After a journey of more than ten days, the cub and his group finally arrived at the Lantian camp, and unlike what they thought, their fellow villagers were not with him, and the old man also entered another camp, and he was treated much better than him as a recruit.

He entered the camp like a flock of ducks being driven, and the officers in black armor only admonished them what they could and did not do, and he was assigned to a dilapidated mud tile house, which contained four young men like him who had just come out of the village, and also an old looking veteran, who had come to tell them what they should do and what they should not do.

For example, the food in Lantian Daying is not very good, only simple wild vegetable soup and coarse bread mixed with bran, coarse bread is not enough to eat, only three a day, this bread is relatively large, but it is relatively black and yellow, it seems that there is a lot of bran mixed in it.

However, in those public servants, they can eat meat for a week, and then a few levels, they will have the treatment of eating meat every day, such a life is unimaginable for a cub, a person who is used to living a poor life, he once thought that those high-ranking officials and nobles have a good life to eat endless fine flour cakes every day, and there is such a thing as meat.

Every day after the morning training, there will be peasant women and farmers from the neighbors who pick up their own food and sell it here, which has white greasy fine flour cakes and meaty broth. Some Jiashi with a slightly more spacious family background will go to satisfy their hunger, these foods may not seem expensive, but whose family lives is a restaurant every day, even if there are mountains of gold and silver, they can't afford it. The cub touched the big money in his pocket, went to buy a thin noodle cake, and drank a bowl of broth.

After a few days of admonition from the veteran, because of luck, the cub was assigned to the crossbowmen, a team that did not have to go to the front line to fight, but the cub was very disappointed, because in this way he would not complete his "goal" and become a public soldier. But it wasn't until the veteran told him that the crossbowmen would be able to get a group of heads after the war, that he was glad about what had happened to him.

Every morning, when the sky was still bright, they were driven to the school yard by the sound of drumming, and touched the crossbow that was distributed to them, which was full of their own arm's length, and there was a small semi-arc-shaped piece of wood on the black and shiny crossbow, and the cubs knew that as long as they touched this hard, they would shoot the arrows, and according to the senior ones who were one level higher than the old man, this was the 'hanging knife', and there was a bamboo-like thing in the back to prevent the hanging knife from being touched by mistake, this is ' Off', they are training in this morning how to fire arrows and how to listen to commands.

"The crossbowman is angry and his voice is as powerful as anger, so he is named his crossbow." The Qin crossbow is derived from the bow. It is far more powerful than the bow. In the Qin Dynasty, Qin crossbows were made as sophisticated as automatic rifles today. It can be fired with a delay and can also be aimed accurately, unlike bows that rely only on arm strength to pull the string. The Qin crossbow is basically a stretched bow, that is, the bow is stepped on, the arm is pulled and dragged by the waist, and the whole body is wound, so the firing speed of the trumpet is far inferior to the bow. But the arrows fired are extremely powerful. The flight speed is several times faster than that of the bow. Therefore, when the crossbow machine is fired, the arrow pierces the air, and the bowstring rebounds and rubs violently against the air, making a sharp whistling sound.

The Qin crossbow was made by the unified supervision of the Qin State, the bow stem is flat and round, generally 130~145 cm long, made of mulberry wood, but it is not the so-called monomass bow. Because the entire bow stem is tied with a dense strip of leather. This not only enhances the structural strength of the bow stem, but also the toughness of the leather strip is excellent, the elasticity is strong, and more energy can be accumulated.

Western Roman ballistae also used the twisting force of animal tendons to ricochet crossbow arrows. But it's too bulky. Generally only used for siege, which is very similar to the Yuan Dynasty Hui Hui cannon, Hui Hui cannon is the Persians passed to the Mongols, when the Mongols attack Xiangyang, Hui Hui cannon is a sharp weapon to break through Xiangyang, when attacking Europe, Hui Hui cannon is the magic weapon to defeat the enemy, but Hui Hui cannon is more like a trebuchet, far less than Qin crossbow miniaturization, individual soldiers.

Moreover, the world's leading Chinese lacquerware manufacturing technology also makes the Qin crossbow shine. It is very different from the simple bow and arrow of the four yi. The surface of the Qin crossbow is coated with brown lacquer, and the bow arm in the middle of the dry is coated with vermilion lacquer. In this way, it is not only powerful and beautiful, but also waterproof and mildew-proof, and the two materials are truly integrated after the wood and leather strips are impregnated with paint. The elasticity is greatly increased, and the power is not reduced even on rainy days.

