I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Chapter 431 [1 More] 431

It's not that Liu Che has never seen a sand table before, but he was a little surprised by such a huge and detailed sand table.

After he passed by, he found that the sand table was divided into four parts, and the terrain of each part looked different, including Gobi, grassland and mountains, and the remaining one was empty.

Liu Che was a little surprised and asked, "Why is there nothing here?"

Liu Tan hesitated for a while and said: "This sand table was originally used to simulate four types of terrain, and this area was originally reserved for water warfare, but the terrain of the Xiongnu is not used for water warfare, so it is simply empty. In fact, not only It’s just a water battle, it’s useless.”

The part Liu Tan pointed to was the one with the imitation of mountains and rivers.

There are indeed mountains on the side of the Xiongnu, but there are no mountains in the northern border country. Even if there is the Yinshan mountain range in the territory, but the south of the Yinshan mountain range is the northern border country, and the northern side is the Huns. , If it really causes a war, then it is over.

Liu Ju chuckled: "The country in the northern border is indeed less mountainous. If you want it, why don't I give you the country of Yan."

Liu Tan's legs almost went limp when he heard that, but when he looked up at Liu Che, he stuttered, "No... no more?"

Seeing his frightened expression, Liu Che couldn't help asking curiously, "Why not?"

The border may be a burden to others, but Liu Che knows that Liu Tan will not regard this place as a burden. If this was the case, he would not have cared about the affairs of the Yan Kingdom, and would not even pay too much attention to the smuggling of ironware.

Now that the country of Yan is extinct, Liu Che will be very troubled if the country of Yan is handed over to anyone. If it is all handed over to Liu Tan, he will be relieved.

Liu Tan quickly said: "That's too big. Many people were dissatisfied with the size of the northern border country, but in the end no one spoke because they were all within the specified range. Yan Kingdom will give Erchen... If something goes wrong, Emperor Father should send a few capable officials to manage the country of Yan."

Liu Che lowered his eyes and said, "Competent officials? Where are there so many competent officials?"

Liu Tan hugged his arm and walked towards the bedroom and said, "The sudden pressure on the country of Yan is also due to the strict control on my side. They just need to be strictly guarded. Basically, the Xiongnu will not go there."

Although the country of Yan is said to be a frontier, it is actually much safer than the country in the north.

First of all, it is colder there, and secondly, the biggest enemy, the Huns, could not go so far to attack the Han, because the target of the Huns is the Central Plains, and Yan State has been a place of bitter cold since ancient times, and has nothing to do with the Central Plains. You may not be able to grab something, why bother?

The defense of Yan State is actually other foreign tribes, but those foreign tribes are not very powerful, far worse than those in the Western Regions, so Liu Tan said that the pressure is not great.

Liu Che just said it casually, and he also knew that it was impossible to talk about the Kingdom of Yan to Liu, unless his throne was changed from King of the Northern Territory to King of Yan.

But if he was really put in the country of Yan, it would make Liu Che feel like he was overqualified.

After the group rested in the camp, Liu Tan took Liu Che to watch the confrontation in the Gobi the next day.

In Liu Che's impression, there was nothing to see in such a vast and flat land, but the two sides charged directly, and the side with better weapons and more people would win.

As a result, what he didn't expect was that such a piece of Gobi was also played tricks by people. They dug up bunkers on both sides, abruptly changed the terrain, and by the way, when they fell into a disadvantage Deliberate use of sand to create visual barriers.

And when the two sides are confronting each other, it seems that they don't rush forward directly, but each has its own formation and will try to maintain the formation when attacking.

For this exercise, Liu Che was shocked to see them change four formations.

The confrontation of infantry depends on the formation, but what Liu Che didn't expect was that after the confrontation between infantry and infantry, there would be a confrontation between cavalry and infantry.

When the two parties were preparing, Liu Che couldn't help frowning and said, "How do we fight?"

The big man doesn't know how to use infantry to fight cavalry. Even if his own light cavalry is not good, he will fight with heavy cavalry. How can he fight with infantry?Didn't the infantry disappear after a single encounter?

Liu Tan smiled and said, "Father, just look at it."

Liu Che did continue to look down, and then he saw that the infantry came up with something in their hands and started digging trenches frantically. Because the field was large enough, it took a while for the cavalry to charge directly with arrows.

At this time, the infantry had already dug the trench, and hid in the trench and began to shoot cold arrows.

The advantage of the cavalry is that they are fast, and they are more powerful in raids and charges. A single encounter can break up the formation, and the infantry is naturally in a state of being slaughtered.

But now with these trenches, the biggest advantage of the cavalry no longer exists. When they go to one place, the infantry on that side has already slipped away to the other side, and the cavalry cannot ride down the trench on horseback.

