The military system is always combined with the political system. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the army was good at fighting, that was because there was a township system, the villagers were the countrymen, and each family needed one person to join the army, so people were not allowed to join the army, but could only be transported. During the Warring States Period, all countries organized households and people, especially the Three Jin Dynasty, and the township system was replaced by a stricter Fu nationality system.

Chu State also has a Fu nationality system, but unfortunately this Fu nationality system is not written at all, and the most important thing is that the grassroots mobilization capacity is insufficient. Even though there were so many people on the county register, it was not possible to recruit so many people. For more than 200 years, the largest mobilization of the Chu State was the Battle of Lantian during the reign of King Huai of Chu, and even then, the number of people on the expedition was less than 300,000, and most of them were more than 100,000 or 200,000 in peacetime, and never exceeded 250,000.

The land is far away, scattered and unrealistic, and the existing symptoms of the Chu State reserves, and the lax armament and sparse but not refined are the stubborn diseases of the Chu State reserves. The Fu nationality system is a top-down system, and the Chaoguo system is a bottom-up system.

500 households are one party, one party and one country, and each party has four pawns, auxiliaries, deputy members, and more than four pawns. It is impossible for the deputy and remaining pawns to go out to fight, and only the main and auxiliary pawns are fighting. There are more than 460,000 households in the country, which can be divided into 920 parties, and the standard establishment of officers and riders in each pawn company is 320 people, and there are 294,400 regular soldiers.

In the last war, for example, the ratio of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers was about 3.5:1, which was the ratio of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in internal operations. If it is an external battle, with land transportation as the mainstay, then the proportion of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers will be immediately reduced. In order to reduce the number of auxiliary soldiers and increase the number of war soldiers, Chu must build railways, even if it is a horse-drawn railway or a people-drawn railway, it must try to make the number of war soldiers exceed 450,000, and the ratio of war soldiers and auxiliary soldiers must be controlled at 5:1.

There are 920 parties in the country, each party has four pawns, and almost all the whole party is a soldier, and in order to do this, it is necessary to rely on the countrymen selected by each party, and this will also be his political capital -- the four parties are one brigade, the four brigades are one division, and the four divisions are one army, and there are 230 brigades, 57 divisions, and 14 armies in the country.

Under the politics of the First Army, the officers were political officials, and after more than ten years, the existing administrative officials of the Chu State would inevitably be replaced by the officer corps. With this general trend, officials and aristocrats who cannot be quickly transformed into officers will lose their power and become marginalized. Although the Chu people account for the vast majority of these people, if they are given better conditions and spend more money, if the Chu people still do not succeed, Xiong Jing can only eliminate them mercilessly.

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The building ship is tall, but its bottom is not a curved rib horizontally on the keel, forming a U-shaped or V-shaped bottom, it is two vertical and one horizontal, the two sides of the ship and the bottom plate clamp out of a hull, the floor ship is nine meters wide, and the bottom plate is also eight meters or nine meters wide.

With today's technology, the connection between the plates is all by iron turns, not nails. The iron turn is to make two holes in each of the two planks, pierce three or four lanes with iron sheets, plug the seams with wood chips, and finally seal them with liquid lead. The iron turns seem to be strong, but the quality of the iron turns varies, because they are fixed rather than nailed, and there are no hemp rope tung oil plug seams, and the boat has been leaking continuously since it was launched.

Even so, Yun He and many boat masters and shippers also thought that if they collided, Chu Zhou would be defeated. There is no other reason, just because the volume of the building boat is twice that of Chu Zhou. With a big collision with a small one, even if the building boat will break, Chu Zhou will also destroy the boat and kill people. With this in mind, the shipkeeper did not shout to the crossbowman to release the arrow, and the two sides slammed straight together.

'Boom! Bang——! At the moment of impact, the red mob standing on the deck of the big wing heard only these two sounds, and then the stern of the boat quickly lifted, and the keel let out a chilling rattle. Because the speed was zero in an instant, the drummers with the momentum of rushing forward, and some armor soldiers who did not stand firm were all thrown into the water.

"How's the boat? How is the boat? The stern of the boat was still hanging in the air, and the red man asked about the hull of the boat, and his greatest fear was that the hull would not be able to withstand such a violent impact, and would break in two like those sudden assaults.

"Unharmed, unharmed." The captain who entered the hand cabin below deck reported loudly that he had gone into the bilge to observe the damage. Although the stern of the big wing warboat was cocked, the whole boat was not broken and broken, and the 'bang' sound was made when the big wing hit the corner and broke the board of the ship. When the boatman answered, the cocked stern finally fell. With a 'pop', the water splashed in all directions, splashing several feet high.

"Hit the boat! Hit the boat! Not to mention the common people next to him, even the King of Wei jumped and shouted. The water splashed in all directions, and the big wings of the Chu master and the building boat of the Qin people slammed together, but the result was not real. He could only ask Yang Wenjun, who was holding the landing mirror: "Who sank?" Who sank? ”

Eight big wings collided with four building ships, and it was the first time for Yang Wenjun to see such a desperate fight, so he naturally hoped that Chu Zhou would not sink. After the splash, the big wings in the rain of Qin people's arrows were slowly retreating, and the Qin people on the boat were running wildly. He unconsciously sighed: "Qin Zhou is sinking, Qin Zhou is sinking!" ”

"Yang Qing ......" King Wei couldn't see that he was in a hurry, he didn't care about any etiquette anymore, snatched Lu Lijing from Yang Wenjun's hand and looked up. Under the circular horizon, the Qin Shilou ship with the flag had tilted slightly, and a hole was exposed in the water. When he was about to say that the building ship had been destroyed, Zhou Ying suddenly entered the field of vision, which was Chu Zhou's second impact. After this blow, the side of the ship was no longer a hole, and the entire side of the ship was broken by Chu Zhou.

