One day in late January, it was still raining as thin as a hair outside, Heifu and Feng Jing were already standing outside the tall treasury in the west of Yingxian County, looking around, but they saw that this place was like a city within a city, the thick wall was as high as two zhang, about two hundred steps in length and width, and five hundred county soldiers were stationed around the treasury inside the wall.

"Zuo Bing Cao Shi, Feng Shu Shi, this is the Yingxian Arsenal."

As a lieutenant, Man also belongs to the county lieutenant system, and after Heifu officially went to work in late January, he was transferred over and was responsible for bringing Heifu and Feng Jing to familiarize themselves with the business. In addition to the recruitment and training of soldiers after spring ploughing, the business of Zuo Bing Cao Shi is also responsible for the selection of military attachés and military registration, armaments, military orders, etc.

Looking at this huge arsenal, Heifu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Sure enough, it's much larger than Anlu's county arsenal." ”

He looked at Feng Jing: "Feng Shushi, Xianyang Arsenal, is it much bigger than this?" ”

"It's nature."

After Heifu's "prediction" of the forces used by Wang Jian that day, Feng Jing didn't dare to underestimate him anymore, and replied with a smile: "The Xianyang arsenal is located on the side of the Xianyang Palace, garrisoned by the guards, three or four times larger than the Nanjun arsenal, and the armor and vehicles hidden are also four or five times larger!" ”

As he spoke, the officials of the arsenal here had already brought people over, saluted Heifu and Feng Jing, and welcomed them in.

When he got inside, Heifu realized that the walls here were much thicker than the outside, and the bottom of the walls alone was as thick as four feet! Almost ten meters!

However, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that the arsenal is the most important place in a city, and during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes were infighting, rebelling and rising up among the people, and the arsenal was always the primary goal, seizing the arsenal first and obtaining armaments, in order to gain equipment advantages in battle.

In war, destroying the enemy's arsenal is also an important means of defeating the enemy. Li You lent Heifu the fire attack chapter in the volumes of "Wu Sun Tzu", as mentioned in the fire attack chapter, there are five forms of fire attack, one is to burn the enemy's soldiers and horses, the second is to burn the enemy's grain and grass, the third is to burn the enemy's baggage, the fourth is to burn the enemy's warehouses and arsenals, and the fifth is to burn the enemy's transportation facilities......

Under this circumstance, the Qin State set up the Xianyang arsenal in the palace area, and the arsenal of Nanjun was also set up with heavy guards, three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, so that it was under strict defense, not only to avoid being used and destroyed, but also to quickly arm the army at any time.

The arsenal of this southern county is divided into three parts, namely the car, the armor, and the soldiers.

The first thing they walked into was the most extensive garage, with thousands of cars, all neatly placed in each garage.

Along the way, there are different shapes and types of vehicles: there are "general troop vehicles" as command vehicles, rushing vehicles used for siege vehicles, light vehicles for attacking enemy troops, heavy vehicles carrying ordnance, military rations, clothing and other military supplies, theatrical vehicles with command flags, drum cars to boost morale, "flying towers and marching vehicles" that can be raised and lowered to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, as well as honor guard cars, and even many military musical instruments.

These cars were no strangers to Hefu, and he was not uncommon in the barracks during the Battle of Chu. They lie quietly here in peacetime, and they are maintained and painted by special people, and once they are in wartime, as long as they put on the horses of Yunmengze Stable, they can gallop on the battlefield.

While Heifu was wandering around the garage and asking, Feng Jing also finished reviewing the garage collection book, which registered every car in the garage, but anyone borrowed or damaged it must be registered and reported, once the check is not true, the treasurer will be heavily fined!

"All kinds of cars, subtotal 774 times."

Heifu also glanced at it and asked, "Last year, it was more than 1,000 times, but this year there are only more than 700 left, where did the 300 times go?" ”

The treasurer was a little embarrassed: "Last year, three hundred times were sent to Nanyang County for the purpose of cutting Chu, and then they were not returned......"

It turned out to be a defeated pot, Heifu was a little helpless, after a defeat, in addition to the captains and soldiers, all kinds of ordnance and equipment, especially the car, were easily discarded. In the battle of Chu, the Qin army lost at least more than 1,000 military vehicles, and there was no need to think about it, most of them were captured by the Chu army and the enemy.

Next, there is the armor, the most is the standard equipment leather armor of the Qin army, which is simply piled up, and the collection book records a total of 10,000 pairs of warehouses. In addition, there are 10,000 pairs of armor, nearly 1,000 bronze armors, 3,000 skinned shields, and even 400 vests for chariots and horses.

