Chapter 76 Troop training (please recommend)
After the world calmed down, another half a year passed. During this half year, the whole world did not completely calm down, but became more and more turbulent.
In the past six months, the entire area north of the Yangtze River has been plowed by Zhong Yu, and countless local forces have been uprooted by him.
Those local forces either obey their own orders. If they are powerful, they can seal him a country. If they are small, they can only obediently obey orders under their own command and treat them as fish and meat to be slaughtered by themselves.
And Zhong Yu didn't worry at all that what he did would arouse public indignation among the gentry all over the world, because those big gentry were also doing the same thing as him.
All powerful gentry clans have sealed off the territory of a county by themselves. In order to control the county they are assigned to, they naturally have to concentrate all their energy and mobilize the energy of their entire clan to level up all the powerful clans in that county.
Let them obediently spit out the fat they swallowed in their mouths, and become ordinary local wealthy families who cannot shake their rule under their own rule.
Instead of holding countless soldiers in their hands, they may rebel and overthrow their own rule at any time. Therefore, this half year has been a bloody half year, with countless feudal states and wars everywhere.
Even under the command of Zhong Yu, there were gentry who took risks and rebelled, but they were put down by Zhong Yu's long-awaited 400,000 troops in a blink of an eye.
Not to mention other feudal states, those who are stronger are better, but if they are weaker, they can only be tied with the people in their own feudal state, or even be wiped out.
He had just obtained a country, but it was wiped out by others in a blink of an eye, and returned to Zhong Yu's hands again. What happened to those people was that the princes who were a little radical at first became sober in an instant.
The means have also been eased. The strong ones can naturally be crushed, and the weak ones mostly choose to live in peace. The local wealthy families and their monarchs share the political rights of this territory.
A lot of results have been achieved in a short time, and many wealthy families don't really want to fight their monarch to the death, and then be put down by the imperial army who has been waiting outside for a long time, and the whole family is wiped out without leaving a single person.
So for a while, the politics in those vassal states were like the Spring and Autumn Period. Part of the territory was controlled by the national army, and the rest was distributed to the nobles and nobles in their country.
Although doing so will greatly weaken the strength of the monarch, and the authority will also be greatly reduced, but the monarch can take advantage of its supremacy and be in a very neutral position.
When there are conflicts between several gentry families in the country, the monarch can use his position as the master to mediate the conflicts, thereby gaining benefits from it, and slowly eating away at those various gentry families.
In general, after half a year, the whole world has calmed down, and the blood shed and the number of people sacrificed in the past six months have reached tens of millions of people.
Compared with Zhangjiao's Yellow Turban Uprising, more people were harmed, and the casualties were heavier. This proves that organized forces are more terrifying than unorganized forces in killing civilians.
But compared to the dead and injured civilians, Zhong Yu and the princes under his command were not without gains, not to mention the local forces that were completely controlled by them.
The most important thing is that they went bankrupt and exhausted all national strength and resources to train an elite army amidst this turmoil.
The million-strong army trained under Zhong Yu's command had completely seen blood in this war, and the number was reduced to 800,000, but it can be called a regular army.
However, it still takes a lot of hard work before they become elites and become a force capable of conscripting and fighting. So the whole country has been pacified, and then I plan to send them to the grassland.
How can it truly claim to be a powerful country without fighting the army of the grassland nation? How can the army be called a real strong soldier!
Throughout the long history, during the Warring States period, the strength of the Qin and Zhao armies dominated the entire middle and late Warring States period. It is because each of their countries has serious border troubles and has been severely eroded by the Xiongnu and Donghu.
Therefore, the army has fought many battles with those grassland peoples, and its combat effectiveness has gradually developed. Naturally, they are much better than those infantry soldiers who are in the Central Plains and have never seen the rough and rough grassland.
The big Han was eroded by the Xiongnu, and after decades of counterattacks, Emperor Wu of the Han trained a strong army to fight on the grasslands and across the desert.
In the subsequent Sui and Tang dynasties, they continued to fight against the powerful Turkic forces on the grasslands, thus training a strong army across East Asia and even Central Asia.
Even the Ming Dynasty, which was relatively weak later, dared to fight hard with Mongolia in the early stage. Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Zhu Di even took the initiative to expedite the grasslands in the north several times, defeating Mongolia and fleeing.
This undoubtedly proves that fighting on the grassland and winning is the proof of whether an army is strong. The history of Chinese civilization is also a history of the struggle between farming civilization and nomadic civilization.
However, this time I will go out on my own, and I will not send too many soldiers and horses, but plan to divide them into several times, with an average of one batch every four months, and three batches a year.
Of the newly trained 800,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to leaving 200,000 to guard the various parts of the Central Plains, the other 600,000 were divided into three batches of 200,000 each.
With such an attack in turn, even if one of them loses, it will not cause the entire army to collapse. On the contrary, they can rely on their numerical advantages to continuously harass the entire nomadic people.
Forcing them to be in their own offensive state for the whole year, they can only passively defend themselves, but they have the support of the Great Wall and powerful soldiers and horses stationed, so they don't worry about them taking the initiative to attack.
If they really attack their own city walls with brains, then they should really be happy! Use cavalry to attack the city, are you kidding me?
After a year or even two years of harassment by myself, the nomads had no time to herd, and all the males went to the battlefield, and the population loss was absolutely huge.
If they can't last for a few months, they will definitely retreat, and then the entire grassland will fall into a long tug-of-war.
It is impossible for the attack of 200,000 people to be concentrated in one place. I plan to divide them into teams of 200,000 people, and each of them will attack as they wish.
Or they can discuss it on their own, and cooperate with each other. On the grassland, there are very few large-scale army group wars. Most of them fight a battle involving tens of thousands of people. Kill, and then continue to pull evidence.
So the size of 10,000 people is just right, enough for them to fight a battle, but also to ensure their flexibility, and 10,000 troops can also be used to attack a large tribe. The small tribe was in front of them, and they could only run away.
And there is the most important point, that is, I have no shortage of strong players. There are enough talents to command those soldiers to go to the desert to fight those nomads.
For example, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gan Ning, Xia Houdun, Xia Houyuan, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Tai Shici and so on are more famous generals who are now adults in the Three Kingdoms. There are also relatively well-known monarchs, such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Gongsun Zan, etc., who were all summoned by him to the Central Army.
These people belong to the army directly under him and serve him directly. If they are used to command those armies to fight, even if they lose the battle, they will not lose too badly.
Well, if they win, it will be a big victory, and it will definitely cause heavy losses and pain to those sparsely populated nomads.