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"Your Majesty, since you don't want to offer weapons to His Royal Highness Qi, why not do this, we can buy a batch of new firearms from His Royal Highness Qi, and then see if these two firearms are really invincible as Li Shi and the others said. " Li Ji suddenly stood up and said.The reason why he proposes to buy firearms is that he believes that those two firearms are really as powerful as Li Shi described. As long as Li Shimin sees the power of the two firearms with his own eyes, then let him agree to ask Li Min for the manufacturing method. Things are much easier.

Li Shimin may not be unable to see the hidden meaning in Li Ji's words, but he is also very curious about the two weapons called muskets and cannons. He wants to see them with his own eyes. Isn't it really so powerful?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin immediately said: "Okay, then let the Ministry of Households allocate a sum of money, and go to Dengzhou to discuss the purchase with Liu Lang!"

Hearing that Li Shimin's tone was finally loosened, Li Jing and Li Ji were finally relieved. Although it took a while to buy weapons, as long as His Majesty can see the power of the two weapons with his own eyes, and then agree to issue a decree to King Qi for manufacturing method, then it's all worth it.

But just when Li Shimin was about to ask someone to draft the imperial decree, suddenly a little Huangmen rushed over, saw Li Shimin and immediately reported: "His Majesty, His Royal Highness King Qi has sent someone back, and is now asking for an audience outside the palace gate. ” Capital Datang 397

When Li Shimin heard the news, he exchanged glances with Li Jing and the others, and then ordered: "Acclaim him an audience!"

Xiao Huangmen agreed, turned around and ran away.After a while.He saw a black and thin middle-aged man wearing a general's costume walking quickly, and he immediately gave a military salute when he saw Li Shimin: "Liu Rengui, the last general, see my emperor long live!"

"Pingshen!" Li Shimin looked up and down Liu Rengui in some doubts, and said after a while, "Liu Rengui, I remember that when you went to Dengzhou with King Qi, you were the head of the palace. Become a general?"

When Li Yin went to Dengzhou to take office, he specially appointed the unknown Liu Rengui as the head of the palace, which surprised Li Shimin.So I specially summoned the other party, and it turned out that the other party had a square personality and was serious in his work, so he was indeed a talent to be made.That's why they agreed. Liu Rengui changed from a civil servant to a military commander when he saw the other party again, which is very rare.

Liu Rengui didn't expect His Majesty to remember him as a small person, so he replied very excitedly: "Your Majesty, the last general originally served as the head of the palace, but later His Highness needed to organize a new army, and the other existing troops The army is different, although the general has no experience in leading troops, His Royal Highness Qi just happened to like the general. He thought that in this way he would not be bound by his previous experience. That's why he handed over the new army to the general for training!"

Hearing Liu Rengui said that he had formed a new army, Li Shimin's heart was moved, and he immediately asked, "Is the new army you formed a firearms battalion that shined in the Japanese battlefield?"

"His Royal Highness, it is the Firearms Camp!" Liu Rengui replied again.

Hear Liu Rengui's answer.Li Shimin glanced at Li Jing and the others next to him, and there was a hint of complacency in his eyes. Although Liu Rengui hadn't said his purpose for coming this time, Li Shimin was so smart.Only from Liu Rengui's position, he can guess the reason why he came to see him.

In fact, Li Shimin guessed right, Liu Rengui did come to give him guns and artillery manufacturing methods, and also brought a hundred soldiers from the firearms battalion. He will stay in Chang'an for the time being, and teach the generals of the Tang Dynasty the tactics of the new firearms, so as not to make detours when they are groping.

After Li Shimin and Li Jing listened to Liu Rengui's statement of his intention, they all showed excited expressions, especially Li Shimin, he was more satisfied with his son in his heart, and he never concealed anything from himself, this is the greatest filial piety .But then Li Shimin thought of Li Chengqian and Li Tai, both his sons, who had done so many nasty things behind their backs in order to fight for the position.Now Li Yin has developed a large area of ​​land overseas, but the two of them only know how to fight each other. This kind of comparison makes Li Shimin's love for Li Yin even more aggravated.

Liu Rengui came here to demonstrate the power of the new firearms. During this period of time, Li Shimin and the others have heard reports about the two new firearms, so they have been curious for a long time. Now Liu Rengui said that he has brought He brought a batch of muskets and cannons to Chang'an, and now they are parked in the Prince Qi's mansion. As a result, Li Shimin immediately ordered all the new troops to bring muskets and cannons to the Thunderbolt Courtyard outside the city, where there is a special firearms demonstration field.

