The word "urgent" made Lu Zhe raise his eyebrows, since the Han army came out of the fortress, the war outside the Sai has lasted for more than four months, in these four months, some war reports have been fed back to the camp, the previous war has been relatively stable, but it is some back and forth see-saw and interception, and now it is an urgent war report, so the war outside the Sai must have happened unexpectedly.

At present, the number of Han troops outside the Saiwai has exceeded one million, because of the spread of the plague on the Qidi side, the maintenance of logistics is falling into a difficult trend, Lu Zhe has already sent instructions to the Saiwai before, before the capacity of the grain road is not restored, the strategy of the Han army outside the Saiwai is to maintain a stable interception, and the decisive battle should be carried out when the grain can be guaranteed.

Of course, the so-called millions of Han troops outside the Saiwai were not all troops that directly participated in the war, and more than 600,000 of the millions of people were actually people who traveled back and forth, and more than 200,000 soldiers and auxiliaries directly participated in the war. And this is, of course, the number jù that preceded it, and it is not fixed.

With the passage of time, apart from the army that had to stay in Qidi to keep the area where the plague occurred, and the garrison that remained in Yandi to guard the embankment of Donghu, the Han army that went north, and the new formations that were close to the Saiwai, some of these troops were already engaged in the battle against the Hu people outside the Saiwai. In this way, the nature of the army out of Cyprus must have been changing, for example, among the millions of Han troops outside the Cyprus now, the number of troops participating in the war is actually close to 300,000.

The materials needed by the 300,000 participating troops are an astronomical amount, and the change brought about is that the number of civilians who support logistics in the rear has increased geometrically.

"The number of people involved in logistics and transportation is close to 3 million, of which 30 percent are conscripts from the mainland, and 70 percent are hired from all over the Central Plains."

"The use of various water systems has also reached the upper limit, and if the sea has not resumed within two months, it is necessary to make arrangements for the extension of the conscription time when the conscription season has passed. However, in this way, the financial input will inevitably increase more than ten times, and it will also have an impact on local production. ”

It was a special period to be able to recruit 3 million people, that is because the Central Plains has just experienced war and chaos, too many people have lost their means of livelihood, and the state's employment is an act of work for relief, so that the leaders of the Qian, who have experienced war and chaos, can have something to eat, in fact, it is also a means to maintain public order and stability.

Large-scale recruitment of manpower can indeed play a role in maintaining stability, and because the state's hiring behavior can play a role in spending money by the state to "invest profits" on a large scale, the money will naturally go to the hands of the head of the Qian. If you have money, you will have a desire to buy, and in some ways it can also stimulate consumption. Better and faster to stimulate the recovery of the local economy.

It must be noted that even in the pre-Qin era of ancient times, even if money appeared, the people's buying and selling transactions were generally carried out in the way of "barter". The reason for the "barter" is very simple, it is nothing more than that the currency produced is not enough, and there is a vague definition of the value of money.

The advent of stamping made it easier to make coins, and Lü Zhe's exploitation of southern minerals also obtained a huge amount of copper, so there was no shortage of metal money in the country under Lü Zhe's rule, but so far. After many efforts, Lu Zhe still could not make all people have an effective understanding of money, in addition to "bartering", cloth is also a kind of "hard currency", and the rest such as salt occupies a very important monetary position.

Lu Zhe never had any worries about the country's finances. This is not the time when some rich people have hundreds of millions or billions of money at every turn, and even the richest ones are only hundreds of thousands of gold (copper nuggets). It is not that he lacks money, but that the productive forces of society cannot keep up with the demand for purchases.

The economic chain needs a process to buffer, and Lu Zhe did not dare to invest too much currency in the private sector without scrutiny. After all, the reason why coins are valuable is because they are precious, and if they are overflowing, they will not have any value. According to modern terminology, it is actually the generation of inflation, and the unlimited amount of money is invested in the private sector. If the products produced cannot keep up with the demand, or the purchasing power is not as urgent as imagined, then it will not stimulate the economy, but will destroy social stability and productivity.

As the chief strategist, Kuaitong has a little grasp of the economy from ignorance to now, and he raises these concerns not because he is afraid of not having enough financial recruits, but also because he is worried about the consequences of the increase in private wealth.

