Insufficient balance

  The countless iron cavalry brought up a thunderous movement, enough to make the timid soldiers' souls fly away; The countless people's loud shouts, clearly made the weak ones frightened. But that torrent that could open mountains and valleys, always rushed up again and again, and stopped in front of the rocky cliff, helpless and dispersed. The masterless warhorse wandered blindly on the battlefield, among the scattered limbs and broken blades, let out a long mournful whinny. The dry cracked earth was crushed into dust under the iron hooves, rising and falling continuously in the air.

  Although I had mentally prepared for the cruelty of the battlefield, nothing could have prepared me for the real thing. The sight of blood and flesh flying everywhere, the use of weapons, hands, and anything that could be grabbed to attack, even teeth, was a desperate struggle for survival. In an instant, people were reduced to lifeless piles of flesh and blood, their bodies cut and stabbed by clashing weapons. The air was filled with the stench of blood, metal, leather, and human fluids, accompanied by the sounds of wailing, anger, and screams, as well as the dull thud of armor being torn apart and bones shattering. The ground was covered in a mess of flags, bodies, and debris, with red and white splatters everywhere.

  Everything, everything made the self-proclaimed unobstructed General Ou Yan finally unable to withstand the intense nausea and vomit again. And unfortunately, he happened to be holding onto me, who was closest to him, leaving countless hot memories on my body.

  Although I told him that the general on the battlefield cannot be affected by unnecessary emotions and judgment, I really couldn't help but want to strangle someone's neck. At this time, a sudden change occurred on the battlefield.

  My lieutenants each led a small team of strong and brave warriors, taking turns to launch fierce attacks, charging forward in waves. Wherever they appeared, a storm of blood and fire erupted. The enemy's attempts to gather their forces were disrupted by my men's valiant efforts. I dared to use infantry to attack the cavalry because I had taken advantage of the narrow terrain, using the lay of the land to compress the enemy's space, making it difficult for them to launch a powerful charge.

  One after another, again and again, three times in a row. This back-and-forth battle has repeatedly worn down the enemy's morale. Although the enemy's tenacity and ferocity were unexpected, they were ultimately outnumbered, and our ambush tactics took them by surprise. With the advantage of numbers and terrain, we largely offset the enemy's cavalry advantage. The battle was intense and arduous, but as our numerical superiority gradually became apparent, the outcome seemed almost certain... yet an unexpected turn of events still occurred.

  Suddenly emerging from the enemy's ranks, the great general of the enemy army swung his flying weapon, sweeping through our formation like a whirlwind. With an unstoppable momentum, he advanced step by step, with a large area around him being swept away. Although his speed was not very fast, no one could approach his back within a short distance. Anyone who tried to get close was struck down by his swinging weapon. In a short time, he killed several soldiers and dispersed the enemy troops, causing them to retreat in disarray. The enemy general's spirit was greatly boosted, and they gathered around him, using their bodies as shields to follow closely behind him. Forming a sharp, cone-shaped long formation, they pierced through our army like an iron wedge under his leadership, opening up a bloody path.

  In the face of rapid and local superiority in intercepting troops, the enemy commander did not directly engage in a hard charge, but instead skillfully led his troops to circle around and make curved charges, left and right. Under the sharp impact, those originally well-ordered small circular formations were like snowflakes scattered by a strong gust of wind, collapsing one after another. However, this was not without cost; with each formation being broken through, the soldiers' counterattacks also took down some men and horses from the charging dragon-like troops, making them thinner. Later, they were replenished by the gathering enemy troops. Under the continuous casualties that could not be effectively resisted, the chaotic situation in our army's formations spread further, and many soldiers had begun to panic and instinctively dodge and scatter, disrupting other formations.

  It seems that this kind of desperate and disadvantageous battle is still too difficult for these new troops. Anyway, most of the enemy army has already fallen into my formation, and in the chaos of the battle, bows and arrows have lost their effect. I raised my hand to issue the last military order, and the herald took it and went. The infantry who were originally covering the archers became the new vanguard, forming a line and rushing down quickly, soon entering the battlefield. Under the command of Left General Wei Tao, they slightly restrained their momentum, with my mountain bandits as the vanguard, shouting loudly, charging into the thickest part of the enemy formation, sweeping horizontally with long-handled broad knives, urging each other on, and forcibly breaking through the enemy's formation, tearing it apart like a sharp knife cutting open the belly of the enemy's dragon, splitting it in two.

