Chapter 669: Sweeping the Southern Xiongnu and Tu Ge
Since Cai Yong became the chief lieutenant, all changes in the military affairs carried out by Fuquan were reported to Cai Yong, but although Cai Yong was named Taiwei and was the highest commander of the central government's control of the imperial court's military, his proposal to modify Fuquan's military deployment was rejected by Shang Shutai, who had issued the edict, for various reasons, and only the suggestion that Fuquan did not put forward was agreed.
was rejected once or twice, Cai Yong may not be able to see it, but there are many times, no matter how stupid Cai Yong is, he knows that there is a cat in it, and he is unwilling to be humiliated at the moment, and he goes to the palace to ask to see the emperor and the queen mother, and explain everything.
It's just that the little emperor Liu Chong still doesn't care about things now, and all the government and military affairs are actually managed by the Empress Dowager Song, and for military affairs, as long as it is not related to the fundamental matters of her rights, the Empress Dowager Song doesn't want to offend Fuquan at all, so for Cai Yong's complaint, it is only to appease. After that, Zhao Fuquan entered the palace for a private chat, but seeing that Fuquan had a clear intention about this, he was unmoved, so he left it at that, and did not help him much for what Cai Yong wanted.
Cai Yong waited for a long time, and during this period, he repeatedly entered the palace to urge, but the military action set by Fuquan was still rejected on various grounds, and in the end it was seen that it was impossible, so he simply did not have an opinion on the military action proposed by Fuquan.
And other people in the court, it can also be seen that this Cai Yong, as a captain, can not suppress Fuquan, a hussar general, at all, many people secretly say that Fuquan does not respect Cai Yong, the old man, but such as Ma Riyan and others saw the story behind Fuquan's ecstasy eyes, because the high-ranking officials in northern Xinjiang had been replaced by Fuquan as their own people during the time when Cai Yong attracted courtiers.
During this period of time, the magistrates of Tianxia Prefecture and counties have changed a lot, not to mention those former protégés of the Yuan family, who most of them served in the rich places of the Central Plains, were all dismissed by Fuquan for various reasons, or degraded Liangzhou and Yizhou, or directly dismissed, for example, Yanzhou Assassin Shi Qiao Mao was dismissed by Fuquan for ineffectiveness in office.
Liangzhou is Fuquan's old nest, as for Yizhou, after He Miao, the original Yizhou Thorn History, was executed by the imperial court, he was taken over by Song Guo, a member of the Empress Dowager Song's clan, who followed the old car cavalry general Song Yu for many years, both in terms of age and qualifications are enough to serve as a state thorn history, to deal with the Yizhou affairs that He Miao was once in charge of, and it is also a suitable person.
As for the vacated official positions, in addition to being used to promote the old department of Fuquan, it is to promote other suitable candidates, mainly from the Hanmen scholars.
Originally, these appointments were naturally nothing, after all, it was normal to clean up the relatives and friends of the traitors, but while Fuquan was cleaning up these Yuan protégés and former officials, he was also installing his own people little by little in the northern Xinjiang and the three states of You, You, and Hebei.
For example, Ding Yuan, the assassin of Bingzhou, was conscripted into the court as a young government, and seized his military power in disguise from the position of Jiuqing, and his position was held by Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha.
Du Liao general Geng Zhi because of the long war against the Southern Xiongnu, slaughter to no avail, dismissed, demoted to a commoner, and then on the grounds of stabilizing the situation in northern Xinjiang, with his command of the general made the Xiongnu Zhonglang Guan Yu the general of Duliao, as for Guan Yu to make the Xiongnu Zhonglang general, was appointed by Fuquan to protect the Wuhuan captain Gongsun Zhan to replace him, with his reputation in Youzhou, he can completely suppress the group of Liangzhou soldiers under Guan Yu's command, and Gongsun Zhan's post of the captain of the Wuhuan is replaced by Lu Bu.
