Throughout the ages, war has been accompanied by plunder, and the war values of different cultures show striking similarities. People everywhere derive pleasure from war, while only loved ones bear the grief of death alone.
In the far north, Lvov, Duke of Ross, is writing a diary. In the south, Daqian has established the Anbei Protectorate, and its purpose is not just to guard the Langyan Mountains.
In the morning, Duke Lviv had just admired the fully-armed knights sitting astride their horses. These high-spirited knights had just been awarded the title by Duke Lviv.
Drawing swords and facing each other is a joy in life for these knights. When the attack begins, the fighting is fierce and inextricable. Once they enter the battle state, the brave knights all focus on taking the opponent's head.
"It is better to die with glory than achieve nothing." Duke Lvov rode on a white horse and inspected the nine knights in his hands.
The sharp-edged silver plate armor shines in the sun. The advantage of the edges is that it can increase the strength of the armor and provide better defense without increasing the total weight of the armor. This kind of edges can be used in the enemy's weapons. When slashing at the main body of the armor, it first absorbs part of the impact.
The armor's abdominal armor is much longer than the previous armor, covering half of the front chest and abdomen, and there is an armor plate at the junction of the chest and abdomen to provide defense. Because the chest armor is composed of three layers of armor, the chest part is The defense is very powerful. The helmet provides protection for the knight's head and back of the neck. The chin and neck are protected by a gullet that can be raised and lowered, making it easier to make and open the face protector. This allows the plate armor to defend against most weapons at the time.
Duke Lviv's territory has now developed into the most powerful military territory in the Kingdom of Rus, but just a few months ago he chose to withdraw his troops from the grasslands because he was only a territorial lord of the Kingdom of Rus.
On the way back, Lviv felt unwilling to give up. Reading Dagan's books, Lviv found that his territory could be stronger.
The Jiuhu people also evacuated with the Rus people, abandoning their grassland hometown. Their wealth has been exhausted. After all, the grassland is relatively barren, and its best product is horses.
Although there are also vast areas of arable land and grazing land on the grasslands, life on the grasslands is by no means aimless wandering, but moving between areas with abundant products, and has always maintained exchanges and interactions with agricultural peoples.
They needed trade exchanges and were constantly looking for opportunities to settle. They used raids to obtain goods they could not afford to buy, and to take revenge on those who attacked them.
But now they can only become vassals, forming an alliance because they are weak. Thinking about the great deeds of the Great Yuan Dynasty, they can only be heard occasionally in the songs of the Jiuhu people.
Su Ce thought a lot during this period. The barren grasslands are not suitable for the Dagan people to live in. The Dagan people obviously prefer the warmth of the plains. The large arable land in the plains is the basis for the Dagan people to survive, and the climate is changeable. After capturing the grassland, horse farms were built in areas with abundant water and grass.
The lack of cavalry in the Dagan Hundred Years' War was partly due to the extensive use of crossbows as weapons. Of course, the Dagan people could also ride horses, but the infantry team had strong firepower, making chariots and cavalry somewhat redundant.
The decisive factor for the lack of cavalry is that most of Daqian's wars were sieges, creating a war model that relied on a large amount of manpower. The development of Daqian was very different from that of neighboring countries, and infantry occupied the absolute power.
With the expansion of the territory, Taizu of Daqian had long seen that cavalry would be needed to control the territory of the empire by relying on Daqian, so he continued to push the draft to the north. From Taizu Zhao Zhen to the current emperor of Daqian, Zhao Yumin, five generations of emperors , hundreds of years, millions of skeletons of soldiers were buried just so that Daqian could have a piece of land to raise horses.
With horses, the Anxi Protectorate will be able to expand westward, and domestic material transportation will be faster.
The last time the prince personally conquered the country, it was a victory for the cavalry. If there were no cavalry, by the time Da Gan's infantry came to the rescue, Da Gan would have already lost all the land on the north bank of the Wuding River.
It can be seen from this that why Daqian has been fighting Jiuhu on the grassland for nearly a hundred years because it needs a land to raise horses. However, the Ministry of Household Affairs needs to resettle the refugees, so it turns horse raising into raising people.
Now millions of people are compressed on the north bank of Wuding River. After the last attack, no one wanted to live in fear, so the people were placed on the north and south banks of Wuding River. As for the remaining 60% of the grassland, it became a large grassland. Dry horse breeding land.
After all, the importance of cavalry is increasing day by day. Dagan's next expansion will require a large number of war horses, and Dagan's country also needs rhinoceros horses to supplement its transportation capacity.
Su Ce had always been unable to understand why he called the Secretary Supervisor Wen Xiang, but now he figured it out. Wen Xiang searched for the context of the country's development in a large number of books and provided it for the three provinces and three phases to make decisions.
Su Ce held his daughter in his arms and couldn't help but get lost in thought. It wasn't until he felt a heat in his chest and his daughter drew a map on his clothes that he woke up from his thoughts.
He handed the girl to his wife Wang Lan and asked her to change into a set of clothes for the little girl. Su Ce also changed into a set of clothes for himself. The weather is slowly getting warmer now, but it is still easy to catch a cold if the clothes get wet.
In the afternoon, Su Ce did not stay at home, but took Li Chang with him. Instead of riding horses, the two got into a carriage. Li Chang and a nurse were driving the horses in front, and Su Ce sat in the carriage. Although Su Ce was the only one sitting inside, the carriage was very crowded because there were two boxes inside.
Both boxes contained money, to be precise, they were silver ingots, each of which weighed ten taels.
Su Ce had nothing to do these days. He thought of the Lu Ben Army he had brought with him before, and the disabled Lu Ben Army who died in various accidents on the road. Su Ce could not let go.
Soldiers should die on the battlefield, that is the fate of all soldiers.
These Luben troops from Zhechong Prefecture around Chang'an City did die on the march and in various accidents. They had no meritorious service and the pension given by the Ministry of Household Affairs was too little. Su Ce handed over his errand and had nothing to do with the Luben Army. However, These subordinates who were once dead were related to him, Su Ce.
Fu Bing, who is not the backbone of the family, at the age of eighteen or nineteen, their parents, wives and children all need their care.
Su Ce did not do such a thing in a big way. Instead, he went to Chang'an City and put down the box at the two county offices of Wannian County in Chang'an. Su Ce personally came out to have tea with the two county magistrates. His purpose was not It goes without saying that Su Ce wanted to see the money in person because he hoped that the money would be put to practical use. However, as a general and noble in the army, his status was not suitable for him to contact the soldiers of the Zhe Chong Mansion. After all, he needed to avoid suspicion.
Therefore, Su Che chose to give the money to the two county governments and ask them to transfer the money to the families of those who died in the Lu Ben Army.
No one asked Su Ce to do this, but Su Ce did it just for peace of mind. When a soldier entrusts his life to his general, the general also needs to be worthy of this trust.
Su Ce returned to Suzhuang in the evening and was in a very depressed mood. Wang Lan saw Su Ce going out and looked unhappy. She did not ask about the man's affairs and handed Dudu to Su Ce.
Su Ce looked at being stuffed into his arms, Dudu looked at himself innocently, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.