Wusun, Cheshi, Shanshan, Dawan, Shannan...... There are many names of countries in a mess, and they are some of the national capitals that the Han army knew from the Hu people after the northern expedition to the grasslands.

Of course, there is no name for the "Western Regions" yet, because the Chinese ethnic group does not know that there is such a place, and of course it is not named.

In fact, in the East, many geographical locations are named after the Chinese ethnic groups, who let the Chinese ethnic groups develop their own writing and other ethnic groups do not, right? Therefore, it is the privilege of an advanced civilization to give a name to a place and be recorded in history and passed on to future generations, once this civilization becomes the hegemon of the world, then no matter what name it takes, it will be used until this hegemon is replaced by another hegemon, and whether to change the name of a place depends on the mood of the new overlord at that time.

"There are so many countries in the west?" Wu Liang used an admiring tone, he didn't know what he was thinking and was quiet for a while, and then said: "No wonder the king always says that the world is very big, and there is an unimaginably vast land in an invisible place. ”

As far as the Han State knows, there is no other country in the south except the Ou Yu State, but the Ou Yu State only occupies a small amount of land in the south, and there are more land occupied by some wild people who have not formed a state, where the south side is the sea, and the north side is a large area of primeval forest, and the army once sent people to explore, and under full preparation, it was nearly 2,000 miles before being blocked by a big mountain. It is conceivable that if you climb over the mountains, there must be a vast land on the other side, and it is very likely that you will never be able to walk for a lifetime.

The land in the south is because there is no too strong opponent, the Han State can easily explore, after all, the strength of the Ou Kingdom is like that, if it were not for the weather, the Han army always needs to retreat in half of the battle, and then there is a typhoon or something from time to time to force the offensive to stop, and the Ou Kingdom would have been finished long ago. The land to the south is being explored, and the ocean is also being explored. However, compared with the land, the exploration of the ocean is relatively complex, and the exploration of the ocean will not be fast until the technology of identifying the direction has been fully developed.

"Our pioneer unit has already arrived at the foot of Yin Mountain, and is currently exploring a path that can be operated." Zhang Cang's remarks were unknown to the follow-up troops.

The pioneer scouts had been exploring Yinshan for some time, and before they had gone there, they thought that Yinshan was a simple mountain range, presumably no different from the south. But in reality? There is no mistake that the south is mountainous, but continuous mountain ranges are relatively rare, and it is basically a small hill package that is finished. And Yin Mountain is obviously different from the mountains in the south, according to the exploration of the pioneer scouts. The length of the Yin Mountains is at least 400 li, and the terrain is extremely complex.

A military marquis has limited knowledge, and Zhang Cang just took advantage of Wu Liang's interest to talk about it, which can be regarded as familiar.

As a partial general, Wu Liang knew more, the vanguard army actually did not plan to go straight to the north of Yinshan, and the exploration of Yinshan was to prepare for future military operations, in fact, there were not many Han troops at the foot of Yinshan.

In addition to the scouts sent to explore Yinshan, as early as three months ago, a Han army team entered the grassland from the direction of Yanmen, and their goal was also to explore that area. Draw map markers of water sources, deserts, swamps, etc. in the area.

After the complete surrender of the Yan Kingdom, Lü Zhe also sent officials to Jiji (present-day Fangshan District, Beijing) to collect maps of Liaodong and other places, and the scouts of the small group even went to the area of Donghu to carry out mapping operations.

The Han army's multifaceted explorations were made in order to be able to use them when necessary in the future. And almost all the high-ranking generals are very aware of the fact from the matter of sending scouts everywhere, that is, the Han King Lu Zhe did not dominate the world and wanted to release Nanshan.

The next day, around the wee hours of the morning? The follow-up troops who came from the land of Qilu also came to the camp. The number of these troops should be more than 60,000, and all of them were foot soldiers on war horses. And there were not only soldiers but also auxiliaries inside, and there were even people escorting the carriage with them.

