When the Huns decided to besiege Yunzhong City, Li Mian, who was in a camera operation somewhere in Jiuyuan County and led the army to patrol the grassland area, was also making trouble for one thing, that is, during this period of time, although the Huns did not attack on a large scale, but in some areas north of the Great Wall, it was vaguely seen that the Huns who were not a small number of people seemed to be acting on camera. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Nature.2

That is to say, if the Huns really planned to go south on a large scale, it was only a matter of imminence.

And in the same way, because the area of Yunzhong County has fallen a lot, Jiuyuan County is actually in a very delicate situation.

If the Huns went south on a large scale from north to south, then for Li Mian, as long as the Great Wall was not lost, then these Huns would inevitably have to pay a very heavy price, and they might even not be able to advance an inch.

However, if the Xiongnu attacked Jiuyuan County from the west along Yunzhong County, the effect that the Great Wall could exert would actually be useless.

And once the situation unfolds to the worst situation, then the garrison of the Great Wall is likely to face a flanking attack by the Huns from the south to the north.

It can even be said that the Huns only need to besiege for a period of time, and when the food in the beacon tower of the Great Wall is exhausted, these garrisons guarding the Great Wall will even collapse without a fight.

Li Mian knew very well that his cavalry unit was the key to avoiding this situation as much as possible. Because even in Jiuyuan County, the only cavalry unit formed into a formation was his light cavalry force of about 6,000 people.

Li Mian was not unaware of Zhang Jiashi's or the current plan of the Qin Empire for the invasion of the Huns, that is, he used his abbreviation to delay the progress of the Huns.

However, although Yunzhong County has not been completely lost, the strongest county city of Yunzhong County is still firmly controlled by the Qin army, but this does not mean that Yunzhong County is impregnable.

The opposite is the fact that the Xiongnu gained control of most of Yunzhong County, and they could attack Yinshan in the south and Jiuyuan in the east.

Most of the defense of Jiuyuan County relied on the Great Wall, and in a large way, it happened to be a dead end.

As the so-called two-front battle is a taboo for soldiers, Li Mian didn't think that Zhang Jiashi, his brother-in-law, would make such a serious mistake in this matter.

In other words, according to Li Mian's own understanding, that is, if the Huns really attacked Jiuyuan County on a large scale, then Jiuyuan County was likely to be abandoned on its own initiative, and the Qin officers and soldiers in the corresponding area retreated to the defensive site on the first line of Yinshan, and then organized a defensive zone that could rely on the mountain for defense.

In this way, it is possible to block the Xiongnu advance road north of Yinshan as much as possible, but there is no doubt that the situation in Yunzhong County will become even more dangerous.

Because in terms of the current situation, Jiuyuan County is undoubtedly the center that supports Yunzhong County, if Jiuyuan County is lost, if the tens of thousands of Qin troops in Yunzhong City cannot hold out until the arrival of reinforcements, I am afraid that it is very likely that they will be wiped out.

Although the relationship between Li Mian and Yang Wengzi was not very familiar, as a robe of the neighboring counties, why didn't Li Mian worry about the defense of Cloud City?

It's just that for now, it seems that he should be more worried about the next plan of the Huns.

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On the Great Wall north of Yan County, Peng Yue, as the newly transferred lieutenant of Yan County, was mainly responsible for coordinating the troop arrangements for the northern part of Yan County, especially the defense system dominated by the Great Wall.

This arrangement can be said to be not a very easy task for Peng Yue, because even Peng Yue himself has quite a wealth of combat experience, but there is no doubt that he, as Zhang Jiashi is worried about, his experience in defensive operations is always a problem.

Before he defected to Zhang Jiashi a few years ago, he was also an anti-Qin general with a corresponding murderous reputation. However, compared to the original division of the Qin army under Li You of Sanchuan County, Peng Yue fought many times with the Qin army under the command of Zhang Jiashi, who advanced eastward, in the following years.

Of course, these wars can be said to have won and lost each other, but more often than not, Peng Yue did not expect that these Qin troops were not the most elite troops under Zhang Jiashi's command, but just Qin recruits who were urgently recruited and then briefly trained.

And even so, in many battles against the counties recaptured by the Qin army under Zhang Jiashi, Peng Yue can be said to have lost more than won few.

The few victories were achieved more by numerical superiority.

