Chapter 601

Isn't this the global little ice age again? The current scope of the Arctic Circle is about 1.5 times that of the 21st century, and there are many areas that have been frozen and snowy for many years.

The navigation of the Han country has gradually developed. After the countries of the Japanese islands were incorporated into the vassal state system, some ships have been exploring north. They use the means of watching stars to maintain the route. On the north side of the Japanese islands, they are blocked by endless ice and snow.

Of course, the Bering Strait is to the north of the Japanese islands, but now the sea area is no longer called this name, but is called "ice sheet sea".

At present, there is no place like the Bering Strait. It is not even a sea at all. It is frozen in a large area.

After Liu Yan received the report, he was already recruiting warriors. He planned to try to cover the ice and snow land in vain. He wondered if he could go directly to the American continent.

Some modern scientists have found through research that the face of the earth is not constant, and each continental plate has evolved slowly from the original concentration into separate continental plates. They also don't know what means they used. Assuming that the birthplace of human beings is Africa, after tens of millions of years of migration to various continents, there are white people, yellow people, black people and brown people because human beings adapt to the local environment in the process of evolution.

Organisms always let their genes adapt to different environments. It seems that some people speculate that after the advent of the interstellar age, as humans migrate to various planets, the appearance of humans will change due to different planets. For example, planets with lower gravity will generally be tall, while planets with higher gravity will generally be short. In addition, humans living on planets with lower gravity will look tall but their bones will be very fragile, Humans living in high gravity look small, but their bones are extremely strong.

Liu Yan knows that the Arctic is not completely empty. There are a group of Eskimos living there, so he is sure that people can adapt to various environments. The difference is that they need to be eliminated cruelly.

Now there are many people who want to move northward. Tuoba and Murong among Xianbei have taken action. What Liu Yan knows is that Tuoba Gu is already operating Xianbei grassland, but he doesn't know whether Murong Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei are developing together peacefully or playing a unique ethnic group.

Xianbei grassland is now in the Arctic Circle, taking the North Sea (Baikal Lake) as the middle line. To the north, affected by the little ice age, the land is in the season of ice and snow for more than five months a year.

Six months of the year are winter, which is doomed to insufficient living materials. Nomads still rely heavily on grasslands. Liu Yan can be sure that if the weather does not warm up, even if Xianbei people can inhabit there again, the population will definitely decrease rather than increase.

It is necessary to have enough food to reproduce more people, which also makes Liu Yan agree with the necessity of internal affairs development. However, he doesn't like the sound of completely stopping fighting. He is even more disgusted with some remarks that it is necessary to cast a sword into a plow and let Ma Fang Nanshan after solving the surrounding countries.

"The offensive was launched in early May." Liu Yan has been standing in front of the mountain map. At this moment, he is looking at a group of standing Generals: "I have mobilized the forbidden guards. During the introduction, they will invade the state of Yan from the rear."

Xu Zhengshi was immediately shocked and immediately said, "that's really good."

It is not only because the forbidden guards are known to be good at fighting and strong, but also because invading murongyan from two directions is the appropriate method of warfare.

Many people are always surprised that there are enough troops. Why should they be divided into multiple routes and carried out in different directions? They think that it is the right way to concentrate the troops in one place, which can effectively fight with superior forces. However, they do not think about the consumption required by the general team, nor do they think that the larger the troops are, the greater the pressure on logistics. Another thing is that multi-channel attacks actually have a restraining effect. They are also dispersing the enemy's forces, and there are more insurance. After all, as long as there is a breakthrough all the way, the defensive side must be more passive.

Of course, war is not immutable. We should take into account the ability of unifying generals, but also understand the quality of the army. Otherwise, the correct combat methods use the wrong people, or the army does not have the quality that it should have. Obviously, it will win, but it will lose.

