sweeping the world

Chapter 601

Isn't this another Little Ice Age globally?The current extent of the Arctic Circle is about 21 times that of the [-]st century AD, and there are many areas that have been in ice and snow for many years.

The current navigation of the Han Dynasty has gradually developed. After the countries of the Wulian Islands were incorporated into the vassal state system, some ships continued to explore northward. They used stargazing to maintain their routes. The ice and snow blocked the way.

Of course, the Bering Strait is to the north of the Uriel Islands, but now that sea area is no longer called this name, it is called "Ice Field Sea".

At present, there is indeed no such place as the Bering Strait. It is not even a sea at all, and it is in a state of being frozen in a large area.

After Liu Yan received the report, he was already recruiting warriors, intending to try to trek through the ice and snow land, and wondered if he could go directly to the American continent.

Some modern scientists have discovered through research that the appearance of the earth is not constant, and that each continental plate slowly evolves from the original concentration to separate continental plates.They don't know what method they used. Assuming that the origin of human beings is in Africa, after tens of millions of years of migration to various continents, the reason why there are white, yellow, black, and brown people , that's because humans adapted to the local environment during evolution.

Biological things always allow genes to adapt autonomously because of the different environments they live in.It seems that someone speculates that after the interstellar age, as humans migrate to various planets, the appearance of humans will change due to the different planets. For example, planets with lower gravity will generally be taller, while planets with higher gravity will generally be taller In addition, humans living on planets with low gravity look tall but have very fragile bones, while humans living on planets with high gravity look short but have extremely strong bones.

Liu Yan knows that the North Pole is not completely deserted. There are a group of Eskimos living there, so it is certain that people can adapt to various environments. The difference is that they need to go through extremely cruel elimination.

Now there are quite a few people who are thinking of moving north. Tuoba and Murong among Xianbei have already started to act. Are Xianbei and Murong Xianbei developing peacefully, or playing a unique clan.

The Xianbei Grassland is now considered to be in the Arctic Circle, with the North Sea (Lake Baikal) as the middle line, and the north is affected by the Little Ice Age. That land is in the season of ice and snow for more than five months a year.

There are six months of winter in a year, and it is doomed that the living supplies will not be sufficient, and the nomads are still extremely dependent on the pastures. Liu Yan is sure that if the weather does not warm up, even if the Xianbei people can live there again, the population will definitely decrease. rather than an increased state.

There must be enough food to reproduce a larger population. This also makes Liu Yan agree with the need for internal development, but he does not like the voice of completely stopping the war. After solving the neighboring countries, he should turn swords into plowshares and horses into Nanshan. remarks are even more offensive.

"Launch an offensive in early May." Liu Yan has been standing in front of the map of mountains and rivers. At this moment, he is looking at a group of standing generals: "I have mobilized the imperial guards, and they will invade Yan from the rear first."

Xu Zheng was shocked immediately, and immediately said: "That's really good."

Not only because the imperial guards are known to be good at fighting and tough, but also because the invasion of Murong Yan country from two directions is the appropriate method of warfare.

Many people always wonder why they have enough troops, why they divide them into multiple routes and deploy them from different directions. They think that concentrating the troops in one place is the correct way, and that they can effectively fight with superior troops, but they don’t Think about the consumption required by the army, and never think that the larger the force, the greater the pressure on logistics.What's more, the multi-way attack actually has a diversionary effect. It also disperses the enemy's forces, and there is more insurance. After all, as long as there is a way to open a breakthrough, the defensive side must be more passive.

Of course, wars are not static. The ability of the generals should be taken into consideration, and it is even more important to understand the quality of the army. Otherwise, the correct combat method uses the wrong people, or the army does not have the quality it should have. A strategy that will win will result in defeat.

The land of Murong Yan Kingdom is not too large, that is, it occupies Yuyang County, Youbeiping County, Liaoxi County, Liaodong County, Xuantu County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and naturally there is a considerable area of ​​grassland.

