Is this a godsend?

"Hunting?" Zishou looked at the person who was said to be hunting in front of him. Although he knew that it was similar to a military exercise, he didn't expect it to be so militarized. Could it be that militarized hunting was popular 3000 years ago? ?

In front of Zishou is a big drum that looks like the four-faced drum in the temple of later generations. Aristocrats, among them generals appointed as military commanders held a large drum with a wooden stand, also known as the Jin drum.

Then there are six division commanders, holding ti drums, and the next brigade commander holding drums. The sound of the drums ranges from Shang to Jiao, and the size of the drums is completely different, forming the military command team on King Shang's side.

The Son of Heaven has six divisions. Zi Shou glanced at the orderly manpower behind him, and then he understood what the six divisions are. Five divisions and one army, the merchant army has only five divisions, and he himself is directly under the strength of the first division.

The conscripted princes lined up on the left and right plains of the Shang army, and the princes who came generally had only one division in total, and some princes alone had a division of troops.

They compiled according to the standards that the commander is named after the door, the noble family is named by the title, the townspeople (small cities) are named by the state, and the savages are named by the town, and there will be a special messenger holding a tortoise shell book to check them one by one to identify them. name banner.

And late?The latecomers are over there, have you seen the altar with the Xuanniao flag--the latecomer will be punished!

"It's evil, tell me, I was halfway through hunting, and suddenly went to destroy Yongdi..."

"Huh?" Both left and right looked at him with ghostly expressions, "Your Majesty, don't be overwhelmed, we don't have enough military rations." If you want to conscript, you have to greet the princes in advance, field hunters Those who only brought dry food for a few days, going to war are definitely doomed.

"As long as it's unexpected..."

"Ahem, Your Majesty drank too much yesterday, let me tell you." Empress Jiang rolled her lively and lovely eyes.

Unexpectedly, a hammer, summoning the princes to hunt is a beacon, and the princes of Shang have been preparing half a month in advance, gathering personnel, distributing weapons, preparing chariots and horses, sewing flags, no matter who you want to fight Surprise exists.

Because the surrounding tribes and alliances are also mobilizing all their military forces and making defensive preparations. At this moment, the flames of the four realms have already been lit. You said it unexpectedly at this time, and you are preparing to hit the opposite solid defense line. die?

[There is a description in the biography of Mr. Wei, Zhao Wang hunted, Wei Guo lit the beacon, Wei Wang was so frightened that he gambled half of the money and hurriedly summoned the ministers]

After realizing it, Zishou understood that field hunting in this era is not only a military exercise, but also the duty of the princes, common people and even savages. Basically, everyone is preparing to do this a long time in advance, and it is also a matter of calling the princes to hunt. A big deal.

Even in the Zhou Dynasty, one of the jobs of the emperor of Zhou was to raise the princes who dared not come, as long as there was no knife in the sky, or if it was not a red and white event, three times a year. Go to your house and give your whole family a neat and tidy job.

Field hunting is not only a major event for the Shang king, but also a major event for the princes, and even the common people and savages. They also have to participate, because part of the prey they hunt is smoked into bacon and supplied to the superior nobles and ancestral temples, which are called "dried beans". "(Bean is a kind of container for eating), part of it is distributed to the next guests, and the last part is kept for oneself.

This is also the only opportunity for savages and even Chinese people to eat meat with confidence throughout the year. By the way, it also shows one thing. Confucius’s teaching and nondiscrimination still have a premise-bacon Shuxiu is not something that savages and ordinary Chinese can afford.

It is precisely because the wild is almost wild at this time, with herds of elephants and rhinos, and hunting is even an important means of supplementing food shortages. Therefore, there may be more people coming than during the war, at least as far as Zishou’s memory is concerned. Inside, there has never been such a neat assembly of the sixth division of the Shang army, plus all the armies of the princes.

So how many people does he have now?Probably a force capable of conquering Europe.To put it simply, he now has 3000 soldiers and 900 chariots directly under Wang Shihan's noble officers; while the remaining five divisions have 2500 soldiers and 800 chariots each;

Few of the remaining princes can form a division alone, generally around 300-500 chariots, and the number of soldiers is around 1500-2000, gathered together according to the status of the princes and the formation of the "regiment".

