Li Lizhi asked curiously: "What are Dabao and Xiaobao?"
"Back to the princess, Dabao and Xiaobao are two iron-eating beasts that the Marquis asked His Highness the King of Shu to help capture from Shu." Chunyue said.
"Iron-eating beast?"
Li Lizhi asked strangely: "Why did the Marquis give the iron-eating beast such a name? Does it have any meaning?"
There is a zoo behind the palace, which has raised some rare and exotic animals in the past, including iron-eating beasts.
However, the person in charge of feeding said that although the iron-eating beast looked cute and naive, it was not even afraid of tigers and did not dare to let her get close, so she only saw it once from a distance.
Although she didn't look carefully, she couldn't figure out why Lin Xuan had such a strange name because it was an animal that was not afraid of even tigers and the iron-eating beast was named after it.
Li Lizhi didn't know how to describe it for a while.
"Back to the princess, I don't know much about it. I just heard the Marquis say that the iron-eating beast is a giant panda and what kind of national treasure it is, so I gave it this name," Chunyue said.
national treasure?
Li Lizhi was a little confused, why is the iron-eating beast a national treasure again?
Is it like the legendary dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, that eating it is good for the spleen?
Seeing that Li Lizhi was interested in giant pandas, Chunyue suggested, "How about I take the princess to see it?"
"There's no rush yet."
Li Lizhi waved her hand and looked at Chunyue and Yu He. The two met Li Lizhi's gaze and lowered their heads in a panic, not daring to look at Li Lizhi.
"You have served the Marquis for so long, has the Marquis ever promised you anything?" Li Li asked.
"Back to the princess, I have been lucky enough to be able to serve the Marquis. I don't dare to ask for anything more." Chunyue said quickly.
Li Lizhi nodded with satisfaction and said: "From today on, you two will be responsible for the affairs in the room together with Zi Yi and Qing Yi. The two of them don't understand the Marquis' habits. If there is something wrong, you should tell me more
Give them some tips. Of course, if any of you can give birth to a boy and a girl for the Marquis, I will tell the Marquis that he will raise her as his aunt."
She said that before because she wanted to tell Chunyue and the others that no matter whether Lin Xuan had promised them anything before, she couldn't do anything about it.
Chunyue's knowledge made her very satisfied.
The front is beating, and the back is sugar.
She just wanted to let Chunyue and the others understand that if she wanted them to be concubines, they would be concubines; if not, they would always be slaves.
I have to say that Li Lizhi is worthy of coming from the palace. A slap in the face... No, it should be a combination of kindness and power. It is a true biography of Li Shimin.
Li Lizhi did this, not because she was petty and couldn't tolerate Chunyue and the others, otherwise she wouldn't have let Ziyi and the others accompany Lin Xuan.
She doesn't mind that Lin Xuan has another woman, but this woman must not challenge her status.
"Thank you princess."
Li Lizhi waved her hand and said, "Don't call me princess anymore, call me madam."
"Yes, ma'am."
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"Your Majesty, Mr. Duan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, would like to see you." Li Mu said.
"Xuan."
Not long after, Duan Lun walked in holding a box.
"See Your Majesty, I have limited use of my hands and my lack of etiquette. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."
Li Shimin waved his hand, looked at the long box in Duan Lun's hand, and said with some anticipation: "What I want to know more is what you brought to me."
Duan Lun said with some excitement: "Based on the drawings sent by His Majesty, I summoned the skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry. After several days of hard work, I fulfilled my mission and made the long-lost Zhuge Liannu. This crossbow
It has been improved and can shoot fifty special crossbow arrows continuously, with an effective range of more than two hundred steps."
In ancient times, the so-called "hundred steps" were used to describe a sharpshooter. If calculated carefully, the so-called "hundred steps" would be about fifty to seventy meters.
As technology advanced to the Tang Dynasty, the effective range of ordinary bows and arrows was about 160 steps, or about 100 meters.
Even though the Zhuge Liannu's shooting range is only more than 200 steps, it is far inferior to those bed crossbows, but the bed crossbow is huge and needs to be fixed in one place.
They are generally used to defend cities and are rarely used in field battles.
The Zhuge Liannu is suitable for individual soldiers, and its range is farther than ordinary bows and arrows, which means that you can hit others before they can hit you.
Although there are many famous generals recorded in ancient times who were able to bend three-stone bows and shoot at targets three to five hundred paces away, Xue Rengui was even said to be able to hit a hundred hits at a distance of six hundred paces, and even left behind the story of "three arrows fixing the Tianshan Mountains" that has been passed down through the ages.
But these are obviously exaggerated. Let’s not talk about whether ancient bows and arrows could be made to shoot that far. The distance alone is a big problem.
Six hundred steps is about four to five hundred meters. It's so far away that you can't see clearly. How can you always hit it with perfect accuracy?
Of course, some special bows can shoot farther than ordinary bows, but how many people in an army can pull such a bow?
Specially made bows are very expensive to make, and there is no money to make many of them.
Many people may find it strange that if the effective range of ancient bows and arrows was only this short distance, how could they shoot birds in the sky?
In fact, traditional bows and arrows can be achieved. Don’t overestimate the flight height of birds. Many carnivorous birds actually fly at low heights. The real difficulty is to predict the flight routes of these birds, because birds at medium and low altitudes are generally very flexible.
Don’t think that only engaging in firefights with cold weapons within 150 meters or even 100 meters seems too short and poor. Even in modern warfare, the general firefighting distance of light weapons does not exceed 250 meters, which only increases the firepower density and accuracy. A large number of
Ancient and modern light weapons battles were basically conducted at a distance of about 50 meters or even less.
Therefore, Zhuge Liannu can play a decisive role in the frontal battlefield.
Although Duan Lun is the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, it does not mean that he has no military knowledge.
People who have lived through troubled times, even if they are not famous generals, do not know anything about military affairs.
The most famous one is Xun Yu during the Three Kingdoms period. When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Lu Bu attacked Cao Cao's base camp. If Xun Yu hadn't made a prompt decision and decisively abandoned most of the territory, gathered his troops, and held on to part of the territory, would the Three Kingdoms still be there?
uncertain.
Although Duan Lun was far behind Xun Yu, he was not mediocre either. Naturally, he could understand the significance of Zhuge Liannu to the Tang Dynasty, and he was naturally very excited.
"Really? Show it to me quickly. I want to try it myself."
Although Li Shimin had made speculations when Duan Lun arrived, he was still very excited when he heard Duan Lun's words.
The Tang Dynasty had a lot of infantry, and the infantry played a very small role in fighting against the nomads. After all, the destruction of the Eastern Turks took advantage of the right time, place, and people.
There are not many opportunities like this now.
But with the Zhuge Liannu, it's different. Let alone cavalry, if the infantry forms a square formation, as long as there are tens of thousands of soldiers holding Zhuge Liannu, it will be a nightmare for the cavalry.
Zhuge Liannu was of great significance to the imperial court. As long as they were equipped in large quantities, the Tang Dynasty would be invincible in field battles.
Don't look at the many battle formations in history where a small number defeated a large number. Those battle formations look insignificant in the context of thousands of years of history.
The reason why battle formations are widely circulated is because they cannot be copied. If everyone could do it, it would not be called a classic.