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The 394th chapter calculates the gains and losses of the expansion of the army

After the Bingzhou War ended, the front-line command post completed the historical mission and announced its dissolution after the last order for each army to go to designated locations to rest.

After verification of various types of data from each army after the war, they were summarized and reported to the General Mansion of Zhenbei step by step. The specific data are as follows:

In the first phase of the Bingzhou War, the Zhenbei Legion invested a total of 100,000 regular troops, and the eight armies were the Cold Tiger Army, Pioneer Army, Flying Tiger Army, Canglang Army, Xiongju Army, Dragon Cavalry Army, Xiongwu Army, and Dingyuan Army. Among them, the Pioneer Army and Dragon Cavalry Army had 20,000 people, and the rest of the army had 10,000 people.

At the end of the battle, the vanguard army and the Xiongwu army suffered heavy losses. Because the 20,000 vanguard army was divided into two parts and was responsible for the heavy responsibility of garrisoning Huguan and Lishi, a total of 6,000 soldiers were killed and killed. The 10,000 Xiongwu army suffered 4,000 soldiers against Huangfu Song's 50,000 troops. The casualties of the other armies were 2,000 Tiger Army, 1,055 Flying Tiger Army, 1,055 Canglang Army, 1,000 Xiongju Army, 2,000 Dragon Cavalry Army, and 2,000 Dingyuan Army. The eight regular troops suffered a total of 20,000 soldiers, with a war loss ratio of 20%.

In the second stage of the Bingzhou War, the northern Xianbei and Budugen led 120,000 people to go south and west, and Zhang Yan of Heishan led 50,000 bandits out of the mountains to harass the northeast of Bingzhou. At this time, due to the shortage of troops, Zhao Xing temporarily transferred all the 50,000 reserve troops into formal troops and scattered in the northern counties of Bingzhou as defensive forces. Hu Cheer led 20,000 Huang Xuan's army to support the war on the Western Front, Wu'anguo led 13,000 Qing Xu Zhi's Volunteer Army to north to assist in the defense, Hu Chuquan recruited 20,000 cavalry in the Southern Xiongnu, and Xu Huang urgently mobilized 20,000 Xianbei mercenaries. As a result, a total of 110,000 troops from various groups organized by the Zhenbei Legion.

At the end of the battle, nearly 10,000 troops were temporarily recruited by the Han people, Huang Xuan, the Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei tribes, and nearly 10,000 were injured or killed, mainly due to some losses when attacked by Zhang Yan in Heishan, and some losses when defending the Xianbei to move south.

In the third stage of the Bingzhou War, all the troops began to withdraw and re-arrange. Kuitou finally surrendered himself and apologized, and Bingzhou won the final victory. In this stage, Bingzhou did not increase its troops. After the troops surrounded Wuyuan, the various troops fought in turn, and with the help of a large number of large weapons, there were basically no major casualties.

Bingzhou invested 210,000 troops to fight against the siege of more than 650,000 troops from all directions, and ultimately only lost 30,000 troops. It is a huge victory. So how many people were killed and captured by the Zhenbei Legion?

The biggest loss was Dong Zhuo. When he sent troops, he only fled back to Qi County for only 20,000, and the four generals of Li Jue, Guo Si, Li Su and Ye Xiong were also damaged. It was really terrible. Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song, the three central troops of the court had a total of 170,000 troops, and finally returned to Sili area, with no more than 120,000 troops, and the losses were 50,000. When Yuan Shu came, he brought 40,000 Danyang soldiers, and when he returned, he was only 30,000 troops; Yuan Shao sent five troops.

Ten thousand, 10,000; Gongsun Zan sent 10,000 troops, less than 5,000 brought back Youzhou; Yan Yan led 10,000 troops, and four thousand Shu soldiers; Pang De led 10,000 troops, and seven thousand; Cao Cao sent 30,000 troops, but five thousand; Sun Jian sent 20,000 troops, and three thousand. Liu Biao and Liu Yan each sent 20,000 troops, and almost no losses. Kong Rong and Tao Qian's 20,000 Qing Xu soldiers were almost no casualties, but they were all abducted to Bingzhou.

Kuitou led 80,000 Xianbei soldiers to control the strings south, and the entire army was eventually wiped out; Bu Dugen led 40,000 Xianbei soldiers in western Liaoning to launch a bomb on the Hanshan Mountain, and there were no casualties yet; Zhang Yan led 50,000 Black Mountain bandits out of the mountain to fight Qiufeng, but encountered Zhang Liao's encirclement and finally fled back 30,000.

