Huan Wen is definitely telling the truth, the army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is about 200,000, even if this time there is the first gate valve of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the fourth Huan family to contribute, it is only to add 30,000 combatable soldiers to the 40,000 troops compiled by the imperial court.
The 70,000 Jin army in Yangzhou, do you know how many cavalry there are, not counting some scouts who have to ride horses, the 70,000 Jin army only has more than 8,000 cavalry.
"The number of light cavalry of the Hu people is large, counting the regular establishment of the Zhao army to reach 70,000, and the total number of troops not counting the regular establishment is close to 150,000."
Huan Wen smiled bitterly and said: "Wang Luan wantonly beckoned the nomadic tribes to serve, and there are many responders from each tribe, and the Hu people will not be less than 60,000 light horses."
Can you explode 60,000 cavalry, then you need at least 80,000 or more war horses, that is, the Hu people can easily come up with such a number of war horses.
It must be noted that a war horse is a war horse, a horse is a horse, not every batch of horses can become a war horse, and a considerable number of horses cannot become a war horse until they die, and can only pull a cart or pack animals.
According to the normal ratio, there are at least five non-war horses behind a war horse, which is really something that only Hu people can handle.
By the way, Liu Yan used to think that wild horses could be trained to become war horses after they were captured, but that was a wrong perception at all, wild horses may be able to become war horses, but that is only a very small part, I don't know if there can be five out of a hundred.
That's a simple truth, war horses need to start training when the horse is less than a year old, and the training is one or two years, but most of the wild horses are more than a year old horses.
Wild horses can only be captured for the purpose of breeding the next generation of horses, and to train qualified war horses from the foal stage, not for the sake of the wild horses themselves.
Although Xuzhou has mountainous areas, most of the area is plain.
In such a terrain, if there is no water system extending in all directions, it is conceivable that the Eastern Jin Dynasty would not even dare to take a glance.
The big question is coming, they all say that the Northern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, the more than 200,000 Jin troops in the country have only about 20,000 cavalry in a circle, how can they go on the Northern Expedition "When the lower officials came, they saw so many war horses in the county army" Huan Wen looked at Liu Yan with blazing eyes and asked: "Presumably, there is no shortage of cavalry under the command of the county prince" Liu Yan didn't want to know what the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was doing, but he was extremely interested in Huan Wen, so he didn't answer the question, but invited: "Are you willing to see my army?"
Huan Wen was stunned for a moment when he heard the words "my army", and then smiled and saluted: "Tired." ” Speaking of which, anyone who was canonized by the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty belonged to the courtiers of the Sima royal family from the name, whether it was Liu Yan, the county prince, or Murong Hao, the king of Yan, or even the generations of county princes of the Liang Kingdom of the Zhang family, who had always behaved deferentially to the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were all of them.
Since he is a courtier of another family, even if it is in name, in fact, he can't say "my army", but Liu Yan doesn't care, he doesn't care in the real sense.
The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also holds its own Zhengshuo name, and some regimes also recognize the Zhengshuo name of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because there is really no more suitable one except for the Sima royal family.
If you don't recognize the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, do you recognize the brutal Shijie Obviously, the forces of all parties are more willing to deal with the weak and incompetent Sima royal family, rather than contact with the brutal and aggressive Shijie, even if Shijie's occupation of the Central Plains now is more like Zhengshuo in the true sense.
Do you know how much area of camp is needed when 50,000 troops are stationed, especially since this army has 70,000 or 80,000 war horses, plus animal power such as horses and cattle for pulling carts?
It needs a radius of about twenty miles, which is not a simple camp, and it also needs to count the space for the movement of war horses.
The Han army was extremely wealthy, with tents made of white cloth, and there were as many tents as there were rules, and the tents were triangular shapes, and each tent could accommodate five people, that is, one army.
"Such a tent could actually hold ten people, but we found that too crowded would cause the soldiers to be depressed."
Liu Yan was playing the local tyrant, and he said indifferently: "Since there is no shortage of tents, let's arrange it loosely and give the soldiers enough space for internal activities." ” Inside the open tent were rows of straw mats on each side, on which were carpets, and at the bottom was a wooden square table and, of course, wooden chairs.
Huan Wen was frowning, of course he could see that Liu Yan was showing off or being embarrassed, and he had to admit that the tent was very big, but he didn't believe that the soldiers of the Han Department had such treatment, and thought it was a specially arranged face-saving project.
He would think that it was simpler, and that when anyone would bring tables and wooden piers to fight, the simpler the supplies they would bring, the better, and the less they would bring, the more convenient they would be, so that they would not bring those unnecessary things.
The treatment can be fake, but a white tent with no end in sight can't be fake.
With such a large number of tents alone, Huan Wen thought that the Han Department was rich enough, just because the tents used slightly more fabric.
The barracks were well planned, the main road looked very flat after repeated tamping, and a road at least six zhang wide appeared straight, directly running through the barracks from the gate.
