Chapter 257: Fierce Debate on the Northern Expedition
After the quarrel, the secretaries fell silent, and the contradiction between Tian Wei and Cao Shi became public, resulting in a very stiff scene, and the rest of the time entered the camp to summon the Yanmen military and civilians, and appeased the people It was all official business, and every companion had a rare smile on his face. ยค
The uninformed people along the way thought that the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials were worried about state affairs, and they were both grateful and guilty, which originally said that the court of the Son of Heaven ignored the border people and let them go, and only after seeing the serious expressions of the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials did they realize the difficulties of the royal family.
The change in mentality of the common people and grassroots bureaucrats is not known, even if it is known by the Son of Heaven, he does not care, Liu Che looks very lost, perhaps he regrets that the operation of the emperor's mind is not mature enough, and allows the No. 1 and No. 2 important ministers of the military system to openly turn against him, and he has not played a good role in mediating and pacifying.
The Emperor of Heaven met with the officers and men of the army in the temporary camp, vigorously praised the performance of the two armies in the north and south and promised to give generous rewards, and the emperor moved out of the reward was three rewards: military merit, gold, silver, linen and silk.
According to the specifications for the destruction of South Vietnam, all officers and men of the whole army will be given three levels of titles from immediately onwards, and the highest will be mentioned as the 18th level of the chief of the army, regardless of the level of military merits, and those who exceed the title of the chief of the will be given another food to show their praise, which is the first commendation for the whole army.
All the officers and soldiers of the whole army who have beheaded will be counted according to the level of beheading, and the maximum second-level military merit can be praised until the chief of the great house, and the lowest Hun head will only be rewarded with gold and silver cloth, and the Hun officers will be rewarded twice, and the high-ranking nobles of the Huns will be given additional titles, and the maximum can be increased by three levels.
Such a reward is not insignificant, and each soldier participating in the battle will be promoted to at least a third-class military merit, plus a generous reward of gold and silver cloth. The youngest soldier is only twenty years old this year, and the title is only made at the second level of the people. According to the rules of the Han family, it is unlikely that he will survive to the rank of military merit, and he will be promoted to a level 5 doctor in a war. The distance from the 5th level 5 doctors is shortened, and you can hope to be promoted to the military merit knight in your lifetime.
"After the list of awards you drew up has been verified and approved, I have decided to add the fourth rank to all the Yulin Cavalry, and the 166 people who have made great contributions will be promoted to the Marquis of Guannei, and 300 households will be rewarded with Yifeng, and the 32 Houhou of Guannai will be promoted to the rank of Marquis, and 500 households will be rewarded with Yifeng, and the 28 with the greatest merit will be promoted to 1,000 Hou Yifeng 1,000 households, and the rest will be 100 to 500 households. Cao Shi, the general of the chariot cavalry, had the highest merit, benefiting 3,000 households, 2,000 gold, and 3,000 silk horses. โ
Cao Shiji thanked him.
The reward was not beyond his expectations, he once again got the benefit of 3,000 households within expectations, and the reward was exactly the same as the destruction of Nanyue, so that the food of the Pingyang Marquis would reach an astonishing number of 37,500 households, surpassing Qu Shunhou Chen He to become the first person in the Liehou Shiyi.
When they saw the reward, many officers were still complaining about the chariot general. After all, this war was the biggest victory since the founding of the country, and the net beheading of the Huns obtained after deducting the Han army's battle losses was more than 6,000 levels, which was enough to seal 8,000 households a few decades ago.
Cao Shi did not try to fight for it. Liu Che, the Son of Heaven, still has the idea of suppressing him, and continuing to argue will bring adverse effects to himself, not to mention that the emperor is also more conscientious. The promotion of the rank of the whole army to the third level is quite generous, and most of the officers who are stuck in the ninth level of five doctors or less have all jumped to five doctors or above. Invisibly cultivate thousands of new military meritorious officers.
The Yulin Cavalry is all selected by the military meritorious, so each of the sons of the military merit lord naturally has a title close to the five doctors. The fourth-level military merit lord almost makes most of the young people become the fifth doctor of the 9th level, and a small number of people who are slightly worse are also waiting for the 8th level of the public ride, and the next victory may become a new military merit knight.
That night, the emperor stayed in the camp.
"Do you still have the strength to go north to annihilate the Huns?"
"Does Your Majesty want to hear the truth or not."
"Of course it's true."
"The truth is that there is not enough spare energy, and at least ten days of rest to recuperate, restore morale, and heal injuries and illnesses, this process cannot be omitted."
"In ten days, the Huns have long since run away without a shadow."
"Your Majesty is right, now we can't catch up with the Huns when we go out of the camp and pursue them overnight, we know very little about the Monan grassland, and it's easy to get lost if we go deep in a hurry."
Liu Che did not say a word behind his back, obviously his mood was not happy, his ideal was to defeat the steppe empire that was in the way of the first war, but the result was that the Xiongnu successfully escaped, the loss of less than 10,000 people was not a big injury for the Xiongnu, and it could be replenished in a few months, according to his understanding of the situation of the Han family, once the war with the Xiongnu began, he must grasp the strategic initiative, and try to send troops north to suppress the Xiongnu in order to obtain domestic stability.
But how to go north to fight the Xiongnu is still an unsolvable problem, the Han people do not believe in the Xiongnu marquis, would rather encircle them in Chang'an City as a caged bird, the logic of the Son of Heaven is that the Huns surrender after all, the new people who take refuge, loyalty can not be guaranteed, and it is very dangerous to hand over the safety of hundreds of thousands of troops to outsiders.
Liu Che fell into deep thought.
