While thinking about it, the camp of the "Red Fox Division" was ahead. To everyone's surprise, there was no one in front of the camp of the "Red Fox Department".

According to the usual practice, when the new commander arrives, the battalion must send someone out to greet him, but at this moment, not a single officer is seen by the soldiers on patrol in front of the entire camp.

"Is this trying to give me a dismount?" Shen Yun's eyes suddenly became lazy, and a sneer tugged at the corner of his mouth, "If Gongye Punishment is really a person with this kind of belly and heart, then it is really in vain for me to fight my previous thoughts!" ”

At this moment, the camp suddenly opened the camp gate, and a group of cavalry rushed quickly, and before they could get closer, the first one shouted: "Is the new commander in front of him?" ”

Zhao Xinlema, who has been in front of the front team of the whole army, raised his hand and signaled: "Stop!" I am Zhao Xin, the new guard Qu Qu of the first brigade of the first town of the Flying Cavalry Guard Division, who is coming? ”

At first, the man and horse didn't stop, so he jumped off the horse, knelt on one knee, and said urgently: "Zhao Quchang, Cen Qiu, the staff officer of the 'Red Fox Department' under him, beg the commander of the new department to quickly return to the camp to gather troops and rescue the captain of Gongye!" ”

Zhao Xin was startled, and just as he was about to speak, Shen Yun had already stepped forward and said, "I am Shen Yun, the new commander of the 'Red Fox Department', what do you say is the rescue?" ”

When Cen Qiu saw Shen Yun, his face flashed with joy, and he hurriedly saluted: "Ministry commander, in the early hours of yesterday morning, Captain Gongye received a report from the rangers that a battalion of Hun cavalry was preparing to cross the Sayan Mountains from the eastern mountain beam, so he immediately ordered a song of military horses to intercept it. As a result, until noon today, there was still no news from the Gongye Captain's Office, and his subordinates immediately sent rangers to investigate, but found that there were fifty miles to the east, and there was actually a Yue's army approaching us! His subordinates are only staff officers, and they have no right to mobilize troops to meet the battle. can only order each battalion to hold the camp and wait for the commander to drive! ”

Shen Yun's heart was relieved, and he thought that Gongye was deliberately giving himself a dismount, but he didn't expect that the Huns would commit it...... The Xiongnu only sent 40,000 people to participate in the battle from beginning to end, except for a small number of these people who fled back to the depths of the West Siberian Plain from the Sayan Mountains, most of them were compressed to the area of Kobdo, and now the Huns have appeared, is it the reinforcements of the Huns?

Thinking of this, Shen Yun didn't delay any longer, and immediately patted his horse and ran towards the camp. As he ran, he said: "Staff Officer Cen, immediately ring the drum of gathering generals, within a quarter of an hour, the generals of the whole army must gather at the tent." At the same time, he beckoned to Fang Cheng and said, "Teng Yu." You and Xianyu accompany Staff Officer Zeng to understand the specific situation first. Everyone else has their own job! ”

"Whoa." The crowd replied with a bang.

Unexpectedly. Just arrived here. It's like we're going to face a big war. This feeling made Shen Yun feel a little pleasure that was about to explode...... Well, it's the pleasure!

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The scale of the march of 10,000 cavalry is extremely terrifying, cavalry is not like infantry, the formation can be very dense, in general. 10,000 cavalry is enough to form an overwhelming sea of people.

Of course, the Hun cavalry in front of him did not feel overwhelming. Because they were marching columns, the ranks that did not see the end were spread out on the summer plains, and the banners were hunting. Flying Dance!

Looking at the wolf-headed half-red and half-white flag, Gongye Xing, who was lying prone on the hill to observe, sneered: "It seems that the Huns don't know that the Yueshi rebels are about to finish, and they are still marching so frankly at this time...... Wang Lun, you send someone to tell Cen Qiu that as soon as the new commander arrives, he will immediately wave his troops over and defeat them in Tyumen! ”

A sturdy Han general beside Gongye nodded and said, "Huh." Commander, we lost two companies of men and horses in yesterday's battle, these Huns may be the royal banner army of the Hun royal court, the commander is careful, try not to fight with them first......"

Gongye scolded with a smile: "Your ancestors, Lao Tzu has fought for half his life, do you still want to teach?" Hurry back to report the news, lest Cen Qiu's kid be in a hurry and lose the face of our 'Red Fox Department' in front of the new commander. ”

Wang Lun's face turned red, and he stopped talking, and immediately bent down and climbed down the hill, and then rode a horse to quickly report to the Thousand Bird Valley.

