Chapter 3808 Strategic Issues
Fu Ward is very aggrieved now, it's not that he can't fight, the quality of the soldiers under his command is still better than that of the Qiang people, but the problem is that Fu Ward dare not fight like before.
In the past, when fighting in the local area, it was enough to recruit troops on the spot after the battle. Anyway, they have a lot of people in Guishuang, and there are also a lot of backbones who have completed training in the mountainous areas of Beigui. If they come in and train a little, they will become another legion, so there is no need to worry about reserve forces. The problem.
This is the same as the counties in Liangzhou don't worry about their soldiers at all when fighting in the local area. Whoever sends troops can send hundreds of thousands of cavalry, but the counties of Liangzhou can gather 300,000 armored cavalry, and they all use them. It is the version of Xiliang cavalry, and its combat effectiveness is stable.
But if you switch to an expedition, look at the situation of the Han Dynasty’s struggle against Guishuang, you will know that an expedition and a local battle are two different things. Food and grass logistics, troop allocation, and transfer and recruitment all need to be calculated and used. Basically, it is a 100,000 army. It takes hundreds of thousands of people to deliver food and grass, and tens of thousands of people to maintain food roads, and only half of them can participate in the war in the end.
This is also the reason why it is difficult to expand the territory. When going out to fight, it is difficult to have more troops than the opponent. In addition, the opponent has popular support, local logistics support, and terrain advantages. If you want to win, it is really true. It is extremely difficult.
To put it simply, assuming that a county-level unit has 300,000 people, it can theoretically support 15,000 soldiers. If it goes out to attack other places, the troops it can use, considering logistics, have already guarded food roads, etc. On the other hand, the final force that can be used is about 10,000.
But for defense, according to the ratio of male to female, mobilizing the local people to stick to the city, you can use more than 100,000 young and strong, and counting the young and strong to fight, and the healthy women to transfer food and grass in the city, the force that can be used can even reach an exaggerated 200,000. This is the meaning of homeland warfare.
However, the Han Dynasty basically did not enjoy this kind of treatment, and often went thousands of miles to fight with others. In this case, the advantages of local personnel could not be brought into play at all.
By the way, this is also why, once the Han Dynasty wins, the gains are basically tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep are captured, because the Han Dynasty wins is equivalent to blowing the opponent's city hammer, and it can be scraped three feet.
Similarly, if the Han Dynasty loses a large army, it will usually be 10,000 to 20,000, and it will not survive to 50,000. The reason is that you have gone thousands of miles away to fight, how can you bring hundreds of thousands of people.
In turn, this can also explain why after the victory from the early Tang Dynasty to the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the general harvest was tens of thousands, and the number of captured cattle and sheep was extremely exaggerated. Even in the Battle of Constant Ross, the largest death statistics given by world history and Tang history, including the friendly troops who backstabbed the Tang army, it was only 15,000.
To put it bluntly, it is because it is too far away, so far away that the deployment of troops has become a big problem, and the maximum deployment capacity of the main force is only 10,000 people, no more than 50,000 people at most.
After the Tang Dynasty passed Xuanzong's peak period, he often lost hundreds of thousands, and in the Song Dynasty, he often lost hundreds of thousands. The gains against opponents usually did not exceed a few thousand, which actually shows that the offense and defense have changed positions.
It is impossible to win more than 100,000 yuan by fighting head-on. According to different opponents, it can be divided into two types: killing the opponent's city and directly defeating the opponent, and killing the opponent's royal court and defeating the opponent. They all belong to the negative textbooks in the art of war that go deep into the army alone and are out of touch with one's own side, but the bosses generally don't read this kind of textbooks.
Fu Wode really wants to talk about combat effectiveness, even if it is limited by the fact that his soldiers have just switched to elite talents, have not fully adapted to the plateau climate, and are not very familiar with the terrain, etc., but if they really want to fight, there are only 60,000 to 70,000 Qiang people in Fuwo, who are young and strong. Germany can still fight.
But can it solve the problem? Just like when Rahul did not have the chains behind him, hundreds of thousands of people directly fought against Guan Yu, regardless of whether Guan Yu could win, even if he won, it is absolutely impossible for the Han Dynasty to stand firmly in the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges.
The loss of 500,000 troops is nothing to Guishuang, not even 2%. Relying on the size of the empire, it will take less than two years for the blood to recover. It will take two years for the next wave of troop deployment.
It is equivalent to saying that Guishuang has gained a two-year buffer time for nothing. If this is the case, the Han Dynasty may still be fighting the second Boluosi encirclement and suppression war.
It can be said that this is the biggest difference between domestic warfare and foreign warfare. Fu Ward is now in a situation where he cannot afford to win. He can only win a big victory, not a small victory, let alone draw or lose.
If it is said that in Beigui, Fu Wode lost 20,000 people and wiped out the 60,000 Qiang people, it is definitely a big victory, and needs to be repaid, but in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Fu Wode lost 20,000 people and died. There are 60,000 Qiang people, and the tribes of the Qiang people are completely unknown, but Kefu Ward's strategy is also abolished!
