Last winter and this spring, several convoys under Tian Chou's command were attacked by the Karasuma Rangers, and the personnel and materials suffered a certain degree of loss. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but on the whole, the number is not large, after all, Tian Chou's subordinates are not fuel-efficient lamps.

But Tian Chou has been in the north for a long time, and he is very familiar with all kinds of situations in the north. He understood that although Lao Cao had been quiet in the north for a few years after he had taken care of the Badun, it was impossible to completely calm down. For these nomadic tribes, they have to be beaten up every once in a while, so that they can be honest again when they have a little strength and want to move.

But obviously this is also unlikely, Lao Cao will not spend too much energy on those small tribes in the north, in principle, as long as these small tribes don't make too much noise, those bits and pieces of small-scale robbery Lao Cao is too lazy to care. It's like saying that there are so many dozen or twenty ruffians fighting in the market, do you still need to send the army to suppress it? Dispatch some police, and if you can't help it, just send some special police.

So correspondingly, Tian Chou is like the "special police" that Lao Cao put on the northern side, and Tian Chou can recruit troops and recruit troops, which is also something that Lao Cao nodded and approved. It's just that a few years ago, there were people like Tian Chou in Youbeiping, and the area around Youbeiping was still peaceful, but now the looting actions of those tribes have moved to Tian Chou's head, what does this mean? To put it more dramatically, this Nima is attacking the police officer, and at the same time trying to snatch the gun from the police officer, okay?

But it's not surprising that this is happening. The western part of Liaoning was originally an area of activity for the nomadic tribes, and there was no agricultural area for them to grab, so their eyes were naturally focused on Youbeiping. And who has the most oil and water here in Beiping? Nature is the head of the field. You must know that Tian Chou has always kept in touch with Lu Ren, and the money, grain, and utensils exchanged from Lu Ren for northern specialties every year are not a small number, who is it that you don't rob Tian Chou?

However, the cottage area of Tian Chou is not easy to mess with. To put it mildly, this territory has been in business for several years, and with the support of Lu Ren, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a military town.

However, due to geographical factors, Tian Chou's cottage is a long way from the harbor, and the convoy in this not short distance has become the main target of nomadic raids. And the more daring raiding groups directly targeted the port towns with certain defense capabilities. This is why Zhao Yu's fleet was plundered when it just arrived at the port in the spring of the eighteenth year of Jian'an.

At that time, Tian Chou led the crowd to support, and after repelling the raiding group with Zhao Yu and meeting with Zhao Yu again, he felt that he could no longer defend too passively here, but it was not realistic to say that he would attack, so he asked Zhao Yu to ask Lu Ren if there was any other way after returning to Yizhou. As for Tian Chou himself, after receiving a large amount of supplies from this fleet, he began to actively recruit troops in case of emergency...... By the way, Tian Chou does not belong to the core personnel on Lu Ren's side, so Tian Chou does not have a telegraph machine to quickly contact Lu Ren. The previous telegram was taken by Zhao Yu to Lu Ren overnight.

Now turn the conversation back to Lu Ren. After Lu Ren talked to Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu, he also fell into deep thought in front of the map. Just as Lu Ren was pondering, Shirley came to Lu Ren's side at some point, and put a thick stack of documents on Lu Ren's desk: "Senior brother, I'm back." This is the relevant information of Yizhong New Town, do you want to take a look? ”

Lu Ren came back from his contemplation, shook his head at Xue Li and said, "Don't rush this time, I don't have to worry about you anyway." Besides, for the construction of Yizhong New Town, we already have the experience of building Mangjia before, and the manpower and material resources are much more abundant than when we built Mangjia, and I believe that we will not encounter anything too troublesome. ”

Shirley smiled, picked out a few documents that needed to be signed and stamped by Lu Ren for Lu Ren to sign and pass, then looked at Lu Ren's expression again, and couldn't help asking, "Senior brother, what are you thinking?" The brows are almost twisted together. ”

Lu Ren looked at Xue Li, hesitated for a moment, and then asked the attendants to retreat, and then told Xue Li about the situation on Tian Chou's side before, and then talked about the preparation of sending Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu to Liaoxi, and finally frowned and said, "There are some things I can only say to you...... Shirley, I always feel that the momentum of northern Karasuma seems to be much earlier than the original history. ”

Shirley shook her head a little puzzled, because this kind of thing is not what Shirley is good at: "Senior brother, what do you mean?" ”

Lu Ren shook his head vigorously: "Anyway, I think it's very wrong." In the past two days, I've been thinking that Lao Cao once went north to conquer Karasuma after leveling the Yuan clan, and some of them subdued and dispersed Karasuma, and didn't King Zuoxian of the Huns send Cai Yan back to the Central Plains because he was afraid of Lao Cao...... Oh yes, Cai Yan hasn't been to the Northland now, and he's always stayed by my side.

