Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Of course, it is impossible for Li Ke to know what his old Li is doing. I have to say that this cake is made with pure natural materials and sugar, and it tastes very good!It can be said to be a one-time success!

At least Jinyang and the others eat with bright eyes. Compared with all kinds of delicacies, Jinyang and the others obviously like sweets more, and children like sweets.

But it's impossible for Li Ke to feed them too much.

When Li Ke was making cakes in the palace, there was a courtyard in Qunxian Square in Chang'an City, where caravans composed of nomadic peoples loaded cars. It seemed that they were leaving Chang'an City.

It's just that they didn't notice that a few children outside the door were playing here. When they saw that they were loading their cars and were about to leave, one of these children left here quietly.

The few remaining children were still playing around.

In a courtyard not far from them, several school lieutenants including the original captain Zhang Xi are also here.

"The news has been confirmed. This group of people hastily sold all the goods this morning, and then bought a lot of food, cloth and other supplies. They said they would leave for Shiwei tomorrow. According to the shopkeeper who bought their goods, These people sell goods...it doesn't seem to be for the maximum profit of the goods." A school captain quickly reported.

"How many of them are there?" Zhang Xi asked with a sneer.

"The entire caravan has a total of 47 people."

"The 500 people with the best skills from each battalion will disperse out of the city today and prepare their weapons and armor. Since they want to seek death, they can't blame us? Kill anyone who dares to harm His Highness!" Zhang Xi said viciously.

"Yes!"

"Since they are leaving tomorrow, His Highness will hold a road unveiling ceremony outside the Golden Light Gate the next day. If they have ulterior motives, I don't believe it. Have you investigated clearly in the past few days? Are they connected with people in Chang'an City? "

"No, since they entered Chang'an City, they haven't contacted anyone so far. We have investigated everyone who talked to them. It can't be their spies or the like. Goguryeo, Khitan, Shiwei, etc. The envoys of other countries have also been within our monitoring range, and they have nothing unusual."

"It seems that the purpose of this group of people has been very confirmed before they came to Chang'an, so they don't need to exchange information with other people after they come here, so as to avoid leaking some spies in Chang'an City, but these have nothing to do with us. "Zhang Xi thought for a while, and guessed the general idea.

As a captain, Zhang Xi has read some military books. Although he didn't read much, after following His Highness, he relearned a lot in this year, not only literate, but also a lot of classics. He taught himself a lot.

Compared with a year ago, Zhang Xi's height of seeing the problem is naturally much higher.

From the behavior of these people, Zhang Xi guessed at once that the purpose of their coming to Chang'an was this, and the purpose was clear, so they didn't need to contact other people at all.

In the evening, the gang of assassins in Chang'an City had already been cleaned up. Everyone was in the courtyard, but they were always being watched. But outside Chang'an City, five hundred soldiers with the best skills and few injuries had gathered. Several courtyards in nearby villages.

All of them have a pair of armor next to them. This pair of armor is different from the Mingguang armor of Tang Dynasty. Its whole body is made of fine steel, with a thickness of 1.5 mm, and the entire chest is covered by a person's ribs. All areas of the body are one-piece, including the back.

Because Li Ke has tested it, the previous 3mm stainless steel armor plate is too thick, and the cost performance is not high.

This kind of hard shell armor has improved protection against blunt weapon attacks compared with bright light armor.

The inner lining is made of cowhide, and the joints of the shoulders are made of fine steel armor. The large and small arms below the shoulders also have hard-shell arm guards composed of two curved steel plates. The joints are connected by the armor plate to ensure flexibility.

The abdomen is also composed of lobster shells, and the skirt armor stretches below the waist and covers about half of the thighs.

The reason why the skirt armor is made of lobster shells is to prevent the legs from being teased.The original bright light armor skirt armor is due to the relationship between armor pieces. Although it has protective capabilities, if it is kicked up from below, the skirt armor composed of armor pieces will rebound upwards with the enemy's strength, and the enemy's legs will still hit your side. The key.

But this kind of hard-shell skirt armor, because it can't turn up, the kicked leg will be directly blocked by the steel armor, and even if the enemy's leg is not protected, under the huge force, it can directly destroy one of the enemy's legs. not allowed.

Inside the skirt armor are two independent leg armors. Like the arm armor, they are composed of semi-circular hard steel armor, and the middle knee part is connected by a armor plate.

Because most of the protective armor, including helmets, are stamped by hydraulic presses, the manufacturing speed is much faster than that of Mingguang armor.

It's just a little cumbersome to wear and requires constant training and proficiency.

The protective area of ​​this set of armor is larger than the original Mingguang armor, but the overall weight is almost the same, and because it is made of fine steel, its protective ability is several levels higher than that of iron armor.

At least now that the heavy armor commonly used in various countries is iron armor, crossbows with armor-piercing arrows can penetrate at close range, but the steel armor with a thickness of 1.5 mm is currently even at close range It can't penetrate completely, even if it penetrates, it is basically not lethal, because there is a layer of cowhide lining inside it.

The weapons in their hands, Tang knives and arrows are all made of fine steel blades, arrows, and all arrows are made of triangular armor-piercing steel arrows.

And this part of Tang Dao is the first batch of Tang Dao after being folded and forged a hundred times with a hydraulic machine. The main purpose is to see how much the performance can be improved, and whether it is worth continuing to forge like this in the future.

"Tomorrow, when they leave Chang'an City, do it directly. No matter where they plan to stay and then sneak back to Chang'an City, we will lay an ambush here!" Zhang Xi pointed to a place near Chang'an City and said. .

This place is less than ten miles away from Chang'an City, and there is a hill nearby. There are places where people can hide on both sides of the official road, and the distance to the nearest village on the left and right is not close.

"Yes!" Everyone shouted.

"Remember, give them a chance to surrender at the beginning. If they resist, they will be killed on the spot! These are their five leaders who were found through observation. These five people will live." Zhang Xi handed five stacks of blank papers to The following lieutenant.

The white paper is the five people sketched by the artist of Yuelai Trading Company. After seeing these sketches, you can basically confirm it immediately by taking a second look.

"understand!"

"Rest now, and go into ambush tomorrow morning."