Li Lie said: "The Hu people are still a group of bandits. They do not produce themselves, and they do not carry luggage when they march and fight. They rob wherever they go and eat whatever they rob. They dig tunnels to hide all food, people, and livestock.

Going underground can indeed effectively evade their looting. Once they cannot grab enough supplies, they will have no choice but to retreat."

As long as you are a human being, you need to eat. As long as you are an army, you need logistics. An army without logistics is destined to have unsustainable combat effectiveness. This is true for infantry, and the same is true for cavalry. Legend has it that Mongolian cavalry rode mares to fight everywhere, and the mares ate grass and gave birth.

Milk, the cavalry drinks the milk produced by the mare, and can move around without having to transport food and grass from the rear. It is just like nuclear power. Isn’t it amazing? Unfortunately, this is just obscenity. The real Mongolian cavalry, even in Mongolia during the Genghis Khan era

The cavalry cannot fight for a long time relying only on mare's milk. When they fight, the army marches in front, and a large number of herdsmen and even herdsmen follow behind, driving an astonishing number of cattle and sheep. In addition to grazing, they are also responsible for herding the herds.

The milk produced is processed into dairy products, and cattle and sheep are slaughtered and processed into meat products to supply the army at the front. In other words, the Mongolian army is followed by a huge grain depot. This is how they can continue to fight and march across the Eurasian continent.

Secret: Conquer the whole world by drinking the milk of war horses? You are overthinking it!

Even if there is a huge grain depot behind them, the Mongolian cavalry still needs to loot food from the occupied areas to replenish military supplies. After all, no matter how large the herd is, the number is limited. An army of 10,000 people can eat as much as they want in a day.

To eat six to seven hundred sheep, a 50,000-strong army would have to kill several heads a day. How many sheep would be enough to eat just eating them? If they cannot squeeze out enough food from the occupied areas, they will also starve, or even starve to death.

people.

The solution Li Rui came up with is very simple. Farmers who have been working with hoes for many years cannot defeat the fierce Hu cavalry. It would be too difficult to ask a group of honest farmers to do something that even the imperial army is not sure about. So his plan

The core is not how to defeat the Hu cavalry, but how to let the peasants survive the attack of the Hu cavalry under the huge disparity in combat power, and how to prevent the Hu cavalry from obtaining supplies from the occupied areas. If

There was no way to obtain supplies, so the Hu cavalry had only two options left. Either continue to move forward hungry and try their luck in the next town, or retreat while they still have enough energy to avoid starving to death here!

Of course, if they had evolved teeth and stomachs like herbivores and could chew grass to fill their stomachs, Li Rui would have nothing to say.

Aren’t you barbarians fighting for the purpose of burning, killing and looting? I’ll make sure you can’t kill anyone or steal anything! I’ll make you fight against the air!

I have to say that this plan really hit the Hu people’s core.

Another advantage of this plan is that although every village has been turned into a fortress, and there are tunnels to hide in, which is very safe, because there is no Great Wall to isolate them from the Hu people, the people of Xiangcheng and Nanyang are still

They may be attacked by barbarians at any time. The fear of being attacked at any time will keep all the people in a constant sense of crisis. This sense of crisis will force them to work hard to practice the ability to kill the enemy so that they have the ability to protect themselves.

Ability. This is very important. It can not only greatly increase the cost of each attack by the Hu people and make them think twice before taking action, but also provide the Jin army with a large number of excellent soldiers. The Western Jin Dynasty was so badly beaten by the Hu people, and

The Wei and Jin dynasties used various almost anti-human systems to exhaust the martial spirit of the Han nation, which made Han men afraid of joining the army. Now what this small court in exile has to do is to bring down the collapsed martial spirit.

The spirit is re-cultivated.

There is motivation only when there is need, and the same goes for martial spirit. If there is no pressure to survive, and we don't need to fight against the sky, martial spirit will be difficult to cultivate.

Of course, including him, no one thought so long-term. They only knew that digging tunnels would allow the common people to survive the attack of the barbarian cavalry to the greatest extent possible. So everyone discussed it and immediately made a decision: not to give up.

Xiangcheng County, wait until the Hu people completely retreat and immediately organize the people to dig tunnels. The Great Wall above ground is not easy to repair, so we will dig the underground Great Wall. I believe that under the pressure of survival, the people will be full of energy!

In the next few days, good news came from various places: from Wuyang to Yangzhuo, the Jiehu army was retreating one after another. It seemed that they had really given up their plan to continue attacking Xiangcheng County and turned around to trouble the beggar army.

Already.

The soldiers and civilians of Xiangcheng County breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, Sima Fan announced that the soldiers and civilians of Xiangcheng County could decide according to their personal wishes whether to stay in their hometowns or move to Nanyang. Unsurprisingly, most people chose to stay in their hometowns. The Chinese people settled in their hometowns and relocated unless they had to.

They will not give up their home and go to live in a strange place. Here are their houses, their fields, and the food they planted. Their ancestors rested on this land. It really makes them give up this land.

It's really not that easy for them to be so cruel about moving everything to Nanyang.

