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As the saying goes, if a soldier bears, there will be a nest of bears. Pen&Fun&Pavilion www.biquge.info{New Novel}

This sentence means that a general takes the lead on the battlefield, or that the general's strength in command ability greatly affects the combat effectiveness of this army.

When Zhang Jiashi was watching the battle from a distance, what he saw was that the knights of the Chu army were actually led by one person and rushed towards Zhang Wu's knight troops.

Zhang Jiashi thought with his knees, he knew who the person who led the Chu army knights to rush over was. Because at such a time, probably only that person will do this.

And this person, without a doubt, is Xiang Yu.

To be honest, Zhang Jiashi admired Xiang Yu's own martial arts very much, because he knew very well that even with his current strength, he might not be able to easily deal with this strongest man in the ages.

However, that's all, Zhang Jiashi, who has experienced so many battles, knows very well that personal bravery is actually a dispensable category.

Xiang Yu is certainly invincible in the world, but what can such a situation be? Especially when Xiang Yu is facing an elite army of the Great Qin Empire that is more focused on cooperation, Xiang Yu will not be able to play too many roles.

But he didn't say what he thought, because for him, since Zhang Han was defeated and lost because of Xiang Yu's way of fighting, it was better to be careful in some situations.

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If Xiang Yu knew Zhang Jiashi's thoughts, he might sneer, because for him, many of these Qin army knights were just local chickens and dogs, and in his heart, they were not worth mentioning.

This is Xiang Yu's own lonely height. It's a pity that Xiang Yu will soon pay a considerable price for his solitary height.

Before the knights of the two sides came into contact face to face, the knights under the command of the Chu army couldn't wait to launch the arrows in their hands before the bows and crossbows they configured had reached a relatively good killing range.

More than 2,000 arrows were fired at the Qin knights who were nearly three hundred meters away, but for arrows of this range, there were many arrows that could not fly to such a long distance, and even if a few arrows could shoot so far, they could not bring more practical damage to the Qin knights.

Because after such a long flight, what these arrows lacked was the strength to penetrate armor or the skin of a war horse.

A small number of arrows scratched some of the mounts of the Qin knights, but this kind of injury, for the war horses, was not enough to make them lose control.

And Zhang Wu used the long beryllium in his hand, and after pushing away a few arrows, he roared loudly: "Ready to shoot !!"

Most of the Qin knights with crossbows or compound bows in their hands invariably slowed down the speed of their horses, and then they shot at the Chu knights at a distance of about two hundred meters from the Chu army.

It is about the same as the number of arrows fired by the Chu army, but before many Chu knights can react, as long as these arrows hit the bodies of these Chu army knights or the war horses under their crotches, most of them can be shot into the bodies of these horses.

This is also because the knights of the Chu army are not fully equipped with iron armor, and many of the knights of the Chu army have more leather armor.

The Chu knights who were hit, although there were not too many people who fell off their horses because of this kind of injury, but if the mount was shot, the Chu knights on the horses were easily beaten by the horses that were in pain and went crazy, and then, before these Chu knights who fell off their horses reacted, the robes behind them would often be trampled directly from these knights because they couldn't react.

Compared with the damage caused by the arrows, this kind of injury is the reason why these fallen Chu knights are seriously injured, or even trampled to death.

After Xiang Yu used the Double Moon Euphorbia in his hand, that is, the legendary Overlord Halberd, to open a few arrows, he saw that the knights of the Qin Army on the opposite side actually shot a second wave of arrows again, and he felt incredible. Because he didn't expect the other side to shoot so fast.

It's no wonder that Xiang Yu is "lonely" in a sense, and it's not that Xiang Yu hasn't seen such a thing as a crossbow, on the contrary, Xiang Yu knows very well that the range of a crossbow is generally not far.

In fact, the kind of semi-automatic hand crossbow that Zhang Jiashi installed in his knight unit needed to press down the reset lever under the crossbow box after firing a crossbow, and then load a new crossbow and complete the reset of the crossbow string.

