The Qiang people who were rampant in the grassland for a while were defeated in this way, and in the battle of Danhan Mountain, more than half of the Qiang people were killed and wounded, and Shi Fu, the leader of the tribal alliance, was captured alive. As soon as the news came out, the world shook, and various tribes on the grassland sent envoys to Chang'an to meet the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty to express their submission and avoid becoming the next target.

The failure of the karma people has puzzled many people. A strong man who almost wiped out the Xianbei people, how can it be so unhelpful to deal with the Han people. To say that the Qi people also have more than 200,000 people who control the strings, even if they can't defeat the Han people, they shouldn't be defeated so quickly.

The people are very strong, but the strong is only on the outside, and they dominate the grassland with their momentary bravery, but they have almost no inner heritage, which is similar to most of the tribes that dominate the grassland. The Han people, on the other hand, have a long history that has cultivated their unique national characteristics.

If a difficult matter is placed in front of the Qiang people and the Han people, the Karma people will choose to take a detour, while the Han people will choose to face the difficulties. Different choices will naturally bring different results.

When fighting with the Xianbei people, the Xianbei people can use their own bravery to make the Xianbei people fearful, and then achieve victory. But in the face of the Han people, the usual methods of the Qiang people failed, and when there was nothing to be done, the Qiang people retreated and messed up. However, the Han people seized the opportunity at this time, and launched a general attack when the people were unstable, and the people who wanted to resist were killed, and the people who wanted to escape were captured.

If there is no Han intervention, after solving the Xianbei people, the Xianbei people will have two choices, one is to continue to fight the army and kill themselves against the Han, and the other option is to recuperate and send envoys to Chang'an to make friends with the Han people, so as to absorb the advanced knowledge of the Han people and strengthen themselves, so as to continue the rule of the Han people over the grassland. Of course, this choice is basically impossible for the Karma people. To put it mildly, there has not yet been a far-sighted leader among the Qiang, even if the Han does not take the initiative to provoke the Qiang at this time, when the Xianbei people are eliminated, they will be arrogant and empty-sighted because of the domination of the grassland, and then challenge the Han.

Nipping the threat in the bud is what Liu Xie has always advocated. This time to send troops to the grassland, nominally for the Xianbei people to come out, but in essence to clear the way for the Han to recover the grassland in the future, a strong and unified grassland is not in the interests of the Han people, whether it is the Xianbei people or the Xianbei people, or the Karasuma people, as long as there are signs of becoming stronger, it will be the target of the Han Dynasty.

The fate of the Qiang people is self-evident, before the Qiang, Di, Xiongnu, Xianbei and other ethnic groups are a lesson from the past. And the leader of the people like Shi Fu, if he doesn't kill, it is already the grace of the court and the world, and if he thinks about anything else, it is purely looking for death.

Shi Fu is very familiar with current affairs, or it may be that the experience of being captured alive by Lu Busheng made him lose his courage, after being captured by the Han army, he was like a little daughter-in-law who had just passed the door, and he would do whatever the Han asked him to do, without the Han nodding, he did not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi when he was killed, so that Zhang Liao, who wanted to kill him and deter those prisoners, was not easy to start.

Fortunately, Zhang Liao didn't have to kill Shi Fu Liwei, and Shi Fu escaped. However, compared to the luck of the stone talisman, the leaders of the various tribes in the Karma people are not so lucky. The Karma people failed, the original tribal alliance also collapsed, and the leaders of the various tribes who were unwilling to lose their rights refused to settle down even if they were now prisoners, and still fantasized about being able to escape. In order to achieve this wish, these tribal leaders secretly conspired to make trouble in the Han army. It's just that before these people's wishes were realized, they first became the chickens used by the Han army to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys.

The tribal alliance of the Qiang people, more than 30 tribes of all sizes participating in the alliance, Zhang Liao gave an order, and the leaders of these tribes, together with their respective families and relatives, gathered a total of nearly 1,000 people, and they were dug and buried in front of the captives of the Qiang people. In addition, nearly 2,000 of the thorns in the captives of the Qiang people were also singled out and cut off their heads to build a Jingguan.

