In Agan City, Xu Ping's eyes were slightly closed, and he sat motionless. Shi Quanbin on the side was apprehensive, got up and walked to the door from time to time, and looked up at the sky. There were no clouds in the sky, and a half moon was particularly dazzling, which made him feel irritable.

Xu Ping was not moved by Shi Quanbin, and thought about his own thoughts.

The scholar of the Civilization Palace is the head of the civil officials, and he is more noble than the military general's temperance envoy, and he is thirty-one years old, which is a heavy weight. As long as there are no major accidents, the return to the dynasty will inevitably be among the rulers, and the official road of more than ten years has finally climbed to the top. Zhao Zhen gave a special favor, and Xu Ping had to reciprocate.

If there was no unexpected addition this time, Xu Ping would not have taken the initiative to attack, and he would not have done anything with a big return or a small return. Zhuoluo and Nan are already in the north of the mountains on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the valley of the Karagawa River where it is located is very open, and the mountains on both sides are low and gentle, which is considered a low hilly area. This kind of terrain can no longer dominate the valley like the south bank of the Yellow River, and if you want to encircle the enemy, you must use absolutely superior forces to encircle the wall. Or, after the defeat, follow the pursuit with superior cavalry to annihilate the enemy.

The least cost-effective way to fight a war, especially against a nomad, is a crushing war. They were united as tribes, and when they failed, they fled on all sides, and after they escaped, they gathered together again. Scattered at will, it is extremely difficult to pursue. This kind of tribal soldier is such a characteristic, once they have the upper hand, they will rush up, the wolves will devour the tigers, and each will flee for their lives. Since they are all tribes gathered together, they are not worried about not being able to gather together after they disperse. They were not conducive to hard defense, and once they forced the nomadic army to hold on to one place, the battle was basically won.

Now the army in Xu Ping's hands is not enough to surround the enemy, the cavalry is not enough to pursue and annihilate the enemy, and if he wins, it can only be a rout, and it is difficult to guarantee the results. This time he attacked, Xu Ping thought very clearly, that is, to scare Yuan Hao.

Cao Keming pushed the door in from the outside and bowed his hand to Xu Ping: "Jingluo, the affairs of Rusha Valley have been sorted out, and my army is going out of the city behind Sanduhu. By dawn, when you can gather on the edge of the Yellow River. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "Okay, here in Agancheng, all the soldiers and horses will go out of the mountain until dawn." Lu Fang has already led people to erect a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River, and tomorrow, all the armies will cross the Yellow River! Tomorrow night, we will go straight to Zhuo Luo and Nan, and we will crush the Hao thief army before dawn! Since you want to fight, then use the momentum of Mount Tai to suppress the top, give Hao thief a thunderous blow, and let him remember it for a lifetime! ”

Cao Keming sat down at the table and said, "Now let's see if the scouts of the various armies can hold the news that the army crosses the river." As long as the thief is defenseless, it will not be difficult to break his army in a battle. ”

Shi Quanbin stepped forward and asked cautiously: "I have been in the army for the past few days, and I see that you are very well prepared, and you can calculate how to move step by step. The thief is defenseless, can you take him-"

Speaking of this, Shi Quanbin grabbed his right hand violently and looked at Xu Ping with hope.

Xu Ping smiled, patted Shi Quanbin on the shoulder and said, "Pavilion Chief, this kind of thing is done to the best of the people, obey the destiny of heaven, and can only try luck." Hao thief has 20,000 elite party members around him all the year round, including 3,000 iron cavalry, unless the iron wall is encircled, it will be difficult for the army to keep him. Lanzhou is open and suitable for a large army to be stationed, but he can't live or die in the Yellow River, what should you do for? In the north of the Yellow River, he went to stay at will, saw that the situation was not right, he could escape at any time, and rushed out of the Karochuan River valley is the desert, whether it was to Hexi or back to Xingqing Mansion, there was no way to stop it. But as soon as I cross the Yellow River, it's up to me, and I can't run if I want to! ”

Shi Quanbin was skeptical: "I have also seen the Yellow River here, it is not wide, it is so useful?" ”

Xu Ping laughed: "How wide should the river be?" As long as there is no bridge, it is enough! Even if they can wade through the water, the speed of the army's march will slow down all of a sudden, and in this cavalry-dominated northwest, a delay of half a day may cost your life! The place where this dynasty borders with the party, from west to east, Hengshan, Hanhai, to Zhenrongjun, then to Dingxi City, and then to Guweizhou, why should you be on this line? Hengshan and Hanhai are naturally advantageous, and the Zhenrong army is west of the Qin Great Wall. South of the Great Wall of Qin, it was originally a place for our Han people to cultivate, before the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, it was difficult for Fan Qiang to enter Qinzhou, and the Great Wall of Qin was guarded on Tiandu Mountain and Mabit Mountain. Since the Great Wall of Qin to the north, it is difficult to rely on farming to make a living, most of them are half-ploughing and half-grazing, even if they barely occupy some places, because there is no geographical advantage, lack of depth to gallop, can not hold. The Great Wall of Qin is the natural boundary. ”

Shi Quanbin was taken aback: "In this way, even if we destroy the Hao thief, won't we be able to defend the party place?" The Taizong and Zhenzong dynasties of this dynasty also went deep into Yin and Xia, and in the end they lost their teachers, isn't this the same reason? ”

