At the head of the city of Mayi, the war is becoming more and more intense;

On the side of the battlefield, excavation operations have been carried out since the day of arrival, to be precise, it is to prepare for the 'Jingguan', the often referred to as the Flying Fox Commander's Headquarters, but it seems that it has nothing to do with this war.

- It is clear that it is less than forty miles away from the battlefield;

- Obviously you can enter the battlefield at any time and enter the battle at any time;

At least you can take time to send a few light horsemen to send a few military newspapers and letters to Ma Yi to carry out the most basic information exchange and exchange.

But the Flying Fox Lieutenant did nothing.

In Mayi, Zhi Du and Cheng Buzhi couldn't help but mutter: This Flying Fox Captain, I'm afraid I don't want to play the trick of the fisherman?

But the Huns did not dare to think so at all.

Especially the current Xiongnu Right Virtuous King: Yi Zhi Zhi ······

"Flying Fox Army······"

"The fierce tiger who once made the Xianyou Xian King suffer a lot, stood on the side of the battlefield."

"In the words of the Han people, this is the ······ of 'eyeing the tiger'"

···

"Tribes, do you still have the strength to attack the city?"

Compared with Zhi Du's blunt question about the number of casualties, Yi Zhixi's question undoubtedly showed more caution.

The reason is simple.

In the Han Dynasty, soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country, or were injured or disabled due to war, and there was a complete set of bereavement procedures to ensure that 'people's hearts are not cold'.

Take the death of soldiers in battle, according to the rules established by Emperor Taizu Gao, the original text of the law is: order the soldiers to join the army and the dead are returned to their counties, and the county gives clothes and coffins and burial utensils, and the shrine is a young prison, and the chief officials are buried with a view.

Translated into the vernacular that later generations can more easily understand, that is, when a soldier dies in battle, his coffin should be sent back to the county where his household registration is located, and the county government will be responsible for funeral supplies such as mourning clothes and coffins, and provide sacrifices of the specifications of the prison, and the chief of the army should also participate in the funeral ceremony.

The so-called young prison is one sheep and one pig.

As for the chief officer, it refers to a full-time officer who is one level higher than the deceased, and the minimum is started by Qu Chang, who commands 100 people, that is, Qu Hou.

This is only the funeral and afterlife of the fallen heroes;

The subsequent pension was a wave from the court, a wave from the county government, and another wave from the county government.

If he dies in battle with meritorious service, he will become a typical example of the selection of the county and county, and will be praised by the official in various ways, and even included in the county and county records.

What about the Huns?

As for the bereavement of the fallen soldiers, the only explicitly prescribed rule of the Huns was 'get their corpses and get their wealth'.

- When a Hun died on the battlefield, whoever can retrieve the corpse will get everything that the corpse had during his lifetime.

This includes, but is not limited to, cattle, sheep, pasture, wealth, status, and even wives and concubines, children.

Obviously, the Huns' custom of snatching corpses on the battlefield is similar to the military merit of the Qin Tiger and Wolf Division.

A hundred years ago, countless Qin people and Qin slaves, in order to get an enemy head that could improve their status and even change the fate of their families, always rushed to the enemy formation without fear of death, and did everything possible to kill the enemy;

And today's Huns, there are also countless low-status herdsmen who will be unparalleled on the battlefield in order to snatch back the corpse of a comrade-in-arms with a good background.

——The corpses of the Huns who died in battle, not only the Huns want to rob, but the Han people on the opposite side will also rob them!

Therefore, in order to successfully retrieve the corpse that can complete the transformation from 'herdsman' to 'herdsman' and even 'noble', the herdsmen must first deal with those Han people who are full of 'first-class' and 'martial honors'.

As for why Yi Zhiyi didn't dare to ask Zhi Du directly, he directly asked about the casualties of the army under his command, but asked in a roundabout way, 'Is there any strength left to attack the city', since it is also because of the Huns' custom of robbing corpses, which has the same drawbacks as the Qin military meritorious lords.

If you win, you will be like a bamboo;

If you lose, you will be like birds and beasts scattering.

There is no need to even say 'defeat', as long as the war shows a decline that is not conducive to one's own side, and the Huns' loose army establishment and military ideological construction can easily lead to a large-scale rout of the army due to a small defeat and a serious disagreement with the results of the war.

As nomadic peoples, the Huns, like every predecessor in the past and every descendant in later generations, were a group that deeply despised the 'way of survival'.

When the situation developed in the direction of 'possible threat to survival', fleeing, and even surrendering, was always a choice that the Huns could make without any psychological pressure······

"I still have the strength to pull the bow, but it can't support it for a few days."

