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Donghu is a large regional tribal alliance, in fact, the current strength of Donghu is very strong, almost twice as strong as the overall strength of the Xiongnu, Ding Ling, Hujie, Qu Shan and other grassland tribes. Of course, to say that Donghu is stronger than those tribes is that it is stronger in terms of population, and Donghu is not much bigger than several parties in terms of land, but there is one advantage that Donghu does not have in other tribal alliances.

The Xiongnu and other tribes are purely nomadic people, they have a single industry, to say that there are special products, that is, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock animals; Donghu is a multi-element tribal alliance, in addition to nomads, there are hunter peoples and farming peoples. In fact, if we compare history, Donghu is now almost slightly behind the Shang generation, but it is not so far behind, just in smelting technology can not keep up, otherwise it already has the scale of the Shang generation in terms of productivity.

Nomads and farming peoples are easy to say, but what are hunter peoples? In fact, the hunter people have a characteristic, that is, they mostly use forests and mountains as their main activity areas, relying on hunting and gathering to obtain food, which is very suitable for fighting in forests and mountains.

There are not many hunter peoples in the world, such as Mayan culture, Amazon culture and some tribes in Africa have the characteristics of hunter peoples. Because of the characteristics of hunter culture, although they are barbaric, their aggression to the territory is generally not too strong, and the development rate is also very slow, that is, it can become the mainstream in some relatively special historical periods, such as the primitive era......

About 1,000 years later, a group of Tunguska wild boar skins in Liaodong first began to come into contact with the nomads and fought frequently, and they obtained relevant knowledge from the nomads, and gradually merged the characteristics of the hunter people and the nomads. The national character of the hybridization brought unimaginable changes to the skin of the Tunguska boar. It's not that there is any change, but in fact, it has produced unimaginable aggressiveness, overthrowing the enemy who originally oppressed them, that is, the transformation from a nomadic to a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic Liao State, and then learning farming skills, and then it is even more out of control, until it is conquered by a more barbaric and aggressive nomad.

"This land is very, very important to the Empire." Lu Zhe was talking about Liaodong, and he pointed to the location marked as ice field permafrost on the map of mountains and rivers, which is the area north of Youbeiping County, Liaoxi County, and Liaodong County: "This place is cold and frozen, but it will continuously raise savages and strong people. If they keep wandering around the permafrost forest to hunt, they will naturally have nothing. But once an outside culture is brought in, making them aware of the prosperity of the world, they will pursue any territory of the non-tundra infinitely, and dare to pounce on anyone to take a bite. ”

Sima Xin has been serving in Liaodong for about half a year and has a general understanding of the situation in Liaodong.

Liaodong of the empire was already considered to be a place with a cold climate, and the north of Liaodong was characterized by cold weather and freezing in addition to the wilderness.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the people in the Central Plains thought that Yan was a country where it snowed for almost five months a year, and that it was only the Yan people who could withstand that kind of weather and that kind of cold climate. Not everyone can live there.

In the era of the end of the pre-Qin period in ancient times, that is, entering the "imperial era", people's perception of Yandi is still stuck in the concept of the Spring and Autumn Period.

People who have relatively warm ground do not have enough warm conditions. Unless it's a last resort, who wants to go to a place where it's cold?

For a long time, Yandi was the least populated place in the Central Plains Dynasty, and this status quo has not changed much even after 1,500 years.

Sima Xin knew that the population of Donghu north of Liaodong was not too large. According to intelligence, most of the Donghu in the north of Liaodong were hunter tribes, and some farming tribes were also found in the further northeast direction.

The emperor said to be wary of the barbarians in the northeast, although most of them listened very carefully. But it's not clear how many people really care.

Among the Donghu tribal alliance, there are nomadic tribes, hunter tribes, and farming tribes, of which nomadic tribes account for most of the population of Donghu, and the combined population of hunter tribes and farming tribes is estimated to be less than 30% of the total population of Donghu.

Lu Zhe probably knew that many people didn't think so, and he also knew that if he hadn't traveled through time, he wouldn't have believed that the group of people living in the cold and frozen areas would have a few glories in the future.

In general, the current era is still dominated by agrarian and nomadic peoples, and this is also the case.

