If Wang Jian was defeated, Qin would have no hope of destroying Chu.

Xiong Jing smiled coldly, and Li Qi and Wuzhu looked solemn. Although the enemy was large and we were few and were defeated, anything could happen in battle. What if the Chu army won again? This is not impossible.

Looking at Xiong Jing's smile, Li Qi couldn't help but speak: "If it's fifteen or sixteen years old, you can fight with me, and our army is sure to win."

"Fifteen, sixteen?" Xiong Jing immediately lost his smile. "This is only 50,000 or 60,000 people, but there are only a handful of people who attack the spear. How to fight with it? And this matter has been discussed in the court for a long time, why did you mention it again today?"

The proposal to recruit five-foot soldiers was not the first time. After Daze was defeated, Zhengchao had discussed it. Even if Xiong Jing did not instruct, Zhengchao still opposed recruiting five-foot soldiers. In terms of physical conditions, he could not become a qualified spearman at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Not to mention five-foot soldiers, six-foot soldiers weighed up to 40 kilograms, generally thirty-five kilograms, and thirty-five kilograms, and these totaled 25 kilograms. It was impossible to carry weapons and equipment that accounted for 70% of the body to fight, and to run and rush for the spear.

Furthermore, what if they lose? If these underage Chu soldiers lose, they will become heads and become a step for the Qin people to promote their titles. They cannot be compensated for the war, but will be massacred by the Qin people. No general dares to nod and agree to such a thing. To put it more bluntly, these young men are all their nephews. If they are recruited, they will die. How can they bear it?

Li Qi knew that he could not summon the fifteen or sixteen-year-old son, but he just wanted to win too much. When Xiong Jing asked him back, he was a little embarrassed and hurriedly withdrew. He left, don't let me leave too. Xiong Jing remembered that Xiong Han had not yet asked about this matter, and he could only ask again tomorrow.

In a refreshing morning, Li Qie, don't let me come after I come. Xiong Jing sat for a while and dozed off. After sitting for a while, he went straight to the bed, changed his clothes and rushed to the martial arts field. The Qin army's Shahai camp, nearly a thousand miles away, Wang Jian, who was promoted to the tent every day, was still patiently listening to the generals' reports on military affairs.

Morale, food, training, baggage, camp, enemy situation... He spends nearly a morning every day dealing with these trivial matters. For a veteran over 60 years old, this is a very laborious task, but if he wants to master the entire army, he has to listen to it one by one. If there is any problem, he should point out immediately and praise the good things.

One soldier is a beating, and the general is a beating. If you want to make the morale of 600,000 Qin soldiers high, you must first make the morale of 60 commanders high. If you want to make the morale of 60 commanders high, you will not be lying or talking big, but you will make the military camp look like a military camp. "Unity, tension, seriousness, and lively." Wang Jian didn't know these eight words, but the Qin camp is now implementing these eight words.

In general, from March to now, the morale of the Qin army has been settled, but it is far from the point of taking the initiative to seek war. Wang Jian is not in a hurry. His plan is to launch another offensive next year. This year, the first is to stabilize the morale of the army, and this has been done;

The second is to speed up the training, this is being done. Previously, soldiers practiced for one day every two days and went out for one day every ten days. From this month, seeing the army's morale was stable, Wang Jian finally adjusted the training to normal. The soldiers practiced every day, and went out for one day every five days. If the test was the "most" test, they could rest for one day on the second day;

Finally, he prepared military equipment and food. But this was not something he could solve alone. This had to rely on Zhao Zheng's support. As Li Qi guessed, after Wang Jian arrived at the Shahai, he found that the biggest problem of the Qin army was that all armor was lost. There was not much left in the giant armor seized from the Zhao and Qi armies, and only the cavalry retained more than 10,000 sets of giant armor.

There is no reason why Shaofu stopped building warships. Wang Jian urged many times, believing that the most important thing for Shaofu now is to build armor. The 600,000 Qin troops must have at least 100,000 sets of available giant armor or iron armor. If not, what will the soldiers use to fight against the Chu army?

In addition to armor, even Wang Jian didn't know what to do. The Qin army seized the giant armor and also seized the Chu-style spear. The spear tip of the spear head was removed and installed on a shorter spear slash, which became the chief spear of the Qin army. Shashui was defeated and threw away the armor. The chief spear weighing more than ten kilograms was also lost by the Qin soldiers. In the end, the Qin army returned to the Shahai camp only 30,000 people, and the Chu-made chief spear was also in the hands of the Chu-made chief spear. The others were either short-soldiers or unqualified iron spears made by the Shaofu.

The armor costs 100,000 sets, which is comparable to the Chu army's barbarian spears, at least 300,000 spears. Wang Jian was worried that the Shaofu could not be built. If it could not be built, he, the general, really didn't know what kind of weapon to use to break the Chu army's strong armor.

"Report to the general, Ye Shun, the master of the Shaofu, and Sima Wuze, the official of the Iron Official, asked for a visit." After closing the tent, Wang Jian personally went to the lieutenants to inspect the lieutenants, and only inspected the two lieutenants, and the commanders of the shogunate ran to report.

"Oh?" Wang Jian raised his eyebrows. He didn't know why Ye Shun came to Shahai in person. Could it be...

"Ask a great craftsman to go to the martial arts field." Wang Jian did not think without thinking. He did not like literati-style politeness. If there was anything, it would be best to say on the martial arts field. "I would also like to invite General Zhao Yong, General Wu Fen, General Qiang Xu, General Anqi, and Liu Chi to the martial arts field."

After Wang Jian gave the order, the soldiers stood and couldn't leave. They even touched the back of their heads in a squint manner. Seeing him like this, Wang Jian said angrily: "Then tell the master and go to the martial arts field quickly."

There were 600,000 troops, and there were four left, middle and right back, each with 150,000 troops. Wang Ben wanted to lead the army alone and asked his father to squeeze out the Li Xin's subordinate general, but Wang Jian refused without hesitation and only let him obey the orders under the central army. The father and son had been having a quarrel for more than two months, and the army was also from Pinyang, and he only hoped that the general and the major general would reconcile.

He went directly to the martial arts court without receiving the shogunate. Ye Shun, the master of the Shaofu, was wondering that he was coming to discuss the Qin army's armor with Wang Jian, but since Wang Jian said that he would go to the martial arts court, he couldn't delay it, so he could only go to the martial arts court with his teeth.

The martial arts court was indeed a field, with no walls. It surrounded the northwest corner of the Daying by Wuzhang. When Ye Tun arrived, Wang Jian had already stood in the martial arts court. Soon, the right general Zhao Yong, the cavalry general Wufen, the left general Qiang Sheng, the rear general Anqi, Liu Chi, the confidant of the shogunate, and several shogunate counselors, as well as the central general Wang Ben, arrived one by one.

"I've seen the general." Ye Shun's throat was a little bitter, and he saluted Sima Wuze and others to Wang Jian one by one. "I've seen General Zhao, General Wufen, and General Qianghuo..."

"The great craftsman does not need to be too polite." Wang Jian would invite Ye Shun here, and his words were straightforward. "Ask the great craftsman to come here, and he was the armor of our army. The Jing people's armor cannot be broken by the Jing people's barbarian spears. However, most of the barbarian spears obtained by our army Zhao Qi were lost in front of the battle. If we wanted to fight again, we would have to have three or four hundred thousand barbarian spears."

"General..." Ye Tun knew Wang Jian's requirements in April, 100,000 sets of iron armor, at least 300,000 iron spears comparable to the barbarian spear. The construction process is not mature, and iron armor can be made, but iron armor can be made, but the number of iron armor is time-consuming. The number of 100,000 sets is too large, and it is difficult to complete it in a year. There is also this problem with iron spears, but iron spears have more serious problems.

Ye Shun wanted to speak, but Wang Jian had not finished speaking yet.

"In addition to the spears, the army needs at least 140,000 sets of iron armor." Wang Jian's number was four more than before. Even if he was not interrupted by Wang Jian, Ye Shun, who had opened his mouth, could not speak. "Our army's old soldiers had 140,000, and each old soldiers had to have a set of iron armor. In addition, it takes one million crossbows to open a crossbow; ten thousand powerful crossbows, and each strong crossbow should be equipped with three hundred arrows, and these three million are..."

Wang Jian said his request, all of these numbers were corrected. These numbers kept hovering in his mind and could not be removed. Now when he saw Ye Shun, he blurted out naturally and half-deathed Ye Shunlei. He opened his mouth like a fish thrown on the shore, gasping for breath, as if he was about to die.

Fortunately, Wang Jian's words were not long, so he wanted three things: iron armor, sharp spear, sharp arrow, and nothing else. In the end, he was worried that his intention would be misunderstood by Ye Shun, so he specifically emphasized: "Don't have copper armor, stone armor, leather armor, and don't have copper soldiers."

After Wang Jian finished speaking, the generals stared at Ye Shun for a moment. Ye Shun stood up for a while and said, "I came to the shogunate on the order of the king and discussed the two matters with the general."

"Yeah. In other words." Wang Jian made his own request in a row, but he didn't expect Ye Shun to only talk about his own affairs. For the sake of the king, he could only let him finish it.

"It takes time to build iron armor!" Ye Shun said as soon as he opened his mouth: "A set of armor requires nearly a thousand armor pieces to be compiled. Nearly a thousand armor pieces need to be size, thickness, and material the same. This is difficult. If the blacksmith in Shaofu makes iron armor, it will not be able to make spears and iron arrows. If the spears and iron arrows are made, it will not be able to make iron armor, so..."

"How?" Wang Jian narrowed his eyes and looked at Ye Shun with the look of looking at the enemy.

"The Shaofu can only make cloth armor. cloth armor..." Ye Shun said, turning his head to signal Sima Wuze to take out the sets of cloth armor from the carriage.

"Bu Jia?!" Everyone was surprised and Wang Ben shouted, "How can Bu Jia?!"

"General Wang, don't be impatient." Ye Shun knew that the people would be surprised, but he came prepared. "Ar has been brought, can the cloth armor be used as armor? You can tell at a try." Ye Shun's confident tone calmed Wang Ben and others, and Wang Jian's eyes were still narrowed until Sima Wuze and others took out the sets of cloth armor from the carriage.

In people's impression, cloth can only be used as clothes and used as armor, which is completely whimsical. But if you think about it again, fur is originally used as clothes, but who among the soldiers of the world does not wear leather armor? Since leather can be used as armor, cloth may also be used as armor.
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