The White Horse Raids the Three Kingdoms

The Central Plains dynasty has always been far ahead of the surrounding forces in terms of national power and force.

During the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties, the idols of military generals were generals such as Wei Qing and Huo Qubing who were named marquises for their meritorious service.

Even Chen Tang, the deputy captain of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, dared to lead 4 mobs from several countries to directly attack the Xiongnu Shanyu who occupied the Western Regions, and yelled, "Whoever offends the strong man, Although it is far away, it will be punished"!

The idols of the literati are Zhang Qian who emptied the Western Regions, Fu Jiezi who killed the King of Loulan directly in Loulan as a diplomatic envoy, and Ban Chao who single-handedly pacified more than 50 countries in the Western Regions in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although the courts of the Han Dynasty were fiercely infighting, and foreign relatives and eunuchs took turns in power, they were relentless to the outside world. Both civil servants and military generals practiced "Whoever commits a strong Han will be punished even if he is far away"!

Even if it is the two emperors Huan and Ling who Zhuge Liang said, the Eastern Han Dynasty still has Duan Jiong, Huangfugui, and Zhang Huan, who are known as Liangzhou Sanming.

These three people are like firefighting captains. Once the Qiang and Xianbei people rebel, they will be transferred to the frontier to resist and suppress it.

And as long as these three people go out, they will be invincible. Therefore, even though they were centipedes at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were dead but not stiff, but they could still maintain their superficial strength.

However, under the superficial strength, the Han Dynasty was already undercurrents. The emperor disliked the gentry, the gentry disliked the eunuchs, and then the emperor, and the entire court.

Qianghu disliked the Han people, and the Han people also had many conflicts with Qianghu.

After decades of fighting, it only left the treasury empty, and it still couldn't solve the problem.

After years of consumption, the entire Han Empire was in jeopardy until the last straw that broke the camel's back came.

It can be said that the prestige has been accumulated for hundreds of years. When the Central Plains was in chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the separatist princes in various places only used the Xiongnu, Qiang, Baiyue, etc. as sources of soldiers and cannon fodder.

The Han that "the country is always destroyed by the weak, and the only Han is destroyed by the strong" mainly refers to the Han nationality, such as Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan, etc. in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty lies in the nation. When the locality was stronger than the central government, and when the tyrants were stronger than the imperial court, how could the dynasty not perish?

But even so, the royal family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had no strength, and the warlords from all over the country started by suppressing the Yellow Turban Army, and their strength was stronger than that of the imperial court. Their external strength was not soft at all.

The white horse general Gongsun Zan, who once fought Wuhuan, fled when he saw him. Cao Cao also conquered Wuhuan and killed Wuhuan and Tadun Shanyu.

Originally, the Shu Han in history also hanged and beat Meng Huo, etc. Sun Quan was also good at beating the mountain tribes in Wuyue.

The famous Baima Yicong under Gongsun Zan's command is the prestige gained from the Huns;

When Ma Chao from Xiliang raised his arms and shouted, the Qiang people had to be obedient; after Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao, he attacked Wuhuan in the north. The biggest difficulty was that he could not find a way or a source of water.

With a guide, the vanguard led by Zhang Liao can defeat the large army assembled by Wuhuan King Tadun Shanyu in one battle, and even cut Tadun in battle.

According to the records of the Three Kingdoms, a full 20 people were beheaded and captured.The attack power of the warlords of the Han Dynasty can be seen.

As for the Baiyue tribes and Wuxi Man in the south, it was even worse. Both Liu Bei and Sun Quan recruited a large part of the Baiyue people to serve as soldiers through coercion by force or temptation of interests. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" In ", Meng Huo, Shamoke, etc. are all familiar barbarian generals.

The Wudang Flying Army of Liu Bei's mountain warfare elites, an important part of the source of troops is the barbarians.

Most of the foreign wars in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty and later in the era of the Three Kingdoms were actually victorious. This is the origin of "the country will perish with the weak, and the Han will perish with the strong".

Therefore, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, external force deterrence has always been a very powerful existence.

The demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty was only due to the imbalance of internal struggles. First, the two emperors Huanling ignored the government, and then the Yellow Turban Uprising and Dong Zhuo's dictatorship finally led to the loss of the Han Dynasty.

Throughout history, the re-emergence of those foreign ethnic minorities had to wait until the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty, when the Sima clan attacked and killed each other and colluded with foreign nationalities, which triggered the darkest scene in Chinese history.

