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Song Qi didn't expect that because of his previous life experience in Donghu, there would be such an impact, or rather, he himself did not expect that his actions would inadvertently create the first foreigner to truly serve the Great Qin Empire for the Great Qin Empire. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Angel, originally a herder from an ordinary Donghu herding family, became a rising star in the intermittent war between the Xiongnu and Donghu between 207 BC and 201 BC.

On May 13, 200 BCE, Zabeh died of illness in a camp of the Donghu people in the middle reaches of the Liao River, and instead of appointing his surviving young son to succeed the king of Donghu, he appointed Angel as king of Donghu.

In the first Qin-Hun all-out war after June 200 BC, Angel did not lead his army to directly participate in the large-scale battle between Qin and Huns, but led the remnants of the Donghu tribe to launch a harassment offensive against the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang's troops, which had not yet recovered, forcing the Xiongnu Zuoxian King to change his battle plan for the Great Wall front in the east of the Great Qin Empire.

King Zuoxian, the Xiongnu, who had dispatched a considerable number of troops and horses to the north, was unable to maintain his superiority in the forces on the front around Liaoning County. After a period of tug-of-war between the two sides along the Great Wall, the Xiongnu suffered considerable losses in troops, and finally had to suspend the offensive along the Great Wall, providing an opportunity for Sujiao, Xujian and Huan Suo, the three Great Qin Empire commanders who were not easy during this period of time, to recuperate.

For the Huns, their inability to break through the battle line in the Great Wall area was not the most fatal place, and the most fatal place was that King Zuo Xian of the Xiongnu ignored Mao Dun's warning to him, and did not carry out the final blow to the remnants of Donghu before the battle began.

The strength of the Donghu people at this time was certainly quite weak, but there was no doubt that as long as they were not facing a huge force that really made Angel unable to parry, they were only facing the Huns' partial division to resist the harassment he launched. Ingres wasn't worried about serious problems.

In mid-September 200 B.C., Angel successfully used decoy tactics in the plains around Siping in later generations, and successfully surrounded and annihilated the main force of the Huns with a new type of knightly force of the Qin army, 10,000 knights led by Su Luan.

In this battle, it can be said that it is the first battle of Zhang Jiashi's new assault knight. Because of the war until now, Zhang Jiashi has not mobilized the other five teams with the same equipment. However, the knight troops, who were not equal in number, joined the battle.

The view that good steel is used on the blade has always been deeply believed by Zhang Jiashi.

After this battle, Angel and Su Ling, who had taken a short break, concentrated the forces between the two sides and went south along the Liao River again.

On September 24, 200 BC, only a small number of scouts were in charge of monitoring the Huns, while Angel and Su Lin were waiting for the best opportunity to attack, after knowing that the Huns' Zuo Xian did not care too much about the situation in the rear. A direct plan for a raid was developed.

It was because of this raid battle plan that Su Ling and Angel successfully brought decisive results to the Eastern Front battlefield of the first all-out decisive battle between the Great Qin Empire and the Huns.

In this raid, the main force of the Xiongnu basically fought fierce battles with the troops of Liaoning County and Shang County on the Great Wall, while the Xiongnu Zuoxian King stayed behind in the big camp. It did not succeed in blocking the coalition forces of the Eastern Hu and Great Qin Empires.

The Huns' camp was not built in a single group, but the scattered battalions made their defenses even weaker. And in this raid, the losses of the Huns were even heavier. A large number of cattle and the old and weak left in the camp by the Huns were killed in large numbers, and when the Huns Zuoxian King led the army back again, in addition to the large camp in a mess, there were also coalition troops gathered together again.

It can be said that the old and new hatreds are added together between the two sides. Angel didn't want his subordinates to fight the Huns, but first, he thought that this place was not an area effectively controlled by the Huns, and second, the fierce battle in this place was an opportunity to directly inflict heavy damage on the Huns. Because this place is relatively close to the Great Wall, it does not take too long for the Qin army's mobile combat forces near the Great Wall to reach this place.

As long as their coalition forces can contain the Huns until the arrival of the main force of the Qin army, that also shows this place. It will become another sad place for the Huns.

