Chapter 452

Once the barbarians invaded the Central Plains, the scholars ran to the cowards and the people cried, which is indeed the most true portrayal of the Central Plains today. Against this background, the Han Army insisted on its own sense of mission to go north to save the people and reconcile the people. It was also able to make the local survivors move closer to the Han Army independently and spontaneously.

Ran min led the army to besiege Yecheng, and countless people around came spontaneously.

After this ethnic vendetta provoked by the stone tiger, the survivors of the Central Plains finally understand that tolerance is not a long-term plan, and scattered self-protection can not ensure safety. Only by standing up and resisting can they live, and moving closer to the Han country can they live in peace.

Shi Hu did not escape without fighting for no reason. It was the grain and fodder of the state of Zhao in Shijie that had been difficult to support the consumption of the army. Then, hundreds of thousands of coolies in Yecheng rose angrily. Both inside and outside were unstable and it was difficult to defend the city for a long time. Do you want to fight an absolutely passive war if you don't escape?

Yecheng was originally building a palace que, and the number of people forced to work in all directions has been increasing. Their rise is naturally encouraged by ran min's people. Ran min made it very clear to those people that there were no innocent people under the great revenge. If they did not rise up and cooperate with the Han Army, there was only a dead end. Hundreds of thousands of people who held their breath early saw that the Han Army really came, there was no reason to be silent.

The Han army was eyeing the outside, and hundreds of thousands of hard labor rose angrily. Ran min only spent seven days to conquer Yecheng. He sent a good report to Linzi center. On the other hand, he incorporated Yecheng's youth. He continued to move north after only three days of rest.

To the north of Yecheng is the core area of Shijie state of Zhao. It once gathered the core population of Jie, Qiang, Di and other ethnic groups. If the Hu people did not have the habit of choosing sites to establish settlements, there must be many villages and towns.

Hu people have no pursuit of the city. They are used to moving around. There is a waterfront city in the area to the north of Yecheng, and then the ancient city Handan is 60 miles north.

Linshui city is built on the North Bank of Fushui, which is one of the tributaries of zhangshui.

After ran min led his troops to the north, when they arrived at the edge of the water, they were greeted by a fleet of Han troops from Jizhou, together with the flags of the Han troops flying at the head of the Linshui city.

Ran min, who is already a general of the northern expedition, has the right to intervene in many things, including the recent news of the Lvtai regiment.

The war in Jizhou has not changed much. The two sides are still facing off and deadlocked along the two sides of zhangshui river. However, LV Tai has reported some relatively special things to the center. For example, he found that there are great signs of activity in the enemy's rear.

"If Shi Hu wants to run Bingzhou and Shuozhou, it is inevitable to move people to fill." Ran min was satisfied that there had been no change in the direction of the war in Jizhou. If they wanted to continue north, the Lvtai regiment in Jizhou would become their flank. He said to his subordinates, "our next step is to conquer Handan and take the whole county of Guangping."

If Lu Tai's headquarters is now ran min's right guard army, xie'an's headquarters in Shangdang county is ran min's left guard army. The three armies form a trident arrow on a large scale. Relatively speaking, ran min's headquarters can decide this northern expedition.

Aware that Zhao Jun and many Hu people in Shijie were retreating, ran min showed an aggressive side. He only left 30000 people, and the rest were scattered.

Wherever the Han army went, it was supported by the local people. The scenes of eating pot pulp to welcome the king's division not only greatly inspired the fighting enthusiasm of the Han army officers and men, but also greatly boosted the morale of the Han people.

Liu Yan, who is in Linzi, can receive war reports from the front line every day. He has no accident in keeping ran min advancing at a high speed, and has long been mentally prepared for the consumption of materials.

Wherever the Han army went, it had to help the local people. It would consume a lot of medicinal materials for treatment, and it would also consume a lot of food and fodder. That was what had been expected before the decision to make a large-scale northern expedition. Although it consumed a lot of materials, it obtained land and population.

The court meeting in the main hall is over, and the core meeting in the inner hall has just begun.

"General Zhengbei has conquered Handan. The next step is to push directly towards Xiang." Ji Chang didn't feel happy when he said this, but he looked worried. He said to Liu Yan thoughtfully: "seeing the stone tablet, he really wants to shrink in an all-round way, and really forms this situation..."

