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When Zhang Wu led the knight troops to attack, Zhang Jiashi thought in his heart what kind of choice Xiang Yu would make in this battle. Pen & Fun & Ge www.biquge.info please remember our website: Dagger Qi Novel Ыqi.>

There is no gap between the two sides in terms of the number of troops, but the knights under Xiang Yu's command seem to be a little wrong.

This is also inevitable, because the knight troops under Xiang Yu's command are out day and night during this period of time, and both physical and mental consumption are very high.

If in this case, the knights under Xiang Yu's command can exert their original combat effectiveness, it would be a strange thing.

He didn't know what the outcome of this battle would be, but he knew very well that if this battle was lost, especially the three thousand Zhonglang knights still did not play the combat efficiency he expected after installing a large number of new equipment, which would inevitably affect Zhang Jiashi's construction considerations in this regard.

After all, these transported equipment and weapons cost Zhang Jiashi a lot of money, and he was counting on gaining considerable actual combat experience in this operation to carry out the follow-up revision of this plan.

There is no way to do this, no one can really build an elite army just by guessing, and a force that can really fight well needs to be built with a correct plan in many aspects before it can become an army.

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Different from Zhang Jiashi's somewhat expectant thoughts, Li Xin is more positive about this army. Because he could also see that this battle, if it was said that Zhang Jiashi would be revised accordingly to a large extent, and even the subsequent knight troops of the Great Qin Empire would be modified and equipped, Li Xin would not know such a thing, what he thought of was that as long as this captain named Zhang Wu did not make mistakes, it would be difficult for Xiang Yu to win this battle.

He thinks that a sentence that came out of Zhang Jiashi's mouth is very correct, that is, victory in war, in many cases, is the reward of those who make fewer mistakes.

Of course, like that kind of rolling operation, Li Xin did not evaluate it.

In Li Xin's heart, he very much recognized Zhang Jiashi's idea of developing cavalry units in the future, but he also knew that it was not a simple matter to achieve a real improvement or even an all-round improvement.

A simple knight unit, the logistics supply carrying capacity is very weak, many times, in one or two major battles, this knight unit will consume almost all the materials, which is also a shortcoming that has to be mentioned for all cavalry troops.

If you are fighting in your own territory, this can naturally be avoided as much as possible, but if you are fighting in a foreign area, such as the territory of the Huns, Li Xin knows very well that the sustained combat capability of such a force will become the biggest problem for such a force.

But there is no doubt that there is an idea in Li Xinxin that Zhang Jiashi will have a solution to this problem.

Zhang Jiashi naturally has a solution to this problem, but this method, to be honest, Zhang Jiashi himself is not willing to think about it now.

That is, if you are fighting in a foreign territory, if the knight army cannot carry a large amount of materials to fight, then the best solution is that someone has already given Zhang Jiashi a very good guidance.

That is what the Mongols in history did when they were conquering external forces, especially when the Mongols were in the west, in the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located.

The three western expeditions of the Mongols were the first western expedition to the 14th to 19th years of Yuan Taizu (12191224), and Genghis Khan led his army to fight a war with the kingdom of Khorezm. The Second Mongol Expedition to the West was the Second Western Expedition of the Mongol Khanate. From the eighth to the fourteenth year of Yuan Taizong (12361241), Ogedai Khan sent Batu and other kings to lead an army to conquer the countries west of the Volga River. In the third Mongol expedition to the west, from the second year of Yuan Xianzong to the first year of Shizu Zhongtong (1252-1260), Möngke Khan sent his younger brother Hulegu to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Persia.

In these three western expeditions, and the subsequent war of the Mongol Khanate against the Southern Song Dynasty, many of the things done were related to maintaining their own material supplies. That's slaughter.

This is also the reason why Zhang Jiashi does not want to think more about this aspect of the reason at the moment.

The massacre of the Mongols was unprecedented, unprecedented and unprecedented.

There is a saying, that is, the most conservative estimate, that at least 63 million people were slaughtered in the territory of the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty in China, and all the Wanyan family of the Jin Emperor were slaughtered, and there was no Wanyan surname in the world again. This does not include the Dangxiang people lost to the Mongol Empire in the genocide of Western Xia. and the Khitans who were genocided after the destruction of Liao. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Henan, Hebei, northern Jiangsu, and western Shandong were all thousands of miles of uninhabited land. Under the Mongol killing and rule, China lost 1. 300 million people.

