The empire is about to be disbanded, and there will be a large number of bronze weapons to spare. In fact, even if there is no disarmament, the Wehrmacht will gradually change its outfit, and those bronze weapons can be concentrated after replacing them with iron weapons. The bronze weapons that are gathered may be sealed, and they are more likely to be melted, but there are actually a lot of troubles in whether they are sealed or melted.

Arming the people of the Western Regions is a strategy that has been formulated for a long time, and the empire is overbearing and hegemonic, but it is understood that the invasion of a certain area requires the cooperation of the locals, and the imperial military formed a servant army composed of steppe people when invading the grassland, this servant army may not have much effect in the war, but it has been proved that the use of the servant army as a guide and suppression of the local effect is very good.

The Empire has done some experiments with the Servant Army, and there is a big difference in the enthusiasm of the Servant Army to help the Empire between the Servant Army that gives a small amount of pay and the Servant Army that does not pay the Servant Army. Paid servant armies will be more aware of their subordination to the Empire and will be more resolute in carrying out orders. Although the unpaid servant army did not dare to disobey the orders from the Imperial military, the enthusiasm for implementation was a bit unsatisfactory.

The Western Regions will be gradually occupied by the Empire, and having the command of the armies of the city-states or kingdoms before the occupation is carried out is equivalent to removing the initial threat of the city-states and kingdoms. After getting the command, arming the young and strong people in the Western Regions only gives the city-states and kingdoms a sweetness, and there must be a dismantling and reorganization procedure in the process of arming, and then they will learn from the example of the servant army composed of the steppe people, and select a servant army in the Western Regions with a relatively high degree of obedience to pay military salaries, and win over them from the economic interests.

At the beginning of this year, there is no concept of love ~ country ~ lord ~ righteousness, and even a considerable number of ordinary people do not even have the concept of the country, they pay attention to who gives money to whom, as long as it is operated properly, the empire will inevitably have a group of troops similar to the "puppet army" in the Western Regions.

It is not reliable to let the "puppet army" fight desperately, but repeated examples have shown that the "puppet army" usually does a pretty good job of letting the "puppet army" maintain the locality, or use it for the suppression of some occupied territory.

"Why doesn't the empire arm Wusun?" Shen Tujia was stunned by the difficult question.

The representatives of the Central Union have left. They will tell their country's ruling class about the agreement they have made with the Empire, and whether those who can really call the shots will agree depends on the degree of death. As soon as they left, it was difficult to endure it for a long time, and immediately raised some questions.

Shen Tujia felt that it was difficult to be stupid, how could he ask those stupid questions.

It seems like a bad thing that the empire doesn't arm Wusun for free, but in some ways isn't it a good thing?

There is no such thing as giving for no reason in the world, and it seems that the empire is very generous in arming those city-states or kingdoms in the Western Regions, but as long as you have a normal mind, you know that the empire will demand more from those city-states and kingdoms. The empire does not come to the aid of Wusun without compensation. This is a normal alliance, and isn't it also a way to show that the empire currently sees Wusun as a cooperative ally?

"I'm a little unsure of what to say to you." Shen Tujia looked at the difficult one very seriously and said, "You should understand one thing, there is still a dispute in China about how to get along with Wusun. Do you think it would be appropriate for Wusun to receive more aid from the Empire for free? ”

Each place has different social thoughts, and everyone's thinking is not the same, it is difficult to be a Wusun person, the environment in which he grew up and the ideas he cultivated have Wusun characteristics, and he does not understand the imperial culture. I don't understand the thinking of the empire so much, and I was asked by Shen Tujia rhetorically, and my face was full of confusion.

Shen Tujia had no intention of dwelling on this matter, and he was just a general. He has no authority to make decisions on behalf of the Empire, all he does is carry out orders from his superiors.

After the representatives of the Central Alliance who had left the camp of the Imperial army returned, and they conveyed the meaning of the Empire, it was natural that the city-states and kingdoms would have some arguments.

The argument over the smaller the city-state or kingdom was soon over. They are weak and have no extra choice, they may survive if they choose to obey, and if they choose to resist, they should think carefully about what will happen to the imperial army.

