On the endless plains, a vast number of Yan troops were fleeing, and behind them there were twice as many foreign soldiers as the Yan troops chasing them.
The Yan army did not have a uniform uniform, and most of them looked like Chinese people.
You can tell what a person's status is just by looking at their clothes, and they don't tell lies at all.
Nobles would comb their crowns, and their clothes would have wide sleeves and long hems, and they would usually have jade pendants holding down the hems.
The difference between the attire of quasi-nobles and nobles is that they are not qualified to wear jade pendants, and there is not much difference in the rest.
Chinese people wear a kind of jumpsuit. Depending on your family background, the wider the sleeves, the more colors the clothes will have.
Li Shu wear clothes with separate upper and lower bodies, especially short-sleeved clothes or shorts all year round.
The difference in clothing is limited by Zhou Li, but also due to different family backgrounds. For some people, having clothes to wear is just fine, so there is no chance to pick and choose.
The Yan Kingdom was still in the classical era. In addition to the aristocrats and quasi-aristocratic people receiving gifts, every national war also issued a call to the people. The result was that the quality of the soldiers was good and bad, and it was a small group of elites who decided the outcome of the war.
Even in the classical era, the countries in the Central Plains have been optimizing their armies. For example, the Jin State had the concept of reserve forces early on, and really put the training of reserve forces into action. A profession called "Xian" appeared.
The population and national strength of the other countries are not as good as those of the Jin State. They cannot have a group of reserve troops who train for a quarter every year, and they will definitely be beaten to the ground by the Jin State.
However, because the Central Plains countries need to cope with increasingly frequent wars, they cannot focus on quantity and demand quality, and will inevitably strengthen the original soldiers. Historically, the number of soldiers in the army and the requirements for weapons have become like this
increasingly strict.
Among the foreigners chasing the Yan army, very few of them wore cloth clothes, and most of them wore animal skins, with sheepskin being the most common, and then cowhide.
Whether it is sheepskin or cowhide, as long as the manufacturing process is up to standard, it can actually be used as a stomach, but the aliens just wear it to hide their shame.
The weapons in the hands of these aliens are all kinds of. The number of bronze weapons will never exceed 20%. The rest are either weapons made of bones or stones, or they are armed with wooden sticks or sharpened wooden sticks. Bow? Of course there is a bow.
, the arrows are just bone arrows, and you can’t even see an arrow with a metal arrowhead.
The current pure aliens cannot even weave cloth, and no aliens have mastered the smelting technology. All metals are stolen or purchased from more advanced civilizations.
Among the many foreign races, the Xianyu people can weave and smelt, but they have become part of the original country.
Tu He, Wu Zhong and Dong Hu? Judging from the time points, they are really in an era before they have mastered smelting and weaving.
So, how could the technologically advanced Yan State be so badly beaten by a few of its neighbors? This is about being advanced, and it also needs relevant supporting facilities, such as population and an environment that can produce stable production.
It is not unusual for barbarians to defeat civilization in history. In ancient times, the Xia Dynasty was often forced to move its capital by foreigners. Even in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, they moved their capital three times under the threat of Rong people. In the Ji and Zhou period, even the capital was conquered.
Pass.
Xia, Shang, and Zhou Zhongshu, who were the co-lords of the world, all had their miserable times. The Yan State, which was entrusted to a corner of the northeast, experienced misery. Is there anything surprising about it?
This time, the reason why the Yan army suffered a major defeat was that they fought on two fronts. After joining forces, the front was under tremendous pressure, but Wu Ending Man took their retreat.
Once any army encounters a flanking attack from both front and rear, it will become panicked no matter how hard it is. Once panicked, the morale of the army will be in chaos.
For the collective, confusion is the most fatal thing. If one person escapes, ten people will be swept away, and ten people can sweep away a hundred people. It will snowball like a snowball and bring the whole army into collapse. No enemy will trample in order to seize the road.
Or they are fighting each other. If an enemy appears, most people will probably kneel down and ask for surrender.
The Yan army retreated, but only maintained the final order, that is, there was no fratricide for the time being.
When it comes to their composition, the soldiers in a military unit basically come from the same place, or the same district of a certain city. They are either father and son or brothers, or they know each other, so that a large number of people are just like each other.
Relatives, most people don't have the nerve to be ruthless until they are in extreme danger.
"The front is blocked!"
"Wu Mingren, they are here to kill."
"Don't mess up, everyone will die if there is a mess!"
"Where's the noble man? Where's the chariot? Lead everyone over there!"
