Countries that can mobilize a million troops in the era of cold weapons have always been in the minority.
If you want to mobilize a million people to join the army, first of all, the country must have a sufficient population base, so the territory of the country must not be very small.
In addition, the country must have enough agricultural areas to produce enough grain to feed the huge population, and the accumulation in peacetime supports the mobilization of millions of people to become the basis for soldiers.
In addition to the population, the size of the territory and enough food, the economic strength of the country must not be low, and the mobilization of soldiers must not be left empty-handed, and the other is the necessity of uniform uniforms.
Otherwise, no matter how large the country's population is and how developed the economy is, without a strong central government, no matter how strong the country's strength is, it is actually at a level that cannot be used.
For example, during the Warring States Period, the Qin State repeatedly mobilized more than 500,000 troops with a population of four or five million, and the Qin court was a center with superb combat effectiveness, which not only mobilized the source of troops, but also usually ensured that there were enough military supplies.
For the rest of the Warring States in the same period, there were not a few countries that could mobilize one million troops, but usually because the center did not have enough executive power, it was clear that there was a huge population base, but it was usually possible to mobilize two or three hundred thousand troops to reach the limit.
During that period, there was a relatively special Warring States, the population of Chu was the largest of all Warring States, the territory area was also the largest of all countries, and its economic strength was second only to Qi.
In the various dynasties of Zhuxia, there are not many countries that can mobilize one million troops, only one million troops can be mobilized, and the Qin and Chu states during the Warring States Period, the Xiaowu Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty did it once, and the Shiqi Zhao State did it once. can mobilize a million troops, and at the same time can mobilize troops to the battlefield, then only the Qin and Chu states in the pre-Qin period, plus the Western Han in the Liu Che period.
Looking further back, the standing strength of the Northern Song Dynasty has always exceeded one million, but those that can be pulled out for field battles have never exceeded 100,000; The Ming Dynasty was also a dynasty with more than one million standing troops for most of the period, and like the Northern Song Dynasty, the so-called standing army really did not have many field troops. mobilized a million troops, and really deployed a million troops to the battlefield, and only the Qin State in the pre-Qin period really did this.
For example, Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty mobilized a million soldiers, but the number of troops pulled to the war was actually not so much, the most was Wei Qing commanding 450,000 troops, Huo Qubing commanding 30,000 troops, in addition to this pair of uncles and nephews, the rest of the frontier guards and captains combined with about 130,000 troops, plus some border troops, a total of more than 700,000 troops used in a campaign.
After this battle, the state treasury and treasury of the Western Han Dynasty were probably empty, and the troops mobilized did not exceed 100,000 for a long time.
Until Liu Che's death, he once again mobilized a total of more than 150,000 troops, which was the expedition of Li Guangli, the general of the Second Division, to Dawan.
The rest of the other dynasties had a standing army of one million, but whether it was passive defense or active attack, it was rare to see examples of more than 200,000 troops deployed in a single battlefield.
"The million-strong army of the Han Dynasty" Xie An said with emotion: "It is definitely not a garrison army" Xie Ai understood what Xie An meant.
The so-called garrison is a force that has no field combat ability, usually the defenders of a certain city, and the quality is basically not very good.
The Han Empire before the sixteenth year of Yuan Shuo, including the Tiger Army and the Yulin Army, was a total of fifteen standing armies.
These standing armies were all regiments with field capabilities, with a total strength of about 200,000.
The second-level county soldiers, in fact, are the so-called garrison troops, not to mention the uneven quality, in fact, there are no serious generals to come to practice, and they can't even form a basic military formation when they are pulled into the field battlefield.
Xie Ai really understood what Xie An meant, in addition to the quality of the soldiers, the key was the general who commanded the troops.
This time, the Western Expedition Shogunate will eventually reach 500,000 troops, and the pressure on Xie An is not ordinary.
In history, as a general, there are only a few people who command 500,000 troops, and there are only a few generals who can command more than 500,000 troops and win battles.
The most famous and powerful person, except for Han Xin, there is no other candidate.
Han Xin despised Bai Qi, saying that Bai Qi had a false name, and believed that Bai Qi did not have the ability to control the army at all, referring to Bai Qi just bringing the army to the battlefield, and did not have much flexible command over the army, but only put the troops on the battlefield to fight in a daze.
