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

Chapter 434 Competing in the Central Plains ([-])

more than two years later
Spring of the eighth year of Yanhou 120 (338)
The Northeast region, which was originally relatively stable, suddenly became turbulent, and a war broke out.

After Shi Hu stabilized the country and eradicated all kinds of opponents, he immediately mobilized an army of [-] to attack Duan's Xianbei.

Duan's Xianbei was nominally a vassal of the Jin Dynasty, and was an ally of Wang Jun in the past, and often went south to harass the Jizhou area of ​​Jiezhao.

At the same time, Shi Hu also ordered Murong Xianbei, Yuwen Xianbei, and Yan Guo to attack Duan Xianbei at the same time.

In order to protect themselves, Murong Xianbei and Yuwen Xianbei surrendered to Jie Zhao during the Shile period.

Yuwen Xianbei sent a hundred cavalry to participate in the battle symbolically. Yuwen Xianbei had no conflict of interest with Duan's Xianbei. If he was not afraid of offending Shi Hu, Yuwen Xianbei didn't want to participate in this war at all.

Yan Guo also only sent a hundred imperial guards to participate in the battle, and was only responsible for capturing slaves on Duan Xianbei's territory after the battle. It was impossible to waste his strength to fight Duan Xianbei to the death.

Only Murong Xianbei was very active. They had long wanted to destroy the Duan family Xianbei, and then took control of Youzhou by themselves, so Murong Xianbei dispatched [-] cavalry to join the battle, vowing to destroy the Duan family Xianbei.

Of Jie Zhao's three vassal states, two are paddling, and only Murong Xianbei is actively preparing for the battle.

Some people in the Jiezhao regime have proposed to cut off the Liao pay of the Yan State, because they give the Yan State a large sum of money every year. As a result, when the Yan State is really needed, the Yan State does not help at all, and brazenly paddles the water.

With Yan Guo's perfunctory attitude, is it still necessary to pay Liao?
For this, Yan Guo didn't care about it. At worst, he would rejoin Jin's camp and go back to be a vassal of Da Jin. After so many years, Jin thought he had forgiven Yan. Accept Yan Guo.

Due to the large gap in strength between the two sides, the war ended quickly.

But what's interesting is that when Murong Xianbei and Jie Zhao attacked Duan's Xianbei, Duan's Xianbei chose to attack Murong Xianbei as the main force, and only used partial divisions to guard against Jie Zhao.

I would rather let the western Liaoning area be occupied by Jie Zhao than let my Xianbei compatriots occupy it.

In terms of internal fighting talent, the Xianbei clan is no worse than the Sima clan.

After Tai Shihu led a hundred armed cavalry to plunder more than 1000 young and middle-aged laborers in Liaoxi County, he returned directly to Shanhaiguan.

One hundred cavalrymen of Yuwen Xianbei looked at the scenery under the city wall, and then returned to the grassland.

Murong Xianbei was fighting against the remnants of the Duan Xianbei.

Shihu slaughtered the Xianbei people frantically in Liaoxi County, and continued to order the expansion of the army, wanting to continue to attack Murong Xianbei.

Shi Hu ordered to expand the army to 50, and each family should have three males to serve as troops, and each family should provide the imperial court with a horse-drawn cart and an ox cart, all farming and production would be stopped, and all of them would serve as logistics for the 50-strong army .

The total population of Jie Zhao is only about 500 million, but Shihu actually wants to recruit 50 soldiers.

The Great Jin Dynasty at the same time had a total population of 1000 to [-] million and a military strength of only [-].

At the same time, Yan State had a total population of 580 million and a military strength of only [-].

Don't look at the history books, there are hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, but the real situation is generally only tens of thousands of troops, and more than [-] are all wars to destroy the country.

During the period of Emperor Huanling, the Han had a population of 6000 million, but only 40 soldiers.

As a result, mourners were everywhere in the territory of Jiezhao. People sold their children and daughters, and many people hanged themselves. 20 people in the Luozhou (Luoyang) area fled to Huaibei and asked the Jin court in Huainan to save them.

However, the Jin court only sent [-] officers and soldiers to the rescue, and they were defeated by Jie Zhao's [-] cavalry after just a little contact.

All 20 people were captured by Jie Zhao cavalry soldiers. Originally, Shi Hu wanted to kill all the 20 people who fled because he felt that the 20 people had betrayed him, but his grandson Ran Min suggested that instead of killing It's better to sell it to Yan Guo.

