Deng Fan's suggestion to Ma Tan to be a military town and a herd was quickly adopted by Ma Tan.

The northern part of the country is indeed arid and rainless, and the local people are basically not good at farming. As Deng Fan said, if they are slowly educated, they need to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Now that the Han Dynasty is in a period of rising national strength, it is the time when blood transfusion is urgently needed for the Northern Expedition, and it is difficult to have time to wait for the results of the Northwest Tuntian. If you insist on going down like this, the start-up capital for the next Northern Expedition will most likely be much less.

It's not that Tuntian can't afford it, but the military town is more cost-effective!

In the end, all of Deng Fan's suggestions were approved by Ma Tan, and he had a long talk with Ma Tan all night. The two talked all night, and even basically used up all the paper that Ma Tan had brought.

Fortunately, Ma Jian desperately left a few military orders for the next few battles.

At Deng Fan's suggestion, the Han Dynasty would establish six military towns in Beidi County, Shuofang County, and Wuyuan County, so as to block the possibility of foreign herdsmen escaping.

At the same time, this is different from Tuntian, because the herdsmen have horses, the tax you set is too high, they will run away, and the maintenance fee is high. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a suitable cattle and sheep tax and open the market to reduce the incentive for these herders to flee.

In this way, the Han could maintain a large grassland in northern Xinjiang with less border maintenance costs. And as soon as the military town is established, or even as long as the military town of Beidi County is established, blood can be transfused to the imperial court immediately.

In the blueprint that Deng Fan drew for Ma Tan, the final guiding result was that the price of cattle and sheep in northern Xinjiang would be low since then. Horses, cattle and sheep are not scarce, and Guanzhong, which is only one river away from the north, can also taste dividends.

The strategy of the military town was finally agreed by Ma Tan, and it was organized into a chapter, which was sent to Ji County and Chengdu according to the custom.

Naturally, Ma Jian himself could not make a decision on such a major matter of establishing a military force in northern Xinjiang. Although Ma Jian estimated that even if he did it, Liu Chan would not say anything, but considering that the prime minister would smoke him, Ma Tan felt that it was better to forget it.

For this reason, it is not cost-effective to take a beating.

After playing the latest handling strategy in the north, Ma Tan led the troops to continue to garrison Table Hill to monitor the northern bandits.

However, since Kebineng, the Hu tribes in the north no longer dare to go south, and the northern county was basically abandoned by the Hu people.

At the same time, Jiang Wei and Shu Ji also made great progress in Northland County.

Jiang Wei broke several cities in the south, captured tens of thousands of people, and obtained hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, which can be regarded as a ruthless addiction to war. Although Shu Ji did not win in the central part of the country at first, with the continuous harassment, the Hu people of all the northern tribes were exhausted.

Obviously, there are thousands of enemies, but they are like dog skin plasters, and they can't be hit, and they can't catch up. If you are ambushed by a small force, it is extremely easy to be defeated by the Han army's counter-killing and losing troops.

Eventually, the Hu people were terrified when they learned that their allies in the north could not come south to help. Some of the tribes surrendered directly to Shuji without hope, while the new king of the Northland, Liu Ai, abandoned the city with his troops and fled, preparing to go north to Shuofang County.

However, it is clear that Shu Ji is not the master who likes to let the tiger return to the mountain. The most important thing is that if they go north to meet the general of Zhengbei, won't it seem that I am useless?

So Shu Ji led 3,000 cavalry to run more than 200 miles, and caught up with Liu Ai's department before they met Ma Yan. The unprepared Hu tribe was almost completely wiped out, Liu Wai himself died in the chaos, and Shu Ji collected all his troops.

Since then, Shu Ji and Jiang Wei have a total of 10,000 troops, and in just two months, they have basically assessed the entire Beidi County. All the Hu people entrenched here were captured, and the harvest was all used as trophies for the Han army.

At the end of the war, the entire Beidi County was basically recovered, and the territory of the Han Dynasty expanded to the northern frontier.

The news of Ma Tan's great victory in the front was sent to Ji County along with the military town's pastoral strategy. Zhuge Liang was very satisfied with Ma Yan's battle report, and read it several times.

"Good, good! It is a great achievement to take more than 100,000 prisoners of war, capture countless cattle and sheep, and recover the lost land! ”

"And you often know how to divide troops and powers, and you don't have your own power, which is the best." Zhuge Liang smiled and looked at the series of battle reports sent by Ma Yan, and asked for rewards for each person with military merits.

"Prime Minister, I don't know ...... the strategy of this military town proposed by General Zhengbei" Yang Yi focused on the strategy of this military town proposed by Ma Yan, and his eyes were full of doubts.

Are you sure that this is not what Ma Tan wants to arrange his forces in the north and take the opportunity to propose?

"Although this matter is wonderful, it still needs to be sent to Chengdu for His Majesty and Jiang Wan to make a decision." Zhuge Liang shook his head lightly and made his decision softly.

"You don't have to figure it out when you're young, this kid can't hold things in his heart."

"It's a lot of heart." Yang Yi arched his hand and replied calmly.

Zhuge Liang didn't say anything, just waved his hand to let Yang Yi go down to do something.

After Yang Yi left, Zhuge Liang looked at the direction Yang Yi left and sighed slightly.

"If you are arrogant and don't like martial artists, how can you last long? I'm afraid that after I die, I will soon be able to see Wei Gong, right? ”

Zhuge Liang has a very thorough understanding of the character of the group of people below, and he also understands their character flaws. Now, Zhuge Liang wasn't worried about what would happen to Wei Yan, but he was starting to worry about Yang Yi.

Ma Yan, as a military general who is jealous and hateful, and sees who is unhappy and goes up directly to draw people, will he be able to tolerate Yang Yi in the future?

If Ma Jian can't tolerate Yang Yi, I'm afraid that Yang Yi will hang.

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After more than two months of crusing, Jiang Wei and Shu Ji both completed their tasks. The entire Beidi County was basically recovered, and more than 100,000 Qianghu people from various tribes were captured.

However, although the results were very good, Ma Tan did not intend to stop like this. He sent people to let Shu Ji and Jiang Wei hand over the prisoners with the follow-up troops, and then led the troops and horses of his headquarters to join him north.

The more difficult Kebineng in the north have been caught, and there are not many hard stubbles in the north. In this regard, Ma Jian hoped to gather troops and consider recovering another Shuofang county.

This belongs to Delong Wangshu, and if you can be more greedy, you can be more greedy.

Jiang Wei and Shu Ji received the order and immediately led their troops and horses north to join Ma Yan. The Han army joined forces at Table Mountain, with a total strength of 10,000, and began to send troops north again.

However, Shuofang County is much more difficult than fighting Beidi County, and soon the logistical pressure of the Han army will increase rapidly. Because they are basically undeveloped grasslands, logistics and transportation are very difficult.

The consumption of cavalry is more than twice that of infantry.

And most importantly, it took months to recover Northland, and now it's the beginning of summer. The animal power of the cavalry in the north basically kept up with the Han army, and the advantage of the Han army was basically gone.

Ma Tan marched for only a few days, and the front of the horse came to report, the owner of Shuofang County, Xianbei Shan Budugen came to the end of the crowd, and wanted to fight to the death with the Han army!

(End of chapter)