Why do you need to bury your bones? Where can you not have green mountains in your life?

For soldiers who have been fighting for many years, they are always facing life and death. Death is not terrible. What is terrible is that after they died in the battlefield, their parents, wives and children were not taken care of, they were short of food and clothing, and they had no livelihood. But these are not problems in the Xiliang army. The commander Li Li can definitely be regarded as an unprecedented commander who sympathizes with the soldiers and their families. The Xiliang army treats the fallen soldiers with great pensions, and has been like this since the establishment of the army, which is obvious to all.

In this way, the soldiers of Xiliang who had no worries were naturally extremely brave. They had never had any precedent for defeat since many years of war. Even if they were in desperate situations, they would fight to the end, advance but not retreat, and they were the best in the world for fighting.

It is precisely because the Western Liang army was brave and tenacious in fighting that the Han army did not lose any disadvantage in the two head-on battles with the barbarian army. Its bravery and fierceness were even better than the barbarian army. When they met with strong ones, they were even stronger. They did not frown in bloody battles, and they resisted the fierce offensive like wolves in the barbarian army. In the end, they defeated the barbarian army twice, which made the group of grassland wolf flee in a hurry and ran away.

As Li Li said, during the two wars, the Han army suffered a large number of soldiers and horses, with as many as 100,000 soldiers killed, and they were all elite soldiers. However, Li Li deliberately ignored it and did not mention it. This is the fact that most of the Han army soldiers killed in the two consecutive battles were reorganized Youzhou Army. More than 60,000 casualties were the original Youzhou Army. Among the eastern expedition army led by Li Li, there were only 20,000 unparalleled iron cavalry, 10,000 Jinqiuwei and 20,000 county government soldiers and other 50,000 infantry and cavalry participated in the battle. After the war, there were still more than 30,000 troops. The remaining two established war cavalry camps, Wuwei Camp and Feiyan Light Cavalry, did not appear until the last moment of the battle. They fought in Dinglang Mountain and followed more than 30,000 barbarians and rushed to the Wuhuan's nest - Liucheng.

To put it bluntly, the victory of the Youzhou Army's blood-stained battlefield was finally easily picked by Wuwei Camp and Feiyan Light Cavalry.

What is a successful country? This scene in front of you is undoubtedly the best interpretation.

Since ancient times, closeness and alienation have been different. Although Li Li has taken Youzhou, in order to successfully take over the entire Youzhou area, to ensure long-term stability in Youzhou, and to kill the possible civil strife in the bud, he eventually defeated the barbarian army and regained the grassland outside the frontier with his own troops. Although insiders know that this fierce battle outside the frontier was the merit of the Youzhou army, in the eyes of the people of Youzhou, the Xiliang army under the command of the great general Li Li was the result of saving them from suffering. This was exactly the effect Li Li wanted to achieve.

Knowing that there was a tiger on the mountain, it was a true portrayal of the bloody battle in Bailang Mountain. But this was not Li Li's usual style of leading troops to fight. Once he noticed that there might be ambush in Bailang Mountain, he would not continue to march, but instead stationed on the spot and then acted. However, the fact was that he did not do so. Instead, he ordered the army to continue to advance and successively entered the war, thus opening the prelude to an unprecedented bloody battle. After a bloody battle, the Youzhou army was almost wiped out, with less than 30,000 soldiers surviving, and the Battle of Bailang Mountain was still defeated.

After this battle, the Youzhou army was almost completely damaged. From Gongsun Zan, more than half of the Youzhou generals were either dead or injured, and few survivors survived. As a result, Gongsun Zan's foundation was quietly removed, potential threats were eliminated, and future troubles were cut off. In addition, the Xiliang army defeated the barbarians and invisibly completely erased the prestige and influence of Gongsun Zan in the minds of the people of Youzhou, allowing the people to naturally accept and support Li Li.

This is one of Li Li's purpose of the east expedition to Youzhou, and the other purpose is to completely regain the barbarian territory, incorporate it into the territory of the Han Dynasty, and subdue it to the king's transformation.

