Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 224

another seven years later
Jianwu 15th Spring
After seven years, Liu Xiu finally destroyed Kai Xiao and Gongsun Shu, and immediately sent troops to attack the last separatist force-Lu Fang of Yanmen County.

(Because Wu Han did not participate in the war, it took Liu Xiu two years longer than in history to destroy Gongsunshu, but Chengdu was also preserved and was not slaughtered by Wu Han. It can be regarded as: although Wu Han was lost, Chengdu was preserved.)
Lu Fang's strength is not very good, but relying on the backing of the Huns, he is very arrogant and often goes south to plunder the Guanzhong area.

Emperor Liu Xiu personally led [-] light cavalry, and recruited [-] cavalry from Wuhuan's servants who guarded Wuhuan's school lieutenant Wang Jian to fight together.

Due to decades of wars and famines, the world's population has shrunk, and at the same time, the powerful gentry took the opportunity to speed up land annexation. Therefore, at this moment, the Luoyang court only has a population of 900 million on the books.

The total population of the thirteen prefectures in the world is only 900 million. Even with the addition of the more than 100 million refugees who were moved by Liu Xiu to Yangzhou and Jingzhou to open up wasteland, the population of the world is only a little over 1000 million.

Therefore, for Liu Xiu, [-] light cavalry were almost all the cavalry troops of the Han Dynasty.

On the way to Yanmen County, what Liu Xiu thought was that after the world was unified again, the population of the fields must be checked again, and the population of those lands annexed by the powerful gentry must be released, so that the big man can resume production as soon as possible.

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Wuhuan Xiaowei's Mansion (formerly Wuhuan Shanyuting)

In order to prevent Wuhuan from reuniting, Wang Jian, the captain of Wuhuan, divided Wuhuan into eight tribes according to Fuxi's gossip.

They are: Qiantian, Kundi, Zhenlei, Xunfeng, Kanshui, Lihuo, Genshan, Duize.

Each tribe has a Shanyu, for example, the Qiantian tribe has a Shanyu.

At the same time, the Wuhuan Shanyu was revoked, and Wuhuan people were prohibited from calling themselves Wuhuan Shanyu. Those who claimed to be considered rebels.

Moreover, in order to better divide and rule (shit-stirring sticks), Wang Bian specially divided those who have enemies with each other into the same tribe, and separated those who have blood relations into different tribes.

In this way, not only will the eight tribes be hostile to each other, but the eight tribes will also have many internal conflicts, so that they will never grow stronger in internal friction.

At the same time, when dividing the grasslands, the grasslands of the tribes that are hostile to each other are intentionally placed next to each other, and at the same time, the weaker tribes and the stronger tribes are assigned the same number of grasslands, so that the stronger tribes have more grasslands per capita. lower, resulting in involution.

Within the eight tribes, the enfeoffment system of the Western Zhou Dynasty was implemented to reduce their cohesion.

And on the cliffs at the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain, the heads of four people, Wang, Zhang, Li and Lu, were carved, and a stone statue of Confucius was carved next to the four heads. The Wuhuan people are divided into non-believers, superficial believers, and fanatics.

Different believers enjoy different treatment.

The above measures, after seven years, have finally achieved some success.

Although some Wuhuan people often rebelled because their own cultural customs were destroyed, under Wang Bian's deliberate divide-and-rule policy, these rebels often did not get the support of other Wuhuan people, and were always led by their Wuhuan people. The compatriots backstab the reward.

The rebels will become slaves. As long as they are loyal to Wang Bian and fight with Wang Bian, more slaves and livestock can be allocated.

This time when he went to attack Lu Fang, Wang Bian mobilized 500 men from each tribe, a total of 4000 men. At the same time, he mobilized [-] Han cavalry to fight with the army to prevent the Wuhuan people from rebelling. The total number reached [-] cavalry.

These Wuhuan cavalrymen were all teenagers, seven years ago they were still under ten years old.

