Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 972 The Prince's Ambition

On the East Chincha Grassland, Jinshan City is no longer the same as it was ten years ago.

At this time, it is the new year/reincarnation of the Chincha Grassland. The breath of spring has replaced the harsh winter, and there is a lush green everywhere.Even the blue in the sky seems to be better than ever.On the green grassland, there are tents one by one, like wild flowers blooming on the grassland, and flocks of sheep like white clouds are also flowing on this extremely fat grassland.

In order to receive the arriving Lu Qijun, the Naiman people could be said to have spent all their wealth.Baruch was widely recognized as a 'hardcore Kpchak traitor' on the eastern Kipchak prairie.They were the first to surrender to Lu Qi that day. Later, they were treated favorably by Lu Qi and became the only ones besides Zhan Ke Rong to be knighted.Even if Zhan Ke Rong surrendered to a god, he would not surrender.

However, although Baruch's attitude was as firm as iron, seeing the sudden change in the situation in the west, the entire Naiman Department was trembling.

They and Zhan Kejia were the only ones left in the entire Binhai Alliance, and the rest stood under the banner of the rebellion. Although Zhan Keca attracted the main force of the rebel army and took away the hatred for them, the Naiman people were not worried at all. After Zhanke rushed to the street, the clattering rebels turned around and annihilated them like a sea?

After three or two months of apprehension, I finally looked forward to the army of the imperial court. A kind of excitement that the long drought will meet the rain is rippling in the hearts of every Naimanite.

This feeling is so good and wonderful.With Dad protecting her, happiness explodes.

These tents, cattle and sheep were all contributed by the Naiman tribe.Baruch himself even gathered all the strong men and women in his hands, not to cooperate with Lu Qi's army in fighting, but to provide full-time logistics.

When marching and fighting on the prairie, the food for the soldiers was either cattle or sheep.

In historical China, some Central Plains dynasties often set fire to the Great Wall, not to starve the nomads on the grassland to death, but to cause trouble for them when they went south to attack the Central Plains.

There is no grass in the distance of a hundred miles long, which has a great influence on the nomadic army.

The main force of Lu Qi's army took the route from the Western Regions to Anxi, while the partial division went directly across the grassland.

As for the prince who is willing to come to this team, there is really only Lao Ba Luyue.As the deputy general for Yang Zhi, the latter has [-] iron cavalry, and Nei Zhongguang Yuqian Si Jingqi has a full [-] cavalry.Coupled with the guards of Luyue, the number of troops is not large, but it is enough to beat the Kepchaks.

The weather is at its most sunny, and the sun radiates its warmth in the sky.The mountains, rivers and grasslands are bright.On the green prairie, dozens of riders roared past, and the birds and beasts on the prairie were so startled that they soared into the sky.These people on horseback are all wearing shiny simple plate armor, steel helmets, and white feathers on the helmets, which is the symbol of the Luyue Guards.

He raised his carbine and fired it with a bang.After the gunshot, a hare was still running fast.

"Hahaha..." A heavy laugh sounded from Lu Yue's side. Amidst the laughter, a bow and arrow shot out, piercing into the rabbit's body, and the rabbit fell headlong.

He pretended to be a big man and laughed loudly, waved the horn bow in his hand proudly, smiled at Lu Yue, and said in fluent Chinese: "My lord, are bows and arrows easy to use? I have heard about your magic shot for a long time. , why don’t we put on bows and arrows and let’s have a good competition.”

As a "surrender", Xiao Heda has made great contributions to persuading Wei Ming to Qu Huai, so his little life is still very nourishing, and Lu Qi doesn't even restrict his freedom.I went to Saibei in the early years and stayed on the north bank of Hetao.

As a general who was good at bow and horse, Xiao Heda disliked the musket in Lu Yue's hand.

Lu Yue looked down at the musket in his hand helplessly. No matter in terms of accuracy or speed of fire, it was really not as good as a bow and arrow.His marksmanship is quite accurate.If he shoots with a rifled gun, he can hit an apple at a hundred and fifty paces with one shot.But now he is holding a musket, a popular musket, and its accuracy and range are far inferior to those of carefully crafted rifles.

However, the cost of a rifled gun is ten times that of a smoothbore gun, and the rate of fire is slow. This is also the key factor why the former cannot replace the latter.

Lu Qi firearms have been in development for a while, although the entire technical level is far from the point of upgrading - breech-loading guns first need to achieve a qualitative breakthrough in chemistry, and it is still very early.

But the 20 years of development are not in vain, Lu Qi's musket performance has improved little by little in these years.From the power to the range, to the life of the barrel and the weight of the entire gun, as well as the speed increase in manufacturing, etc., these are all obtained through countless experiments.

The musket in Lu Yue's current hand is a freshly baked carbine from the Military Weapons Supervisor. This is an immature weapon, and he got one just because Lu Yue likes firearms.

In fact, the Ordnance Supervisor’s proposition regarding carbine [fire] is that its ultimate goal is a pistol.When hand-to-hand combat cannot be completely abandoned, the pistol is the perfect match for the cavalry.

However, although it is an immature work, this smoothbore gun is still very delicately made. The inside of the barrel is also using a boring machine - a very primitive boring machine, using crucible steel as the drill bit. After repeated boring, the inner wall is very smooth.Moreover, its effective range actually barely meets Lu Qian's requirements. It can hit a horse-shaped target at a distance of 50 steps, and its armor-breaking ability is not weak. It can penetrate two millimeters of plate armor at a distance of 30 steps.

In the Military Weapons Supervision, Lu Qian has re-established a set of weights and measures that he is more familiar with, but it has not yet covered the civilian population.

Although the power of a carbine is not as powerful as a musket, it is far more powerful than an ordinary strong bow and crossbow.

In terms of the effective range and the power of this gun, Lu Qian felt that it was not inferior to the European muskets of the 17th and 18th centuries in history.

But this is a carefully crafted musket for the prince, and the quality and workmanship are so fine.If it were popularized, the polishing of the inner wall would not be of such high quality.

Lu Yue also laughed, he was not going to debate with Xiao Heda on the question of whether muskets or bows and arrows are better or worse.Because it makes no sense!

Burning with vigorous ambition in his heart, he has never only focused on the prairie in Eastern Europe.The warm and rich central and western Europe and southern Europe are the goals he pursues!
How can being the king of a grassland nomadic empire be more comfortable than being the king of an agricultural country?
He has not forgotten the fate of the Kara people, nor has he forgotten how tragic his cheap grandfather was when Beiliao was about to perish.There is also the Jurchens in the Northeast, and the Wanyan family has been extinct for a long time.

As the heir of Lu Qi's royal family, the education he received and the "tragedies" he witnessed all told him the truth that "the nomadic empire is not as stable as the farming civilization".

Therefore, even if a large number of Serbian nomadic tribes moved to Europe with him, their final lifestyle would be the same as that of Hungary, from nomadic living by water and grass to farming and urban civilization.

In such an empire, Lu Yue's brains are so crazy that he will not let go of the bow and horse.

In this life, people work hard and struggle again and again. In addition to their own success and fame, what they ultimately pursue is the glory and wealth of their children and grandchildren?Whether it is for himself or for future generations, his will will not change!

(End of this chapter)