Cao Yin said softly: "Qingguo's Northwest Army, that is not easy to transfer to Nanyang County to fight, after all, on the other side of the Wumu River, there are still more than 20,000 Wei troops and 20,000 people, although it is dragging Qingguo's Northwest Army, but ...... If the Northwest Army really transferred its troops to the Nanyang line, under the emptiness, the Wei people may not dare to attack the Wei army and dare not march from the Wumu River, because the Qing army in the Wumu River is well-equipped and has enough strength to hold the Wumu River, but once the troops are transferred, then there will be a gap in the deployment of troops, and the Wei people may not find a gap......"

"And what about the Northeast Corps?" Han Mo asked: "There are also forty or fifty thousand people in the Northeast Corps, which is also a lot of people."

Cao Yin touched the bridge of his delicate nose and said with a smile: "Don't think that Qingguo is very peaceful" He leaned forward slightly, and said in a low voice: "The fiefdom of the Qinghou family, but most of them are gathered in the four northeastern counties of the northeast region of Qingguo, which are all fiefs of the Qinghou family, above the fiefdom, there are many manors, in addition to military power, the Hou Party has great power over there, you may not know, the Northeast Qinghou fiefdom always needs people to cultivate, the number of strong men in the manor of the four northeastern counties, the number adds up, it is a terrifying number, not to mention, and the northeast of Qingguo, especially Gaoyang County, is the most barbaric place of the people, and it can be said to be the most special county in Qingguo."

Song Shiqing hurriedly said: "Master Hou, it is said that Gaoyang County was originally a barbarian land, since the time of the Qi Kingdom, it has been a little difficult to tame the people there, and they think they are Northern Barbarians, compared to the people of the Fengguo, it is difficult to civilize......

Cao Yin said with a smile: "If you really want to talk about it, this is also the disaster that Qi Guo planted by himself at the beginning."

Han Moqi said: "How do you say this? ”

"Two hundred years of Qi country, the biggest great thing to do, is to completely defeat the northern barbarians, dare not peep into my Central Plains land again" Cao Yin sighed: "The northern barbarians live in the north of Qingguo, since the founding of the Qi Dynasty, has always been the henchman of the Central Plains is well known, the northern barbarians have been wandering in the north of Qi almost all their adult months, and they will invade the territory of Qi every three or five days, burning, looting, and wreaking, and the defenders in the north of Qi are not the opponents of the Northern Barbarians at all."

Song Shiqing sighed: "To the north of Qingguo, it is a desert area of thousands of miles, and the Northern Barbarians live in the desert to survive in such an environment, so that this group of barbarians has extremely strong combat effectiveness, and it is also extremely ferocious The hundreds of tribes of the Northern Barbarians, that is, they also kill each other, and ......the war is continuous."

"Lord Song's words are to the point" Cao Yin smiled: "If the Northern Barbarians are twisted into a rope and united, I'm afraid that the Qi State will not be able to defeat the Northern Barbarians in the future."

Han Mo seemed to understand something, and said in his heart: "Later, I also said that later the Qi State took advantage of the internal friction of the Northern Barbarians?" ”

Cao Yin still greatly appreciated Han Mo's enlightenment, and said: "That is more than a hundred years after the founding of the Qi Dynasty, in this hundred years, the Qi Dynasty has been harassed by the Northern Barbarians, and has also moved many large-scale conquests are just the land of the Northern Barbarians, the yellow sand is everywhere, as far as the eye can see, the Qi army is deep in the desert, and the main force of the Northern Barbarians cannot be found at all, and the Northern Barbarians are like fish in water in the desert, although the national strength is far less than that of the Qi Dynasty, but the Qi army is deep in the desert, and the Qi Dynasty has entered the desert three times under the arms of the Northern Barbarians. The cost is huge, although occasionally won several large-scale battles, but these three northern expeditions all ended in failure, countless warriors were buried in the desert, and their souls could not return to their hometowns......" paused, sighed lightly, and continued: "Until the fourteenth emperor of Qi Chaori, Emperor Qi Yong, ascended the throne, and ended his reign for thirty-two years, the national policy set was that the Beiping Barbarians were just this Emperor Qi Yong was a generation of holy lords, knowing that the Beiban was not the exceptor, so in the early days of the throne, under great pressure, he sued for peace with the Beiban, and married the princess to the Beiban, It is a ...... that allows trade with the Northern Barbarians."

