Chapter 1925 Waste the Tiger and Leopard, Build the Elephant Cavalry
In addition to Xizhou and the Western Regions, it didn't take long for Li Xiang to receive news that everyone from Cao Cao's forces had joined the company.
Cao Cao did give Li Xiang a surprise. A group of his closest and most capable generals were all packed up to Li Xiang.
The generals who commanded the army include Cao Ren, Cao Zhen, Cao Wenzhao, Tian Ji, and Wei Wuji.
Fierce generals such as You Liang and Cao Kerang are the two most powerful generals under Cao Cao. In addition, there are peerless top generals Tu Xingsun, Xu Long, Xu Feng who have a base strength of 105...
Not only did the counselors not mention Xun You, who never left Luoyang, but also Cheng Yu, Cen Wenwen, Lu Miaozi, Jiang Gan, Su Zhe, Xun Feng, Lu Su...
However, a problem also arises. Except for a few people such as Lu Su, the rest of these people are the core figures of the Cao Group. These people are not die-hard loyal to the Cao Group.
But it is definitely much stronger than others.
Moreover, Cao Cao's sons also arrived together, and these people were bound to surround Cao Pi.
The addition of such a small group is not a good thing for Li Xiang.
Li Xiang doesn't care if his subordinates have small groups, such as the Jingzhou Faction, Bingzhou Faction, Sizhou Faction, Liangzhou Faction, and recently a weak Nanman Faction. These small groups are not a problem.
, even these small groups are more connected with each other, but at least they are loyal to Li Xiang in the general direction.
But for people like the Cao Group, Li Xiang still couldn't believe their loyalty.
In the age of cold weapons, the ancients liked to domesticate some animals to assist in combat or transportation, such as horse cavalry, camel cavalry, war mastiffs, etc. However, the most powerful animal special forces are none other than war elephants.
But there are not only elephants in South Asia, but also in the territory of the Southern Barbarians.
It's not that he really can't afford another Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, it's just that Li Xiang just wants to form another army now, and the expenditure for this army is even more exaggerated than that of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
Besides, it doesn't matter that there is such a small group, they also brought three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry.
The suppression of the cavalry by the war elephants is astonishing. The war horses will be intimidated by the smell of elephants. If the war elephants roar a few more times, the battle will be impossible to fight, and the light and heavy infantry will be even less able to stop the charge of such a behemoth.
Of course, you have to give a sweet date for every blow. After dismantling the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Li Xiang had to compensate them from other aspects in order to calm the minds of people like Cao Group.
Troops like war elephants were rare in ancient China, but there were indeed many in other countries.
Therefore, Li Xiang planned to split the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry directly and replenish the elite battalions under his control. These 3,000 people were scattered to various elite battalions and to various states. Without the leadership of General Cao, adding
After a long time, the ideological impact of the Jin army has nothing to do with the Cao family.
Besides, Li Xiang doesn't have such a serious collecting habit, so not every elite battalion wants to set up one.
However, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry army has left a strong imprint of the Cao Group, and this imprint cannot be eliminated just by one's will.
Therefore, after much thought, Li Xiang finally decided to abolish the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and split the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry into various armies. Of course, it was not split into ordinary armies, but also split into
Among those elite camps.
Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde, this traitor will do this in the end!
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is such an elite army. I believe that no prince can say that they are not jealous. No matter which prince the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry joins, that prince will definitely welcome it with both hands.
Do the elephant soldiers have weaknesses? Of course they do. How can there be a perfect army? But in the context of cold weapons, the elephant soldiers do have a great advantage over the cavalry on the grassland.
Since Alexander suffered the consequences of Darius of Persia's war with elephants, various countries have begun to build their own war elephant troops. Until 1700 AD, elephant soldiers were a terrifying existence. Seleucus I, Hannibal and other military leaders
The big names are also masters of using elephant soldiers. When charging into battle, running at a speed of 24 kilometers per hour, even wooden fortresses will be shattered under the body of the war elephant. Without being hit in the vitals, crossbows and ballistae cannot make the war elephant withdraw from the battle.
The elite battalion under Li Xiang is the largest among the princes in the world. It is impossible for these elite battalions to suffer losses due to constant wars, and the troops and horses of the elite battalion are also the most difficult to replenish, or in other words, the most troublesome to replenish.
If Cao Pi has no disloyalty, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will be a very good helper. But if Cao Pi has any disloyalty, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will become a minefield buried under his hands.
Furthermore, the expenditure to maintain an elite battalion is even several times that of maintaining an ordinary army. The Jin army already maintains a large military scale and a large number of elite battalions, and their military expenditure has already been reached.
An exaggeration.
The domestication of elephants for combat first originated in India and Southeast Asia. Elephants are large in size and have rough skin and thick flesh. It is difficult for ordinary knives and arrows to harm them. However, elephants can use their physical advantages to rush into enemy formations with their long trunks.
When used for fighting, the back can also provide a commanding strike platform, and the armored war elephant is more like an armored tank, capable of sweeping almost everything.
When they first arrived, they had already formed a large-scale small group, and with such an army, the key was that Li Xiang was still unable to confirm the loyalty of the people in the Cao Group. It is normal to have headaches about this kind of thing!
Just like the White Robe Army, even though they have gathered together now, the half of the people who have just joined have not gone through a long period of training. How can they be compared with the White Robe Army at its peak?
Therefore, Li Xiang wanted to quietly form a branch. In the future, if there is a war with the grassland, he can completely catch the grassland off guard.
Also inspired by the Kushan Empire's war elephant army, Li Xiang also had the idea of establishing a war elephant army.
Although Yuan Meng has now seen the War Elephant Unit, it may not be impossible to find the weaknesses of the War Elephant Unit. However, even if there are weaknesses, it does not mean that it cannot continue to be used. It also depends on who will be used.
Don’t the Vine Armor Soldiers have any weaknesses? But weren’t Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang rushing to get those batches of Vine Armor?
Besides, as long as this force is well hidden and does not let the grassland forces discover it in advance, and suddenly appears on the battlefield, it is enough to intervene in the outcome of a great war.
When this troop suddenly appeared, it was very likely that Yuan Meng had not had time to take action. Under the stimulation of the smell of war elephants, the war horses of Yuan Meng's cavalry who were relatively close to the war elephant troops were directly stimulated by the smell of war elephants.
Soft!
Rather than maintaining a tiger and leopard cavalry with potential safety hazards, Li Xiang is more willing to use his resources to secretly form such a war elephant unit!