In general, to put it bluntly, his own merchant army alone has nearly 2000 armed military nobles or knights who are now assembled in the wilderness outside Modu.

Counting other princes, there are more than 3 professional soldiers in leather armor and more than 8000 chariots—this is the entire military strength of Shang—so, when King Wu of Zhou assembled in Mengjin, he looked at the strength of his troops. , My heart is cold.

If it weren't for the fact that the legion, which was so huge that it could make Zhou desperate at that time, was driving others and couldn't return to Chaoge, King Wu of Zhou's result at that time would most likely be to smash an egg against a rock and try his best to become a tragic hero.Therefore, this guy did a lot of calculations, and the result was: Divination, big disaster!

In the end, it was Jiang Shang who saw through the fact that King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty was strong outside the middle, overthrew the fortune-telling stall, and led the attack in person to win the Battle of Muye, and as long as it was delayed for a few more days, the above armies that could conquer Europe would be able to conquer Europe in time. They rushed back and killed all of them in the outskirts of Chaoge.

【Note 1】

The military establishment of the Shang and Zhou dynasties: five men and one army, five five and one liang, four and one pawn, five pawns and one brigade, five brigades as divisions, and five divisions as an army.A division is 5X5X4X5X5=2500 people, and an army is 12500 people. Only soldiers and professional soldiers are counted here.

The division is the largest military establishment of the princes. A division can have at most 1000 chariots, and at least 800 chariots. The emperor of Shang and Zhou can support or own six divisions, of which five divisions are provided for the surrounding relatives and directly subordinate nobles, and one division For his own master.

Therefore, when hunting in the field, all the princes, nobles, and kings gathered together, which can indeed crush the European army. There are 3 to 4 professional soldiers in armor alone, and there are thousands or even tens of thousands of knights. If you don't consider the difference in equipment generation, it may not take half a month to crush any country in medieval Europe.

【Note 2】

According to the latest archaeological discoveries, during the Spring and Autumn Period, everyone was playing with steel swords, and in the large iron and steel factories of Yan State, steel swords were even deployed to the level of grassroots officers—sad!The three artifacts of the traversers: stirrups, saddles, horseshoes, plus the new three artifacts: steel, glass, and distilled wine. Except for the strange relics of the ancestors that have not been dug up for the glass, everything else is available~

Yes, he also has distilled wine~_(:з」∠)_

Then according to this new discovery, the history of Chinese playing iron is estimated to be pushed forward to the Xia and Shang Dynasties.

【Note 3】

In this way, the ancient city 7000 years ago is not surprising. After all, I thought about it. According to the military establishment and the large-scale iron workshop that was just dug out, it does not have a strong city of this level, and it really cannot stand—— Europe will be pushed into fools until the Middle Ages.

Chapter 8 Three views are broken

Zishou’s chariot is a double-decker chariot, pulled by six horses of the same color. There are five people on the chariot, one driver, one with a bow, one with a spear, and one with a flag. Zishou stands on the second floor Above, behind him is an exquisite lacquer weapon rack, on which rest a very exquisite bow and two long swords wrapped in scabbards decorated with tiger skins, and at his feet is a coil of arrows. (One Volume: One Hundred Arrows)

On the first floor at the foot, there is a huge road drum decorated with bronze and brass, and even a small chime stand next to it, which is almost a miniature mobile altar or mobile palace. It is really difficult for craftsmen of this era to use bronze and bone. quality tools to manufacture such large vehicles.

As the personnel gathered one after another, everyone looked at King Shang, and Zishou also looked at everyone, and the scene fell into a strange silence.

After searching for a long time in the scattered memories, Zishou hesitated for a moment, picked up the drum hammer in front of him, and lightly hit the road drum at the height in front of him.

The tone of the road drum is "Shang", which is deep and heavy. As the sound of the drum spreads, before Zishou hits the second time, Elai, who was appointed as a general, will beat the Jin drum. Evenly, and then drumming, the drum sound is "horn", the drum beats are fine, and then the chime bell is sounded, and various musical instruments are also playing, but the most obvious is the drum sound with different pitches and rhythms.

Zishou finally understood why "music" in ritual music has such a high status, because music is not only used for sacrifices, but also a collection of commands in this era. In this era, it is impossible for semaphore to become popular. The combat method also determines that soldiers are unlikely to turn their heads to look at the flag.