The land of Murong Yan state is not too large, that is, it occupies a considerable area of grassland in Yuyang County, youbeiping County, Liaoxi County, Liaodong county and xuantu County in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Compared with the territory, the territory of Murong Yan state, that is, a state of the Han state, has a population of about 1.8 million. Intelligence shows that there are more than 300000 troops. Behind, Tuoba shiyijian took Tuoba Xianbei to take refuge, adding about 30000 friendly troops to Murong Xianbei.

To sum up, it should be the rising stage of Murong Xianbei. If Liu Yan did not appear as a troublemaker, they spent about ten years to lay down all the surrounding countries except Shijie and Zhao. The wealth they obtained is incalculable, and the population has increased accordingly.

A country that is in the rising stage and a country that is on the decline can never be compared in terms of its war capability in different states. In the history of the world, many countries with small territory and small population have been able to fight and win in a row when challenging giants, and even swallow elephants with snakes. That is the result of the spiritual outlook and morale of the two countries from top to bottom.

The Murong Yan army, which constantly won victories from the fat beating of neighboring countries and forces, was in its heyday. Murong Yan army was also the only one who did not seem weak in fighting with the Han army. It can even be said that the Han army lost in Murong Yan army's hands in many defeats.

Speaking of morale, there is no gap between the Han Army and Murong Yan Army

The development and prosperity of the Han state from scratch is to move from one victory to another. The confidence that the army should have has long been cultivated. The country is completely better than Murong Yan state in terms of territory and population.

Murong Yanguo is actually moving from one victory to the next. They know their strength from the enemy who is weaker than themselves. What slightly affects the morale of the army is that when facing the Han Army, they can't bully the weak with strength. They worry that they can't afford to lose and the Han army can afford to lose.

"Han has 13 standing armies and 50000 forbidden guards. He can summon no less than 700000 soldiers from counties and counties. There is a need for a million troops who can form the next echelon!" Xu Zheng's face glowed when he said this. The next sentence was: "how many people are there in Yan Guocai? If 300000 troops are lost, they will be gone. If you want to die, you can gather another 40000 or 50000 people. We will destroy them!"

It sounds very angry, but it shouldn't be said by a national lieutenant.

There are 13 standing armies in the Han Dynasty, but only six are in the battlefield of attacking Yan, and the other is scattered in multiple positions.

There is only one Dingxiang in Shijie Zhao state, which is actually extinct. The difference is when Liu Yan ordered to catch or kill Shi Hu who doesn't know his health status.

Because Tuoba shiyijian was frightened, the Tuoba Dai state collapsed on its own. Sheng Le had long been captured by the Han Army, and the grasslands in Monan also belonged to the territory of the Han state.

Due to lack of confidence, Zhang Liangguo wants to merge peacefully and join the big family of Han to share the winner's bonus. At present, it has entered the negotiation stage. If Liu Yan doesn't want to kill everything, he may leave a future disaster... Or a problem left over by history, but Zhang Liangguo is doomed to disappear as a country.

At present, the front that the Han country needs to deal with is decreasing all the time. In addition to maintaining sufficient troops to deter Xiliang, the Fu family in the basin is mostly monitored, that is, the soldiers here do not need to invest much more troops, and they can even be transferred to other fronts.

The Hussars shogunate is in the final stage of the tomb of Shijie Zhao state. The center has included the dissolution of the Hussars shogunate into the process. During this time, some troops will be left as local garrisons. At most, they will keep cleaning up the northwest grassland, and the required troops will be limited.

In the south, including Shu, after the long-term elimination and suppression presided over by Huan Wen, the hostile forces who did not obey the rule were either killed or afraid. Next, it was enough for the county soldiers to garrison. In order to continue to establish his military exploits, Huan Wen has begun to ask the center to go south to the Indian subcontinent to find Lin Yi and Fu Nan.

For Huan Wen's request, the center is still hesitant for the time being. It believes that Linyi and Funan don't need two standing armies at all. At most, one standing army can complete the goal of destroying the country and occupying land. Only one standing army in the South can not use the level of a general in the south. The highest standard is that a general in the South will lead the army, or simply send only one general.

