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c_t; Among the military forces of the Great Qin Empire, long-range crossbowmen have always been the focus of construction. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis point has become a direction of development since the Qin State during the Warring States Period, after obtaining many relatively advanced bow and crossbow technologies in the Kwantung Kingdom.

Before obtaining the corresponding more advanced bow and crossbow technology, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army was far behind that of the other Warring States Seven Heroes in the Kwantung region. This point can be intuitively reflected in Wu Qi's battle between Yin and Jin. Because the Wei Wushu army that Wu Qi relied on was a hoplite unit that was quite excellent in bow and crossbow shooting and close combat.

At that time, the disastrous defeat of the Qin army in the battle of Yin and Jin was not without factors, Wu Qi's ease of waiting for work, and the well-armored and well-trained troops of Wei Wushu under his command were also one of the two subjective reasons for the Qin army's fiasco.

After the Battle of Yin and Jin, the then Qin monarchs and ministers decided to introduce the casting technology of corresponding excellent weapons to the Kwantung States to improve the combat capability of their overall equipment, which became an important armament policy.

At that time, because the Qin State was located to the west of the Kunshan Mountains at that time, few big merchants would enter the Qin State to seek development. Therefore, at that time, it was more difficult to rely on the circulation of commerce to develop the corresponding technology.

Therefore, after thinking about it, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State decided to make corresponding demands to Korea, which was seriously threatened by the Wei State. At that time, although South Korea did not have the saying that its strong bow and crossbow were the first in the world, it did not mean that South Korea's bow and crossbow level was not good.

However, due to many considerations, Korea only exported some craftsmen and some high-quality horn bow making techniques.

This situation alone has already made the long-range firepower of the Qin State at that time a class of improvement.

In the later Qin and Wei Fourth Battle of Hexi, the Qin army relied on a fairly elite crossbowman force to successfully suppress the Wei reinforcements supporting the Hexi region, and successfully gained the initiative in the Battle of Hexi.

And the famous crossbow array of the Qin State gradually became famous among the heroes of the Kwantung region.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi also attached great importance to the construction of the crossbowmen of the Great Qin Empire, because the foundation of the Great Qin Empire in this regard, compared with the crossbowmen of later generations, the gap is only the level of weapon making skills, rather than the gap in the combat training of soldiers between each other.

It can even be said that if the crossbowmen of the Great Qin Empire use the bows and crossbows of the same period in later generations to fight against the crossbowmen of later generations, they may be able to easily defeat the opponent in terms of combat awareness.

And in this way, Zhang Jiashi had a great intuitive embodiment after equipping the crossbowmen of the Liaodong Army under his command with the improved technology of some bows and crossbows in later generations.

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After the compound archers passed, they were relatively common crossbow troops among the ** team of the Great Qin Emperor.

Strictly speaking, the crossbow array of the Great Qin Empire is the embodiment of the combat effectiveness of the crossbow troops in the field. However, the range of the crossbow is limited by its corresponding level of technology, and there is a big gap in range and lethality. However, the rate of fire of the hand crossbow is much faster than that of the large individual crossbow at the level of the crossbow, so in the effective range of the hand crossbow, the combat effectiveness exerted by the hand crossbow is not easily comparable to that of the crossbow.

However, the crossbow array of the Qin army in the strict sense is the sum of the crossbowman troops and even the combat troops of the bed crossbow level archers.

Therefore, although Zhang Jiashi did not have too prominent aspects in the improvement of the hand crossbow, there is no doubt that in the current military establishment of the Great Qin Empire, the combat effectiveness of the hand crossbow troops of the Qin army can be said to be quite outstanding.

Perhaps Zhang Jiashi's construction in this area is more inclined to the crossbow or even the bed crossbow, but Zhang Jiashi did not weaken the production of crossbows. On the contrary, in the military construction of the Great Qin Empire, a part of the craftsmen produced hand crossbows.

The production of hand crossbows is strictly more complex than crossbows or even bed crossbows. This is because the miniaturization of the parts required for the hand crossbow is relatively more labor-intensive.