On the chaotic battlefield, there is no radio to convey orders, but the battlefield in China is different from the village chief fighting in Europe. Ten thousand people are on the same screen. If you want to command a war operation of this scale, you must have A reliable means of command delivery - music.

The sound of the drums was like ripples in the pond. When a Jin drum sounded, the sound of the drums changed to a dense drum sound, and the team also rippled like a stone dropped by the sound of the drums. The accustomed savages couldn't even maintain the phalanx, and then they were dragged out and chopped down by the warriors who carried out the military orders.

On the other hand, the army formed by Chinese and princes and nobles is relatively better, but it seems a bit chaotic at the beginning. This is also one of the purposes of field hunting, so that everyone is familiar with the drum order. Get in order.

Zishou discovered that the big drum determines the movement of the phalanx, and the middle drum determines the movement of the formation. The louder the sound of the drum, the faster the movement speed. The drum is just one step. If you can't step on the drum beat, you will mess up. If you mess up, you will be slaughtered by the captain.

"It's no wonder that the sons and grandsons of Cheng Zhou later, the gentlemen must learn music. It turns out that it is equivalent to learning different levels of military combat theory~"

After half a day of exercise, the princes were the wings, the merchant army was the front guard, and the king was in the center. This made Zishou feel that field hunting is really necessary. The efficiency of training three times a year is enough. If you learn During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was inevitable that the wastes of the Zhou Dynasty would be ridden on the heads of the princes for three days fishing and two days drying the nets.

At this time, on the simple altar in the wilderness, Empress Jiang and other priestesses decorated with colorful bird feathers also climbed onto the altar in front of the three armies and began to dance ~ big ~ God!

At the same time, Zishou also saw the totem of the mysterious bird belonging to Shang. To be honest, it looked a bit weird at first glance, but it was still weird at a second glance. , and even look a little cute after a long time-the horned owl!

Why do you say that there is nothing wrong with thinking about it carefully, because for farming civilization or a civilization that is developing towards farming, what is the biggest enemy?The answer is: mice.

And owls, that is, owls, are much more efficient at killing mice than cats. This thing is a real bird of prey, and it is normal to be regarded as a belief, just like the reason why the Egyptians believed in cats.

When everyone looked seriously at the witches dancing to the gods, and the older witches below threw the tortoise shells into the fire and waited for the results of divination, Zishou was not interested, and instead looked at the little girls with their arms and legs exposed. The girl swept back and forth.

To be honest, he doesn't look very good, and his skin is rough and dark, but his figure is quite well-proportioned and strong. With his powerful movements, he has a special sense of wild beauty. Then again, the popular aesthetics of this era is: fitness Wife, there is no market for those delicate ladies of later generations here!

Especially Shang, Shang allowed women to serve as officials and lead soldiers to fight. During the war, it was a daily arrangement for men to go out to fight outside, and it was a daily arrangement for women to wear armor and hold spears to guard their homes. Afterwards, she had to stay in Modu, and when someone attacked, she had to put on armor and attack.

Therefore, it's not that healthy women don't talk about health and fertility issues, and they can't do daily family responsibilities. There is a huge difference in the definition of "housework" between housewives these days and later housewives, because, The family and the country are one, so leading troops to kill ministers is also part of the "housework".

After the sacrifice was completed, Jiang Hou interpreted the tortoise shell, looked at the sky, and came to a "Xiaoji" conclusion. The company horse rode in the car and read the rules of field hunting to the princes and everyone. This is "Oath to the People".

There are many rules of field hunting. In addition to the familiar ones that you can’t kill cubs, female beasts and pregnant female beasts, you need to encircle them on three sides, and keep the net open to avoid killing them all.

For example, the animals shot must be useful, that is, horns, bones, teeth, glue, skin, meat, etc. can be used for ancestral temple sacrifices or eaten before they can be killed. Birds and snakes that are too small Animals like these that were considered useless at the time could not be killed. If they were killed, people would laugh at them for a long time.

Then there are strange auspicious things that cannot be killed, such as white wolves and red geese. At the same time, when hunting in the field, it is not allowed to directly step on the field, set fire to the mountain, destroy the bird's nest, and scrape all the eggs.

