Liu Mu is already very satisfied with the fact that he only needs two catties a day.

You must know that in later generations, the daily ration of individual soldiers was 660 grams, and the rest of the 140 grams, that is, about 800 grams.

One pound of Tang is six hundred and forty grams.

Soldiers go to war, and if you want to ensure the physical strength of soldiers, two catties of rations is already the limit.

Li Daozong silently calculated an account in his heart, if it was calculated in this way, the soldiers of the large battalion would definitely still eat food, but the soldiers who went out, reconnaissance, patrolling, spying, and raiding used this kind of military food on a small scale was excellent.

Then interspersed with battles, rapid marches to seize strategic points, etc., medium-sized armies fought this is the treasure.

Liu Mu said at this time: "There is also a study here, called Elite Soldier Diet, which is divided into four types: training, marching, garrison, and pre-war barracks, all of which are piled up with coins. ”

"Benefits?" Li Daozong asked directly.

Liu Mu pointed to the guards here: "Second brother-in-law, do you let such a soldier drink porridge every day?" After drinking for a month or two, they are still called a strong army, and I have not measured how much their combat power has decreased, but it will definitely decline. ”

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

Cheng Yanjin knows very well that as long as Liu Mu gives these thousand people the seventy percent combat power just now, plus the equipment that Liu Mu is equipped with, he can easily kill 20,000 soldiers in Gaochang in sword and horse combat, which is the benefit of absolute elite soldiers. I think that the 3,000 cavalry of the Xuanjia Army rushed into battle and defeated 100,000 enemy troops.

Liu Mu still said: "For this matter, the saint asks for a holy order, and General Wei Chi writes the order." ”

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

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

What do you want to do with heavy troops?

This is the red line.

Cheng Yanjin wanted to say something, but Liu Mu grabbed him: "Old Brother Cheng, don't go and look at the equipment." ”

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

But when he arrived at the equipment area, Cheng Yanjin was dumbfounded.

"No sword, no shield, no armor. Is this called the Equipment Zone? Cheng Yanjin didn't understand at all, grabbed Liu Mu and asked, "Didn't you go to the wrong door?" ”

"That's right." Yanagi replied in the affirmative.

After finishing speaking, Liu Mu took a pair of shoes and handed them to Cheng Yanjin: "This is a marching shoe, which uses a mille-feuille bottom and a sole for eucommia glue, and a bamboo piece soaked in oil is added to the sole, and the upper is made of high-grade thickened linen." Shoes are divided into short shoes and long shoes. This is short shoes. ”

Although Cheng Yanjin feels that the shoes are good, this thing can also be regarded as equipment.

Li Daozong knows how to walk: "Good shoes are more comfortable to walk, this is very important." But what difference does it make in long shoes. ”

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

Without waiting for Li Daozong to ask, Li Bi took another belt: "A linen wide band mixed with some white velvet thread, this thing is called leggings, I have tried it specially, it is very good to have this for long-distance marching, but it takes skill to tie this." ”

Li Bi took the leggings, and in later generations, during the Anti-Japanese War, this thing was definitely an artifact-level military item.

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

These are not as good as those individual rations, those are useful, these are not very useful.

Cheng Biting Jin was making trouble here, and Li Daozong couldn't ask some questions if he wanted to, so he had to go to see the combat ordnance first.

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

Armor, pure steel cuirass, two pieces at the front and back, thick in front and thin in the back, tied with cloth straps under the ribs to protect the front chest and back. Then bring the left shoulder armor, the right small armguard, and the left small round shield.

The knife, the standard Tang horizontal knife, is only higher in process and better in material.

"Brother Cheng, you don't have anything to pick, this is the weapon equipped this time, this is a large number, there is a stock of 50,000 people to equip it, and the household department only gave 150,000 yuan, do you think the three guan money is enough for the 50,000 people."

Liu Mu took out the knife and tried the feeling, and handed the knife to Cheng Yanjin.

The current market price of the iron knife on the market in Tang Chang'an is still 2,000 yuan, and the iron iron is a material close to the crucible steel in later generations, which belongs to a small amount of fine production of good steel.

And after hundreds of forgings, the knife has a snowflake-like pattern.

Liumu's mass-produced steel did not flow too much into the market of Datang Chang'an, except for some agricultural tools to ensure the supply, the ordnance steel was almost zero inflow.

Two thousand wen is two pieces of money, and this is just a knife.

After listening to this price, Cheng Yanjin was blind, because the knife in his hand was better than the iron knife.

Li Bi also followed beside him and said: "According to the military law of the Tang Dynasty, there are 12,500 people in one step and 12,500 people in one step, 5,000 in horsery, and 2,500 people in baggage, a total of 20,000 people. There were 7,500 infantry soldiers and 2,500 sword soldiers. ”

"Five thousand unarmored light soldiers, all with swords, half for thirty arrows, one sword, one spear, and one shield. The other half had a hundred arrows, a crossbow, and a gun without a shield. ”

"Do you think Lao Cheng doesn't understand the military discipline of the Tang Dynasty?" Cheng Yanjin roared angrily.

Li Bi smiled: "I mean, Brother Cheng, no matter how high your ability is, it is impossible to equip an army with such a dollar of 150,000 yuan." Even if it is an old ordnance, 150,000 guan is not enough. What's more, the new army also brought vests, cavalry mountain armor, and light steel crossbows. ”

During the Wude period of the Tang Dynasty, the standard configuration of the regular army had reached 120% of the armament of arrows and crossbows, which can be said to be about four times the strength of the firepower of the regular army in the Han Dynasty.

In order to fight against the Turks, in the configuration of the new army of the Liumu Plan, the infantry units were not theoretically purely on foot, but sat on chariots and horses, and fought on foot when they arrived on the battlefield.

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

The new army of the Tang Dynasty no longer used super-heavy cavalry, but used light-armored fast cavalry, and advanced by bows, crossbows, heavy armored infantry, and Modao heavy armor. The role of the cavalry was to flank the flanks and even go around to the rear of the enemy.

Li Jing summed up in eight words.

Roundabouts on the flanks, front and back flanks.

It can be said that the new army is the most powerful anti-cavalry corps after half a thousand years.

The infantry of the army of the Tang Dynasty was not defensive, but actively attacked.

In terms of equipment, according to Li Jing's idea, there is no completely armorless soldier, and the bow and crossbow have at least a set of extremely light armor, which is an extra-light plate armor for chest protection, which is enough to defend against long-distance bows and arrows.