A group of people came down from the city wall. Niu Jinda originally arranged for Li Yin to go to the house specially prepared for him in Songzhou City to rest, but Li Yin refused. He asked Niu Jinda to prepare a room for him in the Songzhou camp. He planned to eat and live with the soldiers, firstly to boost morale, and secondly to enhance the relationship between him and the soldiers and leave a good impression in the army.
Niu Jinda's affection for Li Yin was greatly increased by Li Yin's behavior. He thought that Li Yin would be the domineering and domineering son of a nobleman, but he never expected Li Yin to be so approachable.
Niu Jinda sent someone to clean up Li Yin's room, while Li Yin and Rong Da wandered around in the Xicheng Camp, Zhu Youzhi and Xue Rengui went to arrange for the peasants to dig trenches, and Qin Huaiyu sent a fast horse to check the progress of the Musketeers , Estimate when you can reach Songzhou.
When Li Yin left Yizhou, he ordered 5,000 musketeers to set off from Taoyuan and march towards Songzhou. The leader was Li Yin's guard captain Wu Wei. After half a year of training, these soldiers had learned how to use percussion guns. This time the siege of Songzhou In order to defeat Tuyuhun in one fell swoop, Li Yin decided to use them as trump cards. Together with soldiers using sixteenth-century armor and bows, Li Yin believed that it would be enough for Tuyuhun to drink a pot.
In the beginning, Li Yin was unwilling to expose the percussion gun so early. His original purpose was to use the musketeers as a secret force for overseas colonization, and using compound bows and high-strength armor to deal with these natives in Datang was enough.
But there is no impenetrable wall in the world. Li Shimin will know about this musket sooner or later, including the armor and weapons equipped in this army. It is impossible for Li Shimin not to know that Niu Jinda is Li Shimin's confidant after all. Instead of hiding it, it is better to tell Li Shimin directly, so that Li Shimin will not suspect that he has evil intentions, so he sent the compound bow to Chang'an. And Li Shimin didn't have any other reaction in the end.
As for other nobles who want to blackmail this weapon from Li Yin, Li Yin is not afraid at all. The production line is in Li Yin's hands, what can they do? Moreover, Li Yin now has the ability to challenge them. He does not believe that these nobles can still force him to rebel, so from another perspective, Li Yin is no longer afraid of exposing this weapon.
That night, Li Yin, Niu Jinda and other generals ate with the soldiers in the canteen of the barracks. Although the food here was short of oil and salt. But Niu Jinda and the others still eat very delicious food. According to Niu Jinda, he has fought in the war for more than ten years, and he has never seen such good food in the army.
After the soldiers learned that the one who ate with them in the cafeteria was the current King of Chengdu, and that they ate the same food as them, they saw Li Yin in a different way. become down-to-earth.
After dinner, Li Yin went back to the barracks to rest, while Xue Rengui and Qin Huaiyu organized three thousand civilians to leave the city quietly under the guard of soldiers after night fell. Taking advantage of the darkness, a trench was quietly dug a mile outside the city. The purpose of war is to achieve the greatest victory at the least cost. True military idiots. Advanced equipment does not represent everything. In the history of war, there are many examples of enemies with advanced equipment being defeated by the natives. Therefore, Li Yin did not feel complacent just because he gained an advantage in equipment. I still adopted a cautious tactic, and I could cheat as much as I could.
At this time, in the king's tent of the Tuyuhun camp, Murong Fuyun was drinking goat milk wine with the generals. Eating roast mutton, the maniacal laughter in the tent was mixed with the woman's sobbing intermittently. These generals of Tuyuhun all showed obscenity and evil, and their eyes patrolled the naked woman beside Murong Fuyun.
These women are Tang women who were plundered by Tuyuhun from Liangzhou. In Tuyuhun's camp, they were inferior to cattle and sheep. They were humiliated every day, and life was worse than death. Any desire to live is just like a walking dead, insensitive.
"King Tianzhu, you said that there are innumerable wealth and food in Yizhou City, are these all true?" Murong Fuyun's thick palm was groping the woman's delicate skin back and forth. Among the looted women, the appearance is the most outstanding. One seems to be from a famous family in the Tang Dynasty. Feeling the smooth touch in his hand, Murong Fuyun's eyes showed greed. Compared with those ugly women in the tribe, on the land of the Central Plains There are many such women, how much he wants to **** them all and enjoy them every day.
