The discussion in the Xianbei royal court is actually very simple, in the eyes of Helian and his subordinates, their Xianbei department, with many soldiers, and occupies the essence of the eastern and central Xianbei regions, is the Xianbei tribe alliance that supports the leader and Budugen, and it is far from being their opponent.

And there is only one point they want to discuss, that is, how to maximize the annexation of those rebel forces after defeating the tribes that support the leader and Budugen, and reduce the losses caused by Xianbei's internal friction, simply and specifically, how to reduce the loss of the population.

After all, since the death of Tanshi Huai in Youzhou, the Xianbei people lost tens of thousands of teachers in the Han State, and then with the civil strife of the princes, the population plummeted, and now for these tribesmen, the sooner the battle is ended, the better, and then dragged on, as the herdsmen are unable to carry out effective grazing due to civil strife, the tribe's food will also be insufficient.

In the end, Helian decided that two days later, he would go straight to the Great Xianbei Mountain in the northeast with all his army, and in that birthplace of Xianbei, he would fight a decisive battle with his two nephews, strive for a decisive battle, and completely defeat them, so as to complete his great cause of unifying the Xianbei tribes and revitalizing Xianbei.

Just when He Lian and his subordinates had decided to start the Xianbei civil war again, in the distant Beidi County Office, the generals of the Han army were also discussing how to march into Xianbei.

At this time, Fu Quan, who had just lost his face at the banquet, was facing the people in front of him and pointed to the map on the table: "Xianbei land, the essence is the east and the middle two, although the west Xianbei governs the west of the valley to Dunhuang, the west is connected to Wusun, there are more than 20 yi, but compared with the thousands of miles of wide land in its territory, the soldiers and horses are weak, so I want to lead the troops out of the north, directly attack the surrendered city, the west of Xianbei is the most garrisoned, destroy it, it will hit the west Xianbei hard, and then go east to the Xianbei royal court to play the sweat mountain, it will be able to break the ...... in a battle"

Several people present nodded one after another, Fuquan's strategic thinking was actually nothing new, it was completely Emperor Liu Hong's meaning, and it was only when Walter mentioned attacking the surrendered city, Huangfu Song spoke up: "Prince, the surrendered city is too close to the Great Wall, even if it is captured, it is not easy for the army to hide its tracks; Second, the Xianbei royal court is more than 600 miles east of the surrendered city, once there is a change, the Xianbei royal court will be on guard when it learns the news of the surrendered city, and it will be difficult to break the Xianbei royal court. ”

In the end, Huangfu Song is also a famous general who will quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the future, and naturally see at a glance the loophole that Fuquan chose to surrender to the city, where there are many Xianbei western tribes and soldiers and horses, and the Han army does not dare to fight to guarantee that they can be wiped out, as long as a few Xianbei people escape and slip back to the Xianbei Wang Pavilion in Danhan Mountain, then all the plans of the Han army may be exposed, so Huangfu Song does not recommend revealing the whereabouts of the Han army too early.

Fu Quan nodded, but still insisted: "If the Xianbei royal court can be broken, it will be broken, if it can't be controlled, then kill its herdsmen and destroy its population, this is the best policy in addition to Xianbei, although the immortal merit is good, but it is not as good as the Han army to destroy Xianbei." ”

From beginning to end, Fuquan understood that in order to completely conquer and defeat those steppe peoples, it was not to occupy how much land they had, but to exterminate most of their living forces, and the so-called living forces were naturally the population. On the contrary, compared to breaking the Xianbei royal court, it is the best choice to completely exterminate the Xianbei race, after all, the land has been occupied, as long as the Xianbei people still have people, they will always be able to occupy it again one day, but the people are gone, the race can not continue, and the final result can only be that the Xianbei completely disappear in the long river of history, and the land they left behind is finally occupied by the enemy.

Duan Cheng obviously agreed with Fu Quan's idea very much, glanced at Fu Quan with approval, and then said to the people around him: "In the past, when the servants were peaceful, they knew that it was better to occupy their land than to destroy their population. ”

Seeing that the two generals arranged by Emperor Liu Hong had decided to do so, the other people looked at each other and knew that they could not oppose these two supreme commanders of this battle, and they all said in unison: "No! ”

When Duan Cheng spoke, they naturally couldn't refuse, after all, this military god who created countless military myths of the Han Dynasty was far from being comparable to their juniors. Moreover, everyone also knows that Duan Cheng's tactics have always been a military idea of annihilating the enemy's vital force and completely subjugating the enemy's army, and they can't oppose it if they want to, unless they can establish so many immortal miracles like Duan Cheng.

After that, everyone made specific arrangements, until Fu Quan said that he wanted to take himself to 8,000 steps to ride, and after they all rode horses to kill Xianbei, Jia Xu said to Fu Quan and Duan Cheng: "Junhou, Duan Gong, this trip to the Northern Expedition, 8,000 soldiers and horses are very few, and you should recruit soldiers again, and you can go out of the Sai together." ”

"This is reasonable, righteous and true, how much can Northland County send troops?" Duan Cheng nodded, then looked at Huangfu Song and asked.

