Cambrian 214 Slavery
What was car warfare like in ancient China? First of all, it is by no means what modern people think - to rush to the center of the enemy's great array.
In the North China Plain, a large number of wheat sections are still being harvested on the runners of combine harvesters. And the same is true of the chariot battle, the first chariot swings, each smashes through a person's head, or knocks off the shield in a person's hand, and then the second chariot Changge continues to throw over. Then the third, then the fourth. Generally, ten chariots, one round from the side of the infantry, the side of the infantry phalanx will collapse. Only more agile cavalry, as well as mass-produced crossbow arrows, could effectively restrain the chariot.
In the Central Plains of China, chariots roamed throughout the Bronze Age. In the pre-Qin era, when there was a lack of metal, when the chariots were intertwined, Changge's vigorous wielding was always the main theme on the battlefield. Of course, it is also the super huge plain in northern China with a total area of 310,000 square kilometers in the Huang-Huai-Hai Sea that can play a role in car warfare. As for the European side, the territory suitable for agriculture is very small, and the Eastern European side has such large plains, but the temperature is too low for farming, and in the classical era it was impossible to fight such a luxurious war. The Mediterranean is all directly connected to ships.
Six chariots galloped past, one of the dragon tribe's ranks collapsed, the vine shield could not effectively protect the entire rank, and the strength of horses and men was incomparable. The two shields were hooked away by Chang Ge and directly removed from the soldiers' hands, and before the two soldiers had time to pick up the shields, they saw Chang Ge waving on the vehicle behind them.
The two unlucky guys dodged directly to the side in a panic, pushing the people next to them. One might ask, why don't you exit the queue backwards or forwards, and instead push someone else to dodge? Because of the direction of Changge's swing, they have to push the people next to them, just like a train coming over and not wanting to be run over by the train, they will never constantly race along the train track and the train, but must get out of the train track.
The injuries suffered by the four people in the chaotic queue who were knocked by Changge were different from the minor injuries of the bow and arrow, two of these four people died on the spot, and two of them were seriously injured by broken skulls and disemboweled, and directly lost their combat ability.
The loss of combat ability of four people sounds nothing, but the effect is that the formation of the infantry line of twenty people is broken, the morale of the whole team is greatly reduced, and there is a big gap in the side of the two hundred troops. However, the speed of the chariot slowed down after a few tens of meters, and a squad took the new Ge to replace the chariot team's weapons. It's like a knight servant replacing a cavalry after a charge
The chariot completed the full state of armament and personnel without stopping, and a minute later, in the entanglement of the dragon tribe soldiers, the chariot convoy walked in a circle and came over again.
The second round was even more lethal, as the queue faltered before the chariot arrived, and the formation was unstable, and Changge swung to harvest five people at once.
There was an earth-shattering shout from the Locust Tree Tribe.
Seeing this kind of combat effect, a conservative and emotional Lu An couldn't help but say, "Be cautious before revising the original design." Judging from the actual combat effect, the current vehicle battle is very in line with the conditions of national conditions.
However, in the real timeline, Lu An chose to express himself in a smug emotional state, and Lu An came to the front of the queue to meet the cheers of his own team, and said loudly: "Now the situation is clear, if our chariot continues to advance, these gangsters in front of us will be unstoppable." All of them are there, and they march forward in formation. ”
Dong Ming, looking at the whistling chariot rubbing the flanks of the battle formation like a spinning scythe, this kind of chariot whizzed past his ranks, condescendingly dancing and attacking, and the infantry without strong crossbows was very helpless. And the javelins wanted to throw en masse, but were suppressed in advance by the bow and arrow. It is simply not possible to effectively strike at combat vehicles.
This is the gap in the technology of warfare, and this technological gap is equivalent to the gap between the aircraft carriers of World War II and the battleships of World War I. Let the war go on, and the troop vehicles broke the left flank formation round after round. These troops of their own are not far from collapse.
So Dong Ming chose to withdraw the troops, and when a hundred people heard the order to collect the troops, they immediately threw away their shields and retreated in a chaotic manner. This chaotic scene made Dong Ming a little depressed.
After all, fighting a war is not a game, and in the process of playing a game, the troops can retreat neatly. In reality, these troops, who had just switched from tribal to slavery, heard the order to retreat and began to scramble to escape, at first they were more reserved, only losing their shields, and then they found that someone was running faster than themselves, and began to throw spears and weapons.
As soon as such a smart person appeared, he immediately reminded everyone: "Right! What do I care if the whole army is armed or not? As long as I can run faster than last place. ”
Such a scene reminded Lu An of the idiom of throwing away the armor, when I was a child, I never understood why I threw away the armor, ran away, brought the weapon back, and continued to fight again, even the weapon was lost, wouldn't it be too bad?
Now I understand that this is a race to escape, and no one will put any burden on themselves in order to win this race.
Therefore, the troops on Lu'an's side do not maintain the formation, and the maintenance of the formation is on the premise that the opponent's troops have counterattack power, and now the opponent's weapons and armor have been lost, and they only need to copy the guys on their side.
