Of course, what made Jin Liang even more uneasy was that Dong Zhuo of Luoyang, Gongsun Zan of Beiping, Liu Yu of Youzhou, Liu Dai of Yanzhou, Han Sui of Jincheng, Ma Teng of Wuwei, and Liu Biao of Yuzhou all coveted their fertile Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Shuozhou. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Jin Liang is still ready to recuperate for a period of time, so that the pastures around the country can breed more war horses, and at the same time train more cavalry with excellent cavalry and archery tactics, so as to sweep the Central Plains first. After freeing up his hands, he sent troops to pacify the grassland.

The large and small tribes of Xianbei in the west all withdrew from the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and retreated to the depths of the desert until they were 300 miles away from Biansai.

Jin Liangliu Juyi and Zhu Ling led 60,000 horses to defend Shuozhou and along the Great Wall. In addition to defending against the Xianbei invasion, these 60,000 horses are to renovate the Great Wall, and in addition to repairing the Great Wall, they are herding horses and farming.

There are no Xianbei people activities within 300 miles outside the Great Wall, Ju Yi obeyed Jin Liang's order, sent 4,000 cavalry out of the fortress for 250 li, relying on some small hillsides, set up a simple beacon tower along the line, and encircled all the pastures within a radius of thousands of miles as the pasture of the Central Army, in addition to the Great Wall garrison grazing horses here, the Military Pastoral Department of the Central Army Armament Department also circled several large pastures here, grazing 100,000 cattle and horses.

In order to reduce the damage of the Xianbei people to the people's reclamation, and in order to enhance the motivation of the defenders of the Great Wall to resist the Xianbei people, Jin Liang turned all the fields within 50 miles south of the Great Wall into military cantonments and handed them over to the 60,000 defenders to defend while tuntian.

Although Ju Yi and Zhu Ling guarded the Great Wall pass built on Yinshan in the Hetao area, they could not prevent the Xianbei people from breaking through from Lintao controlled by the Dongqiang people, or from breaking through the Great Wall and Yuyang controlled by Youzhou Mu Liu Yu.

In the Hetao area, there is also a gap on the Great Wall that cannot be filled, it is the intersection of the Great Wall and the Yellow River, in spring, summer and autumn, the surging Yellow River water will become a moat, so that the Hu people can not go south, but in winter, the Hu people can pounce from this gap, go straight to the Hetao, and the state, wreak havoc on the habitat of the Han people, and after these Hu people are raging, they will retreat back to the outside of the Yellow River before the Yellow River thaws.

Once the Huns, Qiang, and Xianbei people could not conquer the passes in other parts of the Great Wall, they would enter the fortress from here, and if they could fight, they would enter the house of the Han Dynasty and plunder, if they could not resist the counterattack of the Han army, they would immediately retreat outside the fortress, if they were hurt by the Han people, they would bow down and ask for peace, in short, only their nomads went to the farming house to grab things, but there was no reason for the farming people to retaliate.

Every kind of Hu people seems to be able to quickly understand the benevolent, righteous, pedantic and compassionate temperament of the Han court, which founded Confucianism, and they can get countless benefits from the Han every time, but they are rarely retaliated against by the Han people, and it seems that the Han people have been plundered, killed, and ravaged by the Hu people, and all of them can be written off.

The Eastern Han Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and the Han army has many opportunities to completely eliminate the Southern Xiongnu, Xianbei, Dongqiang and other foreign races, but every time it comes to a critical period, the Eastern Han court always shows a stunned pedantry, they always waste the blood and tears of the Han soldiers in the name of benevolence and righteousness, and scold and blame the Hu people who plundered every year to show their benevolence, righteousness, and righteousness.

The Eastern Han Dynasty court, where the ministers of the family were in charge, did this, and the court presided over by the Han emperors of later generations is almost the same, the reasons for this are very complicated, Jin Liang does not want to think more about how much the power of forgiveness is, he is more disgusted with the kind of benevolence, righteousness and etiquette that can only deceive himself, he likes what Confucius said, "repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue, repay virtue with virtue, repay grievances with straightforwardness", deal with the endless beasts on the grassland, you must repay grievances directly, you can't forgive, eliminate evil must be exhausted, cutting grass and eradicating roots is the best way once and for all.

It's just that at this stage, there are a lot of coyotes in the house, and they haven't been cleared yet, and it's not yet time to go to Mobei to kill the steppe wolf, in order to prevent the steppe wolf from entering the house and biting the lamb to death, not only to build the courtyard wall, but also to repair the sheepfold.

