"Since we are far inferior to the number of war horses and cavalry, what did General Guard rely on, to defeat King Aries and King Loufan in the field? Is it just that the armor is sharp?" Suddenly, Zhang Ran thought of a very meaningful question, so he asked Cao Xiang.

"Well..." Zhang Ran's question seemed a bit difficult, so Cao Xiang pondered for a long time before answering uncertainly: "I think that sharp armor is of course important, but this is only one reason. After all, since the sixth year of Yuanguang, most generals have lost more and won less in the battles between the Han and the Huns, and there are many generals who were destroyed by the Huns. Only General Wei defeated the Huns several times! So, I think that the one who really played the decisive factor is that General Wei was too powerful!"

"You still have to say this?" Zhang Ran couldn't help but complain in his heart when he heard this. He felt that Cao Xiang hadn't said it at all. So he simply was too lazy to go around the corner and asked Cao Xiang directly: "Brother Cao, do you think that if there is a way now, it can not only greatly reduce the time for training cavalry, but also allow most people to maintain balance without much effort on horseback, just like on the ground, to draw bows and shoot arrows! For us men, is it a good or a bad thing?"

Upon hearing this, Cao Xiang replied without hesitation: "Of course it's a good thing! Is this more important? Ran Ge'er, if there is really such a method, as you said, that people can easily shoot arrows and shoot arrows immediately, then our speed of training cavalry will definitely be greatly accelerated. For us, it is naturally a great thing!"

"Oh" Zhang Ran responded softly with indefault, and then asked again: "What if this method was learned by the Huns? You know, everyone can ride horses and everyone can shoot arrows! If this method is mastered by them, wouldn't it mean that the Huns can get millions of cavalry out of thin air? In that case, what else can we Han use to resist the Huns' iron cavalry?"

"Not as exaggerated as you said?" After hearing this, Cao Xiang couldn't help laughing: "Brother Ran, let alone whether there is really the magical method you said in this world? Even if there is, it was learned by the Huns... Then the Huns cannot increase millions of cavalry out of thin air as you said! You must know that the population of the Huns is only less than ten million. In terms of their population, it is already the limit to be able to afford hundreds of thousands of cavalry!

As for millions of cavalry? It’s nonsense! So what if everyone in the Huns can shoot arrows, so what if everyone can ride horses? Do they have millions of war horses? Are there so many Dingkou who can support millions of cavalry?"

"Well" Zhang Ran couldn't help but click gently when he heard this, and thought to himself that this stirrup could indeed allow the Huns to have a large number of cavalry faster, quickly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Huns, and to a large extent, stimulate the potential of the Huns, so that they can have an extremely wide number of soldiers to be used for conscripts!

But the source of troops is the source of troops, and potential is potential. With the current national strength of the Huns and their harsh living environment, it is not so easy to turn potential into strength and the source of troops into real cavalry!

You should know that raising cavalry is very expensive. It is true that many Huns war horses are very good, but does taming a war horse do not require humans? Even if war horses do not cost money, then making bows and arrows and making horse harnesses always cost money, right?

As we all know, the war is the overall national strength and the logistics. Not to mention later generations, even now, taking Wei Qing's attack on the Huns as an example, in order to support Wei Qing's tens of thousands of cavalry, the Han Dynasty had to use more than 100,000 corvee workers, and the money and food they consumed were even more than 100,000!

As soon as the cannon fired, there were tens of thousands of taels of gold! After these battles, Wei Qing basically wiped out the national treasury and spent the family fortune accumulated by the two emperors Wen and Jing for decades!

Compared with the Han Dynasty, although the situation of the Huns was a little better, every time a war was launched, the Huns needed to consume cattle, sheep, horses, arrows and other war materials!

For the Huns, it would be fine if they could win every war. At least they could take a bite of meat from the Han to replenish blood! But if they were defeated, it would be miserable. Not only would they not be able to replenish blood, but they would also continue to consume the originally small amount of materials. In addition, the climate and environment of the northern grasslands were harsh and the living environment was extremely difficult. Therefore, basically every time they were defeated, the Huns would have to mess up and fight each other to compete for limited resources!

Therefore, according to Zhang Ran's estimate, it is already the limit to be able to maintain a cavalry of millions across the country based on the existing management system and its population size!

As for their mobilization ability, even if they have stirrups, they can reach the point where the whole nation is soldier, and they will not be able to organize millions of cavalry!

You know, even during the Second World War in later generations, they were as crazy as chickens, and they only recruited less than 8 million troops in total! And this is based on the 60 million population!

The Huns now have less than 10 million people, so where did he get the ability to mobilize millions of cavalry? Therefore, Zhang Ran felt that what Cao Xiang said was still very reasonable, and his previous worries were indeed a bit too exaggerated!

You should know that even during the Second World War in later generations, the number of troops that were as crazy as a foot-cupunctured as a total of less than 8 million people was recruited! And this was based on the population of 60 million! The Huns now have less than 10 million people, so where did he get the ability to mobilize millions of cavalry? Therefore, Zhang Ran felt that what Cao Xiang said was still very reasonable, and his previous worries were indeed a bit too exaggerated! You should know that even during the Second World War in later generations, the number of troops that was as crazy as a foot-cupunctured as a total of less than 8 million people was recruited as a total of less than 60 million people! And this was based on the population of 60 million!
Chapter completed!