Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 513 The Future Direction of Academy Soldiers
Li Tai basically followed Li Shimin the whole time. Li Shimin was in Youzhou, so Li Tai also stayed in Youzhou.

As Li Shiji and Li Daozong opened up the situation on the front line and besieged Liaodong City, Li Shimin went to the front line to supervise the battle in person.

And Li Tai naturally followed Li Shimin to the front line, mainly responsible for the distribution of food and supplies and other auxiliary matters.

However, to be honest, Li Tai actually has a lot of trivial matters in his hands.

Li Tai needed to arrange everything from the preparations for the transportation of various materials to the eating and drinking of the soldiers.

Not to mention, even Li Tai needed someone to collect the excrement of the soldiers.

These things are mainly used for enchanting weapons. Basically, as long as they can injure the opponent, they will bring some disease effects more or less.

As for how much effect it can play, Li Tai doesn't know, but how much it can increase the lethality.

In Liaodong City, although Gao Dashi saved the elite and returned to Liaodong City by abandoning his soldiers, the morale of this group of soldiers was also quite low due to the defeat of the city.

And Li Shimin personally came to oversee the army at this moment, one increase and one decrease, there is a natural difference in the performance of the soldiers of the two sides.

Li Shiji and Li Daozong tacitly cleaned up the external defense facilities of Liaodong City as much as possible before Li Shimin came, but left the siege to Li Shimin and let Li Shimin do it.

After all, the sage came to Liaodong more or less for military exploits, and Li Shimin's later record in Goguryeo is naturally no one expected now.

For now, considering the morale of the army, if Li Shimin comes to Liaodong, he can take Liaodong City, and the morale of the whole army will naturally increase.

And what should Li Daozong and Li Shiji say...

Li Shiji's political sensitivity is still quite strong. He stood in the right line several times in history, and Li Daozong was brought out by Li Shimin.

So Li Shiji hinted a little bit, and Li Daozong did this with Li Shiji tacitly.

Sure enough, after Li Shiji brought the main force of the Chinese army to the Liaodong city, the morale of the Datang army was greatly boosted, and they began to attack the city in an all-round way.

In the beginning, it was normal for the two sides to fight each other. For example, the Tang army cleared the obstacles, filled the gullies, prepared the siege equipment, and carried out comprehensive suppression.

Basically, it was an attack on the city like a textbook, and there was nothing novel about it.

The only thing that can be mentioned is that the morale of the Tang army's offensive is obviously much higher than that of the defenders.

After several days of siege, Li Shimin also asked each of his troops to try.

One is to let these troops know that they have entered the battlefield, and let them stop staying on the battlefield with the mentality of being in the rear.

The second is that I haven't commanded a specific battle for some years, and I also need to find out a little bit to avoid any low-level mistakes due to my hands.

And when it was the turn of Xue Rengui's Xuefu soldiers, the Xuefu soldiers led by Xue Rengui once again attracted attention.

According to normal reasoning, heavy infantry like Xuefu soldiers, because they are wearing heavy armor, have advantages in frontal combat, but few people will let heavy infantry attack the city during the siege battle.

It's not a question of combat effectiveness, but rather an astonishing amount of physical exertion. More importantly, heavy infantry are soldiers, belonging to the country's elite. Few people use heavy infantry as siege soldiers.

Even Li Shimin only thought that he was very optimistic about Xue Rengui, so he let him feel the breath of siege, and didn't really expect any unexpected performance from this war department.

After all, he is an infantry soldier, so how amazing his performance can be.

But when Xue Rengui came out with Xuefu soldiers, not to mention, the glamorous and compelling full-body armor alone made the soldiers defending the Goguryeo city feel a little desperate.

They looked at the bows and crossbows in their hands, and then at the armor of the academy soldiers reflecting the brilliance in the sun... At this moment, their desire to continue fighting has dropped a lot, after all, this heavy armor is really hard to fight.

Of course, if the Xuefu soldiers are purely heavy infantry, and they have to climb the ladder and sit in the well like other heavy infantry, then the Xuefu soldiers cannot bring out their own advantages, and their main contribution on this battlefield may be just a waste of the opponent's defensive equipment.

