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If Wang Jian was also defeated, there would be no hope for the Qin State.

Xiong Jing smiled coldly, and his expression became solemn. Although it is said that the enemy is outnumbered, anything can happen in battle, and perhaps, the Chu army will be victorious? It's not impossible.

Looking at Xiong Jing's smile, Li He couldn't help but speak: "If the fifteen or sixteen-year-old can't fight at this time, our army will win." ”

"Fifteen, sixteen?" Xiong Jing immediately lost his smile. "There are only 50,000 or 60,000 people, and there are only a handful of people who can charge the spear, how can they fight? And this matter has already been discussed in the main court, why is it mentioned again today? ”

This is not the first time that the proposal to recruit a five-foot soldier has been raised, and it has been discussed by the Shocho after the defeat of Osawa. Even if Xiong Jing didn't instruct him, he was against recruiting a five-foot pawn. In terms of physical condition, fifteen or sixteen years old cannot become a qualified spearman - not to mention five feet, a six-foot pawn weighs a maximum of forty kilograms, and generally thirty-five kilograms, and the armor and iron armor and sword spear leather boots add up to twenty-five kilograms, and it is impossible to carry weapons and equipment that account for seventy percent of the weight of the body to fight, and to run and rush the spear;

And then what if you lose? Defeating these underage Chu pawns will become human heads, and become the steps of the Qin people's ascension. Neither can it be made up for in battle, but will be slaughtered by the Qin people, and no general dares to nod and agree to such a thing.

Li knew the reason why he didn't recruit fifteen or sixteen-year-olds, he just wanted to win too much. was asked by Xiong Jingyi with some embarrassment on his face, and he hurriedly withdrew after bowing. He goes, don't let me go, wait for the two of them to go down the stairs Xiong Jing remembered that Xiong Huang hadn't asked about Xiong Huang yet, and this matter could only be asked tomorrow.

In the crisp morning, no ministers came after I came, Xiong Jing sat for a while and dozed off, sat for a while, and then retreated directly to the small bed, changed his clothes and went directly to the martial arts field; Nearly a thousand miles away in the Qin Army's Shahai Battalion, Wang Qian, who raised his tent every day, was a little tired, but still patiently listened to the generals' reports on military affairs.

Morale, food and grass, drills, baggage, barracks, enemy situation, ......, every day he had to spend nearly a morning dealing with these trivial matters. For a veteran who is over sixty years old, this is a very laborious thing, but if he wants to master the whole army, he has to listen to everything in detail. If there is a problem, it should be pointed out immediately, and what has been done well should be praised immediately.

A soldier bears a nest of bears. If you want to raise the morale of the 600,000 Qin soldiers, you must first raise the morale of the 60 commanders. If you want the morale of the sixty lieutenants to be high, it is not to tell lies and say big things to coax them, but to make the barracks look like a barracks. 'Unity, tension, seriousness, liveliness', Wang Jian doesn't know these eight words, but Qin Ying is now implementing these eight words.

Generally speaking, from March to the present, the Qin army's morale has settled down, but it is far from the point of taking the initiative to seek war. Wang Jian is not in a hurry, his plan is to launch another offensive next year. This year, the first is to calm the morale of the army, and this has been done;

The second is to step up the practice, which is being done. Previously, the soldiers practiced once every two days and once every ten days. Since this month, seeing that the army's heart is stable, Wang Jian finally adjusted the drill to normal, and the soldiers practiced every day, and drilled every five days.

Finally, it is necessary to prepare armaments and food and grass. But this is not something that Wang Jian can decide alone. This must rely on Zhao Zheng's support. As Li Ji guessed, after Wang Jian arrived in Shahai, he found that the biggest problem was the loss of armor. There was very little left of the huge armor captured from the two armies of Zhao and Qi, and only the cavalry army of Yu Fen retained more than 10,000 sets of huge armor.

It is not for nothing that Shaofu stopped building war boats, Wang Jian urged many times, thinking that the most important thing for Shaofu now is to build armor immediately. 600,000 Qin troops, at least 100,000 sets of usable giant armor or iron armor, no, what will the soldiers take to fight with the Chu army?

In addition to the armor, the second question even Wang Jian didn't know what to do. The Qin army captured the huge armor, and also captured the Chu-style Yi spear, and the tip of the spear of the Yi head was unloaded and mounted on a shorter spear, which was the chief spear of the Qin army. Shashui was defeated, and under the loss of armor, the chieftain spear weighing more than ten catties was also lost by the Qin soldiers. In the end, the Qin army that returned to the Shahai camp only had 30,000 or 40,000 people still having the Chu chieftain spear in their hands, and the others were either short soldiers or Shaofu was not very qualified.

There are only 100,000 sets of armor, and the best chief spear comparable to the Chu spear costs at least 300,000 rods. Wang Jian was very worried that Shaofu would not be able to build it. If he can't build it, he, the general, will no longer use any weapons to tear apart the sturdy armor of the Chu army.

"General Yu, the great engineer of the Shaofu Ye Tunnel, and the official of the iron official, Sima Wuze, ask to see you." After closing the account, Wang Jian personally inspected the two lieutenants, and the shogunate officials came to pay their respects.

"Oh?" Wang Jian raised his eyebrows, he didn't know why Ye Tunnel came to Shahai in person, could it be......

"Please go to the martial arts." Wang Jian didn't think about it, he didn't like the politeness of the literati, what was the best thing to say in the martial arts. "Please also invite General Zhao Yong, General Yu Fen, General Qiang, General Anqi, and Liu Chi to the martial arts."

