Datang romantic little landlord

"Yinan Khan, don't forget, you are the real pearl Vija Khan bestowed by His Majesty! Have you forgotten your identity? As His Majesty's subject, how dare you say such outrageous words?"

Tang Songling's words are not wrong at all. Although Yi Nan established the Xue Yantuo Khanate, he sent envoys to Tang to proclaim his ministers and was granted by Li Erzhi.So Xue Yantuo is a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and Yinan Khan is also a subject of Li Er.

In a sense, Li Wangyou's status as Prince is comparable to that of Yinan Khan, or even higher.

If Li Wangyou led the army to attack Xue Yantuo, it would be nothing more than an "internal conflict" between the two nobles. It was far from a war between the two countries, and Yinan Khan was not qualified to threaten Datang.

Yi Nan Khan naturally understood Tang Songling's words, as did all the guards in the big tent.

Many of Xue Yantuo's guards were already clenching their teeth in anger. If vision could kill, Tang Songling would have become riddled with holes.

How could Yi Nan Khan not hate him?

Although he professed his vassal to the Tang Dynasty, he was extremely ambitious. After the East Turks were unlucky, he even regarded himself as the king of the grassland.

At this moment, Tang Songling's tongue is like a knife, but she is stripping Yi Nan Khan's pride layer by layer, how can he not be angry.

He really wanted to order immediately, ordering Tang Songling to be hacked to death with knives, and chopped into meat to vent his anger.

But in the end, Yinan Khan still didn't dare to do this.

Hacking Tang Songling to death was easy, but then, Xue Yantuo had to be buried with him.Facing the behemoth of Datang, Xue Yantuo absolutely cannot afford to provoke him.

This is different from secretly chasing and killing Li Wangyou. Even if Li Er asks the blame afterwards, he can still blame Li Wangyou for assassinating his son.But killing the envoys of the Tang Dynasty is a situation of endless death.

Yi Nan Khan's eyes were bloodshot, panting heavily, he stared at Tang Songling for a long while, and finally sat back in his sweating seat.

"Okay, okay, since King Qin led the troops to attack me, Xue Yantuo, and Tang didn't care about it, then don't blame Ben Khan for being rude. Ben Khan wants to see if King Qin really has the ability to rely on ten thousand soldiers Fight against my Xue Yantuo's [-] army! Hehe, swords and swords don't have eyes on the battlefield, if King Qin has something good or bad, Tang Shilang can't blame Ben Khan!"

Yinan Khan also felt ruthless in his heart, hoping that his son Jielibi would lead the [-] army to defeat the Tang army in one fell swoop.

Tang Songling sighed silently in his heart. In fact, he didn't know why Li Wangyou rushed into the grassland after joining Tang Jun.And just like Yi Nan Khan said, with [-] against [-], it seems that the odds of winning are not great...

But Tang Songling also had confidence in the Tang cavalry. In his mind, even if Li Wangyou led an army of 5, they could not defeat Xue Yantuo's [-] horses, but there would still be no problem in retreating safely.

So he is not worried about Li Wangyou's safety. As for how to solve these troublesome things, let the big bosses in the court worry about it.

Therefore, Tang Songling didn't take the threat of Yi Nan Khan to heart, and the two of them didn't speculate.

However, he was not in a hurry to return to Chang'an, but stayed at Dujun Yu Mountain, intending to see the outcome of the war between Tang Jun and Xue Yantuo before making further plans.

When Dujun Yu's Shanyi male Khan confronted Tang Songling, on the grassland hundreds of miles away from Dujun Yu's mountain, Tang Jun and Xue Yantuo's army were also several miles away. They set up camps and confronted each other.

In the Tang Army tent, Li Wangyou was very excited, playing with a steel crossbow in his hand...

1036 The Mountain and the Rain Are Coming

The steel crossbow in Li Wangyou's hand was not unfamiliar to him at all.

Except for the absence of a scope, it was almost a replica of the composite steel crossbow that Yan Liben had made for him in order to make a bet with the dandies.

Li Wangyou didn't expect that Li Er actually ordered the supervisor to make this kind of composite steel crossbow with all his strength for more than a year, and personally named it "Qingtian Crossbow."

It is also thanks to Li Wangyou who invented the water conservancy stamping machine, otherwise Datang would not have been able to make such a composite steel crossbow with so much steelmaking.

In the original history, the Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention to the crossbow. In "The Art of War of Duke Wei of the Tang Dynasty Li Jing", the proportion of crossbowmen in the army is the lowest, only about 14.00%.Specific to each army, the proportion of crossbowmen is even lower, usually only [-]%.

