Dahan first prince

Chapter 412 The flames of war ignited!

Beyond the frontier fortress, under the city in the clouds;
As the "nail" for the Han Dynasty to penetrate into the grassland, the geographical location of Yunzhong City is actually not very favorable.

Looking around, within a hundred miles around Yunzhong, there are green grasslands, except for the scattered herdsmen who pass by from time to time, there is no trace of living things at all.

——For Cloud City, the vast majority of the Huns avoided it.

As for the reason, it is nothing more than the solid wall of Yunzhong City, which is six miles long and wide, but is three feet high and two feet thick!
To drive this nail in the cloud into...

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It should be said that in order to insert the nail in the cloud into the grassland again after Ying Qin, the price paid by the Han Dynasty in the past few years is not insignificant.

Once upon a time, the Central Plains was full of Qin opera, and the grasslands were full of black dragon flags;

At that time, Yunzhong was not "Yunzhong City", but "Yunzhong County".

For Ying Qin, who swept Liuhe with a crushing force and unified the Central Plains at that time, the grassland was almost no different from a back garden.

Everyone in the later generations knows that after Ying Qin unified China, a campaign of 'Infrastructural Power' was launched in all parts of the world.

The famous Great Wall of the North, Abang Palace in Xianyang, Qin Zhidao all over the world, and the grand Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Lishan are all proofs of the existence of that glorious era.

However, among the key projects of Qin's "building a strong country through infrastructure", there are these two items, which make the future generations in the new era of high technological development, can't help but burst into admiration.

——The first item is that the Qin court left a five-foot road thousands of miles long in the mountains and forests of Southwest Yi in that era when materials were extremely scarce, transportation was extremely inconvenient, and science and technology were extremely backward!
And this five-foot road, with the quality inspection mark of "Qin Shaofu's product, must be a high-quality product", has been preserved for thousands of years, and until the later Tang and Song Dynasties, a clear road vein can still be seen!
And the second item will make the future generations can only cast their eyes on Qin Ting's insane infrastructure capabilities...
——After covering the Central Plains with straight roads, Qin Ting extended Qin Zhidao to the grasslands!
From the border of China in the Warring States period: Daibei, Qin Zhidao has been paved to the north of Gaoque at the northern end of the Qin Great Wall!

It was also through the straight roads that stretched into the grassland that Qin was able to use the defensive Great Wall as the starting point for attacking the grassland in the north, and left a "see the black dragon flag appearing, just run" on the grassland; It is really impossible to run away, but you can survive by kneeling and surrendering' the glorious legend.

At that time, the prefecture of Yunzhong: Yunzhong City was only an important border town within the Qin Great Wall, and a transportation hub for the transfer of front-line materials.

But now, times have changed, things are different.

It’s obviously still the Yunzhongcheng, and it’s still the Qin Zhidao;
But the legend of the Black Dragon Banner has long been forgotten by the forgetful nomads.

The former "important border town" and "transportation hub" have now become an isolated city where the Han Dynasty hangs alone outside the Great Wall;
And the Qin Zhi Road, which was supposed to be used to transfer military supplies to the Qin Great Wall further north, has been in disrepair for a long time, and has become a shortcut for businessmen from the grasslands and the Central Plains to do business.

The soldiers stationed in Yunzhong City have also changed from the sharp soldiers of the Great Qin decades ago to the border soldiers of the Great Han today;
The mission of Cloud City, or the responsibility, has also changed from a military transportation hub in the past to a strategic outpost today.

Just 30 years ago, the soldiers in Yunzhong City could still ask for whatever they wanted on the grassland;
But in today's Yunzhong City, the border guards can only walk on thin ice, while enduring the cold and dry climate in the north, and the severely insufficient supply of supplies, while always guarding against the sneak attacks of the Huns.

Compared with the rich and powerful Qin Ting, the Han Dynasty was far less "generous" towards Yunzhong City than they were when they welcomed Qin Lai.

For the less than [-] border guards in Yunzhong City, the Chang'an court can only give each person half a fight per day, a monthly ration of less than one stone and a half, and a mere five thousand yuan per person per year.

In addition to the scarcity of supplies, the shortage of soldiers, and the lack of logistics for weapons and ordnance, the core problem facing the soldiers in Yunzhong is the livelihood of the whole family.

——In the vast majority of cases, in order to avoid soldiers mutiny, no matter whether soldiers or generals are sent to guard the border, they will not be allowed to bring their families with them;
In particular, senior generals above the school lieutenant level had to take the initiative to send their entire family members to Chang'an when they went to the border to show their attitude of "absolutely not dragging their families along".