Lu Zhe had already finished reading the battle report, and he didn't have any expression on his face: "It seems ...... There is no longer any doubt about the extension of the service period. ”

Sima Xin took the battle report handed over by Lu Zhe and read it word by word, and the expression on his face became more and more strict with the content of the viewing: "The battle line is getting longer and longer.

After reading the battle report, Kuaitong seemed to want to sigh, but held back.

The Han army out of the fortress could not carry out a decisive battle because of logistical constraints, so it could only be intercepted with the greatest efforts, several corps were divided into several theaters to build fortifications, and the simple was that the grassland Hu people broke through to the north unless they entered the desert area, otherwise they must pass through the fertile wilderness, which also gave the Han army a relatively clear military goal.

The Han army once had the opportunity to launch a decisive battle, and that time it was the Han army that discovered the location of the main force of the grassland Hu people, but unfortunately the Han army was less than twice as many as the grassland Hu people in terms of strength at that time, and the Han army was not fully prepared in terms of logistics, so it had to give up the decisive battle.

Unable to fight a decisive battle and discovering the enemy's main force, for a while the two sides were in a confrontation, it stands to reason that Touman, who has the advantage of troops, should take the initiative to attack, but the Hu people also have their own troubles.

The Xiongnu are not the most powerful period at present, and the Hu people on the grassland are not all Xiongnu, and the Hu people who go south come from different ethnic groups. Because some small tribes were simply hostile to Touman after being abandoned, Touman, who was the big single Yu of the Huns, was not soft-hearted, and the Hu people had been killed, and Touman failed to eliminate those hostile tribes, and the internal division of the Hu people naturally became inevitable.

Fighting will cause hatred, the marriage between the grassland tribes will spread the hatred, and then there is a Han army to intervene, there are more than a dozen tribes after getting the promise to simply stand on the side of the Han army, the Xiongnu led by the power has been weakened, but unfortunately it is still unable to change the general trend, and the confrontation will continue.

In those months or two, the fighting between the Han army and the Hu people was not too frequent, and both sides invested small forces to probe. They are all familiar with and groping each other's tactics.

The change in the situation of the war was because of a person, who had a lot of tribes around him, and who did not belong to the Huns, but who were considered powerful races in the steppe, and Hutu and Hun Evil also stood on his side. This person is naturally Mao Dun, who Touman doesn't like very much.

The situation was unfavorable to the Hu people from the beginning, and Mao Dun was not stupid enough to directly confront Touman in such a situation, or kill Touman to seize power.

The grassland advocates the law of the jungle, and after Mao Dun unites a group of people around him, even if Tou Man doesn't like this son, he has to give relative respect, so Mao Dun gradually grasped the right to speak in the Hu people's group.

Fighting in a standoff, albeit on a modest scale. However, the Hu people have shown an obvious trend in the fight with the Han army, and the Hu people are in a weak position in the face of the well-equipped and strictly disciplined Han army, if it were not for the absolute superiority of the Hu people at this stage, and the Han army also appeared logistical constraints, it is still two to say whether the two sides will continue to confront each other.

The purpose of the Hu people is to return to the grassland, not to say that they will fight to the death with the army of the Chinese ethnic group, Mao Dun has been looking for a way to bypass the Han army and return to the grassland, isn't the purpose still to avoid unnecessary fighting? He was moving in the northwest direction with more than 10,000 horsemen.

What is the northwest of Ningxia like in this era, and what is its name? At present, it is naturally not called Xinjiang. There is no official name, but there is a generic name called the Hexi Corridor.

The Hexi Corridor belonged to the area where Rong Di lived in the ancient pre-Qin era, and at the beginning of the unification of Qin, it belonged to the Rong people. Now the Rong people in the Hexi Corridor are not the same ethnic group that were integrated by the Qin people, and the Rong people living in the Hexi Corridor were attacked by the Xiongnu in the back. Some of them were attached to the Xiongnu, while others fled to the plateau. Some of the Rong people who fled to the plateau became Qiang people in the subsequent history, and then became Turpan people in the evolution of history.