But Xue Rengui is an aspiring general after all. He knows that Li Tai and Li Shimin are obsessed with regaining Liaodong.

So after his research, he found that the Goguryeo nation had been beaten many times by the Sui Dynasty, so don't talk about skills, but the defense skills are full, especially the various city wall facilities. The normal siege army just wanted to give up after seeing it.

And Xue Rengui was thinking about whether the academy soldiers could perform in the siege war based on the smelting of their own tools and adaptive talents, and then Xue Rengui put his idea on the equipment of adaptive soldiers.

Because Xue Rengui suddenly discovered that the soldiers of the academy can have combat effectiveness comparable to the second talent, the most important of which is the equipment of the soldiers.

Without this equipment, basically he may not be able to achieve a stable victory when encountering other one-day talent troops.

As for the sourness of the other troops, if they had the equipment of the academy soldiers, what would they do, Xue Rengui pretended not to hear anything.

Because Xue Rengui knew very well that even if the same equipment was handed over to them, they would not be able to wear it.

But in the same way, the talents of your own soldiers remain the same, but the equipment can be changed to a certain extent!

Although this idea was a bit against the sky for Fang Xuanling and others, Xue Rengui directly reported to the Ministry of War, saying that he needed to find King Wei to point out the exclusive equipment for the crusade against Goguryeo.

So Xue Rengui directly told Li Tai about his request, and Li Tai happened to be in charge of the logistics of the entire crusade against Goguryeo. He stated that he built a blast furnace in Youzhou for steelmaking, and built an arsenal to supply the imperial court with the consumption of weapons for the crusade against Goguryeo.

Fang Xuanling thought about it for a while, and felt that Li Tai was under Li Shimin's nose, so she didn't dare to act recklessly, so she agreed.

And Li Tai did not do it indiscriminately, it's just that Li Tai obtained the right to directly build the armor.

Therefore, Xue Rengui directly ordered a new batch of special armor from Li Tai. The weight of the armor was reduced to a certain extent, but the reduced weight was increased in other places.

One is to create a large two-handed shield that can completely cover a person, with a load of basically 160 jin. The armor on the body is only [-] jin, but the two-handed shield has a real [-] jin. The highlight is to carry out the defense to the end.

This large shield, which is so big that it can cover the whole person, can completely cover the soldiers when needed.

In this way, it can assist the defense of other school soldiers around to the maximum extent.

The armor of another group of academy soldiers was also reduced, but not so much, and the weight of a suit of armor was about one hundred catties.

Personally speaking, these vacant loads are indeed vacant, but when they work together to operate various war machines, ordinary soldiers are very hard to push the war machines, and they can easily move them!
At this moment, as Xue Rengui brought this school soldier onto the field, Xue Rengui gave an order.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, they carried the chariots one by one, and at the speed of infantry impact, they directly lifted the chariots and other siege equipment to the bottom of the city wall of Goguryeo.

This swift advance speed of the siege weapon not only stunned Tang Jun himself, but even the tall rocks on the city wall!

When the Goguryeo soldiers wanted to fight back, they found that engineering tools such as crossbow carts and catapults were reluctant due to angle problems.

As for arrows, even armor-piercing crossbows are useless against a two-handed shield weighing one hundred catties.

What is really useful is the simple attack of falling stones directly downward, or Jintang's non-dead but quite disgusting negative attack, but this has not stopped the Xuefu army from attacking the city wall with siege weapons skillfully up.

Which point in the city wall is the weakest, which angle of the siege weapon has the most lethality, and the soldiers themselves have an accurate assessment of the current state of the siege weapon, and even prepared some replaceable parts.

It can be said that when the school soldiers use simple weapons such as knives, guns, swords and halberds, the smelting of tool talents can only be regarded as enabling them to display the combat effectiveness that a normal day's talent war department should display. That's all.

But when they entered the siege battle, when they began to operate various complex siege weapons, the talent of tool mastery began to fully exert, which made the role that the academy soldiers could play completely different. Efficient.

Yes, efficiency!
Other soldiers rely on experience to operate siege equipment, but the soldiers of the academy have received a certain degree of cultural education.

This kind of education can at most only strengthen the organizational strength of the academy soldiers when both sides hold weapons with relatively simple functions.

