Chapter 8 The Most Powerful Army in the World
Spring and autumn, magnificent.
In the War of the Eight-Nation Annexation of that year, hundreds of thousands of troops fought at every turn, and a major war lasted from one day to ten days. After the war, the white bones were exposed in the wilderness, there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, black clouds covered the sun, and blood was drifting. The Spring and Autumn Period after Wufu was in power was the road of blood and fire of killing and being killed.
The collapse of the Great Chu Dynasty from the inside out led to the flames of war and the people's misery. At the beginning of the war of the Eight Kingdoms, there were Qin, Jin, Yan, Zhao, Song, Wei, Shu, and Wu eight kingdoms. Later, the three kingdoms of Zhao and Wei, Shu and Wu were all destroyed, and history entered the situation of the four kingdoms. The chaos in the Central Plains, the invasion of the Hu nationality, and the fragmentation of more than 200 years are not only a profound disaster for the people, but also a glorious tide of national integration.
During this period, the culture and economy of the Central Plains suffered great trauma, and countless historical books and precious cultural relics were lost. Countries are racing to expand their armaments and wars, agriculture is slackened, and culture is not flourishing, which has led to the displacement of people everywhere and countless sorrows. The big families took the opportunity to shield the households, coerce the masses, and take advantage of the looting, which aggravated the strictness of the gates, caused a sharp decrease in household registration, and the central government was exhausted.
The powerful only knew how to fight for power and profit, regardless of the life and death of the people, and in the 50 years of Wei alone, three emperors with surnames were changed, and the population was reduced to three-fifths of the founding of the country. These major events are all mentioned in the history books officially issued to the outside world.
But Xie Shence knows that many things in history are precisely the heaviest. In his family's sealed warehouse, there are many unique books of wild history, which record in detail the stories of various countries and regions that have not been recorded in the official history.
After the Qin army captured the city, less than 100 people could stand up in the city of 20,000 soldiers and civilians before the war, and the city was full of corpses and the bones of people who had been eaten. Tuoba Xianbei attacked Jin, and the generals of the Jin army boosted their morale before the battle and said: "You wait for the Dan battle, and you will be full of food at dusk", which means: You fight in the morning, and when there are dead people, you can eat enough at night.
At that time, this was very common. Xie Shence lamented in his heart: "How similar is this to the Central Plains of the Five Hu Chaos." This phenomenon of war destroying production and drastically declining the population did not improve until the five countries were established together in the past 50 years or so. But this turnaround is in preparation for a larger-scale war.
After 200 years of war, the world's population has plummeted, and there is not one in ten registered households, which has forced countries to reduce their armaments and devote themselves to developing elites. There have been the elites of the Great Wei Jianshu of Wei, the heavy armored soldiers of Shu, and the sailors of Eastern Wu, all of which are now submerged in the long river. For example, the most elite soldiers today, known as the world's first combat power, should be the first to push the Modao Army of the Great Jin,.
More than 20 years ago, there was a great war outside the Hangu Pass of the Qin and Jin Dynasties.
Arrows are like flying locusts, covering the sky and the sun; The cavalry pierced and rushed, like a shuttle reciprocating, and like a tide hitting the shore, majestic; Mo knife advances, and those who block are broken; The infantry has a large shield and a long spear, and the pace is strong, like a fortress moving. On the first day, the battle lasted from morning to dark, and the two sides invested a total of 22 legions, 10 in the Qin army and 12 in the Jin army; Without waiting for the corpses to be collected, the two sides tacitly drew troops and threw themselves into the battlefield again. For five days, after a frenzied strangulation, both sides were exhausted, so an armistice and peace talks were held.
After the first battle, the Qin army's ten corps lost more than 70,000 people in a total of 120,000 people, and the Jin army suffered more than 80,000 casualties.
Whenever Xie Shence reads the record of this battle and the comments of all the famous scholars and literati in the art of war over the past 20 years, he will sigh with emotion.
In that battle, Bai Yan achieved his reputation as the number one general in the world.