The courtyard wall is the Great Wall, and the sheepfold is the city where the soldiers and civilians are garrisoned.

Jin Liang originally wanted to build a new city, but after sweeping the Huns across the entire Hetao area, he felt that there was little need to build a new city, and only needed to rebuild the city on the basis of the abandoned cities of the pre-Qin and Western Han dynasties.

There are forty or fifty fortified fortresses in the Hetao area, which were built by Li Mu, the general of Zhao during the Warring States Period, Meng Tian, the general of Qin, and Wei Qing, the general of the Western Han Dynasty. These cities have tall city walls, wide and deep moats, the inside and outside of the city walls are paved with large blue bricks, the inside is pushed up with earth, and relying on the terrain as a step type to extend to the heights, the city walls are towering all around, generally three zhang above the ground, and the moats of some cities even lead the Yellow River to water, so that the enemy can not easily capture the city. Each city is a fortress of military and political integration, especially suitable for the current Hetao military and civilian use.

Li Mu, Meng Tian, Wei Qing, the three of the three generals who have made outstanding contributions to the Huns to build the city are very unique, they choose to build the city where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack and can constitute a deterrent to the surrounding hundreds of miles of grassland, how can the Eastern Han Dynasty abandon the martial arts, the Hetao land to those wild and untamed southern Huns to herd horses, all these cities are abandoned, and the Huns are not used to living in the city, but also these cities are abandoned.

After the repair of these cities was completed, Jin Liang first sent some of the county soldiers of the state and county to station, and selected the elite of the pro-Han people from the grassland herdsmen to serve as the local county soldiers, and the original county soldiers of the county and county were promoted to the officers of the county soldiers.

Repair the city walls, passes, beacon towers on the Great Wall, but also repair these cities, the task is heavy, the time is tight, those who do not accept the Sinicization of the Huns, Xianbei people, all were forcibly requisitioned to build the city, all the tribesmen were scattered and mixed into the various city building teams, only rations, no wages, everyone with a soldering iron on the head of the words and numbers, report to catch the escapees have a reward and live or die, the escapees will be executed.

On the grassland, Jin Liang reconstructed a new national order, in which the status of the Han people was the highest, and the life, property and dignity of the Han people could not be violated.

Once those Xiongnu Xianbei people who are unwilling to sinicize have a conflict with the Han people and the Xiongnu Xianbei people who are willing to sinicize, regardless of the cause and effect, it is the problem of those Xiongnu Xianbei people who are unwilling to be sinicized, and the Xiongnu Xianbei people have to compensate the Han people for their losses.

If there are casualties among the Han people, all the relevant Xiongnu Xianbei people will be executed, and they will not be easily executed, these Xiongnu Xianbei people who have violated the dignity of the Han people's lives will be sent to the Central Army*** Those recruits practice the art of fighting live targets to use, or sent to the Ordnance Department to do ** experiments, to check the quality of weapons in the army, such as a saber can be cut off from the top of the head of the Xiongnu Xianbei people, and the soldiers can smoothly split the Xiongnu Xianbei people in half is the top grade of the knife, if it can only stop the waist and cut it into two sections is the middle grade, If the Xiongnu Xianbei people can't be cut off with a knife, the knife is a defective product, and the relevant craftsmen will be severely punished.

Such a policy will be implemented in all alien areas in the future, those aliens who are willing to be sinicized and qualified to be sinicized will be treated as Han people, enjoy the same treatment as Han people, those who are not willing to be sinicized or not qualified to be sinicized, will be treated as alien races, can not enjoy the treatment of Han people, the whole Hetao has so many cities to build, there are so many roads to pave up, can not do without these free labor.

For example, there are a large number of Eastern Qianghu tribes in the west of the Hetao, and some Xiongnu tribes who have fled in the past are scattered among these Qiang tribes, and there are also Xianbei tribes in the west outside the country, and the Hetao is still a dangerous land compared with Jizhou, which is already firmly controlled by Jin Liang. Jin Liang let Ju Yi and Zhu Ling, who were good at attacking and defending, each lead 20,000 horses to guard the border fortress of the Great Wall and Shuofang County and Wuyuan County, and left the general Xu Huang to lead 20,000 Xiongnu elite cavalry to guard Yunzhong County, and left the general Zhang Liao to lead 20,000 horses to continue to maintain the attack on the remnants of the Xiongnu tribes in Shangjun and Beidi County, and all the horses were controlled by Zhang Liao, the general of the Bingzhou army.

