Once the Central Plains was in turmoil, the scholars ran to the cowardly people and wept, which is indeed the truest portrayal of the Central Plains today.
Ran Min led the army to besiege Yecheng, and countless people from the surrounding areas spontaneously came.
After this ethnic vendetta instigated by Shi Hu, the remnants of the Central Plains finally understood one thing, enduring is not a long-term solution, and dispersing to protect themselves cannot guarantee safety.
Shi Hu did not flee without a fight for no reason, it was that the grain of Shijie Zhao was already difficult to support the consumption of the army, and then the hundreds of thousands of coolies in Yecheng rose up angrily, both inside and outside were unstable and difficult to defend the city for a long time, and if they did not escape, they would fight an absolutely passive war Yecheng was originally in the Great Construction Palace, and the number of people who were forced to work in all directions has been increasing, and their rise was naturally encouraged by the people of Ran Min's faction.
Ran Min made it very clear to those people, there are no innocent people under the big vendetta, and if you don't rise up and cooperate with the Han army, there is only one way to die, and the hundreds of thousands of people who have been holding their breath early have no reason to be silent when they see the arrival of the Han army.
There are Han troops outside, and hundreds of thousands of hard laborers inside are angry, Ran Min only spent seven days to conquer Yecheng, he sent good news to the Linzi center on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was to incorporate Yecheng Qingzhuang, only rested for three days and continued to drive north.
To the north of Yecheng is the core area of the Shijie Zhao Kingdom, where the core population of the Qian, Qiang, and Di ethnic groups once gathered, and if it were not for the Hu people's habit of choosing a site to establish a settlement, it must have been a forest of villages and towns.
The Hu people have no pursuit of the city, they are accustomed to migrating around, and there is a waterfront city in the area to the north of Yecheng, and then sixty miles to the north is the ancient city of Handan.
Linshui City was built on the north bank of Fushui, one of the tributaries of Zhangshui.
After Ran Min led his army to continue north, when they arrived at the edge of Fushui, they were greeted by a Han fleet that had broken through from the direction of Jizhou, and the flag of the Han army was fluttering at the head of Linshui City.
Ran Min, who is already a general of the expedition to the north, has the right to ask about many things, including the recent movements of the Lu Tai Corps.
There was not much change in the battle on the Jizhou side, and the two sides were still in a confrontation and stalemate along both sides of the Zhangshui River, but Lu Tai reported some relatively special things to the center, such as discovering that there were great signs of activity in the rear of the enemy army facing each other.
"If Shihu wants to run and merge with Shuozhou, it is inevitable to migrate the population to fill it."
Ran Min was satisfied that there was no change in the battle in the direction of Jizhou, and if they wanted to continue north, the Lü Tai corps in Jizhou would become their flank.
He said to his subordinates: "Our next step is to conquer Handan and then take the whole county of Quang Binh. ” If Lu Tai's department is now Ran Min's right guard, Xie An's department in Shangdang County is Ran Min's left guard, and the three armies form a trident of arrows on a large scale, but relatively speaking, it is Ran Min's headquarters that can decide this Northern Expedition.
Sensing that Shijie Zhao's army and many Hu people were retreating, Ran Min showed an offensive side, he only left 30,000 horses, and the rest were scattered.
Everywhere the Han army went, it was supported by the local people, and the scenes of eating pot pulp to welcome the king's division not only greatly encouraged the combat enthusiasm of the Han soldiers, but also strengthened the morale of the whole Han family.
Liu Yan, who is in Linzi, can receive battle reports from the front line every day, and there is no surprise that Ran Min maintains the speed of high-speed advancement, and he is also mentally prepared for the consumption of materials.
The Han army had to help the local people everywhere they went, and the treatment would consume a lot of medicinal materials, and the release of grain would also consume a large amount of grain, which was expected before the decision to launch a large-scale Northern Expedition.
The court meeting in the main hall is over, and the core meeting of the inner hall has just begun.
"General Zhengbei has conquered Handan, and the next step is to advance directly to Xiangguo."
Ji Chang didn't feel happy when he said this, but looked a little worried.
He said to Liu Yan with a thoughtful face: "Seeing that Shijie really wants to shrink in an all-round way, this situation has really been formed."
Bingzhou is not all grasslands, there are large areas of mountains and water systems, and a Shuozhou can really allow Shijie to accumulate strength after shrinking.
Liu Yan clearly gave the order to kill all the Hu people, not only to motivate people everywhere to resist the Hu people, but also to reduce the overall number of Hu people.
