Not all of the more than 30,000 prairie people who are surrounded are young and strong.

According to the characteristics of the grassland "army", unless it is absolutely elite, it is impossible to be all young and strong, mixed with many old and young women and children, but don't think that these old and weak women and children are all hindrances.

The old and weak women and children of the nomads are no less brutal than the young ones, just because their physical disadvantages do not have more combat effectiveness than the young ones.

Under normal circumstances, nomads invaded farming peoples and went to rob villages. A small number of young people brought most of the old and weak women and children. The villagers who died in the hands of the old and weak women and children in the grasslands were no more youthful than those who died in the grasslands. Strong hands are few.

Dou'a's Junji Mountain captain headed to retreat, and the grassland people who fell into despair and thought they were mortal actually let out cheers, as if they were about to do not surrender, but to accept liberation honorably.

The prairie people do not reject surrender. The people who believe in serving the strong have always been the commonality of the prairie people. The disputes between the tribes on the prairie never stop. After the defeat, the tribe who surrendered to the victorious side will continue to live their lives. Happy on one side.

With the decline of the Xiongnu, the Han people are regarded as the strongest in the known world, and it has become a glorious thing for the steppe people to succumb to the Central Plains dynasty.

In about two to three hundred years, being selected to go to the Central Plains Dynasty to become a soldier has become the greatest desire of the warriors of the grassland. By the way, the tribes on the grassland also feel that it is normal to succumb to the Central Plains Dynasty, and it is abnormal to oppose the Central Plains Dynasty. matter.

It's just that the historical process was interrupted when Sima Jinshi was interrupted, and Zhu Xia's spine was also interrupted with the "clothed sailing south".

The entry of nomadic tribes into the Central Plains temporarily made the steppe people forget the horror of the Han people. Only a few elderly people still remember this "tradition" of succumbing to the Central Plains dynasty.

After the Han Empire decided to wipe out the Northern Frontiers, Li Tan led a standing army, along with the Grassland Frontier Army and the Junji Mountain Lieutenant Department, and a total of 37,000 troops attacked.

The war started when the lieutenant department of Junji Mountain was the first to enter the battlefield. They lightly equipped the Rouran King's account of Qionglong Ridge. Yu Jiulu Bati did not expect that the Han army on Junji Mountain would suddenly launch an attack, leading to Qionglong Ridge. There is no defense at all.

Under the First World War, Yu Jiulüba took the lead to escape with unknown military conditions. The Rouran people of Qionglongling were also flustered and did not make effective resistance. The Junji Mountain captain killed more than 7,000 enemies and captured more than 40,000 prisoners, and proceeded to the south with the frontier army. meet.

It was almost the time when Yu Jiulu Bati called on Rouran's various ministries to assemble forces, and Li Tan led a standing army to break into the territory of the Rouran tribal alliance.

Li Tan did not gather the entire standing army to fight together, but divided it into several troops, scattered and attacked the tribes of the Rouran people.

The Rouran king's account in Qionglong Ridge was attacked by the Han army without any preparation, and the rest of the Rouran tribe was even more unprepared.

In just one and a half months, the Han army leveled the various tribes of Rouran in Monan, achieving a victory of over 30,000 enemies and capturing 170,000 prisoners of war.

As the price of victory, the Han army only killed less than a thousand people, which was a real victory.

Yu Jiulu Bati assembled a part of the Rouran cavalry and headed east to the East High Car Territory, while constantly sending people to the Rouran tribe in Mobei to gather troops and horses.

Around the time when Liu Yan ordered the firearms to go to northern Xinjiang to participate in the war, Rouran formally formed an alliance with Donggaoche.

During the war in Monan, the general Lu Tai of the Han Empire also launched an offensive against the remnants of Tuoba and Murong.

As in the past, the two Xianbei remnants only resisted for a while, and immediately retreated to the further north. The General Shogunate of Zhengdong only achieved the result of annihilating the enemy by killing more than 2,000 and capturing more than 10,000.

"This enemy army blocked in the river bend is most of the prairie people that can be found in Monan." Xi Yan is not familiar with Zhong Xing, only knows that Zhong Xing is a very senior old man in the Han army: " Among them are Rouran people, Chile people, Qigu people...the tribes of the coming people are very mixed."

Zhong Xing was the commander of this firearms unit. The total number of riflemen and artillery was about 7,000, but the official rank was Zhong Lang.

Seven thousand people are in the county and county military system. If they die, there will be a military officer as a commander, and the standing army is a school lieutenant.

The establishment of only 7,000 people is accompanied by a middle-ranking general. It has already shown that the firearms is special, and everyone can see how much attention is paid.

