sweeping the world

Chapter 802 Do you want to tear down the Great Wall?

"Really? Abandoned the army and fled?"

"Your Majesty, General Hussars wrote back, saying that he will try his best to hunt him down."

Liu Yan has already passed the desert, about 150 miles away from Yanmen County. They will follow this military road, enter Yanmen Pass and then go east, pass through Liaoxi County and Liaodong County to the northeast, and inspect the other side The actual situation after more than a year of development.

There are not many roads from the hinterland of the Han Dynasty to the grasslands. It is the route that the troops have traveled when they repeatedly marched into the grasslands. There are road signs pointing at the back, and there are post stations every ten miles.Because it was developed by the army, the post stations along the way also belong to the military system, and it has always been commonly known as the military road.

In fact, Liu Yan is still a small hand, and he didn't make much effort to build the road leading to the grassland. The former Emperor Shi Huang used the power of half a country to build a straight road leading to Hetao from Neishi County at that time. Attitude and specs to build.

The straight road built in the Qin Dynasty is still preserved in later generations, not to mention the present, the Han Dynasty actually used the straight road built in the Qin Dynasty to play a considerable role in the transportation of luggage from Guanzhong to Hetao.

"General Hussars..." Liu Yan was not riding a horse, but riding in a chariot, with several important officials in the chariot.He shook his head and smiled, and continued, "I wish I could chase him to the ends of the earth."

If a person wants to hide, if there is no insider to report the escape route, the difficulty of catching him is much higher than imagined. Liu Yan doesn't care too much about whether he can catch Fu Jian. The once powerful Di clan has become a thing of the past. The trouble that Fu's entry into the Xigaoche should have caused has become an established fact. Even if Fu wants to do something, it will be the same for Han, and it will not change the overall situation.

Yanmen Pass has always been one of the most important passes in Zhuxia. It relies on the surrounding dangerous mountains as a barrier, chooses the most advantageous location to build a city tower, and together with the long city wall becomes Zhuxia's barrier in the north.

Looking at it from a distance, Liu Yan can see that many mountains extend into a straight line. To enter Yanmen Pass, one needs to pass through the passage surrounded by two mountains.

If it is said that passing through the passage is absolutely not dangerous, in fact, after passing through the passage, there are still mountains, and most of the roads that can be walked are winding and winding, but military facilities can be seen on any high ground, and the most important thing that cannot be ignored is The city tower that is in the only way.

In addition to the main building of the city gate that provides passage, there is a fortress built on the high ground on the left side, and the mountain is directly connected to the right side.

The fortress is a complex of buildings with city walls, and there are quite a few buildings similar to beacon towers. In fact, those buildings that look like beacon towers are the archery towers of the fortress. Two to three bed crossbows can be placed on it, and twenty or thirty crossbowmen can also be provided. stand.They are arranged in a very particular position, almost covering the shooting range in front of the gate of the pass, and at the same time targeting the road leading to the fortress.

The defenders of the pass had already known the arrival of the patrol team. According to the procedure, the obstacles along the way were cleared. No one could stand in the open at the pass, city walls, fortresses and other places. Most of the defenders went out of the city gate to greet them. You can see the flag fluttering in the wind.

The leading troops of the patrol team passed through the city gate and took over the passes and various defense points according to the same procedure.This is not distrust of the defenders, but a necessary procedure for the emperor to patrol any area. It would be an honor if the emperor specifically ordered the defenders of a certain place to be responsible for the defense, but similar examples are pitifully rare.

When Liu Yan arrived in front of Yanmen Pass, he stopped deliberately, and when he looked up, he saw the name of the pass engraved on the stone slab in small seal characters.The Yanmen Pass he saw was not neat, and the city walls were not built of bricks, but actually rammed earth, with stones used in some places.

The road in front of Yanmenguan City Gate is deliberately narrow and can only accommodate about 30 people standing side by side. The main gate opening can only allow one car to pass or seven or eight people to pass side by side.

Liu Yan re-boarded the chariot and deliberately calculated when passing through the city gate. The depth of the city gate should be about 12 meters, and there are four Tibetan soldier caves on the left and right sides.He made a special inquiry and learned that each cave can accommodate 50 people, and there are also stored food, water, some ordnance, firewood, and kerosene in it.

The cave for Tibetan soldiers inside the city gate is not a decoration, it is mainly responsible for the guard of the city gate. Once the enemy breaks through the gate, they will use their flesh and blood to stop the advance of the enemy. If they can't stop it, they will set fire to it.