As the head of the generals of the state, Fuquan promoted Lu Bu to a high position, naturally to appease the generals of the state, so that he could obviously rein in Ding Yuan's military power, and when he controlled the state, he would not let those soldiers of the state resist.
Fuquan's substitution like this has no other meaning, that is, to carry out devastating revenge on the Southern Xiongnu and Tu Ge who are still rebelling, and he is not at ease with others, only those old tribes who follow him to conquer the Hu people are trustworthy.
Later, with Liu Yu's continued to distribute wealth and food to appease the Wuhuan people in Youzhou, Fuquan ordered Liu Yu to be transferred to the assassin of Yuzhou. The original Yuzhou assassin Shi Huang Wan, although when Yuan Shao was plotting rebellion, did not send troops to Beijing, but as a party member, naturally Fuquan would no longer trust him, and directly summoned him to the court to serve as the ruling Jinwu, and since Liu Yu likes to be kind, it is better to let him go to the hard-hit area of the party in Yuzhou, and talk to those party families who were weakened by Fuquan.
As for Youzhou, Fu Quan thought about it, and finally chose Huang Zhong as the assassin of Youzhou, he and Guan Yu are both generals who have been fighting with Fuquan for a long time, and they have made countless contributions.
When the courtiers came back to their senses from Cai Yong's half-empty incident, they were surprised to find that the situation in northern Xinjiang had already become unrecognizable, and it seemed that in the blink of an eye, in addition to Jizhou, which was relatively stable in northern Xinjiang, the places where elite soldiers were produced on the three sides of the Han Dynasty seemed to have become Fuquan's subordinates.
The senior officials of Northern Xinjiang have been decided, and the following is naturally to decide who to send troops to, after a choice, Fuquan finally decided to send troops to the Southern Xiongnu and Tuge, after all, compared with the Wuhuan people outside the northeast county, attacking the Southern Xiongnu and Tu people in Bingzhou and Saibei Changshi Mansion, obviously in terms of logistics, the pressure on the Han army will be less.
In the summer of May, the court meeting, the hussar general Fuquan played the Southern Xiongnu, Tuge, and the emperor played it.
The day of sending troops is set, the strength of the troops is also set, and the state assassin Shi Sun Jian sent troops and cavalry 30,000, the Liao general Guan Yu and the Xiongnu Zhonglang Gongsun Zan out of 20,000 cavalry, the court ordered the new partial general Li Dao and Zhang Ji to send 2,000 cavalry to the Beijing Division, and the total number of soldiers and horses on the three roads was more than 52,000 people, all of whom were elite soldiers who fought with the Hu people for a long time.
As for the grain and grass, it has been stabilized in recent years, the place is rich, and the treasury is full of Ji and Yan, and the two states of Huangfu Song and Wang Mou are all people who obey the orders of Fuquan, and there is no objection to this.
And the route of the Han army is also very simple and rude, that is, out of Yanmen, Dingxiang two counties, and directly attack Meiji County, the old nest of the Southern Xiongnu, unless the Southern Xiongnu will flee like their ancestors, otherwise, even if they surrender, the Han generals who accept Fuquan's secret order will definitely not let them continue.
However, before that, the 2,000 cavalry led by the partial generals Li Dao and Zhang Ji, and the 10,000 cavalry sent by Sun Jian, the assassin of Bingzhou, joined forces to besiege the remnants of Taiping Dao Guo Taibu who were entrenched in the Baibo Valley, and united with the Baibo army to plunder in Taiyuan, Hedong and other places, and rebelled against the Han dynasty of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yufuluo.
Previously, since the Han army defeated the Southern Xiongnu and Tu Ge coalition armies that invaded Bingzhou, it stands to reason that Yu Fuluo, the son of Qiangqu Shan Yu with the right of orthodox inheritance, should be able to return to the country and succeed to the throne.