"The Chile people and the Qigu people are a branch of the Dingling people, right?" Zhong Xing was still curious at first since he called the coalition army, how could there be no tall cart army: "How many have they come?"

"Xi Gao Che has 30,000 troops, and Dong Gao Che only sent eight thousand troops." Xi Yan had to introduce the combat history before the firearms troops arrived. After explaining, he smiled and said: "Xi Gao Che only suffered two or three losses. Thousands of people fled away in embarrassment with their tails sandwiched."

Xi Yan said so much, but just to let Zhong Xing understand that they can actually annihilate the enemy. It took so much effort and many setbacks to give the firearms a perfect battlefield. I hope Zhong Xing Don't forget this.

The Han Empire now has an established firearms force. It is not that other people become the commander of this firearms force, but Zhong Xing was selected, which shows that Zhong Xing is at least a figure in the heart of the emperor.

There is also competition within the military. In many cases, the competition is very fierce. When waiting for full competition, whether you have an impression on the emperor's side, and how deep the impression is, is definitely a key thing.

Zhong Xing became the commander of the first firearms unit, and the military will continue to change outfits. So as the first person to command the firearms unit in actual combat, he was so blind that he didn't realize it was a rising star. The rising military star?

Although the average age of the generals in the first echelon is only 40 years old, it seems to be the most golden age, but don’t forget that people over 20, because of the relationship between learning and experience, basically there will be no For any major changes, it may be difficult to familiarize yourself with the new tactics and apply them flexibly.

When the army has new weapons and embarked on a brand-new method of tactics, the commander of the first firearms is destined to be frightened immediately. If such a person is able to owe favors, who will give up?

"There is no enemy within a three-hundred-mile radius." Xi Yan walked to the bottom of the map of mountains and rivers, and pointed to the southwest position of the North Sea (Lake Baikal, now called the Bhajani Dashui by Hu people): "Rou Ranke Khan Yujiulu Bati and the leader of Donggaoche, Afulijian, have a combined force of about 80,000 troops stationed here."

Donggaoche only has a leader, not Shanyu or Khan. The leader is a white-skinned Dingling, but not all of the tribes are Dinglings. In fact, the most numerous are the Chile people. Dinglings are the second most populous among the tribes. There are some tribes such as Qigu people, Wu people, Luo people and so on.

The Qigu people, Wu people and Luo people are regarded as miscellaneous hustle. The fact that they can be handed down to the world means that their tribe is rising, or any country will not call out their names alone, but will only be summed up by zihus.

Zhong Xing didn't appear domineering because he was taken seriously, on the contrary, he knew exactly what position he should have. He decided to only wear ears, and he obeyed the order whatever arrangements Li Tan had.

"General Zhengdong led his army to this vast forest and lost the traces of the two remnants of Xianbei." Xi Miao's hand drew across a river system marked as "completed water": "It is reported that a wave appeared here. Unknown cavalry, they are also approaching the North Sea."

The Monan area is now completely owned by the Han Empire. Bridgeheads have also been built in the area called Mobei, but there are only a few military fortresses built along the main river in the northeast.

It’s not that the Han Empire didn’t pay much attention to the northeastern region of Mobei, but it was the season of ice and snow all year round. At the same time, the ecology there was a kind of environment with wide trees between mountains and rivers. It is also difficult to ensure that you will not get lost in the forest.

"This is a long forest with a radius of more than eight hundred miles." Li Tan said for the first time: "His Majesty named the Xing'an Mountains, and it is divided into two parts, the West is the Daxing'an Mountains, and the east is the Xiaoxing'an Mountains."

What the Han Empire knew best was the part of the Xiaoxing’an Mountains. The reason was that the Tuntian Corps had long been sent to the southwestern part of the Xiaoxing’an Mountains. Later, slaves from the three countries of the five to six hundred thousand peninsulas were moved to reclaim the wasteland. Build a grain-producing area on the land.

The Tuoba Remnant and Murong Remnant have been shrunk to the Xing'anling area for seven or eight years. At the beginning, the two remnants together should be more than 400,000 people. Only one year later, there are less than 250,000 people left. .

The two remnants of Xianbei will lose so many personnel in just one year, not all because of the continuous pursuit of the Han army, but the local climate is indeed very bad, and there are countless beasts in the forest.

The surviving Xianbei people are the most tenacious group of people. They passed the early life and death period, and they can be regarded as crossing the mountains and ridges to the plain behind the Xing'an Mountains. However, they did not usher in the good days as imagined. Winter, spring, and most of autumn are all frozen ground covered by snow and ice in the four seasons of the year.

