The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 234 Equipment Rolling
Zhou Ping's Three Rivers and Five Schools should technically be Qingzhou's Five Schools.

The core of it is the Barrier Army, and the commander of the Barrier Army is Sun Wei.

In history, when Shi Le defrauded Wang Jun, it was Sun Wei who felt that Shi Le's troops were in trouble and the situation was not right, so he reported to Wang Jun and asked to send troops to fight, but Wang Jun refused.After Wang Jun was killed by Shi Le, Sun Wei resisted for a while, but still could not withstand Shi Le's power.

Among the generals who came to join him, Zhou Zheng took a fancy to him and promoted him to the commander of the barrier army.

At this moment, Sun Wei led the barrier army, as the pioneer, heading towards Shi Le step by step.

Only then did Shi Le discover Liu Tai's troops, their military will, and their organizational strength. When he thought he had found a way to deal with these, he could at least compete with Liu Tai in terms of direction.

With the appearance of Zhou Ping's barrier troops, his thoughts melted like ice and snow meeting the sun.

They were all wearing fish scale armor.

The sun shone on the fish-scale armor, making it so bright that Shi Le could hardly open his eyes.

Steelmaking is such a rare material. How could Liu Tai get so much steel to equip his armor?

Shi Le couldn't help but feel an unspeakable sense of suffocation. The Liu Tai army he faced now was just like the regular Jin court army he encountered when he first started the uprising.

The opponent surpassed him in almost all aspects. Facing such an enemy, Shi Le even had some thoughts of escaping almost as soon as the opponent appeared.

Liu Ming pushed back three of his war corps, and now he has paid the price of three war corps to surround him, but he still hasn't taken it down after fighting. Shi Le can accept this.

Because Shi Le doesn't know about others, but Liu Ming is almost with Liu Tai. Doesn't Shi Le still know him?

Liu Ming is almost like the commander of Liu Tai's bodyguard. Now that Liu Ming is in charge of the war department, he can be regarded as Liu Tai's bodyguard.

Because of this, the soldiers under Liu Ming's command were covered in scale armor, and their mission may be to hold him back so that he could accept the situation.

After all, you are so equipped?The most important thing when going out to hang out is to have a lot of people. If you have a lot of people, you can eventually drown him with the human sea tactic!
But now, Shi Le looked at the soldiers who appeared in front of him, and all of them were wearing bright silver armor.

This is a bit too much. Can something like Hundred Steel Refining become standard equipment? ?

Even if I have been fighting with the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty for so long, I have only seen centurions or captains wearing metal armor at most. As a result, I haven't fought with you Liu Tai for a long time. Why do your troops wear metal armor all over their bodies? Fish scale armor!

Shi Le was filled with dissatisfaction.

Because I thought that after these years of fighting in the north and south, and after my painstaking research, I had caught up with Liu Tai's background. I thought that even if I couldn't say that I would definitely win against Liu Tai, I at least had the ability to protect myself. ability.

However, the cold reality is that Liu Tai told himself with a smile that times have changed!
At the beginning, everyone was poor, so they could only follow the schools of organization and will. Relying on the fighting will to fight to the death and the determination to fight without retreating even after more than half of the losses, we could follow the opponent to exchange lives for lives, and defeat the opponent. Afraid of death!
But after Liu Tai took over the three states of Qingzhou, Jizhou and Youzhou, it only took just four years for him to stop doing this.

How could Shi Le, who had been chasing Liu Tai's back, accept this?

At this moment, Shi Le really felt that he had committed a non-war crime, because he had finally found a system to counter Liu Tai's willpower and organizational power, and he had not yet verified it.

In the end, I actually fought against Liu Tai, only to find that Liu Tai's army had been updated and he started to use equipment to crush him!
Shameless!

Liu Tai naturally didn't know Shi Le's psychological changes after seeing Zhou Ping's fortress camp, but for Liu Tai, only when you are poor can you engage in tactical interposition, and when you are rich, you can't use fire coverage.

At the beginning, I was really poor when I followed Wang Mi. At that time, I didn't talk about dreams or culture. How could I win over the soldiers to strengthen their organization and will? Could it be that I was really good at fighting just because I was young?

But the problem is that it has been four years since he defeated Wang Jun and occupied the three states. Even if there is any five-year plan, I am afraid that it has already been completed.

But the question is what he has done is only to build the North Canal from Youzhou City to Jinkou, build the Coal and Steel Company, build the Donglai Steel Plant and Shipyard, and build a three-week shipping logistics system.

Moreover, this shipping system will be greatly affected in winter.

It can be said that as a time traveler, I have really failed. If others hold my cards, I can calm the world in five years, but my five years of hard work has only updated the version that is now fighting for world dominance.

The era of relying on organization and willpower to fight against the regular army has passed. The next war will depend on equipment!
The fortress soldiers wore scale armor and held shields. The soldiers behind them held spears and worked closely together to form a quite special pattern.

