At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 270, pacifying Liaodong and subduing the Huns with the Huns
To put it bluntly, while Pei Guo was still making marriage alliances, the style of painting in Liaodong's belly was different from that of Liu Bang and others. The place was already in raging war.

Chen Yu couldn't control the Hu people in Liaodong, but when this land belonged to the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty would not let them run wild.

At this time, the Han Dynasty was about to launch a war against the Huns. The chaotic Liaodong was obviously not what the Han Dynasty wanted to see, because it would make Liaodong a vulnerability for the Han Dynasty.

So Xu Fan appointed Lu Guogong Lu Chen as the governor of the Liaodong Protectorate to command the Han princes in Liaodong, completely quell the chaos in Liaodong, and maintain the Han's rule in Liaodong.

And this is what Lu Chen wants to do, because Liaodong is not stable, and his Lu State currently has only 20,000 people, the smallest among the four major princes. The chaotic Liaodong has restricted the development of the Lu State. He had long wanted to rectify Liaodong County, but because Chen Yu was the king of Liaodong, it was difficult for him to do so.

But now that Chen Yu is no longer an obstacle, and Xu Fan has given Lu Chen the appointment of the Protectorate of Liaodong, he can integrate hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong and allow Lu State to develop rapidly.

After Lu Chen received Xu Fan's order, he ordered all the Donghu people in Liaodong to accept the rule of the Han. If there were any tribes that dared to do evil, the Han would destroy these tribes.

It's a pity that Liaodong is now in complete chaos. The Donghu people don't care about Lu Chen's orders at all. They should plunder or plunder.

Faced with this situation, Lu Chen recruited 5000 soldiers from the Lu State and 2 soldiers in the name of the Liaodong Protectorate to prepare for war against the Donghu people. At the same time, he joined forces with Chen Ying, Xu Zhongzhao, Xu Xuan, Xu Dong and other princes to fight The Hu people in Liaodong launched a purge order.

Although the coalition forces of the Liaodong princes only had 4 troops, for the Donghu people who had been dispersed by the Huns, such an elite force of Han Dynasty was simply not something they could bear.

But for these princes and kings, the market is not a problem at all. As long as they sell cattle and sheep to the Central Plains, they can get a large amount of funds, and they don't have to worry about any merchants dare to lower their prices.

Because Hebei was preparing to attack the Huns, the price of large livestock soared. A war horse could be sold for 2 yuan, and a farm cattle could be sold for 6000 yuan. Even with this prosperous market, Lu Chen and the others not only paid off the loan from the development bank, but also made a fortune. Countries can be considered extremely rich.

But the princes and kings like Lu Chen were different. They lacked tribesmen, cattle and sheep, but they did not want these tribal leaders. The Han Dynasty had its own advanced system, how could it be possible to learn from these barbarian systems. The Han princes who had studied with Xu Fan for several years would not accept these tribal leaders at all.

Moreover, the geography of Liaodong is also very unfavorable to the Donghu people, although the Donghu people are a grassland people who are good at riding and shooting. However, their tribes poured into Liaodong in large numbers, which plunged them into a dead land.

So when Lu Chen led tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress these Donghu people from north to south, their end was coming. They couldn't defeat Lu Chen's coalition of princes in a frontal battle. They wanted to escape, but Liaodong, surrounded by sea on three sides, gave them no way to escape.

At the same time, the eastern part of Liao Dynasty is better than Liu Bang, that is, there are hundreds of thousands of Qi people and Yan people who have fled here, and the population is evenly divided between grassland people and farming people. Princes like Lu Chen don't have to worry about barbarians occupying the magpie's nest. They only need to break up these tribes and build villages and towns to settle these herdsmen. As long as they settle down, even if the herdsmen are part of the farming civilization, they will soon assimilate into the Han people.

Therefore, compared with Liu Bang, who was still struggling to open up wasteland, the power of the major princes and kings like Lu Chen has expanded rapidly in the past few months. The population of Lu Chen's princely states has soared to 7 to 8, while smaller princes like Chen Ying also have Between 2 and 3, the entire Hu tribe in Liaodong was almost completely divided by them.

