Chapter 168: The Rise of the Golden Horde

Duota shook his head slowly, and said in a deep voice, "No need to try...... I'll take it if I try it. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and for a moment they felt a little speechless, and at the same time, they couldn't help but wonder why Dota was so resistant to this star weapon weapon, and the expressions on their faces were puzzled.

"The most powerful side, the 'Star Shield', is here!" Dota pointed to his chest and continued, "The Star Shield is different from other Star Soldiers, and it is impossible to advance and retreat at will. When you need a star shield to go up, you can't take a step back, because behind you is your robe! It's your companion who lives and dies! You can't turn around and run away, because no one else will be your backing!"

Hearing this, everyone present naturally understood that the "most powerful star shield" mentioned by Dota was not the "heart", but should refer to willpower!

In the old calendar before the dynasty, the shield, called "Gan", and Ge are the same weapons of war, so there are words such as "Gan Ge to meet" to refer to war. As a kind of "main guard but not main stab" guard weapon, later in response to the changes of the times, customs and humanities and even dialect accents and other factors, it is also called "brand", "Peng Pai", etc., and later the folk gradually called it "shield". Legend has it that the earliest shield of the Starfall Continent existed as far back as the time of the Ancestors.

In fact, the origin of "shield" is similar to that of "armor".

Armor is a protective weapon that has appeared in the old calendar before the dynasty, generally made of leather, divided into two types: human armor and vest. The basic method is to first work the leather into small nail pieces, apply lacquer, and then use silk ropes to form different shapes and different purposes. Among them, the body armor is the main body of the human armor, which is composed of about 20 pieces such as the breastplate, dorsal armor, shoulder piece, and flank piece. There are two kinds of attachment of nail pieces: fixed and movable, and different coupling methods are adopted according to the shape and degree of activity of different parts of the human body. At that time, the protective parts of the human armor had reached the chest, back, abdomen, knees, neck and arms, etc., which effectively reduced the lethality of combat weapons and projectile weapons.

Because the armor has a good protective function, it is equipped in large numbers in the army, almost every samurai has a pair of leather armor, and the number of pairs of armor in the army is equivalent to how many soldiers. Descriptions such as "100,000 with armor" have become synonymous with the strength of the army of the seven countries of the Starfall Continent, and it is also the same as the saying that the barbarians usually claim to be "hundreds of thousands of horsemen" who go south to drink horses.

Armor, a protective garment worn during combat, is mostly made of metal sheets.

By the time of the ephemeris, the word "armor" had already been used to refer to this kind of comprehensive armor with both leather armor and metal armor.

Straight to the point.

The shield can be used for defense during attack, covering the body, defending against the enemy's blades and arrows, and in defensive battles, shields are erected on the head of the city or the camp wall to defend against the enemy's flying stones and arrows from below. The "oar" here refers to the "big shield".

It can be seen that the shield is always at the forefront of the battle at all times, and even when retreating, it is left at the end, alternately retreating with friendly formations, in order to prevent the enemy from rushing out of position and causing cover, and then forming a rout of the whole army.

"The ancestor of Shizun was a soldier in the period of the First Emperor of the Ages, and he belonged to the shield army. The shield soldiers, who were once praised as the 'Great Wall of My Flesh and Blood' by the First Emperor of the Ages, shined in several major battles in the southern and northern expeditions of the major armies, and made countless outstanding achievements. Duota looked at the starry sky and muttered: "Back then, the Golden Family was born from the extremely cold land of the northern snowfield, fought all the way to the south, successively unified the steppe tribes, established the vast Golden Horde, and proclaimed himself emperor in the south. The Golden Horde took advantage of the time of the first emperor's southern expedition to divide its troops into two routes, and invaded the northern territory of the Starfall Continent on a large scale, and the iron cavalry even penetrated half of the Xifeng Country all the way to the southwest, and went south to the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains! Even the current northern countries had already fallen to the hands of the army on the southeast road of the Golden Horde, and the northern border was trampled and ravaged by the barbarian iron hooves, with countless casualties and millions of people displaced!"

"The talent of the first emperor through the ages, Wen Taowu strategy: first gathered a large number of warships, boats, people, grain and grass, and baggage along the coast of the East China Sea, and made a posture of crossing the sea to the south to attack the coastal counties of the Southern Chu State, and then erected two overpasses over the Great Rift Valley in ten days!"

"The two West Wind Legions that crossed the Great Rift Valley moat did not entangle themselves in the gains and losses of one city and one pool, but according to the accurate information of meticulous work and secret agents, they quickly advanced from the almost undefended counties of the Southern Chu State, and fed the enemy all the way, and arrived outside the moat of the capital of the Southern Chu State in ten days, joined forces in victory, and launched an attack on the same day, and went down with a drum! At that time, the large army of the Southern Chu State was still actively looking for fighters in the South China Sea, trying to wait for work at ease, and defeat the strong enemy of the Southern Invasion in one fell swoop with superior fleet strength. ”

"The First Emperor of the Ages with a thunderous blow showed his magnanimity to everyone in the Starfall Continent, and then accepted the Zen concession of the Southern Chu Monarch, knelt down to offer the Southern Chu State Kanyu Map and the Southern Chu Inheritance Jade Seal. The last edict of the monarch of Southern Chu and the edict of the first emperor of the ages came out of the eight gates of the capital of Southern Chu and went to the counties of Southern Chu by hundreds of messengers. In less than a month, everywhere the edict and edict went, all counties, counties, and even villages and towns could be said to have heard the wind and fell. Later, even before the messenger entered the city, the battle flag of the west wind country on a white background and black wind was already hung above the city gate tower. It can be said that the ruling stratum of the Southern Chu State is extremely poor and extravagant, perverse in its behavior, and its military armament is lax, and the people's minds have changed for a long time, which can be seen!

However, the Emperor of the Ages is not blindly a city favor. Chuchen took over the conversation while Duota sighed, and said: "In his edict, according to the standard of one ding per household, more than 300,000 young people were mobilized from all counties and counties of the Southern Chu State to transport a large number of baggage, grain and grass collected from the north along the way, crossed the overpass, and built two male cities at the north entrance of the two overpasses, one is 'Tianqiao' and the other is 'Tongtu'. Those two male cities are also the current capitals of Taishan and Later Jin respectively. ”

"At the same time, the First Emperor of the Ages tightly sealed off the coastal ports of the Southern Chu State, and with only a single edict, he easily forced the naval divisions of the Southern Chu State, which lacked food and water and had no fighting spirit, to surrender! After the regular army of the Southern Chu State of more than 200,000 people landed, they surrendered on the spot, broke up and mixed formations, and then began a rapid march......

Hearing this, it is not difficult to guess from the unbearable and hidden expressions on the faces of the rest of the people that what happened later is probably well known.