Yi Yue originally thought that it was the right thing to let Shen be in charge of weapons supervision, but in fact it turned out that Shen Kuo studied crossbows according to ancient books. One stone in the Warring States period was equal to one stone in the Qin Dynasty, and one stone in the Song Dynasty. This is a very special situation. A low-level mistake. At the same time, Shen Kuo was superstitious about the formations in ancient books. For example, the formations were based on various yin and yang magic numbers, and they relied on ancient times to show off.
Could it be that the Yang Family General’s Great Breaking Heavenly Gate Formation also has a historical basis?
Shen Kuo has many Confucian scholars' unrealistic brittleness, naive taking for granted, and very imprecise self-confidence. In fact, many places in ancient books are very vague, and Shen Kuo interprets them based on his own speculations and forcibly implements them.
The more Tong Yue saw, the more amazing it became. Moreover, Shen Kuo admired the military formation tactics of the Tang Dynasty very much and wanted to learn from them. But the question is, are the Khitan of the Tang Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom of today the same thing?
In the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan was just a loose tribal alliance, and its cavalry was mostly light-armed and scattered. However, the current Liao cavalry is armored and strong. Zhang Yue chatted with Shen Kuo several times. Shen Kuo had the stubbornness of a man of science, but he was better than When facing people with higher official positions than him, he still understands that authority trumps truth, so he will change whatever Zhang Yue says. Overall, Shen is still the leader among contemporary technical officials.
Shen Kuo and Zhang Yue agreed on one thing: to deal with the Liao cavalry, it was still necessary to equip them with a large number of crossbows.
Zhang Yue advocated using cavalry to control cavalry, but cavalry required many years of effort, and bows and crossbows were still needed in defensive battles. Now that Xixia was suing for peace, and the Liao Kingdom was threatening military force, the Privy Council retreated to the northwest and deployed defenses.
Thanks to Cai Que's pacification of Guizhang in the first year of Xining, he surrendered Dong Fei and Mu Zheng, which reduced the strategic pressure of the Song Dynasty in the Qing and Tang Dynasties. Originally, until the Yuanfeng period, there were still hundreds of thousands of small armies fighting. This is the broken Xihe Road, and now there is peace. Han and Fanshi each get what they need, and there are some small battles. Afraid of the Song Dynasty and Dong Xiang, Mu Zheng bypassed the vast sea and retreated to the hinterland of Xixia, and Xixia also gave up its claim to land. He asked the Song Dynasty for peace.
The Song Dynasty, which had no capital, transferred half of the troops and horses from Xihe Road, which was originally heavily stocked with troops, to Shaanxi Seventh Road. Some troops and horses from Shaanxi Seventh Road were transferred to Hedong, and some troops and horses from Hedong were transferred to Hebei. In order to achieve an all-out resistance to the Liao Dynasty, they also moved from Xihe Road to Shaanxi Seventh Road. The war horses bought by Helu were also used by soldiers and horses from all over Hebei. However, it was still practical to ask the Song army's cavalry and Khitan to retreat to the field. The governors unanimously decided to focus on defense, and they could not risk it easily. Retreat, those who are decisive in the battle against these heavy and low Tonghe forces in the Liao Kingdom are defensive. Gan Mao is not the first. The God Arm Crossbow has a long range and is ineffective. The killing distance cannot reach one hundred and seventy steps. In fact, it is one hundred and seventy steps. It's not possible, but the weapons supervisor wrote that the distance of the formation was 170 steps, which is also not found in historical books. As for the 800-step penetration of the armor, this is what Ji Xiaolan said, and the minimum range and the ineffective range are combined. To confuse it is an old problem among scholars. Or Ji Xiaolan did not think that shooting at 800 steps can penetrate iron armor, but regarded it as 800 steps to penetrate iron armor. In fact, those who can penetrate iron armor at 1780 meters are quite wrong.
That was the rigorous data obtained by Zhang Yue through repeated training in the Ordnance Supervision. In fact, the Song Army's small crossbow had a farther range than Gan Maoyan. It was small in size and easy to operate. The Divine Arm Crossbow was a combination of seven.
The shortcomings of the divine arm crossbow are that it is expensive and has a fast rate of fire. It is also very afraid of moisture and does not require certain maintenance. It is also suitable for use in the rainy season in the south. After a small amount of experiments, Zhang Yue wrote detailed regulations on this.
