Far back, it can be traced back to the period of primitive people. People first learned to use sticks, but people who simply use sticks and people who learned to tie sharp stones to sticks always lose. People who tie ordinary sharp stones and people who tie Obsidian are still easy to lose. This can be understood as an evolution of human beings as primates in the use of preliminary tools, which is both the pursuit of sharpness.
Until the cold weapon period, bronze was replaced by iron. The progress of material science is no longer just the advantages and disadvantages of materials, but also a progress of material science and engineering. The emergence of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, shields, bows, crossbows, etc. makes people's fighting not only pay attention to courage and fighting skills, but also tend to rely more on organization and coordination.
The development of history, even when it comes to the emergence of hot weapons, still talks about who can obtain greater advantages in war if he has mastered more sharp weapons, especially the progress process of long-range weapons.
Not in the era of hot weapons, which army has a longer range, faster frequency and greater power will have more and more obvious advantages. The long-range weapons used by the Han Army are better than those used by the Shijie Zhao army. It may be difficult to reflect in mobile warfare, but the advantages and disadvantages of array warfare will be infinitely enlarged, resulting in that the inferior party can only be beaten passively.
The Han Army led by ran min did not need to launch a close combat charge. They could peel off the protective layer of Shijie Zhao army again and again like peeling oranges simply by relying on a large number of powerful long-range weapons.
The war between the two sides is no longer a fierce struggle. One side makes full use of the advantages of long-range weapons to attack, and the other side's weapons are not comparable and difficult to charge effectively, which has become a show for one side to attack and the other to suffer.
In the nine days, the Han Army pushed forward step by step, and the Zhao army in Shijie could only retreat step by step. As soon as they moved forward and backward, the battlefield extended nearly four miles.
The decreasing space forced Shijie Zhao Jun to put so many troops on the south bank, and Ma Qiu had to transfer some of the defenders to the north bank.
No... Ma Qiu doesn't just mobilize the garrison to retreat. He also needs to mobilize the troops in the rear to replace the people whose morale is extremely low. It seems that they have reached the critical point of collapse.
It is difficult to counterattack and can only be beaten passively. For the Shijie Zhao Jun who defends the camp, if they have enough organization and obedience, they can still adhere to it, but the Hu people never talk about organization. They usually rely on brutal oppression to force them. Ma Qiu is really afraid that his soldiers will flee or riot more simply because they can't bear it.
The Han Army entered the camp originally belonging to the Zhao army in Shijie, recovered the arrows and stone bullets fired before, and repeatedly used them to attack the Zhao army in Shijie.
What caused trouble to the Han army was the dead bodies. The bodies they encountered were still fresh, and some long untreated bodies had rotted. The Han Army had to send a group of slaves from the rear to remove the bodies of the battlefield. The bodies in the back would be burned. Finally, the slaves were killed and burned by ran min's order.
It's just to kill some slaves. Ran min doesn't think it's a matter of anger and resentment. He only knows that it's a reasonable way to use "tools", which is much more appropriate than letting his own people bear the risk of getting sick.
No one in the Han Army had any opinion on ran min's practice, not even major general. Because ran min's practice had more sense of identity, ran Min who found this was happy, which made ran min feel happy to find more of the same kind.
"Not everyone can be like us!" Ran min is not satisfied with the ongoing war. He prefers to fight hard: "there are more than 400000 crossbows and arrows fired in nine days. Which country in today's world can be like us?"
Ran min, who is in a good mood, has talked a lot recently. Anyone caught can talk a few words. He is more interested in making friends with Li Tan, who has a bright future. When he meets Li Tan, he will talk for a long time.
With the repeated advance of the army, although there has been recycling, there are nearly 70000 damaged crossbows and arrows, not to mention those that are difficult to reuse after launch.
Li Tan has a good sense of Ran min. after listening to that, he said, "the arrows launched fall with strong kinetic energy. Collision will cause breakage. The more powerful the arrow is, the easier it will break."
If you want to play large-scale and large batches of arrow arrays, not everyone can afford it. What you need is strong productivity support. After all, not only does it consume arrows, but the repeated use of tools will also cause damage. For example, in just nine days, more than 2000 powerful crossbows of the Han army were damaged due to frequent firing.
