When the onlookers saw the officers and soldiers coming, they were naturally scattered, and it was the Huns, who saw that the military generals led by them were so familiar with the young men who beat them, and they also mixed in the crowd and dispersed without saying a word.

Guo Bin and Xi Zhicai saw it in their eyes, but they didn't say anything to stop it.

At that moment, everyone surrounded Guo Bin and went to the Bingzhou Assassin Mansion where Ding Yuan was located.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion was extremely destructive, and although the main force of the Yellow Turbans in the northern part of the capital did not have a large force to attack the prefectures and counties, the small hills scattered all over the country also made the officials and soldiers anxious. Coupled with the super-large-scale nature of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was quite inconvenient for the officers and soldiers of the county and county units to exterminate the Yellow Turban bandits.

Especially in the later stage of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, although the Yellow Turban Army, which had little power in various places, was gradually exterminated, the arrest documents of the government indirectly forced the people who had participated in the Yellow Turban Rebellion to re-enter the road of rebellion. In the history of mankind, whether in ancient times or in modern times two thousand years later, a perfect war of annihilation basically does not exist, because once the casualties of the troops reach a certain critical point, it will cause great confusion in the morale of the army, which will lead to a rout, and it is especially difficult for the rebellious army after the rout to capture or kill them one by one.

Many people's understanding of the morale of the troops may be somewhat one-sided, especially the proportion of casualties that led to the rout, so let's explain it below.

This casualty ratio is linked to the army's will to fight and its degree of elite; according to the current international calculations, a troop with 30 percent casualties can be regarded as basically losing its combat effectiveness. The U.S. military is considered incapacitated when the casualties of the troops reach 30 to 40 percent; The People's Liberation Army (PLA), on the other hand, tends to continue fighting even after more than 50 percent casualties.

Why is the Red Army's Long March a miracle in the world's military history? Is it really just because the millet plus rifle ran over the plane tank? Is it really just because the Red Army has completed a strategic shift? Those who ridiculed the Red Army's Long March as a rout or even an escape were mere mere words, and their military common sense was really worrisome.

According to statistics, the total strength of the Red 1st, 2nd, and 4th Front Armies, plus the Red 25th Army, was about 186,000 at the time of the departure of the Long March, while the total number of people who successfully reached northern Shaanxi was only 30,000, a difference of 156,000 between the two. However, if we take into account the continuous replenishment of personnel along the route, the losses of the Red Army's Long March alone amounted to about 180,000 people.

What kind of battle loss ratio is this? If this proportion of battle losses is placed on the US military, I am afraid that they will surrender before they have crossed the Xiang River. And being able to retreat while fighting, and reach Yan'an all the way to Yan'an with bullets that may fall at any time above their heads, the rest of the people are all elite in terms of physical fitness and mental will. Why is it said that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were so many high-ranking generals who participated in the Long March? Is it really just because of seniority, as some conspiracy theorists say? It would be too young to really agree with this view.

In war, the role of veterans is enormous. The so-called courage of generals refers not only to the commander-in-chief of the army, but also to the relationship between generals and soldiers at the grassroots level. During the Southern Song Dynasty, someone once asked Yue Fei what kind of soldier is a good soldier, and Yue Fei's answer was only eight words: "Holding a gun without shaking, there is saliva in the mouth." ”

Literally: "When you go into battle, as long as you can hold the spear steadily, your hands will not tremble, and you can still have saliva in your mouth, you are a brave soldier." "It seems that Lord Yue does not have high requirements for soldiers. However, Yue Fei's eight words have always been said around one point, that is, he is not afraid. When you go into battle, as long as you are not afraid, you are a good soldier.

When you are extremely scared, your hands will tremble, which everyone knows, but how to understand it when there is saliva in your mouth? In fact, it is not difficult to explain it in connection with reality. Think back to the first time I met my father-in-law, how nervous I was, was my mouth dry? If you are still a single dog, then recall the mood when you confessed to a girl for the first time, is your heart fluttering? Is it dry in the mouth? If you haven't confessed to a girl, then there is no way to do it, the only suggestion is to find a goddess to confess and try, whether it works or not, at least experience it is good.

Of course, this so-called experience is not very suitable for those beautiful men who are more beautiful than girls, commonly known as the disaster of the country and the people.

To get back to the point, the biggest advantage that veterans can survive on the battlefield over new recruits in battles is battlefield experience, which can alleviate their fears. And when a person is extremely nervous, if someone gives you orders at any time to teach you how to do it, you will obediently obey it. Veterans may not be more muscular than recruits, and they may not be much better than recruits, but they can suppress their fears to a certain extent, so as to maximize their usual combat level.

Therefore, whenever there is a battle, the officers at the grassroots level always charge to the front line. The so-called "crockpot is not broken from the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle", that is, no matter how experienced they are, they are always the group with the most casualties. Therefore, especially in the era of cold weapons, the most casualties on the battlefield are often the grassroots officers who rush to the front, and they want to give a model to the recruits!

And when the recruits see the veterans who seem to be omnipotent on weekdays, all lying on the ground, their intestines and brains flowing all over the ground, the recruits who were afraid when they saw the severed arms and limbs all over the ground will become more and more at a loss. If you have to explain it, it can probably be basically understood as a disillusionment, right? When there is no one to tell them what to do, their most normal reaction on the battlefield is not to rush forward, but to turn around and run.

