1novels Chapter 567
Chapter 567
Chapter 567
Li Lizhi asked curiously: "What is Dabao and Xiaobao?"
"Princess Hui, Dabao and Xiaobao are two iron-eating beasts captured from the land of Shu by Master Hou entrusting His Highness the King of Shu to help them." Chunyue said.
"Iron-eating beast?"
Li Lizhi asked strangely: "Why did Lord Hou choose such a name for the iron-eating beast? Is there any meaning?"
There is a beast garden behind the palace, and some rare and exotic animals have been raised in the past, including iron-eating beasts.
It's just that the person in charge of feeding said that although the iron-eating beast looked naive, it wasn't even afraid of the tiger and didn't dare to let her approach, so she only looked at it once from a distance.
Although she didn't look carefully, she couldn't figure out why Lin Xuan chose such a strange name for an animal that is not afraid of tigers, and the origin of the name of the iron-eating beast.
Li Lizhi didn't know how to describe it for a while.
"Back to the princess, the slaves don't know too well, but they just heard Hou Ye say that the iron-eating beast is a giant panda, and that it is a national treasure, so they gave it this name." Chunyue said.
national treasure?
Li Lizhi was a little puzzled, why is the iron-eating beast a national treasure again?
Is it the same as the legendary dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, eating it is good for the spleen of the National People's Congress?
Seeing that Li Lizhi was interested in giant pandas, Chunyue suggested, "Why don't I take the princess to see?"
"Don't rush."
Li Lizhi waved her hands and looked at Chunyue and Yuhe. The two of them met Li Lizhi's eyes and lowered their heads in a panic, not daring to look at Li Lizhi.
"You have been serving Master Hou for so long, has Master Hou ever promised you anything?" Li Li asked.
"Back to the princess, it's a great fortune for a servant to serve Lord Hou, so I don't dare to ask for anything extravagantly." Chunyue said hastily.
Li Lizhi nodded in satisfaction, and said: "From today on, you two will be in charge of the room together with Ziyi and Qingyi. The two of you don't understand the habits of Lord Hou. If there is anything wrong, you should ask more Mention them a bit. Of course, if any of you can give birth to a boy and a half girl for Lord Hou, I will tell Lord Hou to make her an aunt."
She said that before because she wanted to tell Chunyue and the others that no matter whether Lin Xuan had promised them anything before, she couldn't do anything here.
Chunyue's sense of humor made her very satisfied.
The front is beating, and the back is sugar.
She just wanted Chunyue and the others to understand that if she was willing to let them be concubines, they would be concubines, and if she didn't want them, they would always be slaves.
I have to say that Li Lizhi deserves to come out of the palace, so she gave her a slap... No, it should be a combination of kindness and power, which is simply the true biography of Li Shimin.
Li Lizhi did this because she was narrow-minded and couldn't tolerate Chunyue and the others, otherwise she wouldn't have let Ziyi and the others accompany Lin Xuan.
She doesn't mind Lin Xuan having other women, but this woman must not challenge her status.
"Thank you princess."
Li Lizhi waved her hand and said, "Don't call me Princess anymore, call me Madam."
"Yes, ma'am."
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"Your Majesty, Mr. Duan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, please see me." Li Mu said.
"Xuan."
Not long after, Duan Lun walked in with a box in his arms.
"See Your Majesty, I hope that your Majesty will forgive me for my lack of hands and lack of etiquette."
Li Shimin waved his hands, looked at the long box in Duan Lun's hand, and said with some expectation: "What I want to know more is what you brought to me."
Duan Lun said a little excitedly: "According to the blueprint sent by His Majesty, I summoned the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, spent a few days of hard work, fulfilled the mission, and made the long-lost Zhuge Liannu. This crossbow It has been improved, and it can shoot fifty specially-made crossbow bolts continuously, with an effective range of more than 200 steps."
In ancient times, a hundred steps was used to describe a sharpshooter. The so-called hundred steps, if calculated carefully, were about 70 to [-] meters.
With the advancement of technology to the Tang Dynasty, the effective range of ordinary bows and arrows is about 160 steps, which is about 100 meters.
Although the range of the Zhuge Liannu is only more than 200 steps, it is far worse than those bed crossbows, but the bed crossbow is huge and needs to be fixed in one place.
It is generally used to defend the city, and is rarely used in field battles.
The Zhuge Liannu is suitable for individual soldiers, and its range is farther than that of ordinary bows and arrows. That is to say, you can hit him if others can't hit you.
Although there are many famous generals recorded in ancient times who could bend three stone bows and shoot at targets three to five hundred paces away, Xue Rengui is even said to be able to hit a hundred shots at six hundred paces, and even left behind the story of "three arrows fixed Tianshan Mountain" that has been passed down through the ages.
But these are obviously exaggerated elements, let alone whether ancient times could make bows and arrows that shoot so far, distance alone is a big problem.
The 500 steps are about [-] meters away, so far away, people can't see clearly, how can they hit every shot?
Of course, some special bows can shoot farther than ordinary bows for sure, but how many people in an army can draw such a bow?
Special bows are very expensive to make, and there is no money to make many of them.
Many people may find it strange, if the effective range of ancient bows and arrows is only such a short distance, how can they shoot birds in the sky?
In fact, traditional bows and arrows can be realized. Don’t overestimate the flying height of birds. Many carnivorous birds actually fly at low altitudes. The real difficulty is to predict the flight routes of these birds, because low-altitude and middle-altitude birds are generally very flexible.
Don't think that it is too short and poor to exchange fire with cold weapons within 150 meters or even 100 meters.Even in modern warfare, the general firefighting distance of light weapons does not exceed 250 meters, it just increases the firepower density and accuracy, that's all.A large number of ancient and modern light weapon battles are basically carried out at a distance of about 50 meters or less.
Therefore, the Zhuge Liannu can play a decisive role in the frontal battlefield.
Although Duan Lun is the minister of the Ministry of Industry, it does not mean that he has no military knowledge.
People who have come through troubled times, even if they are not famous generals, are not ignorant of military affairs.
The most famous one is Xun Yu during the Three Kingdoms period. When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Lv Bu attacked Cao Cao's base camp. If Xun Yu hadn't made a decisive decision to give up most of the territory, gather soldiers, and hold a part of the territory, would there be any capitals of the Three Kingdoms? uncertain.
Although Duan Lun was far inferior to Xun Yu, he was not a mediocre talent. He naturally understood the significance of Zhuge Liannu to Tang Dynasty, so he was naturally very excited.
"Really? Show it to me, I want to try it myself."
Although Li Shimin had guessed when Duan Lun came, he was still very excited when he heard Duan Lun's words.
The Tang Dynasty had a lot of infantry, and the role of the infantry in fighting against the nomadic peoples was very small. After all, the destruction of the Eastern Turks took advantage of the right time, place and people.
There are not many opportunities to encounter such things now.
But with the Zhuge Liannu, it will be different, not to mention the cavalry can use it, the infantry will form a square formation, as long as there are tens of thousands of soldiers holding the Zhuge Liannu, it will be a nightmare for the cavalry.
The Zhuge Liannu is of great significance to the imperial court. As long as it is equipped in large quantities, Datang will be invincible in field battles.
Regardless of the fact that there are many battle lines in history that have won more with less, those battle lines will appear insignificant in the thousands of years of history.
The reason why the battle line is widely circulated is because it cannot be copied. If everyone can do it, it will not be called a classic.
(End of this chapter)