The cavalry under the command of the Matan Department shouted "kill" in unison, and they galloped according to the slope of the slope, which made it easier for the horses under the cavalry to complete the acceleration, and they almost reached the requirements of the charging speed as soon as they got off the slope. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the cavalry charging formation, Liao Chengtun and many other cavalry lance-wielding robes were placed at the front of the charging formation, and they did not level the cavalry in the process of charging, but clamped the cavalry spear on their right arm and slanted down appropriately.

Firmly following the lancers were the archers, who had already held their crossbows or horned bows in their hands at this time, and generally after shooting two to three rounds of arrows, they would change to the knives that everyone in the Han cavalry would equip and prepare for close combat, but the main task of these archers was not to kill the enemy in close quarters with their knives, they needed to protect themselves as much as possible from falling behind or being killed by the enemy in the process of charging into battle.

A large number of sword cavalry, each of them is holding a horse chopping knife with an extended hilt, the kind of horse chopping knife is about five feet six inches, the elongated handle allows them to easily use the speed of the war horse gallop to kill the enemy in the gallop, the power of the forward rush is incomparably huge, as long as the horse chopping knife is out horizontally, you can kill people without deliberately waving it. They will charge behind the echelons of the archers, reaping as many lives as possible with their swords as they gallop.

The roaring sound of horses' hooves was the only sound on the steppe at the moment, but the cavalry of the two different camps chose not to flinch, they could be called fierce, and chose to charge straight at each other.

The two arrows composed of cavalry were getting closer and closer, and the Hun army had almost no formation to speak of, and in fact the Hun cavalry lacked novelty in battle. They relied on their own brute bravery and familiarity with horsemanship, in fact, they relied on the capital of being a steppe people, partly because of their lack of culture. The other part is the innate self-confidence of the steppe peoples in cavalry.

The cavalry of the Han Department also has the capital of the Hun cavalry, and no one will forget that the population structure of the Han Department has been adjusted to have the uniformity it is today, and the grassland population of the Han Department once accounted for seventy percent before the adjustment.

The current soldiers of the Han cavalry are still mainly from the former steppe people, but those steppe people do not recognize the previous nationality, and some people do not have their own nationality or even surname, so they choose to forget and firmly believe that there is nothing surprising about the current Han people. And it is generally difficult for agrarian peoples to be selected as cavalrymen. The reason is naturally that there is no need to talk about it anymore, and it needs to be faced that the equestrian skills of the Han cavalry will not be much worse than that of the Huns.

The Huns have always had a misunderstanding, and they are extremely sure that Lin Bin is from the Han Kingdom. If you think about it, you will think in the direction of "the Han Department must also be dominated by Han people". Don't expect that in this era when the concept of probing the intelligence of the enemy country is so meager, the regimes of various countries will study the demographic structure of a certain nation and a certain army, and they care too one-sidedly, nothing more than how many troops the enemy country has. It's just how many troops are sent to fight. As for logistics, national strength, follow-up troops, and so on, these are concepts that have only emerged in modern times, and they are still vague so far.

There's no denying that Han is really rich! The Han Kingdom has never lacked metal or advanced technology, but due to the relationship between the national policy, the implementation is still Huang Lao's inaction, basically does not advocate the movement of armor, and always routinely makes some equipment for storage when there is no turmoil. The number is not very large, and once there is a war, it will be ordered to rush in large quantities.

A country's military strength is inevitably linked to its national policy. In the 'cultivation and recuperation; Under the national policy of "indisputable to the people", the Han State was rich, but compared with the founding period, the military strength was also constantly reduced because of this policy, in addition to the border fortress has been a large number of supplementary soldiers, the interior is also in several important passes with heavy troops, a large number of young and strong people are generally in the local 'pawn', that is, in the local service, after a certain period of time will be turned into 'pawn', that is, the need to carry out conscription of reservists, need to serve for the county for a month of labor.

The projects of labor include the repair of roads and bridges, the digging of rivers and canals, the construction of city walls, and the transfer of transportation, because the state has always not allocated funds for these infrastructures, and can only be completed by local governors without pay to make local guards.

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the non-commissioned officers of the Southern Army, who were responsible for the palace guards, were recruited from the county every year to serve as 'regular soldiers' in accordance with the track of the conscription system. Every man of military age may be drafted into the Kyoto Division to serve as a sergeant guarding the Imperial Palace for a period of one year. Therefore, the guards who guarded the palace were strangers with accents from all over the world.

