No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Of course Li An will not let the Great Tang Empire appear something that will regret future generations. All he has to do is to regret other big powers, such as making Arabs never unity, and making the slightly larger countries smaller and weaker. Let the small countries become smaller, and the disobedient countries become more and more obedient. In short, all the interests of the Great Tang take precedence, and the interests of other countries must conform to the interests of the Great Tang Empire.

This time Li An sold a large amount of weapons to Artik. In addition to obtaining Aden City and the Canal Peninsula, there is also a purpose to make Artik and Mansur check and balance each other, thereby splitting the Arab Empire and allowing Arabs The empire can never be unified.

In the battle between Artik and Mansour, Li An can also act as a mediator. The two heads demand benefits, and finally let the two forces recognize each other, thereby officially achieving the purpose of splitting the Arab empire.

In Li An’s view, the Artic and Mansour Groups will soon be exhausted. After all, in the process of replacing the Umayyad dynasty, the entire Arab empire was beaten by 1000 sores and 100 holes, and industrial and agricultural production suffered a great deal. The loss of food stocks is not much, especially in the core Khorasan region, which is the top priority of the Umayyad defense. For this reason, more intense fighting has also occurred, which has given the industry and agriculture in this region. Production has caused very great damage and greatly reduced the agricultural output of this area, and a large number of professional soldiers consume food, but they will not produce food. As a result, the food crisis in Khorasan is such as Very serious, and this is why Li An is so confident.

As long as there is insufficient food production, the pressure on Abu ’s Pang ’s Armed Forces regime will be greater, and once they cannot win quickly, the logistical pressure will crush this huge army, and as soon as they appear In such a situation, the war cannot be fought.

In the battle of Qin and Zhao’s two nations, the two sides confronted each other for a year or two, almost hollowing out the entire national strength. Qin Country’s national strength is slightly stronger, while Zhao’s national strength is relatively weaker. It’s not enough to eat for a long time, so you can only choose to take the risk, but the result is a fortune, Armed Forces suffered extremely heavy losses.

If Zhao had enough food and grass, he would n’t have to risk attacking the powerful Qin army without worrying about eating it, which would drag the Qin Country Armed Forces step by step.

But history has no assumption. Zhao Guo cut off the grain before Qin Country. In the case of insufficient grain, he can only choose to take the risk. This is a forced choice.

The current situation of Khorasan is estimated to be similar to that of Zhao Guo. They maintain a large army all year round, and their productivity has been greatly damaged. For example, the pressure on food supply is very huge.

At the same time, Li An has already helped Altik train small and flexible riding and shooting small units. These small units can play a role in harassing and interfering with the enemy ’s food channels. Large-scale enemy forces transport grain and grass, which may not be eaten at a bit, but small It is still possible to transport grain and grass on a large scale. In this way, a small victory is a big victory. For example, the logistical pressure of Khorasan can be further increased, which makes them unable to fight.

The prerequisite for all of this is that Artik can defend Maiyah City, and will not be defeated by Ai Bu ***. If it is easily defeated, he will be defeated, and nothing can be said about it.

In order to allow Altick to withstand the attack of Khorasan’s elite Armed Forces, Li An not only provided them with the Great Tang’s cold weapon, but also sent an elite team to support them, and even sent an advisory team to teach them to reform. City’s defense facilities, and how to effectively defend the city.

As long as they strictly follow the method Li An teaches them, they will certainly be able to block the attack of Abu *** ‘s elite Armed Forces, thereby dragging the war into a long-term confrontational war, and thus unable to fight it out.

The tall city wall, defensive slings and crossbows, as well as moats and urns, as well as suspension bridges, refusal horses and trenches and other facilities.

Such a complete defensive facility, for example, can greatly offset the battle strength advantage of Khorasan elite soldiers and horses, so that the Khorasan cavalry can sigh.

