Han Dao world

Chapter 1063 The Return of Lu Bu
Lu Bu came faster than Liu Xie imagined.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lu Bu arrived in Wancheng.After meeting with Lu Xiaohuan and confirming that the situation was true, he asked to see him immediately.

Hearing that Lu Bu was coming, Liu Xie was stunned for a while.

Even if others were in Meiji, they came here non-stop after receiving the edict, this speed is a bit astonishing.

Unless he is not in Meiji, but in Inner County.

If so, there is a problem.

After the meeting, Liu Xie's first question was, where did you receive the edict?

A smug smile appeared on Lu Bu's dark and thin face. "Your Majesty, I received news from the little girl in the surrendered city, and after consulting Cao Duhu, I rushed to Hequ to wait for the edict. After receiving the edict, I traveled day and night, not daring to stay for a moment."

Liu Xie asked again immediately. "What does your daughter use to spread the news faster than the imperial edict?"

"Swallow Falcon."

Liu Xie immediately thought of Lu Xiaohuan's Yan Falcon.

He knew that Lu Xiaohuan had a falcon.In fact, many people in Liangzhou play falcons. When he was in Liangzhou, he saw many people using falcons as pets or hunting.

Falcons may seem small in size, about the same size as pigeons, but they are birds of prey.

But he didn't know that Yan Falcon could still deliver messages.

He was always looking for a vehicle to deliver a message.If it is known that Yan Falcon has this ability, people will definitely try it.

Liu Xie instinctively asked a few more questions.

The result disappointed him.

It is true that the falcon can fly long distances and is extremely fast, but it is not very good for sending letters, and its main purpose is hunting.Lu Xiaohuan has had this falcon for a long time, and this is also the first time she tries to deliver a letter.

The reason is also very simple, Yan Falcon is not very obedient and difficult to train.And this bird was born in Bingliang, once released, it will only fly north.

The mission of delivering the letter was able to be completed this time because the place where it was caught was near the Surrendered City.If he was in other places, such as attacking on the grassland, this swallow falcon would not be able to complete the task.

After hearing this, Liu Xie was somewhat disappointed.

Just saw a little light of hope, but it was snuffed out again.

Seeing this, Lu Bu asked a question. "Is Your Majesty looking for a new way to convey the message?"

"Yeah, the horse is too slow. Even if the whole journey is expedited for [-] miles, it will take nearly two months to send the news to the Western Regions. If something happens, there is no time to react."

Lu Bu pondered for a moment. "I heard from Huang Yi that he is training a kind of pigeon. It may be used to convey messages, which is better than the falcon. It is only used in the Western Regions, so there may still be some problems. There are too many raptors such as the falcon in the Northwest, and the pigeon is afraid of flying. If you don’t leave Yumen, you will be eaten.”

"Huang Yi is training pigeons?"

"Yes, it is said that the effect is not bad."

Liu Xie nodded in satisfaction and didn't ask any more questions.

Huang Yi was really surprised.Before that, I figured out a way to use constellations to locate, so that wolves have the means of navigation while riding on the grassland.Now the pigeons are trained to deliver messages, and the possibility of success is not small.

If he is not sure, he will not tell Lu Bu.

What's going on, I'll send someone back to find out.

Liu Xie immediately asked about the situation in northern Xinjiang.

Lu Bu came one by one.

After Cao Cao arrived in northern Xinjiang, he defended the city with infantry, guerrilla cavalry, and wolf cavalry were mainly responsible for going deep into the desert to inquire about news and carrying out fixed-point attacks on restless tribes.

Over the past two years, great achievements have been made.

After the main force of the Hu Lu on the grassland was severely injured, they were attacked by wolf cavalry one after another, and there was no possibility of recuperating.Even if they want to retaliate and assemble a large army to attack the border, they are not Cao Cao's opponents, and they were beaten to the ground by Cao Cao.

In a dilemma, some tribes chose to surrender, while others chose to flee westward.

For ordinary herdsmen, surrender is the best choice.As long as they survived for five years, they could be naturalized in the Dahan, become the subjects of the Dahan, and have the opportunity to move to a more affluent inner county to settle down.

But for those tribal leaders, fleeing west is more in their interest.

After naturalization, they are no longer generals with thousands of troops, they are no different from ordinary people, at most they are petty officials.Leading their troops to move westward, they can still have their own strength and live a life like a master.

There must have been disagreements, even disagreements, and they drew their knives and cut each other in a rage. They had seen too much, and Lu Buji was not even interested in talking about it.

Lu Bu made a key answer to Liu Xie's most concerned question about the barbarians from northern Xinjiang going south.

During the guerrilla campaign in the north and south of the desert, in addition to learning the situation from the captives, he also sent some scouts to go deep into the desert to learn about the situation.Generally speaking, some barbarians did migrate from the north, but the number was not large and the threat was not great.

From the current point of view, it is unlikely to break through the wolf cavalry's resistance, let alone threaten the south of the Great Wall.

But I heard that the Fuyu people in the eastern part of the desert have been doing a lot of things recently, they are gathering their troops, and there may be friction with the Youyan Dufu.

Liu Xie looked at the map while listening.

As far as his impression is concerned, the north of Yanran Protectorate's jurisdiction is the Mongolian Plateau, and further north is the Siberian Plateau.Before the potato crop was introduced to Asia, it was indeed not an easy task to survive on the Siberian Plateau.

In fact, even for the Huns, the North Sea south of the Siberian Plateau was the northernmost point of their range of activities.Further north, there are not enough resources to feed a certain population.Even if there are tribes, as long as the population increases slightly, they will have to go south.

Some people say that this is how the Huns and Xianbei came from.

The name of Siberia is related to Xianbei, that is, Xianbeilia.

Judging from the current situation, after defeating the Xianbei people, it is indeed unlikely that they will go directly south from Siberia and hit the northern border of the Han Dynasty.

It's time to shift the center of gravity to the west and protect the west of the river and the western regions.

"Is it possible to carry out long-distance marches on the grassland now?"

"Yes." Lu Bu replied: "If it's just wolf cavalry, we can march quickly and eat the enemy's food, and we can reach Jianshi City in a month. If we use infantry and cavalry together, the speed will be much slower, and it may take the whole summer. Just do it."

"What if the infantry are also equipped with horses and march in a nomadic manner?"

"That's not going to happen anytime soon, grazing takes time."

Liu Xie took a look at Lu Bu, but said nothing.

He understood what Lu Bu meant.

Lu Bu didn't want to march with Cao Cao at all, he just wanted to take the cavalry to the Western Regions by himself.

He doesn't care what Lu Bu's psychology is.What he cares about is that if there are no infantry and only cavalry, even in the Western Regions, it will be very difficult to win a real victory.

Cavalry is of course important, but infantry also plays an integral role.If you want to conquer the Western Regions and reach the Mediterranean Sea, you can't do it without a powerful infantry army.

Moreover, it must be an infantry army dominated by Han people. An infantry composed of Qianghu cannot afford such an important task.

The only infantry phalanx that could compete with the Romans and win the battle was the main force of the Han army.

In any case, he had to arrange for at least [-] Han infantry to go to the Western Regions before the prelude to the Western Expedition began.

Although Lu Bu is brave, he is not a general after all.

(End of this chapter)