The Qin State had seven places called Lü County, three of which were in the southern part of Shandong, three in the northern part of Shandong, and the remaining one near Shangyong in Hanzhong County. I don't know which of the so-called Lu County Hou fiefdoms is among them? However, no matter which one it is, none of them are in Guanzhong, according to the character of the marquis of the Han Dynasty, it means that the Marquis of Luxian is a Marquis outside Guan.

Today, there are less than 30 marquis of the Qin State, some of these marquis who followed the successive Qin kings to fight in the Quartet, and some of them are relatives of the winning family. There are seven fiefs in Guanzhong. Most of the rest are Jun and Yi. In addition to the above three titles and fiefs, the rest are not called fiefs, and are called "collars", that is, feudal titles.

At present, the Qin State has abandoned the sub-feudal system, whether it is the fief of the three lords of Hou, Jun and Yi, or the fiefdom of the rest of the nobles of the title, in fact, they have no right to govern, even the cultivation of the land is dependent on the Shaofu to send people to work, and they can only get benefits from the fief and the fief.

After the implementation of centralized power, the title of Qin State was only left with honor in addition to benefits, and the basic national policy of rewarding fields (land) was changed, and there was no way to obtain the fields that they could dispose of at will, so the attraction of conquest profits for officers above the military marquis level of the Qin army was equivalent to disappearing.

The older generation of nobles, because of the emergence of the centralized system slowly faded out of the political field of vision, it can be said that the disappearance of the late Qin generals and the first emperor's centralization of power and land reform has a great relationship, and then by Hu Hai and Zhao Gao for a while, the Qin Empire was in crisis There was no one to pick the beam, and they could only choose Shaofu Zhang Han, who had more than 700,000 miscellaneous servants in his hands, and used these miscellaneous servants to form an army to deal with the approaching rebels.

At present, the centralization of power is still in progress, some policies have been implemented and some have not, in this situation, the combat power of the Qin army is actually relying on a kind of inertia to operate, but if there is still a strong belligerence, it really needs to be discussed.

At present, from the change of Qin's national policy, it is clear that the Qin army is in a weakened period of people, and it is necessary to kill the clan relatives in Huhai, and most of the courtiers in the period of the First Emperor have retired. This phenomenon will be noticed by those who are interested.

Of course, history has changed beyond recognition at this stage by now.

Lu Zhe, who desperately needed a respite, had already decided to greet the edict envoy in two days, but before receiving him, he needed to destroy the morale of Sima Xin's troops in front of him as much as possible. In this way, even if Lu Zhe really led the army to retreat, he would be able to delay the pace of the Qin army's comeback again and gain more time.

When the instruments arrived in the afternoon, the bed crossbow placed on the carriage and the cart crossbow, which had two or four wheels, were immediately pushed up, and a large number of auxiliaries carried chests containing giant crossbow arrows.

The advance of nearly two hundred bed crossbows and car crossbows attracted the attention of the Qin army's garrison, and Sima Xin immediately got into the nest car after receiving the report, and what he saw was the mighty equipment troops.

Sima Xin also carried seventy bed crossbows with him when he went south, and these bed crossbows had different ranges. The range of a single-shot crossbow is about 450 paces, and the range of a three-shot crossbow is about 300 steps.

Originally, there were only more than 30,000 people in the Qin army, but after three days, the number had increased to more than 40,000, and more than 4,000 Qin soldiers died of the disease within three days, so it can be said that the spread of the disease had caused the Qin army of about 110,000 to fall into a panic.

The enemy's giant crossbow troops advanced, and the morale of the army was low and it was difficult to go out of the camp to meet the enemy, what Sima Xin could do was to order the bed crossbow in the camp to prepare to meet the enemy, and then take as much defensive preparations as possible to prevent the enemy from rushing the camp.

Nearly 200 bed crossbows and cart crossbows were escorted by 30,000 soldiers, and they continued to approach with the rhythm of the war drums. The range of these bed crossbows and car crossbows is also different, and the attack range of single and triple shots is worse than that of the Qin army, but after adding Wangshan, it may be a little more accurate than the Qin army from the quasi-head.

Mei Kai was the commander of the attack, and when he was five hundred paces away from the Qin army, he ordered the bed crossbows and cart crossbows to disperse. It gradually became a large-scale scattered formation. When they adjusted, the Qin army's bed crossbow was already being calibrated and fired, and a thick crossbow arrow roared and smashed to the ground, some of the crossbow arrows were stuck in the ground and shaking, and some were dragged for a distance without biting.

The wind was still favorable to the Qin army. Mei Kai mentally calculated the influence of the wind and came to the conclusion that the Qin army's bed crossbow could take advantage of the wind to increase its range by about five steps, while her own range would be canceled by the wind by about seven steps.

As the distance continues to advance. Mei Wei called for the soldiers pushing the sword and shield carts to speed up and go first, and these sword and shield carts entered the range of the Qin army's bed crossbow, and as a result, they attracted the thick and huge crossbow arrows that continued to be fired.

"Quick! Speed forward! As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound in Mei Kai's ears, and he turned his head to look, and saw a thick crossbow arrow hitting a sword and shield cart pushed by six people.

It was not shot through, but really smashed, and the two-meter-long giant crossbow arrow on the side of the side smashed on the spring on the left side of the sword and shield car, and the sword and shield car that was pushed by the six people and the speed was actually overturned.