Lu Chen looked at the map and found that Liu Bang's vassal states were nearly a thousand miles away from them. He shook his head helplessly and said, "I don't know what he was thinking. He actually went to such a far place to build a country and wasted such good development. Opportunity.”

They are also savages, but the Donghu people are much richer than the Yi people. They have cattle, sheep, and war horses. They captured hundreds of thousands of Donghu people, and also captured millions of cattle, sheep, and horses.

Because Liaodong is a peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides and the Liao River, and the Lai River is connected to the east and west passages. At the same time, there are many forests and swamps inside the Liaodong Peninsula. This kind of terrain is extremely unfriendly to the cavalry. It is an extremely closed peninsula, which is particularly unfavorable for cavalry operations.

Chen Ying said with a smile: "Liu Bang established the vassal states near Laishui, which is already the border of the world. That's why I didn't meet Liu Bang. However, I learned from Lu Shi that Liu Bang absorbed many savages during this time. , the number of tribesmen has exceeded 1, but those savages are very poor, and Liu Bang is having a hard time trying to feed these tens of thousands of savages. "

Unlike the Huns who annexed the Donghu people, the Huns would accept them as long as these tribes recognized Maodun's Chanyu status and changed their identity to Huns. The tribal structure did not need to be changed at all. It can be said that the battle between the Xiongnu and Donghu was a high-level struggle for interests.

Xu Zhongzhao and the others smiled triumphantly. Compared to Liu Bang and the others, the princes had already completed primitive accumulation.

On May 9, the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, Xiangping City.

Then several major princes and kings divided the population, cattle and sheep according to their merits, and brought them back to their own countries, treating ordinary herdsmen as their own people. In this way, there were no middlemen to make profit differences, and they, the princes and kings, could gain the maximum benefit.

Several major princes in Liaodong gathered together to discuss the next strategy.

Of course, if the Hu people are all divided, then the Liaodong rebellion will naturally be completely put down.

Lu Chen asked strangely: "Where did Liu Bang build the vassal state? We have almost searched all over Liaodong, but we haven't found him yet."

So the Donghu tribe along the way was unlucky. As long as they were surrounded and suppressed by the Han army, the Han army would kill all their leaders, shamans and other wise men, and wipe out the upper ruling class.

Thinking that establishing the population of vassal states is the first step, now the hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong have been divided up by them. Liu Bang has obviously missed this opportunity, and there will never be such a good opportunity again in the future.

Although it is said that a family with thousands of dollars and feathers does not count, it depends on whose hands these animals are in. In the hands of the Donghu people, they will not be able to sell them at a high price. A snowstorm and drought will cause them heavy losses.

Then Lu Chen said seriously: "After your Majesty learned that we had pacified Liaodong, he sent an order to them to speed up the training of soldiers. After the autumn harvest, our Liaodong Protectorate will send out 2 cavalry to attack the Donghu territory occupied by the Huns. "

Xu Chongzhao smiled and said: "Your Majesty underestimates me. He only wants us to send 4 cavalry. With the population of Liaodong, even 5 to cavalry is more than enough."

Lu Chen said: "Your Majesty is mainly worried that our foothold in Liaodong is not stable. After the army goes to war, it will cause turmoil in Liaodong. Therefore, our army mainly plays a containment role."

"The strategy His Majesty has set for us is to win if we can win, and to contain the Huns' Zuoxian Wang tribe if we can't win. Our army will be supplemented by military attacks and mainly political inducement to surrender. We should absorb more Donghu people who have just surrendered. To weaken the strength of the Huns, if we do this, we have completed the task entrusted to us by His Majesty."

Xu Fan also knew that the newly established Liaodong Protectorate was not very powerful. In addition, it had just surrendered hundreds of thousands of Donghu people, so naturally it would not give them too strong a task to prevent the Han Dynasty's rule in Liaodong from collapsing. .

Xu Dong was somewhat dissatisfied and said: "Your Majesty, you are looking down on me. The Huns are just lucky enough to defeat the Donghu people. They only have one million troops. What's there to be afraid of? They are so cautious."

In this era, the Central Plains was full of military virtues, and few people really regarded the Huns as a formidable enemy.

