More people and more power.
Only with more people can you do more things, create large projects, and solve big problems. Many things need to be solved by more people. This is the truth.
But in this era of productivity, there are many people and famine, and great plagues are often bound together.
The rule of the northern nomadic peoples going south is that the large number of people accumulated during the warm period cannot be raised during the cold period, and the cattle, sheep and horses frozen in heavy snow on the grassland. They cannot survive and must find a way out.
Either kill each other or sacrifice your life to invade the south.
During the warm period, there were few nomadic people in the north, and the leaders of the fishing and hunting regime would have political goals and ambitions to enter the Central Plains, but not in the cold period.
Even if you want to survive, you have to go south.
The Central Plains Empire was unable to mobilize large-scale troops to resist the counterattack of the nomadic cavalry to move south due to the southward movement of the zero-degree isotherms, which often at a disadvantage.
The nomadic cavalry has advantages due to its high maneuverability and flexibility in logistics supply, and it comes and goes like the wind, which makes the Central Plains Empire very troubled.
Logistics for the expedition of a large army is definitely the first element, while the huge army of the Central Plains Empire needs even more large-scale logistics as a support.
Without logistics and food, everything will be over.
So Guo Peng attaches great importance to all this.
He knew very well that judging from the northern territory and population size that the Wei Empire has expanded, it would be impossible for the future to live without building the Grand Canal, the Grand Chi Road, and the sea transportation.
Of course, it is also a way to wipe out the nomadic tribes on the northern grasslands in advance.
Therefore, after Guo Peng established the establishment of Heping Prefecture in Mozhou, he also arranged local cavalry stationed in Heping Prefecture in Mozhou. Each of the two states had a cavalry team of 10,000 people.
The 10,000-person cavalry team in Mozhou was led by Zhang Yan, the former surrendered general of Heishan, and the 10,000-person cavalry team in Pingzhou was led by Tian Yu, the former prefect of Liaodong.
After the main threatening forces were wiped out, the task of these two 10,000 cavalry teams was to continue hunting, explore the borders, find the residences of the native barbarians, and then directly kill them.
When you find a tribe, kill a tribe. If you can bring back a strong woman and a strong man, you will take it back. If you cannot bring back, you will wipe out all the old, weak, sick, disabled, and young children, and set fire to the local area and destroy everything.
This is the long-term policy of [sweeping the caves] issued by Guo Peng to Mozhou and Pingzhou.
This policy must continue as long as the Wei Empire still exists.
For both Mozhou and Pingzhou, the military policy of plowing the yard and sweeping holes must be continued forever and will never stop.
The Mozhou area has a vast territory, and almost all the grasslands that can be seen are included in the scope of Mozhou. Wherever the troops go, they are territory.
In addition to the Xianbei, there must be many miscellaneous Hus in such a vast prairie.
Although the Xianbei was eliminated as a regime entity, Guo Peng believed that there must be many tribes living on the grasslands and not being found, and no one knew whether they would grow up to become a huge threat in the future.
The Xianbei was just a slave tribe of the Huns at the beginning. It gained a breath of breath in the process of the Han government's attack on the Huns and eventually grew into the Hun Empire 2.0, which caused the rest of the Eastern Han Empire to be uneasy.
Guo Peng believed at the Imperial Military Conference that the Xianbei was gone, and he knew whether the second and third Xianbei would appear, so vigilance was necessary and could not be reduced.
The policy of plowing and sweeping holes must be implemented forever.
Therefore, the small-scale military operations in Mozhou have never stopped.
Guo Peng also created a cavalry built in accordance with the lifestyle of nomadic cavalry.
Recharge based on cattle, sheep and horses, without additional logistics, large-scale safari grassland hunting.
When the army was operating, in addition to the jerky meat they carried, there were also large herds of cattle, sheep and horses accompanying them. According to the lifestyle of the nomadic cavalry, one attack often lasted for several months and did not require additional logistics supplies.
It was discovered that a tribe destroyed a tribe, killed the elderly, young, sick and disabled, and plundered as much as the strong women and men could, so as to cut off the threat of the grassland tribes to the future Wei Empire, and train elite and powerful cavalrymen who are good at fighting.
The same is true for Pingzhou.
Pingzhou's current exploration scope has spanned Heilongjiang, entered the northeastern region, arrived at the eastern coastline, and landed on Sakhalin Island for patrols, and also discovered some of the indigenous barbarians living here.
