Chapter 3048 Its a pity and a pity, nothing more than this
Even the Taihang Mountains can't stop the cold wind blowing again and again. After blowing hard again and again, even the highest mountains are still freezing to the bone.
Just like the residents in Taihang, they thought they would not be caught if they escaped into the mountains.
result……
As Cao's army poured into the Taihang Mountains, the people who originally didn't believe in Fei Qian and thought they could do it began to suffer misfortune.
The area Zhao Yan invaded was the Changping area, the battlefield between Qin and Zhao.
The Battle of Changping completely accelerated the pace of China's first great unification. With the Battle of Changping, the last pillar of the Six Kingdoms was knocked down, and Zhao, the last powerful country in the north, was crippled and could no longer be defeated.
Slow down. This battle was also the Battle of the Gods by Bai Qi, the God of War at that time. Bai Qi finally appeared in overtime. Taking advantage of the terrain of Changping, the danger of Danshui and the Qin Army with the highest technical and tactical level at the time,
With his sweeping generosity, he performed one of the highest-level siege battles in the Chinese classical war period.
Although there was basically no paper at the time of the Changping Battle, the losing side was always labeled as a paper warrior. When later generations talk about Changping, they feel that they always encounter pig teammates in ranking matches.
He Shen's opponent, or they lamented that Bai Qi brutally killed the God and killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers, but not many people realized that this battle was actually the Verdun meat grinder of the classical war period of Chinese civilization.
After such a battle, China's classical multinational system collapsed completely. Starting from the Battle of Changping, civilians were no longer exempt objects, but became things that could be destroyed, massacred, and killed at will.
In the initial stage, all competitions in a multinational system are small but refined aristocratic wars. This is the same at all times and in all countries. However, the level of internal competition in China has escalated too quickly, and it has quickly surpassed that of the West.
The line in the Middle Ages directly entered the later stage of classical war. However, the West had to wait until Louis XIV, King Frederick, Napoleon and others appeared one after another before the "game-like competition" among nobles from many countries gradually turned into a "game-like competition" among nobles.
Infinitely expanding vicious population competition, what was originally a somewhat polite aristocratic war model gradually evolved into a general war sweeping the entire population, eventually leading to the collapse of the multinational system.
This is the greatest historical impact brought about by the Battle of Changping...
Later generations may look at the Battle of Changping with a theatrical and joking attitude, but the ancient pre-Qin people who were involved in it must have looked at the Battle of Changping just like Europeans looked at the First World War, which was full of pain.
It is a war without a winner. After the Battle of Changping, Qin lost most of its ability to export order, and it has since been linked to the word "tyranny".
After the Battle of Changping, the differences among the six countries decreased and their cooperation became more sincere.
Shortly after the Battle of Changping, Qin launched another attack on Handan, the capital of Zhao State, in an attempt to destroy Zhao State. In this case, Lord Xinling, as the representative, ignored his own safety and stole the talisman to save Zhao.
Both the State of Zhao and the State of Chu also extended a helping hand to the State of Zhao in time. The three parties joined forces to defeat the Qin army. This was a military action that best reflected the strategic proposition of "joint vertical". Unfortunately, it was already hard to come back.
The negative consequences of Qin's excessive killings slowly emerged after the death of Qin Shihuang. Voices of overthrowing the tyranny continued one after another. Although this was done secretly by the old nobles of the six countries, it also reflected that no one would be willing to be the victim.
Tyranny and random slaughter!
Now, a new battle of Changping has begun.
Maybe the form is different, but the dead people are still very similar.
The smoke of the Changping War in the past has gone far, but in the Han Dynasty, not many people are still willing to settle in the Changping and Gaoping areas, because in the Han Dynasty people's concept, they believed that there were at least 400,000 wronged souls here with so much resentment that it was not suitable.
Inhabited by living people.
Although it became a fiefdom for some people during the Western Han Dynasty, it actually did not bring much prosperity to the Changping area.
After Fei Qian marched into the north, Jia Qu, the Shangdang prefect, also concentrated his main forces in the Huguan area, basically leaving the Changping area in a free-range state. One of its functions was to act as a general agent similar to the Heluo area.
