Chapter 783: Is It That Vicious?
The strength of a civilization has always been reflected in its army, and whether the army's foundation is sufficient depends on the layout of the camp.
The camp of the Han and Qin coalition forces is a well-planned layout at a glance, which not only appears regular and has strong flexibility and defense, but also can be seen by those who know how to do it according to the consideration of geography, wind, water source, etc., and finally formed the overall structure of the camp that we see now.
The stronger the civilization, the more disciplined the army became, Mao Dun and a group of ethnic representatives watched on the hillside for a long time, the camp of the Han and Qin coalition army did not exist at all, if it were not for the fact that there were some black spots coming out of the tent every once in a while, lined up to go to the school field vacated in the camp, and then neatly lined up I don't know what they were doing, it would really make people wonder if it was an empty camp in the old camp.
The camp of the nomads is always a mess, there is never anything to be considered in the layout, there are no neatly arranged tents, there are no layers of preventive fortifications in the camp, and it is even more delusional to have a road that connects the entire camp directly, only to see people running around at will.
During the period of the Zhou royal family, the Chinese civilization was a civil war for hundreds of years, although the long-term war caused human suffering...... No, in the early Spring and Autumn period, wars were between armies and armies, and they did not harm civilians, and because of the need to obtain conquest taxes, siege warfare was rarely carried out, and it was still necessary to wait until the late Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to affect civilians. The first to disobey the rules of engagement in the Spring and Autumn Period was the state of Chu, which defeated Xianggong of Song, and the first army to break the war without harming civilians was the Qin army. The long-term war has long given the Chinese civilization a set of experience in marching and fighting, especially for the pattern of camping, which has penetrated into the bone marrow of the generals who led the army.
Twenty miles away, Mao Dun and the others can still distinguish some things, although the camp structure of the Han and Qin coalition forces is not completely understood, but probably why the layout can still be understood, for a moment the Han and Qin coalition forces gave a lot of mental pressure to those ethnic representatives who moved from the west to the east, and that pressure came from the rules brought by discipline (that is, the system).
Discipline represents rules. Rules are the foundation of a social system, and if there are no rules, there is no square circle...... and if an ethnic group wants to enter the stage of civilization, it is necessary to start with the individual coordination and division of labor between groups. That rule can be superiority and inferiority, or it can be a proper administrative system, and the only thing that can be confirmed is that there are no rules and it will definitely be a chaotic race, not to mention that if you want to become strong, it is not bad to perish on your own in civil strife.
Any ethnic group that can form a collective has its own set of rules, for example, there is a ruler who stands at the top, and that ruler has many names, whether it is called Chief, King, Shan Yu, Emperor, etc. Except for the rulers at the very top. There is also a need for a group of ruling layers in the subordinate stage, and this level also has many names, the tribal form is called various large and small leaders, and the state system is civil and military officials.
If you use the human body to describe an ethnic group, the ruler is the brain, the ruling layer is the central nervous system and muscles and bones, and the rest of the people from all walks of life are muscles.
The more casual a person is, the more frightened he is by those who have strict discipline. If you rise to the ethnic group, the scattered ethnic group will first have a lack of confidence in their hearts when facing a coordinated ethnic group, and they will first have a weak heart before they really compete.
There are many countries that appear to be extremely powerful on the surface, and no one dares to offend them until that layer of paper is pierced, and once the people who are not strong enough in their hearts find that someone is not as powerful as they appear to be. That would turn into a twisted revenge mentality, a thousand times more brutal than it would be against a seemingly weak opponent.
Mao Dun really hoped that the Han-Qin alliance would show that it was only strong in disguise, like a piece of history that had not yet happened......
First, the Jurchens discovered that the Khitan Liao State was nothing more than a foreign power, and then the Mongols discovered that the Jurchen Jin State was nothing more than that. In the end, the Great Song Dynasty, which had a rather brilliant civilization system, was also feared by the group of people who once admired its civilization level, and after those people discovered that cultural splendor was one thing, and the defensive force they possessed was another. The former admiration has become the most complete contempt, and there is still a trace of respect for the Khitan and Jurchens who can defend themselves, and for the Song people...... raised the butcher's knife and buried a brilliant one, the former civilization was destroyed in barbarism, and the killing and destruction almost made the civilization disappear, directly returning to the era of slash-and-burn farming.
