Chapter 1310: Stoneing You with Money

The total number of shields equipped by the Yuanmeng country is less than one-third of Qin Hao's 100,000 army, what kind of concept is this?

It means that Yuanmeng is extremely short of steel.

There is no way, what Yuanmeng lacks most in China is iron ore, and the Jin army, which has the largest iron ore output, just doesn't buy iron ore for Yuanmeng.

Although the other princes of the Han Dynasty were willing to sell, they could only keep the steel of Yuanmeng at the point of sufficient, far from filling the huge gap in the entire Yuanmeng Empire.

The amount of steel production is the cornerstone of a country's armed forces, and if the steel production is insufficient, enough equipment cannot be built, and the combat power of the army will naturally not be much stronger.

For the Yuanmeng Empire, which was desperately short of iron ore, steel resources were the most precious strategic resources, and for the use of steel, the whole country was in a state of careful calculation, and every catty of iron and one or two iron had to be used on the blade.

Therefore, instead of using precious steel to make shields, Yuanmeng should use them to make weapons, after all, one shield is enough to make four or five steel knives.

Yuan Meng couldn't even afford a shield, let alone an iron armor that consumed more steel.

In the Great Han Dynasty, although iron armor is also a scarce thing, it is still relatively common, and it is the standard configuration of the elite troops under the command of the major princes.

In Yuanmeng, whether it is elite or not, it is impossible for soldiers to wear iron armor anyway, and only generals of the rank of commander and above can be equipped with iron armor, so the armor rate of the Yuanmeng army is naturally low.

In general, the equipment of Yuan and Mongolia was several levels inferior to that of the Han army, and Temujin also knew this situation, so he vigorously developed the cavalry of Yuan and Meng, through the rich war horse resources of the grassland, and the speed advantage of the cavalry, so as to make up for the gap with the Han army in the overall equipment.

When he saw that Qin Hao's army of more than 100,000 was equipped with seventy or eighty thousand shields, Tie Mu's heart was full of envy and jealousy, and at the same time, he strengthened his determination to enter the Central Plains.

The resources of the grasslands are too barren, and any state of the Han Dynasty, even the poorest of them, has much more reserve resources than the grasslands, and if Temujin wants to realize his ambition to conquer the world, he must rely on the huge resources of the Central Plains.

On the battlefield, Yuan Meng's cavalry tactics were easily defused by Qin Hao using a shield array, and Temujin gave up the idea of continuing to shoot the Han army with arrows outside the Longmen array, considering that the Han army had a large base of shields.

The strong crossbow of the Han army is much sharper than the bow and arrow of Yuanmeng, and the two armies must suffer if they shoot at each other, so after a few rounds of cavalry shooting but in the end, the Yuanmeng cavalry put away the cavalry and adopt a charging position, and the most primitive charge is about to begin.

Qin Hao, who was on the command tower, saw that the Yuanmeng Iron Cavalry was about to collide with the shield array, and shook the Lingqi again and shouted: "Javelin, indiscriminately throw, throw." ”

After the soldier hiding behind the shield was given the order, he quickly threw the javelin in his hand, and in the first round alone, tens of thousands of javelins were thrown.

Due to the close number, coupled with the density of the Han army's javelins, the Yuanmeng cavalry had nowhere to take it, and the shields in their hands could not stop the javelins.

"Humph......"

Seeing this, Temujin in the rear snorted coldly and unhappily.

The javelin is a great weapon for both infantry and cavalry, but due to the low iron production of Yuanmeng, it is naturally impossible to equip this kind of disposable equipment.

However, the Han army threw it out without restraint, which was too extravagant and wasteful in Temujin's opinion.

In Temujin's eyes, the javelins thrown out by the Han army were all money, Qin Hao was hitting him with javelins here? This is simply hitting him with money, and it is still going to kill him with money.

"I don't believe that the javelins of the Han army will never run out, rush, rush directly to me." Temujin gritted his teeth and ordered.

The double blow of the strong crossbow and the javelin in the Longmen array constituted an incomparably dense firepower network, causing the Yuanmeng Iron Cavalry to break through to a maximum of thirty meters outside the formation, and no longer be able to advance an inch.

The bones of the fallen Yuanmeng cavalry also became an obstacle for the cavalry behind, greatly reducing the speed of the cavalry and making it more difficult for the cavalry to advance forward.

So there is such a picture:

The Yuanmeng Iron Cavalry rushed frantically towards the Longmen Array, but when they were just thirty meters away from the Longmen Array, they were either killed by arrows or nailed to death with javelins, but the cavalry behind them still went forward one after another, and they crashed into the muzzle of the Han army fearlessly.

On the command tower in the center of the Dragon Gate Array, Qin Hao looked at this scene with a smile, and his mood was never better.

"Want to consume our army's javelins? Don't worry, Lao Tie, I still have a lot of javelins to prepare, a million handles, just waiting for you to slowly consume them. ”

In this decisive battle with Temujin, Qin Hao had made sufficient preparations, and as many as one million javelins were prepared, which was almost eight percent of the javelin reserves of the Qin and Jin armies.

Qin Hao knew that the javelin would be a great weapon for the infantry to deal with the cavalry, so he not only emptied the major armories in Bingzhou, but even transferred most of the strategic materials in Sizhou and Jingbei, just to catch Temujin off guard in the decisive battle.

Qin Hao looked outside the formation and whispered to himself: "This time, even if I use money, I will kill you." ”

Temujin used men and horses to make up for the lack of resources, while Qin Hao used a lot of resources to make up for the lack of cavalry, and there were advantages and disadvantages between the two sides, but in general, Qin Hao's approach of using resources to offset human lives was definitely wiser.

After all, resources are dead, people are alive, as long as there are people, more resources can be created, and no matter how much resources are accumulated, no one will use them, it will be useless.

Of course, it is not advisable to only use resources to win the battle.

The reason why Qin Hao dared to do this, in addition to the fact that the Qin and Jin armies were rich and could withstand his consumption, was mainly because he also had the treasure of Tiangong as a hole card.

In the battle of Hetao, in the end, no matter who wins this final decisive battle, it is not the winner, Qin Hao and Temujin can be said to have fought a defeat.

Even if Qin Hao can successfully expel Temujin, hundreds of thousands of people have already been killed and injured in Hetao, a large number of homeless victims are waiting for rescue, and the number of soldiers and militia killed in battle is likely to exceed 200,000.

Therefore, the pension that needs to be issued alone is enough to crush the finances of the Qin and Jin armies, and this may make Qin Hao have no external aggressiveness in the next few years, or even ten years.

Qin Hao knew that he would lose both, but he still dared to fight hard with Temujin, because he had the 'Heavenly Treasure' that could quickly regain blood, while Temujin could only lick his wounds silently with tears in his eyes.

Therefore, in the case of the lack of cavalry in the army and it is difficult to defeat the Yuanmeng iron cavalry by strength, it may not be a good way for Qin Hao to smash Temujin to death with money, after all, Qin Hao, who is sitting on the treasure of Tiangong, is really not short of money.