Even the Taihang Mountains cannot withstand the cold wind again and again. After repeated blows, even the higher mountains will still blow through the bones and coldness.
Just like a household in Taihang, who thought that if he escaped into the mountains, he would not be caught.
result……
As Cao's army flocked into the Taihang Mountains, the people who did not believe in Fei Qian and thought they could do it began to be unlucky.
The area where Zhao Yan invaded was the battlefield between Qin and Zhao, the Changping area.
The Battle of Changping completely accelerated the pace of China's first great unification. With the fall of the Battle of Changping, the last beam of the six kingdoms was chiseled, and Zhao, the last powerful country in the north, was crippled and could not recover. This battle was also the Battle of the Gods of the Gods by the gods Bai Qi at that time. Bai Qi finally played in overtime. Using the terrain of Changping, the Danshui obstacles and the Qin Legion with the highest technical and tactical level at that time, the Qin Legion, which was the most skilled and tactical level at that time, performed the siege battle with the highest technical and tactical level during the classical war of China with its great aura.
Although there was basically no paper during the Battle of Changping, the defeated party was always called "paper talk". When later generations talked about Changping, they felt that they had encountered teammates and gods' opponents in ranking battles, or they were either sighing that Bai Qi was cruel to kill gods and killing 400,000 Zhao Zu. However, not many people realized that this battle was actually a Verdun meat grinder during the classical war of Chinese civilization.
After such a battle, the classical multinational system of China collapsed completely. From the beginning of the Battle of Changping, civilians were no longer objects that could be exempted, but became things that could be destroyed, slaughtered, and killed at will.
All competitions in multi-national systems were a minor and refined aristocratic wars in the initial stage, which was the same in ancient and modern times, but because the level of internal struggle in China was upgraded too quickly, it quickly crossed the medieval line in the West and directly entered the late stage of classical wars. The West had to wait until Louis XIV, King Frederick, Napoleon and others appeared one after another to gradually turn the "game-style competition" of aristocratic masters between many countries into a vicious population competition of "infinite expansion". The originally polite aristocratic war model gradually evolved into a total war that swept the whole people, and eventually led to the collapse and decline of the multi-national system.
This is the biggest historical impact brought by the Battle of Changping...
People in later generations may be able to look at the Battle of Changping with a playful attitude, but the ancient people in the pre-Qin period must have looked at the Battle of Changping, just like the Europeans who looked at the First World War, and were full of pain, thinking that it was a war without a victor. After the Battle of Changping, Qin State was equivalent to losing the vast majority of the ability to export order, and since then it was linked to the word "tyranny".
After the Battle of Changping, the differences between the six countries decreased and their cooperation was obviously more sincere.
Shortly after the Battle of Changping, Qin launched another attack on Handan, the capital of Zhao, in an attempt to destroy Zhao. In this case, represented by Xinling Jun, regardless of his own safety, he stole the talisman to save Zhao, Wei, and Chu also extended a helping hand to Zhao in time. The three sides jointly defeated the Qin army, which was a military operation that best reflected the strategic proposition of the "Hezong"; unfortunately it was already difficult to return.
The evil consequences of Qin's excessive killing and attacks slowly emerged after Qin Shihuang's death. The voices of overthrowing tyranny came one after another. Although there were secret actions by the old nobles of the six countries, it also reflected that no one would be willing to become a mustard slaughtered by "tyranny" at will!
Now, the new Battle of Changping has begun again.
Perhaps the form is different, but the dead people are still so similar.
The smoke of the Battle of Changping in the past has gone far away, but in the Han Dynasty, there were still not many people in the Gaoping area of ​​Changping, because in the Han Dynasty people's concept, they believed that there were at least 400,000 unjust souls here, and they were full of resentment and were not suitable for living people to live.
Although it once became a fief of some people during the Western Han Dynasty, it actually did not bring much prosperity to the Changping region.
