Duan Mingyu patted Tian Lingzi's horse without any trace, and then a hint of undetectable cruelty flashed in both of them.

Although the generals had doubts in their hearts, they just wonder which one the soldiers were allocated, but they did not doubt what Duan Mingyu said. This is not to say that only 200,000 troops can be boasted about becoming 800,000 troops to collect shock effects. There is no such lies to his own people. If 80,000 people say that it is 100,000 troops, or 10,000 troops, no matter what, no one can hide it.

Duan Mingyu said: "There is no problem with military strength, but the food and military preparations need to start immediately to attack Shouchun City, which is not something that can be achieved in ten days. It will consume food, clothing, shovels, hoes, axes, gongs and drums. There are special people purchasing them everywhere. Soon, they will transport them to Chang'an. The swords, axes, spears, bowstrings, arrows, and tents. I, Chang'an craftsmen, are working day and night to make them day and night. At the same time, in order to reduce the consumption of food transportation, and the soldiers consume a lot of energy to use their lives. So we are preparing to transport food and grass from water. When we arrived at Bianliang, we were sent to the front line by land. As for war horses, we only ate grass, it would inevitably have a weakening of strength and it would be difficult to gallop for a long time. In addition, the food consumption of horses was even greater than that of soldiers. Even if only tens of thousands of war horses were extremely expensive, it was amazing. Here, it was the best choice for siege 100,000 troops. Xu Wen's best choice was to defend the city and take the initiative to go out of the city to disturb the war. Therefore, the deputy envoy discussed with the prime minister that this battle consisted of infantry and only carried one heavy armored cavalry. One was to temper them in actual combat. Two was to shock the morale of the enemy."

The biggest advantage of light cavalry is that their speed can be used for long-distance raids, but light cavalry needs to be used with caution, because once they perform special tasks away from the formation, it means that they need to abandon the weight of the spokes and weight. If they cannot collect the surprise raids, they have no reinforcements or logistics. Once they cannot quickly leave the battlefield, the consequences can be imagined. In this battle, it is mainly because of the city, so there will be few defense battles. Both sides will be dispatched to detour on the field. The scene of raids and collisions will not be included in the scope of consideration in terms of the types of troops.

Duan Mingyu also said: "This battle is mainly about siege, we are not good at siegeing cities, but Yang Xingmi is also not good at defending the city. We have the best skilled craftsmen who can make a large number of exquisite siege equipment, and the advantage of troops. Our chances of winning account for at least 70%. However, the transportation of large quantities of food and grass and siege equipment will inevitably make our army slow. This is also the reason why we do not need a large number of war horses and infantrymen, only donkeys, mules, ox and carts, slow down the ground, so we need to go on the road early so that the troops will come to the city on time."

The number of units of non-combatants required by the army is different. For example, the Spartan army needs seven military slaves. The Greek army generally has only one heavy infantry and only one military slave. The Roman army also has a large number of military slaves. European knights also have slaves who carry armor. In addition, there are military vendors. However, generally speaking, the more non-combatants accompanying the army, the greater the consumption, the worse the army's mobility and combat effectiveness are also greatly affected.

In ancient Chinese army, there were basically no non-combatants. Some chores were mostly completed by soldiers. Chang'an had nowhere to recruit so many civil servants. Secondly, considering that the city's offensive and defensive battles were already huge, so the transportation of food and siege equipment was directly completed by the soldiers themselves.

Duan Mingyu introduced the situation on the logistics side in an orderly manner and said: "We had already made detailed spies in Shouchun, but Shouchun City was suddenly captured by Xu Wen, the general under Yang Xingmi, and now even the Caizhou soldiers who surrendered to Yang Xingmi have become chores. The chess pieces we installed in advance have lost their function. So far, they can't contact them or get the detailed situation near Shouchun City. We can only have a brief understanding of Shouchun's troops and deployment from the refugees who escaped from Shouchun a few days ago.

Duan Mingyu said one by one and Tian Lingzi helped the case: "From now on, all troops should speed up the training of the seventh prince who stayed in Chang'an to lead the military. On the sixth day of June, the Japanese general personally led the army to take Shouchun."

In modern times, a unit is mainly evaluated from the aspects of defense, firepower and communication capabilities. In the era of cold weapons, it is generally quite common in terms of defense. In terms of defense, a unit that charges is not weaker than armor, leather armor, and iron armor. In iron armor, scale armor is weaker than plate armor, but among the few, the manufacturing cost of plate armor is obviously the highest.

Why was the Tang Dynasty able to make ethnic minorities submit to all directions during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. Although Emperor Taizong of Tang and his heroes in Lingyan Pavilion were indeed rare virtuous monarchs and ministers, it is unquestionable that the Tang army's equipment was first-class army and armed with smelting and other technologies at that time, ethnic minorities had not yet mastered the surrounding ethnic groups. The current surrounding ethnic groups were no longer as good as the Huns during the Han Dynasty. Most of the arrows used by the Huns were grinded with animal bones. Nowadays, ethnic minorities have mastered quite high forging and smelting technology, especially from the Arab nations in the Western Regions. Some more advanced forging and smelting technologies were introduced. Even the Han people in the Central Plains had to work hard on the armor if they wanted to minimize their casualties.

Now Chang'an still owns its own iron ore, and the coal mine is also ready-made. The two are combined with the financial resources provided by the government. There are also many foreign merchants who provide superb forging and smelting technology and weapons manufacturing techniques provided by both foreign merchants. Not only his elite troops are equipped with iron helmets to protect the key points, plate-type breastplate, and far out of the opponents in the offensive weapons far and near.

Of course, Duan Mingyu's purpose is to keep his own Shence, and the right army is equipped with it. There is no need to arm Tian Lingzi's 60,000 Central Army and Yang Fugong's 20,000 Left Army to the teeth.

As for the mobile power Duan Mingyu is not much smarter than his opponent. The horses equipped by his cavalry are all smuggled. The horses provided by the limited capacity of the BMW are also limited. The long-range charge is far better than Mongolian horses, but their long-distance raiding ability is not necessary at all. Most of them are not difficult to get enough horses in the area controlled by Duan Mingyu.
Chapter completed!