However, once the Han State did not want to see a unified Southern Xiongnu tribe, so after defeating the invading Southern Xiongnu and Tu various coalition forces, he has been shirking the dispatch of troops to help him regain Shan Yu's position for various reasons; Second, although Gudu Hou Shan Yu is dead, most of the people of the Southern Xiongnu tribe do not support Yu Fuluo's accession to the throne, and the reason is that they are afraid that Yu Fuluo will hate them for helping Gudu Hou kill his father, and they are worried about retaliation.
Therefore, Yu Fuluo, who had been hit repeatedly, was angry in his heart, and the logistics of the Hu cavalry under his command were insufficient, and finally united with the white wave thieves entrenched in the east of the river, plundered the surrounding area, and judged the Han Dynasty.
Fu Quan Zheng couldn't find a reason to exterminate the Southern Xiongnu and Tu each tribe, and now the name of the Southern Xiongnu is only so provocative to the Han family, he naturally wants to send troops to crusade, and by the way, take this as an excuse, and after the imperial army defeats the Southern Xiongnu, he will exterminate his tribe to the Xianbei and Qiang people.
The Han army of more than 52,000 troops was mighty, killing Meiji County, the nest of the Southern Xiongnu, and after Tuge and the Southern Xiongnu experienced a heavy defeat, they continued to piece together the remaining 70,000 allied troops and waited for them.
Seeing this, the Han army was not in a hurry, the cavalry guarded the two wings, the foot soldiers calmly surrounded the car into a circle formation, and in the face of the Hu coalition army, hundreds of ballistas roared in unison, and the giant arrows turned into streamers, and the Hu people who rushed to the front were swept away in an instant.
The galloping Hu army was in chaos, and more people tripped and fell to death by horses than under the arrows......
The Hu people had to brave heavy casualties, kill more than 200 steps in front of the Han army, jump off their horses to form a foot bow formation, fight back against the Han army, and cover the cavalry.
Under the protection of the shield hand, the crossbowmen of the Han army shot out another wave of crossbow rain, forming a line of death defense, no Hu people could step within a hundred steps, and the ground was covered with layers of corpses, high and high, forming a hill.
Seeing that the strong attack could not work, the Hu people could only insert diagonally on the left and right flanks in order to disperse the firepower of the Han army and give other Hu cavalry of the Chinese army a chance to fight hand-to-hand with the Han army.
However, this move has no effect at all for those border troops who have long been familiar with the Hu people's tactics, and the Hu people can only use flesh and blood to open a way out.
The two sides fought a bloody battle for half a day, and the Hu coalition army ambushed more than 20,000 people, and now the old king of the Southern Huns saw this, so he could only regroup and prepare to launch another round of attack.
However, this battle was actually doomed from the very beginning, and the Han army had been preparing for a long time, so could it be that the mantis arm of the Hu coalition army could be stopped?
Moreover, as Fuquan gradually controlled the central court, his control over stirrups and horseshoes was no longer strict, and he was slowly expanding the whole army from the Liangzhou military lineage.
This time, the Liangzhou soldiers led by Zhang Ji and Li Dao, and even many cavalry under Guan Yu, were also equipped with stirrups, horseshoes and other things. In terms of cavalry combat power, most of the Han army has surpassed the Hu people, which is already very bullying the Hu people, plus the Han and Hu armies are actually equal in strength, so naturally those Hu soldiers are not the opponents of the Han army.
More than 52,000 Han troops, regardless of the dangers, led by the three generals of Gongsun Zhan, who assassinated Shi Sun Jian, the general of Duliao, and Gongsun Zhansan, the general of the Xiongnu Zhonglang, led the troops to chase and beat the Hu people, with the strict orders of the generals before leaving the division, in the face of the surrender of many Hu people, the Han army was not moved by their pleas for mercy at all, and on the premise of not leaving a living mouth, they all killed the Hu people who saw that the situation was not good and wanted to surrender for the coming day.
