Chapter 156 Arrow array of 200,000 people [Chapter 2]
According to the prices of the Han Dynasty, the price of a bow is between 400 and 500 yuan, the price of a crossbow is between 200 and 20,000 yuan, the price of a bow and arrow is 100 yuan, the price of a crossbow arrow is 90 yuan, a knife is 600 to 800 yuan, and a spear is 500 yuan...
Ninety-nine percent of the Yellow Turban Army were farmers, and 80% of the weapons used were farm tools at home. When the 10,000 elite imperialists first fought against the Yellow Turban Army, it was when the Yellow Turban Army was rebelling and radical. At the beginning, they were shouting that they were incompetent in swords and guns, but it was not possible to reach the post-center and post-center period. The calmer they calmed down, the more dissipated their hearts were, the more likely they were to be defeated by a small number of elite soldiers.
The weapons are too poor and have almost never been trained. It is impossible to get 200,000 people to fight tough battles, but it is still possible to draw a bow and shoot randomly. Even so, even if only 100,000 out of 200,000 people can be used as soldiers, so many bows and arrows will cost 50 million yuan.
It is not possible to have a bow but no arrows. In a war, a bow must be equipped with at least thirty or fifty arrows, which requires ten million yuan. In addition, it also requires a knife and a spear. How much does it cost? Dong Hu calculated... The number of bows and arrows is reduced by half. If there is no bow and arrow, throw stones. If the stone casting belt is not easy to master, use the stone casting pole.
There are two ways to throw stones with stones. One is to rotate the top of the head for several weeks, and the second is to throw the "eight characters" from behind. It is not easy for beginners to master the stones with stones. Not only does it have no accurate head, but it is to hurt one's own people, and the stone casting pole is much simpler.
The catapult pole is similar to a catapult. Just take a wooden stick and throw a wrapped stone out. The accuracy is impossible to determine, but being able to throw the stone out is not easy to hurt your own people. Just like the farmer using bows and arrows, they are not accurate at all. All they can rely on is to cover the densely to kill the enemy.
A stone-capping belt is easy to wove with a rope. A stone-capping rod is a stick and a stone-capping belt. It is also easy to find pebbles. There are many streams on the mountain, and the most important thing is that it doesn’t cost money. This is very important!
Luoyang arsenal is not short of weapons, and there are many good crossbows. However, Dong Hu cannot afford it if he is poor. He can buy four bows with the worst crossbow. Perhaps it was because Dong Hu leaked the secret from Zhang Rang and Wang Yun to punish him. When he asked Gao Wang Sheng to buy some bows and arrows, the eunuch who was angry that he forced to buy donkeys not only did not stop him, but also gave him some discounts and spent 10,000 yuan, and even equipped him with bows, waist knives, and spears for 50,000 people.
He spent money to equip 50,000 equipment, plus the capture of prisoners, and the rags left by Yingchuan soldiers who died in battle under Dingying City, barely equipped with swords, guns and arrows used by 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers.
Dong Hu is a silly and bold. If someone else did, how could he dare to mess with him like this? How could he give prisoners who have been captured for less than two or three months? What if he rebelled?
But it was strange. Since he used Qiang prisoners, he had never rebelled after great wars. Guo Sheng did not understand what was going on at first, and he had persuaded Dong Hu to be cautious, but as his understanding deepened, he stopped talking.
The Yellow Turban Army rebelled in the name of "changing dynasties", which is different from the excuse of the East and West Qiang people rebelling. Even if they were killed, it would not be over from the perspective of the Han Dynasty. However, in history, there were few Zhu Yan and Huangfu Song who were so cruel, at least Dong Hu did not agree with it, especially knowing the later "Five Barbarians".
Dong Hu didn't agree with Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's massacre behavior, but he couldn't say too much, but when the 200,000 prisoners looked back, they found that the entire Han Dynasty was someone who wanted their lives. Only Dong Hu was willing to protect them, give them food to live, bought a cart, donkey, mule, ox, and horses to drag them, and equipped them with weapons to save their lives...
