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Chapter 536 Shi Jie's Reaction

"Liu Yan is a thief!" Shi Xuan's bearded face was full of aggrieved and angry: "Too much bullying!"

The ice and snow in the central part of Bingzhou has not yet melted, and there has even been a light snowfall in the past few days. It stands to reason that winter has not passed, and countries will not launch any military operations.

However, if we look back at the Han Dynasty established by Liu Yan, it seems that the army's actions never depend on seasonality, but only on whether it is necessary?
Shi Xuan stayed in Jinyang, and the importance of Jinyang came to the fore after Shihu decided to retreat to Saibei. It was the avant-garde city of Dingxiang, the new capital of Zhao State in Shijie. , the population has also increased due to the presence of various Hu species.

The ice and snow hadn't melted yet, but Han didn't plan to wait until winter passed before resuming the war. Li Tu reported to Shi Xuan, saying that the number of Han troops on the Jingling side had been increasing, and that the Han troops in Jicheng had begun to attack again. Attack Yangyi.

It was normal for Shi Xuan that the Han army attacked Yangyi. After the two sides confronted each other, even in the icy and snowy winter, they would often confront each other, but this time the Han army under the Linyangyi city was slightly larger than before.

The most important information Li Tu reported to Shi Xuan was that the Zhao army in Shijie had scouts who found traces of the marching troops on the north bank of Jiuze, but the scouts searched for a long time but failed to find the Han army.He is an old soldier, guessing that the Han army took advantage of the fact that the ice on Jiuze Lake had not melted and went to the northwest of Bingzhou.

Yangyi has not yet fallen, Jinyang is guarded by heavy troops, and Zhongyang is also led by Fu Hong, who is waiting in full force. The reason why Shi Xuan is aggrieved and angry is simple. The war has not yet started, but the Han army has made measures to prevent them. The act of fleeing.

"Whether they want to attack from the flanks or prevent us from retreating, they are too defiant!" Shi Xuan inherited Shi Hu's character genes, not to mention being irritable. Cruelty seems to be instinctive, and his brain circuits are basically peculiar. One moment they were still discussing military affairs, and the next moment they said: "Slaughter the two Han girls, steam them and eat them!"

In fact, Shijie used to call Han girls Liangjiaoyang. After many battles and defeats with the Han army, they no longer called Liangjiaoyang.

Shi Hu led the crowd to withdraw to the north. In addition to taking away a large number of Hulu of various ethnic groups, the Jin people also took a lot. Jin men were used as slaves, labored or abused, while Jin women were raped and slaughtered. Lose.

That's right, the Jin people, that is, some Han Miao descendants who have never been in Han.But now no one calls people from Jin. The Han people call them Han people to enhance their sense of pride, and the Hulu people started to call those Jin people Han people again in order to retaliate against the Han country.

"The Han army will start a war before the ice and snow melt..." Li Tu said with worry: "It can be seen that after the weather gets warmer, the scale of the Han army heading north will be very large."

The Shijie State of Zhao does not intend to defend city after city. Compared with defending cities, it pays more attention to the preservation of vitality.

Shi Hu has publicly stated that he should not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place, but should give full play to the Hulu's cavalry advantages, and fight the Han army in the wilderness like the Huns did, clamoring for another hundred years of war.

To put it bluntly, the Hulu learned to be smart, and knew that he was not good at city offensive and defensive warfare. If he wanted to find his old job, he would fight if he could beat him, and if he couldn't beat him, he would just run away.

After the Hulu changed their combat strategy, the Han army and the Hulu no longer achieved a large number of gains in the confrontation, and they no longer wiped out tens of thousands of Hulu at every turn as before.Every time the Hulu retreated when they saw something wrong, the two sides fought with cavalry. Relatively speaking, the Hulu's light cavalry was faster, and the Han army's gains were naturally limited.

Shi Xuan asked Li Tu, "What advice does the general have?"

There is more than one general in the State of Shijie Zhao, and there are astonishingly many generals with various prefixes. Li Tu is a general who has added a champion, and his full official title is the champion general.Fu Hong was one of the champion generals in Shijie Zhao.

Li Tu seemed to have made up his mind a long time ago, and said directly: "Your Majesty doesn't care about the gains and losses of the city. We have always suffered losses in the offensive and defensive battles with the Han army. It is better to transfer as soon as possible."

Shi Xuan didn't hesitate, and said, "Then report it to Father Emperor."

"Your Majesty will definitely agree." Li Tu finished speaking firmly, and suggested: "The prince can first order to prepare for evacuation."

To put it bluntly, Shijie Zhao's side is not all fools. Han Guo hopes that Shijie Zhao's army will defend every city, isn't it for the purpose of destroying Shijie's Zhao army's vitality?The core strategy of Shijie Zhao State is to fight the Han army for a long time on the vast grassland. They think that they don't care about the gains and losses of the city is an effective targeting strategy.

