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Although Zhuge Liang didn't say it clearly, Li Li still heard that he was not enthusiastic about treating Ke Bineng, or that he didn't plan to treat Ke Bineng, and was going to let him die on its own.

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Chapter 986 Daomadan, natural selection

Although Zhuge Liang didn't say it clearly, Li Li still heard that he was not enthusiastic about treating Ke Bineng, or that he didn't plan to treat Ke Bineng, and was going to let him die on its own.

"Save him, he is useful to us right now." After a pause, Li Li turned his head and glanced at the western mountains and forests in the night, and explained softly: "After this battle, the Kebineng tribe has lost all its elites, and it is no longer a climate. However, his prestige in the Xianbei tribe is still not negligible. He has great energy and appeal. And this is exactly what we need. Ding died in battle one after another, and the rest are old and weak women and children, so there is nothing to fear.

After the defeat of Wuhuan, the next step is to subdue the various tribes of Xianbei. For this, our army can completely surrender without fighting, and take over the Xianbei tribe without bloodshed.And this task will fall on Ke Bineng.

In addition, Budugen, the leader of the Western Xianbei, has always been friendly with our Han people, which means that he can be used by me and is a target that can be wooed.If both Ke Bineng and Bu Dugen can be used by me, then it will be easy to take over the Xianbei tribe, and it will be at your fingertips. "While speaking, a meaningful smile appeared on Li Li's face.

Zhuge Liang understood immediately, and thoughtfully said: "It has been confirmed that Ke Bineng was the instigator of this bloody battle on White Wolf Mountain. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the chief culprit. During this battle, the coalition forces dominated by Wuhuan suffered many casualties. It reached 12. If the barbarian casualties in the Battle of Lulongsai are added, more than [-]% of the adult males of the Wuhuan tribe would have died in the battle.

Now, except for the thousands of Wuhuan defenders defending Liucheng and the more than [-] barbarian troops who fled, Wuhuan's young men are almost dead.Therefore.The minister was worried that the Wuhuan people would feel resentment towards their lord, if they were not appeased, it would be detrimental to the long-term stability of Youzhou.Therefore, Weichen suggested.Make public the truth about the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, and then behead Ke Bi Neng to appease the Wuhuan tribes.I don't know what the Lord wants? "

It goes without saying that Zhuge Liang did not agree with Li Li's rhetoric, and tried to resolve the hatred of the Wuhuan people with Ke Bineng's life, so as to quell the dispute.This is the usual method used by the Han people in the past to conquer and suppress barbarians, and suppress and appease them at the same time.The two-pronged approach finally achieved the goal of maintaining stability in the border county and keeping things peaceful.

There is nothing wrong with this method itself, and rulers of all dynasties have done it this way.This is not only the case in foreign wars.The same is true even for internal counter-rebellion, slap a sweet date in the face, appease while suppressing, and turn major events into small ones.In the end, nothing happened.Everyone is happy.Who can say what's wrong with this approach?After all, this is the most practical and effective method that the sages have come up with after repeated practice. How can you allow others to slander it wantonly if the jade is in front of you?

What's more, Li Li also knew that the rulers of past dynasties had two-way standards in terms of countering rebellion internally and fighting externally.They are often very ruthless and harsh in internal counter-insurgency, unless they are forced to do so, they will be resolutely wiped out; but they are very weak in external combat.It is best not to fight.It's nothing more than losing some gold, silver, soft goods and beautiful singers; as long as peace can be made, there will be no war.Even if it is low-level and ceding land for compensation, it will not hesitate.In order to quell the calamity of wars and wars, things like turning swords into treasures emerge in endlessly, which are not uncommon.

Perhaps, "turning hostility into friendship" is the diplomatic method used by the Han people to deal with barbarians in foreign countries, and it is also a true portrayal of ancient diplomatic affairs.After all, things that can be done with money, silk and beautiful women are nothing serious. People today have this kind of thinking, let alone ancient people?The wisdom of the ancients was not inferior to that of today's people, even more so. No wonder they came up with the diplomatic method of "turning hostility into jade" to calm people down. (The words of a family are for reference only and do not have to be true.)

Is there anything wrong with turning hostility into friendship?Of course you are.It has been used from ancient times to the present. One thing more is worse than one thing less. Forbearance is calm for a while, how can there be mistakes?

But Li Li didn't bother to do it, and there was no need to calm down.This is the style that the strong should have, strong and domineering.

As far as he is concerned, there has never been the so-called peace of mind, and it is impossible for things such as turning hostility into jade silk to happen to him, unless he is the one who accepts jade silk, otherwise there is no need to talk about it.

