But even so, Liu Hong still felt that the battle loss ratio of 100 to single digits was a bit too abstract.

- The Hun cavalry is super mobile, yes, but the infantry cluster of the Han family still has the combat power to push the Hun 100,000 cavalry cluster back to the grassland twenty years ago!

Twenty years, less than a generation, the combat effectiveness of the Han army is unlikely to decline so dramatically.

"The general said: The military strength of the Han and the Xiongnu should be the number of three sevens?"

Hearing this, Chai Wu immediately understood the meaning of Liu Hong's words: The strength is thirty-seven, how can the battle loss be ninety-one or even ten-zero?

After thinking about it for a while, Chai Wu felt that telling Liu Hong the truth should have more advantages than disadvantages.

Having made up his mind, Chai Wu was no longer ambiguous: "Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the custom of the Hun soldiers robbing corpses?" ”

Liu Hong was stunned for a moment, and the long-sealed memories slowly came to his mind; After Chai Wu reminded him a little, he completely reacted to how the exaggerated battle loss ratio of the border army came about.

At this time, the Xiongnu, as a new nomadic form of government, was far behind the 'advanced' feudal system of the Han dynasty - a quasi-alliance slave regime headed by Shan Yuting and subordinate to various tribes in the steppe.

If Liu Hong's history had not been learned from the dog's belly, the Huns at this time had not even mastered the skills of counting cattle, sheep and livestock and calculating the bearing capacity of the pasture.

For the Huns at this time, the plough was the boss, the second was the second, and the tribal leader was the third.

In fourth place are cattle, sheep, herdsmen, and slaves!

In this era of extreme scarcity of materials, even the stable agricultural regime, the Han family, could not ensure that the people at the bottom could eat enough, and as a backward slave nomadic government, the life of the low-level herdsmen of the Xiongnu was not to mention how bitter it was.

This, combined with the disaster tolerance of nomadic regimes, is naturally much lower than that of agrarian regimes; Any drought, flood, or cold winter or summer can deal a devastating blow to a fragile nomadic polity.

What the people of the Han family pursued was to live and work in peace and contentment, and one man and five people ruled all fields; The main theme on the prairie is much simpler and more straightforward: survival!

Whether it is family affection or friendship, it is necessary to make way for survival; When the existence of the brother tribe threatens the survival of the main tribe, the only thing left between the two tribes is a war to the death.

- The grassland before the Western Yuan Dynasty pursued the naked law of the jungle; The winner has everything, and the loser loses everything.

Such a cruel law of survival is destined to be the values believed in by the low-level herdsmen of the Xiongnu, which are different from those of the Han people in the Central Plains: livestock and slaves are the foundation of survival!

And the custom of the Hun army's 'snatching corpses in wartime' was created by the Huns at this time.

- When a Hun warrior dies in battle, if anyone can snatch back the body of that warrior, he can have everything that the warrior had during his lifetime!

This includes, but is not limited to, cattle and sheep, herding animals, slaves, and even women, children.

Through this means, in just a few years, Mao Dunshan developed the Xiongnu tribe, which was originally at the bottom of the grassland ecological chain, into a 'tiger and wolf army' that terrifies all tribes!

- The Xiongnu tribe fought bravely, not really afraid of death, but wanted to quickly take the enemy army down, so as to snatch back the corpse of a certain 'wealthy warrior' of the headquarters and inherit all his property.

It can be said that this way of motivating the morale of the military is almost comparable to the system of giving land and houses for 20 military merit titles in the Qin period - even the lowest slaves can get everything they want by fighting bravely: wealth, women, status, etc.!

And for the Han army, this custom of the Huns is really disgusting - the Han family calculates military merits, which is evidenced by the head!

That is, if you kill three Huns, you have to take out the heads of three Huns; If you can't take it out, then you won't recognize this military merit!

Thinking of this, Liu Hong can already imagine the situation encountered by the border guards of the Han family every autumn and winter.

——The Han army waited for hundreds of nearly a thousand Xiongnu invaders, leaned on the city and defended, fought against the wall, and shot the Hun cavalry outside the city from their horses through strong bows and crossbows.

