I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 512
On the endless plains, the vast number of Yan troops are fleeing, and behind them are soldiers of foreign races that are twice as large as the Yan troops are chasing.

The Yan army does not have a uniform uniform, and most of them are Chinese people.

What is the status of a person nowadays, you can tell just by looking at the clothes, and there is no lie at all.

Aristocrats comb their crowns, and their clothes also have wide sleeves and long swings, and usually have jade pendants that hold down the hem of their clothes.

The difference between quasi-nobles and nobles is that they are not eligible to wear jade pendants, and there are not many differences in the rest.

Chinese people wear a one-piece gown. Depending on the family background, the wider the sleeves, the more colorful the clothes.

Li Shu wears clothes that separate the upper and lower body, especially short-sleeved or shorts all year round.

The difference in clothing is restricted by Zhou etiquette, and more importantly, each family is different. For some people, it is good to wear clothes, so there is no chance to pick and choose.

The country of Yan was still in the classical era. In addition to the nobles and quasi-nobles receiving taxes, every national war would also issue a call to the people of the country.The result of this is that the quality of the soldiers is mixed, and it is a small group of elites who determine the outcome of the battle.

Even in the same classical era, the countries of the Central Plains have been optimizing their armies. For example, the Jin State had the concept of reserve service early on, and it really put the training of reserve service into action, and a profession called "Xian" appeared.

The population and national strength of the rest of the countries are not as good as the Jin State, and they cannot have a group of reserve troops who train for a season every year. They will definitely be hammered by the Jin State.

However, because the countries of the Central Plains need to deal with increasingly frequent wars, they can no longer demand quality after quantity, so they will inevitably strengthen the original soldiers.In history, the number of armor in the army and the requirements for weapons have become more and more strict in this way.

Among the aliens chasing the Yan army, very few of them wore cloth clothes, and most of them wore animal skins. The number of sheep skins was the largest, followed by cow hides.

Regardless of whether it is sheepskin or cowhide, as long as the manufacturing process is up to standard, it can actually be used as armor, but the aliens just wear it to hide their shame.

The weapons in the hands of these aliens are various, and the number of bronze weapons in their hands will never exceed [-]%. The rest are either made of bones or stones, or they hold wooden sticks or sharpened wooden sticks.bow?Naturally there are bows, and the arrows are bone arrows, and the arrows of a metal arrowhead cannot be seen.

At present, the pure alien races can't even weave cloth, and no alien race has mastered smelting technology. Any metals are robbed or purchased from higher civilizations.

Among the many alien races, the Xianyu people can weave and smelt cloth, but the Xianyu people have already become part of the original country.

Tu He, Wu Zhong and Dong Hu?Calculated in terms of time, they are really in the era when they have not mastered smelting and weaving.

So, how could the technologically advanced Yan State be beaten so badly by several neighbors?This is to say that advanced is advanced, and there must be related supporting facilities, such as population and an environment that can stabilize production.

In history, it is not uncommon for barbarism to defeat civilization. In the ancient Xia Dynasty, the capital was often forced to move by foreigners. Even in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the capital was moved three times under the threat of the Rong people. In the Ji Zhou stage, even the capital was breached. Pass.

As the co-lords of the world, the central hubs of Xia, Shang, and Zhou all had miserable times. Is it surprising that the Yan Kingdom, which was enfeoffed in a corner of the northeast, has experienced misery?
This time, the reason for the Yan army's major defeat was that they were fighting on two fronts. After joining forces, they were under tremendous pressure from the front, but the endless people took their back route.

Once any army encounters front and rear flank attacks, it will panic no matter how hard it can fight, and the morale of the army will be messed up when it panics.

For the collective, confusion is the most terrible thing. If one person flees, ten people will be swept away, and ten people will be able to sweep away a hundred people. It snowballs and the whole army is in a state of defeat. No enemy will trample on the way. Or kill each other, as soon as an enemy appears, most people will kneel down and ask for surrender.

The Yan army is retreating, but it is maintaining the final order, that is, there is no cannibalism for the time being.

Let’s talk about their composition. The soldiers in a military unit basically come from the same place, or the same urban area of ​​a certain city. They are either father and son brothers or know each other. Relatives, most people are not ashamed to be cruel until the moment of danger.

"The front is blocked!"

"Infinite people, they are the ones who killed them."

"Don't make a mess, everyone will die if there is a mess!"