Hand crossbows, on the other hand, tend to require a higher number of crossbows due to their rate of fire. Therefore, in the military production line of the Great Qin Empire, the production number of crossbow bracelets with hand crossbows is the largest.

Compared with the archers, the crossbow troops in front of the main hall of Xianyang Palace were equipped with heavier iron armor, because compared to the flexibility required by the archers, the needs of the crossbow troops in this regard were not too great.

Even a lot of crossbowmen are equipped with such things as spaulders.

Because of its relatively simple production and the coordination of parts, the iron armor is also relatively flexible, so in the current production of the iron armor of the Great Qin Empire, it is mainly the production of the armor as the main body of the body, and for example, the shoulder armor and skirt armor are equipped according to the needs of the corresponding troops.

Generally speaking, the only class that is fully equipped with shoulder armor and skirt armor is heavy infantry.

For those that don't require too much flexibility, they will be equipped with additional shoulder armor.

The crossbowman falls into this category.

Therefore, compared to the phalanx of archers in front of them, these crossbowmen are more robust. Of course, there is no shortage of crossbowmen with some thin physiques, because the use of hand crossbows or even strong crossbows does not even have the same physical requirements as light infantry.

And Zhang Jiashi has been in power for so long, and as a commander with rich combat experience, he knows very well that the crossbowmen do not have enough combat effectiveness in many aspects, and he continues to maintain a corresponding proportion of crossbowmen troops, mainly to meet the requirements of the quality of his army. After all, the current people of the Great Qin Empire, in terms of physical fitness, were also greatly affected by the previous wars. In some war-torn areas, they are even precarious in terms of personal safety, let alone being able to maintain their physical fitness while eating enough every day.

Therefore, as a crossbowman with the lowest physical requirements in terms of troops, Zhang Jiashi mainly took into account the impact of this aspect.

The fact that crossbowmen are easier to train than archers is also an important factor.

To put it mildly, it may take a year or more to train a passing archer, and it may only take about half a year to train a passing crossbowman.

Therefore, as the supreme commander of the actual army of the Great Qin Empire at the moment, Zhang Jiashi had to take into account the situation in this regard.

After all, if there is really a long-term war of attrition with foreign powers, in terms of the consumption of crossbowmen, it is very likely that one archer will not be able to meet the manpower needs of continuous combat, and one crossbowman will become a relative advantage.

And many high-level civil and military officials of the Great Qin Empire have discovered a problem, that is, these crossbowmen have a scimitar with a length of about fifty centimeters in addition to hanging a quiver or crossbow bag on their waists.

The armament of the army of the Great Qin Empire is not without scimitars, but in the current military thinking of Zhang Jiashi, the previous scimitars will be gradually eliminated. Gradually, they will be replaced by a curved tool that is easier to use and relatively more ergonomic.

This kind of knife is used as a sample of the Miao knife of later generations, and after the corresponding weighting, it is equipped with the corresponding officers and soldiers as a protective equipment.

Although the back of the knife is thicker than that of the Japanese sword of the time, strictly speaking, the broadsword of later generations can easily cut a rather deep gap or even directly cut the knife under the same material. This can be said to be a defect of Miao Dao.

Zhang Jiashi experimented with making a relatively short, weighted blade of the Miao Knife, which was used as melee equipment for his crossbowmen.

After all, in this respect, Zhang Jiashi could not guarantee that his crossbowmen would be closely protected by infantry units during the war against the Huns.

Even in the case of a surprise attack by the Huns in the steppe area, it can be said that it is very difficult for these infantry units or other branches of the army to distract themselves from protecting the crossbowmen. Therefore, Zhang Jiashi had to take into account this situation, and think about making the crossbowmen also have a certain ability to defend themselves.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi did not want his crossbowmen to be slaughtered by the Huns' riders, but compared to the mobility of the Huns, if he really attacked the Huns with mixed troops in the future, I am afraid this would be an inevitable situation.

Prior to this, the Great Qin Empire's crossbowmen were not short of officers and soldiers equipped with swords, but their swords were strictly flawed compared to the situation in self-defense. Because the weight of these swords is a problem compared to the relatively weak crossbowmen.

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After the crossbowmen, it was the bed crossbow unit that Zhang Jiashi vigorously developed during this period.

These bed crossbowmen are very different from the previous robes. Because the bed crossbowmen in groups of six, the captain and the other soldier, carried the relatively thick bed crossbows, and the other four carried an extended bracket of the bed crossbows, and the bed crossbows and crossbows were carried by groups of six, passing the front and bottom of the platform;

This kind of crossbow is a light crossbow used by infantry, and its combat performance is still somewhat different from that of larger vehicle crossbows.

However, the range and weight of this bed crossbow have been improved accordingly.

When Zhang Jiashi sent troops to Liaodong, and even waged war against Jizi Korea, this kind of bed crossbow gradually played its corresponding role. Moreover, in the course of the subsequent war, this kind of bed crossbow also played an increasingly important role in the establishment of the Qin army under Zhang Jiashi, and the proportion was increasing.

It can be said that this relatively light bed crossbow can be regarded as a standard equipment for many bed crossbow troops of the Great Qin Empire.

Some time before the end of the Donghu rescue operation, Zhang Jiashi also ordered to increase the production of this kind of bed crossbow, in order to arrange this bed crossbow in the Great Wall area to deal with the attack of the Huns on the Great Wall area.

Perhaps in the case of the Great Wall, the role that this bed crossbow can play is not too great, but compared with the relatively poor bow and arrow range of the Huns, this bed crossbow has a disadvantage in terms of rate of fire, and also has incomparable combat effectiveness in terms of range and power.

The bed crossbowmen are also equipped with corresponding swords as self-defense weapons, but Zhang Jiashi knows very well that because of the advantage of range, bed crossbowmen do not need them to fight or defend themselves. Because even if the Huns raided head-on, these bed crossbowmen still had a part of the defense of the crossbowmen in front of them, unless the bed crossbowmen directly faced the attack of the Huns or other military forces, otherwise they probably only had the opportunity to use this sword when they were besieged or even hunted down.

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And after the sixteen bed crossbows were carried away by more than ninety bed crossbowmen, the next phalanx was the chariot phalanx of the Great Qin Empire.

The chariot unit of the Great Qin Empire, because Zhang Jiashi changed the corresponding weaponry, became an ultra-long-range strike force that mainly used crossbows.

Of course, the two warriors of these crossbow chariots, in addition to using the strong crossbow in their hands, can also use the original Glaive with an elongated hilt, or it should be said that it belongs to the length of the Glaive Knife.

The mainstream heavy infantry under Zhang Jiashi's command used the Glaive with a medium handle, mainly because Zhang Jiashi took into account that the length of the knife handle greatly affected the combat efficiency. If the hilt is too long, the hilt of this glaive is likely to hit the ground during combat, because the heavy infantry often uses a huge phalanx iron shield, which cannot be used in some glaive techniques. Moreover, when chopping, the handle of the knife is too long to effectively convey the force to the knife body.

However, the use of the original Glaive on the chariot has no such concerns. However, in many cases, the Glaive is generally not needed. This is because this kind of Glaive, which also has a thickened back, is mainly used to chop through obstacles and fences, and is not used by charioteers when the chariot is rushing.

After all, this kind of glaive still has corresponding shortcomings in fighting infantry on the chariot, and it is not even as effective as the long weapon used by the original light charioteer.

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The finale formation is naturally a major branch of the cavalry phalanx that Zhang Jiashi will focus on development for a period of time before, or even after a long time.

It was a new cavalry unit that was secretly developed with Zhang Jiashi, and this cavalry was mainly a light cavalry unit that was organized along the Great Qin Empire and partially improved its equipment.

In the absence of stirrups, to develop heavy cavalry, is a crater. Besides, Zhang Jiashi did not think about developing heavy cavalry, after all, the Great Qin Empire did not have the foundation for developing heavy cavalry at present.

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