Tang Yi did not directly tell Cao Jue why it was Da Song who suffered, but asked a seemingly inconsequential question. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Do you know the real reason why in front of Gubei Pass, the 200,000 troops of the Great Liao retreated at the touch of a button, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Song Dynasty were just Chen Bing Yanyun, but they did not take advantage of the victory to attack from afar?"

Cao Jue was stunned for a moment, that battle was his pain, Shentu Mingliang, the Black Cavalry Battalion, and more than half of his brothers were all in a long sleep.

It was also the peak moment of the Hades camp, and the battle was fixed by Yanyun, and the Hades camp made great contributions.

However, that was also the reason why Cao Jue was inexplicably excited after seeing the power of the cannon.

If there were cannons at that time, why did the brothers use their lives to block the pass? Shentu will not ......

said gloomily: "I don't know what the reason is not the reason, I only know that with the cannon, we can die less!" ”

Tang Yi knew that he thought of the tragedy of Guanxia, and said softly: "You are a soldier, what you think about is whether you can win, whether the knife in your hand is good enough." Where the responsibility lies, human nature. ”

"However, officials and ministers also have their responsibilities. What they have to consider is not the life and death of a soldier, but the rise and fall of a country. ”

That is, who will not die and what the "knife" in the hands of the soldier looks like is already not so important in the eyes of decision-makers.

It can be a bit unpleasant to say this, and it can even hurt people.

But what is war? For decision-makers, it's about sending people to their deaths.

Looking at Cao Jue without blinking, Tang Yi tried his best to soften his voice and not touch the scar in his heart.

"The reason why that war did not develop into a full-scale war between Song and Liao is precisely because both the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Dynasty, as well as our officials and ministers, are very clear."

"Once the two strongest old empires in the world fight to the death, even if there is a winning side, it must be a miserable victory, and no one wants to bear such consequences."

patted Cao Jue on the shoulder, "Warriors need to be indomitable, but commanders must always be sober and even restrained." ”

"It has never been a good thing to be reckless in military force and to make meritorious contributions, and to talk about the past and the present. Even though there are occasional achievements that have been passed down through the ages, more often than not, they are not well known for their misery. ”

"If it is light, it will bury an army and a famous general, and if it is heavy, it will destroy the country!"

"You restrain yours." Cao Jue still didn't approve it, and he was quite angry. "What does it have to do with this cannon?"

He can't control the strategic decision-making, Cao Jue only knows that if he has a cannon in his hand, he can win the battle and there will be fewer deaths!

"It's a big deal." Wu Yu said admittedly. "This restraint is not just a strategic restraint."

"As the saying goes, a knife is a man's guts. Similarly, Da Lang's cannon is the heavy weapon of the country and the courage of a country. ”

"If there are artillery in that battle, will you be willing to only push back the Liao Dynasty army?"

"Will the official family be willing to let the tiger go back to the mountain? However, once the army marched into the Great Liao, the First World War resistance war became a tug-of-war between countries, and the Great Liao Dynasty was established for a hundred years, and it was no longer a nomadic people without roots, how could it be flattened overnight? ”

"Can you afford to fight a protracted war with the current family background of the Great Song Dynasty?"

"But if you don't fight, who can be willing from top to bottom? At that time, the Great Song Dynasty was to catch ducks on the shelves, and if you don't fight, you have to fight, otherwise you won't have an explanation for the people of the world. ”

"And the one who forced Da Song onto that road was this cannon!"

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Seeing that Cao Jue was silent, Wu Yu continued:

"Jingyu can know why the Black Cavalry Battalion made miraculous achievements in the first battle of Gubei Pass, and its power is invincible. When the class returned to the dynasty, the black cavalry camp should be rebuilt, and even some courtiers advised to expand the scale of the black cavalry camp, but the official family has not been allowed to play? ”

"Why?"

"Because, the current Great Song Dynasty needs stability to solve internal troubles, not war."

