Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 1069 Look at my 40-meter-long sword
Chapter 40 Look at my [-]-meter-long sword
"Your Majesty, what should I do next?"

Although Li Jiancheng's income from ransacking his home cannot meet his five-year plan's expenditure, after careful calculation, if taxes and gold mine income are included, the gap is actually not that big.Wei Zheng was very satisfied when he saw that these aristocratic officials, just the Beijing officials of the imperial court Chang'an, could obtain the financial income of the imperial court for more than ten years.

After being temporarily excited, he immediately calmed down and began to ask the most urgent questions.

After thinking for a while, Li Jiancheng replied: "Jianmen Pass is safe for the time being, but Lianghuai and Monan are in danger."

After Li Shimin took Jiangnan, he divided his troops into three groups, and the West Road cooperated with Hou Mo and Chen Xu to sweep Bashu.

Attack Yingzhou (now Zhongxiang, Hubei) in the middle.

The situation of the Central Route Army has gradually become clear. They are going to attack the Han River along Yingzhou and attack Xiangfan instead.Once Li Shimin's Central Route Army acquires Xiangfan, attacks the Nanyang Basin, and then takes Luoyang, it can trap Li Jiancheng in Guanzhong.

The direction of the East Route Army is mainly concentrated in Huaixi, in order to map the two Huaihe Rivers.Now the Tang army is seriously insufficient in the direction of Lianghuai and Xiangyang.

Li Jiancheng murmured, "I'm going to drive Li Shimin to the south of the Yangtze River!"

Wei Zheng frowned and said, "Your Majesty, where is Monan? Just leave it alone for now?"

Li Jiancheng pondered and said: "This war will not end like this. Only one of him and I can have the last laugh... But this disastrous defeat also reminded me that Li Shimin's strength is extremely powerful, so he rashly lost to them in a decisive battle." More wins and less, I will not make such a mistake again. I plan to use ten years to deepen military reform, eliminate Li Shimin's allies through diplomatic and military means, isolate them, weaken them, and fight them decisively until the time is right. Fight, I will not give him another chance to stand up!"

Fang Xuanling sighed: "Ten years is too long, when the time comes, the world may... fight a protracted war, and it may be in their hands!"

Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling suspiciously and asked, "Why?"

"Compared to them!" Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile, "Actually, we still have a weakness, a fatal weakness!"

"What weakness?"

As soon as these words were said, Chen Ying's voice came from outside the door: "population!"

Everyone looked towards Chen Ying.

Chen Ying said without hesitation: "The total population of our Tang Dynasty is only 540 million households. Now, with the loss of Lingnan and Jiangnan, the population has dropped sharply, less than 400 million! However, the force they dispatched is 400 million. more than!"

Manpower is now an unsolvable problem for Datang, and the total population is so large.Productivity is also very low. Pulling all the young and strong into the army will inevitably weaken the proportion of workshops and agricultural population, resulting in a serious shortage of material production.

Just like during World War II, Germany's economic, industrial, and military strength were obviously stronger than those of the Soviet Union. However, in the end, Germany was exhausted by relying on its population.Because the Soviet Union had a population of more than 8000 million at that time, while Germany only had a population of more than 6000 million.During the entire World War II, Germany suffered a total of 4805 million casualties, more than 300 million people were captured, and the total number was close to 800 million. Germany eventually collapsed.In World War II, 680 million Soviet soldiers died due to the war (combat casualties totaled 13 million), and a total of 8606 million people were killed after being captured, plus civilian sacrifices, and a total of 700 million people died nationwide. people.

If Germany had 8000 million people like the Soviet Union, World War II would probably be rewritten.Of course, this is just a hypothesis.

Now it is almost the same as during World War II. Datang has the most cutting-edge technology and the most tax-efficient army of this era, but population is its Achilles' heel.

Just like the Jiangzhou battle that just broke out, more than [-] troops of the Tang Dynasty suffered casualties, and almost the entire army was wiped out.Although it is said that Li Shimin won the victory, the Fusang Tang army killed more than [-] people and hundreds of thousands of casualties. In addition to the lack of medicines and rampant malaria, Li Shimin has not had a large-scale war for three months after this battle, because He's also a little weak on the backlift.

"If our Tang Dynasty expands its army like crazy!" Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and said solemnly, "It will deal a fatal blow to the economy, and we will be even weaker. It will be easier for Li Shimin to fight!"

Li Jiancheng frowned and said, "Then what do you mean, let's fight now? We have too few troops, and there is no chance of winning in a fight!"

Chen Ying said with a smile: "The number of people is not enough, technology will make up!"

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In front of Jianmen Pass, countless Li Shimin's coalition forces surrounded the pass city, helpless.The bloody attack in the past few days has caused the coalition forces to lose tens of thousands of horses, but the Jianmen Pass is still unbreakable.

Hou Mo and Chen Xu looked at Guancheng, which had turned blue and purple, and heaved a long sigh.

Suddenly, an inexplicable panic flashed between his brows.

There was no reason for this panic, Hou Mo Chen Xu knew in his heart that this was a sign of danger.

He couldn't figure out what was going on.

He subconsciously looked at Guancheng, and then looked back at the densely packed army on Chidao, and suddenly realized.

