sweeping the world

Chapter 573 It's Not Easy
Officials can't get used to it, or the more they get used to it, the more they become jerks.In fact, no one can be used to it all the time, otherwise it will only make people feel that it is taken for granted, and if they feel a little unsatisfactory, they will feel that people on the whole earth are sorry for themselves.

Not only did Liu Yan not want to get used to Lu Ru, but he thought the same about everyone.He knew that now was the best time to destroy Zhang's Liangguo. Facing Xu Zheng's stern face and wanting to lead the army to veto it, he planned to let Xie An, who was closest to Zhang's Liangguo, take action.

"Xie Ai stationed in Rouran Mountain still has a lot of hands, but the troops don't need that many." Liu Yan was also not able to turn the corner, and he still had no idea of ​​the gains and losses of this deep grassland battle: "Leave more than [-], The Janissaries call back."

It should be said that the goal of going deep into the grassland was achieved this time. Although Zhang Chonghua was only captured alive and Tuoba Shiyijian, Murong Jun, and Fu Hong escaped, the alliance of the kings was destroyed, and the details of the Rouran people were also found out. .

The affairs of Rouran can be put aside for now. Whether Bati can be used by the Han State needs to be fought for.If Rouran can respond from the north, it will certainly be beneficial to Han's campaign against Tuoba Dai and Murong Yan. It depends on whether Xie Ai has the ability to persuade Ba Ti.

Zhang Chonghua was captured, and Zhang's Liang Kingdom fell into chaos without a leader. The Han Kingdom planned to proceed in three steps.

It is of course the most ideal to make Zhang Chonghua succumb, and then order Zhang's Liang Kingdom to surrender.

Zhang Chonghua cannot be made to succumb. Han Guo used Zhang Chonghua's name to send false news to Zhang's Liangguo that he had succumbed.

The next step is to incite the ambitions of Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi, at least causing Zhang's Liangguo to fall into civil strife.

The basis of everything is to prepare for the conquest of the Han army, and what kind of fruits can be harvested depends on force.

Xie Ai, who is located in Guanzhong, does not have many troops on hand. A standing army plus [-] county and county soldiers basically rely on Qinzhou's Weishui River as a garrison.

Xu Zheng needs to figure out one thing: "Your Majesty, is the Imperial Guard the callback center, or..."

Xie An took a defensive position with limited troops at hand, facing at least 13 Zhang's Liang army and [-] multi-ethnic coalition forces headed by the Di people.

It was Zhang Zuo who led Zhang's Liang army to invade Guanzhong, and Zhang Chong was his deputy.Most of this batch of Zhang's Liang army belonged to the original Jincheng garrison army, and the rest were called back from the Western Regions.

As the important military town in the east of the Liang Kingdom of the Zhang family, Jincheng should not be far behind in terms of troops that can undertake the garrison. They have fought against Liu Yao's former Zhao, Shi Le's Hou Zhao, and Shi Hu's Hou Zhao for a long time. Jincheng has always been defended as solid as gold.

The batch of Zhang's Liang army that Zhang Chonghua transferred back from the Western Regions had been fighting in the Western Regions for a long time. Since they were able to conquer and open up more than half of the Western Regions for Zhang's Liang Country, their combat effectiveness must not be much lower.

Fu Hong is currently missing for the Han Dynasty, and the person who leads the Hu nationality coalition army in Guanzhong is Fu Hong's fourth son, Fu Xiong.

The multi-ethnic coalition led by Fu Xiong is of course the main supporter of the Di people, and some Qiang people are also highly valued. The Hu people who were gathered basically have a deep hatred against the Han, especially the Qiang people. He tried his best to avenge Yao Yizhong.

Generally speaking, Xie Ai was able to stabilize the front with far fewer troops than the enemy, which allowed the central government to see his military talents. However, holding on to the front with limited troops did not mean that he could use far fewer troops than the enemy. The army's forces launched a counterattack.

"The battle of Yanmen is over, and the battle of Youzhou has also come to a standstill..." Xu Zheng spread his hands and said, "It doesn't mean that there are troops to reinforce Xie An."

If calculated according to the era, it is now the autumn of [-] AD, the fifth year of Yuan Shuo.