Some of the more powerful city-states and kingdoms. There are a number of plans for the Empire's list of demands. It is precisely because they think that they are not weak and feel that they are strong, so they will not be so willing to surrender without doing anything. Perhaps they were also used to being powerful, thinking that it was a shame to surrender without competing with the Empire.

The weaker city-states or kingdoms quickly sent people back to the Imperial army camp to meet with Shen Tujia, and the reply was to agree to the Empire's request to discuss more detailed details.

Feeling that they were powerful, they gathered together and sent people to the imperial army camp to ask for a meeting with Shen Tujia. They did not dare to openly reject the agreement from the Empire, as if they wanted to flex their muscles and euphemistically ask whether the parties could compete in friendship.

"Oh!" Shen Tujia seemed to be very interested in the proposals of some city-states and kingdoms, and asked, "What kind of competitive law?" ”

Shansu immediately said: "It is divided into individual competition and team competition. Individual competition is when all parties choose warriors and let them fight to win. The team competition is 500 people from each side, and they take turns to face each other by drawing lots, and they can be re-added to 500 people after each victory, but they can only be supplemented and cannot be rotated. ”

"Kind of interesting, huh?" Shen Tujia understood, those city-states and kingdoms thought that hearing was false, seeing was believing, and they didn't really believe in the strength of the imperial army so much. He nodded: "Very good, so when will it start?" ”

Shan Su was a little surprised to see that Shen Tujia agreed so quickly, he thought that the empire would be furious, and then threatened them, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

The competition is scheduled to take place in the morning of the next day, in an open space between the Imperial Army camp and the Central Alliance camp, and there will be no restrictions on viewing.

"Wusun can also play, right?" It's hard to ask Shen Tujia.

Shen Tujia looked indifferent: "If the prince wants to let the warriors under his command play a little, he can naturally do it." ”

In fact, he was holding his stomach for a long time, because of some depression on the part of the empire, and more resentment towards those former younger brothers, so he said viciously: "Wusun will make them pay the price of contempt!" ”

Shen Tujia smiled and did not speak, some things always need to be achieved through bloodshed, civilization and civilization, race and race. As long as it is encountered, it is inevitable that there will always be human blood to open the way.

The next morning, the rumbling war drums sounded in the Imperial camp, and occasionally there were bursts of desolate horns, and there were also various noises on the side of the Central Alliance Alliance, and soon the two camps became some voices boiling.

For this competition, there was no ring, just shoveling the snow and tamping the ground, and using wooden stakes to pull up cloth strips to encircle a field.

While the Imperial army was still eating, the coalition forces of the Central Alliance seemed to have finished eating first, and crowds continued to pour out of the camps on their side. Head to the arena.

There was movement in the coalition forces of the Central Alliance, and the Imperial army camp was also on alert, but no soldiers left the camp and flocked to the arena.

"What a mess of soldiers!" Shen Tujia and Nan Dou Mi went up to the arrow tower to watch. He pointed to the Central Coalition Army, which had no queue, and said, "Those who are on horseback, there are no horsebackers." Then again, hasn't the army in this part of the Western Regions practiced the queue? ”

Nan Dou was stunned and asked, "Drill queue?" ”

In today's world, there are not many countries with military formations, and in the Eastern civilization, the Chinese system began to appear in the Shang generation. It was not until the late Spring and Autumn Period that there was a mature military formation queue system, and the first to create an infantry phalanx was the Wei family of the three sub-Jin families, and it was later popularized to various vassal states; Central Asian civilizations have never had the theory of phalanxes, no matter how large-scale the war is, it is divided into batches. Rushing up in a mess; When the Western civilization of Greece formulated the infantry phalanx in the Wei family, it also created the army phalanx at about the same time, and the more famous one was the Macedonian infantry phalanx, which was then popularized to various Greek city-states or kingdoms. Later, it was learned by the Romans.

There are many such local countries in the Western Regions, but although each city-state or kingdom has an army, to be honest, there is very little training in ordinary times. There has been no military formation phalanx rehearsed.