That's how people are. When you protect them in desperate situations, they will listen to you. Besides, the farmers in the Central Plains are easy to be obedient, and they are far from as difficult as the Qiang people. Of course, the original large and small Qus are stamped with big seals, and they are all guarded by him personally. If these guys are not serious and transformed, no one knows what kind of disaster will happen.
Two hundred thousand people were divided into ten battalions, each battalion of 20,000 people, ten thousand combat soldiers, and ten thousand baggage assisted old and weak soldiers. Just like when retracting and marching, ten ten battle battalions marched forward in an alternate manner, marched 100 miles away, and had a short rest for two days.
Alternately march, alternately rest and recuperate, and conduct simple training while resting. Dong Hu does not require 100,000 miscellaneous cards to form a strict military formation. As long as you don’t run around and rush around your own military formation, you won’t scatter in an emergency.
The rear army's baggage battalion marched slowly. In front, the central army had five 10,000 combat battalions, and in front, the central army marched faster with light equipment. In order to give more rectification to generals at all levels, train soldiers, and every 100-mile journey would stop and rest, waiting for the rear baggage battalion to avoid the disconnection between the front, middle and rear armies.
The huge legion was like a giant arrow with two arrows, and the two arrows were alternatingly biting like electric serrated teeth. Even if they encountered the same 100,000 enemy troops, Dong Hu believed that the rushing legion was enough to defeat the enemy.
Dong Hu was extremely cautious and would not be unscrupulous in the territory of the Han Dynasty. He charged all infantry, including 5,000 Lintao Erlang, into the 100,000 army, either as generals at all levels or as the direct lineage of various combat camps, while the 5,000 cavalry of the main unit were kept by Dong Hu, and he personally took the back to take care of the rear army's baggage camp.
The 200,000-man army group was divided into the front, middle and back three armies, front and middle armies, five 10,000-man battle battalions, and the 100,000-man baggage auxiliary battalions of the rear army. The three armies were headed by Dong Zhuo, the military supervisor Guo Sheng, and the chief envoy Liu Sheng.
Niu Fu was appointed as the commander of the former army, Li Jue and Guo Si were appointed as the left and right Sima of the former army, Hua Xiong, Sun Niu, Hu San, Dong Xin, and Dong Yao were appointed as the deputy generals of the fifth battalion, and directly led the soldiers of the fifth battalion of the front army.
Xu Rong was appointed commander of the Central Army, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou was appointed as the left and right Sima of the Central Army, Dong Xiaoyi, Xing Yong, Dong Chong, Dong Gu, and Liu Qi was appointed as the deputy generals of the fifth battalion, and directly led the soldiers of the fifth battalion of the Central Army.
Dong Hu was appointed commander of the rear army, and the former veteran Baima Qiang served as the left and right Sima, and the deputy general of the ten auxiliary battalions of the logistics battalions.
Among the commanders of the three armies, Guo Sheng and Liu Sheng were all for meritorious service or military supervision, and did not interfere in war. Dong Zhuo was a veteran who had been fighting for 20 years. In Dong Hu's memory, even when Dong Zhuo died, he had never been defeated. He was a person who was extremely cautious in using troops. It was very appropriate to be the commander of the 200,000 army. The only general who could command hundreds of thousands of troops to fight was Dong Zhuo.
Niu Fu had a bad idea, but it was not enough to let him fight, but his left and right hands, Li Jue and Guo Si were extremely powerful. One was able to bring together a group of people who were troubled at any time, the other was a brave horse bandit, the other was a brave horse bandit, the other was a brave fight and the other was a brave fight. It might not be possible for the two to separate, but if they joined forces, there were not many generals in the world who could control them. Niu Fu was the commander, Li Jue and Guo Si were the assistants of Sima, and it was appropriate for them to lead the five combat battalions of the front army.
