Because of the abundant food supply, and the troubled times were ended early. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] As well as a large number of troops who were forcibly conscripted by various princes, their combat effectiveness and morale were not good, and Gao Yang had no interest in demobilizing the army that was left behind.

All these have directly led to a rapid increase in the idle labor force in various places. If these people don't arrange something for them to do, then they are the best source of reserve troops for rebellion everywhere. This era is still martial.

After receiving Xun Yu's suggestion, Gao Yang soon ordered the start of a number of projects that could absorb a large amount of human resources.

Originally, this kind of work was a kind of forced labor, a kind of taxation. The people were required to obey unconditionally, and they were not paid to eat their own food and work for free. Under such external conditions, it would be nonsense to want the people to enthusiastically devote themselves to the great cause of building the country. The people of China are the smartest.

Gao Yang first arranged Zheng Hun, Ma Jun, Pu Yuan, Han Hao, Liu Ye and others as master craftsmen to lead various major projects.

It is mainly a huge project that requires a lot of manpower, such as the large-scale construction of straight roads, large-scale water conservancy projects on important rivers, military tuntians in border areas, and large-scale expansion of various mines.

Then Gao Yang directly ordered the exemption from the whole world's forced labor, and suddenly once again brushed his reputation to the point of no one before. Gaoyang even dared to exempt agricultural taxes, so what could be counted as abolishing forced labor?

A large number of people were recruited to go to various construction sites, and they were all attracted by the abundance of copper coins, grain, salt, cloth, and all kinds of luxuries. There is giving, there is getting, it is justified.

Gao Yang believes that the initiative to work is far stronger than the motivation to forcibly levy and issue. Therefore, Gaoyang provided supplies to recruit a large number of idle people to work, which could greatly reduce the frequent rebellions in various places. At the same time, a large number of projects for the benefit of the people have been built.

As for daily maintenance, there is no need for the imperial court to do anything at all, and the people in the vicinity cherish these straight roads, water conservancy projects, and so on far more than the imperial court. They can even clean the straight around their home every day! What is good for oneself, the people of China know it in their hearts.

Gao Yang didn't actually care too much about these things. For him, the most important thing for him at this time was to go north to clear the nomads on the vast grassland, and to clear a clean rear for the westward advance.

In fact, Gao Yang has been making a lot of preparations for this matter in the past year. He himself doesn't stay here very often, though. But there are special people to do all the work.

With sufficient supplies, all pre-war preparations went very smoothly. Except for the more than 10,000 cavalry that Cao Cao brought to the Western Regions, almost all the cavalry of the entire Han Empire was concentrated in the area of Bingzhou and Youzhou. That's nearly 100,000 people in total!

Of course, this amount cannot be compared with the Weihuo period, but it is already the limit that the Han Empire, whose national strength has declined, can be scavenged. Gao Yang was unable to provide a large number of war horses. In this matter, he can only watch.

In addition, there were more than 100,000 elite infantry soldiers and the same number of auxiliaries who went north together. They formed the main lineup of the Gaoyang Northern Expedition to the grassland. Gao Yang did not recruit the people, because in a war of this scale and span, the recruitment of the people was to send them to death.

During the period of dispatching troops and horses, the army preparing for the Northern Expedition was not idle, and they solved many small troubles casually.

Over there in Youzhou. After Zhang Chun was beheaded, Wuhuan Qiu Liju and others took refuge in Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, but they were finally defeated by Gongsun Zhan. The entire tribe moved north, not daring to approach the Han realm. Gongsun Chan accepted Gao Yang's orders, and from time to time the cavalry attacked outside the fortress, showing his existence.

The Wuhuan, Fuyu, Goguryeo and other tribes on the other side of Youzhou are not the main targets of Gaoyang, or not for the time being. It's okay to have Gongsun Chan watching over there.

It's a different story on the side of the state.

As the main sortie route of Goyang booking, it is definitely the focus of the focus here. First of all, because they could not return to the Southern Xiongnu, they had been stopped in the Pingyang area of Hedong County, and the Yufulo Department was encircled and suppressed.

Although it is said that Yu Fuluo is a Hanchen, the fact that he himself is a Hun cannot be changed. Moreover, when Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, Yu Fuluo and the White Wave Thieves joined forces to plunder Hedong, killing and injuring countless people. also fought a fierce battle with Gao Yang. No matter what, Gao Yang couldn't let him go.

In addition, there is another reason that it is recorded in the history books that it is these Southern Huns who took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to enter and plunder. Cai Wenji and a large number of Han daughters were looted away by these Southern Huns. In public and private, Gao Yang will use strong means to suppress these barbarians.

Xu Huang led more than 10,000 elites from the Sili area to the north to march to Pingyang. And Lu Bu, who had been stationed in Bingzhou before, also received a strict order from Gao Yang not to allow a wild man from the Yufulo tribe to escape to the grassland.

When Yu Fuluo was ordered by the Han family to go on an expedition against Wuhuan, his father Qiang Qu Shan Yu was killed by the rebellious people. Yu Fuluo, who has become a rootless Ping, has always been the one who followed him out of the customs over the years. After a few years of attrition, there is not much left.

