172 The Gambler's Heart
After hearing the system's prompt, Richard finally breathed a sigh of relief. His battle was very tragic and difficult. If it weren't for the powerful infantry of the Shenji Camp, his life would have even been thrown here.
Although Richard looked calm when the King Hada attacked and attacked, he was actually forced to hold on. If he kneeled down and begged for mercy, he would never be stingy with his knees!
Unfortunately, Richard knew very well that both sides were completely undying enemies. If Tufan King Songtsen Gampo wanted to win the Western Regions, he had to defeat Richard. Richard, who had the system, could not take the initiative to surrender. What solutions did the two sides have besides fighting to the death?
In this battle, both sides were killed and injured, and even had a lot of blood debts. Even if Songtsen Gampo wanted to make peace, the people below him would not agree!
Unless, Richard's troops are on the Tufan Kingdom and completely defeat the Tubo people's resistance!
War is easy to initiate and end, not those rulers do not know the current affairs and insist on taking revenge on the battlefield.
When the war broke out, the blood feud naturally arose.
The ruling class may not care about the lives and death of the people, but if they even put the lives and deaths of soldiers and generals aside, who will work hard for him in the future?
Once blood feud is formed, it will not be easy to resolve it. Why did so many ethnic minorities in the Five Barbarians invade China be killed by the Han people who fought back?
It’s not that many people have died, but the hatred of the people below has affected the decisions of the ruling class!
If the ruler does not do that, his position will become unstable!
This is still in the ignorant era of cold weapons wars. If it enters modern times, public opinion will be a key factor that can influence the political situation!
The ocean of people's war is not said to be nice, revolution will really kill people!
This is why later governments always linked policies to the interests of the people and made decisions for the people in propaganda. This is political correctness and a necessary means for the ruling class to maintain national stability!
"Among the 50,000 Tufan van's main force, more than 20,000 were Tufan tribe soldiers, which were not worth much in the systematic evaluation, but the 30,000 iron-armored soldiers were at the lowest level as the Han local garrison troops, among which Tufan Imperial Guards were even half a point stronger than the regular field army of the Tang Dynasty.
At the end of the battle, the Tufan Imperial Guards were either killed or fled, and there were basically not many surrenders. They were worthy of being Songtsen Gampo's loyal direct troops.
If I count this way, 40,000 lucky coins are not overflowing too much. With 40,000 lucky coins deposits, my current strength is enough to dominate the entire Western Regions!
I hope that guy Long Letian is more aware of things, otherwise I don’t mind turning Yanqi Army Town into a sea of blood!”
A cold curve drew from the corner of Richard's mouth and put away his personal panel.
The three field teams in the field legion suffered too much loss and basically lost the ability to continue fighting. After all, they were not system soldiers like war machines. They could only act as temporary auxiliary troops to maintain logistics and slowly rest.
If Richard had not achieved a decisive victory in this battle, the field army would have been completely disbanded!
This time, Richard's victory was inseparable from the 2,400 elite cavalry of the border army that he had left as a trump card. It was this elite cavalry of the border army that blocked the Tufan Imperial Guard, which had the advantage of the right wing, and also took away hundreds of iron-staffed lamas in the surprise attack team, who were all warriors.
Otherwise, 500 Shenji Battalion infantry and 1,000 Wujun Battalion infantry could not stop the Tubo people from the backup!
Before the battle began, Richard did not know that Songtsen Gampo brought all the Tufan Imperial Guards here!
To be precise, Richard didn't know that there was such a Tufan Imperial Guard in Songtsen Gampo's 30,000 Iron Armored Army, and the Tufan Imperial Guard led by the warriors!
Richard is not a god, so it is impossible to find out the enemy's background clearly. Just like the opponent does not know the specific number of Taoist soldiers under Richard, it is even more impossible to know that Richard can temporarily summon more than 2,000 cavalry!
It is this one-sided understanding of the enemy that both sides have confidence in launching a battle. If the enemy's details are clearly understood before the war begins, and based on previous battle examples, the winning rate can be roughly calculated.
In that case, the battle may not be able to start!
In fact, the decisive battle was carried out by both sides with sufficient confidence. Those who know that they can't beat and still bet on everything are not called gamblers, but stupid...
The behavior of a gambler is to start a war when his chances of winning exceed 50%.
Because wars between states and state troops are usually initiated by one of the parties with more than 80% of their confidence, and those who are lower than this probability are initiated by gamblers.
Or a short-sighted choice...
Of course, no matter how powerful the intelligence ability is in reality, it is impossible to understand the enemy's strength clearly. The calculation of the chances of victory will naturally lead to huge errors. We will not truly recognize the reality until the battle begins. However, when the war ends, it is not up to me to say what I said...
The famous First and Second World Wars in the history of the earth were the misjudgment of the enemy's strength and its own strength by both groups. Of course, it also involved a large number of gamblers' mental and short-sighted government decisions, but one thing remains unchanged. The party that took the initiative to initiate the war looked confident and believed that victory was destined to belong to them...
Whether it is short-sighted or in the hearts of gamblers, they are all the evaluations of future generations. At least in the environment at that time, they were full of confidence before the war started!
In fact, Richard also had a certain gambler's mind in this battle. By the same token, Songtsen Gampo on the other side was not 100% sure to win.
But both sides feel that they have enough trump cards in their hands and will definitely laugh to the end...
Richard won, so in the future he would be respected as a military god. Songtsen Gampo lost, and later generations gave him a big hat of short-sightedness and ignorance. It would be considered light!
Just like a famous saying in later generations, as long as you succeed, even if you fart, it will be fragrant. Countless people will pursue and praise your fart for how much fragrance it smells, and even taste the artistic sense...
Therefore, no matter whether Richard cheats or bets on life, if he wins, he can make future generations respect him as a "Emperor-level" figure!
After Richard left the field army and ordinary civilians to escort the logistics route, he chased Songtsen Gampo with his constant fighting will to chase Songtsen Gampo in the direction of escape.
Behind it is Songtsen Gampo’s nominal main army in the middle!
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Chapter completed!