Chapter 421: Prairie Trivia
Strictly speaking, as Wei Tao's status rises step by step, Wei Tao wants to stay away from the war more and more.
In the past, Wei Tao often charged into battle in person, taking the first rank of general among the ten thousand armies, but after arriving later, Wei Tao was only between heads-up victory and defeat.
After Wei Tao personally became the emperor, even if it was a personal expedition, he should only sit in the army.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that when Wei Tao personally conquered at that time, all the generals under his command were newly surrendered, or they were young generals with little qualifications, it would be impossible to dissuade Wei Tao, and Wei Tao would not have been able to personally go into battle to kill the enemy.
Of course, Wei Tao himself understands this, so although he is a little unwilling, in fact, he has no intention of making a move in this battle.
But at this time, the shape shì is different.
Under the successive draws, Wei Tao could naturally see that he was equal in strength to Cao Cao, and it was difficult to use his strategy.
However, Wei Tao made a move, but in fact, his subordinates were incompetent.
Of course, more importantly, the sword has no eyes, once Wei Tao loses, then the entire dynasty is on the verge of collapse.
Although Wei Tao is now a queen, he is only a few years old, how can he be up to the task?
In this way, naturally no one hopes that Wei Tao will have an accident, if it is not for this time, it is the last battle that will determine the fate of the two countries, and the other party is also Cao Cao himself, I am afraid that even Zhou Yu will dissuade Wei Tao from coming.
But now that Wei Tao is about to fight, if he wants to play, it is inevitable.
"I also know what you mean, but I don't say how long this battle drags on, the two armies are fighting. Not to mention the soldiers who are going to be killed and wounded. If I don't fight. How to suppress to win? With the current strength of the two armies, I am afraid that just three months will not be enough to be able to distinguish the winner from the loser. ”
Wei Tao didn't need any quibbles, but at this time, he still had to say something, after all, although the various advisers and generals were silent for a while, Wei Tao could still feel that they didn't agree.
"I understand the meaning of all the advisers and soldiers, but what is the matter now, but why do I am? What I have done is for my Han nation. It is my responsibility to defeat the enemy and stabilize the world. And now, if the war drags on, not to mention the enemy, even the people of our Han Dynasty will not be able to live in peace. This is not my intention, and I am afraid it is not what Cao Cao thought. Otherwise, there would be no such battle. ”
Hearing Wei Tao's words, a wry smile appeared on the faces of all the advisors.
After all, what Wei Tao said was true, if Cao Cao didn't have this thought, this war would not be like this, but now it is because of this war. All of them find themselves bad.
Looking at each other, all eyes were focused on Zhou Yu.
Who made Zhou Yu's identity very different?
"Your Majesty, listen to me."
Zhou Yu sighed in his heart. Feeling the gaze of his colleagues around him, Zhou Yu naturally understood in his heart, but he also knew that at this time, I am afraid that only he can speak.
What Wei Tao needs is not a reason, but a result.
"Your Majesty, now the battle between the two armies can be said to be a victory or defeat, although the two generals Dian Wei and Wei Yan have been injured one after another, but in fact, it is just a draw, why is Your Majesty so anxious? Although Cao Cao was a man of far-reaching strategy, his generals were brave, and his ministers were outstanding, His Majesty also knew that such battles could not be divided in one or two days, and one or two draws could not represent anything. ”
"Gong Jin is comforting me?"
Wei Tao shook his head with a slight wry smile, he couldn't imagine this thing, but he also knew that this was the kindness of his subordinate generals, so after thinking about it slightly, he just opened his mouth.
"Well, I will listen to Gongjin's words. However, it is for a month of time. After all, really, our army is just the food of March. Moreover, it was not to my liking to use such a war for the battle in the Central Plains, but it must not be used again. If you don't have the upper hand, I won't listen to them anymore. ”
Wei Tao said calmly, sometimes Wei Tao is indeed very easy to speak, but everyone can understand that in this good speech, Wei Tao is also difficult to change his decision.
Even a top strategist like Zhou Yu unconsciously felt a little more urgent in his heart.
However, although it is also urgent, it does not mean that they will act blindly, in fact, all the strategists and generals, including Zhou Yu, are only thinking carefully about how to deal with the damn, and they are not taking the initiative to fight blindly.
This is the case in Wei Tao's army, and the same is true in Cao Cao's army, but without Wei Tao's persecution, Cao's army does not have this eagerness.
Under such circumstances, although the two sides also clashed several times in the future, in fact, they were always defeated, although they did not hit each other as hard as Wei Yan and Li Dian, but the soldiers of each other had already lost a lot.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed, and the two sides are still holding each other, not to mention anything else, just the daily food loss is a big burden, but at this time, it is naturally impossible for the two sides to retreat.