"The last time Donghu gathered a large army and stationed it in Wuhou Qinshui, where it directly faced Youbeiping County and Liaodong County." Sima Xin pointed to the map of mountains and rivers: "The upper reaches of Wuhou Qinshui are in Donghu, and the middle and lower reaches are in Youbeiping County. If it weren't for the presence of the Ninth Army and the county to deter, they would have invaded the last time we concentrated our forces in the area of the source of the Yellow River to fight the Touman Division. ”

It's about a few years ago, when the Donghu Empire and the Xiongnu were in full swing, and the two sides fought from Zhao to Qin, and then moved to the source of the Yellow River while fighting, and the scope of the whole war was nearly 2,000 miles. If calculated according to the point in time, at that time the empire was still called the Han State, and Lü Zhe did not annex the various wars, which is equivalent to the Huns first ganging up to fight with the Zhao State, and then the Qin State to start a war, waiting for the Zhao State and the Qin State to be annexed by Lu Zhe, and the opponents of the Huns were replaced by the Han army at that time.

It was precisely because the Warring States in the Central Plains attacked and killed each other at that time, the Xiongnu would choose that time to invade, and Donghu also wanted to gather a large army to pick up the cheap, until Lu Zhe established the empire, nearly one million troops from the Han army renamed the Imperial Defense Army went north, and successively recovered the land occupied by the Xiongnu, and then trapped the Touman department at the source of the Yellow River.

From the beginning of the counterattack against the Xiongnu to the final defeat of the Xiongnu, and the dispatch of troops to deter Donghu, a series of actions lasted for nearly four years, in fact, it was very dangerous for the nascent empire at that time, if it were not for the hesitation of the king of Donghu because of the teachings of his ancestors, Donghu wanted to wait for the source of the Yellow River to have a result before making a move, and then the empire should be fighting on both sides.

"Donghu, ah......" Zang Di dragged a long tone, and after a pause, he said, "It's a more interesting tribe." ”

Zang Di has a reason to say this. After he helped Ji Xia to return to the country. In fact, there are Donghu people who have fought against each other, so naturally they will also do some relevant understanding.

It is not correct to say that Donghu is a tribe, but no one has corrected Zang Di's erroneous statement.

The expansion target of Donghu in the past two or three hundred years is not in the south, they are mainly concentrated in the deep mountains and old forests and a plain in the northeast, and from time to time they will fight with the Qu Er people, and the main expansion direction in the recent past is in the plain in the direction of Qu and Xiongnu.

"I heard some people of the older generation mention that Donghu was the sworn enemy of the Yanhuang and Miao descendants of Liaodong a long time ago." Zang Di said with a smile: "The intermittent war has been fought for nearly 400 years!" ”

In fact, it is far more than 400 years, but no one has studied it deeply. Most of the people present knew one thing that Donghu and Yanguo were a pair of old enemies in the past, that is, the Donghu people suffered big losses in a row before they stopped.

It is said that the ancestors of Donghu had a teaching. The original words have long been forgotten because there is no written record, but the general meaning is still relatively clear, that is, the ancestors of Donghu sternly warned their descendants not to provoke the people in the south easily.

Why is there such a thing? That was a judgment that existed in the Spring and Autumn period. At that time, the tribes of Donghu and Yan were mortal enemies, and the two sides fought for nearly three hundred years. Later, the Yan State received the help of the Central Plains princes, recaptured the land occupied by Donghu, and even counterattacked Donghu to destroy countless tribes, driving Donghu to the deep mountains and old forests further northeast. There is no real data on the casualties on both sides, but Donghu almost perished at one time, but there are some historical records in the biography of Yan State.

The strength of the clan can compete with the Yan State, but when the reinforcements of the Yan State came, Donghu was beaten to the point that they were powerless, and the miserable situation of the Donghu people who fled to the deep mountains and old forests can be imagined. For more than 200 years. Donghu could only lick his wounds on his stomach, waiting to recover.

With the changes of the times, after the Yan State restored its ties with the vassal states of the Central Plains, the Yan State achieved long-term development in all aspects. If it is said that in the past, in terms of national strength, Yan and Donghu were almost the same. Two hundred years later, the Yan Kingdom is many times stronger than Donghu.

