Song Yi's insightful views were not adopted. Empress Dowager Dou, who was eager to escape from Dou Xian, insisted on carrying out the Northern Expedition, so the Northern Expedition was advanced.

Of course, the Northern Huns, who were not as good as before, could not resist the powerful attacks of the Eastern Han government forces. Dou Xian himself was indeed very skilled in using military forces and had very good military talents.

In this way, the Northern Huns had absolutely no chance of victory.

After a hard battle, Dou Xian successfully defeated the Northern Xiongnu, drove the Northern Xiongnu, which had declined to the point of being unable to fight against the Eastern Han Empire, and forced them to move westward.

From then on, the Northern Huns had no chance of threatening the Eastern Han Empire.

They were completely defeated by the Eastern Han Empire, left their homeland far away and headed west, causing unexpected and huge troubles to the Western rulers of the same era.

But the troubles of the Eastern Han Empire did not end there.

What happened later also proved that Song Yi’s view was correct.

Losing the clamps of the Northern Huns, the Eastern Han government forces had no plans or plans to occupy the grasslands at all, and the grasslands became a vacuum area for development.

The Northern Huns were completely beaten away, and the Southern Huns continued to stay on the northern border and did not leave. Dou Xian was soon killed by Emperor He of Han on charges of rebellion. The Xianbei people were the ones who got a big advantage.

The Xianbei began to develop rapidly.

The population and size increased greatly, and soon became an existence that the Han Empire could not underestimate in any case.

Before Tan Shihuai, the Xianbei had been in wartime and harmony with the Eastern Han government, and had become a major border trouble for the Eastern Han Empire. After Tan Shihuai appeared, the Xianbei once restored the oppression of the Huns on the Han Empire during their heyday.

It’s a pity that the fortune of Xianbei was not good at that time.

Although the Han Empire was gone, its foundation was still there. The warlords at the end of the Han Dynasty had strong military power and could still suppress the Xianbei. Tan Shihuai did not live long afterwards, which made the Xianbei miss the chaos in the Central Plains.

The second chance was to reunify the Xianbei Kirby, but Kirby also had no fortune and was killed by the assassin Han Long.

Both times it can be said that God is helping the Central Plains Empire.

Until the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, there was an internal turmoil in the Jin Dynasty and the national strength of the Central Plains dynasty was exhausted in the internal strife. The Xianbei people established seven countries in northern China in succession. The descendants of Tuyuhun and their identities still existed until the Tang Dynasty, affecting the course of Chinese history for hundreds of years.

But the root of this is not how powerful the Xianbei people are, but the rulers of the Central Plains dynasty themselves to death.

When they had the advantage, they did not make the right strategic decisions, but instead made a lot of tricks. They always started to look down on the grassland tribes when they won. They never thought that they had the possibility of making a comeback.

So after reading the historical materials, Guo Peng expressed his views to Guo Jin who was standing beside him very helplessly.

"Before occupying the local area's full control, the local political ecology should not be easily destroyed. You need to know that the fisherman can only benefit if he fights with a snipe and a clam. If there is no snipe and a clam, what profit will the fisherman get?

Empress Dowager Dou and Dou Xian launched the Northern Expedition for their own selfish interests, and achieved tactical victory, temporary victory and reputation, but the greatest fruit of victory was achieved by the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people almost got everything left by the Northern Huns, and their population increased greatly. Thirty years later, it eventually became a big disaster and caused disaster to the northern border to this day. How could this not be the fault of Empress Dowager Dou and Dou Xian?”

Guo Jin supported his father's view.

He believed that Dou Xian and Empress Dowager Dou decided to attack the Northern Xiongnu due to political reasons and used the attack on the Northern Xiongnu as political bargaining chips.

Their intention to go to war was not for the entire country, but for the sake of their family to continue to rule and gain power. This is not correct in the first place.

After achieving tactical victory, but not gaining much benefit from it, and not making good use of the grassland to develop the grassland animal husbandry economy is equivalent to fighting a one-time war, gaining a one-time reputation, and then burying thunder for future generations.

Strategically, this war was obviously unsuccessful, at least they did not see far enough.

The insightful opinions put forward by people at that time were not adopted under political factors.

This made several generations of emperors after the Eastern Han Empire feel puzzled by the Xianbei issue. If they want to attack the Xianbei, they are defeated by the Xianbei.

The defeat of 30,000 Eastern Han cavalry in the northern expedition of Xianbei during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han was something that Guo personally experienced.

It was a difficult battle without failure. Even if you barely win, you cannot shake the Xianbei's advantage.

So it also caused trouble for Mr. Guo later.

The current Xianbei has basically withdrawn from the southern desert area after more than ten years of continuous attacks by Mr. Guo, losing more than 200,000 people.

But this did not really defeat the Xianbei people.

Mr. Guo just cleared the border for a moment, leaving the Xianbei people in the border area without seeing them. There are still many Xianbei people, all hiding in the northern desert, and they have the ability to reproduce and fight.

They were influenced by the activity of Wei (Zhang) army flying on the border and did not dare to go south on a large scale.

But this is only temporary.