Compared with Zhou's field hunting, owls are not allowed to be killed. Er, Zishou looked at the black bird totem and thought it was not incomprehensible. Even if there was no such rule, he would have ordered that owls, snakes and even foxes were not allowed to be killed— —For no reason, just to prevent the rats in the barn and the voles in the field from turning upside down after the autumn harvest. People eat half of the rats and half of it is almost a daily routine in this era.

So much so that later generations made a pun, and screamed hoarsely, "Shuo rats, don't eat my millet". In modern times, Zishou thought that this poem was about corrupt officials, but now he finds out that the latter On the contrary, the meaning may be added by later generations alone, or it may be a simple pun and two curses together, because there are really rats in the warehouse, and there are quite a few of them.

Of course, the situation in Shang is relatively good, because there are special people raising birds and owls in their warehouses and ancestral temples. After the priests took the eagle owls to sweep around, the number of mice and voles was greatly reduced.

After the rules were read out, every square formation was repeated, and after the oath was reached, it was King Shang's turn to beat the drums to march again. Only he can come, and only he can come for the second dispatch order, but the subsequent drums that control the movement of the entire army and issue orders are unnecessary.

After all, field hunting is not finished in a day or two. He really knocks the whole process by himself. At that time, he will not have the energy to hunt with a bow, and if he fails to shoot the prey, it will be super embarrassing, and it may even shake the authority of the Shang Dynasty. Bow, no one dares to open the bow and shoot the first arrow.

At the same time, the same is true for other princes, gentlemen, and kings and grandchildren. They also need to show their martial arts and archery skills when hunting in the field. At the beginning, beating the drums is done by themselves, symbolizing authority, and then it is the business of others, although this other person cannot be Just pull a servant to do it.

Usually it is your brother, if you are older, you can also be your son, if you can’t find anyone at home, you can also ask your wife to do this job, even if you don’t have a wife...you don’t even have a wife, how did you mess it up? To this extent?

Zishou picked up the drum hammer again, took a deep breath, and hit the big drum in front of him hard. The sound of the drum exploded like thunder. The thing is quite strong, and with the sound of the drum, the army spread out and marched towards the hunting ground.

The nobles in chariots are in the front, the soldiers are behind, and on the two wings are the phalanx of savages and Chinese people carrying various sounding props. They are responsible for scaring the prey out and driving them to the middle, while the nobles in the middle are shooting and killing. These wild beasts, the soldiers behind are responsible for handling the wild beasts, and special people will score the nobles.

Zishou thought that this event was just for everyone to rush in and kill randomly. In the end, he didn't expect that it was similar to a war, with orderly advances and retreats. There were also special people responsible for recording credits and scoring points, and those who shot and killed animals that could not be killed would be deducted. Points and demerits are recorded, and at night, when the prey is presented to the stove, the settlement will be made.

Those with high scores will be rewarded, and they can take the barbecue first after the King of Shang. Those with low scores can only be ranked down in order, and those who kill things that shouldn't be killed will wait to eat and hang them in front of everyone. The most serious punishment is killing the auspicious birds and auspicious people. The nobles may face loss of title, the countrymen may be expelled, and the savages, the savages will be dragged there to sacrifice.

However, if the savage performs very well, he may be favored by the nobles and become a countryman or even a guest, reaching the sky in one step. Field hunting is like an exam in this era. If you perform well, you will get ahead, although the probability is not very high.

Zishou's prey is very big. It's not that he wants to show off, but that he is not very good at playing with the bow, let alone hit the target accurately on the speeding chariot, but it is also very uncomfortable to miss the target, let alone miss the target. Shooting up (killing the prey with one blow) is also shameful, so he chose to use his talent of strength and directly aimed at a rhinoceros with a strong bow.

I don't know if it is really a strong bow, or he is really lucky. The arrow directly penetrated the strong skull of the rhinoceros, so that the frightened male rhinoceros rushed to the human car formation to the end. The whole army cheered and shouted, let Zishou have his own It's like the illusion of winning the Olympic Games.

In the evening, camping and cooking, let me put it bluntly, there is a bonfire barbecue party, and a talent show, uh, from Zishou's point of view, the talent show, but others are very serious.