Considering the fact that the Wuhuan people have been severely internalized by themselves, it is basically impossible for the four thousand Wuhuan cavalry to unite and fight, so the combat effectiveness must be very weak. Therefore, Wang Bian asked Liu Xiu to only be responsible for chasing and killing Lu Fang's remnant soldiers, or Small tribes that slaughtered the Huns cannot be the main force.

Liu Xiu also readily agreed, and he didn't expect the Wuhuan people to be really loyal, a little effort and a show would be enough.

The main force of the Xiongnu is gathering in Yanmen County, preparing to join Lu Fang and fight Liu Xiu in a decisive battle.

There were not many Huns. Because they were hit too hard before, the entire Huns had only [-] cavalry, and with Lu Fang's [-] cavalry, there were only [-] cavalry.

The four of Wang Bian led [-] cavalry wandering in the Monan grassland, and they didn't dare to fight the main force of the Huns.

She just wanted to find some Xiongnu tribes to plunder, and the outcome of the war could only depend on Emperor Liu Xiu.

After two days of marching, Wang Bian and others finally found a Hun tribe on the vast grassland.

"Warriors, plunder that Xiongnu tribe, and all the wealth you plunder belongs to you!" Wang Bian ordered to a group of Wuhuan servant cavalry.

"kill!"

The Wuhuan people yelled in the Wuhuan language and rushed towards the Hun tribe frantically.

But Wang Bian's Thousand Horsemen stood still.

The Wuhuan cavalry was in charge of charging into battle to rob, while the Han cavalry was in charge of protecting her, Wang Jian, and preventing the Wuhuan people from rebelling.

Tatata!
Thousands of Wuhuan people were massacred in the Xiongnu tribe, men were killed and women were taken away, just like what the Han army did to them Wuhuan.

The Wuhuan people vented their anger on the Huns, and they washed away their inner humiliation by bullying these unarmed Huns herdsmen.

In the melee, there were also Wuhuan people fighting each other.

No way, under Wang Bian's divide and rule policy, it is basically impossible for the Wuhuan people to unite with the Wuhuan people, and the Wuhuan people still hate each other.

Therefore, the fighting power of the four thousand Wuhuan cavalry is actually very weak. If they really want to fight head-to-head, they may not even be able to beat the two thousand cavalry of the Huns.

This is also the main reason why Wang Bian asked Liu Xiu not to directly participate in the war.

Wang Bian rewarded the Wuhuan who slaughtered the Huns in battle, and turned a blind eye to the Wuhuan who slaughtered the Wuhuan in melee, as if he hadn't seen it.

After the battle, thousands of Hun herdsmen of this Xiongnu tribe were slaughtered, and thousands of Hun women were separated by Wuhuan.

The four thousand Wuhuan people also lost more than 600 people in the battle.

Only over 100 Wuhuan people were killed by the Huns herdsmen, and the remaining four to five hundred Wuhuan people were all killed by Wuhuan people.

This is impossible.

Obedient slave boys are generally weak in combat effectiveness, while slave servants with strong combat effectiveness are generally unwilling to continue to be slaves, and there is a high probability that they will rebel.

For the foreign slave army (puppet army), loyalty and combat effectiveness can often only be chosen from one of the two, and it is almost impossible to have both.

Wang Bian naturally chose to make the Wuhuan people loyal to him, so he could only abandon the fighting power of the Wuhuan people.

Wuhuan women have long been plundered to Liaodong and became the property of the four major families. Therefore, if the Wuhuan people want to reproduce, they can only plunder the women of the Huns or Xianbei.

At the same time, a large number of livestock of the Huns were also looted. These livestock will be brought back to the Wuhuan grassland to multiply, be herded and grown by the Wuhuan people, and finally sold to Liaodong at a low price.

Seven years ago, in Liting Sweeping Caves, the four major families plundered 20 heads of livestock!
The Wang family still only wanted cattle and horses, and the sheep with the largest number were divided by the other three families.

The Wang family bought wool from the three families of Zhang, Li and Lu, and then spun it into woolen cloth in the Taohuagang Industrial Zone, and finally sold it to the Central Plains.

(End of this chapter)