sweeping the world

Chapter 558
What is a country?Different classes have different understandings.

For the people, the country is the land and sky where they live, their family members and other people they can see and touch.

For the ruling class, the country is still the land and the sky, but then there are the mountains and rivers, and the people they need to manage.

In the eyes of the king, the country is the country, how many people it has, how much force it can muster when it wants to invade other countries, and how much force it can recruit when it needs to protect itself.

The state is a sanctuary for all.In a way, the country as a collective is not fair to everyone. Some people pay too much and fail to get what they deserve, and some people can start enjoying dividends as soon as they are born. It will not be good for anyone in the country.

Individuals need collectives, and there will inevitably be managers, even if it is simply for the continuation of the race, any group of creatures will be no exception.As intelligent human beings, the collective is not only to ensure the continuation of the race, but also to compete for a larger living space.

"Forward, forward!"

The wilderness, a very vast wilderness, under the scorching summer, there are long dragons gathered by people walking on the land. They may be in different locations, but the direction of travel is all north.

Long dragons are organized by soldiers. They go north to participate in the national war, to become a participant in one after another great war. Some people will gain profits on the battlefield and get a lot of benefits, while others will become corpses and then become His ashes were sent to the Hall of Valor.

The flags are fluttering in the wind, and the flags with gold characters on the red background are one pole after another. The soldiers under the flags come from all over the world. Some of them are from various counties. , After the departure, it has been converging, from a small number to a large scale.

"Has the king personally conscripted?"

"That's right, after two years, the king personally conscripted again."

Talking is not prohibited during the march. After all, the journey is really too long. As long as the team does not chatter, it can actually relieve fatigue. What they don't know is that Liu Yan is actually on the top of the mountain not far away.

The scale of this year's war will be very large. Liu Yan is indeed going to conquer again, but instead of going to Yanmen, he will go north to Jizhou to personally preside over the war against Murong Yan.

At this moment, Liu Yan was standing on the top of the mountain and looking at his soldiers. Even if he stood on the top of the mountain, he couldn't get a panoramic view of the long dragons, which showed the huge scale of the army going north.

Ran Min will still be in command of the war against Shijie Zhao State, including the war against Tuoba Dai State. Some of the troops supporting Ran Min have already arrived, and many of them are on their way.

The Battle of Dingxiang was still going on. Li Tan led the army to besieged on all sides. Ran Min entered Yanmen County, and it was Xie Ai who pursued those who fled to the northwest, while Xie An rushed to Guanzhong.

The Guanzhong battlefield is currently the most intensely fought area. Qinzhou captain Zhong Xing faced the coalition forces of Zhang Chonghua and Fu Hong with a small number of troops. Longxi County and Longdong County fell successively. After a battle between the coalition forces and the Han army in Pingxiang, Zhong Xing was defeated. The coalition forces retreated to Xinyang on the edge of the Weishui River. Currently, they are relying on the support of the navy to maintain the stalemate in the war.

"General Xie Zhonglang brought [-] troops, reinforcements from Shu and Yuzhou... The riots in Shu are getting more and more intense, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to get away for a while, but there are too few reinforcements in Yuzhou." Xu Xu It was also on the top of the mountain, and he was standing behind Liu Yan: "Longxi County and Longdong County are the only territory of the Han Dynasty that fell after the recovery of the Han Dynasty."

It seems that this is really the case. Liu Yan established a great Han again. Today’s Han State cannot be called an empire, but since the founding of the country, there has been no example of gain and loss. Due to the oversight of the Han State... ...Or maybe it's arrogance, not paying attention to the movements of Zhang's Liangguo, which can be regarded as a bad result.

Xie An has already sent an official document to the Central Committee, briefly talking about his views on the Guanzhong War. He has made a battle plan based on the strength of his troops. He does not recommend launching an immediate counterattack. He wants to keep the war within Qinzhou.

For Han, the most important battlefields are now Yanmen and Shuozhou. If there is an order, Guanzhong can only be said to be at the bottom.

Shi Xuan has already fled into Shuozhou. If Shi Xuan is given more time, it will take a little more effort to solve it in the future. The effect of this effect wiped out Shijie Zhao Guo in one fell swoop.

