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Section 107 Liangzhou Night Moon (Part 2)

When Yi'er heard Liu Shan's words, she was a little surprised. She didn't expect Liu Shan would say this. Is there any way to do it once and for all? Yi'er was also asking herself that as a young general and a female general, Yi'er's mind was relatively delicate and she was quite familiar with the wars between the north and the nomadic peoples in the past. However, Yi'er really couldn't find any way to do it once and for all before.

Back then, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the stars gathered together, and the Huns were attacked in the north, and the Huns were destroyed. Even with such a blow, the nomadic peoples in the north did not disappear. They were like weeds in the wasteland, with a tough character. As a result, the Huns disappeared, but other ethnic groups immediately replaced them and attacked and harassed each other with the Han Dynasty in the south.

The Han Dynasty experienced years of Northern Expeditions by Emperor Wu of Han, the national treasury was empty, the people's livelihood was withered, and the prosperous peace created by the Wen and Jing rule was gone. During the Liu Fuling period, Huo Guang was tyrannical, and the Han Dynasty was in a slump.

"Liu Shan, as you said, the nomadic tribes on the grassland come and go like the wind. In fact, we have always relied on solid city defense to resist passively. How many dynasties have passed, how many heroes are in the north, and blood is stained with the battlefield, and corpses are buried in the desert. Meng Tian, ​​Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, who are not the great heroes and heroes of the past? But who can really end the wars in the north? Liu Shan, I know that you have taken into account the suffering of the people in the north being attacked by the people in the north for years. However, we are not saints or gods. We try to do what we can do. Some things cannot be forced." Yi'er thought that Liu Shan was stubborn and enlightened him on the side.

"Yi'er, in fact, everything is not certain." Liu Shan did not expect Yi'er to say such a thing, and Liu Shan also heard the concern for him in Yi'er's words. Liu Shan gently held Yi'er's shoulder and looked straight at the north.

"Yi'er, if the entire north is included in our Tang Dynasty territory, wouldn't the military troubles in the north be over?"

"Hey!" Yi'er couldn't help laughing, then looked at Liu Shan.

"This can really relieve the military troubles. However, the Turks are strong at this time and we have no time to defend ourselves. How could we incorporate all the Turks into our territory? Moreover, the northern part is bitter and cold, and they are all deserts, and the Tang King will not want this land."

After hearing Yi'er's words, Liu Shan also felt a little emotional. In fact, as Yi'er said, even if he attacked a large area of ​​land in the north, the court in the south actually did not want these lands that could not even grow crops.

During the Han Dynasty's attack on the Huns, and even further ahead, Meng Tian's attack on the Huns in the north had actually been defeated by large areas of the army. However, these lands were extremely desolate, either deserts, nothing grew, or grasslands, which were not suitable for farming. For the Central Plains dynasty based on agriculture, such land was really too barren and desolate.

If you cannot plant crops on such a land, you will also waste a lot of troops to guard it. In order not to be criticized for killing, the original ethnic Han people on the conquered land still needs to be helped. It is estimated that no Han nationality in power is willing to obtain such a large piece of land.

In the history of China, one of the most powerful dynasties was the Qin Dynasty. However, after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, although it went north and south, it had never been interested in the barbaric northern deserts and grasslands. The other was the Yuan Dynasty. Unfortunately, the people in power in the Yuan Dynasty were very active in expanding their territory, but they were not Han people.

This is a vicious cycle. The Han people in the south are constantly invaded by the northern nomadic peoples. The Han people often have large-scale military operations to the north, and there are also large-scale victorious wars. However, these military operations are often not for the purpose of expanding their territory. Just like during the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He went to the West to trade, but just to show off his prestige in the Celestial Empire. Such wars not only do not benefit, but also cause the people to be injured and the national treasury is deficient. The Han Wu generation used troops to the Huns, which led to the Han Dynasty's failure to recover from then on. This is a good explanation for this.

