In front of us was just a battle between thousands of natives and hundreds of Wei cavalry, and they knew that the Great Wei was fighting hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry in the north, as well as more than ten or twenty-six thousand Donglu cavalry.

The hundreds of cavalry in front of them all have such power. If there were thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands, or tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of cavalry charges together, how powerful would it be? What a terrible scene?

The Great Wei, with the threat of hundreds of thousands of cavalry from the north, has been fighting with the northern nomadic peoples for hundreds of decades. How hard is this? How many blood and tears are filled with tragic songs?

At this time, Luo Fangxiao and others understood vaguely why the national strength of the Great Wei is getting weaker and weaker... Although the people of Tianfang are also declining, their national strength has surpassed the Great Wei?

There are no strong enemies around the Tianfang people. Which tribe or country has ever been stronger in Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia?

Which tribe or country has created a brilliant civilization?

Or which tribe and country are grassland peoples with hundreds of thousands or even millions of herdsmen who are good at riding and shooting?

To the west of the Tianfang people are dozens of scattered European countries. Over the years, through the Renaissance, they have broken the shackles and constraints of religion, colonized overseas, and industrial and commercial trade has gradually developed, especially the emergence of firearms, and professional soldiers have begun to appear. The knight class has turned into a hereditary professional officer family. European countries have begun to impose maritime forces and can compete with Tianfang.

Under this premise, the people of Tianfang were gradually frustrated on land and threatened on the sea. In the end, large-scale Tianfang pirates appeared, lying across the east and west sides, controlling many sea areas such as Mantaga. They mastered silk trade routes on land, and in the sea, in the newly emerging sea colonial and trade tides, they also wanted to continue to master the waterways, control and restrain emerging forces.

Before this, Luo Fangxiao and others always believed that the Great Wei was big but unreasonable, with a huge territory and hundreds of millions of people, but the navy was getting weaker and weaker, and could only sit still and watch the people of Tianfang develop in Southeast Asia and be at a loss.

Now Luo Fangxiao understood vaguely that the biggest difference between the Great Wei and the Tianfang people and the Europeans is that the north, northeast and northwest of the Great Wei are all covered with barbarians. These nomadic and fishing and hunting people are barbaric, just like wild wolves outside people's houses. It is easy to deal with when there are only one or two wild wolves. If there are hundreds or thousands of wild wolves outside the village, or even more, the village will not do anything else and can only fight with wild wolves all the time.

China is less than a thousand years old, and the curve of the entire civilization is almost related to the strong neighbors in the north.

In the pre-Qin period, there were various barbarians who went south. In the Han period, the powerful Huns, the Turks in the Tang period, and the Khitans, Mongolians, and Jurchens, one after another, one after another.

Although the nomadic peoples also declined in the end, such as Mongolia later, China also exhausted its financial resources and energy during the two thousand years of war against the barbarians, and the development of the entire civilization was bound and influenced.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued a crime and the national policy of conservatism and retreat became the mainstream. Because the wealth was used to make half of the household registration in the world, this was the price of Han Wu's attack on the Huns.

In the Song Dynasty, the literati would rather hand over the captured territory to the barbarians than spend money, grain and troops from the Central Plains to garrison. In their opinion, it would be useless to get it, but instead consumed local financial resources and would not be worth the loss.

If the person is strong enough, this view is actually correct, but the external conditions of the Song people were too poor. The Khitan, Dangxiang, and Jurchens rose respectively, and it was the time when the barbarians were prospering. If the Song people could be enlightened, devote themselves to external affairs, and still have the potential to help the Central Plains financial resources, and retreat and conservatively, and the prosper of Neo-Confucianism, the demise of this dynasty would be almost inevitable.

As for the Great Wei Dynasty, it tried its best to open the sea to develop industry and commerce, and the taxes on the domestic market were heavy. Fortunately, it also withstood the pressure of barbarians from the north, east and west, and maintained a successful defensive policy for the past three hundred years. If not, how could the Nanyang Navy decline to such a decline?

The north has not yet calmed down, so I really dare not say that it will open the sea unless it is relaxed and centralized, but it is different from the path China has always taken, so it is impossible.

Luo Fangxiao said in a deep voice: "I only realized today that the real battlefield is like this. If you return to Lan Fang, you should report to the prince of the country truthfully."

