Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"How many of you are here?" Li Ke turned to Lu Hai and asked.

"Your Highness, there are a total of 772 camels, 1322 pack horses, 770 members of the firm, and a total of [-] shi of food has been transported. In addition, there are..." Lu Haigang hurriedly replied.

"Stop, stop, I'll report on this later, gather all these members together in a while, I didn't have the chance to meet them before, but now I have the chance, I must meet them." Li Ke said seriously.

"Yes!" Lu Hai said respectfully, this is His Highness, he will always remember us.

Li Jing's expression was a little strange, mainly because of this number... Far beyond Li Jing's imagination, more than 700 camels and more than 1000 pack horses, this number is already very scary.You must know that there were not so many local government soldiers who prepared the local logistics in the early stage of their army's departure from Tuyuhun!

Is this the power that a firm of His Majesty can use?

"Huo Gang." Li Ke said.

"The minister is here."

"Lu Hai, you send someone to arrange for the caravan to follow Huo Gang to unload the goods."

"Yes, Your Highness. We have brought the tent you requested, Your Highness. We will help you set up the tent first, Your Highness." Lu Hai said seriously.

"Okay!" Li Ke thought for a while, but he didn't refuse. This was his request, and it was related to some strategies in the future.

"Xiao Liu, let people arrange all the camel caravans, follow Huo Gang to lead, and set up His Highness's tent first." Lu Hai turned around and said.

"Yes!"

Li Jing didn't stop him. Li Ke had roughly communicated with him about his ideas, but he didn't have many people in this area, so he just needed to cooperate.

When their caravan entered the camp area, Li Jing was stunned to see in the area that had been selected in advance. These people unloaded several large discs like stone mills from several camels, and then Caravan craftsmen began to fix these stone mills with ropes to tamp the ground.

Li Jing: "..." Isn't this outrageous?Isn't it still a felt tent when you set up a bank account?Wouldn't it be over if you just put it on the grass?What are you doing?

Then Li Jing saw something even more outrageous... These craftsmen first tamped the ground of the tent area reserved for Li Ke, and then Li Jing watched helplessly as they unloaded river sand, gravel, etc. from the camels, and then Unload some gray powder in burlap bags.

After they mixed these things together and turned them into gray mud, Li Jing saw that they laid all these things on the ground that had just been compacted and surrounded by a wooden frame.

Seeing this, Li Ke smiled with satisfaction, which means that they have already made cement in the Western Regions, not bad!This order was naturally issued by Li Ke. After Li Ke asked Tian Meng to make these near Chang'an, he had already sent the craftsmen who had undergone technical training in the firm to the Western Regions.

The layout of the Western Regions is very important to Li Ke. To a certain extent, the Western Regions are Li Ke's base camp, although it seems that these countries in the Western Regions are not within Li Ke's control.

But look, Li Ke is here now!

"Okay, let's ignore these, did I ask you to bring the special weapons?" Li Ke greeted Lu Hai and the others aside, and then asked.

"Brought it."

"Go, unload the goods over there." Li Ke pointed to the logistics warehouse.

Lu Hai immediately asked people to bring some special camels to the warehouse area, and started unloading directly. Li Jing naturally followed him curiously.

"This is?" Li Jing looked curiously at the weapon unloaded from the camel.

"A new weapon, I want Dai Guogong to help me test it." Li Ke asked calmly.

"Oh?" Li Jing was a little curious. As a general, he knew nothing about weapons, so he was also curious about the new weapon Li Ke had in his mouth.

Soon after the first batch of goods were unloaded, Li Ke asked someone to bring one over, and a strange knife appeared in Li Jing's eyes.

"This is?" Li Jing looked at it curiously.

"Scimitar!" Li Ke spat out two words, "I improved a weapon that is very useful for cavalry combat."

Li Jing took the knife with some strangeness, and then pulled out the knife directly. Its length was not even as long as the Tang knife, but it had an astonishing arc, very slanted.

If there are people of later generations, they will be able to recognize it. This is the famous Mongolian scimitar!

Although Li Ke was a Han nationality in his previous life, he was born in the Hetao area of ​​Inner Mongolia and lived in Inner Mongolia. He is no stranger to Genghis Khan.

Leaving aside the rest of Mongolia, if we only talk about the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army and its ability to sweep across the Eurasian continent and create an unprecedented abnormal territory, then its weapons and tactics must be superior.

In fact, Da Song is really not weak to a certain extent, really not that weak.

As an Inner Mongolian, Li Ke naturally knows a lot about the history of the Genghis Khan period. Let’s talk about the Mongolian machete first. Many people in later generations say that the shape of the Mongolian machete was borrowed from the Arabian machete, but in fact this statement is not accurate. To be precise, When the Mongols first started to rise, the scimitar was very different from the Mongolian scimitar of later generations, but more like the Turkic scimitar.

The true spread of the Turkic scimitar is actually learned from the bronze knife of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period in China. After the rise of the Arab Empire, the Arabs learned the Turkic scimitar from the exchanges between the Arab Empire and the Turks as time went by. style, and then began to improve.Later, the Mongols who inherited the Turkic scimitar defeated the Arabs and learned from it, and the Mongols began to improve it again.

And this kind of weapon can run rampant around the world with Mongolian iron cavalry, and there is definitely a reason for it.Many people say that the Mongolian cavalry conquered the world with cavalry and archery, but this is not entirely true. In addition to cavalry and archery, the Mongolian cavalry is also very strong in frontal combat.

And this is where the Mongolian scimitar comes into play. Li Ke has watched many film and television dramas related to Genghis Khan. Among them, the dragging knife fighting method in "The Mongol King" is the real use of the Mongolian cavalry on the scimitar.

It is to place the scimitar in the right hand, with the blade facing outward, and then when rushing towards the enemy, rely on the impact of the horse to cut through the enemy's armor and head.And during this process, the cavalry did not stop.

In the TV series "Genghis Khan", the Mongolian cavalry stopped and slashed with the enemy with a scimitar. Most of them were wrong. threaten.

If they were forced to fight each other, the Mongolian cavalry would not use scimitars, but iron axes and iron bones.The iron bone is a bit like a mace, but with a smaller head, or it is a variant of a hammer, except that the head is like an iron thorn.

In fact, both the Mongolian cavalry and the Tang cavalry have different weapon ratios. For different armors, different types of enemies use different weapons.

However, if there are better weapons, Li Ke naturally wants to test them. Li Ke doesn't understand cold weapon warfare, but he thinks that cold weapons that can be very popular in history must have their excellence.

So Li Ke built a thousand Mongolian scimitars, and came here to test them. In fact, the arcs of these Mongolian scimitars are also the arcs that Li Ke had people ride privately and use the dragging method to test various arcs. The efficiency is finally summed up, including the length.

"How does this work? Why did you make this? Turkic people are also machetes, but the arc is not as big as this, and I don't think it is easy to use." Li Jing was a little puzzled.

"Lu Hai, come and test someone." Li Ke said loudly.

"Yes!" Lu Hai immediately called two caravan guards over.

Li Jing was curious, but he didn't bother. He wanted to see how the scimitar was played.