The buffer zone between Shangdang and Hanoi, and secondly, Huguan is closer to Taiyuan. If the defense center is dispersed to the Changping Danshui area, Huguan will undoubtedly be insufficient in strength.
When it was detected that Cao Jun crossed Taihangxing, Jia Qu ordered the people in Changping to withdraw to Huguan and implement the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the country. However, soldiers closer to Huguan could be sent to help urge them, but after that,
In the Changping Danshui area after Xiaoguan and Xiaoguan, Jia Qu was unable to do anything. This led to many people in the Changping area not leaving their homes but staying in place...
Cao Jun climbed past Taihangxing, but the ordinary county soldiers in Changping area were obviously unable to resist Cao Jun's attack.
"The city is broken..."
"Cao's army has entered the city..."
"Run quickly..."
The dilapidated city wall of Changping County could not hold up for long under the attack of Cao Jun led by Cao Tai and Zhao Yan, and it was declared lost.
Cao Jun rushed into Changping County along the streets, only to find that Changping was not as wealthy as they originally thought. Even if they opened all the warehouses in the county, they only harvested three melons and two dates.
, it could not even make up for the consumption of Cao's army in attacking Changping.
Faced with this situation, Zhao Yan had a headache.
"Join the army, these are just thieves!" Cao Tai, who followed him, waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "You can gather the army rations! Eat from the enemy and avoid the difficulty of transportation!"
Zhao Yan frowned and said: "Captain Qi's move... I'm afraid there's something wrong... It's better to think about it in the long run..."
"The long-term plan is to have food and grass to grow on your own, so that the warehouse can be filled?" Cao Tai sneered, "That's it! The whole army will collect food and grass immediately! But anyone who hides food and grass will be killed!"
Zhao Yan wanted to say something, but looking at the empty barn, he finally let out a sigh.
"According to the emperor's edict! The Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, Wu Pinghou, gave instructions!"
In the cross streets of Changping, Cao Jun's civil servants stood tall, holding their heads high and shouting...
"The hussars are unruly! Cutting things apart! Harmfully exploit the people!"
The soldiers of Cao's army broke open the broken doors of the people in Changping, rushed in and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets.
"The emperor is benevolent and the prime minister is compassionate!"
The people in Changping were crying and howling, either watching Cao's army looting their only remaining rations, or being beaten and killed and lying in a pool of blood.
"The hussars are riding in Chang'an, extravagant and arrogant, but they don't give a grain or a drop to the people!"
Cao Jun's soldiers kicked the old man blocking the road to the ground.
"Today, I am entrusted with the edict of the Emperor to fight against tyranny, abide by the principles of heaven, reach all directions, and bring peace to the world!"
Cao Jun's soldiers hacked the male in the family to death, then grabbed the woman's hair and dragged her into the house.
"The righteous army has strict discipline, and no one will offend the enemy if it is passed by the army!"
The blood-stained grains were collected bit by bit and piled on the baggage cart.
"The people of Shangdang were encouraged by the news and ate pots of pulp to welcome Master Wang..."
Zhao Yan stood on the broken city wall of Changping, looking at the blood stains spreading on the city wall, looking at the surrounding mountains and rivers, and finally sighed, "What a pity the people have suffered..."
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Near Yumen Pass.
When Fei Qian once again saw the rippling blue waves in the distance, he couldn't help but exhale a long breath, and then felt that his whole body was almost turning into sand, and even the breath he exhaled was full of dust.
Desertification in the Western Region is a wavy line, with ups and downs.
Lop Nur in later generations was still a huge salt lake in the Han Dynasty.
Before the name Yanze, it was also called Puchanghai, Daze, Zize, etc. It was even considered to be the upper reaches of the river.
But it is obvious that when Zhang Qian said this was a "salt lake", Lop Nur had begun to shrink, which caused the water quality to become salty. At that time, it was the Western Han Dynasty.
Over the past one or two hundred years, the salt lake has become saltier and saltier.
Salt-alkali appeared in many places, and some vegetation that could have stabilized the soil died, so wind and sand naturally increased.
