Chapter 271: Cavalry, Cavalry!
The city on the "yin" ground of Lü Wu has been built this year.
It is a city three miles long and three miles wide, and looks boxy.
In terms of the height of the city wall, there is a set of specifications limiting, and the height of the wall of the "Yin" city is close to seven meters and the thickness is four meters.
If he could choose, Lu Wu didn't really want to build such a city.
He will build walls with curves, i.e. they are not straight, but have some edges and corners, increasing the angle at which archers can shoot arrows on the walls, causing more losses to the attackers during the siege.
In terms of city building, we can actually learn from the West.
It's not about imitating it completely.
The western castle is, to some extent, the lord's private castle, and is used to protect the lord himself.
The main purpose of the castle in the east was to protect more people, including the noble nobles.
Because the starting point of the construction of the city in the East and the West is not the same, it leads to the formation of two ideas.
It's not that Westerners can't build big cities, they pay more attention to the defensive value of a certain area, such as the lord's residential area, resulting in the outer walls are generally only four or five meters high, and no matter how high they are, they are not willing to get them.
They'll make more fortifications in the city, add low walls and the like, or make traffic in the city chaotic and non-subjective.
In short, the layout of Western City will look even more chaotic, so chaotic that it seems that it is not planned at all.
The advantage of chaos is that the attack speed of the enemy who is not familiar with the terrain is curbed; Defenders who are familiar with the terrain will be able to resist layer by layer, and even rely on fortifications to counterattack.
The most important thing is that Westerners will not collapse their psychological defenses because of the loss of the outer walls.
Eastern cities will pay more attention to the city walls, and will make them as high as possible if they have the ability, and will have enough defensive equipment on the walls.
But when you get to the city, there are hardly any fortifications in the eastern city.
As a result, once the walls of Dongfang City were lost, it was basically difficult to rely on the fortifications to continue to hold on.
This is also the reason why every time the city wall is lost, the defenders of the eastern city will immediately collapse.
After all, the size of Western City is just like that, only the lord and a group of vassals, close servants, relatives, and naturally the army are qualified to live in the castle, and ordinary civilians are small villages outside the city.
In addition, Western lords have no obligation or responsibility to protect civilians.
In the East, whether it is a nobleman in the real feudal era or an official in the imperial era, it is a responsibility and obligation to protect the commoners.
In this case, what kind of people are the most numerous in the Eastern City?
It is certainly the largest number of civilians.
Of course, that's later? Summers in the Spring and Autumn Period? The people who can live in the city are actually specially selected.
About this? The summers of the Spring and Autumn period BC? It's the same as in the medieval West.
Lu Wu has already seen the relevant data.
The population of the "Yin" city is about 4,000, in addition to the standing noble guards? The number of slaves alone is in the hundreds, and the retainers and their families are a minority? More were samurai who were not part of the noble guards.
Civilian......? That is, the people are not qualified to live in the city.
There are also "Guo" and "Town" on the outskirts of the "Yin" castle.
The subjects were placed in various "guo", or in the surrounding farms.
The "town" was used to house merchants and slaves.
It's just that there aren't many merchants in the "yin" land now, and the "town" is mainly used to house slaves.
More slaves were on the farmsteads everywhere.
Now "city" is "city"? "Guo" is "Guo"? "Machi" is "machi" and must not be confused.
The person Lu Wu wanted to see was in the suburbs.
This also led them not only to go out of the "yin" city first, but also to pass through several "guo" and "town".
I don't see too many people wandering around with nothing to do.
On the streets, children, women and children are the most numerous.
When they see Lu Wu's procession passing by, the adults will pull the children to the side of the road? Pull the child and kneel on the ground to worship.
In fact, the nobles of the Spring and Autumn Period were not arrogant to this point.
Usually the subjects don't have to kneel when they see Lu Wu? Just get out of the way and salute if you want? It's okay to smile and look at it.
Slaves are different.
Slaves can't follow the path that the nobles would take, isn't they working and seeing the nobles have to kneel? Can't even stare at the nobility.
The old Lu family pays attention to the rational distribution of labor [Haitang Book House fo].
Want to see people everywhere? Or is it early in the morning before going to work? Otherwise, it will be after work in the evening.
The rest of the time, the labor force is in compulsory or paid labor.
After returning from the expedition, Lü Wu had not seriously inspected his territory.
How the rest of the nobles build their own territories has nothing to do with the old Lu family.
Lü Wu had more requirements for the construction of the city, and paid attention to planning.
This also leads to the fact that there are no messy buildings on the side of Lao Lu's family, no matter what the purpose of the house is, it must be neatly arranged.
To him, neatness is far more important than anything else!
It's not an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
As a new family, it is not only necessary to have its own characteristics in the military, but also to display the rules in all aspects in civil affairs.
Come to the outskirts.
It's still the pavilion that ushered in.
From a distance, you can see that many people, both men and women, gathered in the open space around the pavilion.
When you get closer, you can immediately see that the clothes of those people are different from those of the Zhuxia people.
