Chapter 802

"Really? Abandon the army and flee?"

"Your Majesty, the Hussars general replied that he would do his best to pursue."

At present, Liu Yan has passed the desert and is about 150 miles away from Yanmen county. They will follow this military road, enter Yanmen pass, and then go east, enter the northeast through Liaoxi county and Liaodong County, and inspect the actual situation after more than a year of development.

There are not few roads from the hinterland of the Han Dynasty to the grassland. It is the route taken by the army when marching on the grassland many times. Behind it, there are signboards pointing to it. There is a post station every ten miles. Because it was developed by the army, the post stations along the way also belong to the military system, which has always been commonly known as the military road.

In fact, Liu Yan is still a small hand. He didn't make much effort to build the road to the grassland. The former first emperor used to build a straight road from NEISHI county to Hetao with a very rigorous attitude and specifications.

The straight road built in the Qin Dynasty is still preserved in future generations, not to mention now, the Han state actually used the straight road built in the Qin Dynasty to play a considerable role in the transportation of baggage from Guanzhong to Hetao.

"Hussars general..." Liu Yan was not riding, but riding in the chariot. Several important officials were in the car together. He shook his head, smiled and said, "I wish I could catch up with the ends of the earth."

If a person wants to hide, if there is no insider to report the escape route, it will be more difficult to catch Fu Jian than expected. Liu Yan doesn't care much about whether he can catch Fu Jian. The powerful Di nationality has become a thing of the past. The trouble caused by Fu's entering the West Gaoche has become an established fact. Even if Fu wants to do something more, it will be the same for the Han country, Will not change the overall trend.

Yanmen pass has always been one of the most important passes in Zhuxia. It relies on the surrounding dangerous mountains as a barrier, selects the most advantageous section to build a city tower, and becomes a barrier in the north of Zhuxia together with the long city wall.

Liu Yan looked far away. Many mountains extended into a straight line. If you want to enter Yanmen pass, you need to go through the channel surrounded by two mountains.

If it is said that crossing the channel is not dangerous even if it is completed, in fact, it is still facing mountains after crossing the channel. Most of the roads that can be taken are winding, but military facilities can be seen in all Highlands, and the most important thing that can not be ignored is the city tower in the only way.

In addition to the main building of the city gate, the fortress is built on the highland on the left and directly connected to the mountain on the right.

The fortress is a complex of buildings with city walls. There are quite a lot of buildings similar to beacon. In fact, those buildings like beacon are the arrow tower of the fortress. Two or three bed crossbows can be placed on it, and twenty or thirty crossbow men can stand. They are very particular about the location, almost covering the shooting range in front of the gate of the pass, and also targeting the road leading to the fortress.

The garrison of the pass had already known the arrival of the patrol team. According to the process, the obstacles along the way were cleared. No one could stand in the light at the pass, city walls, fortresses and other places. Most of the garrison went out of the city gate to meet, and only flags flying in the wind could be seen everywhere.

The leading troops of the patrol team pass through the city gate and also take over the pass and defense points according to the process. This is not distrust of the garrison, but the necessary procedure for the emperor to patrol any area. If the emperor specifically orders the garrison to be responsible for defense, it is absolutely glorious, but there are few similar examples.

When Liu Yan came to Yanmen pass, he stopped and looked up to see the pass name carved on the stone slab in Xiaozhuan font. The Yanmen pass he saw was not neat, and the city wall was not stacked with bricks, but actually a rammed earth structure. Stones were used in some places.

The road in front of Yanmenguan city gate is deliberately narrow, which can only accommodate 30 people standing side by side. The main city gate can only provide one car or seven or eight people passing side by side.

Liu Yan got on the chariot again. When he passed through the city gate cave, he calculated that the depth of the city gate cave should be about 12 meters, and there are four Tibetan soldier caves on the left and right sides. He asked specifically and learned that each Tibetan cave can accommodate 50 people, and there are also stored grain, water, some ordnance, firewood and kerosene.

The Tibetan soldier cave in the city gate cave is not a decoration. It is mainly responsible for guarding the city gate cave. Once the enemy breaks through the door, they use their flesh and blood to block the enemy's advance. If they can't stop it, they will set fire.

Through the city gate hole, you enter an urn surrounded by four walls. In fact, this is the second line of defense of the city gate. Even if the enemy comes here, he has to face the bowmen on the four city walls to see if he has the ability to break through the second city gate against the arrow rain on his head.

