"In this way, it's really a battle of soldiers."

The rendezvous of the two armies, although it is not a joint force under the condition of complete willingness, is after all, to be together, and the general force structure of the two sides must be informed of each other, and they can calmly negotiate the deployment of troops when they enter the combat state.

The Qin army sent 150,000 troops, including 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 crossbowmen, the remaining 70,000 soldiers of various types such as charioteers, spearmen, and spearmen, and 20,000 auxiliaries.

The number of crossbowmen in the army is the largest, and narrowly enough to think that the Qin army's dispatch of troops is not very sincere, because crossbowmen are the types of troops that provide long-range casualties from afar. But on second thought, there's nothing wrong with the configuration? In the battle with the Hu people, it is necessary to maintain the advantage of long-range killing, with the long-range killing units as the main force to control the rhythm of the battlefield, and the rest of the troops are responsible for encirclement and necessary defense.

Looking at the configuration of the Qin army's troops, it was obviously carefully considered, Sima Xin didn't want to ask if it was a plan in advance, and Meng Tian would deploy it himself before sending out the troops.

Why did Sima Xin think about this? If the Qin State had already made a plan, it meant that the Qin army would go north to participate in the war regardless of whether there was pressure from the Han State or not, and if it was out of Meng Tian's handwriting, then the matter would be much more complicated.

Lü Zhe has always admired Meng Tian's military talents, and even more appreciated Meng Tian's ability in administration, so it is not a secret that the Han monarch wanted to take Meng Tian under his command in the Han military. And it seems that Lu Zhe wanted to take Meng Tian under the tent but didn't do anything, it didn't seem like using dark or light means against others, which was also confused by many people.

If the formation of the Qin army in the north was purely out of Meng Tian's operation, it proved that Meng Tian was militarily talented, but it also proved from a certain aspect that the Qin state was not completely inclined to merge with various countries into one empire.

In the future, most of the supplies of the Han army need to pass through the Qin realm or pass by, and there are many unstable factors, and the Han side will inevitably come up with corresponding countermeasures.

The Chinese army has never been very refined, and the first to achieve corresponding refinement is the Qin army, for example, the soldiers will definitely not become baggage soldiers in the next moment. Each soldier is also trained for a specific purpose, and the armies of the nations of the same time period have not strictly made a distinction between soldiers and auxiliaries. In other words, compared to the regularization of the Qin army, the arms of the six armies were chaotic and their responsibilities were vague.

The Qin army wiped out more than two million troops of the Six Nations in the Battle of Unification, and most of the troops of the Six Nations that were eliminated were untrained formations, that is, farmers who had just laid down their agricultural tools. In fact, many soldiers in the Qin army were also farmers, but the biggest difference between the two sides was that there was a gap in the refinement of the system.

Meng Tian also got the establishment of two Han legions from Sima Xin, maybe Sima Xin did not completely give the truth, but he can generally see what kind of Han legions are in existence.

Like the Qin army, the Han army strictly distinguished the soldiers from other non-main combatants. Among the soldiers, various types of troops are refined. For example, the cavalry corps's assault cavalry, rangers, scattered cavalry, mounted heavy cavalry, and even special bows and crossbow cavalry have appeared as long-range killing arms. The infantry corps was also divided in detail, such as the largest number of pikemen who gradually became the mainstream of the Han army, in addition to shield-wielding sword soldiers, spearmen, heavy infantry, archers, crossbowmen, a kind of specialized and complex operations such as car crossbows, bed crossbows, stone cannons and other equipment are also independently distinguished.

"It turns out that there are so many differences between the same light cavalry, and the light cavalry also distinguishes the types of troops used to charge, wander, and intercept?" Nesten looked thoughtful.

The Qin army also formed a new type of cavalry, but only the distinction between light cavalry and heavy cavalry was carried out, and no more separate units with different responsibilities were extended. In other words, the Qin army has not yet explored a systematic system for the use of cavalry, and the Qin army's light cavalry has not carried out targeted training.

There wasn't much military on the march. Sima Xin also showed enough enthusiasm to see that many Qin generals, including Meng Tian, were interested in the formation sequence of the Han army's cavalry corps, Sima Xin didn't know what purpose he was actually taking people to watch in person.

The figure of the cavalry is not uncommon in the long history of China, but it was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that it was truly finalized. After continuous evolution in the subsequent dynasties, the most representative assault cavalry was the Youzhou cavalry that had been constantly fighting with the grassland Hu people during the Han Dynasty.

