Fei Latent Ai Ai said: "So...... This, in this case, doesn't it basically mean that the role of individual martial arts is less than that of the entire legion? ”

Huang Zhong said: "Almost, the larger the scale of the legion, the smaller the role that individual martial arts can play, generally speaking, if it reaches the level of 10,000 people, then the basic competition is the overall combat ability of the legion and the deployment of the commander, the brave military will play a greater role in breaking through or attacking a single small part of the army, but the so-called 10,000 enemies ......."

Huang Zhong shook his head, indicating that the matter was relatively unreliable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Zhong continued: "There is a situation, that is, in the field, when you see that the opponent's army is in a strict formation, you will generally send one or two generals with high force to call the formation to test it, at this time it is called a single discussion before the formation, in addition to the round, there will also be two other generals to fight mode, one is to the circle, the other is to drag the knife ......"

Huang Zhong went on to explain that in the late Warring States period until the Han Dynasty, in order to boost one's own morale and hit the morale of the other side, there were still occasional invitations to fight.

However, cavalry warfare was very different from chariot warfare during the Warring States period, because horses were much more agile than chariots. Therefore, the battle between the two horses of the general is not just based on the impact of a charge, the so-called turn-based duel, there are two other modes:

-- The first type, the circle, is to rotate the two horses in the same direction with a small radius, and the size of the radius is determined by the fact that the weapons of the riders of both sides can kill each other, and in this state it is a long-term hand-to-hand battle;

- The second type is the close pursuit of two horses in the same direction, one side escapes and the other pursues, and the length of the chase is determined according to the speed and explosiveness of the horse.

Fei Qian nodded, understood, one of Master Guan's specialties is the knife war......

With Huang Zhong's explanation, Fei Qian figured out that in the Han Dynasty, because of the continuous development of the scale of the war, from the Warring States to the Qin State, and then to the Han Dynasty, the population participating in the war continued to expand, and many things that were originally in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period changed.

Originally, during the Warring States period, the vassal states were limited to their own national strength, and on the other hand, they were also limited by the means of production, so it was impossible to wage large-scale population wars. Another reason is that because the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were still more particular about Zhou etiquette, there were some ways to decide the war by the warriors of both sides, which was called heads-up victory by later generations.

However, in the late Warring States period, due to the increasing number of people mobilized to participate in the war, the goal of the war gradually changed from attacking the opposing generals to weakening the combat effectiveness of the enemy army.

This has developed until the Han Dynasty, and the heads-up in front of the battle can no longer completely determine the victory of a battle, and the success or failure of the war has shifted from individual martial arts to more aspects, such as logistics, such as training, etc......

Especially grain and grass.

As soon as the grain and grass are cut off, the morale of the army will be chaotic, and no matter how brave the person is, he will not be able to resist the lack of food for three days......

Huang Zhong said: "Therefore, in the military formation, not only the main soldiers of the battle are important, but even the auxiliary soldiers are also very important, and sometimes it is necessary to use local miscellaneous servants and people, but these can generally be regarded as the scope of local responsibility, so they can also be counted......

"Pawns and auxiliaries?" Fei Qian asked, "How is this divided?" The nearly 1,000 soldiers we are carrying don't seem to be divided into regular soldiers and auxiliaries? ”

Huang Zhong said: "We have few people, and we are all pawns. Let's put it this way, the main soldier is trained, can go into battle to kill the enemy, can also do some chores, but the auxiliary soldiers generally have no training, mainly engaged in chores, such as building camps, transporting grain and grass, etc., if necessary, they can also go into battle, but the combat power, the two are far apart. ”

Fei Qian nodded, thinking in his heart, then speaking of which, the recruits recruited by Cao Cao were probably in the auxiliaries, and the 10,000 or so soldiers brought by Bao Xin might include the main pawns and auxiliaries......

As for the 2,000 soldiers sent by Zhang Miao to Cao Cao, most of them should be pawns.

According to Huang Zhong, under normal circumstances, according to the length of the march and the difficulty of supply, the ratio of the main soldier and the auxiliary soldier is different, but the auxiliary army must be at least about 30%, so that when building the camp and transporting grain and grass, there will be enough manpower to use it, otherwise it is necessary to let the main soldier do these work. If there is no wartime, there is no problem, but if the wartime itself is tight, and then the physical strength of the pawn is consumed to do these chores, it will inevitably lead to a vicious circle......

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the names of the upper army, the middle army, and the lower army appeared, which is also the origin of the earliest "three armies".

The Shanghai Army, of course, is a professional soldier, and it is the country's main armed force in field warfare and foreign warfare.

The Chinese army, which is generally responsible for security and defensive tasks, is an army that focuses on defense.

The lower army is an army of the nature of hard labor, which is engaged in combat tasks of the nature of engineering transportation and logistical support.

Of course, in the Han Dynasty, the times were different, and its nature was different.

According to Huang Zhong, the so-called regular pawn, the soldiers who were originally recruited into the army, because they did not have any training, they could only serve as labor service tasks, and then generally had to go through about a year of training, and the soldiers in this year could only undertake the tasks of urban and rural garrison, and under non-special circumstances, they did not carry out the task of frontal hand-to-hand combat in the field, and the regular pawn mostly refers to the soldiers who have been in the army for more than one year, and only then do they officially undertake combat tasks and act as the backbone, that is, as face-to-face hand-to-hand combat troops.

Therefore, the sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, and broadsword soldiers must be composed of regular soldiers, and these troops directly participate in hand-to-hand combat, and if they are not systematically trained, it is easy to collapse directly on the battlefield, leading to rout.

In addition, most of the more professional troops are pawns, such as archers, such as cavalry......

"Such a ......" If according to Huang Zhong's statement, the combined army of Bao Xin and Cao Cao seems to be about 20,000 people, but in fact, the main soldiers in the battle are less than 10,000......

So, can the coalition of Bao Xin and Cao Cao win this time?

I don't know how Dong Zhuo responded?

Normally, once the army moves, there is no way to hide this movement like any bionics in later generations, and besides, the Kwantung Coalition Army came with a banner of Kuangfu Sheji, and it is impossible to blockade and slaughter the villages on the way of the army, so it will inevitably be discovered by Dong Zhuo's scouts......

I just don't know, will it be Hua Xiong who will lead the army this time?