As the so-called wealth and danger are sought, Angel took the lead in launching an attack on the Huns after weighing the gains and losses, and Su Luan, who was arrayed in the other direction, muttered helplessly: "How is this different from what I thought?"

However, let Su Lan stand by and watch, Su Lan couldn't do it.

Therefore, before the Donghu riders and the Hun riders came into contact and fought together, Su Lan also ordered his knights to launch an offensive against the enemy.

After Su Jiao learned of this situation, he knew that the opportunity could not be lost, so he ordered a mobile combat unit to be on standby at any time for several miles south of the Great Wall, under the leadership of Meng Xing, the fierce general of the Qin army, to directly kill the area where the smoke of gunpowder rose.

And the victory or defeat of this battle was naturally that the Huns once again paid a heavy price and were defeated back to the area from which they started.

After that, Donghu, which received a lot of support from the Great Qin Empire, became a force that could seriously threaten the right wing of the Xiongnu on the flank, but because Ingres saw clearly that the Great Qin Empire, whose strength was gradually recovering, was not an existence that the Donghu people could confront him, so after the second Qin-Hun full-scale war, Ingres made up his mind and decided to let Donghu defect to the Great Qin Empire.

For the surrender of this enemy, who was once a great trouble, it can be said that it is quite inspiring to the hearts of the Great Qin Empire.

However, due to some considerations, Zhang Jiashi did not agree to this request, but chose another way to secretly weaken the power of the Donghu people.

That is, Zhang Jiashi decided to recruit the riders of the Donghu people as a mercenary force.

Mercenaries have a long history, from barbarians in the Roman army to European prisoners exiled to Africa during the post-colonial period.

In the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located, mercenaries have the following definitions:

Mercenaries are a special class of soldiers, people who participate in an armed conflict for profit. The mercenary fights only for a monetary reward, and he can be hired by anyone as long as the other party bids high enough. Mercenaries do not go to war for political beliefs, patriotism, or moral principles.

The most widely accepted definition of a mercenary is provided in the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, which provide:

Article 47 Regulations on foreign mercenaries:

Foreign mercenaries shall not enjoy the right to be combatants or prisoners of war.

A mercenary is any person who:

(i) Specially recruited locally or abroad for the purpose of fighting in armed conflicts;

(ii) de facto direct participation in hostilities;

(iii) Participation in hostilities is motivated primarily by the desire for self-gain and, in fact, a party to the conflict promises material compensation that is much greater than that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and duty in the armed forces of that side;

(iv) is neither a national nor a resident of a territory controlled by one of the parties to the conflict;

(v) members of the armed forces who are not a party to the conflict;

Persons who are not sent by a State not party to the conflict to perform official duties as members of their armed forces.

In the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located. The sources of mercenaries are very diverse, and mercenaries are generally recruited, and veterans are generally selected for special forces. Mercenaries are not necessarily all in the army, pilots and marines are also sought-after goods among mercenaries. The salary of mercenaries can be divided into different grades according to the degree of danger of the mission, different types of troops, and different sources. Recruits include civilians, ex-military personnel, outlaws, etc. You can join if you pass the assessment.

The more regular mercenary units in the world, such as the French Foreign Legion, no matter where you come from or what you have done, as long as you sign up and pass the examination, you can join. After joining, they will be assigned to each foreign regiment unit according to its set of training methods.

Mercenaries in the United States are generally not organized through the government, but through various bodyguard companies, and are generally run by some backstage figures, such as former US military officers. Bodyguard companies in the United States generally recruit personnel in a targeted manner, and the quality of personnel is relatively high. Generally, to cooperate with the tasks of the US military in a certain area, if there is something inconvenient for the US military or the US government to come forward, the bodyguard company will do it. This is a lower risk. Once you fail, you can deny it in one bite. Some of the mercenaries in Afghanistan and Chechnya fought for money, and some were extremist religious believers, not for money, but for faith. These people are relatively weak in combat capability and generally have to be trained.