Of course bows and arrows can be used, but the problem is that the infantry has shields. Could the shields prepared by Liu Tan for the elite regiment be defective?Not to mention that the arrows used in the exercise were not real iron arrows, but wooden arrows.

So all of a sudden, the cavalry had nothing to do with the infantry, and Liu Che was taken aback for a while.

At this time, someone whispered: "If the cavalry raid didn't give the infantry time to dig a hole, they shouldn't be able to fight it, right?"

Liu Tan saw that the outcome was almost the same, and it would be useless to continue this stalemate. Hearing this sentence, he couldn't help but smiled and said, "Then give it a try."

Liu Che glanced at Liu Tan. Based on what he knew about Liu Tan, he must be sure of what he said. Could it be...the infantry could really win against the cavalry's surprise attack?

Although he said he would give it a try, in fact he had to wait until the next day. After all, the physical strength of the soldiers was limited, even if the physical strength of the elite regiment was good, they couldn't use it like this.

On the way back, Liu Che asked, "What is that thing they are holding in their hands? Why does it seem like they can do anything?"

Liu Che didn't see it very clearly from the viewing platform, but he could vaguely see those people digging and smashing with a shovel, and they seemed to be sawing wood in the middle, which made Liu Che a little confused. what.

Liu Tan immediately asked someone to bring a handful of the same thing that the soldiers used before, and said to Liu Che, "This is the engineering shovel that I asked Gong Shucan to get out earlier."

"Engineering shovel" Liu Che took it over and found that the engineering shovel was in a folded state, and it was very heavy in his hand, so he couldn't help asking: "What is it made of?"

"The whole body is made of iron." Liu Tan said while pointing to the various parts of the engineering shovel and said: "The engineering shovel can change into various shapes. Just open it up and it will be in the shape of a shovel. Break off the head of the shovel to get a pickaxe." , At the same time, there are serrations on the shovel head that can be used as a saw. I originally wanted to add the functions of a crowbar and a knife, but I haven’t found the most suitable method for a while, so I will use it like this first.”

Liu Che slowly fiddled with the engineering shovel in his hand. It has to be said that although this thing only contains some of the simplest mechanisms, the wonderful ideas contained in it can be called an eye-opener.

After playing with it enough, Liu Che asked, "Who made this?"

As soon as Liu Tan tilted his body, he put his face in front of Liu Che, pointed to his nose and said, "I, me, who else can I have besides me who inherited half of your wisdom?"

Liu Che was instantly amused by him, and he demonstrated what Long Yan Joy is. The people behind Liu Che stopped and looked at each other, deeply feeling that they should learn the technique of coaxing the emperor from the King of the North. That is called a traceless, totally natural.

Liu Tan followed Liu Che muttering his thoughts, and said frankly: "Although the engineering shovel looks inconspicuous, it actually contains a lot of technology. To use it well, many parts have to be done. Fine, it is quite difficult to promote it on a large scale.”

Liu Tan lamented that the difficulty lies in not having enough people.

It is impossible to enter the industrial age ahead of time, but in the prosperous period of later generations, there are many sophisticated things, all made by hand, but the population is just increasing.

It's a pity that the population issue cannot be resolved in a day or two.

Liu Che still said: "Turn back to the drawings..."

Before he could finish, Liu Tan said, "I'll send it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Liu Tan felt that compared to him, Liu Che seemed to belong to the Pixiu family. If you see something good, you don't need to put it aside first, and take it in your hand before talking.

The next day, it was still the martial arts arena. Liu Che found that it was only one night, and the martial arts arena had been restored to its original state. There were no traces of the trench dug yesterday. Liu Che was a little surprised at this speed.

After a while, both sides of the elite regiment were ready, and the infantry side had already started to set up camp, in order to simulate the scene of being attacked.

In order to avoid further trouble, Liu Tan leaned over to Liu Che and said, "Although everyone knows that it is an act and that there will be sneak attacks in advance, they usually guard against sneak attacks when camping in actual combat, but they don't have that kind of attack." I'm sure, in fact, I have done training before, a surprise attack in a completely unprepared situation, the effect is not bad, but it is not suitable for watching."

Liu Che asked: "Zi Lian? What is that?"

Liu Tan said: "It's the same as ordinary training, but because they will encounter various natural conditions when going out on an expedition, I will let them go out for training, to the real Gobi and grasslands, instead of in these simulated scenes. No matter how it looks, it’s nothing more than this world.”

Liu Che nodded, and suddenly felt that the Elite Regiment really deserved the name. Liu Tan really did a lot of tricks. How could other soldiers have such a training method?

Or why those princes and kings are willing to spend money to train soldiers?That is to say, Liu Tanhui devoted himself to this regardless of his own food and clothing.

While Liu Che was thinking about this, he suddenly heard Liu Tan say, "Here we come."