Great Tang Southern Emperor

Chapter 129

Chapter 55 One good thing after another

Wu Liu took a rest overnight after the handover, and took his people back to Chang'an the next day. At the same time, he also took away Li Zhen's adjustments to future arrangements. Because of the delay in the war, part of his arrangements had to be carried out. Adjustment.

Wu Liu left, but the five cannons he left behind caused a stir in the entire barracks.After seeing the power of cannons, everyone firmly believes that cannons will definitely occupy a place in future wars, and it is not impossible to even become the protagonist of the battlefield.Therefore, the entire Dingxiang army, from the general to the Huotou army, is full of enthusiasm for cannons.

This is why Li Zhen directly developed the breech-loading gun instead of taking it step by step.Of course, starting from scratch can accumulate more experience in casting cannons and train more mature craftsmen.But at the same time, the cannons at the beginning were too scumbag, not only the range was too short to be seen, but even the cannonballs could only fire the most basic solid cannonballs-the power was not as good as the trebuchet, so what is the use of such a cannon ?Who will be able to see it?Others look down on you, how can you make others look up to your future?Others are not optimistic, why support you?

But it's different now. Li Zhen started working directly on breech-loading cannons, which are extremely powerful. Anyone who has seen them knows that cannons will definitely occupy a place in future wars.When a weapon is favored from top to bottom, is the future of this weapon still invisible?

Therefore, once the artillery battalion starts training, it is always surrounded by people watching. Some of them may just be watching the fun, and some of them are learning in secret.Regardless of whether it is watching the excitement or studying, I don't want the artillery training to stop, but because of the limited time, last time Li Zhen only brought [-] artillery shells, and it was only a few days of training, the artillery training was due to insufficient pills And had to turn to theoretical study.This time it was different. Although there were only six cannons, the shells brought by Wu Liu were enough for the artillerymen to fight forever—provided that the lifespan of the cannons was long enough.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, there are enough cannonballs now, let's continue firing the cannons?" Li Zhen was sleeping soundly, Fang Yiai rushed in, yelling.

"Shut up, if you talk again, I'll tear your mouth apart." Li Zhen opened her eyes and shouted angrily, getting up angry is terrible.

"Oh!" Fang Yiai immediately shut up.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, us" Fang Yiai finally shut up, Li Zhen had just been quiet for a while, when Xue Rengui barged in again.

"What are you doing? Why are you keeping people from sleeping?" Li Zhen was furious again, throwing a pillow at Xue Rengui.

"Oh." Xue Rengui dodged to avoid the pillow, and then continued to shout: "Your Highness, our killing technique has been initially created."

"Well, oh, ah? It's created!!!!" In an instant, Li Zhen's voice was even higher than Xue Rengui's: "Why so fast?"

Xue Rengui also said excitedly: "Thanks to Your Highness, after our all-night research, the compilation of the killing technique went much smoother than we imagined. What is left is just the carving of the subtleties, and it can be completed in less than a day."

"That's great." Li Zhen clapped her hands and laughed loudly, "God helped me, Xue Li stepped forward to obey the order."

"Yes."

"Xue Rengui, you are successful in writing books. You have worked hard and made great achievements. You are specially ordered to be the Dianjun of the King of Yue's account, and you will receive two thousand guards in the account. You will also be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold, 3000 taels of silver, a hundred hectares of fertile land, and silk. Five hundred horses, ten precious blades, and several treasures."

Hearing Li Zhen's promise of such a heavy reward, Xue Rengui immediately declined and said: "The killing technique is His Highness's idea, and the one who directly compiled the killing technique was twenty veterans, and his subordinates only played the role of summarizing and summarizing. Such a heavy reward It's too much, and the subordinates absolutely dare not accept it."

"No, you deserve it." Li Zhen resolutely said: "Although you are only inductive, without you, my ideas can only become empty talk on paper, and the contributions of twenty-year-old soldiers can only become children's graffiti. Although the reward is heavy, you deserve it. Besides, if I don’t reward you heavily, what about the reward of the twenty-year-old soldier?”

