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The arrangement of this battle formation is mainly a defensive formation to deal with the enemy's large number of cavalry against the Qin army's troops who are fighting with multiple arms.

After combining the corresponding insights on Genghis Khan's big fish scale array and Bai Qi in the Qingyu Lingshu, Zhang Jiashi believed that the disadvantages and advantages of this field defense formation using knight troops as a reserve combat force in the rear were relatively obvious.

The disadvantage of this formation is that it cannot give full play to the corresponding mobile combat ability of the knight unit, which makes the knight class seem to have little effect on the battlefield.

Because the knightly troops of this formation will only play their role in three situations.

The first is that if the forward troops cannot resist the enemy's attack, the knight troops will attack and launch harassment operations against the enemy's flanks to reduce the relative pressure on the frontal defense troops.

Second, when the front line troops are in a fierce battle, and the enemy suddenly appears in the rear, the knight troops at this time will also carry out a counterattack against these raiding enemy troops.

The third is that when the front line troops collapse, the knight troops need to attack to delay the enemy's pursuit of the infantry units, so that more officers and soldiers can survive and maintain the corresponding combat effectiveness of this unit.

After all, even if the battle is defeated and retreated, as long as the number of veterans of a unit does not decrease but increases, or a certain number is maintained, then the efficiency of reorganizing this force will undoubtedly be twice the result with half the effort.

Although this situation can be regarded as an advantage no matter how you look at it, it is undeniable that such a situation is undoubtedly a very passive situation that needs to play an effect.

Of course, there are some obvious advantages to such a battle formation:

The first advantage is that the defensive ability of this battle formation will not be affected by the combat of the knight troops.

On the battlefield, knightly units often need to be interspersed with combat, and once a fairly large force is entangled with the enemy on the front line, it can be a big problem for the crossbowmen who are covering the fire. Because once the knightly forces between the two sides were entangled in a scuffle, the arrows fired by these crossbowmen could accidentally injure the robes of their allies. This is a taboo for soldiers.

And such a situation is not easy to avoid by a well-trained army, after all, the accuracy of long-range support arrows is not good is the most critical factor.

The second advantage: the knight troops can rest accordingly on the battlefield, which is undoubtedly a threat to the enemy in a favorable situation, after all, the knight troops' melee ability is not very good, but it cannot be denied that a new force is a deadly existence for the enemy with serious physical exertion.

The third advantage is that the knight troops can deal with many unexpected combat situations for the entire battle array during the battle.

Just like this time, the Huns sent a large number of horsemen to detour to the flanks of the battle formation and harass the battle formation interspersed with the Qin army, and Chen Heng and Su Luan directly led the knights under their command to contain the Huns' troops after receiving Su Jiao's order.

This kind of combat method can effectively avoid the corresponding danger on the flank of the battle formation, of course, such a combat arrangement is not omnipotent, after all, if the knight force can not resist the offensive of the enemy's harassing troops, then there is still a very big danger for the flank of this army.

The fourth advantage is that if the enemy is unable to hold out in the first place or because they cannot effectively break through the frontal defense of the battle formation, these knights with more physical strength will become a kind of nightmare for these enemy's retreating troops.

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It can be said that this kind of battle formation has indeed subverted Su Jiao's past cognition, but it is undeniable that this kind of battle formation is indeed quite suitable for dealing with such a combat environment in many ways. And with the containment of those sandbag defense systems, it became very difficult for the Huns to directly impact the defensive troops in front of the battle formation, and in the case of a stalemate in the battle, once the Huns' impact ability was greatly weakened, then the Huns' own cavalry advantage would not be so obvious.

From this, it is not surprising that Su Jiao guessed that the Huns would send additional troops to attack the flanks or even the rear.

For Su Jiao, they have won this war.

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Before the knightly forces of the two sides collided, the arrows fired by both sides flew towards each other.

Many Qin troops and more Huns paid the corresponding price in this confrontation with each other.

The injuries suffered by many Qin officers and soldiers were not too serious, because the defensive equipment of the Huns was much behind the Qin knights on the whole.

Although it is said that due to the consideration of mobility and the weight limit of the horses, most of the Qin knights were only equipped with leather armor ordered by Zhang Jiashi to resume production again.

This is because leather armor is lighter and more flexible than iron armor.

Zhang Jiashi didn't think about one point, that is, let these knights also wear paper armor, but it is not a good idea to use paper armor on cavalry.

Because the leather armor made by the corresponding production process has a certain warmth ability and is more wear-resistant. And the paper armor obviously does not have this advantage, and in Zhang Jiashi's thinking, fighting on the territory of the Huns is basically autumn, if it is delayed for a certain time, then it will be winter.

Leather armor is more effective in such a situation than paper armor.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi does not think that the paper armor has no effect of keeping warm and windproof at all, but it is undeniable that the paper armor is not resistant to friction is also an indisputable fact.

The wear resistance of paper armor is very poor, and it is very likely that after a knight gallops on a horse for a day, part of the paper armor will be worn to varying degrees, which is undoubtedly very fatal.

This is not to say that the quality of the paper armor is very inferior, but the corresponding production process does not improve the effect of the paper armor's anti-wear ability.

Therefore, for Zhang Jiashi, who is more in pursuit of a corresponding degree of practicality, paper armor is not a good choice for equipping cavalry troops.

Iron armor has a much better defensive ability than leather armor, but it is undeniable that knights equipped with iron armor have a significant impact on their mobility and the horse's endurance in terms of weight. After all, in many cases, even if a knight can bear the weight of iron armor, not necessarily the Central Plains horse breed that is not excellent on the whole will have this kind of situation that can withstand a whole day of running without any effect.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly a very stupid thing to install iron armor on the cavalry unit on a large scale, and it may even lead to many horses lying on their stomachs because they cannot bear the overall weight on their horses in battle.

The number of war horses in the Great Qin Empire was relatively small, and it could not withstand too much attrition at all. If a knight does not have his own war horse, the role he can play is not much stronger than that of a Qin infantryman.

So, the defense of the Piza armor is not very good overall, but it is undeniable that it is the most suitable equipment to equip the knight troops at the moment.

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Zhang Jiashi also did not think about replacing the cavalry's leather armor with a fish-scale armor-style equipment.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the corresponding prototype of fish scale armor has appeared, and in the Great Qin Empire, fish scale armor has also become the armor of senior officers in Zhongzhong.

Among the terracotta warriors and horses excavated by the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum in later generations, there are unearthed fish scale armor military officials pottery figurines:

From June 13, 2009, the third excavation of the No. 1 pit of the Qin Warriors began. After nearly a year of excavation, 120 terracotta figurines and a large number of exquisite cultural relics were unearthed. Xu Weihong, the leader of the archaeological excavation team of the No. 1 pit of the Qin Warriors, said that one of the highlights of the excavation was the discovery of a military figurine wearing fish scale armor behind the first group of chariots. This is the highest-ranking terracotta warrior that has been excavated so far.

This can be regarded as proof that the Qin Dynasty already had a standard type of fish scale armor.

Overall, the Fish Scale Armor's defense is much better than that of the Razor Armor. Under the same material, the overall defense ability of the fish scale armor is stronger than that of the armor.

The Ichthacea's characteristics make it relatively better defensive: the rope that braids the armor is hidden under the armor, which minimizes the possibility of being cut by a sharp weapon. The armor can be retracted, and the overlapping armor pieces are superimposed again, and the overall protection thickness can be adjusted with the bending degree at will. The steel armor is braided on the leather with ropes, and the leather goods are purchased as the last protective barrier, and under the blow of the blunt weapon from the front, it is not a loose individual, but a whole like plate armor, and in the point area, to deal with sharp weapons such as bows and arrows and spears, the hard and inclined armor surface can make the tip of the arrow gun pass by, and the overall protection is very high.

However, there are three main factors that have affected Zhang Jiashi's inability to make this armor with relatively better defensive power, and these three factors are basically directly related to the corresponding characteristics of the fish scale armor:

The first, the cost of production.

When the fish scale armor is unfolded, only 4 pieces of armor are superimposed, and when it shrinks with human activities, it is as high as 8-10 pieces of superimposed thickness, and the thickness of this superposition is not comparable to that of plate armor.

This feature shows that the scale armor has a strong defense, and in some ways is even stronger than the plate armor. However, the demand for this kind of small armor has a certain specification, and the number of armor pieces in a fish scale armor is very large, which also creates that the cost of fish scale armor is much higher than that of the armor.

This also led to the point that only middle and high-ranking officers in the military would be issued with fish scale armor, because the cost of installing fish scale armor was unaffordable even in the Song Dynasty.

The second, the difficulty of repair.

The rope that braids the nail piece is hidden under the nail plate, which minimizes the possibility of being cut by a sharp object. The armor can be retracted, and the overlapping armor pieces are superimposed again, and the overall protection thickness can be adjusted with the bending degree at will. The steel armor is braided on the leather with ropes, and the leather goods are purchased as the last protective barrier, and under the blow of the blunt weapon from the front, it is not a loose individual, but a whole like plate armor, and in the point area, to deal with sharp weapons such as bows and arrows and spears, the hard and inclined armor surface can make the tip of the arrow gun pass by, and the overall protection is very high.

This description effectively illustrates the excellent defensive ability of the fish scale armor. But it also said that once the parts of a fish scale armor are damaged, it is not so easy to repair.

First of all, the base piece of this composite armor is a whole, once one side of this fish scale armor is pierced or there is an obvious split, this one base piece is likely to be refurnace or even scrapped directly.

Even if there is no obvious damage to the base piece, if you want to repair the damaged fish scale armor, you must remove the base part of the fish scale armor before replacing it with a new one. The process of this step can be said to be more complicated.

In many cases, the nail rope in the damaged part needs to be removed and replaced with a new one. This is something that cannot be compared to the fish scale armor. Moreover, the maintenance of the armor is relatively simple, and many veterans know how to replace the armor when they have materials, but the maintenance of the fish scale armor is sometimes not necessarily easy to complete even if it is a maintenance blacksmith who has not touched the fish scale armor.

Finally, there is the weight of the scale armor itself.

Because of the presence of armor pieces and base parts, fish scale armor is often much heavier than armor of the same material. In many cases, a leather fish scale armor is not much lighter than an iron scale armor.

In such a situation, the main reason why Zhang Jiashi could not make up his mind was that the weight of the fish scale armor was the main reason why mobility was more urgent for a force like a knight than for defensive capabilities.

The defensive ability of a leather fish scale armor is much better than that of a leather scale armor, but the defensive ability of a leather fish scale armor may not be comparable to that of an iron armor. After all, the defensive capabilities shown by the corresponding materials are different, but in the case of little difference in weight, Zhang Jiashi has more considerations, if it is really necessary to improve the defense ability of the knight troops in this regard, Tiezha armor is obviously the first choice under all considerations.

However, even if Zhang Jiashi did not have armor with better performance, in terms of defensive ability, the knights of the Qin army who used leather armor as standard equipment were better than the fur fur or leather coats on most of the riders of the Huns.

The Huns' weapon armor production technology, although it is not too bad, even if it is made of bronze or iron armor, there is no problem, but because of the problem of raw materials, the Huns, who did not mine and smelt metal minerals on a large scale, can only use armor as a small number of elite equipment.

The impact of the equipment gap between the two sides was once again felt in the second collision between the two sides.