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According to Tian Heng's thoughts, he didn't want the time to drag on too long, but planned to solve it quickly. After all, they didn't carry too many supplies. Moreover, the scouts sent by Tian Heng desperately brought some news that the estimated number of the Liaodong Army was only about 40,000.

In such a situation, if it weren't for the admonition of a strategist that Tian Heng relied on, Tian Heng would have planned to press the whole army at the beginning, trying to use the advantage of numbers to directly crush the Liaodong Army.

Perhaps, Tian Heng ignored the admonition of this strategist, but instead followed the instigation of some of his generals and colonels, and let all the more than 90,000 Qi troops press, and it is estimated that he will really encounter big trouble.

After all, the number of the inter-army is indeed a shortcoming, and if all the Qi troops rush over, it is very likely that the inter-army will take care of one or the other if they fight with less than half of the strength of the Qi army.

However, this time it was a defensive battle formation. However, this formation was less mobile, and relied heavily on the carriages of crossbow chariots that served as "fixed points of defense".

Once the Qi army ignored the defensive troops placed in the southeast of the camp and directly ignored the losses and forcibly attacked Zhang Jiashi's battalion, it was very likely that the Qi army would have to abandon the original combat arrangement and engage in a melee with Tian Heng.

It is not that the Liaodong Army's melee combat capability is very poor, on the contrary, in terms of a considerable part of the current Tian Heng Army, which is not much better than the peasants, once the Liaodong Army engages in a melee, it will take advantage even more.

Of course, the Liaodong Army will win more easily, but that kind of loss is impossible to accept even occasionally.

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Tian Hengjun's equipment was much better than that of Zang Tu's army, and nearly half of the officers and soldiers in armor, including the armor soldiers. This means that about half of the Qi army has soldiers and horses, and it is an armored army.

Moreover, Tian Heng came to this place this time, worried that the army would adopt a posture of defending the big camp, so he ordered a large number of heavy equipment to be carried over.

But Tian Heng didn't expect a problem at all, and the Liaodong Army, which was equipped with a large number of strong bows and crossbows, was not too afraid of this problem.

Because in terms of range, the heavy equipment of the Qi army is far less than the heavy crossbow equipped by Zhang Jiashi.

The front-line commanders, including Han Xin, were well aware of the problem that once these Qi army's heavy equipment appeared in the effective range of these heavy crossbowmen, they would be greeted by a fairly dense number of rockets.

Zhang Jiashi does not pay too much attention to the installation of heavy equipment, but in this kind of suppressive weapon, which is the farthest suppressive weapon now, Zhang Jiashi still spares no cost.

Don't think that Zhang Jiashi has a lot of money now, in such a troubled world, Zhang Jiashi did not trade after the fall of the Qi country. If it weren't for the increase in the purchasing power of his sphere of influence, it is estimated that Zhang Jiashi would have been spent a lot of money, and the money in the treasury would be consumed.

Compared to Zhang Jiashi, who has always paid more attention to commercial trade income and commercial taxes, Zhang Jiashi, who has reduced his income by a considerable amount after the situation has changed, can only decide that if necessary, he will also use some of his private income to cover expenses.

As for Zhang Jiashi, who has relatively loose taxes on agriculture and other taxes, he does not pay too much attention to the income from agricultural taxes and other incomes that have improved.

In many respects, the forces under the command of Liaodong County, which have always adopted 20 taxes and 1 tax, have long been unable to make ends meet by relying on agricultural income alone.

Zhang Jiashi's normal expenditure is maintained by a small rate, such as 2% of the value of goods taxed every day.

Don't look at this ratio is inconspicuous, one hundred and a half taels is to charge two, and for some simple stall farmers, it is only a symbolic charge of five Qin and a half taels, similar to the income of stall management fees.

It can be said that the business tax of a place may not be too much in a day, but it is enough for the region to at least make ends meet.

Among the cities controlled by Zhang Jiashi, the most prosperous area around Dingxiang City has a daily tax of nearly 50 gold.

As for Chen Ping, although they do not object to Zhang Jiashi's practice of emphasizing business, and they themselves are more or less engaged in corresponding business to increase their income.

But it is difficult for them to understand that agricultural development has always been equated with making ends meet.

Of course, they are not unaware that the reason why Zhang Jiashi cannot make ends meet is not because of the low tax rate, but because Zhang Jiashi will send a large number of people to purchase grain during the autumn harvest, so that the peasants' grain can be exchanged for corresponding money without causing grain to hurt the peasants.

The cost of maintenance, storage, transportation, etc., of these grains, in many cases, is higher than the corresponding grain value.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Jiashi himself controlled several of the largest profit industries, such as wine, paper, honey, and so on, Zhang Jiashi would not have taken out a certain amount of money to fill the gap from the increasingly heavy military expenditures, and it would have been a good thing for him not to withdraw money from his "public treasury."