Therefore, it is easy for the academy soldiers to grasp the talents of the legion, but further fighting between people cannot see their excellence.

But when the weapons become complicated, especially the siege equipment that needs to be operated by several people, or even a dozen people, the school soldiers have read books and studied excessive weights and measures, especially the education at the elementary school level can make them more efficient when operating other soldiers.

The benefits of serving as soldiers after they have read the book are truly reflected.

One is that in terms of collective cooperative operations, what they have done is better than any siege force.

The second is standardization, because Li Tai's education for them has been subtly influenced by the people around them.

Their pursuit of standardization is almost engraved in their bones, which allows them to instinctively prepare more spare parts for vulnerable parts before going to the battlefield, which can help them replace corresponding parts at any time even on the battlefield. Component.

It was these inconspicuous off-stage preparations that made the academy soldiers led by Xue Rengui extraordinarily strong when attacking the city.

To some extent, they really pushed the limits of various siege weapons.

Unlike other siege troops, they are more likely to exert almost [-] to [-]% of the effect of siege weapons after many joint efforts.

And Gao Dashi obviously didn't expect that Datang actually had such an army that was especially good at attacking cities.

When it came time to deal with it, I found that I couldn't cope at all. With the dashing car almost at its limit, there were not enough people to stand under the city gate, and the entire gate was directly smashed open by the rushing cart operated by the Xuefu soldiers.

"The city gate is broken, everyone will kill me!" Xue Rengui saw that the city gate had been broken, but without any hesitation, he immediately rushed in with his soldiers. The complete occupation of the entire Liaodong City was only left It's a matter of time.

"Xue Qing is indeed a lucky general!" Li Shimin held a telescope and watched Xue Rengui leading the academy soldiers to conquer Liaodong City. .

Li Shimin put down the binoculars, his eyes fell on Li Tai, and he said:

"The talent that Xue Qing smelted was based on your mastery. Is it specially prepared for siege weapons?"

"Really!" Li Tai quickly shook his head, he was so peace-loving, how could he do such a thing, he said quickly,

"The main purpose is to make it easier for the soldiers to be able to acquire skills even if they return to the place after they leave the army.

You can get familiar with the tools as soon as possible for everything in the field. If you really can’t go to the corvee to move bricks, you can still move bricks until you are five or sixty years old with the help of tools.

After all, there are very few normal soldiers who can become generals, even fewer can be knighted, and a centurion is the end of their duties, so it is always necessary to arrange a way out for the soldiers! "

Li Shimin couldn't help being silent when he heard Li Tai's words, and the topic was immediately ended by Li Tai.

Li Shimin always feels that Qing Que is a very contradictory person, like all kinds of equipment prepared for war are really free of money.

But Li Tai himself didn't seem to like fighting very much. Even in Li Tai's eyes, the soldiers themselves were more important than the hundreds of pieces of luxurious equipment on them, which was simply incredible.

You know, Li Tai has personally led soldiers, doesn't he know the reason why kindness does not lead soldiers?Don't you know that soldiers are consumables on the battlefield!

And according to Li Tai's population theory, the future of Datang is likely to be turbulent due to population problems.

In this way, each war will reduce the population to a certain extent, and even the resources plundered from other countries will allow the continuation of the Great Tang's national fortune.

But even so, in Li Tai's view, the importance of the person itself is the most important.

Li Shimin was a little suspicious of Li Jing's evaluation of Li Tai's famous general, but after thinking about it for a while, Li Tai might not be able to become a famous general with such kindness, but he could become an excellent successor to the Tang Dynasty.

After all, benevolence itself is a very difficult quality for a leader. Thinking of this, Li Shimin doesn't try to distort Qingque's concept.

Li Shimin said to Li Tai calmly, "When the rout in Liaodong City is over, you will enter Liaodong City with me!"

"Obey!" Li Tai replied respectfully to Li Shimin, seeing that Li Shimin didn't get angry, Li Tai's eyes returned to the battlefield.

"It seems that the current siege weapons are a bit light for the Xuefu soldiers. How about an all-steel one? According to the standard of the tank, get them one for them to try when they attack Goguryeo?"

Li Tai couldn't help thinking in his mind, compared to that, the destruction of Liaodong City was a trivial matter.

(End of this chapter)