Chapter Eighty-Five: The Achilles' Heel of the Alien Race
After subduing Lin Yu, Liu Wei's slightly heavy mood was slightly better. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlthough Lin Yu's ability is not very strong now, after training, he may be able to become a top talent.
It is also a pleasure to watch the talents you have cultivated and become stronger step by step, and even if you can leave a name in history, it is also a good story.
At that time, the history books may record like this: Liu Wei, the emperor of the Han Empire, met the young Shaolin Emperor on the way to the north to conquer foreign races, and the emperor accepted him and took him with him to teach carefully. A few years later, Lin Yu became a talent, fought for the emperor in the south and the north, and eventually became a generation of famous generals!
Of course, this is just a beautiful idea in Liu Wei's heart.
Yanmen Pass is only a hundred miles away from Mayi, and Liu Wei found out that Yanmen has been about half a day, and it has been delayed for an hour because of foreign races. The 30,000 people set out again, and finally arrived at the castle at 10 p.m.
Yinguan City was built in 141 years before the park, and it is a military castle built by Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty to defend Yanmen Pass.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the alien race attacked on a large scale, and in Yunzhong, Shuofang and other places, the administrative office of Yanmen County was also moved from Shanwu to Yinguan City.
By now, Yinguan City has become a lonely city, and it has become the last barrier of Gongwei Yanmen Pass. If the Yanmen Pass is lost, the Central Plains will be in no danger to defend.
In Liu Wei's heart, the Yin Pavilion City is impossible to lose, this is a military fortress, which can be attacked and defended. Advance to counterattack in the clouds, as a springboard, to subdue the Hetao, retreat to defend Yanmen Pass.
However, if you defend for a long time, you will lose, and if you defend for a long time, you will only continue to fall into passivity.
It's like once being a good person without guarding a foreign race, and if you can't keep good without a good race, you will retreat to the Yin Pavilion. Now the Yin Pavilion is also difficult to defend, so retreat to Yanmen Pass? But what if one day the gate of Yanmen can't be guarded?
Liu Wei came with the confidence to exterminate the alien race! The city must also be defended.
However, at this time, the alien races in the Hetao Land had not yet attacked in a big way. However, occasionally a few alien cavalry scouts appeared far away in the sight of the Yin Pavilion, and then immediately left.
But Yang Jiye, with many years of experience in resisting aliens, sensitively felt that this was just the eve of the storm, and the aliens were about to attack in a big way.
However, Yang Jiye will not rely entirely on experience, military affairs, unlike child's play, must be taken seriously. Therefore, Yang Jiye sent scouts to go deep into the Hetao area to find out the news.
The news of the scout's return led Yang Jiye to frown.
The Hetao Plain, with abundant water and grass, is suitable for the growth of crops, after the alien occupation of the Hetao. While nomadic, he also used Han Chinese slaves to grow food. This is much better than being completely nomadic, and there is food to eat in the winter.
However, this year, the wind and rain in the state are smooth, but the outside is not satisfactory, and the crops can be said to have no harvest. In previous years, when the harvest was sufficient, the aliens themselves would also give slaves to the Han people so that they could continue to work for themselves.
But now the aliens themselves may not be able to provide for themselves, so they have the intention of plundering again.
In previous years, only thousands of cavalry entered the country to plunder, but this year, the Hetao natural disaster was serious, and Yang Jiye received a large number of cavalry troops from different races, and he had already begun to assemble and prepare to attack Yanmen.
The remaining population of Yanmen County is only about 100,000, and all of them are patriots who are inseparable from their homeland. Among them, about 10,000 young people followed Yang Jiye to guard the Yin Pavilion, and the rest of the tens of thousands of people survived outside the Yanmen Pass, behind the Yin Pavilion City.
This is also why Liu Wei did not see people and fields on the land inside Yanmen Pass, but saw crops planted outside the war-torn pass.
Because they grow food outside the gate, it is to supply the soldiers guarding the Yin Pavilion, once they enter the gate, the road is far away, and the Yin Pavilion will have no logistical support.
These people, who dare to stay, are all planning to live and die with Yanmen!
Yinguan City was built as Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty and served as a military fortress guarding Yanmen Pass, which has been reinforced by successive dynasties. Nowadays, the city wall is as high as six zhang high, about 14 meters in today's size. The city wall is also made of bluestone, with a thickness of about three meters.
