As a successful military strategist, his focus has never been limited to military matters themselves!
It is a comprehensive coordination encompassing politics, economy, transportation, and resources.
In the process of Jiang Ming's P2P fraud to raise food from various countries, he had already laid the groundwork for breaking the 'CropDune'!
The grasslands have no shortage of horses!
He used Luo Gongzi's trading channels to exchange a large number of fine horses from the grasslands for a large number of cattle from various countries!
Some of them were transported back to the State of Yan, serving as a key source of labor for agricultural production the following year.
The other part was raised directly in the territory of Zhao Yong in the State of Jin.
Oxen are very expensive!
But warhorses are even more expensive!
An ordinary warhorse could be exchanged for 3-5 oxen!
If it is a warhorse with excellent bloodline from the grasslands, it can be exchanged for 8-10 oxen!
After the Rouran were destroyed, the number of warhorses captured, plus those of the Xiongnu and Xianbei people who were incorporated into the army, reached hundreds of thousands!
In recent years, the grasslands have become lush and fertile, leading to a surge in horse breeding and constant warfare between tribes!
Now they've all been taken over by Jiang Ming and become his capital for doing business.
Jiang Ming raised 8,000 oxen in Yangquan, Jin State, which was only a few dozen miles away from the battlefield of Maiqiu.
Upon learning that Zhao Yong had launched a fierce attack on Zhongshan with the help of the Wei minister, Jiang Ming immediately led a powerful army, bypassing Zhongshan, and entered the heartland of Jin...
The people of Qi never expected that while they were marching north to Maiqiu, their enemy, who was further north, had already bypassed the neutral state of Jin and circled around to their southwest!
Seeing that Jiang Ming had only left a portion of the Xianbei people to continue guarding Gu County and had not attacked Zhongshan, Zhao Yong was determined to devour Zhongshan this time and completely eradicate this "tumor" on his "back"!
Jiang Ming initially hesitated to go directly to Maiqiu to support the front lines, being cautious... worried that the ruler of Zhongshan might act foolishly, launching a full-scale attack on Gu County and wiping out Dugu Yan's Tuoba tribe.
Now, with 250,000 troops from the State of Jin attacking Zhongshan, the ruler of Zhongshan has no time to look north and naturally will not focus on recovering Gu County.
Jiang Ming did this for another benefit: Didn't you, Zhao Yong, ask me to lend you a hand when you doctors were "dividing Jin"?
That's great! I've personally led 150,000 cavalry here. We'll resolve the issue of Maiqiu first, and then turn around and help your Zhao family "divide Jin." We can do both at the same time!
Those 8,000 cattle were purchased by Jiang Ming from various places to completely wipe out the Qi allied forces in Maiqiu!
Each cow had two daggers strapped to its horns, its body painted with yellow and black tiger stripes, and its tail smeared with grease...
After their tails were set on fire, the oxen went berserk in pain and charged wildly down the hillside toward the Qi army's position!
......
On the border between Qi and Yan, at the battlefield of Maiqiu.
Qi general Tian Yong questioned the soldier who brought the news: "Speak! What exactly is the situation in the southwest?"
"A cow! No! It's a tiger! No! It's not! It looks like the legendary Qiongqi, its whole body ablaze, charging towards us!"
"Bullshit!"
Tian Yong roared with anger and kicked the messenger soldier to the ground.
However, screams of agony came from the distant southwest...
An army of over 400,000—that's no joke. Just imagine the area covered by their camps; it's almost the size of a county town's 'city'...
For a moment, Tian Yong could only hear an “unusual” and terrifying noise from that direction, but he couldn’t see what was happening.
"Help!"
"Run!"
"ah!"
......
The 8,000 mad bulls charged wildly into the crowd, butting and trampling anyone they saw!
At this moment, bows, crossbows, swords, spears, and halberds all became useless under the chaotic charge of the cattle!
The originally set-up battle lines were thrown into chaos, and all the soldiers scattered and fled... People trampled people, cattle trampled people, horses trampled people... In an instant, countless people were killed or wounded, and corpses littered the field.
Cows are animals that are usually very docile, but they also have a subconscious tendency to be "excited" when people are around.
Seeing the chaotic scene only fueled his bestial instincts, making him even more savage!
The bullfighter uses the exciting atmosphere of the fight to make the bull more aggressive...
Many soldiers were killed by being run over or gored before they could even tell whether it was a bull or some other monster!
Fear... swept across the entire coalition positions like a tsunami. All the soldiers, whether they saw what was happening or not, were thrown into chaos!
They abandoned their armor and weapons and fled in all directions... The 400,000-strong army was instantly turned into a pile of sand!
In ancient times, it was not true that the more people you had, the better when you went to war!
The idea that "many hands make light work" is just a very simple, superficial logic.
Sometimes, the more people there are, the more chaotic things become, and the more likely a major accident is to occur.
Unless it's a legendary general like Wang Jian, Han Xin, or Bai Qi, who can lead an army of four or five hundred thousand into battle.
Any general with a modicum of self-awareness prefers to lead an army of 100,000 men into battle, as it's easier to manage that way!
Large-scale military operations are the ultimate test of a commander's ability to lead troops!
Once people fall into chaos, they can never be brought back into order...
The reason why the 800,000-strong Former Qin army could not defeat the tens of thousands of Eastern Jin troops in the Battle of Fei River was this.
They weren't beaten to death; they trampled themselves to death...
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