"The massacre is over..." Huyan Dangtu sighed as he looked at the battlefield.
Originally, if the Hunxie people had not escaped, the two tribes combined would have at least more than 8,000 riders. Even if the Han Dynasty people were cheating, there would be nothing they could do.
At most, defeat Xiutu and Hunxie and force them to withdraw their troops.
But the Han army also has to pay a price!
But now, as soon as King Hunxie escapes, Xiutu Ren becomes a target!
Falling into the awkward position of running or not running.
"Master, how should King Hunxie be dealt with?" asked a Guduhou of the Huyan clan.
Huyan Dangtu narrowed his eyes and watched the Hunxie tribe running to the foot of a hillside seven or eight miles away.
"Humph!" Huyan Dangtu breathed out from his nostrils.
The Hunxie tribe is simply a naked provocation!
If he didn't show Hun Xie's prowess, Huyan Dangtu felt that his prestige as a coach would be completely lost.
I am afraid that no one will obey his orders in the future.
"Ignore it for now!" Huyan Dangtu used the word "it" to describe the Hunxie tribe. The pronunciation of the word "it" is different from that of "he" in the Xiongnu language.
‘He’ refers to an equal person, while ‘it’ refers to slaves and livestock.
Generally speaking, even if the nobles of the Xiongnu tribe are openly dissatisfied with a certain tribe, they will not use "it" to describe it.
Only when you can no longer tolerate it and make up your mind to wipe out this tribe will you use "it".
This is a death sentence!
"Rescue Xiu Tu first!" Huyan Dangtu clapped his hands: "Let our headquarters prepare to charge..." He squinted his eyes and asked the nobles behind him: "Warriors! Who is willing to rescue Xiu Tu?
Kill the tribe?"
After Hu Yandang was slaughtered, several Guduhous of the headquarters were eager to give it a try.
On the grassland, the Xiongnu tribe is always prouder than other tribes.
To the Huns, there is a world of difference between the headquarters and the non-HQ!
The cavalry of our headquarters are stronger, more powerful, and have better understanding!
Every rider in the headquarters has skilled riding skills and extraordinary shooting skills!
In a non-main tribe, it would be a miracle if there could be just one vulture shooter out of a thousand riders!
But in this tribe, some elite and powerful tribes can even ride a hundred horses and produce a vulture shooter!
The cavalry of this department is not only reflected in their combat capabilities and tactical qualities.
It is even more reflected in the equipment.
The cavalry of other tribes, holding an ox-horn bow and a few bronze collars, are already very luxurious.
As for leather armor and mail armor...
Then don’t think about it!
But the cavalry of the Xiongnu headquarters are armored and strong!
In the past, among the cavalry of our headquarters, there were nobles who could wear iron armor and go into battle with captured Han weapons.
More than a year ago, the Huns captured Dayuan and took all the population and wealth of the entire Kingdom of Dayuan into their own hands.
In this feast, the most valuable wealth the Xiongnu received was not hundreds of thousands of slaves and endless wealth.
But precious craftsmen!
The Kingdom of Dawan, as a descendant of the Macedonian colonists and the Seleucid dynasty, was the separatist kingdom of Bactria.
Although they were separated from continental civilization for hundreds of years.
But the wealth left by our ancestors has not disappeared.
The Kingdom of Dawan is a kingdom with a manor economy as its main body.
It was similar to the Roman Republic of the same era. Within a manor, there were nobles, warriors, servants, and of course craftsmen.
Although, Dawan people don’t know how to smelt iron.
But their bronze smelting technology is very advanced!
At least, it is countless times more advanced than the original bronze smelting technology of the Huns!
All nomadic peoples have a natural desire and thirst for craftsmen.
Because this is something they cannot cultivate and train themselves.
Therefore, all Dawan craftsmen were held in the hands of the Huns and cared for like treasures.
Especially carpenters and bronze smelters.
It’s like the love and care of a parent!
The craftsmen provided meat for every meal that the Huns themselves could not bear to eat, and the clothes that the Huns themselves could not bear to wear were worn by the craftsmen.
In fact, in order to take care of and meet the needs of these craftsmen, the Huns even built a city for them in Yanze, allowing them to live the same life as the nobles in Dawan.
The Huns' attack on Dawan would be a disaster for all classes in Dawan.
But craftsmen are an exception.
Many craftsmen who were originally civilians or even slaves suddenly transformed into the noble masters and masters of their masters in the past!
They ate the best food and slept with noble ladies they had never dreamed of in the past.
Naturally, the craftsmen were extremely satisfied with the new master.
Now, the more than 3,000 captured craftsmen of various kinds are producing and manufacturing various equipment for the Huns every day.
This includes the standard equipment of the Han army that was captured or smuggled.
Copycat weapons were very simple in the Cold Weapon Age, especially the Cold Weapon Age before the Christian era.
It's nothing more than a technical issue.
The large amount of wealth looted from Dawan injected endless vitality into the Huns' copycat business.
