Sweep the World

Once the barbarians scuttled the Central Plains, the scholars rushed to the cowards and wept. This is indeed the most true portrayal of the Central Plains today. ?? Under this background, the Han army insisted that going north has a sense of mission to save the people of Lebanon from water and fire and reconcile the people from hanging upside down, and it is also able to enable the survivors in various places to move closer to the Han army on their own.

Ran Min led his army to besiege Yecheng, and countless people came from the surrounding area.

After this racial vendetta instigated by Shihu, the Central Plains survivors finally understood one thing. Enduring is not a long-term solution. Dispersion and self-preservation cannot guarantee safety. Only by resisting can survive, and by moving closer to Han, can they get a peaceful life.

It was not that Shihu fled without a fight without a reason. It was Shijie that Zhao’s grains could no longer support the consumption of the army, and then the hundreds of thousands of coolies in Yecheng rose up in anger. Both inside and outside were unstable and defending the city would not last. Is fleeing an absolutely passive war?

Yecheng was originally built in Dajian Palace, and the number of people forced to work in all directions has been increasing. Their rise is naturally inspired by people sent by Ran Min. Ran Min made it very clear to those people that there are no innocent people under the vendetta, and there is only one dead end if you don’t rise up and cooperate with the Han army. The hundreds of thousands of people who have been holding their breath early see the Han army really come, how can they be silent? reason.

Outside, the Han army watched eagerly, and there were hundreds of thousands of hard laborers inside. Ran Min only took seven days to conquer Yecheng. On the one hand, he went to the Linzi center to get a victory. On the other hand, he included Yecheng Qingzhuang. He only took a three-day rest. Continue to drive northward.

To the north of Yecheng is the core area of ​​Shijie and Zhao Kingdom. Once there was a core population of Jie, Qiang, Di and other ethnic groups. If it weren’t for the Hu people’s habit of not choosing locations to establish settlements, they must be surrounded by villages and towns. .

The Hu people have no pursuit of the city. They are used to moving around. There is a waterfront city in the area of ​​Yecheng to the north, and 60 miles to the north is the ancient city of Handan.

Linshui City was built on the north bank of Fushui, which is one of the tributaries of Zhangshui.

After Ran Min led the army to continue northward, when they arrived at the edge of Fushui, they were greeted by a fleet of Han forces that had entered from Jizhou, and the banner of the Han army was also flying at the head of Linshui City.

Ran Min, who was already General Zhengbei, had a lot of rights to ask about, including the recent movement of the Lu Tai Corps.

There has not been much change in the fighting in Jizhou. The two sides are still confronting and stalemate along the Zhangshui River, but Lu Tai has reported some relatively special things to the center. For example, there are great signs of activities in the rear of the confrontation with the enemy. .

"Shihu wants to manage the merged state and Shuozhou, and it is inevitable that the migration population will go to fill." Ran Min is satisfied that the war in Jizhou has not changed. If they want to continue northward, the Lutai Corps in Jizhou will become their flank. His subordinates said: "Our next step is to conquer Handan, and then take the whole county of Quang Binh."

If Lu Tai’s department is now Ran Min’s right side guard, Xie’an in Shangdang County is Ran Min’s left side guard. The three armies form a trident arrow on a large scale. Relatively speaking, it was Ran Min's headquarter that could decide this Northern Expedition.

Perceiving that Shijie Zhao Jun and many Hu people were retreating, Ran Min showed an offensive side. He only left 30,000 horses, and the rest were scattered.

Wherever the Han army went, it was supported by the local people. The scenes of eating pot pulp to welcome the king not only greatly encouraged the fighting enthusiasm of the soldiers of the Han army, but also boosted the morale of the entire Han family.

Liu Yan, who is in Linzi, can receive battle reports from the front every day. There is no surprise for Ran Min to maintain a high degree of advancement, and he is already mentally prepared for the consumption of materials.

The Han army must help the local people wherever they go. Healing will consume a large amount of medicinal materials, and feeding grain will also consume a large amount of grain. This is something that was expected before the decision to carry out the Northern Expedition. Although it was a large amount of materials consumed, it was Acquired land and population.

The court meeting in the main hall is over, and the core meeting in the inner hall has just begun.

"General Zhengbei has already conquered Handan, and the next step is to advance directly to Xiangguo." Ji Chang did not feel happy when he said this, but seemed a little worried. He thoughtfully said to Liu Yan: "Seeing Shi Jie really wants to shrink completely, it really forms this situation..."

