In fact, we are not afraid that the bastion will fall into the hands of the barbarians.
If they really capture and occupy a bastion, it will be their time to die. There are not many others in Dayan and there are many people. When the time comes, the officers and soldiers will be guarding outside and will not attack. It has been a long time. , they will starve to death, and eventually they will abandon the fort sooner or later and run away, and Dayan officers and soldiers do not need to risk chasing them, as long as they escape.
After all, Dayan is completely different from the Hu people. When the Hu people attack the fortress, they don’t have enough manpower to capture it.
As for Dayan, he is afraid of death, so he doesn’t have to attack the fortress. There are many people anyway, so he can just defend it.
Of course, it would be best if the barbarians did not capture the bastion. After all, it would be a bit dangerous to surround the bastion occupied by the barbarians, especially for cowards like Dayan. They said that it was best if there was no danger. This was why they thought it would be troublesome if the barbarians took over the fortress.
The Hu people also took this into consideration and did not seize bastions everywhere.
Of course, the main reason is that they have few people and dare not divide their troops. After all, they have robbed many cities. In order to protect these cities, they have divided a lot of troops to defend those cities and then rob those bastions. Distribute the troops to various bastions, unless they are crazy. After all, even if one bastion is sent with hundreds of people, ten bastions will require thousands of people. This is a lot of troops for them.
The generals guarding Dayan felt that there were too many forts and no soldiers to defend them, let alone the few Hu people, and it was even less likely that they would have any troops to defend them.
Since they can't defend it, what are they doing to rob those bastions? What they think most about is breaking down the bastion and robbing people and property, rather than occupying the bastion for their own use.
So even if Dayan is depleted and only has one or two hundred people guarding a fort, there is no need to worry about barbarians taking away the fort, because it is useless to take away this piece of shit.
So at the moment, the Hu people watched the bastions keep advancing, but they had no choice. On the contrary, they had to worry about the new generals who were preparing to take back the cities they had occupied before, such as those cities that were already surrounded by many bastions.
They also realized at this moment that the situation was not good.
The frontmost city we occupied before had many bastions around it, some of which were inhabited by ordinary people.
In this way, when Dayan attacks the city occupied by them, the logistics can transport the food to the nearby bastion, so that they can keep besieging them. They don't have to worry about the food being gone if the siege lasts for a long time. Dispersed.
And once they are surrounded, even if they have no food, they will not be able to find a place to provide food even if they fight out. Then something will happen.
It's similar to the outcome of taking a bastion and being unable to defend it.
Can they not be afraid when they think of such an ending? We can only pray that Dayan's army will not think of this and dare not take back the city.
But how could Dayan's army not think of this? In addition, the new general is quite powerful. He has already begun to train his soldiers seriously, and is ready to take back the cities that are surrounded by many fortresses. .
Without advancing the front line, in the rear court, after the fall of Han Cifu, there was a period of turmoil in the court, but now it has stabilized. At this time, Linlang was already seventeen or eighteen years old, and almost five years had passed since he ascended the throne.
At such an old age, even the common people are already married, let alone the emperor. It is time to get married and rule in person.
As a result, there were more and more remonstrances from the government to let Linlang be drafted, married, and take charge of the government.
This time, there are even more people who want to stuff their daughters into the palace, because after five years of development, many people have seen that this little emperor has two brushes. In the future, he will only I'm afraid he is a wise king who can leave a name in history. In this way, who doesn't want to marry his daughter into the palace and gain some popularity in history in the future? Otherwise, with their mediocre official career, they want to be mentioned in history. It is impossible to leave a name on it.
At this time, it is still hard to tell that the little emperor has two brushes, unless he is a fool.
The navy's expansion of territory went smoothly. Since the change of generals in the north, the situation has also reversed. Through infrastructure construction in the Central Plains, many people have lived a good life, and through the recovery of clan land, many landless people have had a good life. With the acquisition of land, the previously serious land annexation phenomenon has been greatly alleviated, and uprisings everywhere have gradually disappeared.
The changes in the court were even greater. When the young emperor first came to the throne, there was no room for him to speak in the cabinet. Now, there are three parties in the cabinet, and the young emperor can speak.
The little emperor’s internal funds are richer than the national treasury through banks and national debts. If the little emperor hadn’t been overthrown by Han Cifu last year, she would have forcibly raised the commercial tax after being able to speak with the cabinet, and then launched The consumption tax on luxury goods has gradually filled the national treasury a lot this year. Otherwise, the national treasury would really become a pitiful person.
The fact that the little emperor can successfully implement consumption tax and increase commercial tax also shows that he has courage, otherwise he would not be able to implement it.
It has only been five years since the little emperor came to power. Through a series of innovations, the entire court has been completely renewed and prosperous. It seems that the dynasty is about to be revived. It would be a fool to say that the little emperor is incompetent.
If there was no evidence, they would all suspect that the downfall of Mr. Ma Ge, Han Cifu and others was caused by the little emperor in order to clean up the cabinet and replace it with people who were beneficial to the little emperor. After all, look The current cabinet is not beneficial to the little emperor.
Not to mention anything else, General Wang, who was transferred from the front line, was found guilty of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, short-paying, and depriving soldiers of their pay, not long after he was transferred back to the mainland. Moreover, it was not collected by the emperor, but the other party had really committed these crimes. The evidence was conclusive, so no one objected, so he was sentenced to death.
Originally, Ling Chi was punished for collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, but the emperor was kind-hearted and said that Ling Chi's punishment was too cruel and would not be used in the future, so he only used beheading.
Look, that General Wang was dealt with like this. On the surface, it was not the emperor who took action, but the bad things he did were exposed, but everyone felt confused and felt that this was too coincidental. , how come those who have committed crimes can be exposed every now and then, and then deal with them, adding a lot of money to the national treasury.
Because of their worries, they acted much more cautiously in the future, and became less and less afraid to act recklessly, for fear that someone would find out and be as unlucky as Mr. Ma Ge and others.
Linlang naturally refused to agree to their urging to marry, and only said: "Let's wait until I'm past my prime. I still have a lot of things to do and don't have time for this."
In two or three years, she should have more real power, and then more people will be tied to her chariot. Even if the woman's identity is announced, no one will dare to mention it and ask her to give up the throne to the clan. After all, after she stepped down, those who had benefited from her were afraid that the emperor and his courtiers would lose those benefits. (End of this chapter)