  Cheng Shili, the vanguard, performed unexpectedly well. With his robust arm strength, he wielded his sword like a flying blade. Although his moves were simple, each strike was as fierce as a gust of wind that knocked down a circle of people, pinning them to the ground like a nail. He broke through the enemy's surging tide, splitting it in two, and took advantage of the opportunity to rally the scattered soldiers, led by Wen Pei, Yu Hong, and Fan Suo, who charged forward to fill the gap that had been torn open.

  The enemy general was also a decisive person, ignoring the fact that his rear army had been cut off and surrounded. He didn't look back, relying on his bravery to charge forward with one drumbeat, avoiding the strong points of our army and taking advantage of the gap between our new and old troops. He made a detour and broke through, charging straight ahead, and suddenly turned the tide of battle, threatening our rear.

  The auxiliary civilian strongmen who had seen this formation before were shocked and killed, fleeing in all directions. Seeing our army, they naturally rushed over like a lifesaving straw, but again blocked and disrupted our pursuing soldiers. After killing each other, they had already opened up enough distance. I was about to let this enemy army escape, but the enemy army suddenly changed its formation and turned back to attack. The pursuing troops who were entangled with the civilian strongmen and had not yet formed a battle line were counter-attacked and retreated, collapsing into chaos, and our advantage vanished in an instant.

  The scene was chaotic, with the sound of killing and wailing filling the air. The situation was unclear, and the forward troops were greatly affected by the encirclement. To varying degrees, they began to waver. My main force was currently stuck below, with Liu Changzhou's unit being held up by the remaining enemy forces who were fighting desperately. They couldn't break free. Gao Dafu's unit, which had completed its mission, was rushing over to provide support as quickly as possible. The morale and willpower of the troops had reached their limits after a long battle. If they were subjected to even a little more pressure, they might collapse entirely, leading to a complete rout.

  The enemy who had been repelled once again broke through the outermost circle of Liu Changzhou's troops and regrouped into a single force. Although Liu Changzhou himself was fighting valiantly, his sword flashing like snow, charging forward and killing anyone in his way, with a trail of corpses quickly piling up around him, he encountered that enemy general who connected three blows with a deafening crash, sending the surrounding soldiers covering their ears and retreating hastily. His horse couldn't withstand it and fell to the ground, and in an instant Liu was submerged in the surging tide of people, his fate unknown.

  The officers and men who had witnessed the enemy general's ferocity began to voluntarily yield and retreat in disarray. Just as the enemy army was about to launch a final attack, they suddenly felt the earth tremble slightly, and the experienced old generals' faces changed color instantly.

  Only the sound of galloping hooves came rolling in, and two columns of dust burst out from behind Mei Ridge. It was Xie Si's cavalry, as well as the Inner Six Camps' troops armed with captured horses, charging down in two routes. One route had a diverse array of uniforms, led by none other than Tu Duhao, who desperately sought to redeem himself through meritorious service. This was originally my trump card for a decisive blow from an ambush. However, the enemy's ferocity far exceeded my expectations, and engaging them head-on would have been suicidal. Even in the positional warfare that followed, it had no use. Several requests to engage were suppressed by me. It wasn't until now that they could be deployed, and the problem could basically be resolved once and for all.

  In the blink of an eye, they charged into the enemy formation, with a belly full of rage, almost trampling and stabbing through the dense crowd of people, like two sharp intersecting daggers, tearing apart and splitting the enemy's resistance. Like throwing a huge stone into boiling water, it stirred up a frenzy of flying bodies and weapons, leaving behind a trail of blood and flesh, like a sieve filtering away the enemy's life, making their formation increasingly sparse and scattered.

  The enemy army, which had lost its mounts and was exhausted from the long battle, was in a state of panic but had no intention of surrendering. With only short weapons in hand, they used the bodies of the dead as cover, even biting with their teeth, and launched a desperate counterattack against the cavalry, which was charging with absolute superiority. The enemy troops fought back fiercely, tearing and slashing at the horses, and many riders were pulled off their mounts by the sheer force of the enemy's onslaught, trampled to death in an instant amidst the chaos. The fierce counterattack by the front line, though bloody and costly, bought time for those behind to form a defensive line with long spears against the cavalry.

  But an absolute gap can't be made up for by willpower alone, and the war is no longer suspenseful.

  To the reader's doubts: Why did the Qing dynasty want to eradicate the sprouts of capitalism, why did they have to come up with "Confucian thought" to deceive the people, and why did those Chinese emperors insist on holding onto feudal ideas?! Wake up! You go back in time and preach to the emperors about freedom and loving the people. Who do you think you are?!

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  I can only say that this brother doesn't understand the Tang Dynasty very well. The Tang Dynasty was the largest country in the world, and it was also the peak of the development and prosperity of the feudal system and society as a whole. At that time, the so-called "democratic system" originated from the dark ages of Greek and Roman civilization, when Germanic and Frankish barbarians were still searching for people who could read Latin. There was no era of democratic republicanism, and there was no environmental awareness or awakening. A social historical stage is formed through long-term gradual development, and it has its own rational value at that time, which is also the basis for China's long-term leadership in the world.

  Forcibly changing a society's system across eras requires paying a price, and forcibly changing thousands of years of inherited traditions is even more difficult. The Ten Years of Chaos is a good example.

  The protagonist is just an ordinary person, without the boring sentiment of taking the world as his own responsibility, nor will he deliberately ask for anything. What kind of fruit these seeds will produce is not something he thinks about. The advanced consciousness may have been very prominent at the time, but it's not all inapplicable, so he only selectively adopted some relatively more advanced things from the long-term historical development and feudal society. All means are serving the social environment at that time.

  I have always been puzzled by those who like to run to ancient times to establish a republic, knowing that social systems are adapted to the productive forces of the time. What kind of era is suitable for what kind of social system, this is the law of development of civilization. Like in the Ming and Qing dynasties, capitalism had already begun to sprout internally, and externally there was the global situation of bourgeois revolutions, so it's not too early for democracy and republicanism to appear. But some were clearly in the most mature period of feudalism and autocratic rule, yet they could still conjure up a republic out of thin air, and what's more, there would be a group of figures from that time who would follow them with sudden and rapid awakening and progress of thousands of years, which is really unbelievable.

  So don't get it wrong, and associate this book with some inappropriate crap about freedom and democracy.

  The Tang Dynasty was also the most open era of feudal society. Women could go out and socialize, even after marriage, and form their own social circles, with a considerable range of freedom and democratic ideas that were not entirely forbidden. A strong country cannot be ruled by corrupt ideas and policies that deceive the people. Emperor Taizong of Tang implemented the imperial examination system to select talented scholars regardless of background, while Empress Wu Zetian promoted martial arts training in prefectures and counties, establishing a military recruitment system. Confucius was just a scholar who lived thousands of years ago, peddling his own teachings but facing rejection everywhere, and could only rely on teaching common people to spread his somewhat disreputable ideas as a poor professor. All academic theories are tools serving politics.

  The real policy of fooling the people only flourished after the Song Dynasty was extremely weakened in politics and military, and later it also experienced the rule of foreign ethnic groups. In order to govern a small number of nationalities over a large number of Han Chinese, they had to promote absurd and negative things to divide and disintegrate the nation's blood and spirit of resistance against unreasonable rule.

  Don't think that good things are only products of modern times, our ancestors were also very clever, and the things from ancient times are not entirely worthless. Throughout history, there have been people with vision beyond their time.

  Although the names are vastly different, the policy of state-owned land and reassigning usage rights was actually implemented in a failed form over 2,000 years ago during Wang Mang's reform. The production army-style border defense started from the Western Han Dynasty's border garrison system. The household registration system with urban-rural differences has been in place since the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, hasn't it been going on for thousands of years?