After Fei sneaked into the northern part, Jia Qu, the prefect of Shangdang, also concentrated his main force in the Huguan area, which was basically a free-range state for the Changping area. Its function is just like the Heluo area, as a buffer zone between Shangdang and Henoi, and the other is that Huguan is closer to Taiyuan. If the defense center is dispersed to the Danshui area of ​​Changping, it will undoubtedly make Huguan insufficient power.
When the Cao army was detecting that the Cao army had crossed Taihang Xing, Jia Qu ordered people in Changping to withdraw from Huguan and implement the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. However, soldiers could be sent to help and urge them near Huguan. However, after passing the Danshui area of ​​Changping after passing the Greater and Small Pass, Jia Qu was powerless, which led to many people in Changping who were lucky enough to not leave their homes, but stayed in the same place...
The Cao army climbed over Taihang Xing, and the ordinary county soldiers in the Changping area were obviously unable to resist the Cao army's attack.
"The city is broken..."
"Cao Army has entered the city..."
『Run quickly…』
The broken city walls of Changping County were not able to last long under the attack of Cao's army led by Cao Tai and Zhao Yan, and were declared lost.
Cao's army rushed into Changping County along the street, but found that Changping was not as wealthy as they originally thought. Even if they opened up all the granaries in the county, they would just scrape out three melons and two dates, and even could not make up for the Cao's army's consumption of attacking Changping.
Faced with such a situation, Zhao Yan had a headache.
"Join the army, these are all thieves!" Cao Tai, who followed up, waved his hand indifferently, "You can collect military rations! Just eat from the enemy, so you can save the difficulty of transferring fortunes!"
Zhao Yan frowned and said, "The Cavalry Commander's move...is something wrong...it's better to make a long-term plan..."
"From the long-term plan, there is food and grass to grow on its own, so that we can have enough granaries?" Cao Tai sneered, "This is the case! The whole army immediately collects food and grass! But if there are those who hide food and grass, kill them!"
Zhao Yan wanted to say something, but looking at the empty granaries, he finally sighed.
"According to the emperor's decree! The Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, Marquis Wu Ping, will show you!"
In the crossroads of Changping, Cao Jun civil servant stood high, shouting with his head raised...
"The cavalry is unrighteous! Cut off things and strips the people of evil!"
The soldiers of Cao's army smashed open the broken door of the Changping people and rushed in and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets.
"The emperor is kind and the prime minister is merciful!"
The people of Changping cried and watched Cao's army looting away his remaining rations, or were beaten and killed and lay down in a pool of blood.
"The cavalry was in Chang'an, and they were extravagant and usurped, but they did not use a grain of grain to help the people!"
The Cao army soldiers kicked the old man who blocked the road to the ground with one kick.
"Now, according to the emperor's edict, we will fight against tyranny, follow the laws of heaven, understand all directions, and pacify the eight wildernesses!"
The Cao army soldiers killed the man in the family with one knife, then grabbed the woman's hair and dragged it into the house.
"The Yishi has strict military discipline and no offenses will be violated by the army!"
The blood-stained food was gathered little by little and piled up on the baggage truck.
"The people of Shangdang were encouraged by hearing the news and ate a pot of slurry to welcome the king's army..."
Zhao Yan stood on the broken city wall of Changping, looking at the blood spreading on the city wall, looking at the surrounding mountains and rivers, and finally sighed, "It's so pitiful to the people..."
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Near Yumen Pass.
When Fei Qian saw the rippling blue waves in the distance again, he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh, and then he felt that his whole body was almost about to melt, and even his breath was filled with dust.
The desertification of the Western Regions is a wavy line, ups and downs.
Lop Nur in later generations was still a huge salt lake in the Han Dynasty.
Before the name of Yanze, it was once called Puchanghai, Daze, Luoze, etc. It was even believed that this was the upper reaches of the river.
But it is obvious that when Zhang Qian said that this was "Salt Lake", Lop Nur had already begun to shrink, which led to the water quality becoming salty. At that time, it was the Western Han Dynasty.
One or two hundred years have passed, and the salt water has become more and more salty.
Salt and alkali appeared in many places, and some vegetation that could fix the soil died, so naturally the wind and sand became stronger.