"Humph! How dare you do that! ”
At this time, Wei Tao in the tent was angry again, not because of the situation in front of him, but because of the news from the rear.
Before this war, those who had been suppressed by Wei Tao Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Qiang were originally ready to move, after all these years of recuperation, according to Wei Tao's strategy, there are indeed many people who think they are Han, but similarly, there are some people who hate the Han people more.
Originally, Wei Tao suppressed, although those people hated in their hearts, but they couldn't make any waves, but with Wei Tao moving the army here, and Wei Tao was even more obvious before that he wanted to let those 'old people in the clan' move to the Central Plains and completely cut off their roots and seedlings, it was not uncommon to have resistance at this time.
However, Wei Tao has long had a strict order for this, and Zhang Liao and others are not soft-hearted figures, so they must immediately implement Wei Tao's order and send troops to suppress it.
However, the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Qiang dared to resist and were not completely unprepared, they had already been connected together and moved in unison from all directions, which made the troops of the generals under Wei Tao a little stretched.
But fortunately, Zhang Liao and the others reacted quickly, and it was not so easy for them to regain their clan power.
"Now I'm facing a two-sided war."
Wei Tao didn't immediately find Zhou Yu and the others, not because they didn't trust them, nor because there was any estrangement, but they were preparing a plan to see if they could calculate Cao Cao, and at this time, Wei Tao naturally didn't want any accidents to happen.
What's more, these things are not out of control, the strength of those clans has long been weakened to the extreme, and most people have no way to access any weapons at all, and if they want to quell the chaos, it is actually not a difficult thing.
In fact, the reason why Zhang Liao felt embarrassed was that when those 'old people of all ethnic groups' launched the uprising, in addition to those radical juniors, they still coerced many people who upheld neutrality and had already turned their hearts to the Han Dynasty.
In addition, although the response was timely, there were still some Han people who fell into the hands of the other party, and those Han people were not ordinary Han people, at least they were people who were literate and hyphenated, and they were people who Wei Tao asked them to educate the barbarians.
You must know that in this era, there are indeed many people who are literate and hyphenated, but most of them are people from various families, and the number of people who are willing to engage in this thing is limited, so Wei Tao will not abandon those people lightly.
"But these people are also stupid, do you really think that I have no way to deal with them?"
But at this time, Wei Tao suddenly smiled slightly, and then directly ordered someone to give the order.
"Pass my orders, and order people to send envoys to all ethnic groups to pass orders, but whoever has the heart to submit to my Central Plains will immediately sever internal and external relations with them. Then he ordered Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, and Xu Huang to lead the troops to attack and coerce their pastures, but if there were cattle and sheep, they would be cut off immediately. Then there was an order, so that the herdsmen of all ethnic groups, as long as they could kill a traitor, could kill three people for the Han people, give them a room to live in the pass, kill five people, reward ten acres of fertile land, and teach them the art of farming. If you don't like the fields, you can enjoy the sheep as horses, the pasture is tilted, and the food supply of the grassland is cut off, let me see how long those tribes can hold on. ”
Wei Tao smiled coldly, it would take a few days for the order to be passed from here, but Wei Tao was not without precautions against those nomads.
After all, Wei Tao has been a human being for two generations, so he naturally knows that there is no cultural encroachment in history, but in the end, it is often those grassland peoples who rise up to invade the Central Plains.
Therefore, the two most important things Wei Tao did were to cut off the supply of the grassland and feed it with grain from the Central Plains, and the grassland was mostly filled with cattle and sheep, and imported them into the Central Plains.
Second, although Wei Tao restricts the circulation of iron tools, he specially orders people to export a large number of cloth and silk utensils, and there is always eating, drinking and having fun.
Although it is still far inferior to the Central Plains, for those clansmen, it is much better than the previous life.
Born in sorrow and dying in peace, this sentence is also extremely important, although it is on the grassland, but if you can live in peace, how can you be willing to go south desperately?
In the past, one of the most important reasons why those tribes invaded south was that the lives of the grasslands were not valuable, but now the situation is very different, and Wei Tao is naturally not afraid.
Wei Tao's order naturally quickly passed into the hands of Zhang Liao and others, and with Wei Tao's official order, they naturally would not show the slightest weakness and immediately follow the order.
Sure enough, such an order was transmitted to the grassland, which made the grassland a mess, after all, even those people in the grassland can know that now the Central Plains is strong, and the grassland is weak, so there are many people in the grassland, and they directly follow the order issued by Wei Tao. (To be continued......)