Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 97 War Consumption

Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo had disagreements, and neither could persuade the other, so Zhang Wen adopted a compromise method and asked Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo to lead the navy and army respectively to attack Yunwu City from two directions.

However, although Zhang Wen tried to reconcile the relationship between the two, his arrangement did not satisfy both of them, but made them feel even more dissatisfied. Even Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo didn't want to divide their troops, they all hoped to concentrate the main superior force to attack from one side.

After all, Xiang Yu has already taken away a large part of the elite troops, and the remaining troops have to be divided, so that there will inevitably be a certain shortage of troops when attacking, although he didn't know that Han Sui was in Yunwu City Exactly how many troops there are, but since Han Sui himself is here, the number is definitely not too small.

But Zhang Wen has no choice. He is such a lack of opinion. Zhang Wen's advantage is that he is good at handling complicated interpersonal relationships. Standing in the team, but such a person is obviously not suitable to be a coach. When he really needs to make a decision, he will hesitate and hesitate, which will cause good opportunities to slip through his hands.

Of course, all of this is not entirely Zhang Wen's own fault. After all, he didn't want to be the counter-rebellion commander himself, but was put on the shelf by the fatuous emperor. As for why the emperor chose him, is it true that the court really Can't find a more suitable person?
This question is not so easy to answer, because Nuo Da is an Eastern Han Empire, which itself is an era of heroes, how can there be a lack of truly talented people, but obviously there are not many people among those truly talented people Can be reused in practice, many people with real ability either disdain to serve in the corrupt court, or they have been suppressed for various reasons, and they will not give you the opportunity to display your personal ambitions and abilities at all. It's just that people who are too awesome are not allowed to exist!So as not to threaten them!

Under such circumstances, the attack on Yunwu City was about to start. Dong Zhuo hadn't fought Han Sui's rebels on the frontal battlefield all this time, but this time was indeed his chance. This is a chance to prove his own strength. Since he chose to attack Yunwu City from land, he will inevitably have to confront the Xiliang cavalry attacking from the flank. He just doesn't know if Dong Zhuo can still act like he did when he was young. Shoot left and right on horseback, and fight the Qiang people for [-] rounds.

On Han Sui's side, he was waiting for work at leisure. He didn't care whether Zhang Wen would attack him. Anyway, for him, this expedition did not meet his final expectation, which was to invade the imperial tomb of the Western Han Dynasty and plunder the imperial tomb. The many treasures in the mausoleum, and even further invaded Chang'an City, forcing the Eastern Han court to agree to his request, pay him a large amount of compensation, or recognize his legal right to rule in the Xiliang area, no matter which one will let Han Sui's power grew further.

At the same time, it will also deal a heavy blow to the Eastern Han Dynasty, making it lose control of Xiliang and a larger part of the power of the central government. Disintegrate the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In that case, the complete split of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the rise of local strength and warlords will be further advanced.

However, Han Sui was not able to do this, but this does not mean that his Eastern Expedition was a failure. He just did not win enough, not lost. In fact, he still has the upper hand until now. The initiative, don't look at him as the defensive side now, but in fact, if Han Sui wants to go out and fight Zhang Wen's main force, Zhang Wen and the others may not be able to fight, but now he chooses to defend the city and wait for work, it's up to you What should I do, are you going to hit me or not?
Han Sui's move of retreating into advance is actually very clever, which can make him invincible first, and then if it is actually suitable, he can also achieve greater victories, and make another Eastern Expedition in the next year or in the future Sansuke laid a solid foundation.

In fact, the resources consumed by Han Sui's Eastern Expedition are very astonishing. After all, tens of thousands of soldiers have to be provided with logistical supplies, and this logistical supply line is still so long. In the absence of water transportation, they can only rely on people and horses. To transport, in fact, Han Sui's troops also relied on fighting and looting the cities and villages along the way to supplement the supply of food and grass, but even so was still not enough.

So when Sun Jian and Xiang Yu cut off the supply of food and grass to his main force, Han Sui could only order the withdrawal of the troops, because if the fight continued, the entire army might be wiped out.

The role of food and grass supply in war is too great. Sometimes it is not because you have more troops and better weapons and equipment that you will be able to win the war, but sometimes you will not win the war because you have defeated the enemy. The victory of the war is sometimes not how much benefit you can get by winning the war.

More often, wars are a huge loss to both sides of the war. There may not necessarily be a winner, or it may fall into a lose-lose situation. The manpower and material resources consumed during the war and the destruction of production capacity It is hard to estimate. Many times a certain party seems to have won the city and obtained the land, but finds that the people here are dead, no one is farming, no one is producing, and as a result, their soldiers will starve to death here. .

Therefore, war is not a simple calculation of the number of people and land, but a combination of a series of very complicated factors, and judging the impact of the war is actually not that simple. In fact, when it comes to this point, why did Xiang Yu in his previous life never There have been defeats, but the last defeat put him in a desperate situation?
One of the most important reasons is that the wars Xiang Yu won did not actually obtain enough resources for Xiang Yu. Only the most important wars established Xiang Yu's status as the overlord of Western Chu. Create a real empire for yourself through war. Many resources are consumed in the process of the battlefield, but cannot be replenished. Therefore, if it is just a war, it cannot guarantee you continuous growth.

After winning the war, resources need to be re-integrated and deployed to prepare a sufficient material foundation for the next war. In this regard, Xiang Yu is indeed not as good as Liu Bang, or even many other people, so Xiang Yu He has almost never had a defeat in his life, but he failed to gain enough growth from these victories. Liu Bang is always losing, but his power is getting stronger and stronger. It has to be said that this is indeed a sad part of Xiang Yu .

(End of this chapter)