Through the city gate hole, one enters an urn surrounded by four walls. This place is actually the second line of defense of the city gate. He didn't have the ability to break through the second city gate with the rain of arrows overhead.

Passing through the gate of Wengcheng, Liu Yan saw a school field, about the size of a football field, surrounded by fences.

At this moment, the school grounds were filled with soldiers lined up. After seeing the king's flag, they all knelt down on one knee and chanted the slogan "The emperor will last for ten thousand years, and the great man will have no borders." They took the lead, and everyone everywhere Everyone joined in, and the slogans echoed in the mountains and rippled the earth.

Except for the school grounds, the area including the school grounds is actually a permanent military barracks, line after line of defense built according to the defense system, and there are rows of barracks, including arsenals, granaries and the like.

Yanmen Pass was the first among all the passes in the pre-Han period. The Yanmen Pass in the early Han Dynasty was not what it is now. Not to mention that the defensive walls including the pass towers were not as high as they are now, and there were only a few fortresses on the highlands.

There are relevant historical documents to provide verification. The Yanmen Pass in the early Han Dynasty was only two feet high, and there were gaps everywhere. As a result, the Han army at that time had to block it with flesh and blood, and was repeatedly broken through by the Huns casually. The ravaged counties are not limited to Yanmen County, but almost the entire northern Xinjiang will be ravaged.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was not that he did not want to heighten and thicken Yanmen Pass. He even thought about strengthening the fortifications day and night. The 3000 people were all urgently transferred from other places after the war broke out.

Probably during the period of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, because the relationship between the Han and the Hungarians eased at that time, the Yanmen Pass had been repaired and stopped for more than ten years... The main reason was that they did not want to provoke the Huns, so the walls of the Yanmen Pass were generally raised to three feet. Fortresses were also built.

Until the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Huns were able to break through the Yanmen Pass many times. It had to wait until the Han Empire turned from defense to offense, so that the Huns could not break into the Han territory through the Great Wall.

Facts have repeatedly proved that even if there are re-consolidated fortifications, the overall strength of the country is insufficient, or the force is not in an advantage, and the pass can only play a certain defensive role, and it will still be penetrated if it should be penetrated.

Regardless of whether it is the Great Wall or any pass, it has always had a defensive function, but it is more of an early warning and blocking effect. The early warning function is greater than the blocking effect. The main purpose of building the Great Wall is to prevent the Hulu You can go wherever you want, and the Central Plains Dynasty can better predict the enemy's marching route and prepare for defense or actively intercept it.

The contemporary Han army has already reached Mobei, the grassland has already belonged to the territory of the Han family, the Great Wall has actually lost its military value, and the functions of the various passes are infinitely reduced.

The real situation is that as long as the Central Plains dynasty can take the initiative to attack the grassland, the Great Wall will become a decoration. However, the past dynasties have never stopped paying attention to the Great Wall. The funds allocated for maintenance and repair have never stopped. There have always been garrisons, but the number of garrisons is limited. Many and few.

Naturally, Liu Yan wanted to go up to the city tower to take a look around, take a panoramic view of the surrounding terrain, and then look at the winding road among the mountains, and thought of several poems about Yanmen Pass in his mind. Absolutely sad.

It seems to be the case. As long as it is a frontier poem, most of the poems are bound to have some "negative energy". It does not mean that the soldiers who go out of the frontier will inevitably suffer heavy losses, or that many people who go to war will return. It seems that going abroad to fight is a life-or-death situation Sad reminder, it really fully reflects the ideology of "defending the nation".

Liu Yan has been trying very hard to remember, and he doesn't know that there are not enough "poetry databases". He is depressed to find that the only song in his memory is "Poetry. Write strong words for Chen Tongfu to send it". The problem is that the last sentence "poor things happen in vain" also conforms to the format of frontier poems, and some sadness must be added.

Otherwise, "Looking at the sword with the light on while drunk, dreaming back to the company of blowing horns. Eight hundred miles of fire under the command, fifty strings turning over the fortress, and autumn soldiers on the battlefield" is very imposing?The artistic conception of "Lu Feikuai made by a horse, and his bow is like a thunderbolt. He will end the affairs of the king and win the fame before and after his life" is also full of good expectations.

"Your Majesty?" Sang Yu didn't know why Liu Yan was in a daze. He called a few times before but didn't get a response, and then slightly increased the volume.He waited for Liu Yan to look over before he continued, "Xingyuan is staying here tonight?"