Dealing with the grassland tribes is similar to taming animals, just giving grace will be regarded as weakness and can be bullied, and only by combining grace and power can it be domesticated successfully. When the people were first captured, unruly people could be seen everywhere, even if they didn't dare to make a move against the Han army, they were cold and unconvinced. But after burying people and building a view of the capital, I can no longer see unruly people, and as far as the eye can see, there is only a captive as well-behaved as a sheep.

After defeating the Qianren, Zhang Liao wanted to quickly send troops to Hebei, so as to reduce the pressure on Liu Xie, the son of heaven, but due to the new surrender of the Qianren, if there were more soldiers and horses, it would be easy to cause repetition. But now it's okay, the people have already served, and if they don't accept it, they can't do it, and the lords who may take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble have already asked Zhang Liao to kill almost him, and under the leaderless group of dragons, even if those people want to make trouble, it is not easy to do it.

The matter of escorting the captives of the Qiang people was proceeding in an orderly manner, and Lu Bu, who captured the enemy chief alive, became the biggest winner of this grassland war. Because of this, the reverence of the Qiang people was higher than that of other Han generals. Zhang Liao handed over the responsibility of guarding the prisoners to Lu Bu, and by the way, he also left Gao Shun to Lu Bu, as long as he left Xiahou Yuan, who was good at long-distance raids.

Lu Bu has no objection to Zhang Liao's arrangement, he has passed the age of eating alone, and he is now very satisfied with his life at the age of fifty. The fact that he was able to capture the enemy chieftain alive on this expedition had already satisfied him. Gladly accepting Zhang Liao's arrangement, Lü Bu led 20,000 men to sit in Danhan Mountain, and escorted the prisoners back to Dahan in batches.

The Han Dynasty already has a complete process for how to settle naturalized aliens, and the Xianbei people are different from the Xianbei people, they are prisoners of war, not voluntarily classified into the Han like Xianbei, so the treatment is naturally impossible to be equivalent to Xianbei. There is only one identity for the people to enter the Han Dynasty, and that is slaves.

Of course, the status of this slave is not without hope, and after ten or twenty years of hard labor, he can have a free body and be treated like an ordinary Han person. It is precisely because of this hope that the people do not resist this arrangement of the Han Dynasty. They had not been free for long, and now they were reduced to slavery again, which was just a "return to the old business", and compared to the slaves of the Huns in the past, this slave should at least not worry about personal safety.

The resignation of the people made Lu Bu, who thought that something would happen, feel incomprehensible, but Gao Shun on the side saw it thoroughly and was not surprised, and this made Lu Bu a little unhappy. knew that when the two of them were together, they belonged to half a catty and eight taels, and they were both masters who knew how to fight. And now I haven't figured it out, but Gao Shun seems to have understood, doesn't this mean that Gao Shun is smarter than himself?

"Pepin, you seem to know why those people accept their fate?"

“…… Fengxian, don't you understand? Gao Shun glanced at Lu Bu and asked rhetorically.

"I ...... Of course I do, but I think you know it too, so you can tell me if it's the same as I think. Lu Bu said stiffly.

"......" Gao Shun, who understood Lu Bu, glanced at Lu Bu, and said angrily: "There are two reasons why the Qiang people do not resist, one is that they are slaves of the Huns, and it has only been a few years since they regained their freedom, and now they are not uncomfortable with becoming slaves again for most Qiang people. The second is that what Wen Yuan did before still has a deterrent effect on the people, so that these people who have lost their courage dare not make mistakes. In fact, for these Qian, being a slave of our Han people is more cost-effective than being a slave of the Huns. ”

"What's the deal? Aren't they all slaves? ”

"You can't say that, when you are a slave of the Huns, you are a slave all your life, including your own children, and you are born as a slave. can be the slaves of our Han Dynasty, there is also a time limit, as long as the time comes, they can regain their freedom, if their children are angry, they may be able to get ahead in the future and shine on the lintel. ”

"But what do we big men want these slaves to do? Do you want them to be cannon fodder? Zhang Xiu on the side interjected and asked.

