Over the years, although Liu Bei has continuously transferred some veteran sergeants from these three armies to join other recruit armies as officers or instructors, the combat effectiveness of these three armies is still unique.
Before and after the three cavalry armies were formally established, they followed Liu Bei and achieved many brilliant victories on the Liangzhou battlefield, the Hebei battlefield and the Youzhou battlefield. They crushed the Xianbei and Wuhuan people and scared away the rest. .
When the Xianbei and Wuhuan people were still there, they were the absolute leaders in Liaodong.
The Buyeo and Goguryeo people were really not enough to watch, so a charge was just to give them face.
Goguryeo King Yi Yimo and Buyeo King Wei Qoutai died one after another in the embarrassing flight. They did not persist until they returned to the royal city, but were chased by Han cavalry on the road and killed.
Originally, the Han army wanted to capture them, but they did not expect that these two people were unlucky. They were not able to survive among the chaos.
After their death, the Han cavalry chased them to the royal city. According to Lian Zhao's order, they captured all their upper-level officials and killed them all. The whole family rushed to the underworld to meet the King of Hell. .
After the royal city was destroyed, the royal family was destroyed, and even the officials were put to the sword, the newly formed civilizations of Buyeo and Goguryeo were completely destroyed, and these two countries were finished.
The symbol of their civilization and rule is the royal city and the people in the royal city. After the royal city and the people in the royal city are destroyed, they will have nothing left.
The pitiful cultural accumulation was burned to the ground by the Han army, and the two royal cities were destroyed by the Han army. The demise of these two countries is a fact that can never be reversed.
As for the tribesmen who are still on the run, there is nothing worth worrying about. They will die or be caught sooner or later. They have lost the ability to inherit civilization and have no possibility of returning to the country.
The next military operation is to capture prisoners, a large-scale sweep, and the cleanup of some tribes in the surrounding areas of the two countries.
The war is not over yet, it is still going on, but the main enemy has been destroyed. From the beginning of the war to the destruction of the royal city, from the existence of the country to the substantial destruction of the country, it only takes four or five days.
The gap between the powerful national power of the Han Empire and the countries in the surrounding areas has been wider than the distance between the Milky Way. Compared with this, it is not that difficult for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet.
But what's even more funny is that Xia Houyuan and Pang De both felt that they had not had enough fighting. The enemy was too weak and would be destroyed in one impact. It felt like they were not fighting, but chopping melons, vegetables, and catching pigs. Although they were very happy and enthusiastic for a while, But this feeling disappeared quickly, and I lacked the sense of accomplishment of winning a big battle.
This made Qianzhao so angry that his face turned green.
Are you still not satisfied?
I don't even go to the battlefield to kill people seriously, so you have the nerve to say in front of me that you are not enjoying yourself?
How can your mouths say such cold words?
However, dissatisfaction gave way to dissatisfaction, and the war had to continue. After the destruction of Goguryeo and Fuyu, except for a cavalry group that continued to explore eastward, most of the main force of the Han army turned around under Qianzhao's order and began to march south. .
To the south is the settlement area of the Dongwoju people, which is their scope of activities. A little further south is the scope of activities of Sanhan and some other semi-hunting and semi-agricultural people whose ethnic origin is unknown, and they are all without exception. will become the spoils of war for the Han army.
Xiahou Yuan and Pang De were not satisfied with the fight, so they quickly continued to lead their troops south.
The lightning speed of the cavalry army is really terrifying, and they have nothing to worry about——
After the establishment of the Third Reich, high-bridge saddles and horseshoes have been fully promoted by Liu Bei, and the serious damage to the hoofs of war horses is no longer a serious problem.
One of the biggest problems of the ancient Chinese cavalry was that horseshoes were not introduced in time and used on a large scale. In the era when the cavalry was strong, the horse damage rate was always too high due to wear and tear of the horseshoes, which consumed too much money and military resources. As for the inability to expand the results in time.
Just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the Mobei decisive battle, more than 30% of the horses were scrapped. There have been many cavalry decisive battles over the years, and the horse damage rate has remained high. Although they say they have millions of horses, they really can't withstand a battle like the Mobei decisive battle. Hit several times.
The huge cavalry losses were an important reason why the Han army was unable to further expand the size and effectiveness of its cavalry.
It's just too expensive.
Liu Bei, on his side, had deliberately hidden himself in order to ensure that no other enemy would master the horseshoe at the same time. For this reason, he had to bear a large loss rate of horses. After a large-scale and high-intensity cavalry battle, the horse damage rate would also increase. More than 30%.
When he became the strongest force and there were no strong enemies around him, Liu Bei equipped all his cavalry with high-bridge saddles and horseshoes, which instantly increased the combat effectiveness of the Han cavalry and greatly reduced the horse damage rate.