Since the third year of Yuanshuo, the territory of the Han Kingdom has been expanding every day. If we really want to compare it, the current territory of the Han Kingdom has returned to the same level as that of the Western Jin Dynasty, and it has lost a large area of ​​territory in the southwest compared to the Western Jin Dynasty. , while missing the territory west of Qinzhou in Guanzhong. (I can't upload the map from the starting point now, or I will post the map with honor.)
In just two or three years, the territory of the Han Dynasty expanded several times, but the territory was not finished after the army captured it. For the suppression of some remnants, and the vigilance of some unstable people, every place required the use of troops.

Let's put it this way, Han now has seven standing cavalry corps and six infantry corps.Six of the cavalry armies were targeting Tuoba Dai and Murong Yan, and one was under Xie An's command.However, two infantry armies were under Huan Wen's tent, one was used as an emergency infantry army to mobilize counter-insurgency, and the rest were naturally also in the battlefields of Tuoba Dai State and Murong Yan State.There were about 50 soldiers serving in counties and counties across the country at the same time, more than [-] were transferred to the northern front, [-] were under Huan Wen's account, and the rest were in various states and counties.

Regardless of the current total strength of the Han Kingdom as high as more than 70, the Han army also has many fronts, and the domestic garrison is indispensable, and there will be casualties in the battle. It is really impossible to spare many troops for Xie An.

To destroy Zhang Shiliang country, it is one thing to make preparations before taking action. The real action must be fast, ruthless, and accurate. file, or lose the best time.

According to the previous discussion of the center, the imperial guards should be transferred back to the center after completing the mission of going deep into the grassland before being sent to the battlefield against Murong Yanguo, but the current situation needs to be changed.

"The area where Murong Xianbei is located has been in the cold for a long time. In recent years, the climate has tended to have early winter and late spring. The suitable time for combat is less than four months." Xu Zheng is the Taiwei. Why did he not make suggestions? Who is coming?In other words: "Since now is an excellent time to destroy Xiliang, it is better to transfer the imperial guards to Xie An's command."

The Imperial Guards are well-known for their ability to fight, and their requirements for the climate during combat are not that high. Xu Zheng sincerely believed that instead of waiting for the weather to get warmer, he should ignore the bitter cold, so he directly attacked Zhang in late autumn and winter this year. Shi Liangguo cooked it.

Liu Yan thought about it carefully, and finally looked at Ji Chang.

"This year's autumn harvest has been completed." Of course, Ji Chang knew what Liu Yan meant when he saw it, and immediately said: "It can completely support the opening of the battlefield in Xiliang."

The war against Tuoba Dai and Murong Yan will temporarily slow down due to the influence of the climate. The army will be in a non-war state and the consumption of grain will be greatly reduced. For the Han State, which has harvested grain but is still generally short of food. It's a relief.

"Southwest..." Liu Yan thought of the war against the Southwest Peninsula. Seeing that the discussion had come to an end, he changed the topic: "What's the situation?"

At the beginning of the fourth year of Yuanshuo, the Han army landed in Jiaozhi and invaded Linyi. The Han army fought against Linyi several times in Nichinan, and later landed on the coastline, forcing Linyi to abandon the coastline and stick to the inland.

The regular army of the Han Dynasty had regained the old land that Lin Yi had snatched from the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After harvesting the first batch of results, there was no good way to deal with the mountains that cut off the coastline and the interior, so the regular army temporarily stopped. It opens the door and releases many families.

"The sons and daughters have already crossed the mountains and entered Linyi." Yu Yi came to participate in the discussion, most of the time with his ears but no mouth, and he was happy to have the opportunity to show his sense of existence: "The loss is a bit big, but the gain is not bad."

Yu Yi's so-called crossing, that is really painstakingly crossing mountains and ridges, not many people were lost in the fight, but many people died from falling down the mountain, poisonous insects, miasma and other natural environments .

The armed forces of each family were released. The land they laid down on the other side of the mountains belonged to the family. Even if it did not belong to the family, they could contribute to the country in exchange for titles and rewards. They wanted to make a difference.

As much as a person's desire is, how determined is his determination to do things. If he breaks into the deep mountains and dense forests with great determination, and waits to enter, even if he regrets, it is a kind of progress. The scalp moves on.

"Oh..." Liu Yan really didn't pay much attention to the movements of each family, and asked with great interest: "Tell me, what are the good harvests?"

Yu Yi is the public spokesperson of each family in the central government, which Liu Yan expressly allowed.The reason why he became an official in the Han Kingdom was to a large extent to ensure the development of various families in the southwest peninsula. Since Liu Yan was interested in knowing, he would naturally introduce it to him.