As for the Northern Army, that is, professional soldiers, they are all Chang'an and Sanfu people, who have grown up in prosperous places for many years, and their education is better than that of other foreign counties and counties, and their lives are also rich, which explains why the Northern Army has a sense of pride. The people of the capital of every dynasty regarded the non-people of the capital as soil buns, and this sense of superiority was difficult to explain clearly.

The Southern Army and the Northern Army were drawn from different sources of troops, which has its profound meaning. The children of peasant families from other counties went to the capital to protect the palace, but because they came from afar, they could not integrate with the local people in Beijing; The soldiers from all over the country in the Yugoslav Army had different languages and living habits, and since the service period was only one year, it was difficult to reach close communication, so it was not easy for collective rebellion to occur. And the families, relatives and friends, and ancestral graves of the children of Sanfu are all on this land, and they will affect the whole body. With this kind of concern, the children of Sanfu stationed in the capital division will not easily take risks and insult their relatives.

What does that mean? It shows that the Han Department and the Han State are definitely two different military systems, the Han State does not have the Han Department, of course, the Han State does not have the vast majority of the Han Department, and this era is the era of survival competition, military strength is the key, what structure will be caused by the gap in military strength is still being widened? Looking at the fact that the Han State is now oppressed by military threats, the Han Department has become a military power in just two years can explain something. That's right! is the difference in national policy, and this is precisely what the Huns did not understand and never thought about!

Sometimes a little misunderstanding can change a person's life, and once the ruler of a country misunderstands something, it will inevitably affect the subordinates below, thus forming a domino effect, and a row will continue to collapse until the country collapses.

The collapse of the Xiongnu will begin on the battlefield of the Umu steppe......

The observer who remained in the rear and stood on the nest car grabbed the horn on his waist when he saw that the two armies about to fight were only two miles apart, and the trumpeter in the charging leopard formation heard it, and he also grabbed the horn and blew two long and one short trumpets as he galloped.

Liao was very calm, his eyes were fixed on the Hun cavalry in front of him, he could already clearly see the other party's face, he saw a Hun cavalry with a scar on his left cheek, the Hun cavalry was dressed differently from others, and the color was relatively gorgeous, and the complex color in the steppe people was what it meant to be a noble person. He said in his heart, "This is mine!" ”

A sharp sound in an instant actually suppressed the sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry charge, Huo Shi's sky seemed to be dark, he was afraid that the riding pocket had fallen off and did not dare to look up, he tried his best to look up, what he saw was a black curtain made of arrows, the black curtain was flying, flying towards the enemy army directly opposite, destined to detonate countless blood flowers, splashing beautiful blood flowers.

The sound of the horn was blown again, and he could not be distracted, and he roared vigorously: "The lancer ends the spear - even!" And the commanders of each tun were also shouting like this, and the leopard army lancers who were immediately galloping in front of the charging array opened the distance between each other, and they were about to harvest their lives!

Ma Tan did not charge with the cavalry under his command, and the duty of a general above the rank of lieutenant was not to go into battle to kill the enemy, but to control the battle in the rear, which was only strongly stipulated in the Han Department.

The scout, who was also standing on top of the nest car, excitedly said, "Contact! ”

Ma Tan has eyes, he can see for himself, what he sees is that after his own archers shoot a round of arrows, the Hun cavalry counterattacks, and the cavalry in the two arrays continue to fall from the arrows, and it takes almost three breaths for the forwards of the two armies to collide with each other, and their own lancers really use the advantage of the length of the cavalry to skewer the Hun cavalry that is too close to the killing distance into a meat skewer.

Throwing away the heavy cavalry spear, he leaned over and drew his sword, and during this draw, he was injured in the left arm by the blade of the Hun cavalry, and there was a vague 'hissing' sound of the blade rubbing against the armor in his mind.

There is no doubt about the power of the lancers, in fact, the most lethal in the early stage of cavalry warfare in the cold weapon era is the expendable class of lancers, the most perfect use is not in the ancient Chinese battlefield, but in the western Roman battlefield, the Magnesian Pergamum cavalry in the place of Roman mercenary origin!

Ma Tan looked over from afar, and when he saw that the Hun army chose to move in a shrinking way after being divided by the lancers, he frowned, and said softly: "It's a pity...... If only there were more troops. ”

The horsemanship of the Huns was so good that they were accustomed to death, and they simply ignored the fact that a large number of their companions fell on the road rushing against each other, and the undead cavalry did not appear to be in confusion, and they wanted to withdraw from the battle site to the side and fight again in the desolate sound of the trumpet.

"Lord Captain, do you want to notify Captain Li to dispatch?"

"No!"

Ma Tan's eyes were fixed on the Hun cavalry that was constantly moving behind the warring army, and he knew very well that the war had just begun!

. (To be continued) (To be continued.) )