At this time, Wen Yuan had no idea that an alliance was being formed against him. He was hesitating whether he should send troops to counterattack Xianbei with the urgent report sent by Qu Yi.
When Wenyuan joined forces to attack Gongsun Zan of Youzhou last year, the Xianbei army took advantage of the emptiness of Bingzhou and raided the Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Shuofang, Dingxiang and other counties of Bingzhou. Their troops moved as far south as Xihe County, killing and plundering the Han people. , there were thousands of Southern Huns, and the plundering of goods was impossible to calculate. Although Qu Yi hurriedly led his troops and horses to return to Bingzhou to aid, it was still a step too late. The Xianbei cavalry had already plundered and left...
Wen Yuan is not someone who is willing to tolerate it casually. Xianbei slapped him, and according to Wen Yuan's character, he would definitely pay it back tenfold. Moreover, his status has become higher in recent years, and few people will go against his wishes. It also allowed Wen Yuan to make a decisive decision and send troops to counterattack Xianbei.
But imagining the results of the northern expedition to the grassland peoples in past dynasties, Wen Yuan could not help but feel a little hesitant.
Qin Shihuang believed the prophecy of the sorcerer Lu Sheng to destroy the Qin leader Hu, and spent an astronomical amount of manpower and financial resources to build the Great Wall and dispatched 300,000 Qin troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north. This seriously shook the foundation of the Qin Dynasty. As a result, the Qin Empire collapsed within two generations. Death.
During the reign of Wenjing in the Western Han Dynasty, the country's power reached its peak by the time of Emperor Wu. However, Emperor Wu decided to fight back against the Huns and launched three wars against the Huns. Although they dealt a devastating blow to the Huns and drove them to the bitter cold land in the northwest, However, after years of fighting, the Han Dynasty also suffered heavy losses. There were more than 500,000 casualties among young men and women alone, and about half of them returned, most of them with broken arms and legs.
China's population reproductive capacity and production capacity have been greatly weakened.
That is something that cannot be recovered in a hundred years!
From then on, the Western Han Dynasty, which was once powerful, began to decline.
Although these two powerful empires won the war against the grassland peoples, did the Hu people in the north really never recover from the fall?
Only twenty years after being defeated by the Qin Dynasty, the Huns made a comeback. First, they were surrounded by the Great Patriarch Bai Deng, and later, Empress Lu was humiliated and agreed to make peace, which disgraced the great Han Dynasty.
However, the Xiongnu were finally defeated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and were severely weakened. However, Donghu Xianbei took advantage of the situation and rose up. Tan Shihuai, a generation of genius, integrated all the Xianbei tribes and raided the Han land every year, causing even greater harm than the Xiongnu.
Since then, Chinese dynasties have changed, and the powerful nations that have emerged from the northern grasslands have also changed one after another. A hundred years later, the Wuhu Dynasty, and later the Turks, Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols... Their living conditions are extremely harsh, and fighting with wild beasts is a challenge. It is commonplace for everyone to eat, and they will starve in disaster years. They can only fill their stomachs by plundering. The attacks between tribes almost never stop. Only the strongest people can completely convince the unruly men on the grassland...
Although these grassland peoples were eventually defeated by the tenacious farming peoples of the Central Plains, they were never wiped out. It was not until hot weapons completely replaced cold weapons in modern times that these peoples on horseback finally withdrew from the stage of history...
The adaptability and tenacity of the prairie people cannot be underestimated...
Originally considering the overall situation of the Central Plains, Wen Yuan thought that it would be okay to endure it. Now that the gain of conquering Xianbei is not worth the loss, Wen Yuan only occupied a corner of Hebei. What the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty failed to achieve with all their strength, he will definitely be able to do it. ?.
Moreover, Raiders Xianbei is a long -term effort for several years or even decades. At present, it still takes the world as the first thing, otherwise it will break the overall situation due to small loss.
Whoever expected that Wenyuan wanted to be temporarily at ease, but the Xianbei people plundered the addiction, because a disaster for two consecutive years on the grassland last year, just the spring this year, the Xianbei people premed a big southward action. This time, Xianbei people mobilized more than 30,000 cavalry to prepare to invade the counties of the counties.
More than 30,000 light rides, when you think of this Wenyuan, you can get a numb scalp.
Xianbei and Wu Yan are the same branch of Donghu, and the tactics are very close. When they plunder dozens of or even hundreds of shares swinging south, there are few tens of people in one team, and there will be tens of thousands of people. Army, they scattered the operation, rarely fighting the Han army, and the Han army is that there are more infantry than the cavalry. There is no way to chase the mobility of Xianbei and lightly riding.
And if the Han army's troops are scattered, the Xianbei cavalry will choose a weaker one, and immediately launch a violent attack to wipe out one point and cause the entire front to collapse.
This cavalry tactics have been tried and tested by the nomadic people in the northern nomads. Therefore, although the number of Central Plains Army accounted for excellent number, it is always in the situation of passive beating when dealing with flexible northern cavalry.
There are more than 30,000 Xianbei cavalry, and the state border is wide. Although relying on the Great Wall, the Great Wall is far from completion at this time. There is still a weak gap that can be forced to break through. Passing, I can't keep up with half of it ...
If they are allowed to enter the state, it is a disaster. I don't need to think about how heavy the state will bring to some angry mirages to bring a heavy blow to the weak foundation.
And at this time, the Yi Yi also said that the State Corps has not recruited a sufficient amount of soldiers, and the recruits were not even equipped with weapons and equipment, let alone practice. Seven or eight thousand army war and more than 10,000 auxiliary soldiers.
There are 20,000 people in Zhang Yan in the history of the state assassin, but Jinyang, the upper party is the top priority of the state, and must not be loser. Zhang Yan's soldiers must first guard these two large counties in order Then, then
Except for these two battle soldiers, the rest are the auxiliary soldiers who can only defend the city. They only rely on the state soldiers to deal with the Xianbei Ride who came to the wind.
But now it is the important moment of expansion and training. The formulation of each army is not uniform, and the soldiers and soldiers are not skilled. The battlefield will inevitably cause many unnecessary sacrifices, and the main energy of Wen Yuan's next step is still in the Central Plains. At this time, at this time, at this time, at this time I really don't want to adjust too much troops to disrupt their own steps.
"Meet the protagonist," During the difficulties, the more he led Jia Yi and Xu Yan to come in.
Wen Yuan was stunned, and the more he waved to the two conspirators: "Oh, how sir and Yuan Zhi came together today, sit down and sit, but what happened in the dynasty," The government affairs are not in the dynasty. Things, Wen Yuan rarely worry about the court.
Xu Yan's character was straightforward, and the door opened Jianshan Road: "The protagonist, I heard that the north has come to a urgent report recently.