The current Qingzhou Corps is still training in the south of Bohai County, and is waiting for some Qingzhou Yellow Turban poles to come to surrender to Guanhai. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoJin Liang was reluctant to fight on two fronts, so he decided to pacify the rear of the Hetao area first, and then go to pacify Qingzhou.

Jin Liang has analyzed with all the strategists, among the three major forces in the Hetao area, Qianghu has been decayed and scattered after a hundred years of war with the Han court, and the momentum has not recovered, since Huchuquan was supported by Jin Liang to become the new Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu, half of the Southern Xiongnu cavalry are in the hands of Jin Liang, and the scattered Southern Xiongnu tribes are not afraid, and the rest are the Xianbei people who are entrenched in Yunzhong County, Wuyuan County, and Dai County, and the biggest opponent of Jin Liang sweeping the Hetao area is the Xianbei people.

It turned out that when Xianbei Laoshan was in Tanshihuai, he had defeated Fuyu in the east, attacked Wusun in the west, chased Ding Ling in the north, disturbed the Han border in the south, and had the hometown of the Xiongnu, more than 12,000 miles from east to west, more than 7,000 miles from north to south, covering mountains and rivers, water, and salt ponds, and established a strong Xianbei tribal alliance.

Tanshi Huai divided the territory into three parts, eastern, central, and west, about 60 eups, and each placed the lord as the leader and placed it under its control. In the east, from the east of the right Beiping to Liaodong, it borders with Fuyu and Haoqian, a total of more than 20 yi, and its adults are Mijia, Que Ji, Suli, Huaitou. In the middle, from the west of the right Beiping to the upper valley, more than 10 yi, its adults are Ke Shi, Que Ju, Murong, etc., all of whom are handsome. In the west, from the west of the upper valley to Dunhuang, the west is connected to Wusun, more than 20 yi, and its adults have the place of Luoluo, Tuoba Tuiyin, banquet Liyou, etc., all of them are handsome. The major people cut the land and ruled, each has its own boundary, all belong to Tanshi, with 100,000 soldiers, especially the Huns.

Cai Yong once analyzed the reason for the strong military alliance of Tanshihuai and said: "Since the escape of the Xiongnu, Xianbei is strong, according to its hometown. Weigh 100,000 soldiers, talent and strength, and wisdom is beneficial. The customs are not tightly closed, the forbidden network is leaky, and the fine gold and iron are all thieves. The Han people fled to make a living for it, and the soldiers were more than the Huns. Cai Yong once wrote this analysis into a seal and presented it to Emperor Han Ling, who listened to it.

In 177 A.D., that is, the sixth year of Emperor Xiping of Han Ling, Tanshi Huai disturbed the three sides again, and the Han sent 30,000 troops, divided into three attacks, but was defeated by Tanshi Huai, and the Han soldiers died seven or eight out of ten.

This time, Jin Liang sent 300,000 troops, and he used the troops cautiously, step by step, and should not repeat the mistakes of the past, because the current Xianbei has fallen into pieces.

About four years after Emperor Guanghe of Han Ling, Tanshi Huai died, and his son and Lian succeeded him, and Lian had no talent, sex and greed, and the law was uneven, and half of the people were traitors. In the last years of Emperor Ling, He Lian was shot dead when he was in Beidi County. His son Qian Man is young, and his brother is the head of the leader.

Now Xianbei is Kuitou, Kuitou does not have the prestige of Tanshi Huai, the Xianbei in the west of Daijun do not listen to his orders, only the Xianbei people in the east of Daijun still barely obey the orders of him and his younger brother Budugen, but the central and eastern Xianbei in the east of Daijun are also divided into three, one of which is Kuitou and Budugen brothers, whose subordinates are distributed in Yanmen and Yunzhong County, and the other is Kebineng, whose subordinates are distributed in Daijun and Shanggu in Youzhou; The third is Xianbei Suli, Mijia and Que Ji in the east, and the people are distributed in Liaoxi, Youbeiping, and Yuyang outside Youzhou.

Jin Liang is ready to sweep the Hetao, and now it is the western Xianbei Zhiluo Luoluo, Tuoba Tuiyin, Yanliyou, etc., which are united by these tribes with more than 200,000 troops, although the sphere of influence is from the west of Shanggu to Dunhuang, and the west is connected to Wusun, but their core area is still the Hetao area with abundant water and grass.

Of course, among these three major tribes, Jin Liang's focus is on Tuoba Tuiyin, because among the Xianbei tribes in the west, only this Tuoba tribe became the climate and established a country in Wuhu Chaos a hundred years later.