"Where is the nobleman? Where is the chariot? Take everyone to rush there!"

"It's less than forty miles away from the capital, as long as we can rush over, everyone can live."

The voice is too noisy, and the person who is speaking can hear what is shouting clearly within two meters, and the sound is mixed together and becomes difficult to distinguish if it is farther away.

The weeds on the wilderness are generally one meter high, and the more exaggerated ones grow to more than two meters.

It must be more than just weeds, tall or low trees, rows of bushes, some things that can't be named and thorns all over the body when touched.

The vast majority of leaves will itch as long as they are broken, and they will sting and hurt while emitting blood beads. It can be said that nature has never been very friendly to human beings.

The soldiers of the Yan Army have long since ignored so much. As long as the front can continue to move forward, even if the people in the front fall under the rampage, they are opening the way for the people behind, but those who fell do not know whether they have given full play to the value of their sacrifices. .

What they are most afraid of now is to hear the sound of horseshoes, especially the sound of many horseshoes trampling together.

Of course Yan has a certain number of horses, but there are no professional cavalry, and even marching on horseback is only done in a very urgent moment. The horses are either used to pull chariots, or they are used for farming.

As long as there is the sound of rolling horseshoes, it basically means that the enemy is catching up again.

As for the sound of horseshoes ahead?Until the appearance of stirrups and saddles, there were not many people among the foreign races who rode horses to fight in wartime. They just used horses as a means of transportation, and when they fought, they dismounted and fought on foot.

An endless army of about [-] people blocked the Yan army retreating to the south. The Yan army out of order was attacking, but because there was no coordination, there was no cooperation, and the Yan army soldiers were panicking. The offensive went very poorly.

"He died here today?" Yan Ping stood on the chariot with a sad expression on his face.

If it weren't for the lack of reinforcements in the rear, how could they be double-teamed?
Even without reinforcements, the food and fodder should arrive on time, and according to the time, the food and fodder should be delivered before being double-teamed.That way, even if they are double-teamed, they can still fight and retreat.

Before they retreated, the whole army was saving and saving, and at most they could only last another eight days.After eight days without the enemy's attack, the army would be in chaos due to lack of food, or be stuck in place waiting to be starved to death.

It is easy to talk about what the army lacks. If there is food in stock, no matter how dangerous the situation is, it can stabilize the morale of the army and have the strength to grab it from the enemy.

What the army is most afraid of is the lack of food. Once there is a shortage of food, it will start to mess up without the enemy fighting.

What Yan Ping saw was that he was blocked and unable to attack, and Tu Heren and Donghu people had already chased him from the north.

If the Yan Army's chain of command is still there, at least it can execute orders and struggle in formation.

The problem is that when fleeing along the way, the subordinates cannot find the superiors, and even if the superiors make some decisions, they cannot effectively pass on the orders.

Shout out loud for everyone to listen to you?Let alone on the battlefield, try to shout in a noisy vegetable market, and see how many people can clearly hear what they are shouting.

The battlefield and the vegetable market are both noisy, but they are still different in the fundamental sense. People are in the battlefield and panic, even if they can clearly hear what they are shouting, the person who gets the order must be willing to obey!

The way back was blocked, and the pursuers from the rear arrived, and the Yan army was once again caught in the dilemma of being flanked by front and back.

The soldiers of the Yan Army on both sides had no command at all. In order to break free from the vortex, they began to run outwards. As soon as they ran, they attracted the enemy's pursuit. The battlefield was stretched again and again, and the thickness of the Yan Army became thinner and thinner. .

Nothing like this would have happened if the chain of command was in place.

After all, Yan Jun is in a state of being double-teamed, how can he stretch the battlefield, make himself thinner, and then be defeated one by one.

However, now it is the soldiers of the Yan army who are unable to command the chaos in the world, and some nobles of the Yan country who want to change the chaos, they can only command their own parts. , Soon even the trilogy will be washed away.

Some Yan people who cherish their homeland are not only worried about their own lives, but also worried about how to protect themselves and whether the country can continue to exist once the Yan army here is wiped out or surrendered.

Is this the worst and most critical time for Yan Kingdom?not really.

During the more than 400 years from Yan Houke to Yan Xianggong, the Yan Kingdom, which was entrusted to the northeast corner, seldom had a comfortable time.

The situation in Yan State changed in the period of Duke Huan of Qi and the Jiuhe princes, and at that time, it was also a historical stage when the civilization of Zhuxia was in danger.