There is no need to laugh at deserters, of course, they do not abide by military discipline, but when a person faces thousands of people with spears or machetes, and the mountains are screaming and trying to rush over and kill you, are you not afraid? Wouldn't you be afraid when you felt the hot blood of your enemies or your own people pouring down your neck into your collar? Hollywood's horror blockbusters, although most of them show their horror in blood, but whenever the blade reaches the body, they often change the camera, just because it is too bloody. But what about on the battlefield? Maybe when you reach out and pull your comrade-in-arms, what you pull is his intestines that flow out of his disembowelment, and in front of your eyes, a twitching corpse or a head that is still staring hard will scare an ordinary person into tears.

As a Chinese, when facing enemy aggression, I also want to take up arms to defend the motherland, but I am also afraid, I am afraid that I will become a deserter at that time. So I'm a pacifist, I pray for world peace all the time, and sometimes I even feel that the Nobel Peace Prize wasn't awarded to me just because I'm not popular.

Since most of the ancient wars were stabbed into the flesh with knives and spears, and the stimulation of the senses became more and more obvious when it was necessary to fight the enemy in close combat. Therefore, the impact of the battle loss ratio on morale is also greater, because the psychological pressure of soldiers is greater. Therefore, there is a saying that on the battlefield of cold weapon warfare in ancient times, once the battle loss exceeds 10 percent, it is very likely to lead to a rout. A big reason why everyone is now studying unmanned aircraft and even unmanned tanks is to reduce the nervousness of soldiers. When war is like a game, even fear is extremely limited.

In ancient times, the methods of relieving the pressure of soldiers were extremely limited, except for the hard training on weekdays and the teaching and command of veterans, the rest was weapons and equipment. A collar of leather armor can make you immune to most common bows and arrows, and can also allow you to avoid fatal injuries to the greatest extent, while a sharpened iron ring-head knife allows you to easily cut off the enemy's wooden spear, which can easily pierce the enemy's body, and only in this way can a leader give his soldiers the greatest courage with external objects.

The Yellow Turban soldiers were defeated again and again instead of annihilated, and were gradually forced to several powerful hills. These entrenched leaders knew that it would be impossible for them to survive the strangulation of the officials and troops on their own, so they joined forces with each other to form an alliance. When faced with the encirclement and suppression of the officers and troops, they will not be tough and tough, and this kind of tactical thinking will cause great trouble to the officers and troops.

For example, the Yellow Turban Army in Yangzhai County was naturally the landlord in Yangzhai County who took out his own troops and followed the Yangzhai County Lieutenant to encircle and suppress. And once these Yellow Turban Army saw that the momentum was not right and ran to the Changshe, it would be the Yellow Turban Army in the territory of the Changshe, and the rest of the battle would be handed over to the officers and troops in the Changshe Territory. And the officers and soldiers of Yangzhai County can be regarded as having completed the task, although they did not kill many people, they won the battle!

It is this form of warfare that has led to the fact that the Yellow Turban Army in various places cannot be completely suppressed, and even more and more in some places.

Although the parallel system of counties and states in the Han Dynasty solved the problem of the distribution of power between the central and local governments, making the county the highest administrative unit below the central level, and effectively solving the problem of the Zhou Dynasty's local power being too large and too big to be defeated, it also made the local government extremely limited in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it was difficult to completely exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves.

Taking the county as a unit, it's too small, you Yellow Turban thieves can't get along in one county, you can go to other counties, once you leave the country, I can't chase after it. Why?

Because if you go after and win, it is better to say that the court may praise you, but in the eyes of the administrative head of the county, this is a naked robbery of credit, and you will be hated by your colleagues; And if you lose, it will be a failure to suppress the bandits, a crime, and even the credit for your expulsion of the Yellow Turban Army may also be erased. Isn't that how it is in officialdom? Who would do such a thankless job?

However, fortunately, the imperial court is not stupid, this kind of problem has been exposed a lot, and it is natural to find a way to solve it. The easiest way is to expand the combat units of the officers and soldiers and expand the scope of operations. How to expand, set up a theater commander, everyone listens to the theater commander, joint operations!

So the question arises again, who will be the commander of this theater of operations? This is a good position in the officialdom that everyone has to compete for! Because the Yellow Turban Thieves have poor equipment, backward tactics, and low quality soldiers, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers, if they fight in an upright manner, I can fight ten of them! Therefore, in the eyes of many people, this is an official position dedicated to making credit.

Another question, how to divide the war zone? The theater must be large enough to make it impossible for the Yellow Turban Army to escape, but it must not be too large, otherwise in such an era of extremely low communication efficiency and administrative efficiency, the issue of dispatching troops and materials alone cannot be effectively achieved, and the appointment of a theater commander will be of no practical significance.

In this way, the imperial court decided to fight on a state basis, and gradually increased the power of the state to unify the military forces of the state. Because the state assassin was originally a person who was extremely trusted by the Son of Heaven, and his status was not high, there was basically no possibility of such a situation, and the Son of Heaven could rest assured that the army was placed in the hands of the state assassin.

Therefore, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an example of the state assassin leading the army to fight against the yellow turban thieves, and Ding Yuan, the state assassin, was a complete soldier from the beginning.

Ding Yuan was born poor and humble, did not read much, when he was a county official, whenever there was a thief to commit, he would take the lead and rush out to chase the thief. After that, he was appointed as the governor of the state and the captain of Wu Meng, and Wu Meng was said to be a brave and brave man. It is very obvious from his resume that during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, his bravery and combat experience were at least a great plus for serving as a state assassin.

Because at this time, the state assassin history could not interfere in the local economy and administration, and did not need to have administrative ability.

Or because he was also born poor, He Jin is very optimistic about Ding Yuan, an official like Ding Yuan who has no family background at all, and the reason why he can rise step by step is that He Jin has also made a lot of efforts in it. This time, Guo Bin went north and brought a secret letter from He Jin to Ding Yuan, and it can be seen from this move alone that Ding Yuan may be He Jin's person.