Zhang Chun was originally the minister of Zhongshan in the Han Dynasty, because during the Yellow Turban Riot, he left the city and fled alone with the people, and was dismissed by the Han Dynasty. Since then, he has been living on the border, but this person is not willing to be lonely, taking advantage of the turmoil in the Han Dynasty now, the prestige of the Son of Heaven has fallen to the bottom. He wanted to establish himself as a king and replace the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Chun hit it off with Zhang Ju, the former Taishan Taishou of his fellow villagers, and decided to rebel, colluding with Qiu Liju, a Wuhuan man on the border of the Han Dynasty, to kill the captain of Wuhuan, the Taishou of Youbeiping, the Taishou of Liaodong, the border of the soldiers, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

Zhang Ju proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, and Zhang Chun proclaimed himself the "General of Mitian", and with the help of the remnants of Zhang Jiao, the general of the Heavenly Prince, he colluded with the Wuhuan cavalry to loot Youzhou and Qingzhou.

The imperial court was unable to quell the rebellion at this time, so it crowned Liu Yu, who had prestige in the north, as the pastor of Youzhou, and tried to quell the rebellion by himself.

The Wuhuan people, originally slaves of the Turks, were Zhao'an by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty and settled on the border of the Han Dynasty in the northeast. Perennial for the Han Dynasty to fight the Huns, riding and shooting unparalleled, Wuhuan Tu Cavalry is known as the world's famous horse, is the most famous cavalry in this era. Later, the Wuhuan cavalry was the absolute main force of Cao Cao's conquest of the world.

When all parties arrived, Youzhou Mu Liu Yu presided over the first pre-war meeting.

The soldiers and horses that Liu Yu relied on this time can be roughly divided into three parts,

Part of it is Liu Yu's Youzhou Army, this is Liu Yu's old team, which is basically composed of infantry, and Liu Yu asked Zhou Yi to come over basically to bring this part of the men.

Part of it is Gongsun Zhan's Liaoxi cavalry, and since the pacification of the Yellow Turban, Gongsun Chan has gained the reputation of the White Horse General. It can be described as a proud soldier.

There is also a part of the soldiers and horses supported by Qingzhou, led by a person named Liu Ziping. The combat effectiveness is estimated to be inferior to Liu Yu's troops.

In this Zhang Chun rebellion, Liu Yu advocated using Huairou means to deal with the Wuhuan people, while Gongsun Zan advocated the use of tough military means, and no one on either side could convince anyone. And the soldiers and horses in Qingzhou only came to support, nominally listening to Liu Yu, but basically the two did not help each other.

Strategies cannot be unified, and this is a major taboo in the use of troops. In the end, Liu Ziping couldn't stand it anymore, so he persuaded: "Liu Mujun, General Gongsun, don't quarrel, General Po Lu is here, why don't you ask General Po Lu's opinion." ”

After all, Gongsun Zhan worked together when judging the Yellow Turban: "Yes, Brother Zhou can be described as an expert in the use of soldiers, what do you think of this battle?" ”

"I heard Lu Shangshu (Lu Zhi) say that Naruhito has unique insights into the Hu people, this time I asked Lu Gong, but Lu Gong only recommended you." Liu Yu also said.

"Liu Mujun, General Gongsun, in my opinion, both of you have the right strategy, but you need to adjust it slightly." This is not the time to be modest, Zhou Yi still said his true thoughts.

"What do you mean by that?" Everyone couldn't help but be stunned, and they were a little strange about Zhou Yi's words.

"This starts with the foundation of the Hu people and the Han people, as you know, we Han people are an agrarian country, and the country is maintained by the central government finances supported by taxes. With the central treasury, we have the money to give voice to the bureaucracy, supply logistics to the army, or hire Hu people to fight for us.

But the Hu people are different, they are nomads, they are tribal by nature, and there is no way to organize taxes. The Hu people want to establish a state, and their khans also want to be rich. In other words, they also have to rely on the central finance, where does their central finance come from, by robbing, robbing the surrounding tribes, and robbing us Han people's things. The Khan relied on the distribution of the spoils of war to gain the support of the steppe tribes, otherwise no one would have listened to the Khan.

When we attacked the Hu people, we basically couldn't garrison for a long time north of the Great Wall, because the precipitation north of the Great Wall was not enough, and we couldn't Tuntian, and our strategy of garrisoning the border to the north of the Great Wall did not work. The garrison north of the Great Wall must be nomadic, and over time, the army north of the Great Wall will be no different from the Hu people.

And when the Hu people attacked us, they also robbed us inside the Great Wall and had to go back, and they couldn't stay south of the Great Wall for a long time, because the Hu people had no way to understand the financial system and ruling logic of the Central Plains.

Basically, the Great Wall separates the Hu and Han Chinese, and there is a clear distinction between the Wei and the Wei.