As a general under Xiang Yu at that time, Peng Yue was not Xiang Yu's confidant, but he was not a marginal figure either.

In terms of status, Peng Yue is certainly far inferior to Xiang Yu, Fan Zeng and others, and even inferior to people like Ding Gong.

But in terms of strength, except for Xiang Yu, Long and other core generals of the Chu army, there are not many people who can compare with him.

When Zhang Jiashi waved his army to attack the rebel general Zhang Han of the Qin army, Zhang Han asked Xiang Yu for help at that time, and Xiang Yu's order made him the commander of the two Chu armies that supported Zhang Han.

For this arrangement, Peng Yue was not disgusted at first, and even thought that Xiang Yu had finally thought of reusing him to fight against the tyrannical Qin savior who had gradually become famous in the battle of the giant deer.

He had never fought directly with Zhang Jiashi, and even if he had lost more than won with the Qin army in the previous battle, he still did not let Peng Yue take this Qin general in his eyes.

But soon, he realized the fact that even Zhang Han, who was known for his martial arts among the princes, was quickly defeated once the Qin army seized the initiative.

It's just that at this time, even if Peng Yue began to pay attention to this veritable Qin general under the prestige, it was too late.

The Chu army under Ji Bu was attacked by more than 100,000 Qin elites within thirty miles in front of him, relying on the terrain.

And he is in an embarrassing situation where he can't advance or retreat.

Peng Yue didn't think about the whole army to reinforce Ji Bu's department, and he could save as much as he could.

But he soon realized that he was far inferior to the generals of the Qin army in terms of mastery of fighters.

In less than a day, Ji Bu's army was completely wiped out. When he was relieved to lose the information of Ji Bujun's army, he was still hesitating how to advance and retreat, when two elite chariot and cavalry troops of the Qin army stopped and cut off his army. It was difficult for him to take care of his tail.

In the end, while there was no hope of breaking through, Peng Yue chose to surrender......

It's not that he doesn't know that his surrender may be inevitable, but if he doesn't, then he will definitely die.

Peng Yue gave up his ideal of being a marquis or even a king of the earth, and finally succumbed to the Qin army's soldiers.

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In the next few years, Peng Yue became the county lieutenant of Ba County as soon as he turned around.

Only a small number of the troops he had commanded were allowed to follow him to Ba County.

And for this point, Peng Yue naturally pinched his nose and accepted his fate, after all, the situation is weaker than people, even if he wants to entrench himself in Ba County and stand on his own, I am afraid that at that time, Nan County and the Li family of Shu County in the west of Ba County will have to concentrate their forces to destroy him, the wall grass that has surrendered and rebelled.

Moreover, even among the counties controlled by Zhang Jiashi at that time, the areas where his control was relatively weak, and even the vast majority of his mountain people did not submit to the jurisdiction of the officials of the Qin State, and there were repeated cases of killing officials and rebelling in the mountains and forests.

But for Peng Yue, if he planned to rebel against Qin with this, he would inevitably get an even more miserable end.

Although these mountain people were not subject to the rule of the Qin Empire, how could they regard him as their own?

So once he really plans to surrender and rebel, then what awaits him is that he is most likely to be directly wiped out by the Qin troops marching along the river on both sides in the county town, and he doesn't even need to do this, maybe if he only needs to kill these small number of his relatives, then the Qin officers and soldiers in the county will chop him into meat sauce......

Peng Yue, who was well aware of his situation, in the few years in Ba County, in addition to training the mountain combat ability of the Qin army's infantry units, was more likely to lead these "new troops" to encircle and suppress or subdue the mountain people.

Peng Yue didn't really understand how to subdue these mountain people. On the one hand, this can also be said to be a limitation of Peng Yue's knowledge.

Or is it that Peng Yue underestimated Zhang Jiashi's obsession with ethnic assimilation......

In the later generations of Zhang Jiashi, ethnic assimilation refers to the phenomenon of one ethnic group or part of it losing its own ethnic identity and becoming another ethnic group. It is a historical phenomenon that has existed at all stages of social development since the emergence of the nation. Ethnic assimilation can be divided into two types: natural assimilation and forced assimilation. Natural assimilation refers to assimilation without human intervention. Forced assimilation, on the other hand, is distinguished by natural factors or human interventions that lead to assimilation.

And there is no good or bad nature of national assimilation.

