Just when Qin Shaojun began to climb Huashan with Peng Zhong and other guards, on the battlefield of Huayang Plain, the war between the Qin army and the Jie tribe had already begun.
It has to be said that the Qin army does have a lot of troops, and the Keji tribe also has a lot of troops. At least in Zhao Hongrun's view, there is not much difference in the strength of the two sides.
"It seems that the Jie people have gathered armies from several tribes." Zhao Hongrun murmured.
Lubalon nodded.
On Sanchuan, there are almost no large tribes with hundreds of thousands of people. This is because large tribes of this size have great hidden dangers. Firstly, the cold winter threatens the sheep, and secondly, there are restrictions on grazing land.
Therefore, when the clan leader of the Jie tribe develops to a certain scale, he will ask his adult son or confidant to take some of the clan members to separate from the flock and find another grassland with rich pasture to live in and establish a new tribe.
Just don't put all your eggs in the same basket.
According to this development model, even if one Jie tribe encounters a devastating disaster, it doesn't matter. The other Jie tribes with the same father's lineage will provide certain assistance to help the former survive the difficult period.
Therefore, to be precise, the Jie tribe mentioned by Zhao Hongrun and others is actually a tribal alliance composed of many Jie tribes. Its form is similar to that of the Jiejiao tribe and the current Sichuan-Luo Alliance. However,
Because of the relationship with the Wei State, the Sichuan-Luo Alliance does not distinguish between the Jie, Yi, and Yi people, while the Jie Alliance does not accept people from the Yi people.
"In this battle, it is said that most of the Jie tribe in the entire Huayang area participated." Lu Balong said without any emotion: "The defeats in the previous battles made the Jie tribe anxious... The Jie tribe here in Huayang
The environment is very superior, with abundant pasture and abundant drinking water. It is a very important grazing land for the Jie tribe, and they do not want it to be taken away by the Qin people."
In Lu Balong's view, the pastures in Huayang are among the best natural pastures in Sanchuan. Of course, no matter how good they are, they have nothing to do with him as a member of the Sheang ethnic group. Because on the Sanchuan grassland,
The Jie people will not give this kind of high-quality natural pasture to their Yi people.
Even to this day, there are many Jie and Yi people who look down on the Yi people.
Therefore, to be honest, as long as it was not a major issue affecting the entire Sanchuan River, Lu Balong, as a Sheang people, would not care at all about the life and death of the Jie people or the Yi people.
The appearance of harmony and the separation of spirits refer to the relationship between the Jie and Yi tribes and the Yi tribe.
On the distant battlefield, the Qin army and the Jie army were already in contact.
Compared with the chaotic formation of the Jie army, the Qin army's formation is much more rigorous and orderly.
Especially when the Jie army sent tens of thousands of slave soldiers, this gap became even more obvious.
"The slave soldiers of the Jie tribe have begun to charge...haven't the Jie tribe learned their lesson yet?"
Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao looked at the battlefield in the distance with some disbelief.
Because of the recent war between the Qin army and the Jie tribe, all the slave soldiers of the Jie tribe were killed, which put the Jie tribe soldiers in the rear into an embarrassing situation.
Unexpectedly, when the battle started today, the Jie people actually pushed all the slave soldiers onto the battlefield.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and corrected: "No, the Jie people have realized the mistakes in the last war. You see, their soldiers have dispatched."
Everyone looked carefully and found that it was rare for the warriors of the Jie tribe to enter the battlefield at the beginning of the fight. Although they appeared on the two wings, it was obviously to reduce the losses caused by head-on fighting. Compared with the past, the slave soldiers
During the charge, the warriors of the Jie tribe stood motionless behind their horses, which really made a lot of changes.
And in response to this, the Qin Army's response... The Qin Army didn't move at all!
Perhaps sensing the surprise on Zhao Hongrun's face, Lintao Lord Wei Ji let out a breath and said solemnly: "The slave army of the Jie people looks very fierce, but it is not enough to shake the Qin army's deployment in the right direction.
The soldiers... Your Highness King Su, please watch carefully and see that the Qin army is incredibly stable."
"..." Zhao Hongrun glanced at Lintao Lord Wei Ji, and then looked at the battlefield with concentration. He vaguely saw that the Qin Army's vanguard team, after a moment of silence, began to move forward slightly, but when that row of square
When the Qin vanguard army was only twenty or thirty feet away from the charging Jie tribe slave soldiers, the vanguard army suddenly stopped in an orderly manner.
"What's going on?"
Zhao Hongrun suddenly felt that the momentum of the Qin army had suddenly changed.
"Aren't you ready yet?" He turned to Zongwei Mu Qing and Zhou Pu and shouted anxiously.
Beside him, Zhou Pu and Mu Qing were installing a strange instrument, but in Zhao Hongrun's memory, this strange and ugly metal instrument was called a telescope.
In fact, as early as last year, Zhao Hongrun wanted the Metallurgical Bureau to tinker with a telescope. After all, in large-scale wars, the human eye alone is not enough to clearly see the battle situation in the distance.
But the problem is that making a telescope requires a filter, and the best material for the filter is transparent glass.
Many people may think that any kind of sand can be smelted into glass. However, in fact, the raw material for making glass is quartz. Different sands contain quartz to varying degrees. And some common sands in the Wei State can be made into glass even after being fired.
