The Han people do not seem to belong to the grassland by nature, and the Han people are born to farm. In terms of war potential, farmers and nomads seem to have an inherent disadvantage. This is what most people take for granted.

But on careful analysis, the balance of war potential should be tilted in the direction of the Han Chinese. Stable society, advanced productivity, abundant food sources, more population. These are the advantages of the Han Chinese.

On the issue of war, after the Don, the nomads had an almost absolute advantage. The problem is not that nomadism has become stronger, nor is it due to other reasons, but that the key should be found in the Han people themselves.

For institutional reasons, the Central Plains Dynasty lost many of its war capabilities, such as the ability to mobilize, such as the ability to control the country's financial and material resources.

The ideological reasons of the ruler, such as the aggressiveness of the ruler, the comfortable state of mind of the ruler towards the existing way of life. and the guidance of this mentality to the ideological and cultural atmosphere of the whole country.

China's backwardness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is also the reason for this mentality. I feel that everything in my life is very good, and the rest of the world is barbarian and uncivilized.

Refuse to change, refuse to communicate.

The transition point of this atmosphere in Chinese history was in the Song Dynasty. The main guiding theory of this atmosphere also gradually began to take shape in the late Northern Song Dynasty. As a result, China has slowly changed from an outward-looking country to an inward-looking country. There is a clear inheritance, and the Qing Dynasty has carried forward it even more because of its own reasons.

Zheng Zhi probably didn't think about these things, but Zheng Zhi's mentality is like an extroverted and expansive mentality.

The scattered grasslands, without the nominal ruler of the Liao State, are even more scattered.

Zheng Zhi faced Bald Beigan, a very powerful tribe in Dadan, nominally under the rule of the Liao State, but did not really listen to the Liao State. And because of the rule of the Liao State, because of the intermediary of the Liao State, the real wars between the tribes have been relatively much less in the past hundred years.

Also because of the rule of the Liao State, there were several major wars against the grassland a hundred years ago. Military development in the steppes went backwards, and the Liao controlled the export of iron. The Northwest Road Recruitment Division of the Liao State also strictly monitored the military progress of the grassland tribes, monitored the large tribes on the grassland, and suppressed the military rise of the grassland.

This is the attitude of the Liao State towards the grassland in the past two hundred years.

Now Zheng Zhi is facing Bald Beigan, which is a big tribe in this environment. Cowhide armor, more and more simple weapons, simple wooden bows and crossbows, and arrow clusters all appear to be extremely simple, mostly a simple iron tip. There are also no sharp shapes such as piercing arrows.

This situation did not slowly change until Temujin unified the steppe. When Temujin unified the steppe, the real elite troops of the Mongols were only 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the battle to destroy Jin was completed by these 450,000 people. For example, the current Jurchen army is also this number.

At this time, the grassland was too weak in terms of war ability, so weak that the Jurchens could nominally rule the grassland with tens of thousands of troops. Weak to the point that even when Temujin began to crisscross the steppe, he could only grovel to the terminally ill Jin Kingdom.

With 30,000 iron horsemen, the Jurchens could easily slaughter the 200,000 Mogeshi tribe, and they themselves were almost unscathed.

This is Zheng Zhi's confidence, the grassland at this time is no longer the Xiongnu and Turkic. The Han and Tang dynasties' attacks on the grassland have continued to the present. The grasslands were ruled again and again by ethnic groups from the east, the Khitan under the Great Khing'an Mountains, the Jurchens in the White Mountains and Black Waters, and even the Manchus later. These peoples from the east, who were never numerous, were able to rule the steppes of Nuoda.

For thousands of years in the grassland, the only one who could handle it was Genghis Khan. A brief moment in thousands of years was then lost in the long river of history.

But the grassland will always be a threat to the Central Plains Dynasty, and the grassland nomadism is like a maggot on the tarsal bones, which will always make the Central Plains Dynasty troubled and worried. But throughout history, the winning side is still the Central Plains Dynasty, and even the grassland is no longer qualified as the enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Even the bald Khan can also say a joke, and it is a great joke to joke that the Han people enter the grassland. It proves that these nomads who do not record their history have long forgotten the prestige of the Han people and the sorrow of the Xiongnu and the Turks. These Turkic-speaking steppe dardans have forgotten how the mighty Turks disappeared into history.

Zheng Zhi re-entered the grassland today, which is to let these nomads on the grassland once again see the majesty of the Han people.

"Driving !!"

There is no communication, no dialogue, no negotiation. Fifteen thousand iron horsemen roared at the moment of the sound of the drums, the horses' hooves roared, and the torrent of steel went straight towards the nomadic Dadans dressed in gray and black cloth.

Just like starting a war with the Jurchens, Zheng Zhi is still so decisive, so fast, and so brave.

The bald don't react slowly, and they don't seem to care about these Han people who come over, and they don't seem to have seen Han people in their lives. Yes, he has never seen a Han man in his life!

