Qin and Wei went to war, and judging from the signs that Qin envoy Gan Xu left the Wei king's capital Daliang on the day Zhao Hongrun rejected them, it seemed to be a sure thing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In Zhao Hongrun's view, the Qin envoy's visit to his Wei State was purely to find a reason to declare war.

Because no country's envoy opens his mouth to ask the other party to give up the land equivalent to half the size of Longxi, you must know that this half of the land the size of Longxi is almost the entire territory of a patriotic country.

How does Zhao Hongrun think that the Qin envoy named Gan Xu doesn't look like he's mentally retarded, otherwise, how could he become a retainer of the Qin State's Zuoshu Changwei Marting? How can he be ranked as the Zhongqing of the Qin Palace?

It seems that this kind of thing can be seen through by Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhao Sheng, Wei Tianzi, and Zhao Hongrun.

The Qin State wants to continue to expand!

They need justifiable reasons to declare war on the Wei State!

They crave war!

Because without war, the Qin State may collapse!

This is no longer a war caused by whether it is evil or not, and the fundamental reason is that the Qin State is in a special period.

Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!

With the order of Zhao Hongrun, the General Administration of Metallurgy and the Military Casting Bureau operated frantically, rushing to cast the equipment of the merchant naval army and the Yanling army day and night, and the war weapons such as repeating crossbows and sniper crossbows have also accelerated the research and development and improvement, and the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau strive to come up with the most advanced war weapons when the Qin and Wei wars are fighting.

At the same time, the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army also stopped the pleasure of hunting wolves and invested in high-intensity training.

After all, the soldiers of the Qin State that they might face in the near future would definitely be the most fearless enemy they had ever encountered!

During this time, Zhao Hongrun stayed in his study in the palace of King Su and asked Wei Ji, the king of Lintao, about the situation of the Qin army.

Speaking of this Lintao Jun Wei Ji, Zhao Hongrun really didn't know what to say about this person.

Because a few days ago, that is, on the day when the talks with Qin envoy Gan Xu collapsed, Zhao Sheng, the emperor of the Xuan, knew that a war between Wei and Qin was inevitable, so he sent his family to the north of Xinjiang that night to tell Wei Ji, the king of Lintao, who had led troops to settle in the Yanghu area of Hedong County, about this matter.

When Wei Ji heard about this, he was very excited, and he immediately went to the Vertical Arch Palace, resigned from the post of general of the Northern Third Army, and let the deputy general Jiang Yan replace him, and came to assist Zhao Hongrun day and night.

So much so that when Zhao Hongrun saw Lintaojun Wei Ji breaking into his Su Palace, he was dumbfounded.

He never thought that Lintaojun Wei Ji, who was almost forty years old, would act so impulsively.

You must know that now in the Wei State, not Longxi, according to the wanton behavior of Wei Ji, the king of Lintao, if he is accused of escaping from the battle, he will be executed.

So, at that time, Zhao Hongrun didn't say a word, and immediately sent the sect guard Changwei Jiao to explain the matter to the Vertical Arch Palace, and pleaded for Lintao Jun Wei Ji.

Fortunately, Wei Tianzi is a Ming monarch, and he can guess why Lin Taojun Wei Ji did such a thing, plus Zhao Hongrun will intercede with the latter, so he did not pursue it, but just asked the Ministry of War to send a notice, saying that Lintao Jun Wei Ji contracted a disease on the way to the north of Xinjiang, and could not command the army, so he could only return to Daliang to recuperate, and as for the post of general of the Northern Third Army, he was succeeded by Jiang Wei.

Although because of Zhao Hongrun's relationship, Lintaojun Wei Ji was not punished, but his approach really made Zhao Hongrun incomprehensible.

You must know that the Northern Third Army was formed by the 12 private armies of the Wei clan in Longxi, and most of them were soldiers of the Lintao Wei clan and the Tianshui Wei clan, so Wei Fu of the Tianshui Wei clan proposed that Wei Ji, the king of Lintao, should serve as the general, and Jiang Cong, a retainer of the Tianshui Wei clan, should serve as the deputy general.

But now that Lintaojun Wei Ji has resigned on his own, it is like sending the Northern Third Army to the Tianshui Wei family, and replacing him with Zhao Hongrun, he will definitely not be able to do such a generous thing.

However, it can be seen from this that Lintao Jun Wei Ji's obsession with defeating the Qin State and recapturing Longxi is so strong.

After returning to Daliang, Wei Ji, the Lintao monarch who pretended to be injured, quietly moved to the Xiyuan wing of King Su's mansion to discuss with Zhao Hongrun how to defeat the Qin army.

In addition to his own thoughts, Lintaojun Wei Ji still brought back two retainers, one is called Mao Bo and the other is called Xue Zhi, both of whom were Lintaojun Wei Ji's confidants and favorite generals when he was in Longxi.

So, today, the four of them, plus the head of the sect guard, Wei Jiao, drilled into the study to study the tactics of defeating the Qin army.

Of course, before studying tactics, Lintao Jun Wei Ji naturally wanted to introduce Zhao Hongrun to the general situation of the Qin army.

In fact, like the Iron Eagle Army and the Black Mask Army of the Qin State, Zhao Sheng, the Emperor of the Emperor, told Zhao Hongrun about it a while ago, but the overview of the Qin Army that Zhao Sheng understood was not as detailed as that of Wei Ji, the Emperor of Lintao.

After all, Lintao Jun Wei Ji and Jiang Cong were generals who personally led troops to fight the Qin army on the front line.

According to Wei Ji, the king of Lintao, the regular army of Qin was mainly composed of Ge shield soldiers, that is, infantry with shields in their left hands and Changge in their right hands.