The king has a profound mind. If it weren't for the peerless wise man like Zhuge Liang, it would be difficult for him to see the essence of things from such a complex and complex context and understand Li Li's true intention to use troops this time.

After understanding Li Li's military means of turning his hands to turn the clouds and turning the hands to rain, Zhuge Liang's heart was as violent as a storm. For the first time in his life, he felt the feeling of being with the king as a tiger. He realized the truth of the ruthlessness of the king.

Before this, Zhuge Liang's opinion was contrary to Li Li. He advocated to remove Gongsun Zan as soon as possible to prevent future troubles, but Li Li insisted on keeping Gongsun Zan and rescued Gongsun Zan twice in danger. Otherwise, Gongsun Zan would never have lived to this day and had been dead for a long time. For this reason, Zhuge Liang believed that Li Li was too kind, and it was not a wise move to keep Gongsun Zan, and would inevitably cause chaos in the future. But after sorting out the context, Zhuge Liang no longer had this idea, let alone thought that Li Li was too kind, and there was no relationship between benevolence and Li Li.

Nearly 100,000 Youzhou soldiers died in pacifying border troubles and fighting against the barbarian army. This is a real death to the point, the heroic death and the value of death. In a sense, all this is in Li Li's plan, and it is difficult for insiders to accept this fact for a while. However, this is an open and upright plot, and it is also the same as traveling all over the world, upright and not afraid of people's words. But who knows that if the commander Li Li had a little compassion, the result would not be like this; although the casualties after the war were still inevitable, it was the Youzhou Army and the Xiliang Army that could leave at least half of the troops for the Youzhou Army.

However, the fact that the Youzhou army under Gongsun Zan and the tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers after Yan Rou surrendered were all killed and injured, while the Eastern Expedition army led by Li Li still had strength, with more than 50,000 infantry and cavalry after the war. Compared with the two, it was a world of difference, which was very sad. However, Li Li's purpose of this Eastern Expedition was achieved as scheduled. Not only did he collect Youzhou without bloodshed, but he also crippled the two major tribes Wuhuan and Xianbei. The next step was to recover the lost territory one by one, conquer the people of his tribes, completely eliminate the border troubles of Youzhou, rectify the administration of officials, and restore people's livelihood.

After thinking through everything, Zhuge Liang no longer insisted on his own strategy of suppressing and extermination. He couldn't help but be in awe of Li Li, so he stopped talking. He only did his part wholeheartedly and became more cautious.

The next morning, the army set out as scheduled and marched to Liucheng.

Shortly after the march, a whistle cavalry came to report the victory: at the third update, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and Zhang Yan had led a large army to attack Liucheng, captured hundreds of Wuhuan nobles, including the Wuhuan Shanyu Louban, and captured all the more than 40,000 barbarians who had become frightened birds. At present, the Han army has occupied Liucheng, and all prisoners of war were imprisoned in the Beicheng schoolyard. Waiting for Li Li to arrive.

With the fall of Liucheng and the last troops of the Wuhuan tribe were captured, the once powerful Wuhuan tribe was defeated.

At noon, when Li Li's army arrived outside the north gate of Liucheng, a expected heavy rain came as scheduled.

Soon, Liucheng was shrouded in it by rain and fog. The dust and bloody murderous aura were all submerged under the rain and fog. The sky covered with battle clouds was quickly replaced by rain and clouds, and the grasslands outside the border ushered in unprecedented peace and tranquility.

In May of the third year of Jian'an, General Li Li led the army of the Eastern Expedition to the Wuhuan, and the Xianbei coalition fought against Bailang Mountain, and wiped out more than 100,000 main forces of the coalition, and captured the Wuhuan's nest, Liucheng, at the end of the month.

In early June, the Wuhuan Shanyu Louban led the leaders of various tribes to bow to General Li Li to surrender. In mid-June, hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan tribes left Youzhou. The migrant team set out from Liucheng and headed westward, passing through Yanmen, Yunzhong and other counties in Bingzhou, and then entered Liangzhou from Shuozhou, and finally arrived at Wudu, Hanyang and Hanzhong counties in the hinterland of Liangzhou.

