Chapter 499

The war between Han and Hungary has been fought for more than one hundred and thirty years. It is not how weak the Han Empire or how strong the Xiongnu can fight for such a long time. In addition to finding a good match, the grassland is really too large and wide. Without obvious landmarks, it is a great trouble.

At that time, the territory of the Han Empire was less than that of the Huns. The total population from the Han Empire to Liu Che was about 50 million, The territory extends to the grassland edge (Inner Mongolia and ancient area) in the north, southwest Peninsula (Myanmar area) in the west, East China Sea in the East and Zhanghai sea in the south. The population of Xiongnu in its heyday was about 2 million, but the territory of Xiongnu was terrible, beyond the North Sea (begar Lake) in the north and Xianbei mountain in the East (Daxinganling), the whole western regions in the West and beyond the Great Wall in the south. If you really want to compare, the version of the Xiongnu is about twice that of the Western Han Dynasty.

In fact, the Han Empire and the Hun were two of the four empires in the world at that time. The other two empires were Rome and Seleucid Empire (recorded as Tiaozhi in the history books of the Central Plains).

Rome goes without saying that the Seleucid Empire is a country dominated by Persians, and there are Syrians, Egyptians, Armenians, and many other nationalities. However, the ruler of the Seleucid Empire is of Macedonian descent, and the Greeks are also the ruling class. The reason is that the Seleucid Empire is actually one of the "relics" of Alexander, king of Macedonia after the eastern expedition.

It should be that the Persians overthrew the Seleucid Empire not long before Liu Che annexed South Vietnam, Minyue, Dong'ou, Yelang, Ailao and Yunnan, After the establishment of the Parthian Kingdom (that is, Sabbath), another kingdom named Greece Bactria was also independent from the Seleucid Empire. Seleucid became a kingdom with only Egypt, Syria and Iraq provinces, and was no longer able to bear the name of the Empire.

The previous four empires now only the Roman Empire still exists, but Rome is also divided into two parts. The former Parthian Empire was replaced by the Sassanian Dynasty, and the Han Empire was buried in the dust of history.

It's strange to say that the earth is so big, but those powerful empires are not unique. A country is subject to turbulence many times. For example, when the Central Plains is subjected to a large-scale invasion by the grassland Hu people, Rome will also be attacked by a group of barbarians led by the Germanic and Gothic people. Historians explained that the invasion of those empires by both Hu and barbarians was caused by the cold climate and forced to migrate to warm areas.

Liu Yan has paid special attention to the current climate. According to academic explanation, it is a small ice age. The closer it is to the Arctic, the colder it is.

"So the Hu people are resistant to retreating to the grassland?" Liu Yangang just discussed with the ministers about the counterattack of Shijie Zhao state and Murong Xianbei, and talked about the climate problem. He was looking at the map, which was a large map depicting the borders of many countries: "their counterattack is to curb our army's northward movement?"

"Yes, my Lord." Ji Chang said with great certainty: "the grassland has been plagued by white disasters. This is the news interrogated from Zhai bin, who was captured."

Zhai bin is one of the tribal kings of the Gaoche tribal alliance. Gaoche has two tribal alliances. The one in the west is called the western Gaoche, and the one in the East is naturally called the eastern Gaoche. The two Gaoche often break out in war because of competing for pasture. Zhai Bin took his troops to the state of Zhao in Shijie only when the pasture was seized. There is also a Rouran tribal alliance beside the Gaoche tribal alliance in the East. Whether it is Donggao car or Xigao car, including behind the Rouran alliance, it is destroyed by the rapidly rising Turks.

Gaoche tribal alliance is a force dominated by Ding Ling people. They are entrenched in Mobei area. According to Zhai bin, it begins to snow every autumn, and there is bound to be a snowstorm in winter, which leads to the West Gaoche tribal alliance invading a country called Yueban (descendants of North Huns), and the East Gaoche alliance is also invading the Rouran tribal alliance.

The topographic drawing of the big map is not completely accurate, but it marks all the known countries and forces, including the two known forces of the high car alliance. In such a big map, the kingdom of Han really seems to have a small territory, which is also used by Liu Yan to spur the officials.

"In this case, the stone tiger will not easily withdraw into the grassland." In fact, sang Yu didn't know the two high cars or Rouran before. After seeing the map, he had a new judgment: "not only because of the climate, Shijie wants to lead the people to retreat into the grassland, but also face the high cars."

Knowing how big the world is, Liu Yan is telling his officials that the Central Plains is definitely not the world. In addition to the Central Plains, there is a vast territory. The Han state is not recovering the old land of the Han family. Even if it is finished, it should focus on destroying all known countries and creating an unprecedented empire.

"When the Han Dynasty invaded the south, Shihu and Murong seal should think it is very appropriate to take advantage of this time to fight back." Sang Yu said with a vague look at Liu Yan and said, "although there is the expectation of setting up a bureau to make the Hu people fight back, there are really... Too many fronts for the big man."

