Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 2 Rampant Qilu

Chapter 1 Overcoming Hardships and Adventures to Seek a Way Home

Section 7: On History

It has been three days since Liu Yunwei led his army to leave Haizhouwei and go south, and at this time, the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion had already passed the camp and were advancing towards Gaizhouwei.

Liu Yunwei and Yuan Mingxuan stopped on a high ground together, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the Hanwei battalion in front of them continued to advance with neat steps. I saw the front led by Lu Ying, Zhao Kaishan, and Li Tianhao, as well as the left and right departments, which were always in front of the road; Subsequently, the rear led by Wu Xing escorted the coffins of Liu Ting, Liu Zhao and Xu Wanxin, as well as the food and grass of the army; The cavalry led by Wen Poyu was always at the end of the army, and the soldiers all led their horses on foot to save horsepower, and the night was not collected because they scattered twenty miles to reconnoiter the situation and pass news back and forth from time to time.

"It can't go on like this, the army is marching too slowly. If we continue at this rate, I am afraid that it will take until next month just to reach Shandong, so how long will it take to reach Sichuan? Liu Yunwei said worriedly.

Yuan Mingxuan said: "Don't be too demanding, the little general, our Hanwei battalion is a battalion dominated by infantry, and the soldiers have walked more than 120 miles in the past three days, and the speed of such a march is already very impressive." ”

Liu Yunwei shook his head and said, "I have already sent a letter to my hometown before, and it must not be long before my mother will receive the bad news from my grandfather and father." My mother has no relatives left, I can't leave my mother alone to suffer like this, I have to rush back as soon as possible! ”

Yuan Mingxuan persuaded: "However, we must cultivate our foot strength for thousands of miles to Sichuan, otherwise how many soldiers will be left in the Sichuan Hanwei Camp?" ”

Liu Yunwei thought for a while and said: "By the way, Lord Yuan, when I used to read history books, I saw that during the Han and Tang dynasties, our Han army was able to run rampant for hundreds of miles in a short period of time, and the army was like a sharp arrow from the string to the south and the north, how did the sages do it?" Is there any way we can learn from it? ”

Yuan Mingxuan smiled and said, "Little General, I know this method of why the sages were able to make the army run rampant for hundreds of miles in a short period of time, but this method is not something we can learn from now. ”

"Why?"

Yuan Mingxuan paused and said, "Little general, let's get off the horse and rest first, and I'll tell you about it carefully." ”

Liu Yunwei couldn't ask for it, so he dismounted and sat on the ground with Yuan Mingxuan.

Yuan Mingxuan looked at the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion who were marching in the distance, sorted out his thoughts, and said: "Little general, do you know that in the Han and Tang dynasties, the imperial court would implement horse politics and build a royal horse garden and a horse farm, for example, the Han court in the Han Wu period had millions of war horses, and the Tang court in the late Zhenguan period also had more than 300,000 war horses, and in the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the number of war horses reached an incredible more than 1.2 million. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty of the Xionghan Dynasty, we in China could not only easily organize hundreds of thousands of elite iron cavalry to sweep the desert and kill all directions, but even the infantry went out to maneuver at any time with two horses per person, and then dismounted to form a formation after arriving at the battlefield. Therefore, the sages of the Han and Tang dynasties could make tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops rampant in a few days or tens of thousands of miles. ”

Liu Yunwei was stunned after hearing this, everyone admired the majesty of the Han and Tang dynasties, but who would have thought that the Han and Tang dynasties would be so strong? Millions of war horses, what kind of terrifying power it will be, coupled with the inexhaustible wealth of China and tens of millions of people, that is an endless and inexhaustible army of iron cavalry, what enemy can't win! It is no wonder that the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Turkic ilks were wiped out under the sharp sword of the Han and Tang Dynasty men.

