Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Throughout history.

Often in the confrontation between the Han people and the nomads, the Han people always choose passive defense, but the nomads take the initiative to attack.

Why is this?

If we follow the view of later generations that "if you fall behind, you will be beaten", it seems... not necessarily so.

For example, the population and wealth of the Xiongnu are pitifully small. Added up...it is not even comparable to a large county of the Han Dynasty, but they frequently went south and bullied the Han Dynasty for half a century!

Even Wuhuan, who is struggling to survive, can force the big man to adopt a "redemption policy"...and give a lot of money every year.

It's even more exaggerated...

The Wuhu invaded the Jin Dynasty... The combined wealth of these foreign races may not be enough for the two rich men of the Western Jin Dynasty, "Shi Chong and Wang Kai", but they can drive the Jin Dynasty to the south of the Yangtze River.

The Song Dynasty was the wealthiest, with a developed economy, and had everything they wanted.

But the Khitans and the Jurchen beat the Song Dynasty so hard that they were all over the place!
The reason…

In ancient wars, national power may be one aspect of the influence, but more is that there is still a conversion efficiency between "national power" and "combat power".

In fact, there are two points... frontline and logistics.

To put it simply, it is - "beat" and "eat"!
If you fight well, if you don’t have enough to eat, you will only win temporarily, and you will starve to death if you are not killed by the enemy in the end;

Eat well, but can't win, that's a bit like the big man's frontier goalkeeper...not working hard.

Yulin temple at this moment.

Liu Yu, who had just returned to Luoyang, was explaining to Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun and Xiahouyuan who rushed over...

The nature of ancient warfare.

As soon as Cao Cao entered the door, he yelled that he also wanted to go to the frontier to help.

Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan are even more passionate.

But in fact, Cao Cao, Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan at this age... are still very immature.

They have not even experienced a bloody battlefield in the true sense.

To know…

If it is said that Cao Cao's enlightenment on war came from the professor Duan Jiong, the master of Taixue!

This gave him a ignorant concept of war!

But in fact, what really made him sublimate and improve came from the period of the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Cao Cao's experience under Huangfusong.

Cao Cao is a person with a strong learning ability. Huangfusong's tactics and tactics...he really learned the essence!

As for now...

Just wait!
It wasn't that Liu Yu didn't want to let Cao Cao go to the battlefield ahead of time, but Liu Yu was thinking...don't rush Cao Cao and put his own life in it.

In addition, according to his temperament, if it weren't for Huangfusong after he became famous... maybe no one would be able to restrain him!

When it comes to the conversion relationship between "national power" and "combat power", when it comes to "fighting" and "eating", Xun Yu led the emperor Liu Hong to come here...

Because Xun Yu is considered to be half a Yulin Guanren...

There was no Taoist pass on his entry. Xun Yu wanted to knock on the door, but Emperor Liu Hong stretched out his hand to signal...

He stopped outside the door, also wanting to hear Yu'er's understanding of war.

now…

Xia Houyuan's words came from inside the house.

"Liu Guanzhu's words are wrong. Fighting and eating are not easy. It is obviously the party with the stronger national power, which is stronger and has more logistics supplies. But why... the big man wins less and loses more against the barbarians, and even After the reign of Emperor Wu, there were few victories, and even Ma Yuan, the famous general Fubo in Emperor Guangwu's time, was defeated!"

General Fubo Ma Yuan is the ancestor of Fufeng Ma Teng, and also the ancestor of Ma Rong, a great Confucianist...

You know, Lu Zhi is still a student of Ma Rong, and Yuan Wei is Ma Rong's son-in-law.

It can be seen from this that the former General Fubo Ma Yuan's family is so outstanding, but in fact, this invincible general in the civil war has returned home in defeat in several battles against Wuhuan!

it's weird...

Obviously, Wuhuan is much weaker than the "new" dynasty established by Wang Mang.

At this time, Liu Yu's eyeballs blinked, and he continued to ask: "Since Miaocai mentioned this point, let me ask Miaocai, what is victory when two armies confront each other?"

"Victory? What is victory?" Xia Houyuan was a little confused... He felt that he knew it, but he couldn't express it.

Cao Cao blurted out directly. "In the same amount of time, whoever destroys the most opponents wins!"

This is the Taixue period, Duan Jiong, the teacher of the military class, taught him...

In layman's terms, it is actually "concentrating superior forces to defeat each one".

Use your whole body to destroy the opponent's parts... In this way, divide it into several times, and you can destroy the opponent.

"Brother Man is right." Liu Yu nodded and said: "But in fact, the battlefield is changing rapidly and is unpredictable. We are moving, and the enemy is also moving...It is not easy to separate the enemy army into several parts and defeat them one by one... thing!"

"So, on the battlefield... especially on the plain battlefield, it's up to who has the stronger mobility!"

"Mobility?" Cao Cao asked back...

This is the first time he has heard this word, and it is very fresh, but combined with the context...he can probably understand the meaning of the so-called "mobility"!

