Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

The steel crossbow in Li Wangyou’s hands, speaking of which he is not unfamiliar at all.

Except for the lack of a scope, it was almost a replica of the composite steel crossbow he had made for him in order to bet against the dudes.

Li Wangyou didn’t expect. For more than a year, Li Er actually ordered the supervisor to make this composite steel crossbow with all his strength, and personally named it “Qingtian Crossbow.”

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Its also thanks to Li Wangyou who created the hydraulic press, otherwise Great Tang would really not be able to produce such Hundred Refinements steel to build this composite steel crossbow.

In the original history, Great Tang did not pay much attention to crossbows. In “Great Tang Li Jing Art of War”, crossbowmen accounted for the lowest proportion of troops, only about 14%. For each army, the proportion of crossbowmen is even lower, usually only 10%.

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

The reason is naturally that the crossbow has a short range, slow reloading speed, and good defense but not good attack.

The generals of Great Tang did not have much hope for the use of crossbow weapons to restrain the cavalry from rushing from a long distance.

Among the Tang Army, Modao and Cavalry are the most important units.

But the composite steel crossbow developed by Li Wangyou not only has a long range, but also has a booster for winding, which is not only fast but also labor-saving.

Li Er, as the emperor of horses, has taken down the Great Tang half of the country, how can he not see the effect of this steel crossbow.

Therefore, even though it is very expensive to build composite steel crossbows, he still gritted his teeth to supervise a large number of constructions and began to equip them in batches.

Today, among the ten thousand Tang Army cavalry led by Li Wangyou, there are two thousand crossbowmen equipped with “Sky Crossbow”.

In fact, it is not correct to call these ten thousand Tang Army as iron knights.

Although they are all marching on horseback, there are only more than two thousand horses, which are real cavalry. The remaining eight thousand men and horses should be called horse-riding infantry.

Different from Syr-Tardushs dismounted infantry, these Tang Army mounted infantry are all professional infantry. The horses are just their transportation for marching. When fighting, they are dismounted and fight on foot. .

According to “Li Weigong Art of War”, the Tang Army field troops, 70% of which are combat troops, and the rest are various medical, logistics and auxiliary personnel.

In other words, the 10,000 army led by Li Wangyou has 7,000 soldiers.

Among them, there are 2,000 cavalry, 2,000 archers and crossbowmen, and 2,000 jump soldiers, which are swordsmen and shields. And Tang Armys sharpest sharp knife, Mo Dao soldiers 1,000 men.

According to Li Wangyou’s previous ideas, the battle with Illig Khan was very simple, just copy Li Ji’s tactics.

Use five thousand infantry against the dismounted cavalry formation of Syr-Tardush, and then two thousand cavalry will go around the rear and raid the rear horses of Syr-Tardush. As long as the horses of Syr-Tardush are killed, it is equivalent to the feet of fifty thousand troops. By then, these dismounted cavalry of Syr-Tardush will become meat on the chopping board, and it is up to the Tang Army to deal with it.

But Li Wangyou pondered, but shook his head to deny this tactic.

It is not inappropriate, but he does not intend to expose this tactic so early.

The dismounted cavalry formation of the Syr-Tardush people is not worth mentioning, quite an idiot. But Li Wangyou has great ambitions. He really has the enthusiasm to hit Yudujun Mountain and catch Zhenzhu Khan alive.

In this way, it would be inappropriate to defeat Illig Khan with this tactic.

After all, the Syr-Tardush people are not idiots. After he defeated Illig Khan in this way, he had to deal with the remaining 150,000 army of Syr-Tardush, but it was not that easy.

As long as the Syr-Tardush people keep a sufficient number of cavalry troops to guard the horses of the rear army, then he is basically impossible to rely on the 10,000 horses on hand to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Syr-Tardush army.

So Li Wangyou needs to think of another way, to defeat Illig Khan’s 50,000 army, but not to expose the weakness of the Syr-Tardush dismounted cavalry formation.

It is really not easy to face Illig Khan’s 50,000 troops with 10,000 soldiers and horses. If it is not done, it will be self-defeating.

