I am Da Song

Chapter 289 The Mine Field System on the Map

Mostly those who collude with foreign races are most afraid of their backers withdrawing from their own land.

Zhao Huai'en coerced and lured countless compatriots before he hugged Song Jun's thigh and ushered in his current prominent position. No matter what, he could not accept the growth of other forces and push Song Jun out of the plateau.

After Liu Kai asked, he resolutely said: "Jie Shuai, the Caotou Tatars are easy to destroy. The whole plateau knows that they are at the foot of Qilian Mountain, marching northwest along Qilian Mountain, and you may even encounter them without looking for them. Wang Shi has [-] infantry and [-] iron cavalry, plus tens of thousands of Hu cavalry to help, attacking a nomadic tribe is as easy as flipping hands."

"But the side servants have to guard against them, and they must not be allowed to get the pasture of the yellow-headed Uighur again."

Liu Kai asked knowingly, "Why?"

Zhao Huai'en said very seriously: "Jie Shuai, Bian Si Bojie is not one of us! He is a Tubo chieftain, and he has his own tribe and army under him. Since last winter, a large number of small tribal chieftains have been attached to him .He has large pastures in Jishijun and Kuozhou south of Huangshui."

"If the pasture of the Yellow-headed Uyghur also becomes his sphere of influence, then his tribe will leapfrog the Yellow-headed Uyghur and become the most powerful tribe on the grassland. It is more threatening than the combination of the Yellow-headed Uyghur and the Grass-headed Tatars." Be big."

Liu Kai nodded solemnly, and finally asked the key point: "Then how do you think we should prevent it?"

He asked questions knowingly, dealt with them patiently, and was waiting for this key point.

Zhao Huaien immediately said: "General Liang, he suggested to attack the Caotou Tatar first, in order to make meritorious deeds for Tokyo to see. The army mobilized many people to attack the plateau, but there was no result for many years, and the Silk Road was not opened up. The generals in the army are eager to make meritorious deeds. , so everyone seeks a battle that must be won.”

"But the commander-in-chief of the Jieshuai, the Longyou Duhu Mansion, must not be in a hurry, but be slow."

"Slow?" Liu Kai frowned, and said, "The art of war says that soldiers are quick and unexpected. What do you mean by being slow?"

Zhao Huai'en immediately said: "The Uighurs will definitely be on guard when the army breaks through the grass-headed Tatars. But the Uighurs don't have much savings in their battalion. They are not like the king's teachers. They can concentrate on training instead of production. A steady stream of food and grass can be supplied."

"If they don't graze for a day, they will have no goat milk to drink. If they don't graze for a month, the whole tribe will face starvation."

Liu Kai nodded slightly, and asked, "You mean to line up and not fight? Consume the strength of the Uighurs?"

Zhao Huaien said firmly, "Jieshuai, I am a Tubo native, and I have a deep understanding of the patience of plateau tribes. The grasslands are vast and sparsely populated, and the Uighurs control thousands of miles of pastures. They only need to retreat and graze in the rear. Consumption can only damage their strength, but cannot eradicate their power."

"There are only two ways to deal with a tribe. One is to be like Li Jing, Duke Wei of the Great Tang Dynasty, with a fierce attack, go straight to the vital point, wipe out the entire tribe from nobles to herdsmen, and move to the interior."

Liu Kai nodded in agreement, this is also the most common way for the Central Plains Dynasty to deal with the grassland tribes.Through fierce military fronts, the population of various tribes in the grassland was directly reduced, and their population was reduced.

"What's the other way?"

Zhao Huaien took a deep breath and said, "That's a life-and-death struggle to seize the pasture. The winner not only gets the pasture, but also absorbs the power of his tribe, so as to strengthen his own power."

"I think that if the army slows down, the Uighurs can even conquer without the king's division."

Liu Kai probably guessed his intention and asked, "You want to give the Uyghurs' pastures to the Tubo people. Let the Tubo people fight with the Uyghurs?"

Zhao Huai'en said: "I heard that in the Central Plains, there was a land reclamation order in history. As long as the people reclaim the barren land and cultivate it for three years, this good land will belong to him."

"The same can be done on the grassland. The Governor's Mansion can issue an order to open up wasteland to the west. Whichever tribe occupies the pasture, it will be owned by that tribe."

"The sphere of influence of the Uighurs is very clear, starting from the Qilian Mountains in the east and reaching the Kunlun Mountains in the west. Between these two high mountains is the pasture of the Uighurs."

"In this area, the pastures can be assigned to the ministries just like the well fields. The ministries are nomadic within the range of their own pastures and must not cross the border."

Liu Kai really didn't understand this form, and asked: "The grassland is vast, can each ministry clearly distinguish the boundaries of their own pastures?"

Zhao Huai'en replied as a matter of course: "Of course. Otherwise, why would there be disputes between the grassland ministries because they crossed the border, and even killed people by using knives?"

"Jie Shuai also shouldn't think that nomadic tribes have no fixed place to live. In fact, all tribes have their own fixed pastures. Generally, they are divided into two parts. In spring and summer, they wander and graze on the vast pastures on the plain."

"But in autumn and winter, they will arrive at the foot of the mountain and rely on the valley to resist the wind and snow. Therefore, for the herdsmen, the mountains are as important as the grasslands. The lyrics of "Song of the Huns" say, Losing my Yanzhi Mountain makes my women colorless. Losing myself Qilian Mountain keeps my animals from living here."

"The whole song is about the mountains, not the grasslands. Jieshuai has to adapt to the management of nomadic tribes in the grasslands."

Liu Kai was overwhelmed with emotions. When he arrived on the plateau, he seemed to have escaped from the prosperity and civilization of the Song Dynasty in an instant, and returned to the rough and wild era of ancient times.

In front of Song Jun's eyes is either the mythical West Sea, or the Kunlun Mountains where the Queen Mother of the West is located.Behind Qilian Mountains, Gaochang, and Uyghur are places where countless ancestors of the Xia Dynasty fought.

Following the traces of countless ancestors, the Song Army once again returned to the battlefield where their ancestors fought.This time, this territory must be controlled once and for all.

Therefore, winning is not the key, the key is to implement effective governance.

After listening to Zhao Huaien's speech from the perspective of nomads, Liu Kai said seriously: "You are right. Use the conquest of the grass-headed Tatars to establish their prestige, deter the Uyghurs, make them retreat, and give up their pastures. Then use the decree to open up the wilderness in the west to encourage Tubo The ministries have seized the pastures in the past. The two sides are bound to fight fiercely."

"Whether the Tubo people win or lose, the Wang Shi can find the assembled Uighur army."

More importantly, the Song Army began to try to manage the nomadic pastures as an arbitrator.

The officials of the Song Dynasty looked at the map and drew several horizontal and vertical border lines, which became the boundaries of countless tribal pastures.

This set of operations is the most familiar routine of the British Empire.

Under the deterrence of the Song army's force, no Tubo tribe would cross the border to conquer other tribes and seize their pastures.This can greatly prevent a certain tribe from engaging in an annexation war and rapidly expand its strength.

And with map constraints, in winter, the Song army could easily find the corresponding tribe in a certain pasture in the mountainous area.

In the future, both conscription and tax collection will be much more convenient.

(End of this chapter)