At present, there are not many Rong people living in the Hexi Corridor, and Mao Dun, who is looking for a breakthrough back to the grassland road, has subdued some during the activity. He encountered more ethnic groups that had migrated further west. Most of these ethnic groups migrated from the West were white, some of them were from the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions, and even Persians from the Persian Empire (i.e., the Darius race). As for the Arabs...... the "mountain people" Prophet Muhammad do not have them yet, and where did they come from? The rise of Arabia should have been in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and it was in the late Tang Dynasty that it really became the hero of Central Asia, which also happened to be the period when the Tang Dynasty and Byzantium were weakened and destroyed successively.

In fact, history has changed here, according to the original history, Maudun should have encountered the migration of ethnic groups from the west a few years later, and only then did he know that there were so many countries in the west. Maudun had a grudge against the Great Yue Clan, and when he pursued and killed the Yue people, he destroyed the Cypriot state established by the Yue people (not Bactria ), drove the Yue people to a more western position, and then forced the Yue people to cross the Kunlun Mountains, and finally the Dravidian people (part of the ancestors of India) were completely unlucky and became the victims of the Yue people to establish a new empire (Great Xia).

The ethnic groups in the west can migrate to the Hexi Corridor, so does it mean that the Hexi Corridor has a road to the northwest, otherwise how did those ethnic groups come here?

Maudun sent people to inspect again and again, and it turned out that the northwest direction could lead to the grassland, and the people sent out brought back far more than that.

There was a huge war in the West (in fact, Central Asia), and the farthest place was Europa (Europe), where there was an empire called Persia that was at war with a coalition called Greece, and Darius of Persia seemed to have suffered in the war with Greece, and the Persian Empire sent troops to invade the East, and Darius tried to plunder in the East to make up for the loss of the Persian alliance in Greece.

The Persian Empire? He didn't have any idea what Persia was, and he didn't even bother to understand it, just because there was a greater threat in front of the Xiongnu, that is, the newly rising Han kingdom in the eastern continent.

There is no need for the Xiongnu to fight the Han army on the land of China, and the current Xiongnu are not the opponents of the Han army no matter how you look at it, and Mao Dun came to this conclusion from the population, culture, military and other aspects to weigh it. To put it bluntly, the Xiongnu are currently only one of the ethnic groups on the grassland, in addition to the Xiongnu ethnic group in the vast grassland, there are many large ethnic groups, and the Donghu in the eastern part of the grassland is a well-deserved overlord ethnic group on the grassland, if the Xiongnu lose too much in the fight with the Han army, then even if they return to the grassland, they will either be annexed by other ethnic groups, or become another "nourishment" under the expansion of the Donghu people.

Mao Dun knew very well that Touman must have regretted going south now, and after they went south, they found that things were not what they imagined, there was a civil war in the Central Plains, and many countries were really weak to the point of being unable to fight, but that was not all, and no one expected that a strong country would be born in the more southern region.

It took only three years for the Xiongnu to retreat from the south, and they had moments of prestige, galloping and plundering at will in the land of Zhao, and there were also times when they were blocked by the Qin army and could not advance an inch, but it was the first time they encountered the situation of being driven around by non-grassland tribes.

After many battles, the force shown by the Han army may not be so shocking, but the use of a number of new weapons (tools) completely suppressed the grassland Hu people, the most surprising thing for the Hu people was the stirrup and saddle, and the most frightening thing for the Hu people was the riding crossbow and strong crossbow.

Hu people have always had a kind of robber mentality, they are extremely brave and savage when they can fight, and they will not fight for face when they can't beat them, and they will not hesitate at all when they should be turtles with shrunken heads.

The losses caused by the continuous casualties made Touman regret going south extremely in his heart, when they went south, the number of people who controlled the strings reached up to 300,000, and they lost more than 30,000 people in the process of confrontation with the Qin army, and lost more than 10,000 people in the face of the resistance of the Zhao people when they plundered the Zhao land, but the losses in the later face of the Han army were even more.

It wasn't until the time Maodun Jian yì Touman first detoured to the Western Regions from the Hexi Corridor (now of course it is not called that) that the casualties were split again, and the number of grassland Hu people led by Touman had been reduced to 160,000. In the face of growing opposition and complicated situations, Touman naturally did not want to continue to entangle with the Han army, and was more eager than anyone else to get out of the quagmire of war as soon as possible.

What is the problem? Of course, Touman wanted to break through, but the number of Han troops had increased to more than 300,000, how could they get rid of these Han troops...... (To be continued......) R1292