Outside the side plug, under the city in the clouds;

As the 'nail' for the Han family to penetrate the grassland, the geographical location of Cloud City is actually not very good.

As far as the eye can see, within a hundred miles of the clouds, there are green grasslands, except for the scattered herdsmen who pass by from time to time, there is no trace of the existence of living creatures.

- For Cloud City, the vast majority of the Huns avoided it.

As for the reason, it is nothing more than the six miles long and wide of Cloud City, but it has a strong wall that is three zhang high and two zhang behind!

In order to stick this nail in the cloud into the ······

No;

It should be said that in order to insert this nail in the clouds, that is, after Ying Qin, into the grassland again, the price paid by the Han family in the past few years is not insignificant!

Once upon a time, the Central Plains was full of Qin cavities, and the grasslands were full of black dragon flags;

At that time, Yunzhong was not 'Cloud City', but 'Cloud County'.

For Yingqin, who swept Liuhe with crushing momentum and unified the Central Plains at that time, the grassland was almost no different from the back garden.

Later generations know that after Ying Qin unified China, it set off a movement of 'infrastructure power' in all parts of the world.

The famous Northern Great Wall, Xianyang Abang Palace, the Qin Zhidao all over the world, and the large-scale Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan are all clear evidence of the existence of that brilliant era.

However, among the key projects of Qin's 'infrastructure power', there are two of them, which make future generations in the new era of high development of science and technology can't help but express their admiration.

——The first item is that in that era when materials were extremely scarce, transportation was extremely inconvenient, and science and technology were extremely backward, Qin Ting left a five-foot road thousands of miles long in the southwest of the mountains and forests!

And this five-foot road, with the quality inspection mark of 'produced by Qin Shaofu, must be a high-quality product', has been preserved for thousands of years, until the later Tang and Song dynasties, you can still see a clear road vein!

And the second item is that future generations can only throw themselves into the Qin Ting's frantic infrastructure capabilities······

——After paving the straight road all over the Central Plains, Qin Ting extended the Qin straight road to the grassland!

From the border of China during the Warring States Period: Daibei, the Qin Straight Road has been paved to the north of Gaoque, which is located at the northern end of the Great Wall of Qin!

It was also through the straight roads that stretched into the grassland that Qin was able to use the defensive Great Wall as the starting point for attacking the grassland in the north, and left a 'Seeing the appearance of the Black Dragon Flag, just run; I really can't run away, and I can survive on my knees'.

At that time, Yunzhong County: Yunzhong City was only a border town within the Great Wall of Qin, and a transportation hub for the transfer of materials on the front line.

And now, time has passed, things are not people;

Obviously it is still the Cloud City, and it is still the Qin Straight Road, but the legend of the Black Dragon Banner has long been forgotten by the forgetful nomads.

The former 'border town' and 'transportation hub' have now become a lonely city outside the Han dynasty and have no chance to be seen;

And the Qin Straight Road, which was supposed to be used to transport military supplies to the Great Wall of Qin further north, has now fallen into disrepair and has become a shortcut for merchants from the grasslands and the Central Plains to do business.

The soldiers stationed in Yunzhong City have also changed from the Great Qin Ruishi decades ago to the current Han border soldiers;

The mission or responsibilities of Cloudsdale have also changed from a military transportation hub in the past to a strategic outpost today.

Just thirty years ago, the soldiers in Cloud City could still take what they wanted from the grassland;

But in today's Yunzhong City, the soldiers of the border pass can only walk on thin ice, enduring the cold and dry climate in the north, and the serious shortage of material rations, while always beware of the sneak attack of the Huns.

Compared with the wealthy Qin court, the Han family was far less 'generous' to Yunzhong City than to welcome Qin.

For the border guards in Yunzhong City, who are less than 10,000 people, all the Chang'an court can give is half a bucket per person per day, only one and a half stone per month, and a mere 5,000 yuan per person per year.

In addition to the scarcity of materials, the shortage of soldiers, and the lack of logistics of weapons and ordnance, the core problem in front of the soldiers in the clouds is the livelihood of the family.

- In the vast majority of cases, in order to avoid a mutiny, neither a soldier nor a commander is allowed to accompany his family when he is sent to the border;

In particular, when the senior generals above the rank of lieutenant set out to fight at the border gates, they had to take the initiative to send their whole families to Chang'an first, so as to show that they had an attitude of 'absolutely not dragging their families and running away'.

