There are really not many countries that can arm a million troops in the era of cold weapons, and if they can really arm a million people, it will be difficult to use this million troops to fight a war.
In the past, the Qin State repeatedly armed nearly one million people to war, but if you check history, you will find that the scale of the Qin army of one million only lasted for two or three years at most, mostly for seven or eight months, and every time it caused itself to be greatly damaged.
Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin State has become a country with a military, one country, one lord and one righteousness, and everything that survives with farming and warfare is for war.
It is precisely because of the existence of the system of farming and warfare that the vast majority of the resources produced by the people of the country can be attributed to the state, and only when the national treasury is sufficient can an army of one million be repeatedly raised, otherwise it would not be possible to do so at all.
Since the Qin State, the Central Plains Dynasty of all dynasties has rarely been able to produce such a terrifying number of one million troops, and the standing army that does not produce is only twenty or thirty thousand at the most in the pre-Han Dynasty, and the rest of the army source comes from a kind of obligation of conscription.
The subsequent dynasties were basically the same, except that there were very few professional soldiers who were not engaged in production, and the rest of the soldiers usually did their own business and waited until they were called up to enter the army.
"We are actually in this state as well, the difference is that there is a standing army."
Xu happened to be a lieutenant, and he was no stranger to military affairs: "Our county soldiers are the conscription system, and the popular point is the camp of flowing soldiers." ” The king inspected the place, and Xie An, who had been in charge of the military affairs in the northwest, could not help but appear, and he had been waiting in the area of Longxi County close to Nan'an County.
Xie An had two standing armies at hand, which were fighting against the remnants of the Qiang and Di tribes, and the state of stopping and stopping had lasted for a year and a half.
The so-called remnants of the Qiang and Di tribes are naturally those who were defeated and withdrawn from the Han territory.
The remnants of the two clans located in the western slope of Xiqiang Mountain were only a part of it, and at first they seriously threatened Longxi County, and the situation changed only when Xie An led the army over.
In a year and a half, Xie An tried to enter Xiqiang Mountain twice, but the terrain there was really complicated, and the remnants of the Qiang and Di tribes were too capable of escaping, and the Han army only controlled the basin east of Xiqiang Mountain, and it was difficult to control the mountain area due to insufficient troops.
"In recent years, it has been extremely difficult for the Han to have an army of millions."
Xu Zheng said with regret: "There are natural disasters that need to be dealt with, and those civil officials have been muttering about internal affairs, internal affairs, and internal affairs."
Xie An knows history better than Xu Zheng, if he hadn't been forced, who would have engaged in a million-dollar army In the history of wars in the Central Plains, there are few million-strong armies since the Qin Empire, mainly because the grain and related armaments cannot keep up, and then there are a few kings who have made millions of armies to kill themselves and the country has been lost.
Shi Hu had an army of millions, and within a few years, Shijie Zhao Guo walked into the historical garbage heap.
Fu Jian also called for the organization of a million-strong army, which collapsed after World War I, and the former Qin of the Qin State, which looked incomparably strong, was quickly swept into the garbage heap of history.
The record of a million-strong army in East Asia is still relatively "plain", and many of them are still so-called "claims", such as the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's total strength is close to 300,000, and he is known as one million.
If you look at what is going on in the rest of the area, you will definitely be scared in an instant.
"No kidding."
Xu Zheng has recently come into contact with a lot of crooked nuts, and said to Xie An: "We are only a million army, but they have millions of troops at every turn, and I don't know if it's true." ” Xie An knew that many countries had sent envoys to the Han Kingdom, and he only knew a rough idea of what was going on.
Xu Zheng picked up some hearsay, and his face was full of weirdness when he spoke.
Queen Seirais of Babylon made an expedition to India, commanding 3 million infantry, 200,000 cavalry, and 100,000 chariots.
History of Persia by Esias The history of Herodotus records that on one occasion the Persians made an expedition to Greece and mobilized an army of five million.
This is the background of the movie Spartan 300 Warriors, that is, the big action made by that Darius.
