Chapter 134: The most deadly pretentious invisible

A farmer picked up a gem as big as an egg and wanted to present it to the emperor, so he handed it to the county. The county magistrate changed a golden egg to the prefect, and the prefect exchanged it to the governor for a silver egg... The last real native egg was in the hands of the emperor. The emperor moved the farmers' wishes and rewarded the farmers with a thousand taels of gold, and then a thousand taels of gold turned into ten taels. When the farmers got one tael of gold brought from the county, they were moved to the mountains.

Although this is a joke, it reflects the normal state in the officialdom.

Five thousand taels of gold are naturally not a small amount, but for Wang Xuanqiong, who has been in charge of Jinsha Town for nearly two years and became Wang Shichong's gold general, this amount of gold is nothing. In fact, Chen Ying's judgment is not accurate. He believes that the gold in Lingbao City can produce twenty tons in later generations, and it should not be a problem to produce 4,000 kilograms annually in this era.

Four thousand jin is 64,000 taels of gold. Even if Wang Xuanqiong handed over most of it to Wang Shichong, the gold he intercepted should be more than 5,000 taels, and more. After all, just with the existence of that joke, Chen Ying would never believe that Wang Xuanqiong would offer all the mined gold to Wang Shichong. Even if Wang Shichong was his biological father, people's eyes were black and gold was yellow.

When Zhao Jiqing heard the number of 50,000 taels of gold, he was shocked. He was Wang Xuanqiong's confidant. Although he knew that Wang Xuanqiong had hidden some gold, it was definitely not as much as 50,000 taels. Twenty thousand taels were paid to Wang Shichong for the prescribed order. Wang Xuanqiong secretly intercepted about 10,000 taels, but together, only 30,000 taels were far from enough to 50,000 taels that Chen Ying asked for.

Zhao Jiqing returned to Jinsha Camp uneasy and reported to Chen Ying that Wang Xuanqiong Chen Ying asked him to take out 50,000 taels of gold. Faced with Chen Ying's blackmail, Wang Xuanqiong suddenly jumped three feet high like a cat stepping on his tail: "Why don't he rob?"

Zhao Jiqing said in his heart: "I'm going to grab it!"

Wang Xuanqiong once again summoned the generals to discuss countermeasures.

The generals agreed that if you don’t want money, if you want life, you’ll be the only one. They shouted that they would fight with Chen Ying.

But before they could discuss any countermeasures, they heard the rapid sound of war drums coming from outside the camp.

The reorganized Modao Army has lined up in dense formations and is ready to attack the Jinsha Camp.

Chen Ying surrendered to two Modao regiments at once (there are only so many Modao in his hand), and more than 600 Modao soldiers lined up in dense formations and slowly launched an attack on the Zheng army's Jinsha Camp.

The Modao Army has two major difficulties: one is that it is difficult to build a Modao, and the other is that it is rare to have a Modao Hand. The first difficulty is a problem of technology and resources. However, with the emergence of high manganese steel, the difficulty of blocking Modao cannot be produced on a large scale has been solved. Only high manganese ore powder has been produced in Lingzhou salt mine alone, with as many as 3,600 kilograms of high manganese steel per month, which can be used to produce about 48,000 kilograms of high manganese steel, and at the same time, it can forge about 1,000 Modao and the same amount of high manganese steel Mingguang armor. If one year, Chen Ying's workshop will completely produce 12,000 Modao and 12,000 Mingguang armor. It can arm forty Modao groups.

Of course, Chen Ying was not satisfied with this number. He also sent more than a dozen exploration teams to find manganese ore resources in Hexi, Bashu, Guanzhong, Hedong and other places within the Tang Dynasty. Once larger manganese ore were discovered, the high manganese steel bright light armor and Modao of the Tang Dynasty could have an inexhaustible output like a horizontal knife.

Once this kind of shattered sword army forms a conventional military branch with large-scale equipment, this kind of shattered sword army, which can advance, step, cavalry, shoot, length, and length, and all the troops are unrestrained, it can crush all the enemies around the Tang Dynasty, especially the Turks in the north, and will usher in a nightmare that they will be indelible for their lives.

In fact, the key factor restricting the development of the Modao Army in the Tang Dynasty was not because of the difficulty of equipment, but because of the difficulty of finding talents. In order to increase the long-term combat capability of the Modao Army, Chen Ying, in the absence of Modao, only allowed more than 2,000 Modao soldiers who did not have real Modao to take temporary modifications and doubled the mountain battle axe to perform physical training.

Seeing the Modao Army approaching slowly, Chen Ying rushed to Ashinasmo, Shan Xiongxin, Zhang Anshi, Gao Feiyang and other generals: "Although Modao is not an omnipotent army, it is undeniable that the Modao Army is still an army that is difficult to match in this era!"

Shan Xiongxin asked in confusion: "From the general's meaning, it seems that Mo Daojun has a way to restrain himself?"

"The way to restrain? Of course, there are more than one!" Chen Ying smiled slightly, looking at Gao Feiyang and Zhang Anshi intentionally or unintentionally: "The first method is that General Gao and General Zhang have already experienced the taste of it!"

