It is said that a companion is like a tiger, although in fact this is also the case.

But in many cases, reality is not just what it seems.

First of all, the emperor is also a human being, and if he is a human being, he will have his own unique ideas.

If a courtier wants to go farther, he also needs to have the ability to keep pace with the times.

You can't always look at the emperor's thoughts with old eyes.

Some emperors will talk to you and tell you what they want to do and what they don't want to do.

But most emperors won't tell you directly, to put it bluntly, this is also a manifestation of ability.

If you can't even guess the emperor's thoughts, can you still be trusted in other things?

At this point, at least the three people present knew that the emperor's heart had changed again.

However, this change is not sudden, in fact, many things are traceable.

As an emperor, it is feasible to let his subordinates guess their own thoughts, but they can't do it with a hammer and a stick in the west, which will miss sooner or later.

If you want to make a table of the changes in Wang Bu's hungry heart, there are probably three aspects.

The first is that when I was just working in my career, I was cautious and cautious, and I was not sure that I would never take the initiative.

The next step is the beginning of the establishment of the Han Kingdom, which continues to decompress internally and is highly cautious externally.

The last one is now, the attitude towards the interior has not changed, advocating light forced labor, thin taxation, encouraging farming, encouraging the development of industry and commerce, etc., and the external attitude is that it is better to be slower, but also to find a way to swallow it, and must not arbitrarily support a person to go up and fight against the big Han in the future.

Therefore, as long as the minister has a clear understanding of the emperor's current ruling ideas and attitudes, no matter what he does, he will not make mistakes if he does it according to this line of thought and attitude.

It's a simple thing, but it's also a very difficult thing.

Most of those who fell in this regard did not understand the meaning of the emperor, and repeatedly did things that made the emperor unhappy.

"Guan Ying, you have fought with the Huns, let's talk about the detailed process, judging from the results of these few battles, it is difficult for me to put the evaluation that His Majesty gave them on them!" After the meeting ended, Chen Ping pulled Xiao He and Guan Ying to find a room and sit down.

There is also a room prepared for them next to the council hall, one is to have a place to stay while waiting, and the other is to let these bigwigs have a place to discuss things after the meeting.

It's not too far to go to the cabinet, but it's still too much of a toss-up.

Therefore, if there are few people, they will discuss here, and if there are many people, they will go to the cabinet.

"How so?" Guan Ying carefully recalled his own journey, and recalled the experience he had summed up.

In fact, in many ways, I can't tell the emperor, but everyone knows that the emperor is talking about potential, the future, and the Huns after the unification of the grassland.

But now they have not been able to dominate the grassland, so what the emperor said should be discounted.

After thinking about it, Guan Ying said: "In terms of combat effectiveness, the Huns are indeed not the opponents of the Han cavalry, but the Huns still have an advantage, in comparison, their equipment is almost a weapon and a bow, dozens of arrows, and we have to wear armor and helmets, the weight of the war horse is much greater than that of the Hun war horse, a few miles of such a distance is nothing, but in the distance, our disadvantages will be revealed." ”

"Isn't one man equipped with three war horses? Still doesn't work? Xiao He said with a frown.

"No, no matter when, our weight is there, although we are equipped with three war horses, but the Huns are also equipped with three, or even more war horses!" The baby shook her head.

Listening to the words of the baby, Chen Ping also scratched his head for a while, and there was nothing he could do.

Yes, people can't beat you, but you can't outrun people.

The best way is to reduce your own weight so that your horses can catch up with the Huns.

But is that possible?

Of course it's impossible, where is the burden of the Han army?

It's not on the equipment anymore, if you remove those equipment, what's the point of tossing?

It can catch up, but the number of casualties will definitely increase exponentially.

In the past two years, the response of the soldiers to the armor has been very good, and the troops have even made statistics, if there is no armor, the battle losses in these battles will be at least more than twice as much.

How is this statistic calculated?

After the war, just let the soldiers report it themselves, whether you were cut by the enemy on the battlefield or not, only you know, it is too troublesome to check the armor one by one.

Basically, it is to report the statistics of each item, and then report it one by one, and finally summarize it together.

Not to say that they are all dead, but according to past experience, at least 20% of these reported figures are definitely going to die, and those who can come back can be considered good.

And the scimitar of the Huns basically sticks to you on the war horse, and you are a big cut, the kind that can't be saved.

"It seems that if you want to annihilate them completely, the only way is to continue to increase the deployment of cavalry in the north......" Chen Ping sighed, he couldn't afford to raise them.

