In the summer and May of 66 BC in the second year of Jing Ning, he set foot on the land of Yunzhong County, and Wang Ban felt that his wife had stuffed too many clothes for him.He glanced at the bright sun on his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead and complained: "Didn't you say that the climate in the north of the seed and generation is cold, how can it seem to be hotter than Wei County?"
”Wang Banzi Zhijun, more than 30 years old, is Jizhou Wei County Yuancheng County Party Committee Suli, he heard the father who was the embroidered messenger of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said that their family was moved from Dongping Mausoleum, originally after the king of Jibei Tian An in the Chu and Han dynasties, to Han Xing, Tian An lost the country, Qi people called it "Wang family", because of the clan.Although he is not a royal family, but the Wang family is also regarded as Yuancheng County Hao, he was sent to Chang'an by his father to study law when he was young, and did the history of the court captain, and returned to Wei County as a county official when he was filial piety, married the Li family of the same county as his wife, and gave birth to two daughters and several sons.One of the second daughter is called "Wang Zhengjun", is Wang Ban's favorite girl, when Li was pregnant with Wang Zhengjun, the dream moon into his arms, Wang Ban felt that the second daughter will have great wealth in the future, if history does not change, he will have a really promising grandson in the future, called Wang Mang.This time, Wang Ban came to Yunzhong, but he made a special trip to "escort" the soldiers and men of Wei County to serve.As the Son of Heaven asked for the Huns spread all over the world, the empire's war machine was activated, and the counties and states also received the apportionment of how many people to pay, how much grain and equipment to provide, and the two prefectures were clearly arranged, and Wang Ban was unfortunately chosen.When he went north, his eldest son Wang Feng, who was already in his teens, was still shouting that he wanted to kill the thief and seal the marquis together, but he was really brainwashed by the story of the Marquis of Xi'an, and he was slapped twice by the king before stopping.Wei County, as a large county, also has a lot of manpower, thousands of people followed Wang Ban and Duwei to the north Zhao State, Changshan Zhending, through the Jingcheng, trekking on the crooked Taihang sheep intestine path, out of the sentence note stuffed into Yanmen, and then westward to Dingxiang and Yunzhong.It took almost two months to walk on the road alone, and as Jizhou, which is adjacent to the merged state, it is no wonder that the imperial court has no desire to recruit the southerner states and counties.The first impression of Yunzhong County to Wang Ban is flat, if Yanmen and Daijun are still areas with mixed agriculture and animal husbandry, and they can often be seen in the farmland, then Yunzhong County is completely a grassland scene, and the wide and empty plain stretches out under the convoy, flat and vast until the end of the pole, like an ocean.The hills and mountains are no more, only the endless grasslands, the wind and clouds are surging, the green grass blades swing like waves, and the whole world becomes green.Like those Jizhou soldiers who came to the grassland for the first time, Wang Ban couldn't help but take off the crown on his head, and after taking a deep breath, his mouth and nose were full of the smell of grass and cow dung, and when he looked up, he saw an eagle high above, hovering in the deep blue sky, and below it, there were herds of cattle, sheep and horses.Although the Hetao horse is not as tall as the Hequ horse and the Wusun horse, its endurance is amazing, and it is a necessary mount for long-distance running.In addition, the terrain here is flat, the water and grass are abundant, suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, it is a good place to train cavalry, and you can see a team of cavalry from a distance is practicing combat queues.It is very beautiful, the only drawback is that the wind in the grassland is very hard, which makes Wang Ban have a headache, so he can only wrap the towel on his head in two layers.And when the Wei soldiers trekked on the grassland for several days and arrived near Cloud City, there were even more wonders here.The city in the clouds is like a white jewel dotted on the green grassland, surrounded by turquoise blue barren water, beautiful and incomprehensible, named after the city site selected by Zhao Guo, repeatedly built and broken, until following a group of birds and geese to circle back and forth, there seems to be light under the flock of birds, Zhao people think it is an auspicious omen, so they build a city here.It is led by the wild goose, and built in the clouds, so it is called in the clouds.What surprised Wang Ban and the others the most was that among the lulu around Cloud City, on those undulating hills, there were actually many "giants" with yellow bodies and black hats.They were several feet tall and had four long arms, and they were slowly turning, so frightened that the Wei soldiers did not dare to approach.It wasn't until the patrol of General Sima Wei in front urged them to move forward cautiously, and when they got closer, Wang Ban realized what kind of giant this was, it was clearly a big house similar to an oval spired barn, and the four giant arms, in fact, were wooden instruments, under the never-ending wind blowing on the grassland, were slowly rotating, making a squeaking sound.Wang Ban couldn't help but be curious, and wanted to know what was going on in this "barn", but because of the guards outside, it was not easy to get close, but he saw that there were constantly cattle and horses towing here, and on it was a piece of wheat that had been soothed by public opinion, and it was transported from the front door of the "barn", and what was transported out of the back door was the wheat flour that had been ground This is actually a place for grinding noodles.Later, Wang Ban learned that this was the handwriting of Geng Shouchang, who not only set up Changping in various