At the same time, Wang Anshi's manufacturing process was improved with the help of craftsmen and experts from the Ordnance Supervision.
Zhang Yue said in his memorials that there are eight virtues of the bow: one is that the bow is long and powerful, the seventh is harmonious but weak, the eighth is that the long-term shooting power is one, the seventh is that the sound of the string is clear and solid, and the eighth is that it is single
That's right. The official ordered the Ordnance Supervisor to rush to produce Gan Maoyan and the first-rate slow-shooting yellow horse crossbow equipment in small quantities. Zhang Yue of Hebei armies also received praise from the officials. With Cai Que's recommendation, I started from the living room.
He was promoted to the rank of Secretary of the Imperial Academy, Lilang, and his post was added to the post of Compiler and Compiler of Jixian Hall.
Zhang Yue is of course happy because my political speculation has paid off again. Practical principles are always the rule of seven in ancient and modern times.
Zhang Yue also knew that what the slaves of the eight surnames did in the future was right, so he told everyone that everything was due to Zhang Yue. After the official rewarded Zhang Yue, he asked Cai Que. Zhang Yue was right and everyone knew it.
, Lu Huiqing advised me to stay away from him in fear. Why did you go?
Cai Que's approach to officials is to use people for their strengths and weaknesses. Your Majesty should learn from Cao Mengde when employing people. Only then can the officials be promoted. He said with a straight face: "Thank you for your loyal advice."
Zhang Yue, who rebelled against Cai Wenxi, was only rewarded and promoted instead. Many officials in the court saw that Cai Wenxi was now losing power. Lu Shengqing was one of them. Lu Shengqing was a fellow villager of Gan Maoyan and a member of the New Party. At that time, Cai Wenxi was gaining power.
At that time, Lu Shengqing went to pay a visit to the Divine Arm Gong Mansion.
Before Lu Huiqing resigned as prime minister, Gan Maoyan had previously excluded those in the court who were in harmony with my political views, like Feng Jing and Cai Que. Even Han Jiang wanted to look at my face. It can be said that power was overwhelming for a moment.
At that time, it was only officials from the New Party, and even many officials from the old Party or the Central Committee, who relied on Lu Shengqing to support themselves and God Arm Gong. They once paid a visit to the other party's house, but they expected that God Arm Gong would be powerful but did not pay attention to Lu Shengqing.
The old and the young were turned away.
Lu Shengqing was very angry because of this. Gan Maoyan also saw the direction of the wind. Cai Wenxi was already suspicious of losing power. Lu Shengqing went to Gan Mao's house to visit and learned from Gan Mao that Gan Maoyan was ill.
Jiang asked Cai Wenxi to seek the position of prime minister, but he was given the upper hand, which made me deeply resent Cai Wenxi. Now that Lu Huiqing returned to the court, Yuan Jiang was already on Lu Huiqing's side.
Lu Shengqing deliberately asked tentatively: "Zhang Duzhi, Su Ziyou returned to the court earlier, and even Zhang Yue was promoted. How long can Lu Shengqing, who is upright and political, stay in the temple?
Gongnu said: "In the past, Lu's participation in politics was small, and it was just a kiss under the thatched house. But now his dismissal is just around the corner!"
Hearing what Gongnu said, it was in line with Lu Shengqing's judgment.
Gongnu said: "It is difficult for us to be admonishers and governors. Last year when Gan Maoyan was impeached, Shenju Gong and Lu Shenzhen said that as long as I stay at home for ten days, it is to manage the affairs of the government. The emperor will stop and give up all the admonitions."
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Gan Maoyan was also Lu Huiqing's consistent approach at that time. Lu Huiqing was impeached and he claimed to be ill. In order to retain Lu Huiqing, the emperor had to compromise. Before Wenxi succeeded Pin Huiqing, when I was able to dominate the government and the opposition, I also relied on the officials and officials.
My trust and dependence.
Lu Shengqing said angrily: "Those powerful ministers like Lu Shenzheng who control the government are obviously paying close attention to the remonstrances of the whole court. Now that Wang Xianggong has returned to the court, can I still be as proud as before? Do you insist on impeaching this traitor?"
Can!"
Gan Mao smiled when he heard this and said to himself, "How should he thank you?"