According to the History of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Mongols attacked the Song Dynasty, they slaughtered a total of 200 cities, including the largest slaughter of Changzhou. When the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, the number of households was 9.3 million, which was 30% less than the number of households in the 11th year of Ningzong Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty (1218). Calculated based on 5 people per household (5 per household on average in the territory of the Jin Dynasty. 4 people), the number of people slaughtered in the southern Song Dynasty is about 24 million!!

According to the "History of the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty" in the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, with only 120,000 households in Sichuan, more than 250 official offices were set up, which made Sichuan and the province discuss and reduce it. The 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty was 1282, only 6 years after the Yuan army pacified Sichuan in 1278, that is, the population was only 4% of the population on the eve of the war, which shows that the population of Sichuan Province was degraded in the war with the Mongols that year is shocking.

The massacres of the Mongols were indeed heinous, but in many ways, the Mongols did not carry a large amount of food and supplies, and it was difficult for them to carry out a long offensive and defensive battle.

There is a record of this in the "Secret History of Mongolia" ("The Secret History of Mongolia" is a historical classic that describes the formation, development and growth of the Mongolian nation, and is the earliest surviving historical literature of the Mongolian nation. Because it involves the heavenly secrets and secrets of the nation, it was kept secret in the Yuan Dynasty when the Mongols entered the Central Plains, and it was hindered from spreading among the people because of the change of writing. It is for this reason that the credibility of this book is still in doubt. ）

The third chapter of the Secret History of the Mongols contains oaths taken by the Mongol nobility to Genghis Khan, which show that the goal of the statehood of nomadic societies was not to establish a civilized society, but to live by the plunder of others. This is both their means of livelihood and their ideal and pleasure:

"We are willing to be pioneers and rush into battle, and take the beautiful daughters and daughters-in-law from the palace tent houses to you. I will take the beautiful woman of the other race, and the good horse with the hip intact, and dedicate it to you. ”

This can be corroborated by some of the records of the massacre of the Mongols during their several expeditions to the west:

In February 1221, the surrenderers of Barikh (in present-day Iran) failed to hold the city, and the city was completely destroyed (its inhabitants were killed and burned). In Khorasan, he sent his youngest son Tuolei to capture, and the city surrendered, and almost all of its inhabitants were slaughtered. Sitting on a golden chair on the plains of, Towley witnessed the massacre. Men, women, and children were separated, assigned to various barracks by category, and then beheaded. "Only 400 artisans survived death". The tomb of the Sanga Sultan was burned and the tomb was stolen.

In April 1221, the city of Nishapur was captured and completely destroyed, and the widow of Tokhatsa presided over the massacre. To prevent being deceived, the corpses were beheaded and the heads were piled up in a pyramid shape for males, females, and children. "Even cats and dogs were slaughtered. "The Mongols demolished the mausoleum in Harun Rasht, near Tus. The tombs of Harun Rasht and Sangha, as well as all the buildings that graced the splendid Arab-Persian civilization, were destroyed one by one.

In June 1222, the capture of Yeli (in present-day Herat, Afghanistan) resulted in the killing of the entire city, a massacre that lasted a week. Those who had returned to had foolishly killed the Persian prefect who had remained in the city, and embraced Zalandin. They were brutalized by the inauspicious and bald people, and none of them were spared. When the massacre ended, the Mongols cautiously feigned leaving. After they had gone for a while, the poor worms who were hiding on the outskirts of the city or in the basements thought that the enemy was gone, and came out one by one, at which point the Mongol rearguard turned back and attacked them and destroyed them. When the city of Nessa fell, the Mongols herded the inhabitants into a clearing and ordered them to tie each other's hands behind their backs, and Muhammad of Nessa wrote: "They obeyed, and if they scattered and fled to the nearby mountains, most of them would have been saved." Once they tied their hands to each other, the Mongols surrounded them and shot arrows at them, not a single man, woman, or child was spared. ”

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These contents mean that if Zhang Jiashi had to establish a cavalry-based army for conquest, this situation would be inevitable, and in the long war between the Han and the Huns, several troops of the Han Empire that went deep into the hinterland of the Huns may not be able to go anywhere cleanly in this regard.

