Chapter 17 The Responsibility of the Chief Commander
The responsibility of the first commander
In the face of a powerful Han regime, a powerful Xianbei in Mobei was a thorny thorn. After Fu Luohan surrendered, Liu Xie issued an edict to ask Cao Cao and Lu Su to send troops at the same time, and to destroy all the soldiers of the Xianbei tribe such as Jueji, and to kill the grass to eliminate the roots. He also ordered the secret removal of several sons of Jueji, especially the remaining troops such as Shamohan, and the lower herders of Jueji tribe were divided into three parts, each divided by Miga and Huangfu Li, and the last branch was allocated to the northern part of Liaozhou. The tribe that replaced Miga was Liaozhou animal husbandry and war horses.
After Cao Cao and Lu Su received the letter of order, they immediately let go of a corner and pretended to let Tadun and other troops escape. After they fled to Shangdang, Cao Cao and Lu Su rushed to the Baima. Gao Shun also led more than 30,000 people and Ma Xiu's Yuyi Camp out of Yanmen Pass and headed south to the Baima.
The three armies realized the encirclement of the white horse in the late autumn. Juji and Bu Dugen were willing to surrender. Cao Cao pretended to accept surrender and met two people in the camp, throwing the cup as a sign, and asked his personal guard Xu Chu (because he had written the chapter of Xu Chu's death in battle before, although it was invalidated later, he left an illusion and forgot him. Sorry, I'll give him some chance here!) Kill Juji.
Although Jueji was brave, he had never encountered an opponent on the grassland except Kirby. When things happened, he suddenly broke several ribs by Xu Chu's punch.
Jueji hurriedly got out and shouted to Budugen: "Help me!"
Bu Dugen looked at Cao Cao, and saw him laughing loudly to raise his glass to him, and then drank it first, completely as if this hadn't happened. Bu Dugen had never seen such a person before, so he hurriedly squeezed out a smile and raised his glass to drink, not even looking at the opportunity, let alone help.
Xu Chu Mengmang (the legendary muscular man) didn't use a knife, but he avoided Jueji's knife, clamped Jueji from behind, and suddenly used force, and broke Jueji's neck with a crack. He saw it with a slanted eyes, and his forehead was sweating profusely.
Cao Cao felt a little strange and asked, "Zhongkang is carrying a knife on his body, why not use it!"
Xu Chu looked at Bu Dugen and said, "If you have a guest here, it is not convenient to see blood!"
Cao Cao laughed, poured wine and handed it to Xu Chu himself, and said to Bu Dugen: "This is Cao's personal guard, a warrior!"
Bu Dugen smiled bitterly and said, "Warriors, they are indeed warriors!"
Cao Cao reiterated and told Bu Dugen: "Today, he was killed because he led his troops to attack the Han area after Kirby could die. Therefore, the emperor gave him a death sentence. Although he would not punish the people, there were more than 30,000 soldiers in his camp, and the emperor also ordered him to be ahead. Anyone who does not want to surrender should not be kept. I will not take action on this matter. Is King Bu Dugen willing to do this on my behalf?"
Bu Dugen said: "Of course I'm willing!"
Cao Cao laughed and said, "If the king can help me to resolve this matter, Cao will report to the emperor and be granted the title of King and Marquis. The glory and wealth will be in front of the king. You must seize this opportunity!"
Bu Dugen was overjoyed and said, "I will definitely be able to grasp it. Please rest assured, General!"
Cao Cao explained a few more words to him and sent him back to the camp. That night, Bu Dugen led all his troops to kill Ji tribes, and got more than 10,000 of them willing to surrender. Cao Cao immediately asked him to hand over the surrendered person to the court. Although Bu Dugen was unwilling, he had no choice but to hand over it.
