For the Hun soldiers in front, running forward is to die under the strong bow and crossbow of the Central Army, and retreating backwards and being hacked to death by their own people, what to do, how to choose, how to die, is a very heavy problem for them. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this moment, there was a tactful and lingering song from the central army on the other side of the trench, which was thousands of Xiongnu women singing Xiongnu love songs calling for Ailang's return, as well as Hun instruments such as Hu Ji and other Xiongnu musical instruments, playing poignant Xiongnu mourning music.

The ordinary Hun men trapped in the valley suddenly came to their senses, they followed the leader to this valley and wanted to ambush the Jinliang Central Army, but their wives and children were still in the tribe, and the 'elite' of the tribe were all transferred here, and the tribe was very empty, and when they heard these familiar music, they must have been captured by the Central Army.

All of a sudden, the Huns, who had been burned by this fire, had little left, and the morale of the army suddenly dropped to zero.

Except for those Xiongnu nobles, ordinary Xiongnu men felt that their whole body strength was gone, and they had no intention of being enemies of the Central Army, which controlled their wives and children.

Jin Liang ordered the soldiers in the trenches on both sides to loudly announce their Sinicization of the Xiongnu policy to the Huns.

The policy of dividing the Huns into four ranks is a great benefit to those ordinary Huns, who can not only live the rich life of the Han people, but can also enjoy the white rice, white flour, silk and satin that are difficult to enjoy in their daily lives, and can also bid farewell to the extremely hard nomadic life of chasing water and grass and living in the wind and the sun, and more importantly, they are all free, they have become free people like the Han people, and no longer be the slaves of those leaders and nobles. Home-grown peasants can also participate in the Central Army's external formation, the Hun Corps, in this newly formed corps, there is no particular background, even if it is only a generation of slaves, you can also rely on your own ability to become a centurion, a thousand.

Jin Liang and Jia Xu looked at each other and smiled: "Embattled, learn and use!" ”

Jin Liang's policy of sinicizing the Xiongnu was tantamount to digging graves for those Xiongnu leaders and nobles, and they naturally refused to obey the order, and the Xiongnu soldiers below dug soil and filled the ditch, and had to rush through the trench to fight to the death with the Jinliang Central Army.

The current Hun soldiers are different from the Hun soldiers two or three hundred years ago, the Huns at that time were obedient slaves in front of the headman, and the head man asked him to sacrifice his wife to the head man to play with them, they all did not hesitate, now the Huns live on the border of the Han Dynasty, communicate with the Han people, and trade more, and have learned the Han people's bones of "knowing the times for the handsome" Besides, they all thought that their wives and children, as well as the family's mobile property, cattle, horses and sheep were under the control of the Central Army, and the fire in the valley was still burning, and it seemed that they had to burn this Qingyan Mountain to ashes, and the only two sides that could escape were firmly sealed by the Jin Liang army, and the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Central Army were definitely stronger than Li Ling's bow and crossbow back then, and the Hun soldiers with a little head could see that the Huns had no way to live unless they returned to Jin Liang, and there was only a dead end to follow these head nobles, and those head people and nobles had been riding on their heads in the past, and now let Lao Tzu be buried with them in this sea of fire。

Jin Liang had already guessed what they were thinking from the changes in the expressions on the faces of the Huns, and now the dilemma in front of these ordinary Hun soldiers was how to surrender safely, because there were more than 20,000 Hun soldiers who were loyal to the nobles of the head, and if these ordinary Hun soldiers wanted to surrender, they would inevitably be killed by these diehard Hun soldiers behind them.

Jin Liang ordered someone to shout in the Xiongnu language: "Those who are willing to submit jump down the trench." Drop your weapons and run to the sides of the trench! ”

These trenches were dug overnight by the sappers of the Central Army led by thousands of auxiliaries, and were able to dig trenches more than two zhang wide, more than five feet deep, and more than half a mile long under the noses of the Huns. In addition to the strict training and discipline of the sappers and auxiliaries in peacetime, the north wind howled and howled angrily on this night, depending on the weather. The roar of blowing through the treetops and grass covered the digging sound of the auxiliaries, of course, before the Central Army set out, it had already sent 'elite' scouts to clear the secret outposts planted by the Huns on the outside of the valley, otherwise Zhang Yan's Feiyan army would not have been so smooth to touch Qingyan Mountain and dump oil.

The trench more than three feet deep constituted a great obstacle to military operations, but it was nothing to the victorious Huns, who simply jumped into the trench and ran quickly along the trench to both ends, and the officers and men of the Central Army were already there to meet them.

