Chapter 65: Raising Soldiers
Everyone present sneered at the same time.
Whether it's Heavenly Court, Ghost God, or Tao Xiaowu.
Even including those Yulin Army, I'm afraid that none of them hope to see the Brahmana be recruited!
Heavenly Court naturally didn't want another force to appear in this Middle Earth.
The ghosts and gods don't want anyone to grab food from them.
In the Yulin Army, Wang Hu and infantry captain Wang Jian were both assassinated by Brahma masters.
And Tao Xiaowu ......
His feud with Brahma is not shallow!
As for the imperial court?
Tao Xiaowu's understanding of Yusu and his understanding of a dynasty that is rising like the sun.
It is also absolutely intolerable to such a force that first confronts and then surrenders.
Without him, this would have a very bad effect on other forces.
That is, you can rebel against the court, and you can't surrender if you can't fight it!
In short, although Brahman's calculation is good, it is not so easy to realize.
Everyone looked at each other, each with their own understanding.
In dealing with this Brahman, all parties have the same goal!
Although they didn't speak, they all understood the other party's intentions: "Tomorrow morning, we will start attacking the city!"
It's best to be able to take Mao'an before the imperial reinforcements arrive!
Early the next morning, before dawn, the rumbling drums were already sounding.
The soldiers and civilians began to bury the pot and cook, and the soldiers got up.
The two drums are ready to be assembled!
By the time of the three drums, the offensive had already begun.
In the records, there is no distinction between soldiers and logistics, often among the 100,000 troops, in fact, the number of real soldiers is only half, and the rest is logistics.
Even in the era of the old dynasty of Dayu, it was also the same!
And the Dayu New Dynasty established a professional army, and these Yulin forbidden troops were all soldiers.
All the logistics, in addition, are specially sent to the young and strong people to do it, and completely separate it.
However, in Tao Xiaowu's opinion, this is far from enough.
The new dynasty of Dayu should also establish a professional logistics force is!
Of course, Tao Xiaowu also knew that in this ancient agrarian society, this idea was not very realistic.
It's not because of technical problems or anything else, it's purely because of lack of money.
From the perspective of the history of another world, the first to establish a professional army was Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who began to establish a forbidden army.
However, the size of this forbidden army has not been too large, with more than 100,000 in number.
Without him, it would take a great deal of wealth to maintain a professional army.
In ancient agrarian societies, this was undoubtedly an astronomical expense.
So much so that the entire Eastern Han Dynasty could only strengthen its roots and weaken its branches, and suppress the Beijing division with a small but elite forbidden army, and several strategic points.
But as a result, the local power quickly grew.
And after the Yellow Turban, after the suppressive power of the central forbidden army weakened, local forces rose rapidly.
Later, all dynasties learned this experience, except for the iron-blooded strong Song Dynasty, no dynasty or generation has relied so much on the recruited professional army!
Tang has government soldiers, Ming has guards, and even the Qing Dynasty also has the green battalion and eight banners that succeeded the father and son......
And there is the Song generation, which is called a weak chicken, and a large part of the reason is because of this system.
Without him, the imperial court's financial revenue could not afford such a large-scale forbidden army.
The so-called three redundancies are all from this redundant army!
With the financial resources of the Dayu New Dynasty, raising more than 100,000 professional soldiers is already a very heavy pressure.
How is it possible to raise more than 100,000 baggage logistics soldiers who don't seem too important?
Then it is better to add more than 100,000 soldiers!
So, in the end, the war is still about money!
The Dayu army began to attack the city!
At this time, Tao Xiaowu's army swelled to 30,000.
Most of the local troops of Maozhou, who had been surrendered, were now used as the vanguard to launch an offensive against the city of Mao'an.
At the third pole of the sun, the shouts of killing have already sounded, and the most tragic siege battle has begun!
The city of Mao'an is high and deep, the guards are strong, and the morale of the defenders inside is also high!
Originally, it stands to reason that in the face of the current collapse situation, only Mao'an is left, and the defenders should be demoralized and panicked.
However, at this time, what I saw was that the defenders of the city were fanatical, shouting to kill the enemy, and their morale was not only high, but also crazy.
And there were many people who helped defend the city.
These people do not look like they are forced, but they are very voluntary.
Many people even hugged the besieging soldiers and fell off the city wall directly.
Under such madness, the besieging soldiers were quickly defeated and retreated.
In such a scene, whether it was Tao Xiaowu or other masters, their faces were cold: "The demons of the Brahma Gate are the best at demagoguery.
It seems that the soldiers and people in the city have been bewitched!"
Tao Xiaowu is not surprised: "The dog is in a hurry to jump off the wall, at this time of life and death, it is not strange that those Brahma demons do anything."
Notice, suspend the siege, and start building siege equipment......"
"Taishi, I'm afraid this is a little inappropriate, right?" said the Taoist of the Ghost God Dao coldly.
Tao Xiaowu naturally understood what he meant, and it was best to solve the Brahma Gate before the court intervened, so as to avoid other accidents.
However, Tao Xiaowu shook his head helplessly: "You have also seen that in such a situation, how can we take the city unless we take action in person?"
Even if all 30,000 people are filled here, it's not enough to ......."
Once the enemy defends the city with an iron heart, then the siege force will definitely not be able to take it without killing several times as many people.
It's not that Tao Xiaowu is soft-hearted, and he is not in charge of soldiers and righteousness.
In fact, the ant-attached siege is the most tragic siege method, and the casualties are also the most tragic.
The psychological impact on the besieging side is also the greatest, if it cannot be captured in a short time, then the morale of the entire army will soon collapse, and it will still be a trivial matter if it cannot organize new fortifications in a short time.
In the wars of the past dynasties, the siege of the city was too fierce at the beginning, resulting in heavy casualties, and the army no longer had the courage and confidence to attack, so it could only waste time under the city, and there were too many things that could only rely on siege and wait for the enemy to surrender.
What's worse is that most of Tao Xiaowu's subordinates are the newly incorporated Maozhou Army.
Once it is forced to rush and mutini directly, it will be even more troublesome!
Therefore, although Tao Xiaowu was unwilling, he could only slow down.
Although he had not experienced many battles, it was the first time he had commanded a large army.
But Tao Xiaowu understands very well that things like real war martial arts are actually not that important, at least not as important as imagined.
The key to war is logistics, psychology and morale, and everything else.
Even when it comes to the battlefield, morale is the most important thing!
At this moment, an ant siege has reduced the morale of his army by at least thirty percent.
It's useless to force it up......