The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 385: Peace-loving Xianbei People
Youzhou, Ji County.

"Did the Emperor really say that?"

"That's true!"

Yang Xiu said firmly: "The emperor wants to recreate the siege of Mayi, and fight in exchange for twenty years of peace on the border!"

The Siege of Mayi...

As a descendant of Nie Yi, Zhang Liao was very familiar with this matter.

Thinking that he might be able to wash away the shame of his ancestors, Zhang Liao was eager to try: "How should I arrange it?"

"First relocate the people of Ji County and let them go somewhere else temporarily."

"General Zhang can arrange everything from now on based on what happened with Nie Yi back then!"

Zhang Liao looked at Yang Xiu in shock: "Did the emperor really say that?"

Yang Xiu: "General Zhang is the one who trusts the emperor the most. Why do you doubt my words today? Could it be that I am deceiving you?"

Zhang Liao wiped his hands on his armor skirt awkwardly: "That's not the case, it's just that this matter is really of great importance, this..."

Zhang Liao, who was always calm and composed, had completely lost his usual composure at this moment and was instead pacing back and forth in the tent.

Zhang Xiu, who was standing nearby, stamped his feet when he saw Zhang Liao like this. "What's wrong with you? I've never seen you act like a little girl on the battlefield before. Why are you acting like this now?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

During this period, Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu had become familiar with each other and he did not hide anything from him.

"During the siege of Mayi, my ancestor Nie Yi actually did nothing wrong. He just did the wrong thing with good intentions!"

"When the siege of Mayi failed, do you know how much money and grain the imperial court lost? When the Xiongnu retaliated afterwards, do you know how many villagers were ravaged by the Xiongnu?"

"This time we are going to use Ji County to lure the Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes... Do you know what will happen to the people of Ji County who have migrated if we fail or if they don't come?"

"And it's not just Ji County!"

"Since we want to lure out the Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes, we must release our control over Jimen Pass!"

"Think it over carefully! Once we give up this mountain pass, we will have to fight back with a hundred times or a thousand times the force in the future!"

"If we fail to completely wipe out the Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes as planned and let them escape back to Jimen Pass... then the Yanshan defense line will become meaningless in the eyes of the foreign races!"

The more Zhang Liao spoke, the more he felt that he was right.

"Although I have some experience, how can I directly command the other three pillars? Now that the emperor is not here, I dare not act arbitrarily!"

Although Zhang Liao was worried, he was a straightforward person after all and said whatever he thought.

Zhang Xiu rolled his eyes after hearing this.

It’s not that Zhang Xiu has no conscience, but because Zhang Xiu does not have Zhang Liao’s life experience after all, he cannot understand Zhang Liao’s complicated psychology about this matter and it is difficult for him to empathize with Zhang Liao.

Instead, Yang Xiu looked at Zhang Liao and smiled slightly.

"General Zhang, don't you feel strange?"

"What's so strange?"

"Why did the emperor ask me to come to Youzhou in person and stay here?"

Yang Xiu: "This matter is a big deal, but it is normal to issue it to the general as an ordinary military order."

"Why do you think the emperor wants me to come to the general in person and give him a message?"

"..."

Zhang Xiu was the first to hesitate and asked, "But Your Majesty thinks that Dezu is intelligent, so you want to let Dezu come here to give you advice?"

Yang Xiu quickly shook his head, somewhat complacently and somewhat helplessly, and said: "Of course I have talent!"

"But this talent is not only in the military, after all. It is not the same as the talent of Zhongda and Kongming."

"So, Your Majesty cannot entrust the war in Youzhou to me. Otherwise, you can just let me command the four pillars of the country. Why do you have to give this important task to General Zhang?"

When Zhang Liao heard this, he also thought it made sense.

Yang Xiu laughed: "The reason why the emperor asked me to come here in person is to let everyone know that this idea was all his own! It has nothing to do with anyone else!"

"Perhaps you don't know, but His Majesty once commented on the Siege of Mayi, thinking that the people in the court at that time were shameless! If Nie Yi succeeds, the credit will naturally belong to them! But if Nie Yi fails, then naturally Nie Yi will take the blame!"

"Your Majesty also said that if the Emperor Wu had personally come forward to acknowledge the incident, Nie Yi would not have been looked down upon by his neighbors for so long!"

After hearing what Yang Xiu said, Zhang Liao couldn't help but ask again, "Did your Majesty really say that?"

Yang Xiu: ...

Although Yang Xiu also rolled his eyes, Zhang Liao, relying on his understanding of the emperor, was certain that these words must have been spoken by the emperor himself.

Zhang Liao's eyes suddenly turned red.

The matter of his ancestors has actually troubled him for a long time!

He didn't understand why his ancestor Nie Yi, who had acted for the benefit of the people of the Han Dynasty, ended up being treated like a sinner, and why his descendants were even forced to change their surnames?

It was not until today when he heard the emperor's words that Zhang Liao finally let go of his worries and began to cry with joy.