In the past few years, 250,000 combat and non-combat attritions were repeatedly killed and injured. Waiting for this time the Han Empire to launch a large-scale offensive again, the two Xianbei remnants will flee without even thinking about it, except that they are really unable to defeat the Han army. In addition, there is a great relationship with them with only less than 100,000 people left.

"The Tuoba Department has decided to surrender to the Dahan." Li Tan gave out the news that no one would feel surprised. The most important thing is behind: "They will act as an internal response after our army launches a new offensive."

After the rise of the Han people again, which of the huhus had the most comfortable life, then it is undoubtedly the Tuoba Xianbei tribe.

Of course it’s not because there is a Tuoba show among Liu Yan’s four concubines, nor is it entirely dependent on Liu Yan’s view of Tuoba Xianbei’s independent sinicization. It is the above factors plus Tuoba Xianbei’s decision to understand the situation and choose to cooperate. , Tuoba Xianbei was regarded as a typical example, and received the best treatment in terms of resettlement.

After Li Tan said so much, he wanted to express only one meaning, that is, there will be no accidents at all in this war in northern Xinjiang, and it must be the Han Empire's ultimate victory.

Victory becomes inevitable, but whoever makes the profit is undetermined.

The war in Northern Xinjiang may be the last war that can be called a great war in the Han Empire in the past ten years. If the nomadic alliances in Northern Xinjiang are resolved, not only is the Northern Frontier of the Han Empire no longer threatened, it should be said that the Han Empire’s surrounding areas There is no longer a threat, and the importance of the military is bound to show a downward trend.

For the last feast in ten years, those who did not want to be a Marquis, do not want to wait another ten years to seize the opportunity.

Those who have sealed Hou also want to make their resumes look better.

In a war that must be won, they not only need to win, but also to fight well in order to submit satisfactory answers to the entire country.

"Our department will meet with General Zhengdong's department at the Crocodile Gen River (Selenge River)." Xi Miao's finger is a large river system whose source is the North Sea, but it is thousands of miles southward. All branches, the meeting point is one hundred and fifty miles south of the Allied Grassland: "What needs to be done is to force the enemy to fight a decisive battle before the snow season arrives, to eliminate the enemy forces in the northeast at once, and sweep their tribes. Then. , Marching westward, preparing to invade Xigao cars!"

It was very clear, no one had any questions, and Li Tan also asked unrelated people to step back.

"Together." Li Tan left Zhong Xing alone and ordered people to come to the wedding banquet. After sitting separately, he said, "How do you feel about commanding the Firearms Army?"

"I also thank the general for creating the opportunity." Zhong Xing toasted and invited a drink: "The general is free, and the general will have a full drink at the end!"

The war here is over, and the surrounding army is invincible for a radius of three hundred miles. After the army wins, it will naturally need to be rewarded. Not only can the generals drink stubbornly, but the soldiers can also drink in batches. There is no prohibition on alcohol.

"If you have any thoughts..." Zhong Xing filled himself with a drink again, and said with real emotion: "The times have changed so much, and even the brave warrior can't resist a shot."

Facing the archer’s archery, the warrior can still wield weapons to knock off the arrows, but if he is asked to cut the bullets, he will definitely not be able to do it. It is really difficult to mix in the army by relying on pure martial arts. .

"Yong Zeng had long sighed~lightnovelpub.net~ When Li Tan was in Chang'an, he heard Ran Min's sadness in Spring and Autumn. He smiled and said: "Today, watching the volley of formations is unstoppable. When I watched it, I guessed again and again that if the enemy's horses were not frightened, would the rifle line array have a way to deal with it? "

"Yes." Zhong Xing replied without even thinking about it: "The riflemen are arranged in four horizontal rows and rows of organization lines. It is best if there is a refusal and a fence. There is no less effective effect. It can be determined under repeated exercises. Against the cavalry."

Li Tan imagined it in his mind, and concluded that it was probably a hollow square formation in the shape of the word "mouth". He was not so convinced that just relying on this formation could effectively resist the cavalry.

Armed with cold weapons, the opposing cavalry is in a dense array. There have been successes and failures, but they are usually beaten passively.

"Many riflemen form a hollow square, each hollow square is within the firing distance of each other, forming a full hollow square..." Zhong Xing said a series of terms, and then summarized: "The enemy cavalry rushed in, They were shot in all directions, so they could break through a few hollow squares and still lose."

Li Tan understood in an instant, isn't it the scattered arrow formation that Zhu Xia is best at? It's just that the weapon in the soldier's hand has become a musket.