Chang'an Junfu, the main hall

The young man in a luxurious robe propped his head with one hand, looking at a huge sheepskin map spread on the ground of the main hall, which was marked in detail with the detailed garrison troops of the northern border of the Qin State and the deployment of the Yan State, as well as the general situation of the foreign tribes of the nearby grasslands.

It's just that Cheng Chan is a little lacking in interest.

Unlike the traditional Lao Qin people, although he is martial arts and eager to make military achievements, Cheng Chan has a clear understanding of his own abilities.

For Cheng Chan, who thinks that he doesn't have much talent in military affairs, Chen Bing Qin's border to guard against Yan Guo, which seems to be a cheap thing to pick up in the army, but it is a hot potato.

"Childe, don't worry too much, this time with the last general, it will be easy to deal with the mere Yan army."

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Yan army is not strong, and it depends more on the advantages of iron weapons forged by abundant iron ore in armaments, but the problem of iron ore is not inferior to that of Yan after the Qin State destroyed Han and Zhao one after another, and South Korea such as Tangxi, Yiyang and other sword-casting workshops are also rebuilt with the support of the Qin State.

So what else is there to worry about in Yan Kingdom?

And to put it mildly, is there still a general in Yan Guo who is still in the age of fighting?

Do you expect Yan Yi to be a waste, or do you expect Yan Chunjun to be a wine bag and rice bag man?

Cheng Chan was unmoved, he preferred to do some practical things in politics than the military, such as building his own fiefdom, and watching the taxes collected increase little by little, and that sense of accomplishment could make him feel satisfied.

Fan Yu couldn't help but sigh when he saw that Cheng Cheng was still lacking in interest.

At that time, the Chu family promoted Cheng Chan and Ying Zheng to compete for the crown prince, and the Fan family, as one of the veteran nobles of the Qin State, also participated in it and stood behind Cheng Chan.

If you fail to stand in line, you will naturally have to pay a price.

The Fan family lost power, and all the core members were transferred to the land of the west and the land of Bashu, and there was no chance to make contributions, and even many people died of illness in those places.

That's it, I have to thank Yingzheng and Lü Buwei for their great kindness.

In the history of the Qin State, there are countless old cases of the destruction of the family because of the struggle between the sons and sons but the wrong side, thinking of the deep relationship with Cheng Chan, the younger brother, Fan Yu is also Cheng Chan's retainer, and finally the Fan family has such preferential treatment, otherwise even if the whole clan is exiled to the place of Bashu miasma, it is the end of the Fan family.

But over the years, watching other families rise one by one, countless young people of the young Zhuang faction in the court have jumped to high positions, and he, a general of the Mesozoic Generation, is far inferior to those young people in terms of officials, Fan Yuzhi is also anxious in his eyes and hates in his heart.

Finally, Yingzheng handed over the credit of a free gift to Cheng Chan, and Fan Yuzhi, as Cheng Chan's retainer, naturally received a lot of credit, and he naturally wanted to seize such an opportunity.

It's a pity that it would be nice if he was the deputy general in this battle, Huan Qi is just a brave and unscrupulous reckless man, and the Huangkou son is also worthy of commanding him?

The gloomy color in Fan Yuzhi's eyes flashed, and he retired to Cheng Yu.

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Three months passed quickly, the war machine of Qin was ready to open up three battlefields at the same time, the armies of all walks of life with abundant supplies had already deployed their troops to the border, and Qin's declaration of war was also sent to Wei by the envoy sent by the Dianke Mansion.

Seven days after the declaration of war, Wang Jian led an army of 100,000 to the east, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Wei State, and confronted the Yan State on the Great Wall of Western Wei.

At the same time, Zhao Di, with Li Xin as the main general, Su Jiao as the deputy general, and Li Hong, the son of Li Mu, as the partial general, led an army of 50,000 to cross the Zhanghe River and went south to the north of Wei; The general Teng, who gathered in Yingchuan County, led 30,000 troops, went north through Huayang, and confronted the Wei army at Yuguan; And Wang Ben, who was already gearing up, also led an army of 50,000 in Dongjun to launch a fierce raid, and the momentum was so great that it even surpassed the rest of the armies for a time.

Long before the Qin State officially sent troops to the Wei State, Wang Ben was already ready for the battle, and all the 50,000 Qin troops gathered in Dongjun in advance were dressed and prepared to travel lightly.

The so-called light and simple travel means that Wang Ben has made a big reduction in the equipment of the 50,000 Qin troops under his command.

The Qin army has always had a tradition of light soldiers, due to the lack of iron ore and copper ore, the number of heavy armor and weapons is very small, the battlefield is light to kill the enemy, the leather around the waist hangs the enemy's head, the Qin sword in the hand is waved, galloping like flying, and reunited after death, it has become the rumored Qin army in the six countries of Shandong "tiger and wolf appearance", so that for a long time, the world will be "light soldiers" as the Qin army's dare to die journey.

However, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin State took the Wei State strong brigade "Wei Wushu" as a model, and established a new army that attached great importance to equipment and equipment, and the appearance has undergone fundamental changes.

This so-called strong weapon is also a sharp weapon, but such a heavy armored army has become a great weakness for the rapid agility required for long-distance raids.

Therefore, when the war machine of the Qin State was just beginning to operate, Wang Ben wrote to win the government.

"There are many cities in Pingchuan in Wei State, and I ask the king to Xu Ben to reduce the burden of light troops, and to attack them unprepared."

After Wang Ben's letter was unanimously agreed by the national lieutenant Wei Yi and the commander of the Wei War, Wang Qian, Ying Zheng made Zhu approval and agreed to Wang Ben's request.

Wang Ben, who had received the permission of Ying Zheng, immediately ordered all the iron armor in the generals to be replaced with leather armor, that is, the heavy armor of the foot soldier's outer iron skin and inner cowhide was changed to a single-layer cowhide armor; The cowhide combat boots with dense iron nails were changed to thick and tough single-layer wild boar skin combat boots.

The iron cavalry of the Qin army changed the iron nail leather armor worn by the war horse to a light and soft nailless sheepskin cover; The heaviest brass and iron bridles were replaced with wooden bridles.

Not only armor, Wang Ben ordered the heavy offensive and defensive equipment and large machine-issued crossbows to be abandoned, and the iron cavalry of the Qin army only carried one spear, one long and one short, two Qin swords, one arm crossbow, and thirty feather arrows.

Moreover, the iron cavalry of the Qin army will not advance with the baggage battalion, each cavalry is equipped with four war horses, one hundred catties of forage, ten catties of pot helmets, and ten catties of dried beef.

In this way, the original fifty or sixty pounds of equipment of the foot soldiers were reduced to more than ten catties under Wang Ben's military order, and the Qin army's iron cavalry was sharply reduced by more than twenty catties in the harness alone, and combined with the reduction of the armor on the body, even the people and horses were reduced by nearly seventy or eighty catties.

As for the weight of the extra forage and rations, it can be completely ignored when one person and two horses are replaced by one person and three horses.

In the early morning of the day when the edict was issued, Wang Ben led his 50,000 troops to sweep towards this rich Central Plains like a hurricane.

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