Chapter 153: Northward Expansion Plan
Li Yu, who organized Qinglongwei to start a new military training reform, came to the Yanyun Iron Cavalry Station. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yanyun Iron Cavalry is the elite under Li Yu's command, whether it is equipment or military treatment, the soldiers selected are the top in the whole army.
On the Yanyun Iron Cavalry School Field, the full Yanyun Iron Cavalry left and right guards of 6,000 people lined up when they heard the drums, and they moved when they heard the drums.
The sound of horses' hooves was deafening and could be heard for miles.
Six thousand well-equipped and well-trained cavalrymen dressed in armor marched under the command of the school's commanding banner, waving their banners and rushing towards the west like a black iron wall.
Especially after all the horses were nailed to the horseshoe, the sound of tens of thousands of horses' hooves stomping on the ground was particularly shocking.
Guan Yanyun Iron Knight was high-spirited and full of spirit, Li Yu was very satisfied, and praised: "Xue Ne and Zhang Shizhi have a good way to govern the army, and they live up to my heart!" ”
"His Royal Highness Xie praised that training elite soldiers is a matter of the minister's share. His Royal Highness handed over the Yanyun Iron Cavalry to the commanders of the ministers, which was a trust in the ministers, and he should train the troops diligently to repay His Highness's trust. Xue Ne and Zhang Shi knelt on the ground and replied sincerely.
"Xue Dayang, Zhang Ying, you two should not be too modest, otherwise Your Highness will not be rewarded!" Xue Jun quipped.
"Xue Sanyang, you have buried me, how can you not reward those who are capable?" Li Yu said with a smile: "Xue Dayang and Zhang Xun will be rewarded with thousands of dollars, and the rest of the generals will be rewarded in descending order. Yanyun Iron Cavalry Soldiers add three days of meals and one day off! ”
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Xue Ne, Zhang Shi and other Yanyun Iron Cavalry soldiers thanked in unison, and the sound shook the entire school.
Li Yu summoned the sergeant Cao Shen and Zhang Renjun, who was following him, and asked, "Are all the horses in the army nailed to the horseshoe?" ”
Zhang Renjun replied: "Back to His Highness, since the beginning of the year I received a letter from His Royal Highness, after Xue Sima ordered, the ministers went to the Cast Iron City and asked them to make it according to the horseshoe drawings drawn by His Royal Highness. In order to be in a hurry, he also ordered the blacksmiths under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Protector Shicao to make horseshoes. It lasted nearly three months, and all the horseshoes needed for the horses of Anton's army were built, and the horseshoes were nailed. ”
"So good! Remember, the horseshoe will be damaged over time and need to be nailed with a new one, so this horseshoe is now also on the military list, and the guards should be prepared with enough horseshoes to be replaced. ”
"Your Highness is assured, and the blacksmiths are ordered to continue making horseshoes for storage."
Li Yu nodded with satisfaction, and summoned Xue Ne and Zhang Shidao: "I need to draw three hundred soldiers from the Yanyun Iron Cavalry who can ride and shoot well, have shrewd and brave minds, preferably from Orion." You two will be selected from the army according to this request, and report to the palace tomorrow, and I will send them to guard the envoys of the envoy. ”
"No!"
Xue Ne and Zhang Shi were quite puzzled to respond to Li Yu's order, wondering where Li Yu would send an envoy, and specially selecting elite and brave men from Yanyun's iron cavalry, as well as such a requirement of being shrewd to serve as the envoy's guard.
It is possible to send an envoy to Silla, but it is wrong to think about it, Silla has just sent an envoy to escort the installment compensation signed at the armistice and peace treaty, and it is impossible for His Highness to send an envoy at this time for the grain that needs to be compensated this year.
On the way back to the camp, Zhang Shi asked Xue Ne: "Brother Xue, you have a deep personal relationship with His Highness, do you know that His Highness wants us to select three hundred elite soldiers as escorts, which is to send envoys?" ”
"I don't know!" Xue Ne shook his head.
