I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 405 Yi Zhixie's Decision
At the head of Mayi City, the war is becoming more and more intense;

On the other side of the battlefield, excavation work has been going on since the day they arrived. To be precise, it was preparing the often-called Flying Fox Captain's Department for "Jingguan", but it seemed to have nothing to do with this war.

——Clearly less than forty miles away from the battlefield;
——Obviously you can enter the battlefield at any time and join the battle at any time;
At least you can take some time to send some Qingqi, and send a few military newspapers and letters to Mayi for the most basic information interaction and exchange.

But Captain Feihu did nothing.

In Mayi, Zhidu and Cheng Bushi couldn't help muttering: This Captain Flying Fox, I'm afraid he wants to play the trick of making money from the fisherman?
But the Huns didn't dare to think so at all.

Especially the current right king of the Huns: Yizhixie...
"Flying Fox Army..."

"The big tiger banner that made the Xianyou King suffer so much is standing on the side of the battlefield."

"In the words of the Han people, this is 'watching like a tiger'..."

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"Ministries, do you still have the strength to attack the city?"

Compared with Zhidu who asked bluntly about the number of casualties, Yi Zhixie's question undoubtedly showed more cautiousness.

the reason is simple.

In the Han Dynasty, there was a whole set of compensation procedures for soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, or were injured or disabled due to war, to ensure that "people's hearts are not cold".

Take the death of soldiers in battle as an example. According to the rules established by Emperor Taizu Gao, the original text of the legal regulations is: Order soldiers who die in the army to return to their county as 槥. See funeral.

Translated into the vernacular that is easier for future generations to understand, it is: When a soldier is killed in battle, his coffin should be sent back to the county where his household registration is located. In addition, senior officials in the army are required to participate in the funeral ceremony.

The so-called Shao prison is one sheep and one pig.

As for the chief official, it refers to the full-time officer who is one level higher than the one who died in battle, and the minimum starts from Qu Chang, who is in command of a hundred people, that is, Qu Hou.

This is just the funeral of the fallen heroes and the aftermath of death;
Subsequent grants of pensions came in waves from the court, another wave from the county government, and another wave from the county government.

If he died with meritorious service, he would become a model selected by the county and county, be praised by the officials in various ways, and even be included in the county annals and county annals.

What about the Huns?

As for the pensions for the fallen soldiers, the only statute stipulated by the Huns is "get their corpses and get their wealth".

——When a Hun dies on the battlefield, no matter who can get back the corpse, he can get everything that the corpse had during his lifetime.

Including but not limited to cattle and sheep herding, pasture, wealth, status, and even wives, concubines, and children.

Obviously, the Huns' custom of snatching corpses on the battlefield is similar to that of Qin Hulang's military masters.

A hundred years ago, countless Qin people and Qin slaves, in order to get a leader of the enemy army who could improve their own status and even change the fate of the family, they always rushed to the enemy's line without fear of death, and did everything they could to deal with them. enemy inflicted damage;
In today's Xiongnu, there are also countless low-status shepherds who will fight unparalleled on the battlefield in order to get back the corpse of a comrade-in-arms who has a good family.

——The corpses of the Huns who died in battle are not only wanted by the Huns, but also by the Han people on the opposite side!
Therefore, in order to successfully get back the corpse that allowed them to transform from "herders" to "herdsmen" and even "nobles", the shepherds must first get rid of those Han people who are full of "heads" and "martial arts".

As for why Yi Zhixie didn't dare to ask Zhidu directly about the casualties of his troops, but asked obliquely, "Is there any power left to attack the city?" , has the same disadvantages.

If you win, you will be like a broken bamboo;
If you lose, you will scatter like birds and beasts.

It doesn't even need to be "defeated", as long as the war shows a decline that is not conducive to our own side, the loose army organization and military ideological construction of the Huns can easily lead to a small defeat of the army, which is seriously inconsistent with the results of the battle. Scale crash.

As a nomadic people, the Huns, like every predecessor in the past, and every descendant in the future, are a group that deeply taboos the "way of survival".

When the situation develops in the direction of "possibly threatening survival", fleeing, or even surrendering, is always a choice that the Huns can make without psychological pressure...
"At the bottom of my building, I still have the strength to draw the bow, but it won't last for a few days."

"My Aries Department, I'm afraid I don't even have much strength left to draw the bow..."

After Yi Zhixie euphemistically asked, King Aries and King Loufan gave their answers first.

——As a tribe that is famous for throwing longbows, and even uses longbows instead of raptors and beasts as its totem banner, Loufan's "long-distance combat troops" can always ensure that the casualties are within an acceptable range .

After all, the longbows of the warriors in the upper part of the building are almost the "best longbows in the entire grassland" made by Shan Yuting's strength in the grassland;
Although in terms of comprehensive performance, it is still not comparable to the standard crossbow of the Han Dynasty, but in terms of range alone, it is still comparable, and even slightly better.

After all, the bows and crossbows of the Han Dynasty were all mass-produced. No matter how sophisticated the craftsmanship was, it was impossible to equip every crossbow soldier with an overly sophisticated longbow.

But the Aries Department is not as lucky as the Lou Fan Department.

If the Xiongnu Shanyuting’s support for the Loufan tribe is to gather the most sophisticated longbows in the grassland with tens of thousands of handles, support the Zhelan tribe, and the best bronze blunt weapon to search the entire grassland, then the support for the Aries tribe , is a relatively short, stout, and extremely maneuverable Hun horse.

With these Xiongnu horses that can complete emergency stops, rapid turns, and even emergency starts after an emergency stop, the Aries can throw off their arms on the battlefield and use their famous "back horse shooting" to pull and fight against the local Han military.

But this also means that the bows used by the Aries Department for "horseback shooting" are far less sophisticated than those of the Lou Fang Department, especially not as long as the Lou Fang Department's ultra-long range of [-] steps.

This means that during the siege, the Baiyang Department always has to stand closer to Mayi, or even stand between the Loufangbu and the city wall of Mayi as a whole, in order to shoot the arrow feathers on the head of Mayi, shoot Cross the city wall of Mayi.

As for the horses?

嘿；
In this era when there are no stirrups or saddles, and even nomads who grew up on horseback can only hold the mane with both hands to maintain balance, it is probably the most stupid decision to let cavalry attack the city in a mobile state Already...

In addition, there is another point that is not easy to be noticed by others, and it also did not escape Yi Zhixie's observation.

——Even if it had a super long range of more than [-] paces, even if the Aries Department stood in front as a shield to bear most of the firepower, the losses of the Lou Fan Department in this battle were not small.

If it hadn't been for the fact that they were Han Chinese instead of those relatively weak grassland tribes, the casualties suffered by Lou Fan's troops in this battle could even be called 'amazing'!
Under such a premise, the reason why King Loufan could still bite the bullet and say the phrase "still have the strength to hold the bow for a few days" is because after Mayi, there is a city of Han people.

that city...
"Loufan County..."

"Hanlou County..."

With a whisper in his heart, Yi Zhixie leaned back in his chair a little lonely, and fell into thoughts with a little hesitation.

Lou Fan was originally not the name of a nomadic tribe, but a country: Lou Fan Kingdom.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, in the north of Yanzhao, in the area of ​​Zhongshan, there was Beidi.

And Loufan was a branch of 'Beidi' at that time.

Zhongshan Di was also called Bai Di by later historians.

This is naturally because the Beidi of Zhongshan at that time had a fairer complexion than the people of Huaxia in the Central Plains.

Around the Spring and Autumn Period, a branch of Beidi called Lou Fanren founded the country, which was called Lou Fan Kingdom;
Afterwards, the three families in the Central Plains of Huaxia were divided into Jin Dynasty, and Loufan Kingdom took advantage of the emptiness and went south, pushing its power and territory southward to the foot of the Great Wall of Zhao, which is now the area around Loufan County in Han Dynasty.

In the following hundreds of years, Loufan has always been Zhao Guo's most troublesome external threat besides the heroes of the Central Plains.

It wasn't until Zhao Wuling King Hufu rode and shot, learned from the barbarians' skills to control the barbarians, that he was able to smash the towers and spread the name of Zhao soldiers on the grasslands outside the Great Wall.

It's just that after conquering Loufan Kingdom, King Wuling of Zhao wisely did not choose to subjugate the country and species, but adopted the strategy of "destroying his soldiers" in accordance with the universal value of "survival and death" in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

The so-called sending troops means taking in and reorganizing Lou Fan's army generals, and continuing to use them for Zhao Guo.

This made Lou Fan's original powerful soldiers join the Zhao army, which further strengthened Zhao's military power.