This Tuoba deduction, also known as Tuoba Lin, because of the inheritance of the ancestor Tuoba Tui Yin's policy of moving south, has been called "Tui Yin" by the clan, known as the second Tui Yin, he and his son Tuoba Jiefen together brought Tuoba Xianbei people from Hulunbuir grassland to the Hetao, and joined the powerful Xianbei Alliance of Tanshi Huai, and also became one of the great people in the west, which opened the Shengle era of Tuoba Xianbei people. Tuoba Liwei, the son of Tuoba Jiefen, relied on the help of Dou Bin, the lord of the Luhui Department, became strong, Tuoba Liwei's son Tuoba Yilu built the city of Shengle in 313 A.D., thinking that the northern capital, in 346 A.D., Tuoba Liwei's great-grandson Tuoba Shiyiqian once again moved the capital to the Shengle Palace in the clouds, and the following year, moved south to the new Shengle City, and the former Qin Fujian destroyed the country of the Tuoba Xianbei people. Ten years later, in 386 A.D., Tuoba Jue took the opportunity of the defeat after the Battle of the Former Qin Dynasty to convene a tribal assembly in Niuchuan, that is, to take the throne, establish the era name of the country, and soon changed his name to the King of Wei, establishing the Northern Wei Empire, which was very prosperous in the future.

The famous Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty is the descendant of Tuoba Deduction, together with the later generations of Western Xia people Li Yuanhao and Li Zicheng are his descendants, Li Zicheng is also known as Tuoba Hongji, if you want to destroy these chaotic ministers and thieves, you must first destroy Tuoba Deduction.

At the north gate of Xiangyang, 80,000 troops are ready to go.

Jin Liang rode a tall red rabbit horse, looked up at the blue sky and said: "In September, the autumn is high and cool, the horses are fat and the grass grows, it is the best time to use soldiers." The prairie, the prairie where I grew up, I'm coming back! There was no trace of joy in his eyes, only bitter hatred.

The tragic memory was painful, overflowing in Jin Liang's mind, he remembered that thirteen years ago, Xianbei Dashan was good at Shihuai to recruit hundreds of thousands of foreign iron horsemen such as the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Dongqiang, and clans, invaded the nine counties of the border pass, and killed countless Han people, Jin Liang's mother couldn't escape in the weaving workshop, and died tragically under the knife of the Xianbei people, Jin Liang's father Jin Liang took Jin Liang in the fleeing crowd, fled to Jinyang City, and later Jin Liang followed Ding Yuan to fight against Xianbei, an intelligence error, Jin Liang more than a dozen people encountered three thousand cavalry who were good at Shi Huai'er Yu Lian, Outnumbered, killed more than a hundred people, and died of exhaustion.

Shi Huai died nine years ago, Yu Lian was shot to death by the Northland people in the attack on Beidi County three years ago, it seems that Jin Liang's family feud has been avenged in the dark, but Jin Liang knows very well in his heart that the blood feud of his parents is not just one or two Xianbei Shan Yu, but the entire Xianbei clan, just as the blood feud of the Chinese nation in the eight-year War of Resistance is not just one or two Class A war criminals, but the entire Japanese people. At this time, Xianbei was on the rise, and under the rapid expansion of power, Jin Liang's parents, like hundreds of thousands of innocent people, became victims of the expansion of Xianbei people.

Jin Liang and Xianbei not only have a family feud, but also a national hatred. Five Hu Chaohua, Xianbei Murong clan once established the former Yan, the latter Yan, the West Yan, and the Southern Yan; The Qifu clan established the Western Qin; The bald clan established Nanliang; The Tuoba clan first established the dynasty and then changed to Wei. After the unification of northern China and the division of the Northern Wei Dynasty into the Eastern Wei and Western Wei dynasties, the Xianbei Han Gao clan and the Xianbei Xiongnu Yuwen clan established the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou respectively. In addition, Tuyuhun from the Murong clan moved to Qinghai to rule the Qiang people, and was not destroyed by Tubo until the early Tang Dynasty. The Xianbei people's poison to the Han nation should be the head of the Wuhu.

Family feuds and national feuds are mixed together. Jin Liang's mood was extremely solemn, and a trace of murderous aura loomed in his eyes, this was Jin Liang's efforts to control his killing aura, if he did not control it vigorously, I am afraid that in a few years, the Mobei Grassland would become a hell on earth.

Jin Liang knows very well in his heart that the real revenge is not **destruction. Instead, they captured the enemy and became their own slaves, and even our ancestors worked for us for all their lives, and the simple ** destruction was too cheap for them.

Jin Liang did not despise the Xianbei people, he knew that although the Xianbei people's culture was extremely backward, they did not even have their own writing. But they have the fierce character and intelligent mind of the Mongolian steppe wolf, and have extraordinary military talents, and are the most outstanding of the Wuhu, and it took the Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao less than ten years to rely on the fierce Xianbei cavalry. After the unification of northern China, after the Western Zhou Dynasty in Chinese history, the first strong and effective dynasty established by the grassland peoples was created. Such a brutal and cunning people, like Genghis Khan's Mongols and Nurhachi's Jurchens, need to be treated with caution.

