Tang Dynasty Never Night

The four prefectures of Sha, Su, Gan, and Shan are in the north of Tubo, and the route of Tubo's attack has always been to the east, because the Tang Dynasty is in the east. After paying tribute and various compensations, the station was moved to the east of Bowo, and it was this border line that the Tang Dynasty had always guarded against. After all, everyone knew that Tubo’s ambition to compete for the control of the Silk Road was not a day or two.

Previously, Li Xian always felt that he was about to hit the capital of Tubo, and Tubo was beaten so hard that he couldn't recover for at least ten years, but he didn't expect them to start fighting again so soon.

What surprised him the most was that Tubo didn't seem to want to test Datang this time, but played for real. After all, where the four states were located, Daxue Mountain and Qilian Mountain formed a natural barrier, and they wanted to attack the four states. It is necessary to climb over the Daxue Mountain and Qilian Mountain. This difficulty...is really not small, and anything may happen during the process of crossing.

It is even possible that only [-] to [-] will be left after [-] soldiers and horses crossed mountains and mountains. Tubo would rather cross mountains and mountains to come and attack these four states. The motivation is really intriguing, why bother?

However, it was precisely because of this that Tubo caught Datang by surprise. There was no way. Tubo was blocked by the Qilian Mountains and Daxue Mountains in the north, and the Kunlun Mountains in the northwest. There are not many. If you want to come to Tubo, you know this and start to take risks.

It's just that when Tubo invaded, Dashi, who had been beaten honestly before, also began to resist. Fortunately, Lou Shide never let down his vigilance and was not beaten back, but the war in Ashgabat was also extremely tragic.

Li Xian frowned: "I always feel that...the reactions of Dashi and Tubo are a bit wrong."

Zheng Qi put his hand on the map and clicked it. After reading it, Li Xian couldn't understand: "Ashgabat is still far away from Shazhou and other places. Even if they join forces to defeat them, they can't become a coalition army. If we separate..."

"What they want is to separate." Zheng Qi clicked on the location of the four states and said: "This place looks inconspicuous, but if it is lost, it will still affect our army. Look at our army's supply line."

Fuck!When Li Xian saw it, he was in a bad mood, because the grain production in the northwest region was not high, so there were no granaries there. Of course, there were military warehouses, but in recent years, wars have been frequent, and most of the military warehouses have transshipment warehouses. It turns out that the transportation of the transshipment warehouses is all from the pass. Although the Tang Dynasty has a large area, even if the grain road is not within the territory of the four states, it is still very close to the four states.

Especially Shanzhou, if it is taken by Tubo, then once the food road is cut off, the impact will be great, even if it is diverted, it will waste time, so these four states cannot be lost!

Moreover, Tubo's intentions are quite obvious. They probably not only stared at the grain road, but also wanted to let the Tang army divide its troops. Dashi competes for time.

Lou Shide is facing such an urgent need, can he still sit still?

In fact, Lou Shide's psychological quality is good. Although in today's peaceful and prosperous age, officials of the Tang Dynasty are everywhere, they are the most reliable comrades-in-arms when facing foreign enemies, not to mention As for Zheng Qi, everyone knows that Zheng Qi has a good relationship with King Shou, and King Shou also has the right to speak in the court.

The most wonderful thing is that the current prince has no conflict with King Shou, which makes the court look extremely harmonious. If the internal fighting is gone, we should clean up the foreign enemies. Therefore, what Lou Shide has to do is to be stable and guard Ashgabat. It's too fierce. In order to preserve the combat power, it doesn't matter to retreat and give up Ashgabat. Anyway, he just needs to wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and the Tubo on the other side...should not be taken care of by him for the time being.

In fact, Datang's reaction was already very fast, and Zheng Qi's annual leave was gone, so he was directly asked to lead the team to carry Tubo - no one took Tubo seriously, Zheng Qi was still an adjutant in name, but in fact But it is already at the level of a general.

Li Xian is not worried about Zheng Qi. To be honest, the main reason why Zheng Qi can't be the main general is because he is too young, and he has no background and power behind him. However, if he compares Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, Li Xian feels that those old officials suppressed him so much. His family Qingcheng is simply a typical representative of envy, jealousy and hatred.

On the contrary, Zheng Qi knew in his heart that Huo Qubing was a young general, but he was only in charge of fighting. Zheng Qi also had a hand in martial arts. Don't hold back now. In the future, he will threaten the new king even more than those old officials. Anyway, the new king can still boil the old minister to death, he is still so young... there is no other way to go except to die suddenly.

