Too many things were mixed together, and Lu Zhe's mind was a mess for some time in the recent stage.

There are really too many things at the moment, a large number of Hu people invaded south, one is to evaluate meritorious deeds and bestow seals, and the third is to solve the outer seals of King Qin and King Wei.

Preparations for the southward invasion of the Hu people are already underway, and the intelligence gathered from all sides shows that this time the number of Hu people in the south of the grassland and the number of Hu people in the north of the desert will not be less than 300,000, if you count the 200,000 people in control of the strings on the side of Donghu, that is, the number of Hu people who may invade will exceed 500,000!

"The Xiongnu army assembled in Jituo is closest to us, and there are indications that the Hu people gathered on the other side of Junji Mountain are close to 100,000. The number of Hu people who went to the assembly continued to increase, and it was difficult to judge how much it would end up being. ”

"What about Ding Ling, Hujie, Hun Yu, Qi Kun, Xin Li, and Refraction?"

"Our tentacles have not yet reached Mobei, and the news of the Gaoche Tribal Alliance and the Hujie, Hunyu and other tribes is not very clear, and we can only learn information from Wusun that I don't know whether it is true or false."

The large-scale military movement of a regional nature really scared Wusun a little enough, especially the forces that carried out the military mobilization were people who were more or less hostile to Wusun, and they couldn't help but worry about whether they would become a sword-cutter, and the result was unexpected, so they naturally wanted to hug Lu Zhe's thick legs.

This time, it was not the Han army that took the initiative to attack, because it was not accurate to know the direction of the Hu people's march, and the Han army needed to fortify on the vast border line, and it did not understand the intentions of the Donghu side for the time being.

In the hypothesis, if Donghu also invades southward, the worst result is that Yandi becomes a beacon fire, and the best result is to rely on a small number of three legions to block Donghu on the border line.

The information from Donghu is a bit messy, which is due to the fact that Donghu's internal structure is not strict in the first place, and it is a super-large tribal alliance composed of hunters, nomads, and farming peoples. King Donghu, who was born in Shanjung, actually does not have too much control over the super-large alliance of Donghu, but only maintains a general symbiotic coexistence.

The last time Donghu was invited by the Qi Guotian clan to go south, Xu Su forced him to fall to represent the interests of the hunting tribe, and Qi Lianfu was the representative of the interests of the farming tribe.

The hunting tribes north of Yandi had several powerful groups in later generations, such as the Jurchens in the Song and Song dynasties, and the Tunguska boar skins in the Ming dynasty. Different from the strong hunting tribes in later generations, the hunting tribes in the pre-Qin era in ancient times were actually not strong in terms of population or force, and they were destined to fall into the super-large alliance of Donghu and did not have a high voice power.

The agrarian ethnic groups north of Liaodong are not the products of the community, but some groups led by the Shen and Wo peoples. The characteristic of the agrarian nation is that because there is a guaranteed grain production, the population of the agrarian nation is larger than that of other groups of living habits. Donghu is in the construction of this super-large alliance. The agrarian people have a large population, but because of their agrarian nature, they are not too aggressive and savage, so that the group represented by Qilian Fufu is also very weak in Donghu.

That is, the two weaker groups, they only had less than 50,000 people after they went south, and they did not perform well in repeated battles, which was related to the group ideology they represented, and it was also a lack of aggression. At the same time, because Qi Lian and Xu were forced to fall into Donghu, they did not have much right to speak, and after the two disappeared, they did not attract Donghu's immediate and violent revenge.

In a hypothetical scenario. The combat deployment formulated by the Han army is to regard all non-local sides as potential threats, so from the Hetao to the distant Liaodong is a potential war outbreak area, which is a border line at least six or seven thousand miles long, and it is precisely because of this matter that it is a headache.

Since it is a vast border line fortification. So how vast is it, and where the probability of invasion by the Hu people is lower or higher, it is a great test of the judgment of a group of staff officers in the Taiwei Agency.

The Han army had nine legions in the early north, namely the First Cavalry Regiment and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment. The 2nd, 10th, 11th, 17th, 19th, 18th, and 19th mixed regiments.

The 1st Cavalry Regiment did not achieve the expected goal of attacking the Touman Division from the rear flank, and after the surrender of the Touman Division, they stopped at Qingtang near the Western Regions, and their current posture was to rest and be on standby.