The wooden arm of the Qin crossbow is generally 60~75 cm long and 4~5 cm wide. There is a closure at the front end of the wooden arm. The upper lip is short and the lower lip is long, just in place to embed the bow. Then tie with a strip of leather. Tie it back to the ears on both sides of the wooden arm. In this way, the bow is close to the arm. The reaction force and vibration of the bow and the arrow cannot be loosened. The crossbow arm has a concave arrow path, which can hold the arrow and increase the surface contact area with the arrow, increasing the firing resistance. However, the arrow path can effectively fix the position of the arrow cluster on the crossbow arm, improve the accuracy, and prevent the firing failure caused by the venting string. So a little bit of added resistance doesn't matter. Moreover, the arrow path is generally finely polished, which appears unusually smooth, and it is also painted and waxed to reduce the friction between the arrow and the arrow path when firing.

In the rear of the crossbow arm was equipped with a firing sighting device, a set of components made of bronze precision casting. It is composed of a lookout mountain, a hanging knife, and a cow.

Lookout is an aiming device. However, in the Qin Dynasty, there was no scale on it, and it was generally 7.5~8.5 cm high; The suspension knife is also the modern trigger. Generally 9.5~10.5 cm long; Cows are the most elaborate objects of design. The tooth is connected to the hanging knife, but does not directly bear the force, but is pivoted by the ox. When winding, the crossbowman pulls the string against the Wangshan, the Wangshan moves back, and the ox resets after the teeth are in position. The ox bears the tooth force on the top, and the hanging knife is against the knife, and the bow and crossbow enter the state of preparation. If the crossbow is fired, the process is exactly the opposite of winding. The crossbow wrenched the hanging knife, and the ox sank even more as soon as it was loosened. The teeth had no support, and the force sank, and the bowstring flew away with arrows. This sophisticated design greatly improves the reliability of projection, greatly reduces the false firing rate, and reduces the vibration during firing, which can greatly improve the shooting hit rate.

There are three most user-friendly designs on the Qin crossbow machine:

1. Use bamboo pieces to make a ring around the hanging knife to prevent accidental contact with the hanging knife and hurt people. This also reflects from the side that the Qin crossbow has a complete standard formation and strict shooting process when shooting.

2. Grooves are made on both sides of the lower end of the wooden arm to facilitate hand-held finger picking, which is reminiscent of the various grip designs of modern firearms. The fine design from this detail also reflects the Qin people's pursuit of accurate shooting. Increase the working hours of the groove to make the hand strong, the hand is strong, the crossbow is stable, and the crossbow is stable to shoot accurately.

3. The size standards of the parts of the crossbow machine are unified across the country and can be interchanged, and there is a preliminary concept of standardization and generalization. Qin arrows are all composed of arrowheads, qi (arrow shafts), feathers and 栝 (small forks at the end of arrows). The arrowhead is made of bronze, and the head of the axle is generally a triangular pyramid, which has been proved to have the best stability and penetration. Just like the current three-edged spear thorn, there are two types of arrows: bamboo and wood. The collar is inserted into the thin bamboo, wrapped around the filament rope, and then the surface is painted, generally 70% of the front section is vermilion, and the back section is painted with brown lacquer. The two ends of the arrow are sharp, and the sharp fork is generally 1 cm deep, which is used to stabilize the arrow on the string, and the complete arrow is 68.72 cm long.

"Put!" Kamizo shouted.

The cubs watched the people around them half-squat, holding the Qin crossbow in their hands against their chests, not squinting, he also did the same, and raised the crossbow machine up about forty-five degrees with the people around him.

Only a few swishing sounds were heard, and hundreds of crossbow arrows were fired into the sky, and the dense salvo of crossbow arrows that looked like locusts crossing the country landed on the plank not far away.

"Good!" Kamizo shouted happily.

After hearing this, the cub also had a faint joy in his heart, and he couldn't put it down and touched the smooth lacquer, which was a guarantee for him to earn the title, but this was just the beginning, in the next ten days. They not only have to train the angle and accuracy of the launch, but also have to understand all kinds of flags, which flag to put the crossbow machine at what angle, but also to understand what is the attack and what is the retreat order.

"Wind! Wind! Wind! Qin Jun shouted with all his might.

The cub was in the middle of a group of people, with chariot soldiers on the left and right, spearmen with spearmen holding spears two feet long (about 6.6 meters) in front, and a fighting battalion with swords in the middle.