But Cloudsdale is the only exception today.

the long garrison career caused by the lack of rotation for many years;

The grim strategic situation requires the improvement of the combat power of the troops;

Coupled with the particularity of the lonely hanging outside the cloud city, surrounded by grasslands, it is difficult to become a reality in the clouds because the situation of 'soldiers are out on the expedition and the families are left behind'.

Therefore, as early as Emperor Taizu Gao, Liu Bang, with a 'tragic victory' in the Battle of Pingcheng, recovered most of the northern territories that belonged to China, Yunzhong City became the only border city in the Han Dynasty that allowed soldiers to drag their families to garrison.

Of course, only soldiers are allowed, and as for generals, as well as county-level officials above a thousand stones (Yunzhong at this time is actually only a city, but the administrative level is still Yunzhong County), they still have to take the initiative to avoid suspicion and leave their families south of the Great Wall.

This led to a very tricky problem that had never happened before, and appeared in front of the defenders in the clouds.

- In the past, the border soldiers only needed to go into battle to kill the enemy and fight bravely, and they didn't need anything else at all;

Unless there is a shortage of food and salary, there is nothing else that can shake the morale and fighting spirit of these elite soldiers.

And after dragging their families to the clouds and spending a short period of excitement, the guards of Cloud City began to be at a loss.

- How can this family be fed?

In Yunzhong City, there are nearly 10,000 military households living in such a large place, not to mention farming, it is not easy for every family to live in their own houses;

In addition, the necessary school yards and barracks in military towns, as well as arsenals for storing weapons and equipment, granaries for storing grain, and government offices, there is no place for farming.

As for the outside of the city, there are grasslands overgrown with water and grass, and even if there are really thousands of hectares of fertile land, no one dares to go out of the city to plant.

Not to mention going out of the city to farm, even the Han caravan in front of the Great Wall defense line behind them had to go through many inspection procedures before they could enter the city smoothly.

In this way, the problem arises: as a military town that is close to complete militarization, Cloudsdale, there is no food output;

Nearly 10,000 households in the city, tens of thousands of people's food and clothing, all need to be purchased from the outside through trade.

And to buy, you need money.

However, in the clouds, it belongs to the remote areas of the Han Dynasty in the absolute sense of 'no free shipping', and the goods of the Central Plains are sent to the clouds, and the price is often doubled!

However, the military salary of the guards in the clouds is only a few hundred yuan a month, not to mention feeding a family, and even three or five stone rice may not be able to buy it back······

This caused the military households in Cloud City to fall into a strange predicament.

- If you want to survive, you have to eat!

If you want to eat, you can only grow or buy;

But in this situation in the clouds, there is no land to plant, and there is no money to buy.

In desperation, as the first purely militarized city in Chinese history, Yunzhong City actually began to develop in the direction of 'combining military trade'.

For example, in the past, it took hundreds or even hundreds of dollars for the military households in the city to buy a stone of grain, but now they only need the female rolls at home to sew the cloth sent by the Central Plains merchants into clothes, which can be obtained;

In the Central Plains, the price is already close to the people, but in the clouds, the high price of salt, vinegar, sauce, tea, etc., only needs a certain amount of labor from the military households to be exchanged.

After a long time, a new way of making money was born in the hearts of military households.

-- Working for the merchants of the Central Plains, all they get is grain, rice, cloth, and other living materials, and even most of the time, it is still difficult to ensure their livelihood;

But if it is with the nomads of the north······

In this way, another strange phenomenon appeared in Cloudsdale.

- The soldiers who were supposed to garrison the Northern Barbarians on the city walls, together with the heavy family scrolls, fell into the hot handicraft labor;

For example, the cloth sent by the merchants of the Central Plains, as long as the military households process it into cloth bags, clothing, etc., they can exchange it for a lamb or even a calf from the hands of the Huns!

Later, the military households simply stopped working, and this one took the goods sent by the merchants of the Central Plains, and turned around and handed them over to the Huns, sitting in the middle to make the difference.

With this financial route, the military households in Cloud City can finally solve the problem of livelihood.

But correspondingly, there are also some drawbacks that should not have been.

For example, books, tea, metals, and even weapons that were originally controlled by the Han Dynasty began to appear in the list of goods that were 're-sold' in Cloudsdale;

For example, the border soldiers who should have hated the Huns gradually became a bit of a philistine, and they didn't care about the hatred of the country and the family, and could only see the small profits in front of them;

Another example: the gates of the city in the clouds, which should have been closed all the year round and could not be opened by the edict of the Son of Heaven, became more and more fragile and fragile under the strong friendship between these soldiers and those 'old acquaintances'······

·

Bang!

