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Text Chapter 1024 One man is worth five barbarians

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    Because there is sufficient food supply, and the troubled times are ended early.  As well as a large number of troops that were forcibly recruited by various princes, with poor combat effectiveness and morale, and Gao Yang had no interest in demobilizing the troops left behind.  These have directly led to the rapid increase of idle labor in various places.  If these people don't arrange something for them to do, then they are the best reserve for rebellions everywhere.  This era was very martial.  After receiving Xun Yu¡¯s advice, Gao Yang quickly ordered the launch of a number of projects that could absorb a large amount of human resources.  ??Originally, this kind of project was a form of corvee work and a form of taxation.  The people need unconditional obedience, and they have to eat their own food without being paid to work for free.  Under such external conditions, it is nonsense to expect the people to enthusiastically devote themselves to the great cause of building the country.  The people of China are the smartest.  Gao Yang first arranged for Zheng Hun, Ma Jun, Pu Yuan, Han Hao, Liu Ye and others to be the chief craftsmen to lead various major projects.  ?Mainly large-scale construction of straight roads, large-scale water conservancy projects on important rivers, military farming in border areas, large-scale expansion of various mines, etc. are huge projects that require a lot of manpower investment.  Afterwards, Gao Yang directly issued an order to exempt the whole world from corvee service, and his reputation was once again reached to an unprecedented level.  Gaoyang even dares to exempt agricultural taxes, so what does the abolition of corvee mean?  A large number of people were recruited and went to various construction sites. They were all attracted by the abundant copper coins, grain, salt, cloth and various luxury goods to go to work. It is natural for you to give and to get. Gao Yang believed in enthusiasm  Therefore, Gaoyang provides materials to recruit a large number of idle people to work, which can greatly reduce the frequency of rebellions in various places and also build a large number of projects that benefit the people.  . As for daily maintenance, there is no need for the court to do anything. The nearby people cherish these straight roads, water conservancy projects, etc. far more than the court. They can even clean the straight roads near their homes every day!  The people of China know clearly what is good for themselves. Gao Yang actually doesn't care too much about these things. For him, the most important thing at this time is to go north to clear up the nomadic people in the vast grassland.  Go west and clear out a clean rear area. In fact, Gao Yang has been making a lot of preparations for this matter this year. Although he doesn't stay here often, he has dedicated people for various tasks.  With sufficient supplies of materials, all pre-war preparations were going very smoothly. Except for the more than ten thousand cavalry brought by Cao Cao to the Western Regions, almost all the cavalry in the entire Han Empire were concentrated in Bingzhou and Youzhou.  The total number is nearly 100,000! This number is certainly not comparable to that of the Weihuo period, but it is already the limit that the Han Empire with its declining national power can provide. In this matter, he cannot provide a large number of war horses.  We can only watch. In addition, there are more than 100,000 elite infantry and an equal number of auxiliary troops heading north. They form the main force of Gaoyang's Northern Expedition because Gaoyang did not recruit civilians at this scale and span.  During the war, the soldiers were recruited to die. During the period of dispatching troops and horses, the troops preparing for the Northern Expedition were not idle. They solved many minor troubles in Youzhou, and Zhang Chun was killed.  After that, Wuhuan Qiu Liju and others joined Liu Yu in Youzhou, but were eventually defeated by Gongsun Zan. The entire tribe moved north and did not dare to approach the Han Dynasty. Gongsun Zan accepted Gao Yang's orders and sent cavalry outside the fortress from time to time to show his presence in Youzhou.  The Wuhuan, Fuyu, Goguryeo and other tribes on the other side are not Gao Yang's main targets, or they are not yet. It is enough to have Gongsun Zan watch over them. However, Bingzhou is the main target for Gao Yang.  Route, Bingzhou must be the key point. First of all, Yu Fuluo's troops, who had been staying in Pingyang, Hedong County because they could not return to the southern Xiongnu, were focused on being surrounded and suppressed. Although Yu Fuluo was said to be a Han official, he himself was a Xiongnu.  Human facts cannot be changed. Moreover, when Dong Zhuo entered the capital, he teamed up with the Baibo bandits to plunder Hedong, killing countless people, and fought fiercely with Gao Yang. In addition, Gao Yang could not let him go.  Another reason is that it is these Southern Huns who entered and plundered during the chaos in the Central Plains recorded in the history books.  Cai Wenji and a large number of Han daughters were robbed and taken away by these southern Huns.  Public and private.  Gao Yang would use forceful means to suppress these barbarians.  Xu Huang led more than 10,000 elite troops from the Sili area to the north and marched to Pingyang.  Lu Bu, who had been stationed in Bingzhou before, also received Gao Yang's strict order.??Allow a savage from the Yufuluo tribe to escape to the grassland.  When Yu Fuluo went to Wuhuan under the orders of the Han Dynasty, his father Qiangqu Shanyu was killed by the rebel tribe.  Yu Fuluo, who became Wugenzhiping, has always had the people who followed him out of seclusion over the years.  After several years of consumption, there is not much left.  To the south is Xu Huang, who is both wise and brave.  To the north is the brave and invincible Lu Bu.  After being attacked from the north and south in Bingzhou with complex terrain, Yu Fuluo, who had no way to escape, desperately asked to surrender.  Xu Huang accepted his surrender request, but was disarming.  After taking over the army, Yu Fuluo and his brother Huchuquan were all trapped and killed at the foot of Lutooth Mountain in the southwest of Pingyang.  