"Establish a point here, and the follow-up supplies will be stationed here." The commander of the follow-up troops will be He Yi of the Second Mixed Corps. He also told Wu Liang that if there was no mistake, Wei Han would send someone to inform the 11th Cavalry Division to cancel today's march because the 12th Cavalry Division would arrive tomorrow.

Not? The 11th Cavalry Division and the 12th Cavalry Division together are the 5th Cavalry Corps, and then looking at the troops that arrived in the early morning, there are 2nd Mixed Corps and 3rd Mixed Corps, and there are even people from the 4th Mixed Corps, it seems that there is something big about it?

He Yi is not Wu Liang's direct boss, although He Yi told Wu Liang that a new order will be issued, but the real military order has not been sent to Wu Liang and Wu Liang must still be ready to be able to be pulled.

The more than 60,000 people who arrived in the early hours of the morning were not all of the follow-up troops, and almost all of them arrived on the front foot and new troops drove in at the back.

The new troops were the vanguard of the 12th Cavalry Division, and sure enough, they brought Wu Liang an order to cancel today's march.

It is not known how many troops will be gathered in this place, the garrison is obviously already expanding the camp, and the follow-up troops are also joining the ranks of expanding the camp.

"We came here yesterday and can still find the Hu Seed Woman to have fun, they ......" Zhong Liyi pointed to the rest of the allies: "As soon as they come, even if they are tired, they will be busy expanding the camp." ”

In fact, the 11th Cavalry Division also has soldiers in the expansion camp, but Zhong Liyi is a military marquis, not only him, but also Sima and Tun Chang of other departments play a supervisory role, and only officers of the team leader need to follow suit.

Around noon? The main force of the 12th Cavalry Division led by He Yiqin had just arrived at the camp, and he did not rest as soon as he came, and immediately called a meeting of the officers above the rank of marquis of the whole corps.

Military marquis above? That is, there was nothing to do with the officers below Sima of other departments, and Han Xin became the supreme officer of the whole building, that is, the supreme officer present who had more than a thousand people to help expand the camp. He was now leading the men to fill in the traps that the garrison had dug in advance, that is, the small round holes that could only hold a horse's hoof, and the other friendly forces had their own division of labor.

"What!? This difference, this treatment, is enough that cavalry is much better than foot soldiers! "The voice was louder, and it was a tun commander belonging to the Second Mixed Legion, and his name was Yongya.

The 2nd Mixed Regiment arrived at the camp in the early hours of the morning, and they were sent out to work on civil engineering with only a few hasty food.

Because this is going to be a permanent forward base. Naturally, the construction of some fortifications must not be done so-so, and the army is expanding the camp to remove the original traps and lay new traps on the periphery. At the same time, the soldiers also have to collect the surrounding forage, stones, etc., and there are special professionals to do the measurement of geography.

The Yongya Society heard that the 11th Cavalry Division could prostitute on the day they came, and as soon as they came, they didn't even rest and started to get busy, which seemed to be a little psychologically unbalanced.

Of course, Yongya's babbling provoked the reprimand of a more senior officer, and that person was actually an old acquaintance with Yongya, Cao Shen who came out of Pei County together.

Cao Shen is now a school captain. He was originally in the forbidden army sequence...... Or many people were originally in the forbidden army sequence, but the Han army has a characteristic, that is, every once in a while, unless the unit is in a state of war, otherwise it will be appropriately transferred, and the time of service in which sequence of soldiers is not fixed, it is possible that this year will be transferred to the national defense force sequence next year, and it is also possible to be transferred from the national defense force sequence to the forbidden army establishment.

