Sweep the World

In the cold weapon era, there are really not many countries that can arm a million troops. If they can arm one million people and use them to conduct wars, it will be difficult to carry out sustained operations.

The former State of Qin repeatedly armed close to a million people for war, but if you look up history, you will find that the Qin army’s one million scale can only last for two or three years at most, mostly seven or eight months, and it will do itself every time. The vitality is badly hurt.

Since the Shang Yang Reforms, the Qin State has become a country with one army, one country, one principle and one righteousness. Everything that survives is farming and war, and the meaning of existence is for war. It is precisely because of the existence of the farming and warfare system that most of the resources produced by the people of the country can be attributed to the country. Only when the national treasury is sufficient can we repeatedly produce a million army, otherwise it is impossible to do that at all.

Since the Qin Kingdom, the Central Plains dynasty has rarely produced such a terrifying number of one million troops. The standing army that did not produce was only 20,000 to 30,000 at the time of the pre-Han period. The rest of the army came from military service. Kind of obligation. The subsequent dynasties were basically the same, except that there were few professional soldiers who did not produce. The rest of the soldiers usually did their own careers and waited to be called up before entering the army.

"In fact, we are in this state. The difference is the existence of a standing army." Xu Zheng is a lieutenant who is not unfamiliar with military affairs: "Our county soldiers are the military service system, and the popular point is the running water of the army."

The king patrolled the place, and Xie An, who had been in charge of military affairs in the northwest, had to show up. He had been waiting in the area near Nan'an County in Longxi County.

Xie An has two standing armies on hand, which are engaged in round battles against the remnants of the Qiang and Di ethnic groups.

The so-called Qiang and Di remnants are naturally those who have withdrawn from the Han territory. The remnants of the two ethnic groups located in the Xiqiang Mountain (Western Qingshan) area are just a part of it. At first, they seriously threatened Longxi County. The situation changed when Xie An led the army to come over.

Within a year and a half, Xie An tried to enter the Xiqiang Mountain twice, but the terrain there was really complicated, and the remnants of the Qiang and Di people were too able to escape. The Han army only controlled the basin east of the Xiqiang Mountain. It is difficult to control mountainous areas under insufficient conditions.

"It's extremely difficult for a big man to have a million army in recent years." Xu Zheng said with regret: "There are natural disasters that need to be dealt with, and the gang of civilian officials have been muttering about internal affairs, internal affairs, and internal affairs!"

Xie An understands history far better than Xu Zheng. If it weren't for being forced, who would engage in an army of millions?

In the history of war in the Central Plains, the scale of a million army rarely appeared after the Qin Empire. The main reason was that the grain and related weapons could not keep up. Then there were a few kings who made a million army and killed the country. Nothing, Zhu Xia civilization, who likes to learn from history for evaluation, will use those examples as negative teaching materials.

Shi Hu has engaged in an army of millions, and within a few years, Shi Jie and Zhao Guo walked into the historical garbage dump.

Fu Jian also called for the formation of a million army, which fell apart after the First World War, and even the extremely powerful Fu family Qin State (former Qin) was quickly swept into the historical garbage dump.

The record of the formation of a million troops in East Asia is relatively "plain", and many of them are still so-called "names." If you look at what's going on in the rest of the area, you will definitely be scared to urinate in an instant.

"No kidding." Xu Zheng recently came into contact with a lot of crooked nuts, and said to Xie An: "We are just an army of millions, but they are an army of millions at every turn, and I don't know if it is true."

Xie An knows that many countries have sent envoys to Han. As for what happened, he only knows a rough idea.

Xu Zheng picked up some hearsays, and his face was strange when he spoke.

The Queen of Babylon, Semiramis, expedition to India, with three million infantry, two hundred thousand cavalry and one hundred thousand chariots. This record is from the "History of Persia" by Ctesias, an ancient Greek doctor and historian in the fifth century BC

Herodotus's "History" records that there was a Persian expedition to Greece, mobilizing an army of five million. This is the background of the movie "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta", which is the big move made by Darius.

