The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 346

The expansion of the Shenyang Realm by the pioneers from the Great Song Dynasty has been proceeding in an orderly manner.

In the past six months, Ergou and his friends have formed at least thirty hunting teams. Almost every hunting team member is a highly skilled and experienced cavalry, or a special talent with unique skills.

The hunting team was very successful in exterminating the local indigenous beastmen.

They always work together in teams of three or two to find the Beastmen's villages, and then devise designs to ambush and kill the Beastmen's active forces. Basically, they win every time and no one survives.

Of course, this is not only because the leader of the hunting team is shrewd and capable, has outstanding strategies, and is good at making nests, but also because the beastmen's own flaws are too obvious. They bite the hook as soon as they are baited, and they are the kind of people who sink very hard.

The undying nature of the beastmen really caused many newly formed hunting teams to suffer great losses in the beginning.

However, no matter how strong the individual beastmen are, they cannot avoid the fact that they are just a ragtag group of people. When more hunting teams choose to cooperate, these stragglers who are accustomed to fighting bravely can only miserably Go to death.

The natural physique of the beastmen far exceeds that of humans, but the hunting team can always annihilate these monsters time and time again while ensuring a very low casualty rate, even some beastmen who successfully escaped on the battlefield when the situation was bad. Almost none, and the big reason is the cavalryman, the main member of the hunting team.

The so-called cavalry generals are those who are highly skilled in martial arts and have certain horse-mounted combat skills. They ride fast horses and usually use horse-drawn weapons and divine arm crossbows to fight. Each one of them is at least a hundred-man general when placed in the army. level (compared to Li Zhong, the tiger-fighting general in Water Margin), and there are many top masters, such as Lu Yanxiong, Lin Youqing, and Coach Zhang, among whom are the best, and of course the generals and deputy generals in the rebel army. .

The cavalry may be helpless when facing infantry in formation, but it is really sharp and invincible when dealing with stragglers.

Many people in later generations who do not understand the history of classical war are misled by unrealistic film and television works, thinking that cavalry is used to attack infantry arrays. In fact, this is an extremely wrong understanding.

When it comes to the main tactical functions of cavalry, they are actually only reconnaissance, harassment, maneuvering, and raiding.

But the cavalry raid here is not a raid on the infantry who have formed a battle formation and are tightly defended, but the infantry who have not yet formed a formation, or have already dispersed.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, General Li Ling led five thousand Danyang warriors out of the grassland north, but was besieged by tens of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry.

The legions led by Li Ling were all solid infantry. When the number of Huns cavalry besieging them was the largest, it even reached more than 80,000 cavalry.

However, they were always unable to do anything against this tenacious infantry, and even paid the price with the lives of more than 10,000 cavalrymen.

It wasn't until a traitor finally reported that the Han army had run out of arrows and food and was at the end of its rope, that the Huns' cavalry dared to rush forward.

So much so that the general Li Ling even said before he was captured: "...If we get dozens more arrows, we will be able to escape."

As far as cavalry is concerned, the Huns are the first generation of the grassland empire, and they can't get away with it.

Assault cavalry is the specialty of the Huns. If this cavalry is really effective in attacking infantry formations, why would the Huns have to fight with Li Ling's troops like this? Isn't the Duizi tactic good? !
What makes cavalry truly invincible is actually their mobility.

The infantry regiments of the farming civilization always suffered at a disadvantage in the early stages of confrontation with the nomadic cavalry. It was really not a gap in combat power, but a mismatch in common sense.

Take a very simple example.

In ancient times, infantry regiments marched for thirty miles in a day under normal circumstances. If they marched for fifty miles in a hurry, any more regiments would lose their combat effectiveness and it would simply be a loss of lives.

The cavalry usually marches thirty to fifty miles, which is about the same as the infantry. Of course, this is mainly to ensure the physical strength of the war horses so as not to affect combat efficiency.

But when it is really necessary to march urgently, the cavalry can use one person, two horses or even three horses to advance two hundred miles in one day. The most peak Mongolian cavalry in human history even reached the ultimate distance of five hundred miles in one day and night.

Of course, this requires the Mongolian cavalry to complete physiological activities such as eating, sleeping, and excreting on galloping horses. Not to mention the Han cavalry, even ordinary nomadic cavalry cannot do this.

