As the Romans expanded their tentacles, they also stretched wider and wider like the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, getting a Roman eight-sided ballistae can be like getting the fertilizer of the Tang Dynasty... It is not difficult.
Very easy.
However, in an era where material exchange around the world is becoming easier and easier, after Chai Shao repeatedly studied the Bali Si Tao ballista in his hand, he felt that this thing was dangerous and extremely powerful. Because this thing... was clearly
There is no weakness!
And an object with no weaknesses has gained a range that exceeds that of various trebuchets, and also has a lightweight body. Such an object that is easy to transport and has amazing power... If it is not dangerous, it is simply a disaster for the country and the people.
But how to restrain himself, Chai Shao couldn't think of it for a while, or rather...it was precisely because he couldn't think of how to know such a strange weapon, that he gradually recognized the power of this thing.
But in this way, the problem has not been solved, but the situation has been clarified. Although there are weapons such as artillery, but... Chai Shao, as a hard-core military elite, can't help but worry about how to deal with this thing in the future.
The worry continues like this until today. But...
What makes Chai Shao feel at ease is that in today's Tang Dynasty, after a stage of production, the black iron warships finally have twenty pieces - although Li Sheng Shangshu objected and expressed a shocking
the opinion of.
——That is to say, the steel artillery ship is not a good product at all. I hope your majesty will give it a try and not be fooled by the temporary appearance. Datang will soon have an endless stream of more and more powerful warships...
Although it was Li Sheng, this view was jointly refuted by a group of real elites from the top of the Tang Dynasty, including Li Er.
What are you talking about? It's outrageous that this kind of thing can be written into a memorial and sent to the capital.
This steel artillery ship is already invincible, and it needs to be made even better. It’s not that everyone doesn’t believe it, but the problem is that something that is already so ridiculously powerful, how can it be even stronger? This is nonsense.
These words are what normal people can say? This can no longer be regarded as nonsense, it is simply nonsense, okay?
But after all, it was Li Sheng's memorial. Although Li Er was very puzzled and confused, he still sent copies to a group of close ministers to discuss it together to be on the safe side. There is no need to say more about the opinions of Wei Zheng and others.
Naturally, this thing was delivered to Chai Shao, and Chai Shao fell into thinking when he saw it... It's just that the time is not long at the moment, it is only enough to produce a few more black iron gunboats, and wanting better ones is obviously not a temporary thing.
It can be done in half an hour.
However, these twenty black iron gunboats... should be enough.
Chai Shao shook his head.
In the final analysis, I am only worried about the risks of military operations, rather than thinking that military operations themselves are unwinnable. Or rather...
For a true elite among soldiers, it is possible to fail in all battles, but... there must be no failure of any kind. This is a matter of course. A true warrior will never admit that failure is inevitable in the world.
But the current situation has not yet become so serious. After all, I just went to the South China Sea to suppress the bandits...not even to suppress the bandits. I just cooperated with a junior to do things and supported the situation by myself...
Thinking of this, Chai Shao couldn't help laughing, and King Luo Bin on the side looked surprised.
"Why is my foster father laughing?"
King Luo Bin originally came out to control Hokkaido in Japan to pacify the people... that is, the people in the large territory that King Luo Bin violently occupied. However, the current system of the Tang Dynasty is completely different from that of the Han Dynasty, let alone the Zhou system that is further away -
- In other words, today's governors of Datang prefectures are also rotated, and there will be promotions and changes in positions. At present, Hokkaido of Japan has transferred Zhang Liang, the Duke of Xunguo, and as for the vacancy in Liaozhou, Li Xiaogong has been replaced
.
In short, King Luo Bin is now equivalent to returning to Chai Shao's command. However... although he has seen all kinds of strange things in Japan, for these big black iron ships in front of him, even King Luo Bin is still
I can't help but marvel, this is so grand. I remember when I was young, the world was still in chaos...
The war is in chaos and the lives are in ruins. It is not that the lives are in ruins thousands of miles away, but it is really happening around you, near your home, and among the friends you know from far away. Countless people are in ruins every day.
However, to this day, without realizing it, even the ships of the Tang Dynasty are so powerful... and for China in the past, this thing can be described in three words: incredible.
Chai Shao smiled when he heard this, and with some emotion told King Luo Bin his worries, and also expressed his thoughts that were actually not serious. However, to King Luo Bin's ears, these words were actually...
These words directly made King Luo Bin couldn't help but smile with a sweaty smile, "Father, there are already twenty black iron gunboats, and they can't conquer a piece of the South China Sea. This is inevitable..."
Upon hearing this, Chai Shao smiled and was about to explain, but then he couldn't help laughing and patted King Luo Bin on the shoulder.
As an imperial super elite at the level of a prince, Chai Shao sees problems very accurately and is very at ease in his heart.
But that being said, Chai Shao still knew that his first priority now was to guide young people, so he recounted the details of the expedition. In fact... this detail starts from the root, that is, Datang is not currently going to
To fight the decisive battle with the Southeast Asian countries, we must use violence to create pressure, and then use pressure to achieve the goal.
In Chai Shao's opinion, this is actually an ominous move, because normally... using violent means to expand is not a good thing in itself - the Tang Dynasty was able to defeat various regimes in Mobei at the speed of light because of its extraordinary power.
force.
However, the Tang Dynasty was able to dismantle the various political regimes native to Mobei at the speed of light, relying on the value concept of equality of all living beings and the policy of overestimation and subjugation that "even the Xianbei people have a share." It is precisely because of this policy that the people of Mobei
The various political powers have fallen into a strange state of "unable to exert any strength"...
The reason why they can't use their strength is too simple. The populations of the Mobei countries have been mobilized by the Tang Dynasty. It's a shame that the Mobei regime can use its strength - unless they know how to recruit underworld soldiers.
In other words...
The logics of survival and expansion are completely different and diametrically opposed. And now...
Of course, the basic underlying goal of Datang's strategy towards the countries in the South China Sea was expansion. But the strategy behind the goal of expansion was not ideological...
