The flower thorn model country was abolished by the West Liao, and the main force could not gather too many troops in the short term. Now it is mainly to see how many people can be gathered from the Gul dynasty.
This will directly affect the speculation on the strength of the Gur dynasty and the number of troops stationed in Anxi and Beiting provinces in the future.
Directly affected by the problem of grain production and transportation, the land law in the western region has maintained the scale of 100 thousand troops for a long time. With the stability of the two major provinces, the troops of the Second Corps and the Sixth Corps are retreating in an orderly manner
In the future, the garrison plan of the two major provinces in the western region is that there are not many places where people can live in the western region according to the settlement, mainly the oasis, the large garrison and the traffic roads are all built with the oasis
In this way, the vast areas of Anxi province and Beiting province will be populated or sparsely populated in the future, and naturally there is no need for too many troops to stay and station. Now there is a line of military food support, which costs a lot, but it can also be maintained
In the future, once it enters the conventional state, before the production and construction corps is established, the number of troops is too large, and the army is based on the local law.
Su Yonglin still intends to leave a small number of troops in Anxi and Beiting provinces, and the second and sixth corps will jointly assume the garrison duties, instead of setting up a separate main battle corps to relieve the military burden.
On this issue, Su Yonglin and the staff headquarters fully referred to the Tang Dynasty strategy that was very successful in managing the Western Regions and Central Asia.
During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years, the number of regular garrison troops in the western regions was about 45,000, belonging to Anxi Duhu House and Beiting Duhu House.
It seems that the number is small and the territory is vast. More than 40 thousand people control millions of square kilometers, and the vast territory is difficult to achieve the goal
But it’s not.
In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the national prestige spread far and wide, which was definitely not a word, and the name of Tiankhan was definitely not just a name.
Starting from Chang ‘an to Central Asia is not the territory directly under the state, but the sphere of influence. Many small countries and tribes bow to the Tang Dynasty, and they have the right to send troops in case of an accident.
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The western regions and grasslands of the Tang Empire were well managed, and the national prestige spread far and wide.
When it comes to fighting, the Tang Empire is very good at helping local countries and tribes to fight.
Tang Jun was a very expanded concept at that time, which included all the battles commanded by the Tang government, including the regular Tang Jun grassland, the tribes in the western regions and the national army
Chang’ an tianyi ordered the western regions and central Asia to rise up the Tang Empire, and the number of soldiers in World War I would not be less than 100,000.
They are not Han Chinese, nor are they directly in charge of imperial subjects in the Tang Dynasty, but they go out to fight under the banner of Tang Jun. In the eyes of the enemy, they are just passing through Tang Jun.
Everywhere they are, the Tang army is everywhere, and the place they control is the place controlled by the Tang Empire.
The Tang empire was able to control millions of square kilometers of land in the western regions with only 45 thousand soldiers, so as not to escape the rule of the Tang government
Even after the Anshi rebellion, the Tang empire actually lost its ability to manage the western regions, but the powerful Yu Wei still kept the Bai Shoubing in the western regions fighting for 42 years.
Without the support of the local tribes, the Bai Shoubing could not have lasted for 42 years without the support measures taken by these tribes because of the inertia of the empire and their own interests
Of course, the times have changed, and the reality is completely different from the original.
During the warm climate, it was very difficult for the Tang Dynasty to manage the western regions and Central Asia, not only the two unified empires, namely, the Tubo Empire and the Abasi Dynasty, which were bursting with snow in Wude, but also several malicious tribes and groups.
In particular, the Tang Dynasty was entangled in the Tubo Empire for a lifetime, and it was a lifelong problem for the Tang Empire to manage the Western Regions and Central Asia. The two powerful countries competed for the Western Regions from beginning to end until the Tang Empire declined and the snowy empire fell.
Neither side has become the final winner.
The empire was in a cold climate period, although it did not reach the Little Ice Age, but it was far below the average temperature in the warm period of Sui and Tang Dynasties. This natural environment "abused" the unified snow empire.
The Tubo Empire, which could always threaten the Hexi Corridor during the Tang Dynasty, is now in ruins.
They are not unified and strong, but the majority of the population is scattered in the Lhasa River Valley. The leaders recite scriptures every day to watch the sunrise, live a sustainable life of eating Buddha, and focus on exploiting and oppressing serfs. They have no desire or ability to return to the courage of the past.
A million people can’t support a snowy empire.
In this way, an important factor that the empire needs the western regions to maintain a large force is gone.
Then there is no large-scale unified military power in Central Asia, and the existing countries are either small-scale emerging countries or old and fragmented empires.
Such as the Gul Dynasty and the Seljuk Empire.
So sometimes Su Yonglin also lamented that this era is really an era in which everyone lies flat and rotten together, and the whole Eurasian-speaking country is as bad as agreed.
As a result, the Mongolian Empire has achieved the largest military power in human history from East Asia plow to Eastern Europe, which has a far-reaching impact.
There is no doubt that the national strength of our country is far stronger than that of the Mongolian Empire.
If Su Yonglin really learns from the Mongols and lets the cavalry fight and keep fighting to open the way, then he is sure that he can let his troops fight from the Bering Strait to the English Channel and plow the Eurasian continent from east to west.
That’s not necessary.
Pursuing a vast territory without a traffic revolution is waiting for fragmentation. It is better to pursue ideal output than to pursue land management by law.
Su Yonglin doesn’t want to export death and fear like the Mongolian Empire. He wants to export ideals and new life and a new set of human laws to lead mankind out of ignorance.
The garrison in the western regions doesn’t need many people. It’s almost the same to leave one army in Anxi Province and one in Beiting Province.
The rest is to export ideals and rebirth, and create one new government after another by relying on the greatest and noblest ideals of mankind.
Previously, the revolutionary army was needed to clean up the resistance forces in the old days and weaken their strength as much as possible, and the revolutionary forces developed and created an environment.