At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Although the Han Empire is gone, the foundation is still there. The warlords at the end of the Han Dynasty had powerful force and could still restrain Xianbei. After all, Tan Shihuai didn't live long, which made Xianbei miss the chaos in the Central Plains.

The second chance was to reunify Xianbei's Kirby Neng, but Kirby Neng also had no luck and was killed by the assassin Han Long.

Both times, it can be said that God is helping the Central Plains Empire.

Until the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Jin family was in turmoil, and the national power of the Central Plains Dynasty was exhausted in the internal struggle. The Xianbei people established seven countries one after another in northern China. Their descendants of the same origin, Tuyuhun, still existed until the Tang Dynasty, affecting the course of Chinese history. Hundreds of years.

But the root cause is not how powerful the Xianbei people are, but that the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty played themselves to death.

When they had the upper hand, they didn't make the right strategic decision, instead they resorted to repeated tricks. They always treated the grassland tribes with contempt after they won the battle. They never thought of the possibility of their comeback.

So after reading the historical materials, Guo Peng expressed his opinion helplessly to Guo Jin who was standing beside him.

"Until you have full confidence in controlling the local area, you should not easily destroy the local political ecology. You need to know that the fisherman can only benefit from the competition between the snipe and the clam. If there is no snipe and clam, what benefit will the fisherman gain?

Empress Dowager Dou and Dou Xian launched the Northern Expedition for their own self-interest, and what they achieved was a tactical victory, a temporary victory and prestige, but the biggest victory was won by the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people got almost everything left by the northern Huns, and the population increased greatly. After 30 years, it became a serious disaster. It has caused disasters in northern Xinjiang to this day. How could this not be the fault of Queen Dowager Dou and Dou Xian? "

Guo Jin supported his father's view.

He believed that Dou Xian and Queen Mother Dou decided to crusade against the Northern Huns for political reasons, and used the crusade against the Northern Huns as a political bargaining chip.

The intention of their expedition is not for the entire country, but for their own family to continue to govern and gain power. This is not correct in the first place.

After winning the tactical victory, but not getting much benefit from it, and not making good use of the grassland to develop the grassland animal husbandry economy, it is tantamount to fighting a one-time war, gaining one-time fame, and then laying a minefield for future generations.

Strategically, this war was obviously unsuccessful, at least their vision was not far enough.

And the insights put forward by the people at that time were not adopted due to political factors.

This made several generations of emperors after the Eastern Han Empire troubled by the Xianbei issue. They wanted to attack Xianbei, but were defeated by Xianbei.

The defeat of the [-] cavalry of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Northern Expedition to Xianbei during the Han Lingdi period was something that Guo personally experienced.

It was a battle that was difficult not to lose, and even if he barely won, it could not shake Xianbei's advantage.

So it also brought trouble to someone Guo later.

The current Xianbei has basically withdrawn from the Monan area after more than ten years of uninterrupted attacks by someone from Guo, with more than 20 people lost.

But this didn't really defeat the Xianbei people.

Someone Guo just cleared the frontier for a while, so that the Xianbei people could not be seen in the border area. There are still many Xianbei people, all of whom are hiding in Mobei, and they still have the ability to reproduce and fight.

Affected by Wei (Zhang) Junfei's activity in the frontier, they did not dare to go south on a large scale.

But this is only temporary.

But more than ten years later, when the influence of the Little Ice River can no longer be ignored, when the Xianbei people can no longer support themselves in Mobei, no matter how frightened they are, they will be forced to go south.

The southward shift of the zero-degree isotherm not only caused a devastating blow to the agricultural areas of the Han people, but also to the Xianbei people in the pastoral areas.

A large number of people raised by them in the warm period could not survive in the cold period. A large number of cattle and sheep froze to death, and the population would also be at risk of starving to death.

In order to survive and to fill their stomachs, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, they have to rush over.

If you don't rush, you will starve to death. If you rush, there is still a chance of survival.

How to choose between the two, everyone has a steelyard in mind.

Therefore, Guo is very clear that if he does not completely solve the problem of the Xianbei people now, a new generation of Xianbei will grow up, the population will increase, and hundreds of thousands of Xianbei cavalry will be forced to go south. When the Wei Empire was facing a major crisis.

At that time, I might still be alive, maybe still be the emperor, but Guo has never been a person who would choose to be beaten passively.

Guo's choice is always to move forward and move forward, war war or war.

When his founding elite army still maintains a strong fighting capacity, when the founding generals still maintain a strong will to fight, and when the founding dynasty maintains an unparalleled mobilization force, they should completely eliminate the Xianbei people.

For this reason, someone in Guo decided to launch another decisive battle in Mobei.

The last decisive battle in Mobei was initiated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In order to completely break the backbone of the Huns, Emperor Wu of the Han used all the power of the whole country to launch a decisive battle in Mobei against the Huns.