Finally, there is the Hyogo, and Hefu found that the weapons in the treasury are still mostly bronze soldiers, and although there are iron weapons, there are not many. In addition to the usual swords, ge, spears, and halberds, Heifu also paid special attention to the stockpiles of chieftain spears and spears.

"In the Battle of Kuiyang, the chieftain spear is the key to our army's defeat."

Looking at the slender chieftains, which were neatly stacked on wooden shelves, Heifu couldn't help but sigh, if they didn't have this sharp weapon that day, their casualties might have been even worse.

After the inspection, Feng Jing also sighed with emotion: "No wonder it is said in the Art of War that if there are 100,000 teachers, then the materials of glue paint, the dedication of car armor, and the daily cost of thousands of gold, the car armor and weapons in the arsenal of Nanjun can also equip more than 20,000 people, so vast, I really dare not imagine ......."

He looked at the person next to him, approached Heifu and said, "I really can't imagine how many armor and weapons are needed for 600,000 people." ”

"It's probably enough to empty the arsenals of all the counties of the Qin State." Heifu smiled, he was the same, in the army before, they just picked up weapons to fight, but now in Bingcao, they began to engage in organizational work, only to know that it is really not easy to start a war.

It is no wonder that there is such a theory: The organization and conduct of war is an important motive force for the development of the form of human social organization in a more effective direction.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, frequent wars have caused the regimes of various countries to undergo transformation, which is the reform movement. Under the auspices of Shang Ying, the Qin State has transformed into the most thorough and most adaptable to war, and this country has been tempered by one war after another, turning into a machine born for war, and every subject is a small screw in the machine, and Heifu is no exception.

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That night, Heifu and Feng Jing informed Li You of the results of their inspection of the arsenal.

"Dare to say that because of the first battle of Chu, many vehicles and armor weapons in Nanjun were sent to the north to equip soldiers and lost on the battlefield. Therefore, every warehouse is missing, especially weapons, nearly half of which are missing! ”

Li You took the booklet of Feng Jing's data, but saw that the gap in the car was about 300 times, the cuirass and the strand armor needed 5,000 pairs each, and the shield had to be made another 2,000 pieces.

The biggest demand, in fact, is still weapons, because the car is only used by the soldiers, and the soldiers in the back row can also be without armor, but weapons are indispensable for everyone......

"The three most commonly used styles of sword, ge, and spear all need to be made for two thousand, bows and crossbows must also be made for one thousand, and the most troublesome thing is arrows, at least 200,000!"

At this time, Heifu finally understood why the ancients made up the story of "straw boats borrowing arrows", when the battle was about to come, the bow and crossbow officer did not have arrows, that is, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, sometimes a siege battle, it was necessary to shoot out 100,000 arrows, it can be seen that its consumption is huge, not every arrow can be picked up, especially when you lose the battle......

Fortunately, it was only the end of January, and the time that the Qin State expected to start the war was after the autumn, and they still had half a year to prepare.

"The workshops in Nanjun are afraid that they will start all night." Li You was very distressed, he was ambitious before he came, but after he came, he found that it was not just a matter of training troops to lead the military affairs of a county, and he did not expect that a failed battle of Chu would cause such a huge loss to the arsenal of Nanjun.

In these years, there is no mechanized production, everything is purely handmade, even if there are tens of thousands of subordinate concubines in the workshop of Nanjun, it is not easy to make up for the lack of armor and weapons in the arsenal within half a year.

Fortunately, the natural conditions of Nanjun are good, and the raw materials for making car armor and weapons can basically be obtained locally.

At that time, Mozi once said that Jing has a cloud dream, a rhinoceros and elk are full, and there is a long pine Wenzi Nan Yuzhang, all kinds of wild beasts can be hunted, peel off the leather to make armor, and all kinds of wood can be used to make chariots and arrow shafts. The ducks, geese and poultry raised by ordinary people, as well as the waterfowl flying everywhere in Yunmengze, are natural arrow feather materials.

So far, this war has affected more than the 30,000 soldiers who will be called up to go to the front. The craftsmen and concubines in the workshop had to work overtime, and the hunters, merchants, farmers, and 150,000 households in Nanjun would be mobilized by the government, either to collect military supplies, or to work hard to cultivate and store military rations......

"Timber, feathers, etc., are okay." Li You thought for a while and said: "What I'm most worried about is copper and iron, if the copper and iron are not enough, even if there is half a year, the weapons and arrow clusters still can't be made, and if the copper is transported from other places, the cost is too great." ”

Thinking like this, he patted the case a few times and said: "Tomorrow, you and the two will go with me to the Tongguan on Ji Mountain to have a look!" ”

"Yui!"

Hearing that Li Youzai was worried about the output of copper and iron, Heifu was moved in his heart and had an idea......