Chapter 1086: Storm Is Coming on the Grassland (Part 2)
"Why not?" Miga objected loudly: "There are still a lot of horse bandits on the grassland. What's more, if Bingzhou Tiger or White Horse General sent thousands of cavalry to bypass my army and kill on the grassland, what should we do?"
"Yes," Que Ji also stood up and objected: "In my opinion, some people want to transfer all their troops to do what they want! Our small tribe is not a big tribe. If we lose a few thousand troops, it will not be so easy for others to find out."
When Suli heard this, he understood what the two meant. He was so angry that his mouth was crooked. He stood up and was about to refute, but Kobineng reached out to stop him. , said: "Okay, three adults, business is important." As he said that, he stood up and looked at the people in the tent and said: "Master Miga's worries are reasonable. If the whole army is dispatched, there will only be some old and weak people in the old camp of the tribe. If something really happens, they will not be able to resist. So according to my suggestion, only 30% of the troops can be left in each camp, and no more than 40% at most, and the rest of the troops are all ready to go."
The rest of the people were also afraid that if they led the army to go on the expedition, their opponents would send out a few thousand troops to sweep their old camp. At that time, even if they could find trouble with them afterwards, their tribes would suffer heavy losses and their strength would plummet.
Everyone calculated in their hearts that if 40% of the troops were left to defend the old camp, the Queji tribe with the least troops would also have nearly 30,000 troops to defend the old camp. In this way, the safety of the old camp should be no problem. After all, on the grassland today, except for the Xianbei tribe, there is no other major force that can threaten the safety of their own old camp.
What Kobe could think of was that the total strength of the seven Xianbei tribes was about one million, of which the most elite palace cavalry was about 200,000, and the ordinary tribal cavalry was about 800,000. Even if all the ordinary tribal cavalry went out, there were nearly 600,000 troops, enough to attack Bingzhou and Youzhou.
"Good!"
"Agree!"
Everyone agreed one by one.
"Okay, in that case, let's determine the time to send troops!"
"Now it is the end of July, and it takes nearly half a month for the adults to return to their tribes, plus half a month of preparation time, so I think it should be possible to send troops on September 1st. What do you think?" Budugen said;
"September is the time when the autumn is high and the horses are fat, and there are two or three months until the winter snow, which should be enough." Suli nodded and replied;
"That's right, but if the time If we are not able to get up in time, how can we get back to the old camp before the white disaster? "Que Ji asked;
"Ha..." Suli chuckled and said, "We only need to capture the Han city before the white disaster, and then spend the winter in the Han city, which will just reduce the burden on the old camp. Why should we rush back to the old camp?"
When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up. There were solid houses and a lot of food and grass in the Han city. It was just right that the army could spend a winter in the captured city, which really reduced the burden on the old camp, killing two birds with one stone.
After the general strategy was determined, the follow-up matters were easy to handle. Next, the seven people drafted an order to recruit troops from the grassland tribes to herd horses. Originally, this order should have been issued by the Chanyu, but now it can only be issued jointly by the seven tribes. However, this is already enough to deter people.
After the drafted military order was signed with the seals of the seven people, it was sent to various places in the grassland by teams of Xianbei cavalry. Although the various tribes in the grassland have nearly one million soldiers, they are not concentrated together, but scattered in the form of tribes. The old camp of the tribe only has the tribesmen and soldiers directly under it, so once it is determined to send troops, it takes time to gather troops.
In fact, when the major princes in the Central Plains are preparing to send troops, they also need time to gather troops and store food and weapons. For example, when Huangfu Chaobo was preparing to send troops to attack Cao Cao,
it took more than half a year to prepare food and grass. It is easier for the grassland tribes to gather troops than the Han people in the Central Plains. They just need to catch some cattle and sheep and follow the soldiers. But even so, it still takes a month for each tribe to gather all the troops.
When the Xianbei tribes on the grassland began to prepare to gather troops, Youzhou Liaoxi County, Liucheng, nominally this city, is actually a medium-sized town. Don't underestimate this medium town, this is the king's city of Liaoxi Wuhuan. Under the high pressure of Gongsun Zan, the Wuhuan people in Youbeiping and Liaoxi County were either killed or captured and became slaves. After a period of time, they were transformed into free people. The rest basically fled to the vicinity of Liucheng.
Of course, there are still many Wuhuan people in the counties under Liu Yu's rule in Youzhou. Because Gongsun Zan now looks down on these foreign races, he did not kill them all as he did in the past. For the Wuhuan people in the newly occupied four counties, as long as you don't touch his knife, you can basically survive. However, it is much worse than when Liu Yu was there.
Most of the Wuhuan today are basically concentrated in Liucheng and Yangle in Liaoxi, as well as Liaodong, Liaodong vassal states and Xuanmian, and the territory of Fuyu and Goguryeo people further north.
In fact, the main reason why Gongsun Zan set the mining base in Liaoxi in Linyu instead of the original Yangle was that Yangle was far away from the hinterland of Liaoxi, and another reason was that the royal court of the Wuhuan people was located to the west of Yangle. After controlling Youbeiping and most of Liaoxi, Gongsun Zan had already set his sights on the more prosperous Youzhou in the east. He was not interested in Yangle, which was a place that he had worked hard but did not have much money to make.
In Gongsun Zan's view, he controlled Liaoxi and Youbeiping and drove the Wuhuan people to the most remote corner of Liaoxi, which was no longer a threat to him, so he simply ignored it.
In Liucheng, the current Chanyu of Wuhuan, Tadun, was summoning his younger brother Louban and the three Wuhuan kings Nanlou, Su Puyan and Wuyan to discuss matters. In Tadun's hand, he was holding the order issued by the seven Xianbei tribes to send troops to Youzhou and Bingzhou, which was sent day and night from the Xianbei royal court.
That's right, it was an order. The Xianbei tribe today is far from the glory it had during the time of Lord Tan Shihuai, but a lean camel is bigger than a horse. They are still the masters who have the final say on the grassland, especially the order jointly issued by the seven Xianbei lords. For the tribes on the grassland, it is no different from an imperial edict issued by the Han people when facing the strong imperial power.