From Soldier To Emperor - Chapter 419

Richard’s ‘Army’ is now full of more than 4,000 people. This is the result of including the Undead Army!

This unit is not comparable to the Han Jiajun and Yang Jiajun stationed in Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty. Whether it is Han Jiajun or Yang Jiajun’s soldiers, they can easily put out tens of thousands of soldiers, which is more than ten times that of Richard’s department!

This is the number of soldiers, that is, recruiting, or standing army, professional soldiers.

Because these soldiers do not produce production, they are trained full-time in array killing skills, and their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of semi-agricultural and semi-soldier troops.

However, the maintenance cost of this kind of soldiers is extremely high. If the salary is reduced, the combat effectiveness of this kind of soldiers will drop rapidly.

Soldiers who can’t get the full amount of military pay because they don’t produce enough income to fill their stomachs, naturally they need to find another way out, so there will be soldiers going to work in the secondary labor industry.

People’s energy is limited. The soldiers are all doing other jobs. Can you imagine how much combat effectiveness they can maintain?

And because of the decline in treatment, the standard of food will naturally decline. Soldiers cannot keep up with the nutrients they need, and they don’t have a strong physique, so they won’t be able to fight on the battlefield…

Fighting between ordinary people, excluding the factor of courage, puts it bluntly, is the physical fitness.

You are strong enough to react quickly. As long as the opponent is not a master of martial arts, you can basically win in close combat. This is also the reason why women were not allowed to go to the battlefield in ancient times. The physical gap between women and men is really too big, even after the day after tomorrow. It is also difficult to beat an adult strong man.

What’s more, women on the battlefield can easily arouse the enemy’s warrior spirit…

The fate of female prisoners of war is often a hundred times worse than that of male prisoners of war!

Real life is better than death!

The big soldiers in the ancient army didn’t see a few women throughout the year, and sometimes even the sow couldn’t control herself, let alone see a living young woman?

This is also the reason why many well-paid generals in ancient times would add women to the camp. This is not disrespect for women, but just to maintain the morale of the soldiers and give them a way to vent.

Many times, for soldiers, women are more attractive than other material rewards.

Of course, this is only in ancient and modern times. In the 21st century, you can basically give money. After all, you can play women wherever you have money…

Therefore, although the Han Jiajun and Yang Jiajun have many soldiers, the real elites only occupy a part of them.

Han Shizhong and Yang Ye didn’t have so much money to support tens of thousands of soldiers in full, and the Southern Song court was even less likely to give them so much military salary.

It is only the elite soldiers who can really get the good treatment of professional soldiers.

And the combat capabilities of these professional pro-army troops were actually similar to the elites in the Yue Family Army, a little worse than the Beiwei Army brought out by Yue Fei himself.

This has nothing to do with the personal qualities of the soldiers, but a morale issue.

After all, there is no general who can eat and live with soldiers like Yue Fei to attract people’s hearts. Soldiers are suffering. The high-ranking generals will eat and live with them only when they are brain-ridden…

My family knows about their own affairs, even if Richard has only a few thousand people, Han Shizhong and Yang Ye still dare not take a step forward in the Sichuan line of defense.

The Yue Family Army had proved with facts that the Song Army could still compete with the Ming Army in the Tubao Fortress. Now Richard has only 4,000 people, so he will fight the war of attrition.

Han Jiajun and Yang Jiajun are also field corps anyhow, and the two together exceed one hundred thousand troops. Is it possible that Richard can not be consumed?

This is the confidence of Han Shizhong and Yang Ye.

After the two defensive zones are divided, they begin to form a routine of dull war, no matter how you seduce, we are determined not to take a step!

With the record of destroying the Yue Family Army in front, even the Southern Song Dynasty did not dare to issue orders to Han Shizhong and Yang Ye to fight like before.

Han Shizhong and Yang Ye are not Yue Fei, and there is no such big threat. Moreover, these two people are already the few remaining main forces in the Southern Song Dynasty. If they are defeated by Richard, Sichuan will be really lost!

After all, the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty was so large that it was impossible to concentrate all the troops on the Sichuan defense line!

In addition to Han Jiajun and Yang Jiajun, the Song Dynasty also had a relatively capable class army, but the class army had already been split by the Southern Song court, and it was difficult to concentrate in the various state capitals.

Forcible transfer will cause local riots.

After all, not everyone supported the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty. Taizu Song was not right, and the Southern Song Dynasty accepted a large number of former Tang survivors, old and young, and the people have always supported the restoration of the former Tang Li family.

Datang has been splendid for so many years, and it has cultivated many diehards. If it were not for the flood of green skin, Datang would not fall so quickly.

In addition to the family army, the only mobile field troops that can be mobilized in the Southern Song Dynasty besides the Han Jiajun and Yang Jiajun are the imperial imperial troops.

It is also the royal guards brought out by Song Taizu himself~www.mtlnovel.com~ There are a lot of forbidden troops, but they need to guard the capital, so it is difficult to transfer to Sichuan…

Of course, in addition to these well-known Song Army main forces, there are also a large number of local miscellaneous troops, that is, local garrisons composed of Tuntian soldiers.

But this kind of army has proved with facts that encountering the Ming army is an instant defeat, and the Southern Song court is not stupid, so how can it keep sending people up?

You must know that the captured Song Army soldiers will be adapted by Richard when they look back, and then sent back to the battlefield as cannon fodder!

Even if they are not sent to the battlefield, these prisoners of war are still young and strong laborers. Whether it is clearing wasteland and farming or working as coolie, it is a wealth for the country.

Population is an important resource in the era of cold weapons. After all, this era is not like Richard’s previous life, where automation and informatization are highly developed. Wars no longer depend on the size of the population, but on whether the weapons are advanced.

If there is a generational difference in weapons, the army of one million will not be able to defeat one division…

Therefore, there is a special vocabulary to describe modern warfare—asymmetric warfare.

Of course, this is under the premise of ensuring that nuclear weapons are not used. Once nuclear weapons are used, let alone population, all military parameters will become irrelevant…

When Han Shizhong and Yang Ye were confident of relying on the tactics of the Tubao group to resist Richard, the two 20-pound unicorn siege guns that Richard exchanged from the capital of the northwestern region last year were finally delivered to the front!

The transportation time of several months has made Richard deeply aware of how unreliable siege artillery is to participate in field battles!

No wonder that in the history of the previous earth, the 12-pounder gun was the largest-caliber army field gun of the flintlock era, and the larger-caliber guns could only be used as siege guns and fortress guns…

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