In the second century A.D., Arrian's expedition records that in the decisive battle of Gaugamela between Alexander and Persia, Alexander's army killed 300,000 Persian troops and captured more than that, that is, the Persian army exceeded 600,000, not counting the garrison troops in Persia, and the total strength of Persia was more than one million troops.
The Roman history of Appian, an ancient Roman historian from the 1st to 2nd centuries, records Caesar's attack on Gaul against a four-million-strong army in Gaul.
There are still a lot of records of more than one million troops that can be found, Xie An suddenly found that he was completely unfamiliar with this world, it was exaggerated enough for the ancestors of Zhuxia to have a million army, and those crooked nuts were actually building millions of troops at every turn, which was simply terrifying.
Xie An was stunned for a while, and said, "It's fake."
Xu Zheng smiled indifferently: "Who knows." ” The real situation is that the record of the number of troops in the history of ancient wars in foreign countries is much more than that of the Celestial Empire, and the Celestial Empire has historians, and foreign countries do not have this profession, and then the Celestial Empire is at most "one as ten", that is, a person exaggerated into ten, usually in the aspect of "exaggeration", more often just exaggerated one or two times, I really dare not be too shameless.
Countries outside the Celestial Empire are really different, and that's why Westerners never talk about things in some "ancient books", because they know it's a joke.
The number of ancient armies has always been a mystery, for example, the dynasties of the Central Plains themselves have a fine division, how many soldiers, how many auxiliaries, how many people have reliable numbers, but these people are regarded as the whole part of the army.
This will lead to a phenomenon in which there are only 30,000 or 50,000 soldiers who directly participated in the war, but internally and externally the rest of the people who served the war are also included, and there are exaggerated figures such as hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of troops.
Because I really know what is going on, the Han State actually has an unbelieving attitude towards the Gupta Dynasty's so-called million-strong army directly participating in the war, and thinks that it will be a kind of "claim", and it is an exaggeration that the real soldiers can exceed 200,000, and the rest are simply people and the like.
"We have deployed 150,000 people in the Pingban Captain's Department, including the two standing armies and the Pingbarian Captain's Department, and the real soldiers are only more than 25,000 people, and the rest are serving the existence of those soldiers."
Xu Zheng kept laughing "hehe", and then said: "Those millions of troops at every turn, it should be counted as one head." ” The real situation is like this, each standing army has 15,000 soldiers, but not every 15,000 of these 15,000 soldiers are soldiers, for example, the 5,000 men of a division are only 3,500 soldiers, and the rest are used to serve the existence of soldiers, which means that the soldiers of a standing army are actually only 10,500 soldiers.
The more soldiers an army has, the more people who serve them will actually increase exponentially, for example, 10,000 soldiers only need about 5,000 soldiers to serve, and 100,000 soldiers may need to increase to one or two million to serve.
This kind of service is not the kind of rear production, but the nearby various services, such as peacetime ordnance maintenance, logistics line security, grain transportation, and so on.
"That's how it should be."
Xie An thought that it was definitely like that, if it was really like that, wouldn't Zhuxia's war against foreign races be a fifty or sixty million army at every turn, after all, the national war was the participation of the whole people, and he also felt a little funny later, so he said: "At least I know that there are so many countries with a population of millions or more." ” In a normal sense, the place where a war consumes the most manpower is in logistics, the necessary transport team is one, and then there are the guards on the transport route, after all, no commander will ignore his own back road, and it is necessary and incidental to ensure the transportation route, and it is more important to confirm the safety of the back road, otherwise there is no back road is not to be rounded When necessary, anyone other than the soldiers will participate in the battle, but that must be under the premise that an army cannot survive without working hard, and often this is either life or death, and the number of casualties will be quite terrifying.
During Yang Guang's campaign against Goguryeo, the largest mobilization was more than 1.1 million people, the number of participants on the front line has always been maintained at more than 200,000, and the number of people who maintained logistics supplies was 8.9 million.
When the war of the Sui army was unfavorable, regardless of whether it was a soldier or an auxiliary, even if it was a civilian, it had to be slashed, and the result of the defeat of the war was that hundreds of thousands of people were buried in that ice and snow.
