The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 318 Zhao Gu’s hesitation

Huan Xuan, who had never been so wealthy, distributed supplies to the soldiers with a bit of confusion.

Compared with his unfamiliarity with these matters, the soldiers received the supplies quite calmly, and they were obviously familiar with them for a long time.

However, Li Ju and Huan Xuan were not very familiar with the soldiers, but the generals who surrendered with them at first joined them.

After rescuing Yanzhou together, we all went on a mission together, but even so, Li Ju and Huan Xuan were amazed that so many resources could be mobilized for this expedition.

Normally, it is actually quite troublesome for a general to lead an army that he is not very familiar with and wants to get used to it quickly.

After all, the first thing you need to do if you want to command an army is to make the soldiers believe in you. Otherwise, if they disobey your orders, it will be very troublesome for you to command them.

But although the soldiers in front of him may not be very convinced of himself, they did not dare to obey the orders he gave, and even commanded them smoothly. This made Li Ju discover the role of military history in the army.

Because Military History has no right to participate in tactical command, but because he is responsible for military records and is good at managing and comforting soldiers, Military History has a very detached status in the army.

At the same time, they will coordinate the various orders issued by the generals and act as a very good lubricant in the entire army. Of course, sometimes military history also plays the role of legal judge.

All in all, although military history is not directly involved in tactical command, many civilian occupations in the army are undertaken by them.

As a reduced general, Li Ju did not dare to neglect the rules of the army. Not only did he respect military history, but he also asked his old troops who followed him to restrain their homeless temper and show more respect to military historians.

Of course, if Li Ju's old generals offend military historians, military historians will usually stop them with military rules and regulations. Under such circumstances, if these old generals do not abide by military disciplines and military regulations, then military historians will not Head-to-head.

Because military history will record his performance, and after reporting it, people will be sent down to verify it. If what is said is true, basically those old generals will be kicked out of the army, and new generals will be brought in to compensate.

After all, the status of soldiers in Liu Tai's army is too special. If you don't want to do it, there are many people who want to do it, not to mention that they are also captains or commanders. How many people are waiting for promotion!

In any case, because of the military history system, Li Ju wanted to take over the soldiers without the hassle of the old system.

Either he has extraordinary abilities and leads the army to fight a few victorious battles, and the cohesion of the army will naturally come.

Or he is an ordinary veteran who slowly works over time to promote the person he likes to the corresponding position, so that he can use his fingers like an arm.

Now, Li Ju's command of this army is quite smooth. Li Ju can more or less see that the system created by Liu Tai seems that the soldiers' sense of belonging does not lie with the general, but with a person. A military history.

Because the soldiers are well trained, it seems that no matter who the general is changed, the impact will not be too big.

This also leads to a general commanding such an army, or this general is extremely good and completes several miraculous tasks, thus convincing the entire army and putting his own mark on it.

Otherwise, it seems that as long as a normal general is replaced, he can show a very good lower limit.

When Liu Tai came up with this troop leadership system, he naturally wanted to localize the political commissar and instructor system proven in World War II in this era.

At the beginning, Liu Tai didn't know that he had the talent to lead troops, but he managed to get into the command of a large army so smoothly.

Liu Tai's original idea was that he was almost close, but his soldiers must be good enough. Compared with other famous generals, his military ability may be S-level, but Liu Tai hopes that his military ability will be outstanding.

No matter how outrageous the tactical orders he issues, the soldiers under his command will fight for victory with their lives after hearing the orders.

This is Liu Tai's original intention of establishing the entire system, and it is also the system that is most suitable for Liu Tai himself.

Liu Tai's battlefield intuition, coupled with the soldiers' willingness to die for Liu Tai created by Liu Tai, can make up for many of Liu Tai's imperfections in tactical command and tactical details.

After all, sometimes the soldiers' willingness to fight can really create miracles on local battlefields. Especially when Liu Tai found that the battlefield command could not move, he directly and decisively led the troops to charge.

Let's put it this way, if it's the kind of world where will changes matter, then God has come, and Liu Tai can kill it in front of the whole army.

But after Liu Tai's system was left to others, because this system was used to protect the bottom from the beginning, any general who came over could basically exert the strength of at least eight levels of this system.

Because for this system, the main role of generals is tactical layout and battlefield command. As for maintaining morale, the limits of will, etc., that is a matter of military history and has nothing to do with generals.

