While the court was shocked by the Xiongnu army, the people were not calm either. The reason was naturally the killing order that Li Xiang quietly launched.
Li Xiang's order to kill the Hu was not as harsh as the order promoted by Ran Min in history to the point of killing every barbarian. It was more about describing the miserable life of the people in the Bingyou border area, and the presence of the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other foreign races on the Han border. The crimes he committed were used to stimulate the blood in the hearts of the Han family, thus calling on people to go to the land of Bingyou to resist the Huns.
The reason why Li Xiang wanted to add Youzhou was naturally to prevent the imperial court from being jealous. After all, buying people's hearts wantonly and accumulating prestige would be displeasing to the imperial court. In addition to Youzhou, even if the imperial court is a little dissatisfied, it will only think that you are worried about the war and will not immediately target you. Moreover, in order not to arouse the jealousy of the imperial court, Li Xiang did not even publish it in the entire Han Dynasty as planned, but only ordered people to go to several states near Bingzhou to promote it.
Chen Liu, a burly man in Yanzhou, saw Hu Ling being killed and hurried back home. After giving instructions to his wife and children, he took out a pair of euphorbias and headed towards Bingzhou.
In Donglai, Qingzhou, a man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a broad face and a long arms was reluctantly asking his mother goodbye. Then, he ran on his horse, holding a spear, a pair of halberds on his back, a strong waist and a bow, and ran towards the north. Unfortunately, the direction he went to was not Bingzhou, but Youzhou.
In Yingchuan, Yuzhou, a young scholar asked the north, stopped for a long time, and finally sighed, "It's too early now, it's far from the time. I still need to see more." Then he walked back regardless. In the room.
A single order to kill Hu disturbed half of the Han people and also disturbed the inherent historical trajectory. But who knows how it will develop in the future.
Yanmen, there are still countless lives passing by every moment here, and every moment here tells the fragility and helplessness of life.
After all, Li Xiang's plan made a small mistake. Under the constant casualties, Yu Fuluo was finally forced by pressure and chose Wanyan Aguda to lead the army.
Wanyan Aguda is worthy of being Jin Taizu, a man who once led thousands of people to conquer the country. As soon as he took office, he changed the Xiongnu's siege method. The previously chaotic attack method suddenly became orderly under the command of Wanyan Aguda.
In the beginning, Meng Tian was able to achieve a record of 1 to 6, but since Wanyan A Gu took over as the commander, he could only manage to achieve a record of 1 to 4 or even 1 to 3.
One to four looks scary, but people who don't know it must think it is an incredible victory. But in fact, only the old and weak were killed on the Xiongnu side, while the strong were still recuperating. But all those killed by the Han army were elite soldiers. If things continue like this, I am afraid that these 100,000 old and weak people will consume more than 20,000 or even nearly 30,000 of the Han army's combat strength.
What's even more frightening is that if this battle continues like this, when the Xiongnu are all old and weak, and the strong ones come on stage, what will happen when the Han army faces the battle with a tired army?
In fact, Li Xiang was also a little panicked now. He had asked Wang Meng for advice many times, but Wang Meng just let him continue like this.
Now, Li Xiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Meng was indeed Wang Meng, and everything was as he expected.
As expected, the imperial court agreed to merge with the state to recruit troops on the spot to resist the Xiongnu. The land of Yanzhao has had strong folk customs since ancient times. Ever since Li Yang started conscription in accordance with the imperial edict, countless people have signed up every day. Coupled with the heroes and martyrs from neighboring states, in just a few days, many people have signed up. Nearly 20,000 troops have been collected. If they have already moved towards Yanmen as the first batch of reinforcements, if things continue like this, a 100,000 troops may be gathered within one month.
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"Sir, now that the imperial court has agreed to recruit troops on the spot, the first step of the plan has been realized. Now Sir, you can tell Xiang how to defeat the Huns army under the city to complete the second step of the plan." Li Xiang changed his worries from a few days ago. , asked with a happy face.
"Haha, lord, why do we want to defeat the Huns now? Isn't it good to continue like this?" Wang Meng asked in return.
Li Xiang was very anxious when he heard this, "Sir, didn't you plan to defeat the Huns at the beginning and designed to make my father the governor of Bingzhou? Why do you continue to have a stalemate with the Huns now?"
Wang Meng smiled and said, "Lord, at this moment, at that moment, the Huns have gathered 250,000 troops. Even if the stalemate continues, as long as Yanmen is not broken, it will be a great achievement. From now on, he can naturally help Ding Yuan. The promotion will allow Lord Biejia to succeed him as the governor of Bingzhou."
Wang Meng thought about it again, but his face became solemn and he said in a serious voice, "Moreover, Meng did underestimate the Huns. With the commander named Wanyan Aguda in this battle, an easy plan will easily end up being self-defeating. One who is accidentally killed It is not good to seize the opportunity and be bitten back. It is better to continue the stalemate like this. However, my lord, that Wanyan Aguda will be my lord's biggest enemy in the future, so we must take advantage of his weakness to get rid of him as soon as possible."
Li Xiang also didn't expect that Wanyan Aguda would make Wang Meng so fearful. What's more, I also want to get rid of Wanyan Aguda, so wouldn't the god-level summoning card reward from the Emperor-killing mission be great? But achieving this step is not easy. Although Li Xiang had been hiding that Xue Rengui wanted to hit Wanyan Agu secretly, he actually had no hope.
He sighed helplessly, "Sir, if the stalemate continues like this, the casualties will be too high."
Wang Meng didn't say anything after hearing this. He just said calmly, "My lord, the newly recruited soldiers have begun to arrive one after another. If this situation continues, I am afraid we can recruit 100,000 new soldiers, but there are two problems that need to be solved."
"Oh, sir, I wonder what the problem is?" Li Xiang asked doubtfully.
"First of all, Bingzhou is desolate. Now during the war, there are material supports from other states that can supply these 100,000 recruits. But if the war ends, how will these 100,000 recruits be maintained? If maintained, where will the military resources, money and food come from? If not maintained, this plan What’s the point?”
Wang Meng took a breath and said again in a condensed voice, "Secondly, the combat effectiveness of these one hundred thousand recruits is low. If they are not tempered by blood and fire, how can they become a strong army? How can the lord rely on them to compete in the world in the future?"
After hearing this, Li Xiang suddenly felt a chill in his spine. He understood that Wang Meng might not be unable to deal with Wanyan Aguda, and he wanted to train an elite soldier in all battles in this cruel way.
Although he understands and knows how to do it more beneficially to himself, Li Xiang still can't accept it. At this time, Li Xiang suddenly understood what kind of path he would take in the future. After all, this path was already extremely bloody before it really started.
I saw that Li Xiang's face was suddenly bright and dark, sometimes happy but not sad, but in an instant it turned expressionless, and then became extremely determined.
"Sir, Xiang understands what to do. We have no choice but to drag on in this battle. We can only choose to drag on."
Yes, Li Xiang does understand what to do. Since he chose such a path in the first place, he can only go on and go on at any cost.
"I would rather teach me to betray the world than teach the world to betray me." Li Xiang said in his heart.