The information collected showed that the population of Bingzhou was no less than 1.5 million, and Bingzhou and Shuozhou originally had a population of one or two million, and he calculated that Shi Hu probably had a population of about four million.
For the development of the situation, the center of the Han State has a prediction, once Shi Hu no longer attaches importance to the struggle for territory, and really intends to keep the population and give up the land, the overall situation is really likely to develop in the direction of the former Han Empire against the Xiongnu.
Ji Chang was worried about Shijie's retreat to the grassland, although the Han State was expanding its territory to show that the situation was very good, but the large-scale expansion of territory in a short period of time would definitely make the internal instability even more unstable, and then it would be impossible to eliminate Shijie in the Central Plains with complex terrain.
If you have a map, you can see that the territory of the Han Kingdom is already a bit like the scale of the Han Jingdi period, and what is missing is the land of Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liaodong and Guanzhong Sanqin.
The Han State sits on most of the territory of the Central Plains, south of the Yangtze River is the Eastern Jin Dynasty small court, the land of Bashu has the Li family into the Han Dynasty, Liangzhou and the Western Regions are the Zhang Liang Kingdom, isn't it surrounded in the middle Liu Yan's situation in this period was much worse than that of the Han Empire during the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, although the south of the Han Emperor Jingdi period was a foreign country, it maintained a relatively good diplomacy, and the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Han State were only dormant although the war was suspended, needless to say, the Han State had actually faced the Shijie Zhao State and the Murong Yan State.
"Yes" Liu Yan was also a little worried: "Once the stone tiger enters the grassland, it will not be able to be eliminated in a short time." ” "There is news that Shi Hu has ceded Youzhou to Yan State."
Sang Yu returned from Yuzhou not long ago, accompanied by Lu Yi.
Most of the original members of the Sang clan were officials in the Zhao State of Shijie, and there were more sources of information, he said: "Youzhou belongs to the Murong Yan State, and we officially border them in the northeast. ” Speaking of which, Shi Hu's courage is really too great, not only ignoring the capture of a large part of the territory, but also taking the initiative to cede Youzhou to Murong Yan State, the huge Shijie Zhao State only wants to keep the state and Shuozhou, it looks like a trend of collapse, but in fact, because of the loss of those territories, it is to revitalize the overall situation.
From the map, the northwest of the Han State is the Shijie Zhao State, the northeast is the Murong Yan State, the west has the ownerless Guanzhong Sanqin Land and the Li family Cheng Han, and the south is the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that cannot coexist.
Once the Han State was unable to destroy the Shijie Zhao State in this major war, the Han State would be involved in various hostile countries in the future, and whichever country the Han army wanted to attack would inevitably attract siege from other countries.
There is one thing that Liu Yan didn't know, Shi Xuan originally wanted to enter Guanzhong, but fortunately he was blocked by Xie An to the north of Huguan, otherwise the weakness of the Han Kingdom would have to be added to it.
Lu Yi spoke at the right time and said, "Daiguo has been very unfriendly to the Han Dynasty recently. ” Liu Yan had already learned about the situation on the side of the Tuoba Dynasty, and after he ordered "all those who are not of our race will be punished", Xie Ai was expelled by Tuoba Shi Yijian, and the dowry troops under his command also broke away and returned to the Tuoba Dynasty system, which is equivalent to the friendship between the Han State and the Tuoba Dynasty State is gone, and the relationship between the two sides has entered a cold period.
Since he dared to give such an order, Liu Yan had to be mentally prepared, and even Li Chenghan began to send troops to attack Yuzhou.
"Being able to win the hearts and minds of the remnants of the Central Plains is worth it for us."
Ji Chang had a rough figure in his hand and said: "In this Northern Expedition, only the number of young people collected by General Ran on the spot reached 170,000, and General Xie Lang and General Lu Lang also collected 50,000 or 60,000 young people each, and the number of Li people rescued should be more than 3 million. ” There is no precise figure on how many Hu people were exterminated, but the number collected by all parties should be seven or eight hundred thousand, and relatively speaking, the catastrophe also killed nearly a million survivors.
In less than a year, nearly two million people have died, and there must be more without statistics, if you have to guess, it is conservatively estimated that there should be three million people, and this is not caused by ethnic vendetta in Han China.
There are some accurate figures in the Han Kingdom, the number of Hu people killed and captured reached 800,000, plus some Haoqiang who were in the same vein but hostile to the Han State, the total number was close to one million.
