Chapter 772 - Look at my 40-meter-long knife

“Your Majesty, what are you going to do next?”

Although the income of Li's family copy, can not meet the expenses of his five-year plan, carefully calculated, if you count the income of taxes and gold mines, this gap is not large.Wei Zheng saw these clan gate valve officials, only the Jing officials of the court's chief, can get the court's fiscal revenue for more than ten years, very satisfied.

He immediately calmed down under temporary excitement and began to ask the most urgent questions.

After a short period of reflection, Li replied: "The gate of the sword is not worry-free for a while, and the danger is two Huai and southern."

After Li Shimin obtained Jiangnan, the soldiers were divided into three roads, and the west road cooperated with Hou Mo Chenxu to sweep the Ba Shu.

Middle Road Attacks Xianzhou (now Hubei Zhongxiang).

The posture of the Middle Army has gradually become clear, and they are ready to attack the Han River along Xianzhou and turn to Xiangfan.Once Li Shimin's middle road army won Xiangfan, attacked the Nanyang Basin, and then won Luoyang, Li could be trapped in the gate.

The eastern road of the military direction is mainly concentrated in Huaixi, in order to map two Huai.Now the Tang army in the direction of two Huai and Xiangyang, the strength is seriously insufficient.

Li built a deep sigh: "I am ready to drive the family, and I will drive Li Shimin to the south of the Yangtze River!"

Wei Zheng frowned and said, “Your Majesty, what about Southern?”It doesn’t matter for a while?”

Li built and sighed: "This war will not end like this, I and he can only laugh at the end... But this fiasco also gave me a wake-up call, Li Shimin's strength is extremely strong, and I will not make such a mistake again."I intend to deepen military reform in ten years, through diplomatic and military means to eliminate Li Shimin's allies, isolate them, weaken them, until the time is ripe and then fight with them, this battle, I will not give him the opportunity to turn over!"

Fang Xuanling lamented: "Ten years is too long, at that time, I am afraid that the world ... to fight a long war, I am afraid that they are in the middle of their arms!"

Li built a doubtful look at the house and said, “Why?”

“Beged to them!”Fang Xuanling laughed bitterly: "In fact, we have a weakness, a fatal weakness!"

“What weakness?”

Just said this out, outside the door came Chen Ying's voice: "Population!"

People look to Chen.

Chen should not shy away from saying: "Our total population of Datang is only 5,41 million, and now, the loss of Lingnan and Gangnam, the population is even more sharply reduced, less than 4 million!"But the number of troops they sent out is more than four million!”

Human resources are now an unsolgued problem, and there is as much a total population as there.The very low productivity, and pulling the age of young and strong into the army will inevitably weaken the proportion of the workshop and the agricultural population, resulting in a serious shortage of material production.

Just like during World War II, Germany’s economic, industrial, and military power was clearly stronger than the Soviet Union, but eventually, Germany was depleted by population struggle.The Soviet Union had more than 80,000 inhabitants, while Germany had only more than 60 million.Throughout World War II, Germany suffered a total of �ifious casualties, more than three million people were taken prisoner, a total of nearly 8 million people, Germany eventually collapsed.In World War II, Soviet soldiers died as a result of the war by 6.88 million (compared to 23 and 1.33 million in combat), plus a total of 8,1660,000 people were killed after being captured, and the number of civilian casualties, a total of 27 million people died nationwide.

If Germany, like the Soviet Union, had 108 million people, it would probably have been rewritten in World War II.Of course, this is just an assumption.

Almost identical to World War II, Datang has the most cutting-edge technology of this era, the most taxed army, but the population is the Achilles heel.

Like the just outbreak of the battle in Jiangzhou, more than 70,000 troops were killed and wounded in Datang, almost completely destroyed.Although Li Shimin has won the victory, the Futang Tang army has lost more than 200,000 lives and hundreds of thousands of casualties, coupled with the lack of drugs and rampant abuse, Li Shimin has not broken out large-scale war for three months after this war, because he is also a little weak.

"If we don't, the army will be crazy at this time!"Chen should look at Li Jianjian solemnly said: "It will cause a fatal blow to the economy, we will be more weakened, and Li Shimin will fight more easily!"

Li Jianjian frowned and said, “Then you mean, now decide to fight?”We have too few troops, fight, and have no chance of winning!”

Chen should laugh: "The number of people is not enough, science and technology to scrape together!"

...

Before the gate of the sword gate, countless Li Shimin's coalition troops surrounded the city.The bloody attack in the past few days has caused the coalition to lose tens of thousands of horses, but the sword gate is still unbreakable.

Hou Mo Chenxu looked at the gate that had become blue and purple, and sighed for a long sigh.

Suddenly, there was a panic between his eyes.

This kind of panic, there is no reason, Hou Mo Chen Xu in his heart, this is a sign of danger.

He didn’t know what was going on.