"I'm in the Aries department, I'm afraid I don't even have much strength left to pull the bow······"

After Yi Zhixie asked euphemistically, King Aries and King Lou Fu took the lead in giving their own answers.

- As a tribe known for its longbow throwing, and even with the longbow instead of birds of prey as its totemic banner, the Loufu Tribe, a 'long-range combat unit', can always ensure that casualties are within acceptable ranges.

After all, the longbow of the warriors of the Lou Fu Department is almost the 'best longbow in the entire grassland' made by the power of the grassland alone;

Although in terms of comprehensive performance, it cannot be compared with the standard bow and crossbow of the Han Dynasty, but in terms of range, it is still comparable, or even faintly better.

After all, the bow and crossbow equipment of the Han family are all mass-produced, and no matter how sophisticated the craftsmanship is, it is impossible to equip every crossbow soldier with an overly sophisticated longbow.

But the Aries Department didn't have the good fortune of the Lou Fu Department.

If the support of the Xiongnu Shan Yuting to the Lou Fu Department is to make up the most sophisticated tens of thousands of longbows in the grassland, the support of the Folding Lan Department, and the best bronze blunt weapon to loot the whole grassland, then the support for the Aries Department is the relatively short, stout, and highly mobile Xiongnu horse.

With these Hun horses that can complete emergency stops, sharp turns, and even emergency starts after an emergency stop, the Aries Department can throw off their arms on the battlefield and use their famous 'return horse shooting' to pull and dispute the Han army in the place.

But this also means that the bow used by the Aries Department for 'return shooting' is far from being as sophisticated as that of the Lou Fu Department, especially without the ultra-long range of the Lou Fu Department that is one hundred and twenty paces away.

This means that during the siege, the Aries always have to stand closer to the Mayi, or even stand between the Loufu and the Mayi city wall as a whole, so that they can shoot their arrows at the head of the Mayi city and shoot through the Mayi city wall.

As for the horses?

Hey;

In an era when nomads who had no horses and no saddles, and even those who grew up on horseback, could only hold on to their horse's mane with both hands to maintain their balance, it was probably a foolish decision to let the cavalry attack the city in a mobile state······

In addition to this, there is another point that is not easy to obscure, and it has also not escaped the observation of Ichi.

- Even if there is an ultra-long range of more than 120 steps, even if the Aries Department standing in front as a shield bears most of the firepower, the losses of the Lou Fu Department in this battle are also not small.

If it weren't for the Han people on the other side, rather than those relatively weak grassland tribes, the casualties suffered by the Lou Fu Department in this battle could even be called 'amazing'!

And under such a premise, the reason why King Lou Fu can still bite the bullet and say the sentence 'I still have the strength to hold the bow for a few days' is because after Mayi, there is a Han city.

The city······

"Loufu County ······"

"Hanlou annoying county ······"

Secretly, Yi Zhiyi leaned back in his chair a little lonely, and fell into his thoughts with a little hesitation.

Lou Fu was not originally the name of a nomadic tribe, but a country: Lou Fu Country.

In the spring and autumn period, in the north of Yanzhao, in the Zhongshan area, there is Beidi.

And Lou Fu was a branch of 'Beidi' at that time.

Zhongshan Di is also called by later historians: Bai Di.

This is because Zhongshan Beidi at that time had a whiter complexion than the people of China in the Central Plains.

Around the Spring and Autumn Period, the Beidi branch 'Lou Annoying' founded the country, saying: Lou Annoying Country;

After the three families of the Central Plains of China were divided, Lou Fu Guo took advantage of the weakness to go south, and pushed his own power and territory south to the foot of the Great Wall of Zhao, which is now the area of Han Lou Fu County.

In the following hundreds of years, Lou Fu has always been the most troublesome external threat to Zhao except for the Central Plains.

It was not until Zhao Wuling Wang Hufu rode and shot that he was able to break the building and raise the name of Zhao in the Saiwai grassland.

It's just that after attacking and destroying the Lou Fu Kingdom, King Zhao Wuling was extremely wise not to choose to destroy the country and destroy the species, but in accordance with the universal value of 'survival and intermittentness' during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he adopted the strategy of 'causing his soldiers'.

The so-called to his soldiers is to contain and reorganize the Lou Fu army and continue to use it for the Zhao State.

This made Lou Fu's original strong soldiers join the Zhao army, so that the military strength of Zhao was further strengthened.

