Chapter 510 Attributes of the Army
"Brother...Brother..."
As soon as he jumped off the war horse, Liu Bian ran out of the doorman with his clothes on his neck, as if he was not worried about Ah Chou kicking him a hoof, and he reached out to hold the war horse...
"I have never seen you kid so attentive before? You won't come to trouble you again, right?"
Dong Hu jumped off the horse, Liu Bian wore a trabecular crown on his head, rubbing his head turned into a heavy pat on his shoulder, and walked into the yard with a smile on his face.
"More than a hundred more people died in the wounded barracks... My uncle said... there is not enough trauma medicine..."
Liu Bian tried hard to drag Ah Chou and said that the injuring the barracks were the former imperial physician Zhang Feng, but the question he raised made Dong Hu a little helpless.
Xu Rong and Cao Cao used the same "Yuli Formation" tactic when fighting, so that the soldiers on both sides were killed and injured, and the Luoyang Camp alone suffered 30,000 deaths, and Cao Cao's coalition army directly killed more than 10,000 people, leaving countless wounded soldiers.
The Yuli Formation is a military formation that is both offensive and defensive. When attacking, you can use powerful impact force to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop. When defending, place the chariot in one's own fragile place to hinder the attack of others. The simplest way of playing is to charge one by one. The more complicated one is to carry out positional battles first. The two armies arrange the military formation and fight with bows and arrows first. After seeing that the opponent's military formation is shaken, they send their own chariots to launch a strong attack on the enemy and break the opponent's military formation in one fell swoop. However, whether it is to use the chariot at the beginning or wait for the opponent's military formation to shake it, it is the same simple, direct and violent, that is, to use the chariots to break the opponent's military formation. It is precisely because of the simplicity, directness, and violence that has become the most popular and most used military formation for Han soldiers.
The Han Dynasty...especially the Eastern Han Dynasty had insufficient financial resources, so it was difficult to support a large number of standing soldiers. In Liangzhou, there were only one camp-level guards at the Qiang ranks. There were only two thousand soldiers in each county. In addition, there were not ten thousand soldiers. If the Qiang in Liangzhou rebelled, what should he do? He could only temporarily recruit soldiers to fight, but the problem came again. The soldiers who were temporarily recruited could fight against the enemy without any chance, but they could not use the more complex military formation. The Yuli formation was different. The Yuli formation did not require soldiers to have extremely high military qualities. It only needed to follow the chariot and defeat the opponent.
The Yuli Formation attacked the loose army formation almost out of force, and could defeat the opponent with one charge. However, after the Han Dynasty, the chariot formation gradually withdrew from the stage of history until iron chariots and submachine guns appeared.
The Yuli Formation is obviously very powerful, but why was it eliminated? It is because although the Yuli Formation is powerful, it also has many fatal shortcomings, such as the chariot formation being restricted by the terrain, such as the loose soldiers following the chariot formation being easily fatally hit by the cavalry wings, such as the fact that once the chariot formation fails to tear open the enemy's defense line, the hula-bowing soldiers behind it are no different from a group of mobs.
The soldiers recruited by Bao Xin, Cao Cao and Weizi did not undergo strict training. Not to mention fighting a positional battle, it is difficult to arrange the square formation. It is not surprising to choose a style of Yuli formation. As for why Xu Rong also chose this style of playing... Perhaps Xu Rong felt that the other party was just a group of mobs and needed only a charge to defeat the other party.
Both sides were fighting chariots against chariots, followed by countless charges and scattered soldiers, and the battlefield was bound to be in a stalemate. The swords collided directly, and the personal bravery of the soldiers became the key to victory and defeat. It was reasonable that Luoyang Camp suffered heavy casualties, but this caused great trouble to Dong Hu. Not only did the thousands of wounded soldiers consume the trauma medicine in the army, but what was even more troublesome was that Luoyang Camp wanted to vent his anger and slaughter all the prisoners.
Three or four percent of the soldiers were killed or injured in Luoyang Camp. If they wanted to vent their anger and slaughter the prisoners, Dong Hu naturally would not allow such a thing to happen. Xu Rong had to bring his troops back to Luoyang to rest.
In the injured barracks, more than two thousand were seriously injured. Five or six hundred died on the first day, four hundred died on the second day, and only one hundred people died today.
Dong Hu looked up at the sky and sighed.
"If there is not enough trauma medicine, then try to find some minor injuries to treat them as much as possible. The rest... can only be left to fate."
Dong Hu was helpless, and his penetration injury was much more serious than he looked at. Even if there was no soil, rust, feces and urine on the swords, guns and arrows, the internal muscles would be torn apart, making it difficult to stop bleeding, heal, and the mortality rate was as high as 80%.
Thinking of the tragic situation in the injured barracks, Dong Hu sighed, but he had no good way, so he could only issue some instructions to a group of generals, or send people to Liang, Hedong and Hanzhong to transport food and grass, collect medicinal materials, especially to ask Dong Chong to send people to Yizhou County, Yizhou produces a lot of healing medicines, and Banhuaman, who is hiding in the mountains and forests. Yizhouman must know that Xu Huang will try every means to get more local prescriptions and more herbs...
The generals had left for a long time, and Dong Hu was lying in a wooden chair. He knew that Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor of this era, knew that Hua Tuo was going to split Cao Cao's head... But he didn't know where the homes of the two famous doctors were.
