"The evil wolf east of Xiling?"
Li Lu was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, "Du Xiang, are you talking about Xue Yantuo's Yi Nan?"
”"Yes, don't look at Yi Nan, this guy looks quite respectful to the Tang Dynasty, but the cunning nature of the Hu people is there.......
His goal is to unify the grassland, you return to the clan, Yi Nan doesn't say it, but in fact, he has already regarded Jiankun as a thorn in the flesh.......
If you know that you are out of the nest, it is difficult to guarantee that Yi Nan will not move his mind......"
Lao Du stroked a few locks of his long hair and said, when Lao Du set off from Chang'an, Li Er told him that he would see more and speak less in Xiling, if Li Lu had something inappropriate, and could threaten the Han people's pillar in the north of the country, when he was in the Kundu Governor's Mansion, he could point it out to him, this is the situation now, if Li Lu can't stand the temptation of taking down Qihe and comes out of the nest, then Yi Nan will definitely resist the pressure of Chang'an, and he will also attack Xiling, For no other reason, Jiankun was in the northwest of Xue Yantuo, stuck in the throat of Yinan's westward expansion, and with Li Lu and his Jiankun there, it was impossible for Xue Yantuo to get in touch with the part of the Tiele people who were still in the Seven River Valley."
Don't worry, Du Xiang, Yi Nan, I know very well, he is a typical person who is fierce and timid, scheming, doing big things and sparing his life, and forgetting his life when he sees small profits.Let's talk about Xue Yantuo and Desire Valley, Ashina.
These Turkic remnants of Sheer are as deep as the sea.......
What I have for Xue Yantuo is a way to deal with them. ”Li Lu studied the Xue Yantuo Khanate and the Yi Nan Qi people, and he found that Xue Yantuo had been at odds with the Western Turkic Khanate since the founding of the country, and the two remnants of the Eastern Turks wanted to set up and Ashina.
She'er is even more enmity with him, this is not the end, and his own Kunjian has been buried behind Xue Yantuo.Don't look at Xue Yantuo on the surface is very glamorous and powerful, but in fact, although the emerging Xue Yantuo Khanate is powerful, its foundation is not strong, and there are major hidden dangers inside.You must know that Xue Yantuo was founded by an alliance of several tribes who rebelled from the extinct Eastern Turkic Khanate, and in order to resist the crusade of the homeland, the tribes temporarily elected Yi Nan, the patriarch of the Xue Yantuo tribe, as the head of the country.A multi-tribal state like this is bound to lack the centripetal force within a single race; And a country that was formed in a hurry and temporarily must lack historical accumulation, and the loyalty of subordinates is insufficient due to the lack of inheritance inertia; In particular, Xue Yantuo pursued the same tribal alliance system as the Eastern Turks, and compared with the highly centralized county and county feudal states like the Tang Dynasty, such a ruling model seriously lacked cohesion and was prone to civil strife; What's more fatal is that Xue Yantuo quickly annexed a large number of tribes when he founded the country, and the composition of the tribes was extremely complex, and the country was full of internal contradictions, and the rapid expansion of the territory increased the difficulty of management and exacerbated the internal conflict.There is also the fact that Xue Yantuo in this time and space is much weaker than Xue Yantuo in the original history, this is because Li Lu killed the most capable leader of the Hui in the previous battle of Kunjian Lake, and the destruction of the Bodhisattva and his Hui greatly weakened Xue Yantuo's strength.Originally, Yi Nan thought that with the defeat of Hui Hui, he would control the overall situation of Xue Yantuo, but what he didn't expect was that the tribes such as Bayegu, Aqiu, Tongluo, and Xia did not listen to the call at all.Li Lu told Lao Du some secrets about Xue Yantuo that he knew, and finally he said, "Xue Yantuo's Yi Nan clearly wants to be the overlord of the prairie, for Xue Yantuo, I plan to take a defensive position, and when I integrate the power of the Western Turkic Western Khanate, I will write to Your Majesty, find an opportunity to destroy Xue Yantuo, set up the Governor's Mansion in their old place, and divide the entire Mobei into the territory of the Tang Dynasty......."
Li Lu's words made Lao Du listen to it and nodded again and again, this young prince can create a huge foundation in Northern Xinjiang alone, It seems that it is not a pure ancestor to accumulate virtue, or good luck, it should be a genius of the sky, what a pity, it is a pity that he is not the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise he must have assisted him to climb the chair that symbolizes the supreme glory of the Central Plains.Since it was decided to take the Western Turkic Western Khan Court occupied by Mo Hedu, Li Lu began to prepare for intense war, this time different from the previous expeditions, although the Western Turks were nomads, but after they conquered Central Asia, those original Tocharians were all masters of city building, and the Western Khan Court also had a lot of cities, even the broken leaves where their Khan Court was located had begun to take shape, relying only on cavalry, obviously not good, it seems that they had to sacrifice a big killing weapon, black powder and "return cannon".Black powder is a big killer invented by our ancestors, and its formula mainly includes carbon-containing substances such as saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, etc., and then it is made by artificially mixing and refining three raw materials.Gunpowder is made of saltpeter, an oxidant, to complete the combustion process and form an internal combustion system.In order to make black powder, in addition to the correct preparation of these three components, it is also necessary to grasp the ratio of the three components to make high-quality gunpowder, and the ratio of the combination must also change accordingly according to the different purposes of use.Li Lu remembers very well the best ratio of black powder, sulfur accounts for about 10%, charcoal accounts for about 15%, and saltpeter accounts for about 75% is the most suitable ratio of black powder.These things can be found in Li Lu's control area, fire and nitrate can be found in the salt lake, sulfur can be found in the mountains of Jinshan, as for charcoal, it is even better to find, the vast forest has wood, as for talents, he also has them, Li Lu summoned two scientific powers at the cost of three thousand taels of gold, Shen Kuo and Song Yingxing, on the premise of retaining their scientific literacy, Li Lu completely replaced their beliefs and memories, with these two powers, Li Lu immediately took Shen Kuo as the chairman of the Jiankun Science and Technology Development Committee (look at the name, you can know what an unserious traveler the head of Jiankun is), and Song Yingxing as the vice chairman, fully presiding over the development of Jiankun's science and technology undertakings, of course, including the military industry, the most advanced science and technology are often for the military industry.Under the toss of these two scientific giants and Li Lu, Jiankun's military science and technology suddenly surpassed Datang and became the most advanced military industry factory in this time and space."
Your Majesty, this is a counterweight stone throwing machine made by us according to your ideas, it is composed .......of a counterweight, a throwing rod, a wooden shaft, a wooden frame, a live hook, a base and a parabolic bag," Shen Kuo pointed to the stone throwing machine that he and Song Yingxing researched according to Li Lu's prompts and said, "It is more labor-saving than the traditional stone throwing machine, and the range is farther, and it is a sharp weapon for attacking the city." ”Li Lu took a look, isn't this the "return cannon" used by the Mongols to attack Xiangyang that he saw in his memory, this is a good thing.The "cannon" in the era of cold weapons actually refers to a throwing weapon, which is essentially a stone throwing machine, which is a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications.The most mysterious and powerful stone throwing machine in history is the "return cannon" used by the Mongolian iron horse.The Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols, in the war to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, the confidence of the Song army defending the city was destroyed many times by the Mongols' "Huihui cannon".The Song army, which had lost confidence, was of course unable to hold the city.In the Xiangfan area, the Song army resisted the Mongol cavalry for six years (1267-1273 AD) with its strong and tall walls and wide moats.In this famous battle, the Yuan army finally used a new weapon "Huihui Cannon" to break through Fancheng and Xiangyang City.The Hui people of the Western Regions, Ah Lao Wading and Yi Si Ma Yin, were the inventors of the "Hui Hui Cannon".According to the research of later generations, this "return cannon" may be a counterweight trebuchet, which can project a 150-kilogram boulder onto a target more than 100 meters away.In Li Lu's previous life, in order to write a travel novel, when he consulted historical materials, he saw in the history books that when the Yuan army was besieging Xiangyang, the cannon was deployed in the southeast corner of Xiangyang City, and the boulder it fired shot at the tower on the city wall of Xiangyang, "The sound is like thunder, shaking the city."
The city is raging, and many generals are more than those who have fallen from the city. ”The Song general Lu Wenhuan and others, who defended Xiangyang City, were in a panic, knowing that they were invincible to the Yuan army, so they accepted the city and returned to the Yuan army.In the process of the Yuan army going south to break the Song Dynasty, the "Huihui Artillery" repeatedly made war exploits, and the Song army was defeated.After having the "Huihui Artillery", the Yuan Dynasty army had an absolute advantage when fighting the Song army on land: the Song army, which was dominated by infantry in field battles, was not the opponent of the Yuan Dynasty's cavalry contract army; The Song army could not rely on the fortified city to resist the attack of the Yuan army, because no matter how high and thick the city wall was, it was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of the "Huihui Cannon".And in the history of Western warfare, the stone thrower is also an important weapon.Saladin of Arabia used stone throwers on a large scale to fight the crusaders from Europe.When Saladin's army regained the city occupied by the Crusaders, they used giant catapults to throw stones and smash the fortified castles of the Crusaders.Saladin's opponents, the Crusaders, were also masters of using stone throwers.During the Third Crusade, the army of Richard the Lionheart, the British "Lionheart", while besieging the Arab-defended city of Acre, built 3 huge mobile siege towers and attacked the city with a trebuch.Richard's army also performed a miracle in this battle, that is, they used a catapult to shoot stones and sink the galleon of the opponent's sea reinforcements.The defenders of Acre, deprived of reinforcements, were forced to surrender to Richard.However, military historians have pointed out that the catapults used by the Arabs and Europeans were not as powerful as the "return cannons" equipped by the Mongol and Yuan armies.The technology used to manufacture the "return cannon" may have originated in Arabia and Europe, but the Mongols made significant improvements to it.And now the heavy counterweight stone throwing machine in Li Lu's hand is the magic version of the "return cannon", with it, the cities of those Turks are no longer hard to bite."
Yes, Your Majesty, we can also make black powder into a gunpowder bag and use it with a stone thrower......
Song Yingxing also said."
Oh?
Then Chang Gung, how do you solve the problem of the timing of the explosion of gunpowder?
”Li Lu asked his own question."
Your Majesty, the minister, and Lord Shen have experimented that they can use hemp rope soaked in nitrate solution as a firestarter.......
Depending on the distance, different fuses are used.......
"Song Yingxing said."
Yes, Your Majesty, as long as you are proficient in mathematics, taking into account the distance and wind speed, we can make the gunpowder bag accurately fall on the enemy's head......"
Sure enough, it is a great scientist, Li Lu didn't teach the two of them these things, and I don't know how these two scientific powers were studied?
At Li Lu's request, the two scientific powers did a drill for Li Lu to simulate the destruction of the enemy's city, when the gunpowder bag and stone eggs were smashed into the city wall they had built a long time ago, billowing smoke and dust, and a big hole smashed, they were telling Li Lu that he had the most powerful siege machine in this time and space......
With black powder and trebuchets, isn't it time to go south and take out the Western Turkic Khanate?
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