Chapter 314: The Village
"Of course......" Xu Zixian muttered: "We will not rush to kill, we will leave room for them to think, regret, suffer and compromise." We are not heavenly people, we will not force and humiliate them to be completely subordinate to us, and we will submit to each other with swords and swords, and sooner or later there will be repetition, and we will slowly accept and assimilate them with food, industry and commerce, and knowledge. β
In fact, Xu Zixian knew that the strategy of Tianfang was also quite successful.
Bringing brutal rule with swords and swords will sooner or later be overthrown.
And if the sword and sword, iron and fire are used to bring a higher religion above the primitive religion, then this invasion and assimilation is successful.
Now several countries in the South Seas, as well as the Mughal countries, as well as the countries of the Green Mountains, including the original countries of the Western Regions, are surrendered by the Heavenly People, and after a hundred years, they have been willing to believe in the Heavenly State Religion and are willing to be the thugs of the Heavenly People.
It's just that it's not appropriate to say this to Luo Fangxiao, or even to his subordinates.
The Tianfang people are the fierce rivals of the Great Wei now, and they will also be the fierce rivals of the Nan'an Hou Mansion in the future.
It can even be said that the Tianfang people are now the fierce rivals of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and they will be the fierce rivals of the new "Great Wei" in the future.
Xu Zi had to clean up Donghu first and turn the situation of Great Wei around, so that he could have the strength to compete with the Heavenly People on many turf. Defeat the Western Qiang, restore the Western Regions, cross the Green Mountains to defeat the Mughal Empire, and continue to the west is Timur's empire, in the South Seas, in the East, in the West, everywhere there are celestial figures.
It is fair to say that on a global scale, the strength of the Tianfang people is far above that of the Great Wei.
The Great Wei is an all-round hegemon in East Asia, while the Celestial People span Europe, Asia and Africa, and have dozens of client states to serve them, so although it has been declining, its civilization level is also more than that of the Great Wei, industrial and commercial trade, industrial capacity, overseas trade capacity and the comparison of maritime power, including cavalry, navy, army, and celestial people have surpassed the Great Wei, which is its all-round suppression of the resistance of all parties, and the confidence of continuous expansion.
Such a hegemon, Xu Zixian did not plan to wait for the Europeans to rise up and defeat them, he wanted to control this matter in his own hands.
Wa Kingdom, Luzon, Oriental Ocean, Western Ocean, South Sea, Southeast Asian Peninsula, Western Regions, Green Mountains, Northern Polar Regions, Outer Northeast Regions.
A strong Great Wei can take twenty years to grasp all these territories.
Xu Zixian did not plan to be the Great Wei Taizu and left the matter to future generations.
If he could, he would like to do it in decades.
In the evening, after crossing a small valley, a large village finally appeared in front of people's eyes.
This is a small plain area in the middle of the mountains, and several small streams have been flowing, bringing Xu Zixian and others all the way to this valley.
There are about ten square kilometers of flat land, which is equal to the size of a village and town, and the flat land on the outskirts of the village is full of crops, and many plots of land have been opened on the hillside.
Sure enough, farming is the best direction of development, even if there are endless prey in the mountains and many fruits, but farming is always the best direction of development.
"Sure enough, it tempted me to go deeper." Xu Zi rode his horse to the high slope first, and under the cover of a shrub, observed the situation in the village.
It seemed that someone was already ringing the bell, and there were many women and children in furs running around the village.
The men stood on the outskirts of the village, on the slopes, in the fields, in the villages, and it seemed that there were also on the high mountains in the distance, and the preliminary estimate was that there were about five or six hundred people.
"Five-fold enemy." Xu Zixian smiled and said to the left and right: "Do you have the confidence to defeat them?" β
As soon as the words came out, Xu Zixian had already pulled out the barrier knife he was wearing at his waist, held a shield in his left hand, and drove the horse with his waist.
All of them have long been wearing iron armor, more than 150 horses, divided into five formations, each wearing cloth inlaid with iron leaf armor, this kind of armor is also taken out from the Great Wei Arsenal, the layers are very thick, when they see the prince rushing out, everyone cheered up, let out a shout, each formation with a long sword in front, horizontal knife and obstacle knife in the back, instigated the war horse, followed Xu Zi to rush forward.
On the opposite side, there was also a shout of killing, countless natives with spears, knives or axes and sticks were desperately shouting, rushing towards the place where the cavalry was, hundreds of savages dressed in raw skins and straw skirts poured down from all directions like a tide, like an ant colony, and also like a dark cloud slowly condensed in one place.
Soon, the arrows were fired at the cavalry, and many of the natives stopped as they ran, shooting arrows in the direction from which the cavalry had come.
The distance between the two sides was not far from the original, and they were closer after the cavalry charged, and the archery skills of these natives were not bad, and there was a lack of glue, lacquer, tendons and other things in the mountains, so it was not easy to make a bow, and those who could hold the bow were all marksmen in the tribe.
However, the cavalry was running too fast, and everyone was wearing armor, and the knight who was shot almost did not feel anything, and his movements were not affected in any way.
In a rapid round, except for a few cavalrymen who were hit by arrows and had obvious long feathers, no one fell off their horses, and no one was seriously injured or killed.
"Kill!"
Xu Zixian originally planned to encounter the natives and break the enemy's formation with a sharp cavalry formation.
Now it seemed unnecessary, the natives had no experience of war, and in vain scattered the men everywhere, and then tried to pounce on the encirclement.
I have some ideas, but I am too naΓ―ve and I don't understand what a battle formation is.
Under the command of Xu Zixian, the cavalry gathered in one place, stormed the fields on the right, and after charging into battle, they entered the village from the left side and burned their tribes.