Through the gate hole of the urn City, Liu Yan saw a school field, about the size of a football field, surrounded by fences.

At this moment, the school yard is full of soldiers standing in line. When they see the king's flag, they all kneel on one knee. They take the lead in shouting the slogan "ten thousand years of the son of heaven, there is no frontier for the Great Han". People everywhere join in. The slogan echoes in the mountains and rippling the earth.

In addition to the school yard, the area including the school yard is actually a permanent military camp. There are lines of defense built according to the defense system, and rows of barracks, including some arsenals and granaries.

Yanmen pass was the first pass in the early Han Dynasty. Yanmen pass in the early Han Dynasty was not like this. Not to mention that the defensive walls including the pass towers were not as high as they are now, even the Highlands were only a few fortresses.

According to relevant historical documents, Yanmen pass in the early Han Dynasty was only two feet high, and it was in a state of four openings. As a result, the Han Army had to block it with flesh and blood, which was repeatedly broken through casually by the Huns. The raging counties were not only Yanmen County, but almost the whole northern Xinjiang.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was not that they didn't want to heighten and thicken Yanmen pass, or even think about strengthening fortifications day and night. The problem was that the national strength was slightly insufficient, and then they were worried that it would stimulate the Huns. Many times, the defenders of Yanmen pass didn't exceed 3000, and they were urgently mobilized from other places after the war.

Probably in the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, due to the easing of the relationship between Han and Hungary at that time, Yanmen pass had been repaired and stopped for more than ten years... Mainly because they didn't want to stimulate the Huns, they generally raised the walls of Yanmen pass to three feet, and fortresses were also established on some highlands.

Until the reign of emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Huns could break through Yanmen pass many times. Only when the Han Empire turned defensive into attack, the Huns could not break into the Han territory through the Great Wall.

Facts have repeatedly proved that even if there are re consolidated fortifications, the overall strength of the country is insufficient, or the force is not in an advantage, and the pass can only play a certain defensive role. It should be penetrated or will be penetrated.

No matter which pass or the Great Wall, it has always played a defensive role, but it has more effect of early warning and blocking the enemy. The function of early warning is greater than the effect of blocking the enemy. The main purpose of building the Great Wall is to prevent Hu Lu from going wherever he wants. The Central Plains Dynasty can better predict the enemy's marching route, prepare for defense or take the initiative to intercept.

The contemporary Han Army has killed Mobei, and the grassland has belonged to the territory of the Han family. In fact, the Great Wall has lost its military value, and the role of various passes has been infinitely reduced.

The truth is that whenever the Central Plains Dynasty can take the initiative to attack the grassland, the Great Wall will become a decoration. However, all dynasties have not stopped paying attention to the Great Wall. The funds should be allocated for maintenance and repair have not stopped. There has always been a garrison, but the number of garrisons is large and small.

Naturally, Liu Yan wanted to go to the city building to take a panoramic view of the surrounding terrain, and then look at the winding roads in the mountains. He thought of several poems about Yanmen pass in his mind. It seems that no matter which capital is full of sadness.

It seems that it is true. As long as it is frontier fortress poetry, most of them need some "negative energy". It is not that the soldiers of the frontier fortress are bound to suffer heavy losses, that is to say, the people who go on the expedition don't know how many can come back. It seems that going out of the border to fight is a sad reminder of life and death. It really fully reflects the ideological concept of "defending the nation".

Liu Yan has been trying hard to recall, but he doesn't know that there is a small "Poetry Library". He is depressed to find that the only song in his memory is "giving strong words to Chen Tongfu for a while". It doesn't publicize that the border war will be doomed to death. The problem is that the last sentence "poor white occurrence" also conforms to the format of frontier fortress poetry, and always adds some sadness.

Otherwise, isn't it very impressive to "carry a lamp and watch the sword when drunk, and dream of blowing back to camp. Burn under the command of 800 Li, turn the sound of 50 strings outside the Great Wall, and point troops on the battlefield in autumn"? The artistic conception of "Lu made by horses flies fast, bows are like thunderbolts, and strings are startled. He has solved the world affairs of kings and won the name before and after his death" is also with good expectations.

"Your Majesty?" Sang Yu didn't know what Liu Yan was in a daze. He called several times before and didn't get a response. He increased the volume a little behind. He waited for Liu Yan to see it before he continued: "Xingyuan stops here tonight?"