In order to prevent some Xiongnu leaders and nobles from secretly sending people to sabotage, before letting these Xiongnu troops come. They must all drop their weapons and dare to carry their weapons, and all of them will shoot the bows and crossbowmen of the Central Army, and they are not afraid of some people with ulterior motives, and they will shoot them with an arrow when they see a sneaky person.

Ordinary Hun soldiers ran forward along the plank road to the edge of the trench. Without thinking, he jumped down and landed on the edge of the trench, rolled over and got up, and even ran towards the ends of the trench without even having time to pat off the dust. This has created a mighty and unstoppable plug current. There are Hun leaders and nobles who dare to prevent these Hun soldiers from escaping back and meeting with their wives, children, cattle and sheep, and they are all hacked to death by these Hun soldiers, after all, there are more than 80,000 ordinary Hun soldiers, and there are only more than 20,000 loyal Hun soldiers, and the results of four are self-evident.

Jin Liang knew very well that it was still a little difficult for these ordinary Hun soldiers to raise their knives and slash at their original head nobles, after all, these head nobles and their families had been very powerful in the past few hundred years, and these Hun soldiers were still a little afraid when facing them, but let them escape and go back to see their wives and children, cattle and sheep, and they dared to hinder them, it was their enemies, then there was nothing to say to kill.

The leaders of more than a dozen tribes have been killed by the fleeing soldiers of their own tribes, and the leaders of the remaining tribes saw that the general situation was irreversible, so they ordered the loyal and brave tribes below to disperse to the grassland below the plank road, which had been burned out, and let those ordinary Hun soldiers escape.

These tribal leaders have made up their minds, this fire cannot be endless, and when the fire is extinguished, they will flee over the mountains to join the Xianbei people, and then borrow the soldiers and horses of the Xianbei people to restore their power for themselves.

The fire burned for three days and three nights before it was slowly extinguished, those tribal leaders crossed Qingyan Mountain and prepared to go north to the west of Xianbei, but those adults found that there were already tens of thousands of 'elite' cavalry waiting for them under Qingyan Mountain, they thought it was the western Xianbei, those adults heard the news and came to the rescue, so they rushed over with ecstaty, and when they arrived, those 50,000 'elite' cavalry opened their fangs, and it turned out to be the 50,000 cavalry led by Zhang Liao.

These 50,000 cavalry, in addition to the 10,000 guards cavalry equipped with bilateral stirrups, high bridge saddles, and horseshoes, and the 40,000 Southern Hun cavalry of Hu Chuquan, but these 40,000 Hun cavalry have long been firmly controlled by Jin Liang with the army system, in his own hands, Hu Chuquan is just a nominal commander, Zhang Liao, Ju Yi, Zhu Ling, the three generals under the command of 50,000 cavalry, more than three days of cavalry, like a group of hungry wolves pounced on a group of lambs.

Most of the war horses of these tribal leaders were burned to death in the Qingyan Valley, and the remaining war horses also fled to the arms of the Central Army along the plank road, these tribal leaders led their 20,000 die-hard soldiers, Ding was over the mountains, and could not carry a horse to ride in the past, they stood on the flat ground and were all lap legs, and how could they resist the one-sided slaughter of the 50,000 'elite' cavalry of the Central Army, which lasted not long, and those original die-hard Hun soldiers fought back against the water and killed those leaders and nobles.

The most regrettable thing in this battle was that more than 90,000 horses were burned to death in the valley.

Jin Liang originally didn't want to fight like this, but he had already received a rumor that the western Xianbei somehow learned that he was going to lead troops to plot against them, and they had gathered 150,000 cavalry and were ready to go south to attack themselves with the Xiongnu coalition forces in the hinterland of Hetao.

If Jin Liang attacked the 140,000 Hun cavalry, even if he won, it would be a miserable victory, and after defeating the 140,000 Hun cavalry, it would be difficult for the exhausted central army to win the 150,000 iron cavalry of Xianbei again, Jin Liang really had no choice but to set fire to the mountain.

Taking a step back, it is better to burn these more than 90,000 war horses in the valley than cheaper, and then the Xianbei people, because there are not so many cavalry in the Jinliang Central Army, so many war horses can be controlled, for the Central Army, the war horses are easy to get, the rider is hard to find, and a farmer cannot become a qualified cavalryman in a few months, even after the cruel training of the Jinliang Central Army, it is difficult to keep up with the Xiongnu and Xianbei people who have grown up on horseback since childhood.

After the end of this war, the Xiongnu tribes in the Hetao area were cleared, and since then there have been no tribes, only four types of Huns.

Jin Liang selected 20,000 cavalry from all the Xiongnu men, divided them into battle auxiliaries, and formed a division of their own, and handed them over to Xu Huang, who was good at commanding cavalry.

