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Chapter 117 Explorers (Part 2)

Ling Chen looked at the ripples flying all over the sky, frowned. The incident happened suddenly and he didn't give him much time to prepare.

However, he knew that although the power of these cavalry horn bows was not small, the direct lethality after being shot was not high. As long as you protect your eyes and vital points, even if you hit dozens of arrows, it would be fine.

But these grassland tribes were very insidious. The arrows were covered with horse manure and other dirt. After the arrows, they did not die at that time. They would be infected and inflamed within a few days afterwards, causing high fever, which was fatal in ancient times.

But these people under him were not simple soldiers, but were carefully modulated by him, proficient in the advanced intelligence of fighting various cold weapons. For the flying arrows flying all over the sky, ordinary soldiers can only rely on luck and protection from shields and armor to avoid damage.

But they are different. People who are fighting against the door panels on the periphery can easily find the largest area of ​​shielding and protect many people together.

The person who lacked door panel protection in the middle also calculated the flow-array ballistic that endangered himself in an instant, and easily blocked it with the wooden stick in his hand.

As long as everyone takes into account the air defense in a small area around them, they can ensure that they and others will not be harmed.

The cavalry who were wandering and firing arrows dozens of meters away were stunned when they saw this. This was the first time they saw a group of soldiers who could use weapons to push away the flowing arrows to avoid damage.

Some Han generals who have been training and have excellent combat skills since childhood can do this by using their own swords to knock down the flying arrows, but that is a very small number of people.

Now there are groups of thousands of people, and it is incredible that they can do this at the same time.

Many people slowly stop the horn bows fired in their hands without orders, and waste arrows in vain is not advisable, not to mention that each cavalry does not carry many arrows, only a few dozen.

Many wandering cavalry looked at Captain Thousand Cavalry.

Xiong, this thin and dry man, can be used in the grassland tribe of the Huns, which advocates personal force and has more advantages. When he reaches the position of Qianqin, he relies not on his personal courage, but on his cunning mind as the wolf king.

He looked at the equipment of more than a thousand cavalrymen. In addition to the horned bow, he used a spear and a straight sword. He was helmed with these infantry soldiers with good formations. Although he could gain an advantage at the beginning, he would be blocked soon and suffered huge casualties. Therefore, the best tactic of the Huns was to use the archery skills they practiced since childhood to kill the enemy at a long range, so as to kill a large number of enemies with smaller casualties.

In fighting against the Southerners, this move worked frequently. Even if the Southern infantry's crossbows were stronger, they gradually found a way to deal with it, that is, to constantly guerrillas and consume the opponent's arrows. After all, they were very scattered when guerrillas were gathering formations. Although they had a more accurate shooting rate when standing, one was a scattered guerrilla and the other was a dense formation. They could hit the opponent by relying on a scattered arrow without even being careful. Often, the opponent had to consume several times of arrows to kill one of their cavalry, and no matter how much reserves were, they were not enough.

But now it is useless. These group of soldiers can withstand the attack of Riyashi with their weapons with their hands. Obviously, this is far beyond his imagination.

But they were not regular troops after all, and Xiong Jun, a cunning man, soon discovered the other party's shortcomings.

"Go, call more people, prepare the torches and firewood, and burn them." He quickly found an effective solution. This move would definitely not work against regular troops. The other party had crossbows and cavalry. They could drive them out and shoot and kill those who threw torches, because they wanted to throw heavy torches, they would have to be very close, at least within twenty meters.

If he was on the grassland, he would not dare to do this, which would anger the heaven of Changsheng. The grassland was afraid of fire, especially when the grass withered in autumn, after the fire passed, no grass would grow, and they would permanently lose a piece of grassland. Therefore, among the southerners who entered the grassland, they had hardly seen the Huns use fire attack.

But this is the territory of the southerners, so he doesn't worry about anything.

Ling Chen had heard the shouts of these Huns from afar. Combined with the background of Ling Qi's two entry, as well as the outfits and weapons of the group of cavalry in front of him, he had concluded that the "competition between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization" in this battle was based on the battle between the Han and the Huns.

In fact, the Han Dynasty had never established an absolute advantage over the Huns. Due to the characteristics of nomadic migration and the high consistency of the lifestyle and military combat methods of the Huns, even if they were hit by a fatal blow, they could recover quickly. One or two generations could become a huge threat to the Han Dynasty again. The entire history of the Han-Hungarian confrontation, no matter how the later generations whitewashed, the Han Dynasty was able to resist the invasion of the Huns, but was unable to destroy the Huns. Until the Huns had civil strife like other political forces, they could maintain peace by supporting the Southern Xiongnu who surrendered. But even so, the later Southern Xiongnu also took advantage of the civil strife of the Jin Dynasty and rebelled again after the Han Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, attacked the Western Jin Dynasty, and entered the era of the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms in the north.

Western civilization, after the technological revolution, completely solved the threat of nomadic peoples, and spread the cannons and muskets of capital all over the world, slaughtering all the barbarians in their eyes. However, the Eastern farming civilization was always entangled with nomadic civilization. Until the Ming Dynasty, due to civil strife, it was successfully invaded by the barbarian peoples of the Northeast by the nomadic fishing and hunting, and completely lost the historical opportunity to advance with the world civilization. You should know that the Ming Dynasty or other Han regimes were not afraid of introducing Western technology and culture. Many translated Western natural science works can prove this. The first half of the geometry was translated by the Ming Dynasty, but it was not until the Qing Dynasty three hundred years later that the other half was translated.

Based on these history, it is not difficult to analyze that if the camp mission of this battle is to win, it is necessary to find a way for Eastern civilization to completely eliminate these barbarians, rather than passive integration and acceptance. This will certainly lead to the expansion of the territory, but for a long time, due to the conflict between civilizations between the two sides, the level of civilization was reduced to an extremely low level. Western cannons and muskets had been introduced in the late Ming Dynasty, and many maritime merchants who went into the sea had long realized that Western ships were strong and guns were powerful, and they still had ways to fight or even gain advantages. However, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, many people were still afraid of Western muskets and guns. Every time they failed, they would inevitably be called Western ships were strong and guns.
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