But this system also has an aspect that is easy to learn but difficult to master. Or, to be more precise, it will be very difficult for a general to take advantage of this system to its limits, because in addition to convincing the soldiers under his command, he also needs to convince military history. recognized.

Because of the military history of Liu Tai's army, the duality of the divine dog often appears.

Military law allows them to escape as long as they bring their own military history diary, and for the army, as long as their army's military history exists, they can rebuild their organization. Naturally, military history will leave the war when the battle situation is unfavorable, thus affecting the army's Overall morale.

But at the same time, if you want to maximize the morale of the entire army, you need military history to pick up the bamboo slips in his hand and follow the charge even if he is held down by the soldiers, or even charge at the front. Then the combat effectiveness of this army will be Raised to the extreme.

However, there are too few people who can make soldiers die for them and at the same time be truly recognized by military history.

Naturally, the possibility of maximizing the combat effectiveness of this army is naturally reduced.

It can only be said that most of the time Liu Tai's system can only display its lower limit capabilities.

For example, after Li Ju took charge of the army, He Shenjun took the initiative to help Li Ju clear the logistics departments of all sizes. The most important reason was that Jun Shi was more or less part-time in logistics work in the army, so Li Ju took control of it. Very convenient.

However, this kind of military system is already quite advanced in the eyes of Li Ju and Huan Xuan.

At the very least, compared to the Jin court's powerful families who control private military units, every official army in the Jin court is related to local powerful men, celebrities from famous families, or important clan ministers. Let's look at Liu Tai's military system. When a soldier is commanding, he may not be able to speak eloquently, but he can still be regarded as following orders and prohibitions.

The most important thing is the logistics and equipment of these soldiers, as well as enough to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

For Li Ju, who had always been dealing with refugees and barely managed to squeeze out money to equip his soldiers with leather armor after interacting with Liu Tai, he had never fought such a wealthy war in his life.

Every soldier can actually eat meat even if they are marching and fighting. Every soldier is actually a soldier with fish scale armor. Even the siege weapons used to attack the city are made into parts by the rear and then sent to the battlefield.

Li Ju really didn't know how he could lose if he led such an army to fight against Luoyang.

At this moment, both Li Ju and Huan Xuan were full of absolute confidence and went to conquer Luoyang. Because they really believed that Liu Tai had given them and others a chance this time. If Liu Tai was ready for everything and they still couldn't win Luoyang, then they might as well just wipe their necks and forget it.

When they were ready, they came over and followed Liu Tai to say goodbye, and then set out to conquer Luoyang.

Liu Tai briefly inquired about their preparations, and then dispatched a thousand war horses to them and divided them between them to use as his personal guards.

After all, they want cavalry, which is impossible under normal circumstances, but giving them some war horses allows them to have their own personal guards. Liu Tai can still manage this horse.

Of course, this was why Liu Tai originally attacked the Central Plains region, thinking that the cavalry horses in his hands could easily become expendable.

After all, there was a real war, and the opponents were all greeting the horses. After all, "shoot the man first, shoot the horse first" is a famous saying on the battlefield.

If a cavalry loses its horse, it is indeed very dangerous on the battlefield, but it is not certain to die.

After all, these cavalry have been tempered for many times. Most people think that cavalry loses its horses and is slaughtered by others. But in fact, cavalry only have mounts if they can fight. How can a weak chicken become a noble cavalry?

Therefore, in fact, if the cavalry lost their horses, if they did not die directly when the horses fell during the charge, the cavalry's survival probability would actually be improved. When Liu Tai's army defeated the Jin army, the cavalry would win more.

While Liu Tai attacked Xingyang, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Xuzhou, only Gou Xi of Xuzhou actually fought against Liu Tai.

Although Liu Xia led the heavy cavalry to charge, they were full of beauty with courage and strength. However, after every charge, there were non-combat attrition of soldiers and horses, and the Han's horses were mainly supplemented by this.

In addition to these, in fact, there is actually a lot left in the war horse reserve that was originally thought to be used up this year.

Based on the current growth index of his horses, Liu Tai is afraid that the number of horses sold in the next year will reach more than 20,000 skins.

After all, the breeding of war horses is the same as the breeding of many other livestock. Once the scale of breeding reaches a certain level, it will grow smoothly and exponentially.