The Han cavalry seen by the Qin generals was a kind of knightly armored, and their armor was a kind of partial rectangular armor, which was fastened to the shoulders on the chest and back. There are also gloves, elbows, shoulder straps and a set of skirt and leg armor to protect the lower body.

When riding, the upper body is not the most susceptible to injury, in fact, the lower body part from the blind spot of the field of vision is the most likely to be injured due to untimely observation. The cavalry of the Han army had accumulated enough experience in the Central Plains and the battles outside the Saiwai, so they also studied the protection of the lower body of the cavalry.

"Does a cavalryman need so many weapons?"

What did the generals of the Qin army see? In addition to having a perfect defensive armor, there is also a round shield, and the Han army's assault cavalry is equipped with more than one weapon, the long weapon is a spear close to two zhang (four meters four), the short weapon is a long-handled single-edged sword (chopping sword) nearly eight feet (one meter eight), and even a sword (katana-like sword) with a curved shape of about three feet at the waist. If the generals of the Qin army are not mistaken, on the right side of the neck of the cavalry horse, the guy in the leather bag seems to be a crossbow? But what kind of trouble is it to hang a riding bow? The feather arrow equipment hanging from the neck on the other side of the war horse is also special, which is a kind of arrow fixed by a row of strings in a wallet, not a traditional pot of arrows in a loose mode.

"The face of the war horse is equipped with armor, the front neck of the war horse is equipped with leather armor, and the front chest of the war horse also has a shield," Sima Xin's face was proud at the moment, and he said with a smile: "A commando cavalry does not count the money and food consumed by ordinary training, and the value of a piece of equipment is almost sixty gold. ”

At the current stage, gold is actually copper, and gold has not really become a currency, and one eridium is almost forty Qin and a half taels, after all, one eridium is twenty taels, and half a tael is really half a tael.

At that moment, I don't know how many Qin army generals and colonels directly grew up with stunned faces, equipping a cavalry cavalry cost two thousand four hundred and a half taels without counting the cost of training, and how many people may not be able to earn two thousand four hundred and a half taels after hard work in their lives. The equipment of a single assault cavalry of the Han army is worth so much.

They didn't know how many cavalry there were in the Han Kingdom, and they were only left with horror and sighs in their hearts, perhaps everyone was thinking in their minds: "Is the Han Kingdom really rich enough to do this?" ”

The officers of the Han Army present all saw the wonderful expression of the Qin Army General, so they would not tell the Qin Army General that not every Han cavalry corps is in this configuration, such as the First Cavalry Corps, the Fifth Cavalry Corps, and the Ninth Cavalry Corps, which were the first to form an army, went to battle early, and the three cavalry regiments that participated in the battle first were not so luxurious, and only the 13th Cavalry Corps, which was transferred from the Forbidden Army sequence to the National Defense Army sequence, was the first to be fully armed, and the 14th Cavalry Corps left in Nanling was not yet equipped.

The Ranger and Scattered Cavalry were far less luxurious in equipment than the Assault Cavalry, and the Rangers and Scattered Cavalry had leather armor and no zài armor on their horses. The weapons were not equipped with spears, but only long-handled sabers and scimitars, which belonged to short weapons, and long-range weapons were equipped with crossbows and bows.

There is no Qin army general to ask why there is such an obvious difference, the assault cavalry is a light cavalry used to charge the formation, and the rangers and scattered cavalry know that they are wandering troops just by listening to the name, but when the Qin army generals saw the Han army's equipment and heavy cavalry, they were a little dazed.

"The turks have the purpose of charging into formation, so doesn't it overlap with the effect of the heavy cavalry?"

"This one...... It's a bit complicated to say. ”

The mounted heavy cavalry looked far more impressive than the cavalry, and the armor worn by the Han army's mounted heavy cavalry was completely different from the contemporary style, and the armor of the pre-Qin period was generally sewn or tied with various shapes of armor. The armor on the Han army's heavy cavalry is made of melt casting, most of which are seamless types, the metal area of the armor is relatively large, and the two breastplates on the chest that will reflect light in the sun make people feel like they are about to be blinded.

"Admiral Wang named this armor Mingguang Armor. It is a new type of product that uses the latest melting and casting technology, and the corresponding forging technology is added to the joints and waist to ensure the flexibility of the body, and there is also a lot of built-in leather. ”

Leather is definitely needed for armor, but the industrial technology of the Han Kingdom has been constantly innovating. It is no longer just about the necessary tie-up needs, but also about the pursuit of comfort and warmth.