It can be said that in the long history, the Chinese ethnic group is generally in a state of suppressing the northern Hu people and the southern barbarians, and the phenomenon of the Hu people pressing the Chinese ethnic group to bully vigorously has not happened at all, so the Hu people are also in a state of lack of confidence in the face of the army of the Chinese civilization.
It is only when the Chinese ethnic group is consumed by internal strife and self-consumption to absolute weakness...... For example, the heroes and heroes of the Three Kingdoms (executioners) killed each other until the total population of the Chinese ethnic group was less than three million, and in that state, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xia, Di, and Qiang jumped up, and the Hu ethnic group entered the Central Plains for the first time and carried out a variety of inhumane slaughters of the Chinese ethnic group, which can be regarded as removing the admiration and fear of the Chinese ethnic group in the genes, and since then, no matter which non-Chinese ethnic group has no reverence for the Chinese ethnic group.
The rise of the Xiongnu in the original history is an inevitable thing, that is, the heroes (careerists) who are building on the land of China are killing each other, and the original suppression of the grassland during the Warring States Period is gone, and the Xiongnu can also concentrate on the westward expansion to occupy the Western Regions, and then defeat the Eastern Hu for annexation.
Whether it was the major uprisings at the end of the Qin Dynasty, or the struggle between Chu and Han, the civil war between the Chinese ethnic groups not only lost a large number of people, but also brought economic losses that were difficult to calculate, and the most fatal thing was that the war horse breeding ground as a strategic special product was also lost.
The dignity and self-confidence of the nation have always been built on the basis of the army, it is the army's repeated victories in foreign wars that give the ethnic groups dignity, it is the army's continuous elimination of one country after another that makes the ethnic groups have the capital of self-confidence, and it is the army that uses one victory after another to make the genes of the ethnic groups have the courage to meet challenges in the face of difficulties, otherwise, no matter how rich a certain ethnic group is, the weakness hidden deep in the heart will definitely emerge when a crisis breaks out. No matter how rich you are, it's just a wedding dress for others that can be plundered.
As a member of the Hu people, Mao Dun was of course afraid when facing the army of the Huaxia tribe, but there were always some people in each tribe who did not choose to retreat when they were afraid, but chose to suppress their fear and wanted to challenge, eager to defeat the opponent who made them fearful, and bring a chance of nirvana to themselves and the race.
Looking at the huge camp of the Han and Qin coalition forces, Mao Dun began to tell the representatives of various ethnic groups some things, generally speaking, he was still describing the endless aggressiveness of the Han army towards the land, and also about the strong xenophobia of the race that claimed to be the descendants of Yan and Huang.
What does xenophobia mean? The xenophobia of the weak is nothing but the hostility of an inferiority complex, but the xenophobia of a strong race is a little terrible.
It is a kind of defame for the xenophobia of a powerful race, which will always display terrible brutality in the face of all non-self races. Seize everything that looks good and kill any enemy you want to destroy.
Obviously, in Maudun's mouth, the army in the camp in front of him is a collective that will bring ruin to everyone.
"They have usurped the land where our ancestors have lived for generations, killed the old and the weak and men, abducted women, robbed all the wealth they could see, and finally wanted to destroy us completely." I have to admit that Maudun's eloquence is very good, and his facial expression is also very good: "The road they walk on will not leave anything but grass and trees." It will step on the scarlet-blooded land after the slaughter, and this progress will not end there, but will lead to the end of the world. ”
What do you mean? Mao Dun is telling those people, don't think that the various ethnic groups are far away from the armed forces of the Chinese ethnic groups now. If the brutal army is not held in this way, once the Huaxia army continues to run into various ethnic groups to the west, it will inevitably bring endless killing, and the old and weak and men of various ethnic groups will be killed at that time. The women will be taken captive by the Chinese army.
What happens to the captive woman? And what kind of thoughts do men have in their nature? In fact, as long as the male is normal, he has the natural gene to protect the female, and many times he can die, but he definitely doesn't want to see his own woman suffer a tragic end.
