Chapter 133 Five thousand taels of gold are called tweed

Zhao Jiqing entered the Tang army camp nervously, when he learned that Chen Ying was eating. Zhao Jiqing secretly looked at the Tang Army barracks, he didn't know if he didn't see it, and he was suddenly startled when he saw it.

Most of the officers and men in the Tang Army's barracks ranged from eighteen or nineteen to under thirty-five years old, and they were all in the prime of life with a height of eight feet, and all of them were sturdy and strong. And the soldiers of the whole army are actually wearing stainless steel armor. Zhao Jiqing could swear that he didn't need to, just listening to the sound of the nail blades colliding, he could hear it.

The sound of steel and iron initiation is definitely not the same.

This astonishing discovery, Zhao Jiqing was really taken aback.

At this time, the technology of ordinary steelmaking is either crucible steel or 100 steelmaking, or frying steel, in fact, these three steelmaking methods have a characteristic, extremely low output, low efficiency, and high cost. Just like the heavy tomahawk battalion under Wang Renze's command, they were equipped with only three, two pieces of stainless steel armor and one axe.

The axe is not valuable, at most the price of two or three horizontal knives, three or four dollars to the sky. However, the equipment of the heavy tomahawk battalion was nearly 200 pounds. In fact, the equipment of the soldiers of the heavy tomahawk battalion was only more than 50 catties, less than 60 catties.

However, although the cost of high-manganese steel built by Chen Ying is slightly higher than that of high-carbon steel, the cost is only slightly more than one-third of the market price of high-carbon steel, but the total cost of high-manganese steel Mingguang armor composed of high-manganese steel castings is only one-tenth of that of stainless steel armor. It only takes more than 20 times, and with the Mo knife, it can also be worth 30 times. Equipping 10,000 Modao troops is only equivalent to the price of Wang Renze's 2,000 heavily armed tomahawk battalions.

However, even if the Tomahawk Battalion does not use a hook and sickle to deal with it, but collides head-on with the Modao Army, and the Modao Army can abuse the Tomahawk into scum.

In fact, the price of Chen Ying's equipment is only half of the high price, even if it is not the entire army of the Tang Dynasty, it is only more than 30,000 men and horses at the sixth rate of the East Palace, and Chen Ying can earn more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan in equipment a year.

Zhao Jiqing naturally couldn't see these things, but what he saw was precisely that the soldiers of the Tang Army (Modao Army) were actually more than eight feet tall and weighed more than one hundred and fifty pounds, which can only show one situation, the Tang Army has a very rich source of soldiers, and it can be selected from the best of the best, and the kind of young man who is not too big or small, is in the prime of life, and has a strong man with a tiger's back.

The whole army is equipped with stainless steel armor, which shows that the Tang army is very rich, and they have enough money to give to the soldiers.

In the entire Zheng State, there is only one army with all soldiers in armor, this is Wang Shichong's Yulin Army, with a number of about 20,000. (In history, Wang Shichong guarded the palace and palace, and Li Shimin fought for ten days without defeating), but most of this army was equipped with leather armor, and the defense against light arrows was acceptable, as for the armor-piercing arrows or knife splits or spears, it was almost defenseless.

However, the Tang Army, an army, actually had iron armor, and this shock was too big for Zhao Jiqing.

Could it be that Datang is already as powerful?

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiqing smiled bitterly or bitterly.

He brought five thousand taels of gold to negotiate peace with Chen Ying on the order of Wang Xuanqiong, trying to buy a way out, but Tang Jun is now so rich, five thousand taels of gold, do they still look at it?

Zhao Jiqing had no confidence at all at this time.

The Mo Dao Army was able to play such a role, which Chen Ying really didn't expect.

In Zhao Jiqing's anxious and anxious waiting, Chen Ying finished eating.

Then he met Zhao Jiqing in a row, Chen Ying did not attach importance to this meeting, and did not even prepare a formal venue, but directly met Zhao Jiqing in this four-wheeled carriage that Chen Ying used as an RV.

Seeing Zhao Jiqing's arrival, Chen Ying deliberately said with an impatient look on his face: "What are your intentions when you ask to see General Ben?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jiqing was very surprised. Chen Ying was very young, he had already heard about it. He also thought that Ashina Simo standing in the carriage was Chen Ying, after all, Ashina Simo obviously looked at it, and there was a breathtaking momentum on his body, not moving like a mountain, and a strong coercion came to his face.

He thought that Chen Ying would be young, but he never thought that Chen Ying would be so young. Looking at Chen Ying's handsome face, Zhao Jiqing had no way to connect Chen Ying with his rumored image.

In the rumors, Chen Ying is a tall man, with a wide waist and ten girths, can run horses on his arms, kills people without blinking, likes to behead people, and looks at Liwei in Beijing, and it is very exaggerated that Chen Ying is a murderer, likes to eat people's hearts raw, likes to eat people's hearts and drink a bucket of blood at every meal.

However, all these rumors could not find any shadow in Chen Ying at all. On the contrary, Chen Ying is not like a general, but more like a scholar, tall and thin, and seems to be weak. The skin is fair and delicate, even more bewitching than a woman. What's even more rare is that Chen Ying's age is too young.

