On the battlefield of Yaoyang, war drums soared to the sky and horse hooves thundered.
At least four thousand Xiongnu cavalry were in front of the Han army's formation, and they rushed towards them with great momentum.
The crow banner of the Chinese army is particularly eye-catching.
"Black Crow Cavalry..." Yi Zong looked at the big banner and thought for a moment. The Han family knew very little about this cavalry. They had never even heard of its commander. They only knew that it was a Xiongnu single.
One of the ten thousand cavalry in the royal court headquarters.
The number of thousands of cavalry in the Xiongnu royal court was as large as an ox's hair.
At its peak, the Chanyu had tens of thousands of horses under his command, counted by tens.
Of course, those were good times.
Nowadays, famines occur frequently outside the Great Wall, and they have been repeatedly defeated in wars with the Han army.
Although the Xiongnu successfully succeeded in their western expeditions, their wealth could not be turned into an army immediately.
Therefore, before the war, the Emperor's Temple Calculation organized all the Shangshu of Lantai and the mathematicians of the Shaofu to calculate the military strength of the Xiongnu royal court.
In the end, the result was that the number of the royal court's ten thousand cavalry should not exceed eight. The number of fifty thousand cavalry was because if it exceeded this number, the ecology of the grassland and the Xiongnu's economy would no longer be able to afford it.
After all, although the Xiongnu were barbaric, they had to respect the laws of nature.
Fifty thousand cavalrymen, their families, slaves, and livestock, together they were a group with a population of at least hundreds of thousands and millions of livestock.
Such a cluster, even if spread over a vast grassland with a radius of hundreds of miles, would be a heavy burden.
Beyond this number, given the current grassland and climate, it is impossible for any grassland to support so many people and livestock.
Even if there is, it shouldn't be much.
The Huns were not a farming people, so they could farm just by occupying a piece of land.
They are nomadic herdsmen who need to move around all year round in pursuit of green grass and rainfall.
Therefore, the Black Crow Cavalry can become one of the 80,000 cavalrymen of the Xiongnu Royal Court, which shows that his lower limit is not that low, but his upper limit may be close to Zhelan.
Facing such an enemy, Yi Zong was quite cautious.
"Order the Southern Army's first and left captains to contain the incoming enemy cavalry; order the Northern Army's captains to dismount and shoot with bows to cover the battlefield!" Yi Zong gave the order decisively, using thousands of cavalry from the Northern and Southern armies to contain the incoming enemy cavalry.
The enemy, in Yi Zong's view, is already very appropriate.
"No!" A staff officer immediately took the order, and then passed the order on via flags.
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On both sides of the Han army's formation, the cavalry of the northern and southern armies were arranged in the second echelon on the left and right.
Since the Battle of Mayi, the Han army has begun to absorb and summarize the gains and losses of the Battle of Mayi, and thus started the process of professionalization of the cavalry.
Within the original cavalry, the Han army now had cuirasses, lancers, archers, rangers and dragoons.
Among them, cuirassiers and dragoons are highly specialized and absolutely elite.
As everyone knows, the cuirassiers are the best armored cavalry in the world. They are the sharp knives on the battlefield, the sharp blade of the king's division, and they are the seeding machine that spreads civilization and drives away barbarism.
As for the dragon cavalry, they were cavalry that were ordered by the Emperor himself after the Battle of Mayi and were trained within the Yulin Guard and the Hu Ben Guard.
Because the military flag uses a yellow dragon as an image, it is also called dragoon or yellow dragon cavalry.
And from their military flags, you can know who they are?
infantry!
Elite infantry on horseback, specially designed to follow the army in rapid maneuvers.
Dragoons can skillfully use and master all the weapons currently in service of the Han army, and have superb combat skills.
At the same time, they are also required to have the ability to accompany the breastplate to battle.
They are the strong shields of the cuirassiers and the hope of the Han army to control the grassland in the future.
After all, breastplates not only have strict requirements on the number of soldiers, but are also extremely expensive.
Even now, a cuirassier, if you include his training expenses and weapons and equipment, is almost as good as gold.
On average, each cuirassier now costs at least half a million dollars.
Even with the financial and taxation power of the Han Dynasty, it could not support much.
Dragoons are very cheap.
As long as they are war horses, they can be used as riding horses, and they don't need too much steel to arm them.
Give them a Mo Dao or a strong crossbow and a shield, and they can go into battle.
When you encounter an enemy, you can immediately form a battle group with the breastplate as the core.
As long as there are enough war horses, the Han army can pull out hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dragoons.
Even convert all infantry into dragoons.
To the Han army, this was the sound of nature.
Even, as a result, the Han army's Yulin Guards and Hu Ben Guards ushered in the era of infantry and cavalry coordination.
However, at present, this idea is still in the experimental stage.
And because of the shortage of horses, even draft horses are now in short supply.
Therefore, for the time being, dragoons can only appear in the Yulin Guard, Hu Ben Guard, the Northern and Southern Armies, the Thorny Gate Army, the Ba Shang Army and other garrison troops in Guanzhong.
During this expedition, the two captains of the Northern Army led by Yi Zong were all dragoons.
At this moment, upon hearing the order, these soldiers standing under the Huanglong flag immediately began preparations for combat.
On the side of their queue, those who hit him had their swords removed, and crossbows were distributed.
