The wars between the Central Plains and the grasslands have had certain rules since ancient times. The grasslands often initiate wars, and the Central Plains are forced to respond. In the early stages of the war, the grasslands are often powerful, and in the middle stages of the war, there is a stalemate. In the later stages, the Central Plains expel the grassland forces. This pattern is actually two-fold. The root cause of the collision of different civilizations is the difference in production methods and the collision between nomadic herding and farming.
The mobilization speed of the grassland war is unmatched by the Central Plains Empire. This is because the grassland army only needs to ride horses and drive cattle and sheep. The integrated movement of the army and the people is so fast that there is no need to consider the equipment.
The Central Plains Empire, which is dominated by infantry, needs to consider food, grass, baggage and armaments, and its marching speed cannot be compared with the grassland army. This is an inherent weakness. However, the advantages of the Central Plains Empire are not comparable to those of the grassland army. They are fundamentally different from two different production methods. , Agricultural civilization has enough food, and a sufficient food base means that craft technology has space and soil for development.
Not to mention anything else, most of the armor and stomach on the Jiuhu people are mainly leather armor, and the elites only have iron-leather armor. Although the auxiliary soldiers in the Daqian army also wear leather armor, this is only for convenience of movement, not to say that The auxiliary soldiers had no armor to wear.
Among the armaments provided by the Ministry of War to Daqian's army, each soldier has three sets of armor, one set of armor, one set of iron-inlaid leather armor, and one set of leather armor. These three types of armor will not be distributed all at once, but will be distributed according to the soldier's condition. Specific duties on the battlefield are assigned from the arsenal of each army, and these are ordinary soldiers.
As for the armored stomach of the officer, the originally issued armored stomach can be enhanced or weakened according to personal needs. For example, the armored stomach dyed black on Su Ce's body was previously the azure blue armored stomach given by the prince. A lot of armor pieces have been added to his figure. Of course, this is still a set of armor. Su Ce also has a set of iron-inlaid leather armor and a set of standard leather armor equipped by the Ministry of War, but they were replaced by Li Chang with more sophisticated armor. The stomachs are prepared by each government office or the Treasury Department of the Ministry of War, and are handed over to the Supervisor and Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Works to make them.
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As for weapons, except for the standard Tao and Mo Dao, which are not allowed to be made by private individuals, any other weapons, as long as officers and soldiers with some assets will spend money to customize them themselves.
After all, it is what saves one's life and kills the enemy on the battlefield. Therefore, in the reality that the prosperity of the whole family depends on one person, everyone who goes to the battlefield will spare no effort to strengthen the family's output in armor and weapons.
Therefore, the Central Plains army is more fully armed and has a larger number of people. When the Central Plains army changes from peaceful production to war, it can draw a tie with the grassland in the middle of the war, and in the later stage it will crush and expel the grassland army.
Just because the Central Plains lacked horses, it was often possible to defeat and defeat them, but not to completely annihilate them. Only when the cavalry of the Central Plains army was worthy of a fight could a battle of annihilation be waged.
The number of enemies annihilated in the Battle of Dashi was rare in the century-old history of Anbei wars. The reason was that the Russians had too few cavalry. In order to cover the Russians, the Jiuhu people had to fight with the large army of infantry and cavalry on the grassland. A series of sniper battles took place.
Of course, this situation has completely changed now. The Jiuhu army now has less than 100,000 horsemen. The elites have been exhausted in the southward movement in recent years, and have even become vassals of the Rus.
King Rus received the letter sent by Su Ce to reconnoiter the cavalry. He had already lost interest in this war. The purpose of expelling the Daqian Crown Prince's army had been completed. Now he still had his own considerations in delaying the move. One was that he was afraid of being pursued by the Crown Prince's army. , the other is to eliminate dissidents. As for the life and death of the Jiuhu people, the Jiuhu people who have had their wealth emptied out are now vassals, but they still have their own autonomy.
If the 100,000 cavalrymen of Jiuhu can be given to the Dagan people to be annihilated, then the remaining 400,000 women, children, old and weak of the Jiuhu people are not just 400,000 slaves, which is no less than fat falling from the sky for the Russians who have slaves to divide the country. Meat.
Therefore, when the reconnaissance cavalry sent by Su Ce revealed Su Ce's intentions, King Charles of Rus only asked for an open market to balance the interests and needs of the domestic nobles.