Huangfu Song frowned, then shook his head and said: "Although there are tens of thousands of soldiers in Beidi County, there are many Qiang and Hu in the territory, and the Han army is out of the fortress, so it is necessary to leave a large army to guard it, otherwise once there is a change, the Qiang people will know that the northern land is empty, and the consequences are unpredictable." If the two generals need help, I can help 3,000 soldiers, not more. ”

Everyone nodded, knowing that what Huangfu Song said was the truth, otherwise, according to the strategy of streamlining the government since the founding of the Han Dynasty, if it weren't for the urgency of the border army, how could these border soldiers be stationed in tens of thousands? You must know that there are county offices in the mainland, and there are thousands of county soldiers on the shelves of the whole county, which is far from being comparable to the soldiers and horses in the border areas.

However, Jia Xu obviously didn't want this answer, I saw him squinting his narrow eyes, and said meaningfully to Huangfu Song: "I know that there are still tens of thousands of iron horsemen in Beidi County, I don't know if Huangfu Beidi can cut his love?" ”

"Huh? What does Jia Jun mean? There are tens of thousands of cavalry in the Northland, and the rest are the guards of the Northland, how can they not know about this? ”

Huangfu Song said with a puzzled face, I don't know what Jia Xu meant, after all, he is a soldier in the northern county, and everyone knows that there are nearly 10,000 cavalry who have died, how can there be tens of thousands of cavalry? If there really is, he himself has the intention to write to the emperor, and go out of the plug to poke the hornet's nest of the Xianbei people, after all, to conquer the enemy country of the alien race, but the dream in the heart of every general, just like now, there are no generals, and they don't want to become a task similar to "Liangzhou Sanming". Of course, Huangfu Song knew that Jia Xu didn't dare to joke at this time, so the tone in his words was very relaxed, otherwise, if others were talking nonsense, he, the northern land, would definitely make that person look good.

"Huangfu is a little quiet in the north, and listen to what he said, but what Yu said about tens of thousands of iron horsemen in the north is true." Jia Xu stroked his short beard, his eyes swept over everyone, and he pretended to be an old god.

"Why?"

"Liangzhou has countless elite soldiers since ancient times, and the north is the essence of Liangzhou, how can there be no soldiers?"

"But there are countless thousands of cavalry in this county."

"I didn't say anything about the county soldiers, why is Huangfu Beidi only obsessed with the county soldiers?"

"If it's not a county soldier, how can there be soldiers in the Northland?" Huangfu Song asked with a puzzled face, and then said to himself: "Temporary recruitment? But the Han people in the north are already scarce and have insufficient household registration, so how can they recruit the soldiers needed for the army for a while? ”

Seeing that Huangfu Song didn't understand, Jia Xuwaner smiled and said: "How can Huangfu only count the Han people in the north, there are still nearly 100,000 Qianghu in the north, all of whom have zero sin first, and are descendants of the traitorous Han. Today, the Han army expedition, since the conscription of its soldiers, clearly for the expedition, secretly surveillance, if the Han army out of the block, Qiang Hu is different, first recruit its soldiers, weaken its military strength, and do not cowardly its back. ”

"This ......"

Huangfu Song's eyes flashed, he didn't know how to speak, he naturally understood what Jia Xu meant, simply put, it was to learn the strategy of the Eastern Han Dynasty, give the Hu soldiers money for military expenses, let them be mercenaries, and let these large numbers of Hu servants and mercenaries be vanguard cannon fodder in each battle, and the Han army only needs to send a small number of regular troops to monitor and pick peaches.

Fu Quan was on the side, and he nodded secretly when he saw this, he was said by Jia Xu, and naturally understood what he meant. You must know that there is a precedent for the Han army to hire Hu soldiers and horses, because in this way, the loss of soldiers and horses of the Han army can be greatly reduced, and the central government can save countless military expenses for this, after all, not to mention the cost of new recruitment after the loss of soldiers, it is also very considerable to appease the professional soldiers of the Han Dynasty.

In this life, Fuquan also has a lot of experience in recruitment, and naturally understands that the soldiers of the Han army have not completely collapsed before the Han Dynasty system has not collapsed because of the great chaos, not counting the supply of food and equipment for the daily life of the soldiers, that is, the recruitment and pension of the soldiers are not a small amount, first of all, it is the settling-in allowance that needs to be given to recruit soldiers, and a soldier costs 30,000 yuan, and the soldiers of the Han army are all professional soldiers, and the government has to give money every month, which adds up to a lot of expenses.