After the use of horse equipment such as Takahashi saddles that are very suitable for horse combat, the cavalry's hands are freed. They can successfully perform difficult horse tactics without going through the rigorous and lengthy training in the past, and their combat methods are also improved. It expanded a lot all of a sudden.
It can be said that the already elite Han cavalry suddenly became more powerful and became a flying tiger.
As for the introduction of horseshoes, it directly caused the strange phenomenon of many cavalry holding the necks of their beloved horses and crying bitterly.
Of course, I'm not sad, but excited.
The soldiers who cried bitterly missed their beloved horses that had to leave them because of damaged hoofs. On the other hand, they were ecstatic that they would no longer be separated from their beloved horses so frequently, and thus shed tears of excitement. .
On the battlefield, the relationship between cavalry and war horses is very deep. An excellent war horse can even save the life of its owner at a critical moment. For a cavalry, the emotion of being unable to continue fighting due to worn hoofs is naturally very emotional. complicated.
The first thing many cavalrymen do after they have horseshoes on their beloved horses is to ride their beloved horses around wildly and have fun. They don't stop until they are exhausted and the horses are exhausted as well.
This is of course a good thing. It not only gives the cavalry stronger combat capabilities and endurance, but also greatly reduces the cost of cavalry.
So the army was happy, and the Ministry of Revenue and the Shaofu were also very happy.
This is a very good thing.
Since then, the Shaofu and the Ministry of Revenue have calculated an account together. They believe that after these two pieces of equipment were introduced into the cavalry army, the funds saved on the breeding of war horses and the disposal of damaged war horses would be enough for Liu Bei to build another powerful army of more than 30,000 people. cavalry.
Even the introduction and installation of these new equipment has permanently changed the difficulty of cavalry training and the difficulty of cavalry formation into an army, greatly reducing the cost of training. This part of the cost savings will save Liu Bei about 20,000 yuan. Cost of cavalry.
The number of cavalry equal to that of the Third Reich can move towards more than 100,000 people in an instant.
Liu Bei was naturally happy about this, and started preparing a military plan to transform the two new soldiers stationed in Luoyang into cavalry armies. He also planned to add more cavalry armies in the future, increase the number of cavalry in the Han army, and strive to make the Han army more capable. The Han army realized all-mule and horse-based mobile warfare, and moved closer to the peak Tang army in terms of maneuver speed.
Currently, the two elite cavalry, the Knight Cavalry and the Leopard Cavalry, are fighting like crazy on the land of Liaodong.
The main armies of Fuyu and Goguryeo were defeated in one battle, and the two countries were destroyed in another battle. After two battles, the two countries were destroyed. Pang De and Xiahou Yuan were still unsatisfied, and led the cavalry to quickly break into the settlement of Dongwo Ju ethnic group. A new round of fighting began.
Dongwoju is an ancient ethnic group. In the early days of the formation of Woju, because its jurisdiction swung between the four Han counties and Goguryeo, Woju was never able to form an independent country. Later, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Woju became the Goguryeo vassal. From then on, he basically followed Goguryeo's actions.
Even so, the civilization level of the Dongwoju people is relatively low, even inferior to that of the Goguryeo people. Their houses are still semi-crypt style, and the main utensils they use are pottery. The level of civilization basically remains before the class society, and has not yet emerged. Evidence of bronze use.
According to Dongyuan's secret agent, there is nothing civilized about this group of people. They just follow Goguryeo and do whatever Goguryeo tells them to do. They have almost no political opinions of their own.
This is also natural. A relatively primitive tribal group has not even formed a unified political power. What political opinions can it have?
However, judging from their past behavior of following the Goguryeo people to invade the four Han counties many times, the Han army's assault could not be regarded as an injustice to them, but could only be regarded as a deserved punishment.
To deal with the Goguryeo people, the Han cavalry had destroyed the country in two battles, so to deal with this group of people, there was no direct confrontation at all, it was just a one-sided massacre attack.
The largest resistance by the Dongwoju people lasted less than a stick of incense. Basically, the process was after the Han cavalry discovered their ethnic settlement, the Han cavalry launched an attack, and the Dongwoju people launched a brief resistance. Collapse, the battle is over.
The entire battle to eliminate the Dongwo Ju people lasted about twenty-three days. With the cavalry in full swing, the Han army spent most of their time on the road and cleaning up the battlefield after the war. The total fighting time was not enough. In more than a day, this battle of genocide was over.
After the battle, the Han army captured nearly 200,000 Dongwoju people, seized the grain they produced, and seized the poultry they raised. As before, they used the captured materials as supplies for the cavalry to continue fighting south. , launched the third battle.
This third battle was aimed at the three Korean forces in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula at that time.