The natives in front of them were running around like roe deer and rabbits, many people were stabbed to the ground by the cavalry, their naked bodies could not block the damage of weapons, and the people who were stabbed used their bodies to completely absorb the damage, their muscles surged, blood spurted wildly, and they soon fell into a coma and soon died.
Xu Zi first slashed lightly with the barrier knife, his wrist vibrated frequently, and the blade was so sharp that every time he hit a person, he would make the other party disembowel, and his death would be unspeakable.
If it is said that there is no hidden heart, it is also impossible.
These natives have experienced a completely asymmetrical blow, and the current war is a one-sided massacre.
But Xu Zixian will not change his previous decision, since the natives threaten the great development of the Eastern Domain, they must be dealt the most severe blows, including the current killing.
Suddenly, Xu Zixian felt that gravity hit his pocket, and after a bang, a short spear fell to the ground, this short spear is a spear made of stone, the local people lack iron, and they don't even have iron, bamboo, and feathers to make arrows, not to mention that more iron is needed, and it is actually more complicated to build a spear?
A spear throwing aroused the anger of the cavalry around them, and they rode forward, constantly harvesting the lives of the natives, and many of the cavalry on the outside, with short crossbows and bows, shot the natives to the ground in unison.
The bloody atmosphere soon spread, the natives were not afraid of death, but no matter how brave they were, there was a limit, and the scene now clearly exceeded all their previous knowledge of war, and the remnants of the natives began to flee, running to the left to the village, and many of them walked barefoot, climbed over the mountain in front of them, and fled into the mountains farther away.
Xu Zi put away the barrier knife first, and he didn't need to do anything else.
He took off the hood, and saw that a palm-sized hole had been punched in front of him, and the iron sheet and lacquer were damaged, Xu Zixian shook his head and smiled, and quickly put the iron helmet on his head again.
The knights also began to scatter, and there was no need to stay in line in this scenario.
Xu Zi first saw a cavalryman stabbed at a native with a long man, and the native panicked and grabbed it, but he didn't know that the two sides of the tip of the long man were cut off, and his entire palm was cut, and the pain was unspeakable.
More slaughter was in the fields, on the dirt slopes, on the roads, and everywhere there were natives who had been stabbed to death by the long swords, and hacked to death with horizontal knives and barriers.
The cavalry finally poured into the village, and the fire was lit up, and everywhere there were wailing, wailing, and screaming, and the smoke and smell of blood brought by the fire were mixed together, giving people an incomparably choking feeling.
Lin Zhengzhi and other guards did not fight, they surrounded Xu Zixian, and the short spear of Shicai hit Xu Zixian's pocket, scaring these guards half to death.
Xu Zixian waved his hand, smiled to appease these guards, and signaled that it was okay.
He has already experienced a hundred battles, and when he feels that something is coming, he subconsciously bows his head.
With Xu Zixian's current skills and battlefield reactions, it is impossible to be injured by the natives.
Xu Zi first rode to the village, there were corpses everywhere, and there were corpses of old people and women at the entrance of the village, Xu Zi first called Lin Zhengzhi and ordered: "Men can be killed, women are not killed, children are not killed, rape and adultery are not allowed, and robbery is not allowed." β
"Yes, Prince."
Luo Fangxiao and several other Lanfang people were sitting at the entrance of the village, they stopped to rest, these Lanfang people were wearing the same cloth armor, and now they untied it, sweat dripped like rain, and when they took off the iron helmet on their heads, sweat gushed out like a spring.
When he heard Xu Zixian's order, there were originally several young people who were in a low mood and raised their heads, Luo Fangxiao glanced at Xu Zixian, the original arrogance in his eyes had disappeared without a trace, some confusion, and some admiration.
Xu Zixian smiled slightly, and the scene in front of him didn't touch him too much.
Huaxia originally had its own bottom line, as long as the natives didn't make trouble, they could live in peace, after all, they didn't have anything that threatened the Eastern Domain, and they didn't have land.
In fact, the ancestors of the Han people were also relatively barbaric, conquering a land, first killing its men, and then plundering its women, mastering its land, and educating it with civilization, so that after a few generations, the land is Chinese, and the core of civilization is Chinese, and then the people who breed are also Chinese.
This is actually the development process of the world, but as the level of civilization becomes higher and higher, the advantages of higher civilizations are getting lower and lower, after all, there is no way to use naked means of conquest, and at some point, lower civilizations are more taken care of, and it seems to have more advantages.
If Xu Zixian did not rise up at this time, history would still evolve and develop as he remembered, and the misery of the Wei people would be far greater than the village in front of him.
To the few Lanfang people in front of him, Xu Zixian simply said: "If it is full of thorns to Lanfang, it will be even more brutal, all women and girls will be humiliated, all will be tied to ponytails and taken away, and sold into slavery after being humiliated, they will do this everywhere." β
Several Lanfang people were pale, they had lived in a place like Nanyang for a long time, it had been peaceful for a long time, and the threat of pirates and celestials had been a matter of nearly ten years, and many people had not yet broken free from their past lives.
What is in front of them is the real lesson for them, what is real war, how evil is real war, everything in front of them is the most obvious answer.
Xu Zi rode to the village first, on both sides are low thatched houses, there is a tall building in the village, which should be the meeting hall of the tribe, and the Gaoshan people still maintain the customs of the primitive tribe, this should be their most important place.
The granary is also on the stone platform, Xu Zi took a look at it first, it is to store some dried fruits, beans, sorghum, and some buckwheat.
He ordered them all to be burned, and the wails around him seemed louder as the torches were thrown in.
"It's time to withdraw." Xu Zixian said to Sun Rulan and the others: "The big tribes around us will be angered in the next few days, and they may gather men to chase us." β
"I can't ask for it." Sun Rulan said: "I'm afraid they won't come." β