When Li Shimin and the veterans like Li Jing came together, the new army had already finished their preparations. Twenty cannons were lined up, and the muzzles of the guns were black and pointed at the sky. But it seems like a tiger is entrenched head by head, which makes people feel palpitations.

Li Xiaogong, who just arrived, stepped forward to touch these cannons. Although his face was a little thin, his eyes were piercing, as if he wanted to see how these cannons killed the enemy at a glance.

Originally, Li Xiaogong didn't go to persuade Li Shimin with Li Jing and the others, mainly because he was Li Yin's cousin and had the closest relationship with Li Yin, so although he was envious of the power of the two new firearms, he couldn't get along well with them. Li Jing and the others went together to persuade Li Shimin to ask Li Yin for it, otherwise it would be too unkind, but when he heard that Li Yin sent Liu Rengui to demonstrate the firearms, he immediately ran over on horseback.

According to the original history, Li Xiaogong should have passed away due to illness this year, but the current Li Xiaogong is different from the history. He is now one of the vice presidents of the military academy, and he usually has a lot of things to do. He stayed at home all day like in history, and he is the kind of person who gets more energetic as he gets busier, so his body and bones have become stronger and stronger in recent years, and he even showed signs of getting fatter. However, at the beginning of this year, he fell seriously ill. Fortunately, after Sun Simiao's diagnosis and treatment, and his body is relatively strong, so he carried it over, but he was much thinner than before.

Seeing Li Xiaogong groping up and down and studying the artillery, Li Jing, who is also the vice principal of the military academy, looked at the Musketeers lined up in three rows next to him with bright eyes. He walked over and looked at the clothes of the Musketeers. Then he looked at the musket that looked like a steel pipe, and at the same time said to one of the soldiers: "Show me the weapon in your hand!"

Li Yin, as the leader of the generals of the Tang Dynasty, ordering a soldier to show him his weapon is naturally not a big deal, but what everyone didn't expect was that the ordinary soldier stood up as if he hadn't heard Li Jing's words at all. He was carrying a musket there, staring straight ahead without blinking, without any reaction at all.

Seeing this situation, Li Jing was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted, and immediately laughed, patted the other party's shoulder and said: "Not bad! Not bad!" After speaking, he turned to Liu Rengui next to him: "General Liu , you order them to give me one of the weapons in their hands, and let the old man take a good look at it!"

The army pays attention to orders and prohibitions. Elite soldiers will not listen to anyone's orders except their own superiors. Although Li Jing is the head of the generals in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Rengui is the highest officer of the firearms battalion. Don't worry about it, everything is just following Liu Rengui's orders.Capital Datang 397

Although the above seems simple, the army that can do this can undoubtedly be called the elite. That's why Li Jing patted the opponent's shoulder in admiration. No one can train the army in his own hands like this, but a civil servant has done it. No wonder the firearms battalion shined brilliantly on the Japanese battlefield.

Seeing the performance of his soldiers, Liu Rengui was also very satisfied, but instead of taking guns from the soldiers, he took out a new musket from a box next to him, and handed it to Li Jing, saying, "Report to Duke Wei, the firearms The soldiers of the battalion regard the muskets in their hands as their own lives, and unless they die in battle, they will not hand them over to others, but I have prepared muskets here, Duke Wei and the old generals please check them out!"

Hearing Liu Rengui's words, Li Jing and a group of veterans couldn't help but think highly of him. Even Li Shimin showed a look of admiration, and at the same time secretly praised his son Li Yin for being good at employing people. , will definitely be a pillar in the future.

Then everyone stepped forward one after another, picked up the musket in the box and checked it, but unfortunately they didn't know how to use the musket at all, after looking at it for a long time, they became more and more confused, but Li Xiaogong, who has been studying artillery, seemed to see something , took out a solid bullet from the box next to it, and put it on the muzzle for comparison.In fact, he also had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly found that the artillery was similar to the fireworks set off during the New Year, except that this thing used the power of gunpowder to shoot out the iron ball in his hand.

Li Shimin and the others couldn't understand it, so Liu Rengui naturally wanted to explain it to everyone, but he first talked about the principle of artillery, and finally talked about muskets.In fact, whether it is a musket or a cannon, the principle is the same. Even a musket can basically be regarded as a reduced version of a cannon, but its ignition method is more advanced.

"Your Majesty, please step back ten feet with all the generals. The last general will start the demonstration with the musket first." Liu Rengui bowed and said to Li Shimin.After he finished explaining the firing principle of muskets and artillery, Li Shimin and all the old generals immediately wanted to watch the demonstration of real guns and live ammunition, and Liu Rengui was also shocked, and the next thing was him and his soldiers It's time for his performance, but for safety's sake, he didn't forget to tell Li Shimin to back off. (to be continued)