"Why don't you change your temperament? If you change your big mouth, you will be a separate Sima now! "How can they all be fellow villagers, Cao Shen lowered his voice to give some face when he reprimanded Yongya: "If you want to kill you with such a thing." The charge of shaking the morale of the army is light. ”

Yongya shrunk his neck: "Originally, they came to the camp to sleep with Hu and women, and they could eat roast whole sheep, roast whole beef or something, we just came to drink a little bone broth and didn't even rest and immediately put into this thing called civil engineering." ”

Cao Shen stared at Yongya viciously: "Who said we don't have that kind of treatment?" ”。 He looked left and right, and then continued: "There are still many troops coming later, and some of the vanguard corps that set off in advance will also come here, and they will come back with captures. Do you understand what I mean? ”

It's strange that Yongya can understand, but he has been stared at viciously by Cao Shen repeatedly, and he knows that he can't be better off as another officer. After enduring it, I still asked: "I don't understand what you say, can you explain it clearly?" ”

Cao Shen was too lazy to continue to take care of Yongya, and stared at him viciously before stepping away.

The so-called vanguard corps is of course the first cavalry corps and Wang Ben's department, they have broken into the Beihe area of the Yellow River tributary at the farthest, where it was called Linhe City in the Western Han Dynasty, but now there is no city, it is a large bare area, or until the Xiongnu conquer the countries of the Western Regions will have the right Xian Wang Department stationed, the first generation of the right Xian Wang built a city in that area, the name of the city is Gaoque, it is the main city of the Xiongnu Right Xian Wang.

The First Cavalry Regiment and Wang Ben's department went deep into the Hetao, and they encountered a lot of things, at the beginning they met the Hu tribe who were not young and strong, and then they met the Hu cavalry who escorted the spoils back to the grassland from the Huaxia region.

The Xiongnu entangled the steppe tribes to the south, with the social structure of the steppe nomads, they did not have the so-called "full-time soldiers" at all, and when they were fighting, they were temporarily called herdsmen to become soldiers, and every time they entered the state of war, they would draw the young and strong of each tribe clean, and even plan the sturdy women to become soldiers when they were in crisis or could take advantage of them, and even took the tribe to the south together.

The Hu tribes encountered by the vanguard army in the early stage were not many young and strong, and these Hu tribes were naturally not opponents of the Chinese army armed to the teeth. At the beginning, as the main general of the vanguard legion, Wang Ben was counted as one, as long as he encountered the Hu tribe, he would be slaughtered without leaving a chicken and dog, and there were at least a dozen large and small tribes slaughtered along the way, and he was killed too deeply and was no longer familiar with the terrain, so he began to converge slightly, and he was able to accept it, but there were still more bloody killings. After receiving the name from Lu Zhe, they adopted a relatively soft policy towards the Hu tribes who were willing to submit.

The Hu tribe on the grassland never thought that the Chinese army would enter the grassland, but even if they knew, they would only have the life of fleeing, after all, the young and strong people had invaded south, and it was difficult for the grassland to organize armed forces to resist, right?

The vanguard army began to subdue the Hu tribe in a planned way, which was a means of killing and Huairou coexisting, simply put, it was to kill the Hu people to be afraid, and to surrender to surrender, if they were not willing to surrender, they would definitely not be soft. The Hu people are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and their rules of survival do not have the virtue of resisting to death, and it is very difficult for some tribes to surrender the entire tribe when they cannot resist.

Today's means of communication are too late. Moreover, the mobility of the Chinese army that entered the grassland was no worse than that of the Hu people, and under the targeted arrangement, almost no Hu people could escape and report the news, and the vanguard army brought iron and fire along the way to extinguish and subdue more and more tribes, and there were naturally a lot of captures and captures.

For example, there are many camps in the Hetao, which are about to be built as advance bases, and the further west they go, the more they are. There were not only Hu people from the same tribe in each camp, but the camp where the most tribes mixed together was in an area called Woye.

At present, the main force of the vanguard corps is to stay in the fertile field, and a small part of the troops are turning east with captures and captures, and they do not go directly south because of a natural constraint, that is, they are blocked by a large desert.

