Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 514 The Looted Liaodong City

Li Tai watched Liaodong City fall, but in comparison, now Li Tai is more concerned about what he thought just now.

Tank!If this really happened, it would be a product of an era!

"Tank? Can it appear on the battlefield of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Tai couldn't help thinking.

Of course, it may not be a modern tank, it is absolutely impossible.

After all, technology explodes again, but in the end we need to lay down a solid foundation step by step. The only result of reaching the sky in one step is a rocket explosion.

Li Tai's preliminary idea was more to steel and metallize all the construction equipment such as the punching car, the head car, the well rail, etc.

After all, all of them are now made of local wood, what would happen if they were all replaced with steel! ?

With the emergence of the technology of blast furnace steelmaking, the production efficiency of iron is much stronger than before, and even steel is no longer a rare luxury.

The breakthrough in basic materials is almost a leap in social civilization.

For example, what kind of room temperature superconducting materials are being talked about by foreigners. If this thing really appears, society will definitely develop by leaps and bounds.

Just like steel is to Datang, with the current production capacity of Datang, it is impossible to use the limit of steel, but the breakthrough of basic materials, even if we use this material with old-fashioned thinking, will also have a leap in the performance of the original equipment type of improvement.

This is a bit like the water droplets made by the strong interaction force in the three-body system.

Of course, this kind of sky-defying material was not born for simple collisions and impacts, but even if this material is applied to the most simple impacts, it will still be a devastating blow to earth civilization.

And if you make a pure steel siege weapon yourself, to some extent, it will have a complete dimensionality reduction effect on the wooden or even mud defense facilities.

"And in order to increase the fact that this thing can be used on the battlefield, it seems that the steam engine can also try to add it into it." Li Tai rubbed his chin and felt an itch in his heart.

Compared with pushing the steam engine to the production, it must be compact, convenient, and cost must be considered!

But if the steam engine can be applied to the military, it will be completely different.

What is the cost in the military, the military only pays attention to victory.

As long as this kind of thing can establish victory, no matter how much it costs, it is not a cost for the army.

Thinking of this, Li Tai began to write some more detailed content and plans for this aspect in the camp.

"The first step is to make all the toughened siege vehicles, well rails, and lead vehicles. The standard is that the soldiers of the academy can directly carry them."

"The second step is to join the steam engine, liberate the soldiers as much as possible, so that they can wear armor as much as possible!"

"In the third step, the steam engine can completely replace the soldiers, thus forming a siege weapon of the new era!"

At this time, Li Shimin watched Li Tai suddenly calm down and doodle and finally stopped writing, Xiao Xiao came over with interest, looked at Li Tai and asked, "Qingque, what are you writing?"

"Some ideas about future siege equipment!"

Seeing Li Shimin looking over, Li Tai handed what he had written to Li Shimin to have a look, without any intention of shy away from it.

Li Shimin glanced at it, and murmured in his heart that it was the word Qingque, but he quickly looked carefully at Li Tai's proposal.

Seeing the first step, Li Shimin couldn't help being startled. He closed his eyes, and there was already a row of steel instruments running rampant on the battlefield.

If it is really realized by Qingque's plan, what kind of enemy can resist such a steel castle!

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai's appearance and said in a complicated state of mind, "Qing Que, are you sure you can make this thing?"

"Qingque doesn't know! But since we have enough steel, let's try to build one!" Li Tai said.

"Try it..." After all, Li Shimin didn't know the corresponding technology, so he handed over the proposal to Li Shiji who was obviously scratching his head, but really didn't dare to show his curiosity.

Li Shiji thought for a while after looking at it, and said, "King Wei, your idea is indeed very good, but can the soldiers really move such a large steel siege vehicle? If it can't be transported to the battlefield, then there is no such thing as it." What's the point?"

"If the 160-jin self-adaptive soldiers are used as the standard, after they give up the armor, only seven soldiers can carry a ton of steel.

If normal siege equipment were all made of steel, it would only weigh seven or eight tons.

But put them on wheels, tracks, and direction changers... If you want 50 people to operate it together, it should be able to operate it! "

Li Tai estimated to Li Shiji, "Moreover, there will be steam engines and other equipment to assist in the future!"