Looking at the tents on both sides of the main road, it is conceivable that as long as there is an order, countless soldiers will flock to the main road, and a little training can open the battlefield.
When Huan Wen came, he had already observed that there were at least six similar main roads in the Han camp, and looking at the distribution of the military camps, the army under Liu Yan was obviously not the kind of rabble that many people in the court thought, just because the rabble could not set up such a neat camp.
The sound of horses' hooves caught constant temperature's attention, and when he turned his head to look, he saw at least five thousand armored cavalry slowly setting off into the distance, but he didn't know where to go.
"That's a cavalry, right" Huan Wen is a knowledgeable person, but he doesn't think that knights wearing armor are iron horses.
He said sincerely: "The tribal smelting strength and the number of craftsmen of the county prince are really large."
Lo and behold, this is the true sense of the word, knowing what kind of cavalry makes the difference, and understanding that only those equipped with those matching armor and weapons can be considered assault cavalry.
The Jin army also had assault cavalry, which was a type of cavalry in which knights had iron armor and war horses did not have armor, which were mainly used for frontal hand-to-hand combat.
Lifting the power of the whole country in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the cavalry is only three thousand, not that there is no more iron armor, it is a lack of qualified war horses and knights, after all, the weight-bearing capacity of the war horse must be qualified, in addition to the weight and endurance, sprint ability, and then there is no stirrup yet, even if there is a stirrup, it is not necessarily possible to become a knight on a horse, maybe only a horse infantryman.
Liu Yan didn't speak, if he used modern language, he would be pretending to be forced to pretend to be in full suit, and this coercion has not yet been completed.
Those cavalry called the Turquoise cavalry were, of course, the system cavalry, but they were only the first batch, and two thousand system archers would appear behind, and wait for the archers to finish first.
Of course, Huan Wen also saw the archers, but he didn't react much.
Archers, in Huan Wen's eyes, are light horses, although they look like they are wearing a good leather armor, but similar types of troops are really too ordinary.
Liu Yan didn't know that he had failed to pretend to be forced, if he knew that he would let the two thousand archers show their cavalry, let Huan Wen understand that the cavalry archery of those systematic archers and the light cavalry of the Hu people was the difference between heaven and earth.
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was chaotic, Huan Wen had already packed up his mood to talk about some serious things, and just said the word "Xiaguan", and the next moment the sound of neat footsteps came from afar.
It was really so neat that it seemed to be the sound of war drums beating, and the rhythmic and layered footsteps were made by about 3,000 infantry troops, who marched in a phalanx, each phalanx looked absolutely neat, whether it was horizontal or vertical, or crooked, each soldier was a straight line.
Huan Wen felt strange that the infantry phalanx was followed by a large number of carriages, and the carts were not loaded with grain, but a set of armor "Oh, those are heavy armor."
Liu Yan specially talked about the type and weight of the armor, and said: "Do you see those empty carriages?"
Huan Wen nodded in a daze, but in his heart he was surprised how those infantry soldiers could walk so neatly.
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"Actually, it should have been in a horse-drawn carriage."
Liu Yan grinned: "It's just that in order to let Yuanzi see my infantry army, I specially arranged to walk on foot for a while, and I will still take a carriage later." ” Yuanzi is Huan Wen's cousin, although only close friends and elders are suitable for calling the cousin, but didn't Huan Wen call himself a subordinate to Liu Yan Liu Yan also has the identity of calling Huan Wen's cousin.
Among them, there is also a hint of Liu Yan's bad taste, after all, not everyone can talk and laugh with historical celebrities, and even call the table with the attitude towards juniors.
Next, Huan Wen saw more, and saw the wealth of the Han Department with his own eyes, and also saw that the soldiers were full of momentum.
What impressed and puzzled him was that Liu Yan had only risen in four years, what means should he use to have such strength Could it be that Liao 1 Dong or Goguryeo has a huge iron ore is true Baekje was conquered by Liu Yan and reduced to a vassal It is also Zhen Huan Wen was shocked once or twice, and he was a little numb in the future.
He also saw the food of the Han Department later, and learned that Liu Yan really used the system of the twentieth rank of the Qin army to carry out hierarchical treatment, seeing that the food was enough, and it could be described as very rich, he was a little confused: how much money should be spent to raise the army in this way, even if there is money, food cannot be bought in the Central Plains.
It was already evening after walking around, but Huan Wen not only forgot to ask where the troops were going to go before, but also didn't mention a word about some things that should have been finalized early.
"Don't think Hanbu has such strength.
And it is only a part of Liu Yan's army, I heard that there are more than 150,000 troops under his command" The person who spoke was called Yuan Qiao, he was the great-great-grandson of Yuan Lian, the commander of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Yuan Gui, the son of Yuan Gui, the son of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and a subordinate official of Huan Wen for a long time.
He said worriedly: "I heard that there was a big turmoil in Qingzhou, obviously Liu Yan found that the arrangement of the imperial court was fighting back, but he was forbearing, I'm afraid":