In dealing with the aftermath of the Wuhuan tribe, Zhuge Liang's appeasement strategy is understandable, but his starting point is wrong, or the compassion of the Confucian literati in his bones has begun to overflow again.Mistakenly treating the barbarians at the same level as the Han people, mistaking foreign wars for internal rebellion, overflowing with benevolence, and sympathizing needlessly, thus forcibly turning a victor's war into peace and peaceful coexistence .It's really a small difference, a thousand miles away, putting the cart before the horse, and using kindness and tolerance in the wrong place.It is not an exaggeration to say that this move is pedantic.

Of course, this is also the reason why Zhuge Liang followed Li Li to go outside the Great Wall for the first time.If it were Guo Jia and Jia Xu who went out with the army, they would definitely not ask such naive questions, because they are well versed in Li Li's methods and strategies for dealing with the surrounding barbarian tribes. The barbarian tribes such as the Southern Huns have clearly and unmistakably expressed Li Li's own attitude.

However, Zhuge Liang followed Li Li for a short period of time, and he was still relatively conservative in dealing with the barbarians of foreign countries. He still advocated the strategy of suppressing and appeasement at the same time.

There is nothing wrong with this method itself. It has been like this for 400 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and it has been tried and tested.However, the difference this time is that Li Li personally led the army to completely wipe out the vital forces of the Wuhuan tribe, and even the Xianbei tribe has suffered heavy losses.At this time, if we do not go further to completely conquer and annex them, but take appeasement measures, it will undoubtedly be pedantic and extremely pedantic.If you miss today, once the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes are relieved, they will surely become a disaster for the border county again in the future, endlessly harassing the border, and even the legacy of tiger breeding, and eventually backfire against the big man.

After a long silence, Li Li was not angry because of Zhuge Liang's suggestion, and calmly said softly: "Kong Ming may have misunderstood me. I never said that I should appease the Wuhuan people, not to mention that the Wuhuan people don't need to be appeased." , there is no need to appease them. For them, they have long been psychologically prepared to be defeated and slaughtered after looting the Han border county all the year round. On this point, they are more enlightened than my Han people, and they never take chances; because they have already I am used to burning, killing and looting, so naturally I am often robbed and killed by others."

"Eh?" Zhuge Liang's expression changed when he heard that, and he murmured in surprise, mistakenly thinking that he had heard it wrong, and whispered uncertainly: "My lord said that Wuhuan people don't need to be appeased, don't need to be appeased, I don't know what you mean? Is the lord really going to kill them all, slaughter and exterminate the family?" Zhuge Liang's tone was not kind, his expression was melancholy, and he was quite stubborn.

Li Li said calmly: "The battle of Lulongsai and the bloody battle at Bailang Mountain in front of us, as many as 30 soldiers from the two armies died in these two battles. How can there be more killings? God still has the virtue of good life." Let alone human beings? So the killing ends here, and unnecessary casualties should be avoided as much as possible from now on, except for necessary deterrent methods, killing will not be done indiscriminately.” Li Li avoided the serious and ignored Zhuge Liang’s questions, but promised not to kill again. A big stone in Zhuge Liang's heart fell to the ground, and his face could not help but relax.

After relaxing his mind, Zhuge Liang's heart skipped a beat, and he finally remembered the resettlement method of the barbarian tribes around Xiliang.

After many years, there are no so-called barbarian tribes in Xiliang.All the barbarian tribes who surrendered to Li Li were scattered and resettled in the four states and counties under Li Li's rule. On average, two to 3000 people were placed in each county, and hundreds of thousands of barbarian tribes were dispersed and digested, making them fully integrated into the Han people. among.Unified book registration and dispatch of special personnel to strictly guard and supervise. After a few years, there is no such thing as barbarians in Xiliang, and they are all ordinary people.

With a sudden change of mind, Zhuge Liang suddenly realized, and finally understood the true meaning of Li Li's words that there is no need to appease.It turned out that the purpose of Li Li's expedition to the east with his army was to completely conquer the surrounding barbarians, not simply to calm the border troubles. Since it was a conquest, there was no need to appease them.The so-called conquest is to completely occupy the barbarian territory, occupy the grasslands, subdue their tribal people, and confiscate their weapons, ordnance, war horses, tents, cattle, sheep, livestock, and money, all of which are included in the conquest.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang felt ashamed secretly, feeling quite ashamed.Compared with Li Li's broad mind to embrace the world, he Zhuge Kongming claims to be superior in strategy and cleverness, but he is far inferior to the protagonist Li Li in terms of broad-mindedness and long-term strategy, and he does not have the courage and courage to swallow mountains and rivers possessed by Li Li. Courage has insurmountable limitations on certain issues.

It is not an exaggeration to say that short-sightedness is short-sighted.And this is also a common problem of all Confucian scholars and scholars nowadays.When it is strong, it assumes the lofty posture of a meaningless winner, lifts it up high and puts it down lightly, is excessively benevolent, and seeks fame;

In contrast, what Li Li pursues is the profound summary of the great men of later generations: "It is advisable to pursue the poor with the remaining bravery, and not to be known as the overlord." Regret for life.