"Steam engine? What is this?" Li Shiji was somewhat puzzled when he heard Li Tai's words.

"A coal-burning kinetic energy device is now mainly used for pumping water in coal mines, as well as for rice milling or making cakes!" Li Tai explained, "If craftsmen can continue to specialize in research, they should be able to further develop its potential so that The machine is running!"

Li Shiji nodded thoughtfully, but he didn't deny anything.

After all, King Wei has always been able to come up with some novel technologies, not to mention, the telescope in his hand was made by King Wei.

Now what the King of Wei said about the steam engine, you can just listen to it yourself. Whether you can research it or not, you will know when the King of Wei continues to study it.

"But how to transport such a heavy thing to the battlefield?!" Li Shiji said again,

"According to what you said, this thing needs to weigh several tons. If it is really put on the battlefield, I naturally believe in its combat effectiveness, but how to transport it?"

Li Tai replied: "My current idea is just to standardize it, disassemble it into small parts, wait for it to go to the battlefield, and let skilled craftsmen reassemble it into a large siege equipment.

Although this is not as good as one-piece casting, but in my opinion, when it appears on the battlefield, there should be no city that can resist its existence! "

"A shocking siege weapon!" Li Shiji heard Li Tai's words, but he couldn't imagine the scene.

With this thing, Li Shiji really couldn't imagine that any city could resist Datang's attack.

"If this thing wants to develop according to my vision, there are too many things to overcome along the way!"

Li Tai shook his head and said, "Let's do the first step first. I'll ask Youzhou to see if we can develop a fully steel siege weapon according to the ratio of the rushing car to the leading car, and then dismantle it into modules. .

To be honest, the bigger it is, the better it is to study. On the contrary, there are some small accessories such as gears, nuts, hubs, etc. on it. I don’t know if Youzhou can conquer it! "

Li Shimin and Li Shiji couldn't help but look at each other at this moment, they were really not good at this.

But both of them are incredibly sensitive to war. They knew that if they really did what Li Tai said, they would make this kind of steel monster.

Under the torrent of steel, at least the ordinary defense system really couldn't defend against it.

In addition, Li Tai also tried to let Sun Simiao pass the gunpowder, and there was even such a thing as black gunpowder.

But maybe it was because of the rules of this world, even if the power of black powder was to blow up Sun Simiao, it would only make his face ashamed, which was really weak.

Sun Simiao directly gave up because he couldn't sustain a high burning temperature.

And Master Pan has not yet researched the periodic table of elements, but he has researched that with the activation of the essence of the heaven and earth, the strength of everything enveloping human beings is becoming stronger, but after melting, this strength increase will be destroyed, and it will return to the human body. the nature of the material itself.

Therefore, in an environment with the essence of heaven and earth, as the concentration of essence of heaven and earth becomes higher and higher, things like gunpowder have no future.

But steel is different, steel will be improved with the growth of the essence of heaven and earth, and even if there is no essence of heaven and earth, the steel will be stronger.

So for things like the development of steel, at least in Li Tai's view, this is the mainstream of the times.

Of course, this thing is just Li Tai's idea. After thinking it over, he wrote an opinion and handed it to Peacock in Youzhou, asking her to use Youzhou's ironworks to try to develop an all-steel siege punch. The car and the head car.

After all, in Li Tai's plan, if he wanted to destroy Goguryeo, he might still have several wars to fight.

If you can research the most basic all-steel siege equipment in a year, it's not a loss. If you can't attack it in a year or two, then this kind of thing needs to be researched even more.

To be honest, to be honest, if you can solve the traffic problem yourself, then this kind of thing is most needed to attack the Tibetan fortress on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the future, otherwise, who knows how to solve the fortress on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!
After Li Tai sent this order to Peacock, Li Tai followed Li Shimin into Liaodong City.

At this time, Liaodong City was also in chaos.

Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty plundered Liaodong City, some people broke into the homes of local people to rob items, some people robbed local women, or simply killed people and then ransacked.

The only ones who didn't participate in the killing were Xue Rengui and their school soldiers.

After they came in, they marked out an area that belonged to them. This was the stealth privilege of their first army to invade the city. No other army would go to this area to plunder.