Afterwards, the Mongolian empire attacked the city during the westward expedition, but the cattle did not work, but in the process of attacking the Song Dynasty in the south, they did repeatedly encounter setbacks. Even their powerful sweats were killed because of the counterattack of the city ’s defense. It shows that strong city defense is very important to resist the enemy. As long as the Khorasan cavalry does not master artillery technology, it is unlikely to attack the tightly defended city unless they have ten times the strength of the soldiers. Fill in life.

“Eldest Brother, since the time has not yet arrived, then we are waiting for it. However, there should be something wrong with Itman ’s Beit Ottoman, I heard that he has occupied the whole of Egypt, and his soldiers have developed to For a population of 80000, with a population of more than 1000000, Ottoman can send someone to help. “

Li Feiyu said.

Li An recognized the nodded and said: “Feiyu, you are right, you should let Ottoman give back to us, and immediately send someone to contact Ottoman, tell him about the construction of the canal, let him send some labor to come, the more the better. “

“Yes, Eldest Brother, I will send someone to contact Ottoman later.”

Li Feiyu said.

Li An nodded, took out a drawing, opened the mouth and said: “Look at this bridge, it’s grand enough!”

After finishing speaking, hand over the drawings to Li Feiyu for appreciation.

This drawing is a drawing of the Canal Bridge designed by Li An. Before excavating the canal, some bridges must be built first. After all, after the canal is dug, the land connection on the bank of Canal 2 is broken, which is obviously not conducive to land. The progress of transportation will also seriously affect economic development. Therefore, before excavating the canal, a canal bridge must be built.

Although the width of the canal can’t be too small, it can’t be too wide, at least, it is far worse than the Yangtze River and the Yellow River? The canal was dug to let the merchant ship pass. Who would be idle and dig the canal as wide as the Yangtze River?

According to the normal width of the ship, the width of the Great Tang Canal designed by Li An is about 100 meters. It is enough to have this width, and it does not make much sense to be wider. Anyway, as long as two commercial ships can be staggered, it is enough.

A normal merchant ship can have a width of 20 meters even if it is very good. Commercial ships of a dozen meters and a few meters abound. Vessels that can reach more than 30 meters in width are already very large ships. Therefore, the width of 100 meters is Absolutely enough, of course, in some places where Harbor is needed, the width needs to be increased. It is also feasible to get a width of 2 300 meters, and the location of the bridge must be the narrowest 100 meters. After all, the river The wider it is, the more difficult it is to build a bridge.

Because the width of the canal is calculated to be 100 meters, the width of the bridge designed by Li An is 300 meters. In addition to the 100 meters erected on the canal, the two approach bridges are each 2 meters away.

This distance is not long at all. If it is necessary to build a railway bridge, this distance must be increased by a factor of two.

In addition, the terrain selected by Li An is still relatively high, more than 30 meters higher than the sea surface, so 100 meters each of the approach bridge is enough. If the height of the 2 shore is very short, it is similar to the sea level, and it is excavated. The approach bridge should be pulled very long, otherwise, either the boat cannot pass through the bridge hole, or the vehicle on the 2 side needs to climb a steep slope.

“Eldest Brother, this is the smallest bridge! You definitely have a bigger bridge design.”

Li Feiyu glanced and said.

“Oh, how did you see it.”

Li An asked.

“Eldest Brother, this is an ordinary crossing bridge, and there are no rails. If you add rails, the bridge will be more impressive.”

Li Feiyu said.

Li An satisfied nodded and said: “You are right, this is the smallest bridge above the Great Tang Canal. The larger bridge is still under design. Great Tang ’s Yangtze River Bridge has onment on equal terms. “

“Eldest Brother, this canal hasn’t been dug yet. Why did you build a bridge first? Shouldn’t there be a river first and then build a bridge?”

Li Feiyu asked doubtfully.

Li An laughed, opened the mouth and said: “You are right, this is the reason, but sooner or later the canal will be built, and once the canal is dug and then to build bridges, the difficulty of construction will be greatly increased, and It will also delay the connection between the two shores. You should know that the construction of bridges requires underwater pillars, and this is very difficult. It is much easier to dig pits in the soil, so in order to reduce the The difficulty of the construction, and in order to build the bridge more cost-effectively, we should build the bridge first, and then dig the canal. “

“How many bridges does Eldest Brother plan to build on the canal?”

