Instead of spending effort to train these aliens to fight against the Xianbei that they all fear in their bones, it is better to train Han cavalry with more loyalty and a sense of belonging.

The best of these 20,000 Hun cavalry was led by Xu Huang, all the officers were Han Chinese, all wore the armor of the Han army, and all the training was in accordance with the strict standards of the Central Army, they now look no different from the Han cavalry, except that they look a little different. Although the Hun cavalry that was eliminated belonged to the ordinary herdsmen and peasants, they were also incorporated into the county soldiers, county soldiers, and township soldiers, and were responsible for local defense tasks.

Yan Rou will be the protector of Wuhuan Zhonglang, but Yan Rou is new to Lu Bu, in addition to helping Tian Chou contact Wuhuan Shan Yu, he has not yet made a big contribution, so he is temporarily the captain of Wuhuan Guard, and after making great achievements, he will be promoted to Wuhuan Zhonglang General. Lu Bu assigned the 4,000 Tuoba Xianbei elite cavalry to Yan Rou, and asked him to lead and assist Wuhuan in dealing with the threat of Xianbei in the central part and Xianbei in the east to Youzhou.

Among the more than 800,000 Xiongnu and Tuoba Xianbei 160,000 people in the Hetao area, there are more than 200,000 people who refuse to be sinicized, or more than 100,000 people who are not qualified to be sinicized because of their brutality, slaughter of Han people, and adultery with Han women. During the Western Han Dynasty, Wei Qing and others rebuilt on the remnants of the city built by the Hetao.

Chapter 489: Constructing a New Order

Western Xianbei's trick of retreating and luring the enemy into the depths was in Lu Bu's arms, and he didn't want to have a decisive battle with Western Xianbei right now.

Lü Bu sent troops to Hetao this time, captured 100,000 horses from the Xiongnu and Tuoba Xianbei, and bought 40,000 horses from Wuhuan who temporarily concluded a friendly alliance, plus the horses raised on the small and medium-sized pastures that were originally all over Jizhou and Bingzhou, the Central Army now has nearly 250,000 horses, and it is said that it can equip 250,000 cavalry, which is actually not so idealistic.

Among the 250,000 war horses, more than 70,000 war horses can only be used as horses to pull carts, only for infantry to improve the speed of marching, can not be used as war horses, and the elite cavalry that really forms a scale A cavalry can not have only one mount, and the continuous force of a cavalry march with full body armor on a horse can not last long, even if it is the Xianbei horse with the strongest endurance now, the farthest sprint distance is only thirty miles, and when it reaches thirty miles, it will either stop and rest, or change horses, in fact, the march of the cavalry will generally not let the horse run, It's just the normal walking speed of horses, only tens of miles of land need to run, will be fast horses, and run hundreds of miles of long-distance running, usually not let a horse run hundreds of miles, there are transfer pack horses in the middle, once to the destination, a little rest, you can change to the war horse into battle, in this way, at least one person and two horses can do at least long-distance lightning run, roundabout outflanking and other cavalry common tactics.

The cavalry of this era is generally equipped with two or more horses, at least one war horse, one pack horse, usually riding a pack horse, and only changing to a war horse when fighting to save the foot strength of the war horse, and the nomadic armies such as Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan and even the later Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongolian cavalry, each person is usually equipped with three or four horses for rotational riding.

Lu Bu's central army is now barely able to do one person and two horses, barely maintaining the configuration of more than 80,000 cavalry, if the 20,000 Hun cavalry is eliminated, the central army now only has more than 60,000 cavalry, if these 60,000 cavalry out of the fortress and still have two or three hundred thousand strong men can be all soldiers to become cavalry in the west Xianbei to compete, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, the grassland is flat, there is no danger to defend, even if Lu Bu brings tens of thousands of crossbowmen, it is difficult to say that he is victorious, if the Xianbei people cut off their own grain route, it is even more unthinkable.

Of course, what made Lu Bu 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.

Lu Bu 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, first sweep the Central Plains, and after freeing his hands, he will send troops outside the fortress 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.

Lü Buliu Juyi and Zhu Ling led 60,000 horses to defend Shuozhou and along the Great Wall, and these 60,000 horses were not only to defend against the invasion of Xianbei, but also to renovate the Great Wall, and to renovate the Great Wall was to herd horses and farm.

There are no Xianbei people activities within 300 miles outside the Great Wall, Ju Yi obeyed Lu Bu's order, sent 4,000 cavalry out of the fortress for 250 li, relying on some small hillsides, set up simple beacon towers along the line, and encircled all the pastures in this 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 Military Armaments 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, Lu Bu 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, Lu Bu 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 virtue", to deal with the endless birds and beasts on the grassland, it is necessary to repay grievances directly, you can not forgive, and the evil must be exhausted, and cutting the grass and eradicating the root 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.

Lü Bu 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, Lü Bu first sent some of the county soldiers of the state and county to station, and then 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 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, Lü Bu 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 will be sent to the central army for those recruits to practice the art of fighting live targets, or sent to the Ordnance Department to do live 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.

Chapter 490: Qin Zhidao

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 in the west outside the Sai, and the Hetao is still a dangerous land compared with Jizhou, which is already firmly controlled by Lü Bu. Lü Bu 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 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 tasks, Lu Bu 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.

Lu Bu led the rest of the men and horses to return to Yecheng, and passed through Qingyan Mountain again, Qingyan Mountain was burned into Black Rock Mountain by Lu Bu 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.

Lu Buhun 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 Lu Bu on horseback, looked at Lu Bu Kuiwei'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 leisure such as turning clouds and rain, if the lord is like that Youzhou Mu Liu Yu who treats foreign races with hypocrisy and righteousness, he will not devote himself to the lord.

Jia Xu rode his horse across the Qingyan Valley, looking at the bumpy and undulating roads between the valleys, he suddenly blessed his soul, quickly whipped his horse, caught up with Lu Bu, and said 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, 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 Hetao have been in disrepair for many years, rugged and difficult to walk, and they are all dirt roads, once it rains and snows, it will be even more muddy and difficult to walk, which will inevitably hinder the timely arrival of reinforcements, and the fall of the city is difficult to avoid. ”

Lu Bu heard Jia Xu say this, remembering the hardships and slowness of the march in the past windy and rainy weather, although this time he sent troops to the Hetao, all the way was good weather, there was no rain and snow, the soil was dry, he rode a horse and galloped, and he could still run, but the rescue was not only a cavalry rescue, but he must first hold the city and be invincible in order to pursue greater victory, and the galloping speed of the elite infantry should be guaranteed, so it was necessary to use horse-drawn carriages, and of course, more importantly, the heavy grain, grass and ordnance in the rear should be supplied in a timely manner, which must be loaded by horse-drawn vehicles. Therefore, if you want to ensure the stability of the pass cities in the Hetao area, and turn the Hetao into a solid rear and a stable granary for your own conquest of the Quartet, you must have a road leading to the Hetao that can pass smoothly through horse-drawn carriages.

Lu Bu frowned and asked, "Wenhe, what plan do you have to solve this problem?" ”

Jia Xu understood that the answer Lu Bu wanted was not a simple answer "build roads", but how to repair them.

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

"Straight?!" Lu Bu didn't react a little.

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

"Isn't that a plank road?" Lu Bu looked at the avenue in front of him and asked curiously. This avenue is all rammed with loess, flat, straight and wide, and the widest place can drive twelve carts side by side at the same time.