I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 903 Bronze
At this time, a star suddenly flickered, and then turned into a meteor and fell, leaving a long trail in the night sky.This made Zheng Xiaoming feel something, and suddenly shouted: "Be alert, watch out for enemy attacks!"

Following Zheng Xiaoming's low shout, the surrounding night watch soldiers were alarmed, and they all clenched their spears, bows and arrows tightly.

In the darkness, there was a strange roar suddenly, and with the roar, the mist rushed towards the camp like a mountain.

The surrounding bonfires were suddenly windless and automatic, as if they were suppressed by cold air, and most of the flames were extinguished in an instant. The coldness made people shiver involuntarily, as if the temperature had suddenly dropped by twenty or thirty degrees.

However, the low temperature not only failed to wake people up, but made all the sleeping people fall into a deep nightmare, falling into the dark plain where the fingers could not be reached.

Dots of red light around it lit up, like stars in the sky, densely packed.However, these stars smell bloodthirsty, but they are all deformed, with two heads, or three hands, or humanoid monsters with thick sores and bone spurs on their bodies.

"Barbarian! This is a barbarian!" A panicked voice came.

But then there was a voice shouting loudly, "Why panic, it's just a barbarian. It's not like I haven't killed before!"

Following this shout, a ray of light suddenly shot up into the sky, illuminating the surrounding darkness like the sun.

As a result, the dream-like scenery was shattered, everyone's consciousness returned to the body, and the consciousness returned to the real world.

However, the surrounding situation is not much different, it is also surrounded by enemies.

Different from the enemies reflected in the dream, the enemies in reality are some relatively short barbarian savages wearing animal skins and bark, holding stones and bone weapons in their hands, and surrounded the camp.

"Formation, kill barbarians!"

Following the order of a general wearing bronze armor, Qing Lang, Zheng Guo's soldiers quickly reacted and began to form a defensive formation.

These are the elite brought out by Zheng Xiaoming from Zongzhou, the capital of the kingdom. They are well equipped, and most of them have armor with bronze pieces inlaid on the leather to improve defense, and some of them are directly equipped with bronze armor.

This is already a very luxurious equipment in today's era!

And the weapons in their hands are all bronze weapons.

"Throw!" With another command from Qing Lang, countless bronze short spears were thrown out. The sharp short spears easily shot through the bodies of dozens of barbarians, tearing their flesh and blood. sprinkled the earth.

In this era, bronze weapons are the highest technological crystallization, and they are only in the hands of the countries in the Central Plains, that is, the so-called Clothes Huaxia.

The so-called Huaxia, in this era, in this eastern land, means civilization.

The so-called beauty of obedience is called Hua.There is great etiquette, so it is called Xia.

Compared with the surrounding barbarians, Rong and Di, the China ruled by Zhou Tianzi is a land of civilization and possesses civilization technology.The other barbarians are barbarians.

And even among the countries in the Central Plains, those who can extravagantly use the bronze short spear as a throwing weapon and throw it out to kill the enemy are extremely extravagant behaviors!

This is almost equivalent to directly bombing ordinary infantry with missiles in later generations!
Only Zheng Xiaoming, the top aristocrat of the Great Zhou, and the prince's army, would have such extravagant behavior.

Without him, bronze smelting is not too difficult.But there are really not many copper mines on this land.The largest ore veins are the Tonglushan and other veins in Edi.

Back then, when King Zhao of Chu marched south, his biggest purpose was to compete with Chu for control of these copper mines.

However, as King Zhao did not return from the Southern Expedition, the Zhou family began to decline.

Tonglu Mountain had already been captured by the Chu people in the era of King Zhou Yi, and now it is no longer under the control of Da Zhou!
It needs to be exchanged from Chu State through trade.However, the state of Chu has very strict management of copper mines, and it is difficult to flow out easily.

The lack of enough copper ore to make various bronze weapons and ritual vessels is one of the reasons why Da Zhou has been declining over the years.

Of course, there are also copper mines in the Zhongtiao Mountain area in southern Shanxi. This is also the reason why King Wu insisted on entrusting his son Tang Shuyu to such a remote place when he founded the country, just to control the copper mines.

In addition, other places, such as Huaiyi, also have copper mines.This is also one of the reasons why Huaiyi was conquered by Zhou Tianzi's army many times...

But now, with the decline of the Zhou Dynasty.These copper mining areas are basically out of Zhou Tianzi's control!

However, no matter how lacking of copper mines in the entire Great Zhou, it is impossible for Prince Zheng Xiaoming to be short of copper mines anyway.Waves of his guards threw bronze short spears, killing and wounding the barbarians.

After these short bronze spears, the archers who reacted began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

The dense rain of arrows is much more lethal to unprotected barbarians than short spears.

It's not because the lethality of arrows exceeds that of bronze short spears, but the density of arrows is far better than that of short spears.

In other words, it was night. If it was daytime, then with the dispatch of the chariots, the hundreds of chariots under Zheng Xiaoming's command were enough to completely crush these barbarians.

However, it was dark and the roads could not be seen clearly... There are almost no roads in the wild in this era.

Therefore, the chariot was not dispatched.

Zheng Guo's army only defended, but did not attack.

If so, soon these barbarians could not bear the large number of casualties and could only retreat in a panic.

Even if many barbarians fled, they would still pick up those short bronze spears or arrows.

These things, after being taken back to their tribe, are the most rare wealth.

After about half an hour, the fighting finally stopped, and the soldiers began to pack up the bronze short spears and arrows left on the battlefield.

These penniless savage lives are no better than a bronze arrow...

After all, this era is already the Great Zhou, not the great merchants of the previous generation.

The king of Shang also needed a large number of human sacrifices for blood sacrifices to please the gods.

After the first battle in the Zhou Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, the gods fell, and the divinity returned to the heaven and the earth one after another, and there were not many gods with personality anymore.

And Da Zhou has long since stopped carrying out such barbaric acts as human sacrifices!
The king of Shang also needed to capture a large number of barbarians as sacrificial tributes. For the Zhou people, these living barbarians could only be left as slaves.

It's a pity that they are still halfway and have not yet reached Fengguo, so it is not easy to carry prisoners.So even if a prisoner is caught, it is a matter of killing.There is no value at all.

It's just to clean up the bronze weapons scattered around the battlefield, and the other ones that are farther away can only be cleaned up at dawn.

However, it is conceivable that even if all the bronze weapons are taken back, the number may be at least one-fifth less.

(End of this chapter)