The Xiongnu troops did not stop at all, and went to fight the Han army in the city to the end; Instead, they symbolically put a few cold arrows, and they hid on the side of the horse, dodging the sword rain of the Han army, and then rushed straight to the village where most of the people had been evacuated urgently, swept like locusts, and then retreated back to the grassland along the way they came.

The cold arrows of the Huns brought a lot of losses to the border guards within the city walls; However, the border guards were not discouraged, and planned to go out of the city to clean up the battlefield and cut off the heads of the Huns who had fallen before; only to find that the corpses of the Huns that were still scattered all over the field in a moment had been taken away by the retreating Hun cavalry...

Only a few corpses remained, dressed in shabby clothes and looking worse than slaves, lying quietly in the field where a fierce battle had taken place a moment ago.

In this way, the abstract battle loss ratio that Liu Hong saw in Shiqu Pavilion appeared: the Han army lost dozens of hundreds of people and captured two Xiongnu heads...

But don't think it's a joke, the Han officer's combat exploits are calculated!

For example, in a war, a certain border army of the Han dynasty lost 100 people and got the heads of two Huns, then the soldiers who got the heads were naturally considered to have military merits, but the generals of this border army had minus ninety-eight in this battle!

Over time, this is the crime of 'ineffective warfare'!

What is the crime of ineffective combat?

There is no need to explain more, just one point is enough to show how heavy this crime is - ineffective in combat, violating military law!

In the Han military law, the lightest punishment is the military whip, followed by killing!

Thinking about the various reasons, Liu Hong couldn't help but smile.

"Please also ask the general to speak bluntly: if the forces of the two sides are equal, what will be the battle losses?"

I saw Chai Wu groaning slightly, and then hesitated: "If the border army is defending the city, it will lose 1,000 yourself, and you should be able to kill 800 enemies." ”

After speaking, Chai Wu's face naturally brought a trace of pride: "If it is the Flying Fox Commander's Department, it can probably be one enemy and two..."

Listening to Chai Wu's explanation, Liu Hong nodded: That's right!

Ordinary troops are about four or six open to the Huns, and elite troops such as the Flying Fox Army can do six or four open, which is normal!

If not, as written in the war report, for every Hun killed, the Han army will lose 20 to 40 frontier soldiers, so how can it be played?

However, Liu Hong did not have a very good way to calculate military merits that only recognized the first level at this time - the calculation method of military merits involved the military system.

If Liu Hong plans to revise the calculation method of military merit, there are too many issues to consider.

Just from the perspective of a military novice like Liu Hong, there are countless factors that need to be considered in the calculation of military merits.

- If it is not counted by the head, then how can it be proved that no one has falsely reported their military exploits?

Moreover, if it is not counted by the head, there will inevitably be such a situation: two or even three or four crossbowmen, pointing to the corpse of a Hun who had been stuck into a hedgehog with a bow and arrow, and saying that this person had been killed by himself; Then who is this military merit?

Also: If the military exploits of officers are not calculated by net beheadings as they are now, how can we ensure that the honorables will not stuff the straw bales at home into the army, indiscriminately fill the numbers, and use the lives of low-level soldiers to exchange for military merits? - For example, send a thousand soldiers to their deaths, so that they can get the merit of beheading fifty levels for themselves?

All of this requires long-term planning and repeated discussions to come up with a feasible plan; And the process of revision and improvement is not something that Liu Hong can handle as a layman, and it requires the participation of bigwigs who know enough about the military to participate in the discussion.

Besides, Liu Hong can't even fully control the northern and southern armies at this time, so why meddle in the army?

Even if the military system is to be changed, it will be after Liu Hong takes power.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong went straight to the topic: "According to the general's opinion, what should be the most important problem with the border wall today?" ”

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PS:EMMMM··· Private matters.

Zuo officials usually don't ask for this or that, but this recommendation ticket is really a bit small, and the assistant is a little bottomless in his heart.

If the book is still eye-catching, the official will reward a few recommendation votes, so that I can also be happy?

It's better to be happy alone than to be happy, and it's better for everyone to be happy than to be happy!