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Ah Hui Suzhi and Dahe Duluo knelt directly in front of Li Chao, and one of them held one of Li Chao's feet and kissed Li Chao's boots.
"Honorable Celestial Empire" A flattering sycophant blurted out, and the waves were endless.
Li Yan was a little confused.
These two are also the chiefs of a large tribe, and they are also the leaders of their own clan, and their subordinates are at least 200,000 cavalry masters, with a population of nearly one million.
Speaking of which, it is also a powerful prince.
This time, I came to the alliance, and I also brought 30,000 elite horsemen with me.
But now when we meet, we kneel down and kiss the boots, what's going on.
Although Li Chao deliberately gave in to a live-fire drill for today's meeting, and it was a gun platoon and a test gun, it shouldn't have such a strong effect.
He didn't know that his Li Chao's name was more famous outside the Central Plains than in Datang.
In Datang, Li Chao is still a person, but outside the Central Plains, he is almost a god.
In particular, the firearms he invented, with the battle of Beilou and the battle of Pingzhou, Hebei, were even more legendary, and many Hu people said that Li Chao had been given the divine thunder.
Originally, Su Zhi and Lu Luo didn't believe it, but today they heard the thunderous sound of firearms with their own ears, and saw their tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they were directly frightened and confused, they were really afraid of this kind of firearms.
When they came, the two discussed for a long time, and finally each gathered 30,000 horsemen to go south.
I just don't want to lose face in front of Li Chao, and I want to maintain the momentum of the two clans.
Even if you want to vote for Datang, you can't lose three or four, but you have to show your strength and let Datang pick them up.
But when I got here, I saw that a feudal marquis of the Tang Dynasty had built such a big castle in half a year, developed such a large area of land, and made it so lively and prosperous.
Especially after seeing the might of the Tang Army's artillery, their confidence was gone.
For hundreds of years, Xi and Khitan, who have been surviving in the cracks between the two strong men of the Central Plains and the grassland, are the kind of people who have some inferiority, every time they finally become stronger, they just want to stand up, but they will immediately be broken by the Central Plains or the grassland.
This makes them dependent on the strong.
And now, Datang is undoubtedly the most powerful.
Although it has only been a few years since the founding of the country, the Tang Dynasty, which was built on the ruins of Sui, has already broken through the Turks in the north, defeated Goryeo in the east, and subdued Tuyuhun and so on.
"Two Chiefs, Hurry Up" Li Chao helped the two of them up and found that the upper of his boots was so clean.
The boots that were originally gray were actually licked by them.
These Hu people, this ability is really strong.
But Su Zhi and Luo Luo are two heroes, but they don't have the slightest expression of embarrassment.
The weak must have the attitude of the weak, which is a valuable experience that they have passed down for hundreds of years.
During the Sui Dynasty, the Khitan once jumped, but was beaten by the Sui people, and the ancient eight tribes declined, and the current Dahe Eight-Division Alliance was established after that.
"Two people who come from afar are guests."
Li Chao held one in one hand.
"The weather is fine today, and you are guests, so I have prepared a welcoming ceremony, please come with me to review the demeanor of my Tang army."
In later generations, when national leaders visited other countries, they would generally send a team to meet them at the airport and be inspected by foreign leaders.
This is also a kind of ceremony, a kind of expression of national strength.
Even China, after a gap of ten or twenty years, will have a big military parade to show its muscles to the whole world.
At the same time, it also boosts the morale of the Chinese people.
Li Chao also plans to show Xi and Khitan.
Riverside.
In May, the wildflowers were in full bloom, and there were red, yellow, and purple flowers everywhere, and 20,000 Tang troops were in full costume to read.
Just a few days ago.
Li Shimin issued an edict.
The emperor directly organized these 20,000 soldiers and horses into the sequence of the Beiya Forbidden Army and set them as the left and right gods.
Each army is 10,000 men, 6,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry.
