"Chapter 29: The Battle of Hanyang"
Great Xia, like the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China, was the main force to win the war.
As for what a samurai is, first of all, you must have your own, a full set of weapons and armor, as well as family skills in individual combat and team combat, and you must be a free citizen and have your own surname.
The surname is used in Daxia to distinguish the dividing ridge of the entire social class, you are a normal person with a surname and a name, with your own status, in layman's terms, you are a national.
Ordinary people have no surname, just like spirits, only their own names. They were not nationals, so they were only one level higher than slaves, they were serfs.
Therefore, it is conceivable what the overall combat effectiveness of the army composed of these people looks like, and their weapons are all brought by themselves. For example, when there is a new lord in your land, and you become a subject of this lord, you may be designated by the lord's people that you need a spearman in your family, and then you must build or buy a spear yourself after paying various taxes.
These days, if you don't have that lord to give equipment to your men, even if you are a samurai. Only when you have made meritorious service and killed a lot of heads, the lord is happy, and comes to reward you with a short sword or helmet, and then you have something that can be heirlooms, which is also the origin of the so-called family treasure.
Therefore, there is no doubt that a warrior must be a samurai, who can buy armor for ordinary people? Armor was very expensive in those days, and a blacksmith couldn't make a metal armor in a month. A lord with a beautiful set of metal armor is enough for him to show off everywhere.
The Wen family dispatched 1,000 people this time, and there were 600 samurai, of which 300 were priest guards sent by various princes, and they would be the people of the old Wen family in the future. This time it was Wen Jiming who personally led the team, except for the old man who was at home to watch the family, almost all the people in Wenfu participated in this expedition.
On the morning of June 29, 734 years of Great Xia, an army of 48,000 plus 10,000 servants, commanded by Wei Chen, the lord of Hedong County, and the other princes and Wen Jiming led their respective subordinate armies, and entered the territory of Hanyang from the junction of Wen's territory and Hanyang County.
The entire western part of Hanyang County is a plain area, and on the road leading to Hanyang City from the boundary of the Wenjia Territory, all the guards of the checkpoint fled when they heard the wind, and the whole army marched in a single column, advancing in order, spreading for a length of eight miles, looking from the top of the marching army, like a giant python along the main road to the direction of Hanyang City, slowly leaving.
Wen Jiming is standing on top of his magic chariot, with the samurai leader Wen Tong as the driver, the magician Aristock as the left of the car, and the great swordsman Belov as the right of the car, surrounded by his two disciples, although Wei Wu is still young, but as Wen Jiming's disciple, he still insists on participating in the war, and his father also adopts a supportive attitude, Wen Jiming has to approve.
On either side of the chariot were the six hundred warriors of the Wen family, and in front and behind were many of the sons and servants of the Wen family, many of whom were members of the clan with the ability to cast spells. The whole team surrounded Wen Jiming's chariot in the middle.
At this time, Wen Jiming was wearing an enchanted golden plate chain armor made by the famous black iron craftsman master, a friend of the black iron dwarf boss, and wore a golden-colored, spartan-style plate armor nose guard helmet with a nose guard, which was also made by the black iron master, with a pure red horsehair on the helmet, two arms with plate armor arms and handguards, a lower body with an armor skirt made of plate armor, shin armor on the calves, and plate armor boots on the feet, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.
After this set of armor was worn, it immediately caused a sensation among everyone, there was no way, one was that the appearance was too stylish, and the other was at least several grades more advanced than the armor worn by the princes, but when everyone heard about the place where it was made, and who made it, they could only look at the armor and sigh, and there was no way to buy it if they wanted to.
The only thing that made Wen Jiming a little embarrassed was that the elf Lola, who was also dressed in the same dress at this time, flew above the back of Wen Jiming's head, looking like a trumpet Wen Jiming! I don't know where she got this body from.
At noon on June 30, 734 A.
The armies of the two sides finally met twenty miles away from Hanyang City, and immediately formed a formation, and in front of the allied army was a full 60,000 troops, and the army commanded by the lord of Hanyang County, which was 12,000 more troops than the allied army.
However, the princes of the alliance did not panic, because the armor on the opposite side was completely half less than the alliance army.
Since the God of War invented the phalanx with thousands of people, the princes of Great Xia have all adopted the same formation method. At this time, on the side of the alliance army, in addition to the ranged soldiers, there were a full thirty-eight phalanxes of different sizes, and behind the ranged soldiers standing in front, they were arranged in three rows of three-figure formations, with two hundred and fifty chariots on the left and right pressing the formation.
On the Hanyang side, there was a phalanx of fifty-four thousand people, lined up in two rows, standing behind the ranged soldiers, and the two wings were also chariots, but there were only about a hundred vehicles on each side.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the two sides began to hold pre-battle prayers at the same time, and Wen Jiming rode a chariot to the front of the coalition army that was kneeling on one knee and was praying, and began to preside over the prayer. Aristock used magic amplification to make Wen Jiming's voice spread throughout the army.
"Warriors who worship the gods, the gods have heard your prayers and will bless you through me and give you the glory of the gods!"
Immediately, Wen Jiming raised the priest's scepter in his left hand and shouted in the Aode divine language.
"And God said, My glory shall be with you!"
At this moment, every soldier present seemed to feel a loud word from all sides of him at the same time, sacred, completely incomprehensible, but clearly aware of its meaning.
With the words, from the scepter of the priest Wen Jiming, a bright ball of light rose up, rose rapidly, and then suddenly the light shone, and then countless rays of light were emitted, shining on the soldiers in each battle array, and then the entire battle array emitted forty-eight thousand flashes of light, and the quasi-divine technique "Great Blessing Technique" attacked!
At this time, Aristock beside Wen Jiming was envious, jealous and hateful, and the effect of god-like magic was too fierce.
And every soldier on the alliance side is now like a chicken blood, full of endless power, and he can't wait to join the battle quickly.
Immediately afterwards, the two sides began to engage in a heads-up, that is, heads-up. The great sword master was too troublesome, so he rushed directly to the enemy's chariot alone, and cut the chariot and the people in half with a single sword, and then returned to the battle alone, and the morale of the Hanyang side plummeted!
With the sound of drums and horns, the two sides began to fight in earnest.
The crossbowmen of the alliance army, who outnumbered the opponent, directly suppressed the fire of the opposite side when firing at each other, and the son-in-law of the lord of Hanyang County had no choice but to order the whole army to attack.
But when the chariots of Hanyang County were halfway through, they were stopped by the chariots of the Alliance, and the Allied Army quickly defeated the chariot troops of the Hanyang Army with a two-to-one advantage, and then drove to both sides to wait for the opportunity.
Soon, after losing thousands of people under the bows and crossbows of the Alliance Army, the Hanyang Army finally rushed to the front of the Alliance Army, and the advantage in melee numbers could finally be unfolded!