In the era of cold weapons, there are really not many countries that can arm a million troops. If they can arm a million people and use this million troops for war, it will be difficult to carry out sustained operations.
The state of Qin once armed nearly one million people to fight again and again, but if you look at history, you will find that the scale of the Qin army was only supported for two or three years at most, mostly seven or eight months, and each time it hurt its vitality.
Since Shang Yang's reform, Qin has become a country with one army, one country, one Lord and one righteousness. It takes farming and war as everything to survive. The significance of existence is for war. It is precisely because of the existence of the farming and war system that the vast majority of the resources produced by the national people can be attributed to the state. Only when the National Treasury is sufficient can we repeatedly produce millions of troops, otherwise it is impossible to do so.
Since the state of Qin, the Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties have rarely been able to produce such a terrible number of one million troops. The standing army without production was up to twenty or thirty thousand in the former Han Dynasty, and the rest came from a kind of obligation of corvee. The subsequent dynasties were basically the same, except that there were few unproductive professional soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers did their own businesses at ordinary times, waiting to be recruited before entering the army.
"In fact, we are in this state. The difference is the existence of a standing army." Xu Zheng is at least a Taiwei. He can't be unfamiliar with military affairs: "our county soldiers are the Corvee System, and the popular point is the flowing source of troops and the iron camp."
When the king inspected the place, Xie an, who had been responsible for military affairs in the northwest, had to appear. He had long been waiting in Longxi County near Nan'an county.
Xie'an has two standing armies on hand. They are engaged in a round of war against the remnants of Qiang and di nationalities. The state of fighting and stopping has lasted for a year and a half.
The so-called remnants of Qiang and di nationalities are naturally those who withdrew from the Han Dynasty. The remnants of the two ethnic groups located in Xiqiang mountain (Xiqing mountain) area are only part of them. At first, they seriously threatened Longxi County and waited for Xie an to lead the army to come before the situation changed.
In a year and a half, xie'an tried to reach Xiqiang mountain twice, but the terrain there was really complex, and the remnants of Qiang and di could not escape. The Han army only controlled the basin to the east of Xiqiang mountain, so it was difficult to control the mountain area under the lack of troops.
"It is extremely difficult for a big man to have a million troops in recent years." Xu zhengman said with regret: "there are natural disasters to deal with, and those civil servants have been muttering about internal affairs, internal affairs and internal affairs!"
Xie Anyuan knows more about history than Xu Zheng. If he hadn't been forced, who would have engaged in a million troops?
In the war history of the Central Plains, the scale of millions of troops rarely appeared after the Qin Empire. The main reason is that the grain, fodder and related military equipment can not keep up. In addition, a few kings kill themselves and the country. Zhuxia civilization, which likes to use history for evaluation, will use those examples as negative teaching materials.
Shi Hu had a million troops. Within a few years, Zhao state of Shijie went into the garbage dump of history.
Fu Jian also called for the organization of a million troops, which collapsed after World War I. the extremely powerful Fu Qin State (pre Qin) was soon swept into the garbage of history.
The record of millions of troops in East Asia is relatively "plain", and many are still so-called "claims". For example, the total strength of Cao Cao in the battle of Chibi is close to 300000. If you look at what happened in the rest of the area, you must be scared to pee in an instant.
"No kidding." Xu Zheng recently contacted many crooked nuts and said to Xie an, "we are only a million troops, but they are always millions of troops, and they don't know whether it is true or not."
Xie an knows that many countries have sent envoys to Han. As for what happened, he only knows about it.
Xu Zheng picked up some hearsay and said it. When he spoke, his face was strange.
The queen Semiramis of Babylon went on an expedition to India with 3 million infantry, 200000 cavalry and 100000 chariots. This record is from the history of Persia by ctesias, an ancient Greek doctor and historian in the fifth century BC
Herodotus's history records that there was a Persian expedition to Greece and mobilized five million troops. This is the background of the movie three hundred Spartans, which is the big action made by Darius.
