In the last month, although the Guan Yi Legion and the Sima Wang Legion were generally in a state of sit-down warfare. However, there have also been many incidents of small-scale contacts and battles between the two sides.

These battles were basically fought around the grain transportation lines of the Shu Han army. Therefore, the two sides involved in the war are mainly cavalry troops.

In these battles, according to the reports of the commanders of the Shu Han cavalry troops, Xian Hong and Zhao Yi, the cavalry of the Jin army was equipped with more and more stirrups, and more and more lancers were full-time sabre cavalry. Of course, this combat effectiveness is also slowly rising. In this regard, Guan Yi also felt very helpless: before Shu Han, there were 10,000 cavalry in the whole country, and he expanded the scale of cavalry to 35,000 people in this expansion, of which 30,000 participated in the Northern Expedition. Without stirrups, how could he have expanded the cavalry so much?

But stirrups are too easy to imitate after all. With the strong national strength of the Jin State, even if the Luoyang court reacted slowly, Sima Wang's craftsmen on the Chang'an side worked hard to build stirrups.

Sima Wang's calculation is very clear: On the premise that this side has not received large-scale reinforcements from the imperial court, I have nothing to do with your Guan Yi's castle on both sides of the Wei River. But although your grain road is not long, there is one that is exposed on the Guanzhong Plain after all. I'll just make a fuss about that.

Therefore, in the past month, the hundred-level and thousand-level battles between the cavalry of Shu Han and the Jin State have been very frequent. The strength of the Jin cavalry, which continued to learn and adapt in the war, became stronger and stronger, and the battle loss ratio of Shu Han had been reduced from the previous one to seven or eight to one to two or three...... The maintenance of the grain route south of Anguo City has become more and more difficult. If it goes on like this, Guan Yi knows very well that in less than a month, his grain channel will be cut off.

Therefore, he had to be vain to the various alien races who had a large number of cavalry.

Despite this, as a traverser, Guan Yi is very aware of what is happening on the historical plane. Therefore, although it seems that his strategic situation in Yongzhou has gradually fallen into passivity, he is getting farther and farther away from the goal of taking Yongzhou. But there are some things that still need to be prepared in advance - how to deal with ethnic relations here after taking Yongzhou.

"Ladies and gentlemen, with the recent great general completely taking Longxi. Many families and aliens in Yongzhou couldn't sit still. Just now, this official received many foreign leaders one after another, and their demands were generally like this......"

In the Yixian County Council Hall, Zhang Zun, Ju Ning, Huo Zai, Jiang Bin, Tian Xu, Huangfu Min, Wang Mai, Luo Xi, Jiang Su and others gathered together and quietly listened to Guan Yi talk about the requirements and conditions of the leaders of each family.

After listening to the requirements of the bald Xianbei, the Li family, and the right part of the Xiongnu, Huangfu Min, who was most familiar with the actual situation in Guanzhong, opened his mouth first: "Da Sima, don't talk about him on the right side of the Xiongnu first." The last general will talk about this bald part. This group of Xianbei people is very difficult to deal with, because their leader is a very fair man who has a high prestige in the tribe. Therefore, this branch, in addition to encouraging them to go to the Hetao as Da Sima said, also needs to divide and disintegrate it. Well, that's omnipotent, in the end, the Qiang people, should be able to make some articles. ”

This statement is very ordinary. But what Guan Yi didn't expect was that this was already the most substantive speech of the group of subordinates around him.

For example, when discussing the resettlement of the Li family, everyone happily said that this would add 100,000 people to the country at once. In this way, even if the Northern Expedition failed to win Yongzhou, it would be a big profit.

Guan Yi was a little stunned by this, but he was quickly relieved: people in this era are extremely confident in foreign races and have a sense of superiority from the heart. I don't take the alien race seriously at all! At this time, if Guan Yi told the story of the Wuhu entering the Central Plains in later generations, don't look at the fact that everyone used to take his words as a guideline, but he would never believe that there would be no one in the Han people in the north in the future.

Am I asking the question of blindness? Forget it, don't blame them, after all, they are not traversers.

The next meeting naturally became Guan Yi's one-man show.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the general has taken the four counties of Longxi, although its main force has not been able to enter Qinchuan smoothly, even if it goes south to detour to Wudu, it will be able to arrive within this year. At that time, it will be a decisive battle between the 70,000 or 80,000 main forces of our Han Dynasty and the 100,000 main forces of the Jin Kingdom. Ben Jiang means that the main force of the general will stay in Longxi for a while longer, and do not rush to make a detour to Wudu to enter Guanzhong. I am going to use these more than 30,000 soldiers and horses and these two fortified cities to deal with Sima Wang and others for a while longer. In this way, although we will be trapped in two isolated cities in the next time, we can further consume the military strength and morale of the Jin State while completely arriving in Longxi, and lay the foundation for the decisive battle in the future! ”

"Brother's words are very good, so that we have more time to digest Longxi."

