Chapter 202: A Double-edged Sword
The change of sand dunes is very likely to happen to you.
Especially after witnessing the strong strength of the Hu Dao Cavalry, King Zhao Huiwen was even more convinced of this.
The Wang Shi under the command of his royal brother Zhao Zhang was as fragile as paper in front of more than 100 Hu Dao Cavalry, and one kill and ten were not enough to describe the strong combat effectiveness of Hu Dao Cavalry.
The Hu Dao Cavalry was too powerful, especially in that era, when the Hu Dao Cavalry had already emerged during the foreign wars of the Zhao State, it was impossible to revoke this establishment.
This is a double-edged sword, and King Zhao Huiwen clearly knows this.
So, after gathering his cronies and discussing it for a few days, King Zhao Huiwen finally decided on a plan.
Since the Hudao cavalry has become the climate, and the removal of the establishment will also be a huge loss to the national strength of the Zhao State, it is better to set up another cavalry.
This is the origin of Zhao Guohu's ride.
King Huiwen of Zhao, in accordance with the policy left by his father, incorporated the rangers into this Zhao Hu cavalry, and recruited young strong men from Zhao as the basic team, and ordered his henchmen to personally serve as the general commander of this Hu cavalry.
However, although it is called Hu Qi, there are no faces of Hu people in the preparation of this Zhao State Hu Qi from beginning to end.
It can be said that this Zhao Hu cavalry is a cavalry completely formed with the Zhao people as the mainstream.
Because of the fear of its combat effectiveness, the rangers who had not participated in foreign wars and were unknown to other countries were also incorporated into one of the formations of this Hu cavalry.
Since then, the cavalry of the Zhao State has been divided into two major formations.
Zhao State Hu Dao Cavalry, the number of people was first controlled by King Zhao Huiwen in the establishment of 4,000 people, and then for various reasons, it was slowly reduced to the establishment, to modern times, Zhao State Hu Dao Cavalry such a strong military branch, the establishment of only 2,000 people.
However, the establishment of Zhao Guohu cavalry is like Zhao Guo's own son, whether it is all kinds of excellent armaments or excellent military horses, they have been transferred to this army, and even its establishment, King Zhao Huiwen gave it an establishment of 30,000 people as soon as he came up.
The establishment of 30,000 people may not be considered a key training army now, but in the Central Plains of that era.
The establishment of 30,000 people can be said to be very small.
At that time, the army of Zhao was only seventy or eighty thousand, or even less.
Note that the Zhao army here is counting the county soldiers and the border army, and all of them add up to only this number.
The Zhao State, which inherited the Middle Jin Dynasty after the three divisions of the Jin Dynasty, only had such an army, not to mention other countries in the Central Plains, and it is unknown whether the number of troops in some countries is 10,000.
From this point of view, the 30,000 Zhao Guohu Qi was already the highest establishment that King Zhao Huiwen could give at that time.
And during that period, the Central Plains countries, the only one who had seen the power of Zhao's cavalry, was only one North Central Kingdom, but unfortunately, North China had been annexed by Zhao State.
In addition, even Wei and South Korea only know that Zhao has a cavalry with good combat power, and in addition, their two countries can understand the intelligence of Zhao's cavalry, which can be close to or not.
After all, at that time, the Central Plains was still an era of rampant chariots, and all countries evaluated the strength of the country by the number of chariots.
In the eyes of Wei and Korea, Zhao is the end of the book.
The two countries believed that it would not be long before Zhao would follow in the footsteps of the Central Plains and be carved up by the two countries.
The rise of the Northern Legon Empire is indeed due to their iron horses.
But this kind of thing can be copied so easily.
How long has it been since the birth of the cavalry?
Twenty years?
There was also a dune coup d'état in the middle, and it is strange that the national strength is not weakened.
At that time, Wei and Han belonged to the kind of old man who sat firmly in Diaoyutai, quietly waiting for something to happen in Zhao Guo, and then at that time they could take advantage of the situation and solve the sight-obstructing guy Zhao Guo by the way.
Although King Zhao Huiwen has the reputation of killing his father, he has to say that he is an out-and-out virtuous monarch, at least during his tenure, Zhao's national strength has not shown any signs of regression, but has gradually become a bit of a revival.
During his tenure, King Wuling of Zhao destroyed the northern kingdom of China, implemented the reform of Hufu cavalry and archery, and single-handedly founded the Hudao cavalry.
And he, King Zhao Huiwen, if he wants to cover up his reputation for killing his father, he will undoubtedly have to make greater achievements than his father during his tenure.
In this way, he can prove to the world that his father's thoughts when he was old were wrong and mediocre.
However, if you look at the later merits, King Zhao Huiwen did make it.
During his tenure, Zhao entered a rapid development, obviously in the reign of the first two Zhao Su kings, Zhao seemed to have fallen into a situation close to the destruction of the country for a while, but after the hard work of Zhao Wuling King and Zhao Huiwen Wang, Zhao successfully brought the cavalry on the battlefield to the Central Plains.