Rioters don't just have to pay salaries, rewards for officers and soldiers, food, weapons and equipment, etc., but they all ask for money.

If it weren't for the equipment costs that accounted for the lion's share, because Zhang Jiashi's Liaodong military construction could basically be self-sufficient for the Liaodong Army, I'm afraid Zhang Jiashi's expenditure would not be something that could be satisfied by the current figures.

Zhang Jiashi also did not think about turning Liaodong military construction or Liaodong shipbuilding into commercial operation, rather than "domestic enterprises", because commercial operation has greater benefits, especially in the case of competition, so that a country's military strength can maintain a fairly advanced level for a long time.

It's just that whether it is Bai Qi or Chen Ping, or even Xiao He, who has always rarely expressed his opinions, they are against this situation. After Zhang Jiashi thought about it carefully, it can be said that such a situation is inevitable. After all, before this, even before the First Emperor did not confiscate the world's weapons, in many cases, privatizing the weapons industry is likely to lead to some serious problems, just like Guo Kai, the minister of Zhao State, whose family controlled a considerable part of Zhao State's weapons and equipment production capacity to a large extent.

And once this family has a different heart, it is very harmful to a country.

Therefore, Xiao He and others strongly opposed Zhang Jiashi's idea, not for the sake of opposition.

Maybe they didn't think about why Zhang Jiashi would come up with such an idea. But more, from Zhang Jiashi's point of view, Zhang Jiashi's idea is not necessarily wrong, but in such a situation, it would be better for Zhang Jiashi to maintain the status quo before he has enough strength to settle the throne.

Therefore, it may be that Zhang Jiashi's expenditure on weapons and equipment is getting higher and higher, but in such a situation, it is actually impossible for Zhang Jiashi to implement a commercial weapons manufacturing program.

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The Qi army under Tian Heng's command was the first time to fight against the Liaodong Army under Zhang Jiashi. Tian Heng, who didn't know much about the Liaodong Army, listened to the advice of the strategist, and had more ideas.

For Tian Heng, perhaps it is more practical to use conventional offensive operations to solve the enemy opposite him.

Many of the heavy equipment from the counties occupied by the Qi State were gathered and transported to the barrier with the army, and they only had a chance to appear today, and many strong men who should have been captured by the Qi army had to be pushed out under the intimidation of some Qi officers and soldiers around them.

These heavy equipment include stone throwers, well rails and even punching trucks.

However, for the Liaodong Army, which has already discovered such a situation, they are doing this more in a matter that has no effect.

The purpose of the railing is to use the heightened platform to give the crossbowman a longer range. In many cases, this type of railroad is more often used in siege warfare, allowing crossbowmen to shoot at the defending crossbowmen or directly suppress the opponent. After all, the height of the well rail is a very important factor.

It was only after these siege engines were slowly pushed in front of the infantry that the infantry units slowly followed.

Their combat methods made Han Xin and others, who knew about such a situation, quickly analyze it.

The opponent intends to use the advantage of these weapons to weaken the strength of the defensive battle formation, and then after a period of time, let the infantry better launch the attack.

If it is replaced by other troops, there will really be trouble when the gap between the equipment of the two sides is not large or even equal.

But now?

"Crossbowman, light the rocket!!"

Accompanied by a column of crossbowmen with a large crossbow in their hands, which were replaced behind the infantry shield array, these crossbowmen quickly set their crossbows in the crossbow grooves, which had been wrapped in tarpaulin, on the torches of some light infantry.

Different from the strong crossbowman who can pull open the crossbow with both hands, the kind of crossbow produced by Zhang Jiashi is actually an inferior divine arm crossbow produced after a long period of research from the drawings depicted in the Qingyu Spirit Book.

The reason why it is said to be an inferior divine arm crossbow is because the material of many parts can only reach the point where it can barely be used. Compared with the divine arm crossbow invented and produced in the Song Dynasty, the only advantage is that it slows down the rate of fire a little in exchange for a small increase in accuracy.

And through the amplification of some mechanical gear parts similar to small crossbows, the crossbowman's physical consumption rate is slowed down, which can be regarded as a non-obvious advantage compared with the Divine Arm Bow.

Looking in the sky, behind the two rows of heavy infantry, a man raised the big crossbow in his hand, and then respectively passed through Wangshan and aimed at the Qi army equipment hundreds of meters away.

"Put !!"

A row of sparks quickly followed this command and shot towards the Qi weapons that were being targeted.

After about a few seconds, many of this wave of rockets fell into the Qi formation.

With a range of more than 500 meters, the hit rate is already completely unavoidable.

But when a rain of arrows fell, many wells, which were actually more threatening, were hit by rockets one after another.

And many of the instruments or the people who pushed them forward were also shot.

There was a bit of confusion in the formation of the Qi army. But it was quickly calmed down.

After all, the hit rate of these rockets is also a little smaller. In such a situation, in fact, the overall damage to the Qi army is not too large.

