The Western Expedition is an important part of the national strategy of Li Zhe's time and space in the Three Kingdoms. Now that Li Zhe's internal situation is stable, and the industrial capacity is constantly increasing at a leap speed, it is necessary to find a catharsis for his continuous and explosive military capabilities. Otherwise, it will not only waste military capabilities, but also cause a continuous shrinkage of industrial demand! It will even cause harm to the development of steel and cement industries that are forming scale under Li Zhe's rule. In this era when military industry is equivalent to industry, war itself is the greatest demand of society.

Arrows in the craftsman camp have piled up like mountains, weapons and armor in the warehouse have begun to show a large surplus, and the scale of large trucks of steel and cement and other material reserves continue to expand. This is a bad sign, which means that troops must be sent again. In this small industrial society established by Li Zhe, everything is deformed towards military demand. At a time when Li Zhe's layout adjustment of the national industry is far from being in place, continuous military actions are the best catalyst for promoting industrial development.

Although the time to completely unify the world is not yet ripe, it has come to unify the north and suppress half of the south of the Yangtze River.

As mentioned in the previous article, for Li Zhe, the military expansion speed that plagued him was never a military issue, but an environmental issue. The road conditions and environmental conditions in the time and space of the Three Kingdoms were really poor, which greatly affected the army and the speed and logistics of the march. In this era, a war of 100,000 people, the logistics preparation time often took half a year or even a year to calculate, which was very fatal to Li Zhe, which was mainly long-range troops, which depended heavily on logistics. Even with cement now, this situation is difficult to change in a short period of time.

In the south, water networks are crisscrossing, rivers and lakes are everywhere, land transportation is very poor, and there are many infectious diseases that people do not understand at this time. Before the repressive navy and professional medical and health capabilities, leading a large army to conquer Jiangnan would be a protracted war.

But the north is different. The traffic situation is better when you go to the north. After long-term development, Guanzhong and Jizhou are all places with crisscrossing roads. If you reach the grassland, you can drive off-road vehicles anywhere. For Li Zhe, this environment is the most suitable stage for Li Zhejun to exert combat power.

Therefore, in a short period of time, it is Li Zhejun's recent strategic goal to unify the north by utilizing relatively convenient transportation conditions.

Among the heroes in the north, Yuan Shao is powerful and relatively systematic. Although it seems difficult to get rid of the slightest trauma, it will take a certain opportunity to swallow it in one bite. Therefore, Yongzhou and Liangzhou have entered Li Zhe's vision. Guanxi has a fertile land and a fertile field of thousands of miles, and has sufficient strategic depth. It is the best capital for the Chinese region to be king since ancient times. It is not unreasonable to say that those who win Guanzhong will win the world.

If you get this place, you can get Hanzhong and peek at Shu; if you go west to the Western Regions, you can open up the Silk Road to connect the east and west; if you go north, the grassland is extremely vast, and you can surround Yuan Shao in reverse. That is the best strategic path to change the current encirclement of heroes and the four battles. Not to mention that Liangzhou is also the main production place for excellent war horses during the Han Dynasty. The famous cavalry horses in later generations - Hequ horses were produced nearby, and the Western Regions are the legendary Tianma - sweat-blooded BMWs. In the long run, the earlier it starts here, the more conducive it will be to the overall progress of the entire society under Li Zhe's control.

Therefore, weighing the pros and cons, the implementation of the current Western Expedition strategy was achieved. As for Ma Teng, Han Sui, Qiang people, and Xianbei, they were just minor scabies on the great road to unifying the world.

After staying in Luoyang for three days, a base camp logistics preparation center was established here, leaving Liao Hua to sit here, and coordinated the supply of supplies from the main force of the Western Route Army led by Li Zhe and Zhang Yan's Northern Route Army partial division, and then continued to set off.

As we go west, the traffic situation continues to change. After all, Luoyang is the capital for hundreds of years, and its surrounding traffic environment is the best. After entering Hongnong County, which is slightly west, the situation begins to become bad. This is the starting point of the Wuhan Ancient Road, the main road connecting Chang'an and Luoyang. After passing Xin'an and Mianchi, it begins to be rugged and dangerous. Walking between the mountains and ridges, there are often primitive official roads that can only accommodate eight horses in parallel. The Privy Council coordinates the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War and the Tianshi Road to organize, mobilize hundreds of thousands of road construction troops, constantly blowing mountains and opening roads, widening the roads, and roaring towards the under Tongguan.

As November begins, the northwest is even more bitter and cold.

Li Zhe's king finally arrived at the foot of Tongguan. Now, there are tens of thousands of troops and logistics teams. Along the front lines of Shanxian, Caoyang and Huxian along the Yellow River, there are more than 100,000 militia logistics personnel gathered here, ready to wait for Li Zhe to arrive and break through the Guanxi and leave in one fell swoop.