The rest of the people also felt deeply and nodded.

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The corpses were everywhere in the collision. Mona was kicked into the chest by the front hoof of a war horse. When he heard a crisp sound, he flew up, and then he didn't know the situation.

After a while, Mona woke up. At this time, he found himself lying in the pile of corpses, with moans and dying sounds everywhere. The strong smell of blood rushes into Mona and he wants to vomit. He felt a stinging pain in his chest, knowing that several of his ribs might have been broken. In the past, this level of damage would not have caused Mona to feel anything great. He was the most brave tribal warrior. He was once knocked over by a wild boar and broke several ribs. He didn't think it was anything great at that time. He held a spear and stabbed the wild boar to death on the spot, which aroused cheers and admiration from all the men of the tribe.

This time, the counterattack was initiated by the elders of more than a dozen large tribes around and dozens of small tribes. Nearly five thousand strong men gathered, and each tribe had people. There were some tribes deep in the mountains, and there were no iron spears, and the soldiers rushed over with stone spears and stone axes.

Since there were thousands of people against hundreds of people, although there were cavalry riding horses opposite, everyone was very enthusiastic at the beginning and was full of anger at the Wei people.

When they saw the cavalry charge, many people were scared to death. A man like Mona had several lives on hand, all of whom were hunted by the enemy tribes, and more prey was killed. He was accustomed to life and death, and nothing could scare him.

But when the cavalry crushed over like an iron wall, the tip was flattened, and the cavalry charged forward, Mona was already trembling, thinking that she was about to turn around and run away.

This is a fear of completely suppressing one's own strength, not anything else.

After Mona was stepped on by the iron cavalry, he lay on the ground and no longer had the idea of ​​getting up again.

Many injured people lie down carefully after hearing the sound of the military horns. It is too dangerous to get up at this time.

With some guilt and ashamed thoughts, Mona quietly half-supported her body and looked to the east.

The three Wei troops had already re-arranged the array about 350 steps away. A military horn sounded and the formation began to jog. The Wei army's rangers dispersed and stayed on the other side to shoot the panicked and fleeing natives.

After reorganizing the team, the three cavalry teams were arranged in an extremely neat manner. This time, the cavalry began to rush towards the natives on the left.

This time the rushing effect was even better, and almost no natives dared to resist in person. When the three cavalry formations charged, a large number of natives began to flee in all directions.

More than 400 cavalrymen blew the left wing like iron slaughter, leaving behind a large number of corpses, and blood hung on the green grass, which was dazzling and conspicuous.

When the cavalry gathered and were about to sprint to the right wing, the natives had collapsed.

This time, the indigenous people failed to lure the enemy, but instead burned the villages by the Wei people, many nearby villages gathered indignation to find the bad luck of the Wei people. As a result, they were washed twice by the cavalry formation. The indigenous people who had no power to fight back were injured by less than ten cavalrymen. Only a few iron cavalrymen were tripped off and seriously injured while rushing to the formation. In addition, no Wei people were caught off guard, and no one was injured.

Under such a gap, no matter how brave the natives were, they were unwilling to lose their lives in vain. When the cavalry rushed forward, the natives had no intention of resisting. When the third team was completed, only corpses and discarded various rags were left, as well as the wounded people lying on the ground.

At this time, there was another sound of trumpets, and the natives in the valley saw big flags flying towards each other.

The infantrymen of the government, wearing cotton or leather armor, or gray arrow robe, also heard the news of the war and were ordered to rush to the battlefield.

Four infantry battalions, with more than 2,000 people coming. Due to long-term rank training and golden drum and flag training, the infantry walking on the flag heads carried long scepters, either holding swords and shields, or holding bows and crossbows. The stairs and arrays of steps that were more neat than the cavalry formation.

With the sound of bronze horns and drums, along the undulating mountains, over grass and shrubs, over hills, behind them were smoke and fire, above the head was blue sky, and holding long scepters. Although most of the camps were new soldiers, at this moment, a courageous spirit emerged from the bottom of the head, until it reached the top of the head.

This is also the reason why Xu Zixian ordered the Second Army to come. One battalion of the Second Army was half of the old soldiers, and the remaining three battalions were about 30% of the old soldiers and 70% of the new soldiers.

There are two other battalions in the process of recruiting. If they go to the East Fan, they will also be incorporated into the Second Army.

