The Jiuhu tribe is not small. The Jiuhu tribe, with all its members as soldiers, was the only king on this grassland a hundred years ago.
How long did it take for Daqian to occupy the southern part of the grassland, and how many sacrifices were made?
The Ministry of War has detailed statistics. In one hundred years and five generations, more than 700,000 soldiers were lost. There was no room for relaxation between the two sides.
When Daqian's soldiers saw that no one was left alive in the farm that had been plundered by Hu's cavalry, when Jiuhu's young men saw that the tents that had been breached by Daqian's cavalry burned to ashes.
When he saw dozens of corpses of his own race lying in front of him, he had no other special emotion except revenge.
When the swords and guns in his hands are stained with the blood of revenge, and the warrior's heart is numbed by grief, there will no longer be any feelings of pity or sadness in his heart.
Only indifference is eternal. This kind of indifference that makes people unable to distinguish between good and bad seems to be a kind of self-protection. If you maintain this kind of indifference, you can bravely face the life and death of others.
He will not mourn the departure of his comrades, nor will he suffer the nightmare of killing the enemy.
Under the rule of indifference, the cries of women and children cannot move the kindness that is blinded by hatred, because kindness will only be reserved for people of the same bloodline.
There is never pleasure in killing, there is only the inner conscience's reproach for ending one's life. The only way to offset this negative emotion is to establish lofty ideals.
The consciousness of the group will subtly affect everyone's thoughts, and although the direction of the group depends on the individual, there are only two fundamentals: strengthening itself and eliminating threats.
To Da Gan, Jiu Hu is a threat, and to Jiu Hu, Da Gan is an enemy.
So when Duke Lvov crossed the Langyan Mountain and met the Jiuhu who was forced to migrate to the grassland highlands, there was no imagined hostility for living space.
The large iron armor, the giant shield with ornate decorations, the sharp daggers, and the neatly marching army, all of them are too much like the Daqian in the south.
Duke Lvov took the loser's compensation for his failed bid for the throne - the title granted to him by the Kingdom of Rus and the 50,000 troops to which the title belonged, and crossed the Langyan Mountain, hoping to have a vast land for him to build a new kingdom.
The twenty-six-year-old Duke Lvov was in his prime. The benefits of being a royal family allowed him to have more food than others, so he developed a strong body.
When the tortoise touches the mung beans, the more he looks at them, the more pleasing they become.
The weak Jiuhu needs a chance to breathe, and Duke Lviv, whose population is less than one million, needs an ally.
The elders of the Jiuhu tribe were willing to carve out grasslands along the desert and give the ambitious Duke a land passage south. In exchange, Duke Lviv's army would fight with them against the cunning Dagan people.
When Dagan, the Protector-General with an army of 200,000, boldly issued a declaration of war for a decisive battle.
The Jiuhu people finally no longer have to worry about how to avoid being divided and surrounded by the cunning Daqian army to defeat the larger number and the smaller number.
The men on the grassland believe in fair and honest competition of hard power, but they seem to have forgotten the robberies that plague the hinterland of Daqian every late autumn.
No one in the world can flaunt their own justice. Justice is just a cloak for fighting.
The Jiuhu people and the Rus people each get what they need, and their friendship becomes more and more stable because of their interests.
The imaginary Daqian is rich in products, with grain, gold and silver everywhere, and crops are constantly being produced. Greedy desires have become the driving force for the integration of the armies of both sides.
A cavalry regiment composed of 50,000 armored heavy infantry and 600,000 Hu men made Li Sizhe's letter of challenge an example of ridicule by the Jiu Hu and the Russians for not overestimating one's capabilities. It spread throughout the grassland highlands in just a few days. .
The murderous aura that permeated the middle of the grassland caused the pikas and rabbits in the grassland to hide in their nests and tremble.
Li Sizhe listened to the reports from his scouts every half an hour.
When the Jiuhu and the Russians came down from the high ground, Li Sizhe did not choose to attack.
When the Jiuhu and the Rus people set up camp, Li Sizhe did not choose to attack.
By the time the last barbarian group arrived, it was just the day before the decisive battle.
Li Sizhe will choose to attack tomorrow. There will be no temptation and the entire army will press forward.
As the scouts gave more and more detailed reports, Li Sizhe had figured out his opponent.
He also made careful arrangements based on the enemy. Whatever the outcome tomorrow, Li Sizhe would not be sure of winning, nor would he be desperate of losing.
In order to increase the chance of winning, he, Li Sizhe, has pushed his handsome flag to the hundredth step of the battle formation.
On September 25th, we will have a good war and a great victory!
Li Sizhe wrote a line of words on a piece of rice paper with flying colors, laughed and held up his sword.
Li Sizhe's laughter was soon replaced by fierce drum beats.
It took the baggage team four days to transport 20% more meat, arrows, and wound medicine than Li Sizhe requested...