Whether it's a group of strong men stripping their upper body and jumping around with axes and ghost-faced shields, or a solo dance by young witches, or an orchestra, no, the ensemble performance of the sacrificial group is very interesting to Zishou.

At least Zishou was very happy to watch. In this field army formation, above the head is a bright starry sky that cannot be seen in modern times. Many evening parties have more atmosphere, but he can't laugh out loud, because everyone else is very serious, the kind of seriousness that is not like watching a show, but watching a court trial.

And to be honest, if he was sitting on the chariot and still laughing out loud, he always felt that he was going to die here happily. Could it be that a psychopath rushed out of the oblique stab and shot himself in the head?Just when Zi Shou felt that he should be more prudent and not have fun in the convertible (correctly), the outer camp of the savages began to commotion.

"What happened!?" Zi Shou decisively grabbed the long sword on the lacquer stand. In theory, he should have a bow. Bows or long-range flying props have been the kingly way in China since ancient times. However, he evaluated his own For archery, he thought that if he used a bow, he might pose a greater threat to his own people, so he changed it to a sword.

"There are monsters in the water!"

"Wow!" A black object suddenly jumped out of the water source lake, and with a sweep of its tail, it extinguished the nearby fires, followed by the screams of the savages, the shouts of the militiamen, and the warriors preventing the savages from retreating scolding.

The chaos didn't last for a few minutes, when Elai was heard beating the war drum, and then the brigade commanders and division commanders of each team also beat the drums, and the warriors dropped the food in their hands one after another, raising their weapons and marching forward cursingly.

"If you don't hear the drum, cut it!" The savages who fled back were cut down in unison, and then the attendant knocked on a huge bronze vessel, making a deafening sound, "Wear the gold and don't retreat, cut it!" The savages outside The Japanese soldiers began to retreat.

"Those who charge into the formation, behead!" After a group of people died, the remaining people scattered from both sides of the formation.

"Throw on fire!" The lit torches and wooden sticks smashed towards the lake, and the forward infantry also wrapped the bronze spears wrapped in dry grass and lit them. Under the light of the fire, the figure of the black figure was revealed.

At first, Zishou thought it was a crocodile. You must know that there are all kinds of ferocious beasts on the land of China at this time. However, what was exposed to the fire was a strange thing that he didn't know at all, a really strange thing.

This thing is as big as a chariot, with a shark-like dorsal fin and tail, a head like a salamander, but with fangs, but under the abdomen are limbs instead of fins, and the limbs have sharp claws. There is no hair or scales, and the color is black and gray, just like wolf fur.

"What is this?" Zishou was a little dazed, what kind of species is this, a random product of nature, a failed product that has perished in the long river of history?

The ignited spear made the monster retreat continuously, and the partially restored army cut off its retreat, and then ignited rockets and wooden sticks kept smashing past, and some people even loaded the beast with red-burning stones. Throwing it into the feeding pocket of the skin fully reflects how the species Homo sapiens stands at the top of nature - long-distance throwing props!

The monster swayed left and right among the crowd, trying to break out, but it either hit a red-hot spear, or was smashed by dense rockets and burning wooden sticks, screaming in pain.

Although it looks very strange, but, as far as Zishou feels, it seems to be just a strange-looking beast with a particularly big head. Surrounded by hundreds of Homo sapiens, the end is nothing more than struggling for a long time, and then tonight Extra meal thing.

"Aww!" The monster made a strange cry, its abdomen bulging high, and then a water arrow spit out from its mouth, sweeping across the front like a high-pressure water gun, and the warriors fell down immediately, although there was no reason Death, but it also caused the formation to collapse.

"I'm going, what is this? Magic?" Zi Shou looked dumbfounded at the thing sprayed by the high-pressure water cannon. However, the monster soon languished, but after the previous chaos and collapse, it also seemed Realizing that he could only run forward, he rushed straight to Zishou.

"Your Majesty!" In a panic, Zishou pulled out the long sword in his hand, and when he was thinking about the use of a blunt stone sword, the blade was not as dark as it was during the day, or turned from a dark stone some kind of crystalline substance.

If you look carefully, there are a large number of page-like structures in this opaque crystal that are flipping. With the change of these lattices, the blade quickly changes from an opaque stone to a completely transparent state, and then, a strong light erupts.

