Liu Bei was very happy after receiving the new order, and immediately went to mobilize soldiers to prepare to echo Lu Zhi's combat order.
Chen Mu watched calmly from the side.
He didn't know whether his intervention in this way was a good thing or a bad thing for Liu Bei, because it was completely different from Liu Bei's behavior in history, and he might have changed his character and destiny.
From the fact that Liu Bei is scrambling to get combat missions, we can know that he has no intention of becoming a prince yet. His biggest wish is to achieve military merit in this battle, and he will be satisfied waiting for the imperial court to grant him an official position.
Therefore, at this time, Liu Bei had the intention of making great achievements, and rushed to do whatever work he could, with a fighting spirit that was not afraid of death, which was very consistent with the hot-blooded and violent temper of Emperor Zhaolie in the early period.
After all, those who were able to whip the postmen in anger in the early days must still have youthful and energetic thoughts and ideas now.
If we continue to follow the historical development, Liu Bei whipped the postal governor and then abandoned his official position and wandered around. He successively held official positions such as the Prime Minister of Xiami County, the County Lieutenant of Gaotang, and the Ling of Gaotang. Finally, he spent several years with Gongsun Zan and followed Gongsun Zan in his crusade.
After Dong Zhuo, it was only ten years later, in 194 AD, that he made his debut in Xuzhou and finally entered the stage of history.
However, although he had a place in the Central Plains, Xuzhou's geographical location was very poor. Yuan Shao was at the top, Cao Cao was on the left, Yuan Shu was at the bottom, and Lu Bu was watching eagerly from the side. It can be said that it was the place of four battles, so he was quickly defeated again.
Start your wandering career again.
It can be said that the next twenty years of Liu Bei's wandering life will be the important twenty years for his ultimate success.
These years erased the violence of Liu Bei's youth and calmed his restless heart. They gave him perseverance, generosity, and tenacious qualities like bamboo and stone that cling to the mountains without letting go, and gave him the magnanimity of a founding king.
But now Liu Bei has a much higher starting point. With the protection of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, his personal safety is guaranteed. With Chen Mu making plans, it is much better than wandering around for more than 20 years according to the historical process. With Lu Zhi taking care of him, no one can
If his merits are erased, someone in the court will speak for him.
Everything indicates that he has entered the stage of history ahead of schedule, and is unlikely to become an unknown pawn in the future, nor does he need to wait for the Xuzhou War to start ten years later.
The success of youth and the success of middle age are two different concepts. The former is easy to get carried away, while the latter is mature and stable.
People will change.
Without a lot of hardships in life, even Chen Mu didn't know what Liu Bei would be like in the future.
Like Cao Cao, he is free and easy, courageous but mixed with suspicion and violence?
Or become a brave general like Sun Jian and Sun Ce?
Or take another path?
No one knows.
History has changed. Chen Mu, the little butterfly, flapped its wings so that those who came after him could no longer see the road ahead.
only.
So what?
Stupid time-travelers still follow the rules in the history books and follow the development and evolution of history.
Smart time-travelers have already seen through the nature of history, and are not afraid of whether future development will exceed their own understanding. Because they have begun to create their own history and write their own names in the history books.
If everything follows the course of history, then when history suddenly changes one day, it will probably be the end of the foolish time-travelers.
"Then we can just walk and walk."
Chen Mu looked up at the sky and saw the stars hanging all around. Under the night sky, the stars were shining brightly, just like in this world of great strife, corresponding to the vivid and brilliant historical figures, casting a vast afterglow to illuminate the world.
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Guan Yu and Zhang Fei gathered their subordinates, and Liu Bei's army suffered heavy casualties. Five hundred men and horses traveled from Youzhou all the way through the counties and counties. They fought in more than ten fierce battles, and only lost less than twenty people, including a few unlucky ones.
They were shot to death by deserters, and very few soldiers actually died in battle.
But in the street fighting in Yiyang City, hand-to-hand fighting in the streets and alleys, the fighting lasted for less than an hour, and actually caused nearly half of Liu Bei's army casualties, more than 70 people were killed, more than 100 were injured, and less than three people were left.
A warrior capable of fighting.
From this point of view, we can also see the cruelty of ancient siege warfare and street fighting, which were far more brutal than any other way of fighting.
In contrast, in field battles, sometimes enemy and our soldiers are defeated in one blow, and the casualties are not that great.
For example, in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao claimed that 800,000 troops were attacking Jingzhou. Sun Quan was so frightened that he was already considering surrendering. And "Three Kingdoms: Biography of Zhou Yu" and "Zizhi Tongjian" both record that Zhou Yu analyzed Cao Cao's situation to Sun Quan.
He believed that "the Chinese he captured were no more than 150,000 to 60,000, and they have been exhausted for a long time; the number of soldiers he obtained was only 70,000 to 80,000, so he was still suspicious."
This means that Cao Cao's total army in the north is only 150,000 or 60,000. He still has to deploy troops to prevent sneak attacks by the barbarians in the north, and troops are stationed in various cities, so he can only carry no more than 70,000 to 80,000 troops, plus the seven who surrendered to Liu Biao.
Eighty thousand people, the total strength of the army is at most a hundred thousand, and it is impossible to have 800,000 horses.
