It seems that the Xianbei people on the northern grasslands have invaded the border counties again, and all the people have made their own judgment in their hearts: the people of the border pass are going to suffer again.

At noon, the conscription team formed a circle around the ox carts. The people began to nibble on the dry food with gourds or ladles on the water of the river. Zhao Hong found that the faces of his subordinates were not good-looking. Even the county soldiers of Shiyi City had the same face.

"I don't know if the strikers of the Xianbei people will come to our Shiyi."

A county soldier who was carrying a halberd and sitting cross-legged on the ground said with a heavy face beside Zhao Hong. Changshan County, where Shiyi is located, is located at the northern end of Taihang Mountain, not far from Yanshan, the natural boundary between nomadism and farming. In the case of the Xianbei people going south, it is very likely that they will be plundered to Shiyi. Being able to see such an obvious beacon fire shows that Xianbei's large army may only be more than a hundred miles away from here. A small group of Xianbei rangers are more likely to encounter the grain caravan at any time.

When Xianbei people invaded, it was generally at this time when the horses were fat in the fifth autumn. On the one hand, this season can provide enough forage for war horses. On the other hand, this season is exactly after the harvest of the farming peoples. Many villages had stored a lot of grain, and the Han Empire's tax revenue and the transshipment of various grains also provided many opportunities for raiders like Xianbei.

The Xianbei people of this era were not as strong as they were during the Wuhu Rebellion, but they also replaced the Xiongnu as the henchmen of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It's really funny to say, the Eastern Han Dynasty united Xianbei to fight the Huns, and the Huns were driven away, but there was a more ruthless character Xianbei, the so-called front door to drive wolves, and back doors to tigers.

Xianbei is an ethnic community originating from Donghu. In other words, Xianbei is a common term for many tribes living in a certain area. The national community is the primitive stage of the nation, and further development, cohesion and integration will form a relatively close nation. However, the Xianbei people are still in the stage of a very primitive tribal alliance. For a society where human productivity is relatively primitive, nation, tribal union and state mean the same thing. States, tribal confederations, and nations do not distinguish between them.

For example, the ghost fang during the Shang Dynasty was not only a fang country, but also a tribal alliance, and a national community. The fundamental reason for this is also due to the productive forces, just as the development of the fetus in the mother's womb is a microcosm of human evolution, which is the inevitable stage of the earliest human beings being limited by objective conditions, and human beings gathered together to form tribes. With the development of the productive forces, tribal alliances were formed by cooperation and war, and wars and cooperation between tribal alliances formed a higher level of state, and at the same time, the state in turn promoted the change of relations within the tribal alliance. The tribal confederation is already a national community. The various countries of later generations did not fall from the sky, but from Marx's point of view, they were the inevitable products of the development of the productive forces to a certain stage.

In addition to the above-mentioned reasons, the reason why the Tanshihuai military alliance is strong is also inseparable from the strategy of Tanshihuai and others to unite the surrounding clans and attack the main targets through negotiations. For example, the United Southern Xiongnu Wuhuan, Shangjun Shen Di and Anding Xian Lingqiang, etc., diverged into the nine counties on the edge of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ranging from Youzhou Liaodong in the east to Wuwei and Zhangye in Liangzhou in the west of the empire.

Due to Xianbei's harassment of the border counties of You, Bing and Liang for many years, "the killing strategy is innumerable". In the sixth year of Xiping, Xianbei disturbed the three sides again. Emperor Ling of Han was enraged and sent an elite Han border army to sweep Xianbei. In August of this year, Xia Yu's army came out of Gaoliu, and the famous generals Xia Yu, Duan Xuan and Zhang Wen were known as the three most famous border army generals during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

Two foreign and two troops, Tian Yan's army out of the clouds, the Xiongnu Zhonglang general Zang led the Southern Xiongnu Tu Teruo corpse to chase the corpse out of Yanmen, each led more than 10,000 cavalry, divided into three ways out of the fortress, but the Han Dynasty made the same mistake as the battle of Salhu and attacked in three ways, and they penetrated more than 2,000 miles into the Xianbei sphere of influence.

