How many soldiers and soldiers of Bimeng participated in the southern expedition this time? A total of 150,000 people is definitely an unimaginable number. Judging from the news brought back by the scout troops, the exaggerated figure of 200,000 has now exceeded 200,000, and the number of troops is still being increased.

However, it seems that everyone deliberately skipped this issue, because there were very clear guidelines before. And this guideline, that is, the wise and martial Lord Leonardo once said that the southern barbarians are a stubborn enemy, which is indeed a headache. But they're just a headache, not a problem. Whether it is from the combat effectiveness of personnel, or logistical support, or even at the strategic and tactical level, in fact, the two sides are not on the same level.

With Leonardo's words in the front, there are countless people who firmly believe that the comparison of numbers between them is of little significance, and even if they have more, what can they do? Looking through the history of the Bimon Empire, almost 90 percent of the foreign wars were actually fought with fewer enemies and more enemies, otherwise how could there be such a saying that the Bimon warriors surpassed the Pan-American continent?

The vast majority of those who supported Heinrich's decision were older Beamon, and almost all of them were combat units belonging to the larger Rhine faction. It is worth mentioning that the vast majority of this large group of people have not actually participated in the Southern Expedition before, and they know even less about the southern barbarians than Commander Cao, and their description of those enemies this time is completely at the level of a blind man touching an elephant. It is because of their ignorance that they are fearless, and these people do not even look down on Leonardo, they think that if they fight a defensive counterattack like Leonardo, they will defend against the danger. Then anyone who has a little ability and has read the art of war can achieve victory.

Leonardo is an imperial hero, but definitely not everyone is convinced of him, and at the political level, people in various power systems have mixed reviews of him. In the opinion of Head Cao. It's all because of jealousy. Those who advocate active combat and disdain Leonardo's crunched style of play, they are not worthy of judging Leonardo at all. In the history of the Empire, there were not many battles in which the Nanban took the initiative to attack? How many times did they return victoriously? Even if they were victorious, they only gained the advantage in decisive battles, and no one had ever achieved the feat of causing the enemy to lose his vitality. Analysis from various levels has already shown the trickiness of the enemy, and it is rare that Leonardo can play so efficiently in his way.

Heinrich also gave a corresponding explanation for his decision, and the rather embarrassed commander-in-chief of the Southern Expeditionary Army was actually very helpless. Because he knows. It is absolutely impossible for the Southern Expedition that he intervened in to truly reach the state of unity, he can only make his true thoughts public as much as possible, and use this to win everyone's collective wisdom. For the embarrassing sake of a commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition, it has to be said that it is rare in the world. Perhaps Heinrich didn't need to be so honest, he had a large number of supporters, the support of the Ministry of Supervision, and his dignity as a high-level person. But he chose such a way of working together in a more real sense, and Cao believes that this is what makes Heinrich so special.

In terms of Captain Cao's understanding of those powerful figures of the Rhine tribe. Whoever Heinsohn or Stern were here would have scoffed at Heinrich's approach. This is simply the practice of self-destruction of the Great Wall. When do the Rhines need to be understood? They just need others to obey.

Heinrich made his thoughts clear with a "deviant" expression, since this time it was the southern expedition initiated by the Empire, it had to have the flavor of initiative and show everyone's determination. Even if you can't take the lead in taking the lead, you must let the southern barbarians understand that this time the Beamon Empire is ready to do it seriously. Of course. The deeper reason and the greater strategic intention is to bite the opponent at the first time, rather than the defensive counterattack as before.

There is nothing wrong with a defensive counterattack, and it is the smartest thing to do at any time. The essential purpose of war. It is to achieve the benefit of a certain aspect. The nature of defensive counterattack warfare is to resist aggression, and if it can minimize casualties and losses, then it is to achieve benefits. However, this combat attitude is completely different from the purpose of this southern expedition, and every defensive counterattack, even if it is victorious in the end, it fails to achieve the result of crippling the southern barbarians, so they can sweep again and again. Heinrich's determination was to achieve in this battle something that previous defensive counterattacks had not been able to do. This may not sound difficult, but anyone who has fought a war knows that once you don't have a solid and heavy wall to protect you, paying the corresponding casualties is only the most basic price. As soon as the southern barbarians retreated, it was their own nest, and when they drilled into the deep mountains and old forests, the sky was high and the birds could fly, and the sea was wide and the fish could swim, and it was very difficult to pursue them. Many people in the outside world have commented on Leonardo's southern expedition, and many pretentious military scientists think that Leonardo is still too conservative, and if he could pursue the poor when he is victorious, he will have solved a lot of problems a long time ago.

But Leonardo turned a deaf ear to these comments, and he seemed to be forever clinging to the three-third of an acre of Memphis. Because of his attitude, more and more people have joined the ranks of condemning Leonardo, they may not dare to stand up and directly accuse Leonardo, but the insinuating words they wrote have never been broken. Even Head Cao has seen a lot of arguments, and he even naively felt that these guys were reasonable.

Is it because Leonardo did not take the initiative to attack the southern barbarians because of his limited ability and could only fight defensive and counterattack wars? Commander Cao has recently studied many cases of Leonardo, and can conclude that Leonardo is a very versatile all-rounder, who can not only rush to the front line, but also unite his robes, and can also strategize, and he can make the most of the resources at his disposal, so as not to waste any useless strength. Was it because Leonardo wanted the southern barbarians to exist forever, and then made the people of the empire feel that they couldn't live without him, so as to expand his influence?