"Liu Shan, what's wrong with you? You're always dazed tonight." Liu Shan began to think far away again. Yi'er saw Liu Shan not talking for a long time and looked straight at the north. Yi'er pinched Liu Shan for a moment and said in a tone of criticism that she pretended to be deliberately.

"Nothing, huh, Yi'er, look, there seems to be movement in the north!" While Yi'er was talking to Liu Shan, a strong wind blew in the north. Looking closely, it was a strong wind. It was clearly a team of cavalry running towards this side. The cavalry was running very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, you could clearly see the cavalry on the horse. When Liu Shan saw the dresses and headdresses of these cavalrymen, he knew that these people were definitely not Han people. Unexpectedly, he had just come to Liangzhou and saw the Turkic cavalry.

There were hundreds of these cavalrymen at first glance, and their formation was very loose. It can be said that they had no formation at all. However, even though their horse control skills were so far away, Liu Shan and Yier had to be a little surprised. For a moment, they saw wolf dust rolling, and the cavalry on the horse neighed loudly and shouted. The high-rise horse whip was whipping heavily, and the iron hooves rolled, rushing straight towards this side.

Liu Shan looked at the cavalry carefully and saw that their horses were loaded with plundered things at this time, and some of the captured Han people were also tied to the horses. Behind the horses, several people with ropes were dragged by war horses, and their lives were dragged by war horses and rubbed against the ground. When the cavalry entered, Liu Shan had already seen that the people they were pulling were covered in blood and could not die anymore. Judging from their clothes, they were obviously soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Suddenly, Liu Shan was furious, and Yi'er clearly heard Liu Shan's hands tightly clenching and clattering the bones rubbing.

On the back of Liu Shan's hand, blue veins suddenly rose. Because of the force, the tendons on his hand were serpent and rubbed like earthworms.

"Turkish barbarian thieves are too bullying!" Seeing Liu Shan's appearance and hearing Liu Shan's voice, Yi'er could feel Liu Shan's anger at this time. No wonder Liu Shan was furious at this time. These Turkic people were really too arrogant. They were obviously plundering nearby. When the Turkic cavalry who had just returned, they knew that there must be a village or town nearby that they had looted. They looted villages and towns on the border of the Tang Dynasty, and brought soldiers to the Tang Dynasty's corpses to approach the here, with an arrogant charge, and did not take the thousands of Tang soldiers guarding the pass into their eyes. More than one hundred were against thousands. This was simply a naked provocation, and it was an insult to the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

"Who and I will strip these Turkic bandits alive!" Liu Shan shouted loudly, and the surroundings responded. The soldiers around him were all troops from the border of the Tang Dynasty, not Liu Shan's army. However, when they saw the Turkic people on the opposite side were so arrogant, they immediately became excited. Moreover, today they also knew that Liu Shan led the army to reinforce the place. Although they didn't know what Liu Shan's specific official position was, they also knew that they were a big man, seeing how his general was polite to him, they also knew that they were a big man. At this time, such people went out to fight this group of Turkic bandits, and they all asked for battle.

"Liu Shan, if I continue like this, if there are too many people, these Turkic people will definitely escape in a flash when they see that the situation is not good. If they are too few, there will be ambush outside the city." Yi'er hurriedly grabbed Liu Shan. After hearing Yi'er's words, Liu Shan felt something was wrong. He was so angry that he had just become so angry that Yi'er could feel Liu Shan's anger.

"General, they rushed over, but they would not rush too close, because the Turks knew that there were archers on the city, and they usually rushed beyond the range of the archery and stopped." At this time, when they learned that there were Turks attacking outside the city, the officers guarding this section of the city wall had already rushed over. Seeing Liu Shan, he reported respectfully.

"Then they are looking for death!" Liu Shan said coldly, and his murderous intent was already revealed. Listening to Liu Shan's voice, for some reason, the officer seemed to have really seen the scene of this team of Turkic soldiers tragically dying under the city.
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