"We are less than forty miles away from the capital. As long as we can rush over, everyone will survive."
The sound was so loud that only the person who made the sound could hear clearly what was being shouted within two meters, but further away the sounds were mixed together and became difficult to distinguish.
Weeds in the wilderness are generally one meter high, and even more exaggeratedly, they grow to more than two meters.
There must be more than just weeds, there are tall and low trees, rows and rows of bushes, and some things with no name that make you covered in thorns as soon as you touch them.
Most of the leaves will itch when their skin is broken, and they will bleed and ache. It can be said that nature has never been very friendly to humans.
The soldiers of the Yan Army no longer care about so much. As long as the front can continue to move forward, even if the people in front fall down during the rampage, they are clearing the way for those behind. It's just that those who fell down don't know if they have played the value of their sacrifices.
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What they fear most now is hearing the sound of horse hooves, especially the sound of many horse hooves trampling together.
Of course, the Yan State had a certain number of horses, but there were really no professional cavalry. Even marching astride war horses was only done in very urgent moments. The horses were either used to pull chariots or for farming.
As long as the sound of rolling horse hooves appears, it basically means that the enemy is catching up again.
As for the sound of horse hooves ahead? Until the emergence of stirrups and saddles, not many people among the foreign races fought on horseback during war. They only used horses as a means of transportation. When it came time to fight, they would dismount and fight on foot.
An endless force numbering about 10,000 people blocked the Yan army retreating south. The Yan army, which was out of order, was attacking. However, because there was no coordination, there was no cooperation, and the Yan army soldiers were panicking.
The offensive went very poorly.
"Did you die here today?" Yan Ping stood on the chariot with a sad look on his face.
If there were no reinforcements from the rear, how could they be outflanked from both front and rear?
Even if there are no reinforcements, the food and fodder should arrive on time. According to the time, the food and fodder should be delivered before being outflanked. That way, even if they are outflanked from the front and rear, they can still fight and retreat.
Before they retreated, the entire army was saving and saving, and could only last for another eight days at most. After eight days, if the enemy did not attack, the army would be in chaos due to lack of food, or it would be stuck in place waiting to be attacked.
starve.
It's easy to say that the army is short of anything. Having food in stock can stabilize the morale of the army and give it the strength to snatch it from the enemy no matter how dangerous the situation is.
What the army fears most is lack of food. Once food is scarce, chaos will begin without the enemy attacking.
What Yan Ping saw was that it was blocked and unable to attack, and Tuhe people and Donghu people were already catching up from the north.
If the Yan army's chain of command is still there, it can at least execute orders and form a formation to struggle.
The problem is that during the flight, the subordinates cannot find their superiors, and even if the superiors make decisions, they cannot effectively pass down the orders.
Shout loudly to get everyone to listen to you? Let alone on the battlefield, try shouting in a noisy vegetable market. How many people can hear clearly what you are shouting?
The battlefield and the vegetable market are noisy, but in a fundamental sense they are different. People are panicking on the battlefield. Even if they can hear clearly what is being shouted, those who receive instructions must be willing to obey!
The return route was blocked, the pursuers from the rear arrived, and the Yan army once again fell into the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.
The soldiers of the Yan army on both sides had no one to direct them. In order to escape the vortex, they began to run to the outside. As soon as they ran, they attracted the enemy's pursuit. The battlefield was stretched again and again, and the thickness of the Yan army became thinner and thinner.
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If the chain of command was in place, nothing like this would happen.
After all, the Yan army was outflanked. How could they stretch the battlefield and make themselves thinner while being defeated one by one?
However, even if the Immortal Soldiers come to this world, they can't control the soldiers of the Yan army who are in chaos. Some nobles of the Yan country who want to change the chaos can only control their own troops. As the chaos becomes more and more intense,
, soon even the whole series will be washed away.
Some Yan people who care about their country are not only worried about their own lives, but also worried about how Sangzi will protect itself and whether the country can continue to exist once the Yan army here is wiped out or surrenders.
Is this the most tragic and critical time for Yan State? No.
During the more than 400 years from Yan Hou Ke to Yan Xianggong, the Yan Kingdom, which was entrusted with a corner of the northeast, rarely lived in comfort.
The situation of Yan State changed during the period when Duke Huan of Qi united the nine princes, and it was also a historical stage when the civilization of the Xia Dynasty was in danger.
