The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 164: The Prelude to the Northern Expedition

? In April 240 BC, the Yuguo in Northeast China, after more than a month of preparation. At this moment, a group of 100,000 troops has been gathered.

After a raid in the previous winter, the Donghu people in the north of Yuguo were taken by Zhong Yu for nearly 1/3 of the territory. If you look at it from the map, an Donghu site that was originally crescent-like has taken a bite from the full moon in the middle. It became an embarrassing situation with heavy at both ends and thin in the middle.

If the Donghu people do not want to be themselves, they may be cut in half by the enemy at any time.

Then they must send troops to regain the territory they had been bitten by through the war. Even if you win, you still have to take the initiative if you have spare capacity.

Let those Xiao Xiao who dare to offend the great prairie wolf tribe, Donghu people, understand that Donghu people are not something they can afford.

And for Donghu people, it doesn't matter if the site is lost. As long as someone is there, with the characteristics of the Donghu nomadic tribe, you can go to other places anytime and anywhere, and the natives of your place fight a battle. Conquer them and drive them away, and then they will be strong again at any time, and the Donghu tribal alliance will rise again.

So, for Zhong Yu, he is about to face a war of remnants of Donghu people who will concentrate all their strength and come desperately to retaliate.

And those Donghu people are cavalry, very mobile. This Qin Shiming Moon World is not the time and space of the previous earth, but a special alien plane

At this time, the stirrups and bow and arrow technology that were not originally available on earth. In today's nomadic tribes, it is already popular and quite complete.

This means that I am not facing another time and space, those horse-riding infantry when Qin Shihuang's northern expedition to the Huns. At that time, the prairie soldiers said that the cavalry did not have saddles or stirrups. They clamped the belly of the horse completely with their own legs and held the rein with both hands so that they could not fall off the horseback.

The way they fight is often through the speed at which they ride horses, rushing to the enemy’s rear quickly, and then transporting troops and harassing the place.

The so-called riding and shooting means riding a horse, stopping the horse tens of meters away from a group of infantrymen, then sitting on the horseback, taking out the prepared bow and arrow and shooting.

So they ran into the Qin Dynasty Crossbowmen, which had a longer range than them, and the Qin State Horse Infantry, which also had cavalry units.

Because of a long-range strike by the crossbowmen who started with a longer range, the whole army was defeated. And they are not as lucky as the northern nomadic cavalry in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty infantry who defeated them had no cavalry to pursue and expand their results.

The Qin Dynasty also had cavalry. Those who couldn't escape, the fate that they waited next was a massacre. Therefore, the population of the Xiongnu tribe that was driven out of the Hetao by the Qin Dynasty was extremely sharp.

They had to cede their territories to the Yue and Donghu tribes, which began a period of extreme humiliation for them. It was not until the emergence of the Xiongnu generation hero Mao Dun that he began to rise again and reach its peak.

But now the Donghu tribe is equipped with a complete bow and arrow and saddle. You can completely ride a horse, fling your arrows and run away, come to Genghis Khan's masterpiece, kite-flying tactics.

This makes myself want to fight them head-on, and effectively annihilate their war potential, which is extremely difficult with the living population.

It is even possible to fall into a war whirlpool. It was continuously and continuously small-scale harassed by the Donghu people. In the end, they were dragged down by them, and all the national power and energy were involved, and it was difficult to be distracted to expand in the south.

Don't be like this. My so-called strategy of dominating the world and destroying the six countries to unify China has become a joke.

But if there are disadvantages, it will be beneficial. My own side has such a shortcoming in dealing with Donghu. The Donghu people also have their disadvantages when dealing with their own side.

Before, due to heavy snow, the road was blocked and the news was closed. I took advantage of this heaven-sent opportunity to annex nearly one-third of their place and one-quarter of their population.

As a result, Donghu’s original population of more than one million has dropped sharply to more than 800,000 now. Among them, even if all of them are soldiers, they can at most find more than 200,000 people and serve as soldiers to fight.

Moreover, the winter is just over at this moment, and the food reserves of those Donghu people must have been almost consumed.

In this case, I can imitate the Three Kingdoms world and rely on my own sufficient material reserves. Directly consume them, let them starve to death slowly because of the shortage of food, and collapse without fighting.

It's just a fly in the ointment, that is, I can't directly send batches of cannon fodder like the Three Kingdoms World to consume the number of Donghu soldiers.

Now I am in short supply of population, and the whole country adds up, including those Donghu people who have just been conquered by myself, and those natives of Jizi Korea. In total, there are only 3.4 million people, of which the male population is only a mere 500,000.

The reason why there are so few people is that most of the people in the Three Kingdoms world are family members of the previous army. A man in the family had joined the army, and after those men died.

The rest of the young and strong are all good and uneven, so they can only grow farms in the rear and transport supplies. If it is used for war, it can only be said not to think too well.

So the entire Yuguo had a total of 200,000 troops, and 50,000 were taken by Cao Cao to attack Jizi Korea. The entire Yuguo territory is newly occupied. If you want to consolidate the rule, you must leave 50,000 people to defend yourself.

Then only 100,000 people can be drawn from him~IndoMTL.com~ for the Northern Expedition.

Such a small number can only reach half of the northern Donghu people, and they want to obtain a strategic advantage. And to achieve a certain result, you must be surprised, and the soldier must make a dangerous move.

That’s why Zhong Yu sent troops ahead of time when the barbarians’ horses hadn’t been fattened, and their strength hadn’t recovered from the severe cold.

Try to get enough results when they react and concentrate enough troops to reduce the number of their soldiers to the same level as their own.

As long as these goals are completed, the subsequent war will be one word, procrastinate.

The people in Donghu couldn't bear it because the cattle and sheep didn't have time to graze, and they starved to death in large numbers. The horse did not have enough time to restore body fat by eating plump aquatic plants, and became too thin. By consuming their material reserves and war potential, they will slowly be consumed.

And myself, nothing else, the war supplies are absolutely sufficient, don't want it. With the support of the world of the Three Kingdoms, as well as all the civilians in the empire, there is a steady stream of luck points. Who is he really not afraid of than consumption?

The Donghu people can't do it. With their backward system, the nomadic tribes are disadvantaged. The war that supports him at most for half a year will definitely be defeated on a large scale.

My only concern is that those Donghu people who have been driven to a ruin by themselves will desperately run to their rear to destroy the place they have just established.

So his main goal now is to urge the people in all counties. Build the city as soon as possible, so that there is a stronghold to defend against the attacks of the cavalry of Donghu.

Everyone knows that cavalry cannot be used to attack cities.

(End of this chapter)

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