Chapter 362: Exploring the Root Cause of Ran Weis Defeat
Murong Nan nodded: "Yes, you Han people are different from us in the grassland. We don't have the concept of unity like you. Each tribe is independent. Even if there is a great chanyu or a great khan, it is impossible to interfere with the tribes."
Internal affairs are mostly about Jinjian mobilizing troops. But you Han people like to act like the emperor, so even if he is a puppet, there must be a nominal co-owner. Otherwise, everyone will have ideas about that throne and will fight endlessly.
, the world is in chaos."
Liu Yu thought of what Huan Xuan said just now and sighed: "So, like Xie Xianggong, he established the emperor and chose the queen for him. This is equivalent to a virtual emperor who has real power. He can do the emperor's things behind the scenes. This
This is probably the reason why the Huan family is not convinced."
Murong Nan smiled slightly: "But from another perspective, the Huan family monopolizes Jingzhou and is independent. They do not respect the court's orders. Xie Xianggong can't control them. The Huan family's dissatisfaction is unreasonable and is nothing more than
I have ambitions, so I just have to find an excuse for it. Although I am from Xianbei, I have been in the Central Plains for a few years and I know a lot of things. In my opinion, Mr. Xie puts the country before his family, and
The Huan family is just the opposite."
Liu Yu nodded and said with a smile: "I have little education and am not as knowledgeable as your brother Murong, which makes you laugh. However, Huan Wen did not kill Xie Xianggong and Wang Shangshu back then, but still returned the power to the court and the high clan.
Aristocratic family, what’s the reason for this?”
Murong Nan shook his head: "No, it was not because of his good intentions, but after judging his own strength that he felt that he was not strong enough to proclaim himself emperor, so he returned to Jingzhou and handed over power."
Liu Yu waved his hand: "No, Huan Wen controlled the capital Jiankang back then. Even Jingkou was in the hands of his younger brother Huan Chong. Wang Tanzhi and Xie An didn't have any soldiers at that time. I see
I don’t think I have any ability to resist.”
Murong Nan put away his smile and said seriously: "Liu Yu, after all, you have never governed a country, so you don't know about such things as peace of the world. But it's no wonder, you are a soldier, not a civil servant. It is easy to win the battle on the battlefield.
, but what happens after you win? How do you control those places?"
Liu Yu's heart stirred. He had basically never considered this issue. Even after the last battle of Junchuan, the troops withdrew back to the camp. He really didn't know how to manage the occupied areas. He looked at Murong Nan.
Said: "Then based on your Murong family's experience when they took over the Central Plains, how to control it?"
Murong Nan looked at Liu Yu and said calmly: "Liu Yu, do you know why Ran Min raised an army to seize the throne and established an empire. When it was strong, it had more than 300,000 troops. Even when the Shizhao Empire was at its peak,
, it’s nothing more than that, but why did they destroy our Murong family with just one blow?”
Liu Yu smiled and said: "Are you trying to say that your Murong family's armor and cavalry are all invincible in the world, and even Ran Min, who is known as the reincarnation of Xiang Yu, cannot resist?"
Murong Nan shook his head: "No, in my opinion, Ran Min's armored infantry is not inferior to your Beifu soldiers. Moreover, he has been fighting for many years and is well versed in the art of war. He has many elite soldiers under his command. Even our armored cavalry are all
Even if you pretend, a frontal impact won’t take any advantage!”
Liu Yu softly said "Oh". It was not an easy task for this stubborn and proud Xianbei man to admit that he had never defeated the enemy. However, it also proved the powerful combat effectiveness of Ran Min's infantry. He saw that
Looking at Murong Nan, he continued: "That's because you attacked Ran Min secretly and used 100,000 cavalry to defeat 10,000 of him. You had an absolute advantage, right?"
Murong Nan sighed: "Before the Battle of Liantai, we fought ten against one with him, but we lost ten of the ten battles. Numbers are not a decisive advantage. This time you fight in the Battle of Junchuan, you are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength.
Isn’t it also true that less defeats more?”
Liu Yu nodded: "Then you cut off Ran Min's food supply and made him lose due to lack of food?"
Murong Nan shook his head and said: "No, when Ran Min came out of Yecheng, he had already been without food for many days. The city had already begun to kill the palace maids of Shi Zhao Dynasty. The scene was too horrible to watch. Liu Yu, you know Ran Min
Min brought ten thousand elite soldiers out of the city for what purpose?"
Liu Yu sighed, and when he thought of that tragic and dark history, his heart tingled: "I heard General Tian Luo say that he led his troops out to rob the forts everywhere because of the lack of food in the city.
Store food to relieve food shortages."
Murong Nan nodded and said seriously: "Yes, that's it. After the Yongjia Rebellion, the Jin Dynasty's political power collapsed. Many people in the north formed camps to protect themselves. They farmed in the mountains and built walls outside, which was equivalent to a cottage.
It's just that they can farm in mountain villages. There are tens of thousands or hundreds of households in these forts, which are scattered all over the country. It can be said that they are the ones who really control the north."
Liu Yu nodded: "Our Jin Dynasty is like this in the south, but it is not the owners of Wubao who control the countryside, but the children of aristocratic families who set up various manors in the countryside and rely on their tenants and hermits to farm."
Murong Nan smiled and said: "So, whoever controls Wubao controls the north, and whoever controls the manor controls the south. During the Shizhao period, most of the northern Wubao owners who were unwilling to go south did so in name only.
Be loyal to the Shi Zhao Empire and provide them with some tributes and men, but they will not allow the Jiehu people of Shi Zhao to come directly to manage the fort. However, the Shi Zhao Empire has insufficient troops to control the Wubao in various places, so it maintains this
This nominal relationship meant that they could only control the prefectural and county capitals, but not the rural forts. It can be said that this was a compromise between the Jiehu of Shizhao and the middle- and lower-class Han small landowners."
Liu Yu nodded thoughtfully: "I understand. What you mean is that Ran Min ascended the throne and founded the country, but failed because he had no talent for governing the country and could not control these Wubao masters?"
Murong Nan nodded: "Yes, what you saw was that Ran Minliantai was defeated in the end and died in defeat. But what you don't know is that these fort masters actively provided a lot of help to our army, whether it was military rations or
, civilians or intelligence. They are all locals and are very familiar with the local situation. Although Ran Min is Han, he almost fights in enemy territory. Although our Dayan is a foreigner, we have the support of the locals, so we can
In the end, we chose the most suitable terrain and fought with Ran Min when he was most tired, and we decided the world in one battle!"
Liu Yu sighed. He wanted to say that these Wubao masters were shameless traitors and traitors, but reason told him that Ran Min treated his own compatriots even worse than the cruel Jiehu people, so he took what should have been his own.
The people have pushed to the side of the enemy, and will they suffer their own final defeat?