At the beginning of the war, Bai Yan used the 5,000 elite cavalry of his headquarters as bait to hang the 3,000 Mo sword army and 3,000 light cavalry of Sima Deguang's army. I retreat when the enemy fights, I chase after the enemy retreats, and I attack when the enemy stops. The kraft candy made the Da Mo sword army of Dajin exhausted. In the end, he seized the fighter plane and defeated Sima Deguang's Chinese army in one fell swoop with superior cavalry and heavy infantry, and then the cavalry of the headquarters retreated, the right army contracted, and the left army approached the Chinese army to swallow the left army of the Jin army. Then, there was the well-known collision between the five thousand Mo sword army and the five thousand elite horsemen.
The six thousand elites who were hung by Bai Yan rushed back in time, killed from the middle road, and rushed to join the right army before Bai Yan at the cost of two thousand cavalry and one thousand Mo swords. After the 5,000 Mo Sword Army turned its back to the robe Zelie and opened the formation, it faced the almost undamaged 5,000 elite cavalry of Bai Yan's headquarters, known as the big white fish cavalry with the world's first combat power. Then, there was no fancy confrontation: a great collision between cavalry and infantry.
When the sword is broken, he draws out the dagger, and when the dagger is gone, he uses a broken blade, and with his fists and feet, and when the spear is gone, he gets up and uses a saber, or even with an arrow. In order to kill the enemy, he did not hesitate to exchange his life. Finally, two hours later, the battle ended after the right army of the Jin army withdrew from the main battlefield in full form.
In the end, only 400 remnants remained of the 5,000 Mo swords, and the 5,000 Great White Fish Cavalry only rode in vain and dozens of horses were spared.
Subsequently, the two countries ceased hostilities, and there has been no war for 20 years. But the battle between Qin and Jin has been mentioned countless times by later generations.
Bai Yan won the final victory with a disadvantage of 120,000 to 150,000, and dragged Sima Deguang, who was known as the rock of the Great Jin Dynasty, famous all over the world, but was repeatedly ridiculed as "the first in the world of light poles", because in the duel between the big white fish cavalry and the Mo knife army, Bai Yan still charged forward although he fought to vomit blood, and his body was wounded twenty-one, which was extremely immortal, but a person's bravery was only one person's bravery, and the big white fish army was only more than ten relatives in the end. Bai Yan alone couldn't change the defeat of the Great White Fish Cavalry, and the disastrous victory of the Modao Army only retained the last trace of face for the Great Jin.
Although the Modao army was a miserable victory, it withstood the pressure when the general trend was declining and saved nearly half of the Jin army, so that although the Jin army was defeated, it still had the strength to fight, and it could still contain the main force of the Qin army and ensure that the western front of the Great Jin was not chaotic, which was already a blessing in misfortune for the Jin State.
The emergence of the first formation of the Modao Army, the combat power it embodied, and the role it played in the confrontation war gave the countries a head start.
The big white fish cavalry that the Great Qin people are proud of, the pro-army of the Bai family of the Qin State, the ace of the world's first combat power, and the world's first-class and first-class army that does not fall behind in the face of the cavalry of the king's tent who is one and a half times the Xianbei commander, actually lost to the Modao infantry army that was not famous before, which really made the Qin people lose face and made Song Yan and other countries frightened. After returning to China, Bai Yan was silent except for a few short secret conversations with the Great Qin Emperor in private and some obscure actions of the Great Qin Military Department.
Qin Guo's attitude of not having an attitude made everyone in the world acquiesce to the Modao Army's number one combat power in the world. Bai Yan won the title of the world's number one general from Sima Deguang's hands, but let the Great White Fish Cavalry's title of the world's first combat power be lost to the Great Jin Mo Sword Army.
Since then, Modao has become famous all over the world, and everyone who hears it has been lost, and most of the encounters are to see Modao and retreat. Only a handful of the elite who boasted of their prowess dared to fight it. And after the war with it, it disappeared, that is, no one questioned the number one in the world of Modao.
