Hanbo

Chapter 261 Earned, but not universal! (4K asks for a monthly ticket)
Huo Shan watched the crowd cheering quietly. After they stopped, Huo Shan took a sip of water, then looked at Wang Wei:
"Talk about the spoils!"

"Back to the governor, 15 horses, [-] were captured on the battlefield, and [-] were captured from the first zero tribes.

25 cattle and sheep, 21 were seized from the first zero tribes, and [-] were captured from the battlefield.

There is not much money, about two thousand gold for the seven tribes.

Horses were exhausted and casualties. Our army lost more than 1 in this battle, nearly [-] horses, and about [-] cattle and sheep.

The loss of grain, grass and various materials is not much, mainly due to the consumption of personnel. "

Speaking of this, Wang Wei closed the notebook and smiled:
"Great Commander, plus this battle has expanded our country for thousands of miles, and we have made money again, although not much!"

Huo Shan smiled and raised his eyebrows, and everyone started discussing happily again.

In the past wars, the big man worked so hard to finish the battle, it was lucky not to lose, but now the only one who can make money in the war is Huo Shan.

However, Huo Shan could see very clearly that the two battles were not universal.

In the first battle to fight the Xiongnu, he brought only [-] Yulin troops. Although Huo Shan made a big battle, he captured a lot.

But the big man basically didn't invest much, or basically didn't invest, and this battle cannot be replicated.

The battle of the Qiang people is also different from normal warfare.

In normal wars in the past, troops were usually dispatched from Guanzhong to transport food in Guanzhong to support the war ahead.

In this case, the consumption of the big man will be very large, just take simple food transportation as an example.

For example, take the Western Regions as an example. When transporting grain from Chang'an to the Western Regions, only one catty of every twelve catties of grain can be transported to Dunhuang, and the rest is consumed on the road.

This is still a normal situation. If there is another situation on the road, such as rain or something, the people transporting food may starve to death on the road.

Coupled with the transfer of troops, people ate horse chews along the way, and the consumption was not insignificant.

In a frontier war, [-] to [-]% of the money and food consumed can be used on the battlefield, which is considered a high incense!
Even if it is a small-scale war in the Northland and other places, Chang'an does not need to dispatch troops, but once the war machine in the Northland is activated, the consumption will increase exponentially.

For example, to put it simply, if the Huns attacked during the busy season of farming, the harvest of that year would be delayed.

Therefore, transporting food from Guanzhong is not only to transport war consumption, but also to transport next year's daily maintenance consumption, and the money and food have doubled.

Moreover, the Huns come and go freely, even if you win the battle, you will lose money to work economically, because you can't capture other things.

Speaking of the battle of the Qiang people, the battle Huo Shan fought was also different from ordinary battles.

First of all, although these soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion are all military camps, they are locals and military camps.

Therefore, they don't have to pay too much tax on their farming output, and they all keep it for war.

Moreover, Longxi is a big county, plus Tianshui County next to it, they will pay part of their annual taxation money and grain to the Huqiang School Captain's Mansion.

Therefore, there is no shortage of money and food, and because of this special situation, the court does not need to dispatch money and food, so I don’t know how much it saves.

And because Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion has a large number of military households, this means that there are a large number of soldiers and horses, and there is no need to dispatch a large number of soldiers and horses from Guanzhong.

Of course, this has a lot to do with Huo Shan, because it was Huo Shan who came, so there was no need to dispatch troops.

Because Huo Shan has prestige and contacts here, and he has a direct descendant of Huang Zhong Yi Cong, so these soldiers and horses, Huo Shan can command like an arm.

In the general frontier battles of the Han Dynasty, the generals basically led an army from Guanzhong, and fought with this army as the main force, supplemented by frontier soldiers and horses.

There are many reasons for this. To put it simply, the command cannot be controlled, the command cannot be suppressed, and the command is not smooth.

This era is not the future generations, where to go, where to bring soldiers.

In this era, those who can achieve this step are truly famous coaches, famous coaches in all aspects such as prestige and ability.

For a general, there is a huge difference in the strength you can display when you lead soldiers and horses that are commanded like arms, and you use soldiers and horses that are not easy to use.