Shi Bin went to Yanmen. After being blocked by the Han army many times, he fled into the mountains (Wutai Mountain) to the northeast of Dingxiang. The two sides are now chasing each other around the mountains. The scope of activities of Shi Bin's remnant army has been repeatedly reduced. According to the prediction, the result will be within half a month at the earliest.

Ran Min personally led the army to Yanmen, facing Tuoba Daijun led by Tuoba Shi Yijian himself.Before Ran Min arrived, the Tuoba Dai army had already reached Guangwu City, and the Han army forced the Tuoba Dai army back to the vicinity of Mayi. At this moment, the two sides were constantly fighting around the flat terrain around Mayi.

The battlefields of the Han Dynasty were not limited to the national war battlefields everywhere.

A series of riots broke out in the Chenghan area of ​​the Li family that had been exterminated not long ago, mainly Qiang, Di and Ba people, and even Han people participated in it.They did not attack some cities, but kept attacking villages where Han people lived together, and relied on the continuous mountainous area to fight with the Han army who came to encircle and suppress.

Most of the land in Shu is mountainous. It took less than a year for the Han army to wipe out the Li family and become the Han Dynasty. It mainly controlled some cities. The aboriginals have been managed in name since the Qin Empire, and any previous dynasties were actually unable to collect taxes, conscript troops, and pay taxes.

After the Han Dynasty destroyed the Li family and Cheng Han, it adopted a considerable scale of continuous cleanup, but it only forced those who did not accept the rule to move to deeper mountains and forests, and failed to eliminate or bring them into the rule.There has been a voice in the center before, which is to learn from the strategy of the early Han Dynasty, canonize the local indigenous chiefs as officials, and bring those people into rule in name, but the military does not accept this opinion.

Not only was the chaos in Shu, the opposition forces south of the Yangtze River that had been dormant in the dark were also causing trouble one after another. The most intolerable thing for the Han Dynasty was the appearance of another emperor from the Sima family in Cangwu County, Guangzhou.

The state of Han could not confirm whether the emperor in Guangxin City, Cangwu County, really had the blood of the Sima family, but whether he was a serious descendant of the Sima family was not important to the state of Han. Having achieved the desired goal, they gained a reputation and were able to gather forces against the rule of the Han Dynasty, leading to organized resistance in the south of the Yangtze River.

To put it bluntly, Han's too rapid expansion has shown a weak side.Within a few years, the Han State went from having nothing to restoring sixty-seven of the old land of the Han family. The territory has increased again and again, but the actual control power varies from weak to strong. The later the land occupied, the weaker the control power.

The situation that Han is facing now is actually similar to that of the former Qin Empire. Although the enemy countries were destroyed, some people in those enemy countries were not completely wiped out.

It is the most appropriate way to destroy a country, spend at least one generation digesting it, and then continue to expand. The former Emperor Shihuang couldn't wait, and Liu Yan also didn't have that much patience. If there is a difference, the Qin Empire collapsed It was after the death of the first emperor, but Liu Yan was still alive, those people jumped out.

"Riots everywhere are a disease of scabies." Liu Yan really didn't feel that the matter was serious. He looked away from a distance, turned to look at Xu Zheng, and said, "If it's not a year to destroy them, it will be several years. until it is exterminated.”

In those places where riots occurred, soldiers from the counties and counties were not drawn to participate in the national war. The newly recruited soldiers were trained on the spot and then put into suppression. The country has also been at war with the Hu people, no matter in terms of righteousness or national sentiment, unless they are not descendants of the Han family, it is not necessary for the people to resist the rule of the Han country.

For those foreign races who rebelled against Han, Liu Yan actually took it for granted, just because Han really did not leave them a way to survive.

The riots in the south seemed to be quite agitated, and a small court was set up in Guangxin, but all signs showed that only those aristocratic families who did not surrender were jumping, and only a very small number of people would get involved, but Zhuyue He Zhuman responded enthusiastically.

"I have always firmly believed in the idea that people who are not my race must be exterminated." Xu Zheng squeezed the hilt of the sword in his hand, and said murderously: "Is it the king's land in the whole world, and the land of the land is the king's minister."

Xu Zheng's last sentence comes from "The Book of Songs. Xiaoya. Gufeng Zhishi. Beishan", but the interpretation of the "Book of Songs" is one thing, and what he said is another. It can be understood simply as: not yourself People, then go to die.

Liu Yan asked his personal guards to lead the mount, and quickly got on the horse.

