Sweep the World

In the cold weapon era, countries that can mobilize one million troops have always been a minority. novel.

If you want to mobilize millions of people to join the army, first of all, the country must have a sufficient population base, so the area of ​​the country must be small.

If we come back again, the country will have to have enough farming areas to have enough grain to feed the huge population, and the usual accumulation will support the mobilization of millions of people to become the basis for soldiers.

In addition to population, territory, and sufficient food, the country's economic strength must not be too low. After mobilizing soldiers, they must not be left empty-handed. In addition, it is about the necessity of uniformity.

With the above-mentioned foundations, it is indispensable to be a strong central government. Otherwise, no matter how large the country’s population and how developed its economy is, without a strong central government, no matter how powerful the country is, it is actually an unusable level. .

For example, during the Warring States Period, the State of Qin repeatedly mobilized more than 500,000 troops with a population of four to five million. Qin Ting is a center with superb combat effectiveness. It not only mobilizes troops, but also usually guarantees enough. Munitions.

In the rest of the Warring States in the same period, the countries that could mobilize one million troops were not too few, but usually because the center did not have enough execution power, it clearly had a huge population base, but the usual mobilization of two to three million troops was to reach the limit.

At that time, there was a special Warring States Period. The population of Chu State was the largest among all Warring States, and its territory was also the largest in each country. Its economic strength was second only to Qi State. It was because of its special national conditions that Chu State could not display the size of the country. Combat effectiveness.

In the various dynasties of Zhuxia, there are not many countries that can mobilize one million troops. Only one million troops can be mobilized. The top numbers are Qin and Chu during the Warring States period, and the Xiaowu Emperor in the Western Han Dynasty did it once. , Shi Jie Zhao Guo, the five wild Chinese, did it once.

Can mobilize one million troops, and at the same time mobilize the army on the battlefield, then it is only the Qin and Chu kingdoms in the pre-Qin period, plus the Western Han Dynasty in the Liu Che period.

Looking further back, the Northern Song Dynasty’s standing forces have always exceeded one million, but the number of people able to go out into the field has never exceeded one hundred thousand. The Ming Dynasty was also a dynasty with a standing force exceeding one million for most of the period. The same thing as the Northern Song Dynasty is, the so-called The standing army really doesn't have many field troops.

Mobilizing millions of troops, and really deploying millions of troops to the battlefield, counts to count that only the Qin state in the pre-Qin period really achieved this.

For example, Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty mobilized millions of troops, but the troops that were drawn to the war were actually not that many. The most frequent was when Wei Qing commanded 450,000 troops, and Huo Qubing commanded 30,000 troops, except for the two uncles and nephews. The combined strength of the remaining frontier prefects and school lieutenants is about 130,000. With the addition of some frontier troops, the total force used in a campaign is more than 700,000.

After this battle, the national funds and treasury of the Western Han Dynasty were probably empty, and the troops used for a long period of time did not exceed one hundred thousand. Until Liu Che's death, the total force once again mobilized more than 150,000, it was the second division general Li Guangli expedition to Dawan.

The rest of the other dynasties? There are millions of standing troops in the country, but whether it is passive defense or active attack, it is rare to see an example of a single battlefield deploying more than 200,000 troops.

"The big man's army of millions..." Xie An said emotionally: "It's definitely not a garrison!"

Xie Ai understood what Xie An meant.

The so-called garrison is a unit that has no field capability, usually a garrison of a certain city, and its quality is basically not very good.

In the Han Empire before the 16th year of Yuan Shuo, there were a total of fifteen standing armies, including the Huben Army and the Yulin Army. These standing armies are all regiments with field capabilities, with a total strength of about 200,000.

The next-level county soldiers are actually the so-called garrison. I don’t want to talk about the uneven quality. In fact, there are no serious generals who come to drill. They are drawn to the field battlefield and even the basic military formations are not formed. stand up.

Xie Ai really understood what Xie An meant. In addition to the quality of the troops, the key was the general who led the troops.

This time the shogunate of the Western Expedition will eventually reach a strength of 500,000 troops, and the pressure on Xie An is not ordinary.

How many people have commanded half a million troops as a general in history? There are only a few generals who can command more than 500,000 troops and win with one hand.

The most famous and the most powerful person, except for Han Xin, there is no other person.