If you want to say what the families have gained the most after going through all kinds of hardships, it should be that they have figured out the weather in the southwest peninsula. Of course, they have opened up a path, and they have accumulated enough experience in dealing with poisonous insects.They went deep into the inland, crossed the mountains and did not encounter too many savages, and re-entered the flatlands to find bananas everywhere, and monkeys and elephants everywhere.

"Huh?" Xu Zheng was amused: "What do you eat for three meals?"

Yu Yi said, "Banana fruit."

By the way, people who live north of the Yangtze River are really unfamiliar with bananas.Then, bananas are indeed called bananas now.

"It can't be helped. It rains every three days, especially in the autumn, which is a long rainy season. The dry food I carry will soon go rancid after being soaked in water. It just so happens that it is the season for ripe bananas." Yu Yi's expression was not good when he spoke: "I ate too many bananas, and my sons and daughters have serious diarrhea. If they can be sent back to Cochin for treatment and recuperation, they can save their lives."

What happened if he couldn't be sent back to the Han army's control area in time? The answer can be found in Yu Yi's ugly face.

Liu Yan knew very well what was going on in the southwest peninsula.Before he crossed over, he watched some extreme survival programs. Compared with some foreign survival programs, some domestic variety shows that started to play survival challenges were simply child's play.Compared with some foreign survival programs, there are really no modern tools to survive in the wild, especially in the extremely primitive place of the Southwest Peninsula. Fighting with the sky, the earth, and anything requires more than It is courage.

What kind of society is it now?But there are not so many technological products in modern times. With the development of Chinese civilization, at least flint and steel have been produced, but at least dry wood is needed to make a fire!The problem is that it rains from time to time on the southwest peninsula, and it is not easy to get dry firewood.

The problem for people in the southwest peninsula, especially for those who are not used to being wet all the time, is that it is difficult to keep dry, which is fatal. People with weaker physical fitness cannot keep dry, and getting sick is a matter of minutes .Therefore, for the armed forces of each family, it is very good not to get sick, but the key is whether they can bear the disease, or whether they can get timely and effective treatment is a matter of life and death.

"The price is very high... very high..." Yu Yi's face was gloomy at first, and he probably didn't expect that it would be so difficult to open up the Southwest. Cooked or four-cooked is not a problem. In addition to food, the local minerals are very rich, only two open-pit gold mines have been discovered, and gemstones and fragrant woods can be seen everywhere."

Under the premise of sufficient benefits, sacrifice is of course acceptable, especially most of the sacrificed people are lowly servants to the family, they have paid and gained, but they are more or less reconciled to the fact that those gains are taken by the dynasty part.

"Like nugget gold and jade, right?" Liu Yan was actually a little unsure, so he asked: "Have you discovered those things, do you have the labor to develop them?"

What Liu Yan knew was that there were not many gold mines in the southwest, but there was a large silver mine and several large coal mines on the other side of the mountains. There were even some of the best iron ore and copper mines in Asia, among which the coal mines were even more There is anthracite coal that is unique in Asia.

Anthracite!Maybe it's not that big of a deal now, but when we enter the steam age, steam turbines are developed, and when ships are equipped with steam drives, anthracite will be a very precious strategic material.You need to know more deeply that France, which occupies the southwest peninsula, is very cunning in Europe because they have anthracite coal mines in their hands. Their arrogant face makes even the most powerful country on earth look down upon it.

"I have obtained the document, and I am already dredging the Jiudejiu River. If this river across the mountains can be used..." Yu Yi's answer was somewhat irrelevant, but the truth is there: "With the current reliance, communication is the lifeblood .”

The so-called Jiude Zhuhe, the word "德" actually means removing the "彳" next to the double characters and replacing it with three points of water, but the simplified Chinese characters have long since lost that character.This naming can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. After all, it was during the Western Han Dynasty that the Chinese Miao people first colonized the area. Of course, some of the names were given during the colonization.

"The widow will ask the local garrison to cooperate with all their strength." Liu Yan did not mean to be perfunctory, and added cautiously: "If you have other needs, Yu Qing can also speak."

Yu Yi immediately saluted, his face was rarely touched.

For Liu Yan, the continuous development of the Han Kingdom is to open up territories, but why not expand the living space of the nation?Anyone who explores and explores outside will be strongly supported. How far they can develop is one thing. It can cultivate the adventurous spirit of the nation.

(End of this chapter)