The general manifestation is that when a relatively backward nation interacts with a relatively advanced nation, it naturally absorbs the culture of the advanced nation, gradually changes, and finally completely loses its own national characteristics and becomes another nation. The whole process is voluntary, natural and natural, without the resort of violence, privilege or any coercion.

However, there is also a struggle in the process of assimilation, and there are often a minority of the assimilated people, especially those in power in the ruling class, who try to stop the trend of assimilation by means of administrative orders, but the result is always unstoppable. This is because natural assimilation is the replacement of backwardness by the advanced, the inevitable trend of historical exhibition, and it is not subject to human will.

Forced assimilation is the use of violence or privilege by a people to force another people to renounce their national identity and become part of it. This phenomenon is mainly manifested in the coercion of the ruling class of the ruling nation over the ruled class. For example, during the new dynasty of Wang Mang, the Xiongnu were forced to change the title of the Xiongnu to the title of Han and the name of the Xiongnu to the name of the Han. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers forced the Han Chinese to change to Manchu clothes and shave according to the Manchu customs. The Beiyang warlord government and the Kuomintang government forced schools in many ethnic minority areas to use only Chinese and Chinese as instruction, and not to use the spoken and written languages of each ethnic group.

Forced assimilation, which comes at the cost of great pain and sacrifice suffered by the assimilated people, is a manifestation of national oppression, and is therefore resolutely resisted by the ruled people. The proletariat is resolutely opposed to forced assimilation.

And the society in which Zhang Jiashi lived in later generations, although "national unity" was the main concept of the country at that time. But in previous history, there was no doubt that it was a process of assimilation.

And the rise of the Qin Empire to the present day is also the product of national assimilation.

Among them, as a major embodiment of ethnic assimilation, it is the corresponding decision of Qin Mugong, who adopted offensive annexation methods against several countries and nationalities to show the national strength of Qin.

At that time, there were many tribes and small countries of Rongdi living around the Qin State, such as Kunrong, Mianzhu and Zhai in the west of Longshan, Yiqu, Wushi and Shuyan in Jingbei, Dali in Luochuan, and 6 Hun Rongs in Weinan. They are backward in production, clothed in skins, each with its own rulers, and not uniform.

They often raided the border areas of Qin, plundered grain, livestock, and kidnapped their children, causing great suffering to the Qin people. Qin Mugong spread westward and adopted a more cautious strategy, first strong and then weak, and then conquered.

After a long period of expansion in the West, the Qin State continued to expand its territory. Especially after entering the Spring and Autumn Period, most of the land in Shaanxi in the Western Zhou Dynasty was owned by the Qin people.

And this is one of the manifestations of assimilation.

In the thirty-sixth year of Qin Mugong, the Qin army captured the royal officials and suburbs. In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Mugong, the Qin army went out to Xirong, surrounded Mianzhu with lightning speed, and captured the Mianzhu kings alive under the wine bottle. Qin Mugong took advantage of the victory to advance, and more than 20 small states of Rongdi successively subjugated the Qin state. The state of Qin is thousands of miles away, the national border is south to Qinling, west to Didao, north to Quyanrong, east to the Yellow River, known as "Qin Mu Gongba Xirong" in history.

On the other hand, an allusion also illustrates the fundamental assimilation of Qin Mugong at that time.

This allusion is "Qin Mugong tasted and died of his horse":

Qin Mugong once went out of the palace and lost his horse because of it, and he went to look for his horse himself, and saw that someone had killed his horse and was still eating the horse's meat together. Qin Mugong said to them, "This is my horse." ”

The men all stood up in horror. Qin Mugong said: "I heard that people who eat the meat of horses but don't drink alcohol will die. ”

So Qin Mugong gave them wine to drink. The slewers left in shame.

Three years later, the Jin State attacked Qin Mugong and besieged Qin Mugong. In the past, those who killed horses and ate meat said to each other, "We can repay Mu Gong with death for our kindness in eating horse meat and drinking good wine." So he defeated the army besieging Qin Mugong, who finally solved the difficulties and defeated the Jin state and captured Jin Huigong.

In the war, Qin Mugong used forced assimilation to assimilate the small kingdom of Rongdi, and internally, he used gifts to Huairou to recover the mountain people.

And this situation can also be said to be the most intuitive embodiment of "soothing and appeasement".