Chapter 129 Prelude to the Northern Expedition

Chapter 129 Prelude to the Northern Expedition

In April 240 BC, Yuguo in Northeast China, after more than a month of preparations. At this moment, a group of 100,000 troops has gathered.

After a surprise attack in the previous winter, the Donghu people in the north of Yuguo were seized by Zhong Yu nearly 1/3 of the territory. If you look at it from the map, a Donghu territory that was originally crescent-shaped has now been bitten by the full moon in the middle. It has become an embarrassing situation where both ends are heavy and the middle is thin.

If the Donghu people don't want to be themselves, they will face the unfavorable situation that they may be cut in half by the enemy at any time.

Then they must send troops to regain the territory they were bitten by through war. Even if you win, you have to take the initiative to attack if you have spare power.

Let those who dare to offend the great prairie wolves, Xiaoxiao of the Donghu people understand that the Donghu people are not something they can afford.

And for Donghu people, it doesn't matter if they lose their territory. As long as there are people, with the characteristics of the nomadic tribe of the Donghu people, they can go to other places anytime and anywhere, and the natives in your place can fight a war. Conquer and drive them away, and at any time there will be another powerful, Donghu tribal alliance rising again.

Therefore, for Zhong Yu, he is about to face a war in which the remnants of Donghu people will gather all their strength and desperately come to revenge.

And those Donghu people are cavalry, very mobile. This Qin Shi Mingyue world is not the time and space of the previous earth, but a special alien plane

At this time, stirrups, as well as bow and arrow technology that did not exist on Earth originally. In the current nomadic tribes, it has become popular and quite complete.

This means that what I am facing is not another time and space, the mounted infantry of Qin Shihuang's Northern Expedition to the Huns. At that time, the prairie soldiers, even the cavalry, did not have saddles or stirrups. They relied entirely on their own legs to clamp the horse's belly and both hands to hold the rein tightly so that they could not fall off the horse's back.

Their combat method is often through the speed of their horseback riding, rushing quickly to the enemy's rear, and then transporting troops and harassing places.

The so-called riding and shooting means riding a horse, stopping the horse tens of meters away from a group of infantry, then sitting on the horseback, taking out the prepared bow and arrow and starting shooting.

So they encountered the Qin Dynasty crossbowmen with a longer range than them, and the Qin Dynasty cavalry infantry who also had cavalry troops.

The crossbowmen with a longer range were fired, a burst of long-range strikes, and then the whole army was defeated. And they were not as lucky as the northern nomadic cavalry in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty infantry who defeated them had no cavalry to pursue and expand the results of the battle.

The Qin Dynasty also had cavalry, and if they couldn't escape, the next fate they were waiting for was a massacre. Therefore, the territory and population of the Xiongnu tribe who were driven out of Hetao by the Qin Dynasty dropped sharply.

Had to cede territory to the Yuezhi and Donghu tribes, and began a period of extreme humiliation for them. It wasn't until the emergence of Maodun, the hero of the generation of the Huns, that they began to rise again and reached their peak.

But the Donghu tribe is now equipped with complete bows and saddles. It is completely possible to ride a horse, escape while shooting arrows, and have a good show of Genghis Khan, kite flying tactics.

This makes it extremely difficult for me to engage in a decisive battle with them and effectively annihilate their war potential with the living population.

It is even very likely to fall into a vortex of war. The Donghu people carried out continuous and continuous small-scale harassment. In the end, they dragged it tirelessly, all the national strength and energy were involved, and it was difficult to distract from the expansion in the south.

Don't do this, your so-called strategy of dominating the world and destroying the six countries to unify China has become a joke.

However, if there are disadvantages, there will be advantages. My own side has such shortcomings in dealing with Donghu. The Donghu people also have their disadvantages when dealing with themselves.

Previously, due to heavy snow, the road was blocked and the news was closed. Taking advantage of this heaven-sent opportunity, I annexed nearly 1/3 of their land and 1/4 of their population.

As a result, Donghu's original population of more than one million has dropped sharply to the current more than 800,000. Even if all of them are soldiers, at most they can only find more than 200,000 people to serve as soldiers to fight.

And at this moment, winter has just passed, and the grain reserves of those Donghu people must be almost exhausted.

In this case, I can completely emulate the world of the Three Kingdoms and rely on my own sufficient material reserves. Directly consume them to death, let them slowly starve to death due to food shortage, and collapse without fighting.

It's just a fly in the ointment, that is, I can't directly send batches of cannon fodder to consume the number of soldiers of the Donghu people like the Three Kingdoms.

Now that I am short of population, the whole country is added up, including those Donghu people who have just been conquered by myself, and those natives of Jizi North Korea. A total of only 3.4 million people, of which the male population is only 500,000.

The reason why there are so few is because many of the people in the Three Kingdoms World are family members of the previous armies. A man in the family has joined the army, and after those men died.

The rest of the young and strong are not all good or bad, so they can only farm in the rear and transport supplies. If it is used for war, it can only be said not to think too well.

Therefore, the entire imperial kingdom had a total of 200,000 troops, and 50,000 troops were taken by Cao Cao to attack Jizi North Korea. And the entire territory of the Imperial Kingdom was newly occupied, and in order to consolidate the rule, 50,000 people must be left to defend everywhere.

Then only 100,000 people can be drawn out to carry out the Northern Expedition.

Such a rare number can only reach half of the Donghu people in the north, and they want to gain a strategic advantage. And to achieve certain results, it must be taken by surprise, and the soldiers must make a dangerous move.

That's why Zhong Yu sent troops ahead of time to catch those barbarians by surprise when their horses hadn't fattened up and their strength hadn't recovered from the severe cold.

Try to achieve enough results when they react and concentrate enough troops, and reduce the number of their soldiers to the same level as their own.

As long as these goals are completed, the subsequent war will be a word, procrastination.

The Donghu people couldn't stand the drag, because the cattle and sheep had no time to graze, and a large number of them starved to death. War horses don't have enough time to regain their body fat by eating plump aquatic plants, so they become too thin. Slowly exhaust them by consuming their material reserves and war potential.

As for myself, nothing else, the war materials are absolutely sufficient and don't want it. With the support of the world of the Three Kingdoms, as well as the continuous generation of luck points for all the civilians in the empire. Compared to consumption, who is he really not afraid of?

But the Donghu people can't do it. With their backward system, the disadvantage of nomadic tribes. At most, the war that supports him for half a year will definitely be defeated on a large scale.

The only thing I worry about is that those Donghu people who have been driven to a dead end by me will run to my rear in spite of everything to destroy the settlement I just established.

So his main goal now is to urge the people in those counties. Build the city as soon as possible, so that there is a stronghold to defend against the cavalry attack of Donghu.

Everyone knows that cavalry cannot be used to attack a city.