Xu Rong followed Dong Zhuo for the longest time. When Dong Zhuo was appointed as the Yanmen Order, he followed Dong Zhuo and used his troops very calmly. Needless to say, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, plus Fan Chou, three powerful generals and a calm general, it is also appropriate for them to lead the five 10,000-person combat battalion of the Central Army.
Whether it is Dong Zhuo, Niu Fu, Xu Rong and others, they are all commanders, but they are not the generals who directly command the soldiers. The generals who can command the soldiers can only be ten deputy generals, including Hua Xiong, and only ten deputy generals under Dong Hu’s name!
The generals of the Han Dynasty did not care about the generals who commanded the soldiers below. They cared about how many soldiers could command, and whether the soldiers could achieve their victory was related to the military system of the Han Dynasty. They were temporarily recruited during the war and disbanded after the war. No matter how capable the generals had only two thousand soldiers. For this reason, the generals did not care whether the soldiers were in their hands or not, as long as they were obedient, they would be able to do so.
Before the chaos in the world, the generals didn't care much about whether they had soldiers under their command. What they cared about was the court giving them the right to recruit soldiers. As for the chaos in the world and the princes were everywhere, that was another situation.
Others don’t know what Zhang Jiao’s rebellion means, and don’t know what Dong Hu doesn’t know about the situation ten years later? Others don’t care about soldiers, how can he not care about the direct control of soldiers?
Dong Hu didn't care who the commander above was. As long as he didn't let the soldiers die, he would be acceptable, but he would not allow others to interfere in the affairs of the soldiers!
Two huge arrows, one in front and one behind, each arrow means fifty thousand soldiers, two huge arrows move forward alternately, and behind is a huge convoy of supplies. Such a huge team controls a wide surface of two hundred miles. Anyone who sees such a huge team, even if he wants to have bad intentions, he must be honestly stuffed into his stomach.
The migration of 200,000 people is not easy, and the preparation time is longer. When the current army's five 10,000 combat battalions were the first to cross the Yellow River, it was already mid-August. Nanyang Wancheng also sent a battle to decide the victory and defeat, which was almost the restoration of another battlefield in Dingyingcheng. After Zhu Yan led tens of thousands of soldiers to Wancheng, he and Jingzhou Governor Xu Yu and Nanyang Prefect Qin Jie launched a strong attack on Wancheng for several days, killing the thief commander Zhao Hong, but Wancheng thief commander, but the thief commander, Han Zhong, asked to surrender, but Zhu Yan refused, and then attacked for several days. Afterwards, he adopted the "surrounding three quarantines and one" strategy, and more than 100,000 people escaped from Wancheng...
Zhu Yan killed tens of thousands of people, and Huangfu Song was also right. When he went to Cangting, Dongjun, north, he beheaded 8,000 people, and then led the people into Jizhou...
Wang Yun found Zhang Rang from somewhere, Feng Xun colluded with Taiping Road letters, and then sent the letter to He Jin. He Jin sent the letter to Emperor Liu Hong. After seeing the letter, the emperor was so angry that he threw the letter directly on Zhang Rang. Feng Xu's face, a large group of eunuchs cried bitterly, taking out countless money to beg for mercy while crying about others' slander...
The emperor was not a fool, and knew that the Ten Eunuchs could not collude with the Yellow Turban Thief. This was unreasonable. After a group of eunuchs took out countless copper coins, Liu Hong was not ready to pursue them again, but the eunuchs lost countless losses. They remembered that when Lu Zhi took back Ye County, they did not pay, so they put eye drops on Lu Zhi again.
Lu Zhi lost the General of the Northern Central Army. After the court agreed, Huangfu Song took over the two Jizhou battlefields including Guangzong and Xiaquyang. In other words, even if Dong Zhuo went to Xiaquyang to participate in the war, he would be restrained by Huangfu Song. When he received the news, Dong Zhuo was so angry that he didn't have dinner for two days.
Chapter completed!