In Zhao Jiqing's opinion, Chen Yingting is twenty years old, not even as old as his eldest son. But his eldest son Zhao Dingguo is twenty-five years old, and now he is still a nine-rank Cao Cao who joined the army (that is, a petty official who manages the warehouse of armor), but Chen Yingnian is weak, and he is already the prince of the East Palace of the Tang Dynasty, the squire of the Ministry of Works, the champion general, and the scholar of the inspection school in eastern Shaanxi.

Chen Ying's official position is comparable to the limit of the ministers. Seeing Chen Ying, and then thinking of his son, Zhao Jiqing had to sigh secretly: "People are more popular than people!" ”

Zhao Jiqing hurriedly threw out the chaotic thoughts in his head, and said with a slight smile: "God has the virtue of a good life, and the king of my family also has this benevolence." Although your ministry and my great Zheng Guo have just experienced a big war, it is also caused by misunderstanding, and the king of my family is also magnanimous, deliberately ignoring the past suspicions, and reconciles with your ministry. ”

Ashina Simo couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, in Chen Ying's words, he can say that surrender and begging are so fresh and refined, and he will obey you.

Chen Ying's face was neither happy nor angry, he didn't speak, and his face was always expressionless.

Chen Ying's reaction was beyond Zhao Jiqing's expectations. In his mind, Chen Ying is so young, he must also have the same problems of young people, and he is competitive. As long as Chen Ying refutes his words, he can find loopholes in Chen Ying's words, and use his advantage of being good at debating to make Chen Ying speechless.

But Chen Ying didn't eat Zhao Jiqing's set at all, which made him feel the urge to punch him in the air and want to swallow blood.

In fact, Zhao Jiqing didn't know that Chen Ying was a perfect pragmatist. If things don't make sense, he doesn't bother to do it at all, Chen Ying now has an overwhelming advantage, and there is no need to be hypocritical and snake with Wang Xuanqiong, because there is no need for that at all.

Chen Ying believed in a sentence from later generations: "The truth always appears within the range of the cannon, and once the cannon opens, all abnormal sounds will cease abruptly." Chen Ying likes this sentence very much, if it is not for the enemy to be strong and I am weak, if it is not a last resort, Chen Ying is not willing to take risks, nor is he willing to use tricks, he prefers that kind of hearty rolling.

Chen Ying's preferred way of war is this. The hook and sickle cavalry crushed the opponent's cavalry, the Modao army crushed the opponent's infantry, and as for the horizontal swords, the shooting sound army and other arms, they were only used to go up and pick up heads when the victory or defeat of the war was clear.

Chen Ying didn't answer, and Zhao Jiqing was helpless. He paused and said: "Although the king of my family does not know the details of your army, it is expected that your department can win by surprise, kill my general, defeat my army, and the military strategy is very admirable, but those thousands of soldiers and horses are nothing to us." Military affairs, after all, we still have to speak with strength, my big Zheng country east of the Canghai, west of the Kunshan Mountain, south across the Jingxiang Huaishui, north of the Yellow River, horseback control string control of 100,000 people, with more than 300,000 people with armor, if there is really any attempt, wave the division forward, 10,000 hooves to step on the flat, there is no need to use any strategy. However, the king of my family can't bear to see the wives of our Tang and Zheng soldiers scattered, hearing cries everywhere, and building new graves everywhere, so our two families should sit down and talk about it, and turn hostility into friendship. ”

Zhao Jiqing's words were both soft and hard, and the other party's sentence "There are 100,000 people who control the strings on horseback, and there are more than 300,000 people with armor" is even more nonsense with his eyes open.

Ashina Simo was about to refute angrily, but Chen Ying was pressed by his eyes, and he didn't dare to speak after all.

What kind of strength Wang Shichong has is not a secret in the world. If it was nine years before the Great Cause, when there was no Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Wang Shichong occupied one hundred and seven counties of the twelve counties of the Central Plains, at that time, these one hundred and seven counties had a population of more than 13 million, Wang Shichong naturally had the strength to form 100,000 cavalry and 300,000 armored soldiers.

However, time has passed, although Wang Shichong now has such a large territory, and the Central Plains is also a rich land, no worse than Guanzhong, but in the past few years of war, the population of the Central Plains has increased greatly, and now the Central Plains is less than one-tenth of the original population.

400,000 soldiers, Wang Shichong needs to organize all the men, women, and children in the Central Plains, and he may be able to make up the number of 400,000 horses, and as for the 100,000 cavalry, I am afraid that Wang Shichong will count the horses, mules, donkeys, and even cattle in the Central Plains, and he can also make up the number of 100,000.

Chen Ying smiled slightly.

He wanted to hear what Zhao Jiqing had to say, as the so-called weak country has no diplomacy, no matter how sharp the rhetoric is, it can't change the balance of strength between the strong and the weak.

Zhao Jiqing looked at Chen Ying with a smile on his face, his face became colder and colder, his heart sank, knowing that Chen Ying's patience was about to run out, he couldn't help but take out his hole card: "Of course, the king of my family is also a reasonable person, knowing that the general has worked hard from afar, and the general must not come in vain, the king of my family is willing to give two thousand taels of gold to the general to replenish military funds!" ”

Chen Ying sneered: "Two thousand taels of gold? What about sending flowers? ”

Zhao Jiqing said timidly: "No, then five thousand taels!" ”

"Wang Xuanqiong's life is really cheap enough"! Chen Ying's face sank, and he said coldly: "Go back and tell Wang Xuanqiong that if you want to survive so-so, take out 50,000 taels of gold, otherwise, hum ......"