"Since we want to retreat, we must find the traces of the Han army that passed through Jiuze and went north." Shi Xuan said fiercely: "They knew we would retreat, but they couldn't guess that we would withdraw immediately without any worries. The Han army, seize the opportunity to eat it!"

"In this way, Yangyi needs to change its defense. With the miscellaneous Hus and slave soldiers as the main force, how long it lasts is counted." Li Tu thought for a while, and then suggested further: "The prince should order them to do it on the side of the chariot general. Go south to fight and feint."

The chariot general Li Tu mentioned was Fu Hong, and Fu Hong is currently under Shi Xuan's command system.

"Although that old fox is under the command of the orphan, he has always relied on the old to sell the old and refused to listen to the command." Shi Xuan didn't like Fu Hong, not only because of Fu Hong's public rebellion last time, but also because Fu Hong had too much strength at hand: "That old guy doesn't even listen to the emperor's father." They dare to obey orders and disobey them.”

"It's just a feint, and the chariot general will not refuse." Li Tu saw that Shi Xuan was still talking nonsense, and said with a wry smile: "If Fu Hong didn't even make a feint, the crown prince might not only be unable to destroy the Han army going north, It should be avoided as much as possible.”

Shi Xuan no longer entangled in Fu Hong's obedience, and happened to let the steamed food that slaughtered the Han daughter be brought up, and invited Li Tu to have a delicious meal, but was rejected.

Cannibalism, not everyone likes to eat people even if they are of the Jie family. Li Tu actually thinks that cannibalism is quite disgusting. Sometimes he is forced to eat by Shihu’s family. There are good reasons to follow suit below.

The highest commander of Shijie on the side of Bingzhou is Prince Shixuan, but the real people in charge are actually Li Tu and Fu Hong.Li Tu was in charge of the east of Bingzhou, and Fu Hong was in charge of the west of Bingzhou.

About two days later, Fu Hong received Shi Xuan's order.

"That kid wants us to go south? Although it was a feint attack, he didn't tell that the Han army had already gone north." Fu Hou's face was slightly ferocious: "What's the reason for this!"

Not to mention how to go south in the ice and snow, Shi Jie Zhao Guo is now on the defensive facing the Han army, and Shi Hu made it clear that the central part of Bingzhou does not need to stick to it.Under this background, none of the generals in the central part of Bingzhou intends to fight the Han army for their lives. If they go south and are bitten by the Han army...it seems that they will really be bitten. Whoever is going to entangle with the Han army now will be stupid.

Fu An asked: "Could it be that Shihu is impatient to weaken us again?"

Fu Hong just watched quietly as the two younger brothers vented their anger one after another.

In the eyes of many people, Shi Jie's Zhao Guoguo has evolved from a majestic Central Plains hegemon to a world power to what it is today, and that is completely Shi Hu's own fault.There seems to be nothing wrong with their views. Shihu misjudged Liu Yan, and it was too obvious to weaken the Qiang and Di tribes, the two largest thug races of the Jie tribe, in exchange for the decline of Shijie Zhao.

In all fairness, it is not only Shi Hu who misjudged Liu Yan's rise, but also one of them, except Liu Yan himself, who did not expect such a situation, so it cannot be said that Shi Hu is stupid, but it is Liu Yan's fault. The rise is too unreasonable.

Shihu wants to weaken the Qiang and Di tribes, because the number of the two tribes is too surprising. At the same time, the prestige of Yao Yizhong and Fu Hong is really too high. For the unshakable dominance of the Jie tribe, weakening the Qiang and Di tribes is not a big deal. There is nothing wrong with it.

After Yao Yizhong was captured by the Han army, the Qiang people have fallen into a situation of fragmentation. Shi Jie's goal of eliminating the potential threat of the Qiang people has been achieved. If there is no rise of the Han Dynasty, it can be said to be perfect.

The leader of the Di tribe, Fu Hong, was luckier. Although they were defeated in the battle with the Han army, Fu Hong's elite losses were not too serious. Moreover, the leader is still alive, so the Di tribe can at least be united. Firstly, the Di people had a complete understanding of Shihu and Jie people. Although Fu Hong turned to Shihu again later, the rift between the two sides was irreparable.

"Brother, if you want me to say, just retreat to the basin below the plateau." Fu Hou actually opposed the re-submission to Shijie's banner, but Fu Hong was resolute.He said: "Shihu let us go to Bingzhou, it must be for the purpose of consuming us, and we have not been trusted, what are we waiting for?"

"Wait." Fu Hong finally said: "We need enough craftsmen, and more books and so on."