It is a pity that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not have the three artifacts of cavalry, otherwise he could get more cavalry and the ability to continue fighting for a longer period of time, and the lethality of the Han army against the Huns would also be greatly increased.

The loss of horses will decrease, the combat effectiveness of cavalry will increase, and the number of cavalry will increase.

And when the opponent has not changed substantially, there is definitely a possibility of eliminating the opponent in one breath.

This is Guo's biggest strategic goal.

The Huns are gone, and the biggest threat to the Wei Empire is the Xianbei.

In his war blueprint, he will mobilize 20 to 20 cavalry, 30 to 100 mules and horses for transportation, and [-] to [-] million auxiliary soldiers and civilian men.

With all the reserves accumulated over the past ten years of occupying Hebei as the confidence, an unprecedented war of overwhelming the country will be waged, sweeping across Mobei and devouring Xianbei.

This time, someone Guo wants to follow in the footsteps of the ancients, follow the footsteps of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and uproot Xianbei, the replacement of the Huns.

Let there be no more Xianbei people who dare to go south to plunder on the grassland.

For this reason, he decided to launch a large-scale campaign to wipe out corrupt officials at this time, and kill a batch of rice bugs inside before the war started.

In this way, the bureaucrats at the grassroots level are deterred, and they are allowed to operate and act with all their strength during the war, so as not to drag their legs during the war and affect the frontline battle situation, or to embezzle military salaries, food and fodder and other war supplies when the war is tense, which will affect the frontline.

When fighting in the front, the rear cannot catch fire. If the rear catches fire, the result of the battle will be greatly reduced.

While Guo mobilized a large number of officials to go to various places to picket corrupt officials, he was also preparing for a full-scale war in Luoyang.

He ordered the staff desk to start to aggregate all the news about Mobei Xianbei that the Wei people had obtained through wars, captives, and merchants in the previous ten years, and make a comprehensive judgment.

Not only that, but also the war sand table should be made, and the Xianbei people's garrison in Mobei should be marked out, so as to determine the basic goal of the Wei army's northern expedition.

In these years, although the Wei Empire has maintained a crackdown on the Xianbei tribe, the business exchanges with Xianbei have not been cut off, and there is still business as it should be.

Cao's caravan and the special part of Mi's caravan took on this part of the business.

These merchants brought all kinds of silk, cloth, salt, iron, and rice to the Xianbei tribe in exchange for a lot of wealth.

For example, cattle, sheep and horses, or various specialties such as leather products and bone products.

On the one hand, it meets the daily needs of Xianbei people, on the other hand, it also needs to obtain these special products to do business in other places and continue to make money.

Anyway, if these rare commodities are shipped to the south of the Yangtze River, there will always be some profits.

And the trade demand in this area also left a buffer for the Xianbei people, so that the Xianbei people did not have such a large-scale southward demand, and it would not be difficult for Zhang Fei to deal with.

Zhang Fei used continuous fishing methods to launch thousands of wars one after another, killing many Xianbei tribes who were tentatively going south, and made great achievements.

But with so many people, small fights like Zhang Fei's can't be completely wiped out.

Xianbei is a large group, with many people, it is impossible to eliminate it in one go.

When dealing with an enemy who is not small in size, it is not appropriate to directly engage in a strategic decisive battle with him.

It is a good tactic to carry out continuous bloodletting through successive small-scale sneak attacks, so that it cannot develop smoothly and gradually become exhausted.

Zhang Fei's value is reflected here.

chapter 1065 one thousand and seventy-five

Guo felt that when Yang Guang dealt with Gaoguli, if he could be a little more cautious, he should attack Gaoguli multiple times in a small range continuously.

Even though Koguryo has an army of 60 and a population of millions, it is huge in scale, but it is not as huge as the Central Plains after all.

Sitting on a huge body, even if it takes time, it is impossible for Koguryo to surpass the Central Plains.

From the period of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, there should be continuous small-scale infiltration attacks on Gaogouli, constantly killing their population, looting their food and grass, and harassing their borders, so that they can live in peace every day.

Fight back?

sure.

Let them attack, and the Sui army will not attack, but just stick to the pass and counterattack.

The defensive side always had an advantage over the offensive side. Given the traffic conditions in Northeast China at that time, no matter which side launched a large-scale offensive, it would have to bear a huge financial burden.

Gaogouli's size is not as good as the Sui Empire, so let it attack and let it counterattack on a large scale. The Sui army just needs to stick to it and refuse to attack.

How long can Koguryo last?

How long can you play?

Even if the two sides attack each other and play small-scale harassment tactics, the Sui Empire has the advantage, because even if the North China region cannot produce with peace of mind, the rest of the vast area can still produce with peace of mind.

Gaogouli is not the case. In such a large place, the Sui army's attack has a slightly larger coverage, and their production can be severely affected.

