Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 641 Ordnance Quotation List

Liu Mu is very satisfied with only needing to weigh two catties a day.

You must know that the individual soldier rations of later generations, the daily staple food is 660 grams, and the rest is 140 grams, which is about [-] grams in weight.

A catty of Tang is 640 grams.

Soldiers are going to fight, and two catties of rations is already the limit to ensure the soldiers' physical strength.

Li Daozong silently calculated an account in his heart. According to this calculation, the soldiers in the big camp must still eat food, but the soldiers who go out, scouting, patrolling, spying, and raiding small-scale use of this kind of military food are extremely good. of.

Then interspersed operations, rapid marches to seize strategic locations, etc., medium-sized army operations are treasures.

Liu Mu said at this time: "There is another study here, called the diet of elite soldiers. It is divided into four types: training, marching, garrison, and pre-war barracks. These are all piled up with coins."

"Benefits?" Li Daozong asked directly.

Liu Mu pointed to the guards here: "Second brother-in-law, do you make such soldiers drink porridge every day? After drinking it for a month or two, they are still called strong soldiers. I haven't calculated how much their combat power will drop, but it will definitely drop."

"No, you must give Lao Cheng three thousand elites, at least one thousand."

Cheng Yaojin knew very well that as long as Liumu gave these 1000 people [-]% of the combat power of the one just now, plus Liumu's equipped equipment, he could easily kill [-] soldiers in Gaochang even in a sword-horse battle. The benefits of elite soldiers.I think that when the Xuanjia Army charged [-] cavalry, it defeated [-] enemy troops.

Liu Mu still said the same thing: "For this matter, the saint asks for an order, and General Yuchi writes the order."

It's not that Liu Mu is stingy, these soldiers are taboo.

No matter how strong it is, it belongs to Tang Emperor Li Shimin, not Liu Mu's private soldiers, and Liu Mu dare not let these people become his own private soldiers, the imperial envoy will definitely kill him.

What do you want to do with heavy soldiers in hand?
This is the red line.

Cheng Yaojin wanted to say something more, but Liu Mu stopped him: "Old brother Cheng, don't go and look at the equipment."

"Equipment, haha, good!" Cheng Yaojin had long wanted to take a look at Huayuan's ordnance and equipment.

But when they got to the equipment area, Cheng Yaojin was dumbfounded.

"No sword, no shield, no armor. Is this called the equipment area?" Cheng Yaojin didn't understand at all, he pulled Liu Mu and asked, "Could it be that you went to the wrong door?"

"That's right." Liu Mu replied with certainty.

After speaking, Liu Mu took out a pair of shoes and handed them to Cheng Yaojin: "These are marching shoes. They are made of mille-layer soles and the soles made of Eucommia gum. A piece of bamboo soaked in oil is added to the soles. The upper is made of high-quality thick linen. Shoes are divided into short shoes and long shoes. This is a short shoe."

Although Cheng Yaojin felt that the shoes were good, they were considered equipment.

Li Daozong knows how to walk: "Good shoes make walking more comfortable, this is very important. But what is the difference between long shoes."

Li Bi took a long shoe, which is different from boots, the calf part needs to be tied again, with a linen cover.

Before Li Daozong could ask a question, Li Bi took another belt: "A wide band of linen mixed with some white wool. This thing is called leggings. I tried it for special use. It is very good for long-distance marches, but you need to be skilled in tying it."

What Li Bi was holding was leggings, which was definitely a military item at the level of an artifact during the Anti-Japanese War.

"No, no, Lao Cheng doesn't look at these things, Lao Cheng wants to look at the ordnance, the ordnance used for fighting and killing." Cheng Yaojin obviously has no interest in these things.

These are not as good as those individual rations, those are useful, these are of little use.

Cheng Yaojin was causing trouble here, and Li Daozong couldn't ask some questions, so he had to follow Cheng Yaojin's temper and go to look at the combat ordnance first.

When he arrived at the ordnance area, Liu Mu only threw Cheng Yaojin a suit of armor and a knife.

Armor, a breastplate made of pure steel, two pieces at the front and back, thick at the front and thin at the back, tied with cloth belts under the ribs to protect the front and back.Then take the left shoulder armor, the right small armguard, and the left small buckler.

The knife is a standard Tang Heng knife, but with higher craftsmanship and better material.

"Brother Cheng, you have nothing to choose. This is the weapon you equip this time. This is a large quantity. There is a stock of 5 people equipped with it. The Ministry of Households only gave 15 guan. Do you think the money for 5 guan is enough? Bingjia money for [-] people."

Liu Mu took out the knife to feel it, and handed the knife to Cheng Yaojin.

The current market price of iron knives in Tang Chang’an is still [-] yuan. According to later generations, iron is a material close to crucible steel, and it is a good steel produced in small quantities.

And after hundreds of times of forging, there are snowflake-like patterns on the body of the knife.

The mass-produced steel of Willow did not flow into the market of Datang Chang'an too much. Except for the guaranteed supply of some agricultural tools, the inflow of ordnance steel was almost zero.

Two thousand Wen is two pennies, and this is just a knife.

After hearing the price, Cheng Yaojin was blinded, because the knife in his hand was better than the iron knife.

Li Bi also followed him and said: "According to the military law of the Tang Dynasty, there are 500 cavalry and mixed troops, 500 cavalry, 2 baggage, a total of 500 people. The infantry has [-] armored soldiers, and the armored soldiers Among them are [-] Mo Dao soldiers."

"Five thousand unarmored light soldiers, all of them are equipped with knives, half of them are for thirty arrows, one knife, one spear, and one shield. The other half carry one hundred arrows, one crossbow, one spear and no shield."

"You think I, Old Cheng, don't understand the military laws of the Tang Dynasty?" Cheng Yaojin roared angrily.

Li Bi smiled: "What I mean is, no matter how talented you are old Cheng, it is impossible to equip an army with 15 guan. Even if it is an old ordnance, 15 guan is not enough. What's more, the new army still wears vests. Cavalry mountain armor, light steel crossbow."

During the Wude period of the Tang army, the standard configuration of the regular army had reached 120% of the arrow and crossbow equipment, which can be said to be about four times the firepower of the regular army of the Han Dynasty.

In order to fight against the Turks, in the configuration of the new army planned by Liumu, the infantry units are not purely walking in theory, but sit on chariots and horses, and only fight on foot when they arrive on the battlefield.

After Li Jing, Li Ji, and Su Dingfang provided equipment and ideas in Liumu, they carefully improved the brand-new tactics.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty no longer used super-heavy armored cavalry, but light-armored fast cavalry, and advanced forward relied on bows, crossbows, heavy-armored infantry, and Modao heavy-armored soldiers.The role of the cavalry is to attack from both wings, and even go around the enemy's rear.

Li Jing summed it up in eight words.

The flanks are roundabout, front and rear flanking.

It can be said that the new army will be the most powerful anti-cavalry army after 1000 years.

Datang's army infantry is not defensive, but active offensive.

In terms of equipment, according to Li Jing's idea, there are no completely unarmored soldiers. The bow and crossbow should at least have a set of extremely light armor, that is, the ultra-light plate armor for the chest. It is enough to protect against long-distance bows and arrows.

(End of this chapter)