With the reduction of the front, there are many new problems that need to be solved. For example, several generals at the "Zheng" level are likely to live on the merit book next. Whether to establish a general administration at the "Zhen" level has become a new problem.

Huan Wen, the general who conquered the south, was depressed recently because his opponents in the South didn't use him. He sought to lead the South and didn't get a reply. He wondered whether to bring the ocean into the direct control of the shogunate. Since there was no opponent, he found an opponent.

There is no need to worry that there are no rivals, that is, General Li Tan and general Xie an, who are the generals of the Northern Expedition and the generals of the southern expedition. Li Tan also has xigaoche on the northern grassland. Xie an needs to make necessary plans and preparations for entering the western regions. Another is that general LV Tai, after solving Murong Yan state, also has Xianbei grassland and donggaoche, It's a little hard to decide whether Rouran should be in charge of the shogunate of the general of the north or the shogunate of the general of the East.

"How long will meiyang Hou arrive?" Liu Yan said that the meiyang Marquis was ran min. when he got the answer, he went on to say: "the Hussars shogunate was dissolved. The meiyang Marquis participated in the invasion of Yan and no longer established an independent shogunate. He can give him the first offensive against youpeiping."

There was no fixed establishment under the command of any general in the Han Dynasty. The shogunate was established with the permission of the Central Committee. How many troops were transferred into the command system of the shogunate according to needs. In fact, this is to avoid the emergence of military towns, so although there are generals with the word "town", they have not appointed generals of that level.

Liu Yan is well aware of the hidden dangers of the general's long-term command of the fixed army. He has been thinking about whether to carry out necessary reforms, rather than setting up some powers without appointment.

It should be clear that in the framework of the national system, especially what official positions are appointed now, it may be no accident that the official position will be regarded as dead by someone. Even if an official of this generation dies, he will be inherited by the next generation. It is really necessary to be cautious in the appointment of many positions.

Liu Yan's strength makes many obviously existing official positions but no one will be. Although no one dares to have any objections, the hidden dangers have not been removed. His intention is to make necessary changes to the national system after the surrounding threats are eliminated, and the military system will also be greatly reformed. For example, the general numbers "Zheng", "Zhen", "Ping" and "Fu" will be cancelled and replaced with the general numbers that are not specifically targeted.

Many modern countries will set up war zones (front armies). In fact, the era of cold weapons has existed for a long time, such as the border army in one direction of the Central Plains imperial dynasty. In Liu Yan's series of plans, offensive countries do not need the existence system of border army at all. Anyway, they just fight out all the time. They can only be war zones in the immediate stage or targeted front armies.

There were thirteen standing armies in the Han Dynasty. These standing armies would not fix which standing army should stay there for a long time, which was the foreshadowing laid by Liu Yan in advance.

Liu Yan's plan is that no matter how many standing armies there are, they will belong to the national defense force. These standing armies will not have fixed front-line commanders except the Lang generals of the regiment. At the same time, Lang will rotate for many years. When necessary, how many standing armies will be transferred to form a group army, and a person appointed by a certain center will serve as the commander of the group army. If the strength of the group army is not enough, it will increase to become a corps.

Group army, corps... Does it sound very modern? However, in fact, no matter the group army or the Corps, it is actually the name that existed in the cold weapon era. Records can be found in both the East and the West.

In fact... Liu Yan wanted to create the system of major general, lieutenant general, general and field marshal, but it would be a matter for the upper level of the military alone, and a series of reforms would also be carried out from the grass-roots level.

[maybe it's really going to be like this...] Liu Yan has finished what he should say. How to arrange the offensive against murongyan only needs to grasp the general direction. In detail, it's about the generals and the long history (that is, the staff). Once again, he thinks while walking: [the era of firearms is about to enter. Although cold weapons cannot be completely eliminated for a while and a half, it is absolutely necessary to reform the military system first.]

Liu Yan said that the era of firearms is not simply that the system is about to be upgraded. In fact, the gunpowder research he personally grasped has already achieved results. He just feels that the timing is wrong and there is no enlarged move.