Whether it was brutal or violent, Li Li never cared about such a false name, what he wanted was the real benefits of the war, otherwise it would be meaningless for the more than [-] soldiers under his command to fight the battlefield, which would be tantamount to unnecessary casualties.However, only by thoroughly conquering the enemy, occupying its territory, and confiscating all the tribesmen and all their belongings, can the blood of the soldiers of the Han army not be shed in vain. Fight bravely.

This is Li Li from Xiliang, he lives up to his name, he values ​​actual profit rather than false fame.It is precisely because of his compassionate commander that his Xiliang soldiers are brave and good at fighting, march forward bravely, fearless of life and death, and follow him without complaint or regret.

There is no need to bury the bones, and there is no green hills in life.

Chapter 987 Dingyouzhou, horse herding Liaodong

There is no need to bury the bones, and there is no green hills in life.

For the soldiers who have been fighting all the year round, they are always facing the separation of life and death. Death is not terrible.But these are not problems in the Xiliang Army. Coach Li Li can definitely be regarded as an unprecedented commander who is considerate of the soldiers and their families. The Xiliang Army treats the fallen soldiers extremely generously.

In this way, the Xiliang soldiers who have no worries about the future are naturally extremely brave. They have never been defeated in many years of battle. Even if they are in a desperate situation, they will fight bloody to the end.

It is precisely because of the bravery and tenacity of the Xiliang army that the Chinese Han army did not lose the wind in the two head-on confrontations with the barbarian army.When you meet the strong, you will be stronger. The bloody battle is fierce and the soldiers don't frown. They forcibly resisted the ferocious offensive of the barbarian army and wolves. In the end, they won the battle. They defeated the barbarian army twice, and the group of prairie wolves fled in a hurry and were exhausted. .

As Li Li said, under the two wars, the Han army lost many soldiers and horses, with as many as [-] soldiers killed in battle, and they were all elite soldiers.But there is one point that Li Li deliberately ignored and did not mention. This is that most of the soldiers of the Han army who died in two consecutive battles were the reorganized Youzhou army.More than [-]% of the more than [-] casualties were the original Youzhou Army, and in the Eastern Expedition Army led by Li Li, only [-] cavalry, including [-] Wushuang cavalry, [-] golden guards, and [-] county soldiers, participated in the battle. There are still more than [-] people.The remaining two combat cavalry battalions, Wuwei Battalion and Feiyan Qingqi Battalion, did not appear until the last moment of the battle.In the first battle, Langshan was settled, and behind more than [-] barbarian troops, they went straight to Liucheng, Wuhuan's old nest.

Say it bluntly.The victories of Youzhou Army's bloody battlefield were finally easily captured by Wuweiying and Feiyan Qingqi.

What is sophistication seeking the country, this scene is undoubtedly the best interpretation.

Since ancient times, closeness and sparseness have been different.Although Li Li has acquired Youzhou, in order to successfully take over the entire territory of Youzhou, ensure the long-term peace and stability of Youzhou, and stifle possible civil strife in the bud, he will eventually defeat the barbarian army and recover the eminence of the grasslands outside the Great Wall. The record rests on his own soldiers and horses.Although everyone in the know knows that this fierce battle outside the Great Wall is the meritorious service of the Youzhou Army.But in the eyes of the people in Youzhou, it was the Xiliang Army under General Li Li who finally saved them from suffering.And this is exactly what Li Li wants to achieve.

Knowing that there are tigers on the mountain, he prefers to go to the mountain. This is a true portrayal of the bloody battle at Bailang Mountain.But this is not Li Li's usual style of leading troops in battle.Once he was made aware that there might be an ambush in White Wolf Mountain, it stands to reason that he would not continue to march, but would stay on the spot and make a plan before moving.But the fact is that he didn't do it.Instead, he ordered the army to move on.And put into the war one after another, thus opened the prelude to an unprecedented bloody battle.After a bloody battle, the Youzhou Army was almost wiped out, with less than [-] survivors, and the Battle of White Wolf Mountain was a disastrous victory.

After this battle, the Youzhou army was almost completely destroyed. From Gongsun Zan and below, more than half of the generals in Youzhou were either killed or injured.Survivors are few.As a result, Gongsun Zan's foundation was quietly pulled out, eliminating potential threats.Cut off future troubles.In addition, the Xiliang army's victory over the barbarians virtually wiped out Gongsun Zan's prestige and influence in the hearts of the people of Youzhou, allowing the people to naturally accept and support Li Li.

This is one of the purposes of Li Lidong's conquest of Youzhou, and the other purpose is to completely recover the barbarian territory, bring it into the territory of the Han Dynasty, and bring it under Wanghua.

