Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

What needs to be emphasized is that Li Jiancheng's defense against the Turks in the north was a necessary condition for Li Shimin to win in the Central Plains, and it laid an important defense foundation for Li and Tang to unify the Central Plains.In this series of military activities, Li Jiancheng not only achieved military victories, defended his home and country in foreign wars, but also used gentle and appeasement strategies in civil wars, thus winning the love of the people.

In fact, after the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Jiancheng died, and 20 Turkic troops came to the city of Chang'an. In fact, Li Shimin also paid an inescapable responsibility. When Li Jiancheng was alive, he guarded against the Turks, and the Turks could never pass Nanyin Mountain.

This time the Turkic Chen Bing Lingzhou, Li Jiancheng always insisted on the main battle, and the only difference from the original history is that he only had one Xue Wanche in his hand, but now he has an extra Chen Ying.

Li Jiancheng nodded irrefutably, looked at Chen Ying and said solemnly: "You also know that our Tang Dynasty is now an eventful time, but Turkic people come and go like the wind, and the news of five thousand Turkic cavalry stationed at Yezhuling is still unknown." It was more than a month ago, and now I don’t know if the Turks have further increased their troops. Lingzhou is too close to the Turks, and it is easier for them to increase their troops than ours, so I will ask you for an order and give you the right to do things cheaply!"

Now Chen Ying was even more surprised. The words "doing things cheaply" in ancient times had a lot of meaning. Chen Ying's job was to be the commander of the army, which meant that he had no local administrative power except for the military.But it’s different when he has the advantage, he can do it within a certain range without asking for an imperial decree. For example, Di Renjie said that killing Xue Qinglin is within the advantage (but killing other people is not within the advantage, this article Doing things cheaply is specially set up for Cha Xue Qinglin's oppression)

"What can I do with your virtue!"

"Don't use people who are suspicious, don't use people with suspicion!"

The relationship between people is mutual.How do you treat me, what do I treat, instantly, Chen Ying's heart warmed up.Anyone can say these eight words, but few people actually do it.

Li Jiancheng continued: "If you have any other needs, tell them together. If I can solve it for you, I will solve it for you immediately!"

"I request you to allocate a hundred craftsmen who will serve as supervisors!" Chen Yingdao: "It's actually not complicated to build a boat on the snow, but this thing is widely used in military and civil affairs. If the Turkic people get this thing, ice and snow It will no longer be an obstacle to marching, and the border of two to three thousand miles in the Tang Dynasty will become a breakthrough for the Turkic people anytime and anywhere, so it can be hidden for a while, and the secret of sailing in the snow must not be leaked."

At this time, Chen Ying suddenly understood why Xu Jingzong took the secret of his high bridge saddle and double-sided stirrup, but did not fully implement it in the Tang army. Li Yuan was probably worried that this secret would be leaked.

Li Jiancheng said: "This palace can be the master, and I will transfer [-] households to you. If the snow boat is not built under the supervision of the craftsman, where will it be built?"

"I'm not very familiar with Chang'an." Chen Yingdao: "If you don't need it, just put it in the military camp of Xun'er Mansion. The whole army of Xun'er Mansion can be trusted!"

Li Jiancheng acted quite quickly, discussing with Chen Yingguo's mansion in the morning, but two hours later in the afternoon, two hundred craftsmen arrived at the military camp of Xun'er Mansion.

The two hundred craftsmen are headed by a general supervisor.The supervisors are divided into those who are in charge of civil engineering and craftsmen, the general left school, right school, lieutenant colonel, Zhenguan and other departments, and Baigong and other supervisors.The supervisor is a small official of the ninth rank, of course it can be understood as a supervisor.

Perhaps because of the difference in class, Chen Ying didn't have a good impression of the supervisor.However, it was only through the introduction that Chen Ying respected this Ninth Grade supervisor.

Lin Chuanfu was a poor child who grew up eating a lot of food. In the early years of Daye, when Lin Chuanfu was only 14 years old, because he was begging for food in front of the general office of the Ministry of Industry, he was arrested by the government and used as a craftsman.Because of his young age, and because he was not taken in by a regular family of craftsmen, he ate a lot of food and went out to study with various craftsmen. A craftsman, especially good at building general works.

Lin Chuanfu's most brilliant thing was to build a dragon boat for Yang Guang. In the ninth year of the great cause of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Yang Guang's dragon boat was burned by the rebels when he entered the siege of the Eastern Capital.In the 11th year of the great cause, Yang Guang rebuilt the dragon boat. At this time, 25-year-old Lin Chuanfu became the person in charge. Lin Chuanfu took the lead in the production of the dragon boat. There are main hall, inner hall, east and west halls.There are 45 rooms on the second floor in the middle, and it took him only one year to build it.

It can be seen how powerful Lin Chuanfu's ability is.Yang Guangda was overjoyed, and rewarded Lin Chuanfu as a nine-rank supervisor.Although Lin Chuanfu is not a big official, he can be in the general system, but he is out of the ordinary.Because craftsmen belonged to the humble family in ancient times, no matter how small the ninth-rank official was, he was still an official.

It's like the difficulty for an ordinary temporary worker to become a department-level cadre in later generations, one can imagine the difficulty.

Chen Ying took a look at the list. These 26 craftsmen covered trenches, stonework, large woodwork, small woodwork, sawing, bamboo, tile, mud, brick, kiln, etc. In addition to the twelve types of work, there are also related industries such as ironwork, boat making, and cart making, led by [-] master craftsmen.

Chen Ying was secretly surprised that Li Jiancheng was really kind to him.You must know that although there are more than 36 artisan households in the entire Jiangzuojian, there are only [-] of them with the support level of master craftsmen.In fact, the gold content of each master craftsman is no lower than that of Lin Chuanfu, the supervisor.

Chen Ying roughly explained the style and function of the snow sledge to Lin Chuanfu and others, and Lin Chuanfu really understood it, and immediately organized craftsmen to start making it.

In order to transport military supplies, Chen Ying naturally couldn't use a small snow sled. What he needed was a heavy snow sled. The standard length was 22 feet, and the width of the sled was more than two feet.It can carry more than [-] kilograms of heavy objects.Such a huge snow sledge, as long as it is covered with animal skins, it is no problem to sleep on it.

In just one day, the first snow sled has been built.Lin Chuanfu asked Chen Ying to be notified.

Chen Ying hurriedly came to watch.

Chapter 95 big plan

When Chen Ying saw this newly built snow sledge, he was instantly attracted.The willow sled was polished as smooth as a mirror. What surprised Chen Ying most was that the entire snow sled did not use a single nail.

"Nails will slowly fall off during the shaking process. It is different with tenons. The tenons are aligned with the rivets and then soaked in water. The wood is stronger than nails when it rises."

Lin Chuanfu looked at Chen Ying, and explained with a smile: "The snow boat invented by General Chen is very clever, but it can be used to load goods and carry people. Just put up a warm shed, put a brazier, and a foot stove, and you'll be fine. It's frozen three feet, and I can't feel the cold inside."

"Not bad, not bad, very good!" Chen Ying nodded and said, "We build at least [-] snowmobiles at one time, half of which are made into warm sheds for people, and half of which are empty frames for carrying goods!"

Chen Ying already knew at this time that Li Jiancheng did not consider Chen Ying to lead the Xun Erfu to Lingzhou, but planned to promote him to a fourth-rank Zhongwu general (Wusan official), who would lead Xun Yi as the general guard with Dong Gongyou There are 800 people from the [-]th regiment of the four prefectures, the Xun Er Mansion, the Yi Yi Mansion, and the Yi Er Mansion to support Lingzhou.

Ordinarily, Chen Ying's age was too young, and Li Yuan would not lead the army with Chen Ying.However, I don't know whether Qin Wang Li Shimin was preparing to see Chen Ying's jokes, or he was giving Li Jiancheng a chance to employ people improperly, but he didn't object.But all the ministers in the court, who have always looked forward to the crown prince, actually seconded the proposal.

Therefore, Li Jiancheng successfully passed Li Yuan, and appointed Chen Ying as a loyal general and led the prince to lead the guard.Li Jiancheng approved that Chen Ying's weapons, armor, and grain were used in four mansions, not in one Xun Er mansion.Four prefectures and sixteen regiments have a total of more than [-] soldiers. In order to avoid non-combat attrition midway, they can only build as many snow sledges as possible.

A leather shed is installed on the snow sledge, just like a carriage, which can hide from the cold, which not only saves the physical strength of the soldiers, but also reduces non-combat attrition.

Chen Ying is a person who stands on the shoulders of historical giants. As Lin Chuanfu opened Chen Ying's thinking, his thinking became active instantly.The carriage can be carried on the snow sledge, why can't the bed crossbow be carried on the snow sledge?

Build it into a snow plow crossbow locomotive?

What about the trebuchet?

What about the chariot?

Is it also possible to build a huge command vehicle?

Partial chariot?

The side-carriage chariot is a chariot invented by Sun Chengzong, a famous general in the Ming Dynasty. He adopted the advantages of Qi Jiguang's chariot formation, and took advantage of the strengths of other families to form a complete set of chariot warfare, which made the Manchu cavalry come and go like the wind. Sigh.The Turkic cavalry came and went like the wind, and this snow sledge could form a moving shield wall as long as it was surrounded from the end to the end. No matter how many cavalrymen looked at this shield wall, they could only sigh in awe.

For the next three days, Chen Ying lived and boarded in the garrison camp of the Xuner Mansion, and discussed with Lin Chuanfu and others about building more functional snow sledges. Under Chen Ying's tinkering, Chen Ying invented one after another. Now, the bed crossbow sledge that can fire three shots of jackdaw arrows (also bed crossbow) when stopped.

Four cauldrons can be loaded side by side, and a cooking sledge for one hundred and twelve people can be made at one time.

It is 33 feet long and [-] feet wide and carries an order sledge carrying eight marching drums.

Lookout Sledge with triple stack of upgrade ladders installed.

A caravan sledge that can let twelve soldiers rest on the sledge at the same time.

What made Lin Chuanfu speechless the most was that Chen Ying actually built a Chinese army command sledge.

The commanding sledge for the Chinese army was invented by Chen Ying, inspired by Cao Cao's serial boats during the Battle of Chibi. He built four sledges for a caravan with a length of 28 feet and a width of about 56 feet. In a wide terrain, four sledges can be used And put them together to form a 24-foot-long, 48-foot-wide huge RV sledge. This huge sledge has an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters, which is enough for Chen Ying to gather the [-]th regiments of the four prefectures and the [-]th brigade generals in the car. More than a hundred leaders held a combat deployment meeting.

More than 100 craftsmen spent three days building more than [-] snow sledges, but the number of snow sledges that Chen Ying needed was far behind.But Chen Ying stayed up all night, his eyes were red like rabbits, Wei Wenzhong persuaded Chen Ying, Chen Ying had to go home to rest.

Chen Ying didn't even take a bath, just put his clothes together and lay on the bed, just fell asleep for less than half an hour, when Chen Qi, the permanent attendant of Ganlu Hall, led a guard of ceremonial decree and more than a hundred people arrived at Chen Ying's mansion with banners and banners.

When the middle official announced the decree, Chen Ying did not dare to neglect, so he had to come out with red eyes to receive the decree.

When Chen Qi saw Chen Ying, he approached Chen Ying and said in a low voice: "My family, abstain from sex at a young age!"

"Hold the grass!" Chen Ying really wanted to explain that he was not what Chen Qi imagined, but Chen Qi waved his hands and said, "This is Zhongzhi, no need to kneel down!"

Chen Ying also hated kneeling and bowing solemnly.

Chen Qi coughed, cleared his throat, and said, "The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty said, "I rule the world with literature, and put an end to chaos with military force. And the commander-in-chief Rong will be the pillar of the court and the backbone of the country. He is capable of both civil and military affairs. Contributing to serve you can destroy your achievements and not praise you for favoring your life. General Er Ningyuan and Lieutenant Chen Ying of Zhechong, who burned their salaries and broke through the scriptures. , Liang thieves harassed our Lingzhou, and Er aided the past and the present. He was given the title of Zhongwu General, and the crown prince led the guards. Zhao Lubu's Pi Xun, temporarily Xi Wu Bian, plus Pi Ji, Qin Zai. November [-]th of the first year of Wude."

Chen Ying now has a bit of knowledge in ancient classical Chinese, especially in the application of official documents.Although Li Jiancheng had breathed out early, Chen Ying was still extremely excited when he heard the imperial decree.

There will be more than 670 generals Ningyuan and Captain Zhechong in the future of the Tang Dynasty, and they belong to middle-level officers. However, General Wei Zhongwu, who is led by the right, is a fourth-rank official.In terms of authority, General Zhongwu is equivalent to General Twelve Guards.At that time, the Twelve Guards were equivalent to the twelve major military regions in the country, as their deputy.Chen Ying's military rank at this time should be comparable to lieutenant general or major general.

There is a saying that the ass decides the head, and now Chen Ying is not only thinking about himself, but whether Lingzhou can keep this time.If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.Chen Ying is now frantically preparing. There is no cotton, so he can only process enough down jackets as soon as possible. Otherwise, there will be no way to avoid large-scale non-combat attrition with only the greenhouse and sleds.

The Chen family made great efforts to buy duck feathers, but Chen Ying found that there were no more duck feathers on the market, not to mention buying them cheaply, even if they were bought at a high price, they would not be available anymore.Upon receiving the news, Chen Ying was in a hurry.