The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 166

[Chapter 164: Prelude to the Northern Expedition]

?In April 240 BC, Yuguo in Northeast China, after more than a month of preparation.

At this moment, a large army of 100,000 people has gathered.

After a raid in the previous winter, the Donghu people in the north of Yuguo were given nearly 1/3 of the territory by Zhong Yu.

If you look at it from the map, an East Hu people’s territory that was like a crescent moon has now taken a bite from the full moon in the middle.

It has become an embarrassing situation where the two ends are heavy and the middle is thin.

If the Donghu people do not want to be themselves, they will face a disadvantageous situation where they may be cut in half by the enemy at any time.

Then they must send troops and fight to regain the territory they were bitten by.

Even if you win, you have to take the initiative to attack when you have spare energy.

Let those who dare to offend the great prairie wolves, Xiao Xiao of the Donghu people, understand that the Donghu people are not something they can afford.

And for the Donghu people, it doesn’t matter if the territory is lost.

As long as someone is there, with the characteristics of the nomadic tribe of the East Hu people, they can go to other places anytime and anywhere, and the indigenous people in your place will fight a war.

Conquer them and drive them away, then it will be a powerful one at any time, and the Eastern Hu tribal alliance will rise again.

Therefore, for Zhong Yu, he is about to face a war in which the remnants of the Donghu people, concentrating all their strengths, desperately come to revenge.

And those Donghu people are all cavalry, and their mobility is very powerful.

This Qin Shi Mingyue World is not the time and space of the earth in the past, but a special heteroplane.

At this time, the stirrups and bow and arrow technology were not originally available on earth.

In today’s nomadic tribes, it has been popularized and quite complete.

This means that he is not facing another time and space, those mounted infantry soldiers of Qin Shi Huang’s northern expedition against the Xiongnu.

At that time, the grassland soldiers said that the cavalry did not have saddles or stirrups. They completely relied on their legs to clamp the horse’s belly and hold the horse’s reins with both hands, so that they could not fall off the horse’s back.

Their way of fighting is often through the speed of their horses, quickly interspersed to the rear of the enemy, and then transporting troops and harassing places.

The so-called riding shooting, that is, riding a horse, parked the horse dozens of meters away from a group of infantry, then sat on the horseback, took out the prepared bow and arrow and started shooting.

Therefore, they encountered the Qin Dynasty crossbowmen who had a longer range than them, and the Qin State mounted infantry who also had cavalry troops.

The longer-range crossbowmen were started, a long-range strike, and then the entire army was defeated.

And they were not as lucky as the northern nomadic cavalry in the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty infantry who defeated them had no cavalry to pursue and expand the victory.

The Qin Dynasty also had cavalry, they couldn’t escape, and the fate they were waiting for was a massacre.

Therefore, the Xiongnu tribes who were driven out of the Hetao by the Qin Dynasty, the territory and the population were extremely reduced.

They had to cede territory to the Yuezhi and Donghu tribes, and began a period of extreme humiliation for them.

It was not until the emergence of the Xiongnu generation, the heroic lord Modun, that it began to rise again and reached its peak.

However, the current Donghu tribe is equipped with complete bows, arrows and saddles.

It is completely possible to ride a horse and run away while flying arrows, and come to Genghis Khan’s specialty, kite flying tactics.

This makes it extremely difficult for oneself to engage in a head-to-head battle with them, and effectively annihilate their war potential, with living populations.

It is even possible to fall into a vortex of war.

He was subjected to continuous and continuous small-scale harassment by the Donghu people.

In the end, they were dragged by them tirelessly, all the national strength and energy were involved, and it was difficult to be distracted to carry out the expansion in the south.

Don’t do this, his so-called strategy of dominating the world and destroying six countries to unify China has become a joke.

However, if there is a disadvantage, it will definitely be beneficial. When dealing with Donghu, I have such a disadvantage.

The Donghu people also have their own disadvantages when dealing with them.

Previously due to heavy snow, the road was blocked and the message was closed.

Taking advantage of this god-given opportunity, he annexed nearly 1/3 of their place and 1/4 of their population.

As a result, Donghu’s original population of more than one million has dropped sharply to more than 800,000.

Even if all of them are soldiers, they can only find more than 200,000 people to fight as soldiers.

And at this moment, the winter has just passed, and the food reserves of those Donghu people must be almost exhausted.

In this case, he can completely follow the example of the Three Kingdoms world and rely on his own sufficient material reserves.

Directly consume them, let them slowly starve to death due to food shortages, and collapse without a fight.

It’s just that there are some fly in the ointment, that is, I can’t directly send batches of cannon fodder to consume the number of soldiers of the Donghu people like the Three Kingdoms World.

Now that he is in short supply, the whole country is added up, including those Donghu people who have just been conquered by himself, and those indigenous people of Jizi Korea.

In total, there are only 3.4 million people, of which the male population is only 500,000.

The reason why there are so few is because many of the people of the Three Kingdoms world are family members of the previous army.

A man in the family had already joined the army, and after those men died.

Some of the remaining young and strong are not good and good,

They can only plant fields in the rear and transport supplies.

If it is used to fight, it can only be said not to think too well.

Therefore, the entire Imperial Kingdom had a total of 200,000 troops, of which 50,000 were taken by Cao Cao to attack Jizi Korea.

And the entire territory of the Royal Kingdom was newly occupied. If you want to consolidate your rule, you must leave 50,000 people to defend it everywhere.

Then only 100,000 people can be drawn out, and UU reading www.uukanshu.com will start the Northern Expedition.

Such a small number can only reach half of the Donghu people in the north, and they want to gain a strategic advantage.

And to achieve certain results, you must be surprised and take risks.

That’s why Zhong Yu, when the savages’ horses had not been fattened and their strength had not recovered from the severe cold, sent troops in advance and caught them off guard.

Try to achieve enough results when they react and concentrate enough troops to reduce the number of their soldiers to the same level as their own.

As long as these goals are completed, the next war will be a word, drag.

The Donghu people couldn’t take it anymore, because the cattle and sheep didn’t have time to graze, and a large number of them starved to death.

The war horse didn’t have enough time to recover its body fat by eating plump water plants, and it was too thin.

By depleting their material reserves and war potential, they are slowly depleted.

And myself, there is nothing else, the war materials are absolutely sufficient and do not need it.

With the support of the world of the Three Kingdoms, as well as all the civilians in the empire, the luck points are continuously generated.

Compared to consumption, who is he really not afraid of?

And the Donghu people can’t do it, because of their backward system, the disadvantage of nomadic tribes.

At most, the war that supports him for half a year will definitely lead to a large-scale rout.

The only thing I worry about is that those Donghu people who have been driven to a dead end by themselves will run to their rear desperately to destroy the residence they have just established.

So his main goal now is to urge the people of those counties.

Build a city as soon as possible, so that there is a stronghold to defend against the attack of the cavalry of Donghu.

Everyone knows that cavalry cannot be used to attack a city.

(End of this chapter)

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