counties, but also used his superb skills of nine chapters to assist Xi'an Hou and craftsmen to build this thing, called "windmill".It is said that the four rotating arms can drive the stone mill inside, and it can grind the noodles without humans and animals, day and night.Since last year, a windmill mill has been built in Sanfu Chang'an and the border counties where troops are going to be mobilized against the Xiongnu.After the Wei soldiers settled down near Yunzhong City, the tasks also followed, and the Youhe soldiers were good at cavalry and archery, and were the main force in this battle, while the Jizhou soldiers were only a heavy team, and they were required to continue to build stove pits outside the city, and the number was huge, as if the earth would be remodeled.After the stove pits were repaired, the wheat noodles from the windmill mill were also transported from Changping Warehouse one after another, and the soldiers who had been specially transferred from Hexi began to roast the naan, and the flames raised made the smoke around Cloudsdale and the aroma of the roasted wheat overflowing.The grassland is vast, and the Xiongnu are likely to repeat the old tricks, withdraw the people and animals to Mobei, and the Han army that goes deep into the grassland may not be able to find food for a whole month, naan is the staple food to maintain combat effectiveness, and 60,000 people have food for three months.According to Geng Shouchang's plan, one person will have one naan a day, and the back and forth will be counted for more than three months, counting 100 pieces, and 60,000 soldiers will be 6 million pieces of naan, relying on ox carts, camels, mules, donkeys, etc., at least 60,000 livestock, and when the dry food is exhausted, you can eat these pack animals, they are walking granaries.It's just that it's bitter for a grain eater like Wang Ban."
It makes my stomach ache."
Wang Ban felt deeply uncomfortable after eating a piece of naan, and drank a few mouthfuls of noodle soup to get better, and the people of Jizhou could not accept Hu Cake unless Ren Hong renamed it Huoyao in the future.The herds outside the barracks were also busy slaughtering pigs and sheep, and even slaughtering cattle sent by various subject countries, but all the recruits who had never been on the battlefield were called over to watch after training, so that they could get used to dealing with blood and internal organs.The bones and water were boiled for the soldiers to improve the food, and the meat was salted and cut into long strips exposed to the sun in May, Xi'an Hou believed that the elite could not fight the war by eating the staple food, and meat was also essential.Transporting grain, repairing stoves, and moving naan, this is the busy and daily life of the soldiers of Wei County, which is very different from the Jin Ge Iron Horse imagined before.But from the naan that began to be roasted and stored one after another, and from the hurried footsteps of the county soldiers who continued to arrive in the clouds from various counties, Wang Ban had already smelled the breath of war.Wang Ban only occasionally looked south when he was homesick, hoping that he would be able to finish before putting on the winter clothes that his wife had asked him to bring!
While the rear was busy training and preparing war materials, Ren Hong's general Jingjie was in the northeast of Yunzhong near the Great Wall, where the central governor was stationed, that is, the area of Hohhot in later generations.He is now waiting for the scout troops to report back to the reconnaissance, Duan Huizong, the son of Tianshui Liangjia, is no longer the stunned young man who was blocked outside Ren Hong's mansion and said that he would follow him into Beijing to seek justice.Before the expedition, Ren Hong specially asked the emperor for someone, and brought this Duan Huizong, who was not only a knife and a spear, but also liked to carry a sword behind his back, and because of his superior riding skills, he sent him to ride out of the fortress with a thousand states to detect the enemy.Standing on the barrier, you can see that the number of riders has not changed, it should be that they have not encountered enemy attacks, and the posture of the first few people riding horses is different from the past, and their feet are not simply clamped on the belly of the horse, but stepping on something.What else could it be, stirrups!
This thing Ren Hong hid in the past, for fear that it would be taken out in the Western Regions and flow into foreign countries, and it would not be beautiful for the Hu people to use, this time he was determined to destroy the Huns, and the lion fought the rabbit with all his strength, not to mention that the other party was still a hundred-legged insect, so there was no need to hide the trick.But what made him a little disappointed was that when the Tun cavalry battalion was first equipped with this thing, and the lieutenant of Youyou was not shocked, and Wang Ping, the commander of Dingxiang County, who took the lead in attacking the Huns, told Ren Hong that he had seen this thing many years ago when he followed the generals Guo Chang and Tian Guangming to the south to quell the rebellion of Yunnan and Kunming in Yizhou County.Wang Ping is a veteran, in the era of filial piety, he had been a song chief, with a rich resume, and he was Tian Guangming's military leader, and later lost his official position because of good drinking.After seeing the stirrup, he patted his stomach and laughed and said that he had seen it a long time ago, and described: "In the past, the subordinates attacked the Dian people and the rebellion of Kunming, although the local area is located in the south from the forest and mountains, there are also cavalry.Riding a short-legged Dian horse, tie a rope on both sides of the front edge of the horse, hang down to the horse's belly, the rope end is knotted in a circle, the knight steps on the rope and gets on the horse, when riding the horse, the thumbs of both feet are stretched into a circle, and the front of the horse's belly is pedaled. ”Ren Hong is very unhappy, so when you see this thing, why don't you admonish the general to adopt it?