Thinking of the current Jiannu, Liu Yunwei said: "Lord Yuan, what you just said is very inspiring to me, now Jiannu is rampant, and I have found some situations from it after several confrontations, such as Jiannu is not only sharp in iron riding, but also its foot soldiers are also very brave, and everywhere they are wreaking havoc on horseback, which is exactly the same as the practice of our Han sages." ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded and said, "Indeed, it is not surprising that military theory has been the same since ancient times. Moreover, although the Jiannu soldiers were sharp, they were not the biggest scourge encountered by Huaxia, and they were not even much of a scourge compared to the Hu people they had encountered before. ”

"What!" Liu Yunwei said in surprise: "Could it be that the Xiongnu and Turks in history are far stronger than Jiannu?" ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded and said: "Since the unification of the Xiongnu tribes, it has been a powerful empire with hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen and 300,000 of them, otherwise it would not have given the Han Dynasty, which is known for its toughness, such a headache; And Hu tribes such as Xianbei, Rouran, Khitan, Jurchen (not Jiannu, Jiannu and Jurchen are two completely different ethnic groups), Huisu and other Hu people are all huge empires with hundreds of thousands or even millions of armor; The Turks once had 300,000 troops under the city of Chang'an, and they forced Tang Taizong to spend money to eliminate disasters in exchange for the Turkic retreat; And then not to mention Mongolia, which destroyed countless countries. ”

At this time, Liu Yunwei didn't say a word, just silently listened to Yuan Mingxuan's gentle words.

Yuan Mingxuan looked at Liu Yunwei, who was silently thinking about something while listening to his own history, and continued: "Little general, compared with the Hu clan I said, what is the Jiannu with tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of clansmen? Jiannu is nothing! It's not that I look down on Nurhachi, compared with the Huns, Turks and other Hu people, Jiannu is rubbish! However, why did those incomparably powerful Hu tribes, whether they were the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, or Khitan, all of them were defeated by our Han dynasty one by one, and even exterminated, of course, there is no one left? Why was Jiannu, who was far from so powerful, able to defeat the dynasty and run rampant in Liaodong? Little general, this is what you should figure out! ”

After listening to this, Liu Yunwei only felt that he seemed to understand something in his heart, but he felt very ethereal, and he wanted to grasp that trace of enlightenment but had no way to start.

Yuan Mingxuan saw that Liu Yunwei had already thought of the key point, so he almost kicked the door, and said: "Tiger and wolf nature!" Now the dynasty lacks the nature of a tiger and a wolf! ”

Liu Yunwei suddenly looked at Yuan Mingxuan and said, "Lord Yuan, I understand. ”

Yuan Mingxuan smiled and said, "The little general will talk about it." ”

Liu Yunwei paused and said: "The reason why the Han and Tang dynasties such as the Han and Tang dynasties were able to defeat or even exterminate the powerful Hu tribes such as the Xiongnu, Turkic, and Khitan was not only because of their strong national strength and strong military strength; At the beginning of the dynasty, even a few years ago, the military strength of the imperial court was still very considerable, and the national strength was also extremely strong, but now why is it defeated by Jiannu, whose strength is far inferior to that of the Xiongnu and other tribes? It is because the current dynasty has lost the nature of tigers and wolves, which is not to say that the soldiers are not brave and do not have the courage to fight bloody and captive, but now the dynasty is prosperous and martial, and the military is controlled by literature, and it has lost the bloody and brave spirit of advocating literature and martial arts in the Han and Tang dynasties! ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded and said, "The little general said it well!" Now the implementation of the dynasty is to use literature to control the military, and even the general soldiers of a town have to be polite when they see the small civil officials of the sixth or seventh grades, which has led to the people advocating Confucianism and burying their heads in reading, I am not saying that Confucianism is not good or that learning is not good, but that the dynasty has done a little too much in literature; This led to the continuous reduction of the bloodiness of the Chinese people, and the loss of the tyrannical spirit of the Han family in the Han and Tang dynasties. ”

Liu Yunwei muttered: "Lord Yuan is saying that our descendants have really become a flock of sheep as Jiannu said?" ”

"Of course not!" Yuan Mingxuan said: "The current descendants of the Han family are only blinded by Confucianism and splendid articles, and they are bound by the system of using literature to control martial arts. My Huaxia Erlang has never lacked hot-blooded men who dare to fight the Tartar captives, but there is a lack of an environment that stimulates bloodiness or allows bloodiness to completely explode! ”

Liu Yunwei asked: "In other words, what the dynasty has to do now is not only to reorganize its armaments and accumulate money and food, but also to change the ancestral system of using literature to control military force?" ”

"Not only the ancestral system, but also to change the deep-rooted concepts of the Chinese people!"