Last year, these craftsmen produced tens of thousands of weapons for the Huns!
Including the replica of the Han Army's saber, the replica of the Han Army's saddle and stirrups.
These are not difficult to copy.
The Huns had also discovered these things long ago.
As for horseshoes, these craftsmen can't make them.
This is not a technical problem, but a material problem.
Bronze is too brittle and not as strong or wear-resistant as iron.
The Huns, who couldn't grasp the technology of iron smelting, were really anxious!
"Sub clan..." Huyan Dangtu focused his attention on a dark-skinned, short-built Hun nobleman with a huge copper ring hanging from his nose: "Leave this matter to your department!"
Hearing this, the nobleman said happily: "General Zuo, please rest assured that our Xubu clan will definitely live up to the reputation of the Huns!"
The Xubu clan is one of the four major clans in the Huns.
The foundation is very solid.
This clan has been the candidate for Shanyu's right and left Guduhou for generations.
There was even someone who once served as King Youguli, one of the Four Pillars of the Huns!
It is very rare in the history of the Xiongnu to use four pillars instead of Lulu!
In history, only a few people have received this honor!
The Xubu clan received this honor because they followed the old Shanyu and established the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions, making great contributions!
Therefore, the Xubu clan was allowed to participate in the supervision of the countries in the Western Regions.
There are thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, some big and some small.
A few thousand people can occupy an oasis and become the king.
In large cases, there are dozens of cities or even dozens of cities!
There are naturally craftsmen in these kingdoms.
In fact, almost all the weapons, equipment and armor of the Xiongnu relied on the contributions of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions in the past.
This is why the Wusun people had to fall out with the Huns back then!
The thirty-six countries in the Western Regions are a huge cornucopia.
No matter who gets it, it will be enough to dominate the world!
Even competing for the position of grassland overlord.
The Wusun people coveted this and dreamed of controlling the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions.
It is absolutely impossible for the Huns to let the Wusun people control the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions.
Just like the Emperor of America would definitely not allow John Bull and Continental to get together, be so close, and call each other brothers.
This was the fundamental reason for the final break between the Xiongnu and Wusun. The two had irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts of interest in the Western Regions!
As a clan that has gained some rights in the Western Region, the Xubu people's equipment has always been known as powerful among the Xiongnu.
When other tribes were still using bones and stone spears.
The Subu clan has already completed the bronze transformation of weapons.
After the Battle of Mayi, Wanqi, the headquarters of the Luotang clan and the Xubu clan, was also known as the first tribe in the Xiongnu Empire to be equipped with imitation bronze sabers, bronze saddles, and stirrups.
Now, all four of Xubu's four thousand knights have completed their equipment updates.
Every warrior wears armor made of bronze and leather, rides a horse with stirrups and saddles from the fortress, and carries a saber from the fortress.
Even the formation of the formation is somewhat similar to the formation of the Han Dynasty cavalry, which is also copied from the stronghold.
In the past year or so, the Huns sent countless spies and spies, bribed countless traitors, and explored and peeked into the training and combat methods of the Han army. They also continued to use border frictions to spy on the Han army at the expense of the lives of vassal tribes and slaves. of reality.
Finally they touched some joints.
At the very least, now, the Xubu clan's ten thousand cavalry, arrayed in combat formations, are similar to the Han army's cavalry.
They formed a group of five riders, and two groups formed a team, forming a fan-shaped marching queue.
"It's a pity... the hand crossbows of the Han Dynasty can't be placed..." Huyan Dangtu sighed in his heart, feeling quite regretful.
Over the years, the Huns obtained at least hundreds of Han hand crossbow samples and thousands of damaged parts through countless channels.
Unfortunately, the hand crossbows of the Han army were developed from the cavalry crossbows of the Qin Dynasty. They combined the advantages of the Qin crossbows and made use of the bronze smelting technology that the Qin people had developed to the extreme, supplemented by the crystallization of modern science and technology. In Moyuan's ink Under the auspices of the authors, the designs of Qin cavalry crossbows and Han repeating crossbows were integrated and designed.
Every part can be replaced freely like the Qin Nu, and the triggering method is extremely simple.
This made it impossible for the Huns to imitate the village!
Not to mention large-scale equipment like the Han army!
This is also the helplessness of the Huns and the world.
Bronze technology has experienced three generations and thousands of years of development in China. Finally, fueled by the wars of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and using the wisdom of countless generations of outstanding people, it finally reached the pinnacle of bronze in the hands of the Qin people. Even after another two thousand years, even after industrialization At that time, the bronze craftsmanship of the Qin people was comparable to industrial products!
Can the Huns do it? No!
Can the Greeks do it? No!
Can the Romans do it? Still not!
In terms of smelting technology and production and manufacturing, China today is like the basic materials science of later generations to the Celestial Empire.
Just like an engine.
China has been making up lessons for more than ten years, but it still cannot catch up with Omega's engines. (~^~)