The light was so strong that people couldn't even see their own shadow, as if a sun had risen in the camp.

"Aww!" The monster slammed on the brakes instantly, as if stung by something, turned and ran away, while Zishou was shocked, and could only swing down the blade instinctively.

The transparent and luminous crystals quickly reorganized and scattered, and a huge arc-shaped cutting blade composed of light just fell in front of Zishou, splitting the monster in two, and the solid rock by the water was also shattered under the blade, and at the same time What's more, there is also Zishou's three views as a modern person-Mayah!

Chapter 9 Wu Gan Relatives, You Miao Nai Fu

After executing this monster known as "Gu Diao", the camp returned to calm, but Zishou's three views were gone forever. He sat on the ground and saw that his hand still hadn't recovered, In the "sword" that emits a steady pale golden light, I feel whether I have taken the wrong script or crossed the wrong world line.

The blade is no longer a smooth obsidian, but has a large number of ravines and even the structure of the blade is not completely put together. The center is pale gold and the edges are bluish white and completely transparent.

The orthorhombic lattice like liquid crystal in the inner layer is tumbling in an orderly manner, and between the structural links is a staggered reciprocating fluid-like luminescent substance. Zishou carefully tried it with his fingers, and it seemed that he was not injured, only a burst of cuts feeling of pain.

To be honest, he will understand why everyone firmly believes that he is the next emperor, and he will become a god when he dies, and he also knows why everyone believes that he is the incarnation of the black bird, the sun god on earth like Queen Xia—because other people Speaking of this era, even in the next 1000 years, if you draw your sword in the middle of the night, it will be a scorching sun, and you will be regarded as a god.

And at this time, he discovered that there were inscriptions on the blade, and a prismatic crystal was floating in the sword frame composed of fine orthorhombic crystals, on which was a pale white oracle bone script—Xiao.

"Xiao Lian? Isn't that the incarnation of the Tianzi sword that Liezi brags and uses to preach?" In the story, it was held by Yin Tianzi, who claimed that a child could defeat thousands of troops with it. Later generations generally believed that it was Lie Yukou who borrowed the sword. Talking about the kingly way of governing the country.

Xiaolian represents the beginning of Taoism, following the rules, and also represents the beginning of the founding of the country, making rules and using force to force people to submit and obey.

Since then, Chengying has represented entering the Tao, and also representing the country on the right track. All kinds of etiquette and rules, just like Chengying, can vaguely see a little shadow, but can't see it clearly (it was a secret at the time) Law).

The last is Hanguang. The existence of the country is like light. Is it the king's land in the whole world? You can't see it, you can't touch it, but it is everywhere.

This is the point of view generally believed by researchers of later generations. The Tianzi sword in this story is only expounding the philosophical principles and political views of Taoism, not that there are really three invisible swords. When cutting people, people do not even respond. Two pieces of the Excalibur.

Because that's so unscientific!

Then, such an extremely unscientific thing is now in the hands of Zishou, and its light is invisible during the day, and its shadow is invisible at night. Therefore, during the day, it is charged in the state of black stone, and at night is the mode of killing people with a lightsaber? ?

Zi Shou looked at the blade in his hand, no one dared to approach him, because pulling out the Son of Heaven Sword and entering this state meant that the king was in a bad mood now, and it also meant that he was going to kill someone, no nobleman would be at this moment Go up and touch the mold head.

As for all the savages in the camp that was in chaos on the outskirts first, all the savages were tied up, and the captain in charge of management, the little nobles in Xiaoyi also took off their hats and hats in fear, and were pinned to the ground, waiting for the king to say when to start the slaughter.

This will not arouse the emotions and resistance of the aristocrats, because this is a legal and reasonable execution. The camp is bombed at night, and the drums are not listened to. In the unspoken rules of the aristocrats of the era, it means that you will be expelled from the "nobility". Even if the king of Shang did not punish you, your neighbors and relatives will do it next.

However, Zishou didn't think about this question at all. He was thinking about Liezi's original text, which can be used against the three armies by a childish child. Could this three armies actually refer to the formation of the three armies, that is, the strength of 15 divisions?

It feels like the savages and militia logistics should be counted, but, as far as the performance of this sword is concerned today, to be honest, a child can indeed cut back the three armies with it.