"What idea?"

Yuan Mingxuan said: "Little general, the reason why the Han and Tang dynasties were strong was not because of the national strength or wealth, but because of the spirit of advocating literature and martial arts of the people of the Han family at that time!" At that time, our Han men read etiquette poems and books in one hand, and fought the world with a sword and iron horse in the other, and the sages were not only able to chant poems and export chapters to pass on through the ages, but also to leap horses and carry guns, and run rampant in the desert to defend China! This is the real reason why Hantang is strong!

At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to go north to the desert to counterattack the Xiongnu, and issued an edict to the children of good families who wanted to join the Han army to bring their own horses and weapons to gather in Chang'an. The edict was issued, only to see the south to the land of Lingnan, the north to the state of Youji, the west to the land of Xiliang Sanfu, the east to the coast of the Bohai Sea in Shandong, and the gallop road to Chang'an was all self-prepared war horses, carrying big swords and spears, and spontaneously rushed to Chang'an to participate in the Northern Expedition of the Han family's sons, and the history books have recorded: The edict of the Han Dynasty has arrived, and the land is full of women and children, old and young, and men have to Chang'an to listen to the Xuan! Even the prisoners on death row in various places learned of this, and they all clamored to go north to Chang'an to kill Hu, ashamed of dying on the execution ground, and proud of dying in battle! At that time, the fierce nature of Hermes-Epitek can be seen! This is also the origin of the fact that Guoheng is destroyed by weakness and the lone man is dyed by strength! ”

Liu Yunwei only felt his blood boiling after hearing this, and shouted: "This is what my Han family should look like!" ”

Yuan Mingxuan asked: "However, if the imperial court issues a conscription order now, asking the men of the world to gather in Beijing and prepare to attack Jiannu in a big way, how many people does the little general think will be called?" ”

Liu Yunwei was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said with a gloomy expression: "No one will come, no one will come!" ”

"So the Han and Tang dynasties were able to defeat the extremely powerful Xiongnu and Turks, while the dynasty was defeated by the still weak Jiannu." Yuan Mingxuan also said with a sigh.

Liu Yunwei lowered his head and pondered, and after a long while, he stood up and said, "Thank you Lord Yuan for your teaching, Yunwei has already understood." If I want to fight Liaodong again and defeat Jiannu, I must not only work hard to accumulate strength, but also find a way to change the atmosphere of the dynasty and rebuild the Han family's barbarian spirit of advocating literature and martial arts! Even if I can't change the whole world, at least I have to change the people around me and the people under my rule, only then will I have the strength to fight to the death with Jiannu! ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded with satisfaction, looked at Liu Yunwei with a resolute face, and stopped talking.

At this time, most of the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion had already passed here, and Wen Poyu was riding his horse in the distance. When he arrived, Wen Poyu said, "Big brother, Lord Yuan, the army is about to pass, let's follow." ”

At this time, Liu Yunwei only felt that his fighting spirit was high, unlike the previous blind desire to take revenge and fight again, now Liu Yunwei not only has hatred for Jiannu in his heart, but also knows what he is going to do and what he should do, and knows what he will do to be able to defeat Jiannu and go to Liaodong again!

Liu Yunwei flew on his horse, looked at the soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion who were hurrying in the distance, and said to Yuan Mingxuan and Wen Poyu: "Go!" Let's go! ”

After speaking, the three of them jumped on their horses and whipped towards the army of the Hanwei Battalion.