But Cloud City is the only exception today.

The long garrison career caused by not being able to get rotation for many years;
Severe strategic situation, indirectly increased requirements for military resources and combat power;
Coupled with the particularity of Yunzhong City hanging outside the Great Wall and surrounded by hundreds of miles of grasslands, it is difficult for the situation of "soldiers and soldiers to go out to fight, and families to stay behind" to become a reality in Yunzhong.

Therefore, as early as Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang, with a "tragic victory" in the Battle of Pingcheng, took back most of the northern territory that belonged to China, Yunzhong City became the only place where the Han Dynasty allowed soldiers to drag their families with them. The border city where they are stationed.

Of course, only soldiers are allowed to bring;
As for generals and county-level officials above Qianshi (at this time, Yunzhong is actually just a city, but the administrative level is still Yunzhong County), they still have to take the initiative to avoid suspicion and keep their families in the south of the Great Wall.

This led to a very difficult problem that had never happened before, which appeared in front of the defenders in the cloud.

——In the past, border guards only needed to go to battle to kill the enemy and fight bravely, and there was no need to think about other things at all;

Unless there is a shortage of food and salaries, there is nothing else that can shake the morale and fighting spirit of these elites.

However, after dragging their families to Yunzhong and spending a short period of excitement, the guards of Yunzhong City began to feel at a loss.

——How can this family support the young and old?

In Yunzhong City, there are nearly [-] military households living in such a large place. Let alone farming, it is not easy for every household to live in their own houses;

Coupled with the necessary school yards and barracks in the military town, arsenals for storing weapons and equipment, granaries for storing grain, and government offices, there is simply no place for farming.

As for the outside of the city, there are grasslands full of water and grass, even if there are thousands of hectares of fertile land, no one dares to go out of the city to plant them.

Not to mention going out of the city to farm, even the Han Chinese caravan coming from the direction of the Great Wall behind them has to go through many inspection procedures before they can enter the city smoothly!

In this way, the problem arises;

——As a nearly completely militarized military town, Yunzhongcheng has no food output;

Nearly [-] households and tens of thousands of people in the city need to buy food and clothing from outside through trade.

And to buy, you need money.

However, in today's Han Dynasty, Yunzhong belongs to a remote area that absolutely does not include postage. The goods from the Central Plains are sent to Yunzhong, and the price often increases several times!
And the military salary of the guards in the cloud is only a few hundred dollars a month, not to mention supporting the whole family, even three or five stones of rice may not be able to buy it back...
This caused the military households in Yunzhong City to fall into a strange predicament.

——If you want to live, you have to eat!

If you want to eat, you can only grow or buy;

But in the situation in Yunzhong, there is no land to plant and no money to buy.

In desperation, as the first purely militarized city in China's history, Yunzhong City actually began to develop in the direction of "combining military and trade".

For example, in the past, military households in the city needed to spend hundreds or even hundreds of dollars to buy a stone of grain, but now they only need the female relatives at home to sew the cloth sent by the Central Plains merchants into clothes;

The price of salt, vinegar, sauce, tea and the like in the Central Plains is obviously close to the people, but the price is high in the cloud. It only needs a certain amount of labor from the military households to exchange for it.

As time passed, a new way of making money was born in the hearts of the military households.

——Working for merchants in the Central Plains, the income is only grain, cloth, and other daily necessities, and even most of the time, it is still difficult to guarantee life;
But if it is with the nomads in the north...

Just like that, another strange phenomenon appeared in Yunzhong City.

——The soldiers who were supposed to guard the northern barbarians on the city wall, together with their families in the city, fell into the fervent handicraft labor;
For example, the cloth sent by the merchants in the Central Plains, as long as the military households processed it into cloth bags, clothes, etc., they could exchange it from the Huns for a lamb or even a calf!
Later, the military households simply stopped working. They took the goods sent by the Central Plains merchants at one end, and sold them to the Huns at the other end, sitting in the middle to make the difference.

With this source of income, the military households in Yunzhong City finally solved their livelihood problem.

But correspondingly, some disadvantages that should not have occurred.

For example: Books, tea, or metals and even weapons that belonged to the controlled items of the Han Dynasty began to gradually appear in the list of "reselling" goods in Yunzhong City;

For example, the border guards who were supposed to hate the Huns have gradually become a bit of a philistine. They don't care about the hatred of the country and the family, and only see the petty profits in front of them;

Another example: the Yunzhong City Gate, which should have been closed all year round and could not be opened unless the emperor's edict, became more and more fragile and fragile due to the strong friendship between these soldiers and those "old acquaintances" ·····

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boom!
"Bastard!"

