An hour later, the generals and soldiers of the Northern and Southern armies and Yunzhong County all opened their mouths and stared dumbfounded at the cavalry slowly returning from the distant plains.
Riding one by one, they are like heavenly soldiers and generals who have come from myths and legends into reality.
"We finally understand why we spend so much money to build it..." A captain of the Southern Army sighed: "The appearance and momentum alone are worth it!"
Yi Zong stood beside him and smiled with his hands behind his hands.
From the day they were equipped with breastplates, the Yulin Guards and the Tiger Guards already knew that the momentum of these cuirassiers was the most important.
Therefore, over the years, the first thing the generals and subordinates do every day when they get up is to think about how to make the cavalry under their command look more powerful.
For this reason, they reformed the old Han army helmets, making the helmets worn by the cuirassiers taller. In order to highlight the mighty momentum, some people even began to try to make the feathers on the helmets taller and brighter.
In Huben Guard, we started with the breastplate painting and colored the armor to make it more conspicuous and prominent.
In other troops, this would undoubtedly be courting death!
It will make it easier for the enemy to hit and find you.
But the cuirassiers were born to face the difficulties and attack the center of the enemy's strongest, most powerful and terrifying array.
They are the axes that open roads, the long knives that cut through thorns, and the drills that carve out mountains.
It is the arrowhead of the whole army and the messenger of victory.
The ace that is destined to tear and crush all enemies.
In this case, you will highlight your presence, increase your momentum, and make people more aware and nervous.
It is very necessary.
Moreover, the charge of cuirassiers is different from the charges of all active cavalry in the world today.
They are steady mountains, hills of rolling tides and avalanches.
"It's not just momentum and appearance..." Sima from Yunzhong County lamented: "With such a cluster, I really can't think of anything else that can stop their progress!"
In the drill just now, the Tiger Guards and the Habayashi Guards demonstrated their most basic combat tactics to all the soldiers and generals present.
This is their most commonly used frontal crush.
No matter how many enemies there are, I can roll over them like a mountain.
If you can stop it, you will die. If you cannot stop it, you will die!
The cuirass knights of the Han army were eight feet and one inch tall, with wingspans of more than eight feet.
His main battle weapon is a lance that is ten feet long.
When they charged, using flat-end lances, the huge power of kinetic energy was enough to skewer all the creatures in front of them into a skewer.
What's more, some smart people discovered that these cavalrymen also carried a saber on their backs.
This is a saber that no one has ever seen before.
Because it is smaller than all the Han army sabers currently in service, but it is also more deadly.
Because they are scimitars!
In the drill just now, although the cavalry did not demonstrate how to use these sabers.
However, anyone who is not stupid can guess it.
In the first stage of the charge, these cavalry used neat formations and lances to break up the enemy's formation and tear apart the enemy's defense.
Then, they would take advantage of their formation and extremely powerful defense, and use those sabers to chop the crumbling and crying enemies into pieces one by one, just like chopping melons and vegetables.
Simple, crude and direct, but very effective.
However, this is only the appearance displayed in front of everyone.
Yi Zong knew very well that the Yulin Guards and the Hu Ben Guards spent a lot of money and gathered the best and best soldiers to build these two thousand cuirassiers.
They are not just tall and well-equipped. It's that simple.
Discipline and coordination as one person are their real strength and fatality.
Each of these two thousand people has a very deep tacit understanding with the others.
They are like an extremely precise machine.
Every individual is a part in this machine.
This allows them to fight in any environment and under any conditions.
Even if the battle reaches the last horse, as long as the order from the Chinese army to retreat is not given, the battle will still continue.
In the same way, even if the enemy has collapsed and is running wild, if you give the order to withdraw your troops, you will immediately turn to retreat.
It is precisely because of such discipline and coordination that cuirassiers are invincible cavalry.
There is no discipline, coordination, and unity.
Yi Zong felt that the so-called cuirassiers would probably be killed on the battlefield.
so……
"Probably only my Han family in the world can afford to raise such strong soldiers!" Yi Zong sighed in his heart.
Apart from the Han Dynasty, there is no other country in the known world that can cultivate and train cuirassiers.
I want the cuirassiers to develop combat effectiveness.
Then, we need a young government that can mobilize tens of millions of resources at any time, and we also need a country with an area of tens of thousands of miles and a population of tens of millions, from which enough qualified soldiers can be selected.
More importantly, a complete military system and a systematic civilized nation are also needed.
There is a Mohist who invents and creates, adjusts and improves equipment based on feedback from the army, there is a Legalist who formulates laws and mobilizes the people, there is a military strategist who establishes military law and educates soldiers, and there is even a Confucian who popularizes knowledge and enlightens people.
people.
Without these, even if you throw cuirassier equipment to them, will they know how to maintain it? Can they use it? Can they afford it?
The answer is all no.
Only the advanced degree of civilization and the strength of the country can reach the level of the Han Dynasty.