Those people even looked darker on top of their skin tones.
Dark skin tone, maybe not born dark, maybe it's the wind and the sun?
It is more likely to be caused by taking a bath once at birth and another bathing after death, only two baths in a lifetime.
Lu Wu knew that there was a building annoying coming, no matter what the reason, it was impossible to bring his eldest son, so the two of them came over with a big grin.
He was accompanied by five hundred guards.
Among these guards there were two hundred real armorers, and the rest were also in iron armor.
Lu Wu is annoying to look at those buildings.
Lou annoyed people noticed that a team was approaching and was also observing.
In Lu Wu's eyes, Lou Annoying is not much different from Chidi.
It is rare to wear clothes made of fabric, but more often to wear animal skins or sheepskins, and the same is a cape.
There's nothing nice to look at.
Lu Wu mainly observed the weapons carried by these annoying people.
Most of them carry bows and quivers.
The bow looks similar to the style on Zhuxia's side, but there will be a difference in the material.
The arrows in the quiver are pointed downward, but it is impossible to tell what material the arrowheads are made of.
"Watch them closely." Lu Wu was still holding Lu Yang, did not deliberately lower his voice, and said: "You don't need to look at the costumes, look at their words and deeds, and then look at the weapons they carry." ”
Actually, Lu Yang was a little reluctant to be held by Lu Wu.
The child had already protested, but it was useless.
For him, Lu Wu's arms and chest are not at all as soft and fragrant as a young lady, and the feeling of hard bang is not very comfortable.
"Sticks, stones, bones." Lu Yang said softly and cutely.
Lu Wu was surprised.
His son understands what he is saying.
It's also very sharp about distinguishing things!
The nomads did not master the smelting technology, and they did not dare to go south to burn and plunder.
It would be too much to say that they are still living a life of drinking blood.
It's just that no matter from the social level, or the mastery of various technologies, the building is definitely not advanced.
Now the person who drove for Lu Wu was replaced by Zhuo, and Qing has retired with honors.
Lu Wu had already made up his mind about this matter.
The reason was that Qing did not get Lu Wu's permission, and the combat target Pan Dang shouted for a pause, so he really gave a pause.
It's just that Lu Wu didn't talk about it, saying that Qing's service should be rewarded.
If he told the truth, why didn't he let Qing be his driver again.
Qing will definitely kill himself.
And this is not the result that Lu Wu is willing to see.
The building is annoying and noisy.
It's not about making trouble.
When they saw the troops escorting Lu Wu over, their faces were full of envy, and they began to discuss it.
If they can understand Lou's troublesome words, they are talking about the equipment of the old Lu family soldiers.
Lu Wu saw a few familiar faces, and then looked at them with a miserable appearance, and said to Lu Yang: "If it is successful, these people are all heroes of my family." ”
There is a row of question marks in the child's mind.
He didn't understand those who tied their hair, but they looked like beggars, what kind of heroes they were.
Those who looked like beggars, who had sixty-six in the procession before they set out, came back with only twenty-three, and forty-three of them fell on the way.
Lu Wu asked how many horses he had brought back and checked them.
The number of horses brought back this time was more than four hundred.
Fifty-eight of them were stallions, and the rest were all mares.
Lu Wu didn't understand Soma, but he could tell that it was different from the Central Plains horse.
Once again, he asked for everyone's names and taught Lu Yang to thank them.
is obviously a group of people who have experienced nine deaths and a lifetime, but because of Lu Yang's thanks, they were so excited that they burst into tears, and they repeatedly swore that they would be loyal to the Yin clan until death.
Lu Wu, who was not born with everything, understood too well that it was not easy for this group of people, not only would the previous promises be fulfilled one by one, but also additional rewards would be given.
There is no reward, but that what they have received is what they deserve.
Those who did not come back alive would also be rewarded by Lu Wu, and their heirs would have a future of their own.
Lu Wu also met with Lou's annoying representatives.
It was a man in his mid-forties, who looked short regardless of his face.
After translating, Lu Wu learned that this middle-aged man was the leader of a tribe and brought all the people of his tribe, but most of them were stranded at the border.
This tribe with a population of only about 400 people came to take refuge in the old Lu family.
There is no shortage of horse breeders under Lu Wu's command, but there is a shortage of people who are familiar with the grassland.
As for whether this tribe is sincere in coming to take refuge?
It's only a few hundred people, how big a splash can it make?
There's no need to worry too much about it.
The northern aristocracy often had northern tribes who wanted to take refuge, but the vast majority of the nobles were not willing to accept it at all.
In this era, no matter how far away the place is, is there still a civilization in the East that surpasses Zhuxia?
Especially now that Zhuxia is not lacking in force at all, if he really wants to make trouble, he doesn't know who is doing whom.
"Ah Da, when you become a young man, maybe you won't need ......?" Lu Wu pondered for a moment and continued: "Open the channel to obtain Mongolian horses. In another five or six years at most, our family will be able to develop cavalry on a large scale. ”
A row of question marks appeared in the child's mind again.