He subconsciously looked at Guancheng, and then looked back at the dense army gathered on the road, and suddenly realized.

He suddenly thought of the original in Luoyang City, Wang Shiyan was using three thousand heads of fire cattle to kill the 100,000 Tang army to defeat the army.At present, will the Tang army still take a firefight attack?

Thinking of this, Hou Mo Chenxu hastened to order that in front of the city, thirteen rejected horses in a row, and the refusal horses made of thick wooden piles with thick bowls were strong and abnormal, even if the fire cattle were fierce, it was impossible to knock out the thirteen rejected horses in a row.

With the passage of time, the 13-way rejection of horses was also good, and the uneasiness in Hou Mo Chenxu's heart became stronger and stronger.

The gate of the sword guard looked at the face full of bearded generals and asked doubtfully, “Okay?”

The look was disapprovingly and smiled: "Okay, let you tear down, but the speed should be fast!"

The road of the Tang Dynasty is two-line parallel.Each road is three feet apart.

This is a helpless choice, no computer precision calculation, single-line transportation, train transportation efficiency is too poor.In order to improve efficiency, this two-line parallel approach can only be taken.

Originally, the steam engine train of Datang did not open the Ba Shu line, but because of the sudden arrival of Hou Mo Chenxu, three or four thousand soldiers gathered in front of the gate of the sword gate, which is between 30 and 100 steps wide, and more than 30 kilometers long within the narrow terrain, which gave Chen a great opportunity to demonstrate.

At this time, the place behind the gate is about ten miles, two trains, these two trains are all the latest developed and "Tiger" level, as for what this tiger is, in addition to Chen Ying, in this era I am afraid no one knows.

However, whether it is a steam train, although it has a power of up to 6,000 horsepower, it is still quite difficult to complete the task of Chen.Of course, Chen should have read the book, know the story of Zhan Tianyou, he also learned the appearance of Zhan Tianyou, with two "over the sky tiger" one in front, one pushed in the back.

As a result, the power of each train has reached 12,000 horsepower.

As a transport, two twenty-year-old steam engine trains, like an ancient beast, protruding on the earth, made the locomotive shudder, creating the shape of the tiger, and the two trains, as if it were two centipedes, on the left and right wings, all over the place were equipped with dense steel knives.

These steel knives, all are not cross-knife, nor are they unfamiliar knives, but the longest steel knives up to 40 meters, and the shortest one is also one foot and six feet.

The craftsmen did the final inspection.

“Boiler inspection is done!”

“The water supply is normal!”

“Fire is normal!”

“Pressure is normal!”

“The transmission is normal!”

Seeing this, the finder poured the last glass of wine in the pot into his mouth and turned to Pang Yu: "Big General, look at you!"

At this time, a Tang army soldier came to tell: "General, the city gate has been removed, and the track and fork have been repaired!"

The search and hundreds of thousands of Anxi Tang troops began to line up to board the bus.

Climbing to the top of the locomotive, a small house like a steel cage, ordered the soldiers around him: "Prepare to set out, kill these idiots for the general!"

The steam engine train began to burn with the blower, the water temperature of the boiler rose rapidly, and the train started slowly as the pressure reached the critical point.

...

Hou Mo Chen Xu has already heard that the Tang army inside the city wall seems to be frantically dismantling the city, he felt that he was indeed guessed right, Pang Yu, the old boy, who was really ready to learn Wang Shixiang, ready to come to a fire cow.

Hou Mo Chenxu has already prepared, not only prepared 13 horses, but also prepared a large number of drums, as well as fire oil.In fact, whether it is fire cattle or fire horses, they are all brutes, animals will be afraid of fire and afraid of loud noise, there are these two hands to prepare, then we will see who the fire cattle are hit?

"Dau d'昂dang..." The huge voice came faintly, Hou Mo Chenxu's smile grew stronger and stronger, he smiled: "The order goes down, tonight we will eat more and eat beef!"

With the passage of Hou Mo Chen Xu's orders, the coalition soldiers shouted madly.

“Rumble...”

There was a loud noise, and the outer wall of the last floor of the city gate building collapsed.Countless Tang army soldiers, holding baskets, frantically put the ground in shredded wall skins, packed them up and piled them to one side.

At this time, a thick plume of smoke rose in the north of the sword gate, like a giant dragon, roaring in the sky.

Hu Mo Chen Xu's face finally changed, and this movement did not look like a fire cow.

Of course, Hou Mo Chen Xu only guessed half right, this is not really not a fire cow, but a train!

The whistling train, like a mad rhinoceros, rushed along the track towards the coalition outside the gate of the sword.

He looked at the train.

The soldiers of the coalition also taunted.

Where have you seen the train?

In order to increase the effect of terror, the two pairs of hands covered their ears, and the two trains pressed the whistle at the same time.

A loud voice reverberated in the narrow valley.

The soldiers were instantly deaf.

In their eyes, they were left with the innumerable 40-meter-long knives.