Dardanelles.

The confluence of ocean currents from the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, warm and cold, makes it a natural fishing ground for fishing boats.

In the remote corner of the southeast of the fishing grounds, the Gulf of Troy is like a crescent moon, quietly facing the Mediterranean Sea and half-open to the rich heart, in the center of the bay, the ships of the Great Qin Navy are being inspected.

Black Battle Flag!

A mighty military formation!

A neat queue of geese.

When the fierce war drums sounded, the shouts and shouts of the Great Qin Soldiers Mountain erupted in the middle of the bay.

"Great Qin, Great Qin, and old Qin, strengthen my rivers and mountains; - Qin has a sharp soldier, who competes with him! The pace of Great Qin's westward advance was unstoppable, and the soldiers of Great Qin also slightly modified the war song when they were restored.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

On August 15, the night of the full moon, after a long five-month rest, the Great Qin fleet finally set sail again, Gan Yong, Hu Xuan, and Lei were fired with three arrows, and the black battle flag on the mast was like the sickle of death, which made people dare not look up.

On the tallest flagship in the center of the fleet, the commander of the navy, Gan Yong, stood on the bow with a solemn expression, and the slightly undulating waves made the ship shake from side to side, but this wave was nothing to Gan Yong, who was accustomed to life at sea.

Hu Yu and Lei were the deputy generals of Gan Yong, and Luan Bu was the general of the rear army, responsible for guarding the Trojan lair, such a device made the Great Qin Navy like a tiger with wings, on experience, Hu was rich enough, on bravery, Lei was proved to be proven, on calm calculation. Luan Bu, who was born as a cloth seller, is the most calculating, and as the main general, Gan Yong has been alone for a long time, and has won Li Yuan's trust.

Place the couch crossbow on the deck of the ship.

This is a bold idea put forward by Gan Yong, Lei Bei and other Qin naval generals, sea combat is not better than land, there are many restricted places, such as the sea environment of the battlefield, the tonnage of the ship, the water combat skills of the soldiers and even the wind direction at that time, etc., the existence of these factors makes the outcome of the naval battle more and more unpredictable.

In this case, the Qin navy wanted to seize the initiative in the campaign. Relying on science and technology to create Liliang and improve existing weapons, especially long-range strike weapons, is the most feasible strategy. After the couch crossbow is equipped, the Qin navy can use the powerful long-range strike ability of the couch crossbow to inflict heavy damage on the enemy before the opponent launches an attack, which is the preemptive strategy of the Qin army.

Just think about it. When the two fleets meet, one side tries to get closer to the chorus and fights, while the other side pulls away. Launching a large crossbow as thick as a child's arm at a distance that the opponent can't hit, and no matter how accurate this couch crossbow is, the deterrent power of breaking through the air alone is already chilling.

"Haha, this guy. If it had been placed in the bow, if the Roman ships had been shot, they would have fallen apart! "Seeing the power of the couch crossbow with my own eyes, these veterans are overjoyed.

Confrontation at sea. The distance between the ships of the two sides was not more than a hundred feet. This is the limit of range for an ordinary machine crossbow, but for a couch crossbow that is three times larger. is the right distance. With the addition of the couch crossbow, the Qin army was completely able to fight the Roman fleet in the open sea, without worrying about being suppressed by the tall Romans in close combat.

A veteran is worth ten recruits. For both sides in a naval battle, naval soldiers are more valuable than on land.

Don't look at Gan Yong's troops defeated Greer, but this victory was only temporary, if they lost in the next battle, the Qin army would lose their sharpness, and it would be impossible to restore the vitality of a fleet without decades, just like the Carthaginian fleet, after being defeated by the Romans, it was never able to stand up again.

Therefore, every veteran who has experienced the baptism of naval warfare is a valuable asset for the Qin Navy, a new force that has not been established long ago and lacks foundation.

The decisive battle for Rome is imminent.

The war machine of Daqin was also launched rumblingly, and the craftsmen of the military made all their efforts to make one new jishu achievement after another be applied, and after the original "artillery" of the couch crossbow, the craftsmen of the Qin State had new ideas.