Bingzhou is not all grassland. There are large mountains and water systems. Coupled with a Shuozhou, Shijie can really accumulate strength after shrinking.

Liu Yanming did give the order to kill all Hu people, which not only encouraged people everywhere to resist Hu prisoners, but also reduced the overall number of Hu people. The collected information shows that the population evacuated to Binzhou is no less than 1.5 million. Binzhou and Shuozhou originally had a population of 1.2 million. According to his calculation, Shi Hu's population is probably about 4 million.

For the development of the situation, the center of the Han Dynasty has a prediction. Once Shi Hu no longer pays attention to the competition 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 Han empire against the Xiongnu.

Ji Chang was worried that the stone tablet was retreating to the grassland. Although the Han state was opening up territory, which showed that the situation was very good, the large-scale opening up of territory in a short time must make the interior more unstable. In addition, it was impossible to eliminate the stone tablet in the Central Plains with complex terrain.

If you have a map, you can see that the territory of the state of Han is a bit like the scale of the period of emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. What is missing are Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liaodong and the land of the three Qin Dynasties in Guanzhong.

The state of Han occupies most of the territory of the Central Plains. There is a small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, Li's Chenghan in Bashu, and Zhang's Liang state in Liangzhou and the western regions. Isn't it surrounded in the middle?

Liu Yan's situation in this period was much worse than that of the Han Empire in the period of emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. Although the south in the period of emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty was a foreign country, it maintained a relatively good diplomacy. Although the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the state of Han were armistice, it was only dormant. Needless to say, the state of Han had actually met the state of Zhao in Shijie and the state of Murong Yan.

"Yes..." Liu Yan was also worried: "once the stone tiger enters the grassland, it will not be destroyed in a short time."

"It is said that Shi Hu has ceded Youzhou to the state of Yan." Sang Yu returned from Yuzhou not long ago, accompanied by LV Yi. Most of the original members of the Sang family were officials in the state of Zhao in Shijie. They had more information channels. He said: "Youzhou belongs to the state of Murong Yan, and we officially border with them in the northeast."

Speaking of it, Shi Hu's courage is really too great. He not only ignores the capture of a large territory, but also takes the initiative to cede Youzhou to Murong Yan state. The huge Shijie Zhao state only wants to retain Bingzhou and Shuozhou. It seems that it is a trend of collapse, but in fact, losing those territories has revitalized the overall situation of the whole body.

From the map, the northwest of the state of Han is the state of Zhao in Shijie, the northeast is the state of Murong Yan, the land of the three Qin Dynasties in Guanzhong and Li's Chenghan in the west, and the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that cannot coexist in the south. Apart from the sea in the East, the state of Han is hostile countries or forces in several directions.

Once the state of Han could not destroy the state of Zhao in Shijie in this world war, it would be a situation in which the state of Han was involved by various hostile countries. Which country the Han Army wanted to attack would inevitably attract siege from other countries.

One thing Liu Yan didn't know was that Shi Xuan wanted to enter Guanzhong. Fortunately, Xie an blocked him to the north of Huguan. Otherwise, there would be another weakness in the Han state.

Lu Yi said at an appropriate time, "Dai Guo has been very unfriendly to big men recently."

Liu Yan has learned about the situation of Tuoba generation country. After he ordered "all non-ethnic groups to be killed", Xie AI was expelled by Tuoba shiyijian, and the dowry troops under his command were also separated from and returned to Tuoba generation country. It is tantamount to that the friendship between Han and Tuoba generation country has gone forever, 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. It was expected that Li Chenghan would start sending troops to attack Yuzhou.

"It's worth it for us to win the hearts and minds of the remnant of the Central Plains." Ji Chang had a rough data in his hand and said, "in this northern expedition, only general ran collected 170000 young people locally, general Xie Lang and general Lu Lang also collected 56000 young people respectively, and the number of Li people rescued should be more than 3 million."

There is no accurate data on how many Hu people were destroyed. The number gathered by all parties should be 700000. Relatively speaking, the catastrophe also killed nearly one million survivors.

In less than a year, nearly two million people were killed, and there must be more without statistics. If you have to guess, it is conservatively estimated that there should be three million people, which was caused by ethnic hatred in non Han areas.

There are some accurate data in the territory of the Han state. The number of Hu people killed and captured has reached 800000. In addition, the total number of strong and powerful people who are in the same vein but hostile to the Han state is close to one million.