In the Tang Dynasty, due to climate change, the arid and semi-arid line moved northward again, and Lop Nur restored a large amount of vegetation. Then when Xuanzang was studying for Buddhist scriptures, he still saw vast expanse of blue waves, and then declined again, and then the Yuan Dynasty
Time came back to the light for a while...
Fei Qian pointed to the salt marsh ahead, "It's convenient to set up camp here today!"
The soldiers cheered, seeming to have a lot more strength, and moved forward one after another. Even the war horses seemed to be excited by this, and they spread out their hooves and ran forward, throwing the raised sand on Fei Qian's face.
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Fei Qian laughed and cursed a few words, then drove his horse forward slowly.
When I saw the water, I didn't know why, but my body started to itch.
Fei Qian set out from Xihai City and didn't take a shower until he arrived here.
On the one hand, water is precious, and on the other hand, there is a lot of wind and sand along the way, so bathing is of no use, and the oil stains formed on the body can sometimes protect the folds of the joints from being rubbed against each other by the fine sand and causing bleeding.
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After this trip to the Western Regions, Fei Qian gradually understood some things that he could not see clearly in Chang'an.
For ordinary soldiers, they may only see the merits of their heads and the gains from the battle. For the generals of Zhang Liao and Tai Shici, they may see the destruction of the countries in the Western Regions and the surrender and tribute of various countries. But for Fei Qian's journey through
For readers, are they just satisfied with this?
In the Western Regions, Fei Qian saw the traces of erosion of civilization.
The traces of civilization in the Western Regions are just like the vegetation in Lop Nur, with ups and downs. Some civilizations have disappeared while others have survived.
In later generations, Fei Qian was once brainwashed by Western literature. After all, China did not seize those high ground at that time, and no one was interested in studying those boring documents. Therefore, theories about the history of human evolution are basically based on
Mainly Western literature.
The man who cut off the wrong kidney, a modern cultural enlightenment scholar, proposed a new word from the four ancient civilizations to cheer up the Chinese people. In fact, the concept of cutting out the wrong kidney also originated from the West.
The so-called statement of several major ancient civilizations is actually wrong.
The error of this statement is not that who is excluded or added, or that there are actually five people in the Four Heavenly Kings, but that the word "several major civilizations" itself refers to these several civilizations.
There may be rankings, but those belonging to the same grade are equal, and it implies that human civilization developed from the separation of several independent individuals.
In fact, civilization cannot be independent and divided...
With the help of his guards, Fei took off his armor and moved his body.
The salt lake or Lop Nur in front of us is like a huge mirror, absorbing all the blue of the sky. Looking from a distance, the green spots are like emeralds in the sky. Groups of birds are chirping in the sky.
Flying by is like complaining to Fei Qian that their peaceful life has been destroyed.
Fei Qian patted the cloth robe on his body, then sat on a stone, took off his boots, knocked hard on the stone a few times, and poured out the sand inside.
The speed of walking back is relatively fast, and the reason why it is fast is that there is no need to carry heavy artillery.
In fact, many people didn't understand it before Fei Qian promoted artillery technology, but after the battle at Shanshan King's City in the Western Region, many people's ideas changed.
The development of new technologies always requires a process.
In the development process of this technology, blood is needed for lubrication. If it is not your own blood, it must be the blood of others.
The Lop Nur in front of him seemed vast and endless, but Fei Qian knew that it was actually just a large lake. Even in a few hundred years, it would shrink into a pond and eventually disappear...
Will Lop Nur still be the original pond after re-irrigation and water injection in the new century?
The whole world is like a huge pond, and the civilizations developed in various places are like the rippling water waves in the pond. The center of the ripples is the center of the civilization, and other places are the areas spread by the water waves.
Therefore, it can be said that civilization should be divided into core areas and peripheral areas.
The Western Region is undoubtedly the edge of civilization, so it has been affected by water waves from China, Central Asia and other regions.
There is no doubt about this.
The strength of civilization also includes the military part, but in addition to military, there are also factors such as technological advancement, superior living standards, and guarantee of people's welfare. These factors build the center of a civilization and build
The higher it is, the more it will become an object of imitation and learning for other marginal areas of civilization.