For Fuquan, he doesn't need to keep those vassal aliens, what if these aliens surrender for a while, "if they are not in our clan, their hearts will be different", Fuquan wants the territory of the Han Dynasty to be peaceful forever, not short-term allegiance.
Moreover, keeping those alien races in the Han realm is also a waste of land, and occupying the land resources that are already not enough for the Han people to cultivate and produce. With the saturation of the current population of the Han Dynasty, even if there were the Taiping Dao Rebellion and the Qiang Rebellion, which caused the loss of millions of people, after all, the population base is here, and it only needs to ensure that there will be no more man-made disasters, control natural disasters, and wait for the next generation of population to explode, and the land of the Central Plains will definitely not be enough for the life of the Han people.
However, because of the attached reasons, in several counties in northern Xinjiang, there are many Southern Xiongnu and Tu people with population advantages, which naturally became a thorn in Fuquan's side, for these Hu people of different races who always surrender and rebel, Fuquan certainly can't tolerate them to continue to fool the Han like this, unless he is willing to fully integrate into the Han nationality and no longer regard himself as his old clan, otherwise, he is a captive and does not want.
The population of the Great Han is already too large, and the limited land naturally has to be given to the people who obey the orders of the Great Han to live, and as for those who do not obey the Great Han at all, Fu Quan feels that it is best to let them completely disappear into this world.
In the first year of Guangxi, in the autumn and July, the Han army attacked the court of the Southern Xiongnu in three ways, and went north to sweep away the settlements of various ethnic groups.
In addition to the thousands of Hu "teenagers" who were confirmed to be completely annexed, the Han army killed more than 80,000 Hu people, captured more than 30,000 young women, and most of the rest of the Hu people fled north. Most of them were captured by the Changshi Mansion in the north of the Saibei, and after screening, they were either killed or incorporated into the Tuntian of the Changshi Mansion, and a few fled into the vast grasslands outside the vast northern Xinjiang, but there were very few who could really survive.
Since then, north of Bingzhou, there is no trace of the Huns and Huns, and Fuquan's war in the north has not stopped because of the destruction of the Southern Xiongnu and Tuge.
After the great victory of the state came, Fu Quan did not hesitate, continued his plan, he immediately played the imperial court at the great victory court, counting the Wuhuan and Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju and other thieves, raising troops to stand on their own, wanting to become a country, asking the court to issue an edict, in order to merge the state to conquer the Southern Xiongnu, Tu Ge of the Han army, a cavalry, with Youzhou Assassin Shi Huang Zhong and the cavalry of the Wuhuan Lieutenant Lu Bu, out of the fortress to raise the war, and to conquer the Wuhuan troops that have been crusading against the difficult Wuhuan troops.
After all, with the former Youzhou Mu Liu Yu in office, he recruited a lot of Wuhuan clans, so that those Wuhuan tribes who originally rebelled were loyal to the Han family again, and many ministers felt that there was no need to spend more money and food to crusade against Wuhuan This small clan that does not need to care more.
It's just that these opinions can't stop Fuquan now, especially since they have been using the grain and grass logistics of rotten teeth and the Hu people have been loyal, and the Han don't need to waste resources and so on for this small clan.
In the matter of dealing with foreign races, he knows very well that once the population of the grassland people skyrockets, he will never allow himself to leave any hidden dangers that may cause a catastrophe to his children and grandchildren.
Even if the strength of Wuhuan is not strong now, compared to the Southern Xiongnu, Tuge, and even Xianbei, who was destroyed by the Han Dynasty before, Wuhuan is very weak, but Fuquan will definitely not let them have any possibility of rising.
After some ridicule, the courtiers couldn't shake Fuquan at all, and a group of children in the court, all of whom were participating in the war in northern Xinjiang, also asked the court for approval to exterminate Wuhuan, and finally under the consent of the Empress Dowager Song, the little emperor Liu Chong ordered the state army to join the Youzhou army and go out of the fortress to defeat Wuhuan.
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