"Man will conquer the sky, and the heavens will set this boundary, but when the manpower arrives, what can't be extended? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the Western Regions, and the border is still thousands of miles away, and it is not the same as it is guarded! Xing and Ling dynasties have opened canals to divert water from the Yellow River, and they have already been rice fields all over the place, full of mulberry hemp. As long as those states are opened up, they can accommodate millions of households, so naturally there is no need to worry about not being able to hold them. This time, we exterminated the Hao thieves, moved people from the mainland, and turned it into a plug in the south of the Yangtze River, which is naturally impregnable! ”

Whether or not it can be held after it is defeated depends on the ratio of the nomadic economy to the agrarian economy, and the economic base determines the superstructure, and if the economic base is not changed, sooner or later there will still be problems. Since Emperor Wu expanded his territory to the west and north, and moved inland households to reclaim land in successive dynasties, many places have had an agricultural foundation, which is properly operated and enough to support the threat of nomads. Moreover, grazing does not have to be nomadic, and the place with suitable conditions can be semi-sedentary, which is also the solution to the problem.

How did the party sit big? They were originally of the same origin as Tibet, but after the rise of Tibet, the party was oppressed and gradually migrated from south to north and from west to east. In the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty's great debate on ethnic policy, the faction of Yan Yixia's defense represented by Wei Zheng completely failed, and the party and these Fan clans ushered in a good time. From that time on, under the leadership of the Tang Dynasty, together with the Khitan, Bohai, Xi and Shatuo tribes, they moved inward step by step, until they moved to the Hengshan area. Outside of the territory occupied by the party, the original agrarian economy was all nomadic.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty let the border area make the envoy take charge of the heavy army and manage the civil affairs, which gave birth to the Anshi Rebellion, and since then there have been many feudal towns. Due to the excessive power of the local government, the situation was not only in the Tang Dynasty. The rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Western Han Dynasty may not be smaller than the Anshi Rebellion in the Tianbao period, but it quickly subsided. It is not wrong that the local weight leads to the establishment of feudal towns, but the long-term establishment of feudal towns and towns for more than 200 years must have their social foundation, the basis for the division of the country, and these internal relocation of the Hu people is the basis for the establishment of feudal towns. In the end, the five generations were unified, and one of the social foundations was that these internal Hu people were finally sinicized. The thoroughly sinicized Shatuo and Sogdian ethnic groups combined with the forces of the Han people to complete the unification of the world, while the semi-Sinicized ethnic groups, such as the Khitan and Dangxiang, established their states in the north and became a mortal threat to the Central Plains regime. When the nomads further north rose, the semi-Sinicized region completely disappeared. In the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, there was no longer a division of feudal towns, and the policy of the imperial court was one, and the social foundation no longer existed was two.

The Dangxiang and Khitan regimes both adopted the system of joint management of the Fan and Han people, not because they were close to the Han people, but because their economic basis was half-farming and half-pasture. The total exclusion of the Han Chinese would lead to the loss of agriculture within their borders.

Occasional turbulence caused by policy can be understood, but if turbulence is protracted, it will inevitably have its social basis, which is the basic understanding of historical materialism. The internal migration of the Hu people after the Wuhu Rebellion was the foundation of the turbulent society in the north.

In order to eliminate the party, it is not enough to defeat Yuanhao and occupy those places, but also to restore the replaced agrarian economy, which is the really difficult task. Xu Ping has always insisted on sending prisoners south and recruiting troops from Sichuan and Shu, which is to cut off the social foundation on which the party and these regimes depend. Without the original social environment, the Fanhu who moved south will soon be sinicized.

Shi Quanbin was not interested in listening to these social and geographical principles, and he was not interested either, and said: "Since Qinzhou is here with Tiandu Mountain and Mabitshan Mountain as the line, why don't Hao thieves dare to cross the Yellow River now?" ”

"We have occupied the Mabit Mountain, the west of the Hulu River and the south of the Yellow River are all owned by the dynasty, and we will attack the land of the river or not, they have all been free from the threat of the party. For example, Lanzhou is south of the Yellow River, and whether we send troops to occupy it or not is under the control of this dynasty. Unable to divide the geographical advantages of Mabitshan, the thieves will never dare to enter Lanzhou, otherwise they will be defeated before the battle, and they will have nowhere to escape. And the place is too small to gallop, and their cavalry is useless. ”

Shi Quanbin sighed: "Marching and fighting, it's so troublesome, I still don't bother to think about it." As long as I can beat the thieves this time and revive the morale of the army of this dynasty, I will go back and have an explanation from the official family. ”

Xu Ping looked at the hazy moonlight outside, and said in a deep voice: "This time, I took 50,000 against 30,000, and it was a surprise, and I couldn't defeat Zhuo Luo and the Southern Prison Military Division, it was too outrageous!" I don't want to fight this kind of battle, it's not that I can't win it, but it's that the benefits are not great. For the soldiers and horses who gather and scatter suddenly, every time you use troops, it is the best policy to strive to encircle and annihilate. Otherwise, you will occupy more space, and their soldiers and horses will still be there, and they will eventually be crowded into a big lump. At the end of the so-called strong crossbow, it is impossible to wear Lu Minye, and at that time, it is easy to be taken by thieves! ”

Shi Quanbin didn't speak, he could see that if it wasn't for the message that Zhao Zhen let him bring, Xu Ping really didn't want to fight this battle. Now that the troops are insufficient, if you cross the Yellow River and strike a blow, you still have to retreat, it is just a lively fight. But war is an extension of politics after all, and now there is a political need for such a victory, and this is a political battle in the first place.

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