The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

The most urgent task now is to go to Xiangping to do something.

However, although it is urgent, there is no time after all, but this matter cannot be messed up. At this time, Zhou Yu only has a few thousand soldiers and horses around him. If he wants to attack Xiangping City directly, it may be wishful thinking.

So, they had to think of something else.

"Gongjin, is there a way?"

Although Sun Ce spoke very well, he also knew his abilities. He might be very confident in fighting and felt that he could do it, but Sun Ce's ability was not good when it came to making plans.

So I can only rely on Zhou Yu.

This is why Liu Zheng sent Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to Liaodong together.

One by one, complement each other.

Only then can we accomplish great things.

When Sun Ce asked, Zhou Yu fell into deep thought.

After a while, he asked Gongsun Du a few words.

"Gongsun Baihu, besides the [-] defenders, are there any other troops in Xiangping City?"

"No, in fact, in Xiangping City, only Yuan Xi's family is there. Shanyu Nanlou from Karasuma is basically not in Xiangping. They all live in their own tribe outside Xiangping City."

"Nanlou lives in a tribe? Where is the tribe outside Xiangping City, and how many soldiers and horses guard it?"

Xiangping is a county in the Liaodong area.

In any case, it is the territory of the Han people.

And Nanlou, as Shanyu from Karasuma, naturally couldn't live in the territory of the Han people.

Moreover, their nomads prefer freedom, and living in the city is not the life they want.

Gongsun Du on the side heard Zhou Yu's question and responded immediately.

"The tribe where Nanlou is located, our spies haven't mixed in yet, but we do know the general strength of the troops left behind. There should be more than 6000 people. There are probably [-] to [-] people who can fight."

The Karasuma people have always lived in tribal gatherings, and large tribes with a population of more than [-] are rare.

Even if they sent out troops in a hurry, they would gather people from different tribes, large and small.

Only under the unified management of Tadun can they go on an expedition, and the tribe under their Nanlou and Tadun alone cannot gather an army of tens of thousands of people.

But Ta Dun left the tribe and took a large number of soldiers and horses with him. In the royal court of Nanlou, there are actually five thousand cavalry. It can be seen that the royal court of Shan Yu is indeed very powerful.

"Five thousand soldiers are easier than attacking Xiangping, so let's take the Nanlou first, and if you capture the Nanlou, you can force Tadun to submit."

After Zhou Yu asked about the situation, he immediately locked Karasuma Shanyu Nanlou.

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Compared with directly attacking a city with a city, it is still a town with [-] soldiers and horses in the city.

Zhou Yu's manpower is simply daydreaming.

Instead, he went to deal with Nanlou, a wild Karasuma court, with no defensive equipment around, at most some repelling horses and wooden fences.

With thousands of soldiers and horses, there is every chance that they will be defeated.

No matter how you look at it, dealing with Karasuma's Shanyu is much easier than directly attacking the city.

"That's it. Let's attack Karasuma Chanyu first. Please Gongsun Baihu. In the next few days, pay close attention to Karasuma Chanyu's dynamics. Be sure to deploy the Karasuma Royal Court's forces and some of the Chanyu's movements." Once the investigation is in hand, we will strive to make corresponding deployments based on the information we have.”

After receiving Zhou Yu's order, Gongsun Du nodded immediately, clasped his fists down, and started to do things according to Zhou Yu's instructions.

A group of people began to get busy.

While Zhou Yu was fighting Karasuma Shanyu's idea, on the other side of Jizhou, Liu Zheng was also thinking about how to deal with these Xianbei people who came to support from Youzhou.

Rested for two days.

Those Xianbei people who came to support from Youzhou joined forces with Tadun, Yuan Xi and others, and rushed directly to the city of Xindu.

Not only did Liu Zheng besieged in Xindu City, but he also ordered his men to start sweeping around Qinghe County, looting food and supplies.

Liu Zheng was afraid of the soldiers and horses of these northern nomads, so he didn't dare to go out of the city to fight with them for a while.

It's not because Liu Zheng is afraid.

But Liu Zheng's other soldiers and horses have not yet arrived in Xindu City.

At this time, these enemy troops outside the city did not attack the city.

It would not be good for Liu Zheng to attack rashly.

So he can only wait for the time being.

The army of Waiting Pin and Zang Ba came to Xindu from Yecheng to support them.

When the time comes to gather our forces, we will fight these enemies to the death.

It's just that the closer the war is approaching, the more Liu Zheng hates these nomadic people.

I can't help thinking about why these nomads always come to attack the Central Plains.

Speaking of which, as a modern person, Liu Zheng has a relatively clear understanding of these things.

To put it bluntly, it is still a problem left over from history.

Beginning from the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty suffered from the invasion of nomadic peoples. There were Dog Rong in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Huns in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and then there were Xianbei, Turks, Rouran, Khitan, Mongolia and so on.

Moreover, in the 2000-year history of the land of China, basically nomadic peoples invaded the Central Plains.