"That's enough! Stop crying! You're just like a woman!" Just when Yang Xiu was about to say something to comfort Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiu came over and kicked Zhang Liao in the butt without understanding the situation: "Give me an answer! Do you want to fight this war or not?"

"If we want to fight, we must start making arrangements now! Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun's soldiers are all rookies, and they are not as capable as the veterans. We must mobilize them as soon as possible!"

"beat!"

Zhang Liao clenched his fists at this moment: "This battle must be fought!"

"One battle brings back twenty years of peace on the border! This is what our ancestors wanted to do but failed to do. Why shouldn't I do it?"

"If I can really accomplish this, my ancestors will definitely praise me if they know about it in the afterlife!"

Zhang Xiu patted Zhang Liao on the shoulder and said, "That's right!"

"When I avenged my uncle, I didn't even think twice and just went straight to kill Cao Cao!"

"Even a vengeance of ten generations can be avenged! You have both national and family hatred at stake, so why should you hesitate?"

Yang Xiu also said: "That's right! Anyway, no matter whether it succeeds or not, the emperor has endorsed it. What are you afraid of, General Zhang?"

Zhang Liao looked at Yang Xiu in surprise: "Isn't Dezu afraid of being held accountable by the emperor for saying this?"

"Alas~ The emperor is not here anyway! Haha!"

"That's right! Hahahahaha!"

The three of them hit it off and decided to report to the emperor!

The first step was to contact Tian Yu through Zhang Fei, and then let Tian Yu contact Xianyu Fu and Yan Rou.

Xianyu Fu and Yan Rou came to see Zhang Liao, and they swallowed their saliva after hearing the shocking plan that Zhang Liao was going to arrange.

"Is this really what it's like?"

Xian Yu Fu asked.

The surname Xianyu originated from the surname Zi, and came from Zi Zhong, a branch of Jizi, a descendant of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty. He is an authentic Chinese noble.

However, because Xianyu Fu had once served as Liu Yu's assistant, his style of doing things was more or less influenced by Liu Yu, and he believed that alien races should be treated with a conciliatory attitude.

"Can't we negotiate with them first and ask them to withdraw their troops?"

On the contrary, Yan Rou, although dressed very strangely, neither Chinese nor Hu, was extremely in agreement with this strategy.

"When I was young, I was abducted by the Xianbei people and taken to the grassland."

"Fortunately, they did not become my enemies, but became my friends."

"At that time, I discovered that many of the lower-level tribes of the Xianbei and Wuhuan were actually simple people and were unwilling to attack the Han Dynasty."

"They are not fools. They know that the Han people are not easy to mess with. Although they can seize some food and property every time, won't their own people suffer losses? Won't their own livestock die?"

"No!"

"In fact, these weak tribes are more willing to trade with the Han people!"

"The reason they attacked the Han is because there is a more powerful tribe behind them forcing them!"

"These weak tribes can only serve as cannon fodder, pushing their own people into the fire pit time and time again!"

"The news I have been getting these days is from the Xianbei people in those small tribes! They actually don't have a good impression of Kebi Neng! So we should take this opportunity to wipe out those tyrannical grassland tribes in one fell swoop!"

Yan Rou's words undoubtedly touched the hearts of everyone present, and also exposed the terrible ecological environment of the Xianbei people to everyone.

Those small tribes.

Those small tribes with only a few hundred or at most a thousand people.

Who among them is willing to attack the well-equipped Han people?
Whenever a small tribe of this size comes to attack, half of the young and strong men will die under the city wall!
In this case, why not pay with some horses, cattle and sheep in exchange for cloth and food in the hands of the Han people?
This is what people like Liu Yu and Xianyu Fu want to maintain the most, and it is also the most ideal ecological environment for the Han Dynasty border!
But when a powerful tribe rises and a grassland overlord rises, the life and death of these small tribes can no longer be controlled by themselves.

Especially those powerful grassland overlords, each of them is extremely cunning.

They would often drive these weak tribes to serve as cannon fodder, and then hypocritically reward them with some cattle, sheep and other property after the war.

But if even the young and strong died in the war, what good would it be even if there were cattle, sheep and property?
Therefore, whenever a grassland overlord rises, countless small tribes will become the nourishment for the rise of this overlord.

Because of this, Yan Rou, who regarded the Xianbei people as friends, wished that Kebineng would die even more!
"General! Leave this matter to me!"

"Many Xianbei leaders of weak tribes actually don't want to see Kebi rise, so there is great potential for this!"

"Although both Wuhuan and Xianbei are descendants of Donghu, they have long been estranged from each other!"

"And this is also our opportunity!"

Yan Rou was confident that with the help of his many friends, the Han Dynasty would be able to defeat Kebinen and restore the border between the two sides to its previous order!
Zhang Liao, Yang Xiu and others also had tears in their eyes after hearing this.

I never imagined that there are so many "Xianbei traitors" among the Xianbei people!

wrong……

Strictly speaking, they should all be peace-loving Xianbei people!

This hobby is exactly the same as that of the Han people. Why can't the two sides reach a consensus?

This battle hasn't even started yet, but I'm afraid we already have a 50% chance of winning!
(End of this chapter)