On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lu Bu arrived in Wancheng. He met Lu Xiaohuan and confirmed that the situation was true, he asked for a meeting immediately.
When Liu Xie was stunned for a while when he heard that Lu Bu was coming.
Even if others were in Meiji, they rushed over after receiving the edict, the speed was a bit amazing.
Unless he is not in Meiji, but in the inner county.
If this is true, there will be a problem.
After meeting, Liu Xie’s first question was, where did you receive the edict?
Lu Bu's dark and thin face showed a smug smile. "Your Majesty, after receiving the news from my little girl in the surrender city, I asked the Protector of Cao, I rushed to Hequ and waited for the edict. After receiving the edict, I went day and night
, dare not stay for a moment."
Liu Xie immediately asked again, "What is your daughter using to spread the news? It's faster than an edict?"
"Swallow Falcon."
Liu Xie immediately remembered Lu Xiaohuan's Yan Falcon.
He knew that Lu Xiaohuan had a swallow falcon. In fact, many people in Liangzhou played with falcons. When he was in Liangzhou, he saw many people using swalcons as their pets or used them to hunt.
The serpent falcon seems to be small in size, similar to a pigeon, but it is a raptor.
But he didn't know that Yan Falcon could still deliver messages.
He has been looking for tools that can deliver messages. If he knew that Yan Falcon had this ability, he would definitely make a try.
Liu Xie instinctively asked a few more questions.
The result disappointed him.
Yanxiao can indeed fly long distances and is extremely fast, but it is not easy to deliver letters. The main purpose is to hunt. Lu Xiaohuan has been getting this Yanxiao for a long time, and this is also the first time he has tried to deliver letters.
The reason is also very simple. The serpent falcon is not very obedient and difficult to train. Moreover, the bird was born in the cold and once released, it will only fly north.
The task of delivering the letter this time was because the place where he caught it was near the Suspension City. If he was guerrilla in other places, such as on the grassland, this serpentine, it would not be possible for this serpent falcon to complete the task.
Liu Xie was somewhat disappointed when he heard this.
I just saw a little light of hope, but it was extinguished again.
Seeing this, Lu Bu asked, "Does Your Majesty want to find a new way to convey the message?"
"Yes, the Ma is too slow. Even if the whole journey is 600 miles, it will take nearly two months to send the news to the Western Regions. If something happens, there is no time to react."
Lu Bu pondered for a moment. "I heard from Huang Yi that he was training a pigeon, which might be used to convey messages, which was better than the selves. It was just used in the Western Regions, and I'm afraid there were still some problems. There were too many raptors such as the Northwest Hawks.
The pigeon was afraid that it would not fly out of the Yumen, so it was eaten."
"Huang Yi is training pigeons?"
“Yes, it is said that the effect is pretty good.”
Liu Xie nodded with satisfaction and did not ask again.
Huang Yi was really surprised. He had come up with a way to locate the constellations, which gave the wolf a navigation method to march on the grassland. Now he was training pigeons to pass messages, and the possibility of success was quite high.
If he was not sure, he would not tell Lu Bu.
What's going on? Send someone to find out.
Liu Xie immediately asked about the situation in northern Xinjiang.
Lu Bu came one by one.
After Cao Cao arrived in the northern border, he used infantry to defend the city, cavalry guerrillas, and wolf cavalry to go deep into the desert to find out the news and carry out targeted attacks on restless tribes.
In the past two years, the results have been remarkable.
After the main force was severely damaged, the Hulu on the grassland was attacked by wolf cavalry one after another, and there was no possibility of rest. Even if they wanted to take revenge and gathered a large army to invade the border, they were not Cao Cao's opponents, and they were beaten to the point of being thrown away by Cao Cao's armor.
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In a dilemma, some tribes chose to surrender, while others chose to flee west.
For ordinary herdsmen, surrender is the best choice. As long as they survive five years, they can become naturalized as a great man, become the people of the great man, and have the opportunity to move to a wealthier inner county to settle down.
But for those tribal leaders, it is more in their interests to flee west.
After becoming a naturalized person, they are no longer the commanders with thousands of troops. They are no longer the same as ordinary people, and at most they can be small officials. When they lead their troops to move westward, they can still have their own strength and live a life of superior people.
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There must be differences, and there are even disagreements. They drew their swords and slashed each other in anger. They saw too many of them, and Lu Buji was not interested in saying it.
Lu Bu gave a key answer to the issue of the barbarians going south that Liu Xie was most concerned about.
When he was guerrilla desert north and south, he not only learned about the situation from the prisoners, but also sent some scouts to the north of the desert to understand the situation. Overall, some barbarians did move from the north, but the number was not large and the threat was not great.
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As of now, it is unlikely that the Wolf Cavalry will break through and block, and it is even less likely to threaten the south of the Great Wall.
But I heard that the Fuyu people in the eastern part of the desert have been doing a lot recently and are gathering troops to fight with the Youyan Protectorate.
Liu Xie listened while looking at the map.
As far as he was concerned, the north of the Yanran Protectorate's territory is the Mongolian Plateau, and the north is the Siberian Plateau. Before the potato crop was introduced to Asia, it was indeed not a thing to survive on the Siberian Plateau.
Easy things.
In fact, even for the Huns, the North Sea, south of the Siberian Plateau, is the northernmost point of their range of activities. Further north, there is not enough resources to support a certain population. Even if there are tribes, as long as the population increases slightly, it will not be allowed.
Don't go south.
Some people say that this is how the Huns and Xianbei people came from.
The name of Siberia is related to the Xianbei, that is, Xianbei Liya.
Judging from the current situation, after defeating the Xianbei people, it is indeed unlikely that it will go south from Siberia to attack the northern border of the Han Dynasty.
It is time to move the center of gravity westward and protect Hexi and the Western Regions.
“Can you conduct a long-distance march on the grassland now?”
"Yes." Lu Bu replied: "If it's just a wolf cavalry, we can march quickly and eat from the enemy. We can reach Jianshi City in one month. If it's a coordinated infantry and cavalry, the speed will be much slower and it may take the whole summer.
That's fine."
"What if infantrymen were also equipped with war horses and marched in a nomadic way?"
"That won't get up, it takes time to grazing."
Liu Xie looked at Lu Bu and said nothing.
He understood what Lu Bu meant.
Lu Bu didn't want to march with Cao Cao at all, he just wanted to take his cavalry to the Western Regions by himself.
What Lu Bu did not care about what his mind was. What he cared about was that if there were no infantry and only cavalry, it would be difficult for him to achieve real victory even when he arrived in the Western Regions.
Cavalry is of course very important, but infantry also plays an indispensable role. If you want to conquer the Western Regions until the Mediterranean, it is impossible to do without a powerful army of infantry.
Moreover, it must be a large infantry army dominated by the Han people, and infantry composed of Qiang and Hu cannot bear such an important task.
The only infantry formation that could compete with the Romans and win in battle was the main force of the Han army.
In any case, he had to arrange at least 10,000 Han infantry to go to the Western Regions before he could start the Western Expedition.
Although Lu Bu is brave, he is not a general in the front line after all.