When the agricultural infantry regiment encountered the nomadic cavalry, the infantry commander received a report that the enemy was still more than a hundred miles away, and then he subconsciously felt that there was still a relatively safe distance between the enemy and ourselves.

Then he would inevitably be unprepared, and as a result, the enemy's cavalry would be in trouble that night.

The flying dragon rides on the face!
You must know that it is a very troublesome thing for classical infantry to change from a loose state to forming a military formation. It can even be said that it cannot be done by non-generals.

This kind of infantry that is too late to form a formation is the favorite opponent of the cavalry.

In addition to opponents who have no time to form a formation, another opponent that the cavalry likes to deal with the most is an opponent in a rout. Against such an opponent, they can chase the leader with confidence and boldness like a dog chasing a rabbit, without having to worry about those who are frightened out of their wits. The defeated troops resisted.

The real formation-breaking cavalry was actually the French cavalry during the Napoleonic period, and the target they attacked was not the thick military formations of the classical cold weapon era, but the musketeers who formed an array of three to five rows and lined up to shoot.

Of course, there is indeed a super-standard existence in the cavalry world, and that is the cavalry commander with high martial arts skills.

For example, Huo Qubing in the Western Han Dynasty, and generals such as Guan Zhang, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Zhang Xiu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Not only did they have superb riding skills, but they also possessed personal force far beyond ordinary people's imagination, which made them invincible on the battlefield.

However, it is not easy to train such a cavalry general. It can even be said that the resources consumed to train such a cavalry general are enough to form a large-scale small cavalry regiment.

For example, in the Song Dynasty, only general families had the ability and resources to systematically cultivate such talents. Only ordinary families could produce one unless they were gifted and had extraordinary luck.

Strictly speaking, the cavalry generals of the hunting team were once the elites of the Song Dynasty army. They were either directly the disciples of serious generals, such as Yang Wen, Zhang Jiaotou, etc., or they belonged to the side branches under the influence of generals, but now they are all Ergou took advantage of him.

When these people ride big horses, wear strong weapons, and charge with whips raised, even the most ferocious insects will retreat.

Even though the individual combat power of the beastmen is even greater than that of the tiger, they may be able to deal with a cavalry general, but when the cavalry generals attack one after another, death will be their inevitable final destination.

Of course, the only thing Ergou regrets is that ordinary crossbows are almost ineffective against beastmen, which limits his idea of ​​forming a more basic combat unit against beastmen.

After all, without the sharpest crossbow in the classical cold weapon era of mankind, ordinary soldiers, no matter how brave they are, are not afraid of death. If they want to successfully surround and kill the beastmen, they have to pay some blood and lives to do so.

However, the two dogs brought a total of less than 100,000 people from the Song Dynasty to Shenyang Realm, and each sacrifice of one of them was enough to make him feel heartfelt pain.

This resulted in the Yuanyang Formation taught by Ergou to ordinary soldiers, but it could only be used as a last resort. However, even if only the hunting teams took turns hunting the beastmen, under such piecemeal attack, they still eliminated at least 50,000 beastmen in the past six months.

Just like a cold-blooded movement in a certain period of later generations, the results of one victory are not great, but cumulatively it is definitely a very considerable amount.

Beastmen are carnivores who do not produce anything but live by robbing and hunting.

Just like tigers and lions in the animal world, each beastman village has its own territory and sphere of influence. They rarely live together in large groups like humans, unless there is a powerful enough beastman leader—— The war chief assembles an army of beastmen to wage war against a certain civilized group.

Even with the wealth of the Shenyang Realm, if a beastman village wanted to maintain its livelihood, it would need at least thirty to fifty miles of territory as a hunting area to barely be enough. When converted into an area, it would be seven hundred to two thousand square kilometers.

A beastman village can only have a population of thirty or forty at most, or as few as a dozen. Fifty thousand beastmen can form at least two thousand villages, but they were all hunted down by the hunting team within half a year. This shows the frequency of the hunting team's operations. and how intense it is.

The total number of human hunting teams does not even exceed a thousand people, which means that each of them killed an average of fifty beastmen in half a year. Some people may have killed more, and some came late. , the number of kills may be less.

Such a high-intensity battle had almost turned all of the nearly a thousand cavalrymen into the most terrifying killing machines.

There is no doubt that the force of the cavalry generals has improved greatly in this kind of actual combat training. There are more than 200 top masters who have emerged (Liangshan Five Tiger General level, Arhat), among which there are even the top There are more than 20 top-level masters (Lu Junyi level). As for the remaining cavalry officers, except for the recently selected recruits, even those with the lowest qualifications have almost first-class strength in the world (Great Monk level, benchmarking against Liangshan Eight Hussar).

