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Although Song Qi's experience in Donghu made him better at riding horses, in his military career in the past few years, Song Qi preferred to fight on foot as a heavy infantryman. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this battle, he also used the standard equipment of the heavy infantry of the Qin army to kill the enemy at the beginning, but when it came to this battle, Song Qi had already thrown away the shield in his hand and replaced it with another glaive knife that was left on the battlefield after the other heavy infantry were killed, wielding two glaive knives to continuously slash and kill the Huns' riders or the Huns who were shot off their horses, but only lightly injured.

Even if more than a dozen Huns or several horses were killed, the glaive knife did not have obvious curling blades or even cracks, and the gap between the two glaive knives in Song Qi's hand was mainly broken after colliding with the scimitars of the Huns and the blades of other weapons.

This situation does not affect the combat effectiveness of these glaive knives.

In terms of material, the glaive knife, which is made by pouring molten pig iron and then polished, is not very satisfactory in terms of hardness and weight. At this time, the Great Qin Empire already had hundreds of iron smelters and even weapons made of refined iron and even steel that had been made of more complicated smelting.

However, in terms of the level of military equipment at this time, Zhang Jiashi knew very well that these refined weapons were undoubtedly a flaw in terms of mass production scale.

After all, the difficulty of crafting these refined weapons and the corresponding materials required are undoubtedly more. Therefore, as far as mass production weapons are concerned, these refined weapons cannot meet the needs of Zhang Jiashi and the standard weapons of the Great Qin Empire at the moment.

Although the Glaive is a relatively crude weapon, in terms of combat efficiency, it is even no less than some sophisticated weapons smelted from composite bronze alloys.

Because the blade of the Glaive is thicker, although the pig iron is more hard and brittle, but because of a certain thickness and the overall weight is relatively large, in the collision with some weapons, these Glaive Knives can easily break through the opponent's fine iron or even the weapons smelted from steel.

However, after colliding with some weapons, the blade will appear a certain gap, which is inevitable in a sense, because the material of the Glaive is mainly pig iron. Compared to many weapons, the stiffness of their weaker points is still not enough to maintain the integrity of these weapons.

Of course, such a situation is more of an innocuous detail.

Song Qi knew very well that the Great Qin Empire's standard glaive knife was considered by many people to be a relatively excellent weapon. In addition to the fact that this Glaive has a short killing range, in many ways, this Glaive is more of an excellent weapon.

Of course. There is a high demand for the use of this weapon, especially for the control of body balance and wrist strength. If the control of the two forces cannot meet the corresponding needs, even if a veteran wants to use this weapon well, the difficulty is not ordinary.

And one thing that Song Qi didn't know was that the standard weapons under Zhang Jiashi's command were more complicated, but for the configuration of heavy infantry, the basically uniform glaive knife showed that in addition to economic considerations, Zhang Jiashi's relatively excellent combat efficiency was also an important consideration.

Because even if he used the Dingqin Sword, he couldn't understate that. Cut the blade of this glaive knife directly to the back of the knife.

After all, the thickness of this glaive knife is also very large, and it extends backwards in a triangular design, which increases the mechanical advantages of this glaive knife in disguise.

Moreover, people who can serve as heavy infantry generally have no big problem using this glaive knife to slash and kill the enemy.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Jiashi has developed a lot of weapons, but has not improved much on this kind of glaive.

Because in many ways, there is not much room for improvement in the combat efficiency of this glaive. And after taking into account some aspects of thinking, the modified style of the Glaive Knife is undoubtedly in many ways to weaken the production advantages of the Glaive Knife made by this infusion method.

Therefore, although Zhang Jiashi has improved his military aspects and his income, the performance and skills of the military equipment of the Great Qin Empire have improved a lot, such as a small-scale equipment and relatively rudimentary plate armor. and the kind of arc-shaped long knife made according to the Tang knife, which is more of an improvement of Zhang Jiashi's embodiment of national strength.

After all, if its overall strength is poor, Zhang Jiashi will not put the production of these weapons on the agenda.

Because the cost of these weapons, as well as their performance, are often directly proportional. As far as the more primitive plate armor is concerned, its overall defense ability is certainly much improved compared to the iron armor, but it is undeniable that the cost, production, and maintenance of this plate armor are relatively large.

This is also the reason why Zhang Jiashi only conducts small batch production.

The current level of science and technology of the Great Qin Empire. Because of the emergence of Zhang Jiashi, a traverser, it is not surprising that on the whole there has been a development beyond the times.