In this regard, Brother Xiao Xie was quite contemptuous. It's not that I despise Modao, but I despise those characters who dare to go head-to-head with Modao. Among them was the Northern Yan Fan Yang Iron Cavalry, which was almost completely annihilated after a lone army went deep and fought with the same number of Modao troops. In Brother Xie's cognition, as an upgraded version of the horse sword, the Mo Dao is the existence of the pinnacle of cold weapons, and its meaning of existence is to fight against cavalry. In the Tang Dynasty in that world, the Modao Army is the magic weapon of the Tang Dynasty against the Turks and the Western Regions of Tubo and other cavalry powers, and it is invincible. Facing the same number of Mo knives with the same number of cavalry, if you can't disrupt the Mo knife formation, otherwise once you get entangled, you can't get out, and it is likely to be a one-sided slaughter. The Da Mo knife, which is more than six feet long and has a total length of one zhang, can cut the cavalry into two sections, and in the case of collective assassination, it can completely smash all the armor and **, and the people and horses are torn.
It is not as much as most people think, on the contrary, the weight and length of the Mo knife determine that it is an extremely inflexible weapon used with both hands to stab. Only a very small number of warriors can and can do a slashing move without disrupting the formation, and of course this extremely morale-boosting special move that can cut off men and horses is definitely unavoidable.
First of all, the user of the Mo knife must go through a strict selection, and must choose a person with great length and strength, and the standard for this length and strength is that the height must be more than seven feet five, and the body must be strong, and the waist, abdomen and arm strength must be especially sufficient. It can carry a standard pushing and stabbing action with a Mo knife under the condition of carrying a weight of 50 catties (full body armor) for two hours, and the soldiers should preferably be the children of homesteaders with innocent family backgrounds and brothers. In terms of the largest source of soldiers in the Central Plains of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Modao Army is only less than 15,000 people, and most of them are distributed in the northwest and north directions.
The production of the Mo knife was handed over to Huaiyang Dao, that is, the ordnance supervisor of the Huai Army, and the person in charge of the forging of the Mo knife was the old man Zuo. Mo knife forging is extremely secret, in addition to the Mo knife supervisor has a heavy army guard, the transportation is registered the number and the name of the user after the selection of elite soldiers to escort, transport and then the number of distribution. Usually, the use of Mo knife wear and tear is also maintained in strict accordance with the regulations, and it will be invalidated if it exceeds a certain number of repairs, and it will be forged again, and it will never be discarded and disposed of at will. Sergeants who damage the Mo knife for no reason will be severely punished by military law, and the handle of each Mo knife is engraved with the name of the soldier, one is the real-name system to facilitate training and management, and the other is good for counting casualties and losses.
The training of Modao is summed up in one word as "weight-bearing", not only to carry heavy armor, but also to require running, strength, endurance training, assisted by simple and clear password flags are not too complex formation changes and body movements, requiring unity and strength, majestic momentum. The arduous training has created the inhuman physique and combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and with the strange sword formation like a mountain of swords, it often makes the face-to-face enemy give birth to the tragedy of imminent death.
At this moment, Brother Xiao Xie was in such a tragic mood, looking at the thousand Mo swordsmen in the Huai Army, and he felt a little like peeing his pants......
Xie Shence stood on the handsome platform, and standing next to him was a captain who survived after fighting with the big white fish cavalry. Now he is the instructor of this Mo Dao Army. Except for a few movements of raising his hand and waving his hand, this instructor has not communicated with Xie Shence for two hours from the beginning to the present, his eyes are always fixed on the military formation in front of him, the corners of his mouth are closed, his hands are behind his back, his feet are like nails nailed to the wooden board, and the whole person is like a javelin piercing into the handsome platform, and he has the tenacity of eight winds that are as stable as Mount Tai.
He is also Xie Shence's instructor, teaching swordsmanship, the instructor's surname is Li, and his name is unknown.
Xie Shence couldn't say anything about his bitterness in the face of this iron-masked instructor, and he didn't dare to shed tears when he was in tears. It's been ten years, ten whole years! Little Brother Xie has been trained as an animal by this "livestock" for ten years! During this period, he almost died several times, and the "fun" in it was not enough for outsiders.
Little Lori Wang Xie Hua felt the pain of Xiao Brother Xie's tyranny, and gave the instructor the nickname "King Li Yan".