Erqin took a photo and only talked about Ningyuan City and Jinzhou City, but did not mention Shanhaiguan, nor did he mention the flower world inside Shanhaiguan.

This is because he is still rational and knows that such a thing cannot happen.

With the desperate terrain and elite troops on the Shanhaiguan Great Wall defense line, it is enough to let anyone get rid of the luxury of capturing Shanhaiguan from the front.

However, Ningyuan City and Jinzhou City are also prosperous enough compared to them.

Especially in the Jinzhou City area, there are 400,000 people inside and outside the city, with rich supplies and numerous merchants, especially grain and weapons. If they can be won, they will really make a fortune.

Unfortunately, Jinzhou City, as the largest city in Liaoning, is also the first line of defense to fight against Wei. Not only is the city wall built tall and solid, there are 80,000 troops inside!

There are only 200,000 people in Jinzhou City, and it can be said that most of the people living there are soldiers and their families!

When they encounter such a tough guy, and their families are all in the city, they can think about it and know how hard they will work.

That doesn't count.

Within a radius of twenty miles of Jinzhou City, there are three acropolises, each with 10,000 people, all of which are soldiers of the garrison.

Among these 110,000 soldiers, 100,000 of them were from local residents, and only 10,000 were the soldiers of the Six Guards who came to rotate every year.

So there are nearly 200,000 people outside the city, basically their relatives, friends and tribe members.

When these people were fighting, they either fled farther away or fled into the main city and the acropolis to increase their strength to defend the city and the bonds of the soldiers guarding the city.

Therefore, even in the previous dynasty, the Shiwei people did not take advantage of Jinzhou City many times.

In the past two hundred years, they have not conquered Jinzhou City once.

As a result, more than 80 years ago, when the dynasty was changed, Jinzhou and Ningyuan, including all the people in Liaoning, all surrendered to the Dakang Dynasty. The Dakang Dynasty soldiers had obtained such a strategic location without bloodshed, which made Shi Wei so angry that he vomited blood.

The labor and capital have killed and injured so many people and consumed so much financial and material resources. You are unwilling to surrender. Even if you suffer heavy casualties and injuries, you will have to fight us to the end.

But when the Dakang court came with an edict, you surrendered without saying goodbye. What is the reason?

Of course these barbarians don't understand.

This is a conflict between two ethnic groups, two cultures, and two beliefs, and it was impossible to reconcile in ancient times.

The power of the orthodox inheritance of the Central Plains is so powerful.

Come back to your eyes.

No one answered Erqin's photo, and Yelu Feiyang continued: "Mr. Gao, since the money has arrived, you can lead someone to give the extension fee first in the past two days! Avoid people saying that we don't trust."

"yes!"

Gao Du, a scholar from Dakang next to him, stood up and bowed.

"By the way, you have to urge them to give the rewards they should give to the soldiers, and don't put them all into the hands of their fat nobles and generals. How can you fight in this way?" Yelu Feiyang then reminded him again.

"yes!"

Gao Du responded seriously.

Erqian took a picture and his mouth moved, but there was no sarcasm.

Shi Wei ruled the surrounding Black Mountain and Baishui, which is thousands of miles apart, with a roughly population of six million.

But most of the people are not Shiwei, there are Bohai, Qiyan, Baekje, Xi, etc.

The total population of Shiwei is about three million, because it is the ruling class and does not require labor. Its troops exceed 300,000. Only so many troops can it be conquered.

The rest of the tribes generally obey the rule of Shi Wei, pay various taxes, etc.

The tax they usually pay falls into the lower class, or even smaller tribes that don’t even know what kind of tribe they are.

If there is a war on weekdays, of course, I can't fight with all my strength. If I fight all the troops at that time, my younger brothers under me should rebel.

So every time, the elite soldiers from the lower tribes were recruited to unite to fight.

Of course, this is not a waste of mobilizing other people's troops. If you treat others as cannon fodder every time, and every time you eat meat, people can't even drink a sip of soup, then these tribes would rather run away than surrender to Shi Wei.

For example, this time, Shi Wei made such a big move, of course he promised Chongli.

Yelu Feiyang, a coalition of 150,000 ethnic groups, promised a total of 5 million taels of benefits. He sent one million taels before the battle started, and another one million taels were captured in the Forefather City of Jinzhou, and another two million taels were captured in the Jinzhou City and the left and right acropolis. After the battle, he withdrew the troops and returned one million taels.

In addition, Jinzhou City was built, and all the gold, silver, jewelry, grain, various materials, including population, were allocated according to their merits.

These tribes are so poor that they are all horses, cattle and sheep left. When they hear that there is so much money to take and the benefits of capturing Jinzhou City, they are of course ecstatic and sent most of the elite troops in the tribe over.