In other words, the 650,000 coalition forces that successively besieged Bingzhou, lost a total of 280,000, and the war loss ratio reached 40%. Of course, most of the troops lost in this area did not die on the battlefield, but became prisoners of Bingzhou.

According to statistics, Bingzhou successively captured 2,000 Yuan Shao's army, 4,500 Yuan Shu's army, 5,000 Shu's army, 2,000 Cao's army, 30,000 Dong Zhuo's army, 60,000 Xianbei green and strong, and 10,000 Black Mountain bandits. In addition, the 20,000 Qingxu army, which was stable and sound, totaled about 134,000.

The various coalition forces in Bingzhou killed six generals, Guo Si, Li Jue, Chen Lan, Bai Bo, Sun Qing, and Kuitou. Li Su was also killed by Dong Zhuo because he was defeated by Lu Bu's trick of surrender. Bingzhou successively captured seven generals including Zhang Nan, Zhang Xu, Cao Hong, Zu Mao, Zhang Yi, Lei Tong and Ye Xiong. Bingzhou general Liu He unfortunately died with heavy arrows.

Taking into account some of the next plans, Zhao Xing made a small adjustment and supplement to the army controlled by him. First, the 50,000 original reserves that were urgently converted into regular troops during the war were all retained after the war, and were enriched to the Crouching Tiger Army, the Pioneer Army and the Xiongwu Army. After adjustment and supplementation, the Crouching Tiger Army, the No. 1 strongest army in Bingzhou was expanded to 20,000 people, the Pioneer Army was expanded to 30,000 people, and the Xiongwu Army was expanded to 20,000 people.

Second, 13,000 were selected from the 20,000 temporary recruitment of Huangxuan soldiers and 20,000 Southern Xiongnu soldiers, and supplemented the two armies, which not only filled the total battle losses of 3,000 people in the two armies, but also expanded the two armies to 15,000 people. Among the five thousand people expanded by the Flying Tiger Army and the Canglang Army, a heavy jockey was added to ensure that the two armies were absolutely the main position in the future cavalry decisive battle.

Third, the remaining 8,000 people from the Dingyuan Army were transferred to the Xiongju Army, and another 3,000 people were selected from the 20,000 Xianbei warriors, and they were incorporated into the Xiongju Army, which also led to the Xiongju Army's strength reaching 20,000. The Xiongju Army fought many beautiful battles in this Bingzhou War, and the combat loss ratio was the smallest, and only one thousand soldiers were lost, so they naturally received doubled their treatment.

Fourth, the original reserve troops that were converted from 50,000 to regular army, including the Huangxuan tribe, the Southern Xiongnu tribe and the Xianbei people, selected 12,000 soldiers from the remaining troops, and added them to the Dragon Cavalry Army, expanding the Dragon Cavalry Army to 30,000.

Fifth, retain the number of Dingyuan Army and transfer the remaining original reserve troops, the Huangxuan clan, the Southern Xiongnu clan, and the Xianbei clan, all 20,000 people were included in the Dingyuan Army.

After such an adjustment, the Zhenbei Legion still maintained the first-level troops of eight army troops, but the force reached 180,000. This number coincided with the number of 210,000 people invested in Bingzhou to participate in the war, lost 30,000, and finally the remaining 180,000 people. In other words, Zhao Xing basically left all these soldiers participating in the war in his army, and several troops were obviously composed of multiple ethnic groups and multiple armies, such as the Xiong Ju Army and the Dingyuan Army.

As for the more than 10,000 Qing Xu Volunteer Army led by Wu'anguo, Zhao Xing planned to wait until the states were calm and let Sun Guan, Cao Bao and Chen Deng take it back and hand it over to Kong Rong and Tao Qian. For the more than 10,000 troops that were not in Bingzhou, Zhao Xing believed that they might play a more important role after returning to their respective prefectures and counties.

Qingzhou and Xuzhou, which are the weakest, are now short of soldiers and generals and have more wealth. They are the targets that Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others have been peeking at. If you send back more than 10,000 Qing Xubing who have passed the battle, Kong Rong and Tao Qian can also have more self-protection ability.

After the forces of the Zhenbei Legion were adjusted and supplemented, the next step was to reward merit and personnel adjustments of each army. How would Zhao Xing plan and arrange such a critical matter?
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