Only some people who were frightened out of their courage chose to move to the relatively safe Nanyang. A considerable number of them thought that Nanyang was not safe enough, so they fled all the way to Jiangdong. Only the mighty Yangtze River stood in front of them.

Only by cutting off all possibilities of the Hu cavalry chasing them would they feel a little bit safer.

Most people in Yingchuan and Chen counties chose to move to Nanyang. Many counties in Xiangcheng County are very close to Songshan and Funiu Mountains. When the Hu cavalry came over, the people could quickly hide in the mountains and escape the cavalry pursuit, but

They can't. There are no mountains for them to hide in Yingchuan and Chen counties. They may be attacked by Hu cavalry at any time, so it is safer to hide in Nanyang.

Of course, most of the people who chose to move to Nanyang were ordinary people, small landowners and average tycoons. Those powerful tycoons all chose to flee to Jiangdong. It’s not that Nanyang is too dangerous to guarantee their safety, but

None of them were optimistic about the force headed by Sima Fan, thinking that they might be destroyed by the barbarians at any time, and there would be no future in following them. It would be better to go to Jiangdong for more opportunities.

No matter what happens, this battle is over. Sima Fan and Li Rui have managed to keep the small territory they had finally conquered. They also captured Xiangcheng County and expanded their territory. For the time being, they can

He breathed a sigh of relief. After the Hu army retreated, the Jin army left a few cadres to continue to guard Xiangcheng and surrounding cities. At the same time, they assigned a force of nearly 3 cadres to Li Lie and rushed to reinforcements from a thousand miles away.

Linhuai, the main force followed Sima Quan back to Wancheng.

On July 1, Sima Quan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Wancheng, and was known as Emperor Jin and Yuan in history.

Yuan, the beginning of all things, when the Western Jin Dynasty collapsed and the land of China sank, this emperor's title did not mean that everything would start over again.

It's just that the little emperor's enthronement ceremony was not very honorable, and Nanyang, which was very poor, did not have the capital to make him decent. The dragon robe the little emperor wore when he ascended the throne was modified from Sima Fan's python robe, which was based on the little emperor's size.

Make the python robe smaller and smaller again, and let the embroiderer process the python on it to turn it into a dragon... Anyway, it is very non-standard. But there is nothing you can do, just this condition, now due to the influx of a large number of foreign people,

It's a bit of a problem for everyone to eat. I really don't have the ability to buy him a frighteningly expensive dragon robe.

Royal Palace...

Come on, there are still a lot of houses in Wancheng that have not been restored. You still want a palace? What are you thinking about? His palace can only be arranged in the former Nanyang Palace. Although this palace is quite grand, it seriously does not match his status as emperor.

, this has become one of the reasons why many powerful families laugh at this small court. You can’t even build a decent palace, so you still have the nerve to rule all nations? Funny!

The place where this little emperor lives is funny, and the dragon robe he wears made of python robes is funny, but the imperial seal in his hand is not funny at all. This thing is the emperor’s ID card. No matter how powerful you are,

Without this Jade Seal of Chuan Guo, the name is always unfair and the words are not true. To put it more exaggeratedly, this thing is a symbol of destiny. Son of Heaven, the emperor, you have to inherit the destiny when you ascend the throne, right? You don’t even have the Jade Seal of Chuan Guo, you are a piece of shit.

destiny?

After the little emperor ascended the throne, according to the plan he had made in Xiangcheng, he transformed into a stamping robot. He held the national jade seal and made a fierce move, and madly appointed Xu Jue. Bei Gongchun, Bei Gong

Jing, Li Rui, Sima Fan, Sima Rui, Liu Kun, Zhang Gui, and Gou Xi were granted the title of Eight Pillar States, Beigong Chun was appointed the governor of Yongzhou, Beigong Jing was appointed the governor of Yuzhou, Li Rui was appointed the governor of Xiangzhou, and Sima Fan

He was the governor of Jingzhou, Sima Rui was the governor of Yangzhou, Liu Kun was the governor of Bingzhou, Zhang Gui was the governor of Liangzhou, and Gou Xi was the governor of Xuzhou. Those ethnic minority regimes that supported the Western Jin Dynasty also received awards and helped Liu Kun beat him up many times.

Tuoba Lu Yi of the Huns and Han Kingdom was named the acting king, and Wang Jun's most effective assistant, Duan Wuwuchen, the boss of Duanbu Xianbei, was named the acting king... Anyway, various princely titles were given out for free, so don't

It doesn’t matter whether others accept it or not, let’s make a good relationship first.

As for Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou...

Who are you? I don’t know you!

In fact, whether it is the little emperor who is holding the jade seal banging against a bunch of imperial edicts, or the three giants Sima Fan, Bei Gongjing and Li Rui, they all know in their hearts that even though they have sealed a lot of princes,

But there are only a few who can really be counted on. Bei Gongchun is the most reliable, but unfortunately his current whereabouts are unknown; Liu Kun is equally reliable, but his ability is not very good; Zhang Gui's loyalty is unquestionable, but he is out of reach in Liangzhou.

Gou Xi...it's hard to say whether this arrogant guy will take the little emperor seriously. As for Sima Rui...

It would be fine if he doesn't jump out and cause trouble.
Chapter completed!