Chapter 258: The Great Wall Changes
As we all know, Great Qin mobilized more than 1.2 million troops in the beginning of the unification war!
However, among the Qin army, which numbered more than 1.2 million at that time, there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were all young and strong people temporarily recruited by the Great Qin government from all over Great Qin!
After the Great Qin dominated the world, most of the Qin soldiers who had been formed by hundreds of thousands of young men and women after a short period of training had been repatriated to their homes to engage in agricultural production.
In other words, the Great Qin army was originally only a million people!
And after the unification war, although the Great Qin army won one after another, it unified China!
However, there were more than 200,000 lost soldiers and 100,000 wounded soldiers, totaling more than 300,000 casualties.
After experiencing such heavy casualties, there were still more than 700,000 of Great Qin's original regular army.
Fortunately, after Sun Bin surrendered, he integrated an army of more than 800,000 among the millions of allied prisoners of war.
After accepting some of the Great Wall armies of the former Zhao and the former Yan, plus some scattered ** teams in the world, there were 800,000 people.
In other words, Daqin's army has now expanded to 2.3 million such a terrifying number, otherwise Yingji would really not be able to come up with so many troops to fight the Xiongnu and Donghu.
However, today's Great Qin also has a serious drawback, that is, the army is too large.
Moreover, the old, weak, sick and disabled are mixed among them, and the general combat effectiveness is not strong.
Otherwise, Yingji would have pulled out this extremely large Qin army and killed the alien races in the north.
Not counting the Golden Fire Cavalry and the Hundred Battle Piercing Soldiers, two legions that are so powerful that they are perverted.
Today, among the 2.3 million troops of Great Qin, 500,000 are stationed on the Great Wall in the north of Qin.
There are 400,000 stationed in the south under the leadership of the Bashu general Sima Cuo and the Wuguan guard general Wang Ling to guard against Baiyue!
There are 200,000 troops stationed in the three counties and twelve counties of the northwest grassland under the leadership of Wang Xiaojie, the supreme commander of the northwest of Qin!
In addition, there are the original 200,000 elite regular troops of the Qin army, plus 200,000 integrated into the integration.
The elite who still retains a certain combat power, a total of 400,000 Qin troops are stationed all over China under the leadership of the generals of the Qin State to defend the Great Qin River!
As for the remaining 800,000 troops, they were also stationed all over China under the leadership of the surrendered generals of the countries under heaven.
It's just that under the combat power, most of them are mainly old, weak, sick and disabled, and it is difficult to support a large corps and high-intensity long-term battles!
Therefore, when Yingji chose the expeditionary army, he did not hesitate to eliminate this large but weak army.
These armies were the handiwork of all the countries in the world, and even the elderly and teenage children in their sixties were sent to the battlefield, and it was strange that they did not defeat the battle.
And if these old, weak, sick and disabled people are hastily eliminated from the army, it is very likely that the situation in the world, which has just stabilized, will become volatile again.
This is not the time for Great Qin to take the route of strengthening the army and elite soldiers, and the time for Great Qin to start large-scale disarmament has not yet come.
In this day and age, it is still a tactic to crush the enemy army with superior forces and achieve victory.
Although the combat effectiveness of these 800,000 weak troops is low, there are also many soldiers who once really had combat power, and they may be used at any time, and they may even play a role in reversing the situation.
Because of this, Yingji did not start to reorganize the army drastically, or it can be said that the time has not come!
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"By the way, Xiangguo, Zhang Han's prisoner army has completed its mission, let Zhang Han return to Lishan with the prisoner army soldiers!"
After thinking for a while, Yingji said to Wei Ran again, and Wei Ran also replied.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this time, I, Daqin, plus the 500,000 soldiers under the command of General Yingji of the Great Wall Legion, the 400,000 soldiers of General Tian Ji and Mr. Sun Bin, the 300,000 soldiers of Wulingjun Zhao Yong and General Yinghua, and the 200,000 soldiers of the Great Qin Shuangbi Army led by General Wang Jian and General Meng Wei!"
"This time, my Great Qin has invested a total of more than 1.4 million troops, the purpose is to wipe out the Xiongnu and Donghu, the two northern alien races, in a battle, and lay the foundation for the prosperity of our Chinese nation.
Looking at the hundred civil and military officials of Great Qin, Yingji said loudly, and the hundred civil and military officials also responded in unison.
"Ten thousand years of the king, ten thousand years of the great Qin!"
"Ten thousand years of the king, ten thousand years of the great Qin!"
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In the north of Great Qin, the junction of agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization, the corner of the Great Wall!
It's like people have good and bad luck, and the sky has unpredictable storms and clouds!
At this moment, it is clear that it has entered the season of late autumn with little rain, and this is the northern grassland, so it stands to reason that there can be no heavy rain at all.
But the truth is not as expected!
I saw that at this time, it was raining heavily on the grassland, and the rain was so strong that it could be compared with the plum rain in the south of the Yangtze River.
However, on a rainy night, the Great Wall, which was originally made of loess and bamboo, was already a little muddy under the continuous heavy rain, and even showed some signs of collapse.
However, it was built in this connection of the Great Wall, and tens of thousands of people were constantly rushing to repair the Great Wall under the supervision of hundreds of Qin soldiers.
At this time, everyone was struggling to rescue the Great Wall that was about to collapse.
The continuous heavy rain hit the armor of the soldiers of the Qin army, splashing bursts of water droplets!
Even many soldiers of the Qin army have successively devoted themselves to the rescue process, and they dare not stop in the slightest.
Because everyone present understood that what they rescued in their hands was not only a city wall made of mud and bamboo, but also a bridgehead for the entire Chinese nation to resist the alien races in the north!
"Hurry up, everyone, the Great Wall must not fall!"
"Brothers, work hard, the Great Wall must not fall!"
But among the hundreds of Qin troops, a centurion who seemed to be the leader of these Qin troops spoke, his tone full of urgency.
I saw that this centurion of the Qin army wearing black clothes and black armor didn't look very old, and he was in his early teens!
With a dignified appearance, with the extremely powerful black armor, it looks like a sense of might.
It is hard to imagine that this kind of temperament, which can only be found in generals, would appear in an ordinary centurion of the Qin army.
"General, no, the Great Wall is about to fall!"
The situation of this section of the Great Wall was already critical, and at this time, a Qin army soldier stood on the wall of the Great Wall and shouted to the centurion below the wall.
The centurion looked fixedly, only to find that the mud of the wall in the middle of the Great Wall had been washed away by the continuous heavy rain.
All of them are shelves made of bamboo and wooden planks, and even the rest of the Great Wall is showing signs of collapse under the heavy rain.
"Everyone, run, the Great Wall is coming!"
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"Come down, hurry up, don't rush to repair the Great Wall anymore, you can't save it"
Seeing that the Great Wall was about to collapse, the centurion of the Qin army hurriedly shouted loudly!
Hearing the shouts, the people and soldiers of the Qin army who were desperately repairing the Great Wall on the city wall in the night and heavy rain hurriedly retreated from the Great Wall.