Shi Hu felt that what Ran Min (Ran Min) said was reasonable, so he transported the 20 people to the Donglai area of ​​Yan State, packaged them and sold them to Yan State.

Yan Guo was not polite at all, and accepted all the bills, but did not pay directly, but paid with three years of Liao's salary.

That is to say, for the next three years, Jie Zhao will not have to pay Liao pay to Yan Guo, and these 20 people are equivalent to three years of Liao pay.

After this incident, Shi Hu didn't care about the life and death of the common people even more, and sold those who disobeyed directly to Yan Guo, and he could also save some money for Jie Zhao by the way.

Yan Guotong pays with the future Liao's salary, and resolutely refuses to pay the cash directly, just thinking that if Jie Zhao is finished, he will not be able to get the Liao's salary in the future, so hurry up and pay the Liao's salary that may not be available in advance up.

After half a year of tossing like this, by the spring of the second year, Shihu's 50 troops were finally recruited.

During this period, because of his brutality and inhumanity, a total of 300 million refugees were produced. Of these 300 million refugees, 80 were captured by Shihu and sold to Yan State, who paid Liao's salary for the next 12 years in advance.

Another 20 people fled to Liangzhou and became citizens of Liangguo.

Another 50 people fled to the grassland and merged with the Xianbei people in the grassland.

There were still 150 million fleeing to Dajin, but more than 20 were intercepted and killed by Shihu's Jiehu cavalry on the way, and more than 40 died of starvation and exhaustion. Only 80 actually arrived in Jin.

But these are not what Shi Hu cares about. What he cares about is when all the Xianbei people will be wiped out and the grassland will be unified, so that there can be a stable source of cavalry.

When the spring of this year began, Shi Hu forcibly launched a war regardless of the needs of the people for spring farming. In the season when the people needed to farm, they mobilized the power of the entire country to attack Murong Xianbei in the north.

All of a sudden, the land of the Central Plains was full of cannibalism. In order to make the Hu soldiers more loyal to him, Shihu allowed his Jiehu soldiers to wantonly kill and plunder the Han people in Zhao State. The whole Central Plains ushered in the darkest hour.

Even Cao Cao's brutality when he massacred the city was far less than one-tenth of that during Shi Hu's reign.

another two months later

Shihu's 50 troops finally arrived in Liaoxi County, and forced the 50 troops to cross the Yanshan Mountains to attack Murong Xianbei on the other side of the mountains.

Along the way, more than 30 Zhao soldiers died of starvation and exhaustion in the Yanshan Mountains. Although the remaining [-] Zhao soldiers arrived at the Yanbei Grassland, they were exhausted and had no combat effectiveness at all.

Shihu's style of play surprised Tai Shihu of Shanhaiguan. Of course, the Yanshan Mountains can be crossed. The Xianbei people often cross them. Deng Ai also crossed them. Opposite to catch slaves.

But the problem is that the larger the scale, the larger the scale of the crossing, and the more people die.

Others have hundreds of people crossing, at most a few thousand people crossing, how can there be tens of 10 people like Shihu marching across the mountains, this does not treat soldiers as human beings at all.

Sure enough, Shi Hu's hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated under the leadership of Ma Qiu.

A handsome young man from Murong Xianbei with only two thousand light cavalry smashed Ma Qiu's exhausted Chinese army camp, and then other Zhao soldiers saw that the Chinese army was crushed, and they collapsed without fighting, and some ran away. Back to the Central Plains, but more Zhao soldiers chose to surrender to Murong Xianbei on the spot, because they really couldn't bear Shihu's cruelty.

And this young Murong Xianbei who defeated hundreds of thousands of Zhao's army with two thousand light cavalry, his name is... Murong Ke!

At the same time, among Shi Hu's defeated army, Ran Min (Ran Min) was the only general who brought his troops back to the Central Plains in an organized way, and the other generals were all destroyed by Murong Ke.

Therefore, Shi Hu paid more and more attention to his adopted grandson, and actually encouraged Ran Min who had fled back to Yecheng: "Come on! Work hard! I will pass on the position to you in the future, and after I die, you will be my eldest Zhao Xin!" the king of heaven."

Shi Hu moved the capital to the more affluent city of Ye three years ago, and claimed to be the King of Zhao.

Ran Min (Ran Min) is overjoyed and full of hope for his future.

(End of this chapter)