In comparison with the territory, the territory of the Murong Yan State is also a state of the Han State, with a population of about 180 million, and the intelligence shows that there is an army of more than 30. Later, Tuoba Shiyijian took Tuoba Xianbei to seek refuge , and added about [-] friendly troops to Murong Xianbei.

Calculated, now should be the stage of Murong Xianbei's rise. If Liu Yan, a spoiler like Liu Yan, hadn't appeared, they would have spent about ten years knocking down all the surrounding countries except Shijie and Zhao, and gained wealth It is impossible to calculate, and the population has also increased considerably.

A country that is on the rise, and a country that is going downhill, the war capabilities presented in different states are absolutely incomparable.In the history of the world, there are many countries that look at countries with small territories and small populations, but they can win consecutive battles when challenging behemoths, and even swallow elephants with snakes. brought about by the results.

Murong Yan's army, which continued to win against neighboring countries and forces, was at its peak. Murong Yan's army was also the only one who did not appear weak when fighting against the Han army. It can even be said that the Han army suffered multiple defeats. The hit was in the hands of Murong Yanjun.

In terms of morale, the difference between the Han army and the Murong Yan army does not actually appear to be a gap...

The development and prosperity of the Han Kingdom from scratch is to move from one victory to another. The confidence that the army should have has long been cultivated. The country is completely superior to Murong Yan in terms of territory and population.

Murong Yanguo actually went from one victory to the next. They learned about their own strength from the weaker enemy army. What affected the morale of the army a little bit was that they could not use the strong to bully the weak when facing the Han army. The worry is that I can't afford to lose but the Han army can afford to lose.

"The Han Dynasty has 70 standing armies and 30 imperial guards. It can summon no less than 5 county soldiers. If necessary, it can form the next echelon of a million-strong army!" Xu Zheng's face was red when he said this. The next sentence is: "What is the population of Yan State? If the [-]-strong army is defeated, they will be gone. If you risk your life, you can gather another [-] to [-] people. If we destroy them, they are doomed!"

It sounds very uplifting, but it shouldn't be said by the Taiwei of a country.

Han has thirteen standing armies, but only six are on the battlefield to attack Yan, and the others are scattered in multiple positions.

There is only one Dingxiang left in the Zhao Kingdom of Shijie, which is actually destroyed. The difference is when Liu Yan ordered to capture alive or kill Shihu who didn't know his health status.

Tuoba Daiguo collapsed on its own because Tuoba Shiyijian was frightened, and Shengle was captured by the Han army, and the grasslands in Monan also belonged to the territory of Han.

Due to the lack of confidence, Zhang's Liangguo wanted to merge peacefully and join the big family of Han to share the dividends of the victors. At present, it has entered the negotiation stage. If Liu Yan didn't have the intention of killing them all, there might be one left behind. Future troubles... Or called historical problems, but Zhang's Liangguo is destined to disappear as a country.

At present, the front lines that Han needs to deal with are always decreasing. In addition to maintaining enough troops in the Northwest to deter Xiliang, the Fu clan in the basin is mostly under surveillance. for other fronts.

The hussars shogunate is in the final stage of the grave because Shijie Zhao Guo entered the grave. The central government has included the disbandment of the hussars shogunate into the process, leaving some troops as garrisons in various places. At most, it will continue to clean up the northwest grassland. The required troops will be will be limited.

In the south, including the land of Shu, after the long-term purge presided over by Huan Wen, the hostile forces who disobeyed the rule were either killed or feared, and the next step was to garrison the county and county soldiers.In order to continue to build up his military exploits, Huan Wen has already started to ask the center to go south to the Indian subcontinent, and he is not happy to find Linyi and Funan.

Regarding Huan Wen's request, the center is still in the stage of hesitation for the time being, thinking that Linyi and Funan don't need two standing armies at all, at most they can complete the goal of destroying the country and occupying land by deploying a standing army.And only one standing army going south doesn't need the rank of General Zhengnan at all. The highest standard is to lead the troops by Zhengnan Zhonglang, or simply dispatch only one general.