Few Central Plains dynasties took the initiative to send troops to deal with the nomads in the north.

Even if a few dynasties invaded the grassland, it was only for strategic preparation.

Rather than really occupying these grasslands and bringing their territories under their own dynasty rule.

It even gave birth to a great miracle on the land of China, the Great Wall.

Its function is to resist and prevent the grassland nomads from invading the Central Plains.

The Great Wall is also the border between the Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland nomads. Inside the Great Wall is the place where the Central Plains Dynasty can command.

Beyond the Great Wall is the area where grassland nomads can move.

The geographical location of the Great Wall is precisely related to an important dividing line on the land of China.

It is the 400 mm rainfall line that is learned in the geography class of the junior high school in the nine-year compulsory education.

This 400 mm iso-rainfall line is very similar to the distribution of the Great Wall.

South of this line, rainfall is abundant, and there is a large amount of rain every year.Abundant rainfall can meet the needs of agricultural production.

North of this line, precipitation is scarce.

It is difficult to survive trying to grow crops.

Some herbaceous and woody plants are difficult to grow.

Only some basic grass plants can grow.

So this area can only be a grassland.

At the same time, it is also possible to understand why they are short of supplies.

This rain line is actually roughly the same as the plan of the Great Wall.The wisdom of the ancients can be seen.

To the north of the rainfall line, no food can be grown, only some weeds, and people cannot eat grass for a living, so in order to survive, they can only raise some cattle, sheep and horses that eat herbs. This is called animal husbandry.

Then people eat animals, or use animals for commercial trade, so as to achieve the purpose of survival.

Some people may say, how good the animal husbandry is, there is meat for every meal.

This is much better than eating whole grains every day.

It seems that there is indeed no problem with this statement.

But there is a serious problem here.

In this era, animal husbandry only has some natural pastures, without artificial pastures and grass seeds. The growth rate and output of forage required by those livestock cannot meet the standards.

Forage is very limited, in fact, not many cattle and sheep can be raised.

Even in the era where Liu Zheng lived, the entire Mongolian country only had tens of millions of sheep.

In the final analysis, it is because the forage is also limited.

Tens of millions of sheep sounds like a lot, but if you convert it, if you feed a population of 100 million.

One person can only get dozens of sheep.

It takes a few months to eat sheep alone.

Moreover, things like cattle and sheep are not like agricultural production. The seeds planted can be harvested once a year, and some can even be harvested several times a year.

And it can also be staggered to plant.

Raising cattle and sheep is much more complicated than farming.

So even nomadic people, on average, can't eat sheep a few times a year, that is, like the Central Plains people, they will eat a few meals during festivals.

Of course, they must eat more than the Central Plains people.

Historically, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Huns in the north. In addition to attacking the Huns' army, they would also rob the Huns of their cattle and sheep.

For example, in the Battle of Henan, the Han Dynasty army won a complete victory.

Annihilated thousands of soldiers and horses of the Huns, and captured 3000 people. In fact, the loss of these thousands of troops is nothing to the huge Huns. After all, the Huns at that time had hundreds of thousands of troops. Thousands of people can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.

But the most terrible thing is that in this defeat, the cattle and sheep snatched by the big man amounted to millions!

The loss of millions of cattle and sheep, but rations, to restore the loss of these millions of cattle and sheep, from production to maturity, it takes not a few months, but a few years to recover.

Moreover, cattle and sheep will not only be robbed, but also may suffer from natural disasters.

The north is already cold. If there is a colder year, a big snowstorm may freeze a large number of people to death.

Therefore, in the north, pure animal husbandry, nomadic people are basically in a state of not getting enough to eat every day.

It is basically impossible to eat meat every day.

They are actually similar to the Central Plains.

Therefore, if they want to survive, they have to rely on the Central Plains.

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The nomads relied on the methods of the Central Plains.

There are only two.

The first is trade.

We live in harmony and make money, and exchange what we need.

There is agriculture in the Central Plains area, which can grow food, while the grassland area has cattle and sheep. People in the Central Plains eat too many grains and want to change their tastes, and occasionally eat meat.

So the deal can be done.

The second is robbery.

In the event that no agreement can be reached, or the grassland nomads can't come up with enough to attract people from the Central Plains, they will not sit back and watch themselves starve to death, so they can only resort to violence.

Therefore, if we look at history again, we can find a pattern.

Even in the Central Plains, the more chaotic it is, the more ferocious the nomadic invasion.

For example, the Warring States period, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The late Sui and early Tang, the late Tang and early Song and so on.

This has little to do with whether the Central Plains is strong or not.

During the Warring States Period, the State of Zhao was also very powerful, and repeatedly defeated the Huns, but the Huns continued to come, and more people came each time.

This is not because they are not afraid of the power of the Central Plains Dynasty, but because they want to survive.

If there is a unified dynasty in the Central Plains, the two sides can still conduct peaceful trade.

And if there is no unified dynasty, then trade will be difficult to do.