Without a pair of horses, this is actually quite difficult, especially if the horse is moving at a fairly fast speed, which is likely to knock the crossbowman directly to the ground.

After having a bilateral stirrup, this practice is relatively stable in many cases, as long as it is not because of too fast speed or some factors, this practice of pressing down the reset lever is not a dangerous thing.

The second wave of crossbows fired relatively faster than the second wave of bows and arrows, and when these crossbows were fired at the Chu army, the distance between the two sides was closer, and at this range, the Qin army's hand crossbows were relatively more lethal and better shooting accuracy.

After the second wave of crossbows fell one after another, nearly 100 Chu knights were shot off their horses.

In contrast to this type of crossbow, the Qin army's compound bow reload speed was much slower, and it was only after many of the archers had advanced more than fifty meters that the archers had completed their second bow and arrows were ready to shoot and fire their bows and arrows.

The arrows of these compound bows are much more accurate than crossbows, and they are more penetrating in terms of shooting power at this distance.

After the study of craftsmen of this kind of bow and arrow with a pulley set, once the movable pulley fixed to the bowstring and the fixed pulley fixed to the bow body come into contact due to the pull of the bow and arrow, the bow and arrow pull force will reach the maximum value at this time.

At this time, the archer himself knew that he could shoot the bow and arrows, which was a kind of design that simplified the archer training.

Because it takes more time and relative experience to train an elite archer, many times, an archer wants to shoot at the target, and it takes a lot of training to be able to do it.

With this design, the archers will be able to know that they are firing hard enough to deal damage to the enemy, and they just need to aim at the enemy's location more accurately.

This composite bow design, tested by craftsmen, can actually be used in almost all the types of bows and arrows that are now equipped by Qin officers and soldiers under Zhang Jiashi, of course, the design of a sophisticated bow and arrow in this regard is more complicated.

And more importantly, according to the suggestions of some craftsmen, that is, the design of this kind of pulley set can also be applied to the crossbow machine, reducing the probability of failure of the crossbow string and crossbow arm due to strong output.

Compared to the firing speed of the Qin knights, the Chu knights had a slower firing rate on average, especially the Chu knights who were equipped with single-shot hand crossbows, and they often took longer to successfully reload the crossbow.

The archers among the knights of the Chu army have a relatively faster shooting speed of their bows and arrows, but there is still a little gap between the hit rate and the composite bows equipped by the Qin army.

This also led to the fact that in the many battles between the two sides before the melee battle, although the Qin knights also suffered considerable casualties, compared to the Chu knights, this casualty ratio was fundamentally asymmetrical.

Xiang Yu was well aware of this situation, and he regretted that he had neglected to monitor the equipment of the Qin army, and Fan Zeng had a suggestion to him before he died, that is, not to underestimate the importance that Zhang Jiashi attached to the level of science and technology.

Fan Zeng knew one thing very well, that is, it was no secret that Zhang Jiashi reused the Mo family and promoted the status of craftsmen, and the Great Qin Empire had several military forces before his death, and the defense force was quite strong. It can be seen from the attack on the Xianyang military headquarters near Ganquan Palace that he arranged was destroyed by the Qin army guards and the reinforced Qin army, and the attacking troops were completely annihilated.

In fact, Fan Zeng did more than this plan, and what he did was to infiltrate and buy the military personnel of the Great Qin Empire.

However, Fan Zeng's attempt in this regard can be said to have lost miserably. It's not that Fan Zeng has no achievements in this regard, but Zhang Jiashi's five major military buildings under his command (Liaodong Military Construction, Jixian Military Construction, Taiyuan Military Construction, Chengdu Military Construction and Xianyang Military Construction) implemented the process of assembly line packaging.

The military personnel that Fan Zeng bought, unless they were quite high-level personnel, the information he could obtain in many cases was quite one-sided.

And these rather one-sided information made Fan Zeng very helpless, because he really didn't know that Zhang Jiashi would have such a means.