Ariane’s "Expeditions" in the second century AD recorded that in the battle of Gaugamela in the decisive battle between Alexander and Persia, Alexander’s army killed 300,000 Persian troops and captured more than this, that is, the Persian army exceeded 600,000. So many, not counting the garrison troops in Persia, the total strength of Persia is properly more than one million troops.

From the first to the second century, the ancient Roman historian Appian’s "History of Rome" records the Caesar's attack on Gaul and against an army of 4 million Gaul.

There are still so many records of over a million troops that can be found. Xie An suddenly found that he was completely unfamiliar with this world. The ancestors of Zhu Xia were exaggerated enough to make millions of troops. Those crooked nuts could make millions of troops at every turn. , It's terrifying.

Xie An was stunned for a while, then said: "Fake it!"

Xu Zheng smiled indifferently: "Who knows."

The truth is that the history of ancient wars in foreign countries recorded far more troops than the celestial dynasty. The celestial dynasty had a historian, and foreign countries did not have this profession. Then the celestial dynasty had at most "one as ten", that is, one person exaggerated ten. , Usually still appear in the aspect of "praising merit", more often it just exaggerates one or two times, and I dare not be too shameless. Countries outside the celestial dynasty are really different. That's why Westerners never use some "ancient books" records to tell things. That's because they know that it's a joke at all.

The number of ancient armies has always been a mystery. For example, the dynasties of the Central Plains have fine divisions. There are reliable numbers for how many soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and civilians, but these people are regarded as an integral part of the army. . Then it creates a phenomenon. The number of soldiers who directly participated in the war was only 30,000 to 50,000, but internally and externally, the rest of the people who served in the war were counted. There was an exaggeration of hundreds of thousands of troops and a million troops. Number.

Because I really knew what was going on, the Han state actually had an attitude of unbelief towards the so-called one-million-dollar army of the Gupta dynasty who directly participated in the war. It felt that it would be a kind of "name". The real soldiers can exceed 200,000, even if it is an exaggeration. The rest are people like Minpi at all.

"We have deployed 150,000 people in the Pingman Academy, including the two standing armies and the Pingman Academy. The actual number of soldiers is only more than 25,000, and the rest are for the presence of those soldiers. "Xu Zheng kept laughing "hehe", and then said: "Those who are at every turn have millions of troops. It should be counted as one person."

The real situation is like that. Every standing army has 15,000 people, but not all of these 5,000 people are soldiers. For example, the 5,000 people in a division are only 3,500 soldiers. All the soldiers below are used to serve the soldiers, which is equivalent to the fact that there are only 10,500 soldiers in the standing army.

The more soldiers in an army, the actual number of personnel serving them will increase geometrically. For example, 10,000 soldiers only need about 5,000 to serve, and 100,000 soldiers may need to increase to one. Two million people came to serve. This kind of service is not the kind of rear production, but various services nearby, such as the usual maintenance of ordnance, the security of the logistics line, the transportation of grain and so on.

"It should be like that." Xie An thinks that it is absolutely like that. If that is the case, wouldn't Zhu Xia's war against foreign races amount to 50 or 60 million troops at every turn? After all, the national war is the participation of all people! He also felt a little funny later, so he said: "At least I know that there are so many countries with a population of more than millions."

Generally speaking, the most manpower-consuming part of a war is in logistics. The necessary transportation team is one, and then there are guards on the transportation route. After all, no generals will ignore their own back roads and protect the transportation routes. It is necessary and incidental. It is more to confirm the safety of the back road. Otherwise, isn't it just being rounded up if there is no back road?

When necessary, anyone except combat troops will participate in the war, but that is under the precondition that an army cannot survive without fighting hard. Often doing this is either life or death, and the number of casualties will be quite terrifying.

During Yang Guangzheng's campaign against Goguryeo, the biggest mobilization was more than 1.1 million people. The number of people who participated in the war at the front has been maintained at more than 200,000, and the number of people who maintained logistical supplies was 8.9 million. When the Sui Army's war was unfavorable, regardless of whether it was a war soldier or an auxiliary soldier, even if it was a civil servant, he had to use his knife. As a result of the failure of the war, hundreds of thousands of people were buried in the ice and snow.

