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Nangongyi didn't speak, but walked to the side and looked at the hanging map. After a while, he turned to Li You and said, "A Lang plans to go by sea, but here is tens of thousands of miles away from Huoxun!"
Li You smiled at the corner of his mouth: "I didn't say I'm going to fight the fire to find it!"
Nangong Yi suddenly reacted back, his eyes widened and he looked at Li You incredulously: "A Lang, don't you say that you plan to kill the food."
Li You smiled lightly: "No matter how bad the food is, you have to send a hundred thousand troops to attack the fire, otherwise the Khazanian Khanate will definitely not buy it. On the Western Front, they will not exceed one hundred thousand troops to defend the Byzantine Empire. There are rebels in various places in Shanghai, and the eclipse is already an empty shell. If they did not think that Huoxun was the source of all disasters, they would not have thought that Huoxun must be extinguished. Such an opportunity is very rare. If I missed it, I would really regret it."
Nangong Yi is really not interested in these remarks. After all, Li You once said that the food empire is mostly desert, and there is no need to go to such a place.
"Alang, why do you want to capture the food? Didn't you say that there are many deserts?"
Li You nodded and said: "Yes, there are many deserts there, but there are also good things there."
Nangongyi smiled and asked, "Alang wouldn't say there is gold there, right?"
Li You smiled bitterly, and nodded, expressing his affirmation of Nangong Yi's words, and then he said seriously: "Sir, if I say that the food has inexhaustible and inexhaustible kerosene, I wonder if your husband is credible? If it is gold, there seems to be nothing wrong with it."
Nangong Yi said, the corners of his eyes twitched, and kerosene is really worthless, but if you say it is valuable, it’s not fake. Whenever it is refined into fierce kerosene, the price can be high. Luzon now sells tree oil for 80 cents per catty, and the price is still rising. If it is inexhaustible, it would be a big treasure.
After a while, Nangong Yi squeezed out two words, and he asked, "Really?"
"When did your husband see me joking about business matters?"
Nangong Yi nodded after going to the toilet. He agreed with Li You's approach, but Zhang Da looked at the two and asked Li You Yili: "Lord, can Heizi really support them until next year?"
"Don't worry, you don't know their combat power. If they can't hold on for a year, then they have been doing nothing for the past two years. As long as we aggressively attack Damascus, the capital of Damascus next year, the danger of fire will be solved. Up."
Now it’s the end of September. If you want to attack the eclipse around February next year, you must start preparing for war. After all, it takes one month to sail at sea. After deducting this month, there are only four remaining. Months are available. These four months not only need to prepare enough food and grass, but also large quantities of consumables. If you want to do it all, the time is still a bit tight.
After Li You issued the war preparation order, he finally understood the group of people under his hands. After receiving the order to prepare for the war, everyone was very happy, and they could really be described as enthusiastic. The feeling was that this did not seem to go to war, but to rob.
Especially Chen Yu and Hong Ming. The two people actually issued a mobilization order, planning to recruit 20,000 people within a month. Li You didn't say anything about it. After all, there is a war, I am afraid that his side The loss is not small. Recruiting more troops is also a good thing. Anyway, the populations of Linyi and Zhenla were larger. It is not difficult to recruit 20,000 people as a source of troops.
In fact, the most difficult thing is the ship. There are only more than 20 huge cargo ships of 100 meters long, and less than 20 large warships equipped with artillery. The main transportation capacity is only this, and it is necessary to prepare food, grass, horses and other materials. More cargo ships are needed and can only be supplemented by catamaran cargo ships, and these ships need to increase weapons, so there is a lot to do.
In the workshop area outside the city, Li You came every day for the past two days. He came here for two purposes. The first is to let the craftsmen make a large number of carriages to carry goods, grain and grass and other materials. Two crossbow brackets are installed on each carriage to facilitate the loading of heavy crossbows for four-stone ships.
Li You roughly calculated that in four months, this type of heavy four-wheeled freight wagon with a length of about five meters can build about 200 or so, plus there are three to four hundred of this kind of wagon in use. Enough for five hundred, the problem is not big. Each vehicle is equipped with two heavy crossbows, that is, one thousand. It should still be possible to complete.
This four-stone ship-use heavy crossbow is a brand-new design. The bow arm is about the same size as the three-stone bow, but with a greater force, it can shoot two heavy arrows per shot. This was originally installed on a ship. In the past two years, the heavy crossbow has produced seven or eight hundred pieces. Now preparing for the war, all the materials it had prepared are used. As much as you can make, I want The problem is still not big when it reaches the number of thousands.
The second thing is the manufacture of artillery. Although the existing artillery is sufficient, Li You needs a lighter artillery that can be used at will on the battlefield. He plans to use brass to make artillery, because if you use brass, you can. It is easy to complete the cutting, so that it can be made into a post-loaded artillery.
The craftsmen here have a good grasp of the craftsmanship of forging artillery and making seamless barrels, and the cutting craftsmanship is not bad. After all, they are the skilled hands brought out by Qiu Chengfu. As long as Li You gives the drawings and states the technological requirements, They can do it. And Li You not only gave the drawings, but also planned to make a copper artillery by himself. There is no way, he needs to make one to test the performance first.
As for the knives, Li You dare not use them to cut steel anymore. He gave Qiu Chengfu two sets of knives until they were used and couldn’t cut them anymore. There were not even 4,000 rear-mounted rifled guns made, and there were even fewer artillery. Poor, now all artillery is made.
So for the only two sets of knives in his hand, Li You will not use it easily, but cutting brass, it doesn’t matter, you can use it casually. To put it bluntly, cutting brass, high-carbon steel is already capable Competent.
This kind of copper artillery is not a cast gun. Although it is a smoothbore gun, the process still uses a seamless barrel process to reduce weight. The total weight of this copper gun plus the rear cartridge is only six Ten catties, the length is only two feet and six inches. The bullets used in the artillery are made of pure copper, so the barrel will be worn out and it is relatively more expensive. Regardless of the caliber, it is only two inches. Whenever a solid copper is ejected, the value is more than five hundred wen, including gunpowder, etc., after a shot, almost always the money is gone, you know, generally speaking, ordinary People don’t even have a month’s money for a month, which is really expensive. The fastest full text of 噺⒏⑴祌 んττρs:/м.χ八㈠zщ.còм/
The advantage of this type of gun is that it can shoot and kill the enemy on a large scale, and is easy to quickly complete the loading and launching. For war, such a weapon is already very cost-effective. After all, the use of lead bombs will cost more money and is not easy to obtain in large quantities. At least in Luzon, there is more than one copper mine. (End of this chapter)