The minister called Tianzhu King by Murong Fuyun sat in the first position. Compared with Murong Fuyun's bronze skin and deep sunken eyes, which are unique to the grassland tribes, Tianzhu King's appearance is somewhat different from Tang people's. Very similar, he smiled obsequiously: "Khan, the merchants who do business with Tuyuhun are all talking about the prosperity of Yizhou. It is said that there is a workshop base called Shengtang Chamber of Commerce in Yizhou City, which produces all kinds of products every day. Rare goods, the fine wine that Khan is drinking now is said to be produced by that chamber of commerce, and the merchants who went to Yizhou are all pulling carts of gold and copper coins, and it is said that there is also a large treasury dedicated to storing these things."
Among these Tuyuhun generals, there is one person who still maintains a clear mind. He is Murong Shun. Murong Shun was originally the son of Princess Guanghua and Murong Fuyun, a royal daughter of the Sui Dynasty. , was sent back to the Tuyuhun Khanate by Li Yuan during the reign of Wude, but after he returned, Murong Fuyun had re-appointed the crown prince. Although Murong Shun was very unhappy, there was nothing he could do.
When Murong Fuyun planned to attack Songzhou, Murong Shun persuaded him. He had lived in Chang'an for several years and understood the strength of the Tang people. Revenge, but Murong Fuyun obviously trusts King Tianzhu more than his son who has been a proton outside.
"Father Khan, the Tang army is brave and good at fighting, and the defenders in Songzhou are well-equipped. I have never seen the armor they are wearing. It is best to be careful!" Murong Shun said hesitantly.
King Tianzhu glanced at Murong Shun, with disdain in his eyes: "His Royal Highness has stayed in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and forgot that he is still a Tuyuhun, so why is he speaking for the Tang people?"
"You!" Murong Shun stood up angrily, he glanced at the generals in the big tent, seeing that they were all looking at him with strange eyes, Murong Shun felt desolate in his heart, and finally turned and left with a snort.
The west wall of Songzhou City is sandwiched between two high mountains, with a length of about 1,500 meters. In one night, 3,000 civilians just dug a trench that was 2 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. Fortunately, the siege equipment of Tuyuhun did not seem to be completed, and there was no movement at all, so the men dug the trench for five days in a row, covered it with straw and old soil every morning and left, and repeated it at night. dig.
During these five days, the Musketeers finally arrived in Songzhou City, and under Wuwei's arrangement, they stationed in the Xicheng Camp.
"Your Highness, what is this?" Niu Jinda was already surprised by the binoculars. He was very happy to see the five thousand troops rushing to the rescue, but seeing these soldiers not wearing armor but carrying a strange stick, this made him incomprehensible.
Li Yin didn't intend to tell him now, he would see it on the day of the war, so he said to Niu Jinda: "You will understand after a few days."
Niu Jinda had no choice but to give up when he heard the words. Li Yin didn't tell him that he couldn't ask any more questions.
After dealing with Niu Jinda, Li Yin asked Wu Wei, "How many bullets did each person have?"
Wu Wei replied: "I have brought all the stocks from Taoyuan, and each of them only has 30 rounds of cardboard bullets."
Li Yin nodded. Guns are easy to produce, but bullets are difficult to manufacture. This is the problem facing thermal weapons. Therefore, without a strong industrial foundation, thermal weapons warfare cannot be supported at all. If Li Yin did not import seamless steel pipes from modern times, it would be just These 5,000 guns are enough for him to produce for three to five years, but steel pipes can be tricked, but bullets cannot be tricked. The paper shell bullets can only be produced one by one. It is precisely because of this problem that Li Yin feels that it is meaningless to give the gun to Li Shimin. , even if the full set of technology was given to him, he would not be able to produce it, and even if he could produce it, the high price would not be affordable by the Tang Dynasty today.
Each person only has 30 rounds of ammunition, which makes Li Yin depressed. In this way, the musketeers can only be sent to the field at critical moments, otherwise they will be completely abolished after firing the bullets, and he has to rely on these cold weapon troops .
Just when he was wondering when to use the Musketeers, Qin Huaiyu came in from the outside and brought him good news, the so-called great rewards must have brave men, this notice was posted for five days, and finally someone provided a The mountain path leading from the city to the outside. (To be continued..)