Ju Yi, Zhu Ling, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, the cavalry team in the four teams accounted for nearly half of the cavalry of the Central Army, naturally will not stay in the Hetao all the time, and when the situation in the Hetao area is stabilized, after the local county soldiers can undertake part of the defense task, Jin Liang is ready to leave only 40,000 horses to guard here, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao's men and horses are all withdrawn to Jizhou to prepare to sweep the Central Plains of the princes.

Jin Liang led the rest of the men and horses to return to Xiangyang, and passed through Qingyan Mountain again, Qingyan Mountain was burned into Black Rock Mountain by Jin Liang poured oil on a fire, and the mountains were full of grass and grass, and the black and secluded shape was like a hell on earth, which made people daunting.

Jin Lianghun rode his horse through the Qingyan Valley as if nothing had happened, and his calm appearance seemed to be the same as the fire that hurt the heavens and the peace.

Jia Xu, the military advisor who followed Jin Liang on horseback, looked at Jin Liang's figure and secretly admired it, as a promising lord, he must have this kind of vicious and spicy means when necessary, as well as the temperament of the idle time such as turning clouds and rain, if the lord is like that Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, he is kind to the alien race and misses the war. I will not devote myself to the lord.

Jia Xu rode his horse through the Qingyan Valley, looking at the bumpy and undulating roads between the valleys, he suddenly blessed his soul. Hurry up, catch up with Jin Liang, and say sideways: "Lord." If you want to firmly control the Hetao and deter the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai, it is not enough to build a city, if the Xianbei people pour out of the nest, the Han army in any city in the Hetao can not resist, Jizhou and Bingzhou must quickly send heavy troops to rescue, the key to rescue is whether it is timely or not, and it is not only the number of war horses that determines whether it is timely or not, but also the quality of the road. Many of the official roads in the Loop have been in disrepair for many years. It is rugged and difficult to walk, and it is all dirt roads, once it rains and snows, it will be even more muddy and difficult to walk, which will definitely hinder the timely arrival of reinforcements, and the fall of the city is difficult to avoid. ”

When Jin Liang heard Jia Xu say this, he remembered the hardships and slowness of the march in the past in windy and rainy weather. Although the troops were sent to Hetao this time, the weather was good all the way, there was no rain or snow, the soil was dry, and the horses were galloping. Can still run, but the rescue is not only cavalry rescue, to first hold the city invincible in order to pursue greater victory, the elite infantry gallop speed to ensure that the speed of the use of carriages, of course, more important is the rear of the heavy grain and grass ordnance to supply in time, these must be loaded with horse-drawn vehicles, so if you want to ensure the stability of the pass city in the Hetao area, and turn the Hetao into a solid rear and stable granary for their own conquest of the Quartet, the road leading to the Hetao must be able to pass smoothly through the carriage.

Jin Liang frowned and asked, "Wenhe, do you have any plan to solve this problem?" ”

Jia Xu understood that the answer Jin Liang wanted was not a simple answer "build a road", but how to repair it.

Jia Xu had already made up his mind, and said without thinking: "Lord, why don't we rebuild Qin Zhidao?" ”

"Straight?!" Jin Liang didn't react a little.

Jia Xu pointed to the road that ran through the Qingyan Valley and said, "Well, that's the straight road." ”

"Isn't that a plank road?" Jin Liang looked at the avenue in front of him and asked in confusion. This avenue is all tamped with loess, flat, straight, wide, the widest place can drive twelve big cars side by side at the same time, if it is not paved with loess but paved with cement or asphalt, it is no different from the highway of later generations, and although this avenue is paved with loess, it is very hard to tamp, so that there is at most long grass on both sides of the road, not any shrubs, when it encounters rain and snow, it is only a thin layer of mud splashing on the surface, and most of the rainwater flows to the ditches on both sides, and it will not dip into the soil to make the road soft and difficult to walk.

Jia Xu smiled and said, "Lord, you have confused the plank road with the straight road. In order to pass the road in the deep mountain valley is smooth and unimpeded, they dig some holes with utensils on the cliff wall isolated by the river, and the hole ** is inserted with a wooden stake, and the wooden plank is laid horizontally, which can be pedestrianized and opened to traffic, which is called the plank road. The overhead passage between the high-rise pavilions is also known as the plank road, such as the Luoyang South Palace and the North Palace are connected by the plank road. The most well-known plank road is the Qin period built in Guanzhong to Shu four plank roads, Cai Ze once said, the plank road thousands of miles, through Shu Han, so that the world is afraid of Qin. ”

In 206 BC, Xiang Yu relied on a strong force to force Liu Bang, who first entered the Qin capital Xianyang, to withdraw, and led his troops to enter, and called the overlord of Western Chu. Xiang Yu then made Liu Bang king of Han and let him rule over the remote Hanzhong and Bashu regions. At the same time, in order to prevent Liu Bang from re-entering the Guanzhong, Xiang Yu gave the rich Guanzhong to Zhang Han, a general of the Qin army. Liu Bang knew that his troops were inferior to Xiang Yu, so he had to swallow his anger. On the way to the fiefdom, he used Zhang Liang's strategy to burn all the plank roads that were hundreds of miles long, in order to show that he had no intention of returning to Guanzhong, so that Xiang Yu was unguarded against him. In August of the same year, some people rebelled. Liu Bang thinks this is a good time to send troops. The general Han Xin proposed a plan to repair the plank road and secretly cross Chen Cang, and suggested that someone should be sent to repair the plank road to confuse the enemy, Liu Bang adopted his suggestion and began to repair the plank road. The Qin general who guarded the pass, Zhang Han, ridiculed Liu Bang, and he didn't know what year and month he wanted to repair. In fact, Han Xin was secretly actively preparing for the attack on Chen Cang. Soon, Han Xin quickly dispatched troops and captured Chencang. Zhang Han panicked when he learned about it, but it was too late. Taking advantage of Chencang, Liu Bang's army soon attacked and occupied Guanzhong, laying the foundation for the later establishment of the Han Dynasty.

Jin Liang suddenly remembered at this time that the straight road was the national defense road built by Qin Shi Huang in order to attack and defend against the Xiongnu, so that the general Meng Tian led hundreds of thousands of military and civilian workers to build a surprise attack, starting from Ganquan Palace and ending in Jiuyuan County, 1,800 miles long, and the route was generally straight from north to south, so it was called "straight road" or "Qin straight road". This is one of the two major events that Qin Shi Huang did after annexing the Six Kingdoms and unifying China, in addition to unifying the political achievements of writing, currency, weights and measures, one is to build the Great Wall, and the other is to build a highway similar to that of later generations - Qin Straight Road.

Qin straight road through the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, more according to the mountain situation into the road, split the ridge for the road, the pass is wide, every ditch rammed to build, the straight road requires the road surface to be as straight as possible, so that the carriage and horses gallop quickly, the place passed, the terrain is more treacherous, and the human track is rare so far. At its widest point, the straights can be traveled side by side by a hundred troikas, and its width is beyond the reach of any highway in later generations, making it the world's earliest, longest and widest super carriage road.

Jin Liang rode his horse along the straight road while listening to Jia Xu introduce the details of this Qin straight road.

In the fifth year of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms, in order to resist the powerful Xiongnu before Japan, he sent the general Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 to the north and expel the Xiongnu to the north of the Yinshan Mountains. The Qin army crossed the Yellow River, took control of the Gaoque fortress in the Yinshan Mountains, and established thirty-four county towns on the newly acquired land, and the people who migrated from the interior to these new counties to engage in farming, and in order to administer these new counties, a separate Jiuyuan County was established. At that time, the Xiongnu were in the period of power expansion, and would not give up the intention of invading to the south because of a temporary setback, Qin Shi Huang naturally understood the connotation, so in addition to setting up counties, migrating populations and other measures, he also built the Great Wall on the Yinshan Mountain Range, where there was the old site of the Great Wall of Zhao State, and it was relatively easy to process and repair. Does the construction of the Great Wall at this time mean a passive defensive strategy? No. Qin Shi Huang's strategy against the Xiongnu was not passive defense, but active defense. The construction of the straight road is the best proof of this.

The straight road was built in the second year after the expulsion of the Xiongnu, with a total length of 1,800 li, and was the shortest road from Xianyang to Jiuyuan County at that time. If the Xiongnu dared to invade again, the Qin Dynasty's reinforcements could follow the straight road from Xianyang to Jiuyuan County and ascend to the Yinshan Mountain Range.

Qin Zhidao is a veritable ancient military highway through this avenue, which can quickly transport a large number of strategic materials and military sources needed for the northern border from the capital Xianyang to the military fortress in northern Xinjiang. Once there is a dangerous situation in the northern frontier, the cavalry troops can rush from Xianyang to Jiuyuan through the Qin Straight Road for three days and three nights, and they can basically complete a series of preparations from the army transfer to logistics supply within seven days, and the 1,800-mile-long straight road provides a fundamental guarantee for the Great Qin Empire to quickly put troops into the army, deliver grain and grass in time, and finally defeat the Xiongnu. (To be continued.) )