Their current location is near Anguo City in Boling County, which is at the border of Gaoyang County.And north of Gaoyang County is Youzhou.

The Queen's hometown is in Boling County. Liu Yan did not go to the Cui clan after he came here, but the Cui clan's patriarch brought people to visit him. Liu Yan only met his old father-in-law and included a few Cui clan members. Junjie.

There is still not much movement in Murong Yan Kingdom. It has been shrinking since the failure of the last eastward advance. After the Han army from the direction of Jizhou launched an offensive to Youzhou, the Murong Yan army was just the defenders of various cities. The Han army pushed to the area of ​​Zhuo County.

"The strength of the hussar shogunate has expanded to 30, and there is no roof." Liu Yan pinched the horse's belly with his legs, and the mount started to move slowly: "I believe that the hussar general will give a satisfactory answer in the end. "

There were not many troops on the top of the mountain. As soon as Liu Yan made a move, the king's flag embroidered with black birds was erected.

Why not a dragon-shaped totem?Regardless of whether it is the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty, the totem of the royal family is the black bird, which is a continuation of the Chu Kingdom during the Warring States Period.

In addition, most of the main totems of the pre-Qin countries in ancient times were birds. The original dragon totem came from Wu State, but the dragon totem of Wu State was actually only a dragon with legs (more like a four-legged snake). During this period, Buddhism has not yet been passed on, and some Buddhist images about bull heads, antlers, fish scales, snake bodies, eagle claws, and gold fish-tailed dragons did not appear. Dragon images have not been integrated into those Buddhist treasures. Chilong, Kuilong, Yinglong and so on in the pre-Qin period.

It was not until the emergence of Taoism in the Western Han Dynasty that the "four spirits" were emphasized, that is, the green dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, and the basalt. The green dragon was emphatically regarded as a symbol of imperial power. However, the dragon pattern in this period was actually incomplete, and the royal family was also a black bird totem.

The dragon totem has a very long process. The dragon pattern in the primitive period is really quite primitive. The dragon pattern in the Shang and Zhou dynasties was really formed. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, repeated "processing" made the dragon pattern totem reach a new peak. It was not until the Han Dynasty The real finalization period of the dragon pattern shape, the Tang Dynasty evolved the dragon pattern totem to a perfect and mature state, and the Song and Yuan dynasties developed the dragon pattern totem to a new milestone.

The dragon represents the emperor from the Ming Dynasty, wearing the "dragon robe", wearing the "dragon crown", sitting on the "dragon seat", and living in the "dragon court". During this period, the dragon really began to grow taller, and then the Tunguska wild boar skin came to the "Qing Cheng Ming system" to carry forward even more.

It seems that the artistic conception and glory of the dragon can no longer satisfy the boar-skin emperor, and he also makes perfect jokes. Then the perfect old man consumes the savings of previous generations of emperors in southward affairs again and again, and himself Not long after his son succeeded to the throne, he was faced with the invasion of Western powers and could not even raise military funds.

Liu Yan is a sensible person. Of course, the dragon is very important, but "My Great Qing" made the dragon the flag representing the country. I really don't have the courage to imitate it. Besides, since he established the Han Dynasty, he should use the black bird.

Wang Qi appeared on the top of the mountain, and cheers erupted from near to far. It was the army who saw Wang Qi shouting.

Huang Deyi was one of the cheering members. Like all the paozes, he looked at the Wang Qi in the distance with fiery eyes. It was the supreme of the country. Besides, he still believed that he would lead them from one victory to another. leader.

The shout was "Wan Sheng", and after a long shouting, the military song was sung.

"A man should kill, and kill without mercy. The eternal karma is all in killing. In the past, there was a man of honor, with great loyalty and commitment. Jazi is killing, and his body is lighter than a feather..."

"..., killing a person in three steps, the heart stops and the hands stop.

"Junxiu asked, men can do what they want."

"What a man should do is to be violent. Matters and benevolence are incompatible."

"Men are in the killing field. They are as brave as a bear and look like a wolf. If you are born as a man, you will kill. You don't teach a man to wrap a woman's heart. Men never show their body, and they laugh at each other when they die. There are a hundred places in the battlefield of enmity, and there are always wishes Green with wild grass..."

The rolling sound waves swept across the north direction!

(End of this chapter)