For this reason, the baggage team lost 30% of its carriages, lost thousands of baggage soldiers, and beheaded more than a hundred uncooperative merchants.
All the sacrifices and the blood-stained Hengdao are just to win in one battle.
At the beginning of the morning, the comrades in the tent put on each other's armor and checked their weapons and equipment. After everything was OK, there was no blessing, no heroic words, only the determination to sacrifice one's life for righteousness and to be a benevolent person.
Regardless of the generals who received special treatment in the past or the proud military elites, everyone seemed to be back at Zhe Chong Mansion, lining up and receiving the same amount of meat.
After half an hour to eat and a short rest, the nervous supervising team withdrew from the outermost layer of the camp.
Troops of troops, in regiments of 200, filed in from various entrances to the camp.
The 200,000-strong army was divided into ten neat large square formations, and the large square formations were divided into smaller formations.
The left and right front troops at the front and the left and right rear troops at the back totaled 2,600 people, divided into fifty-two teams of fifty people each, including one hundred heavy infantry including pikemen, crossbowmen, and crossbowmen. There were 250 swordsmen, 300 light infantry as longbowmen, 100 armored cavalry as battle cavalry, 200 heavy cavalry as trap cavalry, 200 light cavalry as rangers, There are 750 orderlies.
The left and right Yuhou commanded an army of 2,800 people, including 800 heavy infantry including spearmen, 300 crossbowmen and swordsmen, and 300 light infantry and longbowmen. There are 100 armored cavalry as battle cavalry, 200 heavy cavalry as trap cavalry, 200 light cavalry as rangers, and 900 orderlies.
The most important central army has 4,000 men under the command of the general, 1,000 heavy infantry including pikemen, 400 crossbowmen and swordsmen, and 400 light infantry, including longbowmen. There were 200 armored cavalry, 400 heavy cavalry as trap cavalry, 400 light cavalry as rangers, and 1,200 orderlies.
Among the ten square formations, the 30,000-strong reinforced square formation in the front and center, the general in the formation is Li Sizhe. There is a square formation on the left and right of it. Behind these three square formations are three similarly arranged square formations. There are three hundred steps between the two military formations.
Each square formation is spaced five miles to the left and right, which is exactly the front of Daqian's standard military formation. The staggered arrangement allows the three square formations at the front and the three following square formations to have space for alternating operations.
A single military formation has a front spread of five miles and a depth of 200 steps, while an army of 200,000 people is spread out on the grassland, with a front spread of 25 miles and a depth of four miles. The remaining three square formations guard both sides of the train. and rear.
These people who were temporarily recruited by the baggage team were not considered soldiers, but they also wore leather armor, picked up horizontal knives, and received some inferior crossbows from the army lieutenant general. These inferior crossbows were also standard bows. The crossbow is just a bit old and lacks bow power.
The baggage team went to the battlefield with baggage wagons, loaded with arrows, small pieces of vegetarian meat jerky, and a pound of small water bags filled with sugar and salt.
When Daqian's army formed a formation, the Jiuhu people imitated Daqian's army and divided their cavalry into 120 teams. Each team of 5,000 cavalrymen formed a square formation and were scattered around the Rus' infantry army formation that spanned ten miles.
Duke Lvov rode a snow-white war horse and ran back and forth from the front of the battle formation to boost morale.
The battle of a large army is different from the battle of a small group of individual soldiers. A small battle requires bravery, and a big battle requires military formation.
Defend first and then attack. Only when the military formation is complete can the full combat power be exerted.
In fact, the reason is very simple. What the army wants to maintain on the battlefield is an orderly killing. Only the cooperation of the array and colleagues can bring out the strength of each person.
Another key factor is that large army battles often take a whole day, and the soldiers will be separated in a mess. Only a moment of partial bravery cannot determine the outcome. The loser is often the first to collapse.
This is also the reason why the Dagan, Jiuhu, and Ross armies on the grassland all abide by the unspoken rules of the battlefield.
While Duke Lvov was urging his troops to deploy into formation, he was observing the terrifying Daqian army in the mouths of the Nine Barbarians. There were many flags, and each square formation had seven movable wooden general platforms, one large, six small, and towering. The general's platform can observe every part of the military formation.
The neat sound of drums, the knife-like array, and the orderly pace of progress. One foot stepped on the grass, and the ears could not hear any sound, but the neat footsteps of ten thousand, twenty thousand, one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, but It can make the ground shake.
The military might was so powerful that one could not only see it, but also hear it.
However, Duke Lviv did not feel that he was at a disadvantage. The 600,000 string control men of his allies, the Nine Hus, gave Duke Lviv the confidence to win.
However, the chaotic Jiuhu military formation and the speed of deployment of his troops made Duke Lvov very angry. Before his own military formation had been organized, Daqian's military formation had already been deployed and was pressing towards his own side.