It is flexible, changeable, fast...

Liu Yu continued to analyze: "When two armies confront each other, no matter how they arrange their troops, the purpose is always the same, which is to disperse the enemy's army and let our army as a whole penetrate the enemy's part! To achieve this goal, we must Make the enemy reveal its flaws, and keep moving..."

"Then let me ask you, what is mobile warfare based on?"

This…

When Liu Yu mentioned this question.

Cao Cao, Xiahoudun, and Xiahouyuan were stunned... being guided by Liu Yu, they were able to think of the answer immediately.

"is horse…"

Xiahou Dun blurted out: "Mobile warfare relies on horses, and the constant movement of cavalry can force the enemy to reveal their weaknesses...and then defeat them one by one!"

"That's right!" Liu Yu nodded slightly. "Why General Fubo Ma Yuan was invincible in the civil war, but faced repeated setbacks against the Hulu, why Xia Yu and Tian Ying conquered Xianbei three years ago, but they were defeated. Mainly; along the northern part of the border, horses are abundant, and cavalry is the main force."

"In the plains, facing the infantry, the cavalry has too many advantages. First, the impact force is great, but the position is adjusted quickly, which is unexpected; third, the retreat is also very fast, and even... there is a fourth point, that is, the barbarians Good at riding and shooting!"

Don't underestimate the skill of riding and shooting.

Regardless of the fact that there were many talented people in the Three Kingdoms, the discussion on the Internet in later generations is always "one Lv, two Zhao, three Dianwei, four passes, five horses, six Zhang Fei...", in fact, in the records of the Three Kingdoms, regardless of Gongsun Zan and Baima Yicong...

There are only seven people who have recorded riding and shooting.

——Cao Ren, Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Gan Ning, Huang Zhong, Lu Bu.

In the Han Dynasty without stirrups and saddles...

It is extremely difficult to practice the skill of riding and shooting.

It just so happens that riding and archery is the strength of the Hu people, whether it is Wuhuan, Xianbei, or the Southern Huns, they are all masters here!

On the other hand, the Han army is mostly infantry, and it must form a phalanx to fight against cavalry.

...infantry moves slowly, takes everyone into consideration, and is used as a target at medium and long distances...

At close range, once attacked by cavalry, they often mess up their formation and are full of loopholes.

On the other hand, the barbarian cavalry came and went without a trace, hacked and killed the single infantry at a very fast speed, and ate them one by one, and when the infantry finally got into shape, the cavalry disappeared without a trace Tracking, like hide and seek.

This is the greatest advantage of nomads... over farming peoples.

In the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bang defeated the Huns with 400,000 infantry and [-] cavalry.

The siege of Baideng... was besieged for seven days and seven nights, and almost couldn't return. Since then, the Han Dynasty can only build the Great Wall and passively resist.

Liu Yu told Cao Cao the details here.

"In the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu realized the shortcomings of the farming nation and began to develop cavalry. Emperor Wu of the Han trained his army and raised horses first instead of people. At that time, horses were scarce in Han. Emperor Wu of the Han ordered the people to raise more mares, and to Seeking good horse breeding in the Western Regions, especially the Wusun horse and Dawan horse are the most famous."

"Even, in order to obtain a good horse for breeding, Emperor Wu did not hesitate to marry the princess, and obtained tens of thousands of good horses from Wusun Kingdom. Later, he heard that the horses from Dawan Kingdom were even better, so he sent envoys to attack him twice. , snatch good horses, and even build luxurious palaces, let the horses eat well and sleep well... the treatment is higher than that of people! After the Hunxie King Prince Jin Rixun surrendered, he raised horses for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and his official position is comparable to that of a prime minister!"

Speaking of this, Liu Yu looked at Cao Cao.

"Brother Man, didn't you always want to be the 'General Who Conquered the West'? But you only know that the champion Hou Huo Qubing defeated the Xiongnu with [-] riders, but you don't know how the [-] horses came from behind the [-] riders? No These Wusun horses and Dawan horses? Can the champion marquis sweep the Xiongnu and restore the Western Regions? Can they sacrifice to heaven on Mount Langjuxu in place of the emperor?"

This…

Cao Cao was silent, he suddenly realized that compared with Brother Liu, he was too simple and naive.

He thinks of war too simply!

"That's why His Majesty recruited the county's national horse!" Cao Cao asked back.

"It's just a reason." Liu Yu didn't go into detail about this topic...

Because he knew that the core purpose of the Son of Heaven's recruitment of the county horses was to prevent... the Yellow River flood, the plagues in various places... natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the inevitable rebellion, to be able to take the initiative!

As long as these rebels have no horses, a group of infantry... a group of farmers, nothing to worry about!

But Liu Hong outside the door gasped.

He recruited the county's national horse, but he really didn't expect such a section.

Of course, that's not the point...

The point is Yu'er's conclusion... It surprised him and convinced him!