Song Shiqing listened attentively, and Han Mo also listened carefully, but he was extremely dexterous, and when he saw that Cao Yin's cup of tea was exhausted, he hurriedly stepped forward to pour tea for Cao Yin's cup

Cao Yin smiled gently, and continued: "At that time, the Qi Dynasty and the Northern Barbarians were the land of life and death, and countless Qi Dynasty soldiers died in the hands of the Northern Barbarians. But it is extremely welcome, after all, the Northern Barbarians are very fond of the items in the Central Plains, so the two sides have entered a period of peace for more than ten years, although the Northern Barbarians also loot the border from time to time, but the two sides have been on the border for more than ten years, but there has been no big war"

Han Mo said: "This is a strategy for cultivation and recuperation? If the subordinates did not guess wrong, this trade is only a disguise, but the actual purpose is to understand the geographical situation and tribal composition of the Northern Barbarians through merchants.

Cao Yin said with a smile: "Han Mo, what you said is right, the so-called big husband can bend and stretch, what Emperor Qi Yong did before was just to endure the anger of the moment, and to make every effort to govern the country, taking advantage of the relatively peaceful period, the national strength of the Qi Dynasty rose rapidly, and he was ready to go north again, but the Northern Barbarians were confused by a series of affinity policies of the Qi Dynasty, and thought that Emperor Qi Yong was really afraid of them, and their vigilance gradually relaxed, they were barbarians after all, and their brains were not as smart as our Central Plains people, and a large number of merchants went deep into the Northern Barbarian region, A great deal of geographical and personnel information has been explored."

Han Mo said with a smile: "Your Majesty has always felt that businessmen are spies in the open."

"In addition, there was also a variety of friction between the Northern Barbarian tribes at that time the largest tribe in the Northern Barbarians was the Noshi Nabe, countless tribes were bullied by them, and they had a great resentment After the death of the chief of the Noshi Naibu, his two sons Noshi Nai Yuan and Noshi Nai Li fought for the position of chieftain, and the Yeshi Nai Department fought together, and many tribes joined forces and attacked the Ye Shi Naibu, so far, the biggest infighting in the Northern Barbarians began, which lasted for several years The Northern Barbarian national strength was not as good as the Qi Dynasty, and this civil war began, That was weakened, and Emperor Qi Yong, who was lying on his back, had quietly mobilized a large number of troops at this time, and with the map drawn by the geographical information obtained by the merchants for more than 20 years, he launched a surprise attack on the Northern Barbarians" Speaking of this, he smiled lightly and said: "The result of the war, Ben Hou does not say, you naturally guessed it"

Song Shiqing was a little excited and said: "A big victory"

"Not bad" Cao Yin said with a smile: "A complete victory, the civil war of the Northern Barbarians has already exhausted the Northern Barbarians, the Qi army is like a heavenly soldier, the Northern Barbarians are caught off guard, there are countless casualties, and more than 100,000 people were captured by the Qi army...... The remnants of the Northern Barbarians retreated all the way north, and they were no longer able to invade the Central Plains."

"What to do with the hundreds of thousands of captives?" Han Mo asked

Cao Yin said: "This is exactly what I just said, the difference between Gaoyang County is that Emperor Qi Yong is eloquent and strategic, but in the end, his heart is soft-hearted, and he did not execute these captives of the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children of the Northern Barbarians, and they were placed in Gaoyang County today, and those people are still living in Gaoyang County, although more than a hundred years have passed, their living habits are exactly the same as those of our Central Plains, but those descendants of the Northern Barbarians have not forgotten their origins, and still call themselves Northern Barbarians...... Therefore, among the 50,000 troops in the Northeast Army, 20,000 people were deployed in Gaoyang County alone, just to guard against the vivid chaos of these still brutal Northern Barbarians."

"I see," Han Mo suddenly realized

Cao Yin said calmly: "There are a large number of estates in the Northeast, and there are descendants of the Northern Barbarians, and in recent years, it is said that there have been traces of the Northern Barbarians who fled far away in Mobei...... All this, Qingguo's 50,000 troops in the northeast, once something happens, I'm afraid they are a little stretched, where do they dare to transfer the Northeast Army to Nanyang County, the Northwest Army is not adjustable, and although Qingguo still has more than 100,000 border troops, but always leave most of them to guard against my Dayan...... In this way, think about it, how many regular troops can Shang Zhongli have available? Even if some civilian troops are gathered temporarily, without training and battlefield experience, how effective can they be in the face of the Wei army like wolves and iron horses? That's why Ben Hou said that Shang Zhongli can really use it to deal with the strength of the Wei State, and it is not very generous......" paused, and continued to smile: "So Qingguo this time, mainly in case...... It's just that Shang Zhongli is just a master of defensive battles, in defense, seize the fighter, and then bite the opponent, so aside from other things, just talking about this big battle, the duel between Shang Zhongli and Sima Qingtian must be a very exciting battle."