Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 189 Main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers

  Ai Ai said lately: "Then... this, if this is the case, then basically speaking, the role of individual bravery is less than that of the entire army?"

Huang Zhong said: "Basically, the larger the legion is fighting, the lesser the role of individual bravery will be. Generally speaking, if it reaches the level of 10,000 people, then basically the competition is the overall combat capability and commander of the legion." Brave generals are more effective in breaking through or attacking a small army, but the so-called enemy of thousands of people..."

  Huang Zhong shook his head, indicating that that matter was relatively unreliable.

Huang Zhong went on to say: "There is a situation, that is, an encounter in the field. When you see the opponent's army formation is serious, you will usually send one or two generals with strong military strength to call the formation to test it out. This time is called a single battle before the formation. There will also be two other modes of generals fighting, one is against the circle, and the other is dragging the knife..."

  Huang Zhong went on to explain that from the late Warring States period until the Han Dynasty, in order to boost the morale of one's own side and hit the morale of the opponent, sometimes there were still invitations to fight heads-up.

  However, horse battles are very different from chariot battles in the Warring States period, because horses are much more flexible than chariots. Therefore, the general's two-cavalry battle is not just relying on the impact of one charge, that is, the so-called turn-based duel, there are two other modes:

  —The first type, facing the circle, is to turn the two horses in the same direction with a small radius. The size of the radius is determined by the mutual killing of the weapons of the two riders. In this state, it is a long-term sword fight;

  —The second type is dragging the knife, and the two horses are chasing at the same time. At this time, one party escapes and the other pursues. The length of the chase is determined according to the speed and explosive power of the horses.

  Fei Qian nodded, I understand, one of Master Guan's specialties is knife fighting...

Following Huang Zhong's explanation, Fei Qian finally figured it out. Due to the continuous development of the scale of war in the Han Dynasty, from the Warring States Period to the Qin State, and then to the Han Dynasty, the population participating in the war continued to expand. changed.

  Originally, during the Warring States period, the vassal states were limited by their own national strength, and on the other hand, they were also limited by production tools, so it was impossible to launch large-scale population wars. Another reason is that during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Zhou etiquette was more important, so there were some ways to decide the war by the warriors of both sides. Later generations called it heads-up.

However, in the late Warring States Period, due to the increasing number of people 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. Destroyed, the deceitful art of war gradually reared its head.

  This has been developed until the Han Dynasty. The single-handed battle before the battle can no longer completely determine the victory of a battle. The decision to determine the success or failure of a war has shifted from personal bravery to more aspects, such as logistics, such as training, etc...

   Especially forage.

   Once the food and grass are cut off, the morale of the army will be confused. No matter how brave a person is, they will not be able to resist being without food for three days...

Huang Zhong said: "So not only the main soldiers in the battle are important in the army, but even the auxiliary soldiers are also very important. 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 count..."

   "Main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers?" Fei Qian asked, "How is this divided? It seems that there is no division of main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers among the nearly a thousand soldiers we carry?"

Huang Zhong said: "We have a small number of people in the first place, and all of them are leading soldiers. Let's put it this way, the leading soldiers have been trained and can go to battle to kill the enemy and do some chores, but the auxiliary soldiers generally do not have much training. Mainly engaged in miscellaneous tasks, such as building camps, transporting food and grass, etc., and can also go into battle when necessary, but the combat power is far from the two."

   Fei Qian nodded, thinking in his heart, speaking of it, the recruits Cao Cao recruited were probably auxiliary soldiers, and the 10,000 or so soldiers brought by Bao Xin probably included main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers...

  As for the two thousand soldiers Zhang Miao sent to Cao Cao, most of them should be soldiers.

According to Huang Zhong, under normal circumstances, the proportion of main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers is different according to the distance of the march and the difficulty of supplies, but the auxiliary soldiers must be at least about 30%, so that when building camps and transporting food and grass, there will be more Enough manpower is available, otherwise it will be like Fei Qian and his party, and let the soldiers do these jobs. If there is no wartime, there is no problem, but if the wartime itself is tight, and then the physical strength of the soldier is consumed to do these chores, it will inevitably lead to a vicious circle...

  During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the titles of Shangjun, Zhongjun, and Xiajun appeared. This is also the origin of the earliest "Three Armies".

  Shangjun, of course, is a professional soldier, and it is the country's main field and foreign combat armed forces.

  The Chinese army is generally responsible for guard and defense tasks, and is a defense-oriented army.

  The lower army is an army of labor service nature, engaged in combat tasks of the nature of engineering, transportation and logistics support.

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

According to Huang Zhong, the so-called soldiers who were initially recruited into the army, because they had not undergone any training, generally could only serve as hard labor tasks, and then generally had to undergo training for about a year. They can only undertake defensive tasks in urban and rural areas. Under non-special circumstances, they do not carry out frontal hand-to-hand combat tasks in field battles. As for soldiers, most of them refer to soldiers who have been in the army for more than one year. At this time, they officially undertake combat tasks and act as the backbone. Serve as a face-to-face hand-to-hand unit.

   Therefore, sword and shield soldiers, pike soldiers, and broadsword soldiers must be composed of pawns. These arms directly participate in hand-to-hand combat. If they are not systematically trained, they will easily collapse directly on the battlefield and lead to defeat.

  In addition, most of the more professional arms are pawns, such as archers, such as cavalry...

"It's like this..." According to Huang Zhong's statement, Bao Xin and Cao Cao's coalition army seems to be about 20,000 people, but in fact there are less than 10,000 soldiers in the battle. It seems that moisture is really everywhere. Yes, I have…

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

   I don't know how Dong Zhuo responded?

Normally speaking, once the army starts to move, there is no way to hide this movement like the bionics of later generations. Moreover, the Kwantung Allied Forces came with a banner of helping the country, and it is even more impossible to attack the army on its way forward. The village is blocked and massacred, so it will definitely be detected by Dong Zhuo's scouts...

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

   Let’s talk about Lao Cao and Xiao Cao:

   However, Xiao Cao saw the two women crying, and drew his sword to kill her...Dragging the woman closer, he saw her hair and dirty face...wiping her face with the sleeve of a shirt...Jade muscles and beautiful appearance, with the color of a country. Then he said: "I am the son of Prime Minister Cao. I wish to protect your family. Don't worry about it."...Sit on the hall with your sword...

   Keen intuition... It is estimated that any makeup technique now is scum in front of Xiao Cao...

   Hehe...By the way, in fact, normally speaking, it’s enough to explain it, but why does Xiao Cao sit on the hall with his sword?

  (end of this chapter)