There were even a hundred craftsmen accompanying the army, who took out a large number of parts and assembled four bed crossbows on the battlefield in an instant.
Immediately, soldiers began to string up these terrible weapons, and pointed their sharp and huge arrows directly at the incoming Huns cavalry.
Thousands of crossbowmen were all squatting on the ground, checking their crossbow machines. Three hundred archers lined up in front of the crossbowmen, their long bows slightly raised.
The Mo Dao soldiers raised their Mo Dao and silently followed the officers, marching down the hillside in formation and arriving behind the shield wall.
Dozens of cavalrymen passed through these formations, and each commander raised his voice and asked loudly: "Gentlemen, who are we?"
"Dragoon!"
Whether it was Mo Dao soldiers, crossbow soldiers or craftsmen, they all held their heads high and answered loudly.
"What is the position of the dragoon?" the commanders asked loudly.
"We are the shield of the emperor!"
"We are the swords of Zhu Xia!"
Even more soldiers began to sing the military song of the dragoons: "Last night I dreamed of Muye, Duke Zhou caressed my head, tied my hair and put on a crown..."
Immediately there was a chorus: "My husband must be in a dangerous job, why did he miss me because of his scholarly crown... With a call of a dragon and millions of horses, he will sweep away all the barbarians and clear the world..."
The chorus was so loud that even Yi Zong, who was in the middle army, listened carefully.
"This Dragoon Song is too popular..." A civilian officer muttered slightly.
Yi Zong was very happy to hear it. He glanced at him and said, "What do you know? It's better if it's simple. If not, how can the soldiers understand it?"
The most inspiring writing in the world has never been those articles that are literate, quoted from scriptures, and filled with all kinds of uncommon words. These articles are now lying in Shiqu Pavilion and moldy!
So what words are now known all over the world?
The whole world is not the land of the king, and the shores of the land are not the king’s ministers!
Even three-year-olds now know this sentence.
Haven't you seen that over the years, the emperor's edicts, if they are issued to the world, are also very popular?
Just like the year before last, the emperor issued an edict to promulgate the law of peace. The first sentence on the edict was: I heard that the Taigong said: The world is unified, and one person has it; the world is full of clusters, and one person manages it...
Look at how popular these words are. Even peasants who have not studied well know what the emperor means!
Thinking of this, Yi Zong ordered: "Send an order to the whole army: Is it the land of the king in the whole world, and the ministers of the king, the king, and the emperor are the shores of the land! Wherever boats and chariots go, and wherever human beings go, even barbarians and barbarians are also
People of the Son of Heaven! Now the Jizhu clan leads the people of the Son of Heaven and refuses to listen to the Son of Heaven. This is a great crime! It is a crime to be punished by Heaven, and there is nothing to pray for! If the Xiongnu subjects, especially those who are familiar with righteousness, know when they have gone astray, kneel down and ask for surrender,
You can avoid death!"
This order was immediately executed.
More than 20,000 Han soldiers immediately shouted in unison: "Is it the land of the king in the whole world? Is it the king's ministers, the king, and the emperor who are on the shore of the land! Wherever boats and chariots go, wherever human beings go, even barbarians and barbarians are there."
People of the Son of Heaven! Now the Jizhu clan leads the people of the Son of Heaven and refuses to listen to the Son of Heaven. This is a great crime! It is a crime to be punished by Heaven, and there is nothing to pray for! If the Xiongnu subjects, especially those who are familiar with righteousness, know when they have gone astray, kneel down and ask for surrender,
You can avoid death!"
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The sound of more than 20,000 people roaring in unison must be described, so that you can know how powerful such a sound is.
Even the legendary Kui Niu Drum is probably nothing more than this.
The Huns were naturally frightened by this momentum.
"What are the people of the Han Dynasty talking about?" Lan Zheye asked.
Immediately, a nobleman who was proficient in Chinese explained to Lan Zheye, and then said angrily: "Master, this Han Dynasty person is arrogant and rude, and actually claims that the people of the Huns are also the people under the rule of his emperor!
How hateful!”
When Lan Zheye heard this, his face changed drastically and he cursed: "People from the Han Dynasty! They go too far to bully others!"
This is already a humiliation to him, his Xuhuan army and the entire Hun Empire!
Moreover, the reasons and excuses of the Han Dynasty people made his hair stand on end with anger.
Is there any more heavenly justice?
According to what people in the Han Dynasty said, as long as there is sunshine, living people, and land in this world, even if they are in the vast ocean, the savages hundreds of thousands of miles away are also the subjects of their emperor.
Where do they rule?
Even the old Shangdan didn’t have such big ambitions back then!
But little do they know that this is the political correctness and traditional virtue of the Han family since ancient times.
Everything in the world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers.
The Yi and Di barbarians must kneel down to greet Master Wang and obediently accept the teachings of Chinese civilization.
Anyone who refuses will have their entire family killed!
There are three kings and five emperors, and there are dozens of kings in the three generations. Even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, rituals, music, and conquests came from the princes, and the same was true for the princes.
Otherwise, do you think that the Dongyi tribe and Quanrong Baidi just hanged themselves obediently or took the initiative to move to the deep mountains and forests and hide in the desert swamps?
Now, Yi Zong has just further sublimated this concept and put it forward nakedly!
And this is the typical face and behavior of imperialism.
What I said is right, and my rules are universal values!
You scumbags, quickly kneel down and listen to the universal voice. (To be continued.)