The powerful crossbow is composed of a variety of parts. The process and time of manufacturing a powerful crossbow are much greater and more difficult than expected. A small number may be nothing. A large number is a test of national strength and productivity. Many countries are difficult to assemble in large quantities even if they master the manufacturing skills of powerful crossbows.
In fact, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also mastered the manufacturing technology of powerful crossbows. Although it could not compare with the powerful crossbows of the Han Army in range and power, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty really had such technology, but there were not many crossbow soldiers of the Jin Army, only about 7000.
It is not that the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not know the power of strong crossbows, but that their number of craftsmen is limited, which can not be fully used in the manufacture of strong crossbows, and can not bear the consumption of strong crossbows.
The real situation is that in the era of manual manufacturing, technicians need to be used in all aspects. It is impossible to focus on one place for many years. This involves the utilization of productive forces, that is, the pure division of manpower.
"Not every country can have the production capacity of a big man." Li Tan saw this aspect more thoroughly. He said: "the big man is a group of production personnel who tend to serve the war and have... Well, it's hard to explain. The people are also organized to be specially responsible for the production of certain war materials. In other countries, even the puppet Jin with mature organizational ability, they can't learn like the big man."
What makes ran min admire is this. The state of Han is really a machine that serves the war in all aspects. For example, the Hu people's country that does not understand the specific operation system of the country belongs to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which does not know how to use manpower and knows how to use manpower, but does not have that executive power.
The Han state under Liu Yan's rule was due to the population registration and division at the beginning, and then to the system similar to the collective commune. What people can and should do has been allocated at the time of formation. The fully utilized human resources, coupled with the system against the sky, created a terrible and sophisticated war machine.
The war machine of the Han Dynasty has been running for three years, supporting the rapid expansion of territory. If it was just a large-scale application in productivity, it was the transfer of troops in the past year.
"A new batch of troops will be in place soon?" Ran min looked at the battlefield, and his own troops fired all kinds of long-range sharp weapons endlessly. Shijie Zhao Jun could only bear the blow: "how many? 100000?"
In fact, ran min knew the exact number. He just praised the use of human resources in the Han Dynasty.
In the state of Han, the number of troops directly involved in the war has reached 600000, which is still being used from the base of 3 million.
If you include those people who have recently opened up territory, the population of the Han country has approached tens of millions. When ran min thought about the use of manpower in the Han country, he thought that it is likely that tens of millions of people can draw out manpower to arm two million troops. Goose bumps all over his body burst out involuntarily and gasped for breath.
"Ah? Two million!" Li Tan was a little silly. He didn't know what ran min was thinking. He suddenly said this. He was also looking forward to it, but he had to explain what ran min didn't know: "there is no big way for the center to take local power now. I'm afraid it can't make full use of the new population in a short time."
"Kill. If you catch a group, you'll kill them. If you're not afraid, you'll kill them. They're afraid." Ran min felt that there was nothing complicated: "Shijie is to rule by killing and drive all ethnic groups to obey."
Li Tan couldn't help looking at the side of Shijie and Zhao Jun. those who were forced to go to the battlefield by Shijie were hiding behind all kinds of places to hide with trembling, thinking: [what else can you do with this way of use, in addition to driving them to the battlefield to die?]
Bursts of uproar came from the direction of Shijie Zhao Jun. from a distance, many black spots rushed back. It was Shijie Zhao Jun who couldn't bear the pressure. He fled after the collapse. Even if there were people supervising the war and killing, it couldn't be stopped.
Ran min thought it was another routine collapse of Zhao Jun in Shijie. At first, he had a joke mentality. Later, he found that things didn't seem like that. He didn't have time to gossip with Li tan. He ordered his own close combat forces to launch an offensive.
Shijie Zhao Jun, who has been passively beaten, can withstand nine days. That's because Jie people's supervision is hard enough, but people's tolerance is always limited. The groups facing real collapse are not only hard enough to stop.
