Under Liu Xiang's command, the only ones who can check and balance Yan Rou are the remaining three of Yuan Cong's four generals. Only they have the right to lead an army and the experience of guarding one side, and the others have not yet grown up.
Cui Yi was the general of the Chinese army and the head of the generals under his command. He was wasted in Liaodong.
Wang Xing is now more and more like a craftsman, and the position of a great craftsman is waiting for him.
Only Yang Guan, now the captain of the Youjun Army, has the experience of guarding Youbeiping alone. He has guarded the border for Liu Xiang many times, including Jundu Mountain, Huanxi, and Lulong.
It seems that whenever there is a task of guarding the border, he is the first one to think of him. Now it is even more important to march thousands of miles eastward to defend Lelang County on the eastern front.
It’s a good fit, so I decided it’s you.
Liu Xiang opened the map and found that Xiangping, Xinchang, Anshi, and Wenxian in the Liaohe Plain were the places that produced the most grain.
Next are Liaodu, Liaoyang, Wangping, Goguryeo, and Xigaima in the Da and Xiao Liaoshui basins. These places are suitable for farming.
The fulcrum of Xianbei's defense is in Changli and Yangle, which will be Yan Rou's main garrison.
The defensive fulcrum of the eastern front is Xi'anping on the west bank of the Yalu River. It defends Goguryeo and Lelang County and requires regular soldiers to be stationed there.
Xuantu County, located in the northeast, borders Xianbei, Fuyu, and Goguryeo. The entire county is the defense frontier of Liaodong and must be heavily garrisoned.
The Han Dynasty is going to be in chaos, and it will become more and more chaotic. The chaos will last for decades. The barbarians in the north are ready to move, and the pressure on the border will be increasing. We must be more vigilant. In order to go south to fight for the world, the barbarians were allowed to enter the country.
This kind of thing can't happen, he doesn't want to become a national sinner.
And you can't just defend. It's not Liu Xiang's style to just take a beating without fighting back.
The methods of differentiation and co-optation have been used by the Han people for thousands of years. It is indeed a good way to deal with the nomads. We must continue to trade with each other in Liaodong and give some support to those small tribes. They cannot be annexed and the grasslands must not be unified.
People like Ke Bineng need to be won over and raised a little longer, and then they can be released to split Xianbei.
In addition, raiding with light cavalry, sending troops to reduce troops, and burning pastures cannot stop. They must form a habit, hold festivals, hold annual parades, and go out to fortresses to hunt beards. Liu Xiang must engrav these into the bones of the border troops.
, becomes their tradition.
On the northern border, a white horse with a long history is not enough. Military lieutenants and generals have to be feared by the Hu people. Wherever the flag of the Anping Army goes, the Hu people have to be frightened. This is what he wants.
Finally, supplemented by Sinicization, giving some Hu people the opportunity to become Han people, and then moving refugees to open up wasteland, Liu Xiang wanted to turn Liaodong beyond the Great Wall into a granary beyond the Great Wall.
To achieve this goal, the Hu people must be subdivided, such as the Wuhuan and the Southern Xiongnu. They have been living in the Han Dynasty since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. They have guarded the borders for the Han people for hundreds of years. They have the conditions for sinicization and can strive to assimilate them.
, using their power to fight against Xianbei.
During this period, the Xianbei people were the biggest foreign enemies of the Han Dynasty and the biggest threat to the northern border. They were executed almost every year. Bingzhou was the biggest victim, and Sili was sometimes plundered.
It has to be said that Bingzhou is in dire straits now. The four counties of Yanmen, Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Shuofang and Shuofang are no longer under the control of the Han Dynasty. The Xianbei people can come and leave whenever they want.
He could only rely on the Xiongnu royal court in Xihe County to resist the Xianbei invasion, and was beaten like Sun Tzu.
That is to say, the Han Dynasty still has the remaining power, and the Xianbei dare not occupy the territory. They basically have to grab it and run away. Otherwise, at least half of Bingzhou's territory will be lost.
Xianbei is a big problem. For a long time, Liu Xiang can only defend passively, accumulate strength, and try his best to ensure that Youzhou is not lost. He dare not think about the Northern Expedition now.