Slaughtering the small tribes of the Xiongnu and plundering the cattle, sheep and horses of these tribes as supplies was one of the most important means for these Han troops to get supplies.

Otherwise, based on this record, even if the famous general Wei Qing doesn't do anything to maintain supplies, it is estimated that he will starve to death:

In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanzhan (119 B.C.), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used 140,000 war horses and 500,000 foot soldiers as logistics supply corps, and granted Wei Qing and Huo Qubing each to lead 50,000 cavalry, infantry and more than 100,000 troops transporting materials.

This is not the point, the focus is on the subsequent record: Wei Qing's army went out of the fortress for more than 1,000 miles, but encountered the Xiongnu alone with the main force. Wei Qing ordered the former general Li Guang and the right general Zhao Shiqi to merge and outflank them from the right flank.

More than 1,000 miles out of the fortress, even if there are 100,000 infantry to maintain the supply of supplies, I am afraid it will not be enough for a long time. After all, these infantry also need to eat. And with a large number of infantry on the march, the speed of the march of these infantry units is bound not to be very fast.

If this rate is calculated as an average of 50 miles a day, then the Wei Qing army is basically unable to sustain 20 days of grain consumption, which is inevitable.

Transporting grain and straw from the rear to reinforce the army is certainly something that can be hidden. But don't forget that these transported grains will also have a large degree of consumption during transportation, which is also an unavoidable problem.

And because there is one thing that is very interesting in this record, that is, in terms of the ability of Yi Zhi Xian Shan Yu of the Xiongnu at that time, this Shan Yu is certainly not as good as Mao Dun Shan Yu, and even has a certain gap with the military minister Shan Yu, but before this battle, the other party was obviously waiting for the arrival of Wei Qing's army.

It is unlikely that the other party does not know the truth of avoiding the enemy's edge, and the other party has to lead the army to ambush the Wei Qing army, which is likely to be forced.

It is impossible to know what forced Yi Zhi to do this, but it is very likely that on the way to the Wei Qing army, I am afraid that there are not a few small and medium-sized tribes of the unlucky Huns.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi now subconsciously avoids such thoughts, because he thinks that he seems to have a better way to solve this problem.

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In contrast to Zhang Jiashi and the others who were still thinking about the Huns in a leisurely manner, Xiang Yu couldn't help but feel a slight tension in his heart when he saw Zhang Wu leading the army out of the ranks, because he could see that this knight army was not some unpopular team, but an elite knight with not weak combat effectiveness.

Knowing such a situation, Xiang Yu didn't think about it, that is, whether it was possible for the army under his command to be able to solve this Qin army of knights.

He wasn't the kind of idiot who couldn't even see what was going on with his subordinates, and he knew very well that the five thousand knights under his command had been pulled down in many ways. Especially after a long time of fighting and these days of day and night, the physical exertion of this army is very large, and even some knights with poor physique can be said to be quite tired.

Xiang Yu, who knew such a little, had a slight idea, that is, when Zhang Wu's knights were still far away from them, he quickly ordered the whole army to flee.

But he quickly gave up on this.

Maybe the physical consumption of this Qin army knight is also relatively large, after all, the other party is also moving south, not resting in this place. Therefore, Xiang Yu still planned to take a risk.

He knew exactly what would happen to him if he lost this gamble, but he knew that this seemed to be his only chance.

If he leaves now or lets his knights suffer heavy losses, Zhang Jiashi will inevitably strengthen the deployment of troops around him, so that he will not have such an opportunity to get close to the army under Zhang Jiashi in the future.

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Xiang Yu silently looked at the black dots that seemed to be getting bigger and bigger in the distance, and after taking a deep breath, he gave up other ideas, and roared loudly:

"Kill!! as long as we kill the leader of Qin Gou, Qin Gou will no longer have the ability to attack us in a short period of time! Let's recapture the homeland and land !!that should belong to our Great Chu and our Chu people again."