In the Tang Dynasty, due to climate change, the drought and semi-arid lines were once again moved northward, and Lop Nur restored a large amount of vegetation. Then when Xuanzang was seeking Buddhist scriptures, he saw a lot of blue waves, and then declined again. Then during the Yuan Dynasty, he shone for a while...
Fei Qian pointed to the Yanze in front of him, "It's easier to set up camp here today!"
The soldiers cheered, as if they had more strength, and they all moved forward one after another. Even the war horses seemed to be excited because of this. They lifted their hooves and ran forward, throwing the raised wind and sand on Fei Qian's face.
Fei Qian laughed and scolded for a few words, and drove the horse forward slowly.
When I saw the water, I didn't know why, my body started to itch.
Fei Qian set out from Xihai City and arrived here without taking a shower.
On the one hand, water is very precious, on the other hand, there is a lot of wind and sand along the way, and taking a bath is useless. Moreover, the oil stains formed on the body can sometimes protect the wrinkles of the joints so that they will not be bleed by the fine sand.
After this trip to the Western Regions, Fei Qian gradually understood some things that he could not see clearly in Chang'an.
For ordinary soldiers, they may only see the merits of the head and the gains of the battle. For the generals of Zhang Liao Taishici, they may see the destruction of the Western Regions and the surrender and tribute of various countries. For time travelers like Fei Qian, are they just satisfied with this?
In the Western Regions, Fei Qian saw the imprints of civilization erosion.
The imprints of civilization in the Western Regions are like the vegetation of Lop Nur, rising and falling, some civilizations have disappeared, and some civilizations have remained.
In later generations, Fei Qian was once brainwashed by Western literature. After all, China did not seize those high ground at that time, and no one was interested in studying those boring documents. Therefore, theories about human evolutionary history are basically dominated by Western literature.
The man who cut the wrong kidney by a modern cultural enlightenment scholar proposed a new word from the four ancient civilizations to cheer up the hearts of the Chinese people. In fact, the concept of cutting the wrong kidney also originated from the West.
The so-called ancient civilizations of several ancient civilizations are actually wrong.
The wrong nature of this statement is not to eliminate whom, or to join whom, or there are actually five people in the four heavenly kings, but the word "several civilizations" itself means that these civilizations may have rankings, but those who belong to the same level are on par, and it implies that human civilization is developed from the separation of several independent individuals.
In fact, civilization cannot be independent and separate...
With the help of the potential guard Fei Qian took off his armor and moved his body.
The salt zodiac, or Lop Nur in front of me, is like a huge mirror, which stores all the blues of the sky. From a distance, the dots of green are like jade in the sky. Groups of birds are chirping and flying by in the air, as if they are complaining about Fei Qian that their peaceful life has been destroyed.
Fei Qian patted the cloth robe on his body, then sat on a stone, took off his boots, knocked them hard on the stone, poured out the sand and soil inside.
The speed of walking back is relatively fast, and the reason for the speed is that you don’t need to carry heavy artillery.
In fact, many people didn’t understand before Fei Qian promoted artillery technology, but after the battle at Shanshan Royal City in the Western Regions, many people’s concepts changed.
The development of new technologies always requires a process.
In the process of development of this technology, blood is needed. It is not the blood of one's own people, but it must be the blood of others.
The Lop Nur in front of me looks vast and endless, but Fei Qian knew that this was actually just a big lake. In a few hundred years, it would shrink into a pond and eventually disappear...
Will Lop Nur, which is re-irrigated and injected into the water source after the new century, still be the original pond?
The whole world is like a huge pond, and the civilizations developed in various places are like the rippling water waves in the pond. The center of the ripples is the center of civilization, and other places are the areas spread by the water waves.
Therefore, it can be said that civilization should divide the core zone and the marginal zone.
The Western Regions are undoubtedly the marginal area of ​​civilization, so they have been influenced by water waves in China and Central Asia.
There is no doubt about this.