Duke Huan of Qi accepted Guan Yiwu's suggestion, raised the banner of "respect the king and repel the foreigners", united the princes of the world to fight against the foreigners, defeated many foreigners who invaded the south, and wiped out many foreign tribes entrenched in the Central Plains. The crisis of Zhuxia civilization was finally over.
Get through it.
Regarding the conflict between civilizations, it is certain that after one side becomes stronger and stronger, the other side will become weak and weaken.
It was during that period that the Yan State had a chance to breathe, and it took nearly twenty years to recuperate before launching a counterattack against Donghu and Wuzhu. It took the opportunity to expand its territory by four hundred miles to the northeast and nearly two hundred miles to the north.
What didn't last long was that the Yellow River changed its course. The Yan State was isolated and unable to carry out complementary trade. On the one hand, being too isolated would also stagnate the development of various technologies. However, after a long period of development, the surrounding foreign races
Licking the wounds made me strong again.
After Duke Huan of Yan came to the throne, until the generation of Yan Junzhi, the state of Yan was constantly going back and forth with its surroundings.
The most fortunate thing about the Yan country is that it has mastered a more advanced production method than the aliens, that is, the fixed output brought by farming. Unlike the aliens whose farming technology is too poor and has low yields, and the risk of grazing is high enough, gathering and hunting completely depends on luck.
Is grazing risky? Before the advent of veterinary technology, grazing was really risky! An infectious disease in livestock can directly wipe out an originally powerful tribe. If the infectious disease spreads widely enough, it is very likely that a seemingly strong tribe will be destroyed.
The tribal alliance has become helpless.
Why did the Donghu, Wu Zhong and Tu He intensify their invasion of the Yan Kingdom in recent years? In fact, the foreign tribes do not have a clear understanding of territory, and they do not even have the concept of national boundaries. Even if they have territorial awareness, they only stay on "a certain pasture."
"It's mine" stage.
Therefore, it was not for the purpose of seizing the land of the Yan State that the foreign tribes invaded the Yan State in large numbers and frequently.
They had an animal epidemic a few years ago, and a large number of livestock died. Unfortunately, there was also a heavy snowstorm one year.
Therefore, they were not only invading the Yan Kingdom before, but also attacking and killing each other. Realizing that no matter how fiercely they attacked each other, they still lacked supplies. The leaders of all parties sat down and talked and decided that they could only survive by plundering the Yan Kingdom.
The possibility of crisis.
The war was cruel. For those foreigners, they did not want to wait to die and had no choice but to fight for their lives with the Yan people.
However, the Yan State lacks the strength to protect itself. If the Yan State is strong, it can resist the invasion of foreigners, and even use force and other means at the same time, maybe it can make the foreigners good at singing and dancing?
Yan Ping happened to come to a low slope, and when he looked around he saw that his own side had not organized any effective resistance at all, and the foreigners were unable to conquer the enemy because of their own combat power.
Even so, if nothing unexpected happens, within a day or as long as two or three days, their entire Yan army will probably be wiped out.
If it really happens like those pessimistic people do, is this the first time that the Yan army has been completely wiped out by foreigners? How can a country be established for so long and be an isolated case? However, as many as 30,000 troops were annihilated.
This is the first time this has happened.
Yan Ping saw shadows that looked like large armies appearing on the horizon to the north and west again, and his heart was already desperate enough that he could not feel any other emotions.
"Huh!? Is there a flag?"
"Donghu, Wuzhong and Tuhe don't have banners. They only have big banners for their leaders."
"A combination of black and red? Even if we have shirts, they are still gray..."
Yan Ping was stunned by several new discoveries.
As one of the top nobles of the Yan Kingdom, Yan Ping knows better than anyone else that even if the Yan Kingdom has reinforcements coming, the number will never exceed 20,000.
The new army came from Zhuxia, which Yan Ping quickly realized.
In the land of East Asia, for the time being, only the armies of Zhu Xia can fly banners, and there are armies with unified uniforms for the entire army.
About two-quarters of an hour later, as soon as the newly emerged army appeared, they launched an attack on the Donghu people, Wu Zhong and Tu He people. The ferociousness of the attack made the people of the Yan state feel frightened when they realized that they might be saved.
The strangest thing for the people of Yan State was when a country emerged among the Xia kingdoms that was good at horseback fighting. It was only when a large number of infantry troops with red tops and black bottoms appeared that they felt normal.
"who are they?"
At this moment, many people in Yan country wanted to know where their benefactor came from.
However, if the people of Yan knew that their capital city was captured by this large army, and even the country Zuo was about to perish in their hands, how would they feel?
