The artillery teams stepped forward and then demonstrated the firing in turn. . The fastest update

Chenggan's mouth wider and wider, and finally he couldn't get upset at all.

"Teacher, are these artillery? It's so amazing."

Li Chao smiled and said, of course it is amazing. These cannons are all cast in copper, and the currency of the Tang Dynasty is copper, which means that these cannons are really made of money.

The Tang Dynasty's Tongbao was six jin and four jin. The new Zhenguan copper coins contained less copper, and there were five jin of copper. A mortar cannon of hundreds of jin means that the cost of copper alone was more than one hundred jin of coins, not to mention that casting such a large cannon requires a high technical content and a high manufacturing cost.

Even the small flat-hu cannon is thirty-six kilograms. It is precisely because of the extremely high cost and the difficulty of manufacturing, the Shenji Army now has not many cannons.

Chenggan also wanted the Tang army to be equipped with muskets and cannons, but Li Chao vetoed it. The Tang Dynasty wanted to expand its army of 800,000. If it really did this, it would be impossible to afford bankruptcy.

Moreover, firearm troops, militia troops like the Mansion Army, are not suitable. Now it is the early days of the State Administration, with more battles and more experience in the battle formations of the Mansion Army. However, if there are fewer battles in the future, if there is no training experience, the firearm will be even more powerful.

It is a regular army of the imperial guards like the Shenji Army, which is better to equip firearms. Another thing is that the cost of firearms is still too high, so it is not easy to get this Shenji Arms firearms unit.

The review was very successful, and the people were excited to see it anyway.

When he returned to the city, Chenggan pulled Li Chao on the chariot.

"Is it your highness who summoned me to come back?" Li Chao couldn't help asking.

Originally, after Li Chao recovered Monan, he received the order to return to the court, but Li Chao finally submitted a memorial and asked to settle the place before going back.

Finally, the court agreed. Li Chao dealt with the surrender of Turkic people in the south of the desert and the transition and handover in western Liaoning. It was already July. The court urged him to enter the court again, so Li Chao had to hand over the rest to the local area and then the troops went on duty.

"It's actually what the father means."

Chenggan didn't hide it from Li Chao.

"What's going on?"

Li Shimin is still pretending to be sick and not going to be on duty. He seems to be addicted to illness, or the prince's regent is too good, so he is happy to be behind the scenes.

However, there have been several recent events that have made Li Shimin unable to stay.

"The southwestern vassal coalition led by Duke Lu suffered a loss after invading Tubo!"

Duke Lu was Cheng Yaojin, who set out to war one step earlier than Li Chao. He and Hou Junji led 20,000 Tang troops and convened more than 100,000 coalition forces from more than a dozen southwestern vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, including Tuyuhun, Dongnuguo, Bailan, Bailang, etc., to jointly attack Tubo.

At the beginning, it was unstoppable and the journey was smooth.

In addition, Li Chao asked Prince Sun Bo to go back to connect with the Women's Kingdom, and the situation was very good.

However, after the army entered deeper, problems gradually emerged. First, the supply problem was the problem. There were few people in Tibetan areas and the supply was difficult. The second was the problem of the reaction of the plateau. Although the vassal coalition forces lived on the edge of the plateau, the reaction was not so serious to the plateau, the deeper the reaction, the more severe the reaction.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin was also cruel. As long as he discovered a tribe, no matter how big or small, he would kill people and seize animals. He relied on this trick to raise the war, and he would support his advance because of the enemy's food.

But when the recent advance, Hou Junji led his troops to pursue a tribe, he was trapped in a trap and encountered a trap. He suffered heavy losses and was surrounded. Fortunately, Cheng Yaojin led his army to arrive, and finally repelled the Tubo army and rescued Hou Junji.

As a result, after Hou Junji was saved, he not only did not appreciate Cheng Yaojin's gratitude for rescuing the siege, but instead reported to the court with a secret report, saying that Cheng Yaojin was stubborn in Tubo, insisted on doing his own way, and killed innocent people indiscriminately. He also underestimated himself as a result of Cheng Yaojin's wrong command, etc.

This guy also instigated the vassal army to retreat, which led to the current coalition forces that attacked Tubo and fell into chaos. The Tubo people seized this opportunity and led their troops to raid the coalition forces.

It was Hou Junji again. After being attacked, he did not obey Cheng Yaojin's command, but was the first to run away with his own men, causing other vassal troops to retreat one after another. This made Cheng Yaojin almost fall into a siege and break through the siege before running out, but also suffered heavy losses.

Now that the coalition forces are in civil turmoil, Hou Junji runs to Longxi in one breath, Cheng Yaojin retreats to Longnan, and other vassal divisions have also withdrawn their troops. The good situation is so embarrassing.

Now Cheng Yaojin and Hou Junji, the main and deputy generals of the Southern Expedition, are now on the battlefield every day, attacking and accusing each other.

"This matter is obviously something wrong with Hou Junji. He is the deputy general, but he shakes the majesty of the chief general. If I am Cheng Yaojin, I will kill Hou Junji directly."

Chenggan doesn't like Hou Junji either.

"So Hou Junji ran quickly and went straight to Longxi. Now he impeached General Cheng in various ways to kill him, command him blindly, etc. The court was unable to figure out the situation for a while, so he had to find out first before making a decision."

Having said that, Li Chao believed that there must be Li Shimin who was protecting Hou Junji. Otherwise, if such a thing happened, no matter what the facts were, Hou Junji would definitely have to be transferred back to Beijing to check first.

After all, Hou Junji is still Li Shimin's die-hard confidant. Li Shimin would not give up this confidant easily, but because of this stinky mouse shit, the good situation in the Nanzheng situation was so embarrassing.

"There is also a lot of troublesomeness." Chenggan said another thing.

After Mo Hedu received the promise from the Tang Dynasty, he launched a rebellion while Tong Ye Hu was expeditioning Xueyantuo in the north of the Mo. As a result, he failed to take down Li Ye Hu as soon as possible. As a result, the rebellion failed to succeed in a short time. Tong Ye Hu led his army back to the Western Regions, and Mo Hedu could not defeat Tong Ye Hu and his son.

Fortunately, the Tang army insisted on supporting Mo Hedu, which made him withstand the offensive.

But recently, Mo Heduo was defeated in a row, lost his troops and generals, and lost countless territory. It was almost over.

"Your Majesty plans to personally lead the Western Regions!"

Li Chao frowned, how did Li Shimin think about it?

"Even if Mo Hedu was defeated, it was not time for our Tang Dynasty to take action. Your Majesty could completely transfer Tuyuhun, Xue Yantuo, and even Xi, Khitan, and Wei tribes to send troops to attack Tongye Hu."

The Tang Dynasty entered the market early, which was of no benefit, so it would be better to drive those parties to fight.

To drive the tiger and swallow the wolf, no matter whether the wolf wins or the tiger wins, the Tang Dynasty will benefit the most in the end.

Li Shimin was anxious to command the Western Regions in person, which was a bit too urgent.

"Your Majesty's intention to personally seek is very strong."

"Your Majesty wants to personally conquer the Western Regions and let you follow the expedition and become the marshal of the Western Expedition."

"Is there no room for this matter to turn around?" Li Chao asked.
Chapter completed!