If Zhang Jiashi knew the thoughts of the deceased Fan Zeng in this regard at this time, he might have laughed: "This kind of thing is not a rare thing in my world, but I have to say that this method is indeed quite effective at this time." ”

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Xiang Yu did not shoot at Zhang Jiashi's knights, because he did not have this kind of "idle time".

The arrows launched by the knights of the Qin army, there were more and more numbers, concentrated on Xiang Yu. Although up to now, no arrow has been able to hit Xiang Yu, or a very few can hit the gap in Xiang Yu's defense, but it cannot shoot through the treasure armor on Xiang Yu's body.

In this case, Xiang Yu was also unscathed.

But compared with Xiang Yu, the personal guard knights around Xiang Yu and many Chu army knights did not have this luck.

At a distance of twenty or thirty meters before the two sides officially collided together, the Qin knights fired 20,000 arrows, bringing nearly seven or eight hundred casualties to these Chu officers and soldiers.

And the knights of the Qin army paid the price of about 300 casualties at most.

If Zhang Jiashi knew this kind of battle loss ratio, he would not feel too satisfied in his heart, after all, with the assistance of this kind of equipment, this kind of casualty can be regarded as making him feel helpless and sad.

After all, in Zhang Jiashi's heart, the training, equipment and investment in many aspects of a cavalry are a lot of money.

For Zhang Jiashi, as long as these knights can play their due combat efficiency, then this is a good business.

It's just that what Zhang Jiashi and Xiang Yu didn't expect is that although the shooting between the two sides has explained the relative gap between the two sides in many ways, what makes the two sides feel the real gap is what happened after the two sides collided together and had a scuffle.

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The knights of the Qin army had already stopped their bow and crossbow operations some time ago, and instead took out their scimitars hanging next to the saddle of the high bridge, and rushed towards the knight troops of the Chu army.

Many knights with arrows in their bodies, although they have been wounded, it does not prevent a real collision between the two sides.

The knights of the Qin army rarely chose to fight with long weapons at this time, but mainly used the six-sided sword and scimitar of the Qin army for close combat.

The knights of the Chu army mainly used weapons such as spears or beryllium to rush towards the knights of the Qin army.

In a sense, the longer the weapon, the more advantageous it is under the influence of the distance factor, but the knights under Zhang Jiashi's command, especially the Zhonglang knights with about 2,800 people at this time, in addition to the scimitar, they also have a small round shield infused with molten iron and then polished.

This round shield is more often the other side of Takahashi's saddle.

And the defensive effect of this iron shield, since it is not too good, it is not a product that can be easily destroyed by the knights of the Chu army.

After the knights between the two sides collided together, many Chu knights stabbed the blades of the long pole weapons in their hands towards the Qin knights, but this kind of attack was often blocked by the iron shield, or directly slid away by the arc of the iron shield.

At this time, what was waiting for the knights of the Chu army this time was the scimitar blade that slashed at them after the knights of the Qin army seized the opportunity.

The scimitar is not very effective for whole pieces of armor, especially plate armor with few gaps.

However, for the Chu army's leather armor or iron armor, the scimitar's chopping ability was well played.

Many times, the scimitars of the knights of the Qin army were even able to easily cut off the arms of the knights of the Chu army, and even cut into the lateral position of the bodies of these knights of the Chu army quite deeply.

Many Chu knights encountered this kind of attack, and either lost the ability to continue fighting in pain, or directly lost their combat ability because their arms were cut off.

Knights in many places, after colliding together, often have blood splattering in less than a few rounds.

Especially for the knights of the Chu army who did not know the effect of the scimitar, they were armed with long-pole weapons such as spears, and once they did not enter the range of the scimitar attack to solve the Qin knights he was facing, they would often suffer more.

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Zhang Wu did not use a scimitar, and for him, the scimitar was not as good a weapon as the medium-handled glaive he was used to.

After he slashed and killed a few Chu army knights, he saw the knight troops in the other direction, and there were signs of retreating.

"Should it be ......" Zhang Wu couldn't help but whisper this sentence after stabbing the hilt of the middle-handled glaive knife in his hand into the chest of a Chu knight......