Chapter 1926: Stabilize the Northwest, Take Every Step
These generals who were surrendered by the Northern Zhou Dynasty were all figures with great names in history.
They did not want to be enemies of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Li Xingchen also fulfilled their loyalty, so he specially arranged them in the northwest.
Historically, it was these people who hung up Tuyuhun and beat him during the Sui Dynasty, which caused Tuyuhun's vitality to be severely damaged, and he retreated to the plateau. Even during the turmoil in the late Sui and Tang Dynasties, they did not jump out to grab territory. When Tuyuhun recovered his vitality, he faced
It was the Tang Dynasty that had just defeated the Turks, and then naturally it was beaten to pieces by famous Tang generals such as Li Jing and Hou Junji.
In fact, the Tuyuhun people were also very adventurous during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. They had often caused trouble on the northwest border of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. If it hadn't been for the big trouble of the Turks, a war would have broken out long ago. Therefore, Changsun Sheng and others were even less merciful.
principle.
Otherwise, we need to question whether they are sincere ministers of the Han Dynasty. It can be said that Tuyuhun was the surrender letter given to them by Li Xingchen. It is not difficult to defeat Tuyuhun as long as they are willing.
Among the enemies of the Han Dynasty, the reason why the Northern Zhou Dynasty is difficult is that it has a large amount of land and population, and the number of people is powerful. After all, it is not an empty promise. The Xueyantuo people also pose a certain threat because they come from the grassland and have elite cavalry. On the grassland, they can
There is nothing, but the cavalry that can gallop around makes them not to be underestimated by anyone.
In comparison, the Tuyuhun people should be the softest persimmons, but the Tuyuhun people also have their own advantages, that is, Hexi and even the Huangshui River Valley and other places where they operate as the core area are too remote, and for the current
As far as the Han Dynasty was concerned, the Central Plains had just been pacified, and Hebei and other places were still under the control of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. If they rashly sent troops deep into Hexi, they would lose more than they gained.
After all, a man's money and food supplies are limited, and every bit must be used wisely.
However, this does not mean that Li Xingchen did not intend to do anything to Tuyuhun. The Han army already had a huge advantage in firearms and had made progress in resisting the cold. At least the emergence of cotton-padded clothes gave most of the Han army soldiers from the south and the Central Plains something to do.
More courage to face the shuofeng in Hexi.
In fact, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the reason why Tuyuhun and Tubo were able to occupy Hexi and the Plateau and became one of the frontier troubles of the two dynasties was mainly due to the harsh climate and the topography of the plateau. It was often difficult for the Central Plains army to overcome these
Although the Tang army later broke through Hexi and penetrated into the Western Regions with the remaining power of its victory over the Turks, it finally laid a solid foundation for the Western Regions in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
But from the beginning to the end, the Tang Dynasty had little power to fight back against the rise of Tubo on the plateau. People could rush down from high places, but they just couldn't get up. Therefore, Tubo was also the Tang Dynasty and had to maintain its power even in its heyday.
The existence of kinship relations. During the An-Shi Rebellion, tribes such as Tubo and Uighurs rushed into Hexi and cut off the fragile Hexi Corridor. Naturally, the Tang Dynasty lost control of the entire Western Region. The once leaping horse over the green hills, and
The prosperous Tang Dynasty, when Western food was competing with each other, was reduced to ashes.
Since Li Xingchen came to this era, he naturally could not let the important stage of China's history from prosperity to decline happen again before his eyes or his descendants.
Therefore, Li Xingchen maintained a cautious attitude towards the Hexi Corridor, the entire Western Region and Tubo. What he wanted was not how many enemies he could kill or how much land he could occupy in a hurry, but how much land he could occupy in a hurry, but to keep these lands as Han territory forever.
According to Li Xingchen's vision, after the Han Dynasty defeated the Northern Zhou Dynasty, they would start to manage Hexi and the Western Regions. The Tuyuhun people would bear the brunt, so there would be no harm in teaching them a lesson now.
If you want to go deep into the Western Regions, the methods used by the Han and Tang dynasties in history are actually worth learning from, that is, step by step, build high barriers, go deeper bit by bit, and finally rely on the continuous beacons and cities, like
It is like claws grabbing the Western Region. However, although this method can help the court establish a perfect rule, it still cannot change the fact that the Hexi Corridor is too fragile.
The state capitals are lined up in a line extending to the northwest, which means that if the enemy captures any of the cities, they can completely cut off the connection between the Central Plains and the Western Regions. In this way, the Western Regions will no longer be owned by the Central Plains Dynasty.
Therefore, if you want to protect the Western Region, you must protect Hexi. To protect Hexi, you cannot let Hexi really be just a corridor. Although the Hexi Corridor is formed by natural geographical conditions, Li Xingchen cannot move mountains like Qilian Mountain and Helan Mountain.
Go, but he can make both sides of the mountains become the land of the Han Dynasty.
Beyond the Helan Mountains and Liupan Mountains is the grassland, and beyond the Qilian Mountains is the plateau. When these places become the prefectures of the Han Dynasty, the Hexi Corridor, no matter how important it is, is nothing more than a passage within the Han Dynasty. Even once the waiting road is on the grassland
Once completed, the Hexi Corridor may no longer be the only passage in and out of the Central Plains and Western Regions.
The road is long and long, and even Tuyuhun has not yet been defeated. In addition, there are Xue Yantuo people on the grassland who are eyeing them. It is not so easy to achieve these goals.
Sometimes Li Xingchen can only sigh, fortunately he is young, otherwise he might never see that day in his life.
But if we can really turn these lands into the possession of the Han Dynasty, then it doesn't matter even if we can't see it. Under the Nine Springs, we should still smile.
"Your Majesty?" Bao Xing tried to shout several times.
Only then did Li Xingchen come back to his senses.
"Your Majesty, do you want to ask the Taiwei Mansion to report again on the war in the northwest?" Bao Xing asked hurriedly. Looking at His Majesty's somewhat confused look, it goes without saying that he must have been distracted just now, so Bao Xing repeated the question.
once.
Li Xingchen shook his head: "The top priority is to capture the north as soon as possible and unify the nine states. As for the northwest, we should wait until the Central Plains is stabilized and then plan for it slowly."
Bao Xing responded, then asked curiously: "Your Majesty, the land of the Han Dynasty once reached as far as the Western Regions. The land of the Han Dynasty should also keep pace with the Han Dynasty, right?"
The extent of His Majesty's ambitions is something that many civil and military officials like to speculate about. Restoring the Central Plains is everyone's dream, but His Majesty's dream must be far more than that. Otherwise, the Han Dynasty's expedition team would not appear in the South
, the ships of the Han Dynasty will not appear in Nanyang, and the military fronts of the Han Dynasty will not cover Jiaozhi and Linyi.
His Majesty's vision always looks farther than everyone else.
Recovering the Central Plains is definitely not enough. At least it must be to recover all the homeland of the Han Dynasty.
Everyone had discussed privately where His Majesty, who was in the prime of his life, would eventually stop.