I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 66, the self-confidence of the hegemonic nation
But for Xu Wei, the expansion of the territory is really not a good thing. To occupy these places, he must arrange manpower. Even if there are 1000 people stationed in these places, or more than a dozen counties, his [-] people are not enough.

Even if it is only stationed in an important county, it will take 5000 soldiers, not to mention that defending against the Xianbei in the north is obviously not enough to defend with 1000 soldiers. At least a 3000-strong army must go to the Great Wall to defend against the Xianbei.

And Xu Wei only has 1 soldiers. After such a dispersal, Mayi only has 3000 people, and his defense is a bit empty, so generals like Wang Lei want to increase 4 soldiers, so that they will have enough troops to defend the Quartet.

But Xu Wei disagreed. There were only more than 20 people in Mayi, and it was impossible to support 5 soldiers. He could still find a way about money, and the worst thing was to get a few "inventions" that came with money.It is mainly a food problem, and the lack of so many strong labor forces also affects the progress of Mayi's construction.

Not to mention that it is not enough for the soldiers to arrive at the place. There are not many people there. The logistics obviously need the support of Mayi, whether the roads should be built, and whether the military fortress should be built.

To support these 20 soldiers, [-] young and strong men in the entire Mayi need to maintain the logistics of the army. Whether or not this Mayi should develop is to change the direction of their development into a military group (military bandit) rhythm In order to maintain such a huge army, I am afraid that we can only go to the road of continuous external plunder, just like a military group like Mengjin.

This kind of development direction is obviously not what Xu Wei wanted. If they were a group of poor bandits, it is estimated that the Huns and Xianbei would not care about beggars like them, but Xu Wei showed his wealth, which led to the formation of the Tengjia Army. It is impossible not to retain a certain amount of military power!

Finally, Niu Gui came up with a solution.

"Shuai Qu, I have a solution. There are a large number of Huns herdsmen, Xianbei herdsmen, and Karasuma herdsmen in Yanmen County and Dingxiang County. They often come to work in our Mayi. Since we want to occupy these place, these herdsmen are our people.

We might as well recruit 1 cavalry from these tribes, and the cavalry in northern Xinjiang will be more dominant, and with this cavalry, it will be easy for us to support the Quartet. Even the farthest Pingcheng can be reached in two days!The most important thing is that it doesn’t cost much to raise cavalry on the grasslands, just recruit some herdsmen to help take care of them. There is no shortage of grasslands around Mayi! "

In the north of Yanmenguan and the vast area of ​​Dingxiang County, the population of Han people is only about 3, but this does not mean that there are only 3 Han people.

In the sixth year of Xiping (177), the Han army was defeated in the battle with Xianbei, and the Xianbei people took the opportunity to occupy Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Shangjun and a part of Xihe.

Because of the protection of the Great Wall, Yanmen County can barely resist the Xianbei people, but the Huns, Xianbei people and Karasuma people began to invade here. From time to time, small tribes entered and crossed the Great Wall to graze here, and the Han army was unable to drive these herders away.

After Xu Wei occupied Mayi, all the frontier troops in the north of Yanmen Pass and Dingxiang County were evacuated. Niu Gui often traded with these neighboring tribes because he wanted to buy war horses, cattle and sheep. come and see.

There are probably hundreds of small tribes between the basins of Yanmen County and Dingxiang County, with about 5 to 6 herdsmen, enough to form 1 cavalry, as long as they announce to these small tribes that they have become members of the Tengjia Army That's it.And Niu Gui didn't think these tribes would resist the rule of the Tengjia Army!

Wang Ge thought for a while and said: "There is an army of 10, and we can form a militia of [-] at any time. Such a large army is enough to threaten the Xianbei and the Huns."

Wang Lei's eyes lit up quickly and he said, "We should build cavalry long ago, and these herdsmen are natural cavalry. As long as our equipment can keep up, with a little training, we will be an elite cavalry."

Wang Lei wanted a cavalry for a long time, not a small cavalry with thousands of people, but a cavalry brigade with more than [-] people, cavalry that could fight the Huns and Xianbei!
Only Xu Wei said worriedly: "The herdsmen in Yanmen County and Dingxiang County are all Huns, Wuwan people and Xianbei people. Let's recruit them to lure wolves into the house. After all, our enemies are the Huns and Xianbei people! There's water, what shall we do?"

Why are Wang Lei and the others not worried that the Hu people will not want to join in, nor are they worried that the Hu people will backlash? Wei didn't even know what to say!How could they have such honeyed self-confidence!
Wang Lei smiled confidently: "If you can become a Han Chinese, how could these herdsmen want to be barbarians!"

For Wang Lei, it is the truth that Hu people want to become Han people!
This is the self-confidence of the overlord and the people, and it is the self-confidence of a hegemon who has gone through more than 300 years. Even Xu from the New China does not have this kind of confidence. , There are still many people who want to be shepherd dogs, but Wang Lei and the others are the only beacon of known civilization. He doesn't think any civilization is better than the Chinese civilization.

Therefore, the two sides will have different perceptions on the issue of the Hu people. In this era, the Hu people all want to become Han people. Duan Yan can lead the Qiang people to fight the Qiang people, and Gongsun Zan can recruit 1 people while hating the Karasuma people. An army of Wanwuwan people.

The Huns and Wuwan people will help the big Han to fight the Xianbei people, and even a large number of Hu people in the Han territory have been Sinicized and learned to farm. The children of the nobles will also worship the Great Confucianism as their teacher, and despise the Xianbei people further north as barbarians who can herd!
Being a Han Chinese in this era, the attraction among Hu people is beyond Xu Wei's imagination!
Niu Gui also said: "If we recruit them, these people will fight more vigorously against the Huns and Xianbei. After all, we will not occupy their pastures, but the Huns and Xianbei are not necessarily. These herdsmen are not only Defending us is also defending our own grassland, there is no way they will turn back!"

Hearing what Niu Gui said, Xu Wei wanted to go to the words of all kinds of shepherd dogs in modern times. In order to express loyalty to his master, traitors will bite their own clansmen even more fiercely. Although this is ugly, it is the same here .

Then everyone began to discuss how 2 soldiers would occupy the territory of these dozen counties, where to build fort defenses, how many soldiers could be stationed in the fort, where to build the beacon tower, and how to support these places with logistics. Discuss carefully.The more things were discussed, the more Xu Wei stayed in the barracks for more than a month.

(End of this chapter)