Of course, the academy soldiers were not as clean as water, but instead asked the richest gentry in the area to come forward and hand over a sum instead of directly robbing them.

To be honest, the local gentry were naturally not happy, but when they saw the inhumane persecution of Liaodong City by the Tang army in the next few streets, these gentry worked very diligently, and were afraid that if they were a little slower, they would be reduced to such a situation. end.

Li Tai didn't say much about the scene of the Xuefu Army, he could only say that the times were like this, and he couldn't change it!

Xue Rengui's treatment can be regarded as high-level in the military discipline of the 21st century, not to mention that in the Tang Dynasty, at least Xue Rengui gave the people in these blocks a chance to survive, instead of just coming up and grabbing them by hand. It's benevolence.

Still the same sentence, you can't expect much awareness from the army in the feudal era.

Even if I try my best to instill in the academy soldiers the idea of ​​defending the country and observing discipline, but they have stayed in the military system of the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and they will inevitably be contaminated with the bad atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, at most there are soldiers In contrast, they seem to have more integrity!
Sure enough, when Li Shimin saw Xue Rengui's performance, he treated Xue Rengui differently, and praised, "Xue Qing is brave and smart in battle, strict and benevolent in running the army. I think the good generals in the past are nothing more than this, and he will definitely be the champion of our Tang army in the future." column!"

Xue Rengui didn't expect that Li Shimin would praise himself so much, so he quickly saluted Li Shimin and replied:
"Thank you for the praise of the saint, I must use this as a warning to myself, and I am worthy of the praise of the saint!"

Li Shimin didn't say much, he just patted Xue Rengui, and asked Xue Rengui to get up and follow him.

And because there was no promise of massacre for three days, according to the military regulations, looting was only allowed on the day of the siege. After this day passed, if there were soldiers who looted again, they would be dealt with by the military regulations.

This is basically the case after the ancient siege city was broken. There are many considerations.

The first point is that the lower the productivity, the lower the level of civilization awareness.

It is said that the moral heart is not ancient, but in ancient times you will find that in fact, modern civilization at least pays attention to the influence, but in ancient times it was a literally cannibal society.

Especially civilians, where there was a chance to speak out in ancient times, there was only one chance to express their voice, and that was the uprising!
As for the second point, as far as the individual is concerned, the plunder of the city after the siege was the only reasonable and legal opportunity for the ancient people to make a fortune. They were even willing to risk their lives to fight, and one of the most important reasons was simply to get rich.

And the third point, for the generals, if the massacre of one city can make the people of ten cities give up resistance and choose to surrender, then the massacre of this city is valuable. If the massacre of ten cities makes a country give up resistance, then It is even more worth advocating.

From this point of view, it is really an incredible miracle for New China to defeat the foot pot chicken.

The persecution of China by the Japanese invaders almost replicated the massacre of the Ming Dynasty by the Qing Dynasty at the beginning, so that the Chinese people gave up their resistance.

Although the foot pot chicken's strategy is poor, if an industrial country fights an agricultural country, it should win with its toes.

But no one thought that although the bald man was hanged and beaten in various ways, he just refused to surrender.

What's more, I didn't expect that a strategic genius like the teacher would come up with the most reasonable strategy, use the national strength of the agricultural country to face the industrial country, forcefully support the other allies, and win a war that is theoretically impossible to win.

It has to be said that defeating the foot pot chicken really seized the opportunity for Huaxia to be reborn from the ashes.

At least it overturned China's fate of being reduced to a chessboard since the Qing Dynasty, and became a valuable chess piece again, realizing the first step of a great revival.

Thinking of this, Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little bit of embarrassment in his heart. The army standard he was benchmarking against was the peak army that was unique in the history of China.

Look at the current Tang Jun, even if it is the glory of China's feudal era, but I still despise it.

After all, the sea was too difficult for water, except that Wushan is not a cloud, and I have seen what a real army is like, so even if I know that the Tang army was quite good in the feudal era, I still have to find a way to improve in the direction of the army in my heart.

Of course, if this is the case, then what I can't avoid is the Fubing system!
Li Tai took a deep breath, there is a long way to go!

(End of this chapter)