The early garrison of the Han army was to extend to the two wings with the fertile field as the center, the two wings of the fertile field were deserts, and the names of the two deserts were changing and did not have a fixed name, and the most frequently used was the name "Sea of Death", but as long as it was a larger desert, there was a "Sea of Death" name to emphasize the danger of the desert, and there was no zài any characteristics.

The terrain of the fertile field is destined to form a defensive line as long as there are enough manpower, and the difference depends on the strength of the garrison and how thick the defense line will be.

The Han army adopted a trench tactic, that is, according to the actual needs of the terrain to dig out a trench of different lengths, width, and depth, so that the whole area was also subjected to seedlings, which was not much better than Belgium and France in the east during World War I.

With the gradual increase in troops, the Han army began to appropriately compress the battle line to the south, and the raids on the northwest area also began to intensify. It is a pity that the cavalry of the Han army out of the fortress is more than 100,000, and the rest are infantry troops, and the logistics materials have been kept at the number of people who cannot launch a decisive battle, and they have not been able to further promote the development of the war outside the fortress.

"At present, we only have more than 1.6 million arrows in stock, and only more than 400,000 crossbow arrows. Grain can be maintained without war damage: 300,000 troops can be used for three months, but drinking water is a big problem. ”

More than 1.6 million arrows is really not much, an archer in a battle at least need to prepare a quiver of 50 arrows, then 10,000 archers is 500,000 arrows, the ratio of archers in an army is about ten to one, and this does not count crossbowmen. The total number of Han archers out of the fortress was nearly 45,000, and according to the wartime configuration, each person needed to carry an arrow bag containing 50 arrows, and the number of arrows stored by the Han army was not enough at all.

In addition, a battle that can be called a battle. There is no such thing as destroying an enemy with one arrow, and it is usually possible to shoot fifty arrows to destroy an enemy. Twenty arrows per archer can shoot on a day is almost the limit, so twenty arrows is also called a "cardinal number" of professional military terms, beyond which the archer's arm muscles and ligaments will be strained, and the injury will withdraw from the combat sequence, and this is the most undesirable.

It is necessary to have a cognition, not to take a bow and arrow is a qualified archer, the army is not to do the archers to the point of 100 shots, but there are strict regulations on range, elevation angle, and strength, and the term is to master the way of flat shooting, projectile shooting, and accumulating shots. It is also necessary to understand the understanding that comes from the officer's exhalation command. In this way, training a qualified archer is actually not much simpler than training a sniper with modern hot weapons, because the strength of the arm of the bow and archery, the endurance of the endurance, and some other aspects have the requirements for the formation of routines.

In other words, not everyone is suitable to become an archer, which is why archers are scarce in some peasant uprisings, on the one hand, because of the difficulty of bowing, and more importantly, the irregulars do not have the corresponding training skills.

Relatively speaking, crossbowmen are much easier to train, after all, crossbowmen's requirements for arm strength are not so exaggerated. However, it is necessary to learn some professional knowledge in mastering the crossbow weapon, and it is most important to master the posture of holding the bow and understand the aiming posture of Wangshan, after all, how to hold the crossbow to shoot is not only related to the head, in fact, it is also directly related to how far it can shoot.

"If it's a decisive battle. Our army must have at least five million arrows and one million crossbow arrows. For the production of arrows, the production of arrows has been intensified, and the shafts of arrows are completely dependent on transportation from the rear. The production of crossbow arrows is too complicated, we cannot complete the standard crossbow arrow system, and the manufactured crossbow arrows cannot be adapted to the chute of the crossbow machine. Not to mention recycling. ”

The battle between the Han army and the grassland Hu people extremely needs long-range attack methods, that is because the Han army is in a swimming posture when fighting with the grassland Hu people, and it is rare to occur that once the battle starts, it is nailed to an area and does not move. Then a new problem is extended, that is, in this war, the role of the infantry army is infinitely lowered, and it is difficult for the slow mobility of the infantry army to do anything, and the combat pressure of a qiē is borne on the cavalry, and the infantry army is often difficult to play an auxiliary role.