After Wang Jian finished giving the order, Ling Bing didn't stand still, and touched the back of his head with a twist. Seeing his daily life, Wang Jian said angrily: "Then tell the shaft and go to the martial arts field quickly." ”

The 600,000-strong army is also the left, center, and right rear four armies, with 150,000 troops each. However, Wang Ben wanted to lead an army alone and squeeze out Li Xin's general Anqi, but this matter was vetoed by Wang Jian without hesitation, and only let him obey orders under the Chinese army. The awkwardness of the father and son has been in trouble for more than two months, and the soldiers are Wang Jian and a native of Pinyang, and they only hope that the general and the young general will be reconciled.

No longer received by the shogunate but went directly to the martial arts, Ye Tunnel, the master of the Shaofu, muttered, he came to discuss the Qin army's armor with Wang Qian, not to go to the martial arts field to practice, but since Wang Jian said that he would go to the martial arts, he could not postpone it, so he could only go hard.

The martial arts field is indeed a field, without a wall, and a clearing is enclosed in the northwest corner of the camp by the black tent. When Ye Tunnel felt it, Wang Jian was already standing in the martial arts, and soon the right general Zhao Yong, the cavalry general Yu Fen, the left general Qiang Qi, the rear general An Qi, the shogunate heart Liu Chi and several shogunate strategists, as well as the Chinese army general Wang Ben arrived one by one.

"I've seen the general." Ye Tunnel's throat was a little bitter, and Sima Wuze hurriedly saluted Wang Jian one by one. "I've seen General Zhao, I've seen General Yu Fen, I've seen General Qiang, I've seen General Qiang, ......"

"Great engineers don't have to be polite." Wang Jian will invite Ye Tunnel here, and he will get straight to the point when he speaks. "Please come here, for the armor of our army. The Jing people's huge armor is not broken if the Jing people raze the spear, but most of the spears obtained by our army Zhao Qi were lost in the previous battle, and if you want to fight, you must have 300,000 or 400,000 sharp spears. ”

"General......" Ye Tunnel knew Wang Qian's requirements in April, 100,000 sets of iron armor, at least 300,000 iron chieftain spears comparable to Yi spears, the process of building a mansion is not mature, and the iron armor can be built, but the iron armor is time-consuming, and the number of 100,000 sets is too much, and it is difficult to build it in a year. Iron chieftains also have this problem, but iron chieftains have more serious problems.

Ye Tunnel wanted to speak, but Wang Jian hadn't finished his words.

"In addition to the spear, the army needs at least 140,000 sets of armor." Wang Qian's number was five sets more than before, and even if he was not interrupted by Wang Qian, Ye Tunnel, who had his mouth open, couldn't speak. "There are only 140,000 veterans left in our army, and each veteran must have a set of iron armor. Furthermore, a million crossbow arrows are needed; 10,000 strong crossbows, each strong crossbow with 300 arrows, these 3 million are also ......"

Wang Jian said his request, and these numbers were all corrected figures. These numbers have been hovering in his mind, lingering, and now when he sees Ye Tunnel, these numbers naturally blurt out, and Ye Tunnel is half dead. He panted like a fish on the shore, as if he were about to die.

Fortunately, Wang Qian's words are good, he wants three things: iron armor, sharp spears, sharp arrows, and nothing else. In the end, he was worried that his meaning would be misunderstood, so he deliberately emphasized: "Don't want copper armor, stone armor, leather armor, and no copper soldiers." ”

After Wang Jian finished speaking, the eyes of the generals stared at Ye Tunnel for a while, Ye Tunnel stood for a while, and said: "The subordinates came to the shogunate on the order of the king to discuss two matters with the general. ”

"Yes. In other words. Wang Jian put forward his own requirements in one go, but he didn't expect Ye Tunnel to only talk about his own affairs. For the king's sake, he could only let him finish.

"It takes time to build iron armor!" As soon as Ye Tunnel opened his mouth, he said: "The armor needs to be compiled by nearly a thousand armor pieces, and nearly a thousand armor pieces need to be the same size, thickness, and material, which is difficult." If the blacksmith fee of Shaofu makes iron armor, it will not become an iron spear, and if it makes a sharp spear, it will not become an iron armor. Hence ......"

"How?" Wang Jian squinted his eyes and looked at Ye Tunnel in the same way that he looked at the enemy.

"Shaofu can only make cloth armor. Cloth armor ......" Ye Tunnel said, turning his head and motioning for Sima Wuze to take out the sets of cloth armor from the carriage.

"Cloth armor?!" After everyone was surprised, Wang Ben shouted: "How can cloth be a first?!" ”

"General Wang, don't be impatient." Ye Tunnel knew that the generals would be surprised, but he came prepared. "A has been brought, whether the cloth armor can be a nail or not, you will know if you try it." Ye Tunnel's confident tone calmed Wang Ben and the others, and Wang Qian's eyes were still squinting until Sima Wuze and the others took out a few pieces of cloth armor from the carriage.

In people's impressions, cloth can only be used as clothes, and it is completely whimsical to use it as armor. But think about it again, fur fur was originally made of clothes, but who doesn't wear leather armor among the soldiers of the kingdom in the world? Since the skin can be used for nails, the cloth may also be used for nails.

Looking at the cloth armor that Sima Wuze and others were holding up, the generals were skeptical. Now that the master of Bujia Shaofu has already sent it, let's give it a try. I won't know until I try.

Ye Tunnel's confident tone calmed Wang Ben and the others,