Zhang Shi said to himself: "There is no need to send envoys back to the dynasty and Silla to send special guards, and there are no other countries around us that can be worth sending envoys." What His Highness has done is really hard to guess! ”
"Who's to say no? Have you forgotten the Murowei and the Black Water Pierce in the north? ”
Zhang Shi was surprised and said: "Brother Xue, what you mean by your words, Your Highness wants to ......."
"It's good to know in your heart!"
Zhang Shiming knew the meaning of Xue Ne's words, and the superiors didn't want to tell you what they thought, you can just guess it in your heart, so you don't have to shout it on your lips, so as not to cause trouble.
Murwei originated from Donghu and was the same as the Khitan; Around the seventh century, it was divided into five major divisions, and its residence was on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River and the Nenjiang River basin in later generations.
Among the Murwei tribes, the Mongol Murwe, who lived on the Ergun River, was the direct ancestor of the later Mongols.
According to the historical records that Li Yu read in his previous life, there were more than 20 people in the Murwei branch, at least 30,000 households, and a population of more than 150,000. Among them, the southernmost Huangtou and Da Ji divisions of the branch are bordered by the northern part of the Governor's Mansion of North Buyeo Prefecture.
The Black Water Sect is located northeast of Andong, east of Murowei, and the northernmost part of the Murway. In the Songhua River basin and the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, the development is relatively slow, divided into 16 parts. The Black Water Hair is the same as the Millet Horse, but the Black Water Hair Movement civilization is developing slowly, and it is in the barbaric era when fishing and hunting have not yet entered the slave society, far behind the distribution in the south, and his relatives are also different from the Corn Horse.
The Heishui Jin Zhubu was the direct ancestor of the Jurchens in the Liao and Song dynasties, and had a certain relationship with the later Manchus, but they were not the direct ancestors of the Manchus.
The ancestors of the Manchu people came from the Tunguska region of Russia in later generations, that is, the area around and north of Lake Baikal, and the Guli cadres who lived here during the Tang Dynasty were set up in Yuwu Prefecture during the Zhenguan period.
In the late Tang Dynasty and Liao periods, the Murwei moved west and south; After the Jin destroyed the Liao, the Jurchens in the northeast moved south, causing a huge vacuum in the northeast region, so that the Guli cadres living in the Tunguska region could move south to the old land of Murowei.
After the Mongols destroyed the Jin, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty moved the Guligan tribes that had moved to the southern part of the old Murowei to the empty Jurchen old land, absorbing the remaining Jurchens in the local area and forming the Jurchens of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the later Manchus.
Li Yu took out 300 elite men from the Yanyun Iron Cavalry as escorts, and the purpose was to send envoys to the Murwei and Heishui Sects in the northeast of Andong in the name of the Tang Dynasty envoys. Investigate the situation of the mountains and rivers along the way, draw maps, understand the actual situation of the Murowei and Heishui Ya tribes, and do a good job of intelligence collection for the future northward expansion plan.
The Donghu lineage-Murwei and Sushen-Heishui Ya in the northeast are the only two alien races that have caused near-devastating damage and severe humiliation to the Chinese civilization, and the Yiman people are the most serious (although the Man people are not directly related to Su Shen, but they also rose according to Su Shen), and the harm is far greater than that of the northwestern nomads.
Throughout history, the vast region of the Northeast has been a treasure land.
As early as the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, the original Buyeo people in the land of North Buyeo Prefecture were founded by the People's Republic of China, which was the first place to establish a civilized country by foreign races outside the non-Chinese civilization in eastern Asia, far surpassing Japan and South Korea, which shows the potential of the Northeast region.
Not to mention the Xianbei, Goguryeo, Khitan, Jurchen, and Manchu Qing dynasties, which later had the strength to enter the Central Plains or fight against them for a long time, all rose from Liaodong.
The potential is so huge, and it is easy to be taken by the alien race, and the alien race that occupies this place and rises is either unprecedentedly strong, or lucky! Li Yu was unwilling to ignore the Northeast region no matter what.
It is not enough to occupy Liaodong and turn it into China, but it is also necessary to occupy the Songnen Plain, which is the essence of the entire Northeast, so that it is possible for immigrants to settle for the Northeast and protect China.
To this end, Li Yu's plan to expand northward for many years gradually unfolded as the situation in Andong stabilized, alongside the overseas plan carried out by Yi.