After the Battle of Baidaokou, Li Yi did not immediately raise troops to the north. First, the army had been fighting for three months in a row, and it was already very tired. Coupled with the fact that the losses were too large, there was no longer the strength to go north to the prairie to fight a decisive battle with the Xianbei people. Second, the re-rebellion of Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju, Zhang Yan and others, although it is impossible to cause much damage to the seven counties of Youzhou under Li Yi's rule, is a hidden danger after all, and it is better to assess it as soon as possible.

Therefore, Li Yi decided to return to Youzhou and Jizhou first, put down the rebellion in the two states, and then recuperate, accumulate strength, and go north to the prairie next year to conquer the Xianbei people. I believe that after this year's series of wars, the Xianbei people who have lost more than 200,000 elite forces have been completely injured, and because of the fact that the Xianbei army is going south this year, the Xianbei people will inevitably fall into civil strife.

Li Yi led the army back to Mayi, met with the infantry army there, and then summoned the final general to discuss the matter of returning to Jizhou.

After a series of battles, although he achieved the brilliant record of annihilating more than 200,000 foreign coalition troops, Li Yi's own loss of strength was also great. Of the 53,000 Youzhou army, there are now only about 1,500 personal guard iron cavalry, 15,000 cavalry, and about 12,000 foot soldiers, and the total strength is less than 30,000.

The 20,000 Jizhou soldiers brought by the trial, although they only experienced the battle of Yuanpingcheng, also lost nearly half, and now there are only more than 12,000 people left. The losses of the 5,000 party soldiers brought by Zhang Yang were relatively small, and now there are nearly 4,000 left. However, the nearly 10,000 Bingzhou troops that originally belonged to the Bingzhou Assassin Shi Dingyuan suffered heavy losses, and now there are only about 3,000. Then there are 5,000 cavalry of the Changshui Battalion led by Xu Rong to the north, and now there are more than 3,000 people left.

All in all, there are still 52,000 troops in Bingzhou today.

It seems that there are still a lot of troops, but Li Yi can really bring far less to Jizhou.

Although it is difficult for the Xianbei people to move south again in the near future, and the Southern Xiongnu have no strength now, the Bingzhou army still cannot follow Li Yi to Jizhou. This left more than 7,000 and state troops. Maintaining law and order in the state is a problem.

In addition, Xu Rong's cavalry of the Changshui Battalion also received an edict from the Son of Heaven, asking them to go south to Hanoi to protect the safety of Luoyang, the capital division.

In this way, Li Yi can really command less than 30,000 Youzhou troops and 12,000 Jizhou soldiers, with a total strength of more than 40,000.

Troops were dispatched from Jizhou, and there were only a few roads, namely Baicheng, Fukou, Jingcheng, Flying Fox and Puyin. One of the most convenient is of course Jingcheng. But. Zhang Yan stationed heavy troops here, preventing Li Yi from attacking Jizhou from here. If Li Yi wants to lead a large army to attack Jizhou from this place, he will inevitably pay a huge price.

However, for Li Yi, who has many cavalry under his command, distance is not a problem at all. He asked Zhang Fei to lead the infantry of the Youzhou Army, together with the Jizhou soldiers led by the judge, plus the cavalry of the Changshui Battalion, disguised as an army of 50,000, and swaggered towards Jingcheng. Can be secretly. However, he personally commanded the remaining 17,000 Youzhou iron horsemen, traveled day and night, out of Baicheng, and then sneaked north. With lightning speed, he took the important town of Handan, and then quickly went north to Changshan country.

The infantry units that had already arrived at Jingcheng also launched a fierce attack on Jingcheng, and the defenders could not resist it, so they could only retreat from Jingcheng in defeat. Zhang Yan was helpless. You can only retreat step by step.

In July of the fourth year of Zhongping in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Yan led 50,000 Yellow Turban troops and was surrounded by Li Yi, the general of the Northern Expedition, in Zhending City on the banks of the Hutuo River.

Li Yi sent an envoy. Persuade Zhang Yan to surrender. Due to Li Yi's reputation for treating Yellow Turban Army prisoners favorably, Zhang Yan led the crowd to surrender after careful consideration.

At the same time, Xianbei fell into civil strife again because of the death of the new big leader Pu Tou. In order to compete for the position of the great leader, Budugen led the army to retreat from the border, followed by several major tribes in the eastern Xianbei.

At the beginning of August, Li Yi led 30,000 Youzhou troops to attack Zhongshan from Changshan State. And Yue Fei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who were able to spare their hands because of the retreat of the Xianbei people, also concentrated their forces and attacked Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju's rebels on three sides.

In mid-September, the Fourth Route Army of the Youzhou Army besieged Yuyang City, the rebel's nest.

On the first day of October, Yuyang City was broken by the Youzhou Army, and Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju escaped from Yuyang City under the desperate protection of the dead guards, and took refuge in the territory of Qiu Liju, the great leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi.

Because this year's war has been going on for too long, Li Yi did not immediately lead the army into Wuhuan, but retreated back to his hometown in Quanzhou.

Although the wars of the Great Han Kingdom this year were all over the north of the Yellow River, especially in the second half of the year, rebellions broke out one after another and intensified.

However, in September and November, there was a tide of freight transportation that had not been seen in a hundred years on the Chi Road leading to Bingzhou in the east of the river and on the Fenshui River close to the Chi Road.

Now Li Yi, as the general of the expedition to the north, is in charge of the military and political affairs of Youzhou and Bingzhou. In this way, Bingzhou can be regarded as being included in Li Yi's sphere of influence.

