After crossing Taiyuan, you will enter the real Zhuxia ethnic essence area.

The majestic Taihang Mountain, stretching forward, paved the backbone of China.

Cities have risen from the ground, and the stars are densely covered on both sides of the mountains.

Scholars and doctors with swords traveled in groups, singing ancient hymns and walking along the road.

Merchants drove cattle and horses to transport large quantities of supplies to distant places.

The civilians transporting military rations sweated like rain on the roads.

And all of them are armed with weapons!

From a well-made bow and crossbow to a sharp sword.

Even the children playing outside the village pavilion were holding small bows and trying their hand at archery under the trees.

The more the delegation looked, the more frightened they became.

The young man had been silent for days.

This strange country is too big and too strong!

He finally understood why the first batch of Wusun envoys to Han immediately advocated friendship with Han after returning to China, and could even persuade Xiankun Mo to marry the princess of the Han Dynasty!

Such a superpower can only be contacted!

Otherwise, once it is considered a threat, it may be wiped out!

Luntai, Fule and other countries in the Western Regions rashly provoked this giant and were erased from the map.

"Messenger, Xiao Guan has arrived, please get out of the car and ......" A voice came from outside the curtain.

The young man lifted the curtain and saw an official wearing a wide robe of the Han Dynasty, holding a roll of papers, bowing outside the car.

"Xiao Guan?" The young man's eyelids jumped slightly.

He had heard of this name for a long time.

It is said that only by entering Xiao Pass can you enter the real essence and wealth of the Han Dynasty.

"In front of the envoy is Xiao Guan, and the Son of Heaven has ordered the envoy to prepare to welcome your envoy at Xiao Pass......" The official whispered in Xiongnu language: "Please also ask the envoy to get off the car......"

"Son of Heaven?" The young man smiled slightly as he played with the honorific title.

In today's world, the kings of the great powers actually call themselves the Son of Heaven.

For example, the Xiongnu Shan Yu, the official title should be the plough Gu Tu Shan Yu.

In the context of the Xiongnu, the plough is the sky, and the lonely Tu is the son, so the true meaning of its full name is the son of the god and the king of all the people who draw the bow.

As for Usun, the same is true.

Unlike the Huns, who believed in shamanism and believed that everything was animistic and everything could be gods.

In the Wusun tradition, the wolf and the crow are the embodiment of the gods.

Generally speaking, the Wusun people believe that the wolf is the guardian god of the heavens, and the crow is the mother goddess of the earth who nurtures all things.

Therefore, the wolf is the god of heaven and the crow is the mother goddess of the earth.

Therefore, the king of Wusun, whose name is Kunmo, also known as Kunmi, means the son of the wolf god and the guardian of all the Wusun people, which can also be translated as 'the son of the gods, the protector of all the Wusun people'.

Therefore, the male members of the Wusun royal family will tattoo a wolf head on their chest when they become adults, as a proof of their identity and pride!

Lowering his head and looking at the wolf head tattoo on his chest hidden in the fox fur, the young man finally gained some courage and regained his arrogance.

"In any case, I am the descendant of the great Hunter and the heir of Kunmo of Wusun!"

"No matter what, Wusun is one of the three great powers in the known world, and it is a powerful country comparable to the Xiongnu and Han dynasties!"

With these words in his heart, the young man picked up a knife by his side and stepped out of the carriage.

All the members of the mission, when they saw him get out of the car, turned over and dismounted, and crawled forward.

There were even nobles, lying at his feet and kissing his boots: "Great Kunmo, may wolves hover around you forever, and crows on your shoulders!" ”

The young man accepted the worship of his vassals.

It's a matter of course.

He is the son of the arrogant hunter and the son-in-law of the army.

The descendant of the legendary god of wolves and ravens, the next generation of kings of all the Wusun people!

From his name, you can see his nobility!

Mud, is a mixture of water and soil.

It is the masterpiece of Mother Earth Goddess, and it is the man favored by crows.

It's a pity that the pride of the mud didn't last long.

Because, he saw a spectacle.

A terrifying sight!

In the distance, under the city fortress, in the wide road, a cavalry quietly lined up, silently lined up in four columns, on both sides of the road.

There were not many of them, no more than fifty men per column.