Of course, if they want to maintain such a high-intensity battle, the price paid by Ergou and the rebel camp is also extremely terrifying.

Not to mention other things, the horse alone almost killed the two dogs.

The most indispensable thing for the cavalry generals is the mount for transportation. If the weapons are not good enough, they will not be able to kill the beastmen at most. But if the war horses are not powerful, the cavalrymen will be killed by the beastmen.

It has to be said that the water and soil in Shenyang Realm are really good for raising people (raising livestock). Even the ordinary weeds cut from the wild fields provide the nutrition for the war horses as much as the refined soybean meal brought from the Song Dynasty. .

In particular, the rebel army recruited many experts who were good at raising livestock from the Song Army. With the support of Ergou, they established a special livestock breeding department, commonly known as the Animal Breeding Department, to study the breeding, improvement and treatment of livestock, especially war horses. technology.

Thanks to the efforts of the Animal Breeding Department, each of the rebel war horses was fattened and strong, with strong bones and muscles.

But this still cannot change the fact that war horses are consumables in high-intensity combat.

In the past six months, at least 7,000 war horses were injured or disabled in battles. Although most of them were rescued by veterinarians from the Animal Breeding Department and even Ergou himself, there were also 2,000 horses that were completely scrapped and could no longer take on the responsibilities of war horses. Many horses.

Other expenses incurred by the cavalrymen, such as food and equipment, can be easily solved.

The Shenyang Realm was so rich that after the hunting team killed dozens or even nearly a million square kilometers of beastmen, they fell into some kind of happy troubles. Large groups of wild deer, buffalo, and wild beasts Sheep, wild deer, etc. are all roaming freely in the vast land in groups of thousands or thousands.

Even if the entire rebel army of nearly 100,000 people ate a lot of meat, they still couldn't eat it all.

People from the Song Dynasty had enough to eat and had countless animal skins for fur clothing.

As the saying goes, when you are full and warm, you think about it.

Even though they have to do very heavy work every day, they still have some physiological needs. Not to mention the traditional support of the descendants of the Han family to carry on the family line and spread their branches. Then the demand for women has become nearly ten A question that everyone agrees on.

You know, when the rebels first came to Shenyang Realm, they really didn't bring many female relatives with them due to their uncertain future.

War drives women away. It may be due to discrimination against women elsewhere, but not in China.

They literally let women go away to protect them.

Defending the home and the country, what home is being protected?

A mother, a wife, a child.

What? You asked your father why he was not included?

Veteran soldiers of the previous generation still need your protection? !

I'm afraid they will have more fighting will than the younger generations!
What should I do if I am short of women?
Of course, we must find a solution from the realm of the Song Dynasty.

Then, I don’t know when, adult women became the most sought-after “goods” in the Qishan Rebel Camp.

You must know that Guanzhong and the surrounding areas have been in dilapidated condition since the late Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the vegetation in this area was severely damaged during the Tang Dynasty. Due to soil erosion, the land was barren and most local people lived in difficulty. In this way, having children and raising children has become a big problem.

It's okay for a common family to have a son, who will be a good labor force after a few years of raising him. However, there will be problems if he gives birth to a daughter. No matter how well he raises him, he will be a "loser" for other people's families. Therefore, among the people in these places , drowning - the situation of infants, especially female infants, is very serious.

To be blunt, the women here are worthless. It is possible that a few bags of corn can be exchanged for an adult woman to be a mistress or a maid.

After understanding these situations, the rebels offered high bounties to redeem women. Whether they were women that the common people could not afford or women who had fallen into disgrace, as long as they were healthy and capable of giving birth, the rebels would All comers are welcome.

Ergou knew that he was also an abuser with weak willpower when it came to women, so he did not personally take charge of the matter, but he formulated extremely strict rules for bullying and humiliating women. punishment.

After all, Ergou introduced the women of the Song Dynasty not for pleasure, but to spread branches and leaves for mankind and expand the size of the ethnic group.

Ergou and others treat women well, and the next generation that will grow up in the future will be, on the whole, kind and brave outstanding offspring.

And if the rebels mistreat or even abuse women, their future descendants will definitely be a twisted and cruel group.

　Corrected.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)