94 – The Battle of Hannae
Class and class.
The gates of the two castles were opened, and a great army began marching.
The distance between Sanyang and Gyeok, which was secured as a base by the Jin army, is only about 200 li (80 km).
And the Mo and I, which Jingun acquired next to the mountain goat, were located in the middle, about 100 li away.
Therefore, on the second day after leaving the castle, the two armies identified each other.
Sumu has two castles in the east and west.
Among them, the area around Susumu located in the west was the battlefield of the decisive battle in which the two armies were entangled.
“It’s nice to see the guys in that castle. Isn’t it perfect to watch so many large armies clash?”
“Hmm, rather than liking them, I think I’ll hate them. I think they’ll be drenched in fear of not knowing when they’ll get caught up in them too.”
A plain without dense forests or lofty mountains.
Quality soil and abundant water resources blessed by the Yellow River. Originally, this place would have been a land of abundance as a farmland, flowing with golden waves and feeding the people of the Wei and Han dynasties.
But not this year.
The sprouts that grew from the seeds that were sown were trampled and crushed by hundreds of thousands of armies on both sides.
Efforts made to clear the land for farming were squashed and crushed by the footsteps, and returned to nothing.
What was to be scattered on this land was not seeds and water, but flesh and blood, and the result of the harvest was not grains to take care of lives, but the lives of countless people.
Knowing that they were destined to change from the land of life to the land of death, the sound of the earth’s axis shaking in time with the advance of the army was heard as if the ground was crying.
“I see.”
As Yeo Hong-seong said, a black wave like a shadow rippled from the other side.
It was the army of the Qin Dynasty with black as its symbolic color.
Now there is really no turning back.
Jingun and joint army.
From now on, 500,000 people across both armies wielding spears and knives to kill each other.
I closed my eyes and carefully lifted them. All of a sudden, both sides stopped moving.
A confrontation that creates the illusion that even the atmosphere is shaking with a sense of tension.
During that brief silence, I spoke to Sima-san in a hint.
“Sang, do you have any regrets?”
“What regrets?”
“I did not come to Taewon, where General Lee Mok resides, but to Hanae here.”
“It sounds silly.”
Sima-san could not help being nervous in front of a battle of this scale, and Sima-san’s tone was more rigid than usual.
I wanted to dismiss my question like that, but Sama-san tried to pretend to be normal and added an afterword.
“No, nothing like that. I told you. Until you called me, I was your guest. And he didn’t. Then my seat is next to you.”
First time. The reason Sama-san looks like this. Even Sama-san can’t help but lose his cool and get excited in the air of the battlefield, where this condensation is about to explode.
On the other hand, Yeo Hong-seong, who was showing the same composure as always, sent a small exclamation at Sama-sang’s words. After hearing that, he realized what he was saying.
“What are you talking about, you?”
“What did I ask you to do? You said it well on your own?”
“Well, that’s okay. Concentrate. Move.”
Neither I nor Hongseong had time to make fun of Sama-Sang.
Sama-san’s words were not lies to divert our attention.
If you shook the ground with your footsteps, now it was your turn to make the sky rumble.
Blow the trumpet and beat the drum. The song of the battlefield proclaiming to the sky that I will soon offer up a sacrifice for you.
At the crossroads that will decide the fate of the world.
The battle has begun.
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“Tsk, Qin guys fight well.”
At the military meeting held after the first war, Hang Yan chewed on Qin with a harsh tone, befitting the commander of the first army who fought the most fiercely.
A joint army that came out after taking a break from class and ball. Conversely, the Qin Dynasty fought three battles in the order of Godo-Sanyang-Mo and that order.
The fatigue of both sides is overwhelmingly greater in the latter. Aiming for that, the joint army tried to fight quickly, but had to retreat without getting a big advantage.
Jangdang and Pyogong, who were the vanguard, fought well, and it was because Mong-oh, who grasped the situation, quickly ran and joined them.
“However, just instilling in the soldiers the perception that Jingun is no different from us would be of great help. There were many people who harbored vague fears about the advance.”
“Heh heh, I should also think of the opposite case. Some people must be even more fed up with Jin-gun, who relentlessly rushes at me as if I didn’t waste my life.”
Shin Won-yeon and Bang-nan presented conflicting results, but it seemed like the theory was that the former had more weight.
Better the fear of knowledge than the fear of the unknown.