With a word from the emperor, these 10,000 soldiers and horses were incorporated into the Beiya Forbidden Army, and the original 5,000-strong Shenji Battalion was directly expanded into the Left and Right Shence Army.
Li Shimin appointed Zheng Rentai as the general of the left Shenji, and Wei Yunqi as the general of the right Shenji.
Wei Yunqi used to be Li Chao's deputy when he was the governor of Longyou, this is also a Confucian general, when he sent an envoy to the Turks, when the Khitan rebellion attacked the border, Wei Yunqi directly borrowed 20,000 troops from the Turks, and led this army of soldiers and horses to go to the name of the exchange market with Goguryeo under the guise of the Turks, and successfully penetrated into the territory of the Khitan, and then suddenly made a big attack to break the Khitan.
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On that occasion, more than 10,000 Khitans were killed and more than 40,000 men and women were captured.
Wei Yunqi directly killed all the men captive, which greatly shocked the Khitan.
It is not easy for such a ruthless Confucian general to come to serve as the general of the right divine machine.
When Su Zhi and Duluo saw Wei Yun's banner on the river beach, as well as the generals on the horse, a look of horror appeared on their faces.
"Li Xiang, General Nawei, it is Wei Yunqi" "Exactly, General Wei Yunqi of the Jingzhao Wei family once sent an envoy to the Turks alone.
He is currently the general of the right Shenji, commanding the right Shenji Army of the Northern Ya Forbidden Army. ” "Sure enough, it's King Weiyan."
Elo muttered to himself.
His face was ugly, and in the battle that year, the Khitan vitality was greatly damaged, but it was less than thirty years from this time.
At that time, Tara was a young man who had just entered the battlefield, and then the young Wei Yunqi led 20,000 Turks to raid their hinterland, killing one of them on all fours.
Tara couldn't help but reach out and touch his right arm, where there was a long scar that had been left in that battle.
He almost lost an arm, but luckily he had armor to block most of the attacks.
Over the years, he has not forgotten.
After that battle, the Khitan was greatly injured, and they did not dare to invade the Central Plains in the south, and at the same time, they were very afraid of the Turkic army that defeated them, and then surrendered to the Turks and did not dare to have two hearts.
Li Chao summoned the guards and asked him to call Wei Yunqi.
Wei Yunqi is over fifty years old, and in terms of age, he is the same generation as Li Jing.
But in terms of background, he is better than Li Jing, after all, he is the Wei family among the two top Guanzhong famous families in Jingzhao and Weidu.
In the Tang Dynasty, Wei's reputation is not as good as Du's, especially now Du's and Du Ruhui and Du Yan's father and son are all important ministers in the court.
But in the Sui Dynasty, Webster was much louder than Du's.
The Wei family used to be the top wealthy family in the Sui Dynasty.
Although Wei Yunqi has the name of the king of Hades, he is very elegant, he is actually a civil official.
But today, he was wearing a black iron armor, carrying a sword at his waist, and a spear in his hand, but he was extraordinarily heroic.
As soon as he saw him, he immediately recognized him.
Decades have passed, he is old, Wei Yunqi is also old, but his changes are not big, he is the King of Wei Yan who killed tens of thousands of Khitan people with the power of one person.
"Khitan Dahebu Duluo, meet General Wei" Darla bowed to Wei Yun.
Wei Yunqi glanced at Luo Luo a few times, but he was not impressed.
"Chief Darla, please."
It is the best policy to surrender without a fight.
Li Chao wanted to deter Xi and the Khitan, but not only wanted them to break away from the Turks, but also wanted them to be used by the Tang Dynasty and become the forerunner of the Tang Dynasty.
"General Wei, show our guests from afar, let's show the military might of our Divine Machine Army."
Wei Yunqi had partnered with Yao Chao in Longyou before, and he had a good tacit understanding with Li Chao, and when he came to Hebei, he was surprised that Li Chao had brought an ordinary soldier into an elite.
