Chapter 63: The Beginning of Hegemony
Don't look at Li Liguo's several large-scale victories, but the number of people who really killed face-to-face on the battlefield is not many, especially in the face of the decisive battle of cavalry against infantry of the Yellow Turbans, the cavalry troops have almost always been in a state of pursuit except for the initial large number of casualties by the long-range archers of the Yellow Turban Soldiers......
As a result, the number of people who are actually counted as killing is not too large......
The big head is basically obtained when you destroy the power of the super princess!
Limited by the war situation in the era of cold weapons, the number of people killed in the battle between cold weapons is too small, it can be said that in every battle, more than 90% of the dead soldiers are pursued and slaughtered to death!
Even though the Yellow Turbans had a strong faith, they were crushed in the face of overwhelming cavalry charges......
This made Li Liguo very unhappy, not only did the killing level not increase to 100,000 people, but the gunpowder era was opened, and even the number of war coins obtained was not much!
The record of defeating more than 100,000 people is not as good as more than half of the war coins given by the battle of gathering and destroying tens of thousands of main forces of the British Super Princess!
Those Yellow Turban soldiers are too special to be worthless, aren't they?
But to be honest, the cost of the Yellow Turban Soldiers is indeed very low, and for the Yellow Heaven Sect Master, if he dies a million people, he can also pull it out to make up for it......
Of course, due to the large population and the need for more food, the Yellow Heaven Sect Master would not dare to pull out so many soldiers......
Li Liguo has reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of land, and blackmailed the Viscount pioneers of the Great Plains of Florida one by one, barely enough to feed the hundreds of thousands of people, you know, Li Liguo has now replaced the position of the Grand Duke of England!
Zhao Han and Ye Yan resisted with a lot of effort......
And the reason why Li Liguo did not send the main force of cavalry to confront Zhao Han Yeyan was mainly because the cavalry played a very limited role in siege warfare!
After several months of war, Zhao Han's territory was full of large and small fortifications, and there were obstacles such as rejecting horses everywhere......
Li Liguo's losses were naturally not small, even if it was a regular delivery of civilian-trained soldiers to the front line, the Spartan army was getting smaller and smaller, from 130,000 to 50,000......
Zhao Han and Ye Yan's main army was also consumed, and only one core ironclad army remained, firmly guarding the castle where Zhao Han lived!
It can be said that Li Liguo's strategy of depleting the elites of the two earls has almost been completed!
Well, for the cold-blooded Li Liguo, another benefit of the months of war was that the pressure of the huge population was greatly relieved......
The newly established city of Sparta was full of women without husbands, sons, and fathers, and the proportion of men that Li Liguo brought from the campaign copy was two-thirds of the proportion, and the proportion of women in the high-intensity months of war attrition was exactly the opposite......
If it weren't for the bullet pressure of the Spartan cavalry and the spiritual pacification of the Spartan Temple of War, the civilians who suffered heavy casualties would have risen up against Li Liguo's long-term military service policy......
In the kingdom of Sparta, only one or two of the 10 soldiers were able to return......
Of course, military service does not mean that you have to go to the battlefield, in fact, half of the civilian men who are pulled to serve in the military are used as logistics civilian men!
The reason why only one or two of the 10 soldiers returned was because the civilians who served as civilian husbands had no holidays until the end of the war!
After all, those civilians who serve in the army are not very adaptable to the battlefield, and the psychological pressure is huge, and it is still a good time to let them go back to meet their families occasionally, which is also the preferential treatment of the warriors who went into battle to kill the enemy for the Spartan Kingdom......
During the months of war, the Spartan special building, the training camp that could train Spartan berserkers, was put into use!
Li Liguo also saw with his own eyes the combat effectiveness of the newly trained Spartan berserkers, and the results were quite satisfactory, because compared to those ordinary Spartan soldiers, the Spartan berserkers were definitely outstanding......
It's just that the 'output' and efficiency of this training camp are a bit low......
Also, the number of devout followers of the Spartan god of war is too small!
Without the support of faith, the Berserker's combat power will be greatly discounted, and loyalty cannot be guaranteed!
The biggest thing that touched Li Liguo during the months of war was that he deeply experienced the powerlessness of crowd tactics!
The main reason why the Spartan army has sufficient reinforcements and will continue to shrink is that Zhao Han and Ye Yan initially used the elite to ambush the huge Spartan army many times!
The elite and small pioneer armies were very flexible in their movements, and the mediocre Spartan soldiers could often achieve quick results and retreat when Spartan reinforcements arrived!
Even if Li Liguo put out an array of soldiers with more people than the other party, it would be difficult to leave the elite of the pioneers!
If Li Liguo hadn't personally guided a few bait battles and used the legendary Spartan Janissaries as the main force of the counteroffensive, I'm afraid that in the months of tug-of-war, it would have been Zhao Han and Ye Yan who had the advantage......
Therefore, when Li Liguo was conducting the war, he also consciously began to draw soldiers with rich combat experience to form a real core force!
Of the remaining 50,000 Spartan soldiers, more than 20,000 were elite infantry who had been rearmed and organized for months!
These soldiers were all combat veterans, and they were well-organized and well-disciplined, and their armor and weapons were on par with the heavy infantry of the Cold Weapons era!
Among them, there are also many crossbow archers, all of whom are ranged troops trained by capturing the excellent crossbows of the Pioneer Alliance!
Even if it is not as easy to use as the Divine Arm Crossbow, the effective range can reach a distance of hundreds of meters!
It's just that the armor-piercing ability is average, and the effect of dealing with the ironclad army of the whole body iron plate armor is not very good......
After several months of attrition, Li Liguo finally broke through to the core area of the White Tiger Territory, and exhausted most of the elite of the coalition army of the two counts, Li Liguo recruited thousands of Spartan berserkers from the rear with a small number of war coins, with the legendary Spartan Janissaries, under the cover of 50,000 Spartan troops, launched a general attack on the last territory of the two counts!
Li Liguo has had enough of months of continuous attrition, even if he sees the essence of the cannon fodder army and is determined to carry out military reform, he does not want to use this method of war to reduce the number of his own army!
Because Li Liguo has deeply realized the harm brought by a long-term and high-intensity war to his ruling foundation! (To be continued.) Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info)