After the world was peaceful, another half year passed. During this half year, the whole world did not calm down completely, but became more and more turbulent.
In the past six months, the entire area north of the Yangtze River had been plowed by Zhong Yu, and countless local forces had been uprooted by him.
Those local forces either obey their orders. If they are strong, they can grant them a kingdom. If they are small, they can only obey orders obediently under their own command and treat them as fish to be slaughtered by themselves.
And Zhong Yu was not worried at all that what he did would arouse public anger among the gentry in the world, because those big gentry were also doing the same thing as him.
All the powerful noble clans have been sealed off in a county. In order to control the county they are assigned to, they naturally have to concentrate all their energy and mobilize the energy of their entire clan to straighten out all the wealthy clans in that county.
Let them spit out the fat they swallowed obediently and become ordinary local wealthy families under their rule who cannot shake their rule.
Instead of holding countless soldiers, powerful men who may rebel and overthrow their rule at any time. Therefore, this half year has been a bloody half year, with countless feudal countries and wars rising everywhere.
Even the nobles under Zhong Yu's rule took desperate measures and raised troops to rebel, but they were put down in the blink of an eye by Zhong Yu's long-awaited army of 400,000.
Not to mention other feudal states, those with stronger strength are fine, but if they are weak, they can only fight to a draw with the people in their own feudal kingdom, or even be destroyed.
He had just obtained a country, but it was destroyed by others in the blink of an eye, and returned to Zhong Yu's hands again. The fate of those people was that the princes who were originally a little radical suddenly became much more sober.
The methods have also been softened. The strong ones can naturally be crushed, while the weak ones mostly choose to coexist peacefully. The local wealthy families and their monarchs share the political rights of this territory.
A lot of results were achieved in a short period of time. Many wealthy clans did not really want to fight to the death with their monarch, and then were pacified by the imperial army that had been waiting outside for a long time. The entire clan was wiped out without leaving a single person.
So for a time, the politics in those vassal states were just like the Spring and Autumn Period. Part of the territory was controlled by the national army, and the rest was divided among the nobles and nobles in their country.
Although this will greatly weaken the strength of the monarch and reduce a lot of authority, the monarch can take advantage of his supreme status and be in a very neutral position.
When conflicts arise between several noble families in the country, the monarch can use his position as master to reconcile the conflicts, thereby profiting from them and slowly cannibalizing the various noble families.
In general, after half a year, the entire world has calmed down, and the blood shed and the number of people sacrificed in these six months has reached tens of millions.
Compared with Zhangjiao's Yellow Turban Uprising, it harmed a larger population and caused more casualties. This proves that organized forces are more terrifying in killing civilians than unorganized forces.
But compared to the civilians who were killed and injured, Zhong Yu and the princes under his command did not gain anything, not to mention the local forces that were completely controlled by them.
The most important thing is that they spent all their money and all their national power and resources to train an elite army in this turmoil.
The million-strong army trained under Zhong Yu saw blood in this war, and its number was reduced to 800,000, but it could be called a regular army.
However, it will take a lot of effort before they become elite and a force capable of fighting. So the entire country has been pacified, and I plan to send them to the grassland next.
How can we truly claim to be a powerful country if we don't fight the troops of the grassland peoples? How can the army be called a truly powerful army
Throughout history, the armies of Qin and Zhao during the Warring States Period were so powerful that they dominated the entire middle and late Warring States Period. It is because each of their countries has serious border troubles and has been severely invaded by the Xiongnu and Donghu.
Therefore, the army fought many battles with those grassland peoples, and its combat effectiveness was gradually developed. Naturally, they are much better than those infantrymen who are in the Central Plains and have never seen the rough grassland style.
The Han Dynasty was invaded by the Xiongnu, and after decades of counterattack, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty trained a strong army to conquer the grasslands and traverse the desert.
The subsequent Sui and Tang dynasties continued to fight against the powerful Turkic forces on the grasslands, thus developing a strong army that spanned East Asia and even Central Asia.
Even the relatively weak Ming Dynasty later dared to fight against Mongolia in the early stage. Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Zhu Di took the initiative to expedition to the northern grasslands several times and defeated Mongolia and fled.
This undoubtedly proves that fighting and winning on the grasslands is a clear proof of whether an army is strong. The history of Chinese civilization is also a history of the struggle between farming civilization and nomadic civilization.
However, this time he will go on an expedition, and he will not send out too many troops. Instead, he plans to send out several batches, with an average of one batch every four months, and three batches a year.
Of the 800,000 newly trained soldiers and horses, except for 200,000 left to guard various parts of the Central Plains, the other 600,000 were divided into three batches of 200,000 each.
With such a rotating attack, even if one group loses, it will not cause a complete collapse of the entire army. Instead, they can rely on their numerical advantage to continuously harass the entire nomadic people.
Forcing them to be in their own offensive state for the entire year, they can only passively defend themselves. However, with the support of the Great Wall and strong troops stationed there, they are not worried about them taking the initiative to attack.
If they are really stupid and attack their city wall, then I will really be happy! Are you kidding me about using cavalry to attack a city
After a year or even two years of harassment, the nomads had no time to graze, and all the men went to the battlefield, resulting in an absolute loss of population.
If they can't hold on for a few months, they will definitely be defeated, and then the entire grassland will fall into a long tug-of-war. The rest is the result of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chasing the dead and sealing the wolf to Xu Xu.
It is impossible for an attack of 200,000 people to be concentrated in one place. I plan to divide them into teams of 200,000 people, and everyone can attack as they wish.
Or they can discuss it among themselves and cooperate with each other. On the grassland, large-scale army group wars are very rare. Most of them are battles involving tens of thousands of people. The losing side flees, and the victor sends a few people to pursue separately. Kill, and then continue to seize control.
Therefore, the size of 10,000 people is just right, enough for them to fight a battle, and it can ensure their flexibility, and 10,000 troops can also be used to attack a large tribe. The small tribes could only flee in front of them.
And the most important thing is that he does not lack strong players. There are enough talents to lead the soldiers to fight the nomads in the desert.
For example, among the Three Kingdoms, the more famous military generals Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gan Ning, Xiahou Dun, Xia Houyuan, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Tai Shi Ci, etc. are now adults. There are also more famous monarchs, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Gongsun Zan and other talents, who have all been summoned to the Central Army.
These people belong to their own armies and serve them directly. They can be used to command those armies in battle. Even if they are defeated, the defeat will not be too disastrous.
Well, if they win, it will be a big victory, and it will definitely cause heavy losses to the sparsely populated nomads, which will cause them great pain.
(End of chapter)