If he encounters the master of this argument, Head Cao will definitely knock out his front teeth as soon as possible. Does Leonardo still need to increase his popularity and influence in this way? Leonardo is still at the top of his personal status as the leader of the Silver Fox Clan, and he doesn't care about it at all.

In the few days in Memphis, Captain Cao gradually leaned towards a different situation. That is, it is really not a wise choice to launch a southern expedition. Leonardo's idea of defending the frontier against the enemy is slowly being figured out. In fact, it is a very far-sighted macro way, everyone knows that the speed of development of the Mongolian Empire is faster, and the progress is greater than that of the southern barbarians, so why can't we swallow our anger first, and wait until we really have absolute capital to make a decision? Maybe not at that time. The southern barbarians themselves came to sue for peace, and this is the typical thinking of soldiers who surrender without a fight. He was reluctant to provoke this southern expedition, more reason, Commander Cao thought that he felt the difficulty of this, Leonardo is a person from the past, he can win the battle with the southern barbarians every time, it is enough to show that he knows his opponent very well.

Throughout Leonardo's life, you will find that this imperial hero did have reasons for his success. Almost everything he does, he will do it with absolute certainty. Including fighting, many gambling methods that were considered to be dangerous tactics at the time, if you carefully break them down and sum them up, in fact, he used them after he had mastered the key to victory. What he is not sure of, he would rather not do it than waste his energy, this is Leonardo. If you analyze it from the perspective of his character. It is very easy to understand that he did not participate in this grand campaign of the empire.

Heinrich seems to understand this, too. Now that he's in this position, he's going to have to live up to what those people expect of him. It is necessary not only to counterattack the barbarians in the south, but also to achieve commendable results. But in the history of the empire, there has never been an effective way to deal with the barbarians in the south. These neighbors are nothing more than a bunch of ruffians, brandishing brick-masking machetes and harassing you from time to time. Intimidate you, and you'll have to deal with it with all your might. Otherwise, these guys will turn the temptation into the most ferocious offensive and teach you a hard lesson. Once you've done your best, it's a national affair with a huge stake. Not only does it cost the people, but it also hurts the money. You've only taught them a lesson, and these guys are running away with their feet so you can only stare from behind. When they are conditioned, they repeat the previous cycle again, which is an endless cycle with no solution. So, there was no sage who could have pointed out to Heinrich the real way to do it.

Heinrich can only solve it in the most primitive way, biting them, just an implicit statement. More, in fact, many people have been able to taste it. The barbarians in the south harassed the Beamon Empire so much, so this time everyone just went head-on, first defeated them on the frontal battlefield, and then used this grand enough victory to sweep them, even if it took a huge amount of time and extended the construction period. They're scattered? It doesn't matter, each one is broken. Do they have an advantage in fighting at home? Then find a way to kill their superiority! They burn, kill, and loot in the territory of the Beamon Empire? Then they will repay the other in the same way! Are they the only wicked people in the world who can play them?

Instruct that no matter what each combat unit thinks, whether they are willing or unwilling in their hearts, they must follow this rule. Commander Cao was still thinking that there would be some minor troubles in the past two days, but because of this instruction for the whole army to attack, he became a little idle. In the post of logistics troops, Regiment Commander Cao didn't even need to think about it, just let the brothers drag the food and baggage behind.

150,000 Beamon soldiers poured out of the nest, and the scene was also quite spectacular. Commander Cao put away a lot of his previous arrogant thoughts, and even he had to admit that you would never understand your own insignificance until you participated in such a large-scale battle. The plundering group of 1,000 people couldn't even beat a single one out of this sea of people.

Even in such a tense situation, the high-profile raiders did not forget to show off their wealth to the surrounding friendly and neighboring troops to brush up their presence. These guys all put their gorgeous equipment on their bodies one by one, and they walked majestically and highly, and those who didn't know would definitely regard them as the main offensive team on the front line.

"They actually have the money to use gold as nameplates? Lao Tzu's troops still use black wooden dog tags! It's outrageous, these bastards and tyrants!" This was the emotion of another person in charge of the logistics unit next to him after hearing the news and taking a look at the formation of the raiding regiment. Looking at his chest-beating performance at that time, it is completely conceivable that he almost wanted to step down from office and then come to the plundering group to have a bite to eat.

The so-called nameplate is just a pendant engraved with the name of the warrior, which is basically hung around the neck of the Beamon warrior, and many people jokingly call it a dog tag. The only thing that works for this kind of thing is that when you are unfortunate enough to die a heroic death, others can only know through this thing. No Beamon warrior would take down the nameplate with his name on it except death, and its meaning is even more important than the weapon in the warrior's hand.

In the Beamon Empire, almost all of them were processed with a hard black wood and made into nameplates. Only in the human empire, those troops who can be called local tyrants will use iron or copper nameplates. Before the Raiders, they had never heard of the frantic practice of the army using gold to create warrior nameplates.

Not to mention this, the key thing is that the nameplate of the bandits of the raiding group is still heavy gold, in the eyes of many people, it is not a nameplate, they can even use this gold nameplate as a heart guard, you can imagine how big their nameplate is. As for the equipment of the soldiers of the raiding regiment, it made countless people blush. Their local tyrant demeanor, before they set foot on the front line, has already caused all kinds of rumors within them.

Now there are even many people who are eager to send these bastards to the front first, and when they are killed, they may be able to get their hands on their steel equipment. It would have been better if they had caught their nameplates, and it was estimated that no one would have returned them to Commander Cao...... (To be continued......)