Chapter 362
Because according to the information received, Jiehu in the Xiangguo area already knew that the situation was not good after the Huns failed to conquer Hanoi County.
Many Jiehu have shown their craziest side in desperate situations.
In the land hundreds of miles around Xiangguo, almost all the Han people who could escape had already fled, and those who could not or did not want to escape gathered together in Wubao to defend themselves.
Since the beginning of autumn, groups of Jiehu cavalry have often looted and slaughtered people everywhere, and even often set fire to mature farmland, turning the Han people's hard work for most of the year into ashes.
Liu Yu knew that these Jiehu no longer planned to run the Xiangguo area and had completely returned to the state of rogue bandits.
After hearing Liu Yu's words, the guard general Zhao Kun hesitated, as if he had something to say that was difficult to say.
Liu Yu asked directly after seeing it.
"Don't be hesitant. If you have something to say, just say it."
"Your Majesty, this winter is extremely cold. I saw that many military soldiers have sufficient winter clothes. Most of them are fur or cotton clothes. However, the preparations of the auxiliary soldiers are different. Many people have different preparations. Wearing linen winter clothes, if we go to the Xiangguo area to fight, I'm afraid it will be difficult to endure."
After Liu Yu heard this, he felt very pleased.
Although this Zhao Kun was a guard of the Chinese army, he reported to Liu Yu unreservedly all the military affairs he saw, big and small, especially such seemingly small things, which Liu Yu had never thought of.
In today's era, there are no cotton-padded clothes that will become popular in later generations, because cotton has not yet been selected and planted in the Central Plains.
In winter, the only clothes that can really keep out the cold, apart from expensive furs, are silk winter coats.
But these were expensive, and ordinary civilians could only fill their coarse linen clothes with reed catkins and the like.
"I have thought of this a long time ago."
Liu Yu smiled slightly and said confidently.
"Ran Long and Zhang Tong from Dongping Prefecture have already conquered the Haoqi, Nanwoju and other tribes. The furs paid tribute by these Yi people are enough to make most of the winter clothes."
"It will probably be delivered in another two or three days."
Not long after Ran Long led 3,000 military troops to the east to Lelang County, Murong Xianbei, Cui Ao, and Goguryeo in the north started fighting among themselves, and they had no time to take care of Lelang and Daifang counties.
Ran Long and Zhang Tong took this opportunity to launch a conquest against many barbarian tribes south of the Gaima Mountains with some of the Haoqi tribe as their righteous followers.
These barbarian tribes were unable to resist at all. Except for a few who fled into the dense forests further north, most of the tribes chose to obey.
Because Ran Long and Zhang Tong didn't ask for much from them, they just asked for furs and a small number of hostages, and they didn't do much harm.
These primitive fishing and hunting tribes of Fuyu and Sushen have no other property but this kind of fur. They basically have as much as they want. The number of deer, roe deer, fox, mink and other animals in the vast thousands of miles of forest is absolutely It is several times more than people.
"That's great. If this is the case, you won't have to stay in bed in the winter anymore."
Zhao Kun said very happily.
For those military soldiers, although it is very expensive to prepare a set of fur or silk clothes, they can still be purchased.
And those auxiliary soldiers who exist as vassals are just retinues of these military soldiers, which are equivalent to followers and have no ability to deal with them at all.
At this time, another chamberlain came in to report that it was the chamberlain Xi Jian who wanted to see him.
When Xi Jian came in, his face was obviously serious.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Xuzhou. Thousands of Jiangdong soldiers and horses have gathered in Linhuai, as well as thousands of boats. It seems that the person who came here is evil."
Liu Yu took the emergency report and read it immediately.
After reading it, Liu Yu couldn't help but sneer.
Now the Langya King Sima Rui Group in Jiangdong has defeated Hua Yi, the governor of Jiangzhou, and recruited the refugees in Xiangzhou. Even Gou Xi's refugee army in Jingzhou has suffered heavy losses from the plague, and it can be said that the south of the river has been basically pacified.
Now seeing Liu Yu annexing Jizhou and Youzhou one after another, he finally couldn't sit still.
"Mr. Xi, in your opinion, how far will the Jiangdong people's temptation go?"
Liu expected that the most important thing now was to take advantage of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty to attack Guanzhong and devour the Xiang Kingdom.
As long as the Jin army in Jiangdong does not attack northward in a large scale, this strategy will not change.
Thousands of soldiers and horses are simply not enough to capture the core areas such as Pengcheng in Xuzhou. At most, they can only harass the Huaibei side.