Just press it, anyway, all the treatment that should be given has been given, the only one who is a little worried is his mother, Yang's belly has been four months now, it is estimated that when Zheng Qi comes back, his brother or sister will have already died. I have to say that I am still a bit regretful when I was born.

After Li Xian sent Zheng Qi away, he turned his head and devoted himself to the research of gunpowder and artillery. In the beginning, when he researched gunpowder, he first tested it on Tubo. Can't favor one another, can't we?

To be honest, both the bird gun and the artillery are transformed from the fire gun. Among them, the artillery is easier, and if you want to use it in a short time, the bird gun is really not suitable. This thing is small and easy to use. That's right, but it has higher requirements for accuracy. If you accidentally shoot your teammate's head in the melee, you will be a proper pig teammate.

If he thinks about it this way, he probably needs to set up a firearms battalion or something after researching the blunderbuss. He will train the blunderbuss specifically. After the bludgeon becomes more popular, he will train in the whole army. Well, this direction is right. Yes, then... let's study artillery first.

In fact, strictly speaking, there is no need to study the shape of the artillery now. Li Xian gave them a blueprint, and the technical geeks tossed up more tricks than he thought. In fact, the most important thing is to change the shell.

Most of the shells used by firecrackers are stone shells. After all, this thing is easy to make and stable, but the power of stone shells is just like that. The reason why they can catch the opponent by surprise is more often because of the momentum brought by the launch. , This force is very strong, it hurts to hit people, but sometimes it is easy to be blocked, that is to say, the lethality is not strong enough.

Li Xian also sighed when he was studying the shells. He felt that he was about to become a big killer. He just studied these when he had nothing to do. He had never killed anyone himself, but the people who died under his hands had already been ignored. It counts.

I just thought about it, if he didn't study these things, it would not be the Tubo people who were cannibals, but Tang Jun. At this time, his narrow national mind has brought great benefits, and he doesn't pay attention to humanity and inhumanity, as long as he is human. Just don't suffer.

After Li Xian threw the blueprint of the artillery to the technical house of the Ministry of Industry, he began to study the ammunition. It's not that he didn't want to leave it to others for research. He also wanted to let the people do all the work and relax himself. But the problem is the shell. As long as he can come up with something, it can save the people below a lot of detours.

Strictly speaking, the manufacture of shells is more delicate than the artillery itself, from front to rear hood, fuze, projectiles, barrel, primer, because the research is on the ammunition of large artillery, there must be belts and centering parts around the ammunition, Of course, the latter two can also be omitted, but what Li Xian can do now is probably grenades, and other artillery can't make them. Many of them need electricity to detonate, and they are too complicated to do.

It's just this grenade that makes Li Xian very embarrassed. Rifled guns are used for howitzers. In later generations, many guns used rifled guns. This kind of guns can ensure the stability of the ammunition to the maximum extent.

So now comes the problem... making rifled guns with the current technology... is a bit difficult!The only thing Li Xian can ask now is that they smooth the inner wall of the cannon barrel first. At first, Li Xian didn't let them build large copper cannons directly. To be honest, using copper now is equivalent to burning money, and Li Xian is also very Distressed, so I can only improve the fire gun first.

It's just that the progress over there was too slow. Even though Li Xian had always believed in the efficiency of the Ministry of Industry, he was a little anxious to wait, so he couldn't help but ran to the forging bureau.

To be honest, he has never been to a place like the Forge Bureau since he crossed over. After all, this is not an elegant place. He just needs to order others to do it, but now... others are doing it too slowly. He was anxious, even if he came over, he couldn't do anything, but at least he could take a look at it to make him feel at ease.

As a result, I really saw the problem at this glance. The mold-making technology in this era is too backward. No, no, it should be said that there is no mold-making technology at all, and it is precisely because of this that every firecracker is basically made by hand. As a result, the cost is high and the time-consuming is naturally high.

Li Xian walked around inside and came out sweating profusely, then turned his head and went back to Shouwang's mansion to study the mold-opening technique that he wished he could not compete with.In Li Xian's head, he thought about how to sharpen a tool before doing a good job, or how to sharpen a knife and chop firewood, etc., and wrote down the main points of mold opening in his memory.

To be honest, he knows that the one he wrote is not particularly suitable for making molds for metal utensils. Just kidding, he is not a professional in this field. He knows this stuff because he made models by himself, making resin models by himself. He has experience, and he has never touched a real metal mold.