Fear to a certain extent can be a lamb to be slaughtered. Fear can also evolve into hysterical protests, Mao Dun knows that these people are afraid, he will not let these people's fear evolve into not daring to be enemies of the Huaxia army, he wants to let these people's fear become an endless fight with the Huaxia army.
The mouth was still talking, and he paused to wait for someone to translate and paraphrase, and when he saw something, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked and quickly covered up.
According to Mao Dun's understanding of the Han army, the Han army has always attached great importance to the surrounding patrol, and it is enough to be able to safely intersperse it in advance, but staying in one place for a long time without moving and not being discovered by the Han army is not possible at all.
Needless to say, the representatives of the tribes had seen cavalry approaching this way, and heard the sound of the horn in the distance, and within a short time more cavalry appeared in more directions, and the direction in which those cavalry galloped was the hillside where they were staying.
"There are about a hundred people on the hillside, and about four or five thousand foreign armed people have been found in a basin about fifteen miles away from here," the war horse was stepping on the hooves, and Xiahou Ying, who was riding on the back of the war horse, was shouting loudly to Zhang Cang, who was not far from him: "Please send someone back to the camp to report." ”
Xiahou Ying is now a subordinate of the 13th Cavalry Corps, and is subordinate to a ranger formation.
Zhang Cang was a military marquis of the 13th Cavalry Corps, and it was the 1,000-man formed rangers under his command who were now patrolling the area around the barracks, and Xiahou Ying was his deputy.
A basin fifteen miles from here? That is, it was more than thirty-five miles away from the camp of the Han and Qin coalition forces. The patrol range of the Huaxia military generally does not exceed 30 miles of the barracks where they are located, depending on the fact that if they want to walk 30 miles a day, even if they can do it, it will consume a lot of body, unless it is an extremely strong enemy army, it is difficult to do more than 30 miles without stopping.
Of course, it is a general phenomenon that the Han army has raised the warning range to fifty li after the conquest of the grassland, after all, they are facing the nomadic Hu people who are relatively mobile.
Fifteen miles away, the alien armed forces, they hid in a very tall and dense basin of grass, where not only the grass was dense and the forest was extensive, but also a little mountain distribution, not an easy area to inspect, Mao Dun also sent people in advance to reconnoiter for a long time to get close, but even with a lot of preparation and terrain concealment, a little stay was discovered by the Han army's rangers.
"Let's go!"
Mao Dun didn't have any nonsense, the rangers of the Han army kept gathering as they approached, and it seemed that there were about seven or eight hundred people, and the Han and Qin alliance camp in the distance also sounded the horn of "woo woo woo-", and if they didn't leave, they would wait to be surrounded by regiments.
The hillside was not steep, at best it was a towering section with a flat slope of about 20 degrees, and in a wave of greetings, everyone, including Maudun, turned over and got on their horses, without any hesitation and yelling, "Drive!" And he drove the horses to run.
Like many people who came into contact with stirrups, Maudon simply loved the way his feet could drive his horse wildly, and the representatives of the various ethnic groups had of course discovered the benefits of the stirrup, and hundreds of people quickly accelerated by the gentle downward slope of the hillside.
Also, if it weren't for this kind of terrain that could complete the acceleration of the war horse, how would Mao Dun dare to know that the Han army's sentry cavalry was tightly guarded and still come to snoop?
"They run faster than us," Zhang Cang soon found that it would be difficult to catch up if he chased behind the butt of the unknown crowd: "Those guys can change horses with four or five horses per person, we need to call for Pao Ze to surround them!" ”
The war horse galloped quickly, and the knight riding on the back of the war horse was full of the sound of the wind howling, and Zhang Cang repeated it two or three times before the trumpeter not far away could understand what he was saying.
There was another burst of "woo-woo-woo-woo-" from the horn, because the Han army's contact horn band had already agreed on the meaning of the meaning, and the other pursuers who were behind Zhang Cang's cavalry began to turn to outflank maneuvers, and some friendly troops in the direction of Maudun and the others also made reasonable maneuvers, and for a while, all parts of the land responded to the horn sound of "woo woo woo". (To be continued......)