The king's heart is unpredictable. If it weren't for a peerless wise man like Zhuge Liang, it would be difficult to see the essence of the matter clearly from such a complicated context, and understand Li Li's real intention of using troops this time.

After understanding Li Li's tactics of turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands into rain, Zhuge Liang's heart fluctuated violently like a stormy sea. For the first time in his life, he felt that being with the king is like being with a tiger, and he realized that the king is ruthless. the true meaning of

Prior to this, Zhuge Liang had a different opinion from Li Li on the issue of whether to keep Gongsun Zan.He advocated cutting off Gongsun Zan as soon as possible to avoid future troubles, but Li Li insisted on keeping Gongsun Zan, and rescued Gongsun Zan in danger twice, otherwise Gongsun Zan would definitely not live now, and would have died long ago.For this reason, Zhuge Liang believed that Li Li was too kind, and it would be unwise to keep Gongsun Zan, and chaos would inevitably arise in the future.But after sorting out the context at this moment, Zhuge Liang no longer had this idea, let alone think that Li Li was too kind, and there was no relationship between benevolence and Li Li.

Nearly [-] Youzhou soldiers died in pacifying the border aggression, and died in the battle with the barbarian army. This is a truly worthy, heroic, and valuable death.In a sense, all of this was planned by Li Li, and it was difficult for insiders to accept this fact for a while.However, this is an upright conspiracy, and it is the same reason to travel all over the world. He is upright and not afraid of people's words.But who knows, if the coach Li Li has a little compassion, the result will not be like this; although the casualties after the war are still unavoidable, they will be shared by the Youzhou Army and the Xiliang Army, and at least the Youzhou Army will be able to survive. Half of the soldiers and horses.

But the fact before us is that the Youzhou Army under Gongsun Zan and the tens of thousands of troops surrendered by Yan Rou were all dead or wounded, while the Eastern Expedition Army led by Li Li was still strong. There are more than [-] cavalry.Comparing the two, there is simply a world of difference, which is embarrassing.However, Li Li's purpose of this Eastern Expedition was realized as scheduled. Not only did he take over Youzhou without bloodshed, but he also disabled the two tribes of Wuhuan and Xianbei.The next step is to recover the lost land one by one, take over the tribal people, completely wipe out the border troubles in Youzhou, rectify the administration of officials, and restore people's livelihood.

After figuring everything out, Zhuge Liang no longer insisted on his strategy of suppressing and appeasement at the same time. He couldn't help being in awe of Li Li, so he didn't say any more. He could only do his job wholeheartedly and become more cautious.

In the early morning of the next day, the army set off as scheduled and marched hurriedly to Liucheng.

Not long after the march, sentry cavalry came to report the victory: at the third watch, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and Zhang Yan had led an army to attack Liucheng.Captured hundreds of Wuhuan nobles, including Wuhuan Shanyu Louban, and captured all the more than [-] barbarians who had become frightened.At present, the Han army has occupied Liucheng.All the prisoners of war were held in Beicheng Campus, waiting for Li Li's arrival.

With the fall of Liucheng and the capture of all the last soldiers and horses of the Wuhuan tribe, the once powerful Wuhuan tribe was defeated.

At noon, when Li Li's army arrived outside the north gate of Liucheng, an expected heavy rain arrived as expected.

Not long after, Liucheng was shrouded in rain and fog.The dust and bloody murderous aura all over the sky were all submerged under the rain and mist. The sky full of battle clouds was quickly replaced by rain clouds all over the sky, and the grassland outside the Great Wall ushered in unprecedented peace and tranquility.

In May of the third year of Jian'an.General Li Lili led the Eastern Expedition Army to fight Wuhuan and Xianbei coalition forces at Bailang Mountain, wiped out more than [-] main forces of the coalition forces, and captured Wuhuan's old nest Liucheng at the end of the month.

At the beginning of June, Wuhuan Shanyu Louban led the leaders of various ministries and bowed their heads to General Li Li.In mid-June, he led hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan tribesmen to leave Youzhou.The migration team started from Liucheng.All the way westward, passing Yanmen, Yunzhong and other counties in Bingzhou, and then entering Liangzhou from Shuozhou, and finally arriving at Wudu, Hanyang and Hanzhong counties in the hinterland of Liangzhou.

At the same time that Lou Ban led the Wuhuan tribe to move westward, more than [-] people from the central Xianbei Kebineng tribe and the eastern Xianbei Suli and Queji tribes moved northward and entered Bingzhou.

At the same time, the counties of Bingzhou recruited more than [-] people who voluntarily went to the grassland.And nearly [-] disabled or retired soldiers in Bingzhou, Sili, and Shuozhou took their families north to Youzhou and settled in Wuhuan Grassland.