This is why in the battle of Hengluo, the Tang Dynasty killed 70,000 Arabs, and its own side lost 15,000. The Tang Dynasty recorded that it lost, and the Dashi recorded that it won.
Because this is not a question of gains, but a strategic level. After the Tang Dynasty lost 15,000 people, the remaining 10,000 people are no longer enough to continue to maintain the Anxi Metropolis in the face of the 230,000 troops of the Dashi. The territory of the Protectorate extending to the Black Sea does not have the capital to continue to protect the name of the Sassanid Persian country under the attack of Dashi.
Although this battle had no impact on the core territories of Arabia and the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty still retained a large area of Central Asia, but this has already shaken the overall hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in Eurasia, proving that the Tang Dynasty did not Not an invincible existence.
After all, the territory of the Tang Dynasty has actually surpassed the extreme wall of imperial rule. It can be maintained more because the Tang Dynasty is too strong. The one who doesn't start, with the Qur'an in one hand and the cross in the other, world-class famous players one after another.
This is the same as the Anxi Dadu Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty who lost six battles in six battles, and the strength of the Anxi Dadu Protectorate in the early days of Xuanzong only accounted for about one-twentieth of the overall military strength of the Tang Dynasty. During the Kaiyuan period, 20,000 people of Emperor Xuanzong fought eastward against Arabia and lost six times. This is why the Tang Dynasty was able to go to the Black Sea to discuss the border issue with Byzantium, because no one dared to provoke this monster anymore. A legion fighting a prosperous empire has no temper, and this kind of legion has a total of twenty-five opponents. Is this a level? of course not.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty only had 24,000 people in the entire Central Asia, but it firmly grasped the important reason for the entire Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. My 24,000 people and the Arabs won the hammer, and it was six battles and six battles. Sheng, you scumbags can't even offend Arabs, how dare you offend big daddies!
Under such circumstances, Central Asia naturally would not dare to disobey the orders of the Tang Dynasty, but the defeat of the Tang Dynasty in the battle of Hengluo was actually equivalent to shaking the undefeated golden body, which in turn led to the beginning of some changes in the frontiers. idea.
This is the same as the world lighthouse of the United States in 2019. No one thought that the other party could be so bad. In 2021, the United States will be like this. If we really want to say that the real strength gap between 2019 and 2021 may not be much, But the former speaks loudly, and everyone knows how to play it very powerfully. In 2021, it will inevitably be a little hard to blow.
As for Song, there is nothing to talk about. The undefeated golden body is in the hands of others, and it is often broken by tens of thousands of people, and then tens of thousands are defeated, and hundreds of thousands are captured.
The most amazing thing about the Han Dynasty is that, if you really want to say how fierce it is, it is not very fierce, at least it is not as good as the hard indicators, but the most fierce thing about the Han Dynasty is that except for civil wars, it is basically fought by other people. The family hammered others, and they all won in the end.
It doesn't matter whether you are in a mess or not. The important thing is that you look very ferocious and not strong enough, but your aura is very strong. At first glance, you are a top-notch giant. , it's a bit too embarrassing.
Just like the same squadron and the same American equipment, combat power is completely different. Hard indicators are just hard indicators. When you beat others, sometimes what you look at is not hard indicators.
This also makes Fu Wo De look particularly embarrassed now, a mere 40,000 Qiang people are chasing more than 30,000 elites of Fu Wo De's headquarters to fight, what is called aggrieved, this is called aggrieved.
During the period, Fu Ward did not think about turning around and fighting the Qiang people, but when he thought that he would not have the energy to implement the strategy after winning, Fu Ward forcibly held back this thought, and put the overall situation first.
On the contrary, it was the Qiang people who killed so much that it was called a rise. Although their own losses were twice as much as that of Fu Ward, the momentum of their pursuit was far better than that of Fu Ward, and since they got back more than 400,000 After the goose, the Qiang looked at the big goose that had lost weight, but came back, and its combat effectiveness has improved again. Let's kill him! Pieces into pieces!
"It ran really fast." Lin Dai spat and stabbed a prisoner of Guishuang to death. He couldn't understand what the other party said, and the souvenir trade was not done well, so he killed him.
"Are you still chasing? Boss." The leader of the Di people quickly handed over a cup of Naan wine, and said to Lin Dai. With the style of a general, he can lead them to a higher level, so Lin Dai has already been elected as a big leader, and he will wait for the Han Dynasty to appoint an official to become a county guard.
That's right, after Yang Pu's malicious research, they can actually not be led by that treacherous official named Sima Lang, they can form a new county, called Qiangtang County, and then hang under the leadership of Sichuan and Shu, Chen Deng, the governor of Sichuan and Shu, was a good official.
This idea is very good, and it can break away from Sima Lang's rule. Therefore, a group of Qiang people who thought that they had suffered a lot quickly began to recommend, and Lin Dai did his part to become the reserve sheriff. The internal affairs of the Qiang people, the internal affairs of the Qiang people...