I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 438 The power of the military-industrial system

Shi Bao received news of the Han army's attack, which he expected.

He was once a colleague, and he highly recognized Wang Ling's personal abilities.

But he didn't expect that as soon as the Han army came up, they opened fire.

The arrows that filled the sky were tilting down towards the Wei army camp like a heavy rain in July.

In just an instant, the wooden fence, the ground, and the tent were all covered with arrows.

Shi Bao wondered: "Are the Shu thieves stupid enough to fight like this?"

Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that this is not how battles are fought.

If you release arrows like this, the killing range cannot be locked, the killing effect will be minimal, and the arrows will be wasted.

You know, the head of an arrow is either made of copper or iron. Although it is small, it still requires craftsmen to make it day and night.

Shi Bao also took a few steps back, and he looked around in even more surprise.

There is also an arrow body, which requires wood.

Liu E replied: "It's already the thirtieth batch...and the Shu thieves are filling in the trenches."

Shi Bao turned around and returned to the military camp, with a bit of sarcasm on his face.

This style of play is simply perfect for an amateur.

"Let them shoot, the Shu thieves are stupid, we will make them stupid to the end!" Shi Bao said coldly.

"Which batch is this?"

For example, in this wave, there were more than 3,000 arrows, and in the two waves, nearly 7,000 arrows were wasted.

More than a hundred people were shot to death and hundreds more were injured.

Sure enough, the third wave of arrows came, this time moving a little closer, but the effect was not particularly obvious.

This is simply wasteful to the extreme.

After a while.

"Here..."

Shoot twenty waves, more than 70,000 arrows.

Moreover, craftsmen not only make arrows, but also forge various weapons such as swords and armor.

But not long after, Shi Bao frowned.

Just as Shi Bao was confused, a second wave of arrows followed, this time covering a wider area, and dozens of Wei soldiers were shot.

Shi Bao sneered and said: "I predict that the Shu thieves have no arrows. When the Shu thieves stop, our archers will prepare immediately!"

Because the Han army's arrow rain not only did not stop, but also got closer and closer to the inside, and the Wei army in the outer layer had been cleared.

"Captain, what should we do now?"

In Shi Bao's view, according to the current defensive and offensive situation, if the Han army wants to use bows and arrows to cause damage to the Wei army, it must have a large number of bows and arrows.

"Which batch?"

"The fiftieth batch."

After a while.

"Which batch?" Shi Bao said gloomily.

"The hundredth batch..."

"Let them keep firing arrows! I don't believe there will be no end to their arrows!"

After a while, Shi Bao asked impatiently: "Which batch is it?"

"The two hundredth batch..."

An area within the Wei army's camp was already filled with dense arrows.

The Han army has fired more than 700,000 arrows.

Wei Jun went from mocking at the beginning, to surprise, to shock, and now he is a little numb and tired.

What's even more frightening is that while the bows and arrows continue to cover the area, the Han Army's engineering battalion has filled in trenches one after another.

At some point, the rain of arrows finally stopped. The world suddenly became quiet, an eerie silence.

In the Wei army camp, everyone was staring at the direction in which the bow and arrow was shooting, as if everyone was wondering, why did it stop?
Suddenly, there was a faint sound of an ax splitting wood with force.

Next, countless such sounds came.

Shi Bao was shocked and immediately said: "Assemble the entire army!"

The whole army assembles?

How to assemble?

Gathering in the camp?

bang bang bang...

After the wooden fence was split open by the Han army with axes, the Han army outside rushed in like a scourge and quickly rushed into the Wei army camp, filling the surrounding area and impacting everything.

Wei Jun's resistance was quickly crushed.

This Qingzhou soldier was defeated in this way.

Shi Bao never dreamed that the current battle would be so simple and unpretentious.

While escaping, he was still wondering, how many arrows did the Han army have?
How can a war be fought like this?
Shi Bao's doubts and uneasiness were actually a direct reflection of the current military gap between Han and Wei, but he couldn't summarize clearly for a while.

The biggest military gap between Han and Wei now is not that the Han army is braver than the Wei army.

In fact, many of the Wei army were brave and not afraid of death.

The biggest gap is the gap in arms production capacity and logistics dispatch.

Production capacity is a complex and huge system, which must be supported by a self-operating economic and bureaucratic system.

If the bureaucracy is too large, the efficiency of production capacity will be greatly reduced, and the quality of armaments will even plummet.

The most typical one is the middle logistics of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are many types of armaments in the arsenal of the Great Song Dynasty, but the quality is difficult to describe.

If the bureaucracy is too weak, it will not be able to efficiently utilize the production capacity in the market economy to the military level.

The most typical example is the late Ming Dynasty, when the bureaucratic system collapsed and the Ming Dynasty had huge resources that could not be utilized.

Therefore, when a truly powerful country has a strong military, it must have a well-functioning system behind it to support its frontline military.

So at what level did Wei lose?
Wei's economy is an economy monopolized by aristocratic bureaucrats, and Wei's production capacity is a monopoly of aristocratic bureaucrats.

For example, after the establishment of Dahan Logistics Trading Co., Ltd., Li Heng subsequently liberalized Chongqing and Jiangling, allowing anyone in the private sector to establish their own logistics trading company, in order to fill the unprecedented huge gap in official logistics.

But Cao Wei was different. Cao Wei's military supplies were still mobilized by the government personally, with the cooperation of bureaucrats from aristocratic families in various places.

Dahan's logistics has established a clear market mechanism to connect various links with benefits and distribute benefits to every step, making every link full of motivation.

Cao Wei's logistics used great righteousness to encourage every link, and talked about benevolence, righteousness, and morality, but in private they were all about deprivation and robbery.

As we all know, using morality alone to promote something is anti-human and will ultimately mess up the whole thing and leave most people paying the price.

Shi Bao was defeated decisively, and the Qingzhou soldiers were defeated, including those from Taishan County.

The Taishan Army was once considered the elite of Cao Cao's men, and Yu Jin was one of the five good generals. He did not expect that his descendants could no longer adapt to the battlefield at all.

When the good news came back to Wang Ling that day, Wang Ling was not surprised at all.

Wang Ling is very clear about the current strength of the Han army. The entire military system behind it is supported by the economic strength of Chongqing, Jiangling and other places.

Zhuge Ke always lamented that he could not use his genius commanding ability.

However, Li Heng is constantly weakening the absolute role of the coach on the battlefield and systematizing and standardizing the war.

And full coverage of firepower.

Hu Zun learned that Shi Bao's defeat happened the next day, and that the pace of the war was far beyond his expectation.

Sima Division learned that Shi Bao's defeat was only on May 16, that is, three days later.

Xuzhou's 200,000 state and county troops were defeated, and Sima Division could calmly continue to allocate resources to Hefei, but now the defeat of Qingzhou's reinforcements made Sima Division sleepless all night.

Something that could keep Master Sima awake all night had never happened on earth before.

But now it appears.

The rapid defeat of the Wei army in Xuzhou was far beyond his imagination.

(End of this chapter)