"Huh." Shen Tujia smiled and beckoned, "The soldiers are almost finished eating, let's go down?" ”

Nan Doumi was still depressed about what Shen Tujia said, and thought in his mind: "Wusun has always rushed forward in battle, relying on courage and speed to defeat the enemy army. He said that the military array, is the empire strong because of the military array? ”

Basically, the existence of the military array is to act as a collective coordination, to use the military array to give play to the local coordination ability, and then to complete the cooperation of the whole army from the overall situation, the original purpose of the military formation was to be able to give full play to the strength it has in a hierarchical manner.

There was no restriction on viewing, but it was not without separate venues, the soldiers of the Central Alliance were located on the east side, giving way to the west side, and the south and north sides were empty.

When there are more people, there are more noises, the races in the Western Regions are not small, and the language system is even more, and all kinds of noise are even more noisy than the vegetable market.

"Knock knock

A vast burst of war drums emanated from the Imperial army camp, and then the drums of war became rhythmic.

To the sound of rumbling war drums, the three gates of the Imperial army opened together, and the leaders were led by a group of cavalry on straddle horses, they were heavily armed, but they did not raise their flags. Behind the cavalry were columns of soldiers on foot, who were squares of ten men in horizontal and vertical formations, each of exactly one hundred men, marching in orderly steps towards the periphery of the arena.

The sound of war drums resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the people of the Western Regions who were originally talking freely were attracted to all look in the direction where the drums came from, and they could see the cavalry and infantry from the imperial camp, and they could see phalanxes from a distance.

Naturally, Shansu and other nobles from the Western Regions also saw the imperial army open the gate, and saw that some of the square army formations, whether they were cavalry or infantry, were neat, and they couldn't help but grow their mouths in an instant.

"What a momentum!"

"yes, it looks mighty."

Armies are armies not only because they are huge violent groups. In fact, the reason why an army is an army is because it has military discipline and collectivity, and marching in formation can best reflect the discipline of an army, and it can also see what kind of collectivity it is.

One army formation after another spread out, and then another army formation showed coordination, and it seemed that there would indeed be a strong force.

"Look at the pace of those foot stampedes."

"Huh?"

"They walked together, they fell together."

"It's the same rhythm as the war drums."

The west side of the arena was soon filled with Imperial troops, and there was no noise except for the occasional neighing of horses.

"The Silent Legion." Shan Su had admiration on his face: "A sense of oppression like a mountain! ”

A new army has opened up on the other side of the imperial camp, and it is Wusun's cavalry. They didn't have any formation to speak of, and they couldn't compare with the momentum of the Imperial army when they came out just now.

Shen Tujia came to the arena, he rode out alone, and the nobles of the Western Regions opposite also came out on horseback.

"What charter?" When Shen Tujia spoke, he was observing the nobles of the Western Regions who were approaching, and found that the nobles of the Western Regions had saddles and stirrups on their mounts.

Shan Su was like a spokesman for a group of nobles from the Western Regions, and after he saluted, he said, "Individual competition first, right?" ”

Shen Tujia replied: "Whatever." ”

Naturally, someone used it as a tool for drawing lots, and it needed to be checked by both sides before the lottery began.

There are quite a few people participating in individual competitions, generally at least one from each force, and some forces have a relatively large number of people. The lottery is a lottery that draws the banners representing the various forces, and when two competitors belong to the same faction, a new draw will be drawn.

Because there are not many forces or private individuals involved, it took about half an hour to determine the order of play, and there will be ten pairs of people fighting at the same time.

Under the witness of I don't know how many people, Shen Tujia first made some speeches on behalf of the people participating in the competition in the empire, and the topic was probably that death and injury in the competition were inevitable, and if there were casualties, all parties should be responsible for themselves, and they should not retaliate for any reason or excuse.

Qiuzi, Cheshi, Yinai, Shache, Shule, Pishan, Beilu and other forces, the highest status people present also came out to speak, and the topic content also emphasized that competition is risky, and there is no retaliation in the event of casualties.

After speaking, each country still has its own sacrifices, such as the empire prays under the auspices of Shen Tujia, and the city-states, kingdoms, and private individuals in the Western Regions also have their own sacrifice ceremonies, which looks simply strange.

"Kill any opponent." Shen Tujia made a gesture to wipe his neck at the people participating in the competition: "Kill them all!" ”

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