After Cao Cao reorganized and rectified these more than 10,000 people, he found that these Rangers were indeed worthy of the king of cavalry. He was determined to reorganize them under his own throne, but he was afraid that Liu Xie would be punished. Guo Jia happened to lead the emperor to inspect the Bingzhou soldiers and arrived in Cao Cao's camp.
Cao Cao talked about this matter with Guo Jia, and Guo Jia laughed and said, "What's the problem? The general needs to report truthfully. It will be possible to achieve it. Although the general is the general of the Northern Expedition, the troops he led were actually old subordinates and had not been reorganized. According to the news from the Commander's Office, the emperor intends to rectify the Eastern Expedition Army, and the general's title may also be changed. Therefore, the general can report these more than 10,000 people before this. Wait for the emperor's approval. Based on my experience, if anyone who reports according to the facts, the emperor will mostly agree to it. The general should not secretly speculate on the will of the general. No general does not like strong soldiers, and there is no need to worry about the emperor's suspicion. The emperor's mind is much more magnanimous than you and I have seen."
Cao Cao and Guo Jia worked together for a while and trusted him very much, so he said happily: "I am filial to wake up the dreamer!" He immediately wrote a letter to Liu Xie, and reported the quality of this cavalry in truth in the letter, without hiding his love for this cavalry.
After receiving the letter, Liu Xie smiled slightly. Although he was not sure whether Cao Cao was more cunning or honest, he didn't care. He formally asked Jia Xu to be responsible for the establishment of the Eastern Army. At the same time, the Northern Army was reduced to the Tenth Battalion. The remaining three battalions were transferred to the Southern Army, but they were not included in Sima Yi's tent, but were instead included in Sun Jian's tent. Ma Teng was appointed as the General of the Western Army. Cao Cao was transferred to the General of the Eastern Army, and he was appointed as the Marquis of Shouyang, and officially led 100,000 Generals of the Eastern Army.
Among the Dukes and Marquis conferred by Liu Xie, all those who named Dukes and Marquis named after the mountain belong to the fewer category, which is higher than ordinary Dukes and Marquis, in terms of courtesy and annual salary. Cao Cao was named Shouyang Marquis, and he was also surprised, and Guo Jia and others congratulated each other.
After Sima Yi's request to serve as a trading company was rejected, he stopped training the navy on the grounds of serious illness. Liu Xie had already strictly controlled the Sima family and slowly took back his old subordinates to the commander's office. He took this adjustment and appointed him as the sacrificial sacrificial sect of Yingchuan Academy, and appointed Sun Jian as the general of the Southern Conquest. Lu Meng was transferred to temporarily serve as General Dingdong and commanded the Dingdong Army.
Sima Yi thought that Liu Xie could not choose a better general to replace him. Unless he agreed to his request, he would stop his troops in Huai'an and not attack Yingzhou. Unless he expected that Liu Xie would seize his military power at once. Xu Shu, Wen Pin and others were by his side. They had an army of 300,000. If he had a slight rebellion, he would probably suffer immediately, and the clans who remained in Xiangyang would not survive.
At this time, Sima Yi realized that he had fallen into Liu Xie's trap from the beginning. After being led to Xiangyang from the family, he was placed in Huai'an, a place with three flat sides and one side facing the sea, to defend himself. Xu Shu held the 300,000 troops in his hands over the years, but he did not move at all. He didn't understand why before, but now he knows that Xu Shu is a mountain used by Liu Xie to suppress him.
Although Sima Yi had the position of General of the Conquest of the South, he was in charge of his old subordinates. Liu Xie had never ordered him to rectify the establishment of the Conquest of the South. This was the second trap that Liu Xie stayed. As long as Sun Jian arrived in Huai'an, he could completely rebuild the Conquest of the South according to his needs. Another use of the 100,000 Danyang soldiers initially recruited was this. With Sun Jian's influence on the Yue people, as long as Sima Yi dared to make irregular moves, the 100,000 Danyang soldiers could immediately form a new Conquest of the South and immediately transfer it to Sun Jian's tent. At that time, Sima Yi had no extra path to go except for committing suicide.