It was not only Mei Kai who saw that scene, but the soldiers who operated the equipment were all terrified in their hearts when they saw that the crossbow arrows shot could overturn the sword and shield cart, so that the speed involuntarily slowed down, and it was the officers of all ranks who kept shouting before they accelerated the speed of advancing again.

The enemy's crossbows, bed crossbows, sword and shield carts and other equipment are constantly advancing, and the Qin army, from Sima Xin to ordinary soldiers, knows what kind of picture it will be once the enemy enters the firing range.

The disadvantage of long-range weapons is that the farther away they are, the worse the accuracy, which still needs to rely on the experience and accuracy of the operator in the industrial period, and it is now 218 BC, when the Wangshan (sight) has not yet been popularized, and if you want to hit an object three hundred steps away, you can only rely on luck in addition to experience.

Lu Zhe, who was also standing on the nest car in the camp, finally saw his own bed crossbow and car crossbow shooting at the Qin army camp, Mei Kai's command method was obviously to concentrate more than a dozen instruments to attack the Qin army's bed crossbow that had been exposed, and the picture of the battlefield became a thick crossbow arrow flying in the air.

The Qin army also seemed to have received enlightenment, and gradually got up with crossbows to shoot at Lu Zhejun's equipment outside the camp, and the two sides suffered losses under the continuous shooting of each other.

Zhang Liang, who was also standing on top of the nest car, was full of confusion, he didn't understand why Lu Zhe was shooting at each other since he was not prepared to attack the Qin camp.

At present, only a few people know about the arrival of the envoy of the Imperial Decree, and none of the officers below the commander know about it, and it is even more impossible for Zhang Liang, an outsider, to know about it. He only found out from some clues that Lu Zhe had plans to withdraw from the army, so he wondered why he was going to conduct this kind of "war of equipment" that seemed meaningless.

The two sides shot thick crossbow arrows at each other at a distance of 400 paces, and after they concentrated a few or even a dozen shots, the hit rate would naturally increase, but relatively speaking, Lu Zhe's side was able to maneuver, and the bed crossbow in the Qin army camp was fixed, and under Mei Kai's flexible command, the Qin army was destroyed by about twenty steps at the cost of losing seven parts.

"That's ......" Zhang Liang asked, pointing to the ballista that was almost assembled, and couldn't help the curiosity in his heart.

Following the direction, Lu Zhe dragged a syllable with "oh ......", "Ballista, with a range of more than four hundred steps, a device for firing stone projectiles"

Zhang Liang had already seen the faint stone ball next to him, and naturally knew that it was a device that fired stone bullets, but he had never seen this kind of instrument with his extensive knowledge.

In fact, there will be so many instruments in Lu Zhe's army that Zhang Liang expected, not everyone can make weapons at the moment, especially bed crossbows, and there are nearly two hundred of them under Lu Zhe's command, which is more than a little bit stronger than the newly established countries in terms of creation, and it is hard to imagine that this is a force that has been independent for less than a year.

Once the ballistas were assembled, the groom brought in the horses and pulled them forward to join the troops ahead.

"Lu Hou." Zhang Liang called out, waiting for Lu Zhe to turn his head and look, "Liang has been in your place for nearly ten days, and the king's family and country have not yet been established, so I really dare not delay any longer." ", paused, seems to be wording? He continued for a while before he continued, "After bidding farewell to Lu Hou, Liang will go to see Xiang Gong." ”

The king can only be Han Wangcheng, and Xiang Gong has no one else except Xiang Liang. Zhang Liang still wanted Lu Zhe to be able to contact and be hostile to the Xiang family, and the two sides would work together to resist Qin, so there were those words.

The Xiang family has repeatedly targeted the three counties group, and the current predicament of the three counties group is all due to the handiwork of the Xiang family, including Lu Zhe, the civil and military forces of the three counties can be said to hate the Xiang family to the bone, how can they change their hostility because of Zhang Liang's words. Then again, even if Lu Zhe was willing to put aside his hostility for the time being, it was impossible for the Chu State (Xiang Clan), which wanted to gain a vast territory, not to mention that the two sides were now playing a game against Huan Chu in Lujiang County.

The situation in front changed after the ballistas entered the firing range, and the fifteen ballistae that had been assembled smashed about thirty catties of cobblestone bullets into the Qin camp one after another, causing chaos in the Qin camp.

There are stone throwing carts this year, and Qin Jun should be used to the stones flying in the sky, right? But they really hadn't seen anything that could be fired from a distance of four hundred paces, and it seemed that the stones sent were so round and abominable that they would not stop after hitting the ground, and some of the hesitant soldiers were crushed off their calves before they could react.

Mei Kai took advantage of the chaos in the Qin camp to transfer the three-shot crossbow behind, and then ordered the sword and shield car to cover until it was three hundred and fifty steps away from the Qin camp and began to join the sequence of clearing the Qin army's bed crossbow.

"Lu Hou?" Zhang Liang, who had waited for a long time and had not received a response, called out again, and when he saw Lu Zhe, who was thinking about changing his complicated expression, he thought he was moved, and persuaded: "The Qin country is powerful, I hope Lu Hou will think deeply." ”

Lu Zhe's complicated expression was not thinking about the Qin State or the Xiang Clan, he had already made a decision about the Qin State, and the Xiang Clan must have a big battle and wait for the battle to be finished. Now, what he is thinking about is whether to let Zhang Liang go, whether to put him under house arrest or kill him if he doesn't let him go.

This...... It's a question to think about! (To be continued......)