Jin Conscience secretly swore in his heart that for the rest of his life, he would destroy Xianbei and turn all Xianbei people into slaves of the Han nation.

Jin Liang said goodbye to the Taifu Lu Zhi who came to see him off, and said goodbye to Tian Feng, who stayed behind in Xiangyang, and prepared to set off.

Jin Liang inspected the 80,000 horses that were about to go into battle, these 80,000 horses had 40,000 soldiers and 40,000 auxiliaries, 10,000 soldiers in Jinliang's guard division were all cavalry equipment, Gao Shun's division had 4,000 soldiers as cavalry, and Zhang Liao's division had 6,000 soldiers as cavalry equipment, and these 20,000 cavalry were lined up in a phalanx.

The cavalry on the horse are all dressed in Ming armor, the most significant feature of the Ming armor is the chest and the oval deck behind the back, just to protect the front and back, this kind of deck has been polished, there is a dazzling reflection in the sun, just like a mirror, and the Han Dynasty mirror often has the words "see the light of the sun, the world is bright", so Jin Liang named it Ming armor.

The reason why Jin Liang named it Ming Armor was to distinguish it from the Ming Guang Armor of the Tang Dynasty, which was prevalent in the Xianbei mixed race Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son, and the Ming Armor was more like a Western-style plate armor.

In recent months. Jin Liang was not idle in technological innovation, and Zheng Hun, his disciple Ma Jun, who regained Jin Liang's trust, and many blacksmiths followed Jin Liang's guidance. Successfully developing blast furnace ironmaking technology, they built a blast furnace approved by Jinliang, and loaded iron ore, coke, and limestone from the top of the furnace. Preheated air is blown from the tuyere located at the lower part of the furnace along the furnace perimeter, and the carbon in the coke is blown into the air at high temperatures together with the oxygen in the air to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas, and the oxygen in the iron ore is removed during the rising process in the furnace, so as to reduce the iron to obtain iron. The molten iron is released from the iron mouth. The non-reducing impurities in the iron ore combine with fluxes such as limestone to form slag, which is discharged from the slag port. The gas produced is exported from the top of the furnace and used as fuel for hot blast stoves, heating furnaces, coke ovens, boilers, etc. after dust removal.

According to modern technology, I did not make coke. Jin Liang reluctantly replaced the coke with refined coal, although the iron produced in this way contains many impurities, but it is better than nothing, the key point of the blast furnace technology is to make the combustion temperature rise, so that the cast iron appeared, and the iron output increased greatly.

After the iron production increased, a hydraulic forging machine was built at the suggestion of Jin Liang. It is pressed into an iron plate suitable for attaching to the human body, and then polished, and when worn to the human body, the two iron plates are fastened together by iron rivets, which is very strong and strong.

Because whether it is cavalry or infantry. The most frequently attacked places are the upper body, so there is no need to be covered with airtight like the Western aristocratic knights, only need to protect the front and back, and then bring an iron helmet with a mask, as for the limbs are wrapped in leather holsters, if the limbs are like the Western knights with plate armor, it will greatly affect the flexibility and combat efficiency, but the gains outweigh the losses.

After Jin Liang's idea was settled, he built hundreds of blast furnaces in the cities near the five iron mines in Bingzhou and Jizhou, and next to the blast furnace was the military factory, which strictly implemented the standardized operations that Jin Liang said, and the efficiency was very slow at first, but once the strict standardization was implemented, the production quality stabilized, and the speed gradually increased.

Jin Liang has made a lot of money from the family in these months, he has invested more than two billion money in the military industry, so much money has been invested, there are tens of thousands of craftsmen in the entire Jizhou and Bingzhou are working day and night to create weapons and armor for the central army, and finally made 20,000 sets of Ming armor before Jin Liang swept the Hetao, and Jin Liang was all equipped on the elite cavalry.

In the military factory, there is no longer any more chain mail, nor does it make scale armor and slab armor, because Jin Liang found that whether it is chain mail or scale armor, zha armor, whether it is chain mail or scale armor, it is difficult to effectively avoid the damage of the bow and crossbow, after all, there are still holes, the larger the holes, the more difficult it is to effectively avoid, but the plate armor can not only effectively avoid the damage of knives and guns, but also avoid the damage of bows and crossbow arrows, because after all, plate armor is a whole casting.