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

With only these two thousand composite steel crossbows, the enemy can be shot without the strength to fight back. In addition, Great Tang’s invincible and invincible swordsman is in the battle, even if Illig Khan’s strength is He was five times, and there was nothing to worry about.

Ordinary crossbow, the throwing distance is only 200 steps, and the direct shooting distance is seventy-eighty steps. The “Sky Crossbow” currently equipped by the Tang Army is equivalent to a four-stone crossbow, with a throwing distance of almost 400 steps and a direct shooting distance of more than 200 steps.

Li Wangyou was able to use this crossbow to shoot wild boars with skin is rough and flesh is thick 300 metres away, so the effect against the soldiers of Syr-Tardush is the same.

In other words, relying only on the super long range of the composite steel crossbow is no less than a “dimensionality reduction strike” for the Syr-Tardush people.

Although Li Wangyou is not a soldier, as an army fan, he also knows what it means to have a range advantage and be able to continuously attack and kill the enemy outside the enemy’s attack range.

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

In this era, the formidable power of composite steel crossbows has almost nothing to do with muskets, and can even be said to be stronger than earlier muskets.

At least, the shotguns of the Manchu and Qing Dynasty were unable to accurately kill the enemy at a distance of 300 metres.

And presumably the early muskets, composite steel crossbows, because Li Wangyou designed the winding device, not only the winding speed is faster, but also the excitation is faster. And because of the use of steel cables as crossbow strings, it is not even affected by the weather.

Compared with earlier muskets, the composite steel crossbow has only one disadvantage, that is, it is expensive!

Whether it is the cost of manufacturing steel crossbows or the consumption of crossbow arrows, they are too expensive compared to Gunpowder and lead shot.

Fortunately, Great Tang’s national strength is rising, otherwise Li Er might not have equipped so many Sky Crossbows.

It’s just Great Tang’s use of composite steel crossbows, but there is a misunderstanding.

Just like when the tanks were first introduced by the invention, the way Western countries used them was to distribute them to various divisions to cooperate with the infantry attack. It was not until the Second World War that tanks began to be used intensively and became the king of land warfare.

Tang Army uses composite steel crossbows, but it is no different from ordinary crossbowmen.

In Li Wangyou’s view, the tactics that can best play the formidable power of composite steel crossbows are the matchlock tactics of the 16th century, three-stage shooting!

Although the composite steel crossbow is equipped with a winder, the shooting speed is not too fast.

In this way, three-stage shooting is necessary to make the most of the might of the steel crossbow and avoid the shortcomings of being unable to shoot continuously.

Dividing the crossbowmen into three teams, and the three teams take turns winding and shooting, you can triple the efficiency of the composite steel crossbow!

Li Wangyou is very confident about this.

But Li Wangyou is confident, but it doesn’t mean that Mi Tuo and Cheng Chumo are confident.

Even if you have confidence in the battle strength of the Tang Army cavalry, facing the enemy five times your own, whether it is the dudes or Mi Tuo, or the captains and generals in the army, Drumming in the heart.

Even Mi Tuo and many times persuaded Li Wangyou to retreat, but found Li Wangyou’s refusal.

In this regard, Mi Tuo was also very helpless, and could only secretly instruct his Forbidden Army agents to prepare. If the Tang Army is defeated, even if it is tied up, he will have to rescue Li Wangyou, the Prince of Qin.

After Illig Khan finally decided to fight Li Wangyou to the death, the two sides each set up a large camp on the grassland, and confronted each other at an interval of 10 li.

This day, serene, the rising wind forebodes the coming storm, is really a good day for murder and arson. The two sides unanimously chose to fight today.

The first horn of Tang Army was blown, and the schools of Tang Army gathered people to ride as a team!

The second horn was blown, and the banner and lance were raised one after another!

The third horn was blown, Tang Army lined up to meet the enemy, and the flag was swept!

The drums are beating, Tang Army and Syr-Tardush have stepped out to attack at the same time…