War has always been a continuation of politics. What Su Ce wanted could only be obtained on the battlefield, but what was given on the battlefield was far from what Su Ce wanted.
The prince's documents were sent to Su Ce's desk every three days, but Su Ce never mentioned sending troops until the end of April, when crops were planted in the fields of the Anbei Protectorate, and Su Ce coordinated and prepared the troops of the Anbei Protectorate. It was only after the new era that troops were sent to Langyan Mountain.
There are more and more troops in the three valleys of Langyan Mountain. Together with the previous 150,000 troops, Su Ce organized them into three armies and a partial division, namely the left army, the middle army, and the right army.
The Left Route Army reorganized 70,000 infantry and cavalry from the previous Left Army, and controlled a partial division of 30,000 chariots and cavalry. A total of 100,000 people were stationed in the Zuowuguan Valley. The commander-in-chief was Sun Shaoxiang, and the deputy commander was Wang Wuping.
The middle road is the reorganization of the former front army and the Chinese army, with a total of 50,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry and cavalry. A total of 15 armies are stationed in the Beidingguan Valley. Commander Bai Weimeng and deputy commander Gao Keshan
The Right Army was reorganized from the original Right Army and increased its strength to 110,000 infantry and cavalry, including 50,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry, totaling 160,000 troops. The commander-in-chief was Zheng Donghua, and the deputy commander was Li Suifeng.
Su Ce sat down to calm down the Northern Protectorate. Su Ce did not need to go to the battlefield in person in this battle, because he could not compete with his subordinates for merit.
This time, the Northern Army was only led by six purple-clad generals, while the other purple-clad generals were suppressed by Su Ce in Langyan Mountain and Anbei Mansion.
Because Su Ce had already called out the seventy-two generals in purple in the army and released thirty-six generals in purple.
There is no need for so many generals in purple to share the credit on the battlefield.
Even the six purple-clothed generals were the six most junior among the original purple-clothed generals. Su Ce's request for the six of them was to let go of the Fei-clad generals to fight.
The 360,000-strong army needs not only generals in purple to command them, but also generals in scarlet clothes to command them.
This time, Su Ce sent out all the Feiyi generals under the age of 35 from the All North Army, a total of more than 230. Later, he asked the remaining Ziyi generals to recommend more than 120 generals under the age of four. The ten-year-old Feiyi generals had enough to gather 360. From the time when the general strategic concept was set to the dispatch of troops at the end of April, Su Ce met with the dispatched Feiyi generals one by one at the governor's office.
Su Ce was given the opportunity to become a general in purple. As for who will have this fate in the end, we will see on all battlefields.
When these crimson-clad warriors walked out of the Governor's Mansion, no matter whose subordinates they were before or whose favor they received, Su Ce's brand was imprinted on them from then on.
For this reason, Su Ce even dispatched the Scout Cavalry Sword Department of the three schools, which can be regarded as informing everyone that the Scout Cavalry Sword Department will later be changed to the Scout Cavalry Sword Department.
At that time, Taizu gave him the Xuanwu double seal. One seal was the Xuanwu seal, which could control the four shield battalions of the reconnaissance cavalry. It was also the identity of the leader of the Northern Army that could be shown to the public. The other seal was the Xuanwu negative sword seal, which could be used to control the reconnaissance cavalry.
The middle camp was just a place of excessive killing by the Northern Army commanders in the past dynasties, so a reconnaissance cavalry center camp was called the reconnaissance cavalry sword department.
Su Ce renamed the Scout Cavalry Center Camp to the Scout Cavalry Sword Department in the hope of bringing some changes to the Scout Cavalry Center Camp. The sword is a gentleman's weapon, and a gentleman obeys the rules. Su Ce also hopes to use this name to let the trembling purple-clad generals in the Northern Army know that as long as
If you abide by the rules, the Scout Cavalry Camp will not kill everyone with swords like in the past.
The reconnaissance cavalry camps of the three schools were exposed. Su Ce did not keep all of them with him. The reconnaissance cavalry of one school was 400 cavalry. These 1,200 cavalry were divided into two purposes. One was to draw various reconnaissance cavalry from the three schools.
One person and a group of three followed a Feiyi warrior, and the remaining 120 riders joined the 80 people of Su Ce's bodyguards, with Luo Yang controlling and protecting Su Ce.
There were not that many generals in purple clothes who were restrained, and Su Ce was also afraid that these generals in scarlet clothes would not obey military orders for the sake of military merit, and would not cooperate with the friendly forces and become scattered.
Su Ce took the initiative to expose the reconnaissance cavalry and sword departments of the three schools, which was both unexpected and reasonable. Su Ce wanted to strengthen his control over the expedition army. No one would blame Su Ce. Even Zhao Zaixiao, the king of Shu who spent all day hunting, also transferred
He hired more than 300 Peony guards to serve as commanders of various armies.
When the sound of horns sounded one after another in the Langyan Mountains, Prince Zhao Zaicheng was also preparing to drive back to Chang'an.
Of course, the prince had not left the camp at this time. Although the royal family had always wanted to weaken the Northern Army, which was too big to lose, the Northern Army was engaged in war in the north, so the emperors of the past dynasties did not take heavy action.
However, when it comes to supporting other armies and suppressing the Northern Army, it is only a temporary balancing act. The royal family is the most uneasy about the other military leaders of the three sides. This is because the interest groups behind the four sides are different. Compared with those who are in solidarity with the country,
Guan Longxungui, the Shandong aristocrats who only seek fame and family inheritance, and the Jiangnan gentry who only seek official positions and profits are just outsiders. The Daqi Forbidden Army and the Anxi Frontier Army, which are descendants of the Daqi royal family, are the biggest hidden dangers to the rule of the Daqian royal family.
Therefore, the reason why Prince Zhao Zaicheng cooperated with Su Ce was that the 100,000 Anxi old soldiers, no, there should be less than 65,000 Anxi old soldiers left, were the final prey of the royal family this time.
The Northern Army, which initially lost the initiative, now has 100,000 soldiers taking the opportunity to enter the ten prefectures of Longyou to resist Tibet and defend Anxi. Although the royal family's 50,000 tomb guards now have less than 40,000 left, the royal family has troops to fight.
It's a pity that the Anxi Frontier Army's plan came to nothing, and the fate of one hundred thousand soldiers was already doomed from the moment they left Longyou Road.
Anxi's basic forces were occupied by the Northern Army, and they also lost the initiative in the Guanlong area.
All parties have plans, and the Northern Army, which accounts for 40% of the military strength, is the only force that can upset the table.
Qian Taizu set a rule for the Northern Army that no hereditary inheritance was allowed, which was also a tight tie and support for future generations.
The Northern Army was loyal to Daqian rather than the royal family, which gave successive Daqian emperors a bottom line in their actions. However, other forces were suppressed by the Northern Army and could not shake the Zhao family.
Although the Duke of Qi and the Duke of Chu are friendly on the surface, the evil behind them is so dark.
Although the Zhao royal family only has mausoleum guards who can be used openly, but the world is at home, the South Yamen Sixteenth Guards, composed of border troops who are good at fighting, and the North Yamen Sixth Army, composed of two good families from the capital, are also
It has long become the cornerstone of the Zhao family.
Su Ce understood the struggle of the Anxi frontier army from the very beginning, but Su Ce still chose to cooperate with the sage and prince in performing this drama. The battle was endless, and it was time to recuperate. Although this willpower was not People wave the flag and shout, but it lingers in everyone's mind.
The torrent of the times is unstoppable, and the collective will cannot be resisted. Su Ce can only use his own way to keep the Northern Army alive.
When the army broke out, the second prince Zhao Zaixiao took the initiative to find Su Ce. The two did not talk about the war, but only about the romance. This opened the eyes of Su Ce who had never been to the land of romance.
Although Su Ce is mentally older, he still has the mentality of a young man. After all, if he has not experienced many things, his mind will not grow. King Zhao Zaixiao of Shu said so enthusiastically that Su Ce just agreed.
The two of them actually knew that the second prince was trying to instigate Su Ce. After Su Ce's wife had a miscarriage, many noble families tried to win over Su Ce through marriage, but they could not find a chance.
The king of Shu, Zhao Zaixiao, also reminded Su Ce that marriage was not an option. With the strength of the Northern Army increasing, if Su Ce married a noble family, the saint would have raised his sword.
It's just that Su Ce is not what the world thinks. All he wants is for the two of them to live in peace for the rest of their lives. The King of Shu's reminder was also the wrong person.