The Han army sent 30,000 cavalry, which was a Han dynasty at that time, and these 30,000 border troops were actually enough to shake more than 100,000 Xianbei people head-on. The Xianbei chieftain Tan Shihuai, like the leaders of the grassland peoples in previous dynasties, ordered the three lords of the eastern, central, and western parts to lead their troops to attack the Han army after the Han army went deep alone and the supply was not smooth. Xia Yu and the others suffered a crushing defeat, and even lost all the talismans and baggage, and each of them only led dozens of cavalry to flee for their lives. The Han army, which had the advantage, was defeated by the herdsmen of Tanshihuai, and seven or eight out of ten Han soldiers were killed, which can be said to be a great injury to their vitality.

Since then, the Eastern Han Dynasty has basically lost the ability to take the initiative to attack the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people were even more unscrupulous to invade the passes of the Great Wall and plunder the interior. The Han army can only passively defend the main cities, and you can ask for more blessings for the vast places that the city walls can't protect.

This reminded Zhao Hong of the old slave in the late Ming Dynasty in his previous life, which was simply a copy of the Battle of Salhu. The old slave was also the first to send troops to harass Liaodong Town, attacking and destroying Fushun, deliberately angering the Ming Dynasty government. Subsequently, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty gathered the elite border army of Liaodong, and the soldiers were divided into four ways to fight a decisive battle with the old slave.

The perennial beacon fire continues, and the Liaodong Frontier Army has always been known as the "first strong soldier" of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of the large-scale horse team of the Shandong Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi rebel army, the soldiers and horses of the inland Zhili were defeated. There was even a time when the horses of the rebel army came to the city of Beijing. The Ming government was forced to transfer the Liaodong Border Army, and the Liaodong Border Army between the white mountains and black waters was really not covered, and the powerful Liaodong Border Army was cured of illness and successfully suppressed the uprising.

Similar to Xianbei's Jiannu, the wild boar skin old slave also harassed the Liaodong town of the Ming Dynasty after becoming strong. Continuously attacked Fushun, Qinghe and other places, killing and plundering innumerable. As a result, Wanli, like Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, recruited elite troops to fight against the old slaves.

Zhao Hong felt that the leaders of backward nations should not be underestimated, and the cruel living environment between primitive tribes was far beyond the imagination of normal people. For a defeated tribe, it was a common thing for the entire tribe to be slaughtered. For example, the frequent massacres of the Mongols and Xianbei people came from the brutal wars between their primitive tribes. None of the leaders who can grow up in such a social environment and harsh natural conditions are fuel-efficient lamps.

Both Tan Shi Huai and the old slave successfully used the harassment to deliberately provoke the Central Plains Dynasty, and at the same time, they also used the harassment war to make the Central Plains Dynasty mistakenly underestimate their strength. The Central Plains Dynasty took the initiative to attack them, which gave them the advantage of fighting on the inside line, which was much more advantageous in terms of intelligence and supplies.

As a result, in the famous Battle of Sarhu, the "Liaodong Elite" accumulated by the Ming army for many years was wiped out. The Ming Dynasty, which was greatly injured, never launched an active attack on Houjin again.

Sure enough, the history is strikingly similar, is Wanli a bit similar to Emperor Ling of Han? They are all very good at accumulating wealth, and they are also very politically means to level their ministers, and they are almost in the bottom position of the dynasty.

Is the Xianbei sandalwood locust very similar to the wild boar skin of the old slave in Jianzhou? Zhao Hong couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, there was nothing new under the sun. And the most heart-wrenching part of the tragedy of history is that the same mistake happens again and again in the face of almost the same enemy.

However, the people of the grain conscription team did not have the leisure to compare history vertically with the traverser. For this small land requisition team, if they unfortunately encounter a large number of Xianbei cavalry in the field, it means that everyone will not see the sun tomorrow.