The Di people are different from the Jie people. Although the Jie people ruled the Central Plains, they didn't care about the culture and technology of the Han family. The Di people, who were in the semi-Han family stage, understood what culture and technology meant.

Although Fu Hong is a member of the Di tribe, he is actually very familiar with Han culture.This time he will rely on Shi Hu again, not because he is so loyal to Shi Hu, otherwise he would not have turned his back on Shi Hu and moved to Guanzhong last time, because he wanted to lean on Shi Jie again to suck blood, and he didn't care if he took Shi Jie away artisan and collect more books.

Because of Shi Jie's indifference, after Fu Hong led his army into Bingzhou, he did not cover up too much. He plundered people in a series of looting, especially looking for various craftsmen, and tried his best to collect books wherever he went. , all the acquired population and resources are sent to the Northland.

Better than the former actual rulers of the Central Plains, the Jie people, shied away from the rise of the Han state, and Fu Hong didn't think that he could confront the Han state with the Di people.

Fu Hong thought more thoroughly than Shi Hu, and definitely read more history books than Shi Hu.If you look through the historical books, you can find that when the local forces in the Central Plains rise and show signs of prosperity, it is time for some ethnic groups that are not "Chinese" to lie down, that is, to be tortured to death by the local dynasty of the Central Plains.

No matter how you look at it, Han is a strong country. When it was weak, it dared to be the enemy of the whole world, even without a big defeat. Fu Hong felt that the rise of Han was unstoppable, and it would be foolish to stay around Han. I have already figured out that I should go away if I make a lot of money, and I have even thought about where I should go.

The place Fu Hong wants to go is the basin below the plateau, which has always been the habitat of the Qiang people. At present, the Qiang people are falling apart. The Di people and the Qiang people have always had a relationship. The commander-in-chief can easily gain a foothold in the basin.

The basin under the plateau is a good place. In addition to the Qiang and a small number of Di, another large ethnic group is the Tuyuhun.The Tuyuhun family actually divided dozens of tribes clearly, and after a few hundred years of annexation, there will be six remaining (that is, the later Liuzhao), and the Nanzhao Kingdom was established.

Since he wanted to get a ticket and leave, it was impossible for Fu Hong to fight the Han army. Not only did he disobey Shi Xuan's orders many times, but he even violated Shi Hu's will.What he is thinking now is that the Han army's action is earlier than expected, and it seems that the action is larger than expected. Should the Di tribe leave the Jie tribe again and run away by themselves.

"Reply to the prince..." Fu Hong paused intentionally, and then said with a smile: "Just say, I will obey the order and go south."

Fu Hou and Fu An immediately asked in unison, full of surprises: "Brother won't really want to go south!?"

"It's not going south..." Fu Hong said calmly: "Be prepared. Let's retreat to the north first. After meeting with the tribe, we will go to the basin."

This time, not only Fu Hou and Fu An were excited, but even Fu Hong's sons laughed cheerfully.

"Shi Xuan wanted to use us to drag the Han army to run away by himself, so we pretended to obey orders and asked him to help us hold the Han army back." Fu Jian only had three battles with the Han army in Guanzhong, but his impression of the Han army Very profound: "It is best for Shi Xuan to die in the hands of the Han army, and let Shi Hu go south to fight with the Han army."

Knowing the actual relationship between Shi Hu and Shi Xuan, Fu Hong just smiled and said nothing. Shi Hu is as cruel and ruthless as father and son, and there is no father-son relationship at all.Fu Hong felt that if Shi Xuan died in the hands of the Han army, Shi Hu would curse at most, and it is better to save money on going south for revenge.

Li Tan, who was in Jingling, had been dispatching troops and generals. He knew that the enemy would respond, but when intelligence was collected again and again, Shi Xuan and Fu Hong both made big moves.

"Shi Xuan has been increasing troops to Yangyi. At present, the enemy army in Yangyi has reached [-]." Tiaoyou was confused, and asked with uncertainty: "General Qianlang must have been discovered when he went north, so Shi Xuan sent more troops to Yangyi?"

Li Tan also didn't expect Qian Jian and Beishang's movement to be kept secret, but being noticed and being found are two different things.

Shi Jie found that there was already a Han army going north, and he would be afraid before he found that Han army going north, and Shi Jie was afraid of what Zhengbei Shogunate wanted.

"Keep an eye on Donggong Gaoli. Wherever they are, Shi Xuan will be there." Li Tan talked about Zhongyang again: "Fu Hong made too much noise, but he had to guard against it."

The information of the Han army about Zhongyang is that Fu Hong has been sending scouts to the south, which means that he wants to march south, but he didn't expect that Fu Hong would take people away...

(End of this chapter)