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Although Zhao Hongrun wants to see the strength of the Qi army, the Qi army here does not only refer to the Lang Evil Army, after all, the Lang Evil Army is only one of several Qi armies under the command of Tian Tan, the commander of the East Route Army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

What's more, the Lang evil army that attacked the city wall on the west side of Suxian County was only 10,000 people, and it didn't look like it was in charge of the main attack, at most it was just a feint.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun observed the siege battle of the Qi Guolang evil army on the west side of the city wall on the west side of Su County, and slowly drove the battlefield towards the south.

As for the destination, it is naturally the location of Tian Tan, the commander of the Eastern Route Army, - where Tian Tan is located, that is the main force of the Eastern Route Army attacking Suxian.

However, during the observation of the Lang Evil Army, Zhao Hongrun also felt frightened.

It was not that he was frightened by the fighting quality of the Lang Evil Army, the army of the Qi State, but by their weapons and equipment.

The first thing that caught Zhao Hongrun's attention was the armor of the Qi soldiers.

Different from the thick armor commonly used by the Wei army, the armor of the Qi army makes people seem to be able to associate the word light at a glance.

Otherwise, how to explain the fact that the infantry of the Qi army was still able to walk like a fly while wearing armor?

Could it be that the strength of the infantry of the Qi State is still above the infantry of the Wei State?

For this speculation, Zhao Hongrun scoffed.

Because as far as he knew, the infantry of his Wei State was the most rigorous and arduous among the Central Plains countries, especially the six battalions of garrisons such as the Dangshan Army, the Junshui Army, the Chenggao Army, and the Fencheng Army, and one Wei infantry could often face two or three enemy infantry on the battlefield without defeat.

Quite a shocking strength!

It's no wonder, after all, Wei relied on infantry and chariots to fight the world, although the chariots have been eliminated by the Korean cavalry, but it is undeniable that Wei's infantry is still a powerful force that makes all countries in the Central Plains feel a headache.

And compared to the infantry of the Wei State, the infantry of the Qi State, no, to be exact, it should be the army of the Qi State, and he himself has nothing to praise.

There is only one point, and that is the weaponry of the Qi army.

The wealth of Qi is known to the whole world.

Once when he learned that the Sixth King Brother went to Linzi of Qi State as a proton, Zhao Hongrun asked the Ministry of Rites about the situation of Qi State.

And what he learned at that time made Zhao Hongrun quite dumbfounded.

How rich is the country of Qi, to what extent?

He is so rich that there seems to be no poor people in the whole country, and no one will starve to death or freeze to death because of hunger and cold in the cold winter, and he has never heard of it.

What a great thing it is that everyone has surplus food!

You must know that even in the Wei State, in the places that Zhao Hongrun can't see, I don't know how many poor Wei people die of hunger and cold every winter, and the Chu State is needless to say, the people who starve to death every year are far more than the 160,000 troops buried by Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Xuancheng, who attacked Wei that year.

And in the country of Qi, there are no people who starve to death.

According to Zhao Hongrun's understanding, there are many righteous houses and righteous villages in various parts of the Qi Kingdom, and this kind of righteous houses and righteous villages are not those things in Yangxia County, Wei State, but places that are really used to give alms.

Zhao Hongrun once heard a story: in the Yishe or Yizhuang of the Qi Kingdom, there was no one to guard it, and if the passers-by were hungry, they could go into the village by themselves, take rice from the jar by themselves, and then use the firewood piled up in the corner of the courtyard to cook rice and fill their stomachs.

And the only thing these pedestrians have to do is to ensure a certain amount of firewood in the yard for the convenience of later travelers.

If you have money, there is a wooden box in the house, you can throw some money in it, as a thank you for taking food, if you are penniless, it doesn't matter, if you remember it in the future, return the corresponding food according to your ability, if you forget it, it doesn't matter, the owner of the village is often the local famous family, rich and noble, and don't care at all.

As for whether there will be anyone stealing the food in these righteous houses, I believe that unless it is a first-class robber or thief who is willing to degenerate, otherwise, the people of Qi will never steal.

This is not because there are any corresponding cruel laws in Qi State, but because the wind of benevolence and righteousness prevails in Qi State, and people's hearts tend to be kind, which can be said to be unbroken and never closed at night; Comparatively speaking, people who have committed crimes are simply unable to move an inch in this country, and they will be looked down upon wherever they go.

In addition, the social class contradiction in Qi is also the slightest in the Central Plains, because almost every family is very rich: the commoners are rich, the nobles are richer, and the national style of the Qi State also makes the behavior of the nobles oppressing the commoners in this country is simply rare.

The most incredible thing is that the civilians of Qi have the spare power to marry wives and concubines.

Of course, the direct factor causing this phenomenon is that the Qi State sacrifices some men in the war against the Chu State and the South Korea every year, so that there are fewer men and more women in the country, but in the final analysis, it can also reflect the wealth of the Qi State from the side.

Because compared with the Qi State, the Chu State has also been at war over the years, fighting with the Wei State, fighting with the Qi State, and fighting with the rebels in its own territory, and the number of men killed in the war is not only several times that of the Qi State, but can the civilians of the Chu State have the ability to marry wives and concubines?

No, they can't even fill their stomachs.

However, as the so-called pros and cons, the wealth of Qi is the best among the Central Plains, but the soldiers of Qi can be called the weakest among all countries.