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Tyumen is the name of this land in the Han Empire. In the official perception of the Han Empire, this land did not belong to the Huns, but to the Han Dynasty. Although the map of the Great Han Dynasty was only divided into Beihai Prefecture, in the vast area north of Beihai Prefecture, Han Shengzu still gave his own names - Eastern, Central, and Western Siberia, as well as the Rus Plain, the Eastern European Plain, and the Scandinavian Peninsula, etc., all of which were formulated by Han Shengzu. Even in these territories, which only nominally belonged to the Great Han, the Han Shengzu also divided the areas and drew up names.

For example, Tyumen. north of Tyumen in the Rus' region, the Cook region; the states of Governors to the east, the Polar Ice State; to the west of the Yenisei region, the Kazakh steppe region and so on.

The Tyumen Prefecture that the Han people now call is smaller than the Tyumen Prefecture owned by the polar bears of later generations that Shen Yun knew, not as vast as 1.5 million square kilometers, but it is not much different. After all, there are no Han officials here, and there are no serious Han people living here, so the title should be much more casual and broad.

It must be explained that the reason why the Han people did not occupy this land in the first place was not because of how powerful the Xiongnu were, but because there was really no need for that.

After the reforms of the Holy Ancestor in the military, economy, politics, science and technology, medical and other aspects, the population distribution and population reproduction of the Han Empire were also unavoidably greatly affected. In the late period of the Holy Ancestor, the total population of the Han people had already surpassed that before the Three Kingdoms War, reaching an unprecedented 110 million! At that time, the land of Laozhou alone was enough to carry the life of the Han people.

However, the Holy Ancestor understood that the reason why China has had countless times in history with the recurrence of dynasties and countless wars is largely because of the contradiction between land and population. Whenever the war passes, the land will stabilize due to many cultural and economic reasons, and then form a prosperous era, but after the prosperous era, due to the overpopulation, the saturation of the land, the lack of food for the people, etc., the peasant uprisings will be great, and then the collapse of one prosperous dynasty after another!

The Han Empire created by Han Shengzu, whether economically or politically, is definitely the crystallization of wisdom combined with China's 2,000-year-old feudal history, and this political structure and cultural inheritance are definitely a political system and culture that can last for thousands of years! Therefore, as long as the contradiction between population and land is resolved, Han Shengzu is confident that the empire he established will be passed on from generation to generation! For this reason, Han Shengzu left a census system and divided the population cordon!

Holy Ancestor said. The population of the old state of the Han Empire was a critical value at the 400 million mark. Once it exceeds 400 million, the land of the old state will be overloaded, and then it will be necessary to develop the new state with all its might, and vent the energy of the Han people to the new state or the new land.

However, as for the land carrying capacity of the new state, the Holy Ancestor did not explain. However, in terms of the population at that time, the current land area was enough for the Han people to live. Therefore, the Holy Ancestor had no desire to encroach on the land north of Beihai State.

By the year 700 of the Han Dynasty, the population of Laozhou in the Han Empire had reached an unprecedented 340 million, and the number of residents in Xinzhou was 200 million (Note 1)! At this time, the Han Empire already had a certain amount of pressure to survive.

By the year 995 of the Han Dynasty, the Imperial Household Department counted. There are more than 400 million residents in the old state, and the population of the new state has reached 240 million!

The household officials also said that this is only a conservative estimate, in fact, the entire Han Empire now has at least 800 million people! After all, the Han Empire in this era was the richest and most powerful country, both in the new state and the old state. There are many stowaways - how similar to the United States of later generations! These secretly hidden population black households are less in the old state. But more in NSW. The total is conservatively estimated at 100 million! Therefore, the population of the entire Han Empire at this time should be about 800 million!

With such a large population, first of all, it is due to the improvement of medical technology by the Han Shengzu, and secondly, thanks to the later Han Emperor who inherited the legacy of the Shengzu, constantly expanded the territory, developed the sea, and took the lead in introducing corn and sweet potato, two kinds of food that are innumerable for living people.

But the problem of overpopulation reached a peak in the Han millennium. It is difficult to say whether the confrontation between the Han Empire and the Roman Empire is directly related to population.

