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During this period, although the Xiongnu had a huge increase in power, and the territory even reached the Baikal area in later generations, the technological level of the Xiongnu was still not as strong as that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info, please search for the product #book.com to see the most complete and fastest update

In the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located, when the Han Dynasty was first established, there was a lot of gap between the level of science and technology and the peak of the Qin Dynasty due to various negative traumas of the war, not to mention the comparison of national strength.

Therefore, before and after the siege of Baishan Mountain, in terms of military science and technology, the Xiongnu have vaguely equaled the Han Empire in the Central Plains and even surpassed it in some aspects.

At the very least, the Han Dynasty did not use the Qin Dynasty's crossbows on a large scale to equip its troops.

Although the performance of the Qin Dynasty's hand crossbow is incomparable to the stronger pouting crossbow and even the bed crossbow, it is undeniable that the popularity of the Qin army's hand crossbow is one of the greatest sources of power for the Qin army's battle array.

After all, there is a big difference between hand crossbows and even bed crossbows in terms of performance, but the production method of hand crossbows is relatively simple, and the number of mass production is also very large.

Although Zhang Jiashi did not have a plan to install hand crossbows on a large scale, because of the mass production method of strong crossbows, the military industrial system under Zhang Jiashi had mastered the production method of strong crossbows that were not much slower than hand crossbows and had better performance.

This also helped Zhang Jiashi to equip his troops with new types of strong crossbows.

However, the assault cavalry under Zhang Jiashi's command, except for some personnel who were good at cavalry and archery, equipped many cavalry of the new cavalry unit with hand crossbows in Zhang Jiashi.

Among the original old-style cavalry units, the number of officers and men equipped with hand crossbows was not too large. This is because Zhang Jiashi attached great importance to the production of hand crossbows relatively late, and could not meet the needs of most cavalry officers and soldiers in terms of production capacity.

In this regard, Zhang Jiashi admits that this is an oversight on his part, but it is undeniable that the production capacity of the military industry under Zhang Jiashi's command is so much, if everything is really taken into account, then it will inevitably share the production capacity of the military industry and delay the production of some weapons that should be more important.

This is also something that Zhang Jiashi must take into account.

Zhang Jiashi naturally also knew that although he could increase the production capacity of the military industry, this would inevitably gradually meet the production needs of other weapons in a short period of time. But for Zhang Jiashi. It is very difficult to get him to make such a decision.

Because simply expanding production can certainly meet the short-term capacity gap. But it's not a good idea in the long run.

Because even if the number of the Great Qin Emperor's army reached more than one million again, once the armed configuration of this kind of force was saturated, the surplus of the remaining military production capacity would inevitably be a waste.

Zhang Jiashi is well aware that once there is overcapacity in this area. It was not a good thing for the military system of the Great Qin Empire.

The first point. The cost of producing equipment was basically maintained by the financial income of the Great Qin Empire and the appropriation of Zhang Jiashi's own trade profits. If it weren't for Zhang Jiashi's mastery of a lot of profiteering production capacity industries, I'm afraid Zhang Jiashi would have been so poor that he would have to sell all his underwear.

In such a situation, if he rashly increases the production capacity of the military industry, in a short period of time, Zhang Jiashi can still maintain a certain degree of the cost of weapons production, but in the long run, this bottomless pit, even if it is a rich country, will not be able to meet the huge investment in this area.

So, in terms of the financial implications. Zhang Jiashi does not think that expanding production capacity is a good thing. Moreover, the Great Qin Empire is currently in ruins, and although the tax revenue of the Great Qin Empire is due to the expansion and gradual recovery of commercial and agricultural development, it has greatly improved compared with the troubled times at the end of the Qin Dynasty. However, for the Great Qin Empire, which required considerable expenses everywhere, such a gradual increase in tax revenue was largely beyond its means.

Although Zhang Jiashi did not calculate in detail how much money he paid out of his own pocket for the Great Qin Empire, Zhang Jiashi knew more about it. This cost is estimated to be able to rebuild a new Xianyang city in a short period of time.

