Valley Emperor

Even if Li Xuan is a liberal arts student, he also knows that three acids and two alkalis are the foundation of modern and even modern industrial industries, and most chemical products are inseparable from these five things.

For things like sulfuric acid, the Royal Institute of Technology has come up with a method of artificial production a few years ago, but they are all local methods, the output is small, the cost is high, and it is difficult to industrialize large-scale production.

This is far from enough for the Tang Dynasty, which has already started industrialization.

So the Royal Institute of Technology has been looking for ways to produce sulfuric acid cheaply and in large quantities, and now, it is finally off to a good start.

Although the output of the method of producing sulfuric acid in glassware is still somewhat small, it is still much better than before.

For this kind of breakthrough in basic materials, Li Xuan has always been very supportive!

Because of breakthroughs in various materials, various technologies can be broken through, and various finished products can be produced.

Therefore, with a big stroke of his pen, Li Xuan gave instructions directly behind the excerpts, paying attention to the production process of new sulfuric acid, promoting it quickly, and giving generous rewards to the research team at the same time.

After reading the excerpts for a day, Li Xuan left the palace and went to inspect the barracks of the Guards!

However, the inspected troop was not the Guards. The Guards followed him every day. Li Xuan was very familiar with the situation of the Guards, and he dared not speak of every officer, but basically the officers above the battalion level, Li Xuan. They are all casually stating their resumes.

Because every officer at the battalion commander level was promoted by him personally, and most of them were young military battalions and students who had entered the Imperial Academy.

He came out to inspect today to inspect a cavalry unit that had just arrived in Jiujiang, and it was a rather special cavalry unit!

This is a cuirassier cavalry unit, and also the first heavy cavalry in the Tang Dynasty!

This gun does not mean a musket, but a hollow spear dedicated to cavalry!

Although it is said that the cavalry generals in the Tang Dynasty all had a soft spot for light cavalry equipped with cavalry knives, they were unwilling to use muskets, even flintlock guns, and at the same time they were unwilling to equip themselves with armor to turn themselves into heavy armor cavalry.

But Li Xuan is very clear that in this era, a heavy armored lancer still has an irreplaceable role!

In the past, they didn't do it, because the Tang Dynasty did not have war horses that could be used as heavy cavalry. In the early days, there were not enough Mongolian horses, and short Mongolian horses were not suitable for heavy cavalry.

Therefore, the heavy armored lancers in Li Xuan's plan have always been dragged!

Until the first half of this year!

In the first half of this year, the Northern Expedition of the King of the Tang Dynasty was successful. At the same time, the Fourth Army entered Shaanxi again, and got in touch with the nomads in the Western Regions, Oirat and other regions, and began to use mutual markets, direct spending and other means to purchase from this place. Introduce horses to an area.

At the same time, after the success of the Northern Expedition, although the early Tang Dynasty and the Tatars were still in a state of hostility, not every Tatar tribe was hostile to the Tang Dynasty. Some Tatar tribes near the border towns of the Tang Dynasty were also able to Secretly trade horses with the Tang Dynasty.

Not for anything else, just because the Datang Dynasty gave money to you!

Due to the wealth of the Tang Dynasty and its willingness to pay the price, the purchase of horses was very smooth. According to the report from the Shaanxi Governor, it was only in the month of October that many people in northern and northwestern Shaanxi trade with foreigners. In the horse market, more than 3,000 horses have been purchased through various trade methods, and the trade of such horses has not stopped.

Most of what the Tang Dynasty paid for this was tea, silk, cloth, salt and other materials, and rarely gave cash and silver, because you gave it to the nomadic people of gold and silver, and it was of no use. They needed tea even more. , salt, iron, silk, cloth and other living materials.

And these materials are not a problem for the Datang Dynasty. To be able to exchange these materials for life consumption for a strategic resource such as horses, the Datang Dynasty is more willing to pay even a higher price than the market price. also willing.

And most of the horses purchased in these places are handed over to the military!

The military will directly use most of these horses as military horses, while a small number of male horses and mares that have not been neutered are used as stallions and begin to be bred in Shaanxi.

Most of the horses introduced are Mongolian horses, which can only be used by light cavalry or as service horses!

However, the horses traded with the Tang Dynasty were not only the nomadic tribes on the northern grasslands such as the Oirat and the Tatar, but also the countries in the Western Regions, and the horses imported from these areas were not the same.

Because the horses introduced from this area have different breeds and different names, but these horses, which are called Central Asian horses by officials of the Department of Horse Affairs of the 6th Military Department of the Cabinet, are generally tall and explosive. Features!