"Bastard!"

"All bastards!

”

Chang'an City, Weiyang Palace.

Clenching the 800-mile urgent military report that had just been sent in his hand, looking at the outside of the hall, he could still see the beacon fire that was rushing to the sky, Liu Ying only felt a burst of qi and blood surging, and he couldn't wait to vomit blood on the spot!

"A huge city in the clouds, self-defeating!"

"—is this in the clouds?!"

"This is what the fair days say: the loyal ministers and righteous people who are stationed in the clouds, and the evil after the loyalty?!

”

With a roar of rage, Liu Ying didn't feel the surging anger in his chest at all, and there was a slight tendency to weaken, so he simply threw the military newspaper in his hand off the imperial steps!

Irritating!

It's just infuriating!

The border guards, who didn't want to protect their families and defend the country, actually started a second-class dealer between the merchants of the Central Plains and the grassland merchants across a city in the clouds!

Yunzhongcheng, which is known as 'can resist 100,000 Huns and besiege it for March without breaking', was actually deceived by a humble Hu merchant who was as cheap as a dog!

What happened after the city was broken?

Hey!

——Just four hours after the North City Gate in Yunzhong was broken, the Yunzhong Duyou, who was in charge, ran to Mayi with tens of thousands of troops and people under his command!

Tens of thousands of cavalry of the Huns, one person and three horsemen scrambled to be the first, but they were stunned to catch up with this rabble······

"Spread the edict!"

"——Cai Yannian, the capital of the clouds, is not strictly governed, there is no way to govern the army, and he is lost in the clouds!"

"The edict has arrived, and the Dharma will be rectified on the spot!

”

Angry and let out a shout, Liu Ying only felt a burst of heat in her chest, and she couldn't wait to fly to Ma Yi immediately, and she couldn't wait to post Cai Yannian with her hand!

Nearly 10,000 soldiers!

Tens of thousands of military households!

Even if you don't count the old and weak, women and children, when you are facing the enemy, Cloud City can at least stop more than 20,000 people!

20,000 soldiers, fighting with tens of thousands of Huns in the streets of the city, even if they can't fight, at least let the Huns bear the loss of 1,000 wounded enemies and 800 self-inflicted losses!

The result is good, tens of thousands of old and young women and children, this Cai Yannian doesn't care, with 10,000 young and strong students, he actually played a marathon?

- If you hadn't left behind the old and young women and children, it would have been impossible for these 10,000 people to escape the pursuit of the Hun cavalry!

What makes Liu Ying most angry is not this;

If he just fled from the battle, discarded the women, children, old and young, or even lost Yunzhong last year or next year, although Cai Yannian would still be unable to escape death, Liu Ying would never be so angry.

But it's this year!

However, Liu Yingli advocated stationing in advance, planning to fight a battle with the Huns in the clouds, and even spent a lot of materials and efforts for this, and sent dozens of personnel and army transfers, the battlefield originally scheduled to be outside the city in the clouds was completely out of the control of the Han family because of this Cai Yannian!

Now it's all right;

Without waiting for the Huns to retreat on their own, Yunzhong City didn't want to come back;

As for the tens of thousands of people who were abandoned by Cai Yannian, they could be taken away by the Huns as slaves, they all had to be counted as fate!

And the Han army, which should have been waiting in the clouds and waiting for the Huns to come to fight, could only rush to reinforce Ma Yi at this moment.

Not to mention the idea of fighting a small battle, trying the performance of weapons and equipment, or even annihilating a small unit of the enemy's army.

——To ensure that Ma Yi is not lost and the border pass is not broken, for the Han family, it is already the best ending of this battle!

Thinking of this, Liu Ying was still angry, and the desire for 'professional' in her heart became stronger and stronger.

Paying attention, Liu Ying simply stopped worrying, and looked at Shang Shulang beside him with angry eyes, who had just finished writing an edict.

"Edict!"

"Give the Taiwei Xinwu Marquis Jin She a few sticks, see the Son of Heaven without worshipping, see the Queen Mother without kneeling, and control the power of the world's soldiers and horses!"

"In battle, do it cheaply!"

"As long as it is what the captain asks, ask for money to give money, and ask people to give it!

”

"-Except for the jade seal of the country that I have inherited, everything Jin She wants, will be sent to him!

”

"No matter what, I have to guard the horse!

”