Except for Jianghuai crossbowmen, the status of crossbowmen in the Tang Dynasty was far lower than that of bows and arrows.

The reason is naturally that the crossbow has a short range, slow loading speed, and is good at defending but not good at attacking.

The generals of the Tang Dynasty did not have much hope for the use of weapons such as crossbows to restrain cavalry from rushing with long-range shots.

Among the Tang army, Mo Dao and cavalry are the most important arms.

But the composite steel crossbow made by Li Wangyou not only has a long range, but also has a booster for winding, which is not only fast but also saves effort.

As the emperor on horseback, Li Er, the big man who conquered half of the Tang Dynasty, how could he fail to see the role of this steel crossbow.

Therefore, even though it was very expensive to manufacture composite steel crossbows, he still gritted his teeth and ordered the commander to build a large number of them and began to equip them in the army in batches.

Now Li Wangyou commanded the Ten Thousand Tang Army Cavalry, including two thousand crossbowmen equipped with "Qingtian Crossbows".

In fact, it is not correct to call this Wantang army iron cavalry.

Although they all marched on horseback, only 8000 of them were real cavalry, and the remaining [-] people should be called mounted infantry.

Unlike Xue Yantuo's dismounted infantry formation, these mounted infantry of the Tang Army are professional infantry, and horses are only "vehicles" for them to march on the road. When fighting, they all dismount and fight in foot formation.

"Li Weigong's Art of War" records that the field troops of the Tang Army accounted for 70.00% of the soldiers, and the rest were various medical, logistics and auxiliary personnel.

In other words, the 7000-strong army led by Li Wangyou had [-] soldiers.

Among them, there are 2000 cavalry, 2000 crossbowmen, and 1000 jumping soldiers, that is, sword and shield hands.And Tang Jun's most elite sharp knife, Mo Dao soldiers [-] people.

Originally, according to Li Wangyou's previous thinking, the battle with Xielibi was very simple, and he only needed to copy Li Ji's tactics.

Use [-] infantry to deal with Xue Yantuo's dismounted cavalry formation, and then [-] cavalry will go around the rear and surprise Xue Yantuo's rear cavalry.As long as Xue Yantuo's horses are killed, it is equivalent to cutting off the feet of [-] troops. At that time, Xue Yantuo's dismounted cavalry will become meat on the chopping board, and the Tang army can do whatever they want.

But Li Wangyou thought about it, but shook his head and denied this tactic.

It's not inappropriate, but he doesn't intend to expose this tactic so early.

Xue Yantuo's dismounted cavalry formation, to put it bluntly, is not worth mentioning, quite idiotic.But Li Wangyou's ambitions are great. He really has the idea to go to Dujun Yu Mountain and capture Yinan Khan alive.

In this way, it would be inappropriate to use this tactic to defeat Xielibi.

After all, Xue Yantuo is not an idiot. After he defeated Jielibi in this way, it will not be so easy to deal with Xue Yantuo's remaining 15 troops.

As long as Xue Yantuo left enough cavalry to guard the horses of the rear army, it would be impossible for him to defeat Xue Yantuo's 1+ army with 10,000 horses.

Therefore, Li Wangyou needed to think of another way. He wanted to defeat the [-] army of Jie Libi on the opposite side without exposing the weakness of Xue Yantuo's dismounted cavalry formation.

It is indeed not easy to confront Jielibi's [-] army head-on with [-] troops, and it will be self-defeating if not done well.

But ever since Li Wangyou discovered that Li Er had deployed composite steel crossbows on a large scale in the army, he had enough confidence.

With only these two thousand composite steel crossbows, the enemy can be shot without any power to fight back. Coupled with Datang's invincible Mo Dao hand pressing the formation, even if Jie Libi has five times as many troops as him, it's nothing I'm so worried.

For ordinary crossbows, the throwing distance is only about two hundred steps, and the direct shooting distance is seventy or eighty steps.The "Qingtian crossbow" equipped by the Tang army today is equivalent to a four-stone crossbow, with a throwing distance of almost 200 steps and a direct shooting distance of more than [-] steps.

Li Wangyou was able to use this crossbow to shoot a wild boar with rough skin and thick flesh at a distance of 300 meters, so it would have the same effect on Xue Yantuo's soldiers.

In other words, only relying on the ultra-long range of the composite steel crossbow is no less than a "dimension reduction strike" to Xue Yantuo.

Although Li Wangyou is not a soldier, but as a military fan, he also knows what it means to have the advantage of shooting range and to be able to continuously strike and kill the enemy outside the enemy's attack range.

The elimination of bows and arrows by muskets is the best example.