Who would have thought that the root cause of the big man's repeated defeats against the barbarians... It turned out to be only around a "horse"!
Liu Yu's words continued, "The reason why Qin was able to sweep the six kingdoms was because of the power of the Qin crossbow, and because of the Qin army's iron cavalry charging into battle;"

"The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to defeat the Xiongnu was by introducing war horses from the Western Regions; and the most important reason why the Xiongnu was defeated was that they lost the two major horse breeding lands of Yinshan and Hexi, and could not wage war again, and even cried and said: 'Death! I, Qilian Mountain, keep my animals from living here."

"A thousand troops are easy to get, but a good general is hard to find, but good generals can be found, but good horses are not. The heart of a barbarian is like a mirror. Losing the war is not terrible, but losing control of the horse is terrible!"

In fact... Liu Yu has many other examples.

For example, the "horse protection law" proposed by Wang Anshi during the political reform, the horses were domesticated among the people and purchased by the government... It is precisely because of this that Song Shenzong won the Xixia Kingdom during the reign of Song Shenzong, which was one of the most brilliant achievements of the Northern Song Dynasty.It can be seen that the Song people were not weak in military affairs. Once they had horses, they could win battles.But the Central Plains was not suitable for raising horses, and because Wang Anshi lost power, the Northern Song Dynasty no longer had the advantage of cavalry.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the only one who could win the battle was the "Yue Family Army"...

Jin Wushu sighed that "it is easy to shake the mountains, but it is difficult to shake the Yue family's army", and the key to Yue Fei is also the horses!

After Yue Fei defeated the golden puppet puppet Qi army, he obtained more than [-] horses from the puppet Qi horse farm, and formed a "Beiwei Army" mainly composed of cavalry, which reversed the situation from then on.

The second is that he innovatively invented the "cutting the horse's leg" tactic, which was the first time in history that infantry defeated cavalry in a famous tactic!

In fact, it's just a fight...

For the Hu-Han border troubles that have lasted for 400 years, the bigger hidden danger lies in "logistics" and "supply"!

Liu Yu didn't go into detail about this...

He could see that "horse" alone was enough for Cao Cao to digest.

"So... Brother Liu didn't let me go to Youzhou because of... this horse?" Cao Cao asked with a frown, "So... speaking of it, isn't the reinforcement army that Brother Liu formed to rush to Youzhou... sure to lose? !"

"Not necessarily..." Liu Yu added: "As I said just now... the battle situation is often changing rapidly. Today's big man does not have the conditions to attack Wuhuan, but the same Wuhuan does not have the conditions to attack the big man...Because..."

Liu Yu deliberately sold a trick...

His expression became serious... and the word "supply" blurted out from his mouth.

"Supplies?" Cao Cao asked... "Is this the logistics that brother Liu was talking about?"

"That's right..." Liu Yu nodded, "In the past, when Emperor Wu of the Han defeated the Xiongnu, it cost Emperor Wen and the wealth of several generations of Gaozu. Even so, the business and agriculture of the Han Dynasty almost collapsed. The cost of going outside the Great Wall is extremely high!"

"On the other hand, today's Wuhuan went south from Liaodong to Youzhou...the journey is long, and their food supply is also a big problem. It is for this reason that they will desperately attack Zhuojun, trying...to support war with war, but this There is a huge weakness! That is, as long as Zhuojun resists, Wuhuan soldiers and horses will be in short supply..."

"In addition, I heard that Wuhuan rashly went south to plunder because of the livestock plague. For this reason, I'm sure that one month... Wuhuan's food can't last for a month!"

This…

Xia Houyuan suddenly thought of something. "Then...they can plunder the villages in Youzhou, there must be food there!"

"Brother Miaocai was just joking." Liu Yu laughed, "Youzhou has just experienced the plague, and there is already a shortage of supplies... The people outside the city are either going to the city to beg, or they have already fled. I am afraid that the Wuhuan people may not even have a nose hair. I can find it!"

"So..." Cao Cao pondered for a while, pursing his lips, "There is not much food in Zhuo County, and there is no way to supply it when the soldiers are approaching the city...Can Zhuo County...Can it handle it?"

Cao Cao's voice was full of doubts...

"can!"

Liu Yu's answer was extremely firm. "Because Liu Bei is still in Zhuojun!"

"Liu Bei?" Cao Cao chanted the name... "Who is he?"

However, this name was chanted by the young Cao Cao, which seemed somewhat strange to Liu Yu.

But...it's strange to say...

It seems that at the end of the Han Dynasty...the chaotic world and the chaotic current situation, the person who admired Cao Cao the most was Liu Bei, and the person who admired Liu Bei the most was Cao Cao...

Now, the two of them can talk about "green plum cooking wine" with confidence.

"Brother, he is a descendant of King Jing Liu Sheng of Zhongshan, and his hometown is Zhuo County Zhuo County..."

"Perhaps, after he persists for a month... when he comes back, Brother Yu can introduce you to each other... It must be a clear autumn and it's a good season to drink green plum wine!"

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