Bingzhou was originally the most barren and least populated state among the thirteen states in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the population of the entire Bingzhou was less than 800,000, which is not as good as the population of Zhuo County today, not to mention the large counties with a population of more than one million like Nanyang and Runan in the Central Plains.

However, Li Yi's plan is not small, and in the next two years, Bingzhou will be the advance base of the Northern Expedition to the prairie, and it must be built here.

And the best way is to expand the tuntian in the state. Li Yi appointed Guoyuan as the captain of Tuntian, presided over the affairs of Tuntian, and gave the Li family chamber of commerce full support.

Grain and tuntian supplies from Guanzhong and Kanto were loaded with wagons and ships, and the long transportation procession stretched for thousands of miles. Under the encouragement and leadership of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, the businessmen of the two places devoted themselves to the tide of Tuntian in Bingzhou with unprecedented enthusiasm.

The infinite business opportunities contained in Tuntian in Bingzhou have made shrewd businessmen flock to it, lest they fall behind and miss the great opportunity to make money.

Millions of people marched to the border tuntian, which was the first time in the history of this dynasty. When the Great Han Kingdom was declining, the determination and courage of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court inspired the world. Everyone seems to see the brilliant future again in the afterglow of the sunset, countless people cheer for Bingzhou Tuntian, and countless people are full of hope and look forward to the day when the Han Kingdom will rise to strength.

In addition to the joy of the Taixue Festival Wine Horse Riyan and the Taixue Officials, the Taixue Officials, the Doctors, and the Confucians from all over the country who traveled to Beijing, they also specially organized a sitting debate between 10,000 Taixue disciples and ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and conducted several exchanges on the help and significance of the Tuntian of Bingzhou to the revitalization of the Han Kingdom, and the excited Taixue students also made several long gifts of singing praises and virtues to the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven was happy, and took the ministers of the Three Princes and Jiuqing to Taixue in person to make a wonderful speech on the revitalization of the Han Tianwei, and then he was still unsatisfied with the Dr. Taixue, the Confucian in Beijing, and the students to discuss how to revitalize the Han Dynasty.

When the scholars of Taixue saw the Son of Heaven Shengming, they were excited for a while, and they took the opportunity to send the Son of Heaven back to the palace and marched in Luoyang for three days in a row to celebrate the great achievements of the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven was so happy that he sat on the cloud platform every day to accept the cheers of all the beings and the people, and he was so excited that he almost didn't run outside the palace to have fun with the people.

In such a pleasant atmosphere, the fourth year of Zhongping came to an end, and ushered in the fifth year of Zhongping.

The fifth year of Zhongping was a relatively quiet year.

Li Yi, the general of the expedition to the north with an army of 100,000 troops, did not use swords and troops in the prairie according to the original plan, but nested in his hometown in Quanzhou and remotely controlled the tuntian affairs of the state.

In Bingzhou, Zhang Fei, who was reappointed as the general of Duliao, led four generals who had newly joined the Youzhou Army, including Lü Bu, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, and Gao Changgong, to attack everywhere and exterminate small groups of rebels in various parts of Bingzhou. Of course, the biggest military operation was the war against the Southern Xiongnu.

When the Xianbei people organized a large-scale invasion of the alien alliance last year, the Southern Xiongnu also joined the coalition army and dispatched 40,000 troops.

It's a pity that in the battle of Yuanpingcheng, these Xiongnu troops were wiped out along with the army of Xianbei King Putou, and even the Xiongnu slaughtered the great leader of the various ethnic groups, Dugaiting, was killed.

Last year, Li Yi didn't have his hands free to clean up the Huns, but this year, he has freed his hands.

After several battles, the last bit of strength of the Huns was also exhausted, and Li Yi ordered Zhang Fei to accept the surrender of the Southern Xiongnu in Qiangqu.

The surrender of the Southern Xiongnu was different from the previous ones, and it was a real unconditional surrender. From then on, the Xiongnu no longer appeared as a single nation, but were fully dependent on the military and political affairs of the Great Han State to conquer the northern general's mansion. Even, the Huns did not even have a fixed settlement, and they were scattered and placed in various parts of Bingzhou and Youzhou by Li Yi.

Also sharing the fate of the Huns were the Wuhuan people. When Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju rebelled last year, the Wuhuan people also participated in it. After Li Yi put down Zhang Chunzhangju's rebellion last year, he did not immediately conquer Wuhuan, which does not mean that he is magnanimous and does not trouble the Wuhuan people. No, as soon as this year entered the spring, Li Yi sent two generals, Yue Fei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, to lead the army to attack the three counties of Shanggu, Yuyang and Youbeiping. In Liaodong, Li Yi also asked Zhang He to temporarily abandon the conquest of Goguryeo and the Sanhans, and concentrate his forces to crusade against Wuhuan in Liaoxi.

After many fierce battles, Wuhuan was destroyed, and more than 200,000 Wuhuan people were captured by the Youzhou army, and then Li Yi was placed in Youzhou and Bingzhou counties respectively, living with the Han people, so as to avoid the repeated rebellion of the previous situation.

In the northern prairie, although Li Yi did not send troops, he fought very lively. The bald Pi Lone, Bu Dugen, and nearly ten adults of the three Xianbei tribes, for the vacated position of the Xianbei king, fell in love and killed each other, and they were very happy.

And in the melee, a young little man gradually rose, this person is called Kebineng. He was originally a member of a small tribe in Xianbei in central China, but this small tribe actually rose strongly against the trend in a chaotic prairie and became an important force on a par with the major tribes. (To be continued.) )