Just met, after a few days of practice, you can make the soldiers use their lives, and you can make the generals obey, that requires great skill.

But because it was Huo Shan who came, this factor was ruled out.

His champion, Huo Jiaben, has great prestige in the Northwest, and he proved himself to be the finalist in the last battle, and he also has Huangzhong here, plus Liu Che has given him so much power, everything depends on him.

Huo Shan was not worried about this, and he divided the army and re-arranged, inserting the Northern Army into each army.

The good thing is that there are six counties here, and the soldiers are all veterans, and they can all cooperate perfectly with the Northern Army.

If it is in the North, or other areas in the East or South, you can't play like this at all, and there will be big troubles.

And the last point is that this time is really a great opportunity, everything has come together.

If it weren't for the fact that the Qiang people came to attack on a large scale after learning of Li Xi's death, and Huo Shan managed to keep them back, how could there be such a big victory and so many spoils of war.

As far as what they bring with the army, it's useless!

Moreover, this battle ended early enough, from the very beginning to the present complete end, it didn't even take two months.

This greatly reduces the consumption of one's own side.

All in all, strength accounts for a large part, but luck also has a large proportion.

At first, Huo Shan didn't even think that this battle would be profitable. His greatest expectation at the beginning was to be able to keep the Qiang people who came to commit crimes.

Then, with the threat of this battle, they came to win over the Qiang people and conspired in the Western Regions, but step by step, they did not expect to make money.

Therefore, Huo Shan's two battles, the first battle, cannot be replicated, and this battle, the situation here is different, and it is very different from other places.

Therefore, these two battles are not universal. Even if other people want to imitate cats and tigers, they will not be able to draw them.

However, the following Western Regions are different, but it can be regarded as half and half!

The idea in Huo Shan's mind was to prepare an army of one hundred thousand, Yi Cong of the Xiongnu and the Commandant of Zuo Dadu [-], and Hubayashi Huben and the Fourth School of the Northern Army [-], so it would be [-]!

He also planned to transfer [-] in Huangzhong and [-] in Qiang people, adding up to [-].

And the [-] troops are all cavalry. As for food and grass, the [-] Huns have their own cattle and sheep.

Rather than saying that they are going to attack, it is better to say that they are migrating and fighting by the way, and they are nomads, and their migration is different from that of big men.

Not only will there not be much loss, but maybe there will be more and more, because cattle and sheep will give birth, and it is very possible without the influence of external factors.

So they don't need big men to prepare food and grass for their [-] yuan, and what they have to pay is just a few soldiers and horses watching them, and a little grass on the pasture along the way.

As for the [-] Qiang people and the [-] Huangzhong people, Huo Shan would not prepare food and grass for them, they just brought their own food and grass.

They are also nomads, and fighting a war is not the same as transporting grain and grass with horses and carts on the big man's side.

So only Huo Shan's [-] descendants are left, and this [-] descendants actually don't need food.

The Huns have [-] soldiers and horses over there, and the population is more than [-]. These [-] soldiers and horses are inserted into random gangsters, and there is no shortage of food and grass.

However, it is not enough to bring this food and grass at all. You still have to bring a little, but it is not much anyway.

Therefore, the [-] army basically does not need much money and food from the big man. This wave basically belongs to fighting without spending money.

And this is half of the soldiers and horses. If there is only this half, for a big man, a hundred thousand soldiers and horses will make money by destroying two small countries at will, but there is the other half!

As for the other half, the consumption is really huge. This is the 20 military households who need to go out with the army.

20 households are 20 soldiers and horses, and they are all infantry, and their marching speed cannot be compared with that of cavalry.

And don't forget that is 20 households, not 20 people.

A big Han family basically has three to eight people, or three to six people, and there are basically not many people with more than six people.

Four people are taken here, and 20 households are 80 people.

And these 20 military households are scattered all over the place, and it is impossible to mobilize them from one place, no matter where they are scattered, they are nothing more than mobilized from Beidi or the six counties.

Regardless of the counties of the two, these military households traveled more than 2000 miles all the way to Dunhuang, and a little farther was [-] miles.

And these military households with families and mouths can only walk fifty miles a day at most.

The cavalry really wanted to run, marching more than 2000 miles in a row, and it would be no problem to march more than 100 miles a day.