Xu Zhongzhao said: "Your Majesty is right to be cautious, and your Majesty's arrangements are not wrong. Those Donghu people have just surrendered to us. They have poor will to fight and are lawless. They have no sense of military regulations at all. How can such troops have fighting ability?" It will be great if we can contain King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu."

In the later period of pacifying the Liaodong Rebellion, Lu Chen and others also led some Donghu people to join the battlefield, but the result was very disappointing to them. Not only did these Donghu people have poor military discipline, but they also had no sense of compatriots at all. They treated their own compatriots just like killing and robbing them. Looting, but this is not in line with the long-standing military regulations and disciplines of the Han Dynasty.

It is not in the interest of Lu Chen and others. The population in Liaodong is precious. The vast Liaodong continent has only a few hundred thousand people, less than half of Chang'an City. It is full of wilderness, swamps, and grasslands. This made Lu Chen and the others sad. Many places they considered to be good farming lands were overgrown with weeds.

When they wanted to open up Liaodong, population was the first priority. Under the background of equalizing land in the Han Dynasty, people from the Central Plains rarely came to Liaodong. They could only solve the problems of their own tribes locally, so the population of Donghu also declined. Lu Chen and others saw that their property was destroyed by killing the Donghu people wantonly. This is naturally something that Lu Chen and the others do not allow.

Lu Chen nodded and said: "If we don't train these Donghu people, it will be difficult for them to go to the battlefield. There are still three or four months before the autumn harvest. Let's seize the time to train the cavalry. Although our Liaodong Protectorate cannot be the main force, we can contain the Huns. It is also a great achievement for the Han Dynasty to recruit King Zuo Xian's troops. Moreover, King Zuo Xian's tribe is richer, and we can plunder King Zuo Xian's tribe to enrich our vassal states." Lu Chen and Liu Bang went there. Things were different now. The enemies they encountered were more powerful and needed a powerful weapon. Moreover, Lu Chen and the others had achieved leapfrog development in the vassal states by plundering Donghu's life. Having tasted the benefits, they naturally would not give up this path.

But Chen Ying was a little confused: "Hu people are unruly and unruly. It will be very difficult for them to be honest."

Discipline is also hierarchical these days, and the farming people are obviously above the grassland people. Although people like Lu Chen can defeat the Donghu people, it is extremely difficult for the Donghu people to obey orders, and even enforce orders and prohibitions.

Xu Xuandao: "The Hu people are rebellious, so let's defeat them. If it doesn't work once, we will do it twice, and if it doesn't work twice, we will do it three times. As long as we have the advantage in force, they will be tamed sooner or later. Someone suggested that we wait until we return to the vassal states." After that, we began to recruit young and strong Hu people and let them practice fighting with our own soldiers. "

Lu Chen nodded and said: "This is a good idea. We will return to the vassal states separately. After September, we will lead the army to gather in Xiangping."

"promise!"

Chen Ying thought for a moment and said, "Do you want the Duke to inform Liu Bang?"

Lu Chen smiled and said: "Of course, your Majesty wants all the princes in Liaodong to fight."

Xu Zhongzhao smiled and said: "When Lao Liu comes back, I will definitely ridicule him. What a vision, he actually founded the country in Lianshui."

Chen Ying was relieved when he heard this.

Then the princes from all sides returned to their own feudal states. They recruited tribesmen, trained soldiers, and waited for Xu Fan's order to kill the Xiongnu Zuoxian King's tribe.

On the 11th day of the fifth month of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, Yanmen County.

Xu Fan led 5000 soldiers of the Xiaoqi Battalion into Yanmen County to inspect the Huns and prepare for the war.

Even though Xu Fan was ready to fight the Huns, he did not intend to learn from the historical Emperor Wu and have a head-on battle with the Huns.

In Xu Fan's opinion, this was extremely uneconomical. The only strength of the grassland empire was the military. Compared with the rest of the political, cultural, and economic figures, they are not worthy of being called sons, not even grandsons.

Why should he learn to fight the Huns to death? Although Xu Fan was confident that he could win, it was not cost-effective.

The Xiongnu Empire had too many weaknesses, and later generations would have too many ways to deal with such a poor and militaristic empire.

I have to talk about the Kingdom of Hope here. Although it is really cruel, many of its methods of dealing with enemies are worth learning. What kind of cultural war, economic war, public opinion war, various means to deal with the enemy?