"This..." Xue Rengui heard the same reasoning, he hesitated for a moment and said: "The reward minister can take over, but the position of Dianjun is too important, Li has not made an inch of merit, and taking over rashly may not be convincing to the public, please take back your order. "

Fang Yiai also said at the side: "Your Highness, what Brother Rengui said is reasonable, and the Dianjun of the prince's account is a fifth-rank official position, and can only be appointed by the emperor. Isn't it a little inappropriate for you to appoint yourself? "

"Of course I know, but I didn't say to let him take office now. I just promised him now, and I will ask my father for appointment when I go back." Li Zhen took it for granted, he was not stupid enough to appoint an official position privately , and comforted Xue Rengui: "As for the merits of Rengui, don't worry, just rely on this killing technique, your contribution will be great, and when the whole army learns this killing technique, you will be the teacher of the whole army. Dare to disobey you? And just because of this merit, making you a Marquis would be considered light. What is a mere fifth-rank Dianjun worth? By the way, speaking of titles, you can definitely make you a Marquis with this killing technique. At that time, I will personally ask for it from you."

"That's right, Rengui congratulates you." Fang Yiai congratulated Xue Rengui with envy, "This time you have to treat us to a good meal."

"Um..." Xue Rengui was speechless.

"Okay, why are you talking so much nonsense? Rengui quickly took me to see it." Li Zhen was about to leave, but was stopped by Fang Yiai: "Your Highness, then you are leaving, what about the cannon? If you don't go Did you train?"

"Of course, but I have taught them almost everything I should hand over to them. The rest is to teach them how to shoot accurately and the maintenance in the later stage." Li Zhen turned around and said, "Let Zhong Zhixiang teach you how to shoot accurately. , his current knowledge of mathematics is enough for him to take my place temporarily. As for maintenance, anyway, maintenance is not done every day, and I also let them watch when I maintained Thor [-] before, you can also let them try Take care of yourself. Anyway, I can’t go today, so go by yourself.”

"Well, that's the only way to go." Knowing that what Li Zhen wanted to see most was the birth of the killing technique, Fang Yiai could only nod and leave.

"Let's go, let's go and see the killing technique."

"Your Highness please first."

"This is the beginning version of the killing technique, who will demonstrate it to me?"

"Wang Dewei is willing to demonstrate for His Highness." Wang Dewei stood up first.

"That's right."

"Shua!" Wang Dewei pulled out the Tang Dao, and immediately began to demonstrate. The initial version of the killing technique has a total of nine moves.

Among them, the footwork is listed as a separate move, which is integrated with Wang Dewei's turning step and Liu Laoliu's flash step plus the experience of other people. What's more, there are only six changes in this set of footwork. As long as you are not a fool, you can basically learn it without any problem.

In addition to the footwork, Xie Yu's power-increasing technique is another move. This move is mainly to increase people's strength. It can burst out suddenly when facing the enemy, and it can play a role of surprise. It is a blessing for the other seven moves. Its function can be regarded as an auxiliary move.

In addition to the footwork and the boosting technique, the other seven moves of the killing technique are called breaking armor, breaking gun, breaking knife, breaking arrow, breaking fist, breaking hammer, and breaking horse.Corresponding to shields, halberds, swords, arrows, fists, hammers, and cavalry, there are six different types of weapons or enemies, so that soldiers can make the most reasonable responses when facing the above weapons.Although these countermeasures can't make people survive the above weapons, they can save people's lives to the greatest extent.

What's more rare is that these nine martial arts all have one thing in common, that is, they are very easy to learn. Among all the moves, footwork has the most changes, but there are only eight changes. There are only four variations and so on.Such a simple martial art, even if it is taught to a foolish person, can almost be mastered after a few months of practice. It is the most suitable martial art to be promoted in the army.

In addition, these moves are very practical. Among all the moves, none of them are superfluous. They are all fierce moves that kill with one blow. Use two.

So the whole set of killing techniques has no sense of beauty, and looks very sinister, but although it doesn't look very good-looking, it is the best way to save lives on the battlefield, and this is enough.