But Zhang Jiashi knows that even if there is an epoch-making improvement as a whole, but for some thresholds that cannot be crossed in the past, Zhang Jiashi knows that even if he wants to make corresponding achievements in this area, it is not possible to do it in a short period of time.

After all, many things are not just a vague concept that can be made into an actual finished product.

As far as the current penicillin cultivation is concerned, there has been good progress in many aspects, but it is undeniable that in terms of penicillin purification, this is really a problem that cannot be solved by the Great Qin Empire system, which lacks a corresponding chemical foundation.

Rome was not built in a day, and Zhang Jiashi wanted to say that those "peers" were able to make leapfrog progress in many ways after crossing into other dimensions. Such a situation is undoubtedly a kind of nonsense.

After all, after experiencing the actual development of many aspects, Zhang Jiashi can no longer think that the traverser is an omnipotent idea.

Dividing line

At present, the Great Qin Empire is greatly influenced by Zhang Jiashi in many aspects, especially in terms of armaments, the Great Qin Empire has many cold weapon styles and even rudimentary hot weapons that only appeared in later generations.

But this did not make the Great Qin Empire completely stand at the top of this world. Because many of the weapons and equipment of the Great Qin Empire are indeed very advanced, and the efficiency has also improved a lot, but the overall national strength of the Great Qin Empire has experienced a serious decline for several years, even in the face of this world, the Huns, who have developed into a powerful force, in many ways, can no longer be compared with the Great Qin Empire, which was the temporary peak of the Battle of Yinshan in Hetao.

So. Zhang Jiashi knew that in such a situation, he would restore the national strength of the Great Qin Empire as much as possible.

Zhang Jiashi believes that the most fundamental problem in the restoration of the Great Qin Empire's national strength at present is that the reduction of personnel during the war is too serious.

However, such a situation has not fundamentally changed in just a few years or even a dozen years.

The Great Qin Empire had a population of more than 20 million at its peak during the period of the First Emperor, but after the turmoil at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the overall population of the Great Qin Empire was reduced to less than 13 million, which can be said to be a great degree of population attrition.

In war-torn areas, such as Sanchuan County. Zhao County, the hometown of Qi and several other counties. Its population loss is very severe. If we include Chengyang, which was slaughtered by the rebels, and some other areas, the population loss in these places is no longer serious and can be summarized, but it can be said that there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms or even no people.

Zhang Jiashi knew very well that if he wanted to change the barrenness of these areas, it was a good way to move the population. But the current Great Qin Empire can be said to be short of people everywhere. Zhang Jiashi himself also does not think that it is a good thing to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

Therefore, in terms of population migration, what Zhang Jiashi can do is not affect the relatively densely populated areas and have a certain degree of recovery development. Batches of small population movements are carried out each year to increase resilience to some of the more fertile areas.

This situation is certainly very slow, but in many ways, it is also the most acceptable way for the Great Qin Empire at the moment.

On the other hand, Zhang Jiashi has not thought about one point, that is, to reduce the personnel of the army that seems to have a large ratio to reduce the pressure on the corresponding aspects.

But white. Chen Ping and even Xiao He didn't think that this method would have a good effect. On the contrary, it has the potential to cause more problems.

Bai Qi believes that the current situation of the Great Qin Empire can refer to the corresponding system of the early Song Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.

The problem of redundant troops in the Song Dynasty was already a bane in the early days of Song Taizu:

The recruitment system of the two Song Dynasty The Song Dynasty's forbidden soldiers, box soldiers, and garrison soldiers all implemented the recruitment system. When the Northern Song Dynasty inspected and selected forbidden soldiers, there were "soldiers" at the beginning, and they were divided into several according to their length and physique. Distribute it to all the ways, so that it may be selected as it is. Later, the wooden mulberry was used to replace the "soldier sample", and the difference was high in size. Call-ups are assigned to different units according to their length, physique, and skills.

Those who are "over-healthy" are selected into the forbidden army, and the "short and weak" are selected into the box. After enrollment, family members can accompany the camp. I must face Nirvana, and I am not allowed to retire halfway, but in fact, I will be a soldier for life. Vacancies are sometimes filled by the children. If you flee or commit a crime, the punishment is extremely severe, even involving relatives and the village. Whenever there was a year of hunger, a large number of bankrupt peasants were recruited, and "thieves" were often recruited as soldiers, that is, the so-called "elimination of thieves and hunger." When there is a shortage of soldiers, they also catch the people as soldiers. Criminals also became one of the sources of soldiers.

