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In the layout of this battlefield, Wang Li led an army of 30,000 as the central army, while Han Xin and Su Teng led 35,000 people as the left and right wings respectively. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The main force of the Central Army under Zhang Jiashi became a reserve force.

In contrast to the tactics of the Qin army, which obviously intended to outflank the left and right flanks, the army under Tian Rong still responded with a conventional formation of 40,000 people in the middle army and 30,000 people on the left and right flanks.

Compared with the tactics of the Qin army, Tian Rong's operational arrangement this time is actually not too excessive. Because according to the normal situation, this kind of battle situation arrangement with a small gap in forces will not have much impact on the trend of the battle situation.

Of course, there is another premise for this, that is, the combat effectiveness of the Qi army can be compared with the Qin army.

However, there was a serious lack of veterans and the Qi army, which cooperated with the Qi army, could not be compared with the Qin army in terms of combat effectiveness.

Zhang Jiashi was silently on a hill behind Wang Li's army array, observing the upcoming war with Li Xin and others.

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Wang Li, as the commander of one of the original two most elite legions of the Great Qin Empire, may still be a little deficient in terms of ability compared to people like Li Xin who have more combat experience, but Wang Li, who was born in a military family, is already among the first-class generals in many aspects.

In the Battle of Julu, Wang Li committed suicide in defeat because he made his own decision to avoid experiencing the experience and results of Zhang Jiashi's original world again.

In Zhang Jiashi's nascent Great Qin Empire, Wang Li also became the forefront of the most important army commanders under Zhang Jiashi.

If the troops under Zhang Jiashi's command before this can be regarded as the last Eastern Crusade are divided into legions, they are:

Zhang Jiashi's Central Army stationed in Xianyang County and Hanzhong County had about 120,000 troops, among which the famous generals were Han Xin, Yingbu, Li Xin, and Tu Sui.

Located in the area of Taiyuan County as the core area of the garrison, Wang Li's army has a strength of about 60,000 troops, among which the famous generals are Wang Li, Wang Chang and Wang Yuan, the three leaders of the Taiyuan royal family.

The Northeast Army of the Great Qin Empire, located in Liaoning County, the Korean region and the Kyushu Island region, had a strength of about 130,000 troops, among which the famous generals were Yujian, Su Jiao, Zifu, Wenle and Du Cong. About 25,000 of them were members of the Marines and Marines.

The strength of the New Northern Xinjiang Army in the northern Xinjiang region is 100,000, and its famous generals are Yang Wengzi, Gao Jian, and Ruan Weng Shao.

The Yanzhao Legion, located in the area of Yan County and Zhao County, has a strength of about 70,000 troops, and the main commanding generals are Huan Suo, Yao Yong, Chen Heng and others. In these years, Zhang Jiashi transferred Yao Yong and Chen Heng to the county guard of Zhao County and the county lieutenant of Northern Jin County respectively, and in this expedition, Chen Heng was transferred by Zhang Jiashi again to the county lieutenant of Yan County, responsible for coordinating the grain dispatch of Yan and Zhao counties.

The Southwest Army of the Great Qin Empire, located in Shu County, Qianzhong County and Nanyang County, had about 90,000 soldiers and horses under its command, but because the garrison area was too extensive and the situation in Ba County had not been completely calmed, Zhang Jiashi had to transfer a small number of local troops, such as Peng Yue's 15,000 people, to Hengshan County to standby.

The southern counties, Hengshan counties, and Minzhong counties were reorganized by Zhang Jiashi into the southeast army of the Great Qin Empire, and the number of troops under their command was about 80,000.

The remaining Changsha County, Nanyue County, and Guining County were originally garrisoned in these areas to form the Southern Army of the Great Qin Empire, with a strength of about 150,000 troops.

The troop strength data from these statistics roughly shows that the overall number of troops under Zhang Jiashi's command is about 800,000.

But Zhang Jiashi himself knows how much water there is, especially the county soldiers in many inland areas, in fact, they are not much different from the Qi army, they are all recruits who have just been recruited.

After squeezing out a lot of water, the real strength of several legions under Zhang Jiashi's command was between about 500,000 and 600,000 people.

For this operation, Zhang Jiashi can be said to have put more than half of the regular army under his command into the battlefield or on standby in the corresponding area.

And in Qi alone, more than 200,000 troops were put into the battle in this area by him.

This number does not count, not counting the two large Qin Empire units that actually did not actually participate in the battle.

Counting the other troops on standby on the border of Chu, Zhang Jiashi estimated that nearly 400,000 troops had been invested in this operation, and this number was only a small amount.

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Wang Li's army, as an arrow, did not in fact directly launch an offensive against the Qi army, but confronted the main force under the personal command of Tian Rong.

In such a situation, the left and right flanks of Han Xin and Su Teng clashed with the two flanks of the Qi army respectively, becoming the first area where the battle broke out.

It is not that Wang Li was afraid of Tian Rong's main force of the Chinese army, but in the original combat arrangement, Wang Li and others had already determined the plan to annihilate Tian Rong's Western Qi army in this Jishui area as much as possible.

And both Han Xin and Su Teng had no objection to Wang Li's tactical arrangement. Because they still have a lot of confidence in Wang Li and the officers and soldiers under their command.

In this plain area on the south bank of Jishui, the two flanks of the Qin army launched a fierce attack on the two flanks of the Western Qi army, especially the crossbow chariot troops under the command of Han Xin and Su Teng slowly advanced to open the way, and shot the relatively poorly equipped forward troops of the Western Qi army on their backs.

The commander of the left wing of the Western Qi army, the general of the Western Qi Dynasty, Tian Zhen, had no experience in confrontation with the Qin army, and at the beginning of the battle, he was almost killed by a dense group of strong crossbows because he was at the forefront of the battle.

Tian Zhen, who had managed to save his life, had to order his troops to reorganize their formations and quickly retreat to a relatively safe area.

In fact, this relatively safe area, for Tian Zhen, is located in the rear of the troops.

Tian Zhen, who did this kind of thing, although he directly avoided the attack range of the crossbow chariot troops, but the morale blow to the left wing troops of the Western Qi Army was not ordinary.

Because many officers and soldiers of the Western Qi Army, although they did not mutiny because of this situation, the minds of many officers fluctuated greatly.

Su Teng, who commanded this army to fight, naturally didn't know that he was almost surprised, but for the Western Qi army, which was basically unable to fight back, Su Teng knew very well that this kind of start was quite good.

Because of the Western Qi army in front of him, although the casualties suffered temporarily were not too great, the opponent's formation was chaotic, which showed that the combat effectiveness of this Western Qi army could not pose a direct threat to the right-wing Qin army troops under his command at all.

Seeing this situation, Su Teng didn't think about directly letting the army cover the past, but seeing that the troops of the Chinese army had not yet clashed with the Western Qi army, to avoid being suppressed by the other party's mobilization of reinforcements, Su Teng did not stimulate the other party too much at this time.

However, the Western Qi army obviously did not have a way to effectively counterattack the Qin army's crossbow chariot troops, although the troops of the Western Qi army were also equipped with no less than 100 horse chariots, but these chariots had not yet launched an impact on the crossbow chariots, and even did not approach the range of the bows and crossbows equipped with the light chariots of these chariots, so they were uniformly equipped with a large number of crossbow chariots and light chariots fired crossbow chariots to kill and injure people or war horses.

If it weren't for the fact that the black powder weapons at this time were indeed extremely crumbling, Zhang Jiashi would not mind installing some simple iron plates to upgrade these crossbow combat vehicles into armored vehicles.

The improvement of the effectiveness of the current black powder weapon is a big problem, although Zhang Jiashi is not stingy with research in this area in the Great Qin military construction, but Zhang Jiashi still has no way to achieve effective results in terms of range in so many years.

According to the proportion of gunpowder, Zhang Jiashi still found a golden ratio of gunpowder formula after investing in so many years, but limited by the effectiveness of black powder, Zhang Jiashi had to veto the mass production plan of individual black powder weapons in many cases.

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After reorganizing the core of the Great Qin military construction - Xianyang military construction, Zhang Jiashi gradually achieved considerable results in hot weapons in the past few years.

Rear charge muskets, rear charge light howitzers, paper ammunition, these are the aspects that Zhang Jiashi believes have achieved good results in thermal weapons.

However, in contrast to the range of strong crossbows, which often exceeded five or six hundred meters, Zhang Jiashi could not tolerate that these hot weapons only had an effective range of about 100 meters at most.

Moreover, in terms of cost, the cost of these hot weapons, calculated according to a single one, is not too much, but if the overall data of the scrap rate is extremely high, Zhang Jiashi has to give up the idea of mass production of these hot weapons.

The weight of the light howitzer can still be used as a fast maneuver, but what Zhang Jiashi lacks is the way to effectively polish the barrel, and the use of mold pouring as an effective means of casting the barrel proves that this method will still make the barrel have many flaws, which are likely to cause the gunpowder to be burned unevenly and cause the gun to explode.

This is also what makes Zhang Jiashi helpless.

It's not that he hasn't thought of using a more efficient way to cast cannon barrels, but Zhang Jiashi, who lacks corresponding machines at the moment, and doesn't even have the theory of these machines, is really a clever woman in this regard.

Zhang Jiashi naturally wants to have good things, but under the condition that these conditions are insufficient, Zhang Jiashi has no intention of mass-producing these weapons and equipment for the time being, although they have a mass production basis, but actually lack actual combat significance.

This is also one of Zhang Jiashi's considerations in this regard.

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It's just that although the equipment of the Qin army has not yet made a direct transition from cold weapons to hot weapons, the current equipment of the Qin army is more than enough to bully the Western Qi army with these equipment of poor quality.

After Han Xin and Su Teng's left and right flanks fought for nearly an hour, the left flank of the Western Qi army was still unable to resist the offensive of the Qin army and retreated.

This does not blame the commander of the Western Qi Army, Tian Zhen's ineffective command, but the equipment configuration of the left flank of the Western Qi Army is simply unable to resist the increasing number of strong crossbowmen of the Qin army who arrive at the front line to support shooting.

The heavy crossbows of these strong crossbowmen are basically the matching of the crossbow chariots.

And the range of these Qin army's strong crossbowmen, because some factors are closer than the crossbow chariot, but in fact, there is no difference, the number of Qin army's strong crossbowmen after cooperating with the robe on the crossbow chariot for suppressive shooting, the price paid by the Western Qi army began to become very heavy.

Many of the infantry of the Western Qi Army with wooden shields in their hands have not yet reacted, and they will find that the wooden shields in their hands are simply unable to effectively resist the arrows fired by the strong crossbows.

These arrows have to shoot through the thin wooden shields in the hands of the infantry of the Western Qi Army, which are mainly installed, in fact, it also depends on the character, but it is obvious that the wooden shields in the hands of the infantry of the Western Qi Army cannot effectively resist the attacks of these arrows.

Once this kind of wooden shield of the Western Qi army's imitation of the Qin army's phalanx large shield soldiers was shot through, these shield soldiers would have to pay a very heavy price.

Many shield soldiers have their forearms pierced by crossbows that penetrate their shields, and then they are either pinned together by the crossbow and shields, or the crossbows go directly through the opponent's body, inflicting heavy damage on the opponent.

It can be said that the construction of heavy infantry like Tian Rong, although there are also some skins of the heavy infantry units under Zhang Jiashi, but more, for Zhang Jiashi and the officers and soldiers of Qin, these enemies are not worth paying too much attention to at all.

Of course, although Qi has experienced wars and disasters in the past two years, for Tian Rong, it is not a big problem to form an elite army. After all, even if it hurts the muscles and bones, the area of Xiqi still has a certain amount of confidence.

When the troops on both wings gradually could not support it, Tian Rong finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched an attack on Wang Li's Chinese troops.

A heavy infantry unit with similar equipment to the Qin army, under the opening of more than 200 chariots, the heavy infantry of the Western Qi army of nearly 3,000 people launched a charge against Wang Li's army.

For this army, Zhang Jiashi still has some attention in his heart, but the other party rushed over so directly, even if they are equipped with iron shields in their hands, I am afraid that they will not be able to avoid one thing, that is, they were plotted by one of Zhang Jiashi's weapons, and then paid a very heavy price.

Although Zhang Jiashi did not plan to mass-produce individual thermal weapons, it does not mean that Zhang Jiashi did not plan to use gunpowder weapons.

In a group wearing the uniform of the Zhonglang Legion, supplemented by corresponding markings, representing them as the pro-guard army of the Great Qin Empire, the officers and soldiers of the Zhonglang Legion under the command of Lang Zhongling Yuyong quickly took out a gunpowder arrow with multiple layers of paper tied to the middle and soaked in oil from the quiver on the left side of his waist.

After these rockets were ignited and launched, they fell into the formation of many Qi officers and soldiers.

The range of these gunpowder arrows is not very good, even if they are projectile at 45 degrees, they can only shoot about 270 meters. But for Zhang Jiashi, these gunpowder arrows were an effective means of dealing with such heavy infantry.