He suddenly thought about how Wang Shiyun used [-] fire ox formations to defeat [-] Tang troops in Luoyang City.Now, will the Tang army still use the fire bull formation attack?
Thinking of this, Hou Mo and Chen Xu hurriedly ordered that in front of the Guancheng, thirteen rejection horses were erected in a row. The rejection horses were made of wooden piles with thick bowl mouths. Break the thirteen rejection horses in a row.

As time went by, Thirteen Rejecting Horses were also secured, but the uneasiness in Hou Mo and Chen Xu's heart became more and more intense.

General Pang Yupan, the gatekeeper of the Jianmen Gate, looked at the bearded Xunxiang, and asked doubtfully, "Is that okay?"

Xun Xiang smiled disapprovingly and said, "Okay, you can dismantle it as soon as you want, but the speed must be fast!"

Datang's galloping roads are all parallel.Each road is three or two feet apart.

This is a helpless choice. Without precise computer calculations and single-line transportation, the transportation efficiency of trains is really poor.In order to improve efficiency, only this two-wire parallel method can be adopted.

Originally, the steam engine train of the Tang Dynasty did not open the Bashu line, but because of the sudden arrival of Hou Mo and Chen Xu, 40 to [-] Liao barbarians gathered in front of Jianmen Pass. This road is about [-] to [-] steps wide and long In the narrow terrain of more than [-] kilometers, this gave Chen Ying an excellent demonstration opportunity.

At this time, about ten miles behind Guanzhong, there are two trains, both of which are newly developed and "Deuteron" class. As for what this Decepticon is, everyone except Chen Ying In this era, I am afraid that no one knows.

But the Decepticon is a steam train after all. Although it has a power of up to [-] horsepower, it is still quite difficult to complete Chen Ying's mission.Of course, Chen Ying had read the book and knew the story of Zhan Tianyou, so he also imitated Zhan Tianyou's appearance and used two "Decepticons", one to pull in front and the other to push behind.

In this way, the power of each train reached 1 horsepower.

Four Decepticons were used as transportation, and two [-]-row long steam locomotives seemed to be crawling on the ground like an ancient giant beast. There are two centipedes, the left and right wings, and dense steel knives are installed everywhere.

All of these steel knives are neither horizontal knives nor mo knives, but the longest steel knives with a length of 40 meters, and the shortest ones are one foot and six feet long.

As the craftsmen do the final inspection.

"Boiler inspection completed!"

"The water supply system is normal!"

"Ignition is OK!"

"The pressure vessel is normal!"

"The transmission is OK!"

Seeing this, Xun Xiang poured the last sip of wine from the jug into his mouth, then threw it to Pang Yu and said, "General Pang Da, it's up to you!"

At this moment, a Tang army soldier came over and said: "General, the city gate has been dismantled, and the track and side roads have been repaired!"

Xun Xiang and hundreds of thousands of Anxi Tang troops began to line up to board the car.

Xun Xiang climbed to the top of the locomotive, in a small house like a steel cage, and ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Get ready to go, let the general run over these idiots to death!"

The steam engine train started to burn crazily with the blower, and the water temperature of the boiler rose rapidly. As the pressure reached the critical point, the train started slowly.

……

Hou Mo and Chen Xu had already heard that the officers and men of the Tang Army inside the city walls seemed to be frantically demolishing the city, and he felt that he had guessed right. Pang Yu, an old boy, was really going to learn from Wang Shiyun, and he was going to run with fire bulls.

Hou Mo and Chen Xu had already made preparations, not only prepared thirteen refusal horses, but also prepared a large number of drums and fire oil.In fact, whether it is a fire ox or a fire horse, they are all animals, and animals are afraid of fire and loud noises. With these two preparations, when the time comes, we will see who the fire ox hits?

"Du Ang Du Ang..." A loud voice came faintly, and the smile on Hou Mo Chen Xu's face became wider and wider. He said with a smile, "Let's pass on the order. Let's have an extra meal tonight and eat beef!"

Following the delivery of Hou Mo and Chen Xu's orders, all the soldiers of the coalition army shouted frantically.

"Boom..."

With a loud bang, the last outer wall of the gate tower collapsed.Countless soldiers of the Tang army, holding baskets, frantically packed up the broken wall coverings on the ground and piled them aside.

At this time, a thick column of smoke rose from the north in front of the sword gate, like a giant dragon roaring upwards.

Hou Mo and Chen Xu's face finally changed, the movement didn't look like a fire bull at all.

Of course, Hou Mo and Chen Xu only guessed half right, it's not really a fire ox, but a train!

The roaring train, like a crazy rhinoceros, rushed along the track towards the coalition forces outside Jianmen Pass.

Hou Mo and Chen Xu stared dumbfounded at the roaring train.

All the coalition soldiers were also dumbfounded.

Where have they seen a train!
In order to increase the horror effect, Xunxiang covered his ears with his hands, and the two trains sounded their whistles at the same time.

A loud voice echoed in the narrow valley.

All the soldiers of the coalition army were instantly deaf.

All that remained in their eyes were the countless 40-meter-long swords.

(End of this chapter)