"Five hundred black horsemen can kill Yelu Hongji's 200,000 army with fear, what if it is 5,000? What about fifty thousand!? ”

"If you were replaced, with 50,000 black-armored heavy cavalry in your hands, and you dominated the battle of Song and Liao, would you be content with the status quo and see the Liao people showing off their martial arts in the world?"

"In other words, Tang Zong Hanwu, what if he also has 50,000 black horsemen in his hands? Or if there is a cannon of Dalang, will you only be satisfied with being a vassal of Fanbang? Don't you want the world to belong to me? ”

"But looking at it now, whether it is the strong Han, the Tiantang, or the current Great Song Dynasty, no matter how strong the national strength is, how can it support such a huge battle of conquest?"

Speaking of this, Wu Yu looked at Cao Jue very rationally.

"Desire does not mean that there is something, nor does it mean that there is none. Even if Confucianism and Taoism are prosperous and teach people to let go of their desires, they cannot destroy their desires. When courage comes desire. If you take advantage of a little bit, you will want to take advantage of it a little more, and subtly, it will become a reckless force, and then it will get out of control. ”

"This cannon is desire, it is the courage in the hands of soldiers, if you release it, you can't take it back!"

Well, Wu Yu is a typical literati thinking, the thinking of the literati of the Great Song Dynasty.

There is one thing that Wu Yu did not say, that is: the cannon is in the hands of the warriors, not in the hands of the civilian officials.

Holding the cannon is to press the courage of the warriors, not only to prevent the poor army from becoming reckless, but also to prevent the return of the five generations.

It's biased, but it's not without reason. At least one thing is true, desire is born of strength.

If this strength is a strength bred by the improvement of benign national strength, then there is naturally no problem.

However, if this strength only relies on one cannon, and other supporting facilities can't keep up, it will be a disaster.

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Cao Jue still couldn't let go.

Tang Yi was not relieved when he saw him, so he had to say again: "Let me ask you, is this cannon more powerful in field encounters, or is positional warfare more useful!?" ”

Cao Jue didn't hesitate: "Of course it's positional warfare. ”

This Cao Jue doesn't have to think about it, the small cannon is fine, if the cannon Tang Yi said, it must be extremely heavy, and the encounter is mobile, and the power of the cannon may not be able to be brought into play.

"Let me ask you again, is it easier to siege the city, or is it easier to defend the city?"

"Siege."

The siege still has a certain degree of mobility, but the defense of the city cannot be moved, and there is no way to hide. For artillery, it is a live target.

"Still don't understand?" Tang Yi said coldly. "Who is better at field combat and mobility than the nomadic cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty?"

"Compared with the Great Liao and Western Xia, who is known for city defense?"

"And who is more densely populated? More powerful artillery coverage? ”

A people enclosed by a city wall is more afraid of artillery fire than cavalry.

"But......" Cao Jue shouted. The cannon is ours, they don't have it! ”

"Sooner or later!" Tang Yi sighed. "If others can never learn, then there is no need for this argument."

"There are no eternal secrets in this world."

Is there such a thing as a front-loading gun? To put it mildly, this small cannon can be built after two days of thinking about it, but the trouble is explosives.

However, once the army is equipped and placed under the spotlight, how long can it be kept secret? A year? Five years? Or ten years?

Even if it is only learned after ten years, the good days of the Great Song Dynasty will come to an end.

The Great Wall has become an ornament, the city wall has become a prison, and the dense population has become the best target for artillery.

"I'll ask you too!" Tang Yi said so much, but it aroused Cao Jue's anger.

"If there is a cannon under Gubei Pass, will Shentu die!?"

"......No," Tang Yi replied gloomily.

Shentu Mingliang and the Yama Camp are also indelible pains for Tang Yi.

"Then why don't you give it to me!?" Cao Jue's eyes were almost out of control.

Grabbed Tang Yi's neck, "You already have a cannon, right!?" Why not give it to me!? Why are you watching us go out of the customs and go to block!? ”

"Because if it had been given to you at that time, more people would have died in the future."

"I don't care how many people die in the future, I know how many fewer people can die now!"

"Second ......" Tang Yi was carried by Cao Jue and muttered. There is no shortage of swords in the Great Song Dynasty, what is lacking is spirit! ”

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In terms of armament and equipment alone, the Great Song Dynasty and even the Han people have never lost to the barbarians. Even if the cavalry was in charge, it only limited the expansion of the Han people, and we still had the means and weapons to defend ourselves.

Suffice it to say, we've always been ahead of the curve.

However, war has never been a mathematical problem that is not made up of numbers. 1+1 can be greater than 2 or less than 0, too many factors affect the outcome of a war.

The reason why Da Song is weak is definitely not because of the equipment. In terms of equipment, the four razes were wiped out a thousand years ago.

Before those internal problems in the Great Song Dynasty were solved, unless he was given an atomic bomb, what could a few cannons influence alone?

Except for the Hades battalion, they are all weak soldiers; Except for Di Qing, they are all weak generals.

There is still a group of literati in the court who want to fool themselves by mouth, and the system is still governed by a nest of moths who eat vegetarian food.

You asked Tang Yi to hand over such a thing ahead of its time?

If you can't get it right, I will compile the method of making cannons into the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" for the people of the Great Song Dynasty and the barbarians of the world to refer to together.

With, vibrate, country, might!

Don't believe it, it's not that you haven't done it, and it's Zhao Zhen who did it himself.

He asked Zeng Gongliang and Ding Du to compile the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", which included the drawings and detailed explanations of all the standard equipment of the Great Song Dynasty, including the most advanced eight-ox bed crossbow in the world.

It is also an important weapon of the country, a military secret.

But it was recorded in the book, and even the manufacturing process was clearly written and passed on.

Now you can buy a copy in 500 Wen in Daliao, which is the cheapest and most popular Song book.

"No, it won't!" Cao Jue is still unrelenting.

"Don't worry, as long as you hand over the cannon to us, I, Cao Lao Er, swear that every brother in the army will keep this secret as if he were guarding his own life."

"Huh." Tang Yi laughed dryly, but glanced at Wu Yu.

"You won't, someone will!" The implication, of course, is to blame the literati.

"Let me tell you an interesting thing, do you know how Liaoxia's fine works stole information from the Great Song Dynasty?"

"How?" Cao Jue was stunned. "It's nothing more than buying and infiltrating."

"Wrong!!" Tang Yi pouted. "What's so troublesome? Just go to a bookstall and you'll have everything. ”

“......”

Cao Jue didn't do much, but Wu Yu was blushing.

That's really the case.

Let's not talk about "The General Essentials of the Martial Arts", in addition to this kind of book that shows off the equipment of the Great Song Dynasty, there are other things.

The literati of the Great Song Dynasty were good at producing anthologies, miscellaneous notes, and among them, the Chinese courtiers were particularly prosperous and sold the best.

What is recorded in the anthologies and miscellaneous records? It's nothing more than ordinary diaries, correspondence and the like. After all, not everyone is Ouyang Xiu, and the shot is the article.

However, here's the problem. The epistolary diary, or the letter diary of the minister, the minister, and the shepherd's side, there is everything in it.

As small as tax discussions, one party has the people's livelihood; As big as the deployment of troops and the border affairs of the two countries, all of them were printed into a book and announced to the world.

Don't think it's appalling, and don't think it's an isolated phenomenon. Not to mention it far away, Wu Yu has done it, Fu Bi has done it, Wen Yanbo has done it, and even Tang Yi's old teacher Fan Zhongyan has done it......

So much so that the Liao people know everything when they turn to a bookshelf, where does the secret come from?

Wu Yu's face was a little unbearable, "The official family has already reminded the ministers of this matter, but now they are paying a lot of attention......"

Remind?

Tang Yi rolled his eyes speechlessly, just remind me of this? Whoever leaks the secret should chop off whose head.

With this kind of awareness, how could it be possible to hand over the cannon to them?

I didn't have the heart to talk to Old Man Wu about these things, in some ways, the literati of the Great Song Dynasty were poisoned by culture. Cancer, no life!