The external worries of the Eastern Han Dynasty were obviously the Qiang tribes in the west and the rising Xianbei tribes in the north.

As for the northern Xiongnu, they were wiped out by the general Dou Xian as early as Emperor Hanhe, while the southern Xiongnu were weak and weak, at most they could be regarded as pony boys of the Han Dynasty.

The key is the Western Qiang. In the late Han Dynasty, the Qiang people moved into Liangzhou because of the system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and wanted to Sinicize these aliens.However, it is not known whether the Qiang people in Liangzhou were Sinicized, but the Han people in Liangzhou were Qiangized.

Judging from the style of the Han people Han Sui, Ma Chao and others in Liangzhou, it is obvious that these Liangzhou Han people have long lost the concept of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame of the Han people in the Central Plains.

It is precisely because of the mixed residence of Hu and Han in Liangzhou that it is difficult to manage, and the people of the Qiang people are aggressive, so in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, rebellions of the Qiang people were not uncommon.

940 All soldiers in the four wars

Just when Lu Bu was still preparing to send troops, a large number of soldiers and horses began to move towards the north of Guanglu Village in Wuyuan County, Bingzhou, one mile away.

Guanglu Village was built on a hill, with a terrain high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The scale of the village is not small, square, with a side length of 400 meters, and a gate on the left and right.

As an outpost of Wuyuan County, Guangluzhai has a small city attached to the northwest, which is also square, with a side length of 50 meters. There is only one gate on the south side. The corner of the city has the highest terrain, with a smoke pier attached, which is higher than the city surface.

The stone foundation is solid and the situation is magnificent. The outer city walls are built with huge stones and rammed with loess. However, the wall fortress is now dilapidated, and many places have collapsed.

It is also one of the front lines used by the local Han people to resist or conquer the northern nomads.

The sky was rising in the east, the brilliance was revealed from the clouds, and the dew on the grass reflected the crystal light. A string of horseshoes trampled over, climbed up the grass slope, and galloped towards the faint village.

Looking past the galloping lone rider, the walled city in front, the flags fluttering in the wind, the soldiers patrolling the city with spears, horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and traders coming and going at the gate of the city, the sounds of animals and people are noisy , quite lively.

The knight shouted urgency, and at the same time held the rein in one hand and sprinted fast, the flag brushed against his face, and the horse's hooves came from afar in the wind.

The eyes of the people at the gate turned, and the single horse galloped, rushing towards this side in a panic, pedestrians and vehicles hurriedly evaded, and rushed into the city gate, and the soldier on the horse staggered and fell off the horse.

Several soldiers at the gate hurried up to support him. At this time, the chief of the city guard also got off the city wall and walked over quickly. Looking at the pale and drowsy knight, he pulled him up with one arm, "I am a villager!" Changmamu, what happened?"

"Quick...quick...quickly report..." The knight opened and closed his lips slightly, and said weakly.

With a trembling hand, he reached out for a piece of information in his armor, "Must be handed over... to the lord, and inform that there are... Huns and Huns attacking the border."

"Take him down, so he can take care of him."

The head of the city guard gave an order to the gatekeepers, grabbed the information, got on his horse, and rushed towards the city.

Not long after, the horn of war sounded in the city.

All of a sudden, people were panicked, soldiers were mobilized, and at the same time they began to recruit people.

In the Han system, 100 households are one mile, ten miles are one pavilion, and ten pavilions are one township.

In other words, if you are a Tinghou, such as Guan Yu's Hanshou Tinghou, you can enjoy the taxes of 1000 households as your salary.

In history, the official title of Marquis of Wuxiang obtained by Zhuge Liang is the real Marquis of Wanhu.

No wonder Zhuge Liang made a posthumous statement before his death, "The minister is working outside. There is no dispatch, and he takes food and clothing with him. He depends on the official."

Wanhuhou is definitely a super high-paying job in this era.

According to calculations, a township with ten thousand households, as a county, should have many talents.

It’s just that the imagination is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny. The number of soldiers and horses that can be used in the entire county is estimated to be around 3000, or even less. , the others are equivalent to giving away for nothing.

Especially those cities that have been attacked all the year round are in short supply.

As for the rescue to other counties?

A considerable part of Xihe, Shuofang, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, and Shangjun are the territory of the Southern Huns. Let alone whether they are willing to help, even if they are willing to help, they have to wait for the imperial edict to be issued, and then look at their leaders Do you want to.