Cheng Yaojin looked at everyone's high fighting spirit and smiled.
The reason why he said so much was to stimulate everyone's fighting spirit.
As the saying goes, if a soldier is raging, a general will be raging in a nest.
General is the courage of a soldier.
Although he was not afraid, the generals below were still a little afraid when they heard that there were 100,000 people on the other side.
Cheng Yaojin didn't care. Fear is human nature.
They are afraid because they feel there is no hope of winning.
But now that Cheng Yaojin has given them hope, they naturally have nothing to fear.
"Zichu, you have trained soldiers to use Zhuge's repeating crossbows. In the next few days, you will lead people to train soldiers to use repeating crossbows. At the same time, I will recruit the repeating crossbow equipment from your army to the infantry. After the shooting is completed, I will return it to you.
." Cheng Yaojin said.
Although Lin Xuan is now under his control, it is directly under Li Shimin's jurisdiction. In addition, those serial crossbows were allocated to Lin Xuan by Li Shimin, so he has no right to directly use them.
"Follow the general's orders!" Lin Xuan bowed and responded.
After the meeting, Lin Xuan returned to the military camp and asked Yuchi Baolin to collect all the crossbows in the army and send them to the south camp.
At the same time, Wei Chi Baolin and Cheng Chumo were ordered to lead some elite soldiers who used repeating crossbows to teach the infantry how to use repeating crossbows.
In order to keep it secret, Cheng Yaojin disguised all the crossbows and crossbow arrows as food and took them with the army.
Not to mention the generals under his command, even Lin Xuan didn't know.
Those soldiers didn't even know how to use it.
Fortunately, the Zhuge Liannu is not difficult to use, and training it for two or three days will not have any impact.
Anyway, when the time comes there will be people, so just shoot at them, there is no need to pursue accuracy.
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Quanzhou Port once became the world's largest port during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
But in the Tang Dynasty, when maritime trade was not developed, Quanzhou was just a fishing village near the sea.
As the saying goes, people who rely on mountains to eat rely on the sea. Although Quanzhou is close to the sea, it is precisely for this reason that there is very little land suitable for farming. In addition, ancient fishing technology was backward and there was a lack of preservation measures, so it was very poor during the Tang Dynasty.
If we follow historical development, Quanzhou would not gradually become wealthy until the Song Dynasty.
But from half a year ago to today, Quanzhou has undergone earth-shaking changes.
To be precise, it was because of the arrival of a person.
This person is Liu Rengui.
When Li Shimin heard Lin Xuan say that Fusang had a lot of silver, he fell in love with Fusang, whom he had always looked down upon.
However, Fusang is far away from the ocean. If Datang wants to occupy it, it needs its own naval force, to be precise, a navy.
But the Tang Dynasty didn't even have a powerful navy, let alone a navy.
Li Shimin hesitated for a while, but accepted Lin Xuan's recommendation and asked Liu Rengui to build the first navy of the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Rengui was the successor of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty Liu Jin. Liu Rengui was born in the Liu family of the Wei family. He was lonely and poor since he was a child, but he was respectful and studious, and he was well-versed in literature and history as an adult.
Of course, he was also involved in martial arts and military arts, otherwise he would not have been a county magistrate before.
Liu Rengui was summoned by Li Shimin and asked to build a navy. He was actually a little confused.
Let alone the navy, he has never even commanded a navy.
In fact, this is Lin Xuan's ideal. Of course, although the Battle of Baichuankou was commanded by Liu Rengui in history, it is a bit far-fetched to say how good he is at naval combat.
First of all, Baijiang Estuary is an entrance to the sea, and it cannot be regarded as a naval battle in the strict sense. (Historical books also say that Baijiang Estuary was a water battle in which a small number defeated a large number.)
Secondly, although Fuso lived on an island at that time, there were not many sea battles and they were not very elite.
The most important thing is that Fuso shipbuilding at that time was very backward.