It is an incomparably terrifying thing that three or four million people died in one year, and the total population of the Central Plains is only 17 or 8 million, which is a sharp decrease of almost a quarter.
In history, Ran Min called for the killing of Hu, and within half a year, the Central Plains lost more than four million people, and the Hu people fled and killed more than 1.5 million people, because of the outbreak of the plague, and even the drought and locust plague that followed, the Central Plains lost a large number of people within two or three years, and it was always Murong Xianbei who carried out population statistics after going south, and the total population of the huge Central Plains was less than 7 million.
Liu Yan's period is quite different from Ran Min's time in history, first of all, Shijie did not go through repeated internal attrition, which means that they are facing the Qiang people in their heyday, and it is actually very good to be able to fight into the current situation, and the situation has also evolved into Shi Hu at least has full control over the Qiang people, so there is a situation where the Qiang people retreat to Bingzhou and Shuozhou.
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"The mission of the general is the Northern Expedition."
Liu Yan raised his hand to stop the ministers from gossiping about other things, and once again showed his will: "The order of the widow has not changed, and it counts wherever it goes." ” There will be the above words, because some people are worried that the strength on Ran Min's hands is expanding too fast, and it is recommended to cancel the local recruitment of young and strong soldiers and limit the number of soldiers and horses in Ran Min's hands.
Liu Yan does not believe in Ran Min unconditionally, the key is that there are 50,000 Praetorian Guards as the backbone of the guard, the regular army of the Han State will not follow Ran Min, and then the logistics are completely in their hands.
He knew that Ran Min was a very sharp sword, which could hurt the enemy and hurt it, but at this stage, he needed Ran Min to go all the way north, and if he wanted to enter the grassland, he would definitely get strong support.
"Maybe you can provoke the Daiguo, the Xiongnu tribes and the Zhao state" Sang Yu didn't speak much just now, and when he reopened his mouth, he focused on the contradictions between the Hu people: "The Shuofang generation where the Xiongnu tribes have lived for a long time, although they are nominally subordinate to the Zhao State, they are actually autonomous.
Dai Guo has always wanted to eliminate or annex the Xiongnu tribes and capture Shuofang.
Now Shi Hu wants to fully control Shuo Fang as a back road, and their contradictions are very acute. ” The Xiongnu are now fully weak, with constant internal vendettas, and long-term crusades against the Tuoba Dynasty externally.
In addition, the Xiongnu tribes are not all Huns, Liu Yuan established a pseudo-Han and absorbed a considerable number of Jin people, and in the Liu Yao period, he absorbed a lot of miscellaneous Hu, which means that although he is still called the Xiongnu, the real situation is that many ethnic groups live together, and there are continuous internal vendettas.
"What the right prime minister said is extremely true."
Ji Chang first affirmed Sang Yu's opinion, and then changed his words and said: "In more than a month, it will enter winter, and the scale of the war on the northern front will be reduced, is it another blow to the puppet court?"
It will not be a secret that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has recently begun to jump again on the side of the Han State, which has accepted a considerable number of people who have migrated from the south of the Yangtze River, although those people have left the south of the Yangtze River, they will still have their own networks, and it can be said that Chu Li jumps up and down.
"The war on the northern front will be protracted, and there is no room for instability on the southern front at such a juncture."
Ji Chang is no longer the tone of suggestion, it is an extreme need, and said: "In view of the provocation on the side of Bashu, a strong counterattack should also be given, and the minister's opinion is to adjust Huan Wen to the south and organize a conscription corps to crusade against Bashu." ” Liu Yan fell silent for the time being, the contradictions between Hu and Han in the Han Kingdom were no longer in crisis due to proper handling, the northern front should definitely maintain steady advancement, and the stability of the southern front really became the key.
Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty focused on the northern front only to solve the troubles in the south comprehensively, and once the war with Shijie Zhao and Murong Yan fell into a protracted situation, whether it was the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the Li family, Cheng Han really became the target that needed to be eliminated first.
The rationale for the need to address the South first is simple.
Behind the hostile countries in the north is the vast and boundless grassland, whether it is Shijie or Murong Xianbei, as long as the Han army cannot be wiped out at one time, they can still retreat to the depths of the grassland.
In the south, behind the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is the sea, and behind the Li family Chenghan is dense mountains and swamps, once they can't bear the frontal battlefield, there is nowhere to retreat.
"We" Sang Yu saw that Liu Yan was pondering, and hesitated for a moment before saying: "If the war is protracted, the follow-up will inevitably be to fight while building the country."
This can only be a priority to solve the troubles in the south. ”: