"I have more than two thousand horsemen in the Loufan area, and I have more than a thousand horsemen in the Daiguo area. There can be more than a thousand horsemen in the camp, and there are more than five thousand foot soldiers."
"You can send your troops from Loufan to join me at Yanmen Mountain."
"How many soldiers does the Zhao family have? More than 30,000?"
"The Zhao family migrated to Dairen, but not all of them surrendered, so we can make them."
At present, the Zhao family's basic strength is about 70,000 people, and the fact that they can assemble an army of about 30,000 people is actually related to their panic.
Most of the Zhao people who were able to escape from Jin were young and strong, and the old and weak couldn't keep up even if they didn't give up on purpose.
Therefore, it is absolutely reasonable for the Zhao family with a population of 70,000 to gather 30,000 troops for combat, but the male-to-female ratio within the Zhao family appears to be very unhealthy.
Zhixuwu took action immediately after receiving the order from Zhiyao. He first found out how many cavalry the Zhi family had in Loufan and Daiguo. The headquarters seizes the time to prepare for the war. It does not plan to wait for the reinforcements mobilized from "Xianyu" to go north.
In addition to the areas that originally belonged to Zhongshan Kingdom and Qiuyou, many fast horses were galloping. They arrived somewhere with orders. The local people who could fight on horseback were all within the recruitment range. After gathering on the spot, they first went to the Hu family's fiefdom.
"Fenyang" assembled, then went north to enter Loufan's sphere of influence, and then went to the upper reaches of Xiushui north of Yanmen to wait for further orders.
"This time I can gather about ten thousand cavalry, and two 'divisions' of troops are available." Zhi Xuwu knew that the number of troops was a bit small, and it must rely more on the choice of terrain.
Yang Hu said: "Yanmen is the place that the Zhao family must pass through when moving north. You know this and I know it, how come the Zhao family doesn't know it? Now, the Zhao family must have heavy troops to guard Yanmen. Our army is outnumbered, so we can make it
He was so frightened that he slowed down the Zhao family's migration."
Just now, Zhixuwu meant to wait until more troops were gathered before attacking the Yanmen Pass, thinking that in this way he could win it in one fell swoop.
Obviously, Yang Hu had different opinions and believed that the best way to create tension first is to make Zhao family afraid and interfere with Zhao family's migration.
Yanmen is the name of the terrain, and it is not an official geographical name yet.
The reason why it is called Yanmen must have its basis. When you go there, you can see a local mountain, which looks like wild geese flying high. There is a water system that is also the bend of the wild geese flying in formation, and there are also mountains from time to time.
When wild geese fly out, the mountain is called Yanmen Mountain and the water is called Yanmen Water.
There is still a primitive ecology there, and about a hundred miles to the southeast is the location of "Dai", the capital of the Dai Kingdom.
Daiguo is a country made up of mixed people. There are people who rely on nomadic herding, farming, hunting, and gathering. This means that most of the people of Daiguo live in no fixed places. It is not only difficult for the monarchs and ministers of Daiguo to convey administrative instructions smoothly, but also
Even if outsiders were to take over the entire country, the targets they could attack immediately would be very limited.
For example, this time Zhao Guanji defeated the kings and ministers of Dai at once. There were only seven targets they could attack immediately, including "Dai". The total population was about 80,000 or 90,000?
There are only so many people who have settled in Dai country, and every one of them is Zhao Guanji’s target. As for those Dai people in a nomadic state, try to conquer them if you can come across them. If you can’t conquer them, you definitely can’t waste your time.
Yang Hu said: "Zhao Wuxie falsely passed down Jun Yong's orders and tricked his descendants into moving north. If they didn't know it, our army would have arrived at Yanmen on the day the Zhao family fled in panic."
To be honest, Zhi Xuwu doesn't like Yang Hu.
How should I put it? It’s not that Yang Hu is incompetent, on the contrary, he has a very strong ability to do things, but he has a mouth that can’t speak. He can say a few words to anyone he confronts.
It wasn't that Zhi Xuwu couldn't accept the correct opinion. No matter how uncomfortable he felt, he still felt that Yang Hu's opinion was more correct, so he issued the relevant orders with a stinky face.
Judging by time, the season is already approaching autumn.
At present, Zhiyao has set off from "Ye" and is on her way back to "Xintian".
At the same time, nearly five months had passed since Zhao Wushe killed Dai Junyong.
This means that there was a delay of about four months between Zhiyao receiving Zhao's anomaly and taking related actions.
During that period of time, the free month was naturally used by Zhishi to gather troops.
After all, it takes time to transmit messages, and it also takes time to assemble the army. It's not just an order and it's done.
Yan Fei was one of the people who received the order to assemble. It took him more than forty days from departure to arrival at the assembly point. There were more than 2,800 cavalrymen in the team, all from the old land of Changdi.
Changdi fell under the rule of the Zhi family and was considered vacant in the early days. Later, animal husbandry was gradually developed.
Yan Fei was not an out-and-out Jin person, but a Di person based on his ethnicity. He just became a member of the Zhi family at a very young age. Thanks to being the heir of the leader, he later became a member of the "scholar" class.
member.
There are not many people in the same situation as Yan Fei. It is more likely that the Zhi family has created new channels for advancement. What they have in common is that they have long forgotten about Chang Di and what they remember is being a member of the Zhi family.
This is nothing more than Changdi's culture being inferior to Zhuxia's culture, or the backward civilization being eliminated by the advanced civilization.
This elimination process went on very naturally. There was actually not too much blood in it. It was purely a blank culture that was filled. Then I grew up in that kind of environment. During this period, I felt the power of being a member of the Zhi family, and because of
Various benefits brought by the power of Zhishi.
Ordinary people don't have much feelings for the country. What they care about is the quality of life.
What Yan Fei knew was that no old man mentioned the glory of the past or anything, but only endless suffering, difficulty in having enough to eat, no security, and other negative stories.
Yan Fei has never encountered any of those hardships. On the contrary, he enjoyed all kinds of majesty as a member of the Zhi family during the period of receiving the tax.
Therefore, it is good to have the existence of old people. The old people tell the sufferings of the past so that the new generation knows how happy it is to be a member of the Zhi family.
"Is that Master Xu Wu?"
On the foreign side, "adult" has been used to address superiors since ancient times. The spoken language may be different, but the meaning is absolutely the same. After there are words, no matter what the pronunciation is, the two characters of "adult" will be written in words.
Because of the use of language, groups whose ancestors have been Jin people for generations can tell which people's ancestors are from other ethnic groups. The reason is of course that the language system of each place is different. If the same pronunciation or characters are used, the differences that should be made are still in spoken language.
manifested.
However, I don't see any discrimination within the Zhi family based on one's origin.
At present, the total population of the Zhi family is about 2.5 million, of which about 1.8 million are out-and-out Jin people, and most of the rest are from Wei, Qi, Changdi, and some were captured due to defeat in the war.
Chu people, Wu people, Zheng people, Qin people, etc.
In fact, even the nobles do not have a strong sense of belonging to the country, and they cannot expect ordinary people to have any feelings of family and country. They have settled in the Zhi family, and being able to go on an expedition means that they have obtained the key to advancement, and what they want is to live a good life.
If you want to get better, you won't have time to have conflicts because of differences in region or origin.
They have arrived at the plain south of Yanmen Mountain, and so far they have not yet started a contest with the Zhao family.
Because there is currently no relationship with a city, the place definitely does not have an official name. The place where the Zhi family's army was stationed was later called "Pingyin" until the Warring States Period.
This was not the first time that Yan Fei saw a big shot of the Zhi family. He had received gifts many times. He was lucky enough to meet Zhi Yao twice, which was regarded as the happiest moment in his life.
The reason why "I" is added after Zhiyao is that people from Di people like Yan Fei have the custom of carving wood carvings for worship. Even becoming a member of the Zhi family has not changed that custom.
They are not from out-and-out Zhuxia, but many ethnic groups still maintain primitive worship. They can worship anything. When they know which one is very powerful, they process a lot of halos themselves, and then carve wood carvings to worship them all the time.
Zhiyao is really powerful, especially it has improved their living environment. When worshiped, one is afraid, and the other is worship of the strong.
Similar customs will be maintained by quite a few ethnic groups, and many awesome characters have enjoyed the treatment of becoming gods.
Yan Fei was stationed for two days and suddenly received an order to attack at noon one day.
As a cavalryman, what preparations do you need to make for an attack?
Yan Fei brought two followers, who were responsible for taking care of the war horses. They equipped the horses with stirrups and saddles when going out, and also checked the condition of the horseshoes on the horseshoes.
Although there is no shortage of Xia Miao people who know how to ride horses, in fact, those ethnic groups who have not grown up on horses are still better at it. Therefore, among the cavalrymen of the Zhi family, they are only pure Jin people.
Accounted for about 40%.
How many cavalry does the Zhi family have now? Because there is no difference between regular and unconventional formations, it is just a matter of how many people are recruited when a recruitment order is issued. It is really difficult to define how many cavalry there are.
For example, this time, Zhiyao plans to recruit 10,000 cavalry. The cavalry who receive the recruitment order need to bring at least one retinue, and more may bring three to five retinues, resulting in a cavalry roster of 10,000 cavalry, plus
The retinue can also fight on horseback, and in total there may be thirty or forty thousand riders.
People like Yan Fei actually have special titles. They have their own farmland and pastures and can be called knights. This is also one of the reforms brought by Zhiyao.
Zhiyao originally wanted to form a special cavalry army, but later gave up because it was not necessary.
The main reason is that the quality of the war horses is just that, and they do not have the qualities required to form a shock cavalry, let alone a mounted cavalry.
In that reality, when a call-up order is issued every year, the knights assemble into organized troops and go somewhere to carry out cruising or clearing missions. This is entirely for training and actual combat, and there is no need to occupy a quota in the standing army.
Waiting for the day when there are excellent war horses that can be used to train assault cavalry, more professional training will begin. And I don’t know how long we have to wait for this day. Maybe we have to wait for the manpower sent by Zhiyao to bring back better quality ones from the Western Regions.