"Bo Yuan, you are wrong. The usefulness of these people is very great, and the construction of roads alone requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Wouldn't it be cheaper to use these slaves than to conscript the people? ”

"Hmm...... That's just as well. Zhang Xiu nodded in agreement after hearing this.

The issue of road construction has long been reached among the generals of the Han army, a good road is of great help to the war, and the imperial court has always been keen on road construction. In fact, as early as the Great Qin period, there was already a "highway" in the world, which was called Chidao. Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, so he ordered the construction of nine gallop roads to all parts of the country with Xianyang as the center at that time. It's just that these gallops are for royal use, and they can only be used when the emperor goes out on patrol.

After Liu Xie stabilized Guanzhong, in order to facilitate exchanges with Bashu and other places, he ordered the opening of Chidao and allowed others to use it. Of course, in the event of war, the army has the right of first use. When this decree was issued, it aroused the opposition of many people, but the problem is that Liu Xie is not a master who changes his mind after listening to a few words of advice, and it is not a big deal to let go of Chidao. This Chidao was originally for the emperor's use, and now the emperor doesn't care about it, and those others say that when they see Liu Xie's "insistence", they don't talk nonsense.

The liberalization of Chidao has greatly improved the exchanges between various places. Moreover, it is free for ordinary people to walk the road, but if it is a large-scale caravan, then you need to pay a fee. Time is money, but any businessman with a bit of a brain understands this truth and is not at all resistant to such a thing as payment. Because shorter delivery times mean more shipping opportunities. For example, from Chang'an to Luoyang, if you follow the previous route, you need to walk for a month to arrive. After taking the gallop road, it only takes half a month to arrive, and the remaining half a month means that you can ship again, and the profit that you can get from a hard month has become twice as much.

Part of the fee paid by the merchants was used to maintain the existing road, while the remainder was used to build a new road. The Han is very large, and it is not enough to rely on only nine gallop roads. Moreover, the benefits of building Chidao are far from just money, but more importantly, it is convenient to communicate with various places, which is also helpful to the stability of the Han Dynasty.

The emperor is far away, and the farther away from the capital division, the easier it is for people to be ambitious. The reason is the inconvenience of transportation, even if the imperial court knows that there is a rebellion in a place, it will take a lot of time to send troops to fight, and that time will be delayed on the road. And even if they arrived at the place of rebellion, those who rebelled had already taken advantage of the delay on the road to make adequate preparations.

The opening of the old Chi Road, the construction of the new Chi Road, the whole country and the central court together, although the speed is not comparable to the later generations, but as long as there is a rebellion in one place, within a few days of crusade army will be killed, with this reaction speed, those ambitious people will not dare to make a mistake. If you want to show your ambitions, there is no other way but to serve the imperial court.

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Puyang

The defeat of the people was an exciting event for the Han Dynasty, but it was not a good thing for Yuan Xi and Badun, who were enemies of Liu Xie. The main force of the Han army, which had solved the great problem of the Qianren, could enter Hebei from the northern grasslands at any time, cut off Yuan Xi's back road, and raided Dun's old nest. There are only two ways in front of Yuan Xi and Bun Dun, either to beg for peace with Liu Xie and save their lives, or to go to the dark and defeat Liu Xie before the main force of the Han army arrives, if they can capture Liu Xie alive, then their fate will have a turnaround.

But it's not easy to defeat Liu Xie. It's been a while since the war began, and every day I go out to war, I go out on the spur and return with defeat. At this time, he couldn't think about retaining his strength, and Yuan Xi also made ten percent efforts, but the problem was that Liu Xie's Han army camp was like a stubborn stone in the torrent, no matter how fierce the offensive was launched by Ton and Yuan Xi, it would not be able to break down the defense line of the Han army.

There will be brave men under the reward! In order to boost morale and arouse the soldiers' courage to fight, Yuan Xi and Ban Dun can be said to have taken out the coffin book, but they can reward the temptation again, and they must have their lives to take it. At the beginning, looking at the boxes of gold, silver and jewelry in front of them, the eyes of Yuan Jun and Karasuma people were red with stimulation, and they rushed to the Han army defense line with a scream when they went to the battlefield. But everything can be one or two, and if you use it more times, you will lose your freshness, and the effect you can produce will be greatly reduced. Gold and silver jewelry is good, but if you don't have the life to enjoy it, what is the difference between having it and not having it?