According to Guo Peng's policy arrangement of sweeping the caves in the liting of the temple, these indigenous barbarians were ruthlessly hunted by the imperial safari cavalry. They were destroyed as long as they were discovered, and they did not give them a chance to survive.
If a large-scale tribe with a tendency to form a regime will be discovered, a large number of hunting cavalry will be dispatched to launch an extinction attack on them.
Safari cavalry usually use a 100-man team as the unit of action. Each team arranges a centurion to lead it to go deep into the primitive jungle, explore undeveloped territory, hunt down barbarians living here, and expand the empire's understanding of the border areas.
Such a large-scale plowing and sweeping hole policy also became an important means for the Wei Empire to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army in the post-war era—
After the end of the large-scale anti-rebellion war in the ninth year of Yande, the imperial power reached its peak unprecedentedly, and the Wei Empire truly entered a state of invincibility.
In the foreseeable future, the Wei Empire and the Wei army could not find any opponents that could pose a threat.
Under such a state, Emperor Guo Peng issued the final disarmament order.
This time, the Wei Empire launched the final disarmament operation from four directions: Northwest Front, Southwest Front, Southeast Front and Northeast Front.
In the end, 71,329 troops were removed, 300,000 elite troops were retained, and 30,000 navy troops were retained.
All the 71,329 soldiers cut off were scattered into the local area, entered Yunzhou, Jiaozhou, Pingzhou, Mozhou and the Western Regions and other regions, served as local grassroots officials and military instructors, and established the grassroots regime of the Wei Empire, thus becoming the cornerstone of the Wei Empire's rule in the local area.
The remaining 330,000 elites selected, among the elites who survived the 20 years of war training, will become the military cornerstone of the huge Wei Empire.
Originally, Guo Peng planned to keep only 200,000, but later he saw that the country's territory was too large and that 200,000 seeds were not enough, so he gritted his teeth and retained 300,000 army and 30,000 navy.
After a wave of major disarmament, Guo Peng had money and material things in his hands, and he refined the last 330,000 elite troops of the Wei army with the standards of officers, and used them to build the skeleton and spirit of the Wei army.
Later, with the implementation and implementation of the extensive conscript system in the local area, waves of young people enlisted in the army and formed the flesh and blood body of the Wei army.
Except for the 180,000 elite guards stationed in the central Gyeonggi area, the 330,000 elite Wei troops were all distributed all over the place.
The original Daying system was completely abolished and replaced with a new Daying system.
Mozhou has set up a large camp of Langjuxushan, with 10,000 cavalry stationed. Xiahou Dun's garrison and Mozhou's administrative center are located here, and are located in the northern border.
Pingzhou built a new Changchun City in the old place of Fuyu State. Pingzhou Governor's Mansion was set up here, and Changchun Camp was also set up here. The army was here, and 10,000 cavalry were stationed.
Yunzhou established Yongchang Camp, and 20,000 troops were stationed in Yongchang Camp.
Jiaozhi County, Jiaozhi County, Jiaozhou has set up a Jiaozhi camp, with 10,000 troops stationed and guarding the southern gate.
The three Protectorate Prefectures in the Western Regions, Beiting, Annan, Zhenxi, Beiting and Annan, each set up a large camp with 10,000 troops garrisons, and Zhenxi Protectorate Prefecture set up a large camp with 20,000 troops garrisons.
The Navy set up five major naval bases in North Korea, Qingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou and Taiwan Island, respectively, stationed some naval ships and soldiers.
The remaining 30,000 elite troops were widely arranged in various strategic areas, minerals, granaries, and Grand Canal areas, and were not organized by the camp.
The Wei army organization was also updated after Guo Peng's major disarmament.
Following the precedents of the Warring States Period, the [Army] was designated as the highest tactical unit. The first army was under the jurisdiction of 5,000 combat troops, and the commanding military-level units were all generals.
There is a [division] under the army. Generally, one army has two divisions, each with 2,500 combat troops.
The division is under the battalion, with the first division in charge of five battalions and one battalion of five hundred people.
There are also teams under the battalion, one battalion governs five teams and one team is a combat force of one hundred people.
In this way, the slightly chaotic and incomplete military levels in the early and comprehensive war periods were completely standardized, broken down, reorganized, and a major reorganization of the army was carried out.
Chapter completed!