Duke Huan of Qi accepted Guan Yiwu's suggestion, held up the banner of "respecting the king and fighting the barbarians", united the princes of the world to fight against the aliens, smashed many aliens who invaded the south, and wiped out many alien tribes entrenched in the Central Plains. The crisis of Zhuxia civilization is considered Get over it.

Regarding the struggle of civilizations, it must be that after one side becomes strong and strong, the other side will become weak and weaken.

It was at that time that Yan State had a chance to breathe. It took nearly 20 years to recuperate before launching a counterattack against Donghu and Wushang. Taking the opportunity, it expanded its territory to the northeast by [-] miles and to the north by nearly [-] miles.

The good times didn't last long because the Yellow River diverted and the country of Yan was isolated and unable to carry out trade complementarity. On the one hand, being too closed would cause the development of various technologies to stagnate. Licking the wound was strong again.

After Yanqian Duke Huan ascended the throne, until the generation called Yan Jun, Yan Guo and its surroundings were constantly seeing each other.

The most fortunate thing for the Yan Kingdom is that it has mastered a more advanced production method than the foreign race, that is, the fixed output brought by farming. Unlike the foreign race's poor farming technology and low yield, the risk of grazing is large enough, and gathering and hunting is entirely dependent on luck.

Risk of grazing?Before the advent of veterinary technology, the risk of grazing was really huge!An infectious disease of livestock will directly destroy an originally powerful tribe, and if the infectious disease spreads widely enough, it is likely to make a seemingly strong tribal alliance collapse.

In recent years, why did Dong Hu, Wu Zhong and Tu He intensify their invasion of Yan State?In fact, aliens do not have a clear sense of territory, or even the concept of national boundaries. Even if they have a sense of territory, they only stay at the stage of "a certain pasture belongs to me".

Therefore, it was not for the purpose of seizing the land of Yan that the foreign race invaded Yan extensively and frequently.

A few years ago, there was an animal epidemic, and a large number of livestock died, and there was still a year of heavy snowstorms.

Therefore, they were not only invading the country of Yan before, but they were also attacking and killing each other. They realized that no matter how hard they attacked each other, there was still a lack of supplies. The leaders of all parties sat down and talked, and decided that only by looting the country of Yan would they survive. possibility of crisis.

The war is cruel. For those aliens, they don't want to wait for death, so they can only choose to fight desperately with the Yan people.

However, Yan State lacks the strength to protect itself.If the Yan State is strong, it can resist the invasion of foreign races, and even the use of force and other means may make the foreign races become good at singing and dancing?
Yan Ping happened to come to a low slope, and when he looked around, he saw that his own side had not organized an effective resistance at all, and the aliens could not be as strong as a bamboo because of their own combat power.

Even so, if there is no accident, it will take as short as one day and as long as two or three days, and their Yan army is estimated to be completely wiped out.

If it really happened like those pessimistic people, is this the first time that the Yan army has been wiped out at the hands of foreign races?How can a country be an isolated case after it has been established for so long.However, this is the first time that more than [-] troops have been annihilated.

Yan Ping saw the shadows of the suspected army reappearing on the horizon to the north and west, and he was already desperate enough to have no other emotions.

"Huh!? Is there a banner?"

"Donghu, Wuzhong and Tu He don't have banners, they only have big banners for their heads."

"A color of black and red? Even if we have shirts, it's gray..."

Yan Ping was stunned by several new discoveries.

As one of the top aristocrats of the Yan Kingdom, Yan Ping knew better than anyone else that even if there were reinforcements from the Yan Kingdom, the number would never exceed [-].

Yan Ping soon realized that the new army came from Zhu Xia.

In the land of East Asia, for the time being, only the armies of Zhu Xia will unfurl banners, and there will be an army with uniform uniforms for the entire army.

About two quarters of an hour later, as soon as the newly emerged army appeared, it launched an attack on the Donghu people, the Wushangren and Tu Heren. The attack was so fierce that even the Yan people who realized that they might be saved were frightened.

The most strange thing for the people of Yan is that when a country that is good at fighting on horseback appeared in the various kingdoms of Xia, it would be normal to wait for a large number of infantry with red tops and black bottoms to appear.

"who are they?"

At this moment, too many Yan people wanted to know where the benefactor came from.

However, if the people of Yan State knew that their capital was captured by this large army, and even Guo Zuo would perish in their hands, how would they feel?
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