"Everyone is a jerk!!!"

Chang'an City, Weiyang Palace.

Clutching the [-]-mile urgent military report that was just delivered in her hand, looking outside the hall, she could still see the beacon fire soaring into the sky.

"A huge city in the clouds, it will be destroyed without attack!"

"—This is the cloud?!"

"This is what the days of fairness say: Loyal ministers and righteous men stationed in the clouds, loyal and good queens are evil?!!!"

With an unstoppable roar, Liu Ying couldn't feel the raging anger in her chest at all, and there was a slight tendency to weaken it, so she simply threw the military newspaper in her hand off the imperial steps!
irritating!

It's just so annoying! !

The frontier guards didn't want to protect their homes and the country, but they actually acted as second-tier dealers between the merchants in the Central Plains and the merchants in the grasslands across a city in the cloud! ! !
Yunzhong City, which claims to be able to withstand [-] Huns and besiege March without breaking it, was actually deceived by a Hu businessman who is as cheap as a dog!
What happened after the city was broken?

Hey!
——Just four hours after the north city gate of Yunzhong was broken, the Yunzhong Duyou, who was in charge, ran to Mayi with tens of thousands of troops and people under his command!
The Huns had tens of thousands of cavalry, and one man and three cavalry were vying to be the first, but they didn't catch up with the tens of thousands of mobs...

"Send my edict!"

"—Cai Yannian, the capital of Yunzhong, is not strict in his administration, has no way to govern his army, and is lost in the cloud!"

"The imperial edict has arrived, and the law will be rectified on the spot!!!"

Angrily let out a howl, Liu Ying felt a burst of heat in her chest, she wished she could fly to Mayi immediately, and kill Cai Yannian, the capital!

Nearly ten thousand soldiers!

Tens of thousands of military households!

Even if the elderly, weak, women and children are excluded, when facing the enemy, Yunzhong City can at least stop the armed forces of more than 2 people!

With [-] armed forces and tens of thousands of Huns fighting in the streets of the city, even if they can't fight, at least the Huns should bear the loss of [-] injuries to the enemy and [-] losses to themselves!

It turned out to be a good thing, Cai Yannian didn't care about tens of thousands of old and young women and children, but with tens of thousands of young and strong students, he actually started a marathon?

——If the old and young, women and children hadn't been left behind, it would have been impossible for these tens of thousands of people to escape the pursuit of the Huns cavalry!
What made Liu Ying most angry was not this;

If he had just fled before the battle, abandoned women, children, old and young children, or even lost Yunzhong last year or next year, although Cai Yannian could not escape death, Liu Ying would never be so angry.

But it happened to be this year!

But it was Liu Ying who advocated the garrison in advance, planning to fight the Huns in Yunzhong, and even spent a lot of materials and effort for this, and after sending out dozens of personnel and army mobilization, the battlefield originally scheduled outside Yunzhong City was moved. Because of this Cai Yannian, he completely broke away from the control of the Han Dynasty!

This is just great;

Before the Huns retreat on their own, Yunzhongcheng will not want to come back;

As for the tens of thousands of people who were abandoned by Cai Yannian, it was their fate to be taken away as slaves by the Huns!
But the Han army, which was supposed to rest in the clouds and wait for the Huns to come to fight, could only rush to reinforce Mayi at this moment.

Don't even mention the idea of ​​fighting a small battle, testing the performance of weapons and equipment, or even annihilating a small unit of the enemy's army.

——It can guarantee that Mayi will not be lost and the border will not be breached. For the Han Dynasty, it is already the best ending of this battle!

Thinking of this, Liu Ying was still furious, and her desire for a "professional" became stronger and stronger.

Determined to pay attention, Liu Ying simply stopped worrying, and looked at the side with wide eyes, that Shang Shulang who had just finished writing an imperial edict.

"Decree!"

"Give Taiwei Xinwu Hou Jinshe a few sticks, so that he will not worship the emperor and not kneel when he sees the queen mother, and he will have the power of all the soldiers and horses in the world!"

"When there is a war, please act cheaply!"

"As long as it's what the Taiwei asks, give money if you ask for money, give someone if you want!!"

"—Except for the Jade Seal of Chuanguo on my side, give him everything Jin She wants!!!"

"No matter what, you must keep Mayi for me!!!!!!"

(End of this chapter)