Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The ambassador from Korea went by sea, and has been on the 6th in Dengzhou. The performance was sent to Tokyo first.

Guo Shaoguanzhi is written in neat Chinese characters. First, the rituals, music, and attire that claimed to be Gaoli all respected the Tang style, the same as the Central Plains. I heard that the emperor of the Central Plains was very happy to defeat the Liao State. Congratulations on the table. Then he scolded the Liao country in a large section, and the phrase "the country of beasts" impressed Guo Shao the most.

If these curses were passed to the Khitan royal family, I don't know how Xiao Simwen and others felt.

In the early stage, the imperial court sent people to contact Goryeo, which was an attempt to get Goryeo to attack Liao. However, the efficiency at this time was too slow. When Zhou Jun had already captured Youyun, Gao Li had just made a successful friendship with Da Zhou.

As the Korean envoys landed, the officials in the DPRK prepared the emperor to ask about the affairs of Korea. For a time, many people discussed Korea.

Gossip does not distinguish between ancient and modern. What is most interesting to talk about is not the series of national policies or customs of Goryeo... The first thing Guo Shao heard was a gossip: the queen of the king of Goryeo, Wang Zhao, is his sister.

The fathers of the king and the queen are both King Taizu Wanggeon of Goryeo, and the queen is a princess, followed by the surname of his mother, Huangfu, and is a half-brother and sister. this is okay too?

Guo Shao was very curious when he heard this. In this era, even modern brothers and sisters can't get married. However, he quickly thought of a TV series in a certain country in later generations, and suddenly realized it.

... At the end of Xuanren's third year, the Korean envoys met and paid tribute to a rare sword.

The **** moved the sword to the Hall of Yangde, because it was a rare thing, he was very careful. When it was, Lu Duoxun, the minister of rites, had just received the Korean envoys and came to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao had no interest in Baojian. He was playing with a matchlock that had just been sent by the weapon supervisor, without even looking at Baojian.

This fire blunder is made very finely. The wood is inlaid with good wood above the bludgeon, and it is also carved with gilt auspicious clouds; the barrel is straight and smooth, with butter on it, the inside and outside are carefully polished and smooth, and the inside is polished with an awl.

The fire rope soaked with plant ash, the mechanism and reed of the striking device are forged with brass, which is still very delicate and ingenious.

This material is a gift to the emperor, and it pays more attention to decoration, just like a work of art. But the mass-produced firecrackers are definitely not so exquisite, otherwise the cost is too high.

Guo Shao couldn't put it down when he saw this thing. No sword could arouse his interest anymore. Even if the sword could cut iron like mud, it was still a knife, and it was just a rare thing that could not be copied in large quantities.

He noticed the threaded connection used at the bottom of the firecracker... probably the way to make it is to carve the thread out of wood, make a sand cast iron core, and then forge the tail. This structure is convenient to disassemble the barrel and clean the residue.

There is also a stack of files on the Jiangning Mansion Report on the table. The new sea ship has been roughly completed, and there are three ships in total. Guo Shao has decreed that after the Jiangning Shipyard sea trial, the ship will be transferred to Dengzhou (Shandong); the guard Si Shui Army will send some soldiers to take over the ship. Next year, when the Korean envoys return to China, these ships can be used to send them. go back. It also ordered the Ministry of Industry to send personnel to Dengzhou to build a new port.

Lu Duoxun glanced at the Goryeo sword placed on the table and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Goryeo seems to be rich in swords."

Guo Shao raised his head and said, "Oh? I have never heard of it."

Lu Duoxun said: "They once paid tribute to the Liao State, and they also gave swords."

Guo Shao knew that Lu Duoxun had something to say, and wanted to borrow something. So he put down the matchlock and listened with interest.

Lu Duoxun continued: "However, after the Liao State destroyed Bohai State, the relationship between Korea and Liao State deteriorated. This is because the Korean State tried to plot Bohai State for a long time and migrated to operate Xijing (Pyong|yang). Unexpectedly, Liao State was first Start and swallow all the land of the Bohai country. Liao is strong, and it is more difficult for Korea to get the old land of the Bohai country, so it resents Khitan."

Guo Shao nodded and said, "That's it."

At this time, the Liao Kingdom was defeated in Youzhou and lost a large area of ​​Youyun, but its strength was still great; it would also be beneficial to have Goryeo in its control.

Lu Duoxun said: "This time, the Goryeo Kingdom sent envoys to ask me to send troops to recover Yingzhou and jointly attack the Khitan. From the view of the ministers, seeing the defeat of the Liao army, Goryeo once again saw the old land of Bohai, and still had ambition.

Hearing his ambition, Guo Shao played with the firearm in his hand, and glanced at the sea-going ship data file on the table, not only smiled: "There is nothing wrong with all countries seeking self-reliance and aggressiveness.

However, the imperial court has no intention of reviving the army to fight again with Liao. Lu Shilang can reply to the envoy of Goryeo and discuss the matter later. "

Lu Duoxun clasped his fist and said, "The minister follows the decree."

Guo Shao turned around and looked at a large, simplified picture on the wall. Recently, due to the visit of the Korean envoy to Beijing, he also has some personal understanding of the situation of Korea.

There was more space in this area in the early ancient times, and the situation will be worse as it goes back.

At the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Goguryeo was a relatively strong country. Certainly because of the threat to the border of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties would not hesitate to mobilize the army for several crusades.

However, after the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan rose to the northeast, and the grasslands that had been threatening the northern part of the Central Plains also moved in winter. Not only is it threatening the Central Plains, it is also compressing the space of Korea. From this time on, they will not only face the Central Plains dynasty, but the nomads|clan will also become an important factor threatening their survival.

(In the future, the threat of the herders will continue to the east, and there will be one more day in Goryeo|The threat of the country’s sea. It can be said that it is caught in the middle by various forces, and it is a very tenacious crowd that can continue to carry it.)

Guo Shaodao said: "In the past, my dynasty wanted to regain the clouds, so I wanted to use the Goryeo kingdom to contain it; now, the Goryeo state wants to occupy the old land of Bohai State and wants my dynasty to send troops to Liaodong. All countries are planning for their own."

In the Yangde Hall, there were only one official and a few court ladies, Guo Shao, Jun and Minister. Guo Shao asked openly: "Goryeo seems to have been established after the destruction of Silla and Baekje. Can there be internal enemies in the country?"

Lu Duoxun said: "After the Wang clan established the country, he implemented the policy of graciousness and gentleness, and the ministers heard that the country was stable."

Guo Shao nodded thoughtfully.

...Recovering the land of the clouds has a great impact. However, the degree of information transmission was limited at this time, and there was no change in the first victory, but as time passed, the influence of Zhou and Liao gradually became prominent.

Until the beginning of the fourth year of Xuanren, the emperor's envoy from Fusang Country Pingjing sent the letter of credence and paid tribute. In order to create the achievements of the "universal coming to Korea", the Ministry of Rites of Tokyo and the Hakka Province gave generous rebates to the letter. The tributary system really caused the Central Plains dynasty to suffer financial losses, but if this were not the case, other countries would not have the motivation to take the initiative to pay tribute.

Guo Shao decreed to discuss the establishment of trade between the two countries with the envoy of Fusang (previously the Central Plains war was turbulent, but the non-governmental maritime trade was never cut off), and secretly ordered the Privy Council’s soldier Cao Si to mix into the caravan and go to Fusang to learn about the situation in the distance.

Although diplomatic relations are a major event, Guo Shao's attention is not on this, he just handled it conveniently. He has been conceiving a revolution in military power.

And matchlock guns were also manufactured in batches. Guo Shao not only read the newspaper, but also personally watched the colonel.

The official test of firearms is the Huben Army’s "Shenhuo Capital" more than 100 people. This small group of people has not been able to expand in the Huben Army because there is really no record, but the establishment has been retained and has not been revoked... The emperor personally ordered to establish it before. All of them are crowded, no one evacuated casually.

The people of Shenhuodu have used bronze guns for two years, and they are already very skilled at this time. Match rope guns and bronze guns are completely different things, but the mechanism and usage steps are the same. The current firearms were originally based on bronze guns with improved barrels.

The soldiers removed the small bamboo tube from the belt, took their teeth to bite the stopper, then poured the gunpowder weighed inside into the gun|mouth, and then used the cleaning rod to force the softer lead shot in|in, then took the small gourd Shake the gunpowder in the hit pool, and you can prepare for fire.

There was a "crack" on the school field, the smoke filled with gunpowder, and the targets in the distance were full of holes. Firearms really work! After all, if gunpowder burns and pressurizes in a closed space, it will expel the lead bullets. Everything is an objective law, and there will be no exceptions.

The new firearm has an effective range of 50 steps, and within 30 steps, it can wear most of the chain armor and scales. As for accuracy...Anyway, the orientation won't be wrong, it's more accurate than a bronze gun with a larger hole.

Shenhuo needs three rows to shoot in turn, and the organizational system is different from the ordinary army with four teams and one team with more than 20 people. Shenhuo has only three teams. The organizational system of the army is based on tactics. The organizational system changes only when weapons tactics change; perhaps the military system will gradually change.

The range of this thing is much shorter than that of step bows and crossbows. For example, a god-armed hand like Guo Shao can shoot 100 steps with a step bow and still have accuracy! Moreover, the operation is complicated and the shooting is slow... But compared to the combat effectiveness of the step bow, the ability to penetrate at close range is stronger than the bow|crossbow.

As for the firing range, it has passed the shooting.

After several months of improvement experiments, Zan Jurun, the military supervisor, said that the distance is between walking and riding a bow and arrow. The strongest armor piercing in the vicinity is long; the shooting is slow and complicated, and the accuracy of the head is uncertain. There is no flexibility for riding and shooting, but it is short.

However, Guo Shao has a different view. The biggest advantage of this thing is that after a group of farmers understand the queue and military discipline, they can immediately have a not weak combat effectiveness.

They may not be able to win the warriors~www.readwn.com~, but the price of having hundreds of thousands of elite troopers in Da Zhou is that it has taken decades to make the whole world sore.

Guo Shao watched Shenhuodu's performance and felt very happy. When he returned to Beiyuan, he briskly picked up a stone by a lake and threw the stone on the lake to play. The stone leaped briskly on the surface of the water, making a few ripples.

The ministers who accompanied him were very happy, but he might feel that Guo Shao's behavior was a bit frivolous at this time.

At this moment, Guo Shao pointed to the surface of the water and said, "As soon as our artillery hits a hole, we can actually try other methods."

Zan Jurun said, "Stone cannonballs are too heavy. If the angle is too small, they will fall to the ground in front of them."

Guo Shao said: "Then think about it. Let's make the'blooming bomb' in the wrong direction, I'm afraid it will be useless (unless a howitzer is made)."

Several people can't answer.

Guo Shao ignored it, and looked at the ripples on the lake for a long time, just like his mood at this time, brisk and not calm.

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