In fact, there are a lot of deserts in the Loop. A desert with a length of at least 500 miles and a total area of land that does not know how wide separates the south from the north, and it takes at least two months to walk for a long distance from being to the south.

With the captured and captured Han army, all they had to do was to move everything along the way that had not been planned as a supply base to the east, and to meet one stronghold after another, and the number of troops was getting bigger and bigger, and the supplies and population they carried were also getting bigger and bigger.

"Emptying the Shuofang area is an established strategy, and some of the more than 70,000 Hu people and corresponding supplies captured in the area are left. More often than not, it is sent home. He Yi was pointing to the map, his map was still sent by the Pioneer Legion, and the map looked a little rudimentary, but it marked the camps and water sources set up along the road: "What we have to do is to wait for the Pioneer Legion to bring back the spoils." We have to stay where we are and wait for the engineering troops to come. ”

The establishment of a permanent stronghold is to prepare for the invasion of the grassland, so the first thing that Lu Zhe thought of was naturally to learn from Meng Tian to build a martial city, which required the use of an engineering team.

In addition to the establishment of the so-called forward base. Lu Zhe also made a plan for the current occupied area, and after emptying the Hu population of the grassland, some special areas will set up forts that can be stationed in addition to the advance base. At the same time, a large number of prisoners of war captured in the "civil war" will also be sent over. The families of prisoners of war from Qi and Yan will also be relocated to the Hetao area in the future, which is obviously a routine of immigration and colonization, and it is Lu Zhe who is preparing for civil affairs to permanently occupy the Hetao.

He Yi finished talking about some of the things that should be introduced, leaving the officers above the rank of lieutenant and let the various military marquis retreat.

Waiting for all the military marquis to leave, He Yi's face began to become stern: "According to the military information from the Qin Di side, the Hu people who went south have begun to move north, and the last military information we got was ......" He took out a new map, this map painted Qin Di: "Shangjun direction," nodded Yang Zhou and Fu Shi, "There are at least 200,000 enemy troops moving towards these two places, and their marching route is along the section of the Great Wall to the north according to the speculation of the Taiwei Office (General Staff), Arriving at Zhaozhong (modern Jungar Banner) will move eastward avoiding the desert area. ”

Shen Tujia looked over and saw that the area on the map was only less than a hundred miles away from the area where they were now, and he thought to himself: "No wonder there is a new order, it should be for us to stop here and stop the Hu people fleeing north?" ”

He Yi's words confirmed Shen Tujia's speculation, and after he finished talking about the blockade of the Hu people in the north, he paused to scan the generals present, and first said, "The following is the top secret!" He stopped and looked at everyone, and then continued: "There are 40,000 Yan troops and 70,000 Qi troops in the Hu army moving north, and the information from Jinyiwei is that Wei Man, who led the Yan army, has surrendered to the king, and Tian Jiao, who commands the Qi army, is also willing to be loyal to the king. ”

If there were travelers present, it was estimated that he would be choked to death by saliva when he heard He Yi say "Jinyiwei" in the Qin Dynasty with a stern face, but there was no traveler present, and he didn't know that under Lu Zhe's spoof, the spy agency that should have appeared in the Ming Dynasty was named Yan Bi's intelligence department.

Of course, Lu Zhe got Jinyiwei out, but he was absolutely not interested in setting up another "East Factory" or "West Factory" or anything. In fact, there were no eunuchs in the Han Kingdom, and the royal city used maids and female officials, and at the same time, these maids and female officials did not need to stay in the royal city for the rest of their lives, and they would be released after a certain number of years. As for whether the maids and female officials will have sex with anyone, Lu Zhe did not regard all the women in the royal city as his own forbidden body, if he really regarded all the women in the royal city as forbidden ones, but there were at least thousands of people, could he be busy?