"The plague is still spreading in the Central Plains, and the shipping in Jiaozhou Bay cannot resume operation in a short period of time, and the logistical constraints cannot be improved in the short term," Li Liang looked around at the army commanders and generals at all levels present: "But our scouts found that the Hu people were moving farther and farther in the Northwest Plain (Hexi Corridor), and they also discovered a new phenomenon. ”

The new phenomenon is that the southbound Hu people seem to have strengthened their troops, and more and more armed forces have poured into the northwest, and it is difficult for them to judge for a while whether the new alien race is a reinforcement from the Hu people from the grassland, and because the Hu people who went south in the early stage have signs of moving to the northwest, it is preliminarily judged that the Hu people have found a way to break through.

"The new alien races are the ones we haven't been in contact with before, most of them are Di people, and some of the alien races are also very different from the Di people."

In modern times, calling a person a person a Di person is not talking about an ethnic group, but actually means that those people are some white race. For example, during the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, all the Hu people living on the grassland were called Xiongnu, and they didn't bother to investigate at all, otherwise after the investigation, it would be clear that not all Hu people were called Xiongnu, and there were different populations within the Hu people.

It is now the end of the pre-Qin era in ancient times, and it has also been influenced by Lu Zhe, and people ...... At least the high-level of the Han State did not think that all the alien races on the grassland were the Xiongnu ethnic group, and they also knew that in addition to the Xiongnu, there were different ethnic groups on the grassland, such as Hutu, Hun Xie, Baiyang, Loulan, etc. And they also knew that the overlord of the grassland was not the Xiongnu, but the Donghu who was entrenched outside the Yanmen Pass until the area north of Liaodong.

The steppe overlord Donghu was a relatively intelligent ethnic group, so there are relatively few records of Donghu in Chinese history, and that is because Donghu wisely moved their expansion area away from the Central Plains. For example, the Hu people who chose the direction of expansion to go south have been recorded by many Chinese histories, such as the Xiongnu, ancestors, Khitan, etc., and without exception, the Hu people who expanded southward, whether they succeeded in becoming occupiers of the Central Plains or not, no matter how brilliant they were, they were "contained" by the powerful Chinese civilization to the point that there was no residue left.

Many of the Han elites could understand why their allegiances were directed against the Xiongnu. It is not to come up with stronger military force to target the contemporary steppe overlord Donghu. In particular, the group of people from the original Qin State had a better understanding of Lu Zhe's targeting of the Xiongnu, because the Xiongnu planned to encroach and encroach on the land in the southern part of the grassland.

After the Qin State went east, there was no more spare power to take care of the north, since the beginning of the unification war launched by the First Emperor, the Xiongnu began to occupy the Heshuo area, until the moment when the last country of the countries surrendered, the Henan land that originally belonged to the territory of the Qin State had all fallen into the hands of the Xiongnu, and the Qin State would launch the Northern Expedition after solving the problems.

In history, the battle of the First Emperor to launch the Northern Expedition was put on a strange color, saying that there was a warlock divination to "Dead Qin Hu". Therefore, the fuse of the emperor's northern expedition was burned. What is in fact? It was the loss of Henan that put Xianyang directly in a relative position, and the Xiongnu, who had the advantage of huge war horses, roared south from the Heshuo area with almost no obstacles, and in a month or two the Huns could advance their troops to the city of Xianyang, how could the Qin State tolerate this?

Qin sent Meng Tian to lead the army to the north to recapture most of the occupied Henan region from the Xiongnu in one year, but in the subsequent Chinese civil war, the Xiongnu took advantage of this period of time to turn around and sweep over, and quickly occupied the Heshuo area. At what time did the Xiongnu invade Heshuo? It was the historical process of China that reached the period of "Chu and Han rivalry", and the Xiongnu were naturally able to leisurely occupy the river meandering area with abundant water and grass, and at the same time the Xiongnu expanded rapidly under the rule of Maodun. Under the hands of Mao Dun, he completed the cause of conquering the Western Regions in the west and attacking the Eastern Hu in the north, developing the Xiongnu into the overlord of the grassland in one fell swoop, and also allowing the Xiongnu to form a vast country, and then became the threat of the Chinese ethnic group for more than 300 years.

