The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 103: Northern Expedition
One month after cleaning up the nobles, the entire Central Plains has gradually calmed down, and finally his plan of the Northern Expedition has begun.
The first batch of 200,000 troops is ready, and the leaders of 20 of them are all killed. Among them is Gongsun Zan, a commander who is more proficient in the grassland war.
and Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who are more resistant to hitting, were also photographed by myself, and then attached some Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Lv Bu, and these people who have lived in the border area for a long time used to play a more famous The first victory should be no big problem.
Of course, even if the entire army is annihilated, Zhong Yu will not be too sad. It's just that he feels distressed about those talents. He wants to exchange this kind of talent from the system. If he doesn't have hundreds of luck points, that's not it. possible.
The mighty Northern Expedition began under the attention of all the princes and local gentry in the world. This is the first official war since the establishment of the imperial kingdom, and the previous suppression of the rebellion is nothing.
Only the current head-on collision with those nomads can be regarded by the gentry everywhere as a truly scaled war, a war that has won the table.
The nomads from all over northern Russia also received news of the Great Northern Expedition. Some of them sneered, and were very disdainful of the so-called Northern Expedition.
Some people also showed trepidation. For the first Northern Expedition of this newly established empire, they felt very scared, because since ancient times, when the Central Plains Dynasty was first established, the strength of the army was often the most powerful.
And that period of time was often the time when the Central Plains dynasty slinged nomadic tribes. Now the Northern Expedition of the Great Imperial Dynasty, even if our grassland tribes can win, they will certainly pay a sufficient price.
And these costs are often brought about by the demise of most of the clans in those nomadic tribes. And at this moment, it is often the rise of those small tribes.
By devouring the defeated generals of the big tribe, the small tribe slowly gathered a strong force after another, and in the process of fighting against the Central Plains dynasty army, trained a good army.
Then a new, strong new tribe emerged. Become the overlord of an area on the grassland. If this overlord is lucky enough to defeat the offensive of the Central Plains Empire, then it may be able to extend his life span for decades or hundreds of years.
Of course, if you are unlucky, maybe soon after the establishment of a new tribe, you will encounter a hard stubble of the Central Plains dynasty, which is famous for them, and they will be wiped out.
All this is full of uncertainty and countless opportunities. It depends on whether people can have enough decisiveness and enough luck to achieve success.
The Northern Expedition went out of the fortress in this way, and the 200,000 army, under the tears of their family’s farewell, embarked on the journey to the desert, and the Shroud of Horse Leather was returned.
The sky is blue, the wild is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep.
This is the midsummer, when the water and grass are plump. At this moment, each tribe was busy feeding the cattle and sheep that had been hungry for spring and winter so that they could grow enough fat this summer.
At this moment, the shepherds did not release cattle and sheep. I am a man, riding their steeds and carrying their hunting bows, one after another, gathered to the leader of their tribe.
was taken by their leader to the place where other big tribes converged, forming an army of hundreds of thousands of people, and marching toward the south.
Two peoples born with irreconcilable contradictions, in this summer, a life-and-death war has been launched. The winner will have everything, and the loser will pay his life as a bet in this war.
At the beginning, because the rebels were not familiar with the terrain, they had a lot of unnecessary trouble, or got lost, or were defeated by the local nomads using the terrain.
There are a few generals with poor abilities or poor luck in the army being defeated. Thousands of people were directly wiped out by the nomads' riding advantage. The remaining thousands of remnants also fled directly south, until they escaped the mirror before being abandoned by the nomads who were chasing after them.
Of course, there are also outstanding troops, such as Lu Bu Zhang Liao, who has been fighting against the nomads and has a certain reputation among the nomads, and Gongsun Zan, who is also known as the White Horse General. Shengguo.
Each of the three of them has captured several large tribes with tens of thousands of people. The main army annihilated was tens of thousands, and his own loss was only four or five thousand.
Others such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, etc., although they did not have much success, their own army did not lose much. They killed his nomadic army of one to two thousand, and he returned after losing two to three thousand. The frontier fortress.
In short, for the first time out of the fortress, the entire Imperial Kingdom's Northern Expedition was considered a success. 200,000 people died and he was 120,000 to 30,000. He also killed 70,000 to 80,000 nomadic troops, and killed more than 200,000 women, children, old and weak.
This Northern Expedition, and even later Northern Expeditions, finally made it clear to the generals long ago that no prisoner would be left, regardless of men, women, young or old, all the nomads encountered were all killed.
It is not only men who kill people, but also those unarmed women who can shepherd sheep and provide food for the tribes who have been fighting for many years.
can continue the offspring of those nomads, and give birth to batches of warriors for them~IndoMTL.com~for the development and growth of these tribes, contributing their every bit of value.
And when the child grows up, he is a warrior, and he can kill people even before he is ten years old. So those nomads, regardless of men, women, or children, are a threat to the Central Plains dynasty.
In Zhong Yu's understanding, they can neither faithfully obey their orders, but also often covet the surplus of their Central Plains territory.
After conquering them, I won’t receive any taxes. I can only get some useless wool. What good is there to keep them? It's better to kill them all, lest they often come to harm themselves in the future.
Zhong Yu, he would rather turn the grasslands in his north into a barren land with no one inhabited by thousands of miles, rather than let one of those grassland barbarians live there.
and those generals, most of them are people with strong temperaments. To put it bluntly, they are a bit tyrannical and easy to kill. For Zhong Yu's order, he agrees with both hands and feet.
With their emperor’s order, they can try to let go of the tyranny in their hearts, enter their favorite hobbies to kill those grassland peoples, and they don’t have to worry about the nosy civilians impeaching themselves.
Because this is the emperor's order, do you dare to question the emperor's order, do you think your family has too many people? Want to reduce by one, our emperor is even more cruel than those prairie barbarians!
So, after this time the scourge of the Northern Expedition. There used to be his Xianbei tribe with a population of more than 2 million on the grassland. This time, it has completely reduced him by more than 300,000 people, which can be said to be a great loss of strength.
However, they were not happy yet, and they repelled Yuguo's attack. Cao Cao and his group of troops had just been replaced, and the second group of troops, with Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo, these two powerful soldiers led their troops to start the second Northern Expedition.