With hundreds of thousands of people gathering here, supply is a very important issue. Fortunately, the area nearby is a region rich in coal, bauxite limestone resources. The militia took the opportunity to explode mountains and mine nearby, fire cement brick kilns, develop projects, transform roads, and build permanent military buildings. On the other hand, they also burn coal heating, large fire cellars, small and medium-sized furnaces. The coal ball furnace that is now very popular in Li Zhe is also popular here, solving the problem of heating in the entire army in winter. It is incomparable to the conditions in Runan County before.

This was the case with the marching in ancient times. An army was a mobile country. In a real battle, it conquered not only the enemy, but also the cruel and cold nature itself. In the army, various craftsmen, medical workers, construction personnel and astronomical logistical support forces were absolutely difficult to support this level of expedition without a powerful and rich country. In comparison, the so-called hundreds of years of war between several countries in ancient Europe was actually the scale of the internal state and county wars in China. As for Japan, in the so-called Warring States Period, when compared with the land of China, the battles in most of the time can only be described as township-level fighting.

The God of War, Alexander, who was highly praised in European history, had the expedition that shocked the world history in his life, which was similar to Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and even worse than that in China. Because the national strength of the Macedonian Empire in that era could not support the intensity of a long-term large-scale cavalry war like the one between the Han and the Huns.

The war between Macedonia and Persia was so poor that its tactics, simple and poor cooperation were incomparable to the Han Dynasty, which had experienced hundreds of years of high-strength national wars during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was for this reason that the Huns were driven to the remnants of the West by the Han Dynasty, and with one of the ten national strength, they could completely change the entire Western history. Attila, the king of the Huns who was praised by the West as the Whip of God, played the role of destroying the corrupt Roman Empire, was just a stray dog ​​that escaped in a hurry under the iron hoof of the Han army.

Speaking of exploring territory, in China, as early as the Qin Dynasty, there was a history of a general leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers to explore the wilderness of the jungle in the southern region. The famous general, named Ren Xiao, was unknown in the history of Chinese. After his death, his subordinate Zhao Tuo even established himself as emperor. He opened up the civilization history of millions of square kilometers of land in the entire Lingnan region.

This is the great China!

The only history in human history that has been preserved for thousands of years! The only country that can record the cultural prosperity and social phenomena in the entire human history!

In the history of the planet Earth, China, which has been unified and prosperous for a long time, has always played the role of a bulky and conservative elephant. With a random wave and lifting of foot, the remaining waves and butterfly effect will completely change the direction of social evolution in other parts of the world!

The Silk Road has nurtured generations of merchant people in Central and West Asia. Even though its social history is thousands of miles apart, it has been enduring the vague historical influence of the Central Empire.

When China prospers, Central Asia prospers; when China perishes, Central Asia perishes. Since its unification, its prosperity and decline are directly reflected in all countries and nations in this area, and are closely related to the path of its historical evolution!

The same is true in Europe.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the maritime ban policy on the surface, but in fact, it half-hiddenly continued for hundreds of years of overseas trade, attracting the inflow of silver from almost the entire world. The huge profits of East-West trade directly gave birth to the occurrence of the Western Age of Discovery, and early maritime nations such as Spain and Portugal opened up the Americas. The starting point was actually to find a way to break through the monopoly blockade of the Ottoman Turkish Empire on East-West trade and find ways to trade directly with the Eastern Empire.

The Ming Dynasty's trade surplus with European colonists swallowed up a large amount of silver, which directly affected the deflation of European countries, forcing them to adjust their financial policies. In this adjustment process, the countries that were the first to successfully adjust had obtained more abundant financial resources, cultivated more perfect modern industries, and gained a relatively comparative advantage in the competition for economic and national strength, laying a solid foundation for their later dominance of the world. This country is called Britain.

From this we can see that China has always played such an important role in the entire history of mankind. Even in modern times, closure and backwardness have made China full of holes. It can still exist as a pole of the world, and is known for its huge population and cheap labor.

There is no doubt that China has always made essential contributions to the entire history of mankind! It will never change because of the backwardness of modern times.

Without China, human beings would never understand how human beings used their wisdom and courage to conquer the vast and dangerous nature and create a prosperous living environment in that era of agricultural society!

The history of China not only leaves a historical record for its descendants, but also leaves a complete inheritance for the entire human race, showing mankind how a complete culture inherits and evolves under various difficult conditions, and provides valuable experience for the overall evolution of mankind in the future. It also records for mankind how humans continue to evolve, struggle, unify, and constantly fight and integrate with various surrounding forces in a relatively complete geographical environment, and how to maintain such a highly centralized and unified social environment.

Only China has such a history, and only China can nurture such a culture. In comparison, what other civilizations have experienced and the conditions they have cannot be as unique and perfect as China.

The land of China is vast and boundless, with clear four seasons, rich and full of vitality, and is the best cradle for human civilization to breed. Without such a vast world that allows human behavior and thoughts to roam, it is difficult to understand the profound and vast culture of the great country of China that has carried thousands of years of history. This is why in ancient times and even modern times, other countries rarely appear, such as the endless emergence of true politicians and strategists like in Chinese history.

Vision determines height, thinking determines perspective.

The environment determines history, and history determines culture.

This is the fundamental reason why Chinese civilization is great. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to (this site) and give me rewards. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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