Han Xin despised Bai Qi and said that Bai Qi had a name. He believed that Bai Qi did not have the ability to control the army at all. What he meant was that Bai Qi only brought the army to the battlefield and did not have much flexible command over the army. Just put the troops on the battlefield to fight in a daze.

Bai Qi really led the army like that? Looking for some examples of battles involving Bai Qi's commanding troops, it seems that Han Xin made no mistake. Bai Qi's commanding troops is just the word "gang". No matter how many enemies there are, set up camps to wait for being attacked and wait for the enemy to stop moving. It's just Bai Qi's turn.

With the right combination and the odd victory, this art of war was thoroughly mastered by Bai Qi, but this method of play has extremely high requirements on the quality of the army under his command, especially the engineering unit, and the logistics consumption will be very terrible.

The hard-fought style of play hardly has any big wins and losses, and if you win, your own casualties will not be much less than the enemy's. It's almost a thousand kills and 800 losses. This is why Han Xin looked down on Bai Qi?

When Bai Qi commanded the most soldiers and horses, he reached 400,000, maybe even less than this number?

Han Xin's evaluation of Wang Jian, who is also General Qin, was much higher, not only because Wang Jian's highest commander number reached 600,000, but also because Wang Jian was able to mobilize the 600,000 army in a vast area.

It's not that 600,000 troops are placed there, and instead of mobilizing, just holding the camp. People with this ability are actually handsome in the true sense.

Han Xin's evaluation of Li Mu is also much higher than that of Bai Qi.

The reason is that Li Mu commanded a hundred thousand soldiers and horses on the vast grassland, divided and joined forces many times, and played superb chariots and cavalry tactics, and even commanded a larger number of infantry on the side, which was composed entirely of cavalry. The Huns won the battle.

Of course, Han Xin's evaluation of himself is extremely awesome, and the sentence "more soldiers is better, the better" is enough to explain everything. He didn't brag, and used a lot of records to prove that he was really awesome.

In history, it can command more than 700,000 troops, and can do it like an arm. Han Xin wanted to ask: Who else?

Every general will compare himself with famous generals in history, and Xie An is no exception.

Xie An felt more nervous than excited when he learned that he was going to command the 500,000 troops.

In history, a person who can command more than 500,000 soldiers and horses will either become a famous general or will inevitably become a sinner nailed to the pillar of shame. Whether it is to become a famous general in a battle, or to become a sinner in a defeat, in fact, the fate of the latter is difficult to predict.

It's not unpredictable, but unless you command the army as a king, you will end up with the suspicion of the king in the end!

"An Wei has the talent of the Huaiyin Marquis, so he can only serve the king's affairs with trembling." Xie An said this sentence specifically to Xie Ai: "In the introduction, please Chang Shi to be more diligent."

Xie Ai salutes without saying much.

To the northwest of Jilongpo is a vast plain. After the Persian army came over, they chose to set up camp 120 miles away from the Han army camp.

Habibullah didn't plan to build a line of defense from the beginning, and the camp didn't have much complicated layout.

Ten thousand people are boundless. The camps of more than two hundred thousand troops occupy a very wide area, which is definitely more than 20 square miles in terms of area.

They have the largest number of Chinese troops and occupy the largest area.

There are many camps distributed around the Chinese army, mainly to arrange the miscellaneous soldiers on the periphery, even if they encounter a surprise attack by the Han army, they can stand up and block.

Because of Shapur II's attention, the most famous Sassanian legions were transferred to the east when they learned that the Han army was advancing westward.

Including five thousand archers and ten thousand undead troops that have been handed down for nearly a thousand years. In addition, there are three thousand heavy cavalry and six thousand chariots. These troops constitute the absolute main force of the Eastern Army. .

The Persians have played archers for nearly three thousand years. They formed archers during the period of Darius, but the number of archers in each period is not fixed.

During the period when the Parthians ruled this land, fifteen thousand archers were formed. In the early stage of their rivalry with the Romans, the archers beat the short-legged Romans to the north, and forced them to be bad at riding. The fighting Romans continued to improve their infantry defenses, and the Romans’ tortoise formation was made in the process of resisting the Parthian archers.

Sassan had learned about the importance of saddles and stirrups from the Han Empire, and they copied them immediately.