To this day, along the Zhao, Qin, and Han Dynasties, the establishments such as Loufan Xiaowei and Loufan Duwei, which are still preserved to a certain extent, are the results of Zhao Wuling's surrender of Loufan at that time.

After subduing and reorganizing Lou Fanren's elite cavalry unit, it is impossible for King Zhao Wuling not to leave a habitat for the surrendered Lou Fanren.

And that habitat was located at the northern border of Zhao at that time, and is located in the "Han Loufan County" within the current Zhao Great Wall.

As for the Xiongnu Loufan, one of the three chariots of Shanyuting, it was a branch that fled during the Loufan-Zhao war, or was unwilling to surrender after the defeat, and fled north into the grassland.

This has led to the fact that in the past hundreds of years, these two branches belonged to the upper branches of nomadic civilization and farming civilization, and each regarded the other as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh.

——In the eyes of Lou Fanren who live in Loufan County in Han Dynasty, the group of "Lou Fanren" outside the Great Wall are traitors who betrayed their tribe back then!

From the perspective of the Huns, those Lou Fans in the Great Wall who clearly lived on animal husbandry but claimed to be "Chinese nobles" were scum who bowed their heads as slaves to other races.

Due to the geographical location and the fact that there are only two big men in the known world standing behind the two sides, although both sides wished to eat each other alive, they were unable to put their ideas into reality.

Now, Loufanbu, one of the three horse-drawn carriages of the Huns, was brought to the foot of Mayi by the Right Wise King of the Huns, Yi Zhixie;
And behind Mayi, just a few dozen miles across the Great Wall of Zhao, is Hanloufan County.

Under such circumstances, not to mention that the casualties are still within the acceptable range—even if the body has been injured, or even nearly half of it is broken, King Lou Fan will probably not let go of this heaven-sent opportunity.

King Lou Fan might not be able to make a big strategic decision yet.

However, through his own influence, pushing the battle towards the direction of 'breaking Hanloufan County' is something Loufan King must do, and will definitely do.

This is really the reason why Yi Zhixie looks even more lonely after King Lou Fan said, 'Our department can still fight'...
"The Loufan Department still has enough strength, but it's because after Mayi, there is Han Loufan County..."

"The Aries Department loses its soldiers and loses its generals. Although it is strong to fight again, it will also hurt its muscles and bones..."

"As for the Orchid Department..."

Thinking so, Yi Zhixie slightly turned her head to one side, and looked at the silent King Zhelan, who was obviously a little aggrieved.

——As the only melee unit in the troika, the Zhelan tribe was responsible for the main attack in the past ten days of siege.

Although there are slave cannon fodder to share the firepower, the damage of Zhelan's department has reached a jaw-dropping level.

If it weren't for this, it would be impossible for Yi Zhixie to order Zhelan's troops to "temporarily return to the camp" a few days ago and no longer participate in the battle against Mayi.

It is not the benevolence of Yizhixie woman;
It is really the Zhelan tribe, which has too special meaning for the Xiongnu Shan Yuting...
"Ma Yi, it is already unbreakable."

As an outstanding nomadic leader, Yi Zhixie was at least a decisive person.

"Digging tunnels, digging corners, and even the internal response in the city failed to help us send any soldier to the city wall of Mayi."

"Continuing the fight, the Han people will naturally suffer heavy casualties, but my warriors of the Huns will also lose their teeth."

"—Continuing to attack Mayi is meaningless."

"But before retreating, we must bite off a piece of meat from the Han!"

Gritting her teeth, Yi Zhixie couldn't help clenching her right fist tightly. Although she didn't smash it down, it still made the tent quiet.

"Zhili Gutu issued God's will - this trip to the south, we must let the Han people know: the nomadic people who are blessed by the gods are absolutely inviolable!"

"Han people, you must pay the price for your arrogance and your contempt for my great Huns!"

Hearing Yi Zhixie's roar filled with hatred, King Zhelan, King Loufan, King Aries in the tent, as well as the rest of the slaves and the leaders of the servant tribes all involuntarily got off the stools. stand up.

Then I saw Yi Zhixie with a gloomy face, looking around at everyone in the hall;
Then, at the corners of her tightly pursed lips, a cold arc slowly curled up...
"The Han people in Mayi are protected by a strong city wall;"

"But the Flying Fox Army outside the city..."

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"Send the order down!"

"Tonight, cook sheep and slaughter cattle!!!"

"When the warriors are full, we will bite off a bite of meat on the Han people!!!!!!"

(End of this chapter)