Only then is it possible to use and equip breastplates.
Therefore, the power and invincibility of this cuirassier does not lie in the equipment of the cavalry or their techniques and tactics.
But the Han Dynasty nation as a whole has far left behind all surrounding competitors.
More than a thousand years ago, the people of Zhou proudly declared to the world: The beauty of uniforms is called Hua, and the greatness of etiquette is called Xia.
Today, as the Han Dynasty that has inherited the teachings and systems of the three generations of ancestors, it can once again proudly declare to the world: the beauty of civilization is called Hua, and the greatness of the system is called Xia.
Reappearance of Zong Zhou’s great deeds of allowing all the nations of the Eight Wastelands and Liuhe to come and conquer the four barbarians!
Let China once again become a great country in the true sense. The whole world is not the land of the king, and the shore of the land is not the land of the king!
Thinking of this, Yi Zong felt a little excited.
He understood that today, he led the army to fight against the Xiongnu. This was the first step towards reviving China and letting the Xia dominate the world again.
"Huang Emperor Xuanyuan is here, I will definitely hold the prisoner's head as a tribute to His Majesty!"
Yi Zong swore in his heart.
Then he issued an order: "The whole army will camp. Early tomorrow morning, we will break out of camp and go north to sneak into Wuzhou!"
The mission of the army he commanded, which was close to ten thousand horses, was to lurk in the deep valley near Wuzhou Fortress, seize the opportunity, and imprison the invading Xiongnu under the city of Mayi, so that they would all perish in the wrath of the Han army!
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At the same time, at Wuzhou Fortress hundreds of miles away from Gaonu.
The atmosphere started to feel a bit off.
Stationed here was a Sima from the Juzhu Army of the Han Army.
According to the system, the Han army should have garrisoned a complete Qu here.
However, as the relationship between Han and Huns has improved in recent years, especially the Hetao Xiongnu tribes who are directly facing them, they have begun to reduce their intrusion on the borders of the Han Dynasty and the Great Wall.
Therefore, many temporary outposts and beacon towers on the border have been abolished.
The strength of border fortresses in many prominent areas has also been greatly reduced.
The Han army chose to withdraw its troops.
First, reduce consumption.
After all, stationing troops far away from the Great Wall, just for supplies, is very difficult and dangerous.
Secondly, the soldiers did not want to be left alone outside the fort, exposed to the wind and sun.
Compared with the hard life outside the Great Wall, the prosperous world and peaceful atmosphere inside the Great Wall are undoubtedly more popular.
Therefore, the garrison strength in Wuzhou Saili has also dropped from the peak of 500 people after the Xiongnu invasion five years ago to only one camp with about 200 people today.
Among the two hundred people, there are dozens of criminals and prisoners who came here with the army to settle the land.
Farming is the innate talent of the Xia people.
Since ancient times, even in the most dangerous times.
The Xia people have never stopped farming.
Farming in garrison areas not only reduces logistical pressure, but also makes the local climate and environment more beneficial to the soldiers stationed there.
But now, the garrison at Wuzhou Fortress clearly smelled some unusual danger signals.
"A caravan that left the fortress three days ago has not returned yet..." In the Saiwei Yamen of Wuzhou Fortress, Wuzhou Weitian Fen stared at the map in front of him and the intelligence compiled by all parties, and fell into a deep trance.
in contemplation.
"Two days ago, no news came back from the team I sent out to patrol..."
"Yesterday, I personally led people out of Wuzhou Mountain and traveled twenty miles, but I didn't even see a single cow or sheep!"
These pieces of information were connected one by one in his mind.
The caravan's failure to return after the due date could be understood as a temporary incident. The disappearance of the soldiers who were out on patrol was enough to alert him.
But when I went out of the fortress in person, I couldn't even see a single cow or sheep.
It can only mean one thing - the Huns are nearby.
Moreover, it is not one or two, nor is it one hundred or two hundred.
At least, there is an established and main Xiongnu tribe, lurking outside the Wuzhou Wall, watching with eager eyes.
As a qualified professional soldier, he had already started evacuating the people in Seri, Wuzhou yesterday.
In addition to soldiers, prisoners and criminals, hundreds of people who originally lived in Wuzhou Fortress have been ordered by him to retreat to the safer city of Mayi.
Going with them were a dozen soldiers from the fortress.
These soldiers were all brothers who were under his command, or they were the only one in the family.
This is also the tradition of the Han army.
This can avoid the possibility that some families will become extinct or collapse once the Huns invade.
After sending those people away, Tian Fen's men, including prisoners, criminals and soldiers, totaled only about 150 people.
From now on, Tian Fen is very clear that he has to consider two things.
First, he must be loyal to his duties and complete the tasks entrusted to him by the Emperor and Shangguan - to guard Wuzhou Fortress and provide early warning for Mayi and Yanmen.
