths to use standardized assembly line operations for production.
When the production of firearms was in full swing, Li Liangzuo received a news that made him very angry, the news said that the Tubo people went north to occupy the land of the Zhizhi, which is also known as the river meander, located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, when the Yellow River flows through here, it formed a V-shaped, although this place is small, but the water and grass are abundant and beautiful, which is very suitable for grazing, and this was once the ancestral land of the Tuoba Li family.
When Li Liangzuo occupied the Hehuang Valley, he had sent troops all the way south to recover here, but with the passage of time, after the Great Xia Empire became stronger and stronger, this remote land of Xizhi was ignored, and the nomads who were originally here moved north into the Hehuang Valley, and a small number of Xia troops who were not stationed here also withdrew, so there was a vacuum in the land of Xizhi, although it was still nominally the territory of the Great Xia Empire, but in fact it was no longer under the control of the Great Xia Empire.
Now there is a group of Tubo people who have moved in to the north, and use it as a base to constantly harass the frontier areas of the Great Xia Empire, although the loss is not very large, but it makes people feel very uncomfortable, the behavior of the Tubo people has seriously violated Li Liangzuo's bottom line, and with the Xia and Song dynasties entering a state of confrontation, the strategic position of the land of the Zhizhi has begun to stand out.
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