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If this set of flax armor had not been captured by the cavalry under the command of Fu Jing, Xiong Jing would almost have thought that it was a conspiracy of the Qin people to undermine the morale of his own army. The three-stone longbow is invulnerable in ten steps, the four-stone longbow can shoot through, and the five-stone longbow can shoot through the armor frontally.

However, this is meaningless, the four-edged arrow only penetrates the armor by half an inch, and it cannot shoot or seriously injure the Qin pawn wearing this armor, at most it can only be slightly injured. Fortunately, this suit of armor could not resist the Chu army's spear, even if it was a trotting spear, the sharp spear could tear the thirty-five layers of linen fiercely.

After getting this result, everyone finally had some ideas about the Qin people to equip flax armor, which was not to replace the iron armor, but to replace the leather armor that was only three millimeters thick. The Chu army's four-edged armor-piercing heavy arrows were aimed at leather armor, so they could not penetrate flaxen armor. If every soldier of the Qin army was wearing this linen armor, then the archers could no longer kill or wound the Qin soldiers unless they fled with their backs to the archers.

Whether all the Qin soldiers will be wearing linen armor to fight is a mystery. The Great Sima Mansion did not receive any information about the Qin people's equipment with flax armor, and they did not even know about the armor of flax armor. As far as the raw material of linen armor is concerned, it is just a dozen pieces of fine linen cloth glued together, and with the mobilization system of the Qin State, it is impossible to mobilize the linen cloth needed by the Qin army.

After announcing that the matter of flax armor should not be disseminated, all the troops were to return to the camp, and whether the archers should abandon their bows and spears was to wait for the shogunate's final deliberations. Looking at this pair of linen armor with several arrows inserted, Xiong Jing said: "I'd rather be thin than no one is thin to me." The Qin people have been in the extreme west for a long time, and they will never fight with ...... again."

The Qin army originally did not have a thorn crossbow, but now it has a thorn crossbow; The Qin army originally did not have a three-oared war boat, but now it has a three-oared war boat; The Qin army originally didn't have flax armor, but now it has flax armor. If you continue to wait, what else will Qin Jun have, Xiong Jing can't imagine. He scratched his hair, his expression looked a little depressed, Zhuang Wudi and Peng Zong rarely saw him depressed, even if it was only for a moment.

"The armor of the Qin people is not as good as mine, why worry about Da Ao?" Zhuang Wudi didn't understand why Xiong Jing was depressed. In his opinion, the country in the extreme west has flax armor, and it is also necessary to buy the huge armor and blade of Chu with a lot of money.

"I'm only worried about the rapid development of the Qin people's weapons." Xiong Jing quickly adjusted his mood. Whatever Qin Jun has, it already has it now.

"But I have artillery, and the Qin people don't have any." Peng Zong also said. "First bombard it with artillery, and then rush it with a spear array, how can the Qin array not be broken?"

"Meng Tian has used cavalry to attack the artillery array, and Wang Jian will do the same." Xiong Jing Road. Both the War Division and the Shogunate believed that the Qin army would adopt this tactic again, and there was nothing they could do about it. In the first battle of Shashui, the Qin army's 5,000 cavalry attacked the artillery array, and the casualties were indeed heavy, but it achieved the effect that Meng Tian wanted.

"If the two armies fight each other on the ice," Zhuang Wudi had to remind him when it came to the cavalry shock artillery array. "The huge wire mesh is difficult to use, and it can only be blocked by the car array. However, the height of the car is no more than a foot, once it is annihilated by the carcass of the horse......"

"Our army still has more than 10,000 horsemen, 5,000 dragoons, and the Qin people only have more than 20,000 horsemen. In the first battle of Shashui, our army's artillery was only sixty or seventy, and now there are more than 100 of them, and the Qin people cannot charge the battle unless they have 10,000 horsemen. However, ten thousand horsemen were placed in front of the formation and charged at our artillery array, and the cavalry was no longer as good as me. Peng Zongdao.

The Qin army could not break the cavalry shock artillery array, but during the internal discussions within the shogunate, Peng Zong mentioned more than once the change in the number of the two sides, that is, the increase in artillery and the decrease in the Qin cavalry. Zhuang Wudi heard him talk about this matter again, and because he didn't want to argue with him in front of Xiong Jing, he had to say vaguely: "To this day, there is no news of the number of Qin cavalry in our army. The Qin State is not like my country, and the Qin State has many places to herd horses. After the battle of sand and water, the cavalry must be called again. ”

"So far, there are no cattle and horses, how can I call for cavalry again?" Peng Zong shook his head again and again, and put on a posture to have another theory with Zhuang Wudi. Xiong Jing coughed heavily when he saw this, and the two of them gave up. When the big tent was quiet, the snow fell outside the tent again, and the three of them looked at the snowflakes outside and were completely silent. Astronomical veterans say that within ten days the ice will be half a foot, but looking at the current situation, if it snows for a few days, the ice on Makisawa will be half a foot thick.

"If the Qi army can't come from Danshui, it can't come." Xiong Jing said quietly. He suddenly felt that the only troops he could gather might be the current twenty divisions.

"The minister has urgently told the refractive light that it will come from Danshui. No, stop there. "Zhuang is not authentic.

Everything depends on the weather. When it snowed a few days later, the armies had more hope of arriving. The more armies arrived, the more likely they were to win. Even if it is an unorganized Qi army, if they can arrive in time, they can also increase the width of the Chu army's array. The wider the width of the array, the thinner the Qin army will spread, and the thinner the Qin army, the easier it will be to be broken.