Sima Yi was self-conceited and had both civil and military skills, but facing the No. 1 commander of the Southern Han Dynasty and his military strength was three times that of him, he did not dare to do anything inappropriate. He could only continue to submit a memorial to Liu Xie on the grounds that he was seriously ill and could not leave Huaian for the time being.
Liu Xie left Han Dang as the garrison general of Yanmen Pass, Xu Sheng as the deputy, and Sun Jian took Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Zhu Xiong and Yu Fan to Huai'an to serve as the general of the Southern Conquest.
Ma Xiu's Yuyi Camp was also officially transferred to Fancheng to train garrison. Sun Ce and Zhang Xiu's iron wings, Xuanyi officially replaced him to Liaodong, and Zhao Yun was temporarily under the jurisdiction.
Zhang Nan was willing to follow Zhao Yun, and Liu Xie also fulfilled his wishes and transferred him to the 10th battalion of the Northern Expedition Army, with Zhao Yun temporarily serving as the General of the Northern Expedition Army. For Liu Xie, this was also a solution. Zhao Yun is now famous in the north, not inferior to Huangfu Li. For the Xianbei people in the north and the eastern part, Zhao Yun is the god of Dingshan. With him in the north, these Xianbei Donghu people dare not act rashly.
Liu Xie himself knew very well that this "temporary move" might last until Zhao Yun was on the battlefield. Fortunately, it was Zhao Yun's power, after all, Liu Xie's confidant and old subordinate. If Cao Cao and Sima Yi were so powerful that they would have taken measures long ago.
Zhang He's army was also rectified and asked Liu Xie for war. Liu Xie sent him to the Western Regions without hesitation. In the next three years, the places where the Han Dynasty was about to launch troops were Wusun in the Western Regions and Xingzhou in the Northeast, followed by the Three Koreans. As long as these three places were stabilized and adjusted for one or two years, it would be time to eliminate the northern court.
In addition, Liu Xie considered that Zhang He's army was from Jizhou after all, and he was unwilling to send him to the battlefield when he was unifying the north in the future. At present, 10,000 crossbowmen, 20,000 heavy soldiers in Zhang He's army, and 20,000 light cavalry, were suitable for use in the Western Regions. He was assigned to the Western Army to be the General of Pingxi, and was confined to the Western Army of Yan Xing's Dingxi Army. When Zhang He went to Xining, Liu Xie specifically instructed him to rectify the military system after he arrived in the Western Regions and wait for Xun You to arrive. Everything in the future should be led by Xun You.
After the three of them were in place, Xun You would slowly evacuate Luoyang and go to the Western Regions. Liu Xie had already planned that as long as the matter in Bingzhou was settled, the defenses of Luoyang and Bingzhou were delivered to Zhou Yu, and Xun You would go to the Western Regions. As long as Xun You arrived in the Western Regions, the clarion call for the Han Dynasty to conquer the western borders would be officially sounded.
Cao Cao will be formally arranged to Liaozhou at that time. Although he is inferior to Zhao Yun in military position, Cao Cao's military talent is actually much higher than Zhao Yun. It is most appropriate to let Cao Cao lead his troops to pacify Xingzhou. Zhao Yun can both restrain him and help him.
In order to realize this plan, Liu Xie ordered the construction of a large-scale grain storage group in Xining County, from Chang'an and Tianshui to deliver grain to Xining for a long time and steadily, so that Jiang Wan must increase Xining's grain storage to 300 million stones within two years to ensure the entire demand for the Western Expedition.
Liaoyang County was established in Xuantu County (now near Shenyang) and a large-scale grain warehouse with a stock of 200 million stones was built. The local tribes in Changli began to be cleaned up and transferred to the Central Plains on a large scale to undertake the construction of the three new cities of Luoyang, Runan and Jinyang. Since the Korean people were limited to the local natives who obeyed the sinicization of the Sanhan and Liaozhou in the definition of the rule of Shi Luangfu, this part of the population did not belong to the eight tribes of the new "Hot Employment Law" and were not protected by the same employer treatment regulations of the eight tribes, so each trading company could buy it directly without paying any salary.