As for those massive naval forces, they were of no use at all, because the Han army in Xuzhou had no naval forces at all.
"If there are only a few thousand soldiers and horses, there is indeed no big threat." Xi Jian stroked his beard and said, "However, if these are suspicious soldiers, it may not be easy to tell."
After the two discussed it for a while, there was no way to determine the true expectations of the Jiangdong Jin army this time.
Liu Yu said directly.
"I think this is just a test. The people in Jiangdong may not be so courageous yet. Just ask Dong Ping of Xuzhou to evacuate Dingkou in Huaibei as far north as possible."
Since the deaths of Shi Le and Wang Mi, the situation in the north has become clear almost instantly.
At least there were no barbarians or bandits in the entire Xuzhou territory. As a result, many refugees who had fled south to avoid disaster began to return to Huaibei.
In today's Han Dynasty in Qingzhou, more than 100,000 military soldiers occupy a large area of land and farmland, and they do not need to pay taxes. As a result, the taxes shared on the heads of ordinary people are actually very heavy.
However, even so, it still cannot stop the refugees fleeing from the south from returning north.
In addition to the feelings of homeland, another reason is that after the northern refugees went south, in addition to being helpless and reduced to abject poverty, they also suffered from the contempt and oppression of the powerful natives of Jiangdong.
When the Xiongnu generals Zhao Gu, Wang Mi and others were wreaking havoc, many northern refugees were not allowed to cross the river to avoid disaster. Instead, they were placed in the Jingkou and Guangling areas in the north of the Yangtze River and were used as sandbags to fend off the enemy.
And under pressure from the natives of Jiangdong, Langya King Sima Rui ordered several times to implement strict mountain, forest, and water closures in Jiangbei and Jiangdong.
In other words, the mountains, forests and lakes in the south and north of the Yangtze River already have owners. Ordinary refugees are not allowed to collect firewood or fish at all. Even after land reclamation, they may invade the powerful mountains and be expelled.
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the current situation under the control of local power by aristocratic families was so magical.
Liu Yu didn't need to do anything to care for his people. He just relaxed the ban on Xuzhou's mountains, forests, and rivers, and the northern refugees in Jiangbei returned north one after another.
The Xuzhou governor appointed by Liu Yu temporarily settled all these refugees in the three counties of Huaibei.
After Sima Rui, the king of Langya in Jiangdong, learned of this situation, he immediately issued a ban, strictly prohibiting the refugees from Jiangbei from returning north, and planned to move them south to Kuaiji County.
Therefore, this time the Jin army from Jiangdong came here mostly to plunder the population of Huaibei.
Otherwise, they would not only dispatch thousands of soldiers and horses, but also accompany them with so many boats.
After hearing this, Xi Jian nodded.
"What your Majesty said is absolutely true. The people in Jiangdong are just suffering from ringworm and scabies, which is nothing to worry about. Only the Xiongnu and Hulu are serious problems."
After hearing this, Liu Yu shook his head gently.
"Mr. Xi, this is wrong!"
"In my opinion, these Huns are not a serious threat, but they belong to someone else."
Xi Jian was confused for a while.
"Your Majesty, why not the Huns?"
"When the Huns and barbarians raised their troops, they only had 50,000 troops. Even now there are hundreds of thousands of them, but they are full of miscellaneous Hus and Di and Qiang. As long as they suffer a few defeats, half of them will become birds and beasts."
Liu Yu's tone was very confident.
"Now that we have the land of the five states in our hands, as long as we save up for two or three years, the Huns and barbarians will surely be crowned!"
After Xi Jian heard this, he asked again.
"Then who does Your Majesty think is a serious problem?"
"The real big trouble is not in the Central Plains."
"Not in the Central Plains?" Xi Jian thought about it and said immediately.
"Does your Majesty mean Xianbei?"
Liu Yu nodded.
"Yes, it's Xianbei!"
"Today's Xiongnu Hulu have the name of Xiongnu, but they no longer have the reality of Xiongnu. The so-called control of hundreds of thousands of strings is now Xianbei."
Xi Jian couldn't believe it.
"The Xianbei tribes are mixed and do not belong to each other. Even if they control millions of people, they are still divided. I am afraid they are not as good as the Xiongnu of the former Han Dynasty."
Liu Yu shook his head and said worriedly.
"These Xianbei people have already seen the reality of the Central Plains, and the Xiongnu slaughtered everyone and proclaimed themselves emperor. I'm afraid there will be more ambitious people among the Xianbei people in the future."
Hearing what Liu Yu said, Zhao Kun, the guard general next to him, suddenly said.