Since saddles and stirrups have no technological barriers at all, as long as there are enough craftsmen to produce them in large quantities, the Persian cavalry has popularized saddles and stirrups within a short period of one year.

The Sassanid archers who received saddles and stirrups were sent to the Middle East battlefield to conduct actual combat tests. Faced with the rebellious Arabs, they carried out one-to-one killings more easily than ever.

The existence of saddles and stirrups not only strengthened the archers, but also strengthened the heavy cavalry.

Before saddles and stirrups, although Sassanian heavy cavalry can run rampant, the problem is that even if it only hits a straight line, some knights will fall off their horses. Secondly, because the legs do not have a point of strength, their main weapon can only be a spear with a length of about six meters, or a hard-rod style spear.

With a hard-rod style spear, even if one accidentally stabs an enemy, the knight will fall off the horse due to resistance.

With the saddles and stirrups of the Sasanian armored heavy cavalry, they carried out the necessary enhancements, especially inspired by the crossbow equipment used by the Han Empire. Sassan himself also developed a crossbow machine. The performance...that is, the range and penetration The power may not be as good as the Han Empire, but they also manufactured a large number of crossbows, divided into infantry and riding. The heavy cavalry was equipped with crossbows, longhairs and scimitars, and it was not a little bit strengthened.

At the same time, the results of Sassan’s contact with the Han Empire were far from being inspired by saddles, stirrups, and crossbows. They also found that plate armor was lighter than scale armor, that is, it is more difficult to manufacture plate armor than scale armor. The technology is completely different.

If the Han Empire were not so overbearing, Sassan didn't realize that no matter how tolerant it was, it would not be possible to avoid the Han Empire's westward advance. After those strengthenings, they once again had the confidence to push the Romans on the ground.

What's sad is that the Persians who had contact with the senior Han people, combined with the foreign policy of the Han Empire, confirmed that the Han people's westward advance was a matter of time. They really didn't want to wait for the Han Empire's army to replace all firearms before confronting it. , I chose to feel that there is still a trace of victory, even if it can't win, it can keep the West, which kicked off the prelude to the war early.

"Perhaps you can't wait any longer?" Habibullah just finished reading the information returned from the Kingdom of Jidoruo: "The Han sent envoys to Xiguishuang and Kashmir. Xiguishuang was afraid of the military peaks of the Han Empire. The possibility of choosing to stand on the side of the Han Empire."

In fact, the relationship between Sassan and the Kingdom of Gidoro was not good. In the early days of Shapur II’s accession to the throne, he did not miss the record of the Kingdom of Gidoro, and he fought under Peshawar several times, forcing the Kingdom of Gidoro to offer enough. Many tributes and slaves withdrew their troops leisurely.

Given the size and population of the Kingdom of Gidoror, including its economic strength, Sassan did not feel that the Kingdom of Gidoror would be threatened by the Han Empire.

The most important thing is that Sassanid and Rome have developed an anti-Han axis, and the countries they have joined are not too few. Then Hunite has survived in name only, and Xi Gaoche will also move across the country. The empire is in internal troubles, which is bad news for the anti-Han axis. One follow one~www.wuxiamtl.com~The Kingdom of Jidoro chooses to stand in the camp of the Han Empire to join this war. It is very likely that a kind of opposition will be formed. The anti-Han axis has a very bad effect.

"His Royal Highness's army will come soon." Habibullah groaned for a while, and said: "I decided to go south first and attack Xiguishuang!"

They have 220,000 troops here, and the Han army shows no signs of going westward. It is a good choice for the Han army to attack the Xiguishuang Society with 450,000 to 50,000. If the Han army takes action, whether it is advancing or Fighting here at the main camp, Habibullah thought it would be a good thing to Ang or send troops to Xiguishuang.

"The Han army moves best." Habibullah was extremely afraid of the Han army, which had not been moving. He knew that the generals under his command also had the same mentality: "After I left with my troops...", he looked at a face. A middle-aged man with a high value: "Pars, you can command the army to press forward appropriately."

"His Royal Highness will be there in two days?" Pars, the great eastern nobleman and the current lieutenant of this Persian army, nodded when he got the answer: "I understand what to do."

A knife is raised high, and it is the most scary before it is cut off.