Wang Ping's answer was full of arrogance: "This Southwest Yi species is short, and it is not good at riders!"
Why do you need this thing for the cool and secluded ride of the Han Dynasty!
”In his opinion, the so-called "stirrup" of Xi'an Hou is nothing more than a wood or iron bar added to the rope circle of the Dian people, so that the knight can step on it with his whole foot.Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is, and when trying to promote stirrups, Ren Hong found that the arrogance of the Han army had been carved into his bones.When he asked a team of people to play in stirrups at a polo match in Chang'an, wanting to show his superiority, it attracted countless boos from hundreds of officials and princes, thinking that this was cheating and taking advantage.When the emperor agreed to promote it in the army, there were also numerous obstacles, and the cavalry of various armies regarded it as a question and insult to their horsemanship, and several Qu commanders took the lead in resisting, and they were as proud as the samurai who refused to use firearms in later generations.The knights accepted it with tears in their eyes.Afterwards, Ren Hong did not hear the praise of "True Fragrance", but found that everyone was in disobedience, and when he patrolled, he still saw some knights deliberately not stepping on stirrups when they got on their horses, and laughed at the people who stepped on stirrups for being timid and short.The real function of the stirrup is not to get on the horse quickly, it can make the knight and the horse can be organically combined, and the strength of the man and the horse can be fully exerted.But many people deliberately don't use stirrups to show their skill after riding a horse, which is really infuriating.It won't be useful to hang it on you!
Ren Hong's anger, the key is that although the Youyou cavalry admires his prestige, they are not as good as the Liangzhou soldiers and the Du Protector Army, and they trust each other, and they are really the most difficult group of soldiers to bring.Even if Ren Hong took the lead in this matter, it would not be effective, and he could only slowly change this arrogance a few months before the war, but it was Gan Yanshou, Duan Huizong and others who reluctantly accepted the stirrup after being interviewed by Ren Hong alone and chatting earnestly.After Duan Huizong entered the fortress, he reported to Ren Hongyu: "General, the subordinates first went to the city of Rongdang, and toured north to the curtain, the whole journey was more than 1,000 miles, but there was no Xiongnu army, only scattered herdsmen and livestock, and the rest have moved north. ”Ren Hong said: "This is Hu Lu's plan, and the baggage tribes in the north are all treated with elite soldiers in the north of the curtain." ”This was originally a plan by Yi Zhi Xian Shan Yu and Zhao Xin, taking advantage of the depth and vastness of the Xiongnu to move the population and livestock to the area north of the Great Gobi, concentrate troops, and wait for the Han army to cross the curtain.So there was the Battle of Mobei, although the Huns were defeated in that battle, but in the following decades, the Huns' trick gradually worked, stunned to turn defeat into victory, three major battles before and after, annihilated the Han army of more than 100,000 people, captured a large number of prisoners, and even dragged the Han Dynasty to the world, and the people were not able to make a living.This is also the reason why the Huns are unwilling to surrender, although they have repeatedly lost when they take the initiative to attack, and the positional warfare in the Western Regions has also collapsed, but there is always a way to retreat, and there is hope for another turnaround."
But this time it's different."
After Ren Hong got the information, he drew a plan in front of the map with Zhang Qianqiu, Wang Ping, Gan Yanshou, Fu Chang and others."
The depth of the Huns is not as great as it used to be."
Ren Hong's finger crossed the Xiongnu to the north, Beihai, that is, the Baikal region: "Ding Ling once sent an envoy to Han to ask for help, although it is now peaceful by Hutu Wusi, there is still a rebellion, once the Han army advances north, Ding Ling will rebel again." ”Pointing to the east, pointing to the western foot of the Great Xing'an Mountains and the Liaohe River Valley: "Xianbei and Wuhuan are both after the Eastern Hu, when the Xiongnu were strong, they were forced to sacrifice protons, Napibu tax, and now they have betrayed Shan Yu, and they are willing to belong to the Han, I have sent envoys to lobby to recruit Xianbei and Wuhuan to the city to discuss matters." ”Not to mention the west, Ren Hong laid a large area of the country when he protected the capital of Anxi, Jiankun is equivalent to neutrality, Hujie, Xiaoyue, and Wusun have all become the little brothers of the Han Dynasty, and others Ren Hong dare not say, Wusun has the Empress Dowager to preside, and this battle will definitely help half of the country's troops."
The Han-Wu alliance planned by Emperor Xiaowu and Bowanghou to jointly attack the Xiongnu can finally be realized today!"
Eleven years, it has been eleven years since Ren Hong came to this era, and the development of him and countless Han family sons and daughters in the Western Regions, the struggle in Xiqiang, and the hard sacrifices between the yellow sand and ice and snow seem to be for today.This was not a heads-up battle between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.It's a brutal group fight!
PS: It's just dark for me, it's really evening, and the third chapter is before 0:00.