With the reduction of the front line, there are many new problems that need to be solved. For example, the generals at the "Zheng" level will most likely have to live on their credit books in the future. Build up to become new problems.

Huan Wen, the general who conquered the south, is depressed recently because his opponents in the south can't use him. He has been seeking to lead his troops to the south and has not received a reply.

There is no need to worry that the ones who have no opponents are Li Tan, General Zhengbei, and General Xie An, Zhonglang General Zhengnan. Li Tan and Xigaoche on the northern grassland are the targets of conquest. One is that General Lu Tai still has the Xianbei Grassland and Donggaoche after finishing the Murong Yan Kingdom. It is a bit difficult to determine whether Rouran should be in charge of the shogunate of General Zhengbei or the shogunate of General Zhengdong.

"How soon will the Marquis of Meiyang arrive?" Liu Yan said that the Marquis of Meiyang was Ran Min, and he continued after he got the answer: "The hussars shogunate was disbanded. The first offensive in Peiping is entrusted to him."

In the Han Dynasty, there was no general with a fixed establishment under his command. They all established the shogunate with the permission of the central government, and how many troops were transferred into the command system of the shogunate according to the needs.This is actually to avoid the emergence of military towns, so although there are generals with the word "town" in their titles, no generals of this level have been appointed.

Liu Yan is well aware of the hidden dangers of a general commanding a fixed army for a long time, and is already thinking about whether it is necessary to carry out necessary reforms instead of setting up some powers and not appointing them.

To be clear, in the framework of the national system, especially what official position is appointed now, it is possible that the official position will be held by someone until death, or even if an official of this generation dies, the next generation will be appointed. To inherit, the appointment of many positions really needs to be cautious.

Liu Yan's strength made many official positions that obviously existed, but no one took them. Although no one dared to have any objections, the hidden dangers were not eliminated.His plan is to make necessary changes to the national system after the surrounding threats are removed, and even the military system will undergo a substantial restructuring, such as canceling the general titles of "Zheng", "Zhen", "Ping", and "Fu". Replace it with a general number that is not specifically pointed.

Many modern countries will set up theaters (front armies). In fact, the era of cold weapons has long existed, such as the frontier army in a certain direction of the Central Plains Dynasty.In Liu Yan's series of plans, an offensive country does not need the existence system of frontier troops at all. Anyway, it just keeps fighting, and it can only be a theater in the immediate stage, or a targeted front army.

There are thirteen standing armies in the Han Dynasty. These standing armies will not be fixed to which standing army should be there for a long time. This is the foreshadowing that Liu Yan planted in advance.

Liu Yan's plan is that no matter how many standing troops there are, they will all belong to the national defense force.Except for the generals of the army, these standing armies will not have fixed front-line commanders, and the generals will also be rotated for many years.When needed, how many standing armies are drawn to form a group army, and someone appointed by a certain center will serve as the commander of the group army. If the size of the group army is not enough, it will be enlarged to become a corps.

Group army, corps... Does it sound very modern?However, in fact, regardless of the group army or the corps, it is actually a title that existed in the cold weapon era, and records can be found in both the East and the West.

In fact...Liu Yan wants to create a system of major generals, lieutenant generals, generals, and marshals, but doing so is solely a matter for the upper echelons of the military, and a series of reforms must also be carried out at the grassroots level.

[Perhaps it is really going to happen like this...] Liu Yan has finished what he should say. How to plan the offensive against Murong Yanguo only needs to grasp the general direction. The details are those of the generals and the chief historians (that is, the staff officers). thing.He once again thought while walking: [We are about to enter the age of firearms. Although cold weapons will not be completely eliminated for a while, it is completely necessary to reform the military system first. 】

The age of firearms mentioned by Liu Yan is not only about the imminent upgrade of the system, but also the research on gunpowder that he has personally grasped.

(End of this chapter)