I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 910 Land of Lu Rong
At dawn, a rather large army appeared on the land near Xiangshui, breaking the peaceful breakfast.

A nearby savage tribe was preparing to graze cattle and sheep, and cultivate the land. Suddenly, it was frightened by the sudden army, and quickly closed the gate of the wooden stockade, watching the sudden army vigilantly.

A big banner with Zheng characters in seal script fluttered in the wind, but unfortunately these savages would not recognize it.

But the shining spears in the hands of these Zheng Guo troops, as well as the huge chariots, made these savages see clearly.

Qing Lang, the leader of the army, glanced at the small stockade indifferently, and ordered one of his officers in a nonchalant tone: "Let these savages surrender, and in the future, they will pay tribute to Zheng State as slaves, cattle, sheep, furs, and treasures. Otherwise, they will be killed." Just them!"

Hearing the words, the officer quickly took the order, and sent soldiers with loud voices to shout out. It didn't take long before the strongholds opened.The patriarch of this tribe, the wizard and others prostrated themselves on the ground, offering cattle, sheep and wine to Zheng Guo's army.

The population of this small tribe is too small, only five or six hundred people in total.There are not as many troops as Qing Lang sent troops to command this time.

You know, this time Qing Lang commanded a total of fifty chariots to sweep up the surrounding savage tribes.

Generally speaking, there are thirty people in a chariot.

Of course, this does not mean that there are thirty people on a chariot.

But the chariot also needs to cooperate step by step!
Generally speaking, a tank is a complete combat unit.

Among them were ten soldiers, three in the car and seven in the car.This is the main force of the battle.

Then there were fifteen pawns and five apprentices.

These are auxiliary light infantry without armor, and logistics personnel.

So many people is a complete combat unit.

In other words, there are [-] people in this army of fifty chariots.

That's why after the Spring and Autumn Period, those big countries like Qi and Jin talked about thousands of chariots and hundreds of thousands of armors!
You must know that the current Emperor Zhou still needs to recruit soldiers and horses from the princes, and it is estimated that he can gather so many troops.

And such an army, in today's Xiangshui generation, is absolutely invincible.

If adding the [-] chariots from Zheng Xiaoming's side, there would be as many as [-] chariots.

This is a huge army of [-] people!
It can be said that as long as it is not a decisive battle with the Chu people.Many countries around here are not rivals tied together!

Including Zeng Guo.

Although Zeng Guo was rich, he was rich but not strong.Needless to say, its army stretched across.

Of course, according to the etiquette and order established in the Zhougong era, many small countries around here belong to the Ji family, and they cannot fight each other.

Otherwise, King Zhou, as the head of the family, will be punished!
Respecting relatives, formulating a system of etiquette and law based on blood relationship to maintain the order of the entire Great Zhou world is the cornerstone of Zhou King's rule of the world.

However, to conquer these barbarians, the barbarians have no problem at all.

Even because of Zheng Xiaoming's status, it's not a big problem to bully other small countries with other surnames under the Zhou family system.Like Deng Guo!
But now, of course, Zheng Xiaoming, whose foothold is not stable, would not do such a thing.

He sent Qinglang out to conquer the surrounding savage tribes, collect more food and people, and use them to build the city.

Although the small tribe in front of us is still called savages, they have actually begun to slowly follow the Zhou people's lifestyle and start farming and grazing.

And this kind of small tribe is not Qing Lang's main target of using troops this time. His target of using troops is the country of Lu Rong at the junction of Han River and Zhang River.

But from the name, one can tell that Lu Rongguo belongs to the Central Plains civilization under the leadership of Zhou Tianzi, but belongs to the barbarians.

It is said that this country was originally the other tribe with the surname of Yun, who migrated all the way to the west, and now Fang Guo was established in this Zhangshui generation.The power is quite strong, threatening some small countries that belong to the Huaxia system, such as Pang Kingdom and Luo Kingdom.

Now that Zheng Xiaoming wants to gain a foothold in Jianghan, of course he has to choose to make an example of others to establish his prestige.

And these Lu Rong people were chosen by Zheng Xiaoming as the chickens to be killed!
At this moment, Qing Lang was full of confidence and led fifty chariots all the way to Lu Rongguo.

As a result, a few days later, Zheng Xiaoming heard the news that the army led by Qing Lang was defeated by Lu Rongguo, and he fled back with the remnant soldiers.

Zheng Xiaoming was furious and wanted to punish Qing Lang for his crime.However, Qing Lang was the "Qing" sent by King Zhou to control Zheng's army, so after he was defeated, Zheng Xiaoming could not punish this crime, only King Zhou himself could punish him.

Zheng Xiaoming originally left [-] chariots in Xiangyang in case the Chu State came to attack.That's when Qing Lang was sent to lead fifty chariots. Originally, he thought that attacking a small barbarian country would be easy, but he never thought that he would encounter such a big defeat.

So Zheng Xiaoming was furious, and he personally led all the troops to attack Lu Rongguo again.

Before waiting for Lu Rongguo, he encountered Lu Rongguo's chariot troops.

Only then did Zheng Xiaoming realize that Qing Lang's defeat was not wronged, that Lu Rongguo was from the Xirong tribe, who had migrated all the way from the land of Xirong.

It is said that chariots were first created from the land of Xirong, so now almost all Xirong tribes have mastered the technology of making chariots.

This is also the reason why Xirong is the biggest threat to the Great Zhou... In fact, the Zhou people were also part of Xirong at first, and they were related to many tribes of Xirong.

Many Xirong tribes themselves were also part of the Huaxia system led by the emperor of Zhou.

Of course, this Lu Rongguo is definitely not.Although they have mastered the manufacturing technology of chariots!
When Qing Lang attacked Lu Rongguo this time, he just didn't expect this. He didn't expect that such a small country in a remote mountainous valley would actually have chariots. He was caught off guard and was defeated.

But now that Zheng Xiaoming was prepared, he certainly wasn't afraid of Lu Rongguo's chariot.

He had two hundred chariots under his command, while Lu Rongguo only had sixty or seventy chariots including the chariots that captured Qing Lang.

Moreover, it is not easy for such a small country to pass on technology.

The manufactured chariot is far inferior to Zheng Xiaoming's Great Zhou chariot in terms of technical level and other aspects.

Not to mention, although this Lu Rongguo barely retained the chariot technology, it lacked bronzes.

It's not that they don't know how to smelt bronze, but that they don't even have bronze ore and tin ore at all!
In this era, gold tin is the most important strategic resource.

Gold is copper, and tin is added to copper to cast bronze!
The reason why Dazhou is strong and able to formulate rules is because it has mastered these gold and tin resources.

And Dazhou is now beginning to decline, of course, because the monopoly on gold and tin resources has begun to be broken.

Why did the Qi, Jin, Chu and Qin countries become stronger?

(End of this chapter)