In addition to Xianbei, there are Fuyu and Goguryeo in the northeast. These two are the descendants of Hui Donghu of the Zhou Dynasty. If you are weak, they will come to bite you. If you are strong, they will come to offer sacrifices. You must maintain your respect for them.
Combat suppression.
However, they could not use large-scale troops, and they still needed to contain Xianbei. Liu Xiang decided to send envoys to form an alliance with them as the governor of Youzhou. Under the prestige of the Han Dynasty and the pressure of Xianbei, this was not difficult to do.
Just a little frustrated.
The subordinates probably would not understand that the general thinking of the Han generals was still at the stage of "all barbarians, barbarians and barbarians are all concubines of the Han ministers".
But the Han Dynasty has weakened, and he is a separatist force, so he cannot just be tough.
We only need to wait a few years, and when Liaodong is stable and has enough people and food, we can naturally adjust our attitude towards them.
There are only a few big forces facing him now. Lelang County is not in his hands, and the small tribes in the east and south of the peninsula need not be considered for the time being.
The main idea is to make yourself stronger first, and then defeat them one by one.
In order to take care of the two defense lines in the east, Yang Qian had to sit in Xiangping County, the county seat of Liaodong County, and divide his troops from Gaoguli County to Xigaima County, and from Xi'an Ping County to Fanhan County. The defense area covered the east of the Daliao River.
area.
This is the main production area of grain in Liaodong. Only by controlling this place can Yang Qian make up for the gap in ability and prestige between him and Yan Rou.
It's not that Liu Xiang is shady. It's better to check and balance in advance than to attack and kill afterwards. Try to minimize the qualifications of subordinates to rebel, so that the story of king and minister getting along with each other can be spread.
To completely let it go without taking any precautions would be foolish and not good for anyone.
It's not that he suspects that Yan Rou will rebel, on the contrary, he needs to check and balance him so that he can be used more effectively.
Yan Rou's defense area is larger and his responsibilities are heavier. He is the governor of western Liaoning. After moving there, he will be responsible for Liaoxi County, the Liaodong vassal state and part of the area west of Daliao River in Liaodong County.
This area is the place with the greatest pressure and the place with the highest combat effectiveness of the Liaodong garrison.
The two of them need at least 60,000 field troops and 20,000 mobile troops.
It just depends on how many people Zhou Cang can recruit for them. If it's not enough, they really have to add some more people.
Zhou Cang was very happy now. He pushed forward all the way, attacked the city and captured the territory. There were more and more people under his command, and the results were really good.
The most important thing is to live up to the lord's promotion.
He came from a humble background, was illiterate, and had only a handful of strength. The lord appreciated him, promoted him to captain, and allowed him to lead an army alone.
That was a 60,000-strong army, fully equipped and strong.
If the Lord trusts him so much, how can he not repay him? People must know kindness.
So he tried his best to do this well.
March all the way east, kidnap the refugees, break into the city, and kill the big landlords first, not sparing anyone with money and food. After cleaning up these harmful people, put the money and food into the treasury, and wait for Captain Yang to arrive.
, pretending to be defeated, leaving the old, weak, women and children behind and left.
Continue to the next county.
It was Captain Yang's idea to keep the old and the weak behind so as not to slow down the march. As expected of an old army, they were very meticulous. They calculated clearly how many miles they drove and how many kilograms of food they ate every day.
I heard that Lieutenant Yang was the lord's subordinate and had been with him since he raised his army. He was really powerful.
With the advice of experts, things went smoothly. In less than a month, he had recruited more than 30,000 young men. Counting the 10,000 veterans of the Montenegrin Army who were assigned to Captain Yang to guard the treasury, he already had more than 60,000 people along the way.
Lao Pei had already wiped out Rabbit County along the way, but he didn't have as many manpower as he did.
Zhou Cang was so proud that he also captured Xiangping, the administrative seat of Liaodong. What was left was Xi'anping, which was five or six hundred miles away, and Fanhan, who was to the east of Xi'anping. He had finally wiped out Liaodong County.
There is no need for him to go there. He will accept Captain Yang's order and change his banner to stay in Liaodong.
According to his wishes, he simply marched eastward and swept across Lelang. A hundred thousand troops stretched from heaven to earth, scaring them to death.