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Chapter 343 Drawing the Sword
History and fate will not repeat itself.

Now that Yang Zheng has come to this era, he will not let the Xianbei people gain a firm foothold in Hexi.

Even if they stand firm, Yang Zheng will pull them out.

Hexi belongs to the Han family, and Hetao also belongs to the Han family!

There is no better opportunity than now.

After handing over Guzang to Jiang Faye, Yang Zheng raised his personal guard battalion and rode five thousand paces to the northeast.

Based on the principle that two father-in-laws should not be placed in the same basket, Yang Zheng also brought Peng Hu and his two thousand Lushui Hu cavalry.

In the first month of the second year of Zhengyuan, it was still freezing in the northwest, but the enthusiasm of the soldiers remained undiminished.

With consecutive victories, morale is in full swing.

It's just that when camping at night, there was a comet dozens of feet across the sky, as bright as day, whizzing away, and falling into the Qilian Mountains.

The soldiers rushed to wait and see.

Yang Zheng didn't pay too much attention to it. Many major events will indeed happen this year, but they don't seem to have much to do with him. He still leads the troops to the northeast.

As soon as I entered the Xitao area, I encountered Xianbei scouts cruising furtively in the distance.

At this time, Meng Yu was being harassed by the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people didn't fight decisively, they just dragged and harassed them constantly. They didn't know the terrain, so they were controlled by others.

This is the difficulty of the nomads, occupying mobility, when he wants to fight, he will fight with you, and he doesn't want to fight and roar away.

After Yang Zheng arrived, he was not in a hurry. He took one step at a time and found a place where he could avoid the wind and snow to garrison troops. The monks could not run away from the temple, so he sent a brigade of scouts to find out where the Xianbei tribe was.

The disadvantage of winter for nomads is that people can run away, but livestock cannot.

It is impossible for the Xianbei to lose their livestock and flee beyond the Great Wall in this weather.

That is suicidal.

However, the Xianbei also sent a large number of cavalry to surround and kill the Xiping scouts.

However, the equipment strength of the two sides is not at the same level. A 20-man scout team can easily defeat a [-]-man team on the opposite side.

During the six or seven days, you came and went, caught a few people alive, and found out the details of the Xianbei people.

"The tribes of Xianbei are gathered in Gaopingchuan, and they are gathering their troops." The scout replied.

Gaopingchuan is more than 100 miles downstream.

"Aren't you in Fuping City?"

Shuofang County of the Han Dynasty is in the Houtao Plain, and the Shanghe area in Xitao belongs to Beidi County, and the county is located in Fuping County (southeast of Wuzhong, Ningxia).

After King Qin Zhaoxiang destroyed Yiqu, he set up Beidi County to govern Yiqu County, and later Eastern Han County to govern Fuping County.

After the Qiang-Han War, Beidi County continued to move inland, and the institutional system was still there, but the county government moved to Fengyi County. During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Duan Jiong, Zhang Wen, Dong Zhuo and others wiped out the first Qiang, and the Han court prepared to restore Beidi County. , but the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, the Central Plains were in chaos, and the frontiers also lost their hands. Fuping County, the prefecture of Beidi County, settled in Zuo Fengyi and passed on to later generations.

There are only dilapidated cities left on Xitao.

"There are thousands of defenders in Fuping City, and there are many Han Chinese." The scout hesitated.

Han Chinese?Yang Zheng was slightly surprised.

But it's normal to think about it. Since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yongliang has never been peaceful.

Dong Zhuo, Guo Si, Li Jue, Ma Chao, Han Sui and others fought one after another, and the war continued. It is normal for the people in Guanzhong to flee to the grassland.

When the Middle-earth was strong, the Hu Yi were transformed, but when the Middle-earth was weak, it was the Han people who were transformed.

From Xiaoguan to the battle dust, Hehuang cuts off the foreign spring.Han'er speaks Hu'er's language as best as he can, but scolds the Han people at the top of the city.

Geographically, Hehuang, Hexi, and Hetao are places where farming and animal husbandry civilizations meet.

As long as this kind of area is occupied by the Han people, the Han Dynasty will be strong, and if it is occupied by the grassland people, the grassland will be strong.

The same is true for Liaodong.