An army of more than 100,000 people attacked Jiangdong. After the Battle of Chibi, "Three Kingdoms" recorded that Cao Cao lost two-thirds of his troops. Cao Cao's army of 150,000 to 60,000 people was lost by two-thirds, which means that he still had the remaining troops.
Fifty or sixty thousand men and horses seemed to have suffered heavy losses.
But in fact, very few soldiers in Cao Cao's army actually died in battle. Cao Cao's losses were only Liu Biao's tens of thousands of naval troops and the southern army. The army brought from the Central Plains was not good at water warfare and could not even stand firmly on the ship, so
He set up camp in Wulin, north of the Chibi River, and did not put it on the ship at all.
After the Battle of Chibi began, Zhou Yu burned Chibi and burned hundreds of Cao Cao's warships, dealing a fatal blow to Cao Cao's navy.
And what about Cao Cao's army?
No shit.
On the contrary, it was because the northerners were not adapted to the southern climate that a plague broke out in Cao Cao's army camp and many people died.
So Cao Cao had to retreat. Apart from wiping out Liu Biao's troops, Cao Cao's own army of 150,000 to 60,000 troops actually did not die in battle at all. The reason why his Central Plains Army of 70,000 to 80,000 men only had 50,000 to 60,000 when he returned is
More than 10,000 people died because of the plague.
This is the whole process of the Battle of Red Cliff.
It can be seen from this that in ancient times, it was almost impossible to cause large-scale casualties in wild wars by relying on pure hand-to-hand combat. Either use fire or flood, and the biggest enemy was actually a disease like the plague.
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The reason is very simple. Soldiers are also human beings, not machines. When they find that they cannot be defeated, they will instinctively choose to escape.
In this case, you won't be able to gain much by chasing after you.
After all, even if hundreds of thousands of pigs were chased and slaughtered one by one, it would take three days and three nights to kill them all, let alone an army of hundreds of thousands.
Soldiers have limited physical strength. They will be exhausted and paralyzed after just a few minutes of hacking. How can they still have the strength to chase down enemy soldiers who have abandoned their armor and weapons and want to escape for their lives?
Therefore, siege battles and street battles where escape is impossible are actually the most terrifying.
Because siege warfare and street fighting are like the Colosseum, especially the party being attacked has no way out and can only resist desperately.
For example, in the Suiyang defense battle during the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, 180,000 rebels besieged Suiyang for a whole year. Zhang Xun's 7,000 troops were wiped out. An Qingxu's rebels also suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and the defenders had to be reduced in the end.
When it comes to cannibalism, the fighting is brutal, which is evident.
In comparison, Meng Zhen's 3,000 forward troops in the Battle of Yiyang only lost one-third, which was considered quite lucky. If Liu Bei had not shot Yu Changgen and Lu Zhi's army had arrived a little later, the three
Qiandu must die.
But even so, Guan Yu was still depressed when he discovered that his soldiers suffered heavy casualties. After all, these soldiers were still alive before, getting along with each other day and night, and having feelings for each other.
He even remembered the names of every soldier in his group, their faces, where their homes were, and their smiles and instructions.
But war is like this, and even compassion can't buy back the lives of these victims. Those who are alive must live, and if they die, let them go.
"well."
Countless mourning can only be exchanged for a long sigh.
In comparison, Zhang Fei was much colder. Seeing Guan Yu's long beard and short hair, he wondered: "Second brother, I always see you heroic and heroic, why are you so out of character today?"
It is written in the history books that Guan Yu loved the nurse soldiers, but it is also written in the history books that Zhang Fei did not love the nurse soldiers.
"Three Kingdoms·Zhang Fei's Biography" records: Yu treats his soldiers well and is proud of the scholar-bureaucrats, Fei loves and respects gentlemen but does not care about villains. This means that Guan Yu treats soldiers well, but is arrogant and contemptuous in the face of upper-class people. Zhang Fei respects moral people.
A gentleman is not considerate of his subordinates and is very harsh on his soldiers.
Therefore, Zhang Fei didn't care at all about the casualties of soldiers. To him, the lives of ordinary civilians were as cheap as grass. If a group of people died, just recruit another group. Why would there be such a need to sigh with regret here?
Guan Yu didn't want to argue with Zhang Fei, nor did he argue with him. He just said: "Nothing, fourth brother asked us to get the ordnance, order the newly surrendered soldiers, and come with us."
Zhao Lin was already waiting there. His task was to check the battle damage of Liu Bei's troops. Guan Yu asked the living soldiers to gather up the dead soldiers, peel off their weapons and armor, and bury them outside the city.
He was able to hide more than a hundred armor weapons, plus Zhao Linduo reported damage of two to three hundred, so there were three to four hundred more weapons and equipment.
The key point is that this is just the beginning. When the war starts one after another, the logistics and supply troops will find that the battle losses of Liu Bei's tribe seem to be very high. One after another, they will come to collect supplies, and soon there will be more than three or five.
Hundreds of armors and weapons, maybe three to five thousand.
Maybe when the time comes, Liu Bei is playing hard, and suddenly he realizes that he has almost changed from a music commander to a school captain, and can be on an equal footing with Prince Fu Wu Lan and other fifth battalion school captains.
After checking the battle damage, Zhao Lin took Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and dozens of soldiers to the rear army to collect supplies.