A new batch of bronze crossbows has also been distributed, and the appearance of this new crossbow is slightly different from the previous bronze crossbows, mainly because the arrow boxes loaded with crossbow arrows are no longer separated, but ten in bursts, automatically loaded. Although the single-shot machine crossbow is powerful, due to the limitation of reload time, it cannot be fully used on the battlefield.

In the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty was invented by Zhuge Liang Wuhou repeater, appeared more than 300 years in advance, this kind of crossbow machine similar to the ancient "machine gun" is a major innovation in the history of crossbow machine, it spans from a single shot to multiple important historical nodes. After being suppressed by the Heavenly Thunder Army for several years, the crossbow masters built by the Great Qin soldiers finally broke through.

A sea vessel.

There is a certain number of people who can be loaded, especially in this era when there is no machine power, in addition to relying on uncertain sails, the navigation of ships is propelled by human oars, for this reason, there will not be too many combat soldiers on each ship, and under equal conditions, the captain will of course choose soldiers with excellent melee ability.

The appearance of couch crossbows and repeating crossbows has raised the power of machine crossbows to a higher level, and the giant crossbows on the deck are sharp weapons for long-range strikes, and the application of repeating crossbows has helped the navy solve the problem of insufficient combat soldiers.

For example, with a dhow, only five crossbowmen are needed to shoot fifty crossbow arrows in a row, and when the enemy soldiers jump from the strings of the ship, they will generally line up in a dense formation, and if they encounter continuous rain of arrows, it is a dead end.

A series of new weapons have been put into the battlefield, which is a proof of the strength of the Great Qin, and at the same time, it is also the reward for Li Yuan's attention to scientific and technological research and development over the years.

Xianyang, Jinyang, and Hanzhong -- On the basis of these three important military construction institutions of the Qin State, Xingyang City, located in the eastern part of the Kanto region, has become the fourth military manufacturing base of the Qin State. Compared with Xianyang and other places, Xingyang is close to the hinterland of the Central Plains, with superior geographical advantages and abundant human resources, so that the development of Xingyang military construction has shown a momentum of rapid catch-up from the beginning.

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Massive migration of populations.

The constant application of new jishu.

The pace of national integration has accelerated.

Li Yuan single-handedly changed the short-lived dynasty of the Qin State, and now, under the national policy of the Great Qin to actively xiangshang and keep forging ahead, the oriental civilization is spreading to foreign lands with unstoppable momentum. For more than 2,000 years of feudal society, several dynasties have had ups and downs, and the world and scholars have compared the ups and downs of this cycle to the limitations of oriental civilization, but they do not know that the fundamental reason is the contradiction between resources and population.

The emergence of the new Qin changed the original historical process, the tragic situation of the sharp reduction in population caused by the four years of the Chu and Han wars did not happen, the population of the Great Qin increased a lot compared to the strongest reign of the First Emperor, the number of Fu households at the time of the First Emperor was 500,000, and in the seventeenth year of the new calendar of the Great Qin, that is, in 189 BC, according to the statistics of the Fu nationality of the great country, the number of Fu households in the original counties of the Qin State reached 700,000, of which there were nearly 60 million registered people.

Among them, the number of households alone can not only look at the increase of 200,000 households, but also remove the decrease in the number of people during the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, in other words, in the past ten years of the unification of the new Qin, the population growth has erupted geometrically, and what is even more surprising is that this eruption has not brought substantial damage to the social structure of the Qin State.

As we all know, the increase in population will inevitably bring a large consumption of wealth, if the amount of total wealth is balanced, then according to the cyclical process of Chinese history, a strong country will inevitably slowly enter a period of stagnation of development after more than ten years of peaceful development, and then the turmoil back and forth at the top, and then a dynasty begins to decline.

Now, with the continuous expansion of Great Qin, the rich resources of the Eurasian continent just offset the sense of urgency brought about by the increase in population, and a large number of immigrants moved westward, alleviating the domestic contradictions, and keeping this contradiction within a reasonable range.

Note: The word bed is screened, and you can only change the bed, sweat, and bed crossbow (to be continued......