"Anyway, what I mean is that in the current era, there's no reason why Karasuma would be so active. According to the news from Tian Chou, just last winter, the transport team in his hand was attacked seven times! His convoy was not an ordinary team of ordinary people, and it was a bit ...... that the Karasuma cavalry even dared to touch his convoy at this time And that's not even counting the attack on the port of Zhao Yu. Are these Karasuma tribes too bold? ”

Shirley was dumbfounded: "Seven times? ”

Lu Ren was silent for a while before he sighed lightly: "These people are bold, it must be because their waists are hard, otherwise how dare they provoke Tian Chou?" And I thought about it for a long time, and I thought that the Karasuma tribe would become like this, and it might have something to do with us. ”

Shirley was surprised: "Senior brother, what did you say?" How can the restlessness of the northern nomadism be related to us? One to the north, the other to the south, these eight strokes can't hit together, right? ”

Lu Ren waved his hand: "You listen to me!" The relationship here is more complicated, and it has to be explained in the same way. Well...... Where to start? ”

Saying that, Lu Ren pondered for a while, and after sorting out some thoughts, he said, "Let's start with the original historical process." According to the original historical process, Lao Cao went north to conquer Karasuma in the winter of the twelfth year of Jian'an, and then subdued Karasuma in one fell swoop...... That is, Guo Jia died of illness in the battle in Liucheng. After that battle, Lao Cao Wei shook the north of the desert, Karasuma and the northern and southern Xiongnu did not dare to provoke Lao Cao, and Lao Cao also had time to use troops in other places.

But ten years later, that is, in the twenty-third year of Jian'an, Daijun Karasuma rebelled, and Lao Cao sent his yellow beard Cao Zhang to put down the rebellion. It was probably a year of fighting, anyway, in the middle of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Cao Zhang also caught up with the battle for Hanzhong between Cao and Liu. However, these are only written information, and I am afraid that none of us can tell what the specific actual situation will be. ”

"Senior brother, what do you mean?"

Lu Ren said solemnly: "For a long time, Wuhu nomads have been harassing the north. If it is a large-scale invasion, it will indeed be immediately subdued by the authorities in the Central Plains, but this is only temporary and superficial. Small-scale looting and harassment are generally too lazy to pay attention to those in power, and the unlucky ones are the border people. ”

Shirley said: "I also know this, but what does it have to do with us?" ”

Lu Ren shook his fingers: "You don't understand this very well." The people in the north are generally more fierce and martial, so will they really not make their own arms to defend and counterattack the Wuhu nomads? What's more, a hardliner like Lao Cao will not sit idly by and ignore Wuhu's harassment of his land.

Therefore, he is also very supportive of the spontaneous arming of the people, as long as it does not endanger his rule. In other words, if it is according to the original history, in the ten years from the twelfth year of Jian'an to the twenty-third year of Jian'an, even if the Wuhu nomads harassed the northern border, their small teams would also be beaten back by the civilian forces, but what about the current situation......

"Originally, there was a big disturbance at Karasuma's end, which should have been in Jian'an for twenty-three years. Excluding the time for their union, assembly, deployment, etc., I calculated that this period of time was two years, so they should not have some relevant movements until about 20 years after Jian'an. But Shirley, we are now at the beginning of the eighteenth year of Jian'an! In other words, it seems that the movement on Karasuma's side has been at least two years in advance. ”

Shirley also frowned at this time, and had already roughly guessed what Lu Ren wanted to say.

looked at Lu Ren again and continued: "I thought about it again and again. To fight a war, you have to have people, because only people will have soldiers. Especially in the current era of cold weapons, as soon as a war starts, it can be said that it is to take people and pile them up. If the people in the north are large enough, their spontaneous armed strength will naturally not be too bad. In other words, the power of the Karasuma tribe, to a certain extent, should have been suppressed by the self-defense armed forces of the people in the north for two years, so now the key point of the problem is here, how many people have been taken from the north since the establishment of Yizhou? ”

Shirley frowned again: "It won't be too much, right?" The population of Yizhou is only about 500,000, and the population from the north is only about 300,000 at most. With a population of 300,000, how much impact will it have on the defense of the North? ”

Lu Ren shook his head vigorously and said, "This is to move the whole body." Our ship capacity is limited, and the population we have brought from Yizhou over the years is not too much, in Shirley's words, it is 300,000. But Shirley, the north of this era is what people call a bitter cold place, and the population base is not very large. Three hundred thousand? Really calculated, we have basically emptied all the states and counties in the Beiping area! I'll give you an account here, and maybe you'll be able to understand. (To be continued.) )