At the beginning of the battle, the battle between the two armies was fierce and they did not give in to each other, but as time went on, the Yuan army and the Karasuma people began to weaken their offensive. Originally, with the courage of the moment, he also captured the two lines of defense arranged by the Han army, but later he was recaptured by the Han army, and it was not as easy as the first time to capture it. Especially after the Han army beat gongs and drums to celebrate the victory of the grassland, and that night, Yuan Xi and Badun patrolled the camp almost at the same time and found that the morale of the army seemed to collapse overnight.

People are greedy for life and afraid of death, and few are bent on death. Some people are able to face death calmly, but because of the difference in pursuit, they think that death is more meaningful than living. And there are very few such people, and most people still think that it is better to die than to live.

When the hearts of the people are scattered, it will be difficult to lead the team. With the great victory of the Han army in the grassland, the army of Yuan in Hebei, which was the enemy of the Han army, was disrupted, and even a wise man like Tian Feng was helpless in the face of the current situation. At this time, he could lie to people and say that this was a trick of the Han army to shake the morale of the army. But there is always a time when lies are exposed, and the Han army in the grassland may go south at any time, once the news of the Han army encountered in the rear comes, his lie will be self-defeating, and no one will believe anything he Tian Feng said from now on.

The tide is gone! Tian Feng looked up to the sky and sighed, this big gamble Hebei lost. With the great victory of the Han army in the grassland, Hebei could not escape. It is impossible for the main force of the Han army to return from victory to let go of the excellent opportunity to recover Hebei in front of them, and because of the previous introduction of the Karasuma people into Hebei, the people of Hebei have been quite dissatisfied with the Yuan family, and now that the Han army is attacking on a large scale, even if these people do not take the initiative to take refuge, just standing by and watching is enough to kill the Yuan family.

Attracting Karasuma people to help in the battle is purely a stinky move! Tian Feng regretted that he had not persuaded Yuan Xi to dispel this idea. It's just that there is no regret medicine sold in this world, and it is useless to regret it. Where to go now is the priority.

Stubborn to the end? The results are estimated to be the same, and the biggest difference may be that more people die. But apart from stubbornly resisting to the end, can the Yuan family have any other choice? The Yuan family is different from the Cao family, and the current environment is also different from when the imperial court recruited Cao Cao, and it is a question whether the imperial court will accept the surrender of the Yuan family.

"Sir, I want to break the net with the Han army, and I will rest until I die." Yuan Xi found Tian Feng and said what he thought at this time. Tian Feng had nothing to say, but he couldn't watch Yuan Xi go to death, so he had to persuade: "Lord, think twice before acting, stay in the green mountains, and don't worry about running out of firewood." Now that the Yuan family is left with you, if you have any mistakes, what kind of face do you have to meet the ancestors of the Yuan family under Jiuquan. ”

"Mr. is wrong, there is still the third brother here, and the incense of the Yuan family will not be broken." Yuan Xi shook his head and retorted.

"The whereabouts of the third prince have been unknown for many years, and his life and death are uncertain, not to mention that he is a child of the Yuan family, even if he is really still alive in the world, but if the court regards the Yuan family as a rebel, then the Yuan family can only remain incognito, and they can't live in fear."

“…… Is that gentleman trying to persuade me to surrender to the court? Yuan Xi frowned and asked.

“…… Even if the lord wants to beg, you have to think about Badun's reaction first, will he agree with your idea? Tian Feng did not answer, but mentioned one person to Yuan Xi. It's just that Yuan Xi smiled bitterly after hearing this, "Sir, there is no need to ask Badun's opinion, he is no longer in the army." ”

"What? Where did he go? Tian Feng was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked.

"Last night, he led his headquarters out of the camp and slipped away." Yuan Xi replied calmly.

"Lord, you don't seem to be angry at all?"

"When disaster comes, they fly separately, and if he wants to find his own way to survive, then let him go."