In the previous life, Fuquan often heard that some people talked about the Eastern Han Dynasty was not a strong man, because since the policy influence of Emperor Guangwu, the attitude of the Eastern Han government towards foreign races has always been to raze and raze, which is why the Southern Xiongnu entrenched in the border counties, self-strength, Wuhuan Xianbei first attached to the Han, and then rebelled against the Han and became independent.

In this regard, Fuquan cannot be denied, maybe the policy of the Eastern Han Dynasty may be inappropriate, but their approach of razing and razing is obviously very correct, otherwise if this kind of measure is not taken, the finances of the Eastern Han government, I am afraid that they do not need the kind of chaos that affects the world, and they will have to play first.

Of course, a comparison can be made, if the monthly money given by the Han army is not included in government expenditures, but only the minimum 30,000 yuan required for government conscription. During the Han Dynasty and Emperor Yongping, Liaodong Taishou sacrificed to bribe Xianbei with money, so that he beheaded the rebellious Karasuma Qin Zhiben and others, and then Xianbei from Dunhuang, Jiuquan east of the Yi people, all to Liaodong to accept rewards, and the Eastern Han government saw that there was no need for the government to send troops, so it could clear the rebellion of foreign races, so it ordered the wealthy Qing and Xu Erzhou to give money every year, with 270 million military expenses a year as a regular practice, to appease Xianbei.

If all the 270 million Han troops are recruited, a Han army will need at least 30,000 yuan, and 270 million may seem like a lot, but if you really want to recruit soldiers, you can actually recruit less than 9,000 people, and these 9,000 people are only the initial cost. This is not counting the preparation of armor, training, and daily food logistics for the Han soldiers, the final result may be that the Eastern Han government will pay no less than one billion military expenses, and it may eventually get an army of less than 9,000 soldiers.

How can this be more cost-effective than giving Xianbei 270 million dollars every year, and not paying any other price at all, to get tens of thousands of foreign servant troops from the border counties as cannon fodder, and to storm the city for the Han army? After all, even if these aliens died, the Eastern Han government only needed to pay 270 million yuan a year, and if they recruited soldiers by themselves, not to mention the high cost of this, that is, the monthly payment to the soldiers and the pensions after the death of the soldiers were obviously much more than the price paid for recruiting foreign soldiers and horses.

Moreover, when the Eastern Han Dynasty border counties really needed soldiers and horses, it was obviously impossible to only need these 9,000 people, and the number of soldiers and horses needed would be much more than these 9,000 people, and therefore, what they needed to pay would not be 270 million, but several, more than a dozen 270 million.

As the ruler of the empire, it is obviously impossible for the Eastern Han government not to calculate this account, so the conscription of Hu soldiers has been an inevitable choice for the Eastern Han Dynasty to recruit, and in the end, these 270 million yuan are just less than one and a half years of tax revenue for a large state for the Eastern Han government.

As for the 190,000,000 yuan a year given by the Eastern Han government to the Southern Xiongnu and 74,800,000 yuan to the Western Regions, these money are even more small money, and for the Eastern Han government, these money are nothing compared to the more than 240 million yuan spent on the Hanqiang Hundred Years War.

There is little gossip, Fu Quan is still pondering, and after understanding Jia Xu's meaning, Huangfu Song hurriedly said: "The north is poor, since the Qiang Rebellion, the people's livelihood has withered, and it has not yet been revived. ”

Jia Xu didn't care about this, he also knew that Huangfu Song would refuse, after all, the Beidi Mansion Treasury may have a lot of surplus, but compared to raising Qiang Hu, it is obviously not enough at all.

Subsequently, I saw Jia Xu smile meaningfully: "How does Huangfu Beidi know that he needs money to recruit Qianghu's soldiers?" ”

Xianbei people, also Donghu branch also, don't rely on Xianbei Mountain, so because of the number. Its language and customs are the same as those of Wuhuan. Only the marriage is the first to be the head, and the spring moon is held in Raole Water, and after drinking, and then cooperates. The birds are different from those in China, wild horses, original sheep, and horned cattle, with horns as bows, commonly known as horns and bows. There are also minks and squirts, and their fur is soft and wriggling, so the world thinks it is a famous fur.

Soldiers and food can be wasted, but faith cannot be lost. And the story of the Han Dynasty, the supply of Nandan Yu Fei Zhi is more than 190 million, and the Western Regions is 74.8 million. Today, the North Courtyard is far away, and its cost is too much, which is empty of the world, not the key to making suggestions.

Excerpt from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty

In Yongping, the sacrifice was Liaodong Taishou, lured Xianbei, and beheaded the rebel Karasuma Qin Zhiben, so Xianbei from Dunhuang, Jiuquan to the east of the Yi people, all of them were rewarded in Liaodong, and Qing and Xu gave money, and the age of 270 million was taken as usual. At the time of the emperor, Xianbei Dadu guarded the school captain and the commander of the army from the captain of Karasuma to the rebels, and named the school captain as the leader of the kings.

Excerpt from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"