The shipbuilding technology during the Sui and Tang Dynasties was still very advanced, with high and strong ship walls and well-designed ships. Compared with this, Fuso's warships were naturally crude and shabby. At that time, Fuso had not yet learned the skills from China, so it lagged far behind in terms of technology.
The quality of the armor was not good. Under the rain of arrows from the Tang army, Fusang's soldiers were often shot to death. The most important point is that Liu Rengui was naturally familiar with the "burning of Red Cliff". Fusang was not as proficient in Chinese allusions as he would be after the Tang Dynasty.
, Military Book, more than 400 broken wooden ships were crowded together like maggots and were fired by the Tang army with rockets and fire in the wind. For a time, "smoke and flames rose to the sky and the sea water was red."
Don't look at the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates have always troubled the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, the reason for this is that the coastline is too long, and small groups of fusang sneak ashore to plunder.
Coupled with the collusion with some Han pirates and the coordination of internal and external cooperation, the court spent a lot of energy and money, but achieved little in exterminating the Japanese pirates.
If fighting head-on, Fusang at that time was no match for the Ming Dynasty, let alone Fusang during the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Rengui's victory in the Battle of Baijiangkou was due to the strong ships and powerful weapons and the result of chance.
Of course, Liu Rengui's military talent cannot be denied.
But it is indeed far-fetched to say that Liu Rengui is proficient in water warfare and naval warfare.
But Lin Xuan didn't know that. He only knew that the Battle of Baijiangkou was a classic case of defeating more with less, and that the commander was Liu Rengui. He didn't know the specific process.
That's why he recommended Liu Rengui to Li Shimin.
Although Liu Rengui didn't understand water fighting, he was also a man with ideals and ambitions. Naturally, he didn't want to let go of such a good opportunity, so he took it anyway.
Li Shimin did not ask Liu Rengui to train the navy, nor did he arrange soldiers for him.
Gave Liu Rengui a lot of autonomy.
Liu Rengui was familiar with the art of war, and after learning that Li Shimin's target was Fusang, he studied the map carefully and finally chose Quanzhou.
The reason why the Liaodong Peninsula is not chosen as the navy's training point is because the winter there is relatively cold, and Quanzhou is also very close to Fusang, so the winter is not as cold as the Liaodong Peninsula.
As for the soldier Liu Rengui, he did not choose from the Twelve Guards of Chang'an.
The elite of the Twelve Guards are elites, but most of them are northerners and have no water skills at all.
Liu Rengui wanted to go directly to Quanzhou to recruit locally.
After hearing this, Li Shimin was very satisfied with Liu Rengui.
If it was said that he chose Liu Rengui before because he did not have the talents of navy generals and Lin Xuan recommended him, then now he really recognized Liu Rengui's ability.
Li Shimin was very decisive. Once he made the decision, he would not hesitate and directly appointed Liu Rengui as the navy general. Because he had not had this official position before, Li Shimin temporarily designated him as the fifth rank and asked Liu Rengui to establish a seaport in Quanzhou, recruit 10,000 troops, and train the navy.
Regardless of the fact that he was only a fifth-rank official, you should know that Liu Rengui was only an eighth-rank county magistrate before. It can be said that he rose to the top in one step.
Liu Rengui was very grateful. After being ordered to go to the Ministry of War to collect weapons and armor, and to the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect the money and food needed to recruit troops, he came to Quanzhou.
The poverty in Quanzhou did not affect Liu Rengui.
Precisely because of poverty, the people were very willing to join the army, and it didn't take long to recruit 10,000 young men with very good water properties.
While Liu Rengui was recruiting troops, he also called on the people to build a seaport.
It took more than two months to recruit all the soldiers and build the harbor. Just waiting for the ships to arrive, they could start training.
I don't know whether it was because Fuso's silver was very attractive to Li Shimin, or for some reason. Not long after Liu Rengui finished building the port, Li Shimin had a warship sent over.