But for the current Datang, even such a simple way to open a mold is not available. Li Xian writes out what he knows and leaves it to the technical geeks. There are many things that are not available at this time.However, in the process of writing, Li Xian suddenly discovered that there was no glycerin in this era. He remembered that glycerin was also an indispensable raw material when making cannonballs.

Glycerin is generally recovered from the by-products of soap making from animal and vegetable fats, so... Li Xian stared at the stack of papers on the table in a daze. He never imagined that he was obviously studying the tall shells. Did you go to study soap making in a blink of an eye?

It's strange, but what should be done is still to be done. Li Xian remembered that the ingredients of soap are actually very simple, which are oil and sodium hydroxide. Oh, to put it simply, oil and caustic soda. These two things are not rare. Of course, this is As far as he is concerned, even lard is very cherished in this era, and poorer people can't afford it. If it weren't for Li Xian's research on how to raise pigs and make pork go to the table of nobles, more and more pig farmers would start Get up, now it is not easy for him to get some lard.

Now that they were all done, Li Xian simply studied it carefully, adding a little spice to the soap, and that would be soap, but everyone thought that Li Xian made this for that soap, but no one thought that Li Xian The main thing is glycerin.

What is the use of soap or something other than looking taller in this day and age?That is to sell some money, huh?sell money!

After Li Xian asked people to put away all the glycerin, he turned around and asked someone to make some special shapes for the soap, and then ordered some beautiful soap boxes made of stone. The soap boxes were carved with beautiful patterns and inlaid with pearls and gemstones. To be honest, the cost of the soap box is much higher than that of the soap. With such a packaging, it seems that the soap is all kinds of high-end and high-end. Li Xian took several soap boxes and gave it to his mother in a blink of an eye.

Empress Wu naturally likes it tightly. Empress Wu has lived a life of rich clothes and fine food since she was a child, and her quality of life has always been very high. When Li Xian added fragrances to soaps, she also chose light and elegant fragrances, which are refreshing and fragrant but not Tired.

"Why did you think of doing this?" Empress Wu knew that Li Xian was very busy recently, so busy that she didn't even have time to say hello, why did she come up with this thing in a blink of an eye?Shouldn't he be studying that artillery?

If it were another person, Li Xian would definitely say sweetly that no matter how busy you are, you can’t forget Aniang, I made this for Aniang specially, but under Empress Wu’s sharp eyes, I can’t say these words So he honestly said that it was because he wanted something, and then he made it.

In fact, Empress Wu just asked casually what Li Xian was up to lately. She and Li Zhi knew exactly what he was looking for, and they had heard that what he wanted was glycerin.

The Princess Taiping next to her was obviously new to this, and she pestered Empress Wu to want this item, Li Xian immediately said: "Sister, don't worry, I'll send you some later, I still have some over there, this is the first wave, I looked good and sent it to my mother."

Princess Taiping threw herself into Li Xian's arms and said sweetly, "Thank you, Brother Seven."

Li Xian pinched Princess Taiping's little face, and then found that this little lolita had already started to put on makeup, and then turned around and remembered that glycerin seemed to be able to make cosmetics, face cream, lipstick, etc... oh my god, he seems like Accidentally discovered a huge business opportunity.

It's true that Li Xian likes to help Datang research all kinds of hot weapons, but he also wants to make money for himself. He didn't have any good ideas before, so he could only follow the trend to buy land and collect rent. Now he has found a way to make a fortune for himself. On the road to becoming rich, he was very happy for several days in a row.

I am happy, the research progress of the cannonball is the same as pressing the fast forward button, but the rifled cannon is still being improved. Li Xian can only take the firecracker he made before, and make a small grenade according to his own ideas, and let it The inside of the gun is ground and rifled by hand, and new ammunition is tested.

To be honest, this experiment is much more dangerous than the previous firecracker experiment, but fortunately everyone is far away.At the beginning, the ammunition was still a bit unstable, and occasionally the chamber would explode. This situation was a little serious. Li Xian stopped the experiment and continued to study, but no matter how hard he tried, the chamber might still explode. This could not be avoided. In the end, Li Xian He had no choice but to give up, but he was a little anxious.

Firecrackers are relatively small and not very powerful, and they are far away from people when they are used, so the damage caused by the explosion is less, but if it is a cannon...if the chamber explodes...it will be fatal, on this side of the battlefield I just ignited the fuse, and the chamber exploded over there. What's the matter if the enemy killed his own people before he was injured?

But if you want to completely solve this problem, you must first solve another problem-the heat resistance of the material.So the topic is back again, or iron is better.