Taking the initiative to invade a country is not only to face the regular army organized by the enemy state, but to encounter more hastily organized mobs. Xie An told Xu Zhengyou similar views. For example, the Gupta dynasty obviously rushed to fight and mobilized. It looks like the number of troops will be huge, but the actual combat effectiveness is definitely not very good.

It's not that Han has never encountered the situation where the whole people of the enemy country went into battle. This was the case for Murong Xianbei. The battle against Yan faced hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, but it is hard to say what qualities the majority of enemy troops have.

"Huan Wen also said that." Xu Zheng talked about the last battle between the Pingman's captain's department, and then said: "The difference between the Gupta dynasty and the countries we have encountered is that it does not take the life and death of untouchables. Seriously."

Xie An has heard of Ah San’s caste system, but because he is too unfamiliar to make any remarks.

In fact, Xie An led the army to suppress part of the remnants of the Qiang and Di tribes in the Qing Dynasty. Isn't it the case that the whole people of the two tribes are all soldiers? The Han army participated in the war as a regular army, and every time it fought with the remnants of the two races, it gained a comprehensive advantage in the battle loss ratio. It really had sufficient experience to deal with the kind of enemy that rushed into the army.

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and the chat was to enhance each other's feelings. Some work problems of Xie An were also brought up during the private chat, and some suggestions were also included.

"The prisoners in the Bashu land were sent to the northeast." Xu Zheng was very sure that Xie An had not misheard the news, and answered Xie An's request. Go to the Taiwei Office."

In the final analysis, Xie An is too far away from the battlefield of Ah San, and he will have some curiosity there. He will pay more attention to his own job. For example, he does not have troops that are good at mountain warfare. He hopes that the center can support a group.

Whether it is a standing infantry or county infantry, it is really an infantry when it belongs to it. There are infantry and cavalry. There are no troops trained for special terrain. Regarding mountain soldiers and jungle soldiers, it is After the Han Kingdom continued to expand outward, a new concept came out of necessity.

Before the Han State, they were surprised to find that some countries had been organizing targeted troops for a long time, and they had obtained accurate information from the members of the Persian Sassanian and Roman envoys, whether they were Persians or Romans. Everyone has his own troops dedicated to fighting in the mountains.

"We started later than others. For the time being, we can only replace them with prisoners of war who are already good at running around in the mountains or jungles." Xu Zheng revealed an unsecret news: "The king has made it clear that the big man should also have his own mountain. force."

Xie An didn't know the news beforehand. After a daze, he asked, "Is it to form a new standing army?"

"That would be fine!" Xu Zheng gritted his teeth a bit: "The prime minister and others have been emphasizing the lack of food. There are 13 standing armies that have already exhausted national power. Obviously, they are opposed to the formation of a standing army."

Xie An understands that looking through the history books, it is true that today's big man has as many as 200,000 non-productive professional soldiers. The test of national strength is really not that big, even if he is a military officer. Unlike people who don’t think about whether the country can support it, they know the importance of things and tend to not need so many standing troops, but they dare not speak out the true thoughts in their hearts~www.wuxiamtl.com~Xu Zheng is still there. Said self-consciously: "Fortunately, some kings showed their attitude, otherwise they still want to reduce the number of standing troops, and completely forget how the Hu people are raging."

At that moment, Xie An's heart was contradictory. He is like many people in the current era. It is because he has gone through the catastrophes brought by the Hu people, he knows the importance of a country and national force very deeply. Great, belligerent must perish" basically regards "forgetting war and perilous" as the truth.

"Don't talk about how we expelled the Hu people, but the big Han occupied the Indochina Peninsula, where they have been providing food to the mainland..." Xu Zheng complained: "Why do they only see the cost but not the gain?"

Xie An subconsciously nodded and responded: "In terms of harvest, opening up territory is one side, and Dahan has repeatedly obtained resources from outside."

Xu Zheng got even more enthusiasm, mentioning why he wanted to fight one place after another, and then there were some secrets in the center that hadn't been spread to the outside. In general, it was that the gang of civilian officials were getting more and more unhappy.

Xie An also quietly listened to Xu Zheng's constant complaints. The more he listened, the worse he felt. No matter what, the new round of civil and military disputes seemed to be serious.