The soldiers under Shi Le were also very desperate, because they were veterans and knew clearly that if they lost the war, their lives would be insignificant in the chaos of the war. After all, the general had personal guards to protect him, but the soldiers could only resign themselves to their fate.

At this moment, although Shi Le's armor was much inferior, he still rushed forward regardless of his own safety, hoping to disrupt the barrier army's formation.

But the effect is not that significant.If the weapons in their hands fall on these scales, the damage they can cause is indeed very limited, but the barrier soldiers cannot say that the scales on their bodies are made of hundreds of steel, even the weapons in their hands are the same.

The absolute suppression brought by the equipment almost forced Shile's infantry to retreat step by step.

This was just the beginning. As the fortress troops suppressed the opposing infantry on the battlefield, Zhou Ping did not hesitate and immediately ordered the Changshui Battalion to take action. In an instant, arrows fell from the sky one after another!

Shi Le was stunned by this sudden rain of arrows. The other party's archers were not his own, right?
Since ancient times, wherever you have an advantage on the scene, you still cover it with rain of arrows!

But as these arrows fell into the military formation, Shi Le discovered that most of them were his own soldiers who were wailing.

Because the opponent's soldier Liu Tai, who was wearing fish scale armor and a face-covering helmet, didn't take this rain of arrows seriously at all!
In contrast, the Shesheng battalion used crossbow arrows, the archers used armor-piercing arrows, and the Changshui soldiers used ordinary arrows.

You are bullying a poor guy whose equipment is not as good as your own!

In fact, Zhou Ping proposed that it would be enough to use pig iron arrows. After all, the position of Changshui Camp is to cut grass. It is not worth a good arrow. It can basically hurt unprotected people, so this arrow is not worth it. It's a waste of time.

The archers of Changshui Camp need to shoot every pot of arrows behind them as quickly as possible, and use the arrows to completely cover the battlefield, thereby providing long-range support to the advancing barrier camp.

When Zhou Ping told Liu Tai his positioning for Changshui Camp, especially his idea of ​​using arrow rain to completely cover the opponent's war, Zhou Ping originally thought that Liu Tai would think that he was a bit extravagant and would scold him.

But Liu Tai's first reaction was to ask with shining eyes: "Do you need to put flames on the arrows and shoot the rockets directly to form fire coverage?"

But this unkind idea was immediately dismissed by Zhou Ping, because it was really not worth it, and it would slow down the arrows, thus affecting the grass-cutting effect of the Changshui Army.

No matter how you put it, being covered by the unreasonable rain of arrows from the Changshui Army was a perfect acceptance of the opponent's armor.

Whether your armor is excellent or not, whether your helmets are reliable or not, and how strong your army's will and organization are are all things that cannot be detected by a covering wave of arrows. If so, there will be another wave.For the soldiers of the Iron Wall, these soldiers did feel the arrows falling on them, but at most they only felt it a little bit. It was not like they had not cooperated in training!
But according to the usual training, the drill is covered with arrows, and you rush forward with the trend, and it even feels like a reverse push!

At this time, Shi Le was a little frightened, because Liu Tai not only had steel equipment, but also had tactics that could tire out a full body armor.

Although this tactic seems to be specifically designed to deal with opponents without armor.

Unfortunately, our own army did not cover the entire army with armor, and it was difficult to match this simple arrow rain advance.

This is a normal situation like Shi Le's. Generally speaking, except for elites, other ordinary soldiers will equip them with armor. Even if they want to do this, they must have a stable production logistics.

Therefore, in most armies, only the commander or the other can obtain leather armor, which is already a pretty good treatment.

The vast majority of soldiers, let alone leather armor, have clothes to protect themselves from the cold, which is already quite benevolent.

But with such armaments and the tactics developed by Zhou Ping, most of the soldiers without armor would naturally flee.

After all, they couldn't break through the fortress camp if they rushed forward. They could only watch the rain of arrows falling from the sky taking away their lives. What else could they do if they didn't escape.

And these soldiers who were ignored by Shi Le, or in other words, by all the generals in this era, are the foundation of the army.

It is easy to get a thousand armies but hard to find a general. This has always been a saying that monarchs often say.

Because all they see are generals, but when they encounter Liu Tai's attack method that targets the soldiers from the beginning, they will find that when faced with tactics that specifically target the soldiers themselves, they There is absolutely no way to save it!
Because these generals can be brave, unyielding, and struggling, but they can't change that they can't fight against the barrier camp, and it's even harder to withstand the rain of arrows falling from the sky.

Arrows rained down from the sky continuously, even if the power of the arrows was strong, as long as they were wearing steel helmets and leather armor, they could withstand it.

But their soldiers didn't even have this condition, which made Zhou Ping's tactics seem somewhat unrivaled.