In the past nine days, the long-range attack of the Han Army stopped for the first time. First, the light cavalry of the Han army launched an assault from several directions, and then the infantry of the Han Army poured into the camp of Shijie. They were not subjected to organized resistance. The Zhao army of Shijie was busy fleeing to the bridges that could cross the north bank.
People are running everywhere. While running, they will roar like wild animals from their mouths. It is a sound that will appear only when they are afraid to a certain extent. People are running and pushing regardless. Even if there is a turbulent river ahead, they are people squeezing people and falling like dumplings.
Ma Qiu withdrew to the camp on the North Bank of the Yellow River when things were wrong. At this moment, he looked at the miserable situation ahead with cold hands and feet. People on the bank pushed and fell into the water, and the same was true on several bridges.
"The troops on the south bank are over?" Jia Jian is the hall lieutenant of Zhao state in Shijie, that is, the gatekeeper of Shi Hu's palace. He came to Jijin battlefield to convey Shi Hu's orders. Unexpectedly, he saw such a situation: "you, you... Find a way quickly!"
"There's no way!" Ma Qiu cried, really crying: "the troops are completely in disorder, the Han army takes advantage of the situation to launch an offensive, and the south bank will be lost."
Shijie Zhao Jun, who was completely passively beaten, showed signs of collapse two or three days ago. Otherwise, Ma Qiu would not change his Garrison. What he didn't expect was that the bearing capacity of the newly mobilized troops was worse than those before.
Ma Qiu burst into tears when he knew that the matter was big. He was extremely frightened. He didn't know how Shi Hu would cook himself. His heart was completely confused.
Jia Jian looked at Ma Qiu with some sympathy and said what he shouldn't say: "why don't... Set fire to the pontoon and block the other three bridges that can't be destroyed?"
"Yes, that's it." Ma Qiu regained some sense: "the front forces collapsed completely, and the rear forces were also affected. It is difficult to organize a strong counterattack. It is the most important thing to prevent the Han army from taking advantage of the situation to kill the north bank..."
On the South Bank of the Yellow River in Jijin, there are about 70000 Shijie Zhao troops. After they get into chaos, what organizational system and organization are completely disordered. What everyone wants is how to escape to the North Bank of the Yellow River. The places where they can cross the river in the rear are crowded with people who want to escape, but the people in front have to face the slaughter of the Han army.
Ran min and Li Tan had imagined what to do when Shijie Zhao Jun collapsed in advance. Waiting for Shijie Zhao Jun to collapse, they found that it was far more chaotic than they thought.
"Our propulsion speed... Is a little slow." Knowing the situation ahead, Li Tan said mysteriously, "there are few enemy troops to resist, but they run around and kill too slowly. It's useless to shout for them to surrender."
"Isn't it, not to mention people, even pigs, running around like tens of thousands..." ran min was very excited and was depressed when he found the truth. Halfway through his speech, he saw a strong black smoke coming from the front: "the enemy set fire to the bridge?"
Under the command of Ma Qiu, the soldiers of the Jie people can kill a vacant lot with dense arrows, and recklessly dump the kerosene on the floating bridge on the Bank of the river. As soon as they throw the torch, it will burn immediately.
The floating bridge used boats and boats as its buoyancy, and the structure was all made of wood. The burning speed was not fast, and the fire was not so big. As soon as the soldiers of the Jie nationality who killed people retreated, the Shijie Zhao army who fled along the floating bridge from the south bank surged up again. They ran all the way down the water like dumplings, and then rushed into the fire, Before the pontoon was burned down, many people rushed to the shore even if they were burned.
It is difficult to block the work of the other three bridges. The width of the pontoon bridge is narrow, and the open space can be emptied by constantly covering it with bows and arrows, but the width of the three bridges is a little large. Moreover, the three bridges do not sway when walking. The number of arrows emptied is the number of people pouring up, and the bodies of people shot dead will pile up into a mountain, and there will be living people climbing and continuing to pour, Even if there are tools to block, they can't be transported.
Looking down at the battlefield from the sky, there is complete chaos on the south bank, and there is chaos on the Shijie Zhao Jun on the north bank. Looking at the turbulent River, there are all fluttering figures, and more bodies floating downstream, which is really terrible