Gao Feiyang and Zhang Anshi's eyes met in the air, and the two were speechless.

In fact, they were actually very unwilling to accept it when they first started. However, after surrendering to Chen Ying, the two of them had to admit that the hook and sickle spear could easily bring down the heavy and slow-moving Modao Army, whether it was a cavalry or an infantryman.

However, Zhang Anshi was obviously not convinced by Chen Ying's underestimation of Mo Dao Army so much. As a heavy infantry general, he was slightly stunned and said with a stern face, "I wonder General Chen, what else can I do to restrain Mo Dao?"

"This general can use a crossbow!"

"Bridge?" Zhang Anshi felt very funny. The soldiers of two heavily armored battle axe battalions could ignore the shooting of crossbows below three stones. Even if it was a three stone strong crossbow, unless it hit the neck or head, it would not be able to hurt the soldiers of the Modao Army at all.

Knowing that Zhang Anshi didn't believe it, Chen Ying was not angry. Instead, he nodded at Asuna Smo.

Asunasmosu took off a crossbow from the horse's neck.

This crossbow machine is completely different from ordinary crossbow machines. Apart from the crossbow strings, there is no other component that is the same as the crossbow machine. Even the entire crossbow machine is made of steel.

Chen Ying raised such a crossbow, which was a little difficult. However, Chen Ying asked Ashinasmo to install the tripod support on the ground and put the strange crossbow on the tripod with difficulty. Chen Ying held the crossbow while skewing the strings and rotated it 360 degrees.

"This crossbow machine is called a scorpion crossbow. The crossbow arm is six feet and six inches long and weighs 32 kilograms and six twelve cents!" Chen Ying explained to the generals while putting the steel crossbow system into the arrow groove: "The only disadvantage of this crossbow machine is that it is too bulky and it will be very difficult to carry it alone, especially each crossbow arrow weighs one kilogram, two twelve cents. If you also carry a pot of twenty-five crossbow arrows, a soldier will not be able to maneuver remotely. Therefore, this general has defined this crossbow machine. This crossbow machine does not fight alone, but is only a support force for the Modao Army, responsible for covering the Modao team to face the enemy's bows and arrows or crossbows shooting."

After Chen Ying said this, everyone understood. In fact, why the Modao Army was lost in the Song Dynasty was not because of the convenience of Modao craftsmanship, but the key was that the Song Dynasty lacked horses. The Modao Army soldiers were all horse-riding infantry, and they all rode war horses, and they were one person and two horses. One horse carried Modao Hand, and one horse was used to carry Mingguang armor and Modao Hand supplies. In the Song Dynasty, due to the lack of horses, Modao Hand could not follow the large army to move. However, the Tang army lacked differently. When the Tang Dynasty was at its most powerful, there were more than 700,000 war horses in the various horse farms under the Taipu Temple alone, but the regular army of the Tang army was less than 600,000.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty occupied Youzhou, Bingzhou, Liangzhou, Longyou, Bashu, Qingzhou, Hetao, Monan and Mobei. The number of war horses owned by the private people was also very terrifying. (Tongdian) In fact, it was recorded that the Tang army equipped a group of six war horses in the most difficult times. During the Zhenguan period, the richest group of ten people had fourteen war horses (average).

At this time, Chen Ying did not pull the crossbow string hard like other crossbow machines, but instead dragged the crossbow string at the bottom (Lao Cheng didn't know why he called such a very special name), and shook a ratchet forcefully. As the ratchet rotated quickly, the crossbow string slowly buckled on the machine bracket.

Chen Ying took the crossbow machine to adjust the launch angle, and suddenly pulled the crossbow machine at three points and one line.

"call out……"

The crossbow arrow broke out from the strings and flew towards the Zheng army camp with a sharp sound. A large flag of the character "Zheng" that sounded in the wind fell down on the middle tower of the Zheng army camp.

Shan Xiongxin was stunned.

Zhang Anshi was stunned.

Asunasmo was also slightly surprised.

Chen Ying's archery skills can be said to be average, and he can barely achieve ten arrows and seven shots, which is almost qualified. But he did not expect that Chen Ying could actually shoot the flag in the enemy camp three hundred steps away, which was difficult for him to do.

A person who is three hundred steps away has actually turned into a fire pole in his sight.

Chen Ying actually wanted to say that he was aiming at the gong, but the striking big gong in front of Zheng Junying. This big gong, which is almost three feet long, has a very bright center in the center, which can be used as a target. Unexpectedly, he was aiming at the gong, but he shot the big flag of Zheng State.

"The general is good at archery."

"The General is indeed well-known."

"General Mano Yasuki is alive..."

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Coincidence"

But looking at the generals, I obviously didn't believe it.

Chen Ying shook his head and smiled bitterly. The invisible pretentiousness was really fatal. Chen Ying coughed, concealing his embarrassment, and then said: "This is a scorpion crossbow, which can shoot three hundred steps, within one hundred steps, the compacted earth wall can shoot six inches, and within fifty steps, you can shoot one foot. Tell me, how about the Modaojun encounters such a crossbow?"

Shan Xiongxin said: "If this is the case, the heavy shield may not be able to stop it."
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