Chapter 91: Hacking and Killing Customers with Zero Complaints
Ye Feng said: "You decide for yourself whether to follow or not." As he said that, Ye Feng mounted his horse and rushed towards the Yiqu State cavalry who were chasing the people.
Lao Wutou said nothing and silently mounted his horse and followed him. Zhao Mengchun patted the strong shoulder, got on his horse and chased after him. In addition, the two of them looked at each other and followed.
Da Zhuang was left on the spot cursing hysterically: "You idiots, you lunatics, you know you're going to die."
After saying that, he wiped his tears with his arm, glanced back in the direction of Qin, turned back reluctantly, mounted his horse and followed Ye Feng and the others.
Ye Feng rushed forward on horseback, feeling very complicated but very excited. Although he had fought several battles before, it was a battle for the Qiemo Kingdom, and this time it was to rescue the people of the Zhou Dynasty. Ye Feng felt that this battle was more meaningful.
Ye Feng yelled, "Anyone who offends our Guwa Heavenly Power will be punished no matter how far away they are." Then he rushed towards the twenty or so cavalry who were chasing the common people.
The cavalrymen of Yiqu State who were chasing the common people saw Ye Feng and others rushing towards them, and immediately turned around and charged towards Ye Feng and others.
Some people among the people saw Ye Feng and the others dressed as Chu State caravan guards. Some people saluted and shouted: "Thank you, righteous man, for the rescue." But they were quickly pulled by others and continued to run towards the Qin State.
These Yiqu people had never seen the power of Ye Feng's broadsword. Ye Feng rushed into the Yiqu cavalry and slashed left and right, killing several people in a row.
This method of slashing makes every enemy go "happily", and no "customer" comes back to complain or give negative reviews. In fact, as long as Ye Feng can guarantee a kill with one sword, this legend of zero negative reviews can continue forever.
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Ye Feng was also very happy to see his "customers" satisfied. In this chaotic fighting mode, the efficiency of slashing with a broadsword was more efficient than lining up in a row to kill the enemy.
Ye Feng shouted: "Happy." After three consecutive rounds of killing, Ye Feng and the others sent away a group of cavalry from the Yiqu Kingdom. However, these cavalry did not seem to be elite soldiers, and were even worse than the cavalry from the Loulan Kingdom that chased them.
Some.
Ye Feng looked at the direction in which the civilians were running and found that they were safely away. So Ye Feng and the others turned around and charged towards the Yiqu cavalry that was attacking Qin's infantry.
Although there were only more than a hundred nominal Qu cavalry facing these infantry, the cavalry's attack on these infantry caused heavy casualties. However, they still adhered to the formation and tried their best to block the attack, just to give the people more time to escape.
Ye Feng watched the rows and rows of infantry phalanxes rushing towards the Yiqu Cavalry without fear of life and death. Soon many more people fell. But the soldiers behind still rushed towards the Yiqu Cavalry without hesitation.
The infantry of this period charged in a phalanx formation, not a single row forward, and the phalanx was not very dense. There was a gap in the middle. This gap was basically the length of the weapon. The smallest phalanx unit was Xiaorong Wu.
Ten people are composed of ten groups.
During the large-scale war between the two countries, most soldiers under the same unit used the same weapons. The weapons of these border troops were relatively random.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, soldiers mostly used weapons such as bows, bows, halberds, and spears. Only some generals had pure metal weapons such as bronze swords.
Shu is an ancient weapon made of bamboo or wood that plays a striking or leading role. It has edges and no edges.
Ge is a relatively primitive weapon. The earliest Ge unearthed by archeology is the bronze Ge from the Xia Dynasty.
But there are other materials that are older than Ge, because the Chinese characters in oracle bones are written with a word like "口" or "日" on the left and a word "ge" on the right, which means that we serve the country under the protection of "ge".