It is recorded in Arian's expedition in the second century that Alexander's army killed 300000 Persian troops in the battle of gaugamira between Alexander and Persia, and captured more than this, that is, more than 600000 Persian troops. Before counting the garrison stationed in Persia, the total strength of Persia is more than one million troops.
The history of Rome by Abian, an ancient Roman historian from the first to the second centuries, recorded that Caesar attacked Gaul and dealt with Gaul's 4 million troops.
There are still many records of millions of troops that can be found. Xie an suddenly found that he was completely unfamiliar with the world. It was exaggerated for Zhuxia ancestors to engage in millions of troops. Those crooked nuts were so scared that they could not move to engage in millions of troops.
Xie an was stunned and said, "fake!"
Xu Zheng smiled indifferently: "who knows."
The truth is that the record of the number of troops in the ancient war history of foreign countries is much more watery than that of China. There are historians in China, but there is no such occupation in foreign countries. Then, China is at most "taking one as ten", that is, one person exaggerates into ten, which usually appears in the aspect of "praising merit". More often, it just exaggerates twice or twice, which is really shameless. Countries outside China are really different. That's why Westerners never talk about things with some "ancient books". That's why they know it's a joke.
The number of ancient armies has always been a mystery. For example, the dynasties in the Central Plains themselves have a fine division. There are reliable figures for how many war soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and civilian men, but these people are regarded as an integral part of the army. Then there is a phenomenon. It is obvious that the number of soldiers directly participating in the war is 30000 or 50000, but both internally and externally, the rest who serve the war are included, and there are exaggerated figures such as hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of troops.
Because I really know what's going on. The state of Han does not believe that the so-called million troops of the Gupta Dynasty directly participate in the war. It feels that it will be a "claim". It is an exaggeration that the real war soldiers can exceed 200000, and the rest are people like civilian men.
"We have deployed 150000 troops in the pingman Colonel's headquarters, including two standing armies. The real soldiers are only more than 25000, and the rest serve the existence of those soldiers." Xu Zheng has been "ha ha" laughing, and then said: "those who are always millions of troops should be counted in one head."
The truth is that there are 15000 soldiers in each standing army, but not all of them are war soldiers. For example, the 5000 soldiers in a division are only 3500 soldiers, and the rest are used to serve the existence of War soldiers. In fact, there are only 10500 soldiers in a standing army.
The larger the number of soldiers in an army, in fact, the number of people serving them will increase geometrically. For example, 10000 soldiers only need about 5000 people to serve, and 100000 soldiers may need to be increased to one or two million people to serve. This service is not the kind of rear production, but a variety of services are carried out nearby, such as normal ordnance maintenance, safety guarantee of logistics line, grain and fodder transportation, etc.
"It should be." Xie'an thinks it's absolutely that way. If it's really that way, isn't the war between Zhuxia and other nationalities a large army of 50 or 60 million? After all, the national war is the participation of the whole people! He felt a little funny behind him and said, "at least I know that there are so many countries with a population of more than millions."
Generally speaking, the most manpower intensive place in a war is in logistics. The necessary transportation team is one, and then the garrison personnel on the transportation route. After all, no military commander will ignore his own rear route. It is necessary and orderly to ensure the transportation route. More importantly, it is to confirm the safety of the rear route. Otherwise, if there is no rear route, it will be surrounded?
When necessary, anyone except the soldiers will take part in the war, but under the premise that an army can't live if it doesn't work hard, it is often either life or death, and the number of casualties will be quite terrible.
During Yang Guangzheng's campaign against Koguryo, the biggest mobilization was more than 1.1 million people. The number of people on the front line has always been maintained at more than 200000, and the number of people maintaining logistics supplies has been 8.9 million. When the war of the Sui army was unfavorable, regardless of whether it was a war soldier or an auxiliary soldier, even civilian men had to swing a knife. The result of the failure of the war was that hundreds of thousands of people were buried in that ice and snow.