No one laughs at the sight of Jin Yiwei. What they paid attention to was that Yan Jun and Qi Jun, who had been staying with the Hu people, were actually on the same camp, except for a few who couldn't turn their brains and frowned, the rest showed happy smiles.

But it's not, it turns out that there is an army of its own people among the enemy army, so let alone blocking, it must be quite easy to annihilate.

"What's fun!" He Yi scolded some stupid generals: "Wei Man's investment has been proven to be effective, but Tian Jiao is not like that. ”

Wei Man said that he would join Li Liang after contacting him, and he also cooperated a lot in his subsequent behavior, and the information about the enemy's movements was confirmed to be effective. Moreover, he also showed good cooperation with the Jinyi Wei spy sent by Yan Bi later. Even in the back, he cooperated very well with a part of the Jinyi Guards to take over the command of the Yan Army.

Tian Jiao expressed a posture of resistance when he contacted Tian Guang, and according to the reply of the Jinyi Wei secret agent, it was also confirmed that Tian Jiao informed the Xiongnu of the situation of the Han army, which was obviously unreliable. As for why Tian Jiao didn't report the news that Wei Man might be bribed by the Han army to Touman, so far the Han side has not figured it out.

In the subsequent development process, Tian Fake fully expressed the allusion in the idiom "half-hearted", which is simply a repetition of half-heartedness.

What do you mean? Tian Jiao couldn't hug the thighs of the Xiongnu, and later contacted Wei Man, saying that he was willing to belong to the Han State, but that was based on the premise that Tian Jiao was "abandoned" by the Hu people. Repeatedly changing one's mind and doing some betrayal to betray such a person is simply light to describe as half-hearted.

“…… Resisting our takeover of the Qi army, it is obvious that Tian Jiao is not really attached to my king. He Yiyan said: "So the situation is a bit complicated, the king means to temporarily pretend to believe in Tian Jiao's attachment." In order to ensure that Wei Man's side can continue to carry out the plan. ”

This time everything that should be understood is understood, that is to say, Qi Jun cannot be regarded as his own person, and the intelligence on Tian Jiao's side must be greatly discounted.

"Tian Jiaotong guò Jinyi Wei reported to the king, saying that the army of the Hu people who had withdrawn north had actually been abandoned. The real direction of the main force is in Northland County," He Yi said and stopped: "The situation in Northland County has nothing to do with our Fifth Cavalry Corps, what we have to do now is to stay here. There were no changes to the plan. We will be the main force to annihilate the Hu people in the north. If there is a change in the plan, we need to rush to the area where the vanguard army is located," he changed the map, this map was the Heshuo area, and pointed to the fertile field: "Rush here to meet the 1st Cavalry Regiment and General Wang's headquarters, and resist or destroy the main force of the Hu people in this narrow non-desert area." ”

The map is very crudely drawn, but it only roughly indicates where it is, and there is a large black spot marked as a desert on it, and the narrow area that He Yi refers to is in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and there is a space zone of two deserts in that place, and the width is definitely not more than twenty li.

"Therefore, in addition to preparing for war, we must be ready for emergency deployment at any time." He Yi's face relaxed, and he suddenly looked at Shen Tujia with a smile: "I heard that you indulged in a large number of prostitutes on the first day you came?" ”

Shen Tujia was immediately stunned, he was very sure that there was no restriction in the Han Kingdom, whether it was from military law or law, who could not prostitute themselves? It's strange why He Yi asked this, only to admit it honestly.

"That's right," He Yi said, "You are also considered 'pioneers', the king has issued a new administrative order, so that the soldiers who are on the expedition can play more with the Hu race women if they have the conditions...... " smiled mysteriously: "The king called this population fusion, and we have the obligation to improve the Hu race." ”

Some of the generals laughed "haha" after hearing this, and more showed strange expressions.

"We (the ethnic group) pay more attention to offspring, so if a Hu woman is pregnant, how can we tell whose seed it is?" I don't know who muttered in a low voice. (To be continued......)