If you don't spare your horsepower and march quickly, you can get there in half a month, but these 20 military households can't get there in two months.

And in these two months, the money and food that the big man has to consume is an astronomical figure.

You have to transport food and grass from Guanzhong to the counties where military households gather, which consumes a lot on the way.

Then there was a long journey to Dunhuang, and the big man had to keep delivering food and grass to maintain the daily needs of these 20 military households.

Not only Guanzhong has to transport grain, but most of the northern men have to move.

And this food, no accident, at least until the beginning of next spring, and then think about the food consumption along the way, tsk tsk!

No wonder later generations have been scolding that this national policy of relocating people to the border is a disaster for the country and the people, and there are certain reasons for this.

If a man of this size comes several times, the whole man will be dragged down!
But until now, this national policy has been carried out countless times in Northland, Hexi, East, and South.

In this case, no matter how much money you have, you won't be able to spend it, let alone the continuous wars that are mixed in during the period.

In this case, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Great Han Dynasty was about to fall apart, which was foreseeable, and it would be strange if it did not collapse.

In this situation, Liu Che has survived for decades, and his ability is simply amazing!
It is also God Bless the Liu family, who has been famous for generations, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and Huo Guang came out again, and Zhaoxuan Zhongxing came directly.

Coupled with Zhang Anshi, Zhao Chongguo and a large number of outstanding people, they directly pulled back the big man who was on the verge of life and death, not only pulling him back, but also returning to the peak.

The Han Dynasty was preserved, and the Han Dynasty was about to fall apart, and the achievements made have once again made a name for itself and Yunei, what else can you say!
Digressed, back to the topic.

But can this national policy be stopped?

Can't stop, that's for sure!
You have conquered such a large territory. In this era, if you want to truly control it, you have no other way except this one.

And to destroy the enemy, can't you not control it?
No, if you don't control it, all the efforts you have made before will be equivalent to doing nothing.

You beat down with great effort, sacrificed so many soldiers, and made such great efforts, the big man finally stood up.

Cleaned up the surrounding areas, cleared away future troubles for the Huaxia of later generations, wiped out all possible threatening enemies, and allowed Huaxia to live peacefully in this land.

And once you don't control these regions, you will repeat the same mistakes in 20 years.

You will find that, unknowingly, why the surrounding enemies are back again, where did they come from?
It didn't come out of nowhere, it was indulged by a big man.

So in a word, not controlling is equivalent to doing nothing.

If they don't dig out their roots and let this land become the land of China since ancient times, it means that all efforts are in vain.

Others didn't know it, but Huo Shan knew it clearly, and it was clearly stated in history.

There are many reasons why so many great empires in European history collapsed in the end, but the lack of complete control is an unavoidable reason.

And China has survived since ancient times, and the Chinese civilization has never been cut off. One generation is stronger than the next, which has a lot to do with the great people who appear generation after generation in times of crisis.

But Qin Huang, Han Wu, or the foundation laid by these two eras cannot be bypassed, and it may be the biggest reason.

Therefore, no matter how hard it is, this step cannot be stopped.

As for whether the Western Regions can make money, Huo Shan still has a little certainty in his heart, mainly because the Western Regions are rich!

And he still has a lot of plans in his mind.

It's your honor to let you accept the brilliance of the big man, so it's no problem for you to contribute some money and food, right?
However, there are still ways to make money in the Western Regions. As for the later battle against the Huns, it is really time to fight for national strength.

But nowadays the big men are much better, 20 military households are not a problem, and a war against the Huns can also be supported.

As for not destroying the Huns and letting them go, this is possible, but it is also impossible.

Enemies, especially the enemies of the Qin and Han dynasties for hundreds of years, must be beaten to death with one blow!
.........

Huo Shan glanced around the crowd, smiled cheerfully, then got up and shouted:

"Tian Qianqiu."

"Chen is here!"

"Let's write the battle report. With the battle process written two days ago, and the battle exploit report transcribed by Han Zeng, send it to Chang'an together in an urgent [-] li!"

"The minister takes orders!"

Then Huo Shan said to the crowd:

"It's noon, Little Li, let's have a banquet. I'll talk about the next thing after eating."

"promise!"

(End of this chapter)