The Eastern Han Dynasty established a country with power and power, and was not interested in opening up borders and expanding land, but was more interested in involution. Enclosing land and population is obviously easier than fighting with outsiders with a knife, and the benefits are also great.

The court of the Eastern Han Dynasty adopted a compromise method. They stopped fighting and moved inland. The effect was not bad, and many tribes were Sinicized.

Wei and Wu divided the Xiongnu into five tribes. The Xiongnu in several counties in Hedong had actually been registered as Qimin, living in Fenyang, Qixian, Xixian, Xinxian, Wenshui and other places. They paid taxes and performed military service like Han people. The control power is getting weaker and weaker. The grassland tribes and the local Qiang people are united, and their strength has greatly increased.

Both Han Ting and Cao Wei can control the situation, so it is not a big problem.

The problem is that since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains has actually been in decline.

Not to mention Hetao, Sima's family can't even control Hexi. A bald tree can turn Sima's family upside down.

When Sima Jin established the country, even Guanzhong rebelled.

The Yellow River is full of harm, but only benefits.

Hetao was called the top of the south of the Yangtze River in later generations, the land of fish and rice. The Yinshan Mountains block the wind and snow in the grasslands, and the Helan Mountains block the wind and sand in the desert.

It's a pity to leave such a good place to them.

It is precisely because of the overgrazing of the Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Qianghu people that the desertification of Hetao is getting worse.

Finding the base camp of the Xianbei people means that they can't escape.

"Patriarch Peng, in your opinion, how should we fight this battle?" Yang Zheng turned his gaze to Peng Hu, and asked professional questions.

Peng Hu looked loyal, "My subordinates believe that the rebels abandoned the city and retreated to Gaopingchuan in the north. They must want to join forces with Xianbei Qianghu in Shuofang and other places, and our army does not have the strength to sweep the entire Hetao. During the battle of the Xianbei people."

"It makes sense." Yang Zheng nodded in agreement.

In the two battles of Yuyin and Guzang, one thousand enemies were killed and eight hundred were lost.

It is indeed unwise for the soldiers to fight against Xianbei without rest after a long battle.

However, many things cannot only be considered in front of the eyes.

"But if we don't hurt them, they will definitely bark their teeth at us. When the weather gets warmer, Huma must go south! Our army has at least taken the Xitao area and regarded it as a barrier of Wuwei."

This is why Yang Zheng resolutely went north regardless of the exhaustion of the soldiers.

"The general is wise! The subordinates are stupid!" This time Peng Hu sincerely admired him.

Taking Xitao, the upper reaches of the Yellow River, is not only a barrier, but also a base for sweeping the front and back of the downstream in the future!

In the cold wind, Yang Zheng summoned the officers of the army above the senior level to make the final mobilization, "How can others snore on the side of the couch? Xianbei has repeatedly made enemies with us, so we have to teach them a lesson, so as to promote our army's military prestige and pass orders to the whole army." , On the day when the thieves are smashed, the money and silk woman, let you take it!"

Hundreds of faces were ferocious at the same time, hundreds of pairs of eyes became hot, and hundreds of breathing sounds became rough...

Looting and killing are the nature of people in this era.

Soldiers, like weapons, have no sky above, no ground below, and can't be behind, so they can be invincible before!
When it's time to release, let it go.

If you don't break out in suppression, you will be in suppression... metamorphosis...

The city of Guzang was broken, and the ferocity of the soldiers was forcibly suppressed by Yang Zheng, but this suppression accumulated, and sooner or later there would be an outbreak.

Moreover, there are a large number of Qianghu in the Xiping Army, and these people have a trace of animal nature in their nature.

It is possible to expect to train all these people to become teachers of the king, but it will take a lot of time and energy to train them slowly.

But now Yang Zheng doesn't have the energy, let alone the time.

It is not easy to get this group of people together to form a strong army.

Besides, in a forest of wild beasts, isn't playing the king's teacher the same as Song Xianggong?
"Follow the order!" Everyone roared wildly, as if suppressing the howling cold wind.

Yang Zheng smiled wryly in his heart, this was probably the most heartfelt obedience he had ever heard.

Both animal nature and human nature cannot be violated.

(End of this chapter)