In 1974, a large number of weapons were found in the terracotta pit of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which gave people a glimpse of a little-known side of the Qin army. A 6.3m long spear handle remains, plus the spear head, the entire spear is close to 7m. An assassination weapon of this length is very difficult to level, how did the Qin army use it to fight? If it is used for individual combat, a 7m spear cannot be fought freely at all. However, in ancient Greece, Alexander's army was famous for having 7.2m spears, and the phalanx of spears once made them invincible. Experts speculate that there should have been a similar phalanx of spears among the Qin infantry, and the power of the spears lay in the strength of the collective.

In the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit, archaeologists also found two other long-handled assassination weapons, halberds (jǐ?) and beryllium (pī?). The length of the halberd is about 2.8m, and it is actually equipped with a spearhead in front of the ge, which can be hooked and slashed, or stabbed straight. Unlike spearmen, halberd-wielding soldiers can fight alone, and for them, mastering the art of free fighting and using their individual talents is crucial. Beryllium resembles a short sword inserted into a long pole, with a length of about 3.5 meters between a halberd and a spear, and it is likely that a soldier holding a beryllium will also rely on some formation to attack the opponent.

From the point of view of different killing distances, there is a professional division of labor between the length of the spear, beryllium and halberd, and they can protect each other. According to speculation, in the infantry phalanx of the Qin army, the spearmen played the role of repelling the enemy, using the advantage of length to kill and wound the enemy, and resisting the chariots, the main assault force at that time; The beryllium hand is behind the spearman, and when the spearman's formation is disrupted, he uses his strong thrust ability to push the incoming enemy out with a small assault formation; When the Phalanx is in a melee, the halberdier joins the battle as a single soldier to clear out the enemy in the array.

As for the Macedonian phalanx used in Alexander's Eastern Expedition, it is not absent in the Qin army, but the Qin army pays more attention to the alternating long and short battles, and the effective range of the Qin crossbow of the Qin army is three hundred meters long, and this distance can shoot through the Macedonian phalanx.

At the time of Alexander's crusade, how many Macedonian troops were there? 33,000 people, these people are all with a certain military literacy, so the advance and retreat are orderly, but in the Warring States Period, the orderly advance and retreat have long been deeply imprinted in the bones of these samurai in the hundreds of years of fighting and tempering, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period 500 years, is 500 years of fighting history, self-proclaimed Chinese soldiers, each of their families has a good military literacy, which is also the reason why only Chinese soldiers are recruited in the Spring and Autumn Period.

But in the Warring States Period, these have long been abandoned, and these things in Macedonia are all leftovers from the vassal states, so the Macedonian phalanx is to find death in the Warring States Period, and a wave of crossbow arrows is a kebab.

In the Warring States Period, the way of fighting came and went without Sun Bin Ten Formations, these formations were used in all vassal states, and in ancient wars, Sun Bin Ten Formations was the basic common sense necessary for a general.

In "Sun Bin Art of War", it is said that there are ten formations: there are square arrays, circular arrays, sparse arrays, several arrays, cone arrays, geese arrays, hook arrays, Xuanxiang arrays, fire arrays, and water arrays.

The phalanx is an ordinary frontal charging formation, paying attention to multi-arms cooperation, and the circle formation is a kind of defensive formation, in the TV series Xue Rengui, the magical Longmen Array is basically based on the circle array, with the changes of Tiangang and Earth, in the gossip as the overall plan, as for the sparse array, the number of arrays can be known from the literal meaning, the former is intensive, and the latter is concentrated. The cone-shaped formation is similar to an awl of charging troops, which is usually seen in cavalry combat, and the Yanmen formation is to roll over a wild goose, pay attention to superior forces, and gradually surround the enemy during the battle.

These methods of warfare are commonly used formations, as long as you are familiar with these kinds of formations, it is more than enough to be a general in ancient times, which is also the "Zheng" of the ancient Art of War, the way of the Art of War, "Qi" is similar to the 36 strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War, or the fire bull array used by Tiandan Dapo Yan Army.

The cub also listened to the teachings of his commander, and learned over and over again the military common sense that was not very clever, but he had to practice it over and over again, what to do when he was in the army, and what to do.

ps: The author thought about it for several days, but he didn't know how to express the war, so he could only use the knowledge of the Qin army, a cub, to gradually narrate the war, which is also the best way to understand the Qin army and even the combat methods of the Warring States Period, highlighting the times with small people. In addition, this paragraph mainly talks about common sense, and it will be mentioned later, but it is not straightforward to explain it all at once.