After a 500-meter escape, the pursuing soldiers were as energetic as hunting rabbits. The fleeing party ran as hard as he could, and at the same time saw the person in front of him not hesitate to pull his shoulder. Drag the one who runs in front of you behind you.
The most annoying thing when running long distances is that the dead friend grabs his shoulders and drags himself. It was very tiring to drag him like this, of course, the dead friends would not go too far, and these soldiers of the Dragon Department were not running long distances outdoors, nor were they mutually close friends. Those with weapons will even swing their knives backwards.
The chaotic people chased the chaotic people, and through the ten-kilometer stereoscopic perspective calculated by the multiple rehearsal computers, Lu An finally understood why there were cases of anti-ambush chasing soldiers defeated in ancient times.
On the one hand, they fled in a hurry, on the other hand, they chased in a chaotic manner, until they reached the river, the soldiers of the dragon tribe rushed to get on the boat, and after getting on the boat, they hurriedly wanted to drive the boat away, there was no order at all, only forty-seven people fled in the boat, and the rest knelt in the water, hugged their heads and surrendered.
Lu An observed the scene within a range of ten kilometers through a full perspective, looking at Dong Ming who was rowing away, looking at the many prisoners kneeling on the river beach, looking at the weapons on the battlefield, the catapult that had not yet had time to be assembled, and the bamboo raft that was hooked by Changge and could not escape.
Lu An said with self-certainty: "The Locust Tree Tribe has won. Well, it's a war. Although many of them are emotional, they complain that this is a primitive village fight. But the emotional state of these complaints does not deny that those serious emotional states characterize this event.
Packing up the remnants of the battlefield and numbering the captives, Luan turned them into slaves with a wave of his hand. Yes, Lu An did not engage in any ideological education, because his social consciousness was not so high. The idea of sequencing in the tribal system still lingers in society.
If it were admitted that the defeated people were equal in personal freedom with the victorious people, most of the people in the entire Huaishu tribe would be very angry now. Those who fight to the death will be angry, because it doesn't make sense whether it's in order of first come, first served, or in order of contribution to the tribe. This will only disappear if primitive society completely disappears, and there are no more slaves to capture. The economic foundations of the slave trade could no longer be sustained. Slavery is the end.
Slavery in China disappeared very quickly, almost with the demise of the Shang, the slavery system of large-scale bloody sacrifices disappeared. In fact, King Wu's war was a slave rebellion. The Shang Dynasty was a warlike state, demanding a large number of slaves from the surrounding tribes every year for sacrifice, but they did not have the same convenient transportation as the Mediterranean, and when they suppressed the east, the west had a chance to swell.
Next came the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty. Although there were slaves, they were not economically dependent on slaves as they were in the Roman Empire. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the economy relied on yeoman farmers. Slavery naturally had no market.
Therefore, if we want slavery to disappear, we must not rely on kindness, nor can we let the ruling class curb itself, but let the backward tribes disappear first, and then let the people in the advanced system completely forget the old ideas and concepts of the past.
Let slavery have no need to exist in terms of interests. Everyone will not be entangled in the question of why people who should be slaves are qualified to be side by side with themselves, and when the time comes, everyone will be entangled in the question of how to get more farmland land deeds.
The defeated must be slaves, but Luan did not intend to let individuals own slaves. All of them were planted in the public fields. If an individual owns a slave, then everyone will compare themselves in this regard. Originally, Lu An didn't want the people here to compare in this regard, and if he wanted to compare, he should compare how much land he had and how many cattle he had. In the process of comparing cattle and land, slaves who ignore nothing become commoners with personal freedom.
This society is very backward, ideologically backward. This backwardness cannot be changed overnight. Lu Ann quickly got a taste of the social system that made his eggs hurt.
After the war, when Lu An was granting farmland to everyone, the soldiers below looked like they didn't care, and if they were farmers during the Han Dynasty, they would be very excited to hear this kind of land granting. Lu An was depressed and said a little helplessly: "Damn the primitive tribe's seniority theory, these people's thinking has not progressed to the farming era. Their minds are still stuck in front of the fire, giving preference to the best meat, which is the qualification system of warriors. ”
Such a force, even if it holds steel weapons and armor and can fight bravely, win an agrarian civilization and conquer the agrarian civilization, in the end, it is estimated that it can only be the kind of system that the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. The hardcore crops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were the product of the primitive tribes' idea of seniority, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs in Chinese history, it took the entire Manchu people one or two hundred years to develop the concept of agricultural economy. The economic focus shifted from the tribal ranking system to the land deeds of farmland.
However, the depression was soon canceled by vigilance. Because a flying machine floated down on the giant shaft, after taking pictures of the battlefield, some birds flew down, collected the flesh and blood of the war dead, and flew into the sky.
Luan looked up at the sky. After listening to the rehearsal and constantly checking the calculations, suddenly Lu An found a sentence in the internal electronic voice of the aircraft above during a rehearsal. "It has been determined that the Yan 4983 area has national characteristics."
This electronic voice was very weak, and when the aircraft one hundred and twenty meters away from the ground of the drum flew in the wind, the loud wind sound covered up the electronic sound, but in a certain rehearsal, Lu An flew to this altitude and pressed his ear to the shell to hear the sentence exactly.