The bronze Ge of the Xia Dynasty was like a copper dagger. The Ge without a pole was called a Ge Shou, and the pole was a long wooden pole with a diameter of three to four centimeters.
The front end of the Ge's head is called Yuan, and the one fixed on the back is called Na. There is a hole between the Yuan and Na called Chuan, which is used to thread a rope to tie the Ge to the Pei.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, a vertical railing was added in the middle of the Ge. The function of the rail is to make the rails and rails horizontally against the Ge when the Ge head is mounted on the Ge. This can prevent the Ge head from shaking.
In order to better fix the sword head, the number of piercings is increased to two at this time. The collar and the bow are at right angles, and the collar has an arc-shaped blade called a Hu towards the tip of the collar.
At the same time, a cap is added to the top and an upsetting is added to the tail. The cap is used to cover the top of the pot, and the upsetting at the bottom is used to protect the pot from moisture and rupture.
Ge Yuan is sharpened on three sides and is generally used for pushing, pecking and hooking.
According to "Kaogong Ji", the length of a general Ge is six feet and six inches, and a person's height is eight feet.
The chariot halberd is one long and two fathoms long, which is sixteen feet. The chief's spear is one long and four feet long, which is twenty feet. The barbarian spear used for chariots is one long and one fathom long, which is twenty-four feet.
According to some archaeological findings, the length of Ge and short Ge during this period was about 70 centimeters. The average length of Ge was about 1.3 meters, which is the six feet and six inches recorded in "Kao Gong Ji". According to the 19.7 centimeters of Qi Chi, it is exactly 1.3 meters.
There is also a kind of Changge used on chariots with a height of about 2.23 meters.
The halberd was a weapon that replaced the dagger during the Warring States Period. It was actually a combination of the dagger and the spear. A forward spear was added in front of the dagger, so that the dagger had the function of thrusting forward, and it became a halberd.
The early bronze halberds were not as fancy as the later bronze halberds and iron halberds from the Warring States Period.
The bronze halberd of this period was the Ge Tao cap changed into a pointed spear, and the diameter of the pole at the front gradually decreased and integrated with the bronze spear at the front, becoming a spiked weapon.
Of course there are other styles of halberds, but this was the most commonly used halberd in the pre-Qin period.
The weapons used by soldiers during this period were relatively crude. The weapons of princes and ministers would be carved with some patterns, and even some halberds would have some inscriptions embellished with gold. Gold embroidery is the technique of using gold to form gold inscriptions on bronze halberds.
Bows come in different sizes and thicknesses, and arrowheads are either made of copper or bone, and some are made of wood.
Most soldiers use halberds or halberds, and a small number of people use spears and bows. Soldiers in wealthier countries generally use halberds because they use more copper. Some of those who use spears and swords use wooden shields. Archers are equipped with different weapons from different countries.
Than different.
The weapons used by Xirong and Yiqu were similar to those of Qin, and some weapons even influenced each other. For example, the proportion of bows and arrows among Xirong soldiers was higher, which affected the configuration of Qin's arms. Qin's world-famous bows and crossbows were also influenced by Xirong.
During this period, copper weapons, bone weapons, and wooden weapons all existed. Countries with more developed smelting technology had a higher proportion of copper weapons, while poorer or poorer countries had a higher proportion of wooden weapons and bone weapons.
Xirong and Yiqu State were much weaker than Zhou in terms of national strength. They also had farming. Yiqu State also followed Zhou's example in building cities. Due to the close exchanges between the two sides, their technology was not much behind.
The Xiongnu and Qiang who were farther away were far behind. The Xiongnu was even more behind because the Qiang had a slave named Ai Jian from the Qin State who escaped to the Western Qiang and taught the Western Qiang people planting and animal husbandry.
Ai Jian was also regarded as a god by the Xiqiang people, elected as their leader, and made his descendants "proud from generation to generation."
Maybe many people don't understand that a planter can become a leader? You must know that Xu Fu traveled east to a country where he lived a good life and was entertained by the Japanese queen.