Heavy cavalry is not only the knight's heavy armor, but also the horse is equipped with horse armor. The generals of the Qin army found that the heavy cavalry of the Han army was only equipped with three kinds of cavalry spears, long-handled sabers, and rectangular tower shields, and the rest, such as war swords, bows, and crossbows, were not equipped.

"Huh? Yes, yes, it's a class of troops dedicated to charging into battle, and it's enough to equip those. ”

The Qin army also formed its own heavy cavalry, but the armor style and equipment were completely different from the Han army, the Qin army's heavy cavalry armor was improved from the foot heavy armor style, and the armor of the war horse was the scale type, that is, the mainstream sewn armor type armor, and the weapons were borrowed from the Han cavalry equipped with spears, swords, crossbows, and bows.

To be honest, the heavy cavalry has no flexibility, which refers not simply to the heavy cavalry because the weight of people and equipment is too heavy, and the flexibility of knights on war horses because of a suit of armor is also limited, so it may be useful for heavy cavalry to equip a crossbow, but equipping a bow will become a drag. And riding a crossbow is useless a lot of the time, after all, even if you can fire a riding crossbow, with so many restrictions as heavy cavalry, you have to launch a riding crossbow and enter the preparation stage of hand-to-hand combat, can you be busy?

One of the most important factors about the heavy cavalry is that I don't know if the Qin army has found out? After visiting the cavalry of the Han army, Sima Xinti yì went over to see the cavalry of the Qin army.

The Han army is so generous to let you visit, can the Qin army refuse? Meng Tian heartily agreed.

The cavalry of the Qin army was obviously not refined, and the equipment of the cavalry also tended to be simple, which was nothing more than equipping the long weapons spears, short weapons and swords, long-range weapons bows and crossbows used in cavalry warfare.

The research and use of crossbows for the Qin army was obviously ahead of the Han army, and the reform of the Qin crossbow was after the swallowing of Korea, and the crossbows of the Qin state began to diversify and become stronger.

South Korea is known as the Warring States of "Jin Han", and the "Jin" of "Jin Han" refers to the achievements in long-range kill weapons, and with the essence of such a "Jin" character, South Korea, which tends to be weak in population and territory, has gradually become one of the seven major warring states since the founding of the country.

There is a kind of crossbow in the Qin army called the crossbow, the range can reach more than 450 meters, even now because of the strong rise of Lu Zhe to produce many new military equipment, the crossbow is still the longest-range weapon, the most surprising thing is that this crossbow is not a crossbow that needs to be pedaled, but a crossbow that simply relies on arm strength to open the crossbow string.

The cavalry of the Qin army wearing black clothes and black armor were not equipped with many crossbows, not that the Qin State did not develop a continuous shooting crossbow, but that the Qin army seemed to trust the cavalry's riding and archery skills more.

Relatively speaking, the short range of a repeating crossbow is indeed a hard injury, but the farthest distance of shooting an arrow with a long-handled riding bow can reach about 150 meters.

"They used hardwood spears......"

Oh, my God! Hardwood spears, cavalry stabbing the target will bring a huge resistance, if you don't let go of the spear in time when you stab, just wait for yourself to be knocked off the horse because of the huge resistance!

The Han army's spear was made of a tree, a very brittle wood that would break and shatter on its own in the event of resistance, so the cavalry did not have to be nervous and let go of their weapons at any time in the event of a collision.

The Qin army has not yet discovered the secret of the material of the spear used in cavalry, and I don't know if it is because the Qin army has not gone through actual combat since the formation of the cavalry, or the Qin army has not found the material that can be used for the wooden pole of the spear for cavalry?

"Shouldn't it? Trees are not rare in the north, but are especially abundant in the northwest. ”

"Should we be reminded?"

"This ......"

The final discovery was reported to Sima Xin, he thought about it carefully or decided to remind, after all, the two armies are now friendly forces, and no one wants the cavalry of the Qin army to suffer heavy losses because of such flaws when fighting against the Hu people, and the Qin army is not distressed by the loss of the Han side, but is worried that the sudden situation will affect the development of the battle situation.

Meng Tian seemed to be stunned after receiving the account from Sima Xin, and after reacting, he was too busy to thank him.

Sima Xin found a little detail from Meng Tian's reaction, Qin Jun should know the shortcomings of the spear, right? However, Sima Xin did not break it.

The Han army's generosity is showing its strength to the Qin army, and using its strong side to show its own strength, so who can say that the posture shown by the Qin army is not showing weakness? (To be continued......)