Are all the mobilized armies going north? Naturally, all the troops can't go north, after all, the family can't sing empty city plans. In addition, the troops that went north were not all going to enter the outside of the Saiwai, only the five legions of the Wehrmacht and the forbidden army would enter the outside of the Saiwai, and the rest would stay in the areas newly ruled by Lu Zhe.

The regiments of the five Wehrmacht sequences had 250,000 soldiers and about 400,000 auxiliaries, and the Forbidden Army had 100,000 soldiers and an equal number of auxiliaries, adding up to 850,000 soldiers serving in the steppe war that was about to break out. At the same time, nearly 700,000 people were transported from Nanling to the north, and even if they reached the end point after they were transported to Donghai County, they should be sent directly to Jiaodong County by sea, and then sent directly to Yanmen County along the road opened up by the army.

A considerable part of the supplies will also be sent to Xue County, after all, the war in that area has just subsided, and the Han Kingdom must need food if it wants to maintain the local Qianshou slogan.

After the Han Dynasty recovered the land, it implemented the model of cash-for-work, and many of the leaders of the Qians were hired by the state to build local infrastructure, and many of them served as people to transfer some materials in Xue County to Yanmen County. Waiting for the supplies to arrive in Yanmen County, there is nothing for the people to do, and the rest is transported by the military.

In addition to the transportation of baggage by the state, the private merchants were actually transporting goods to the north in large quantities, and the merchants naturally wanted to sell the materials they had transported to the army. Since ancient times, merchants have been chasing wars, and it is very common for them to transport materials to the battlefield with people, and they carry materials to the battlefield to sell sometimes with more profits and sometimes less profits, and what can really make them benefit is to buy the spoils of the army and soldiers, and then transport them back to the country to sell. Huge profits can often be obtained.

The merchant followed the army to buy and sell was supported and encouraged by the state, after all, the more supplies the merchant transported, the more the logistical pressure could be reduced.

If 850,000 troops are going out to fight, one can imagine how great the logistical pressure will be, and a country with small national strength, let alone 850,000 troops, is estimated to be unable to support one hundred thousand. I want to take on the logistics chain of such a large army. If you don't have strong organizational ability, don't think about it at all, the organizational ability of the Han State does not fully depend on Lu Zhe, he proposed a relatively advanced management method, but if there is no old foundation originally from the Qin State or other countries, and there is no actual operator Xiao He is doing his best, even if there are so many materials. It's enough to just transport from the south to the north.

There are many water systems in the south, and the Han Kingdom has accumulated enough inland experience, and there is a Yangtze River diversion from the south to Xue County, and because the water system of Surabaya is really connected to multiple counties, the difficulty of transportation has been greatly reduced. It can also get a lot of savings in the labor cost used.

After several years of continuous development, although the navy that Lu Zhe attaches great importance to has not made any name for itself in forming combat effectiveness for the time being, it can still do it in carrying out transportation along the coast.

Nanling itself is on the edge of the Yangtze River, after many practical years, especially the Fourth Mixed Regiment successfully used the sea route to be sent to Jiaodong County, as long as the place that needs to be sent to Jiaodong County is close to Jiaodong County, it will basically be delivered according to the shipping mode.

The troops can take the sea route, so there is naturally no problem in transporting supplies, if it were not for the Central Plains, Qidi, Yandi, Zhaodi, and Qindi need grain support. At all, there will be no more manpower and material resources, and there will be no faster and easier waterways to take any land routes.

Lü Zhe was confident that much of the confidence he had to maintain his 850,000 troops fighting outside the fortress came from the fact that he could easily transport supplies to the north by sea, until the Yellow River in the east was controlled by the Han and Han armies. He has even sent people to see if the Yellow River can also be used for transportation. It turns out that most sections of the Yellow River can be used, and the main reasons for those that are not are related to the reefs and shallow riverbeds.

There can't be reefs in the Yellow River, only in the sea can there be reefs? Who said this bastard! There will be stones in the middle of the stream, let alone the Yellow River.

In fact, there are some places in the Yangtze River section where there will be reefs across the river section, but they were later cleared by Lu Zhe mobilizing the army and the people, but the prerequisite for Lu Zhe to rectify the Yangtze River is that those sections of the Yangtze River are absolutely safe and will not be disturbed. At present, the Yellow River does not have the same environment as when Lü Zhe rectified the Yangtze River.

The rectification of the Yellow River will definitely take place, but only after the banks of the Yellow River become the hinterland. And if you want to make the Yellow River a hinterland, you need to be unconvinced. The disobedience here is to maintain stability in the new occupation territory, that is, the inherent territory of China through which the Yellow River flows. Other than that. The area of the Hetao also needs to be under the absolute control of the Han army. Otherwise...... Governing the Yellow River? Even if there are enough manpower and material resources, how can they govern under the constant harassment of the Hu people?