I can also contempt the Han people who have heard about it, but it is really not good! Three or four hundred years have passed, and for most of the steppe tribes who do not record history, the stories are too old for people to forget.

The two sides came against each other.

A pitch-black feathered arrow was stuck not far in front of the contemptible, and it was so delicate that the straight shaft was painted with black lacquer that prevented decay and moth-eater. The goose feathers behind the shaft of the arrow are snow-white, and the snow-white goose feathers are divided into four petals to stabilize the direction of the feather arrow in the air.

He can also scorn his horse quickly, and his superb riding skills allow him to easily lean down and pull out the feathered arrows stuck in the grass and dirt. The arrows of the feather arrows are long and narrow, delicate, divided into three edges, and very sharp. Just to be able to penetrate the iron armor.

You can also look up with some doubts, the Han people in the distance are still one or two hundred steps away, and the bow and crossbow of the bald people have not yet started.

However, a rain of black arrows had already arrived in the sky.

Waiting for a contemptuous reaction, on the grassland horses behind him, one by one the warriors fell down, leaving only the empty horses.

At this moment, Contempt's heart changed, why did the Khitan who swept the grassland lose, and Contempt probably thought that he had found some answer.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" You can also pick up the wooden bow and shout while shooting.

The enemy is getting closer and closer, and the rain of arrows continues. The contemptuous arrows were finally able to hit the enemy, but no one was fallen.

The iron armor of the Central Plains is unimaginable to the steppe people. Even the iron armor of the Khitan is far inferior to the iron armor of the Great Song Dynasty. Why did the Great Song Dynasty have such a heavy iron armor? It was also forced out by the Khitans. Without a healthy horse, the only thing to rely on is thicker and thicker iron armor.

Outside Yanmen Pass, before Tan Yuan, there were too many stories of Jianma and Iron Armor. The Great Song Dynasty was able to keep Hebei and Hedong intact, and was able to force the Liao people to enter into the Tanyuan Alliance, and Tiejia made the greatest contribution.

The combination of armament and warrior will surely create the most powerful army.

It wasn't until close that he could see the appearance of these iron armors clearly, and countless pieces of iron were repeatedly stacked on top of each other, hanging all over his body. The entire skull was covered by a huge iron helmet, and even the neck was tightly enclosed by iron sheets.

Zheng Zhi spent countless money, several years, and countless manpower on these iron armors. Iron armor and foot soldiers are a helpless choice. Iron armor and healthy horses are a perfect match.

Maybe at this moment, a trace of regret can rise in my heart.

Zheng Zhi straightened the spear, his eyes fixed on a bald knight, and the spear rushed out. He pulled out the spear again and was raised high, and blood quickly flowed down from the blade, soaking Zheng Zhi's arm.

Most people don't understand why many spears have red tassels on their heads, which are used to absorb the blood of enemies when killing people, and to prevent blood from flowing to the grip of the spear.

Zheng Zhi's iron gun did not have red tassels, but Zheng Zhi also liked the sticky feeling on the barrel of the gun.

The confrontation between light cavalry and heavy cavalry should not be such a hard-hitting charge. Guerrilla tactics are the best option.

However, Zheng Zhijian has a lot of horses, and guerrilla tactics are actually not effective for Zheng Zhi.

The scimitar slashed at the iron armor, and sparks flew everywhere, but the iron armor did not fall to the ground. The steppe people preferred to use knives, because the steppe people did not have extra iron to forge other forms of weapons. The knife is closely related to life, not only a weapon for battle, but also a necessity in life. Slaughtering cattle and sheep, cutting wood, and tailoring furs all had to be done with knives. Knives are also used in battle, knives are necessities on the grassland, spears are not, spears have no meaning in life, and they are not even decorations.

Without a large number of sharp spears that can stab, there is less of a real threat to the ironclad. This is one of the reasons why during the Tang Dynasty, the horse lance could be up to four meters long. Because the four-meter lance will have many advantages for the Turks in battle.

You can also stagger out of the battle formation, and look back, your heart is full of regret. Countless empty horsebacks told him that he had done something stupid.

The enemy in the rear was already turning his horse, but he did not stop, but directly hit his horse and rushed to the Moge lost man who stopped in the distance.

There are more than 30,000 men, women, and children, cattle and sheep all over the mountains. Retreating from there is probably the best option.

Seeing that the bald begans were coming straight to him, Alibeqi hurriedly hit his horse and stepped forward, trying to block the hooves of the horses rushing towards his tribe, and if tens of thousands of horses' hooves collided like this, the consequences could be imagined.

"You can also contempt the Khan, or you can contempt the Khan... Don't rush anymore... Ali Beqi shouted, waving constantly.

You can also see the hundred and ten people who beat the horse, and you can also see the Alibie who is constantly waving in front of your head, but you can also contempt has long lost the will to fight, and the horse does not stop at all.

Four or five hundred steps behind him,

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