It's a terrible thing that three or four million people were killed in a year. Generally speaking, the total population of the Central Plains was 17.8 million, which directly decreased by almost a quarter.

In history, ran min called for the killing of Hu. Within six months, more than 4 million people were lost in all parts of the Central Plains. Hu people later fled and killed more than 1.5 million people. Because of the outbreak of plague, even the subsequent drought and locust plague, a large number of people in the Central Plains decreased sharply in two or three years. After Murong Xianbei went south, demographic statistics were carried out, The total population of such a large central plains is less than seven million.

Liu Yan's period is quite different from that of Ran min in history. First, Shijie has not experienced repeated internal consumption, which means that they are facing the Capricorn in its heyday. In fact, it is very good that they can fight the current situation. The situation has also evolved into Shi Hu, who at least has overall control over the Capricorn, Only then did the Jie nationality retreat to Bingzhou and Shuozhou.

"The task of the general of the northern expedition is to make a northern expedition." Liu Yan raised his hand to stop the ministers from talking about other gossip and showed his will again: "my orders have not changed. Where I hit is where I hit."

If there are the above, some people are worried that ran min's troops are expanding too fast. It is suggested to cancel the local recruitment of young soldiers and limit the number of troops in ran min's hands.

Liu Yan did not believe in ran min unconditionally. The key is that there are 50000 forbidden guards as the backbone of guard. The regular army of the Han country will not follow ran min, and the logistics is completely in his hands. He knows that ran min is a very sharp sword, which can hurt both the enemy and the enemy. At this stage, ran min needs to go north all the time. If he wants to enter the grassland, he will certainly get strong support.

"Maybe it can provoke the Dai state, the Hun ministries and the state of Zhao?" Sang Yu didn't say much just now. He reopened his mouth and focused on the contradiction between the Hu people: "although the Shuofang generation, which has been inhabited by the Huns for a long time, nominally obeys the state of Zhao, they are actually autonomous. The state of Dai has always wanted to destroy or annex the Huns to capture Shuofang. Now Shi Hu wants to control Shuofang in an all-round way, and their contradiction is very acute."

The Xiongnu is now in an all-round weak position, with constant internal hatred and killing, and a long-term Crusade by Tuoba on the outside. In addition, the Xiongnu tribes were not all Xiongnu people. Liu Yuan established the puppet Han Dynasty and absorbed a considerable number of Jin people. In Liu Yao's period, he also absorbed many miscellaneous Hu. Although he still called the Xiongnu, the real situation was that many ethnic groups lived together, so there was constant internal hatred and killing.

"What the right prime minister said is very true." Ji Chang first affirmed sang Yu's opinion, and then said, "in more than a month, winter will enter, and the scale of war on the north line will be reduced. Will you beat the puppet court again?"

It is no secret that the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty began to hop around again recently. The state of Han accepted a considerable number of people who migrated from the south of the Yangtze River. Although they left the south of the Yangtze River, they still have their own network of relationships. It can be said that Chu is jumping up and down.

"The war on the north line will last for a long time, and instability on the south line cannot be tolerated at such a juncture." Ji Chang is no longer a suggestion, but an extreme need. He said: "in view of the provocation on the Bashu side, we should also give a strong counterattack. The minister's opinion is to transfer Huanwen to the South and organize the expedition corps to fight against Bashu."

Liu Yan temporarily fell silent. Due to the proper handling of the contradiction between Hu and Han in the state of Han, there is no crisis. It is absolutely necessary to keep steady progress on the north line, and the stability of the south line really becomes the key.

Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty focused on the north line only after comprehensively solving the problems in the south. Once the war with Shijie Zhao and Murong Yan became protracted, whether it was the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty or Li's Cheng Han really became the object that needed to be eliminated first.

The reason why the South needs to be solved first is simple. Behind the hostile country in the north is the vast grassland. Whether it is Shijie or Murong Xianbei, as long as the Han army cannot be eliminated at one time, they can still retreat to the depths of the grassland. Behind the small Eastern Jin Dynasty court in the south is the sea. Behind Li Chenghan are mountains and swamps. Once they can't carry the front battlefield, they have no place to retreat.

"We..." seeing Liu Yan meditating, sang Yu hesitated and said, "if the war is protracted, it must be fighting while building the country. In this way, we can only give priority to solving the problems in the south."