Turning to Cao Jue, "Having said so much, do you understand?" ”

Cao Jue bowed his head in discouragement and was silent, Tang Yi and the civil officials didn't understand the twists and turns of the civil officials, and he didn't understand, who made him a soldier? Are they scholars?

The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were responsible for sending them to death, and the scholars were responsible for firing their mouths.

If you don't understand Tang Yi, there's no way, this is a big truth, in fact, it's not difficult to explain it clearly.

Half a step ahead is a genius, and one step ahead is a madman, even a fool. Something that is too far ahead of its time is not necessarily a good thing for a world that is not very mature.

In this regard, caution is not unreasonable.

However, there are some things that can't be said to Wu Yu, Cao Jue and others.

These things come from later generations, and like artillery, they are also ahead of their time.

In the slow evolutionary history of mankind, being too far ahead may not be an opportunity, but a disaster.

For example, Neanderthals, a primitive race in the middle of human evolution, ruled the earth more than 100,000 years ago. However, when a more advanced species of close relatives appeared, Neanderthals quickly disappeared and became extinct.

And that race is -- modern Homo sapiens.

For Neanderthals, modern Homo sapiens was a being ahead of its time. It's just that we're lucky for the latter.

Of course, cannons are not Homo sapiens and will not replace humans. But the principle is the same, the later ones who learn to use the cannon can also destroy the predecessors.

In Tang Yi's opinion, the cannon in his hand is a bit like a stirrup, with a stirrup on both sides.

The popularization of the double-sided stirrup by the Han people brought convenience, but the double-sided stirrups fell into the hands of the steppe peoples, but they also became a disaster for the Han people, and the cavalry entered the Central Plains.

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It didn't make sense, and he didn't want Cao Jue to be cold, Tang Yi had to say: "Second brother, believe me, I don't want to see you go to death more than anyone else!" ”

"But I can't release this monster until I'm completely sure."

Cannon is not only a battlefield killer, it also represents the end of an era and the advent of an era.

Cold weapons will be a thing of the past, and hot weapons are all the rage.

Tang Yi wasn't sure if that era came so early, whether it was good or bad.

"That'......," Cao Tong sighed sadly. Is that really ruined? ”

"Not really." Tang Yi replied with a smile. "If it was really ruined, I wouldn't have to build a city here."

"The isolation of Boar Island is for it."

Wu Yu interjected at this time, "It's still ruined." ”

"Xianggong, you can't give up eating because of choking, right?"

Tang Yi had concerns, but it hadn't reached the point of throwing a rat bogey. He was just cautious and wanted to be as safe as possible before taking it out.

"It's a scourge to keep it!" Old man Wu glared, what an enlightened old man, he had long since disappeared.

The artillery touched his bottom line, and now he is a rotten Confucian, representing the scholar class of the Great Song Dynasty.

"You keep it, and you can't get it out sooner or later?"

"Look at it." To deal with Wu Yu, Tang Yi has his own set, and he can't stand up to it at this time.

"What do you think of that? Didn't the two of us originally go together, and persuaded Cao Lao Er together? ”

"Uh......"

"You think, artillery is indeed of great use to the Great Song military in the short term. But the opposite is long-term thinking and worry, right? ”

"And what are you going to do?"

Tang Yi smiled: "What can I do?" I have to suffer and think of a way to achieve short-term results without hindering the long-term! ”

To put it bluntly, it is anti-counterfeiting.

asked Tang Yi to give up the artillery, and he was reluctant.

But whether it is a cast cannon or nitroglycerin, it is a low-end product and is too easy to be imitated. The only way is to raise the technical content to the point that no one in this era should think of "counterfeiting", and to extend the period of monopoly as long as possible.

"Wait for me!"

patted Cao Jue on the shoulder, ready to give Cao Jue a blank check.

"Wait until I complete the industrial base here, and build you a better cannon that no one can make!"

"Complement what?"

What is the industrial base, Cao Jue does not understand.

"Do you make it or not?"

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