Bai Qi really led the troops to rummage through some examples of Bai Qi's commanding troops, it seems that Han Xin is not wrong, Bai Qi's commanding troops is just a "gang" word, no matter how many enemies there are, set up a camp and wait to be gang, waiting for the enemy to just move, it should be Bai Qi's turn to go to Gang.
The key to the art of war has been thoroughly mastered by Bai Qi, but this style of play has extremely high requirements for the quality of the army under his command, especially for the engineering troops, and at the same time, the consumption of logistics will be very terrifying.
The tough style of play will hardly have any big wins and defeats, and if you win, your own casualties will not be much less than the enemy's, almost killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800.
This is also the reason why Han Xin looks down on Bai Qi At its peak, Bai Qi's command of soldiers and horses reached 400,000, perhaps less than that Han Xin's evaluation of Wang Qian, who was also a Qin general, was much higher, not only because Wang Jian had a maximum command of 600,000 troops, but also because Wang Jian was able to mobilize the 600,000 troops in a vast area.
It's not about putting 600,000 troops over there, not mobilizing, just holding the camp, and people with this ability are actually handsome in the real sense.
Han Xin's evaluation of Li Mu is also much higher than that of Bai Qi.
The reason is that Li Mutong led more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on the vast grassland, divided his troops many times, and played superb chariot and cavalry coordination tactics, and even commanded a larger number of infantry to fight against the Huns composed of cavalry and win.
Han Xin's evaluation of himself is, of course, extremely awesome, and the sentence "the more soldiers, the better" is enough to explain everything.
He didn't brag either, and used many records to prove that he was indeed extremely awesome.
In history, he was able to command an army of more than 700,000 people, and he could still do it like an arm, Han Xin wanted to ask: Who else Every general will compare himself with the famous generals in history, and Xie An is no exception.
When Xie An learned that he would be commanding a solid army of 500,000, he was far more apprehensive than excited.
Historically, those who have been able to command more than 500,000 soldiers and horses will either become famous generals or will inevitably become sinners who will be nailed to the pillar of shame.
Whether it is to become a famous general after winning a battle, or to become a sinner after defeat, in fact, the fate of the future is difficult to predict.
It's not that it's unpredictable, it's that unless you lead the army as a king, you will end up with the king's suspicion "An does not have the talent of the Marquis of Huaiyin, so he can only serve the king with trembling."
Xie An said this sentence specifically for Xie Ai: "Please also ask Changshi to pay more attention to it." ” Xie Ai saluted without saying much.
To the northwest of the slope was a vast plain, and the Persian army chose to camp 120 miles away from the Han camp.
Habibullah had no intention of building a defensive line from the beginning, and the camp was not set up in such a complicated manner.
The camp of more than 200,000 troops covers a very wide area, and the area is definitely more than 20 square miles.
They have the largest number of Chinese troops and the largest area of territory.
There are many camps around the perimeter of the Chinese army, mainly to arrange miscellaneous soldiers on the periphery, even if they encounter a surprise attack by the Han army, they can rise up to block the role.
Because of Shapur II's attention, several of the most famous Sassanid legions were transferred to the east when they learned that the Han army was advancing westward.
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Including 5,000 cavalry archers and 10,000 undead troops whose names have been passed down for nearly a thousand years, as well as 3,000 mounted heavy cavalry and 6,000 chariots, these troops constitute the absolute main force of the Eastern Legion.
The Persians have been playing with archers for nearly 3,000 years, and they formed archers during the Darius period, but the number of archers in each period is not fixed.
In the period when the Parthians ruled this land, 15,000 archers were formed, and in the early stage of their competition with the Romans, the archers were to beat the short-legged Romans to the north, forcing the Romans who were not good at cavalry to constantly improve their infantry defenses, and the Romans' tortoiseshell formation was made in the process of resisting the Parthian archers.
The Sassanids had learned the importance of saddles and stirrups from the Han Empire, and they copied them as soon as possible.
Since there were no technical barriers between saddles and stirrups, as long as there were enough craftsmen to produce them in large quantities, the saddles and stirrups were popularized by the Persian cavalry within a short year.