"Papa papa!" After watching Wang Dewei's demonstration, Li Zhen couldn't help applauding and applauding: "It really is extremely practical. I knew I didn't find the wrong person. Everyone has worked hard. Everyone came forward to listen to the appreciation."

"Yes." Everyone's faces brightened, knowing that it was time to reward them for their merits.

Li Zhen said solemnly: "Everyone has put their heart and soul into the killing technique. Now that you're done, I can't let everyone's hearts down. In addition to the rewards I promised you in advance, each of you will be rewarded with ten taels of gold and one hundred taels of silver. , In addition, I can also promise you a request, as long as I can do it and it does not violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty, I will definitely help you realize it."

No one thought that Li Zhen would make such a promise, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay.If the previous rewards were affirmation of them and worthy of their hard work, then the last reward was so heavy that the whole tent became audible and completely silent.

In the end, Xie Yu dared to ask: "Your Highness, can I have any wish?"

"Xie Yu, what are you doing?" Wang Dewei scolded, and the others glared at Xie Yu angrily. His Highness is willing to make a promise to you. It is His Highness's gift, but you can't be ignorant.

Li Zhen waved her hand to indicate that it was okay, and said with a smile: "Of course it is true, as long as I can do it and it does not violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty, it is fine."

"Then I, Old Xie, will dare to make a request." Xie Yu seemed to have made up his mind, and suddenly his knees stretched, and he fell to his knees on the ground, crying: "Your Highness, Old Xie used to be a fighter, Don't say that others look down on you, even we look down on ourselves. But you are different, Your Highness, you not only treat us as human beings, but also treat us favorably

Lao Xie spent his whole life in a daze, but at the end of his life, he found that the past few days were the happiest. The reason why he was so happy was because His Highness regarded us as human beings.

I, Lao Xie, is a vulgar person, I don't understand the principles, I don't know what it means to repay kindness with kindness, and I don't know what it means to die for a confidant, but we also know what is good or bad. Give your life to His Highness.

Therefore, Lao Xie's request is very simple. He just wants His Highness to take Lao Xie under his account. Whether he is a soldier or a slave, I, Lao Xie, will recognize it. "

"Xie Yu" Li Zhen was greatly shocked when he heard this. He just treated everyone with the habits of later generations, but he did not expect that in this feudal society where people cannibalize, this behavior would bring such a big touch to people.

At the same time, he also understood that it was no wonder that none of his subordinates had ever betrayed him.For example, Wu Liu, who was stabbed to the neck with a knife by the people of the Han Palace, still refused to let go.It's not that he is not afraid of death, but because scholars die for their confidants. Although he is not too close to them in his heart, it is just such a little inadvertently showing equal treatment that makes them remember them in their hearts.

"The scholar died for his confidant, please take him in." Li Zhen was still touched, but after hearing Xie Yu's words, Wang Dewei and others who were greatly moved suddenly knelt down and begged Li Zhen to take him in.

"This..." Li Zhen was a little embarrassed, he had never encountered such a thing before, so he couldn't help but look at Zhun Xue Rengui.

"Your Highness, everyone is loyal, please take them in." Xue Rengui quickly knelt down and begged.

"Since everyone is willing to follow me, then I welcome it, but I'm just a prince. If you follow me, you can at most become a member of Yue Wang's account house or marriage house. If you want to become a general, this is basically It’s impossible.” Although I really want to accept them, there are still some things that need to be explained clearly.

"Your Highness, please rest assured. Your Highness is not following you for promotion." Wang Dewei raised his head and pleaded, "Let's just talk about my subordinates. I have been in the army for twelve years. There have been no less than twenty battles, beheading generals and generals." , now he is just a Zuowei Weiyu Changshi, only at the sixth rank, and he has reached the limit, and his subordinates have no intention of being promoted for a long time."

"Yes, Your Highness, and the same is true for your subordinates. I implore Your Highness to take him in."

"Your Highness begs to take it in."