"So...... In addition to firmly blocking the northward retreat of the main force of the Xiongnu, our task is to control the Hetao area, and also to explore as far north as possible? Wang Ben's mouth opened wide.

By the way, the inherent forces on the Han side, such as Wei Han and other Naxi people, they call the people on the grassland Hu people, but those who joined the Han State later, including Wang Ben, call the Hu people on the grassland Huns.

There is not only one ethnic group on the grassland, in fact, the biggest force on the grassland is not the Xiongnu ethnic group, the largest ethnic group on the grassland is the Di and Rong people, but the Di and Rong people did not unite into a big alliance or form a country because of their race. According to the division of camps, the largest camp on the grassland is actually Donghu.

The area controlled by the Donghu camp is much larger than that of the Xiongnu camp, and if the territory is strictly divided, the territory of the Donghu camp is east of the modern Zhenglan Banner, including the area of the Beihai (modern Lake Baikal) is the territory of the Donghu camp.

How big is the territory of the Xiongnu camp? It should be west of the modern Zhenglan Banner, north to modern Ulan-Ude, and west to the modern Hangai Mountains (which is Yanran Mountain).

In terms of population, the current population of the Donghu camp is nearly 1.8 million, and the Xiongnu camp is less than 800,000. In the whole grassland, at the current stage, the total population should be around four million, except for the Donghu camp and the Xiongnu camp, many of them are tribes without camps, most of them are Di and Rong people, a small number of them are dog Rong people, some are Hujie people, Xilu people and so on chaotic populations.

The Di and Rong people have been entangled with the Chinese ethnic group since the Xia Dynasty, in fact, there was a historical stage of mixed living before, so the blood of the Chinese ethnic group is actually related to the Di and Rong people.

When it came time for Shang to destroy Xia, Di and Rong people were actually on the side of the Xia Dynasty earlier, but they became allies with the rebellious vassal states Shang and worked together to destroy the Xia Dynasty.

Until the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty was a close ally with the Di and Rong people in the early days, but at this time the Shang Dynasty people were not only farming and cultivating the fields but also had nomadic habits, thinking that the competition for pastures would slowly turn hostile, before the Ji rebellion, the Shang Dynasty had been fighting with the Di people and the Rong people for more than 200 years, and the Shang Dynasty had established several legions to fight a long-term war with the Di people and the Rong people, and at that time the Shang Dynasty's legions were all in the mode of the command of the princes, such as Daji's father Su Hu, that is, the Shang Dynasty's Yizhou Hou Suhu is the commander of a legion (or a front army), and the Ji family is actually one of the princes of the Shang Dynasty who commands a certain legion, and there are actually many similar princes.

The Shang Dynasty implemented the national policy of tightening the outside and loosening the inside, and the princes canonized by the king led the army to resist the enemy outside, targeting the Yi people in addition to the Di and Rong people, and the Ji family dealt with the Yi people, but the Ji family put down their own work and did not do it, but continued to encroach on the princes under the organization of the Shang Dynasty, so the Shang King as the king was naturally not happy, and as a result, he summoned Xibohou Ji Li to Chaoge and detained him, and Ji Li's son Ji Chang didn't know what to think. actually colluded with the Di and Rong people to start a war with the object of their allegiance, and dragged his father Ji Li to be killed by the then Shang Emperor Xin and made into meat cakes.

Ji Chang is definitely a ruthless character, after eating the meatloaf made by his father, ignoring the fact that it was because the Xibo Marquis State continued to attack the surrounding princes and expanded that he angered all the princes, the co-owner of Shang Emperor Xin, actually spread the remarks of what phoenix fell on (his family) to fight for moral reputation, and then denounced that the Shang Dynasty continued to fight with its former allies Di Ren and Rong people, and it was definitely a commodity that should be overthrown. In the end, he openly stated that as long as the princes' territories that chose their camp would be expanded, the commoners would live a better life, and at the same time tried his best to win over slaves, who accounted for at least half of the population, and really overthrew the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty.

I have to mention that when Ji Chang rebelled, the army of the Shang Dynasty was actually defending against the invasion of foreign races outside, and then the Zhou army almost did not encounter resistance to kill Chaoge.

After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, it was not surprising that the Di and Rong people, who had overthrown the Shang Dynasty together, gradually became enemies.

There are many tribes of the Di and Rong people, and they are also a race that has been breeding in the northern steppes for a long time, but no one knows why they have always been scattered.

Wang Ben was dizzy when he heard this, he really couldn't imagine why Lu Zhe knew the history of so long ago, didn't he seem to need to understand? Now, what he wanted to know was why Wei Han said so much about the Di and Rong people. (To be continued)