Beauty

In the past, the Southern Xiongnu royal court was beautiful, and now it has become a veritable ruin, and the bones that were originally full of corpses have been disposed of by Liu Tai, and this land that has given birth to the Southern Xiongnu for more than 100 years has changed hands and planted the banner of the Northern Frontier Army of the Han Dynasty.

"In the coming year, this land will be a treasure land with abundant water and grass." Liu Tai sat on top of Thor with a slight sigh and said to the military generals of Wenchen who followed behind.

"What the lord said is very true, but my Han people have always been an agricultural people, even if the water and grass here are abundant, it is not the home of my Han people." Tian Feng rode a tall horse and said with a sigh on his face.

"Otherwise" Liu Tai shook his head with a smile, glanced at Tian Feng and said: "If my Han nationality can't occupy this place, why should Tai go on an expedition to capture the Southern Xiongnu?" ”

"Huh?" Tian Feng frowned, looked at Liu Tai suspiciously, and asked puzzledly, "What does the lord mean by this?" Could it be that the lord wanted to move the people here to build a city? ”

"Exactly!" Liu Tai was very surprised that Tian Feng actually knew his thoughts, and said with an affirmative face: "Erzhou is located in the north of Xinjiang, with many mountains, forests and forests, and now there are more than 10 million people, and the cultivated land is insufficient, but this prairie is flat, rich in grass and beautiful, as long as you arrive in Yanshan, you can build a town, and the Hu people can herd sheep and cattle, don't I Han people?" ”

"This" Tian Feng was speechless for a while, looked at Liu Tai with a wry smile and said: "Although the lord's intentions are good, but my Han people have a lot of hometown plots, if it is not for the real natural disasters [***] can not survive, how can the people be willing to move to other places, let alone outside the Great Wall, located in the prairie around the Hu people." ”

Liu Tai shook his head disapprovingly, and said lightly: "The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, there will always be people who are willing to migrate to the grassland to settle down, Tai will order the construction of private houses for the people, city defense, and even fund pigs, cattle, sheep and horses to survive, and this beauty will be the location of a new county town of my Han Dynasty." ”

Tian Fengman's face was full of disapproval, and he retorted: "Have you ever thought about it, in this way, it will cost countless money and grain in Northern Xinjiang? Now that the war is not over, why is there so much money and food to build a new city on the grassland far away from the northern Xinjiang, and the Hu people around are eyeing me, and it is possible to attack me at any time, so we will have to send a large number of soldiers to garrison all year round, and the northern Xinjiang cannot afford to spend it, my lord. ”

"How can there be no money and food?" Liu Tai didn't care about the disrespect in Tian Feng's tone, but glanced around the land full of black ash with a smile, and said domineeringly: "As long as you offer enough benefits, are you afraid that no businessman is willing to contribute?" After pacifying the Southern Xiongnu, Tai will send troops to Wuheng, Xianbei, and Northern Xiongnu until the entire prairie is pacified, and then the entire prairie is the back garden of our Han people, so why do you need to send heavy troops to guard against those Hu people who have been wiped out?"

Liu Tai's domineering words made everyone present full of shock, and even with a hint of yearning in their expressions, although no one would 100% believe Liu Tai's bold words, but such a brilliant and magnificent scene, who doesn't want to think, who doesn't want to be a big hero and a big hero who expands the territory?

"Lord, hey" Looking at Liu Taihao's angry appearance, Tian Feng touched his nose and smiled helplessly, the dream is beautiful, but the reality is too far away.

Liu Tai glanced at the military generals behind him, and then said: "Princes, now that we have conquered the prairie, we have taken the first step, and in the near future, everyone present may become generals and commanders on various battlefields, and even feudal officials who defend one side. ”

"Yes!! We are willing to follow the Lord to conquer the world and make great achievements in the world! All the generals responded in unison, all with solemn expressions, boundless hope in their eyes, and shouted loudly.

"Okay, hahaha" Liu Tai looked up to the sky and laughed, indescribably arrogant and domineering.

Half an hour later, the main account of the three armies

"My lord, there is the latest news from the Northern and Southern Huns." Guo Jia held a strip of cloth in his hand, opened the big tent, came to the big rise, and said to Liu Tai, who was sitting with the head and the military generals of Wenchen to discuss the battle situation with each other.

"Oh? What's the news? Liu Tai frowned, looked at Guo Jia and asked.

"Lord Qi, the scout came to report, the Southern Xiongnu Dashan Yu Qiangqu, the former said in the new royal court in the north, get rid of the old and young and gather 200,000 elite cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu troops, ready to fight to the death with our army!" Guo Jia said with a heavy expression.

"Two hundred thousand cavalry?" Everyone present was stunned, although they knew that the Southern Xiongnu might gather two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses, but they didn't expect it to come so quickly.

"What are the movements of the leaders of the various tribes within the Southern Xiongnu tribe?" The reason why Liu Tai let Qiangqu and others leave and did not take advantage of the victory to pursue them was that he was waiting for the Southern Xiongnu to fight for power and civil strife.

Guo Jia nodded, and said with a somewhat solemn expression: "Within the Southern Xiongnu, it is indeed divided into many factions, among which the leaders of the various departments that originally received the Northern Xiongnu in the west of the Southern Xiongnu hoped that Qiangqu would lead the Southern Xiongnu to integrate with the Northern Xiongnu, and take advantage of the momentum of the Northern Xiongnu to fight a decisive battle with our Northern Xinjiang Army, but this proposal was ignored by many tribal leaders, otherwise, it was not passed, and Qiangqu did not express his position. ”

"Originally, the Southern Xiongnu tribes in the east wanted to ask Xianbei for help, and hoped that Xianbei, who is still the overlord of the grassland, would send troops to rescue the Southern Xiongnu, after all, Xianbei had also suffered at the hands of the lord, and he should not refuse, but the envoy sent to Xianbei in the west was stopped by the adults of Xianbei in the west, and I don't know what it means."

"Originally, the southern Xiongnu tribes, hoping that Qiangqu would send envoys to sue for peace with the court again, after all, the Southern Xiongnu have been sheltered by our Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and many people are accustomed to living under the protection of the Han Dynasty, and now they have lost the protection of our Han Dynasty, the situation of the Southern Xiongnu has been very bad, and it is rumored that the current Shan Yu of the Northern Xiongnu wants to send troops to the Southern Xiongnu and annex the remaining four or five hundred thousand people of the Southern Xiongnu."

"Well, in the end, the northern tribes of the Southern Xiongnu, these tribes are far away from my Han Dynasty, so their admiration and fear of our Han Dynasty are not so heavy, and among the northern Xiongnu, most of them are in the civil strife of the Northern Xiongnu, the tribes who moved south to join the Southern Xiongnu are not interested in the leadership of the Qiangqu, and many of the tribes are united together and control tens of thousands of people with strings, nominally accepting the leadership of the Qiangqu, but in private they are their own faction."

After saying so much at once, Guo Jia's mouth was also a little dry, and he looked at Liu Tai and said, "Lord, that's all the information Jia has gotten, and the rest should come in a while." ”

Liu Tai nodded, he was already very satisfied with Guo Jian's ability to get such detailed information, after all, the Northern Xinjiang Intelligence Department had not been established for a long time, and it was impossible to penetrate into the interior of the Southern Xiongnu, so he could only rely on some news from the periphery to guess the movements of the Southern Xiongnu.

"In this way, although the Southern Xiongnu have more than 200,000 elite soldiers, Qiangqu, who is a big single Yu, can really control only 50,000 or 60,000 royal cavalry, is it not?" Liu Tai's face was indifferent, and he said without seeing the slightest joy or worry.