Unlike other tensioning crossbows, tensioning crossbows require more firing power due to their longer range.

In such a situation, many crossbowmen, after hanging the crossbow in their hand, put their feet on the crossbow arm and pull the string with both hands until the string is fixed behind the crossbow groove before continuing to reload.

This step doesn't take too much time, but the difficult thing for these crossbowmen is how to maintain the appropriate force to pull the string and avoid damage to the gear parts in the receiver. Because once a gear is damaged, the crossbow will not be able to do much until the parts are replaced.

So, in a sense, the rate of fire of these crossbows may actually be a little faster, but when it is necessary to ensure the combat continuity of the crossbows as much as possible, these crossbowmen are more likely to only be able to fight at the rate of fire of four crossbows a minute.

The crossbow's rate of fire is slow, but its ultra-long effective range can effectively fill such a shortcoming, especially against these Qi army equipment that continues to move slowly, after a few minutes, many of them are burning.

And these Qi troops had to stop just advancing to a distance of about four hundred meters.

It's not that they don't want to move forward, it's that the people who push the equipment have suffered equally heavy casualties.

And because of the height factor, even if some equipment is ignited, other Qi officers and soldiers can effectively extinguish the fire. But for such a thing as a well-fence car, even if a bamboo or wooden board is ignited, as long as the height is not very short, there is no better way for these accompanying Qi officers and soldiers to solve this problem.

They could only watch as the location where the fire started became more and more violent, and then, after a "snap", the whole well railing car was broken in the center due to the chain reaction that occurred after one pillar was burned off.

Many of the cart Qi troops who couldn't react were crushed one after another, or were injured or even killed by the archers who threw them down.

In less than 20 minutes, almost all of the well-railed trucks that broke or continued to burn were scrapped.

Seeing such a result, the officers of the Qin army, who were in charge of commanding the nearby crossbowmen, moved on to the next target one after another.

As the Qi troops continued to advance, more and more Qi troops entered the effective firing range, encountering more and more fierce crossbows, and then arrows like a rain of arrows.

Next to some of the instruments that had not yet burned, few of the Qi officers and soldiers on the cart were still able to stand up.

The generals of the Qi army on the front line all found out about such a situation, and they had to reluctantly order the troops to retreat, because these heavy equipment were basically not used or many of them could be scrapped directly.

After Han Xin saw the Qi army retreating from the bamboo slips, he first ordered the troops to stop the design, and ordered the archers to take a temporary rest, check the number of arrows, and then apply for supplies.

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For Tian Heng, in such a situation, he did not expect the gap between the two sides, especially in terms of equipment, how big the gap was.

Unlike Zang Di, Tian Heng did not deal with those Qi generals who led the troops to fight, but comforted them a few words.

For Tian Heng, such a situation is difficult for him to accept. Because of the fact that they now occupy several military formations of different sizes in the hometown of Qi, including Linzi, they originally thought that they would have an advantage over the Liaodong Army, the most remote army of the Great Qin Empire, in terms of technology, but such a thing actually happened, which made Tian Heng have to secretly complain in his heart.

This is also a matter of no choice, although he has seen the strength of a certain part of the Liaodong Army, but he thinks that Tian Heng, who is already the elite of Liaodong County, cannot accept such a defeat.

In fact, it was not too much of a loss of casualties, so Tian Heng didn't show a smile.

While Tian Heng was thinking hard about how to carry out the next battle, the other Zang Tu army launched an offensive against Wang Chang's army again.

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Zang Di's army launched an offensive against Wang Chang again, and Zang Di, who had learned the lesson of the defeat in the battle just now, ordered his henchmen to directly replace those unlucky guys to continue to command those remnants and carry out the battle.

The thing that was different from the battle just now was that Zang Di rotated this time.

Zang Di, who sent 20,000 people loyal to himself to the battlefield, did not expect that he might be a little bit short of time or luck when he succeeded this time.

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After Zhang Jiashi fell into a coma, Wang Li took over the command of the remnants of the cavalry unit. After the 10,000 cavalry of Li Cang's army, which was in charge of the broken end, did not find that the Zhang Han army and the Chu army launched a pursuit, Li Cang ordered the troops to quickly follow the troops in front.

Li Cang's arrangement made many people unable to find out what was a mistake.

And now Wang Li didn't expect one thing, that is, the officers and soldiers of the left-behind troops of the two large battalions were attacked by the enemy.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have let Li Cang catch up from behind, and then after a while, he received the news that the camp was attacked. And Li Cang will not run "such a wrongful road".

After all, from the position where Li Cang ordered the troops to accelerate, it would not waste too much time to rush directly to support Wang Chang.

It's a pity that Wang Li also didn't think of such a thing.

However, in such a situation, not to mention Wang Li, even Bai Qi could hardly predict that the alliance of princes who should have been in harmony with each other would actually unite and launch an attack on the two camps together.

Maybe Wang Li had such a judgment from the beginning, and many things may change a lot.

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