Mercenaries can provide intelligence, engineering and logistical support for foreign military operations. In the operation of the US army in Bosnia, mercenaries played an "active role", helping not only to train local soldiers. Logistical support has also been provided to troops at the battalion and even brigade levels. In Iraq, the United States has made extensive use of mercenaries in security and logistics, accounting for about 15 percent of the total number of foreign soldiers stationed in Iraq. As far as the United States is concerned, the use of mercenaries with higher quality and stronger combat effectiveness can not only overcome the problem of insufficient soldiers, but also avoid widespread criticism for the excessive casualties of the regular army. It can also easily solve the aftermath of the casualties, which is really a lot of win.

Secondly, act as a "vanguard" for the country to achieve its military goals. In some areas of tension, the military can use mercenaries to circumvent congressional, governmental, and media surveillance for its own military purposes, both to keep the country from violating the law and to provide military support to another country in a war zone.

At last. Become an "instrument of war" in unstable regions. Because mercenaries are highly effective and not too expensive, mercenaries are very popular as temporary "tools of war".

Zhang Jiashi's use of the Donghu people as mercenaries was actually a decision made after considering many aspects.

Strictly speaking, the combat effectiveness of the Donghu people is stronger than that of the Qin army knights with relatively old equipment. However, its synergy is relatively weak.

In this respect, Zhang Jiashi did not value the combat effectiveness of the Donghu people, but the contribution of the Donghu people as mercenaries, which was far less than the corresponding expenditure of the domestic troops.

After all, what Zhang Jiashi paid was still a relatively low amount of "life money", and as for how much of these expenses would fall into the hands of those who should get this "life money", this is not something that Zhang Jiashi can control.

That is to say, while the Donghu people get a sum of money to buy their lives, the corresponding basis of their personnel will be subject to a kind of "attention" of the Great Qin Empire, which is full of malice.

Ingres thought that there seemed to be something wrong with this arrangement, but after taking into account some aspects of the situation, Ingres finally agreed to Zhang Jiashi's suggestion.

And Angel also became the first commander of the Donghu cavalry unit in the Great Qin Empire.

In the Battle of Longting, although the mercenaries under Angel's command did not directly participate in the bloody battle to attack Longting, under the hint of Zhang Jiashi, this group of mercenaries wiped out some of the Xiongnu tribes on the periphery of Longting.

These Donghu mercenaries and the Huns basically have a blood feud, and their cleanup of these tribes is basically to make none of the herdsmen of these tribes survive.

Zhang Jiashi certainly didn't want to see this kind of result, but there is no doubt that this kind of practice has nothing to do with the Great Qin Empire, and it is completely the spontaneous behavior of these mercenaries.

Of course, what Zhang Jiashi needed was not a Xiongnu who was too weak, or he didn't quite want Donghu to rise again with such an opportunity.

This was clearly not in the interests of the Great Qin Empire. Therefore, in the next few battles, in addition to giving these mercenaries a lot of additional rewards, Zhang Jiashi also used a lot of money in exchange for some of the booty obtained by the Donghu people.

In this way, although the Great Qin Empire spent a lot of extra money, but for many purposes, Zhang Jiashi thought that such a payment was very worthwhile.

There is no doubt that this kind of war method of the Great Qin Empire has indeed weakened the strength of many potential enemies in a sense, and for the hostile strength, some of the mercenaries' actions have indeed made the Great Qin Empire gain a lot of additional gains.

Perhaps, for this kind of gain, although the Great Qin Empire has not been blamed, some people who know the inside story know one thing very clearly, that is, their benevolent monarch has now had to give up the concept that he originally hoped to be able to do it for the benefit of the Great Qin Empire as the most fundamental consideration.

According to some historians of later generations, after Zhang Jiashi decided to use mercenaries to fight, the Great Qin Empire repeatedly carried out massacres carried out by mercenaries, and there is a possibility that the Great Qin Empire acquiesced or even hinted at.

What is even more surprising is that the mortality rate of these mercenaries in the war is quite high, although the overall casualty is lower than that of the Qin army, but in terms of the ratio of dead personnel alone, the loss of these mercenaries may even reach 50 or even higher.

However, after these historians have published their corresponding views, they have not received much good ends.

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