The four counties in Hexi and Hehuang Valleys were not traditional territories of the Han Dynasty. One was the Qiang Di tribe, and the other was the Wusun, the Yue clan. However, the Wusun, who lived near Dunhuang, was destroyed by the Yue clan. This reason was also given the Xiongnu excuses, and the Xiongnu slaughtered the Yue clan again.

The west of the Yellow River was not a traditional territorial land of the Han Dynasty. When Qin unified the world, the Great Wall defense line to the west started from Lintao (Min County) in the west, followed the Tao River to the north to Didao (Lintao County), and went northeast to Gaoping (Guyuan County), Anding County through (Dingxi County), which means that the territory of the Qin Dynasty had not yet entered the territory west of the Yellow River. The four or five counties in Hexi (including Jincheng County) were all the result of wars with the Huns during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han and later with the Qiang and Di people.

Because Hexi is not a traditional territory of the Qin and Han dynasties, and it is also a place that is very easy to fight and fight, which is not conducive to the reproduction of the Han people, even after so many years, the number of Han people in the five counties of Hexi still does not have an advantage. Not only was this case during the Han Dynasty, but also in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It was not until the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty that millions of Han people fled to the four counties of Hexi to avoid war, and the Han people in the four counties of Hexi gradually gained a population advantage.

The Han people do not have numerical advantages in the four or five counties of Hexi, and it is extremely difficult to calm down peacefully. Not to mention Liangzhou, the Han people in Bingzhou are not as easy to manage as the Han people who are honest in the Central Plains. Even in Liangzhou, the Han people in Bingzhou are all honest Han people. With only 500,000 Chang'an Sanfu and 200,000 Taiyuan County, you should know that Liangzhou is the small number of Han people in Bingzhou, no matter how small it is, it is much better than the Qiang and Hu people who rebel at any time, right?

The Han Dynasty governed the world with "filial piety". Once a person was filial, he would have concerns, worried about whether his wife, children, and mother would be killed because of his own rebellion, and would hesitate about the rebellion. For this reason, when the Qiang people in Liangzhou rebelled, Song Xiao, who was the governor of Liangzhou at the time, submitted a memorial to the court, and he wanted to give each Qiang people a copy of the "Filial Piety" to study, hoping that both Qiang and Hu could learn filial piety, high and low, and so on, Liangzhou would not be in chaos. Even if the eldest son sent Gai Xun to persuade him, Song Xiao still submitted such a memorial to Emperor Liu Hong, and Song Xiao was also imprisoned to Luoyang for punishment by "slow and slow crime".

Is there any fault in Song Xiao’s memorial? Dong Hu did not think it was wrong. He deeply agreed with Song Xiao’s idea in his heart. To truly cure the chaos in Liangzhou, he needed to change the “real” customs of Liangzhou people and establish a deep-rooted spiritual shackle, but this would take longer and it would be necessary to establish countless schools to teach benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness.

Song Xiao was right. What was wrong was that he chose a wrong time period. When the Qiang people in Liangzhou rebelled everywhere, you said you would give the "Book of Filial Piety" to countless illiterate rebels. Isn't that a slap? Moreover, Emperor Liu Hong was not an emperor who could formulate a century-old plan and implement it firmly. However, after Dong Xiaoyi and Dong Gu slaughtered bloody numbers in the four counties of Hexi, they not only reduced some Qiang and Hu people through force, but also increased the proportion of Han people in the four counties, but more importantly, they used force to destroy the original Qiang and Hu tribes in the four counties of Hexi.

Destroy the original condensation and integration of large and small tribes. Even if countless Qianghu escaped into the mountains and forests to avoid the pursuit of tens of thousands of elite cavalry, these people became a piece of loose sand. As long as a new condensation core is re-established... it is like a magnet, it is easy to condense these dispersed sand into another new order and establish a new governance system.

Dong Hu was not worried about Dong Xiaoyi and Dong Gu, and Erya who responded to the side, and Sanya could not successfully occupy the four counties of Hexi. This time, the elite cavalry that entered the four counties of Hexi reached 50,000 or 60,000, and they were all equipped with stirrups and horseshoes. They all had absolute advantages in raid speed, equipment, quantity, and tactics, and at least had absolute advantages in local wars. Even if the Qiang and Hu of the four counties fought to the death, 50,000 or 60,000 elite cavalry were enough to crush everything. Even if they took a step back, they could use their high mobility to fight and leave as they wanted. Moreover, with the continuous slaughter and plunder, the more horses the 50,000 and 60,000 elite cavalry plundered, the more maneuverable the more they were.

Dong Hu is good at rushing. He doesn't believe in anything "weak against the strong with the weak". Wars always defeat the weak with the strong. It's nothing more than "strong and weak" not what it looks like on the surface. It requires rigorous calculation of all aspects. Every war he fights must have an absolute advantage in the local battlefield. Only when he thinks he has a certain advantage will he give it a try.

He did not personally lead his troops to the four Hexi counties, but only asked Dong Xiaoyi and Dong Gu to join the Wubei general manager Dong Chiwan and Wuyi cavalry and went south. He only asked Er Ya and San Ya to lead the troops to cooperate. The reason why he did not personally lead his troops to the four Hexi counties was because he did not believe that 50,000 or 60,000 elite troops could not defeat the four Hexi counties.