In the third year of his reign, South Korea could not hold back the excitement in his heart, and united several Central Plains countries to form a coalition to attack Zhao.
And Zhao Huiwen Wang Feng lightly sent Hu Dao Cavalry and Zhao Guo Hu Cavalry to meet the battle, and finally on the battlefield, thousands of Korean chariots were beaten under the hooves of the cavalry to make South Korea fearful.
100,000 allied troops, but they were beaten clean by Zhao Guo's combined infantry and cavalry tactics.
Since the war, South Korea has not fallen to the bottom, but it has also struggled to fulfill the ambitions of previous years.
It can be said that it has discounted the backbone of South Korea all of a sudden.
And in the same way, this war was also announced to the Central Plains.
The era of chariots is over.
It's time for the cavalry to rule.
The precedent of South Korea is there, and the Wei State, which once forced the capital of Zhao State to Zhongmu, gradually put away its momentum after Zhao State showed its fierce claws.
The state of Zhao is powerful and cannot be defeated now.
After the end of this battle, King Zhao Huiwen was naturally very satisfied with the results, although the Hu Dao Cavalry relied on the number of thousands of people to fight the coalition army of more than 10,000 people, but because of the fear of the Hu Dao Cavalry, King Zhao Huiwen's reward for it can be said to be more honorable rewards.
As for some practical and useful rewards, King Zhao Huiwen didn't give Hu Dao to ride as if he had amnesia.
It's too late to weaken the Bearded Knife Rider, and you want to be rewarded? In the case of King Zhao Huiwen, it is absolutely impossible.
It can also be said that there are examples of the Dune Coup here, and the successive generations of Zhao kings will not expand the establishment of the Hu Dao Cavalry.
However, although this is the case, through this battle, King Zhao Huiwen has become more clearly aware that he has now reached the era when Zhao State suppressed the Central Plains.
Naturally, during the reign of King Huiwen of Zhao, he fought in the north and south, recovering a lot of lost territory and expanding a lot of territory for Zhao, and expanding the territory of Zhao from only a few counties in his hands to a powerful country in the Central Plains.
As for the Wei State, he willingly stepped back.
South Korea, on the other hand, has no right to speak.
As a result, the alliance leader of the three families fell on Zhao Guo.
After the three families were divided, Zhao, Wei and Han established a three-country alliance, and later because of the decline of Zhao's national strength, the alliance alliance became an empty talk.
However, with the advent of the era of King Zhao Huiwen, the alliance of the Three Kingdoms was restored.
For the Wei State, which had plundered many of his own territories, and Korea, which had bad intentions towards him, King Zhao Huiwen did not want to take revenge, but he knew it.
The annexation of Wei and Han was impossible, at least in his time, which was basically impossible.
Although the national strength of Wei and Han is not as good as Zhao, it is not a soft persimmon that is easy to bully, not to mention that the expansion of Zhao is already a little too fast, if it is next to either of these two countries, the other country will definitely not sit idly by, who will not understand the truth of cold lips and teeth?
If he has hated these two countries, he still takes the initiative to sell a good one, restore the covenant, and the three kingdoms are happy, why not be happy.
King Zhao Huiwen endured this breath, he is not a reckless monarch, although the expansion of Zhao in recent years has expanded the territory of Zhao a lot, but the development of the country is also lagging behind a lot because of years of war.
Truce, slowly digest these lands, develop the domestic economy, and wait for the efforts of future generations.
In the end, the establishment of Zhao Hucai, in the last years of the reign of King Zhao Huiwen, increased to the establishment of 50,000 people, and it was also the highest army in the Central Plains at that time, and no one could beat it.
Moreover, its status has also been transferred to the king's master, but it is independent in the name of the king's master.
In terms of status, Zhao Guohu has reached the apex, and they do not have to be responsible for defending the capital, and they still sharpen themselves according to their previous tasks.
After the death of King Huiwen of Zhao, Zhao became the most powerful state in the Central Plains during that period.
However, the later generations of Zhao Wang were a little uninteresting, but fortunately, the existence of Zhao Guohu did not make Zhao Guo fall into the flow of small countries.
In recent years, Zhao Guohu's level of riding has also slowly declined.
Because of the lofty status of Zhao Guohu in Zhao State, many of the children of Zhao are proud to join the Zhao State Hu Cavalry Army, but there are many outstanding talents among them, but most of them are gilded.
Therefore, in addition to the establishment of the rangers, the rest of the cavalry team of Zhao Guohu slowly had a strong combat effectiveness.
The powerful Zhao State Hu cavalry can not fall behind when compared to the iron cavalry of the Beigen Empire.
But the weak Zhao Guohu rode and the combat effectiveness would be surprising.
For example, the one that was easily destroyed by the cavalry army temporarily formed by the Northern First Army belonged to one of the scum of Zhao Guohu's cavalry.
Wu Qi naturally saw this.
Because Zhao Guo's method is very simple, they now want to clean up some of the scum in Zhao Guo's Hu Qi.
Wouldn't it be good to throw these wastes on the front line and destroy them with Nanli's hands?