The Liu Han Dynasty, whose capital was Xianyang (renamed Chang'an), naturally understood the importance of the Hequ region. Liu Bang, who won the world, took it for granted that the army under his command was obtained in the Chinese civil war, so Liu Han's army was the division of the king and the elite division, and then he also began to launch a campaign to recapture the meander, and the "Siege of Baideng" also happened.

Lu Zhe, who has some understanding of the historical process, knows very well that the current Xiongnu are not the overlords of the grassland. However, the development potential of the Xiongnu will inevitably be tapped in the process of the rise of Maudun, and they are destined to become the mortal enemy of the Chinese ethnic group. Lu Zhe didn't want to face the Xiongnu who had completed the rise in the future, and he didn't want to rely on offering beautiful women to get out one day. Then it is natural to deal a heavy blow before the Xiongnu rise, and it is best to wipe out all the Hu people, including Maodun, in the Hexi Corridor area.

With such an idea, although the time was not so ripe, Lu Zhe still chose to launch the battle of the Saihan, because the preparation was not so sufficient, and there were too many accidents, and the result was that the front of the Saihan army became not so sharp for the first time.

"Our cavalry is still too small, and it takes at least 200,000 cavalry to intercept the Hu people from breaking through from the northwest, and we can only divide our troops to intercept less than 120,000 cavalry, and it is also difficult to maintain logistics." Li Liang asked for instructions to bring some of the captives in captives, and he pointed to the bound captives and said: "They are from a foreign race in the west, according to the introduction of those Hu people who were attached to the past, these people do not belong to the nomadic tribes in the north, and there is no clue where they came from because of the language barrier. ”

Different races will have different attire, and what they have in common is that the more backward the group wears animal skins, many of the alien races who are escorted in are people wearing animal skins, and some are wearing obvious fancy costumes.

"The initial information we have received is that Maudun continues to reclaim the new alien races, and of course the Huns have also started a war with the new alien race, but on a relatively small scale, so we have determined that the alien races that are coming to the east are actually the losers of the war that broke out in a certain area, and they are flocking to the east in search of new habitats."

"Recent intelligence suggests that Maudon is constantly trying to convince the new aliens to form a coalition that they can use to fight us. What we cannot tell is whether the Huns wanted to unite the new aliens to engage us in a confrontation of the nature of a battle, or simply to have a decisive decisive battle, or whether they wanted the new aliens to hold us back so that the Huns could escape. ”

"In addition, we have received news that there are indeed many countries in the west, and the most powerful of them is called Sabbath, which has been at war with an alliance further west for decades......"

The country that Li Liang called Rest is actually the Persian Empire, and the grammatical pronunciation translates to Rest, while Persia should be called the Parthian Empire if it is officially translated.

Wang Ben pointed to one of the people wearing slatted armor, who had short golden-colored hair and a sea-blue eye: "This guy should be the more western race of the Sabbath Country?" ”

Don't be surprised, even if it is the same skin color, but there will be obvious differences in facial features, although the Caucasian people in the eastern region, that is, the Di people and the Rong people, are also white, but the facial features are relatively Asian, and the most obvious difference is on the bridge of the nose. There are also clans of the white race in the Qin State, and Wang Ben's family is also one of the powerful people in the Qin State, and there is still some common sense for the identification of the human race.

"Probably right? According to the pronunciation, he was a tribe called Thrace. Li Liang said with a slight hesitation.

In fact, Thrace is supposed to be in the Mediterranean near Central Asia, this group is in the form of a city-state, but it does not belong to the Greek League, Thrace is a group with a large number of mercenaries in history, often in groups of people hired by a city-state or country to fight for mercenaries.

The Thracian who was fingered by Wang Ben was not saying anything, if he could understand it, he was saying that he did not mean to be an enemy of the Han army, he was taken to the east after being captured, and there were more than 3,000 people of all ethnic groups in the Mediterranean who were forced to come to the east with him, and most of them were warriors, and if the Han army was willing to pay, they were willing to stand on the side of the Han army and engage the enemies of the Han army.

Of course, no one on the Han side could understand what the Thracian was saying, but that didn't prevent the Han generals from discovering that the situation seemed to be getting more complicated. (To be continued......) R1292