Seeing that Qin Huang has posted three times questioning the number of Dong Zhuo's troops in this period, thinking that it is definitely more than 200,000, then let's discuss how many Dong Zhuo's troops are in this period?

First of all, let's talk about the core idea of the author's writing, that is, the character description is mainly based on the history of the romance, and the historical events and the general environment are mainly based on the official history. To sum up, it is a combination between history and romance, with the official history as the skeleton and the wild history of romance as the flesh and blood.

For example, in terms of the military generals' force, 80 percent of them use the romance commentary as a reference, and the official historical figures as an auxiliary. Because in the official history, there is no description of who is how powerful it is. A good man can't stand a lot of people, even if he is a good person, with the same weapons, dozens of small soldiers will still abuse you.

Let's talk about the way of writing, some readers think it's white, and there is no way. If the article is full, there may be more people who can't accept abandoning the book, so I can only compromise between white and not, try to use antique style when talking to characters, and use language that is in line with the times, and slightly whiter when narrating and describing the psychology of pig's feet.

Next, let's get down to business and discuss the theme of this chapter: how many men did Dong Zhongying have under Dong Zhongying in the period after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing at the end of 189 AD?

According to what I mentioned in my book, it is said that Dong Zhuo has more than 200,000 troops under his command.

Everyone should note that this more than 200,000 is an elastic number, 210,000 is also more than 200,000, and 290,000 is also more than 200,000. This is the reason why many novels do not report an accurate number, and as the plot develops, this number is constantly fluctuating, so the number cannot be written to death.

And in the eyes of classmate Qin Huang, this number is far from satisfying him, since it is far away, then according to this classmate's meaning, it must be at least doubled, right? Let's double it by 200,000, so it has to be at least 400,000, right? Next, let's verify, does Dong Zhuo have so many troops?

According to the Book of Han, in 155 AD, that is, during the reign of Emperor Huan, the country had a population of 50.67 million.

By 189, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the continuous influx of small-scale uprisings in various states and counties, coupled with the large-scale plague, the great famine that swept the country, and various natural disasters one after another, the population plummeted by two-thirds during this period, falling to about 30 million.

Of the thirteen prefectures at the end of the Han Dynasty, Yongzhou and Liang Prefecture were the two most barren and least populous states, you can refer to the current Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai areas, the total population of these two prefectures is more than 2 million, and the maximum will not exceed 3 million, and it will be possible to recruit 400,000 troops from this kind of place?

As for the last, Qin Huang's classmate said that Dong Zhuo had 200,000 cavalry under Xiliang alone, which is even more impossible, and even a little marginal. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the unification of the Jin Dynasty, the number of cavalry in all vassal states at the same time would not exceed the entire number, and even half of the 100,000 did not necessarily exist.

200,000 cavalry, this number is too terrifying, how much forage do you have to eat in a year, and how many logistics personnel do you need to support? I estimate that in Chinese history, except for the Yuan Dynasty, which was established by the Mongols, there would not have been more than 200,000 cavalry in any other period.

Cao Wei's military strength in its heyday was only more than 300,000, and Liu Bei's Shu Han was only about 120,000 when Guan Yu occupied Jingzhou.

Taking a step back, suppose that Dong Zhuo really has four or five hundred thousand horses, and he still uses the capital to move the capital to Chang'an, and closes the tiger prison to defend it? Open the city gate, crush the princes in minutes, teach them to be people, and then change the dynasty, ascend the throne and become the emperor, and there will be no more existence of the Three Kingdoms.

Then classmates may have to ask again, didn't your characters come according to the romance, why did you come to the soldiers and horses according to the official history?

Let me explain here that the setting of Dong Zhuo's more than 200,000 troops is much more exaggerated than the official history, if it is according to the official history, the soldiers and horses that Dong Zhuo's men can mobilize during this period are estimated to be no more than 70,000.

Before Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he was only a local warlord, and during the reign of Emperor Ling, the imperial court had absolute control over military power, and it was far from the point where the princes were divided and the troops were self-respecting.

During this period, the army that Dong Zhuo cultivated privately was estimated to be one or two hundred thousand, which was already a terrible number, plus the annexation of Ding Yuan's troops, the total strength was thirty or forty thousand, plus the mastery of the military talismans and the control of some troops of the imperial court, the number of troops that could be mobilized was about sixty or seventy thousand at best, and it would not be much at all.

Therefore, based on the romance and official history, I set Dong Zhuo's military strength at more than 200,000, which is already a pretty high number. Qin Huang's classmates feel that it is less, maybe compared to Cao Cao's 830,000 army to conquer the Sun-Liu Alliance, in fact, this old Luo is a bit big, and even the illiterate peasant women feel that it is too fake.

If you are interested, you can discuss it in the book review area, express what you have seen, don't get angry, and don't scold, because I think the majority of readers are very good.

Finally, Lingyi's historical knowledge is very profound, and I am ashamed of myself.

Zhongshan, I'm not lazy with Baidu, but I didn't find the information I wanted after Baidu, after all, the search entries are different, and the answers I get are different. After weighing the name Purple Mountain, it is more reliable than Zhong Mountain, so I took it easy.

I can't waste a lot of time researching a simple place name, usually it takes about five minutes to look it up, and if I take out the work of a scholar, it is estimated that I can't even write 3,000 words a day.

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