It was almost in the era when the Central Plains was a warring states, and Donghu drilled out of the deep mountains and old forests to march towards the territory of Yan again. Donghu's cognition of the Yan Kingdom is estimated to be two hundred years ago, and this time they hit the iron plate headlong. I hit my head all over the place.

Donghu, who invaded Yandi, found that the Yan army they faced was armed with sharp blades, and many Yan soldiers were also wearing armor, while Donghu basically had no metal weapons at this time because he had been in the deep mountains and old forests for a long time. Donghu's arrows and snakes can't wear the armor of Yan soldiers, and blunt weapons such as sticks can hurt Yan soldiers, but when Donghu people knock on a stick, Yan soldiers are stabbing out bronze swords, and sticks make people in their hands, but the stabbed bronze swords will be fatal.

The Donghu had the advantage in numbers, and the Yan army had the advantage in weapons, and the Yan army at this time was an army that had fought with the Central Plains overlords Qi and Zhao, and the result was that the Donghu people were killed at the border. Subsequently, the Yan army even drove into the deep mountains and old forests to clear the Donghu people, and as a result, the Donghu fled in a further northeast direction.

One almost wiped out the clan, and the other time, although it did not reach the point of extermination, but the long-term pursuit and killing really made the Donghu people heartbroken. This generation of Donghu people who were hunted down and killed miserably recalled the words of some old people, it is rumored that hundreds of years ago, the Yan State was helped by reinforcements from the Central Plains, and they were beaten like this only against the Yan State.

Of course, the Donghu people do not know that the vassal states of the Central Plains have long been not what they were in the Spring and Autumn Period, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, it was because the Jin State was the only hegemonic state, and the Jin State played the banner of "respecting the king".

"In fact, we haven't had a large-scale war with Donghu for many years, because the Donghu people themselves don't come to provoke, and we have been spending our energy on the civil war." Zang Di smiled and said, "Well, that's because we didn't give them a chance to invade." ”

"Donghu has a large population, and its belligerence is a little worse than that of the Xiongnu." Sima Xin opened his mouth and said nonsense.

Zang Di opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything. He wanted to say that it was because Donghu was scared by the Yanhuang and Miao descendants, not that Donghu was not warlike, but the Donghu people had been fighting with the Qu Shooters.

Lu Zhe found that the topic was a little distorted, he first listened quietly for a while, and then waited for no one to speak again, and then said: "After the beginning of spring, there will be an early 100,000 people to invest in a new round of grassland expansion, and the first step is to expand the territory to the edge of Junji Mountain. ”

Everyone was nodding, it was a battle plan that had been drawn up a long time ago, and it was what the Empire had to do to completely cut off the dangers of the steppe. With the first step, there must be a second step.

"Subsequently, another 100,000 troops will be invested, and a total of 200,000 troops will march into Junji Mountain." Lu Zhe looked at Sima Xin and said, "While the battle of Junji Mountain is being carried out, don't leave behind the mountains and rivers in the northeast here in Liaodong. ”

Sima Xin immediately saluted and responded: "No! ”

"King Donghu apologized, but I have never given an official response." Lu Zhe looked around at everyone: "The imperial army has repeatedly defeated the Huns, but Donghu pounced on it at this time and beat the water dog ......", perhaps because he felt that they were all emperors, and the words should be more gentle, he smiled himself before he continued: "The empire's advantage is not so easy to take advantage of, especially since the Donghu people occupy the land that the empire originally wanted to occupy." This cannot be allowed. ”

After the expansion of the imperial army to that side, the Huns began to run first, and the Rong and Di people who did not run for the time being also ran after the imperial army repeatedly swept and captured slaves.

The territory was empty, and the empire didn't have time to put a border monument on it, and the Donghu army retreating from Wuhou Qinshui rushed straight away, occupying a large area of land with little effort along the way, and leaving some tribes to graze on the pastures along the way.

In the final analysis, it was because the empire was expanding too rapidly, and it was impossible to take care of this side but not there, and as a result, it was taken advantage of by Donghu after combing.

"In fact, if we send troops over, it won't take much, even if it's a tun of troops, the Donghu people can only retreat obediently." Zang Di just muttered in his heart, he didn't say it, after all, he was not a stupid person, thinking: "It's clear that Your Majesty dug the pit early, and when you have extra energy, you want to turn your head and shovel the soil and bury Donghu." (To be continued.) )