Sassanid archers, saddled and stirrups, were sent to the Middle East to test their battles, and were more likely than ever to carry out one-sided slaughter against the rebellious Arabs.
The presence of saddles and stirrups strengthened not only the cavalry archers, but also the heavy cavalry.
Before the saddle and stirrups, the Sassanid mounted heavy cavalry were able to go on a rampage, but the problem was that even the mere impact of a straight line would cause the knight to fall off his horse.
And because there is no point of strength between their legs, their main weapon can only be a riding spear with a length of about six meters, or a riding spear with a hard style.
With a hard-pole style riding spear, even if one accidentally stabs the enemy, the knight will fall off his horse due to resistance.
With saddles and stirrups of Sasanian heavy cavalry, they carried out the necessary strengthening, especially inspired by the crossbows used by the Han Empire, the Sassanians themselves also made a crossbow machine, that is, the performance of the range and penetration may not be as good as the Han Empire, but they also made a large number of crossbow machines, divided into infantry and riding, equipped with heavy cavalry equipped with riding crossbows, long hair and scimitars, it is really not the slightest bit of strengthening.
At the same time, the results of the Sassanid contact with the Han Empire were far from being inspired by the saddle, stirrups, and crossbows, and they also found that plate armor was lighter than scale armor, that is, plate armor was more difficult to manufacture than scale armor, due to a decisive difference in technology.
If the Han Empire had not been so domineering, the Sassanids did not realize that no matter how much they tolerated it, they would not have been able to avoid the westward expansion of the Han Empire, and after receiving those reinforcements, they once again had the confidence to press the Romans to the ground and rub them together.
It is a pity that the Persians who have been in contact with the Han high-level, combined with the foreign policy of the Han Empire, are extremely sure that the westward advance of the Han people is a matter of time, and they are really unwilling to wait for the Han Empire's army to replace all their firearms before facing it, but they choose to feel that there is still a trace of victory, even if they can't win, they can keep the west, and they opened the prelude to the war early.
"Maybe we can't wait any longer" Habibullah just finished reading the information sent back from the Kingdom of Jidora: "The Han sent envoys to Western Kushan and Kashmir.
Xi Guishan is afraid of the Han Empire's Bingfeng, and there is a great possibility that he will choose to side with the Han Empire. ” In fact, the relationship between Sassanid and the Kingdom of Kidoro was not good, and in the early days of Shapur II's ascension to the throne, he did not take advantage of the Kingdom of Kidoro to brush up on his achievements, and he fought under the city of Peshawar several times, forcing the Kingdom of Kidoro to offer enough tribute and slaves before withdrawing leisurely.
With the size and population of the Kingdom of Kidoro, including the strength of the economy, Sassanid did not feel that the Kingdom of Kidoro would pose much of a threat to the side of the Han Empire.
The most important thing is that Sassanid and Rome have created an anti-Han axis, and there are not a few countries that have joined, and then Hunnite has existed in name only, and Xigaoche is seeing that the whole country is about to move, plus the conspiracy failed to make the Han Empire fall into internal trouble, which is bad news for the anti-Han axis one after another.
The Kingdom of Kidoro chose to join this war on the side of the Han Empire, which is very likely to have a very bad effect on the anti-Han axis.
"Your Highness's army will be here soon."
Habibullah groaned for a moment and said, "I have decided to raise troops south first and attack Western Kushan."
They have 220,000 troops here, and the Han army has no sign of advancing westward, so it will be a good choice to draw 40,000 or 50,000 to attack West Kushan, and if the Han army makes any moves, whether it is to advance to the main camp and engage in battle, Ang or send troops to West Kushan, Habibullah thinks it will be a good thing.
"The Han army moves best."
Habibullah was extremely jealous of the Han army, which had no signs of moving, and he knew that the generals under his command also had the same mentality: "After I led the troops away", he looked at a middle-aged man with a fairly high appearance: "Pars, you can command the army to press forward appropriately." ” "Your Highness will be here in two days" Pars, a great nobleman in the east and the current lieutenant general of this Persian army, nodded when he got the answer: "I understand what to do." ” A knife is raised high, and it is the most terrifying before it is cut down
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