To this day, along the Zhao, Qin, and Han dynasties, the establishment of Lou Fu Lieutenant and Lou Fu Du Lieutenant, which has been retained to a certain extent, is the result of the surrender of King Wuling of Zhao at that time.

After subduing and reorganizing the elite cavalry troops of Lou Annoying, it was impossible for King Zhao Wuling not to leave a place for the surrendered Lou Annoying.

And that habitat is located in the northern border of Zhao at that time, located in the 'Hanloufu County' within the current Great Wall of Zhao.

As for the Xiongnu Loufu Division, one of the troika of the Xiongnu Shan Yuting, it was a branch of the Huns that fled during the Loufu-Zhao war, or was unwilling to surrender after the defeat, so they fled north into the branch of the grassland.

As a result, in the past hundred years, these two branches belong to the nomadic civilization and the agrarian civilization, and each regards each other as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh.

——In the eyes of the Lou Fu people who live in Han Lou Fu County, the group of 'Lou Fu people' outside the Great Wall are traitors who turned their backs on the tribe back then!

In the eyes of the Xiongnu Lou Fu, these Lou Furen people in the Great Wall, who obviously live on animal husbandry, but call themselves 'Chinese nobles', are scum who bow down to other races and become slaves.

Due to the geographical location and the fact that there are two big men in the known world standing behind them, both sides hate to devour each other alive, but they can't put their ideas into reality.

Now, one of the troika of the Xiongnu, the Loufu Department, was brought to the foot of Ma Yi by the Xiongnu right virtuous king;

Behind Ma Yi, across the Great Wall of Zhao is only a few dozen miles, which is where Hanloufu County is located.

In such a situation, not to mention that the casualties are still within the acceptable range - even if it has already broken its muscles and bones, or even nearly half of it, I am afraid that King Lou Fu will not let go of this God-given opportunity.

A big strategic decision, King Lou may not be able to decide.

But through his own influence, pushing the battle situation in the direction of 'breaking through Hanlou Fu County' is what the King of Lou Fu must do and will do.

This is really the reason why King Lou Fu said, 'My department can still fight', but Yi Zhiyi is even more lonely······

"There is still some strength left over from the Lou Fu Department, but it is because after Ma Yi, it is the ······ of Han Lou Fu County."

"The Aries Department lost its troops and lost its generals, although it was powerful to fight again, but it was also a battle, and it would break its muscles and bones······"

"As for the ······ of the Oriran Department"

Thinking like this, Yi Zhiyi turned his head to the side slightly, looked at the side and did not say a word, obviously a little indignant King Zhelan.

——As the only melee unit in the troika, the siege of the city in the past ten days has been the main attack of the Zhilan Division.

Although there are slave cannon fodder to share the firepower, the damage of the Orilan Department has also reached a jaw-dropping level.

If this were not the case, it would not have been possible for Yi Zhiyi to order the Zhelan tribe to 'temporarily return to the camp for repair' a few days earlier, and no longer participate in the battle against Mayi.

It is not the benevolence of the wicked woman;

It is really the Zhilan Department, which has too special existential significance for the Xiongnu Shan Yuting······

"Ma Yi, it's already unbreakable."

As a prominent nomadic leader, Ichiev was at least a resolute man.

"Digging tunnels, digging corners, and even the inner response in the city have not helped us to send any soldiers to the walls of Mayi."

"If we continue to fight, the Han people will naturally suffer heavy casualties, but the warriors of my Great Huns will also break their teeth."

"—There is no point in continuing to attack Mayi."

"But before retreating, we must bite off a piece of meat on the Han people!"

Gritting his teeth, Yi Zhixi's right fist couldn't help but clench tightly, although it had not been smashed, it had already made the tent quiet.

"The plough has given the will of the gods - on this trip to the south, we must let the Han people know that the nomadic people who are blessed by the gods are absolutely untouchable!"

"Han people, you must pay the price for your arrogance and contempt for my Great Huns!"

Listening to Yi Zhixi's roar with hatred, the three people in the tent, the King of Zhelan, the King of Loufu, and the King of Aries, as well as the leaders of the other slave and servant tribes, also involuntarily stood up from the stool.

Then he saw that Yi Zhixie had a gloomy face, and looked around the people in the temple;

Then, at the corners of his lips, he slowly curled up in a cold arc······

"The Han people of Mayi are protected by strong walls and thick walls;"

"But the Flying Foxes outside the city ······"

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"Pass the order!"

"Tonight, cook sheep and slaughter cattle !!"

"When the warriors are full of food and drink, we, on the Han people, bite down on the meat!!!!!"

(End of chapter)