Cao Shi said: "The Xiongnu in the north can try, and in ten days the minister will send 30,000 troops to sweep the entire territory of the Xiongnu Monan, as a military punishment for the Xiongnu's treacherous invasion of the Han land, but the purpose of this action is not to completely annihilate a certain Xiongnu main force, but to plunder the cattle and sheep of the Xiongnu tribe, forcing the Xiongnu to limit the food crisis, so that the Xiongnu will lead the army south in the coming year, and then you can put down heavy troops to deal a heavy blow." โ
"Oh? That's not bad. โ
The face of Liu Che, the son of heaven, looked a little better, and the two chatted for a while before they dispersed early to rest.
The emperor's imperial drive stayed in the camp at the front of Yanmen for three whole days, these three days around the Northern Expedition to the Huns grand strategy to carry out a big debate, unwilling to fail the Taiwei Tian Wei in the military meeting to make a big fuss, saying that the commander of 200,000 troops can break the Xiongnu single in the court, on the spot by the Northern Army soldiers collectively ridiculed, called Tian Wei a lie Taiwei, the big talk of the marquis, etc.
Tian Wei jumped up and frenzy on the spot, and kept saying that he wanted to cure the crime of disrespect of the officers of the Northern Army, and was reprimanded by the angry Son of Heaven on the spot to think about it behind closed doors, and the incompetent Taiwei joked that he wanted to cure the great sin of meritorious ministers, which was simply to slap the emperor in the face, and the role of Han law was not used to show off privileges to the privileged class, and it was necessary to punish others for disrespect at every turn, and this kind of person's mind was very dirty.
Cao Shi advocated a gradual northern expedition strategy, constantly seducing the Huns to the south to win the decisive battle, and gradually consumed the Xiongnu's vital strength, if the Huns were not willing to go south, they would plunder the southern tribes of the desert, and the tribes without cattle and sheep could not survive, and those tribes had to go south or seek to be attached to the two roads.
Shaofu Han Anguo suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, is there really no way to restore the relationship between Han and Hungary?" โ
"Shaofu is the Lord and the faction?" Doctor Wang Hui questioned: "The Huns are in front of the Kou and repelled by the general of the Che Cavalry, why do you want us to make peace during the winter vacation?" โ
Han Anguo was entangled for a long time and said: "The minister thinks that the Xiongnu are powerful, and it is very disadvantageous to send a large army to fight against the barbarian Xiongnu on the vast grassland, the Huns often rely on the vast grassland and inexhaustible war horses to invade the Quartet, they are like steppe wolves with the heart of birds and beasts, and the migration customs of living by water and grass are like a flock of birds flying, even if our Han family defeats the Huns, it is difficult to control them, and we can not use the grassland desert for thousands of miles to expand the territory, and the Xiongnu tribes that accept it cannot guarantee peace of mind.
Since the three generations of antiquity, the grassland barbarians are completely different from us, if the cunning Huns retreat to the Mobei grassland, the Han army must gallop thousands of miles to attack the Huns, then our soldiers will be very tired, the Huns can rely on the vast grassland to maneuver with the Han army, and the end of the strong crossbow, can not enter the Lu Min, the decline of the wind, can not raise the feathers, it is not that the strength of the strong crossbow is not strong, but the power of the bow and crossbow always has a moment of exhaustion, the Han army galloped thousands of miles deep into the Huns is very disadvantageous, It is better to maintain the affinity of the pro-system and the two sides as the best policy. โ
Wang Hui laughed and said: "Shaofu is pedantic! You should know that the autumn grass and trees encounter frost can not withstand the wind, clear water is like a mirror, no matter the beauty or ugliness are difficult to hide, those who know the knowledge can not use words to confuse people, the strategy listed by the general is not to attack the Huns in the grassland desert, but to force the Huns to the south or annexed with troops, the Han army's selected officers and warriors guard the frontier to suppress the enemy of the Huns, this is to attack the other with their own strengths! Even if the Huns fled to the Mobei grassland, there is no need to worry, I heard that the water and grass in Mobei are not as rich as in Monan, as long as we occupy the most lush grassland in Monan, the Huns who escaped into Mobei will collapse in a few years. โ
Han Anguo retorted: "Doctor Zhong joked, the Monan grassland is vast and boundless, with the ability of the Qin army, the general Meng Tian led 300,000 Qin troops to defend Jiuyuan, and spent tens of millions of grain and straw to defend Henan, and now Jiuyuan has fallen into the hands of the Aries King, how can the Han army defend the Monan grassland, which is a hundred times that of Jiuyuan?" โ
The ministers' heads were dizzy, and they were very happy to listen to the two of you fighting back and forth. It is undeniable that what Han Anguo said is very reasonable, but the ministers clearly know that the emperor will never talk to the Huns.
This question is very difficult, with the vision of the ancients is not to solve the trouble of the grassland desert, if it can be solved, there will be no Hu tribe dominating the north, constantly repeating the tragic story of the Huns invading the south.
Cao Shi finally couldn't help but stand up: "Sinicization is a must, the attached Huns fully accept the Sinicization education, over thirty years old are exempt, under thirty years old must learn Chinese characters to speak Chinese, clothing and humanistic customs must be changed and re-learned, within thirty years, that is, two generations, the external troubles of Mo Nan will be solved." โ
"What the general said is unrealistic!"
The civil and military officials who attended the lecture as observers were extraordinarily knowledgeable, and they may not know much about military strategy, but they can still understand the basic governing strategy, and the absurd and bizarre changes in the living customs and cultural outlook of the barbarians in the past 30 years may have been ridiculed if it were not for Cao Shi's mouth. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)