Green Dragoon! This is the head of Cao De's four cavalry, and it is the first cavalry formed by Cao De. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This cavalry was formed after Cao De defeated the Yellow Turban Army, using war horses captured from the battlefield and war horses privately funded by Cao Cao. And the first battle in which this cavalry was built was to participate in the war against Han Sui and the Xianbei people in Liangzhou.

Speaking carefully, it is a little inappropriate for the Green Dragon Rider to say that it is the elite under Cao De's command. Because the Blue Dragon Rider has not appeared in the eyes of the princes for a long time.

Because, after the Green Dragon Cavalry came back from the battlefield in Liangzhou, they basically defended in Hanzhong County or Yizhou. For the several wars that have taken place in the Central Plains in recent years, the Blue Dragoon has not participated.

Therefore, the Blue Dragon Riding has become a legend that is not easy to be remembered. And now, the legend has finally appeared.

And, we still have to go abroad!

Although the Blue Dragoon has not had a combat mission over the years, its training has not been left behind. However, after the Blue Dragon Rider arrived in Chang'an, the first military order he received was actually training.

After all, the Western Regions is not the Central Plains, nor is it a grassland. Most of the Western Regions are deserts and plateaus. This special environment is not only a severe challenge for the knights who are about to go on the expedition, but also a challenge for the war horses as the main force of war.

So, they need to train, not just knights, but also war horses!

In an unfamiliar environment, lead a large-scale cavalry corps to fight. For many generals in Han China, Ma Chao is undoubtedly the most experienced.

Ma Chao's bravery and martial arts are far worse than Lu Bu; Ma Chao's immediacy is also far worse than Zhao Yun's; Ma Chao's comprehensive mental quality is far worse than Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan. However, a few years ago, Ma Chao led 800 cavalry to turn the prairie into a miasma!

There are also similarities between the Western Regions and the grasslands. First of all, both places exist in the form of tribes. It's just that there are still some cities in the Western Regions, and on the grasslands are endless green grass and tents with spires.

Secondly, the Western Regions also relied on cavalry in the war. It's just that in terms of overall strength, the cavalry in the Western Regions is much weaker than the cavalry on the grassland. However, for the environment of the Western Regions, the cavalry of the Western Regions is still slightly stronger.

However, for the Western Regions, the biggest factor limiting them is population.

The harsh living environment, harsh weather and climate, and harsh way of living all doomed the population of the Western Regions to be much smaller than that of the grassland.

There is another place that is more similar to the grasslands in the Western Regions, and that is chaos. On the grassland, there are so many tribes, large and small; In the Western Regions, there are countless large and small states.

Facts have proved that as long as there are more political powers, there will be more wars, and every year in the Western Regions, where the population is not large, large and small forces will conquer and annex each other.

Here, it is also a big difference between the Western Regions and the grassland. There are too many ethnic groups in the Western Regions, and many ethnic groups are artificially divided according to the different names of the places where they live. And the grassland people, although they are also infighting, but at the critical moment, they can still unite and unite with the outside world!

However, it was under such cruel conditions and a severe humanistic environment that Ma Chao wanted to lead the Green Dragon Cavalry and the Flying Wolf Army into the Western Regions, not only to avenge the tragic death of the envoy team, but also to fight a bloody way for the reconstruction of the Western Regions Protectorate.

The green dragon is riding in special training, and the Flying Wolf Army is not idle.

The Flying Wolf Army was originally composed of pure Huns. It stands to reason that they are accustomed to the life of the prairie, and it is not so difficult to fight in the Western Regions, at least the performance of the Blue Dragon Rider is much better than that of the Green Dragon Cavalry.

However, it must not be forgotten that on the battlefield of Jizhou, the Flying Wolf Army lost nearly half. Liu Bao entangled the strength of the whole clan and integrated 30,000 people, but the Huns who finally returned home were only 178,000!

Therefore, although the Flying Wolf Army still has an establishment of 30,000 people, some of them are supplemented by Yuan Shao's surrender army. And this is also the reason why the Flying Wolf Army is also training with the Blue Dragoon.

The special training is to be specially trained, and the location of this special training is near Mingze at the junction of Jiuquan County and Dunhuang County, which is closest to the Western Regions. Here, the environment is almost the same as that of the Western Regions, and the conditions are almost the same as those of the Western Regions. Therefore, this is also the most adequate preparation that Cao De can do.

There were 30,000 Green Dragon Riders and 30,000 Flying Wolf Soldiers participating in the special training, a total of 60,000 people. But this does not mean that there will be 60,000 people who will enter the Western Regions to fight.

It's not that Cao De doesn't want to send an army of 60,000 people, but because of the environment in the Western Regions, it is impossible for Cao De to send 60,000 people. According to Cao De's original plan, in this war against the countries of the Western Regions, it would be good to have at most 20,000 people enter the Western Regions to fight. The ideal number is actually about 15,000.

In large-scale legion operations, the first and most important thing is logistics supply. Without logistics and supplies, no matter how many soldiers there are, no matter how elite the soldiers are, they will just die in vain. "Soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved", in fact, this is what it means.

At the beginning, when Cao De and Ma Chao entered the prairie to stir up the wind and rain, they did not bring any supplies. However, their tactics were to feed the war by fighting. In fact, Cao De didn't want to bring logistical supplies. But it was on the prairie, on the territory of the Huns and Xianbei people, and the cavalry of the people had come and gone without a trace, and the supply team with a slow speed was not the most ideal target for the Hun cavalry. Therefore, Cao De can't bring it.

Now, it's pretty much the same. But if Ma Chao goes on the road without supplies this time, then Cao De will wait to collect Ma Chao's body, and it will be a dried corpse. Why, it's because the population of the Western Regions is too small. It's almost unimaginable.

Just imagine, the country of Pu, a country only has more than 1,000 people, and it is only after the annexation of the country after the annexation of the country of Pu that it has this scale. And the Cheshi country has more than 10,000 people and more than 2,000 troops after the merger of the former country and the later country of the Cheshi.

In this context, Ma Chao did not carry any baggage, and directly led 60,000 people into the Western Regions. What did these 60,000 people eat? Feeding war with war? Hehe...... where in the Western Regions can afford to raise these 60,000 cavalry. Even if Ma Chao grabbed enough food, what would the people of the Western Regions do. Cao De's expedition this time was to rebuild the Western Regions Protectorate, not to exterminate the Western Regions.

Therefore, it is okay to conduct a war in the Western Regions. It's just that it's not suitable for large-scale corps operations. If Cao De only wanted to dispatch a thousand or two thousand people, he might still bring nothing to fight to support the war.

According to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Western Regions, Cao De's dispatch of a thousand or two thousand people is indeed a powerful combat force. But this is only for a single or a few combined forces. If Cao De's expedition caused a strong backlash from the people of the Western Regions, which led to the forced union of the Western Regions, the scale of 1,000 people and 2,000 people was really not enough.

The truth that ants bite and kill elephants, Cao De doesn't understand. Therefore, in this war, Cao De needs to dispatch at least 10,000 troops, and at most, this depends on how large the supply team Cao De wants to pay.