Because of that judgment, Xinleung-gun must have fought the first battle even though both sides were less prepared.
“They don’t seem to have any plans to back down either.”
I also nodded my head at the extreme god’s words. There were many people from nomadic tribes in the county of Yan, and many of them had exceptionally good eyesight. There is no cavalry unit as organized as the Tigers, but if you look at individual skills, Yan cavalrymen’s magic is also one of the best in the world.
Considering these points, the reconnaissance was being carried out by Geojin Yeon.
As a result of reconnaissance, the Qin army joined Mong-wu’s main force and set up a military camp instead of withdrawing to Mona.
“I’m sure they don’t want to prolong the time either. As you all know, their obsession with military service is disgusting. Rather, they’ll be happy to see us turn around.”
Hang Yan snorted with contempt for the army of Qin.
Unusual obsession with military service of the Qin Dynasty.
That’s because the military law of the Qin Dynasty stipulates rewards and punishments according to supply and demand very thoroughly.
A reward for those who bring supplies, and a punishment for those who fail to bring supplies.
It was a simple reward and punishment structure, but the level was very extreme.
Basically, if you bring the supply and demand, your status and position will rise. If you have a low status, you are exempted from military service, and if you have a high status, you receive food.
In the Jin Dynasty, where status and titles were strictly ranked according to the Jin Dynasty’s rank system of 20th place, the class system was operating extremely firmly. Almost the only way to overcome it was to jump into the war and bring supply and demand.
Conversely, the punishment was also harsh. The most basic military unit, a dunjang (屯長), the most basic military unit composed of five people, or a hundred commanders, the captain of a centenary, which is composed of 20 o’s, must be cut down, otherwise they will be beheaded. Done.
Then, are the soldiers okay? No. When a commander died, it was natural that the soldiers assigned to him would be treated poorly, and if each unit failed to meet the allotted amount of supplies, the entire unit was punished. If you fill all the assignments, everyone gets a reward, but anyway.
In addition, there was a separate death squad in the Qin army, which was the first to climb the wall during a siege or to protect the rear during a retreat. These associations consisted of volunteers with a maximum of 18 members.
Even in such a death squad, the previous conditions were applied as they were, and if they did not receive supplies, the leader of the death squad was beheaded, and when the quota of five supplies was met, both the captain and the crew were rewarded with a first-class rank.
In addition to this, anyone who did not risk their lives to fight was punished by burning while everyone was watching, and if anyone prevented it, they were sentenced to cutting their noses under the castle for both enemies and allies to see, or He was sentenced to death by having a tattoo on his forehead.
Since it was the Qin army under such a terrible military law, it was only natural that their fighting power would become the strongest among the nations.
They really risked their lives to fight.
And these military laws and regulations continued for 100 years and became a culture.
Everyone in Jingun was a battle maniac and war maniac. Even those who were not naturally born belonged to the Qin army and changed that way. Those who did not adapt were eliminated by the hands of their allies, even if they did not die in battle.
“They’re like savages who don’t know the arts and manners. What kind of morality can we discuss with such people? Other than those who only play drums for music.”
Contempt for Qin was not the only story of Hang Yan.
Bangnan also expressed contempt for the Qin Dynasty.
“The fighting power of the Hao-na Qin army is unquestionably strong. Even if we despise their culture and history, we should never underestimate their military strength.”
I opened my mouth, wondering if they might be blinded by contempt and unable to properly face reality.
“Don’t worry, Yeontaeja. That won’t happen.”
Indeed. What kind of people are here to make such a mistake?
When I bowed her head to Lord Xinling and stepped back, she greeted her face to face and drew the positions of both armies on the map.
“In this battle, the Jin army deployed Pyo-gong on the right wing and Jangdang on the left wing. It is highly likely that they will come out in the same formation in the next battle.”
A Pyo-Gong unit with a high proportion of cavalry power.
They were more likely to be located on the right wing of the advance in order to use a larger battlefield.
The left wing of the advancing army had no choice but to consider the ball located in the north. Just in case, if we left the army on the ball, we could get hit in the side during the middle of the battle.
Conversely, the right wing had no such worries. To hit the side of the advancing right wing at the eastern level, you have to go round as well, which makes the trajectory almost twice as long as hitting the left wing on the ball.
After realizing the expected deployment of Jingun on the map, King Sinleung then picked up the horses with the names of the countries of the combined forces written on them.
“From now on, I will inform you of the deployment of our allies.”