The shoulder height is generally more than 1.45 meters, and a few can even reach 1.5 meters. The explosive force is relatively strong, but the endurance is slightly worse than that of Mongolian horses, and the requirements for feeding are also relatively high.

However, poor endurance and high feeding requirements were not a problem for the Tang Dynasty!

Isn't it just that the food is more expensive. Our 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty has money and can afford it. It's a big deal to feed eggs, soybeans and other mixed ingredients every day.

Isn't it just that the stamina is poor, it's okay, we Datang cavalry never play the nonsense tactics of cavalry running thousands of miles. If the cavalry want to ride on horses, they can only do it before the battle. Whoever dares to ride before this Hurry up, minute-by-minute military law disposal.

The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether it was a light cavalry or a heavy cavalry, actually played the same routine, that is, they only carried out charge operations on the battlefield, and they walked on their feet on their daily marches.

So after getting these Central Asian horses, the horse officials in Datang were quite enthusiastic!

After some of them were castrated, they could not be used as stallion horses, and others did not want them. They threw them directly to the 6th Army, and they themselves left nearly dozens of male horses that were not castrated. In addition, there were some female horses. Horses, began to be bred in the horse farm.

And they are not saying that they simply continue to breed these Central Asian horses, some of them continue to breed, and the other part, they have selected some excellent Mongolian horses for crossbreeding and improvement!

They are looking forward to the day when they will be able to breed an ideal warhorse: tall and large, strong in negative gravity, strong in short-distance explosiveness, good in long-distance endurance, simple in feeding, and can be fed with just a little grass. The climate and geographical environment has a wide range of adaptation, including the northern ice field, the southern jungle, the plains, and the plateau areas!

In this case, the Datang cavalry will be able to obtain an excellent war horse to fight the world in the future!

Well, even Li Xuan himself thinks that they are daydreaming, not to mention in this era, even in the modern age of later generations, there is no such comprehensive and excellent horses, at most a few of them are highlighted. That's it!

However, as a horse official, how can there be no dreams?

So even if they knew that it was very difficult, they still threw themselves into it and started to cultivate horses, and they walked on two feet. One side was breeding the original breeds, including Mongolian horses and Central Asian horses, while the other side was training horses. Hybrid varieties.

In the process of trading horses with the Western Regions, the 6th Army obtained about 500 castrated Central Asian horses, all of which had a shoulder height of more than 1.45 meters.

In the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty, a group of Mongolian Mali, whose shoulder height is generally only one meter three, looks extremely tall!

As for the use of this batch of Central Asian horses, the 6th Army originally planned to distribute them to middle and senior generals at all levels as mounts. After all, that officer likes tall and mighty war horses!

But after Li Xuan found out about this, he kept edicts that all these horses should be detained, and then specially ordered to recruit personnel to form the first lancers of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty!

In this way, the first lancer regiment of the Tang Dynasty was officially established!

The head of the regiment is Song Zhilin, the proud disciple of Lieutenant General Lu Yu, a famous cavalry general. Listening to this name, he is similar to Song Zhiwen, an important assistant under Zhang Yue's command, the governor of East Sichuan in the regime of the pseudo-Mingjing King~www.wuxiaspot.com~ No Those who knew they thought they were brothers, but in fact the two could never fight together in eight lifetimes.

Song Zhilin was born as a serious bandit. In the Huangzhushan period, he was a dragon and belonged to Miaohong, the most senior officer in the early years. If you ask him if he and Song Zhiwen have been separated for many years Brother, people turn against you every minute.

In his early years, he followed Lu Yuzhi as a cavalryman. He was also a cavalry officer in the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty. There were very few officers who had not left behind and were still serving in the field army. group leader.

When Li Xuan came to the barracks of the Guards, the first thing he saw was this lancer regiment!

Although there were not many troops, there were only more than 400 lancers, and there were originally more than 500 horses, but after nearly 100 came to the Central Plains from the northwest region, they were not accustomed to the conditions and died on the road and after they arrived.

But the horses present are far more than the four hundred Central Asian horses, and there are more than four hundred Mongolian horses!

Because in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of these lancers, the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty was very extravagant to assign two horses to these lancers. Of course, the other horse assigned to them was just an ordinary Mongolian horse, mainly used for pack transportation. Partially equipped, occasionally the cavalry can ride on this Mongolian horse for a fast march.

As for the more than 400 Central Asian horses, they are all very precious. Except for training and combat, they will never ride on a daily march.

Even these cuirassiers are assigned an additional attendant. They do not participate in the battle. Most of the time, they help to carry various equipment, manage the horses, help to wear the cuirass before the battle, and help the knight to mount. When necessary, they also Will ride on Mongolian horses to fight together.

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