Investing all the profits in the military system of the Great Qin Empire is undoubtedly a disguised kind of reckless militarism, because a country with relatively strong military power and a large degree of development in the military industry will inevitably lose the balance of the entire country's finances and corresponding categories by ignoring the development of other aspects, and eventually embark on a path similar to that before the collapse of the Soviet Union in later generations.

Again, this is not what Zhang Jiashi wants to see.

So in terms of weapons production capacity. In addition to the "secondary" equipment that Zhang Jiashi had to produce and install, the production of weapons was more based on the balance between needs as a standard.

Second, as far as the situation of the Great Qin Empire is concerned, the hand crossbow is a weapon that is more suitable for the configuration of cavalry troops, while the infantry troops are still dominated by strong bows and crossbows.

Hand crossbows are suitable for cavalry troops, which is inevitable, because crossbows at the level of strong crossbows. Very few people are able to operate on horseback. And the strong crossbow is not that it can no longer be used on horseback, but in terms of accuracy and the number of fires, the strong crossbow is undoubtedly much worse in terms of positive standards.

The range of the hand crossbow is relatively short, but it can also allow the knight to make the crossbow fired by the hand crossbow in the corresponding effective range, with relative accuracy. However, the accuracy of the crossbow is difficult for the knight to control because of its weight, and it is difficult to compare with the crossbow on the quasi-head.

And this alone is not the biggest problem, the crossbow is equipped in cavalry units, and except for a few who are very skilled in horsemanship, they can reload on horseback and on running horses.

As far as Zhang Jiashi's understanding is concerned, even if it is Chen Heng, it is difficult to do this. Because Chen Heng's archery skills are already among the people Zhang Jiashi knows, he is among the very good candidates, but because his equestrian skills are not very skilled, so in terms of this problem, Chen Heng wants to reload a strong crossbow on horseback, and the success rate is also very low.

Among the people Zhang Jiashi knows, there are no more than ten people who can do this.

Yu Yong, Su Teng, Li Xin, and Huan Feng are the people Zhang Jiashi is sure to be able to do this, while several other people, such as Yang Wengzi, a veteran of the Northern Xinjiang Legion, Zhang Jiashi has not seen this superb skill with his own eyes, so he can only count the other party as a potential crossbow cavalry master.

And Long Ji and Xiang Yu, in terms of the strength of the two, there should be no problem if they want to do this. According to Yu Da, who is now the county lieutenant under the command of Yu Zi, Long Ji's riding skills are not much worse than Xiang Yu, if the mount under Long Ji's crotch can be compared to Xiang Yu, maybe Xiang Yu's skills in this area are slightly inferior to Long Yu.

In other words, if you want to effectively play the due efficiency of a strong crossbow on horseback, you can basically be regarded as a master. And it's above the top level

Well, Zhang Jiashi really wanted to know where he could find so many masters to form an army alone

This is no longer considered fanciful. And it's something that you can't daydream about.

The effectiveness of a crossbow in the hands of most cavalrymen is often to fire a crossbow that is loaded before mounting. These cavalrymen then tend to throw away the larger crossbows and replace them with other bows and crossbows, or even engage in hand-to-hand combat.

This kind of efficiency can be regarded as a very violent thing in a sense, after all, it doesn't take too long to make a strong crossbow, but its cost is not something that Zhang Jiashi can ignore. If the vast majority of the cavalry did this, I am afraid that Zhang Jiashi himself would have to cry poor for this "waste".

Hand crossbows, on the other hand, are not too difficult to reload, as long as they are not too bad at equestrian skills, or even those who have never ridden a horse at all, to use a hand crossbow on horseback to fight.

The assault cavalry is equipped with a certain number of hand crossbows. Although it is very likely that they will not be able to fight the opponent's strong archers in terms of range, but more, for these people, this kind of dense and relatively accurate crossbow shooting is much stronger than the archers.

This is also the reason why Zhang Jiashi intends to popularize hand crossbows for a large number of new assault cavalry.

And among the cavalry, especially for the recruits. The difficulty of using a crossbow and the corresponding efficiency are better than that of a bow and arrow. Because there is already a consensus that crossbows are easier to use than bows.

Of course, crossbows are generally not the army's first long-range weapon configuration compared to bows, mainly because crossbows are much more expensive than bows. And in terms of maintenance. Crossbows are more complex than bows, and are comparatively more expensive to repair.

This has also become the fundamental reason why the proportion of crossbows in the history of later wars is generally small.

Zhang Jiashi's vigorous development of crossbow equipment has become a mystery for later historians, because they do not think that Zhang Jiashi could not see that the crossbow was a weapon that required national strength and military technology very strictly, and that Zhang Jiashi and the previous monarchs of the Great Qin Empire were in charge of the foreign expansion. The number of crossbowmen in the Great Qin Empire, including the assault cavalry with crossbow cavalry as the main body, was not too small, but was maintained at a benchmark ratio that was difficult to compare with later generations.

In this regard, what they did not understand was that at that time, the Great Qin Empire already had a certain firearms base.

As far as firearms at that time are concerned, although the cost is not too low, the cost of firearms is not too high compared to crossbows.

Some historians believe that Zhang Jiashi's long-range strike policy was a very important reason for the Great Qin Empire's vigorous development of crossbowmen during this period. Because the performance of firearms at that time was very poor, and there may be a certain gap in terms of range, even compared with hand crossbows, which means that Zhang Jiashi's long-range strike policy became the main reason why firearms could not be used on a large scale at that time.

And if Zhang Jiashi knew the comments of these historians, he might have said some of his thoughts:

"You did say something, but in terms of firearms at that time, there was no capital for mass production or even assembly. The power of firearms is, of course, enormous, and the use of firearms in the circumstances of the time does have unintended effects in a number of ways. But if the reliability of the firearm is too poor, it is more efficient for this thing to pit its own people or kill the enemy on the battlefield."

Zhang Jiashi did not think about the development of small-caliber muskets, but this kind of thing is more of an illusion.

First of all, small-caliber firearms, such as arquebuses, are a scientific and technological problem that the Great Qin Empire cannot overcome at present.

And Zhang Jiashi didn't think about one point, that is, to drum out the assault gun

However, after actual tests, a lot of the data of the assault rifle was used by deception.

It's like the so-called 230-meter range, which is often the maximum range rather than the effective range, and the worse point is that the assault rifle is easily ignited or fails to ignite or even explodes because of too much moisture

This is not the main reason why Zhang Jiashi officially vetoed the assault rifle, but the main reason, that is, the kind of metal chips that are sprayed out, after 100 meters, for the personnel wearing a sackcloth, its lethality is basically negligible, not to mention the leather clothes that are much stronger than the linen clothes in defense. Zhang Jiashi knew with his knees that this thing was a one-time thing for the cavalry of Mercedes-Benz

And the situation of arquebuses is not good, no matter how experienced arquebus gunners, the fastest rate of fire in this regard is one shot a minute, which is still the loading speed in a fairly ideal combat environment.

It can be said that the actual combat efficiency of the arquebus is not very useful. And an experienced crossbowman can fire a crossbow again in ten seconds or even less, not to mention an archer.

This is also the reason why Zhang Jiashi finally abandoned this primitive gunpowder weapon.

And as far as the corresponding production technology is concerned, even if a skilled craftsman is used to make a set of molds that can produce hollow metal pipes, the efficiency of the molds can be guaranteed to a certain extent, but the Great Qin Empire does not have the technology to directly produce molten steel at present, and the use of molten iron to pour this kind of barrel will inevitably be quite poor in terms of performance, and there may even be a high probability of explosion.

It can be said that Zhang Jiashi, after seeing the reluctantly produced arquebus samples and their corresponding combat efficiency, finally gave up the idea of developing his own armament in this area.

Because for Zhang Jiashi, these weapons, as Bai Qi said, do not have the premise of improving the army's actual combat capability, but on the contrary, will drag down the army's combat efficiency to a certain extent.

Dividing line

And in this battle, the Huns saw the superiority of the weapons and equipment brought by a traverser, and the reality of turning the tide of the battle was not finished.

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