"That's right, as for being trapped in the lonely city, hehehe, this time our garrison materials are much more abundant than in Yang'an Pass back then. Sima Wang'er doesn't come, if he comes, his head will definitely bleed! ”

"Da Sima's strategy is good, we will stick to it here for about half a year, and the Guanzhong Corps of the Jin State will definitely be tired of veterans. And at that time, Dongwu must have sent troops, and when the time comes, I will see which one Sima Yan is going to save! ”

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"Well, so the next step of our army has been decided, which is to stick here. Drain the enemy's living forces. The official has complete confidence in the final capture of Yongzhou. ”

"We also have deep confidence in this, and we will resolutely implement Da Sima's strategy."

"Good, everyone. If we can successfully take Yongzhou, while completely solving the existential crisis of our Han Dynasty, we will also face many new problems. One of the most important tasks is how to interact with the many aliens here. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are also many alien races within my Han Dynasty, such as Fuling County, where the official started, and the number of Wuxi barbarians in Wuling Mountain is more than that of the local Han people. As for the current Nanzhong Seven Counties, there are also more foreign races than Han people, but my Han generally gets along with them better, right? But what this official wants to remind you is that the alien race in Yongliang is different from the alien race in Yizhou. Although the alien tribes in Yizhou often rebelled, on the whole, they all achieved agricultural settlement. Once they start a rebellion, they often can't escape. So unless it's my Han who collects taxes and forcibly conscripts military service and makes too much trouble, the alien races in Yizhou generally won't rebel. But here, the alien race in Yongzhou is different. Most of them are nomadic and have no permanent residence. If they rebel, it will be fine to defeat them, but to annihilate them and put down the rebellion once and for all, it will be a big problem! Therefore, if we take Yongzhou, we still use the same method as we used to deal with the foreign races in Yizhou, and the other races here, sooner or later, something big will happen. I hope you will keep that in mind. ”

As the saying goes, those who have constant production have perseverance, and there is an old saying that a monk can't run the temple if he can run. For thousands of years of China's history, the ethnic minorities in the south were much less aggressive. There has never been a Central Plains dynasty that died to a minority in the south. One of the most fundamental points is the difference in production and lifestyle.

"How to deal with the alien race here is a problem we must face after we take Yongzhou. In the following days, with the gradual opening of the situation of our army and the entry of Dongwu, I believe that the alien races here will run to Yixian more and more frequently. There are more and more problems that you have to face, and this official has first set three strategies here, and everyone must strictly follow these three points. ”

"Please show me."

"Well, number one, differentiation. Ladies and gentlemen, there are two kinds of divisions, one is not to see the alien race as a whole. Among them are the Qiang, Di, Xiongnu, and Xianbei people. We need to use various methods to guide these alien races to hate each other, and we cannot unite them. The second is to find and hook up with careerists in each tribe as much as possible in the later contacts, and encourage them to become independent from the tribe and work alone. As long as the current large tribes are divided into small tribes of less than 10,000 people, we can organize them into households and incorporate them into the traditional Hermes-Epitek management system. ”

"The second one, corrosion. Ladies and gentlemen, the alien races in the north are mainly nomadic herders. This mode of production determined that their strength depended largely on the wisdom of their leaders. In the early years, when Mao Dunshan was alive, he was as strong as Gaozu and Empress Lu, and he could only swallow his anger. But after Maodun, the Xiongnu were not as good as one generation after another, and when Emperor Wu rose up, the Xiongnu only had a series of defeats. On the occasion of Huan Ling, Xianbei produced a great hero Tan Shi Huai, who unified all the Xianbei tribes and posed a great threat to the north of our Han Dynasty. But as soon as this person died, Xianbei immediately split. Therefore, in the future contacts, you should put down your posture and corrupt the leaders of these tribes as much as possible with gentle language, all kinds of gold, silver and jade, and all kinds of fine wine. We will do our best to support those foreign leaders who are keen on food and clothing. For those foreign leaders who live a simple life and deal with things fairly, if conditions permit, they should be eliminated by various means as soon as possible: for example, Kebineng in the past was a generation of grassland heroes, and after Tanshi Huai, he unified the central and western Xianbei. It brought a great threat to Cao Wei's Youzhou and Bingzhou. However, after Wang Xiong sent assassins to assassinate him, Xianbei in the north had now split into dozens of tribes. We can learn this way if necessary! ”

"Article 3, indoctrination. I prepared a text for Xingzong and asked him to prepare relevant teachers and teaching materials in Yizhou. After we take Yongzhou, we will open Mongolian schools in various places. After that, talents were selected from these alien Mongolian schools to live and enter the Han region. In this way, those who are aspiring in the alien race have one more choice. Instead of thinking about how to lead his troops to rob us all day long......"