Liu Bian, who was standing beside him, kneading the corners of his clothes from time to time with his palms. He had looked back and forth at Dong Hu and Gao Shun several times. After hesitating for a while, he still brought a chair and stool to Dong Hu.
The slight sound of landing awakened Dong Hu. When he turned around, he saw that Liu Bian had not left the chair and stool and scanned the empty hall again...
"What's wrong?"
"that……"
Liu Bian looked at Gao Shun with a little uneasy until he got a little touched on his forehead.
"Where should I look?"
"That...brother, are the prisoners in the city going to use for soldiers?"
Seeing Liu Bian sitting down honestly, Dong Hu was about to speak, but he couldn't help but look at Gao Shun, who was cold-faced, and then turned to look at Liu Bian who was looking forward to it. He was angry and funny, and raised his hand and was thrilled.
"We are warning you that you can't get things that do not belong to you. If you take them, you will die!"
Liu Bian's face was pale in an instant, and his body shrank into the chair and stool. His hands were tugging together uneasyly. However, Dong Hu did not turn his head, but just leaned back to make himself more relaxed.
"If you stay in Luoyang, it doesn't matter if you give it to you nearly 10,000 prisoners. With our troops shocked, they dare not have any bad thoughts on you."
"Of course, your identity is special. Those guys are soldiers recruited in your name. They are rebelling in your name. You personally take the captured soldiers, and the soldiers can also feel at ease... Logically speaking, you can command them, but you forgot one thing, that is, they are different from ordinary people and the situation of forced recruitment of people. They are soldiers recruited by those guys to fight."
Dong Hu's head did not turn, but just raised his hand and pointed to the smoke-drained tea on the ground. Liu Bian hurriedly spooned some hot water from the jar with a wooden spoon...
"Recruitment is different from forcibly recruiting. One is to actively go to the battlefield to kill people, and the other is to passive..."
Dong Hu was about to drink tea, but suddenly turned around.
"What is the army?"
Liu Bian was stunned, and looked at Gao Shun with some confusion, and Dong Hu also glanced at the frowning man.
“The army is a violent machine.”
"The country is the four regions."
"The army is a violent machine that maintains national stability, and violence destroys all enemies that affect the survival of the country and the survival of the people."
Dong Hu said: "There are many ways to destroy the enemy, such as the military strategy says: the superior army attacks the plan, the second is the second is the enemy, the second is the enemy, and the next is the enemy, the next is the enemy."
"The strategy is to be superior to the other party in strategy. The strategy is to isolate the other party from one another. In general, it is to use politics, economy, people's livelihood, science and technology, diplomacy and other means to make the other party believe that his skills are inferior to others and make concessions... or even destroy the other party."
"When your side fails to achieve its goals in the fields of politics, economy, people's livelihood, science and technology, diplomacy, etc., they will use the last resort to destroy their opponents with war."
Dong Hu smiled at Liu Bian.
"Whether it is a plan or a diplomatic relationship, it is used to achieve its goals without bleeding or harming oneself. However, war is different. War will kill people and cost a lot of money and food. Therefore, the Art of War says that war is a major event of the country, a place of life and death, and a way of survival and death, and must be observed."
"The army is a violent machine, which not only hurts the enemy, but also hurts oneself, so be cautious when using violence."
Dong Hu stood up and placed the empty tea cup on the small table, then looked up at Gao Shun, who looked solemn.
"The soldiers recruited are different from those recruited forcibly. One is proactive and the other is forced. There is a huge difference in the degree of "violence". Don't look at them being honest now. Once our army is out of force, no one knows what they will become."
"The violent characteristics of the army are innate, and the degree of violence also needs to be controlled manually, so as to the extent that it can be controlled like an arm. But the question is, to what extent can it be used?"
Dong Hu looked at Gao Shun and smiled and said, "Gao Daizi, you are more or less a general in the army. Do you think we are the same as you and Biandi?"
Gao Shun was silent for more than ten breaths before holding his fist, while Dong Hu just smiled.
"We can use them without any obstacles because we have the strength to shock them, but you don't have the strength."
"The prisoners have already had a mark on them, not the mark we made on their foreheads, but the marks that Bao Xin, Cao Cao and Weizi had already made a mark when they were recruiting."
"It is not easy to wipe the marks together, so we have to break them up and mix them with sand. In a short period of time, we will not let them appear on the battlefield. We will disperse them to the eight gates to serve as military farm soldiers, and the soldiers guarding the city will fill other people into them, so as to remove the marks on their bodies and completely turn them into local soldiers and horses in Luoyang."
After saying this.
"Gao Shun, do you understand why we handed over a thousand prisoners to you?"
Gao Shun sighed, but there was no expression on his face.
"Shun understand!"
Dong Hu stood up and stood up, and Liu Bian hurriedly followed behind...
"The people who have branded their names are generals in the army, and at least they are also sergeant commanders. In other words, they are all elites recruited by Bao Xin, Cao Cao and Weizi. As long as they subdue them, they will expand 5,000 troops and 10,000 troops on their basis."
"From one to ten, from ten to hundreds, and thousands to thousands..."
"This is a gradual process. Don't think about becoming a fat man in one bite, and don't try to control power beyond your ability when your foundation is unstable. This is not a good thing, but a disaster."
"Legisling the captives with the word "branded" to Gao Daizi is not only to give you the ability to protect yourself when you go to Nanyang County, but also a way to balance the power of the emperor."
Chapter completed!