Chapter 117: The Explorer (Part II)
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Ling Chen looked at the stray arrows flying in the sky, he frowned, it was sudden, and he didn't have much time to prepare.
However, the stray arrows shot by these cavalry horn bows, he knew that although the power was not small, after the projectile, the direct lethality was not high, as long as he protected his eyes and vital points, even if he hit dozens of arrows, there would be no problem.
But these steppe tribes are very insidious, these arrows are smeared with horse dung, and other filth, after the arrow, they do not die at that time, and within a few days afterwards, they will be infected with inflammation, causing a high fever, which is fatal in ancient times.
But these people under him are not simple soldiers, but they have been carefully modulated by him, and they are proficient in all kinds of cold weapon combat.
But they are different, people who are facing the door panel on the perimeter can easily find the maximum area of the shield, and protect many people together.
The person who lacked the protection of the door panel in the middle, without Ling Chen's direct order, also calculated the trajectory of the stray arrow that endangered him in an instant, and blocked it lightly with the wooden stick in his hand.
By taking care of the air defense of a small area around them, everyone can guarantee that they and others will not be harmed.
The cavalry who were wandering around and firing arrows dozens of meters away were dumbfounded, it was the first time they had seen soldiers in groups, who could rely on their weapons to divert arrows and avoid damage.
A few Han generals who have been trained since childhood and have high combat skills are able to do this, relying on their swords to shoot down flying arrows, but they are very few.
It's incredible that a group of thousands of people can do this at the same time.
Many people slowly stopped the horn bow in their hands without an order, and it was not advisable to waste arrows in vain, not to mention that each cavalryman did not carry a lot of arrows, only a few dozen.
Many of the wandering cavalry looked at the commander of the thousand cavalry.
Xiongji, this thin and withered man, can be in the position of the commander of a thousand horsemen in the steppe tribe of the Xiongnu, which advocates personal force and strong men have more advantages, and he does not rely on personal bravery, but is as cunning as the mind of the wolf king.
He looked at the equipment of his more than a thousand cavalry, which used spears and straight swords in addition to horned bows, and hedged against these well-arranged infantry, although they could gain an advantage at first, they would soon be blocked, and the casualties would be huge. Therefore, the best tactics of their Huns is to rely on the archery skills they have practiced since childhood, and kill and injure the enemy from a distance, so as to kill a large number of enemies with fewer casualties.
In the battle with the southerners, this hand is frequently effective, even if the southerners infantry bows and crossbows are stronger, they gradually find a way to deal with it, that is, they continue to guerrilla, consuming the opponent's arrows, after all, they are very scattered in guerrilla, compared with the foot soldiers in the formation, although the shooting rate is more accurate while standing, but one is a scattered guerrilla, the other is a dense formation, they don't even need to aim carefully, they can hit the opponent by stray arrows. Often, the opponent has to consume several times as many arrows in order to kill and injure one of their cavalry, so that no amount of reserves is enough.
And now it is useless, these group soldiers, they can rely on their eyesight and skill, with the weapons in their hands to resist the attack of stray arrows, obviously this is far beyond his imagination.
However, they were not regular troops after all, and the cunning man of the male beard soon showed the shortcomings of the other party.
"Go, call more men, prepare torches and firewood, burn them" He quickly found an effective way, this hand is certainly not good against the regular army, the other side has bows and crossbows, there are also cavalry, can drive them away, but also shoot those who throw torches, because if you want to throw heavy torches, you must be very close, at least within twenty meters.
If it is on the grassland, he will not dare to do this, it will anger Changshengtian, the grassland is afraid of fire, especially when the grass is dry in autumn, after the fire, there is no grass, and they will permanently lose a piece of grassland, so in dealing with the southerners who entered the grassland, almost no Huns have been seen using fire.
But this is the territory of the southerners, so he doesn't worry about anything.
Ling Chen had already heard the shouts of these Huns from afar, combined with the background of Ling Qi's two entrances, as well as the outfits and weapons of the group of cavalry in front of him, he had already concluded that this battle, "the battle between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization", was based on the Han-Hun battle.
In fact, the Han Dynasty has not established an absolute advantage over the Xiongnu, due to the characteristics of nomadic migration, coupled with the high consistency of the Xiongnu way of life and military warfare, so that even if they are hit fatally for a while, they can quickly recover, and in a generation or two, they can become a huge threat to the Han Dynasty again. Throughout the history of the Han-Hun confrontation, no matter how the descendants whitewashed, the Han Dynasty was able to resist the invasion of the Xiongnu, but it was unable to eliminate the Xiongnu, until the Xiongnu and other political forces had civil strife, so that they could maintain peace by supporting the subjugated Southern Xiongnu, but even so, the later Southern Xiongnu also took advantage of the civil strife of the Jin Dynasty after the Han Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, rebelled again, and destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, and the north entered the era of Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms.
Western civilization, after the technological revolution, completely solved the threat of nomads and spread the cannons and muskets of capital all over the world, slaughtering the barbarians in their eyes. However, the oriental agricultural civilization has been entangled with the nomadic civilization until the Ming Dynasty, again because of civil strife, was successfully invaded by the barbarian peoples of the northeast nomadic fishing and hunting, and completely lost the historical opportunity to go hand in hand with the world civilization. You must know that the Ming Dynasty or other Han regimes were not afraid to introduce Western technology and culture, and many translated Western natural science works can prove this, a geometric original, the Ming Dynasty has already translated the first half, but it was not until three hundred years after the Qing Dynasty that the other half was translated.
Combined with these histories, it is not difficult for Ling Chen to analyze that the camp task of this battle is to find a way for the Eastern civilization to completely eliminate these barbarians, rather than relying on passive integration and acceptance, which will certainly bring about the expansion of the territory, but for a long time, due to the conflict between the civilizations of the two sides, the level of civilization will be reduced to a very low level. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Western cannons and muskets had been introduced, and many seafarers who went to sea had long recognized that Western ships were strong and artillery, and still had ways to fight and even gain advantages, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty, many people were still afraid of Western muskets and artillery.
Now these clamoring barbarians are the enemies of civilization, they are the opponents who block the progress of agricultural civilization, and once the agricultural civilization has civil strife due to its own cycle, it will be taken advantage of. If the peasants revolt in the agrarian civilization, the process of self-adjustment will be disrupted.