"How many of you are here?" Li Ke turned to Lu Hai and asked.
"Your Highness, there are a total of 772 camels, 1,322 pack horses, 776 members of the trading company, and a total of 3,300 shi of food transported. In addition, there are..." Lu Haigang replied hurriedly.
"Stop, stop, stop, I'll report this later. We'll gather all the members together in a while. I didn't have the chance to meet them before, but I must meet them now that I have the chance." Li Ke said seriously.
"Yes!" Lu Hai said respectfully, this is His Highness, he will always remember us people.
Li Jing's expression was a little strange, mainly because this number... far exceeded Li Jing's imagination. There were more than 700 camels and more than 1,000 pack horses. This number was already very terrifying. You must know that in the early stage of their army's departure from Tuyuhun, there were not so many local soldiers to prepare logistics!
Is this the power that His Highness can bring to bear as a trading firm?
"Huo Gang." Li Ke said.
"I'm here."
"Lu Hai, send someone to arrange for the caravan to follow Huo Gang to unload the goods."
"Yes, Your Highness. We have brought over the tent you requested, Your Highness. Your Highness, we will help you set up the tent first." Lu Hai said seriously.
"Okay!" Li Ke thought for a while and did not refuse. This was his request, which was related to some subsequent strategies.
"Xiao Liu, ask someone to arrange all the camel teams to follow the leader Huo Gang and set up His Highness's tent first." Lu Hai turned around and said.
"yes!"
Li Jing didn't stop him. Li Ke had probably communicated his ideas with him, but he didn't have many people in this field, so he just needed to cooperate.
When their caravan entered the camp, in the area that had been selected in advance, Li Jing was stunned to see these people unloading several large stone mill-like discs from several camels, and then The caravan craftsmen began to fix these stone mills with ropes to tamp the ground.
Li Jing: "..." Is this a bit outrageous? When you build a tent, isn't it still a felt tent? Wouldn’t it be enough to just put it on the grass? What are you doing?
Then Li Jing saw something even more outrageous... These craftsmen first compacted the ground of the tent area reserved for Li Ke, and then Li Jing watched helplessly as they unloaded river sand, gravel, etc. from the camels, and then continued Unload some gray powder in a burlap bag.
When they mixed these things together and turned them into gray mud, Li Jing saw them laying them on the ground that had just been compacted and surrounded by wooden frames.
Seeing this, Li Ke smiled with satisfaction, which meant that they had also made cement here in the Western Regions, not bad! This order was naturally issued by Li Ke. After Li Ke asked Tian Meng to make these near Chang'an, he sent the technically trained craftsmen from the trading firm to the Western Regions.
The layout of the Western Regions is very important to Li Ke. To a certain extent, the Western Regions are Li Ke's base camp, although it seems that these countries in the Western Regions are not within Li Ke's control.
But look, Li Ke is here now!
"Okay, let's forget about this for now. Have you brought the special weapons I asked you to bring?" Li Ke called Lu Hai and the others aside, and then asked.
"Brought it."
"Let's go, unload the goods over there." Li Ke pointed to the logistics warehouse.
Lu Hai immediately asked someone to bring some special camels to the warehouse area and started unloading them directly. Li Jing naturally followed up curiously.
"This is this?" Li Jing looked at the weapons removed from the camel with some curiosity.
"A new weapon, I want Duke Dai to help me test it." Li Ke asked calmly.
"Oh?" Li Jing was a little curious. As a general, he naturally knew everything about weapons, and he was naturally curious about the new weapons in Li Ke's mouth.
Soon after the first batch of goods was unloaded, Li Ke asked someone to bring one over, and a knife that seemed a little strange to Li Jing appeared in his sight.
"This is it?" Li Jing looked at it curiously.
"Scimitar!" Li Ke spat out two words, "I have improved the weapon that is very beneficial to cavalry combat."
Li Jing took the knife with some strangeness, and then pulled it out directly. Its length was not even as long as the Tang knife, but it had an astonishing arc and was very curved.
If there are still future generations, they will recognize it. This is the famous Mongolian scimitar!
Although Li Ke was Han in his previous life, he was born in the Hetao area of Inner Mongolia. Living in Inner Mongolia, he was naturally no stranger to Genghis Khan.
Regardless of the rest of Mongolia, if we just talk about the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army and its ability to sweep across the Eurasian continent and create an unprecedented abnormal territory, then its weapons and tactics must be outstanding.
In fact, the Song Dynasty is really not weak to a certain extent, and it is really not that weak.
As an Inner Mongolian, Li Ke naturally knows a lot about the history of the Genghis Khan period. Let’s talk about the Mongolian scimitar first. Many people in later generations said that the shape of the Mongolian scimitar was borrowed from the Arabian scimitar, but in fact this statement is not accurate. To be precise, When the Mongols first began to rise, the scimitar was still very different from the Mongolian scimitar of later generations, but more like the Turkic scimitar.
The real spread of the Turkic scimitar was actually learned from the bronze knives of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China. After the rise of the Arab Empire, with the passage of time and the exchanges between the Arab Empire and the Turks, the Arabs learned the Turkic scimitar again. style, and then began to improve. Later, the Mongols, who inherited the Turkic scimitar, learned from it after defeating the Arabs, and the Mongols began to improve again.
There is definitely a reason why this kind of weapon can travel the world with the Mongolian cavalry. Many people say that the Mongolian cavalry conquers the world by riding and shooting, but this is not entirely true. In addition to riding and shooting, the Mongolian cavalry is also very strong in frontal combat.
And this is where the Mongolian scimitar comes into play. Li Ke has watched many movies and TV dramas related to Genghis Khan. In one of them, the drag-knife fighting method in "The King of Mongolia" is the real use of the scimitar by the Mongolian cavalry.
That is to put the machete in the right hand with the blade facing outward, and then charge towards the enemy, relying on the impact of the horse to cut through the enemy's armor and head. During this process, the cavalry did not stop.
In the TV series "Genghis Khan", most of the scenes where the Mongolian cavalry stopped to attack the enemy with scimitars were wrong. When using scimitars, the Mongolian cavalry rarely stopped to fight with the enemy, because the cavalry who had lost their speed had no ability to do anything. threaten.
If they have to fight each other, the Mongolian cavalry will not use scimitars, but will use iron axes and iron bones. Tieguduo is a bit like a mace, but the head is smaller, or it is a variant of the iron hammer, but the head is like an iron spike.
In fact, both the Mongolian cavalry and the Tang cavalry have different weapon ratios. Different armors and different types of enemies naturally use different weapons.
However, there are better weapons, and Li Ke naturally wants to test them. Li Ke does not understand cold weapon warfare, but he feels that the cold weapons that can flourish in history definitely have their merits.
So Li Ke built a thousand Mongolian scimitars and came here to test them. In fact, the curvature of these Mongolian scimitars was also the curvature that Li Ke had tested privately on horseback using drag-knife tactics. He also used straw men and wooden stakes to continuously test various curvatures. The efficiency is finally summarized, including the length.
"How to use this? Why make this? Turks also have scimitars, but the arc is not as big as this, and I don't think it is easy to use." Li Jing was a little confused.
"Lu Hai, come here and test it." Li Ke said loudly.
"Yes!" Lu Hai immediately called two caravan guards over.
Li Jing was curious, but he didn't bother. He wanted to see how this scimitar worked.