The cost of cavalry is huge, don't look at the military salary, which is only one level higher than other troops, but the war horse also costs money.

The cost of raising horses is not low at all, basically the cost of raising a cavalry can offset the cost of raising a cavalry.

This is still light cavalry, if it is heavy cavalry, the cost of nothing can be stopped.

"How can there be money to increase the troops?" Xiao He just quit doing it, speaking of which, isn't it all money?

"Even if you have money, you can't do it, it's meaningless!" The baby irrigation directly gave Xiao He a quasi-letter.

"Huh?" Chen Ping looked at the baby in surprise, you said that the other difficulties are understandable, but what the hell is this meaningless?

"We want to defeat the Huns in terms of speed, this is very difficult, not to mention that one time in ten times is so exaggerated, but one in five times is not guaranteed to be feasible, so if we set the goal of annihilation, then the only way is to increase the number of people on the expedition, strategically move directly, and surround them on all sides before the war, so that they have nowhere to escape."

"But in the vast grassland, it really can't be done, it's far more difficult than besieging a city, and it requires more troops, to put it mildly, even 100,000 people may not be able to surround 10,000 Hun cavalry and prevent him from escaping."

"Therefore, the next response to the Xiongnu should be to attack many times and gradually eliminate them, not to annihilate them in a war, but to send troops every two or three years, or after the snow disaster, killing him tens of thousands is not too much, killing him thousands is not too little, through this continuous attack, gradually compress the strength of the Xiongnu, so as to force them to flee, or surrender."

"As for the troop strength, it will increase by 100,000 people in the next few years, and it will basically be able to cope with almost everything!" Filling the baby explained in detail.

Now there are 120,000 cavalry in Yunzhong County, and there are more than 140,000 around Yuyang County, of which 10,000 were left there by Yunzhong County last year.

In the increase of 100,000, that is, a total of 3,670,000 cavalry.

In the face of the Huns, although the total number was not dominant, the Han army had an advantage in other aspects.

Cavalry fighting is different from infantry fighting, and when the number of people reaches a certain size, basically the upper limit is here.

Unlike the infantry corps, the cavalry is highly mobile and does not need to fight to the death like the infantry to end the battle.

Of course, this is a data considered by the baby according to Wang Buying's explanation.

If it is according to the idea of irrigating babies, it is natural that the more the better, and it is not sure which time the Huns will drive directly over, and the Han army can rely on the numerical advantage to wipe them out.

But Wang Buyu told him that the upper limit of the size of the Han army's cavalry was 400,000, and there was no need for more.

Even for how to use these 400,000 people, Wang Buxing is also ready to deploy.

Two hundred thousand people were scattered along the long border, ready to defend themselves against the Xiongnu.

The remaining 200,000 people were stationed behind the border line in units of 50,000 people, and once the Xiongnu came, the cavalry of these 50,000 units was the main force of the first sortie.

What?

Too few people, you say?

Not top?

Hehe!

In history, the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu, and the largest number of troops was the 200,000 Han cavalry led by Wei Qing.

The most important time was 200,000 cavalry.

In the early days, it was even more miserable, less than 50,000 people, that is, the four generals each led 10,000 out.

At this time in history, the Huns had already completed the unification of the grasslands, with a population of more than 3 million.

And on the grassland, all the people are soldiers, even if there is a discount, according to one soldier out of every five people, that is 600,000 people, even if some are cut down, the Huns at their peak can come up with more than 400,000 front-line main forces.

Thinking of this, Guan Ying continued: "Your Majesty said that the Huns are actually not difficult to fight, the difficulty is that they come and go without a trace, and it is difficult to capture their movements, so this must be a protracted war." ”

"Protracted war...... Chen Ping thought thoughtfully, feeling that this issue was a bit complicated, but there was no doubt that no matter who it was, he didn't want to fight a protracted war now.

So he thought of the purpose of looking for the two of them today, and said: "What do you say is the purpose of the Huns' visit this time?" ”

"Summation?" Xiao He said subconsciously.

I just finished beating them, and they can't take care of themselves.

They should be well aware of the strength of the Han army now, so it seems reasonable to hurry up and sue for peace at this time.

The baby shook her head again.

He touched, he understood.

For the Huns, you can't understand it according to the thinking of the Han people, because there are some things that you can't understand at all, let alone see his rationality.

"Not necessarily! This time the Huns lost too much, and just suing for peace was no longer enough to satisfy their needs, and I guess the Huns would offer to return the spoils, and then they promised not to go south again! ”