In fact, they had nothing to cherish about the herdsmen in their hands, that is, the soldiers who were now riding horses to fight.

If you die, you will die. Anyway, you will be born every year, and it is not worth more than horses, cattle and sheep.

But Yelu Feiyang couldn't do this.

He read history books and knew why even if the grassland tribes can be powerful, they still cannot rule the Central Plains for a long time.

The most important thing is of course the different cultures and beliefs of the two ethnic groups.

Then there is the most important point: people in the grassland generally do not regard people as humans.

On the grassland, the tribal leaders, elders, and leaders regarded the herders below as livestock. They shepherded sheep and horses for them on weekdays and helped them seize wealth and population during wars, but they only gave them food and clothing, even food and clothing.

Do you think the herdsmen are pitiful?

Yes, they are pitiful in their own tribe.

But when I got outside, I was cruel and vicious. I killed people without blinking and did not treat others as human beings.

So, what qualifications do you think of such a grassland tribe as saying that they can occupy a good place, rule the people, and thus gain long-term benefits?

No!

Yelu Feiyang tried to change this situation.

But over the years, he found that most of the Shiwei people who had moved into the city were very adapted to such changes. No tribe who lived on the grassland could adapt to it.

After dozens of failed experiments, Yelu Feiyang had to pause and became a slightly gentler method.

For example, if these tribes were asked to send troops to attack Jinzhou City this time, it would be impossible to give them any excise fees, rewards, etc. ten years ago.

I just call you over and give me the front line. If you win, you will get some soup for you to drink. If you lose, you will be unlucky.

Shi Wei is responsible for food and grass at most.

It has been different since Yelu Feiyang took charge of military affairs.

He has rewarded all military actions in recent years, which has made him very good credit for the vassal group. This time, a large-scale convening of 150,000 people came as evidence.

With so many troops gathered, the vassal tribes only had less than half of their strength. If Shi Wei sent the army to take them all in one fell swoop, it would be no difficulty.

Yelu Feiyang also had another innovation. No matter how much the money he gave was distributed to the herdsmen and soldiers at the bottom.

As long as these people make meritorious contributions, even if they are not Shi Wei, they will receive a heavy reward from Yelu Feiyang. Their clan leader dare not be greedy at all, otherwise Yelu Feiyang will directly kill these clan leader leaders.

The matter spread, and more and more grassland people regarded Yelu Feiyang as a wise ruler, and some warriors in tribes also began to surrender to Yelu Feiyang, making Yelu Feiyang's strength stronger and stronger.

Most of the people present supported Yelu Feiyang. Although Erqin took photos with him extremely cruel, he admired the third prince very much and defected to Yelu Feiyang early.

...

When Gao Du went out, Yelu Feiyang asked another staff member next to him: "Mr. Chen, in terms of logistics, our food and food resources are purchased nearby. Can you be sure to do it?"

"no problem!"

Chen Wuheshou, an aide from Dakang, said: "Our intelligence spies not only understand their general property and operating conditions, but also know clearly how much food and various materials there are.

Three, many grain merchants have transported grain in the area recently. They were originally planning to use it for their own use and sell it to our Wei. But now they are blocked by us, so they can only sell it to us. We buy grain on the spot, but it saves a lot of money!

As for grass and other things, because we have been consciously keeping storage since last fall, we have a lot of inventory, and summer is coming soon, so there is no problem with supplying it."

Well-known.

The most troublesome thing in war in ancient times was food and grass.

The more severe the war is, the more food and grass will be consumed.

The loss of transporting food and grass to the battlefield is several times more than the soldiers' food, or even ten times more likely.

Shi Wei sent out a total of more than 200,000 troops this time, and he could eat a mountain every day with people alone.

Not to mention that there are at least 200,000 horses, how much grass will be consumed in a day?

It’s not that there are not enough horses on the grassland. You are more than enough for one person and two horses. But after so many horses gather together, the grass within a hundred miles of battle will be gnawed. At that time, this place may become a desert!

The grass on the grassland is the most important strategic material for eternity, and is even more important than the life of a tribe.

If anyone dares to do this, it will bring anger to everyone.

Therefore, there are so many talents on the grassland who envy Dakang people. They can grow so much food to eat every year and eat as much as they want. It’s so happy!

Well, basically this situation is not available in Dakang, but it does not hinder the continuous publicity of the nobles and leaders on the grassland, making everyone think that Dakang is a place that is rich and can arouse everyone's enthusiasm, capture Dakang's land and capture their property.

Retracted my thoughts.

Yelu Feiyang looked at everyone in the tent.
Chapter completed!