Datang: Let you supervise the country and become an emperor through the ages

Chapter 148 The Arabian Nights
"Hurry up and take people to various parts of the city to collect blacksmiths with good craftsmanship. After Chang'an City collects them, go to the Guanlong area. I want [-] blacksmiths. Of course, this number is not limited. The more the better!"

"Blacksmith? Do you want so much?" Xue Rengui was a little confused, but nodded in agreement.

"Go, hurry back!" Li Fu waved to Xue Rengui casually, and Xue Rengui hurried away immediately.

Li Fu's collection of blacksmiths was naturally because of Mo Dao. The reason why he didn't directly tell Li Shimin that he wanted to build the Mo Dao team was also because he had his own considerations.

Although it is the Tang Dynasty now, iron-making technology already exists, but in the current situation, it is still impossible to build a qualified Modao team, because the iron-making technology is not enough.

Since the iron-smelting technology is not up to par, Modao Team's desire to succeed is just empty talk, so Li Fu is too lazy to mention Modao Team's affairs to Li Shimin.

The production process of Mo Dao is very complicated and expensive, and one bite of Mo Dao is enough to buy two good war horses.

Such an expensive weapon, with a cumbersome process, cannot be manufactured by Datang now, so Li Fu has his own considerations.

Only the most refined steel can make the best Modao, and it happened that when Li Fu recently signed in to the system, he got a steel factory.

In short, as long as Li Fu has enough iron ore, he can smoothly produce a large amount of steel that surpasses Datang's current technology.

After all, Datang at this time can only produce ordinary pig iron. Although there is Baishen Steel, the output is very low and the consumption is very high. However, Li Fu can easily refine Baishen Steel with a steel factory.

But the top priority is that Li Fu needs a large number of blacksmiths to run his iron and steel plant, so he arranged for Xue Rengui to find blacksmiths. As for the ore, Li Fu had already arranged for Cao Shaoqin to command the inner guard of the East Palace to search for it.

On the other side, when Li Shimin returned to the imperial study in the palace, he drew out all the technical drawings of Mo Dao and the drawings of Mo Dao's formation.

Li Shimin's Danqing Kung Fu is also quite good, basically drawing out all the content that Li Fu thinks of in his mind, and even taking care of the details.

A few days later, Li Jing and Li Ji led the troops back to the court, and after rewarding the soldiers, Li Shimin specially summoned the important officials of the court in the imperial study.

The ministers were quite surprised, not knowing why His Majesty summoned him.

While the ministers were talking about it, Li Shimin appeared in front of everyone holding two scrolls.

When Li Shimin asked the eunuchs to unfold the scroll to the officials, the entire hall was silent, and everyone's eyes widened, and their scalps felt numb.

"This is, a knife? It doesn't look like it, such a long knife, when did my Tang army have such a knife?"

"Yeah, and this formation is not used by my Tang army when we face the enemy. What does it mean?"

Li Shimin saw the expressions of horror on the faces of all the ministers, knowing that he had succeeded in pretending again.

"Everyone tell me, what's your opinion on these two pictures?" Li Shimin smiled lightly, indicating that all the princes can express their opinions.

Li Jing was the first to approach the scroll, carefully looking at the Mo Dao craft drawing, "This, is a sword, is it a new type of sword created by His Majesty?"

Li Ji walked up to Mo Dao's formation diagram, and stroked his beard again and again, "This should be an formation diagram, and it is also a formation diagram aimed at cavalry. Could it be that Your Majesty has thought of how to use cavalry to restrain cavalry?"

Li Shimin smiled noncommittally, and didn't answer Li Jing and Li Ji's questions, but wanted to ask the princes in the court: "You guys think, when I, a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, encountered Hu Qi outside the Great Wall, what weaknesses would be targeted by the other party? "

"Of course it's cavalry!" Fang Xuanling was the first to answer, "There has always been a gap between my Tang cavalry and Hu cavalry. The last time I fought on the grasslands, it was because of the use of alienation that caught Xue Yantuo's troops off guard. I can do my best in a fight.”

Li Jing and Li Ji agreed with Fang Xuanling's words, that the Hu cavalry outside the Great Wall were indeed ferocious, and the Tang army's cavalry had basically no chance of winning if they confronted them head-on.

Changsun Wuji stepped forward, "The Prime Minister is no more ambitious than others. Of course, our army is all infantry. Facing the Huqi outside the Great Wall, as long as we unite as one, we still have a chance to defeat the opponent, but the price we paid..."

Changsun Wuxing didn't continue talking about halfway through. Everyone knew in their hearts that when infantry encountered cavalry, the damage was at least one to three or even one to four. Such a battle loss ratio caused Datang to continue to suffer from the Northern Huqi. threat.

Seeing that everyone was depressed, Li Jing smiled and said: "When I went to Songzhou to fight the Tubo army this time, I found that the Tubo cavalry is also good, especially their horses, and their combat power is not weaker than that of the barbarians."

"So this time we have brought a large number of plateau horses from Tubo, and we are going to form a strong cavalry to counter the Hu cavalry outside the Great Wall."

"Yes!" Li Ji then added: "Nowadays, places like Youzhou in the Tang Dynasty are also natural pastures, and we are actively raising high-quality war horses to prepare for the future, but it takes time to become a cavalryman. A qualified cavalryman, at least It will take two years..."

It takes two years to become a qualified cavalryman, and it takes longer for a cavalry phalanx.

But what Datang lacks most now is time. After all, while you are developing, others are also developing.

Datang can crush the barbarians in all aspects, but there is always a shortcoming in the cavalry, and the gap between this shortcoming will become more and more obvious in the next few years, which is something that no one wants to see.

Li Shimin saw that the ministers had diverted the topic, so he quickly smiled and said: "Since you all agree that cavalry needs time to train, it is better to focus on infantry first."

"I have these two pictures, one is the craftsmanship of Modao, and the other is the formation of Modao. I think that as long as I can build the army in the picture with the help of these two pictures, my Tang pawns can also Sweep the cavalry beyond the Great Wall."

"Hiss..." When the officials heard Li Shimin's words, they all gasped.

Now you don’t need to make drafts to brag, just draw two pictures and say who can be destroyed, where does your majesty have the courage?
When everyone saw Mo Dao just now, they were really shocked, and they all thought it was Li Shimin's masterpiece, but no one thought that the sword in this picture, as long as it is equipped with infantry, can defeat cavalry. How is this possible? !

There must be a bottom line for exaggeration, even if you think your knife is powerful, at least you have to show evidence, just relying on what is going on, everyone thinks that Li Shimin is bragging.

With the Mo Dao, how could the infantry defeat the cavalry? It's a fantasy!
(End of this chapter)