This is the ripples of civilization and the tower of civilization.
On top of a high tower, people will inevitably look up to them, and the narrow political system, economic system and purely material technology and science derived from civilization will become the fuel for the tower to bloom.
The decline and birth of civilization are not directly related to the system adopted by a political dynasty, but are related to productivity. The more, newer and stronger production technologies are, the stronger the power of civilization will be, and the center where new technologies are produced will be
, and will naturally be the center for the emergence of political order, economic order and other orders.
The military force that protects this civilization is closely related to its own political order. When the technological advantage of the civilization center over the surrounding areas does not exist, or when the technical levels are similar, the military under different political systems
The balance of power has become the last straw that breaks the tower of civilization.
The Qin and Han dynasties were undoubtedly the last window for technological advancement in China's classical war period. If this opportunity is missed, it will be difficult to deal critical damage to surrounding low-civilized areas.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu also led the Huaihe soldiers and horses to strike a final critical blow against the Yuan Dynasty. However, the critical blow at that time was not crushed by technology, but the backwardness and ignorance of the Yuan Dynasty's political system, which could not adapt.
It was formed due to the need to govern a huge empire. So Lao Zhu learned from the lessons of the powerful separatist regimes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rebellion of the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty, and the strong cadres and weak branches of the Song Dynasty, and established a system where the emperor sits in the center and the royal children defend the borders.
The guard mechanism passed down from generation to generation by professional soldiers. This mechanism is a very efficient military mechanism when surrounded by powerful external enemies. However, in times of peace, the speed of corruption in the royal family and officials will exceed imagination...
Fei Qian found two dry branches, stuck them on the ground, and hung his boots up.
I have been wearing these boots for a long time, and now when I take them off, the smell...
And Fei Qian is not alone, the whole army is taking turns to rest. Not only the soldiers who are responsible for guarding and setting up the camp, but the soldiers who have their turn to rest are also similar to Fei Qian. They take off their armor and shake the sand, loosen their leggings and put on their boots.
Between the blue sky and clear water, there is a faint green atmosphere spreading.
Fei Qian sniffed. He couldn't smell his own salted fish smell, but he could smell the salted fish smell of others. But the smell was everywhere, which made Fei Qian's sense of smell much dulled.
This is like corruption in officialdom...
When you are in a closed and decaying space for a long time, you often cannot smell the smell of decay.
Therefore, if you want to avoid large-scale corruption, you must have the breath of the outside world to make the air flow.
The Western Region is a window, the Northern Region is also a window, and Jiaozhi in the south is also a window.
I don’t know what is going on with Mr. Liu now. Last time he said he had some trade relations with Jiangdong, but there was no news after that.
This old classmate Liu...
Forget it, the land of Cochin is also a fringe area of civilization.
If China can successfully implement the civilization ripple policy in the Western Regions, it can also extend the fluctuations to the southern region of Cochin.
Fei Qian almost single-handedly pushed forward the artillery technology in order to prevent China from being leveled by its neighbors in the classical military period, so that China could quickly transition to the modern chemical gunpowder period and continue to maintain a low level of civilization against the surrounding countries.
The repressive power of regions and marginal areas.
But this is just Fei Qian's personal wish. If China wants to continue to develop military technology instead of sitting on nothing, it must have enemies, and having enemies may cause the military generals and nobles to become self-reliant.
This is the same reason that civil servants may try to take care of themselves.
Civil officials ridicule military generals, and military generals ridicule civilian officials, but the root cause is actually interests. This kind of thing is basically impossible to avoid in a classed feudal dynasty.
Fei Qian waved to Zhang Liao, then motioned for Zhang Liao to sit aside and asked: "What are the advantages of the Western Regions compared to those of the Han Dynasty?"
"Ah?" Zhang Liao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Zhang Liao originally thought that Fei Qian called him here because he wanted to talk about some military arrangements, or to talk about some matters after Lu Bu's westward march, but he didn't expect that Fei Qian opened his mouth to ask this question?