Just when Li Xian was in a hurry, good news finally came from the Forging Bureau——the stability of the iron firecracker had almost met their requirements.

Not to mention Li Xian at this time, even Master Xu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, oh my god...he feels sorry for these bastards who burned money, it's all copper, it's all money!Master Xu Yu used to laugh at Dai Zhide for being like a hairless iron rooster, but now he feels that he is about to become a hairless iron cock, and now he feels pain when he sees the faces of Minister of Industry or Li Xian!

The high temperature resistance of iron firecrackers is also better than that of copper, and the rate of blasting has been greatly reduced. Of course, it is not completely absent. It is possible to have this ability, but the problem is... If it is purely handmade... then the production will be very slow.

Because of this, Li Xian almost pulled out his hair. The stability of the cannon is so difficult to maintain, so the bird gun... Is he leaving it for future generations to study.

After the semi-handcrafted cannon was finally formed, Li Xian's sense of accomplishment and pride when he looked at the big guy almost brought tears to his eyes.

It was finally a finished product, and Li Xian definitely couldn't hide it, so he directly submitted a letter to the leader for review.And Li Zhi had long thought about the power of artillery, but he had been persuaded by Li Xian before, not only Li Xian, but also Li Xian, Empress Wu, they all disagreed, even when the emperor was dissuaded by everyone around him Nor can he go his own way.

Now finally had the opportunity, Li Zhi not only took the courtiers by himself, but even brought his wife and young children. Li Xian, who was inspecting the work on the spot, was almost scared to death when he saw Princess Taiping when he went to meet the holy driver.

What is his father going to do? He is so lively and cute. What if my sister, who I still feel pity for, is scared?This is not an outing. Why did you bring your daughter here?

As for Empress Wu, Her Majesty's psychological endurance is very accessible, and there is no surprise.It's just that Li Xian forgot that Princess Taiping is also the daughter of Li Zhi and Empress Wu anyway, so would she be scared casually?

On his side, he stayed by his sister's side tremblingly, and didn't even do the final checkup. He just planned to comfort his sister when she was scared.

Seeing his nervous appearance, Li Zhi and Empress Wu smiled and did not speak, and let this silly son be worried. To be honest... Li Zhi thought he was a humane emperor, and he treated his brothers and sisters honestly. But when he saw Li Xian, he seemed to have seen the emotional model between brothers and sisters in the common people's family. If Li Xian was making jokes, he would feel that their family is not a royal family, but an ordinary common people's family. The family business is a little bigger.

When the cannon was pushed out, Li Zhi's eyes lit up when he saw the big dark guy. In Li Xian's eyes, this thing was ugly. If it wasn't for the poor craftsmanship, he would definitely modify it. In the eyes of Li Zhi and the courtiers, the ugly cannon in his eyes is even more attractive than a peerless beauty!

Because there is no noise reduction technology, the sound of the artillery is very loud. The so-called deafening sound is really not nonsense. Of course, the louder the sound is, the more powerful it is. Li Zhi is excited when he sees it, but he is relatively stable. , Li Xian is a bit bad, he almost jumped down to look after seeing the power of the artillery!

Princess Taiping looked addictive and was not afraid at all, Li Xian tugged on Li Xian's sleeve while looking at him with disgust: "Don't make trouble, it's dangerous down there."

Li Xian looked at him sadly, and looked at the artillery with an affectionate gaze, Li Xian felt in a trance that he was probably the old bald donkey who broke up the white lady and Xu Xian.

"This... artillery was famous and taboo?" Li Zhi was very happy to see it. There is nothing that makes the emperor happier than his own military strength.

"No." Li Xian always called Huo Pao very simply and rudely.

Li Zhi thought for a while: "It's called Tiger Crouching Pao."

Li Xian: =口= Isn’t that the name of the artillery equipped by Qi’s army?But... the artillery that has been produced now is indeed quite similar to the Qi's army.

Li Zhi came happily and left happily. He issued two orders as soon as he was happy. The first order was: move Ji Wanglun to be Xiangwang.

This is nothing new, Li Dan has already moved out of the palace, and it is appropriate to seal him up a little bit, but the second edict caught Li Xian by surprise.

The governor of Yangzhou, the governor of Anxi Dufu, the governor of Anxi Dufu, Shou Wangxian was the marshal of the Taozhou Road, and the [-] generals including Liu Shenli, Minister of the Ministry of Industry; Qibi Heli and other troops fought against Tubo.

Li Xian: What the hell? !