Although I don't know what kind of formation Wang Jian will list during the decisive battle, the principle of the formation battle is like this, and the width and depth of the array are always contradictory. In the face of a large number of Qin troops, the Chu army had no chance to hook up at all, so they had to choose to attack head-on. The artillery charge, the most effective means of frontal attack, was delayed by the cavalry charge launched by the Qin army, and only grenades and charging spears remained. The Qin army's array was thin and fine, but if the depth was extremely thick, even Xiong Jing didn't know what method to use to break the formation.

"You are the commander of the cavalry, and the reprimanding of the cavalry is also from you, do you think that the cavalry of the Qin people in this battle should have geometry? What about this battle? Can the dragoon break the formation? The snow was still falling until the second day, and Xiong Jing, who had been thinking all night, summoned Yu Jing. When he saw Concubine Jing, he thought of Xiang Chao, and he couldn't help but feel some waves in his heart.

Xiong Jing asked a series of questions, and he didn't know what to say for a while, he opened and closed his mouth, and only said after a while: "The minister thought that the Qin army was less than 30,000. The knights under the command of the former Yuechen once saw the banner of the righteous canal ......"

"Yiqu Duck?" Xiong Jing immediately thought of the chubby Rong man who smelled of mutton. "Why didn't you report it?"

"Knowing what he said, Yiqulu has not moved to camp, and is still in Henan." Xiong Jing was surprised, and Yu Jing was also surprised.

"What he said must be false!" Xiong Jing was a little excited, eager to shoot a few cases. In October, he was not in Kaifeng when he was in Shouying, and the news of Concubine Jing reached the Da Sima Mansion and was filtered by Zhibisi as false information, and it was not reported at all. "Don't say anything!" He pressed his emotions down. "Say it again."

"Yui." Fei Jing didn't know why, but he now had some understanding of why he had been dismissed. "The minister thinks that there are many cavalry pawns in the Qin State, Beidi County, Henan Prefecture, Jiuyuan County, Yunzhong County, and Yanmen County, all of which are places where cavalry pawns are produced. In the first battle of Shashui, the Qin cavalry suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and a few months later it was summoned by the northern monarchs, and there must be no shortage of cavalry, only war horses. ”

"There is no shortage of war horses." Xiong Jing waved his hand. "Zhao State Animal Husbandry said that this year, Qin State exchanged silk brocade for horses, and got two or three horses."

"Huh?" Yu Jing was shocked when she heard this, "I heard that Hu Rong didn't want to exchange horses with the Qin people, and the Qin people not only lacked war horses, but also ...... horses."

The economic war against the Qin state ended in defeat. The reason for the failure of the economic war was the urgent need for the Chu army to establish a spice trade network to support the war that lasted for five years with no end in sight. If you can mobilize like the Qin army without mercy, and forcibly put every man, every Chu money, and every corn into the war, the Qin State would have already perished. If you can't be so ruthless, then you will be ruthless to the Qin people - the battle of Weinan will kill all the Qin troops, and after pulling out Xianyang, all the Shaofu craftsmen will be killed, and the situation will not collapse to this point.

However, because of the temperament of the aristocracy, the state of Chu could not be ruthless to itself, nor could it be ruthless to the enemy. This has to remind Xiong Jing of some people in history who lost all their chips for a little bit of worthless integrity and the residual warmth of the scholar era. The memory made him feel bad, and it seemed to prophesy his doom.

He interrupted Concubine Jing to tell him that the Qin people were short of horses before, and now the Qin people are not short of horses, but because of his bad mood, he was stunned for a long time, and it was not until the somewhat cold Concubine Jing couldn't help coughing, and he woke up.

"There is no shortage of horses in the Qin people!" He said dryly, as if it wasn't his own voice.

"So," Fei Jing coughed a few more times. "In this way, Qin Qi may have four or five giants. Subtract the cavalry that broke the formation, and there should be more than 40,000 cavalry in the array. It is very difficult for the dragoons to break the formation. ”

"How hard?" Xiong Jing also coughed, and he cleared his throat. "The Qin cavalry charged my artillery array, and the artillery could no longer break the formation; The number of Qin people is twice that of me, and its array is thick, and the spear may not be able to break the formation. But he who sent it broke through the enemy's formation with heavy horsemen. ”

"To tell the truth," said Fu Jing, "the heavy cavalry must be arrayed first, and the formation takes a long time. If Qin cavalry attacks me at this time and messes up my queue, I will not be able to line up. or strike me while I am returning from the battle, so that my heavy horses will not return, and the heavy horses will not be able to break the formation. ”

Xiong Jing is a hands-off shopkeeper, and after he points out a path, the others follow it, experimenting and summing up the final tactics. Fei Jing was very clear about the details of the heavy cavalry breaking formation, and the array and return formation he said were fatal shortcomings of the heavy cavalry tactics. If you don't line up, you won't be able to rush into formation, and if you don't return, you won't be able to form a wave-like offensive, and you won't be able to break through the Qin army's array.

However, what Xiong Jing hoped for was not the usual way to break the formation, he shook his head again and again: "The heavy cavalry in this battle only rushed into the formation once, and it was not in the back of the formation, but in front of the formation. ”

"Before the battle? Once? "What Yan Jing just said was that he rushed from the side and rear of the Qin army's array, but he didn't expect Xiong Jing to say in front of the formation. Thinking of the array of the Qin army that was as deep as a hundred lines, and thinking of the dense chieftain spears in the military array, Yu Jing subconsciously said: "Don't! This must not be broken! ”

"Plus the spear will definitely be broken!" Xiong Jing seemed to have regained that confidence in victory, and his voice was categorical. He knew that the heavy cavalry could not break the enemy's formation, but the heavy cavalry could disrupt the enemy's formation, and at this time, the infantry would charge the spear again, and the enemy's formation would be broken.

"When the heavy cavalry charges, I am the striker." Looking at the surprise on Fei Jing's face, Xiong Jing smiled.