It can be regarded as seeking justice for the people who died tragically at the hands of foreigners like them in the past few years.  After clearing out Yufuluo, a large number of various materials, personnel and horses continued to cross the river through the newly built pontoon bridge to the north, all the way to Xihe, Taiyuan, Yanmen and other counties.  Suddenly, the entire Bingzhou flags were like a sea, and soldiers and horses were encamped.  Countless supplies and soldiers of all kinds came here continuously from all over the country.  Except for Gongsun Zan who led a partial army in Youzhou as a check, Gao Yang concentrated all his main forces in Bingzhou.  His first target was the Southern Huns.  It is different from the Northern Huns who became famous in Europe after moving westward and later gained the reputation of "God's Whip".  These Southern Huns, who had to surrender to the Han Dynasty due to defeat, were white-eyed wolves in the true sense.  When the Han Dynasty was powerful, they were as docile as little sheep on the grassland.  And once the Han Dynasty weakened, they immediately transformed into red-eyed hungry wolves, madly pounced on the Han Dynasty, biting and retaliating with all their might!  A hundred years later, in the Wuhu chaos, the first people to go south to start the killing spree were the Southern Xiongnu who were recuperating and regaining their strength!  Gao Yang will choose them as his first target, not only because they are the closest, but also because their combat effectiveness is much worse than that of the newly-rising Xianbei and other tribes in the north.  The soldiers and horses assembled in Gaoyang are large in number, well equipped and supplied with sufficient supplies.  But most were recently recruited sergeants.  And even the veterans have mostly only participated in domestic unified operations.  One year is too short, and their training is not sufficient.  Gao Yang planned to practice with the Southern Huns to increase combat experience and boost morale.  At this time, it had been a hundred years since the last large-scale attack by the Han Empire outside the Great Wall.  In the more than a hundred years after Dou Xian carved a stone on Yanran Mountain to show his merits, the Han Empire never again made a large-scale attack northward.  Feng Lang Juxu, Le Shi Yanran.  This is the highest expression of the illustrious martial arts of the Chinese nation.  Many people in later generations said on the forum that the Chinese army during the Han Dynasty was not as effective as the ancient Roman Empire, and that in daily battles, it only relied on numbers to win.  If two ancient empires clashed, the ancient Roman Empire would definitely win.  Gao Yang naturally sneered at this view.  Many people have always said that the people of the Han Dynasty were not as physically fit as the ancient Romans. This was originally a huge misunderstanding.  It is true that starting from the Song Dynasty, the physical fitness of the Chinese nation declined rapidly, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, they became the sick men of East Asia. This is a fact.  But it does not mean that the Chinese nation has always been like this.  In the ancient pre-Qin Dynasty, even earlier in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and even in the Huangdi period.  The ancestors of China struggled with nature all year round in order to survive. If their physical fitness was not good enough, they would have been eliminated long ago, and it was even less possible to defeat the powerful Chi You.  What was originally just a small tribe in the Yellow River Basin gradually expanded into an extremely huge territory.  Whether it was the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties or the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the countries in the Central Plains had always defeated the barbarians from all directions.  Even Yan, the weakest among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, was able to expand thousands of miles in the north.  Meng Tian's 300,000-strong army attacked the Xiongnu from the north, but "defeated the Xiongnu for more than 700 miles." The Xiongnu, the overlord of the grassland, did not dare to look south to the Central Plains for more than ten years.  As for the achievements of Wei Huo and others, it goes without saying.  The elite cavalry used in the battle between Dou Xianle and Shi Yanran was even less than 50,000.  But he was able to march more than three thousand miles and completely defeated the Northern Huns.  It directly led to the large-scale westward migration of the Northern Huns that lasted for hundreds of years.  The Huns had no choice. With such a powerful monster like the Han Empire around them, they couldn't leave even if they didn't want to.  Staying here is a dead end.  The Battle of Yanran Mountain had a profound impact on the entire world.  It also indirectly proves that the combat effectiveness of the Han army, known as "one Han is worth five barbarians", is stronger than that of the ancient Roman Empire!  After the Battle of Yanran Mountain, the remnants of the Northern Xiongnu Khanate could no longer stand in the desert, so they chose to wander westward, leaving the vast grasslands to find a new habitat far away from the Han Empire.  They spent a long time migrating to the northern shore of the Black Sea, thousands of miles away.  The local indigenous inhabitants, the Visigothic tribe, could not stand the oppression of the Northern Huns.Under great pressure, they were forced to invade the upper reaches of the Danube River westward to avoid the Huns.  The Vandal tribe who originally lived in the upper reaches of the Danube River could not withstand the strong pressure of the Visigoths and could only continue to invade the ancient Roman Empire westward.  In the end, the ancient Roman Empire, which was considered by some later generations to be stronger than the Han army, finally perished at the hands of the Vandal tribe, which was squeezed layer by layer.  Some people may say that the ancient Roman Empire was so weak at that time, but the fact is the fact.  The defeated generals of the Han Empire destroyed the ancient Roman Empire. This is a fact!  (To be continued) r1292?¡­
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