Taking the initiative to invade a country, not only to face the enemy's organized regular army, but also to encounter more hastily organized rabble, Xie An said a similar point of view to Xu Zhengyou, for example, the Gupta Dynasty is obviously in a hurry, and the number of mobilized troops will look huge, but the actual combat effectiveness is definitely not very good.
It is not that the Han State has not encountered the situation of the whole people of the enemy country going into battle, this is the case for Murong Xianbei, and the battle against Yan is facing hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, but it is difficult to say what quality the vast majority of enemy troops have.
"Huan Wen said the same thing."
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Xu Zheng recounted the last battle between the Pingban Captain's Headquarters, and then said: "The difference between the Gupta Dynasty and the countries we have encountered is that they do not take the lives of the untouchables seriously. ” Xie An had heard of Ah San's caste system to some extent, but he was too unfamiliar to make any remarks.
In fact, Xie An led the army to clear out some of the remnants of the Qiang and Di tribes, and the Han army participated in the war with regular troops every time he fought with the remnants of the two tribes, and he really had enough experience in dealing with the enemy army that rushed into the army.
The two haven't seen each other for a long time, chatting is to enhance each other's feelings, and Xie An has also taken the opportunity to chat privately to bring up some work problems, including some suggestions.
"The captives of the land of Bashu were sent to the northeast."
Xu Zheng was extremely sure that Xie An had not heard the news wrong, and answered Xie An's request positively: "Your side is also facing the problem of mountain warfare, just send an official report to the Taiwei Bureau." ” In the final analysis, Xie An is too far away from the Asan battlefield, so he will have some curiosity about that side, and he will pay more attention to his own work, for example, he does not have troops under his command who are good at mountain warfare, and hopes that the center can support a group of them.
Whether it is a standing infantry army or a county infantry, the Han State is really an infantry army, there are infantry troops and cavalry troops, and there is no training for special terrain troops.
Before the Han had this idea, they were surprised to find that some countries had already been organizing their armies in a targeted manner, and they had received accurate information from the Persian Sassanid and Roman envoys that both the Persians and the Romans had their own troops dedicated to mountain warfare.
"We started later than others, and for the time being, we had to replace them with prisoners of war who were already good at roaming in the mountains or jungles."
Xu Zheng revealed a piece of news that was not a secret: "The king has made it clear that the Great Han should also have its own mountain troops. ” Xie An didn't know the news in advance, and after a stunned moment, he asked, "Is it to form a new standing army?"
"It would be nice if that were the case" Xu Zheng gritted his teeth a little: "Prime Minister, they have been emphasizing the lack of food, muttering that there are thirteen standing armies that have exhausted national strength, and they are obviously opposed to the formation of a standing army." ” Xie An understands, looking at the history books, it is really true that there are as many as 200,000 professional soldiers in today's Han Dynasty who are not engaged in production, and the test of national strength is really not ordinary, even if he is a military personnel, but unlike people who do not consider whether the country can hold up, they know the severity of the matter, and they are more inclined to not need so many standing troops, but they dare not say what they really think in their hearts.
Xu Zheng was still over there and said to himself: "Fortunately, there is a king who has shown his attitude, otherwise they would still think about reducing the number of standing armies, and completely forget how the Hu people are raging." ” At that moment, Xie An was conflicted in his heart, he was like many people in the current era, it was because he had experienced the catastrophe brought by the Hu people, and he knew the importance of a country and nation's armed forces very deeply.
"Not to mention how we expelled the Hu people, it's just that the Han Dynasty occupied the Indochina Peninsula, where food has been being supplied to the mainland," Xu Zheng complained: "Why do they only see the cost, but not the harvest?"
Xie An nodded subconsciously and responded: "In terms of harvest, opening up territory is one side, and the Han has repeatedly obtained resources from outside. ” Xu Zheng was even more energetic, mentioning why he wanted to fight in one place after another, and then there were some secrets in the center that were not spread to the outside world, and in general, it was to see that the group of civil officials was becoming more and more unhappy.
Xie An also quietly listened to Xu Zheng's constant complaints, and the more he listened, the more bad he felt, and he felt that the new round of civil and military disputes seemed to be very serious
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