At first, he didn't quite understand the role of firearms, thinking that firearms were not very practical, but after Li Chao's careful introduction, he also found the advantages of firearms.
Especially after he saw several kinds of artillery invented by Li Chao, he was greatly shocked.
Although it is difficult to manufacture and costly, it is much lighter and simpler than throwing stones, and it is also more convenient to transport.
In the past, catapults could basically only be made from materials during the siege of the city.
The made catapult can only be used to defend the city, but Li Chao's cannon can move directly with the army.
"Okay" Wei Yun got up and rode away.
He will be the commander-in-chief of the parade today.
Eighteen siege mortars, fired in turn.
It is like a large bronze bell placed diagonally towards the sky, erected on a wooden car, and it does not look too big.
Then looking at each cannon, a group of Tang soldiers were busy, and finally a large boulder was loaded into it, and someone else lit it.
There was a loud bang, and Su Zhi was so frightened that he almost didn't fall.
Tara wasn't much better, his heart pounding.
Then there was another loud bang, one after the other.
After a while, eighteen consecutive shots.
Li Chao took two binoculars and gave them to two.
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Holding a clairvoyant mirror, you can see farther and more clearly.
The big bronze bell spat out the stone bullet, and the stone bullet became a small black dot, which flew in the air, crossed an arc and fell to the other side of the river, and then saw the stone bullet hit the ground and jumped again, and after bouncing many times in a row, it rolled a long distance.
"At least 600 paces away" Su Zhi exclaimed.
Datang takes five feet as a step, three hundred steps as one mile, and six hundred steps, which is two miles away.
At this distance, some catapults can do it, but to throw such a large stone projectile, it takes a huge catapult and dozens or even more people to operate.
But just now, there were only a few people in the Tang Army to operate it, and the launcher was not big, it was like a big bell, and even the shelf was more than a thousand catties at most.
But it's so powerful Eighteen were thrown together, and if there was a Khitan army across the river, in this way, I don't know how many people would be killed.
Artillery stopped.
The trumpets beat and the drums beat.
A phalanx was approaching with neat steps under the guidance of the military music, wearing red military robes, carrying gunpowder bags and grenade bags, carrying muskets on their shoulders and bayonets pinned to their waists.
Orders and prohibitions are uniform.
Su Zhi could tell that this army was advancing to the sound of trumpets and drums.
Under the guidance of the military command team, the troops came to the river beach, then stood and turned.
These Tang troops lined up in a very dense queue, and most of them were not even armored.
This made Suzhi's Drashi a little strange.
Then, they found that in front of Tang was a target, and there were thousands of them.
In the rapid sound of trumpets and drums, the Tang military formation began to move.
Take off the gun, load the ammunition, hold the gun, aim, shoot.
The first row retreats to the back, the second row stands still, shoots with its guns raised, and then goes around to the back of the last row and stands to reload.
The first row finishes playing, retreats to the end, and then the second row continues.
Su Zhi and Du Luo were surprised to find that the Tang army's firearms had not been broken, the rows of gunfire continued, and the front was filled with gunsmoke, and with the continuous release of guns, after the alternation of rows and rows, the Tang army's phalanx was actually constantly retreating, but retreating in an orderly manner.
The gunfire stopped.
In fact, the shooting time was very short, basically only five rounds per gunner.
But it may sound like a long time.
When the smoke slowly cleared, Su Zhi and Duluo raised their binoculars and looked at the target, only to see that there were thousands of targets, none of which were already intact, and all of them were full of holes.
The faces of the two slowly turned pale, and Datang's firearms were even more powerful than they expected.
Although their cavalry was fierce, they certainly couldn't charge such a firearm head-on, no, absolutely not.
No matter how elite the cavalry is, they will be defeated under such a rain of bullets.
They seemed to understand why the 100,000-strong army of Tuli was wiped out under the Loufu Pass, and why the 50,000 Goguryeo soldiers of Yuangai Suwen did not flee on a single horse. t1706231537: