Great Tang Southern Emperor

In fact, the Confucian method of cultivating war elephants is very simple, and it is not a big secret, but Nanyang people do not like to think and have not summed up their experience.But the Han people are not as lazy as they are. After understanding the weaknesses of elephants, they summed up a set of professional targeted training programs.

Isn't the elephant afraid of loud noises and sudden movements?

Then let's play various sounds next to the elephant when it is resting, and let the elephant get used to it slowly. What's the difficulty?

At the beginning, the elephants did not get used to it, but because the soothing music was played at the beginning, not only did it not scare the elephants, but it helped the elephants to rest. Gradually, the elephants also Just accept this voice.

After the elephant gets used to it, you can try to play some slightly more intense tunes...

After adapting again, you can play intense tunes, such as "General Order" or something...

Later, you can play drums directly next to the elephant, but the elephant has gradually accepted this sound, so it will not be frightened...

Immediately afterwards, it was bombarded with cannons. At the beginning, the distance was very far, and then slowly put into the distance...

In the end, even if you put a cannon directly next to the elephant's ear, the elephant will not be frightened anymore... The Confucian elephant soldiers were successfully trained in this way.

Of course, many of them failed, but on the whole, the success rate is more than a hundred times higher than that of Nanyang people who cultivate elephant soldiers purely by luck.

The only problem is that this training method is still a bit too slow. Confucianism has been deployed in Nanyang three years ago, but until now it has only trained no more than [-] qualified elephant soldiers. Now in order to kill Li Zhen, It was all given to Bafarvalman.

While handing over the elephant soldiers to Bafa Warman, the Anti-Li Zhen Alliance also told him about the situation of the cannon in the Tang army, and demonstrated it to him several times.But the situation was the same as what Li Zhen had guessed. Facing the warning from the anti-Li Zhen alliance, Baffarvarman didn't take it seriously at all.

In his opinion, the cannons and the like are just exaggerations of the anti-Li Zhen alliance.Especially after the anti-Li Zhen alliance put a few cannons in front of him. Although the sound of the cannons did shock Bafavarman, he didn't take it seriously when he saw the power of the cannons.

The power of this cannon is indeed a bit big, but the range is only one or two feet at most. Unless there are thousands of such cannons, it is far from being able to threaten the 40 troops who want to threaten them.Does Tang Jun have thousands of cannons?Of course there are, but there are not so many cannons on the side of the Boys' Army - the Shenji Battalion has only 5000 people in total, and it is impossible for everyone in these 5000 people to be gunners, as well as spearmen and grenadiers. Wait, although they have all received cannon training, but according to the fact that one cannon requires five gunners to operate, even 5000 people can only operate a thousand guns.

It seems that the number is quite large, but the problem is that everyone is going to operate the cannon, so who will carry the ammunition?Who will guard the defense? ...

These all need people.

In fact, there are only three hundred cannons in the Shenji Battalion, but most of these cannons have a caliber of more than 150mm, and there are even a dozen heavy cannons of more than [-]mm.

It is said that the terrain of Nanyang is not suitable for the use of heavy artillery, because Nanyang is rainy, the air is humid, the ground is also muddy, and there are many jungles and mountains, which is not conducive to the advancement of heavy artillery.The quality of the 150mm heavy artillery is quite astonishing, generally more than five tons. If such a heavy weight is placed on the terrain of Nanyang, I am afraid that it will sink into the ground before taking two steps. In the soil, it is very difficult to get it out by manpower alone. Even if it gets out, it will sink into the soil after a few steps... This will seriously slow down the marching speed of the young army.

In fact, when Li Zhen came to Nanyang, she didn't bring a 150mm heavy artillery at all. She simply gave up because she considered that the heavy artillery would not be able to exert its power in Nanyang.This batch of heavy artillery was entrusted by Li Zhen to bring Hou Junji, because when he arrived at the actual place, Li Zhen discovered that although the terrain here in Nanyang is not good, there is an animal that is quite suitable as a dragging tool—an elephant. Elephants are not afraid of the weight of the cannon at all. The big deal is to disassemble the heavy cannon and let the elephants transport it separately.

So upon learning of this situation, Li Zhen urgently sent a message to Datang, asking Hou Junji to bring fifteen 150mm heavy artillery pieces and some 120mm howitzers by the way.

If Baffarman saw the power of Li Zhen's 150mm heavy artillery, maybe... no, he would definitely be more vigilant, but now he turns a deaf ear to the Confucian warning, although he has paid attention to it. I saw the power of the cannon, but I didn't pay much attention to it.

As for the reason...

Well, the main reason is that the cannons brought by Confucianism are too small and the number is too small...

This is also impossible. The supervision of Datang's military industry is very strict, especially the cannons. Each one has a unique number when it leaves the factory. It is impossible to sell it privately, and even scrap it. It can only be done after many tests, and it is impossible to obtain a large amount.

Chapter 509 150mm Cannon

Chapter 282 150mm Cannon

In fact, there are generally three ways to obtain folk cannons today. The first one is to be built by folk craftsmen, but this kind of privately cast cannon is extremely unreliable and extremely dangerous. Firing guns is gambling with the lives of the artillerymen.However, because the management of official cast cannons is too strict, it is basically impossible to flow out of the outside world, so privately cast cannons are still the mainstream of folk cannons today, and they are always facing the risk of being seized. Privately cast cannons are still in short supply.

The second method is the lost ordnance. Since it is a war, it is inevitable that the ordnance will be lost, so some people make a fuss about this matter.Every time a war is fought, a part of the arms is deliberately lost, and after the war, it will be recovered and sold privately for huge profits.However, the military is very strict in investigating this matter. Once discovered, it is definitely better to kill the wrong than to let go.So far, a total of about 2000 cannons have been lost in this way, but more than [-] people were killed or implicated. Under such a severe blow, such things have gradually been eliminated.

The third type is the same as the microscope, that is to buy through the middle layer of the arsenal, cooperate with the inside and outside and steal the parts from the arsenal, and assemble the cannon by accumulating the parts.This method is the most reliable, although the speed is a little slower, but it is the least likely to be noticed - after all, such a large arsenal, it is too common to lose one or two accessories occasionally, and no one will overdo it. Pursuant.

However, this method is not without flaws, that is, the accessories that flow out through this form are generally accessories for small artillery—after all, the larger the artillery, the larger the volume of the accessories, and the larger Accessories mean a greater possibility of exposure. Although these mice in the arsenal are greedy for money, they are much more cautious than the garrison troops in the arsenal.

This also led to the fact that the cannons spread through this method are generally small cannons, with the most being 75mm and [-]mm cannons. As for the ones that exceed [-]mm, no one dares to touch them at all.

It is precisely because of this that the momentum that Confucianism pulled in front of Bafavarman was just a 75mm cannon. Although the 75mm cannon is powerful, if you want to be stronger than an army of 40, you must have enough numbers, but Li How many people are there?

So even though the Confucianism told Bafavarman that the 75mm is only the least powerful artillery, and there are more powerful cannons in Li Zhen's barracks, he didn't care at all.After all, he is a hero of a generation. While the character of a hero endowed him with a strong will, it also gave him another negative character, that is—conceit, or self-willedness.

This is a side effect of his strong willpower. If you want him to believe the truth of the matter, you must let him see it with your own eyes.Otherwise, no matter what you say, before seeing the power of heavy artillery, he will never believe that there is such a terrible weapon in the world...

In his mind, the range of the 75mm cannon is only about three feet at most, and the caliber of the 150mm cannon is twice as large as that of the 75mm cannon, so the corresponding firepower is at most twice as large. doubled, but it is still useless to his 40 army.

From these, we can know that Bafa Valman's mathematics is obviously not good. He doesn't know that there is a way of multiple growth called geometric multiple growth. It is true that 150 mm is only twice as large as 75 mm, but the power is far from the sky. A 75mm shell can only reach a radius of three feet, but a 150mm artillery cannon will shoot down a radius of ten feet. There is absolutely no grass. Shock people to death.There is no one who can stand within thirty feet, and the power is not comparable to that of a mere 75mm artillery.

This means that if Li Zhen did not lose her mind and pulled those 250mm cannons, the power would be even more insane. There would be no one alive within thirty feet, and the direct killing effect would be as high as one hundred feet, especially in the When faced with a dense formation, hundreds of people will be killed in one shot...

It's a pity that the 250mm cannon puts too much pressure on logistics. The shells alone weigh hundreds of kilograms. How to transport them?

And it's not just the problem of transportation, the shock wave generated by such a huge shell can kill all the artillery around it, and there is also a strong recoil, which is simply not something the army can solve-in fact, this is a specialized It is a pity that this research is a bit too advanced for the cannons prepared for the navy. Datang has not yet produced a battleship that can carry this level of cannons. Save it for future use.

However, although there are no 250mm cannons, 150mm heavy cannons are enough. There are more than a dozen of them in the Youth Army, and more than a dozen 150mm heavy cannons. The power of heavy artillery is several times stronger, and the rate of fire is also much stronger than that of 250mm cannons. In short, it is not worse than 250mm cannons.

It's a pity that there are 150mm cannons in the Boys' Army barracks, not to mention Bafa Warman, even the Anti-Li Zhen Alliance is not clear, they only know that there are some 120mm heavy artillery in the Boys' Army, so It's just that they solemnly warned Bafarvalman to be careful several times, but in fact, even they themselves didn't pay much attention to it.As for the 150 mm, they didn't know anything about it, otherwise they would not just warn Baffa Varman, but would do everything in their power to prevent this war.

Although this seems ridiculous, after all, the outcome of a war cannot be determined by weapons, but an advanced weapon can definitely affect the balance of a war, especially strategic weapons—and there is no doubt that during this period, 150 The millimeter heavy artillery is definitely one of the strategic weapons.

Although Li Zhen may not be able to win this war with the suppressing firepower of the 150mm heavy artillery, Li Zhenke never planned to use the heavy artillery as suppressive firepower. The reason why he asked Hou Junji to bring it to him Fifteen cannons, that's because when he was studying the map near Tonglu City, he discovered something very interesting, especially after seeing a secret report in Fan Xueyi Palace, Li Zhen became even more interested. Quickly formulated a crazy plan...

If the war can really be carried out according to his plan, let alone the 40 Chenla army, even if there are another 40, Li Zhen can eat them all...

Chapter 510 Separation of the Army

Chapter 283 The Separation of the Army

Closer to home, when they heard that Luo Tianyuan actually thought that if he wanted to eliminate less than half of Li Zhen's remnants of the youth army, Chenla would need to pay at least a hundred thousand sacrifices, and some people immediately became unhappy.

A tall man stood up and said disdainfully: "Hmph, you Tang people are just cowardly. There are more than 1 remnants and defeated soldiers, and we have to sacrifice 10 people? Luo Tianyuan, you think too highly of that Li Zhen, right? Your Majesty, if you give me [-] troops, if you can't get rid of Li Zhen, I'd rather come to see you."

Baffarman frowned and shook his head, saying: "If unnecessary sacrifices can be avoided, let's avoid them as much as possible. Li Zhen is not easy to mess with. Being able to compete with our people one to two in the street fighting advantage, the combat effectiveness of the Boys' Army should not be underestimated. Anyway, now Li Zhen has no escape route, even if we push him slowly, we can kill him, not to mention we still have a trump card, which is useless."

"Your Majesty is wise." Luo Tianyuan nodded and smiled when he saw this, "Actually, we also meant the same thing. According to our information, although the young army was cut off by us, they did not lose their will. The meaning has greatly increased. There is an allusion in our Central Plains, which is called breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, putting it to death and then reborn, and the king should know it."

Bafarvalman took over the conversation: "Of course I know this. The name of this battle is the Battle of Julu, right? It's about the decisive battle between Xiang Yu and the main force of the Qin army. The bridge scuttled the boats crossing the river, smashed the cooking pot, and completely cut off their retreat. The soldiers knew that they had no retreat, and they had to live or die. Finally, they broke out with soaring fighting spirit and charged nine times in a row. In the end, the Qin army was crushed, and 40 Qin army was defeated by tens of thousands of people, completing the most classic battle of winning more with less."

"Your Majesty is really knowledgeable, and the students admire it." Luo Tianyuan first praised Bafavalman, and then said: "Since Your Majesty knows about this battle, I can't help but think about it carefully. How is the current environment different from the Battle of Julu back then?" The only difference is that at that time Xiang Yu deliberately cut off his retreat, but now we are the ones who pushed Li Zhen into a desperate situation. But no matter what the process is, after this situation, the boy army will definitely have a strong will to fight Outburst, they are definitely not easy to mess with at this time.

Under such circumstances, our best way is to wait for work at leisure and take it slowly.There are less than [-] remnant soldiers in the Boys' Army. Although the fighting spirit is high now, the fighting spirit will weaken with the passage of time. If we can only encircle and not fight, and surround the Boys' Army for ten days and a half months, Even if we don't take the initiative to attack at that time, the Boys' Army will collapse without attacking.

Of course, we know that it is impossible for the king to wait that long, and it will take a short time to defeat Li Zhen.

At this time, it is necessary to fight and win, and the elephant cavalry is the best pioneer. We don't even need to take action. As long as the elephant cavalry rushes back and forth a few times, the boy army will be defeated by itself. "

Bafavalman said with a look of admiration: "Sometimes I really envy you Datang, thousands of years of civilization inheritance, almost anything that happened can find similar examples in history, so as to learn from experience, unlike us , Everything has to be explored and advanced by oneself, whether it is right or wrong can only be known after verification.”

"Your Majesty is too modest. We are just relying on the afterglow of our predecessors. Unlike your Majesty, you have conquered such a large country with nothing. You are much more powerful than us." Luo Tianyuan can act as a contact The liaison between Chenla and the anti-Li Zhen alliance is naturally not the kind of nerd who only reads dead books. He is quite smooth. Varman laughed.

"My lord, it's time to separate our people, right? Anyway, Li Zhen has been driven to a dead end. At this time, it is meaningless to hide like a cavalry." The person who spoke was the first Han on the lower left of Bafarman The well-dressed scribes are not inferior to Luo Tianyuan in terms of demeanor, but just looking at where he is sitting, one can tell that his status in Bafavalman's heart is much higher than Luo Tianyuan's.

Although this man is dressed as a Han, he is a mixed race of Han and Chenla. There is also a Han named Zhu Yunrang. His mother is Han, and his father is a real Chenla.Zhu Yunrang grew up in the Central Plains since he was a child, he is quick-witted and eager to learn, even in terms of ability, he is not much worse than those servant ministers in the court.

But later his father was seriously ill and returned to his roots, so he returned to Chenla with his father, and quickly showed his talent and learning. He was valued by Baffarman and became his number one counselor, and helped him complete the annexation of Funan. Overlord, become the unparalleled wise man in Chenla's mind.