By the end of the year, it is estimated that one army and six battalions will be fully organized.

If Xu Zixian's plan is not wrong, by summer and autumn next year, each army will have a cavalry battalion and a crossbow battalion, which will escort the flanks and artillery formations, and the crossbow battalion will mainly be strong crossbows and bronze cannons, strengthening the ability to strike long-range.

Even new soldiers have been trained for more than one month. Most of them are recruiting in Nan'an and Penghu, and they start queue training on the spot, including familiarity with internal affairs and military laws and regulations, and then physical training. This usually takes one month to familiarize themselves.

Then I entered the Dongfan military camp and began to train in physical fitness, queues, formations, golden drums, flags, combat skills and other subjects. Like cavalry, the army's military soldiers also have different training outlines and subjects.

Each subject is completed and there is a next one. The time for the new recruit battalion is as long as six months. Even if the six months expire, it will be a regular military soldier, but it cannot be called an old military soldier.

Only when you have been on the battlefield and seen a battle formation can these new soldiers be called old soldiers and placed in a relatively important position on the battlefield.

Ge Da's army was later in the first army and had fewer old soldiers, but the training time was more than two months. When walking through hills and shrubs, the flags were waving and the queues were not chaotic. The elite troops were at least in appearance.

Amid the neat drum beats, the infantry arrived at the battlefield two quarters of an hour later. Ge Cunzhong and deputy commander Ge Cunyi, and battalion officials Li Xingwu, Dong Ruixiang and others rode forward and saluted towards Xu Zi on the slope.

"Don't give me any gifts." Xu Zixian controlled the reins with one hand, and the war horse slowly moved forward. He said to the Ge brothers and others: "Infantry cleaned the battlefield, the dead cut the head and the dead cut the head and the seriously injured cut the head. If the slightly injured is not killed, let them go."

"Yes, we are solemn to follow the king and the lords." Ge Cunzhong agreed with a fist, and then ordered the officers to send cavalry to pass on all the orders.

The cavalry slowly ran towards the valley entrance in the distance, blocking the road that the natives were most likely to escape, and at the same time, they used bows and arrows to kill the natives on the slopes, completely driving away the scattered natives.

The infantry began to spread out the array amid the intense drumbeats, forming long horizontal formations of several miles long, and they would start to clean the battlefield.

Luo Fangxiao couldn't help but say, "Why did the Lord and the seriously injured cut their heads, but let the slightly injured go?"

"The seriously injured cannot be cured." Xu Zixian said: "Our seriously injured soldiers spent dozens or hundreds of guan, and only two or three of them were saved in ten miles. This money is worth it. I am not so generous to use this money to save the natives. Cutting the heads and building Jingguan is a shock to the natives. They only believe in this. The tribes also criticize each other and often cut off their heads... They say that other things are fake, and they can understand them.

"Then why did you let go of the minor injuries?"

"Ha." Xu Zi laughed first and said, "Fang Xiao, did you fight when you were a child?"

"This is of course a fight."

"Have you considered the consequences before the fight?"

"I didn't seem to think much about it..."

"Oh, you are the king of the aristocratic family, so you don't have to think about the consequences." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "If you are from a poor family, would you beat those kings? If you beat someone, would you want to apologize? If someone is tall and strong, would you still go to fight with them?"

Luo Fangxiao was a little confused and couldn't keep up with Xu Zixian's thoughts for a while...

"Some things can be considered in the opposite way." Xu Zixian continued: "The natives fight us, and they have to fight after a hundred years. When we commit crimes at the foot of their mountain, we always have to fight. If we fight, we know that we are taller than them and stronger than them. Do we still need to fight? From my perspective, fight, and give the natives a lesson, so that they dare not attack and make our development plan go smoothly. This is the most important purpose. This goal is not to kill people, nor to grab territory in the mountains. They are poor even without pants. Unless I am a murderer and enjoy killing people, I will not run to the mountains to clear out the natives... Not only can I suppress them, I cannot let hundreds of thousands of troops in the mountains. In this way, we can drag our strength to death. So, let those who are slightly injured go back, which is a signal... Don't be dying, it's easy to discuss something."

Luo Fangxiao was stunned, but felt vaguely that the Nan'an Hou in front of him was probably right.

The best way is to shock, be gentle, fight and talk.

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Chapter completed!