Just as Lou Ban led the Wuhuan tribe to move westward, the Kebineng tribe in the central Xianbei and the Suli and Queji tribes in the eastern Xianbei, a total of more than 100,000 people moved northward and entered Bingzhou.

At the same time, the Bingzhou counties recruited more than 200,000 people who volunteered to go to the grassland, as well as nearly 100,000 disabled or retired soldiers in Bingzhou, Sili and Shuozhou, brought their families north to Youzhou and settled in the Wuhuan grassland.

In addition, the prefectures and counties under Li Li's rule took in a large number of refugees, totaling tens of thousands of people. They were escorted by local county soldiers to outside Youzhou Pass and settled in the grassland.

At the end of June, with the mediation of Xianbei leaders such as Kebineng, Budugen and Fuluhan, Zhao Yun, the troops of the eastern expedition army entered the Xianbei royal court. Then, with the cooperation of Kebineng and Budugen, hundreds of Xianbei tribe leaders and nobles, including Fuluhan and Mijia, were killed, and surrendered to various Xianbei tribes.

It is worth mentioning that Bu Dugen and Fu Luohan are legitimate brothers. They have always had close contacts and helped each other and advance and retreat together. However, facing the coercion of the powerful Han army, Bu Dugen volunteered to ambush his brother Fu Luohan. He also used Fu Luohan's head as a ceremony for promotion, thereby gaining Li Li's trust. Sure enough, Bu Dugen's righteous act of judging the situation was highly praised by Li Li, so he appointed Bu Dugen as the "Shenbei Lord" and General Shunyi, who also led the Bingzhou private lords and served as the governor of the Shangjun County of Bingzhou.

Unlike Bu Dugen, Ke Bineng, who was poisoned, was rescued by Li Li. After surviving by chance, he insisted on subsiding Li Li, abandoning the empty position of the Xianbei leader, willing to join the Xiliang army, and following Li Li to fight. Seeing that Ke Bineng had made up his mind, Li Li ordered him to draw elite warriors from various Xianbei troops to merge with the remnants of Youzhou Army under Gongsun Zan's tent to reorganize a 50,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry, namely Youzhou Camp. The newly formed Youzhou Camp is still headed by Gongsun Zan as the commander of the general, and Ke Bineng, Xu Huang, Tian Yu and Ma Dai as the deputy generals and deputy commanders, each leading a cavalry team of 10,000 people. In addition, Ke Bineng also also led the deputy commander of the Jinqiu Guard. He did not participate in the training and reorganization of troops, and temporarily followed Li Li, striving to pacify Liaodong as soon as possible and eliminate the remnants outside the frontier.

In early July of the third year of Jian'an, Li Li, who successively pacified the two major tribes of Wuhuan and Xianbei, led a large army to advance east again, and the troops were directly aimed at Gongsun Du from Liaodong. Gongsun Du, who had entered his later years, did not dare to strode his edge, and sent envoys to surrender, expressing his willingness to surrender under Li Li's command and willing to guard Liaodong for Li Li in his lifetime.

Three days later, Li Li led the Jin Qiwei into Xiangping City, and re-appointed Gongsun Du as the prefect of Liaodong, and also the prime minister of Liaodong and the marquis of Yongning, and guarded Liaodong. He also appointed Gongsun Zan's eldest son Gongsun Kang as the general of the Central Army, and also the commander of the left army of Jin Qiwei; his second son Gongsun Gong was the commander of the commander and served with his left and right. In addition, Tian Yu led a 10,000-person team of Youzhou Camp to settle in Liaodong, assisting Gongsun Du in training soldiers and guarding Liaodong.

Since then, Li Li's journey to the east slowly fell down the curtain. In mid-July, he took Gongsun Du's two sons to leave Liaodong and returned to Youzhou.

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