To the south is Xu Huang, who is both wise and brave, and to the north is the brave and invincible Lu Bu. After the terrain was complicated and the state was attacked by the north and south, Yu Fuluo, who had no way to escape, desperately asked to surrender.

Xu Huang accepted his request to surrender, but after disarming and taking over the army, he killed thousands of people under Fuluo and his brother Hu Chuquan at the foot of the Toothy Mountains southwest of Pingyang. It can be regarded as seeking justice for the people who have died tragically in the hands of these aliens in the past few years.

After clearing it out of Fura. A large number of various materials and personnel and horses continued to cross the river through the newly built pontoon bridge, all the way to Xihe, Taiyuan, Yanmen and other counties. All of a sudden, the entire state was like a sea, with soldiers and horses in the camp. Countless supplies and soldiers and horses from all over the country continue to come here.

Except that Gongsun Chan took a partial division in Youzhou as a containment. Gao Yang concentrated all the main forces of his subordinates in the area of Bingzhou. His first target was the Southern Huns.

It is different from the Northern Xiongnu, who shocked Europe after moving westward and made a reputation as the 'Whip of God' in the future. These Southern Xiongnu who had to surrender to the Han Dynasty because of defeat were white-eyed wolves in the true sense. When the Han family was strong, they were as docile as little sheep on the grassland. And once the Han family weakened, they immediately turned into red-eyed hungry wolves, and frantically pounced on the Han family to bite and retaliate desperately!

A hundred years later, in the Wuhu Rebellion, the first to go south to start the killing frenzy was this group of Southern Huns who recuperated and regained their strength!

Gao Yang will be the first target to choose their body. Not only because of their proximity, but also because their combat effectiveness was much worse than that of the newly rising Xianbei and other tribes in the north.

The number of soldiers and horses assembled in Gaoyang was large, well-equipped, and the supply of materials was sufficient. But most of them were newly recruited sergeants. And even the veterans have mostly only participated in the operation of domestic unification. A year is too short and their training is not very sufficient. Gao Yang is ready to use the Southern Huns to train his hands to increase his combat experience and boost morale.

At this time, it had been a hundred years since the last large-scale sortie of the Han Empire to attack outside the fortress. For more than 100 years after Dou Xian carved Shile on Yanran Mountain, the Han Empire did not make a large-scale northward attack.

Feng Wolf Juxu and Le Shi Yanran.

This is the highest embodiment of the Chinese nation's outstanding martial arts. In later generations, many people said on the forum that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army during the Han Dynasty was not as good as that of the ancient Roman Empire, and the battle on weekdays was only won by numbers. If two ancient empires clashed, it would inevitably be the Roman Empire that won.

Gao Yang naturally scoffed at this view. Many people have always said that the people of the Han Dynasty were not as good as the ancient Romans, which is a huge misunderstanding.

It is true that from the Song Dynasty onwards, the physical fitness of the Chinese nation declined rapidly, and it became the sick man of East Asia until the end of the Qing Dynasty. However, it does not mean that the Chinese nation has always been like this.

In the ancient pre-Qin, and even earlier in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and even in the period of the Yellow Emperor. The ancestors of China fought against nature all year round in order to survive, and their physical fitness was eliminated long ago, and it was impossible to defeat the tough Chiyou. A small tribe that was originally only in the Yellow River Valley has expanded step by step into an incomparably huge territory.

Whether it is the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties or the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it has always been the Central Plains countries that have beaten the barbarians from all directions. Even the Yan Kingdom, the weakest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, was able to expand thousands of miles in the north. Meng Tian's 300,000 troops attacked the Xiongnu in the north, "but the Xiongnu were more than 700 miles." "The Huns, the overlord of the grassland, did not dare to look south to the Central Plains for more than ten years.

As for the exploits of Wei Huo and others, it is needless to say.

Dou Xianle Shi Yanran used less than 50,000 elite cavalry in that battle. But he was able to go to the fortress for more than 3,000 miles and completely defeated the Northern Xiongnu. It directly led to the large-scale westward migration of the Northern Xiongnu for hundreds of years.

The Huns also have no choice, there is such a monster that can fight the Han Empire around them, and they can't leave if they want to. Staying is a dead end.

The Battle of Yanran Mountain had an extremely far-reaching impact on the entire world. It also indirectly proves that the combat effectiveness of the Han army, known as 'one Han Ding Wuhu', is stronger than that of the ancient Roman Empire!

After the Battle of Yanran Mountain, the remnants of the Northern Xiongnu Khanate could no longer gain a foothold in the desert, so they chose to drift westward, leaving the vast steppe in search of a new habitat away from the Han Empire.

They migrated thousands of miles to the northern shores of the Black Sea. The Vioghe tribe, the original inhabitants of the area, could not stand the strong pressure of the Northern Xiongnu and were forced to invade the upper Danube to the west to escape the Huns.

The Vandal tribes, who originally lived in the upper Danube, could not stand the strong pressure of the Visigoths and had to continue to invade the ancient Roman Empire westward.

In the end, the Roman Empire, which was considered by some to be stronger than the Han army, finally fell to the Vandals, who were squeezed layer by layer.

Some people may say how weak the ancient Roman Empire was at that time, but the facts are the facts. The defeated generals of the Han Empire destroyed the ancient Roman Empire, this is the truth! (To be continued.) )