The glass that comes out is also a low-quality glass with very mixed colors and cannot be made into a filter at all.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun asked the Smelting Bureau to look for a white natural ore (quartz stone) or white sand (quartz sand), but unfortunately, natural quartz was almost impossible to find in Wei.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun could only use resin instead of glass to make filters.
The advantage is that resin is very common in Wei State, and it is easier to make; the disadvantage is that filters made of resin are not as clear as filters made of transparent glass, are more or less variegated, and have a brittle texture.
, the observable distance is also very limited.
But no matter what, it is much clearer than directly observing the distant scenery with the naked eye.
"Okay, okay."
After hearing Zhao Hongrun's urging, Zongwei Mu Qing fixed the ugly telescope on the wooden frame.
Why should it be fixed on a wooden frame? That's because the Metallurgical Bureau does not have plastic. Moreover, Zhao Hongrun is greedy and wants a telescope that can adjust the distance. Therefore, the craftsmen of the Metallurgical Bureau built a telescope inside the telescope.
A gear system was installed.
Since the current technology of the Smelting Bureau cannot produce very fine gears, those iron gears are very large, so the weight of the entire telescope is greatly increased.
Although a large telescope can provide a wide view, this is definitely not what Zhao Hongrun hoped for, because it is too heavy. Even if he lifts it with both hands, he cannot lift it for long. Therefore, he will lift this ugly telescope.
The telescope is mounted on a wooden stand.
Under the surprised gaze of Lintao Lord Wei Ji, Zhao Hongrun walked behind the telescope, and after adjusting the distance, he began to pay attention to the battle situation on the distant battlefield.
Only then did he realize that the front line of the Qin army was composed of rows of soldiers holding long swords and iron shields. If there is no mistake, these soldiers were the "Gear Shield Soldiers" mentioned by Lintao Lord Wei Ji.
The backbone of the Qin army on the frontal battlefield.
At this time, the shield soldiers were close together - the soldiers in the same row were close together, using thick shields to form a shield wall; and the soldiers in the back row actually pressed their shields against the backs of the soldiers in front,
The density of the entire military formation was simply incredible.
"...Can you stop it?"
Zhao Hongrun muttered.
While he was muttering privately, the slave soldiers of the Jie tribe had already rushed to the formation composed of the Qin Army's Ge Dun soldiers.
But what greeted them was a shield more than ten feet high.
"boom……"
This was the dubbing given by Zhao Hongrun himself, because in his eyes, the torrent of Jie slave soldiers had already crashed into Qin's Ge Dun soldiers.
However, the shield wall defense line did not move at all!
"Hiss..." Zhao Hongrun took a breath of air. He never expected that in the face of the collision of countless slave soldiers, those Qin Gedun soldiers used a tight formation to block it.
The subsequent battle situation shocked and amused Zhao Hongrun.
Because at this time, the situation of the Jie clan slave soldiers was really embarrassing, because in front of them was a solid shield wall more than ten feet high, as if it was an insurmountable city wall.
I don't know how many slave soldiers tried their best to hit it, or used their weapons to poke or chop, but the shield wall never moved.
Embarrassing, so embarrassing. Even Zhao Hongrun felt a little embarrassed by the Jie tribe slave soldiers on the distant battlefield at this time. The enemy was clearly close at hand, but they couldn't touch them.
"Isn't the height of Qin's shield only reaching the shoulders? It is obviously higher than the top of the head..." Zhao Hongrun turned his head and glanced at Lintao Lord Wei Ji.
Wei Ji, Lord of Lintao, shrugged his shoulders and expressed his innocence: When I fought with the Qin army, the shields of the Qin soldiers did only reach their shoulders.
Zhao Hongrun nodded and said nothing more.
After all, while Wei was getting stronger, other countries were also making progress, improving their armaments and tactics one after another.
"However, we have guarded against the slave soldiers in front, but what should we do with the arrows coming from above our heads?" Zhao Hongrun asked Lintao Lord Wei Ji.
Lintao Lord Wei Ji smiled faintly and said in a complicated tone: "The best way is to prevent the cavalry of the Jie tribe who are good at archery from having a chance to use their bows..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Hongrun suddenly saw countless chaotic people pouring out from both wings of the Qin army's formation. These people were holding different weapons, some were wearing armor, some were not, and they were heading towards Jie who was following the slave soldiers without hesitation.
The clan cavalry launched a charge.
"kill--"
The messy slogans shouted by these people were like roars. Even from a distance, Zhao Hongrun could feel the shock instinctively.
"Tattooed Army!" he read word by word.
Lintao Lord Wei Ji sighed slightly, looked at the battlefield and murmured: "The Jie tribe's cavalry was blocked by the tattooed army, then those slave soldiers are doomed..."
Following his words, the Qin army began to change its formation, inserted a crossbow soldier from both wings, and fired a volley of thousands of arrows towards the center where the Jie slave soldiers were.
For a time, the slave soldiers fell one after another.
"What a simple and crude tactic... General Qin on the opposite side." Zhao Hongrun murmured.
Lintao Lord Wei Ji smiled lightly and said in a complicated tone: "But it is undeniable that it is very effective."
While they were talking, Zongwei Zhou Pu, who was leaning against the wall of the stairs with his arms folded, suddenly seemed to notice something, suppressed the smile on his face, and subconsciously glanced at the stairs leading to the third floor of the watchtower.