But in more ways, the Song Dynasty's redundancy was not useless, on the contrary, its redundancy reduced the probability of an internal uprising in a sense.

Of course, this benefit is different, because the number of peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty is indeed relatively large, but in terms of scale, it is not as large as the rebellion in the late Qin Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the uprising in the last years of the Sui Dynasty.

In a way, redundant troops did ensure that the Song dynasty reduced the expansion of peasant uprisings.

The redundant soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were less harmful than those of the Song Dynasty on the surface. But there is one point, that is, the army of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of empty pay is very serious, if on the whole, the military system of the Ming Dynasty in the later period brought greater harm, because the military system of the Ming Dynasty, evolved to the later period, its combat effectiveness is worse than the redundant soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty's guard system was actually based on the experience of Chinese history in Tuntian, and it was a kind of army building system that combined soldiers with agriculture and garrison. Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I raise millions of soldiers, and it doesn't cost the people a grain of rice." ”

The military household is the type of household registration that belongs to the military household, and there are two sources in the early stage, one is the original military household of the Yuan Dynasty, and the other is the household of the active soldier, which was further established after the compilation of the yellow book in 1388, the twenty-first year of Hongwu. Military households are hereditary, and the management is quite strict, and it is very difficult to expel from the army, and it is generally impossible to remove from the military unless the household is extinct, someone in the family becomes a high-ranking official, or the emperor is dismissed. In spite of this, the number of military households is still decreasing day by day, and Pang Shangpeng advocated: "Inventory and hidden occupation, equalize the amount of grain, and reclamation and abandonment are the most urgent tasks at present." Therefore, there was a way to make those who had been confiscated for crimes into the army, which was called the Enjun or the Immortal Army.

The main obligation of the military household is to send a man to the guard post as a soldier, called the regular army, and the other children are called the surplus or the military surplus, and the regular army goes to the guard station, at least one surplus soldier must accompany him to help him live, because the burden of the military household is heavy, so he is given more land, and the regular army is exempted from all errands, and the surplus and the one ding under the original place can also be exempted from errand service, so as to protect their livelihood and provide for the life of the regular army. For example, Luo Sifu, the founder of Luojiao, who influenced all secret folk religions, was originally a soldier, but later left the army after finding someone to replace him.

The distribution points of the soldiers were mostly remote and scattered from their places of origin to prevent desertion, but the long journeys and the lack of adaptation to the soil and water brought a lot of suffering to the soldiers. Each soldier has a house, a field, and a fixed monthly ration, but in practice it is often underdistributed, and when marching they are given rations, they must bring their own clothing, and their weapons are produced by the state craftsmen. The sergeants are in the battalion, divided into two parts, the garrison and the tuntian, the proportion is uncertain, the rotation is on time, the tuntian is fixed to hand over the grain, in order to supply the garrison and officials, its goal is to raise soldiers without consuming the country's financial resources, but after the Ming Xuanzong, the guards occupy the military tuntian, private soldiers cultivate, has often happened, this goal is gradually difficult to achieve.

Generally, the army dies, that is, it is supplemented by the strong man in the household, but because the soldiers live in hardship, there are many deserters, there are deserters in the early years of Hongwu, and in November of the third year of Hongwu, the number of fugitives is 47,986 people, so there are methods such as "root supplement" and "hook supplement". The root supplement was to arrest the deserters, and the compensation was made up by their households, but this move disturbed both the people and the officials, and some officers also used this to embezzle, persecute the people, and make the countryside miserable. And deserters are on the rise.

In 1438, the third year of orthodoxy, there were 1633664 fugitive officers and soldiers, and at this time there was a recruitment of soldiers.

This is the relative situation of the Weisuo military system in the early Ming Dynasty. In fact, in the late Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Weisuo army declined very seriously, which also greatly affected the reason why the forces supporting Emperor Jianwen were defeated by Zhu Di many times in the Battle of Jingjing.

In Bai Qi's opinion, Zhang Jiashi had better not change the current army configuration casually, because in many ways, a large army is certainly an important burden for the country, but as the so-called raising troops for a thousand days and using troops for a while, no country will really recruit soldiers to deal with war when it is completely fighting. Such a situation would only render a country's national defense useless.

And after deciding to tear his face with the Huns, Zhang Jiashi finally gave up his hesitation in this regard, because since he was sure that he and the Great Qin Empire would engage in a full-scale war with the Huns in a short period of time, it was undoubtedly an extremely stupid thing to disarm at the moment. To be continued.

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