Liu Yan is no longer recalling poems. He is considering whether to tear down the Great Wall.

The Great Wall is very long, but it was not connected at first. Its construction began in the spring and Autumn period. Of course, its purpose was to resist the aggression of the Hu people in the north. At that time, each vassal state had its own construction. With the annexation of the vassal states, the Warring States continued to build the earth, connecting the wall sections originally built by the vassal states. After Qin ruled the world, the real "Great Wall" can be regarded as the present world, but in fact, it also connects the great walls built in the Warring States period, and then builds beacon towers and passes in dangerous areas.

The Qin Great Wall is basically a rammed earth structure. It should be said that the great wall of later generations is actually a product of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and many sections are no longer the location of the previous dynasties. This is inevitable. After all, the territory of Zhuxia was pushed northward again and again. At the beginning, the Great Wall was built in modern mountain 1 West, Shaanxi 1 West and river 1 North. In the Ming Dynasty, it was pushed to Inner Mongolia.

It must be said that in fact, the dynasty that built the Great Wall to the northernmost was the Western Han Dynasty. It was built as far as Outer Mongolia, and directly to new Xinjiang in the northwest.

"Zi Shen." Liu Yan looked at the distance, where the sun was about to fall to the mountains. In some sections, he could see a section of the great wall like a yellow dragon: "I'm thinking, is it necessary to keep the Great Wall?"

Sang Yu was obviously stunned. The kings of all dynasties, regardless of whether the Great Wall became a decoration... No, the great wall of any previous dynasties was not a decoration. Anyway, all he knew was that no ruler wanted to tear down the Great Wall. On the contrary, he always maintained the Great Wall.

"Why does your majesty think so?" Sang Yu was both stunned and puzzled: "there is no shortage of national money in the Han Dynasty!"

In fact, today's Han state has not had time to pay attention to the existence of the Great Wall. It is only because of the military needs of a certain period of time to repair and reinforce some sections of the Great Wall, such as Yanmen pass under their feet, Shanhai Pass in HE1 north area, and Yumen pass in the northwest.

The resources consumed in the Great Wall in the Han Dynasty are not much in terms of overall income, and there are few corvees in counties and counties before they are transferred to the Great Wall. Corvee is more used for road construction and the construction of local villages. Generally speaking, the Great Wall is not a burden of the state.

"It's not a matter of money." Liu Yan raised his hand and pointed to the visible section of the Great Wall, and then pointed to the far north: "the Great Han is an offensive country. We have hit Mobei, and there is no threat for thousands of miles."

Sang Yu was silent. At present, the Han state really controls the grassland. There is really no enemy within a thousand miles of the grassland, but we should always consider the future. What he considered was whether the Han country could always be in the position of attack, or whether it could always have grasslands. Now he really wanted to tear down the Great Wall, but he didn't think it would lead to the loss of epic wonders. If there was a need in the future, he didn't want to build it again?

"I sometimes feel that some of the words of the prisoners are right. It is the great wall that limits the pioneering spirit of the Han people. I think it is safe to build a 'sheepfold'." Liu Yan raised his hand to stop sang Yu from saying what he wanted to say and continued: "as few people know, there was no great wall in ancient times. Zhuxia ancestors repeatedly competed for living space with other nationalities in the north. Waiting for the Great Wall, they stopped or even retreated."

Sang Yu tried hard to recall that some historical books rarely mentioned the Great Wall. Even if it was mentioned, it was also about a war that took place on the Great Wall. Often, which section of the Great Wall was broken through and the Grass Valley in the hinterland was beaten by hooligans.

"The sea can't stop the big man from exploring the unknown, and the Great Wall shouldn't become the 'yoke' of the Han people." Liu Yan smiled, but then he waved his hands: "I have to think deeply. If there is no great wall, future generations will not have the idea that they can't fight back to the Great Wall. They will know that they should work hard earlier in the event of invasion?"

Sang Yu was shocked again and again. The state of Han was at the height of the sun. How could the supreme ruler think that future generations would not only lose the grassland, but also shrink behind the Great Wall?

What Liu Yan knows is that Zhuxia will really shrink behind the Great Wall again and again, and even the national Zuo will be destroyed again and again. It is basically to feed the tiger or feel safe.

Liu Yan said in an unpredictable tone, "the Great Wall is like a lock."