He must hold on here until the moment he discovers the Xiongnu, lights the beacon fire, and gives an early warning.
Then, it's his second mission.
As the highest military commander of Wuzhou Fortress, he has to consider the lives of his soldiers.
What if the Huns really invaded in a big way?
Then, with the power of Wuzhou Fortress, it is impossible to stop or stop the torrent of the Huns' iron cavalry.
How to save the lives of his comrades as much as possible and let them live until the war, to marry a wife and have children, and to continue the family line.
"grown ups!"
When Tian Fen was thinking, the voice of a young soldier came from outside the door. Then, a frail young man threw himself into his arms.
"Jian'er, why are you here?" Tian Fen looked at it and immediately became nervous: "As a father, I am not telling you. You must listen carefully to your husband's words in Mayi City, study hard, and go to Chang'an to take the exam in the future, and honor your ancestors.
, do you want to shine the lintel for my Tian family?"
At this moment of crisis, the last thing Tian Fen wants to see is the arrival of his son.
Tian Fen was born in Guanzhong.
His family is even famous in Guanzhong.
His family is the Chang'an Tian family, known as the most powerful person in Guanzhong.
Although the Tian family has not produced any big shots.
However, he started his career by working for the young master and prospered by kneeling and licking Taizong.
With the support of the Liu family, the Tian family's power quickly expanded, and its influence spread throughout Guanzhong.
But Tian Fen had already been kicked out of the door by the Tian family.
The reason is that he married a woman he shouldn't have married.
His wife was the niece of Deng Tong, who was Tian's backer at that time.
Originally, everyone in the Tian family was happy to hear about this marriage and thought it was a good deal.
However, God's will played a trick on people. After Taizong died and the late emperor ascended the throne, Deng Tong quickly collapsed and was even classified as a traitor.
Naturally, he, Deng's son-in-law, was also implicated.
Originally, if he chose to unite and separate, he would still be the direct son of the Tian family.
But, he didn't want to.
How can a man be so selfish?
He decisively rejected the family's request, took his wife and son away from Guanzhong, and came to the foot of the Great Wall to settle down in Mayi City.
Later, because he was well-informed and physically strong, he was favored by the magistrate of Mayi County and appointed as Wuzhou Wei.
In Tian Fen's heart, there is no doubt that the most important things are his son and wife.
Even if it means giving his own life, he will protect his wife and children!
Therefore, the sudden arrival of his son immediately threw him into chaos.
"Guards!" Tian Fen stood up and shouted.
Immediately, two soldiers walked in and said: "Captain, what is your mission?"
"Immediately prepare your carriages and horses to take this son back to Mayi City!" Tian Fen said seriously.
Tian Fen knew very well that the Huns might launch an attack at any time.
It is even possible that in the next moment, the area outside the Wuzhou Great Wall will be occupied by Xiongnu cavalry.
Under such circumstances, he was ready to die for his country.
However, he didn't want his son to die with him.
Tian Fen touched his son's head and said: "My son, listen to your father's words, go back and take good care of your mother. Don't be as naughty as before!"
Tian Jian is just a young boy of twelve or thirteen years old. In his world, he is still innocent and carefree.
He obviously didn't understand what his father meant.
He pouted, very dissatisfied with his father's decision.
"Sir, I finally got permission from my mother to ride on Nie Dalang's carriage and horse to come here to meet you. Why would you chase me away as soon as we meet?"
"Nie Dalang?" When Tian Fen heard this, alarm bells rang in his heart: "But Nie Yi?"
Nie Yi is Oda Ken’s classmate and neighbor.
But the Nie family and Tian Fen knew.
This is no simple thing!
What they do is dry orchid!
Those who do this are committing adultery. The so-called Qianlan actually violates the law, secretly communicates with the Huns, and even smuggles goods that are expressly prohibited from being sold to the Huns.
For example, iron tools, ordnance and bronze.
The Nie family took advantage of this and became the richest man in Mayi, with as many as a hundred people!
In the past, during peacetime, Tian Fen could turn a blind eye.
After all, the Nie family certainly has a protective umbrella when doing this business.
He is a small lieutenant whose rank is not comparable to that of a hundred stones. He is completely unable and powerless to stop the other party's behavior.
However, at this sensitive time.
The Nie family appears in Wuzhou Fortress?
what does that mean?
Tian Fen immediately ordered the two soldiers: "Take Tian Jian to Mayi immediately, and then order the gate to be sealed, prepare the smoke, and be ready to light a fire at any time!"
As a former child of the Tian family in Guanzhong, Tian Fen was trained by his family in the direction of captain and school captain since childhood.
Of course he knew very well that in the past history, the fall of Mayi or even Yanmen was most likely due to the emergence of twenty-five young men in the city.
There were even traitors who cooperated with the Xiongnu and concealed the front posts including Wuzhou Fortress, allowing the Xiongnu army to appear unexpectedly at Mayi or even Yanmen Pass! (To be continued.)