When telling, Lintao Jun Wei Ji also drew a picture of Ge Dunbing, although the painting is not good, but you can probably see a few clues.

Through observation, Zhao Hongrun found that the shield of Qin Guoge's shield soldier was the same as the shield of his Wei army, but at least it was larger, and the soldier placed the shield vertically on the ground, and the height of the shield was actually up to the shoulder of the soldier.

At first, Zhao Hongrun thought it was Lintaojun Wei Ji's painting problem, but after asking, he realized that this was indeed the case.

It's incredible!

With such a large shield, the weight can be imagined, coupled with the heavy armor, could it be that the people of the Qin State are all strong men?

Later, after the explanation of Lintao Jun Wei Ji, Zhao Hongrun knew that it turned out that although this shield was a heavy bronze shield, the armor on the shield soldiers of Qin Guoge was very light, and most of them were leather armor made of cowhide.

Therefore, in general, the weight of the shield soldiers of the Qin State will not be much higher than that of the sword and shield soldiers of the Wei State.

In addition, the Qin people were generally tall and strong, so the use of such heavy bronze shields would not affect the strength of the soldiers on the battlefield.

What's more, Qin's Ge shield soldiers generally use the tactics of step-by-step advancement, squeezing the enemy's space on the battlefield by pushing forward, disrupting the enemy's formation, and will not charge like Wei's sword and shield soldiers - that is the responsibility of Qin's Chang Ge soldiers.

"Can't a crossbow shoot through such a bronze shield?" Zhao Hongrun asked Lintaojun Wei Jidao.

Lintao Jun Wei Ji shook his head, and explained while gesturing: "The Ge shield soldiers of the Qin State have a set of tactics for dealing with the far bow...... A phalanx of about ten people, with two shields in each of the four directions, and two shields on their heads, was unscathed even if ten thousand arrows were fired in a volley. …… As for the crossbow, we tried, but could not shoot through the shield of the Qin army. ”

"That's your crossbow." Zhao Hongrun took the picture and looked at it twice, and then discarded it on the table.

In his opinion, if the army of the Qin State dared to use such a slow-advancing tactic against his Wei army, it would be purely seeking death.

You must know that the crossbow of the Wei State Metallurgical Bureau can penetrate even the military-made iron shield forged by the country two years ago, and it is not a problem to shoot through the bronze shield of the Qin State.

What's more, the range of the repeater, although it belongs to the middle distance in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, is one or two hundred zhang, according to the snail-like advance tactics of Qin Guoge's shield soldiers, I am afraid that before he got close to the repeater, he would have been shot to death.

"Let's count this as heavy infantry...... What else? ”

"In addition, the main army of the Qin State is also Changge soldiers, crossbow soldiers, and charioteers." Lintaojun Wei Ji said.

Chang Gebing has nothing to explain, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, it is purely cannon fodder in the regular army of Qin, as for the crossbowmen, he is not afraid, after all, the range of the Qin crossbow may not be as far as the Wei crossbow, plus the armor design of the Wei soldiers has a certain avoidance of flying arrows, unless it is very close, or simply shoots the vital point, otherwise, it is difficult for the crossbowmen of the Qin State to pose any threat to the Wei soldiers.

In contrast, it is still the fleet that poses a greater threat.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun asked, "What tactics does the Qin State's chariot team generally use?" Taken into service alone, or in conjunction with the infantry? ”

"Generally, they will cooperate with the actions of the Ge Dun soldiers, and only when they are chasing while they are victorious, they will act alone." Lintaojun Wei Ji explained.

…… The most troublesome situation.

Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.

It is undeniable that Zhao Hongrun does despise the chariot, after all, in his opinion, the chariot has long been eliminated by history, but he will not underestimate the power of the chariot because of this.

In the final analysis, the chariot was eliminated by the cavalry, not in terms of tactical use, but at the strategic level - the chariot carrying many people was destined to be far inferior to the cavalry, so it was easy to be beaten by experienced light cavalry.

But if you fight the frontal battlefield, you let the cavalry with a similar strength fight with the convoy? Two crossbowmen in a chariot can't shoot an oncoming light cavalry?

What's more, the combat convoy is more lethal to the infantry, and the largest number of the Wei army is the infantry.

If it was just a chariot team acting alone, Zhao Hongrun was not worried, and the northern Sichuan cavalry could casually beat the other party.

But if the Qin State's chariot team moves together with the infantry, it will be more troublesome, after all, the northern Sichuan cavalry is not used to harden the enemy's mixed army, and the losses caused by that Zhao Hongrun cannot accept it, even if the northern Sichuan cavalry is an alien cavalry.

You have to find a way to restrain Qin's infantry fighting vehicle combination......

Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself, and then asked: "There is no need to introduce the Iron Eagle Army and the Black Mask Army, Lord Zhao Sheng has already told this king, in addition, is there any army worth paying attention to in the Qin State?" ”

Hearing this, Lintao Jun Wei Ji nodded and said, "Yes, cavalry." ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a while when he heard this, and asked Lintao Jun Wei Ji a little incredulously: "Cavalry? ”

"Yes, cavalry." Lintao Jun Wei Ji nodded and said, "The guard of the Qin State has formed a cavalry. ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, and then his eyes showed a little solemnity.

He suddenly realized that the left of the Qin State, the chief Wei Ying, was originally from the Wei people, which meant that the other party was very likely to follow the Korean cavalry and create a cavalry for the Qin State.

At the same time, it also means that the Qin State with Wei Ying is not necessarily as backward as he imagined. (To be continued.) )