According to the ratio of soldiers to the people, at least 500,000 young and strong cavalry is required to draw at least 500,000 young and strong cavalry. Even if Han Sui did not draw soldiers from the four counties in Hexi, there were not so many people in the four counties. Even if there were one million people in the four counties and so many troops could be drawn, the war must be predicted in advance and the troops were mobilized several months in advance to deal with the danger. Only by drawing tens of thousands of elite soldiers in advance were stationed in Yanze, Xiutuze and Dichi County, can the four counties in Hexi resist. In fact, except for Dong Mao predicting his intention, the entire Liangzhou did not realize the danger.

Liangzhou did not predict that Dong Buyicon's sudden action was normal. If the troops from Shuofang County Lian County were sent to the Yellow River, and bypassed Longshan along the Yellow River, and directly entered Hanyang County from the north, it also killed more than 100,000 thieves. Why did you need to take a detour from thousands of miles to attack the four counties in Hexi?

The same goes for the back and heading south along the Yellow River, not only reduces the road and baggage pressure, from the perspective of the war itself, it can also fight against more than 100,000 Qiang people in Liangzhou, and can also determine the world in one battle. It also launches a surprise attack without preparation in more than 100,000 Qiang people without preparation, so as to easily win. Instead, the four counties in Hexi were the first to fall, and more than 100,000 thieves in Hanyang County have become alert and have become trapped beasts in cages. Once the two sides fight a decisive war, it will inevitably be a fierce battle.

One is a war where the other party is unprepared, and the other is a battle where beasts trapped in the cage are prepared. The casualties must be different, and the result of the war is also confusing, and it is not a wise decision no matter how you look at it.

This is the situation where both sides decided to fight to the death. What if more than 100,000 thieves were restrained by the court again? Just like back then, if the court's butt sat next to Han Sui again, letting the East and West Qiang continue to confront each other with the Yellow River as the boundary? Or, as Dong Hu and Cai Yong said, if the thieves had no hope of surrendering, they would go from Wudu County to Hanzhong and into the Yizhou Governor's Headquarters? If this result is the case, wouldn't Dong Hu be too stupid?

If it was a simple war with more than 100,000 thieves, Dong Hu was indeed a little stupid when he made plans with the generals. This would cause his troops to be more damaged, and he might not be able to kill Han Sui, but his purpose of the war was not just to kill Han Sui and Ma Teng. He simply broke out a war with more than 100,000 people. Although a sudden war would make it easier for him to defeat his opponents, after all, more than 100,000 Qiang people were not united. Tens of thousands of cavalry used high mobility to raid such opponents, and it was not difficult to defeat them.

It is easy to defeat an unprepared enemy, but it will cause more than 100,000 people to flee in all directions due to "sudden nature". Even if the main force of this battle is cavalry, even if it has the advantage of speed, it is very difficult to catch the enemy riding on a horse who escaped for one or two days. If you chase and escape, you may not necessarily catch someone if you can chase thousands of miles.

Liangzhou is in short supply, not to mention tens of thousands of people chasing them, even if five thousand cavalry chased the enemy behind the enemy and chased them in places where they were robbed by the enemy, the five thousand cavalry still could not obtain the food and supplies to pursue the enemy.

If you cannot obtain supplies along the way, you can only fight thousands of miles with cattle and sheep, but can cattle and sheep run past war horses? Once tens of thousands of elite soldiers of more than 100,000 thieves flee westward, Dong Hu may never be able to clean up these people, but once he took down the four counties of Hexi, he completely blocked the retreat of more than 100,000 thieves. No matter how more than 100,000 thieves fled, he was still in the territory of the Han Dynasty. Even if there were more casualties and injured, as long as all these rebels were killed, Liangzhou would usher in real peace in the future.

The strategic purpose is different. One is to have a tail that has hidden dangers after defeating, and the other is to have a bigger loss but can conquer the world in one battle and completely calm Liangzhou. How do others choose? Dong Hu doesn't know, but he doesn't want to let the Qiang and Di become the existence of the Five Barbarians anymore.

The purpose of this war is to completely calm Liangzhou, but relying solely on the deterrence of war, it can only calm Liangzhou for decades, and it cannot be stable and peaceful for a long time. Cattle and sheep are everywhere and grains are full of grains and grains. If you want to achieve long-term stability, you need to change the "real" minds of Liangzhou people and vigorously advocate cultural education. However, Dong Hu lacks such people in his hands. His brothers are all martial artists, and they are martial artists who are good at tactics and short of strategy.

Dong Xiaoyi, Dong Chong, Dong Chi, Dong Hou... These are all Dong Hu's direct brothers. Dong Chi, Dong Hou is the oldest brother, older than him. They are more steady and cautious, and for this reason they serve as the general manager of Mobei and Taiyuan County respectively. Not only are they higher in status than Dong Xiaoyi and Dong Chong, but their responsibilities are also more important. The four counties in Hexi are important areas on the border and are the key to ensuring the peace of Liangzhou in the future. After the bloody massacre, Hexi needs a slightly softer brother to guard. Compared with Dong Chong, the commander of the heavy armored cavalry, Dong Xiaoyi, who has always been trained by Dong Hu as the commander of the Light Cavalry.

The main function of the heavy armored cavalry is to break the formation, and it needs to be tenacious like a stubborn stone. To put it bluntly, it is a bit stupid and stupid. He holds a spear and rushes around and has a stubborn spirit. Dong Chong has such a temperament. This kind of personality is naturally not suitable for staying in the four counties of Hexi. After all, in the future, the four counties of Hexi will not only need to intimidate the Qiang and Hu, but also have more cultural education.
Chapter completed!