He taught the female Japanese country almost all the ancient Wa technology except weapons, and is still worshiped as more than fifty gods by countries that lived a good life in their childhood.
At that time, the Japanese were still in the matrilineal clan period of primitive society, and they were still tying ropes to record events. In the female Japanese country at that time, these things by Xu Fu were equivalent to our modern people seeing someone with spacecraft technology approaching the speed of light.
The Xiongnu did not have the opportunity to come into contact with these technologies, and no one taught them, so their weapons have always lagged behind the ancient Wa. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Han soldiers used iron ring-headed knives, and many of them used bronze weapons and even wooden weapons.
and bone weapons.
Even during the Three Kingdoms period, any prince or king could defeat the surrounding nomadic peoples.
During this period, the infantry phalanx mostly used a combination of short swords and shields, spears or long swords and bows and arrows. During the Warring States Period, the swords were replaced by halberds. During this period, most of the weapons were made of copper.
In the Han Dynasty, the infantry soldiers with short swords, short halberds and shields were replaced by soldiers with ring-headed knives and hooked sickles. This was to better protect the opponent's long-pole weapons.
The weapons used by the infantry phalanx of the Qin State on the border were those in the front holding spears, those in the second and third rows holding short swords and shields, and those in the middle of the phalanx using bows and arrows. This was to deal with cavalry charges.
If the opponent is an infantry phalanx, they will put a short Gorga shield in front, so as to prevent the opponent's archers from shooting.
This kind of cooperation usually involves at least three people, and the weapon attack range ranges from far to near. This configuration is because the soldiers guarding the border are limited in strength. If they all use the same weapons, the opponent will suffer a lot in a fight if their weapons are relatively restrained.
This kind of mixing method is generally a kind of "one-size-fits-all" combination. For example, crossbows are very effective against cavalry, shields are more effective against opponent's crossbows, etc.
Therefore, although the infantry was relatively at a disadvantage in front of the cavalry, the Qin soldiers also caused a lot of casualties to the Yiqu cavalry due to their proficiency in coordinating different arms.
Facing the cavalry of Yiqu State, the Qin soldiers' archers first killed and wounded the cavalry at the front.
The cavalry behind Yiqu State could only slow down and evade when the cavalry in front fell off their horses. In order to avoid greater casualties caused by bows and arrows, the cavalry of Yiqu State dispersed their formations. The relatively dispersed cavalry attack was effective for the infantry.
A space to hide.
The Qin soldiers who used spears raised their spears after the Yiqu cavalry reached a certain distance. At this time, the entire infantry phalanx looked like a hedgehog.
The cavalry in front of Yiqu's cavalry would hit their halberds or spears with their weapons from the side, and the following cavalry would kill the Qin soldiers.
Qin soldiers who escaped the "catastrophe" Some soldiers who used daggers or halberds would use daggers to hook the horses' legs. Once the hook hit, the Yiqu cavalry would fall down, and others would swarm up and kill the cavalry.
Both sides suffered casualties as they went back and forth like this. Although the Qin army's infantry suffered more casualties, they fought more resolutely.
Some of the copper-tipped weapons used by the Yiqu Kingdom cavalry, such as wooden poles and bronze meteor hammers, were vulnerable to Ye Feng's steel sword.
These copper-headed weapons have a round hole in the middle and a bulging bump on the outside. The round hole in the middle is used to pass the stick through, and the round hole is larger at one end and smaller at the other.
The tail end of the wooden stick is also thicker, and the installation of the two is somewhat like a pickaxe or a hoe. The wooden stick passes through the round hole, and the big end is stuck at the back. If it cannot be stuck, a wooden wedge is knocked in.
This weapon has the same purpose as the later mace. It uses the high-speed impact of the cavalry to hit the opponent. Combined with the impact of the horse, it will be very lethal to the opponent.