Sima Dewen laughed: "Listening to General Hu's analysis, Nan Yan does not have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is about the same as what we can dispatch. But why do we always say that they have military strength when we mention Nan Yan?"
Where are the three to four hundred thousand troops?"
Liu Yu said with a smile: "Three to four hundred thousand soldiers and horses are required for nationwide mobilization. It is not so easy to implement a military system of one from every third soldier and two from every fifth soldier. Our Jin Dynasty has basically never mobilized troops like this."
, even in the Battle of Feishui, when life and death were at stake, it was just a matter of recruiting heroes from all over the world. We voluntarily surrendered to the army back then. On the contrary, when Fu Jian, the former lord of Qin, came to invade the Jin Dynasty, he was only one out of ten in the country.
There are millions of troops, but it is precisely because of this tyranny that the people are resentful, so once they are defeated, the world will be in chaos."
"Because Nanyan only has one state, Qingzhou, and the tens of thousands of Xianbei families it brought there, they are used to having all the people as soldiers. Each tent can field more than two soldiers in a war, so they can maintain a standing army of about 100,000 people.
After general mobilization, we can gather more than 300,000 troops within a month or two, which is said to be a scale of 400,000. In any battle, we must know the enemy in advance. We have been conducting long-term reconnaissance on Nanyan's military strength and fully understand it.
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Speaking of this, Liu Yu looked at Hu Fan: "General Hu had ambitions of the Northern Expedition when he was under Huan Xuan. Because his father's ambition was unfulfilled, he studied military art and martial arts since he was a child, using the Murong family's cavalry as imaginary enemies. This
For more than a year in our military mansion, he studied information about Nan Yan all day long in order to make contributions. He is the most familiar with Nan Yan."
Wang Shen'ai smiled slightly: "I have heard for a long time that General Hu is very loyal and brave. When I saw him today, he is indeed a pillar of the country. It is rare to hear Liu Zhenjun praise others so much. But today, General Hu has received such high praise. It is worthy of celebration. So Hu
General, in your opinion, Liu Zhenjun intends to launch a large force to destroy Yan this time. From your perspective, do you agree?"
Hu Fan's expression became serious. He pondered for a moment, and Liu Yu's voice came to his ears: "Don't worry about my face. If you have any ideas, just say it. Now it can be regarded as a military discussion. There must be no hypocrisy in everything."
And flattery. Because once the temple calculation is wrong, the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and even the national destiny of our Jin Dynasty will be lost!"
Hu Fan gritted his teeth and performed a military salute: "Commander, you have a debt of gratitude to Hu. Logically speaking, what you want to do, especially the military, even if you ask me to die, I will do it without saying a word.
Yes, it doesn’t matter whether it’s right or wrong, but since you want to ask my opinion, I must say that now is not the time for the Northern Expedition to Southern Yan, especially the war to destroy the country.”
Liu Yu softly said "Oh": "Why is this?"
Hu Fan sighed: "The generals just spoke mainly from the perspective of military supplies and logistics, but in my opinion, even the Beifu Army, which swept across the Jin Dynasty and shocked the south, would be difficult to compete with on the plains.
The Murong family's armor and cavalry are all equipped for a head-on confrontation. What I am really worried about is not that the Yan army will defend Daxian and confront our army, but that they will let go of Daxian and let our army enter the Lunan Plain, and then they will fight in the Linqu area."
Before Liu Yu could speak, Xiang Mi on the other side yelled: "Hey, I'm talking about Huzi, you can't talk nonsense. Our Beifu army is sweeping the world, who hasn't fought? Even with the Murong family's cavalry,
We fought several times. I, Tieniu, fought once in Wuqiaoze, Yecheng. Later, outside Luoyang City, I fought with Murong Yong's armored cavalrymen. They are also human beings, and they will die. They cannot fight if they are not old enough.
degree!"
Hu Fan sighed: "Brother Tieniu, it's not that I mean to belittle the combat power of the Beifu Army. It's just that there are obvious advantages and disadvantages between infantry and cavalry. This is not me personally saying who is stronger and who is weaker. It's just like the two battles you fought.
The Battle of Yecheng and the Battle of Luoyang, I have studied these two battles carefully. In the Battle of Yecheng, although the Yan army used fire attacks, in the end, the cavalry on the front charged and killed them. Wu Gangnan witnessed it firsthand, and
Brother Tieniu, you were saved by the commander and left the battlefield early, right?!"
Xiang Mi's dark face turned slightly red: "I, I was burned by the fire and couldn't fight. Brother Jinu saved us, but later, our rear army of more than 500 people blocked thousands of Yan troops.
The attack of the armored cavalry restored the dignity of our Beifu Army, right, Brother Ashou."
Liu Jingxuan sighed softly: "What Huzi said is right. I was the one who commanded the battle at the beginning. More than two thousand brothers could not block the impact of three thousand enemy armored cavalry. We were all made of flesh and blood when the cavalry charged like this on the plain.
There was no way to stop them. Even if they shot their knights to death, the corpses were still sitting on horses and could be attacked. Later, if the slaves had not taken us around to the fire scene and used some baggage carts and corpses as cover in front of the battle, we would have been able to
I’m afraid even the last one of us won’t be able to come back alive.”
Many generals of the Beifu Army thought of the terrible battle that year, and their faces became ugly. Even a trace of fear appeared on the faces of these battle-hardened men. Hu Fan nodded: "
My late father experienced what happened to you back then. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers were overwhelmed by more than 10,000 cavalry on the plains and fled in all directions. When I was a child studying the art of war, I reviewed the situation at that time again and again, and came to this conclusion.
The conclusion is that if it is on the plains and faces the attack of the Yan army head-on, the flesh and blood of the heavy infantry, even with the eight-niu crossbow and the Yizhangke, special weapons specially designed to prevent cavalry assaults, will not be able to withstand it.
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Wang Shen'ai frowned: "Are the Murong family's cavalry really so invincible? Then why was Murong Yong defeated by Liu Zhenjun in Luoyang, and why was Murong Bao defeated by Tuoba Gui in Baisi?
?Oh, by the way, there was also the Battle of Shenhebei. Why were the 70,000 Yan Army cavalry wiped out in one battle?"
Hu Fan said solemnly: "The Wei army participated in the battle of Hebei. Strictly speaking, it was a sneak attack. Because of the dispute between the Murong kings, Murong Lin did not act as a rearguard and abandoned the army. As a result, when the Yan army soldiers got up in the morning, they found that they were surrounded by people.
The high slopes were full of Wei cavalry. They didn't even have time to put on their armor. They were completely massacred. This is not the norm. As for the Battle of Baisi, the Yan army used cavalry to attack Tuobagui's camp at night. The results were brilliant, but after the pursuit
At that time, for some reason, he was ambushed by Tuoba Gui and used fire attacks to deal with the Yan army's cavalry. More than 20,000 armored cavalry were burned up in a single fire. This battle is also not a frontal and majestic formation."
Liu Yu nodded: "General Hu is right. As for the battle of Luoyang, it was not a field battle in the strict sense. It was because the enemy was outnumbered and we were outnumbered, and Murong Yong also had tens of thousands of cavalry, so I chose to defend
City, when they finally left the city for a surprise attack, they had to do everything possible to avoid a frontal assault by the armored cavalry. No one thought that the one who finally eliminated the Yan army's armored cavalry was actually the monster of Tianshi Dao, the Immortal Man. Ruan Changshi, now Lu Jiashi is here
Is this kind of thing still used in Guangzhou?”
This chapter has been completed!