The infantry cannot provide sufficient battlefield support, so there is no need to think about tactics such as cavalry flanking.

All tactics are based on the situation of even strength. When Shi Le found that he clearly had more soldiers than the opponent, but was completely suppressed by the opponent, Shi Le also instinctively felt panic and almost wanted to escape.

Shi Le is not afraid of embarrassment. He will be heartbroken if these elites are lost, but if he dies, Shi Le will regret it if he is afraid.

But Shi Le looked at the cavalry in Zhou Ping's army who were always ready, as well as Liu Tai, who had not moved much so far.

Shi Le knew that in the past few years, Liu Tai had not only replenished his army's armor, but also the number of horses under his command was not necessarily less than his own.

Therefore, if he escapes, he is afraid that Liu Tai will follow him and kill him. Whether he can escape or not is really up to fate.

Shi Le did not want to resign himself to fate, but Shi Le wanted to survive, so Shi Le decisively asked two cavalrymen, Kui'an and Shi Hu, to set off from the flanks to attack Liu Tai's military formation. At the same time, he raised the military flag and took the initiative to push forward!
At this moment, Shi Le wanted to take a gamble!
There is no way to retreat from this road. Any soldiers who retreat will either be killed by their own military judges, or they will break through Zhou Ping's barrier camp for me.

Shi Le said without any hesitation, "One person who kills Liu Tai's army will be rewarded with ten gold, whoever kills Zhou Ping will be rewarded with ten thousand households, and whoever kills Liu Tai will be rewarded with the title of king!"

Promises shouted from Shi Le's mouth, floating on the battlefield, and all his soldiers were red-eyed at this moment.

The reward is the most direct stimulus for his soldiers. At least at this moment, with the overwhelming number of people, he can re-stabilize the position of his army, and even have some momentum to suppress Zhou Ping's army.

Zhou Ping looked calm and showed no fear. As long as the barrier camp was not breached, Zhou Ping would not care about the front line.

After all, Shi Le re-allocated the courage and fighting spirit of his soldiers at this time, but war is not a treat, and it can be maintained by relying on short-term morale alone.

Faced with the cruel death and injury figures, even if the soldiers have fighting spirit, the fighting spirit in their hearts will be exhausted sooner or later!
Compared with the actual gap between the infantry on both sides, the cavalry flying on both sides at this time made Zhou Zheng feel a little worried.

Because even if the opponent's cavalry is not wearing the most advanced armor such as fish scale armor, it is at least wearing leather armor, not to mention that the opponent is a foreigner and is better in riding skills than our own.

Therefore, facing the two charging cavalry, he immediately asked Ge Xin to lead the Tunqi to deal with Kui'an, and then prepared to ask Yue Qi to meet Shihu again.

But Liu Tai led his troops to attack at this time. At the same time, Liu Tai's messengers came to Zhou Ping soon and said:

"The King of Qi has ordered that Yue Qi be retained as much as possible for the pursuit, and the flanking army will be restrained by the King of Qi.

In addition, Liu Xia's heavy cavalry is already taking a detour, so please be prepared for battlefield changes at any time! "

"Follow the order!" Zhou Ping couldn't help but take a deep breath after hearing Liu Tai's order and knowing Liu Tai's plan.

Zhou Ping began to focus more on tactical command and cooperation in almost every aspect.

Especially when one's own equipment has more advantages, one's own tactical command is simpler and smoother.

As for Ge Xin's confrontation with Kui'an, the soldiers of both sides were inextricably killed. When Liu Tai faced Shi Hu, it was Liu Tai's soldiers who suppressed Shi Hu's troops.

No matter how incompetently and furiously Shi Le roared, he could only watch the situation being suppressed.

To be honest, Liu Tai wanted to rush, but the guards around him protected Liu Tai from coming forward. After all, the situation had suppressed the opponent, and there was really no need for Liu Tai to come forward and fight!

Just when the armies on both sides were contained, Liu Xia led the heavy cavalry and charged in like a mudslide.

Shi Le watched this heavy cavalry finally appear, but he said to Zhi Xiong beside him, "Go and stop him!"

Zhixiong nodded and led his elite cavalry to block the charge of this heavy cavalry.

After all, the appearance of the heavy cavalry was too short-lived. It only appeared when Liu Tai and Wang Jun fought.

In Shi Le's judgment, the heavy cavalry did indeed have merit, but the one who deserved the greatest credit was probably Liu Tai!

After all, Shi Le had seen with his own eyes Liu Tai's unrivaled attitude in charging into battle, but Shi Le could not create enough heavy cavalry to charge with heavy cavalry, so he could not imagine what heavy cavalry would look like on the battlefield.

Therefore, Shi Le thought it was enough to have the elite cavalry led by Zhi Xiong to protect them.

Because he had no idea what it meant for a force of [-] heavy cavalry to charge with the assistance of [-] light cavalry!
(End of this chapter)