Of course, the more important is the processing efficiency, chain mail, small iron rings of scale armor, nail pieces and other parts are too small, processing is extremely cumbersome, not only consumes manpower, but also difficult to process and strengthen, especially chain mail, the finer the iron ring, the better the protective performance, each iron ring must be welded together, the workload can be imagined, the process is troublesome, so the cost is relatively expensive, and the Western-style plate armor is purely cast and forged after grinding, there is no need for so much labor, the cost of ironmaking technology has also been reduced, and the plate armor has been slightly improved, Its protection and flexibility under the same weight are unmatched by other ironclads, and it also provides more convenient conditions for hot and cold processing.

After the Ming armor is polished, it has a dazzling reflection in the sun, and if you can choose a good reaction to battle and fight against the sun, it will definitely bring a great visual obstacle to the enemy, thereby increasing the chance of victory.

Ming armor is only a piece of protection for the body, in addition, the cavalry are equipped with arm guards, shoulder pads, knee pads, and leg guards made of cowhide.

Jin Liang confirmed the uselessness of the heavy cavalry through the battle with Dong Zhuofei's bear army, although he knew that the Xianbei cavalry was the favorite heavy cavalry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Jin Liang had no intention of making a bunch of iron lumps to deal with the Xianbei cavalry, in Jin Liang's mind, the Mongolian cavalry's tactics were the highest performance of cavalry's skills and tactics, and mobility and flexibility were far better than impact.

In order to break the Xianbei cavalry this time, Jin Liang did not hesitate to dispatch the killer weapons that he had treasured for nearly a year, the Takahashi saddle, the double-sided stirrups, and the iron horseshoe, all of which were equipped on the mounts of the 20,000 cavalry.

In the past, the unilateral stirrup only played an auxiliary role in getting on the horse, and it was no longer used after getting on the horse, there was no stirrup to fix, the spear's thrust power was difficult to play, and it was easy to be brought off the horse by the reaction force, with the Takahashi saddle and the double-sided stirrups, the cavalry sat more firmly on the mount, and the hands that originally held the reins and horsehair could be released, and the spear was held tightly, an inch long, an inch strong, and the scimitar of the Xianbei cavalry was not half wielded, so he went to see Changshengtian.

With the Takahashi saddle and the stirrups on both sides, the cavalry did not always have to clamp the horse's belly with their legs on the horse, and the cavalry who were not so tired could not be a problem to run five hundred miles or even a thousand miles in a day and a night as long as there were enough horses to transfer, but before the change, they could not stand it for half a day with their legs between the horse's belly.

The bottom of the horse's hooves is the horse's nails, which protect the horse's feet, and the horse's nails can protect the horse's feet in nature, but in the use of horses, the horse's nails are often worn out more than the natural renewal, and the appearance of the horse's hooves minimizes the damage to the horse's hooves due to the contact between the horse's hooves and the ground, the friction on the ground, and the corrosion of water accumulation, so that the horse's service life is longer, and the impact of the terrain on the cavalry is reduced, and the cavalry's long-distance running ability is greatly enhanced!

After the 20,000 cavalrymen changed into Ming armor, Takahashi saddles, stirrups on both sides, and horseshoes, they had been secretly training for nearly a month, and they had already passed the initial period of adaptation, and they were worthy of a battle.

Jin Liang's 80,000 army was divided into four routes, and the banner died down and marched towards Bingzhou.

After arriving at Jinyang City in Taiyuan County, Jin Liang received a return from the envoys Jia Xu and Tian Chou in front of him.

Jia Xu, as a native of Wuwei in Liangzhou, had dealt with the Qianghu people, and this time he went to Beidi County, Wuwei County and other places where the Qianghu people were entrenched, and met with the leaders of several Qianghu tribes, conveying the intention of the Jinliang Alliance.

Those Qianghu tribal commanders originally thought that Jin Liang wanted them to send troops to deal with Xianbei together, and they were very hesitant, because they didn't want to offend the powerful Xianbei people, although Tanshi Huai died, Xianbei was divided into three shares, but the thin camel was bigger than the horse, if they sent troops to support Jin Liang, Jin Liang defeated the retreating army and returned to Jizhou, and the Xianbei people turned around to deal with them.

Jia Xu saw their doubts, and said with an indifferent smile: "My general's requirements are not high, as long as our army deals with Xianbei, your tribe can not interfere and do not accept the Xianbei people's request for help, the horses and sheep we captured from the Xianbei people will be distributed to you, and we will develop a market in Fuping City, Beidi County, and trade with you on an equal footing." ”

These Qianghu people have fought wars with the Han people for nearly a hundred years, and they are very wary of the Han people, and they are very suspicious of Jin Liang's generosity, but they are suspicious and said: "In case you are engaged in various defeats, you defeat the Xianbei people, and you will come to deal with our Qiang people, we Qiang people are not so stupid!" (To be continued.) )