Liu Xie only sent one letter to this situation, informing the major trading companies that the descendants of slave workers they purchased must be in the sinicization. Once they are in the sinicization, they will be protected by the regulations on the treatment of equal employment of workers of the eight clans. After Liu Xie issued this letter, these slave workers may not have many opportunities to leave their descendants. The biggest possibility is that even if there are, they will be secretly sold to other Han families without descendants. Liu Xie wants this effect. In many cases, extinction of some people does not require leaving a definite crime to history. Even if future generations blame this history, the people who are responsible are the glorious merchants of this era.
After the issuance of the order letter, the population of Changli quickly decreased from 300,000 to 60,000. Basically, the local tribes moved to the mainland through the sea and Bingzhou routes, and some went deep into the north of the Mo to build the garrison castle designed by Liu Xie.
It is roughly estimated that such a garrison castle requires about 100 seats, and is arranged in some major traffic arteries and rivers where the rivers gather. It has three layers of protective walls, which is different from ordinary cities in the Han Dynasty. The garrison castle is designed with a full defense form with a high wall design, with an ordinary city wall in the middle and a circle of 1 zhang high on the outside, which is specially used to deal with cavalry on the grassland.
The difference between the connection design inside the castle and the Great Wall is that the warmth and capacity inside the castle can be left to 30,000 soldiers in the castle can be stationed even in the coldest winter.
When Liu Xie was designing, he absorbed some Western furnace designs, especially the use of coal stone to make fires for heating. There are twenty-four water towers in the castle. When the castle garrison soldiers maintained at 10,000, these water towers can ensure water supply for three months. In fact, Mobei is not particularly water-deficient. Five months a year in snowy places, and four months can see seasonal rivers. There are only a few months in many places in Mobei. There are neither snow nor seasonal rivers.
It should be said that compared with the Western Regions, it is not very difficult to use water for basic living, which absorbs Siberian cold currents and Pacific warm currents at the same time. Therefore, the desert in the northern desert is less than that in the Western Regions. The place with the most actual deserts in China is in Xinjiang, which is the place with the least precipitation.
The difficulty in Mobei lies in the cold, not that people cannot bear, or that most herbs cannot bear, which makes it unrealistic to plant crops in Mobei . However, Youzhou, Xingzhou and Liaozhou can bear the responsibility of providing food and grass to the Mobei garrison. In addition, it can also rely on taxes from Wuhou, Xianbei, Nanli, Qiang, and Xiongnu to provide additional subsidies.
The nations in Mobei can only live on the benchmark line of survival and cannot expect much wealth from their taxes. However, Liu Xie is determined to implement one-fifth of the tax. Only by collecting taxes can the survival of the local garrison troops. Only by ensuring the survival of the garrison troops can Mobei be truly stable forever. Without the army to perform supervision responsibilities in the local garrison and prevent a clan from dominating the dominance, then even if the Han Dynasty has a great Great Wall, it will be difficult for a unified Mobei nation to move south. Therefore, the best strategy to deal with Mobei is to be eternal balance, ensuring that the four Mobei ethnic groups achieve eternal balance under the restraint of the court, and leaving enough Han people in Xingzhou.
After arranging these, Liu Xie began to officially focus on the transition of the power of the General of the Southern Conquest. He secretly sent a letter of order to Xu Shu, telling him that after dealing with Sima Yi's problems, he could work in the east and north directions, defending Cao Cao in front and Sima Yi in back and Xu Shu in Zhang He received the letter of order. After he knew that after dealing with Sima Yi, he could finally perform his fists and move like Xun You and Zhou Yu.
Chapter completed!