More than 800,000 Huns lived in the entire Hetao area, and more than 30,000 Huns were burned in the valley, and the rest all succumbed to Jin Liang's force, Jin Liang understood that this Huns were different from the Qiang people, the Qiang people were more and more pressed, and the Han people fought for a hundred years and did not give in, and the current Huns are a bit like the later Goryeo sticks, the Japanese people are afraid of power and do not have virtue, it is not enough to treat him well, it is not enough for him to be grateful to you, Dade must subdue them, first beat them with a big stick, and then give carrots to tame them. Qingyan Mountain burned the remnants of the Southern Xiongnu in their hearts, and from then on, they no longer dared to slash in front of the Han people, but obediently accepted the complete sinicization in accordance with Jin Liang's policy.

Together with the more than 700,000 Huns in Senei ruled by the titular Shan Yu Huchuquan, a total of 1.5 million Huns lived in the territory of the Han Dynasty, except for more than 100,000 Huns who fled north and returned to Xianbei, and more than 1.4 million Huns were all Sinicized.

One after another, 100,000 Xiongnu 'fine' strong men were incorporated into the Xiongnu Corps, forming five divisions as the out-of-command corps of the Central Army to serve Jin Liang.

One after another, more than 800,000 Xiongnu people stopped grazing and turned to farming, and began to develop in the Hetao area together with immigrants from other states and counties, many ditches began to be built in the Hetao area, many waterwheels were built, countless wastelands were turned into fertile land, and the south of the Saijiang River was just around the corner.

For these Huns who are willing to accept the cultivation of the Han people, as long as they can be completely sinicized, can actively speak Chinese, write Chinese, wear Han clothes, and start plowing the fields from Han customs and Han surnames, they can use the seeds, farm tools, and ploughing cattle of the Central Army for free, as long as they are returned as they are at that time. Jin Liang's provision is to promote the process of sinicization of the Xiongnu, and there is no ethnic equality at all, and there is actually ethnic discrimination, because for Jin Liang, there can only be one nation in the world, that is, our Han nation, and the Xiongnu nation will not continue to exist.

There were more than 300,000 Xiongnu people who continued to graze their herds, but they were all registered as household registrations, and according to the armor protection system that had been implemented in Jizhou and Bingzhou for nearly a year, and the pastures were restricted, and they were strictly forbidden to move to a large extent.

In order to prevent the ecological environment of the Hetao area from deteriorating to the situation of later generations, Jin Liang specially issued a strict animal husbandry policy, strictly limiting the number of sheep and horses owned by each tribe, because these two kinds of livestock have a great damage to the pasture, the sheep can gnaw all the grass no matter what, the horse is too mouthful, not good grass, do not eat them, they all like to gnaw and plane, the fertility of defecation is relatively low, these two kinds of livestock raise too much, the grassland will definitely be overwhelmed.

Jin Liang is ready to continue to extend this policy of restricting horses and sheep to the entire Saibei grassland, just to limit the invasion of the Central Plains by nomadic peoples such as Xianbei and Ding Ling, because they raise too many horses and sheep, the original pasture is overwhelmed, and then the livestock cannot be fed, and those tribes will be difficult to survive in order to compete for more and better pastures, and the small and weak ones will be wiped out, and the remaining big and strong ones should go south to fight the Central Plains. As long as the number of sheep and horses owned by their tribes was strictly limited, the chances of them going south to invade the land of the Han Dynasty could be reduced.

Tian Chou, the servant who came to Qingyan Mountain from the Xianbei royal court, was the highest official in charge of the entire Han Dynasty animal husbandry, and the servant who was also led by Zhu Jun, the state pastor, was only a title, Tian Chou heard that Jin Liang had such a motion, and after reporting the details of the envoy, he asked directly: "Lord, if these grassland herdsmen are not allowed to graze horses and sheep, then what do they do for a living?" Where do our horses come from? ”

Jin Liang shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "Tai, it is to restrict overgrazing horses and sheep, not not to graze horses and sheep, but from paying attention to quantity and ignoring the environment to paying attention to the quality of breeding and protecting the environment. ”

Jin Liang deduced the evil consequences of overgrazing to Tian Chou in detail: "Originally, this Hetao grassland, like the Mobei grassland, is a thin layer of soil under the grass and trees, and under this layer of soil is a thick layer of sand and gravel, this grassland can only grow so much grass, can only support so many livestock, if too many livestock, especially too many goats, the consequences are unimaginable, the hooves of goats are like pickaxes, their mouths are like tongs, and their horns are like shovels, they can upside down the top of the tree to eat, and they don't even let go of the roots when they eat grass. There is no vegetation on the grassland to stabilize the soil and water, and after a heavy rain, the thin soil will be washed away by the heavy rain, revealing the sand beneath the soil layer, and in the long run, the grassland will be degraded into a desert. ”

Tian Chou didn't think so, but when he heard Jin Liang say this, his expression became solemn.