This weakness refers to the personal strength of the soldiers, not the embodiment of the strength of the Qi army - the combat effectiveness of the Qi army is reflected in the fact that they have the best weapons and equipment, and they have the best weapons of war.

But you let those Qi soldiers take off their weapons and equipment and fight alone with the equally defenseless Wei infantry?

One fights three, and the infantry of Wei will say that it is extremely easy.

For example, the scene that appeared in front of Zhao Hongrun's eyes at this moment.

He found more than once that within the range of an arrow, the Chu army on the city wall on the west side of Su County could not shoot through the armor of the Lang evil soldiers with a bow and arrow, and this discovery made Zhao Hongrun finally realize that the armor of those Qi soldiers was not just light.

The armor of the Qi army is light and strong.

This made Zhao Hongrun very curious about the material of those armors, and he couldn't wait to step forward at this moment to ask Qi Jun for a set of armor and study it carefully.

Is it material? Or is it a relationship of design?

Zhao Hongrun frowned and pondered.

Out of curiosity, Zhao Hongrun drove his mount slowly close to the main formation of the Lang Evil Army, and carefully observed the armor of the Qi soldiers while the latter's generals frowned and watched.

After observing for a while, Zhao Hongrun finally saw the clue.

In his opinion, the armor of the Wei State, including the Chu State and Korea that he knew, was commonly used in the armor.

The so-called armor is a set of leather armor made of hard leather such as cowhide, called inner armor, and on this basis, large pieces of iron protection are sewn and inlaid with it.

For example, the cuirass, dorsal armor, arm armor, etc., these additional small pieces of iron armor will be fixed to the inner armor, so that the generals wearing this type of armor can ensure the minimum mobility and maximize the defensive ability, especially the vital parts.

The armor used by the Qi army, although it also belongs to the category of armor, is different - they no longer fix the whole piece of iron to the inner armor, but use a piece of small iron about three knuckles long and two knuckles wide to fix on the inner armor one by one, which is already a partially scaled armor.

Is the scale armor stronger than the usual armor?

Truly!

Because the armor of the scale armor has a slight arc, unless it is shot head-on by an arrow, or if the force of such an arrow is strong and penetrating, otherwise, when an ordinary arrow hits this kind of arc armor, it will offset the angle, so that the arrow will "pass by" the owner of the armor.

Of course, although arrows are used as an example here, in fact, scale armor has extremely strong protection against any ranged and melee weapon, which will cause the enemy's attack to be "offset", thus improving the defense capability in disguise.

The only drawback is that the production process of this type of armor is quite complicated, and it takes almost ten times more manpower than ordinary armor.

Of course, this is only an advantage in the design of the armor, as for the material of the armor of Qi ****, Zhao Hongrun doesn't look like an ordinary iron material.

Because ordinary iron is actually very brittle, so that at a distance of one arrow, ordinary bows can easily shoot through iron sheets, and like the three-stone bow used by some powerful generals, it can even wear iron armor (plane armor) with a thickness of half a knuckle at medium and close distances.

And the armor on those Qi soldiers, Zhao Hongrun didn't look like it was more than half a knuckle, but these armors not only "deflected" the bows and arrows of the Chu army in Suxian County, but even the crossbow arrows shot by the hand crossbow were deflected.

That's definitely not iron! …… Is it steel?

Zhao Hongrun's heart shrank slightly.

In fact, the most accurate name of the so-called steel should be alloy, that is, other metals are mixed into the iron during the smelting period, so the corresponding accurate name is different according to the different proportions of each metal.

But no matter what, the armor on those Qi troops brought the same message to Zhao Hongrun: Qi State, no, Lu State, may have more advanced iron-smelting (steel-making) technology than his Wei State!

“……”

Zhao Hongrun's face was a little ugly.

After all, out of selfishness, he definitely didn't want to see any country other than him Wei with excellent smelting technology, and it was best for every country to be like the Chu State, clinging to the bronze smelting technology, which was destined to be eliminated.

But unfortunately, the country of Lu, which is known as the country of craftsmen, seems to have been studying smelting technology for a long time, and looking at it like this, it seems that it has reached the point of smelting alloys, and it is even very likely to be ahead of him Wei State.

Isn't that good......

Zhao Hongrun secretly said in his heart that it was not good.

Because from the perspective of the general trend, the State of Qi is about to end the era of her domination of the Central Plains, and once the State of Qi loses power, the State of Lu, which is attached to the State of Qi, will inevitably be coveted by the State of Chu and South Korea, after all, the State of Lu itself is not strong, if it loses the financial support of the State of Qi, even if the State of Lu has or can be called the world's first technology, how can it stop the armies of South Korea and the State of Chu?

It seems that before the Qi State loses power, I have to have a good talk with the lord of the Lu State......

Zhao Hongrun said secretly.

And at this moment, Zong Wei Chang Wei Jiao called in a low voice: "Your Highness, Tian Tan is here." ”

"Huh?"

Zhao Hongrun raised his head in surprise, and happened to see Tian Tan, who had met once in the capital of the Wei king, and was slowly coming towards him with dozens of horsemen and guards.

Yo, it's not good!

Looking at Tian Tan's expressionless face who was still in the distance, Zhao Hongrun laughed. (To be continued.) )