However, their equipment made Nimi unable to take his eyes off at all.

These cavalrymen were dressed in iron armor.

The neat iron armor is polished so smooth that under the winter sun, a source of reflection is formed.

Although the sunlight reflected is not much, and it is not very dazzling, Nimi still feels a little sore in the eyes!

What's even more terrifying is the huge weapons in the hands of these cavalrymen!

The long blade and sharp spear head all flickered with cold light, making people feel creepy and frightened.

"It's ...... Dismounted? Nimi murmured softly, and the whole person's heart was hit by a heavy hammer, and it was instantly torn apart, and the arrogance that had just burned in his heart fell silent again unconsciously.

Since the Han Dynasty appeared in the sight of the Western Regions, the entire world order has been completely rewritten by the emergence of this super power!

The first effect is that nations are forced to compete in an arms race.

However, the cost of maintaining an army is now much more expensive than before.

The main reason is that the Han Dynasty army used iron and even steel weapons on a large scale!

In front of the iron knives and iron swords of the Han army, all the weapons that were once old were eliminated in an instant.

It is a pity that most of the countries in the Western Regions have not even mastered the bronze casting technology.

In the past, the disputes between the nations were mainly in stone tools, wooden bows, and it was remarkable that someone could put together an all-bronze cavalry.

However, even the best bronze weapons of the countries are not much stronger than wood in front of the iron weapons of the Han Dynasty!

This forced the nations to equip themselves with iron tools.

However, there was only one country in the world capable of mass-producing and casting iron weapons during the Han Dynasty!

The only way the nations could obtain iron tools was to trade with Han.

Even the Huns!

More than 70 percent of the Xiongnu weapons were smuggled back from the Han Dynasty's Biansai and the Han Dynasty's vassal tribes such as Wuheng and Xiaoyue.

The remaining 30 percent was obtained through war captures and other means.

The Xiongnu themselves did not have the ability to smelt and manufacture iron weapons!

It's embarrassing.

This means that in the new era, many Western Regions kingdoms may not even be able to raise a thousand cavalry that can be put on the table!

There is no way, many countries in the Western Regions are already very small and have small populations.

Like Wusun, even slaves and women and children, adding up to less than one million, is already a super power.

And a country like Loulan and Cheshi, with a population of 100,000, is already a regional hegemon.

Many countries, with populations of only 30,000 or 50,000, depend on their own oases for survival.

The oasis is gone, the country is destroyed, and the people are scattered.

The iron weapons of the Han Dynasty were often worth a few sheep, and even a horse or several pieces of fur with excellent conduct were exchanged.

The average small country simply can't afford it.

Even if the army is exhausted, with the strength of the whole country, it can be equipped with a maximum of several hundred iron cavalry.

Even Wusun, because of its friendship with the Han Dynasty, through the horse trade and silk trade, could obtain cheap, high-quality iron tools from the Han Dynasty.

It's just that 10,000 cavalry have been replaced with iron weapons.

And it's a pity that these 10,000 cavalry belong to his uncle, the direct descendant of the current Kun Mo Weng.

As a result, the countries of the Western Regions, in the face of the new war situation, have lost even the ability to resist in the face of power!

For example, the Luntai Kingdom, which was slaughtered by Li Guangli, and its king's capital of 50,000 people was either killed or captured and brought back to the Han Dynasty......

Even more terrifying is the demise of the Fule Kingdom.

A low-ranking officer of the Han Dynasty, with fifty soldiers and a hundred horses, took prisoner all the whole country, including the king and the nobles, the people, and the slaves!

And now......

Right in front of his eyes!

The Han Dynasty listed two hundred cavalry, fully armored and armed with giant blades!

Nimi's eyes widened as he watched carefully, gritting his teeth and gasping for air.

"Han! Is it already that powerful? Nimi couldn't suppress the fear in his heart: "How can such a country be opposed?" ”

He knew that if these cavalry of the Han Dynasty had not cheated.

Then, just the iron armor and huge weapons they are equipped with have already surpassed the national iron holdings of medium-sized countries in the Western Regions such as Loulan and Cheshi!

What makes the mud even more fearful is that these cavalry can move!

"Han Dynasty people, what kind of magic did they use?" Nimi asked himself in his heart: "How can you make a war horse camel such a heavy soldier!" ”

Wusun is already good at raising horses, and he has cultivated a world-famous horse, Wusun Ma!

The Wusun horse is strong and enduring, and its need for water and forage is much lower than that of other horse breeds, and its running speed also has obvious advantages among many horse breeds.

Therefore, Nimi is very clear that most war horses have strict restrictions on the weight of their riders.

If the burden is too heavy, the horse can easily get injured.

Especially the fragile hooves of horses!

Therefore, neither the Xiongnu nor Wusun would let their cavalry wear armor.

In everyone's common sense, cavalry is an army that should not have a trace of defense, but devote all its strength to rushing and raiding!

But now, the people of the Han Dynasty have broken this common sense!

Their cavalry, heavily armoured, armed with huge blades.

Can such cavalry be useful on the battlefield?

Nimi doesn't even need to think about it, and the answer is more than useful! It's just so useful!

The cavalry marched, most of the time, on foot.

Ethnic groups like Wusun and Xiongnu, because of the huge size of the cavalry, must also arrange a large herd of livestock behind the cavalry.

What for?

Eat, of course!

Therefore, the war between Wusun and the Xiongnu usually brings the whole clan.

The fighting cavalry opened the way in front, followed by women, children, old and weak, with livestock.

Therefore, the army will often form a long dragon in the open grassland, stretching for dozens of miles.

And such a method of warfare can easily be caught by the enemy and hit the fragile livestock logistics.

It was only necessary to cut off the livestock, women and children that were trailing behind the main force, and the entire army was immediately incapacitated.

As a result, steppe warfare has developed a variety of tactics to protect and defend fragile logistics.

Both the Xiongnu and Wusun developed special scout cavalry to clean up the battlefield and cover the enemy's scouts.

In many cases, the outcome of a war even depends on whether our scouts can expel the enemy scouts, or even destroy the enemy scouts.

Just like the Battle of Yuwushui between the Han and Huns a few years ago, the key to the Xiongnu's ability to repel the powerful Han cavalry was that after the scouts discovered the main force of the Han army, they immediately retreated to the safe south bank of Yuwushui to conceal the Xiongnu's baggage and old and weak, and at the same time placed the main force of Shan Yuting in front of the Han army's advance route.

It was this decision that gave the Xiongnu the confidence to consume with the Han Dynasty's large army.

Otherwise, if it was the same as many years ago, when Huo Quaiwei Qing of the Han Dynasty was alive, before the war was fought, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty went around the rear end of the herd guarded by the old and weak women and children behind.

Then there is no need to fight this battle, hurry up and run!

As the nephew of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, he heard from the Xiongnu nobles how they protected and concealed their fragile herds and women and children's tribes.

In short, he tried his best, and even used the tactics of the Han Dynasty.

What a cunning rabbit three holes, what a virtual reality.

All the ways that can be thought of, have been thought of.

Even so, there was still a tribe that hoarded 100,000 cattle and sheep, which was surrounded by the cavalry of the Han Dynasty......

And, if the Huns could have such a heavy cavalry, they could follow the army.

Well, everything will change.

The Huns didn't even need to put this cavalry in front, they only needed to assign it to the women and children in the rear to guard the livestock.

In this way, in the event of an attack, this heavy cavalry can cooperate with its own defenses, build a line of defense in front of livestock, women and children, resist the enemy's surprise attack, and at the same time transmit the message to the main force.

And once the cavalry sneak attack turns into a strong attack, it will mean a disaster for the sneak attacker!

Because, the endurance of a war horse is limited.

After a long run, the horse that is again engaged in the attack will have a maximum of three chances to charge.

And in fact, one failure is equivalent to the total annihilation!

The cavalry that came from a long distance could not run through, and the defenders were recharged.

If the sneak attack is unsuccessful, it means that the defenders will chase you to death in the vast grassland!

He took a deep breath and stared at the cavalry that was slowly coming, full of oppression.

Nimi turned around and asked left and right in Wusun dialect: "If we encounter such a cavalry on the battlefield, how many people will it take to resist?" ”

"At least a thousand, right?" Someone replied uncertainly.

"About four or five hundred...... someone said optimistically: "After all, there are not many of these people, and they shouldn't be able to run fast......

"What if they follow the movement of the army?" Ni Mi asked coldly: "Suppose, the number of cavalry on the other side is not much different from ours?" How many cavalry are needed to counteract the strength of this cavalry? ”

Everyone fell silent.

Because, they can't give an answer.

In the past, and now, the Wusun people have never encountered such an opponent!

However, as the top leaders of a major country, they know very well that wars in the world today have become more and more complicated and diverse, from petty fights and instigation in the past.

War has evolved into art in the decades-long struggle for hegemony between Han and Hungary.

Rush, raid, counter-raid, flank outflanking, large depth outflanking, interspersed outflanking, counter-outflanking.

Scout detection, counter-scout detection.

Even the tactics of the battle, also from the beginning of the cavalry white-edged charge, into today's chase and anti-chase, ambush and anti-ambush, the battle of the Tianshan Mountains, the Han and Hungarian sides, even for the first time concentrated a large number of infantry, for the first time, for shooting, and even appeared Han Dynasty infantry, holding halberds, rushed to the Huns' array, and the Hun cavalry dismounted, holding a variety of weapons, and the Han Dynasty people white-edged battle.

Whether it is the Huns or the Han Dynasty, their war has become a confrontation of systems and systems.

In the Wolf Juxu Mountain, in the Junji Mountain, and in the Cheshi, the Huns began to learn from the Han Dynasty, cultivating the land, sowing corn, and harvesting grain.

Legend has it that the Huns even built cities in their hinterland, deep in the depths, gathered craftsmen, and learned from the Han Dynasty people to smelt iron and forge weapons.

Unfortunately, Wusun has fallen behind in this wave of change.

The Wusun people, even to this day, don't even know what a large-scale legion-level battle is!

Ni Mi looked at his courtiers and the members of the mission, lowered his voice, and said softly: "This time, the reason why I agreed to Kun Mo and Mrs. Right to come to the Han Dynasty is that I and everyone can see with our own eyes the appearance of this super power, and see with our own eyes the most advanced country and army in the world!" ”

"If Wusun wants to survive, he must learn!" Nimi said meaningfully: "As long as you learn, you can survive and be independent!" ”

"The first Kunmo hunting arrogance, that is, to learn from the Xiongnu's Mao Dun Da Dan Yu and Lao Shang Da Dan Yu, the Wusun was established!"

"Now, I want to be like Xiankun Mo and take the Han Dynasty as a teacher!"

"But ......," said Nimi, in a low voice, "I want to warn you! The weapons and tactics and ideas of the Han Dynasty people can be learned, but the culture and customs and language of the Han Dynasty people should not be learned! ”

"Just like Xian Kunmo, he only taught the tactics and tactics of the Xiongnu to the people of Wusun!"

He tore open his chest, revealing the chest under the fox fur, revealing the wolf head tattoo, and said proudly: "The wolf god blesses, the crow god favors, the great Wusun, he did not succumb to the Xiongnu before, and he should not submit to the Han Dynasty now!" ”

All the members of the mission knelt down and touched their chests with their left hands: "Blessed by the wolf god, blessed by the crow god!" ”

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Under Xiao Pass in the distance, Zhang Yue rode on a war horse and listened to an official's report.

"This Wusun Xiao Kunmo is a little interesting, he knows ...... independence" Zhang Yue chuckled: "It's just ......"

Now is not the afterlife, there is no living space for the strongest post-80s on the surface.

It's the world of the jungle!

So......

"Young man, your mind is very dangerous, and you need to be corrected by Master Zhuxia!" Zhang Yue thought softly in his heart.

For teaching (washing) and educating (braining) the prince of the Western Regions Kingdom before the Western Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Yue had no pressure.

You must know that the West in later generations even educated the son of Cardazo.

Let him be willing to be a pawn!

And Zhang Yue has been baptized by countless well-known people, and he is extremely familiar with the routines of 'fixed thinking' and 'how is your country'!

Even he, an adult who had received the training of 'successor' and received a higher education, was fooled by the public to find the north, and almost forgot his ancestors!

A young nobleman from before the Western Yuan can still turn over flowers?