To take the initiative to invade a country is not only to face the organized regular army of the enemy country, but also to meet more hastily organized mobs. Xie an said a similar view to Xu Zhengyou. For example, the Gupta Dynasty obviously responded in a hurry. The number of mobilized troops will look very large, but the actual combat effectiveness is definitely not good.
The state of Han has not encountered the situation that the whole people of the enemy country have gone to battle. This is the case with Murong Xianbei. The battle against Yan is facing hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. It is difficult to say what quality the vast majority of enemy troops have.
"Huan Wen said the same." Xu Zheng told the story of the last battle between the troops of pingman school, and later said: "the difference between the Gupta Dynasty and those countries we have encountered is that it does not take the lives of Dalits seriously."
Xie an has more or less heard of a San's caste system, just because she is too unfamiliar to make any comments.
In fact, Xie an led the army to eliminate some remnants of the Qiang and di ethnic groups. Why didn't he face the whole people of the two ethnic groups? The Han army fought with regular troops. Every time it fought with the remnants of the two ethnic groups, it gained an overall advantage in terms of war damage ratio. It really had enough experience in dealing with the enemy who formed an army in a hurry.
They haven't seen each other for a long time. Chatting is to enhance each other's feelings. Xie an also took the opportunity of private chat to put forward some work problems, including some suggestions.
"The prisoners of Bashu were sent to the northeast." Xu Zheng was extremely sure that Xie an had heard the news correctly and answered Xie an's request positively: "you are also facing the problem of mountain warfare. Just send an official report to the Taiwei office."
In the final analysis, Xie an is too far away from the a'san battlefield. He will be curious about it. He pays more attention to his own work. For example, he has no troops who are good at Mountain Warfare. He hopes that the center can support a group of them.
Whether it is standing infantry or infantry of counties and counties in the state of Han, it belongs to infantry. There are infantry and cavalry. There are no troops trained for special terrain. About mountain soldiers and jungle soldiers, it is a new concept out of need after the continuous expansion of the state of Han.
Before the Han state had such a feeling, they were surprised to find that some countries had long been organizing targeted armies, and they got accurate information from the envoys in sassanne and Rome. Both Persians and Romans had their own troops specially used for mountain warfare.
"We started later than others. For the time being, we can only replace them with prisoners who are already good at running around in the mountains or jungles." Xu Zheng revealed a non secret message: "the king has made it clear that the big man should also have his own mountain troops."
Xie an didn't know the news in advance. A stunned God asked, "is it to form a new standing army?"
"If only that!" Xu Zheng bit his teeth: "prime minister, they have been emphasizing the lack of food and muttering that there are 13 standing armies that have extremely consumed national strength. They are obviously opposed to the re establishment of the standing army."
Xie an understands that there are only 200000 unproductive professional soldiers in today's big men. The test of national strength is really not ordinary. Even if he is a military personnel, he is different from those who do not consider whether the country can support it. He knows the importance of things and prefers not to need so many standing troops, Just don't dare to say what you really think.
Xu Zheng was still there and said to himself, "fortunately, the king showed his attitude, otherwise they still wanted to reduce the number of standing armies and completely forgot how the Hu people were rampant."
At that moment, Xie an's heart was contradictory. Like many people in the current era, he was deeply aware of the importance of a country and national force after the havoc brought by the Hu people. No one mentioned that "although the country is large, belligerence will die". He basically regarded "forgetting war will be dangerous" as the truth.
"Let's not say how we expel the Hu people, but the Han people occupy the Indochina Peninsula, which has been providing food to the local people..." Xu Zheng complained: "why do they only see the cost and not the harvest?"
Xie an nodded subconsciously and responded: "in terms of harvest, opening up territory is one side, and the big man has repeatedly obtained resources."
Xu Zheng was even more energetic. He mentioned one place after another why he wanted to fight, and then some secrets that had not been spread to the outside world. In general, he saw that the civil servants were getting more and more unhappy.
Xie an listened quietly to Xu Zheng's constant complaints. The more she heard, the worse she felt. However, she felt that the new round of civil and military disputes seemed very serious.