Jin Liang picked up a map of the Hetao area, pointed to a place and said, "This place is called Baicheng. Two hundred years ago, the water and grass here were abundant, the grass beach was vast, and the river water was clear. It used to be the seat of the royal court of the Huns, and later the Huns overgrazing, and the grass here was all eaten by horses and sheep. The Huns did not know how to plant grass to consolidate the water and soil, so they raised sand on the spot and formed the current sandy land. ”

Jin Liang said that Baicheng, is what later generations called the Mu Us Desert, in the Western Han Dynasty, this area of water and grass is fertile, the scenery is pleasant, is a good pasture. The most primitive desert is only a small area in the western part of the current sandy land, but because the shallow surface of this grassland is composed of sand and gravel materials formed in geological time, once the turf is destroyed, it becomes a desert, so after the history of excessive nomadism, the desert finally resembles a piece of infectious psoriasis. It spread so far around that by the time it came to the Ming Dynasty, it was completely desert.

Jin Liang led Tian Chou and other officials in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry to the trench dug earlier, and asked them to see the distribution of soil layers, and sure enough, it was so. Once the grass on top is eaten by horses and sheep, a heavy rain and a strong wind blow, this thin layer of soil will be all taken away by wind and rain, and it will become sandy land here, and then deteriorate, and the sand will become a desert.

Tian Chou, Han Hao and other officials in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry couldn't help but change their faces greatly, and from the vivid analysis that Jin Liang showed them, they realized that if they didn't pay attention to environmental protection, the current grassland might become the desert of the future, and no one could afford such a responsibility.

Jin Liang also talked about a very sensational consequence and said: "There are many rats living on this grassland, there are voles and gerbils, these rats generally live in very low grass and trees, close to bare places, as long as the grass grows tall and the rhizomes are fastened, those rats cannot be rampant, but once the grass is gnawed away and the soil is soft, those rats begin to flood, not only gnawing on the grass that has just returned to green, forming a competition with livestock, but also digging burrows everywhere, after the rats have more burrows, The soil layer and the grass root system have been seriously damaged, followed by the degradation and desertification of large grasslands, and the extremely sandy grassland is very suitable for long-clawed gerbils, a gerbil can dig out thousands of catties of sand, and these sandy soil are turned out of the ground by gerbils, thousands of gerbils flood a grassland, can turn a grassland into a desert in a very short time. ”

If these officials were in Xiangyang and did not see this prairie under the blue sky and white clouds with their own eyes, they would not be able to empathize, and they would not have resonated with Jin Liang's words, but they went out with the army and came to this grassland, and the prairie where the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep makes them intoxicated, and after being intoxicated, they can't help but be frightened into a cold sweat when they hear Jin Liang's words.

Tian Chou, Han Hao and the others bowed down and said, "Please make it public, what should be done to prevent this prairie from becoming a desert." ”

Jin Liangxian said to Han Hao: "Our intention to develop the Hetao area and grow grain is good, but if every inch of land is cultivated as fertile land, it is not only unrealistic, but will cause great disasters."

Although we will build canals to divert water from the Yellow River for irrigation, there are many places that are too far away from the rivers and it is too labor-intensive to build canals.

Every time before reclaiming wasteland, it is necessary to see how thick the soil is, and if it is too thin, plant pasture grass for grazing, or plant fruit trees, and do not reclaim the field where the soil is very thin and a gust of wind can blow the soil away.

In addition, if we can plant plants and trees in the fields to consolidate the soil and water, we should try to plant them as much as possible, and do not let any piece of land be exposed, and we must ensure that every wind and rain cannot blow away our soil.

On those slopes, soil slopes, after reclamation into fields, once the rainstorm comes, the soft soil is easy to be carried away by rainwater, which is not conducive to soil and water conservation, so try not to reclaim those slopes into fields. If you have to reclaim the land, you should also do a good job of reinforcing the land, and make it into terraces, terraces, horizontal ditches, fish scale pits and other sloping fields.

The grasslands lack rain and are prone to drought, so the officials of the agricultural departments you have sent to various counties and counties should also teach and urge the people in various localities to take a break from the ditches such as silt dams, sand dams, grain mills, and ditch head protection, and organize the people in various places to build pools, water cellars, and small drainage and irrigation facilities.

For those places where the sandy soil has been exposed, it is even more strictly forbidden to cultivate, and it is necessary to plant forests and grass as soon as possible. ”

Han Hao and other officials in charge of agriculture bowed down to accept it.

Jin Liang once went to the Mongolian steppe to play in the later harmonious and prosperous years. (To be continued.) )