Chapter 246: A figure in the grassland
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If he were a brainless person, he would not secretly connive at his family to make money, although he was finally forced to spit out the land, but the money earned over the years did not have to be refunded half a cent, and there was a generous reward for selling the land.
The county and the lieutenant were helpless, and the Taishou was resolutely unwilling to buy grain from Linjun, and they didn't know what to do.
Zhao Meng suddenly said: "It's better to buy grain from Hedong County, we have 345oo households in Pingyang Houguo, the Son of Heaven will be 11ooo households in the east and south of Fenshui as our princes, the average household in the Hou State is more than 2ooo acres of land, our Hou State produces nearly 2ooo million stones of grain a year, and most of the tax burden falls into the pockets of the villagers, as long as you take the money, you can buy it." ”
"Where did all this food come from?"
"Brother Tubaozi, Guanzhong's yield per mu has been almost three years, Pingyang Houguo is at the same time, most of the cultivated land has broken through four stones, only the dry land adjacent to the mountainous area still has a yield of more than two stones per mu, and only the yield per mu of the border county cannot go up." Zhao Meng laughed.
The bushman laughed and said, "That's great!" Immediately report to the imperial court, there is a strange movement on the Xiongnu border, and it is suspected that there is a harbinger of a large army entering the Xiongnu, and we will reorganize our troops to attack the Xiongnu. ”
Bianguan Feibao was sent to Beijing for a journey, and Yanmen County, Yunzhong County, and Shanggu County all received abnormal movements suspected of being a precursor to war.
The Son of Heaven in Weiyang Palace has not yet made up his mind. The three princes and nine kings have all kinds of ideas, and they have the movements of their strong neighbors in the north. Many bureaucrats are so confused that they don't know how to deal with it.
"Fight the Huns?"
Prime Minister Dou Ying hesitated: "The minister thinks this battle can't be fought." The Huns have been strong for decades to show off more than 600,000 strings, although my Han family has a million troops to wait for the Dan, but it is not good to attack the Huns, a county soldiers are distributed in Tiannan and Haibei is not easy to recruit, and the recruitment degree is too slow and time-consuming, and the army season should enter winter. ”
Hundreds of officials looked at each other and smiled, now in the middle of March, it is the good time of the Shangsi Festival, and the winter is usually until the end of October. That is to say, it will take seven or eight months before and after, and in such a long time, the Huns have already swept the border and retreated.
No matter how firm the will of the Son of Heaven was, the majority of the court advocated not fighting the Xiongnu, not only because of the academic factors of the Huang Lao School, but also because the Han family did not have absolute certainty of defeating the Xiongnu with 600,000 cavalry.
For more than 60 years, the national strength of the Han family has become more and more prosperous, and the Xiongnu have not been idle. The total strength of the army has also increased from barely 400,000 cavalry to easily 600,000 elites, and the increase is not small. On the contrary, it is more deterrent than most of the scattered county soldiers.
The strongest of the Han army was the northern and southern armies, and the southern army was essentially soldiers from various counties and counties who came to Guanzhong to serve in military service and receive more systematic and comprehensive intensive training. The overall combat strength of the Southern Army was only slightly worse than that of the Northern Army, which lived in Guanzhong all the year round, and much higher than that of the ordinary scattered county soldiers.
The elite of 300,000 guanzhong is not only the main force of the Han. It is also the ability to suppress the world and curb the careerists, and without 300,000 elites, there will be no peace in the country. It will not be related to the stability of the princes and kings of the east.
The two armies of the north and the south usually do not dare to act rashly, and it is the norm to send one army and leave one army behind.
Tian Wei already had a draft in his heart: "You don't need to go through a lot of trouble, you just need to use 100,000 troops from the northern army to unite the national soldiers of the northern counties." ”
The officials frowned and were silent, most of the people knew the strategy proposed by Tian Wei, and used a joint county army of the Northern Army to resist the Xiongnu, and the Han army had used this routine for decades.
There is nothing new about the clichés.
More people turned their eyes to the other side, and the general Cao Shi lowered his eyebrows as if he was napping, and it was a bit too much to praise him as the first general of the dynasty, but it was right to say that he was the most capable general of the younger generation.
It's a pity that I didn't wait for his response.
Liu Che glanced at the ministers: "I have already made up my mind and intend to fight a siege and annihilation battle in Mayi. ”
"Huh?"
The ministers were shocked.
Two months later, the border area of the Xiongnu steppe.
Chen Hese curled up in the waist-deep weeds and did not move, the dark green camouflage on his body was a natural protective color, and a small meandering river was flowing directly in front of him, and dozens of Huns were resting by the river.
They were scouts of the Hun cavalry, carrying iron knives produced by the Han family on their waists and horned bows produced by the Han family, sitting among the pebbles of the river beach to taste the delicious roast yellow sheep.
The Huns gathered on the grassland for nearly two months, with 100,000 cavalry of Zuoxian Wang's department to invade Yunzhong County, Yanmen County, and Shanggu County respectively, and encountered strong obstruction by the prepared Han army in the border county, and the Han army defending the city in the three counties was about 20,000 each.
The Huns, who were originally showing off their might, soon found themselves unable to laugh.
"Damn, the Han people can't hold out by hiding in the city, and we will return again in vain."
The morale of the Xiongnu scouts was frustrated, wandering in the north of Yanmen County for three whole days without finding anything, almost everyone's mood was affected, the division between the Han and Huns on both sides was on the first line of Shanwucheng, from Shanwucheng to the north of the sparsely populated desert, to the south is the densely populated Luli villages are connected to each other, many roads have changed greatly compared with Yanmen County a few years ago, and the Huns have no confidence when they first enter the unfamiliar area.
What's more, there are more than 10,000 defenders and 20,000 residents in Shanwu City, once the Xiongnu army crosses Shanwu City and swaggers into Mayi, they may be stabbed in the back.
Haralen is the new captain of the scout team, and his uncle is the right-hand man of the thousand cavalry under the tent of King Zuoxian, and he was promoted from the big head soldier in the reserve team to the leader of the scout army under the king's tent cavalry by virtue of his courtesy.
But today's situation is different, Haralen promised his uncle to complete the task beautifully before leaving the station, and when he was about to be embarrassed, Haralen was anxious: "It can't be like this, we have to go south, continue to go south to have a chance, catch the tongue of the Han people and find out the deployment of the Han army." ”
The old scout mocked: "Don't think about it, don't you see that the beacons of the Great Wall are gone?" All the lieutenants of Fengsui have run clean, the main force of the Han army must be in ambush in the south, and we used to send prisoners. ”
"The captain's idea is still so naïve."
"The Han army killed so many of our compatriots, and you still dare to go to the south?"
Haralen's face was as frightened as earth, and he suddenly thought of a news that suddenly came out half a month ago, the legend was that a scout army of 300 people had gone south to penetrate into the vicinity of Mayi, and there was a letter eagle to deliver the news the night before, and the next day it completely disappeared, as if it had never appeared in that place.
There are many similar rumors, the people in the Xiongnu tribes are panicked, as if the south is haunted, there are suddenly fewer people, and the world is steaming without seeing people alive and dead without seeing corpses, and it is usually forbidden to talk about this kind of news within the Xiongnu.
"Listen? What is this sound? ”
The old scout turned his head and looked at the frightened face: "Han army! (My novel "The Great Han Liehou" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 1oo% lucky draw gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued!)
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