Duan Mingyu patted Tian Lingzi's horse without a trace, and then a trace of undetectable ruthlessness flashed in the eyes of both of them, as well as deep jealousy

Although the generals had doubts in their hearts, they just wondered which one of the soldiers and horses to deploy, but they did not doubt what Duan Mingyu said, this was not for the opponent, it was obvious that there were only 200,000 troops, and they could boast of becoming 800,000 troops to achieve the effect of deterrence, and there was no reason for such a lie about their own people, if it was 80,000, it would be 100,000 or 10,000 horses, no matter what, it would not be able to change the 100,000 army, and no one would want to hide it

Duan Mingyu said: "In terms of troops, it is not a problem, but in terms of food, grass and armaments, it is necessary to immediately start preparations to attack Shou Chūn City, which is by no means a matter that can be consumed, and there will be no food, clothing, shovels, hoes, axes, drafts, gongs, drums, and musical instruments. At the same time, in order to reduce the transportation consumption of food, and the soldiers use their lives and physical exertion is very large, so we are ready to transport grain and grass from the waterway to Bianliang, and send it to the front line by land, as for the war horses only eat grass, it is inevitable that the strength will decay, it is difficult to gallop for a long time, and it is more necessary to cultivate the heart of jīng, plus the food consumption of the horses is more than that of the soldiers, even if only 10,000 war horses are needed, the cost is also very amazing, fortunately, it is the siege of 100,000 troops to the flag, Xu Wen's best choice is to defend the city according to the city, and the opportunity to take the initiative to go out of the city to disturb the war is not large, so the deputy envoy and the Xiang Ye discussed that this battle is mainly based on foot soldiers, only with a heavy cavalry, one in the actual combat so that they can be tempered, and the other can be collected and deterred by the enemyThe Effect of the Heart"

The biggest advantage of light cavalry is that the speed can be long-distance to collect the effect of surprise soldiers, but light cavalry needs to be used with caution, because once they carry out the special task away from the formation, it means that they need to abandon the radiant weight, away from the brigade, once they can not receive the effect of surprise soldiers, neither reinforcements, nor logistics, once they can not quickly leave the battlefield, the consequences can be imagined, and this battle is mainly a city, so there will rarely be a two-sided transfer of troops will be in the field of outflanking, rushing and colliding scenes, in the combination of troops, they are not included in the scope of consideration

Duan Mingyu said again: "This battle is mainly siege, we are not good at attacking the city, but Yang Xingmi is also not good at defending the city, we have the best skilled craftsmen, can make a large number of jīng, skillful, complete siege equipment, plus the advantage of troops, we have at least seventy percent of the chances of winning, but the transportation of a large number of grain and grass and siege equipment will inevitably make our army move slowly, which is why we don't need a large number of war horses, foot soldiers, only need to accompany donkeys, mules, ox carts, and slow ground, so we need to go early in the morning so that the soldiers will come to the city on time."

For example, the Spartan army needed seven slaves, the Greek army generally had only one slave for one heavy infantry, the Roman army also had a large number of military slaves, European knights and slaves who carried armor, and there were also those with military vendors and military jì, but generally speaking, the more non-combatants in the army, the greater the consumption, the worse the army's mobility, and the combat effectiveness was also greatly affected

The ancient Chinese army basically had no non-combatants, and some chores were mostly completed by soldiers, and Chang'an had nowhere to recruit so many civilian servants, and secondly, considering that the consumption of the city in the offensive and defensive battles was already huge, so the transportation of grain, grass and siege equipment was directly completed by the soldiers themselves

Duan Mingyu methodically introduced the situation on the logistics side and said: " On the Shou Chūn side, we had already made a detailed spy deployment, but the Shou Chūn city was suddenly captured by Yang Xingmi's general Xu Wen, and now even the Caizhou soldiers who returned to Yang Xingmi have been reduced to miscellaneous labor, and the chess pieces we planted in advance have lost their effect, so far they have not been able to contact them, and they cannot get the details of the situation near Shou Chūn City, we can only get a rough understanding of Shou Chūn's troops and deployment from the refugees who escaped from Shou Chūn in the past

Duan Mingyu said one by one: "From now on, all the troops and horses must pay close attention to the need for the seven princes to stay in Chang'an and unify the army."

In modern considerations, the combat effectiveness of a unit is mainly evaluated from the aspects of mobility, firepower and communication capabilities, and the era of cold weapons is also roughly quite good

Why was the Tang Dynasty able to make the ethnic minorities of the Quartet surrender during the Zhenguan period, although Tang Taizong and his Lingyan Pavilion heroes are indeed rare virtuous monarchs, but there is no doubt that the equipment of the Tang Army at that time was first-class army ordnance smelting and other technologies, and the ethnic minorities have not yet mastered the current surrounding ethnic groups, which are no longer than the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, most of the arrows used by the Xiongnu army at that time were still ground from animal bones, and the current ethnic minorities have mastered quite high forging and smelting technology, especially from the Arab nation in the Western Regions, some more advanced forging and smelting technology has even surpassed the Han people in the Central Plains, so if you want to minimize the casualties of Fang Ji, you must suffer some hardship in the battle armorDone

Today, Chang'an still has its own iron ore mines, and coal mines are also ready-made, and the combination of the two is supplemented by the financial resources provided by the government, as well as the superb forging and smelting technology and weapon-making skills provided by many foreign merchants

Of course, Duan Mingyu's purpose has always been to cherish his own divine strategy, and it is enough to equip the right army, and there is no need to arm Tian Lingzi's 60,000 Chinese army and Yang Fugong's 20,000 left army to the teeth

As for mobility, Duan Mingyu is not much smarter than his opponent, the war horses equipped by his cavalry are all smuggled over, and the horses that can be provided are limited, and the consumption of horses that they can provide is also limited, and their long-range charge is far better than that of Mongolian horses, but the long-distance running ability is worse at all, and they don't need to be equipped at all, but it is not difficult to get enough horses in the area controlled by Duan Mingyu

Since it is clear that the cavalry is the king of the combat troops, its mobility is dozens of times that of the infantry, although in the frontal confrontation, the infantry may not necessarily suffer if the command is appropriate, and even the damage of the cavalry is even worse than that of the infantry, but the speed of the cavalry is dozens of times that of the infantry, the cavalry can flee if it is defeated, and the infantry will be defeated to avoid losses, and the infantry will be defeated and will surely collapse, the two are not at all on the starting line, which is the infantry's hard wounds