According to the statistics of later scholars, the population of the Han Dynasty exceeded 800 million at this time. And Rome, a great empire spanning three continents, under the influence of the Han Empire, had an unprecedented population of more than 400 million! This may also be the main internal reason why the Roman Empire was forced to expand its living space outward and had to compete with the Han Empire!

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Tyumen was still the sphere of influence of the Huns at this time, and they did not have clear national borders, so the Huns often went to the Germanic Empire in the east to graze their cattle. And the Han horse wranglers who lived in Beihai Oblast would also cross the Sayan Mountains and go to the Tyumen region to graze and survive.

Especially after the two countries jointly entered Beihai Prefecture, these Han wranglers migrated en masse. A large part of them were transferred to Dingbian Phu, some fled east to Kulen, and the rest had to cross the Sayan Mountains and wander the Tyumen steppes to avoid the fighting.

And in the official rhetoric of the empire, the Wranglers on the Tyumen region were also the objects of protection of the Han army.

There are very few decent buildings in Tyumen, and on this great plain, which is 3,000 miles long from north to south and 2,000 miles wide from east to west, there are only scattered felt bags and flocks of sheep.

It should be said that there is still a primitive society here!

The above is what Shen Yun learned after arriving at the camp tent of the commander.

"Commander, the Huns went south along the Yenisei River, passed through the Stutain Mountains and Mingluanchuan in the western part of Tyumen, and will arrive at Hesse and Blitsk tomorrow, where there are four horse herding tribes of our Han people, and the Gongye Captain means to seek an opportunity to fight the enemy here." Wang Lun hurriedly pointed to the map and explained to Shen Yun.

After a night's rush, Wang Lun finally rushed back, and now this stout man also looked tired, his knotted beard was covered with dust, and his big eyes were bloodshot.

Shen Yun's appearance was actually not much better, and his eyes were also red, but his eyes were not tired, but they were bright, like a fierce tiger that could attack at any time.

Shen Yun didn't rest all night last night, but quickly looked through various documents and materials, trying to grasp the information of the "Red Fox Department" in the fastest time. At this moment, he already had a rough outline of the surroundings of Thousand Bird Valley in his heart, but he still needed Wang Lun to supplement and improve some news.

"Wang Lun, you draw the place where our Han people live, and if you know the settlement of the Huns in Tyumen, you can also draw it."

Wang Lun glanced at Shen Yun suspiciously, but he still took the brush and said while drawing on the map: "The place where my Han people live is not too far from the Thousand Bird Valley, roughly in the area of Stantu Mountain, Mingluan River, Hesse River, and Blitzke. As for the further four hundred miles to the north, it is the tribe of the high priest Ku Yuanmo under the command of the Huns Zuoxian King. A hundred miles west of the Khudimo tribe is the Sahukr tribe, and two hundred miles east is the Morhi tribe, which lives mainly in the taiga of eastern Tyumen. They rarely came out to interact with other tribes, and their summons to the Xiongnu kings were often disobeyed, making it difficult to define whether they were Huns or non-Huns. ”

It can be seen that Wang Lun is very familiar with this area. Ma Gu, who was listening, couldn't help but say, "Second Lieutenant Wang, how do you know everything about this area?" ”

Wang Lun smiled honestly and said, "I am a Kulun native of Beihai Prefecture, and I have lived here for generations. Before joining the Flying Guards, I was a ranger of the First Legion in Beihai Prefecture, and I often led troops to patrol this area...... Don't be afraid of this staff officer's jokes, do business with the Huns. I was also hired as a translator! ”

Ma Gu suddenly realized that it was not a strange thing to do business with the Huns in Beihai Prefecture. In fact, many people in Beihai would deal with the Huns in this way. Of course, the Empire does not support such behavior on the surface. But what is in secret, who can say clearly. Wang Lun even said that many of the empire's big merchants would come here to buy fur horses. Even the Yan family, the largest merchant in the empire, has a stronghold in the Kuyumo tribe!

Shen Yun held his chin and pondered for a long time, and said, "Wang Lun." You said that it was the Hun King's banner army that went south this time? What kind of army entered the territory of my Han before that? ”

Wang Lun took a sip of water and said, "Tell the commander." Before entering the territory of my Han Dynasty, it was the cavalry army of King Zuoxian of the Huns. The military system of the Huns is similar to that of our Han Dynasty, but the number is different. The bravest of the Xiongnu were the Wang Qi Army and the Wang Ting Army, followed by the Xiao Cavalry Army of the Left and Right Xian Wang. Finally, there is the Keba army, which was formed by ordinary herdsmen. ”

"Oh, what's so powerful about Wang Qijun and Wang Tingjun?" Shen Yun asked with interest.