Liu Yanli was the leader of the Han Army's invasion to the south. Ji Chang, the Prime Minister of the left, who gave priority to the will of the king, did not give any advice. Sang Yu advised many times in advance, but unfortunately it was not adopted.

Any country tries to avoid fighting on two fronts. Even a strong country will choose to open a new front after solving its current opponents. The Han country ruled by Liu Yan maintained multiple fronts as early as when there was only one county, and there will be more fronts after the real establishment of the country.

Liu Yan "ha ha" smiled a few times. It was difficult to explain to Sang Yu.

It was the reality that forced the Han country to go to war on multiple lines. After all, the Han country was not accepted by the current countries from the beginning. How could those countries let the Han country solve it one by one? They must rush forward. In the face of a rush, should Liu Yan give way?

"Fu Hong led his people north, but Liang Jun didn't stop him." Ji Chang raised his finger and pointed to the location of Zhang's Liangguo on the map: "I think the di nationality gave Longxi to Liangguo? In this way, Liangguo must have reached an agreement with Shijie."

Come on, there are already Shijie Zhao state, Murong Yan state and the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at war in the Han state, and these three are the most powerful countries in the east of the world. If one of the three is "moved" to Europa or central Asia, it will definitely be enough for Rome and Sassanian Dynasty to drink a pot.

Zhang's parliament was put on the hostile list, and Tuoba Dai, a country that has actually begun to conflict, is facing five regional powers with one country.

A mountain map was replaced. Mountain maps are used for marching operations, which are different from ordinary maps. The mountains and rivers map only includes the countries and forces around the Han country, such as Gaoche, Rouran, Tuyuhun, Wusun, Yueban, Linyi, Funan, and so on.

"There are stone tablets on the front line of Bingzhou, Murong Xianbei in Youzhou, di nationality and Liang army in Guanzhong..." Ji Chang specially ordered those positions: "there will be a big war in the three regions."

"Liang Guo may reach a settlement with Shijie and join forces to commit......" Lv Yi hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly: "is it possible?"

"Everything is decided by the worst result." Ji Chang's dead face, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, pulled an ugly smile, even if he smiled: "go and strive for the best result."

"The Northern Expedition corps should be split." Sang Yu said bluntly: "the area under the charge of the general of northern expedition is too large. Next, only Shijie counterattack should focus on parry, and Jizhou and Guanzhong should be reassigned."

LV Tai was in the military account. After the abolition of his field corps, he originally wanted to transfer to the south to participate in the invasion of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but there was a sudden incident that Shijie ceded Jizhou and Youzhou to Murong Yan state. He was temporarily included in the shogunate of the Northern Expedition corps, stayed in Jizhou to command the war, and waited for the things there to be handled before he came to Xiangguo to report on his work.

"Heng'an has been fighting in Jizhou for a long time and is most familiar with Murong Xianbei." Heng'an in Sang Yu's mouth is LV Tai. He saluted Liu Yan, who didn't know what he was thinking, and said, "let Heng'an go back to Jizhou to preside over the war."

Liu Yan thought about how to distribute the troops of the forbidden guards. Now his "quota" has increased to 70000. In order to support the consumption of national strength, nearly 30000 quota has been used for production, 5000 for warships, and the remaining 10000 for emergency. The rest 15000 are in the Northern Expedition corps and 10000 are in the southern invasion Corps.

Recently, if it is not necessary, Liu Yan actually no longer uses the system force. It is not that the system forces are not easy to use, but that the system forces are too easy to use, which may lead to the abandonment of non system forces due to their over dependence, so that they have to be used with caution.

"Guanzhong can appoint ruicai as the main general and the Yulin army as the main force." Sang Yu has stood on the edge of the mountain map, and the Rui is Li tan. When he saw Liu Yan looking over, he continued: "taking the Yulin army as the main force, coupled with the original garrison, is enough to deal with it."

"If we want to split the Northern Expedition Corps..." Ji Chang took a deep look at sang Yu. He didn't fully agree with Sang Yu's obvious suppression of Ran min, but the situation changed. Splitting the Northern Expedition Corps really had to be: "we should call the Northern Expedition general to the king Chariot first."

Sang Yu was really trying to suppress ran min out of public interest, but his selfishness was not small. Sang Yu represents the aristocratic family in the Central Plains. With the recovery of more and more areas by the Han state, the recent contradiction between his interest group and the interest group represented by ran min is growing.

Liu Yan is the one who takes the final decision. He just listens and won't make a decision immediately. Of course, he noticed that sang Yu took revenge for public and private affairs, but he didn't care much.

Liu Yan doesn't care if it's not out of the mind of the emperor, such as what's good for the royal family when officials and workers fight with each other. Just as he was thinking about how to use the forbidden guards, after the restoration of the old land of the Han family, these people did not know how many should be arranged to continue to fight outside, not to live in peace and have a nest.