Liu Yan is no longer recalling poems, he is considering whether to tear down the Great Wall.

The Great Wall is very long, but it was not really connected at the beginning.Its construction began in the Spring and Autumn Period, and its purpose was of course to resist the aggression of the Hu people in the north. At that time, each vassal state built its own.As the vassal states annexed each other, the various warring states continued to repair the earth, connecting the sections of the city walls originally built by the vassal states.After Qin unified the world, the real "Great Wall" can be regarded as the present world, but in fact it is to connect the original Great Wall built in various Warring States, and to build beacon towers and passes in various dangerous areas.

The Qin Great Wall is basically a rammed earth structure. It must be said that the Great Wall of later generations is actually a product of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and many areas are no longer where the previous dynasties were located.This is an inevitable thing. After all, the territory of Zhuxia was repeatedly pushed northward. At the beginning, the Great Wall was built in modern Shanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei.

It must be said that the dynasty that actually built the Great Wall to the farthest north was the Western Han Dynasty. The furthest it was built was close to Outer Mongolia, and the northwest was built directly to Xinjiang.

"Zi Shen." Liu Yan stared at the distance, where the sun was about to descend to the mountains, and a section of the Great Wall that looked like a yellow dragon could be seen in some areas: "I am thinking, is it necessary to preserve the Great Wall? "

Sang Yu was very obviously stunned. The kings of all dynasties didn't care whether the Great Wall was a decoration... No, the Great Wall of any previous dynasty was not a decoration.Anyway, all he knows is that no ruler has ever thought of tearing down the Great Wall, on the contrary they have always maintained the Great Wall.

"Why does Your Majesty have such an idea?" Sang Yu was both astonished and puzzled: "There is no shortage of money in the Han Dynasty!"

In fact, the current state of Han has not yet had time to pay attention to the existence of the Great Wall. It is only because of military needs for a certain period of time that it specifically repairs and reinforces certain sections of the Great Wall, such as the Yanmen Pass at their feet, the Shanhai Pass in the Hebei area, There is also Yumen Pass in the northwest.

The resources consumed by the Han State on the Great Wall are not too much in terms of overall income, and the counties and counties are rarely dispatched to the Great Wall when they send out corvees. Corvettes are mostly used for road construction and construction in various villages. The Great Wall is not yet a burden on the country.

"It's not a question of funds." Liu Yan raised his hand and pointed to the section of the Great Wall that he could see, and then pointed to the far north: "The Great Han is an offensive country. We have already attacked Mobei, and there is no one within a thousand miles away." threaten."

Sang Yu is silent, the current Han State has indeed controlled the grassland, and there are truly no enemies within a thousand miles of the grassland, but the future must always be considered.What he considers is whether the Han Kingdom can always be in an offensive position, or whether it can always have the grassland. Now that the Great Wall is really going to be demolished, I don’t think it will cause the nation to lose its epic wonders. Want to rebuild?
"I sometimes feel that some of the Hulu's words are correct. It is the Great Wall that restricts the pioneering spirit of the Han people. They built a 'sheep pen' and thought it was safe." Liu Yan raised his hand to stop what Sang Yu wanted to say, and continued. Said: "As few people know, there was no Great Wall in ancient times, and the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty repeatedly went north to compete with other races for living space. Waiting for the Great Wall, they stopped moving forward, or even retreated."

Sang Yu tried hard to recall that the Great Wall was rarely mentioned in some historical books. Even if it was mentioned, it was about a certain war that took place on the Great Wall. It was often a section of the Great Wall that was breached, and the hinterland was attacked by Hulu. How miserable.

"The sea can't stop the big men from exploring the unknown, and the Great Wall shouldn't be the 'shackles' of the Han people." Liu Yan smiled, but behind him he waved his hands: "I have to think deeply, if there is no Great Wall, future generations will not If you have the thought of 'you can't fight and retreat behind the Great Wall', you will know how to fight if you encounter an invasion earlier?"

Sang Yu was shocked again and again. The Han Dynasty was in its heyday. How could the supreme ruler think that future generations would not only lose the grassland, but even the enemy army would be unable to defeat them and retreat behind the Great Wall?
The key question is that what Liu Yan knows is that Zhu Xia will really hide behind the Great Wall again and again, and even Guozuo will be destroyed again and again, and it is basically because of raising tigers by himself, or because he feels that he is safe.

Liu Yan said in an unpredictable tone: "The Great Wall is like a lock."

(End of this chapter)