"Your Majesty, why do you think so? As long as the Huns and Huru are eliminated, do those Xianbei slaves still dare to cause trouble?"
"Yes, Your Majesty thinks so, but you are overly worried. As long as China and North Korea are stable, how can Beidi cause chaos?"
When Liu Yu heard this, he also shook his head, feeling a little self-deprecating.
In fact, what he just considered did not only refer to the Xianbei people today.
What he was thinking about was whether there was any permanent solution that could prevent the East Asian grasslands, the hotbed of nomadic forces, from continuously generating huge threats one after another.
However, today's Xi Jian, Zhao Kun and others are still in the shadow of the martial virtues of the Qin and Han Dynasties. They all feel that today's Huns and barbarians are just the embers of civil strife.
As long as these Huns and barbarians are wiped out, the barbarians from all over the world will still be their servants.
But Liu Yu knew that since the fourth century AD, the strongest melody on the Eurasian continent was not the glory of civilization, but barbarism and killing, and barbarian invasions, which were continuous.
Liu Yu didn't know the reason for this, but he knew that the Di, Qiang, Xianbei and other forces after the Xiongnu and Jiehu were the greater threat.
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Jizhou, Zhao State, Zhongqiu.
On the snow-covered ground, hundreds of cavalry in black were running forward with all their strength. In order to speed up their horses, many riders even threw their armor, heavy weapons and other burdens under their horses.
A few of the running cavalry even threw away their helmets, leaving only a leather lining, and just lay on their horses to avoid the arrows shot from behind.
Behind them were pursuers several times their number.
These pursuers were all wearing dirty leather robes and pointed felt hats on their heads. Some of them had their felt hats thrown away, exposing their bare scalps and emitting hot sweat.
Although the equipment of these pursuers was not as good as those of the black cavalry in front, they had superb equestrian skills and quickly took advantage of their lightness to outflank them from both sides.
Seeing that they were about to be surrounded, the leader of the black-clothed cavalry immediately roared.
All the cavalry in black quickly gathered into an array, ready to turn around and charge towards the pursuers behind them.
However, when they saw that these black-clothed cavalry were surrounded and ready to fight, the chasing cavalry screamed at each other and started to swim in two directions, avoiding the direction of the attack of these black-clothed cavalry.
Not far behind, guarded by many Chinese cavalry, Liu Yu stood on a brand-new saddle and looked not far ahead.
"These Kuntou Xianbei are indeed good riders!"
The cavalryman Wu Xin, who was guarding beside him, sighed.
The black-clothed cavalry who were desperately escaping just now were the Jiehu soldiers and horses from the Zhao Kingdom, and the cavalry chasing behind them were Yuwen Xianbei's cavalry summoned by Liu Yu.
These Yuwen Xianbei's cavalry were all carefully selected by the newly appointed Liaozhou governor Yuwen Mogui. Although they were small in number, less than 2,000, they were all good players in each department.
At this time, Yuwen Xianbei's cavalry rode in a circle and shot down. Those Jiehu cavalry who had lost much horsepower due to their desperate escape began to be unable to withstand the arrows shot from all directions.
More and more Jiehu cavalry began to scream and fall down. Even with the protection of armor, it became increasingly difficult to support them.
At this time, some of these Jiehu cavalry began to shout loudly.
"surrender!"
"I am willing to surrender!"
These desperate Jiehu cavalry had begun to give up their last will to fight and pinned their survival hopes on surrender.
However, it is a pity that these Jiehu shouted in Bingzhou dialect, and those Yuwen Xianbei cavalry could not understand them at all.
swish swish
The sound of dense arrows is still echoing, harvesting the lives of Jiehu cavalry one after another.
Not long after, all the exhausted Jiehu cavalry were shot and killed.
Yu Wenxun Niyan, who was wearing a light leather armor, was holding a Jiehu's head in one hand and the reins in the other, and ran excitedly in front of Liu Yu.
Yu Wenxun Niyan turned over and dismounted, shouting happily.
"Your Majesty, this is General Jiehu Kongtu!"
After saying that, he raised the head high in his hand, as if offering a treasure to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu immediately praised.
"Yu Wenyi won the first battle and beheaded the prisoners, so he can be awarded with merit!"
After a chase, Yuwen Yi's cavalry immediately burst into cheers. Not many people cared about the Yu Wenyi cavalry who died in the battle just now.
Anyway, in the eyes of these barbaric Kuntou Xianbei, death in battle is the most normal thing.
It would be a shame to die in the felt tent.
