Bidding farewell to his wife and concubines, Li Chao turned over and got on his horse, and a team of Li family's soldiers and generals followed and set off.
When he turned around and got on the horse, Li Chao saw Cui Yingying and their eyes drooping, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
Gather less and leave more, and owe them a lot.
After leaving the house, Li Chao entered the palace first and bid farewell to His Majesty Li Shimin.
The young monarch and the ministers didn't say much, everything was silent, Li Shimin, who had never drunk much, made an exception and drank a big bowl, and Li Chao also drank all the wine in the bowl.
Then he took the festival given by Li Shimin to make Jingjie out of the palace.
At the east gate of Xiangyang City, I don't know how many families of nobles and bureaucrats came here, they didn't come here to purchase or see them off, but to see Li Chao leave.
When Li Chao finally rode out of the east gate and headed towards the dock, the group of people immediately rushed home and reported to the heads of the family that Li Chao was gone.
Li Chao finally left in a gloomy manner.
Hearing the news that Li Chao had finally left, the happiest thing was a group of officials from Yushitai, who felt that Li Chao's departure was completely their credit.
If it weren't for the fact that they wanted to collectively impeach Li Chao, the emperor would have to back down and send Li Wenshen away, otherwise things would not be so simple.
"Finally gone."
In Xiangyang City, several imperial historians are drinking in the mansion of an imperial historian.
"It's a pity, if Your Majesty's will is a day late, we can pull Li Chao off the horse.
Now Li Chao has gone to Hebei, but it is still Shangshuling and Tongzhongshu's subordinate Pingzhangshi. ” "Don't be in a hurry, when Li Chao goes to Hebei, this matter is not better.
If you want me to say, let's let Li Chao go first, and let's impeach and abolish this new law first. ” "Yes, let's just give this new law of harming the people and disorderly government, and then clear Li Chao's dogleg Ma Zhou and other Li parties."
I don't know when there was a Li party in the court.
This Li Party, the leader of the party is naturally Li Chao, and then there are some core figures, Ma Zhou, Wei Zheng, Wu Shi Tong, etc., in fact, Ma Zhou is Li Chao's party, and he said it in the past, but Wei Zheng and others also said that it was Li Party, which is a bit nonsense.
This so-called Li Party, in fact, the above list is Li Chao's old subordinates, as well as Li Chao's in-laws.
For example, Su Lie is Li Chao's eldest disciple, so naturally he can't escape from the Li Party, and there are a few Cheng Chumo, of course, who are also Li Dang.
For example, Wei Zheng, Cui Gan, Wu Shi Tong, Sun Fujia and others are also known as Li Dang because they are married to Li Chao, and there are also people such as Xu Jingzong and Cen Wenwen who originally worked under Li Chao and have a close relationship are also called Li Dang.
Fortunately, these people are not stupid, and they didn't call Qin Qiongcheng Jin Luo Shixin, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, etc., also known as Li Dang, because if you really want to count it like this, it is estimated that more than half of the important ministers in the entire court will be counted as Li Dang.
When these people were talking and planning behind their backs, Li Chao had already left Xiangyang City.
Boarding the boat at the east pier of Xiangyang City.
Li Chao went to Youzhou, but the route was not to go north directly, but to take a boat at the east wharf of Xiangyang City, go straight down the Han River into the Yangtze River, and then arrive in Yangzhou, and then go north to Youzhou along the Sui Grand Canal.
It may seem like a big detour, but because the waterway is convenient and easy, the route is actually faster.
Li Chao went north, and Li Shimin pulled out the 5,000 Shenji Battalion that had just been formed to Li Chao and asked him to take this firearms unit with him.
This newly formed unit, in fact, even Li Shimin does not attach much importance to it, although the 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are all elite veterans selected from the government army.
But after all, this is the first firearms unit, and after it is equipped with new firearms, what tactics this unit should use to match it are still being explored.
This is the case with the military, and the emergence and use of each new weapon inevitably brings about a tactical innovation.
The firearms unit is not as good as the chariots, infantry, and cavalry, it is a new type of army, and it is also different from the crossbowmen and spearmen.
Anyway, among the generals of the imperial court, no one has yet found a suitable tactic to match this army.
Li Shimin also wanted to borrow Li Chao's hand to train this army on the battlefield and let them find their own way of fighting.
If you can't find a suitable tactic, then in fact, there is no need to keep this Shenji battalion alone.
Five thousand people, a lot of them, Li Shimin is also generous, such a new army formed by five thousand elites, a Beiya forbidden army, was directly handed over to Li Chao.
The Shenji Battalion, a firearms service, is a new branch, and the general generals don't know how to use it because they don't know much about firearms.
But for Li Chao, the Shenji Battalion must not be regarded as an ordinary infantry.
This should be a special firearms unit.
Even if the firearms technology of this era is not good, and you can't make guns and cannons, it's no problem to make some projectile gunpowder canisters, get some thrown grenades, and then make some mines.
What's more, rockets can do the same.
It is definitely not good to block one side, but it can definitely play a good role when it is used at a critical time.
In addition to bringing these 5,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, Li Chao also brought some equipment, all of which were firearms and equipment obtained from the military product supervision.
What rockets, grenades, and quite a few prepared black powder.
What kind of firearms unit is the Shenji Battalion without firearms.
However, the current Shenji Battalion is not much different from ordinary infantry.
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Their main weapons are still rifles and horizontal knives, and everyone is equipped with bows, and some soldiers are equipped with swords and shields, as well as large shields, and Mo knives, and heavy armor.
Anyway, this was originally an elite drawn from various branches of the military, including archers, crossbowmen, and gunners of catapults, and even some cavalry and heavy infantry, Mo swordsmen, etc.
After arriving at the Shenji Battalion, Beiya just added grenades to them, and added some rockets to ordinary arrows.
Then the catapults, equipped with gunpowder canisters, etc., to put it bluntly, the original generals did not know how to equip a firearms unit, or did not know what it was called a firearms unit.
Li Chao felt that the Shenji Battalion and the firearms unit had to be at least one assault rifle per person, and then equipped with dozens of artillery pieces.
No matter how primitive and backward these muskets and artillery are, at least they must be there.
It's like a sailor who must have a boat, a cavalryman who has to have a horse, an archer who has a bow, and a crossbowman who has to have a crossbow.
Firearms troops, without muskets and artillery, can be called firearms troops However, it seems that it is not easy to build guns and cannons, even the most backward and primitive assault guns, in fact, it is not simple.
A simple assault rifle is actually as simple as it can be.
It is said that the world's first rifle that fired bullets was invented in ancient China and was invented by the Song army during the reign of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty.
At first, a huge bamboo barrel was used as the body of the gun, and the inside was filled with gunpowder and bullets, and after the fuse was ignited, the gunpowder erupted, and the bullets were fired.
It is said that this rudimentary firearm has a long range, reaching more than 100 steps.
Li Chao was skeptical about this range, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, muskets did not have such a long range, how could the bamboo barrel guns in the Song Dynasty be so fierce.
After all, the bamboo tube is made, it is estimated that it is like a large firecracker, not to mention more than a hundred steps, it is good to shoot a dozen steps, after all, more than ten steps, there are twenty or thirty meters.
In fact, some historical records say that bullets sound like cannons, and the sound is heard for more than 100 steps.
As a result, some people later said that the range was more than 100 steps, and the sound was transmitted more than 100 steps, which can only mean that the sound is loud, not that the range is long.
In fact, when muskets and muskets were first used on the battlefield, one or two bamboo barrels filled with gunpowder were tied under the head of the spear, and when the battle came, the gunpowder cartridge was lit, and the gunpowder cartridge was used to spray the enemy, and the gunpowder fireworks were used to burn the enemy, and then the head of the spear was stabbed.
This tactic was quite popular when the Song Dynasty began to use muskets.
Although this kind of musket is only a flamethrow, not even bullets, but it still has a certain practicality, and it is also simple to manufacture, each musketeer has a standard spear, and then carries a number of gunpowder bamboo barrels, and then carries a fire rope.
In the first battle, tie the gunpowder cartridge under the gun head, first use the gunpowder to shake the enemy, spray the enemy, and when they panic, then find an opportunity to stab the gun head.
Li Chao felt that this thing was a good application of gunpowder.
Later, muskets were equipped with bayonets and could shoot from a distance as well as in close combat.
When muskets were first used, few people thought of a powder cartridge under the head of the spear.
Li Chao felt that although this was simple, the pikemen had suddenly evolved into musketeers.
For these new musketeers, when they fight, they have an extra skill.
In addition to stabbing with a spear, I can breathe fire.
And it is not difficult to make an ignition cartridge, get some bamboo tubes, add some gunpowder, plug the hole, plug the lead, and then issue a fire rope to each soldier.
It's simple, but it makes a pikeman evolve into a musketeer in an instant.
Of course, in fact, the musket was upgraded later, and the head of the spear was directly removed and replaced with a barrel made of steel or iron, with small holes in it, which could be plugged into the lead.
Then they stuffed gunpowder and bullets into the barrel of the gun, and it was okay to break any lead, break iron, nails, and porcelain.
When engaged, light the fuse and then shoot at the enemy in front of you.
This is an upgraded version of the assault gun, which is as simple as that, with a short range and little power.
The barrel is short, and he is afraid of wind and rain, and he can't face the muzzle down, but in the same way, this is a better way to use gunpowder, especially if he can shoot bullets.
Compared with the bow and arrow, the range may be shorter and the accuracy is poor, but on the other hand, for a kind of musket, it does not need the strength to open the bow, and it does not require good archery skills.
Theoretically, as long as there are a sufficient number of musketeers, at a sufficiently close distance, the platoon of guns can still play a great role.
If you design a gun head on the barrel of this musket that can be installed and removed, then after the bullet is fired, the gun head is loaded, and it can immediately become a long gun again.
The two kinds of musketeers are quite good, and Li Chao is going to get a little of each one first to try the effect. t1706231537: