Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Blood of Hangu 6

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This is not to say that the combat effectiveness of the Qin army is not good, but on the contrary, that is, under the development of such a battle situation, the Qin army troops with heavy losses have not been replenished too much, and although the casualties of the Chu officers and soldiers are even greater, they themselves are in a relative advantage in numbers, and in such a situation, it is not surprising that such a result occurred.

After all, even if the Qin army killed or wounded two or three or even more enemy troops, once one of them died in battle or had to evacuate the battlefield for various reasons, then such a situation would become quite unfavorable to the Qin army.

Besides, in terms of the military strength of the Liaodong Army, although defensive operations are not their weak point, it is undeniable that the defenders of the Liaodong Army as the main force show their greatest combat capability not in the defensive battle but in the category of multi-arm coordinated field warfare.

In terms of pure arms operations, the advantage of the Liaodong Army was not obvious, while the other side also occupied a relative numerical advantage. After Han Xin's initial arrangement evolved into a tug-of-war on the wall of Hangu Pass, the two sides directly evolved into a battle for each other's refueling.

Han Xin regretted doing this, but he soon received an order from Huan Feng that his troops, including him, the commander of the command, must retreat and rest.

Han Xin, who received such an order, did not refute such an order, but nodded silently.

However, when he returned to the west of the Hangu Pass Wall, he saw a group of officers and soldiers of the troops, building a kind of catapult frame that he had never seen.

Han Xin had never seen such a catapult, but he could know that this kind of thing should be very powerful.

And after he got off the wall, he saw that Huan Feng was communicating with the two people. And these two people, Han Xin naturally knew each other.

After all, whether it is Chen Heng, who has known each other for a long time, or Li Zuoche, who is a high-ranking civilian official in the Liaodong military system, it is impossible for Han Xin not to know him.

But Han Xin didn't talk to Chen Heng and Li Zuoche, because Huan Feng looked at him silently for a while before he said: "Captain Han, you did this, of course, so that the enemy army could not give full play to the advantage of that number of bows and crossbows, but if you lose control of the wall, once the soldiers can't support it, don't talk about this result, even General Ben and General Ruan can't afford it." ”

Although Huan Feng did not blame Han Xin loudly, Han Xin knew very well that in such a matter, Huan Feng was thinking about his tactics from another angle, and it was not wrong.

After all, from Huan Feng's point of view, it is no longer as simple as how to control the battle situation well, and it is also necessary to take into account the combat situation of the entire army.

In such a situation, Han Xin, who really cheated Huan Feng and many officers and soldiers, could only apologize in a low voice: "General Huan, this matter is indeed the fault of his subordinates. ”

Huan Feng shook his head and sighed softly: "Han Duwei, maybe your original intention is good, but you should also think about one point, that is, the king is in this place, and the Great Qin Empire is in such a place, there is no room for error." ”

After Huan Feng said this, he gently patted Han Xin's shoulder, and then left the side of several people, responsible for mobilizing troops to go to the city to support.

Li Zuoche and Chen Heng, who were watching such a situation from the sidelines, did not speak, after all, Chen Heng did not know too much about this situation, and it could even be said that he did not understand what kind of situation this was at all.

And Li Zuoche is still relatively clear about this situation, but he is not good at saying anything. In such a situation, it would be difficult for his strategy to reverse this situation, which could only be a competition for each other's strength.

But to say that Li Zuoche didn't have any ideas can't be said like that. In such a situation, if Li Zuoche thought that he had nothing to do, then he would not immediately let these transported trebuchets assemble and put them into battle.

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Half an hour ago, the arrival of Li Zuoche and the transport force commanded by Chen Heng made Huan Feng overjoyed.

After all, in such a situation, as long as the items brought by Chen Heng's troops or themselves have a certain combat effectiveness, then it is a good thing for the front front.

He soon went to see Chen Heng and Li Zuoche in person.

After a short exchange of greetings and exchanges, Huan Feng knew that the transport team commanded by Chen Heng and Li Zuoche had actually brought thirty new trebuchets and forty thousand spears, although he didn't understand the combat significance of these spears too well, but after getting the news of the thirty trebuchets, Huan Feng's tired face showed a smile again.

After all, trebuchets are indeed limited by the place of battle and the environment in which they are located.

But there is no denying that when properly applied, thirty trebuchets can be as useful as a reinforcement of five thousand.

Not to mention, the escort team commanded by Chen Heng this time has reached 3,000 people, and in such a situation, Chen Heng and Li Zuoche are tantamount to bringing thousands of troops.

Those spears were first distributed to the officers and soldiers of Liaodong who knew how to use them.

In addition to being common to crossbow arrows and being able to throw twenty or thirty meters at the same time, this short-handled spear can also be used as a short spear in hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, after many Liaodong officers and soldiers were assigned a weapon like a spear, they quickly transferred the medium-handled glaive knife in their hands to the robes of other systems.

Although it is said that Zhang Jiashi has popularized the standard equipment of the Liaodong Army to the Northern Xinjiang Army as much as possible, it is undeniable that with the production capacity of the Liaodong Military Construction and the Jixian Military Manufacturing, it is very difficult to fully install these standard equipment in just two or three months.

Not to mention, after the Battle of Julu, the equipment consumption of the officers and soldiers in Liaodong themselves was also very serious, which further slowed down Zhang Jiashi's equipment replacement plan.

Although Zhang Jiashi has not been able to achieve such a situation as unifying equipment specifications until now, such a result is not a bad thing in terms of the current situation.

Although there is a certain gap between the equipment system of the Great Qin Empire itself and the current standard supporting system of the Liaodong Army, whether it is the number of products or the penetration rate of these equipment in the Guanzhong area, it is far behind the specifications of Liaodong County.

This is also the reason why many ordnance has not been lacking until now.

If Liaodong County's own standard equipment is used uniformly, I am afraid that not only Cao Shen's hair will turn gray, but even Yuzi and many people will follow in such a footsteps.

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Soon, these Qin troops, armed with spears and assigned long knives of that standard, joined the battle.

They did not become a firefighting team, but under the command of two or five hundred lords of the Liaodong Army, they once again assembled a battle formation.

Although some Qin officers and soldiers were unable to effectively coordinate this mode of warfare, this kind of battle formation quickly brought into play their due capabilities.

That is, after a large number of spear throwers threw the spears in their hands at the coalition officers and soldiers in front of them, the wooden shields in the hands of some officers and soldiers alone could not effectively block the defense of this kind of spear throwing with excellent armor-piercing ability.

At the same time, when the coalition infantry lacks long-range attack capabilities, many people are often directly pierced through the body by another wave of a dozen or even dozens of throwing spears when they rush over.

Of course, the maximum number of spears that each spear thrower could carry was only five, so soon, the spears in the hands of these spearthrowers were consumed before they could be connected with the short handles of the allied officers and soldiers.

Of course, this is not to say that these Qin officers and soldiers have no combat ability, but many Qin officers and soldiers directly drew out the long swords that were gathered together and then distributed with the throwing spears, and rushed towards the coalition forces.

They naturally knew very well that if they rushed forward, few people would be able to retreat, but they would not regret it, because they did not feel that it was not a good deal to sell their lives to Zhang Jiashi.

According to the Liaodong Army's own pension system, their families can receive quite good pensions and care.

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After Zhang Jiashi arrived in Liaodong County, he revised the model of the Great Qin Empire's military merit and developed a military merit system and a pension system that although it looked more attractive without the military merit title, it had more actual benefits.

Although Zhang Jiashi doesn't think that the title is useless at all, he also doesn't think that this kind of thing is really necessary for a country.

Especially the hereditary military merit title, although it is one of the foundations and roots of the Great Qin Empire's own strength, but for long-term considerations, this kind of thing is strictly speaking more disadvantageous.

Not to mention anything else, several dynasties in later generations alone can be regarded as being dragged down by the heavy pressure brought by the nobles or the descendants of the royal family.

To avoid the recurrence of such a problem, Zhang Jiashi firmly supported the county system of the First Emperor, and also carried out many reforms.

Especially after the death of the First Emperor and the official semi-independence of the Liaodong Army from the strength of Xianyang, Zhang Jiashi officially began the reform in this regard.

He buys back the titles of officers and soldiers with knighthoods for a certain amount of money. Of course, such a thing has not been completely implemented in the Liaodong Army until now, after all, the amount involved, Zhang Jiashi cannot take it lightly.

At the same time, Zhang Jiashi adopted various tax reductions and exemptions to compensate in accordance with the corresponding preferential treatment policy for military merit of those who confiscated the title.

Among them, the civil lord level is a single option, with a number of years of tax exemption. The highest fourth-class knight is 25 percent of the individual tax reduction for 15 years.

In terms of the rank of the officer, it is to choose two or multiple tax deductions, and the year is also different.

Among them, the highest officer, the ninth rank of the fifth doctor, is 40% of the three tax reductions for 20 years.

This method is applicable to almost all officers and soldiers in Liaodong, and it is basically applicable to most of the Central Army Corps and the Northern Xinjiang Army Corps. After all, although Zhang Jiashi is now a king, strictly speaking, he is also a fourteenth-rank knight, and this is the title he helped him promote after the Battle of the Great Wall.

Whether it is the Qin State or the Qin Dynasty, military merit is not so easy to improve.

There are some people who are called kings, such as Lü Buwei or something, and his military merits are really not on the table......

And Bai Qi's situation can also be seen, after all, Bai Qi's Zuo Shuchang appeared in the record, and there is no evidence that he was cut by cutting people, and Zhang Jiashi's situation is not embarrassed to ask anything.

After all, in Zhang Jiashi's case, before the Great Dynasty Meeting in 210 BC, the whole death was a five-doctor ......

Therefore, when Zhang Jiashi implemented such a reform, the resistance encountered was not too great. After all, the more important point is that many Liaodong officers and soldiers themselves have more low-level civil titles, and only a very few people have knighthoods, otherwise Zhang Jiashi would really have to spit out a mouthful of old blood.

And in such a situation, in fact, Zhang Jiashi should also thank the First Emperor for his success, after all, during the Qin Dynasty, in terms of military merits, many things were directly given according to the rank and title, and the corresponding salary was given, otherwise the situation would not have become so easy.

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In addition to the correction of military merits, Zhang Jiashi has also made many revisions to the pension system.

Before sending troops south to Shangjun, Zhang Jiashi mainly revised five points and implemented them:

1. Officers and men who are seriously injured and disabled can receive money and goods converted into at least 200 stone per year for a period of 10 years, and 5 acres of public land will be granted rent-free for 10 years.

2. Officers and soldiers who die in battle receive a bereavement pension of 10 times or more of their salary.

3. If the officers and soldiers who died in the war have family members, they will be given bereavement benefits.

4. Article 3 A person who has a wife and children: His wife and children can receive a pension of five acres of public land, and at the same time, his children can be taken care of by the government until they are 16 years old.

5. Article 3 If a person has parents, his parents shall be cared for by the government until the end of his life.

Although these provisions are rather crude, Zhang Jiashi does not think that this is enough. After all, seriously injured and disabled soldiers seem to have less to offer, and there is also the problem that it is naturally difficult or impossible for people with walking difficulties to cultivate those fields.

Zhang Jiashi has thought about a situation, that is, to relax the working conditions of some personnel.

For example, these soldiers with serious leg injuries and disabilities can recruit people to cultivate the land, and the government will also provide appropriate subsidies in this regard.

This point has already been implemented in Liaodong County and some areas controlled by Zhang Jiashi. In particular, in some newly developed land in Liaoxi County, the land where these soldiers who were disabled in the Battle of Julu was used to cultivate the land by recruiting a large number of people from the Korean region or some displaced people.

Zhang Jiashi had already issued a strict order that the disputes in these places should not be ambiguous. Otherwise, the local county magistrate and county guard will have to weigh their official positions and even their lives.

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In such a situation, Zhang Jiashi also had another idea, that is, to carry out the slave plunder system under suitable circumstances in the future.

Zhang Jiashi knows very well that this method is indeed very bloody and cruel, but it is one of the best ways to restore the vitality and vigorous development of a country.

At this point, Zhang Jiashi did not intend to implement it against the Xiongnu or even the people of Miaojiang, after all, Zhang Jiashi still could not achieve that kind of fundamental subversion of the concept in later generations.

Of course, Donghu or something...... Zhang Jiashi of this nationality has no good feelings, especially after thinking that the Donghu people are likely to be the ancestors of "wild boar skin", it is difficult for Zhang Jiashi to have a good impression.

There is another problem, that is, Zhang Jiashi took into account a situation, that is, it is impossible to solve this kind of problem with a Donghu alone, and Southeast Asia is ...... Well, except for the rubber tree (Zhang Jiashi died after n years), this place seems to have few savages similar to monkeys, or natives, counting on these people to become slaves, Zhang Jiashi is not as fast as direct immigration and development.

Of course, these indigenous Zhang Jiashi did not plan to slaughter them directly, after all, the ancestors of the sticks in later generations, that is, those savages in the Sanhan region, still seemed to be quite capable.

At the very least, mining has to be handled separately.

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Zhang Jiashi did not expect one thing, that is, more than ten years later, this kind of slave trade officially accompanied the imperial navy to Taiwan, the Philippines, and the islands of Southeast Asia, and began to enter a period of slow development.

However, this period of slow development was due to the efficiency of slave acquisition in the open areas at that time, and more of the natives became bones buried in the soil of the island in the asymmetrical resistance wars......

According to some archaeologists in later generations, after the first batch of imperial naval expeditions officially set out from Panyu (mainly in the middle of today's Guangzhou) in the winter of 194 BC, the Great Qin Empire also entered a dark period relative to the foreign indigenous population.

It is possible that the ancestors of the indigenous people of the islands who passed through the Jianghuai River basin (more likely from the Malay Peninsula and then developed eastward along the island chain) were captured for 60 or even 80 years.

Many natives rebelled in some settlements, but they were unable to defeat the outnumbered, tactically orderly, and well-armed Marines, and the results were predictable.

According to the archaeological discoveries of some personnel, more than 600 bones have been found in several ruins of the large island group (Philippines) in the northeast of what was later the Austronesian county.

This amount is not worth mentioning in later generations, but for the indigenous people of the time, this number can even be said to be a large number.

Because some "big tribes" are just such a number......

And the cause of death of these people pointed directly from some almost rotten iron or even steel arrows, to the Qin Army Marines at that time.

If Chung To, who had been dead for more than 2,000 years, knew about such a situation, he would say a sentence with disdain: "Even if Lao Tzu and his brothers do it, what can they do? Who made them fall behind." There is a very good saying in the king: 'Heaven will give you a blessing, but you will be damned!'"

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