Wang Lun said: "Wang Qijun and Wang Tingjun are directly under the control of the Xiongnu king, two hundred years ago, the Xiongnu king Attila ordered. Xiongnu men entered military service at the age of fourteen, and those who completed four years of military service entered the Wang Banner Army through elections. There are eight ranks in the Wang Banner Army, which are distinguished by red, yellow, blue and white, and the red flag soldiers and the red flag soldiers are the highest soldiers. Preferably to enter the Wang Tingjun. So Wang Tingjun is actually an optimized version of Wang Qijun. Today, Wang Qijun has a total of eight banners, and Wang Tingjun also has eight banners, each flag is about 10,000 people, and the two add up, the strength is about 160,000! ”

Eight Flags?

Shen Yun secretly sneered. Damn, for this name, Lao Tzu has to kill you too.

Wang Lun continued: "The Xiongnu King's Banner Army is easy to identify, as long as you see whether the flag is a wolf flag. The Xiongnu King Xiao cavalry generally uses the blue wolf Daxu, like the 40,000 Hun soldiers who entered the territory of my Han Dynasty are the blue wolf Daxu. And the Hun army that came this time was the white wolf of the Wang Qi Army! ”

"What is the banner of the Xiongnu royal army?"

Speaking of this, Wang Lun smiled a little embarrassedly: "The Huns are cheap and self-proclaimed to be the true dragon emperor, and there is even a saying that the southern dragon suppresses the northern dragon, so their Wang Tingjun is the Canglong Daxu!" ”

Shen Yun smiled and didn't care.

What flag to use, that's someone else's habit. What is the superstitious idea of the southern dragon pressing the northern dragon, Shen Yun does not believe it, he only believes in strength. If the strength is strong enough, even holding the banner of Donald Duck is still terrifying. The strength is not good, it is useless to hold the statue of Xitian Rulai!

"Last question, how is the situation of the fierce battle with the enemy from the captain of Gongye? Can a defensive line be built in Blitzk to prevent the Huns from continuing southward? Shen Yun suddenly asked.

Wang Lun didn't understand why Shen Yun asked this, but under his scorching eyes, he frowned and thought for a while: "Yesterday, Captain Gongye led 1,800 people to fight with the enemy in Mingluanchuan, beheading more than 200 people, but temporarily repelled the Huns. However, the Huns also figured out the reality of our army, and it is estimated that they will move south in a big way today, and when the time comes, there will be no danger to defend in Blitzk, and it will be a little difficult to build a defensive line. But if the commander orders us to continue to retreat to Chidori Valley, we may be able to fight! ”

"Retreat to Chidori Valley? Isn't that giving up the Tyumen region? No, it's absolutely not going to work! Ma Gu was the first to open his mouth to object, "The Xiongnu King's banner army is no more than 10,000 people at most, and I'Red Fox Department now has 5,400 soldiers, although the number of the other party is twice that of our army, but the frontal decisive battle may not be afraid of his Xiongnu lowly race." Commander, I suggest that, according to the words of the captain of Gongye, the whole army should open up a decisive battle with the enemy in Blitzk! ”

Looking at Ma Gu, who was in a hurry to speak, Shen Yun smiled slightly and said something else.

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Note 1: Population has always been one of the important factors restricting the development of Chinese dynasties. In ancient Chinese history, the most populous period was the Kangqian era of the Qing Empire and the Daoguang Emperor before the Opium War, reaching an unprecedented 430 million! It must be noted that such a large population is not because the emperor of the Qing Empire was very capable, but because new food varieties - sweet potatoes and corn had been introduced from the Americas and other places at that time! These two foods are the main reason for the rapid expansion of the Chinese population! In the Xianfeng period after the Opium War, these two foods could no longer satisfy the rapidly expanding population, so historical inertia could only use the most violent way to solve the problem of overpopulation - the Taiping Rebellion, which directly and indirectly caused nearly 100 million deaths! It is difficult to say whether the so-called "Tongzhi Zhongxing" after this has anything to do with this great population reduction and the reduction of land contradictions! (To be continued......)