However, more than ten years later, when the influence of the Little Binghe River cannot be ignored, and when the Xianbei people cannot support themselves in Mobei, no matter how scared they are, they will be forced to go south.

The southward movement of the zero-degree isotherm not only caused a devastating blow to the Han agricultural areas, but also a devastating blow to the Xianbei people in the livestock areas.

The large number of people they raised during the warm period cannot survive in the cold period, and the cattle and sheep will freeze to death in large quantities, and the population will also be at risk of starving to death in large quantities.

In order to survive and to fill their stomachs, even if there is a sea of ​​swords and fires ahead, they will rush over.

If you don’t rush, you will starve to death. If you rush, you will have a glimmer of hope.

How to choose one of these two options? Everyone has a scale in their hearts.

So Guo is very clear that he will not solve the problem of the Xianbei people now. In more than ten years, a new generation of Xianbei will grow up and the population will increase. When hundreds of thousands of Xianbei cavalry are forced to go south, it is when the Wei Empire is facing a great crisis.

At that time, I might still be alive, maybe I am still an emperor, but Mr. Guo has never been a person who would choose to be beaten passively.

Mr. Guo’s choice is always to move forward and then move forward, war or war.

We should take advantage of the fact that his elite founding army was still maintaining strong combat power, the founding generals still maintained strong fighting will, and the founding dynasty still maintained unparalleled mobilization power, and the Xianbei people should be completely dealt with.

For this reason, Mr. Guo decided to launch another decisive battle in Mobei.

The last decisive battle in Mobei was initiated by Emperor Wu of Han. In order to completely break the backbone of the Huns, Emperor Wu of Han fought with the national strength to launch a decisive battle in Mobei against the Huns.

Unfortunately, Emperor Wu of Han did not have the three magical artifacts of cavalry, otherwise he would have obtained more cavalry and longer-term continuous combat capabilities, and the Han army's lethality against the Huns would have greatly increased.

The loss of horses will decrease, the combat effectiveness of cavalry will increase, and the number of cavalry will increase.

And when the other party has no substantial change, there is definitely a possibility of eliminating the other party in one breath.

This is Mr. Guo’s biggest strategic goal.

The Huns were gone, and the biggest threat to the Wei Empire was the Xianbei people.

In his blueprint of war, he would mobilize fifteen to two hundred thousand cavalry, two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand transport mules and horses, seventy to one million auxiliary soldiers and civilians.

With the confidence of occupying all the reserve materials accumulated in Hebei for more than ten years, an unprecedented battle of storm swept across the northern part of the world and swallowed the Xianbei.

This time, Mr. Guo wanted to follow the footsteps of the ancients and uproot the Xianbei, a replacement for the Huns, along with the steps of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing.

It is impossible to see even a Xianbei person who dares to go south to loot on the grassland.

For this reason, he decided to launch a large-scale action to eliminate corrupt officials at this time, and to kill a group of internal rice insects before the war began.

In this way, we will deter grassroots bureaucrats and let them operate with all their strength during the war, so that they will not drag their backs on the front line and affect the situation on the front line when the war is tense, or that the war materials such as military pay, food and fodder will have an impact on the front line.

During a war in front, the fire cannot be caught in the rear. If the fire catches the rear, the results will be greatly reduced.

While Guo mobilized a large number of officials to go to various places to inspect corrupt officials, he also made preparations for a full-scale war in Luoyang.

He ordered the staff to start aggregation of all the news about the Xianbei in the Mobei region that the Wei people obtained through war, captives and merchants over the decades before the gathering of the Wei people, and made a comprehensive judgment.

Not only that, we must also make the war sand table, mark the Xianbei people in the northern part of the Mo River, and determine the basic goals of the Wei army's northern expedition.

During these years, although the Wei Empire maintained a blow to the Xianbei tribe, its business exchanges with the Xianbei have not been cut off, and there are as many businesses as they should have.

The special part of the Cao family caravan and the Mi family caravan took on this part of the business.

These merchants brought various silk cloth, salt, iron, rice, grain, etc. to the Xianbei tribe in exchange for a large amount of wealth.

For example, cattle, sheep, horses, or various leather products, bone products, etc.

On the one hand, we meet the daily needs of the Xianbei people, and on the other hand, we also need to obtain these special products to go to other places to do business and continue to make money.

Anyway, if these rare commodities are shipped to Jiangnan, there will always be profits.

The trade demand in this area also left room for buffering for the Xianbei people, so that the Xianbei people would not have such a large-scale demand for southward travel, and it would not be difficult for Zhang Fei to deal with.

Zhang Fei then launched a war of thousands of people through continuous fishing, killing many Xianbei tribes that tentatively moved south, accumulating a small amount and making great contributions.

But so many people, like Zhang Fei, cannot be completely eliminated.

Xianbei is a large group, and many people will not work if they want to eliminate it in one breath.

When dealing with an enemy of a large size, it is inappropriate to directly engage in a strategic decisive battle with him.

It is a good tactic to carry out continuous bloodletting through continuous small-scale sneak attacks, so that it cannot grow smoothly and gradually become tired.
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