The strength of civilization also includes the military part, but in addition to military, there are also technological advancement, superior living standards, and protection of people's welfare. These factors build a civilization's center. The higher it is, the more it will become the object of imitation and learning in other marginal areas of civilization.
This is the ripples of civilization and the tower of civilization.
Above the tower, people will inevitably be looked up to, and the narrow political system, economic system, pure material technology and science derived from civilization will become the fuel for the tower to bloom brilliantly.
The decline and birth of civilization have no direct connection with the system adopted by the political dynasty, but is related to productivity. The more production technologies, the newer and stronger the strength of civilization, and the center of the emergence of new technologies will naturally be the center of the emergence of political order, economic order and other orders.
The military force that protects this civilization is closely related to its own political order. When the civilization center does not have its technological crushing advantage over the surrounding areas, or when the technical level is similar, the comparison of military power under different political systems becomes the last straw that crushes the tower of civilization.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, it was undoubtedly the last technical crushing window of the Chinese classical war period. If you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to cause critical damage to the surrounding low-civilized areas.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu also led the troops of the two Huai Rivers to fight the last critical strike against the Yuan Dynasty. However, this critical strike was not caused by the backward and ignorance of the Yuan Dynasty's political system and could not adapt to the ruling needs of the huge empire. Therefore, Lao Zhu learned from the lessons of the powerful separatist rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty's vassal states, and the strong and weak branches of the Song Dynasty, and established a garrison mechanism in which the emperor was in charge of the central government, the royal family defended the frontier, and passed on from generation to generation with professional soldiers. This mechanism was a very efficient military mechanism under the circumstances of strong external enemies, but in peacetime, the speed of corruption in the royal family and the administration would exceed imagination...
Fei Qian found two dry branches, inserted them on the ground, and then hung his boots.
I have been wearing this kind of boot for a long time, and now I have untied it, the smell is...
Moreover, it was not Fei Qian alone, and the entire army was on the offside. It was fine if the soldiers responsible for the guard and the camp were built, but the soldiers who were on the rest were about the same as Fei Qian, who took off their armor and shook the sand, and let go of their legs and put down their boots.
Between the blue sky and clear water, there was a faint green atmosphere spreading.
Fei Qian sniffed, and he couldn't smell his salted fish, but the salted fish from others could smell it. However, the smell around him made Fei Qian's sense of smell much slower.
This is like the corruption of administration...
When you are in a closed and decaying space for a long time, you often can't smell the corruption.
Therefore, if you want to avoid large-scale corruption, you must have an outside atmosphere to make the air flow.
The Western Regions are windows, the Northern Regions are also windows, and the South China Regions are also Jiaozhi.
I don’t know how Lao Liu is doing now. The last time I said that I had some trade contacts with Jiangdong, but then there was no news.
This old Liu...
Forget it, Jiaozhi is also a marginal area of ​​civilization.
If China can successfully implement the civilized ripple policy in the Western Regions, it can also expand the fluctuations to the southern part of Jiaozhi.
Fei Qian forced artillery technology with almost one person's strength, and was also to prevent the fact that the technology in the classical military period of China was flattened by the surrounding areas, China could quickly turn into the modern chemical gunpowder period and continue to maintain its suppression on the surrounding low-civilized areas and marginal areas.
But this is just Fei Qian's personal wish. If China wants to continue to develop military technology instead of squandering the whole country, there must be enemies, and enemies may trigger the self-respect of the military generals and nobles.
This is the same as the fact that civil servants may be responsible for disasters and self-respect.
Civil officials ridicule military officers, and military officers ridicule civil servants, but the root of this is actually all interests. Such things are basically impossible to avoid in a class-based feudal dynasty.
Fei Qian waved to Zhang Liao, then signaled Zhang Liao to sit down aside and asked: "What is the strength of the Western Regions compared to Yu Han?"
"Ah?" Zhang Liao couldn't help but be stunned.
Zhang Liao originally thought that Fei Qian asked him to come over because he wanted to talk about some military arrangements or talk about some matters after Lu Bu advanced westwardly. However, he didn't expect that Fei Qian asked this question?
Chapter completed!