Bingzhou is still not all grasslands, there are large areas of mountains and water systems, plus a Shuozhou can really allow the stone jade to accumulate power after the tortoise shrinks.

Liu Yan clearly issued the order to kill the Husbands, not only to encourage people everywhere to resist the Husbands, but also to reduce the overall number of the Husbands. The information gathered shows that the population who evacuated to Bingzhou was no less than 1.5 million, and Bingzhou and Shuozhou originally had a population of one to two million. He calculated that Shihu had a population of 4 million. about.

There is a pre-judgment for the development of the situation in the center of the Han state. Once Shihu no longer attaches importance to the fight for territory, he really intends to save the population and abandon the land, the overall situation is really likely to develop in the direction of the former Han Empire against the Huns.

What Ji Chang is worried about is that the stone jie is withdrawn to the grassland. Although the Han state is opening up the territory to show that the situation is very good, but the large-scale expansion of the territory in a short time will definitely make the interior more unstable. The complex Central Plains region.

If there is a map, it can be seen that the territory of Han is a bit like the size of the emperor of Han Jing. What is missing is the land of Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liaodong, and Guanzhong Three Qin.

The Han Kingdom sits on most of the territory of the Central Plains. To the south of the Yangtze River, there is a small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the land of Bashu, there is the Li family to become Han.

The situation of Liu Yan during this period was much worse than that of the Han Empire during Emperor Han Jing. Although the south of Emperor Han Jing was a foreign country, it maintained a relatively good diplomacy. Although the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Han state had ceased war, they were just dormant, so there is no need to talk about the Han Dynasty. The country has actually faced Shi Jie Zhao Guo and Murong Yan Guo.

"Yes..." Liu Yan was also a little worried: "Once the stone tiger enters the grassland, it will not be eliminated in a short time."

"It is reported that Shihu has ceded Youzhou to Yan State." Sang Yu returned from Yuzhou not long ago, accompanied by Lu Yi. Most of the Sang clan originally served as officials in the State of Zhao, Shijie. There are more sources of information. He said: "Youzhou belongs to the State of Murong Yan, and we formally border them in the northeast."

Speaking of Shihu's courage, he not only ignored the capture of a large area, but also actively ceded Youzhou to Murong Yanguo. The huge Shijie Zhaoguo only wanted to keep Bingzhou and Shuozhou, and it seemed to be a collapse. Trends, but in fact, because of the loss of those territories, the overall situation is revitalized.

From the map, the Han country is to the northwest of Shijie and Zhao, and to the northeast is Murong Yan. To the west is the land of the Guanzhong Sanqin and the Li family to the Han Dynasty, and to the south is the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which cannot coexist. To the east is outside the sea, and Han is hostile countries or forces in several directions.

Once Han was unable to destroy Shijie and Zhao in this war, it would be a situation in which Han was involved in various hostile countries. Which country the Han army wanted to attack would inevitably attract siege from other countries.

One thing Liu Yan didn't know was that Shi Xuan originally wanted to enter the pass, but fortunately he was blocked by Xie An to the north of Huguan, otherwise the weakness of Han would be added.

Lu Yi said at an appropriate time: "Daiguo has been very unfriendly to Dahan recently."

Liu Yan had already learned about the situation in Tuoba Daiguo. After he ordered "exhaust the non-I race", Xie Ai was expelled by Tuoba Shiyijian, and the batch of dowry troops under his command also left and returned to Tuoba. The establishment of the system on behalf of the country means that the friendship between Han and Tuoba is gone forever, and the relationship between the two sides has entered a cold ice age.

Since he dared to give such an order, Liu Yan had to be sufficiently mentally prepared, and even Li Chenghan began to send troops to harass Yuzhou.

"It is worthwhile for us to be able to win the hearts and minds of the remnants of the Central Plains." Ji Chang has a rough data in his hand, and said: "This time the Northern Expedition, the number of young people collected by General Zhengbei Ran on the spot reached 170,000. , General Xie Lang and General Lu Lang also included five to sixty thousand young men, and the number of Li people rescued should be more than three million."

There is no precise data on how many Hu people have been eliminated. The total number gathered by all parties should be 700,000 to 800,000. Relatively speaking, this catastrophe also killed nearly a million survivors.

In less than a year, nearly two million people have died if there are statistics. If there are no statistics, there are definitely more. If you have to guess, it is conservatively estimated that there will be 3 million people. This was caused by the racial vendetta in the non-Chinese territory.