Liu Wei looked at this fortified city that has endured years and wars, but has not been wiped out.
"Yinguan City is still a strong city, in cooperation with the Yanmen Pass in the rear, as long as the tuntian is operated in the pass and developed well, you can use the Yinguan as a pedal to counterattack the Hetao! It's just that the population of Yanmen is still too small now, and it can't develop at all! ”
Liu Wei personally led the army to the Yin Pavilion, and Yang Jiye, who received the news, personally went out of the city to greet him.
"Minister, Yang Jiye greets Your Majesty!" Yang Jiye was dressed in armor and bowed to Liu Wei.
Liu Wei looked at Yang Jiye, and saw that his face was a little more vicissitudes than a few months ago, and under the iron helmet, the exposed temples were gray.
Looking at Yang Jiye's old state, Liu Wei's nose was sour, and he felt a little guilty. In his previous life, Yang Jiye guarded the Yanmen area for the Great Song Dynasty, and finally died on the battlefield. During the exercise, he accompanied several sons.
And now, he asked him to guard Yanmen to resist the greatest pressure from other races, Liu Wei is really a little embarrassed.
"The general is in armor, you don't have to salute, please get up quickly!" Liu Wei hurriedly grabbed Yang Jiye's hand and helped him up.
After a period of greetings, Liu Wei's army entered the Yin Pavilion City.
In the office, Liu Weigao will sit in the main seat, and the rest of the people will sit down in turn.
"General Yang, you said in your letter that the alien race will plunder on a large scale, so I personally led 20,000 troops to help, I don't know how many soldiers and horses the alien race will use this time?"
Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, Liu Wei first asked about the situation of the alien race.
"Your Majesty, this year there was a drought in the Hetao, and now it is only October, and the temperature has plummeted! The harvest was almost non-existent. So this time, the alien races in the Hetao Land should pour out, and according to the scout's report, the number should be around 100,000! ”
"100,000? There are 100,000 soldiers in the land of the Hetao? Liu Wei frowned.
"In the land of Hetao, there are about 700,000 alien races, and there are about hundreds of thousands of Han people who are enslaved by foreign races, they work as Han people, do not need labor, and the grassland alien races are born warriors, except for the elderly, children and women, so there are only 100,000 people!" Yang Jiye calculated the accounts of the alien race for Liu Wei.
Lu Zhi shook his head and said: "Because of the natural environment of this grassland and the aggressive nature, basically every adult man is the elite of my big man!" As long as there are people, you can form a big army! ”
"You only see the strength of the alien race, but you do not see the weakness of the alien race! While this is beneficial, the weakness is also fatal! But he didn't want Liu Wei to smile and said.
"Weakness?" All the generals were stunned, what are the weaknesses of this naturally strong race?
"I am a big man, there are 50 or 60 million people, and although after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there are still nearly 50 million! And how many people can there be in the grassland of all the alien races combined? Million? Million? At most, it's only five million! ”
Liu Wei tapped his fingers on the table and talked eloquently.
"And in this way, how many alien cavalry can there be on the grassland? At most, it's only three and a half million! Not to mention that they are divided into various races! Like the most powerful Xianbei, there should be no more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and the Xiongnu are fewer, at most 100,000! ”
"Such a race, although it is inherently strong and difficult to match, it is fine if it wins, but what if it experiences a big defeat?" Liu Wei smiled strangely and asked.
"If you experience a great defeat, and there is no adult male in the alien race as a support, you will be defeated! Just like during the period of Emperor Wu, Wei Huo went deep into the desert and eliminated the main force of the Xiongnu by tens of thousands, although the number was not much, but the Xiongnu only went away from the desert and recovered for hundreds of years! First of all, Wei Xiaokuan understood the meaning of Liu's words.
"The alien population is small, and once it is defeated, it will lose its combat effectiveness, and my big Han, with a large population, can recover quickly if defeated, my big man can afford to lose, and the alien race can't afford to lose!" But behind Liu Wei, Lin Yu's eyes lit up.
The generals were surprised for a while, they couldn't imagine that this kid had such knowledge!
All the generals stared at Lin Yu, and Lin Yu's scalp was numb for a while, and he lowered his head.
"Although that's the case, it's also the same truth, but I" big man can't fight with other races! My Han people are much more expensive than foreign gold! Therefore, if you can win the battle, you still have to win! Liu Wei said in a deep voice.