"It's sinking, it's really sinking." Wei Zeng reluctantly returned Lu Lijing to Yang Wenjun, and pointed at the river with his eyes in surprise.

"Ahem...... Qin made Yao Jia cough, "Jing people are just lucky, my Qin division has sixteen ships, is Jing people finished?" ”

"Yes, yes." Xiangbang Ziji said with a smile: "The Qin division has sixteen building ships, and the Chu division has not seen the building ships, and the Qin division won this battle." ”

"Since Qin Shisheng is the victory, why are they all applauding for Jing people?" All around were the cheers and cheers of the Wei people, and some people with fierce temperaments shouted and scolded, 'It's good to kill, it's good to kill.' ’

Yao Jia is a Wei person and knows the Wei people's hatred for the Qin people, but as a Qin envoy, he naturally doesn't want to hear this kind of shout, which is detrimental to the majesty of Great Qin. In this battle, Daqin is coming for Liwei, and the king wants to tell the world: For Daqin, not only the land division is invincible in the world, but also the water division, and he is also invincible in the world.

"This is disrespectful to my Great Qin, and when I return to Xianyang in the future, I will make it clear to the widow. The widow monarch is convinced of the king, and he also wants to befriend the Wei state, but if he learns that all the Wei people are cheering for the Jing people today......" Yao Jia stared at Wei Zeng and began to threaten.

"This ......" Wei Zeng himself wanted to cheer for the Chu people, because he took care of Yao Jia, he had to hold back, and now that Yao Jia was asking for the guilt, he looked at Xiangbang while scolding in his heart.

"The minister asked Master Wei to cheer for Master Qin, what does the envoy of Qin think?" The mouth of the people is more important than the mouth of the people, even if it is the Sanjin, they do not dare to block the mouth of the people and offend the people because of their words. Zi Ji could only suggest that Wei Shi help Qin Shi cheer, which could be regarded as giving Qin people face.

"Humph! I'm ...... Daqin" Yao Jia only opened his head, and the Wei people on the side broke out into cheers again.

"The Qin people are sinking! The Qin people are sinking! "The ship with the flag was hit four times, and as soon as the bottom leaked, the tall hull capsized immediately, and the whole building slapped on the water, causing a large splash. But this did not delay its life, and the whole building ship quickly sank, and the Wei people on the shore were excited.

The building ship where the main general was located sank, and the Qin division, who did not have a sound command system, suddenly fought in disorder, and the hook and sickle on the big wing instinctively wanted to hook Chu Zhou for a broadside battle, but unfortunately, Chu Zhou was as flexible as a loach, and he couldn't hook it, even if he hooked it by chance, the hook and sickle made of copper would be cut off by the Chu people.

The ditch was wide, and the twenty Chu boats were like sharks biting their prey, constantly hitting Qin Zhou, and Qin Zhou had no other way to attack except to release arrows. An arrow may not be able to kill a person, but every time it hits a Qin boat, the boat is destroyed and killed. Chu Zhou kept moving forward, and the big wings behind him that did not collide with the horns followed closely, even if the Qin pawn who fell into the water did not drown, he would be stabbed to death by the Chu pawn on the Chu Zhou behind.

The ten-mile ditch was in shambles, and every time the armor soldiers on the Chu boat poked out a spear, a terrible scream of the Qin people would be heard on the water; And every time the Qin people screamed, the Wei people on the shore would cheer loudly. They were already crazy, so crazy that even if the Qin people who knew how to swim up to the ditch bank, they would be driven into the water by them, and then watched these water dogs being stabbed to death by the Chu people with a spear.

Qin Shizhou saw that he was invincible, so he could only retreat, but they couldn't compare to Chu Zhou's big wings, especially those bulky building boats, they couldn't go fast at all if they went against the current. Chu Zhou rushed over, and as soon as he collided, the hull of the ship immediately broke and sank. In terms of drums, shouts, screams, and cheers, the battle has been reduced to a murderous performance, and the ten-mile ditch is either a half-sunken Qin Zhou, or a Qin master and soldier who were stabbed to death by the Chu people.

The ditch water had been stained red by Qin Jia's blood, and Yao Jia's eyes were also red. He was on the shore and would not be stabbed to death by the spears of the Chu people on the big wings, but he was worried that the King of Qin would be angry with him because of this, after all, the Qin master would be destroyed in front of his eyes.

"The minister asked the king to send troops to rescue Qin Shi." Yao Jia walked up to Wei Zeng and took a deep look.

"Qin envoy, why is this?" Yang Wenjun reprimanded. "You and I have announced to the world that each has a hundred boats to fight in Daliang, and the Qin division is upstream. Now that he is going to be defeated, he wants Wei to send troops to help? ”

"Qin and Wei are one, if the Qin people are defeated, the Wei people are defeated, and the king should save Qin." Yao Jia didn't care about Yang Wenjun, his eyes stared at Wei Zeng. "To save the king or not to save it?"

"Widowed ......" Hundreds of thousands of Wei people watched, Qin and Chu's gambling contract was known to the world, and sending troops in this situation would definitely lose the hearts of the people. Wei Zeng's face was bitter, and he had to ask Xiang Yang Wenjun: "Yangqing, can you ask your country's boat master to let the Qin people return?" ”

"Tell the king, our boat division only obeys the orders of the widow, and the ministers have no right to go north with the enemy." Yang Wenjun said. "In this battle, Chu and Qin have already agreed that they are willing to gamble and lose, why should the king save him?"

"Widowed, widowed......" Wei Zeng's expression was even more bitter, he didn't save the Qin people today, he was angry with the king of Qin every day, and the Wei people would have millions of corpses.