Li Feiyu asked.

“It doesn’t need much at the moment. It’s almost like building 5 or 6 first. There are 3 cities in the head and tail and in the middle. Naturally, you need to build one each. It’s almost the same to build one in each of the 3 cities. In this way, every 2 bridges The interval between 40-50 is not too long. “

Li An said.

“Master, pheasant in coconut milk is ready, it’s time to eat.”

Yoon-a came and called.

“It’s time to eat, let’s eat together!”

“Okay! Have some.”

Li Feiyu is not polite at all, and can’t understand what polite words are.

The news of the failure to attack Maia City soon reached Khorasan and immediately informed Mansur.

Mansour was very annoyed at the failure to attack the city one after another. In his eyes, Artick was just a businessman who’s all about self-seeking, and there were very few soldiers and horses, even if The development in a short period of time is nothing more than a group of mob that’s all just put down the hoe. The battle strength of such an army should be very poor, it should be collapsed on the first encounter. He originally thought that he only needed to send elite Huluo Shan Armed Forces attacked, he was able to defeat these mobs in one fell swoop, but did not expect that the attack plan was far as easy as he thought. Abu *** and Ziad, these two Generals that he valued very much, did not even have a city It was captured, and many soldiers and horses were damaged in vain. Even the main commander, Abu ***, was injured. He could only choose to rest in peace, and gave the military commander to the commander-in-chief, Ziyad.

What’s more terrible is that the pressure on logistics is increasing. As Armed Forces consumes food and other materials, the pressure on Khorasan’s food supply is increasing. Not only will the frontline soldiers’ food distribution be reduced, but also in A large number of officials and left-behind troops in the rear should also reduce the supply of food accordingly, but this will reduce the morale of Armed Forces. If you do not eat enough, you will have no strength to work and you will be in a bad mood. .

Therefore, Mansour urgently demanded that Ziyad could win the battle sooner and end the war. If the battle was unsettled for a long time, he could not guarantee the supply of Armed Forces supplies.

“It’s really annoying. The two guys Abu *** and Ziyad couldn’t attack a city for so long, and there were a lot of lost soldiers and horses. If this continues, Armed Forces’ food and grass will not be available. Go up. “

Mansour said angrily.

A subordinate opened the mouth and said: “The caliphate is not the fault of the generals. Altik has the Great Tang behind his back. The weapons they use are better than ours, and our elite soldiers are the best. It ’s field combat, and I ’m not good at attacking the city. Therefore, it is naturally difficult to win quickly, but the subordinates believe that as long as the soldiers no spare effort, they will definitely be able to capture the enemy ’s city. “

Mansur’s angry ordered: “How can I have the support of the Great Tang, immediately order Ziyad to let him take down Maia City as soon as possible, and capture Artic and Ibrahim alive, the sooner the better.”

“Yes, the caliphate, the subordinates will subpoena here.”

The subordinates had no choice but to go forward to convey the order.

After the failure of the tunnel siege, Ai Bu *** was restoring his peace of mind, while Ziyad focused his energy on building siege equipment and asked his troops to build as many siege equipment as possible, the more the better.

Because through the previous attack on Al City and this feint attack, Qi Yade has deeply realized that only by building a large amount of siege equipment can he minimize his own casualties and cause greater damage to the enemy, without siege The heavy weapons cannot successfully capture the city.

In addition to creating conventional ordinary siege equipment, Ziyad continued to think and invented and improved a variety of weapons again.

For example, in order to defend against fire attacks, many large-scale siege equipment have been treated for fire prevention, even if they are attacked by fire in the city, they will not be damaged. A large number of cloud ladders have been modified to be very sturdy, and they can even be folded. Many vehicles that protect against arrow rain have also been built, and they also have the function of fire protection.

Of course, performance is one aspect, and more importantly, quantity. Only with a huge quantity can we counteract the counterattacks of the defending soldiers in the city, and thus capture Maia City in one fell swoop.