As long as they can weaken the enemy, they can do anything. Many times when they launch their troops to attack the enemy, their enemy has been internally disintegrated.

This overlord may not have the strongest military force, but its overall strength is the strongest overlord in history.

With such an excellent role model, of course Xu Fan must learn from it. Not to mention that utilizing strengths and avoiding weaknesses is also the art of war, so after Xu Fan arrived in Yanmen County, he first used benefits to attract the Huns to join the Han army.

After all, how can the Xiongnu compare with the Han? The most barren frontier of the Han is richer than the most fertile grassland of the Huns. An ordinary small landowner in the Han has better food, clothing, housing and transportation than the top nobles of the Huns.

Anyone with a normal IQ knows how to choose when facing these two countries. It’s just that the Huns faced the same situation in later generations. They wanted to be the Han’s dogs, but the Han didn’t want them. Instead, they built a Great Wall. , isolating them on the grassland.

The grassland is extremely poor. A drought or a snow disaster will cause a tribe to disappear without a trace. In this cruel environment, having milk is the mother, which is their only choice, because no matter how far-sighted you are, God will A natural disaster will starve you to death.

These days, the civilization of the Central Plains has become a beacon of known civilization in the world. But the ordinary people at the bottom of this lighthouse are still living in dire straits.

The Huns were nothing more than a slave-owning nomadic empire. It was conceivable that the oppression of the people at the bottom must be ten times worse than that of the Han people. They were not even considered human beings, but property and tools of their masters.

But even with such a brutal Hun Empire, they were willing to support the empire because it allowed them to survive, but as long as there were other options, they would pursue a better life.

Therefore, as a later generation, Xu Fan would not think that the Huns' capriciousness was their nature. This was only determined by economics. Capriciousness was just a means of survival for them. The Huns at the bottom tried their best and just wanted to live. The big Han wants to give the lower-class Huns another way to survive.

But now Xu Fan has opened up the path for the Huns to take refuge. At this time, the Huns have not fully risen, and the Xiongnu tribes have no so-called pride, and are ecstatic to become the lackeys of the Han Dynasty.

The changes in Han policy were extremely significant. Within three months, tens of thousands of Baiyang tribesmen left the grassland, fled to the Han territory with their cattle and sheep, took refuge with the Han people, and became one of the Han people. Xu Fan rectified These Aries tribesmen created a cavalry force of 5000 people.

After the announcement, a war of public opinion began. Xu Fan hired officials and ordinary Huns herdsmen at the lowest level who were most easily bullied to record the incidents of their bullying, and then compiled a grassland version of "Alive".

When the propaganda team compiled a version of "Alive", Xu Fan ordered them to find the Xiongnu people who had taken refuge with the Han to watch it. If they were indifferent and not interested at all, Xu Fan asked them to change it.

If ordinary Huns were attracted to the opera and burst into tears like the Han people, it would mean that the stories in the opera were experiences they had experienced in life and could arouse their pain and hatred.

In this way, Xu Fan asked the publicity team to revise five versions in a row. The grassland version of "Alive" finally took shape. Compared with the story of the Han Dynasty, the grassland version was added. The protagonist became the Han army, leading the army into his own tribe and killing the ferocious tribe. The leader saved his compatriots and became a noble of the Han Dynasty.

After all, in addition to promoting hatred against the Huns, we also need to promote the superiority of the Han Dynasty, so that these lower-level Huns understand what strength they should rely on to take revenge.

When this drama matures, every grassland herdsman who has read "Alive" will feel sad and hate the cruelty of the tribal leader and the high-ranking nobles of the Hun Empire.

The propaganda model has been created, and then Xu Fan trained the Huns, got them close to the Huns' border areas, approached the Huns tribes, and sang the grassland version of "Alive" to them.

The sensational effect was caused by action. People of the small Xiongnu tribe who had watched the grassland version of "Alive" fled to the Han and were accepted by the Han. In less than a month, tens of thousands of people fled from the Xiongnu.

The Aries King of the Huns was so angry that he vomited blood. The Aries tribe was not strong in the first place. Xu Fan's public opinion attack directly crippled the Aries tribe and reduced the Aries tribe to half of its members. .

(End of this chapter)