The 2nd Mixed Regiment and the 17th Mixed Regiment were placed in the Fertile Field. The 19th, 18th, and 19th Mixed Regiments were stationed in Hetao, the 10th Mixed Regiment was stationed in the grassland outside Yanmen County, and the 11th Mixed Regiment was stationed in the grassland area outside Shanggu County.

There is a unit of the 6th Mixed Army Corps in the Yanmen County area, the 3rd Mixed Army Corps in Shanggu County, and the 9th Cavalry Corps and the 4th Mixed Corps are stationed in Liaodong to the northeast.

"To keep in touch with Wusun at any time, we have to find the corresponding node in the shortest possible time, and consider whether to attack actively or passively according to actual needs."

"The nephew of the Wusun king Bo Ximi, the hunter Mi, stayed in Nanling as a liaison envoy, and She'a, who had previously served as an envoy, stayed in Jiuyuan. They are also worried about the attack of the Hu people gathered in Mobei, and they have always maintained close contact with us. ”

Lu Zhe is satisfied with this, the current empire needs a snake on the grassland, and Wusun's position is also quite important, and it may appear that when the Han army confronts the Hu army, Wusun will cooperate from the flank.

In the Empire's plans, Usun is a short-term ally, and if possible, Usun is also used to contact the Yueshi. It's not that you want the Yueshi to rejoin the war in the east, but to contact the Yueshi to further understand what is going on in the west, and also to know from the Yueshi what kind of existence the countries of Parthia, Bactria, Kashmir and so on.

Lu Zhe didn't know one thing, after the Touman Department surrendered to the Western Expedition led by Meng Tian, Mao Dun immediately led the people to the northwest, and now the Hu people in the north of the grassland desert will attack Wusun There is no certainty, Mao Dun is from Puchanghai (Yanze) to the northwest, Wusun happened to be stopped on the way of Mao Dun's march, and the two sides have begun a direct confrontation.

In a place that Lü Zhe's eyes could not see, the scale of the cavalry to which Maudun belonged invaded the traditional territory of Wusun in a larger or smaller way, and the Wusun people regarded Maudun's invasion as a war against Wusun, which made Wusun even more determined that the assembly of those tribes in Mobei and the assembly in Jituo in Junji Mountain had the intention of targeting Wusun, which made the king of Wusun choose to move closer to the empire ruled by Lü Zhe.

In distant Central Asia...... Maybe it's not too far, after all, Parthia is much closer to Usun than the Empire? Distant north of Shule, Assassis II of Parthia and Eutidemus I of Bactria? Dios was in frequent contact, and their previous army heading east had suffered a major defeat. There was an uproar in both countries, and a group of nobles was making great calls for the formation of a new crusade army, vowing to wash away the humiliation with blood.

Assassis II and Eutidemus I? Dios can be regarded as a regional hero, not a hero can not be separated from the powerful Seleucid Empire ~ split, they are planning to launch a new military operation against the Seleucid Empire, then it must be solved to the threat behind first, obviously Wusun is the threat behind them to solve.

And farther to the west, Antiochus III of the Seleucid Empire, in view of the fact that the two split~split kingdoms of Parthia and Bactria have been too active recently, Antiochus III has drawn a lot of troops from the direction of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, and is about to teach Parthia and Bactria a good lesson to the two splitting forces.

Far away and more western. Far up on the Italian peninsula, Rome settled some of the remnants of the Latin Confederation and was bogged down in the Second Punic War. Rome fought Carthage at the same time as planning a war against Macedonia. If Rome had gone to war with Macedonia, it would not have been long before Rome discovered the Ptolemaic dynasty, indicating that the hegemonic power in the Mediterranean had entered a period of rapid expansion and would no longer be able to intervene in Asian affairs.

Parthia, Bactria, Kashmir, Palpalmaises and other countries are all about to move, involving a behemoth in Indochina in South Asia. This behemoth was called the Mauryan Dynasty, and the sixth reigning king of the Mauryan Dynasty was the Sarija, who slaughtered non-Jain followers at home. He was also worried about some of his close neighbors who were getting closer and closer to Parthia and Bactria, and he was even more wary of the ambitions of Parthia and other kingdoms towards Palepameses.

