Three Kingdoms

Fei Qianqi Ai Ai said: "So... this, in this case, wouldn't it mean that the role of individual bravery is basically less than that of the entire army?"

Huang Zhong said: "Absolutely. The larger the scale of the legion, the smaller the role of personal bravery. Generally speaking, if it reaches the level of 10,000 people, then the competition is basically the overall combat capability and commander-in-chief of the legion. The dispatching capacity has been improved. Brave military generals are more effective in breaking through or attacking a small army, but the so-called enemy of ten thousand people..."

Huang Zhong shook his head and said that the matter was relatively unreliable.

Huang Zhong went on to say: "There is a situation when encountering in the wild. If you see the opponent's military formation is serious, you will usually send one or two powerful generals to test the formation. This time is called a single attack in front of the formation. In addition to rounds, There will also be two other modes of combat between generals, one is to fight in circles, the other is to drag swords..."

Huang Zhong went on to explain that from the late Warring States period to the Han Dynasty, in order to boost one's own morale and undermine the opponent's morale, there were still invitations to fight duels.

However, cavalry warfare is very different from chariot warfare during the Warring States Period, because horses are much more flexible than chariots. Therefore, the battle between two generals does not rely solely on the impact of a charge, that is, the so-called turn-based duel. There are also two other modes:

——The first type, the circle, is for the two horses to turn in a small radius in the same direction. The size of the radius can determine the killing of each other based on the weapons of both riders. In this state, it is a long-term sword-to-edge battle;

——The second type, dragging the knife, is a close-range chase between two horses running in tandem. At this time, one side usually escapes and the other chases. The length of the chase is determined based on the speed and explosive power of the horses.

Fei Qian nodded and understood. One of Mr. Guan's specialties is knife fighting...

Following Huang Zhong's explanation, Fei Qian finally figured out that in the Han Dynasty, due to the continuous development of the scale of war, from the Warring States to the Qin State, and then to the Han Dynasty, the population participating in the war continued to expand, and many things originally from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were changed.

Originally during the Warring States Period, the vassal states were limited to their own national strength and were also limited by production tools, so it was impossible to launch large-scale populations for war. Another reason is that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhou etiquette was relatively particular, so some methods of deciding the war by a duel between warriors from both sides emerged, which later generations called single-handed victory.

However, in the late Warring States period, as more and more people were mobilized to participate in the war, the goal of the war gradually changed from attacking the opponent's generals to weakening the enemy's combat effectiveness. Therefore, the change in the goal of the war also caused many of the original Zhou etiquette rules at that time to be completely Destroyed, the deceitful art of war gradually reared its head.

This developed until the Han Dynasty. Single combat in front of the battle line could no longer completely determine the victory of a battle. The decision to determine the success or failure of the war shifted from personal bravery to more aspects, such as logistics, training, etc...

Especially grain.

Once the food and grass are cut off, the morale of the army will be in chaos, and no matter how brave a man is, he will not be able to withstand three days without food...

Huang Zhong said: "Therefore, in the military formation, not only the regular soldiers are important, but also the auxiliary soldiers. Sometimes it is necessary to use local handymen and civilians, but these can generally be regarded as the scope of local responsibility. So it doesn’t matter…”

"Primary soldiers and auxiliary soldiers?" Fei Qian asked, "How are these divided? It seems that the nearly a thousand soldiers and armors we carry are not divided into regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers?"

Huang Zhong said: "We have a small number of people to begin with, and the soldiers we lead are all regular soldiers. Let's put it this way, the regular soldiers have been trained to go into battle to kill the enemy, and can also do some chores, but the auxiliary soldiers generally have not received much training. They are mainly engaged in chores, such as building camps, transporting grain and grass, etc. They can also go into battle when necessary, but in terms of combat power, there is a huge difference between the two."

Fei Qian nodded, thinking that speaking of it, the new soldiers Cao Cao recruited were probably auxiliary soldiers, and the approximately 10,000 soldiers brought by Bao Xin might include regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers...

As for the two thousand soldiers Zhang Miao sent to Cao Cao, they should be mostly regular soldiers.

According to Huang Zhong, under normal circumstances, the ratio of regular soldiers to auxiliary soldiers varies according to the marching distance and the difficulty of supply, but the auxiliary soldiers must be at least about 30%, so that when setting up camps and transporting grain and grass, there will be There are enough manpower to use, otherwise it will be like Fei Qian and his party, letting regular soldiers do these tasks. If there is no war, there will be no problem, but if the war itself is tight, and then the physical strength of the soldiers is consumed to do these chores, it will inevitably lead to a vicious cycle...

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the terms Upper Army, Middle Army, and Lower Army appeared. This is also the origin of the earliest "Three Armies".

The Shangjun is, of course, a professional soldier and is the country’s main field and external combat force.

The Chinese Army is generally responsible for security and defense tasks, and is a defense-focused army.

The lower army is a labor force engaged in combat tasks of engineering, transportation and logistics support.

Of course, in the Han Dynasty, the era was different, and its nature was also different.

According to Huang Zhong, the so-called regular soldiers are soldiers who were initially recruited to join the army. Since they have not received much training, they can generally only serve as laborers. Then they usually need to be trained for about a year. Within this year, the soldiers They can only undertake defensive tasks in urban and rural areas. Under special circumstances, they will not carry out frontal melee combat tasks in the field. Regular soldiers mostly refer to soldiers who have been in the army for more than one year. Only at this time can they officially assume combat tasks and act as the backbone, that is, Serve as a face-to-face hand-to-hand combat unit.

Therefore, sword and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, and broadsword soldiers must all be composed of regular soldiers. These soldiers directly participate in hand-to-hand combat. If they are not systematically trained, they can easily collapse directly on the battlefield, leading to a rout.

In addition, most of the more professional units are regular soldiers, such as archers, cavalry...

"That's it..." According to Huang Zhong's statement, the coalition forces of Bao Xin and Cao Cao seem to be about 20,000 people, but in fact the number of regular soldiers fighting is less than 10,000. It seems that the water content is really there. There are all of them...

In this way, can the coalition of Bao Xin and Cao Cao win this time?

I don’t know how Dong Zhuo responded?

Normally speaking, once the army moves into action, the movement cannot be hidden like the bionics of later generations. Moreover, the Kwantung Allied Forces came with a banner to support the country, and it is even more impossible to attack the army on its way forward. The village was blocked and massacred, so it was bound to be detected by Dong Zhuo's scouts...

I just don’t know, will Hua Xiong lead his army this time?