However, the Northeast is different. ”

"What's different?" Gongsun Zhan asked, all of them are high-level people of the Han Dynasty, and they vaguely knew these before, but no one has analyzed them so clearly. So everyone listened more and became fascinated.

"The climatic conditions in the Northeast are quite special, because of precipitation, grasslands and agricultural areas are staggered, which forms a situation where Hu and Han people live together."

"Well, it's true that Hu and Han people live together." Liu Yu also has a deep understanding.

After a long time, the Hu people and the Han people will know what is going on with each other, the Han people will understand the fundamental logic of the Hu people's military strength, and the Hu people will also understand the ruling logic and financial system of the Han people. The force of the Hu people, combined with the wealth of the Han people, would produce two political forms that were different from the antagonism between the Hu and Han in the west.

One is that the Han people paid to hire the Hu people to fight for us, whether it was the Xiongnu in the north or the Hu people in the Western Regions. This type of court is now commonly used.

There is also a kind that the Hu people understood the financial logic of the Han people and relied on the Han officials to collect taxes to support the central finance of the Hu people and maintain the Hu people's armed forces.

This second situation is very dangerous, in the long run, the Hu people will want more and more territory, and at the same time, the Hu people will have the ability to support more Hu troops. When the Hu people's force and wealth reached a certain level, they would go down to the south and sweep across the country. That is the disaster of our Han people, and Zhang Chun's rebellion this time has the possibility of developing to the second situation. We must stop it, and we will not tolerate it.

The position of the Wuhuan people is too terrible. At the junction of grasslands and farming. On the left is the (Hulun) Bell Prairie, and on the right is the vast Liaodong Agricultural Plain. They could rely on the agricultural areas of western and eastern Liaodong to collect taxes to support their tribes, maintain a strong force, and then conquer the four directions. Growing stronger, once the Central Plains changes, the Han people are in danger when they go south to the Central Plains. ”

This is not Zhou Yi's alarmism, in history, this location in the northeast can be said to be the land of Longxing of the grassland ethnic minorities, whether it is the Xianbei people who established the Northern Wei Dynasty, or the Khitan people who established Liao, or the Jurchens who established Jin, they all rose from this place. Not to mention the Mongols who established the Yuan Dynasty and the Manchus who established the Qing Dynasty, they started from this place to unify the whole country.

Don't look at the Turks, the Huns, who occupy the vast steppe, are strong, but they are firmly resisted north of the Great Wall.

Hearing Zhou Yi's words, there was silence in the hall. Everyone is Hanchen, and they are all elites, this situation is really unimaginable. If you want to ask Zhou Yi why he knows so much, Zhou Yi will not tell everyone that he learned it from another teacher in later generations.

"Then let's fight, and eliminate this kind of sprout as soon as possible." Gongsun Chan was excited.

"We want to fight, but how do we fight, you just poured the power of the entire Youzhou and annihilated the Wuhuan people, but there are also Xianbei people, Fuyu people and other Hu people, can we annihilate them one by one. Fighting a war is a net gain for these Hu people, but a pure drain for us, and now we have to see how we can put down this rebellion at the least cost. These problems can be solved slowly in the future. ”

"What does Naruhito mean?" Liu Yu asked.

"I mean, to divide Zhang Chun and the Wuhuan people. To treat Zhang Chun, we have to crack down, and to treat Qiu Liju, a Wuhuan person, we have to Zhao'an, and the strategy of the previous imperial court is the same, let them fight other Hu people for us. The combat power of the Wuhuan people should not be underestimated, and our army rashly launched with the Wuhuan people, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses. Except for Gongsun Zhan's cavalry, Mujun's troops, and Qingzhou's troops, I'm afraid they are not Wu Huan's opponents. This time, the Wuhuan people can gather tens of thousands of cavalry, relying on the wealth provided by Zhang Chun, so that Qiu Liju has the ability to control the tribal leaders under him, as long as we defeat Zhang Chun, the Wuhuan people will naturally disperse without the support of wealth. At that time, we can slowly get rid of the Wuhuan people. Zhou Yi said in a deep voice.

There is a lot of theoretical analysis, and the final decision steps are actually quite simple.

In modern times, everyone talks about grayscale thinking, black and white decision-making, and that's what they are talking about. All aspects take into account that there are only two options when it comes to action, or not action.

"Since everyone is not opposed, then we will assign combat missions." Liu Yu saw that there was no objection, so he ordered the combat figures.

Gongsun Zhan, led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters, fought against Zhang Chun with the Qingzhou soldiers, and tried to annihilate Zhang Chun.

Zhou Yi led the Youzhou soldiers to prevent the Wuhuan people from participating in the battle. Unpredictable to the north.

Liu Yu sent an envoy to Wuhuan to recruit the Wuhuan people.