Sanhan is not a country in the traditional sense, but more like a tribal alliance. Local spies call the tribes in the land of Sanhan a country. They believe that the land of Sanhan has seventy-six countries, large and small, with thousands of households and five small ones. There are 600 households, with a total population of about 40,000 to 500,000.
Their level of civilization is higher than that of the Dongwoju people. They are good at farming and textiles, and are rich in products. People who live near the sea often take boats to the Han Empire to find people for trade, so they have everything they should have. That is, the overall organization is relatively stretched.
Of course, this pull is also relative to the Han Empire. For their internal forces, among the more than 70 small tribes, there are still some relatively powerful ones.
But that doesn't make much sense anymore.
The Han army is coming.
Two lunatics, Xia Houyuan and Pang De, are here.
Qianzhao actually hoped that Xia Houyuan and Pang De could be less arrogant and leave some soup and water for him, but he soon realized that these two guys who were going crazy and hungry for military glory were irrational. Therefore, he had no choice but to lead his headquarters to join the battle for military glory.
In the three-Korean annihilation campaign that lasted for one month, Pang De's troops wiped out twenty-seven tribes, Xia Houyuan's troops wiped out thirty-one tribes, and only eighteen tribes were directly wiped out by Qianzhao.
Qianzhao felt that he was obviously the coach and advocated the war, but somehow he felt like a little wife fighting on the road. He was quite angry. However, there was nothing he could do against the two cavalry units that were running at full speed without any hindrance. He really couldn't catch up. superior.
One month later, on the first day of May in the third year of Zhenguan, the Liaodong annihilation campaign officially ended. The Han army's nearly 60,000 troops, under the leadership of Qian Zhao, Xia Houyuan and Pang De, conquered the land of Liaodong, which is traditionally called "East". All the existence of the barbarians was wiped out.
Even on April 29, the force that had been sent to continue exploring eastward and looking for the sea found the rumored Sushen headquarters and encountered a small-scale attack.
So Captain Jiang Wei, who commanded a battalion of the exploration force, was full of anger and led a battalion of Han troops to extinguish the resistance of Sushen's six tribes, wipe out Sushen's troops, and explore further east.
At present, they have not discovered the sea, but they have discovered some other small tribes except Sushen. Most of them are uncivilized barbarians and are often full of hostility to the arrival of the Han army.
Therefore, Jiang Wei fought eastward, annihilating many small tribes whose clan affiliations were unknown, capturing many prisoners, and seizing many trophies.
He continued eastward.
Overall, in this Dongyi extermination campaign, nearly 60,000 Han troops killed more than 30,000 enemy troops, and at the same time harvested more than 700,000 prisoners of war for the Han Empire.
Originally there were more people, but due to the harsh environment on the battlefield, a large number of prisoners of war died one after another. By the time the army escorted these prisoners of war to the assembly area, the number was just over 700,000.
This was a very impressive record, and the results were close to the capture record set by Liu Bei back then. Therefore, after comprehensive statistics, Qian Zhao and others were very happy and couldn't wait to send the news to Luoyang.
Anyway, the war goal has been achieved and the results have been obtained. What to do next and how to govern it is the matter of the court. It is a political task and has nothing to do with those who lead the troops to fight.
They only need to obtain the next combat target and combat permission from Liu Bei, and that is enough.
Before the news of the victory reached Luoyang, Gongsun Du and his family arrived. They were sent to Youzhou by ship, and then arrived at Luoyang by land. The journey was smooth, and they quickly arrived at Luoyang and were thrown into prison. Was handed over to Liu Bei for disposal.
Liu Bei was also unambiguous. After learning the cause and effect, he directly convicted Gongsun Du of treason and sentenced Gongsun Du to death.
Before Gongsun Du was executed, he tried to see Liu Bei, but Liu Bei ignored him and sent him directly to the execution ground to behead him.
Gongsun Du's death did not make any waves in the current Han Empire. He was not a big shot in the first place, but now he is imitating others in treason, and Liu Bei has taken over his old nest. He has just become a joke.
However, the suggestion he made to Liu Bei before made Liu Bei a little bit interested.
Taking into account the existence of Liaoze and the difficulty of the road, Liu Bei began to think that after Goguryeo, Fuyu and Sanhan were conquered by the Han army, it seemed that a new state should be established in this border area to command Liaodong. land and strengthen the actual management of that land.
Limited to climatic factors and transportation factors, at this time, there is no future for great development in the Northeast and the outer Xing'an Mountains. Transportation is difficult, the climate is cold, and the fertile black land will not be seen in a short time. The possibility of being able to be fully developed, but…
Just like the modern people's mentality of "I don't have to worry about it, I can't live without it", Liu Bei also felt the same idea. He felt that he could not develop these territories, but he could not live without them.
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