Three to five years can not see the results, ten years?

In many wars in ancient times, the outcome was not determined by one battle, but through continuous small-scale victories in multiple battlefields, accumulating from quantitative changes to qualitative changes, so as to truly establish the victory.

Don't look down on small victories, don't look down on small-scale guerrilla warfare, even if one guerrilla warfare can only kill three or five enemies, one hundred times can kill three to five hundred, one thousand times can kill three to five thousand, and ten thousand times can kill three or five enemies. It can kill thirty to fifty thousand people.

The same is true for dealing with Xianbei. Although the Guo Wei Empire has the upper hand, it is difficult to defeat them in one go.

Zhang Fei's continuous activity after guarding northern Xinjiang inspired Guo Peng.

So he freed Zhang Fei from the shackles, and let Zhang Fei continue to lead troops to make troubles on the border, attack Xianbei, and keep bleeding the Xianbei people.

Zhang Fei's bloodletting operations for several years have been very effective, making it impossible for the Xianbei people to develop and grow when Guo Peng was conducting a unified war and had no time to go north.

After Guo Peng unified the country, even defeated the Gongsun family and returned to the Western Regions, the Xianbei people were unable to go south to establish a strategic advantage over the Wei Empire.

Right now, the Wei Empire is fully ready to start.

When the bloodletting is done to a certain level, the enemy is already weak to a certain level, and when one's own preparations are about the same, you can pick up the guys and go to the decisive battle.

Although continuous bloodletting is necessary, it is not enough to just let the bloodletting go up and stab the knife for the last time.

Now is the final harvest season, after six or seven years of preparation, the final harvest season.

In order to implement Guo Peng's grand strategy, Guo Jia also returned to the staff desk from the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, and together with Xi Zhong presided over a joint meeting attended by more than 100 staff officers, and conducted a brainstorming session.

How to divide the Wei army to attack together, how to surround and annihilate Xianbei's vital forces, how to prevent Xianbei from fleeing north or west.

They took out the old strategic example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launching the decisive battle in Mobei as evidence, and demonstrated how correct their strategic direction was.

Talk about how Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in three ways and won the decisive battle in Mobei.

At that time, the Han army was still a little unfamiliar with the grassland roads, but now, through long-term business, the Wei people have basically figured out the roads on the grasslands and how to reach their destinations. period situation.

The route of entry can be determined, and there will be no mistakes or omissions.

Judging from the current intelligence, Mobei Xianbei has been divided into two factions, one belongs to Fuluohan and the other belongs to Suli.

They are all survivors of Guo Peng's Northern Expedition to the Danhan Mountain Xianbei Royal Court.

In that battle, Guo Peng killed the main leaders of Xianbei, Ke Bineng, Bu Dugen and others, eliminated many leaders of Xianbei, and severely damaged Monan Xianbei.

But because Guo Peng didn't think too much about expanding the results of the battle, nor did he have the strength and reserves to expand the results of the battle, so he gave them the opportunity to flee north in time.

So Guo Peng was also very helpless at that time, unable to continue the conquest.

Fuluohan and Suli each control the power of Mobei Xianbei, and they are evenly matched. They are not at peace with each other and often fight.

There were many Xianbei tribes who fled to Mobei. Fuluohan and Suli relied on their own advantages to continuously annex them and expand themselves. In the end, only the two sides were still confronting each other.

Because of the strength of the Wei Empire, they did not dare to go south to plunder, so they could only attack each other and seize each other's living supplies for their own use.

But because they are evenly matched, no one can do anything to the other, and a delicate balance can be maintained in the midst of fighting each other.

According to the information, Fu Luohan controls more than [-] string-controlling knights, and Su Li controls more than [-] string-controlling knights. Their own power is not achieved overnight, but obtained by conquering and annexing each other over the years.

Therefore, the current population of Xianbei is about 50.

There will be no more, and if there are more, they will not be able to support them. They will always be consumed by the war between the two sides.

For Guo Peng, what he has to face is the last military resistance of Xianbei, which is about 9 people.

If the army is further expanded, in extreme cases, it is not impossible to exceed 15 and reach a combat population of about [-].

But in this way, the military literacy and combat effectiveness of Xianbei fighters are hard to say.

Guo Peng plans to launch a cavalry force of about 15 to 20 in the Northern Expedition to Xianbei.

Mobei Xianbei's current power is not enough to hurt the Wei Empire.

The reason why Guo Peng wanted to mobilize such a large scale was because he wanted to annex the other party in one go, do his best, and directly start building the desert animal husbandry economic zone. The plan is very big, not just to completely eliminate the enemy of Xianbei.

Therefore, in order to destroy Xianbei and erase Xianbei from history, it is understandable to dispatch an army of this size.

In this case, even if Fu Luo Han and Su Li urgently join forces to fight Wei Jun, they are indeed not Wei Jun's opponent.