Why did the Han Dynasty have 600,000 troops and only tens of thousands of people were sent to Huo Qubing?

Because although there were 600,000 heroes in the Han Dynasty, most of them were infantry, and the cavalry only needed hundreds of thousands in its heyday, it was inevitable to fight the Xiongnu, and it was useless to have more infantry. Therefore, Li Mu defeated the Huns by combining teams and cars and riding horses to lure the enemy; So, Meng Tian broke the Huns, opened the way like locusts with chariots and arrows, suppressed tarkan with the firepower of elk, and blocked its southward movement with the Great Wall. Li Mu and Meng Tiandu are famous national players, but they are short of cavalry, so they can only keep the Huns out of the country at most, so that Huma can't go south to herd horses, and scholars can't bow to their knees.

Why? Because the Huns lived by grazing and hunting for a while, they were all cavalry. They use knives and collars (iron spears) as short soldiers and bows and arrows as long soldiers. Skilled people can shoot everything within 200 steps. Whoever kills a friend and captures a friend will be rewarded with a pot of wine, and the captives will also be given to them, and the captives will also be slaves to them. Therefore, when the war went well, the Huns tried their best to slaughter and plunder, and when they lost, they fled in all directions, not ashamed of it; Therefore, every time you enter the fortress to plunder, you will come and go without a trace, and often run after the war, even he can't catch a hair.

So if the Han army wants to fight in the fortress, it must have a cavalry team. Otherwise, once the Huns are outflanked by the inferior cavalry, they will not be able to escape. How fast the Huns' horses were, they chased down a group of two-legged infantry. It's not like cats catch mice. How to play?

It is precisely because of this that Liu Bang300,000 soldiers attacked the Xiongnu, but there was a siege of Deng Bai; Huo Qubing's ten thousand cavalry went out of Hexi, but they won a great victory in Hexi.

Therefore, every time Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty beat Xiongnu, it was basically a whole cavalry. However, because Xiongnu is far away from Mobei and Gobi grassland is vast, it is difficult to find the enemy. Therefore, the cavalry of Han army needs long-range raid, but it can't meet the needs of the enemy and needs strong logistics support. Basically,100000 cavalry is out of the fortress, which is the limit that the logistics of the Han Empire can support.

Take the Battle of Mobei as an example. Before this war, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the monetary system and severely cracked down on making money without authorization. It is also collecting wealth income tax (preliminary calculation of money), and is also engaged in salt and iron monopoly, paying money to salt and iron dealers rich in oil; In a word, it took Wei Qing nearly a year to prepare for the expedition of 100,000 horses in Huo Qubing, and raised sufficient financial and material resources.

According to historical records, at that time, in every corner of the empire, there were wind and grass, feathers and stars all over the sky. Foot soldiers, civilian workers, weapons, war horses, vehicles, food and grass? Countless staff gathered in Chang 'an from all corners of the country. This is also the largest military transfer in the history of the powerful Han empire ―― not including the combat manpower within the empire. The 100,000 cavalry troops dispatched by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty this time were all equipped with the best millet horses (that is, the horses that eat millet are better than others, which are natural and very capable), and there are 140,000 horses provided by other officers and men (40,000 horses of Zi Tongzhi Sword), and hundreds of thousands of other horses are transported behind. So as long as there are 100 thousand soldiers fighting in the line of fire, there are nearly one million people in the Han Dynasty. Liu Che has hollowed out the whole country and is fighting for a peace that will last forever.

In fact, it is unique in the history of national peace to dispatch 100 thousand cavalry at a time.

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Go to the front I am a pig

I had lunch at noon today, and the office was one MM ahead, so I shouted, "I am the pig in front." Hearing this, she paused. As a result, our leader came out of the office next door and walked at the front? Fortunately, our leader's surname is Zhu.