There is a saying called "pull the hair and move the whole body", and more precisely, it should be said that "the occasional vibration of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon rainforest may cause a tornado in Texas in two weeks" - the so-called butterfly effect.

Lu Zhe is a butterfly who suddenly "inserted ~ into" this era. He messed up the historical process of the land of China, and at the same time that the historical course of the land of China became unrecognizable, because Lü Zhe's army expanded to the west prematurely, and the breeze stirred up by the wings of butterflies also blew into Central Asia. As a result, with China as the center, the process of several countries on the island of the world has also entered a different history from the original, and it is not known what kind of chapter will be written.

The butterflies that stir their wings can't control Parthia or the Mauryan Empire for the time being. Rome during the Republic was even more untouchable, and his concern was still limited to "one acre and three points of land".

"Passive defense is not advisable, we have just occupied the grassland outside the Saiwai, the geography of the mountains and rivers has not been fully explored, and it is absolutely impossible to play hide and seek with the Hu people on the grassland, especially when such hide and seek may last for three or five years or even longer, the construction of the country will be affected too much."

As soon as Lu Zhe finished speaking, everyone nodded in unison.

They have always concentrated large corps to carry out the strategy of active attack, and once they fall into passive defense, the troops on the edge of the national border will definitely have to increase their investment. In addition, even if it increased its troops, it was impossible for the Han army to completely block the possible offensive direction of the enemy, and the newly occupied grasslands could be destroyed by the Hu people, after all, those places were not invested in construction at all, and there was no cost of destruction. However, once the Hu people played small-scale infiltration, as long as a few Hu cavalry crossed the grasslands controlled by the Han army into the interior, not to mention that the ongoing construction had to be stopped, how many casualties would be caused by the Hu people, and how much damage should be caused by the Hu people?

"Fifteen legions, at most, we will mobilize fifteen legions to the north, no matter how many more not only the logistics line cannot support, but there may also be some small disturbances in various places."

"750,000 soldiers, and the attached auxiliaries should also have 400,000 to 500,000, and it is even possible that the number of auxiliaries will exceed the number of soldiers. The number of second-line troops and civilians who are deployed to the logistics line cannot be less than 2.5 million, which conflicts with our strategy of gradually reducing the number of appointed laborers. ”

"We have maintained the operation of more than 3 million people for two consecutive years, not to mention too many civilian labor, and the military and civilian have also entered a period of fatigue."

"There is nothing in the short term for the appointment of labor, and the localities are deserted, and a large number of manpower can be hired to transfer the young and strong people of the people into the jurisdiction, which can achieve the purpose of maintaining law and order, and can also allow people to get salaries, but the amount of money invested in the people in the past five years has reached the warning line, and once it is maintained for a long time, I am afraid that there will be problems."

Lu Zhe looked at Kuaitong who spoke, and from time to time glanced at Xiao He and Mian Bi who interjected, and the person fell into contemplation again.

It is very suitable to describe a new empire, and the construction of a new empire is an imminent matter, and only by allowing the people living in the empire to maintain food and clothing and be controlled, will the new empire not be stabilized and then chaotic.

Lu Zhe's approach to maintaining the stability of the empire was relatively simple and crude, that is, to bring everything under control, which was an extreme test of the administrative ability of the nascent empire, but fortunately, the various departments did withstand the test, but the thread was too tight.

"Detect the direction of the enemy's movement and dispatch all cavalry troops to take the initiative to engage in contact battles," Lu Zhe took a deep breath and asked, "How feasible is it?" ”

Looking at each other for a while became the only move of many ministers in the council hall, and finally Kuai Tong came back to his senses first: "Your Majesty, we only have five cavalry troops at hand, and they don't have combat experience in the state of going deep into the grassland and lacking logistics......"

"Your Majesty, our logistics line can guarantee that the location is the border line," Xiao He seemed to be anxious: "If you want to go deep into the grassland, you must have enough escort troops, we ...... If that kind of manpower is used, the material consumption may not be able to support it. ”

"What if those servants are counted in the order of engagement?" Lu Zhe asked.

"There are more than 90,000 servants on record, but we can't guarantee that they won't defect." Kuaitong couldn't understand why Lu Zhe would choose the most risky option, so he subconsciously issued a warning.

"Yes...... Is it ......? Lu Zhe dragged out a long note, and he couldn't figure it out for a while. (To be continued......)