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Chapter 1890 The cost is too high!

Although Changsun Wuji suddenly mentioned the Forbidden Army in this way, which made Li Er feel like "this old bastard might really have something", but isn't the answer to this question obvious?

The imperial army of the Tang Dynasty could kill pirates indiscriminately, but they did not have submarines, so it was difficult to capture them.

But young people who go to sea have a hard time overseas. That's because these young people are now in a scattered state. Before these young people find their own territory and develop smoothly, Datang must support these young people.

It would be best if we could provide support openly, but we cannot do it openly.

If you can't do it clearly, then the problem is still the same. Datang cannot capture the location of these juniors.

These stragglers are wandering in the vast sea, and the imperial army of the Tang Dynasty is not a heavenly soldier or a heavenly general. Who knows where their own people are and where they need support?

Of course, Datang had submarines, so this problem didn't seem to be a big deal, but submarines were not omnipotent after all.

The cost of this thing is too high, the engineering is too difficult, and the production is too slow!

Even with the production capacity of steel battleships, Datang currently only has three submarines - and because there are only three submarines, in order to avoid sudden failure and sinking and being unusable, the use planning must be extremely cautious and conservative.

Such a precious thing is very good for capturing the movements of the enemy's main force, but these pirate boys from China are everywhere. How can a submarine find them?

Then again, it is not necessary to use a submarine to follow these young men to engage in "legal smuggling" to help them. Anyway, these young men took advantage of the big pirates to break up and half stole and half robbed the ship.

First of all, it is impossible to get back to China and cash out directly. If you want to return to China after you have become a pirate, it is absolutely impossible for the court to not want you - otherwise the court's laws will not be an ordinary joke, and they will become world-famous paintings.

But at sea, the armament of these ships.

In fact, there is no need to talk about the situation of military preparedness. Even if we only talk about survival supplies, such as food and fresh water, it is still worrying, otherwise we would not need the support of the court.

Of course, it cannot be said that the weapons and equipment are really non-existent or poorly prepared, because the strength of the previous group of sea pirates was quite good. Based on the strength of this group of sea pirates at that time, if it were the former Datang Navy, then

It can't be beat for sure.

But after all, the group has disbanded. No matter how powerful this group of pirates was at the time, it has now been completely disintegrated and reduced to pieces. It has lost its original power and must accept help from the imperial court in order to survive.

Li Er estimated in his heart that Changsun Wuji probably wanted to say that these young men all had murderous weapons in their hands, and more importantly, the ships they took were all good ships - those pirates at that time were truly powerful, and they were

The profits from the plundering of China were also huge, although these profits were turned around and now became Datang's overseas business tools.

But since this is the only reason? Then of course Li Er cannot be relieved. However, after Li Er asked back, he saw that Changsun Wuji this time...

Instead of asking or answering immediately, he smiled slightly.

"Your Majesty, these young men took advantage of the pirates to break up and hijack ships to escape. The ships they were driving were all high-quality ships produced in the West Lake Industrial Zone and were fully equipped with weapons."

"What is this? The sea."

Li Er was disappointed when he heard that this old bastard actually thought so. He almost blurted out his complaints, but before he finished speaking, Changsun Wuji's expression instantly became a little more serious, "If your Majesty wants to say this,

The strength of this group of young people is still insufficient, and Wei Chen thinks there is really no need to worry too much, because their opponents are also not strong enough!"

"oh??"

Li Er was stunned for a moment.

I really hadn't thought of this point of view.

The strength of this group of young people and their opponents.

Originally, I thought that the current state of this group of young men was almost similar to that of the troubled times of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and you can't even tell that it was a bit similar.

China has had something called stirrups since the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the advent of this thing, the armor that knights on horseback could wear suddenly became dozens of kilograms heavier. The horse army of the Han Dynasty first developed from the late Warring States Period.

The specific landmark event was the horse-riding and shooting sport in Hufu carried out by the king of Zhao State at that time, King Zhao Wuling.

This movement was basically an attempt by King Zhao Wuling to unite the nomadic barbarians in Mobei, and he planned to promote cavalry. As for why he wanted to promote cavalry... Compared with the mainstream chariot army of the Zhou Dynasty at that time, its mobility was much more powerful, and it was simply crushing it.

Formally powerful.

As for why the barbarians on horseback could not go south to conquer the world, this is of course because although the barbarians have been familiar with cavalry for a long time, they do not know how to farm, and their strategic capabilities of logistics and supply are still much worse than those in the Central Plains.

But the land of the Central Plains, where there is farming, also needs cavalry!

After all, the Hu people didn’t know how to farm, but the Han people could. Although there was no concept of Han people at that time, at that time, the concept of “Han people” could be slightly equated to later generations, called “Chinese people”. These “Chinese people” in the Zhou Dynasty gradually mastered

After the cavalry, the Warring States Period ended directly and entered the Qin and Han Dynasties.

But no matter what, in short, for most of the Han Dynasty, cavalry was derived from the Hufu riding and shooting sport during the Warring States Period.

Just look at these four words and you will know that the cavalry at that time was really just cavalry.

The cool heavily armored Qin army in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were either infantry or a small number of military elites. They were also awarded the 20th level of military merit. Because they had received rewards, the conditions were naturally better - even if they were wearing heavy armor.

Someone also helped him mount his horse.

However, this kind of "manned gang" also has limits. When the weight of the armor reaches a certain level, no one else can lift it on the horse even if it is too exhausted. After all, the most powerful person in Kongwu is you, the knighted eldest brother, and no one else. In other words

, although the cavalry in the Han Dynasty was developed, to be precise, it was very developed.

The most famous expression is what later generations of great Confucians said when they criticized Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a single attack on the Xiongnu would almost wipe out all the horses in the country.

But even so, the horse army in the Han Dynasty was just a horse army after all.

Ordinary troops on horseback, nothing more - the reason why the Qin and Han Dynasties were able to surpass the troubled times of the Seven Heroes competing for hegemony was not because of how powerful their cavalry army was, but because although these seven heroes were at the top of society during the Warring States Period, they were actually just ordinary people.

Being strong on the outside and hard on the inside can only take advantage of the chariot troops, but cannot make fools out of the cavalry troops.

But things were different after the invention of the stirrup, and the "horse army" was upgraded to a real "knight".

Accompanying the knights are various forts - that is, courtyard-style residences with courtyard walls built like city walls.


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