Of course, to be honest, what I tried in Youzhou was to smoothly change the development model of the nomadic people from nomadic to animal husbandry, so that the scale and number of livestock raised by the nomadic people could be smoothly increased, thus feeding back the Han Dynasty. .

As the pain relief of these years of reform began to pass, and with a better model, the output brought about allowed these foreign races in the border areas to gradually become members of the Han Dynasty, and also provided the Han Dynasty with their own productivity.

"Your Majesty is well prepared for Li Ju and Huan Xuan!" Chu Hui said with emotion as he looked at Liu Tai's order.

"For war, it's right to be more prepared after all!" Liu Tai said calmly, "Besides, they are surrendered generals from the Jin court. If they can successfully set a benchmark, it is natural to set a benchmark."

Chu Hui nodded in approval when he heard Liu Tai's words. Chu Hui also supported Liu Tai's decision to let Li Ju and Huan Xuan lead 10,000 soldiers to try to conquer Luoyang this time.

After all, Hulao Pass has always been in Li Ju's hands. Although Liu Yao left generals to assist him, he never expected to be captured by Liu Tai directly north of the Yellow River.

When Chu Hui thought of this, he couldn't help but look at Liu Tai.

To be honest, as Liu Tai's general manager, Chu Hui naturally knew that after Liu Tai killed Shi Hu and Liu Yao, even if Zu Ti threatened him, Liu Tai still had the strength to regain Guanzhong. It’s just that this path is a bit more risky.

However, based on Liu Tai's ability to lead troops, Chu Hui believed that Liu Tai was not as afraid of Zu Ti as he showed.

The real reason is that the military history and retired soldiers are not enough. Liu Tai suddenly covered the entire territory of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Liu Tai chose to only acquire the land north of the Yellow River. He would rather fight slowly and steadily than swallow up all the land in one fell swoop.

To be honest, Chu Hui knew that as long as Liu Tai displayed the banner of a big man and was willing to accept the family into grassroots management, he would never be so tied up.

But Liu Tai chose to endure it, and did not launch an attack on the Central Plains until he had accumulated enough grassroots managers.

After the Central Plains was captured, the attack on Luoyang began.

It can be said that with the cultivation in the past few years, the Zhao Kingdom in Guanzhong, which Liu Yao calls himself, has naturally not fully restored its national strength, but it is no longer the same precarious state as before.

Yang Xianrong supervises the country as a queen, which is her greatest weakness in troubled times. Even if she has superb political skills and successfully completes the political balance within the Zhao country in the hope that her son will grow up, it is inevitable that things will start around her. Princes appear.

Whether Li Gu, who Liu Yao stayed in Luoyang to guard, or Chen An, who gradually became more and more troubled in the west of Zhao State, have gradually become Zhao State's confidant.

At the same time, Yang Xianrong showed her ability as a daughter of the Yang family. She won over the famous general You Ziyuan and entrusted her with an important task. She used the power of pacifying the Qiang people to intimidate the surrounding princes. At the same time, she also used Liu Tai's power to win over Chen. An and Zhao Guo.

Because Yang Xianrong doesn't want the world, he just wants a stable home in troubled times.

As a result, both of her husbands were unreliable, so she had to support such a family as much as possible.

With this political philosophy, she decisively reduced corvee labor and taxes, and tried her best to appease the people of different races, not to mention convincing the people, but at least she would not cause chaos for herself.

With the implementation of a series of policies, the originally precarious Zhao State became much more stable.

Everyone around him also felt that hanging out with Yang Xianrong would be a good idea, and even took the initiative to trade with Yang Xianrong.

Because they also knew that if they conquered Zhao, they would have to face Liu Tai, who had already gained momentum for unification.

What will Liu Tai do when he beats him? After all, as a general, it is more or less acceptable to be captured at any time. He can just change his lord and seek refuge with him.

But as a powerful monarch, he was defeated by Liu Tai, so it would be strange for Liu Tai to accept him.

But they were reluctant to give up their military power and join Liu Tai, so they decided to use it up first. After all, the world might change!

However, as time passed little by little, Zhao Gu, who was stationed in Luoyang, understood that he had heard the news that Liu Tai had asked Li Ju and Huan Xuan to send troops to Luoyang, but Zhao Gu couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Because Zhao Gu understood that it was time for him to make a decision.

(End of this chapter)