There are more accurate statistics in Han, and the number of Humen killed and captured has reached a certain level, although they are in the same line, but are hostile to Han. The total number is close to one million.

It is really terrifying that three or four million people died within a year. In general, the total population of the Central Plains is only 178 million, which is a sharp drop of almost a quarter.

In history, Ran Min called for the killing of Hu. Within half a year, over 4 million people were lost in various parts of the Central Plains. The Hu people later fleeed and killed more than 1.5 million because of the outbreak of the plague, and even the drought and locust plagues that followed. Within three years, the Central Plains had drastically reduced its population. After Murong Xianbei went south to conduct population statistics, the total population of Central Plains was only less than 7 million.

This period of Liu Yan is quite different from that of Ran Min in history. First, Shijie did not go through repeated internal consumption, which is equivalent to the fact that they are facing the Jie clan in their heyday. It is very good. The situation has evolved into that Shihu at least has full control over the Jie tribe, and only then has the Jie tribe retreated to Bingzhou and Shuozhou.

"The mission of General Zhengbei is the Northern Expedition." Liu Yan raised his hand to stop the officials from saying other gossips, and once again showed his will: "The orders of the widows have not changed, and wherever they are hit, they are no different."

With the above, some people are worried that Ran Min's troops are expanding too quickly. It is recommended to cancel the incorporation of young men as soldiers and limit the number of soldiers and horses in Ran Min's hands.

Liu Yan didn't believe in Ran Min unconditionally. The key was that there were fifty thousand imperial guards as the backbone of defense, and the regular army of the Han state would not follow Ran Min. In the future, logistics was completely in his hands. He knew that Ran Min was a very sharp sword, which could hurt the enemy as well as the enemy. At this stage, it was necessary for Ran Min to go all the way north. If he wanted to enter the grassland, he would definitely get strong support.

"Perhaps it can provoke Daiguo, the Huns and the Zhao Kingdom?" Sang Yu didn't say a word just now, and reopened his mouth to focus on the contradiction between the Hu people: "The Shuofang generation who lived for a long time by the Huns ministers, although they obey Zhao in name. The country is in fact autonomous. Daiguo has always wanted to destroy or annex the Huns to capture Shuofang. Now Shihu wants to fully control Shuofang as a back, and their contradiction is very sharp."

The Huns are now fully vulnerable, with constant internal vendettas, and long-term crusades by the Tuoba dynasty. In addition, not all of the Huns are Huns. Liu Yuan established a pseudo-Han and absorbed a lot of Jin people. In the Liu Yao period, he also absorbed many miscellaneous hus. It is equivalent to the fact that although he still called the Huns, the real situation is mixed. There will be constant internal vendettas.

"The Prime Minister right is very true." Ji Chang first affirmed Sang Yu's opinion, and then the front of the conversation turned and said: "Winter will be entered in more than a month, and the scale of the war on the northern line will be reduced. Is it possible to beat the puppet court again? ?"

It’s no secret that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty recently started to jump around again. It’s not a secret to the Han country. The Han country accepted quite a few people who migrated from the south of the Yangtze River. Although those people left the south of the Yangtze River, they still have their own lives. The relationship network of Chu Pai can be said to be very clear.

"The war on the northern front will last forever~www.wuxiamtl.com~ this juncture will not tolerate the instability of the southern front." Ji Chang is no longer a suggestion, but an extreme need, saying: "In view of the provocation from Bashu. We should also give a strong counterattack. The minister's opinion is to transfer Huan Wen to the south and organize a conscription regiment to fight against Bashu."

Liu Yan fell silent for the time being. The conflicts between Hu and Han in Han were no longer in crisis due to the proper handling. The northern route definitely should maintain steady progress, and the stability and instability of the southern route really became the key.

Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty focused on the northern line after completely solving the troubles in the south. Once the war with Shijie Zhao Kingdom and Murong Yan Kingdom became prolonged, whether it was the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the Li family's succession, it really became the priority to be eliminated. Object.

The reason why the South needs to be addressed first is simple. Behind the hostile country to the north is an immense grassland. Whether it is Shijie or Murong Xianbei, as long as the Han army can't eliminate them all at once, they can still retreat to the depths of the grassland. Behind the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south is the sea. Behind Li Chenghan is densely covered with mountains and swamps. Once they can't handle the frontal battlefield, they have no place to retreat.

"We..." Seeing Liu Yan thinking, Sang Yu hesitated for a while and said, "The war will be protracted, and the follow-up will inevitably be fighting while building the country. This way, we can only give priority to solving the troubles in the south." 8