Juyan County is the main passage in and out of Liangzhou and the desert. In the past few years, the Hu people on the grassland could come and leave whenever they wanted.

Since Feng Jishi sent troops to regain this place, order has finally been restored in Juyan County, without the chaos of previous years.

Now if you want to leave the country, you must have a certificate from the government.

If you want to enter the fortress, you also need the permission of the Guansai officers and soldiers.

The rebuilt barrier once again fulfilled its duties.

Although in the past two years, officers and soldiers coming in and out of Guan Fortress have been very frequent, it has given the people of Juyan County in Guan Fortress an inexplicable sense of peace of mind.

The fortresses built on the grasslands by the former Han Dynasty, after leaving Juyan County, did not meander all the way to the east, but slightly to the northeast (that is, into the territory of Mongolia in later generations).

Then somewhere in Mobei, it slowly turns southwest again until it reaches the hometown of Jiuyuan.

What's interesting is that when I followed the Guansai ruins eastward from Juyan County, I discovered halfway that another Guansai would pop up in the south.

There are two passes, one in the south and one in the north, leading to the hometown of Jiuyuan.

Later generations called the pass in the north the Great Wall outside the Han Dynasty, and the one in the south the Great Wall inside the Han Dynasty.

(The direction of the Han Great Wall in the desert is slightly parallel to the Inner Mongolia section of the later G7 highway, but the G7 highway is in China)

Even in later generations, after two thousand years, the ruins of the Han Great Wall are still preserved in many places in the desert.

During the Three Kingdoms era, which was only two to three hundred years after the Han Dynasty, the completeness of the pass on the desert was far better than Feng Yong originally imagined.

There are even some beacons and city barriers that still retain their general appearance.

The so-called beacon, that is, a beacon tower, is a high platform used to light smoke for early warning.

The city barrier is where the soldiers and civilians in the pass live.

There were rules for building forts in the Early Han Dynasty. Basically, there was a beacon every ten miles, and a city barrier every hundred miles.

Feng Tubiao is sincerely grateful to the former Han Dynasty for its majestic atmosphere.

Because these city barriers listed on the grassland were natural marching camps for the Han army setting out from Juyan County.

Even if you are stationed in a dilapidated city barrier, it is much better than stationed on a grassy field where the wind blows from all directions.

More importantly, the relatively well-preserved city barrier near Juyan County should be renovated.

Three to five hundred sergeants were stationed at each city barrier, which would be the outpost of the Han's influence extending to the grassland.

Since the death of Tan Shihuai, the fortune of the Xianbei Hu people seems to have been in decline.

Ke Bineng appeared in the east, and there was some sign of unifying You and the Hu people in the north. Unexpectedly, they were defeated by the Wei people a few years ago and were almost driven to Mobei.

Then the western Xianbei was stabbed in the back by King Feng Gui in the past two years.

Xianbei in the west, which was in a period of division and decline, could not even defeat the Hu Qiyi army led by Tufa Tianli, let alone face the Han cavalry army that was ahead of its time.

In the past, the barbarians on the grasslands could still implement the policy of running away if they could not be defeated, and used the strategy of exhausting the Han army.

Now, if you want to blame it, the people of the same clan who moved to Liangzhou are working too hard.

Not even half of the land that Xianbei in Hexi relied on was used, and the grain-growing land hidden in every corner of the grassland was completely ruined by the Han army.

The Hu people also need to eat food. If they only eat meat and milk, they will definitely not be able to live longer than those who also eat food.

Moreover, if you eat too much milk and meat, you will often die of dryness and suffer excruciating pain before death.

This is also the reason why the Hu people continue to move south from the grasslands to their hometown of Jiuyuan.

After all, not only can livestock be grazed there, but food can also be grown.

There are not many suitable places on the grassland for growing food. Wherever there are suitable places, they are occupied by large tribes who scatter some seeds and wait for the harvest.

There will be more exchanges with the Han people, and they will even send people to farm.

In the past, when the Han army went out of the fortress and went deep into the grasslands, it would be good if they could identify the direction, not to mention looking for the barbarians' grain-growing areas.

The army that King Feng Ghost sent into the grassland now is completely different from before.

They ate milk tablets and dry food mixed with sugar, rode artificially bred horses, and carried weapons made of refined iron.

Without the pressure of logistics, coupled with the Han cavalry equipped with three-piece cavalry suits, it would be a real crushing of the Xianbei people who were in a state of social regression.

Xianbei in the west cannot be outrun, let alone fought.

There happened to be a group of the same people, howling and shouting, more active than the Han army.

They were familiar with the grassland. In the spring, they led the Han army to the grain-growing areas to eat seedlings, and in the autumn, they led the Han troops to the grain-growing areas to set fire...

Kebineng, who almost unified the Youbian Hu people, was defeated by Qin Lang.

Not to mention that Western Xianbei doesn’t even have a unified adult.

Facing the Han army, which was more terrifying than the Wei army, Xianbei in the west had no power to resist.

After losing nearly 100,000 people, the remaining people either fled north or east, and no longer dared to come within a few hundred miles of Juyan County.

So after ten years, the long-lost Feng Guiwang Labor Company opened again.

But this time, the location of the labor sale was transferred from Nanzhong to Liangzhou, or to be precise, to Juyan County, Liangzhou.

According to statistics from some people who do not want to be named, in the 12th and 13th years of Jianxing alone, there were a total of 50,000 to 60,000 laborers flowing into Juyan County, regardless of gender.

These labors have greatly alleviated the labor shortage problem in Liangzhou's new pastures, workshops and other places.

This does not include the more than 100,000 livestock captured, including cattle, sheep, and horses.

The Liangzhou governor's office has survived the hard days in the past, and has eaten a lot of fat in the past two years.

Secretary Zhang Da, who had been tight on money in the past few years, suddenly became rich. In addition to being happy, he graciously rewarded Governor Feng.

Anyway, Governor Feng felt extremely happy several times for a while.

In August of the 13th year of Jianxing's reign, the grassland has begun to enter the crisp autumn weather.

A cavalry group of thousands of people was heading east along the former Han Dynasty pass that appeared and disappeared.

The red flags and red armor all indicate their identity as Han soldiers.

Not far away, the collapsed beacons and the destroyed fortress wall fell into the grass. Even hundreds of years later, they were still trying their best to guide the Han army.

The leading general of this Han army was a young man. He sat on his horse, took out a map from his backpack, counted the beacon signs on it, and said silently in his heart:

"Ninth……"

Although it was not the first time to walk this road, marching on the vast grassland was completely different from marching in the Guansai Inland.

There are official roads in the interior, but in the prairie, there are not even paths for pedestrians to walk out.

At first glance, in addition to green, it is still green, a vast expanse of green.

When the wind blows on the grassland, the green waves will rush one layer at a time and surge into the distance.

Even if there is a river, it is hidden under the grass and can only be discovered when you walk closer.

Unless it's a river that can't be hidden like a big river.

It sounds exciting to go out to attack the fortress, but if you are not fully prepared, far away from the fortress, and without road signs, it is not unusual for even an army of tens of thousands to get lost at any time.

Precisely because it was not easy to get out of the fortress, Governor Feng stood on the ruins of the fortress and shouted "The big man is awesome".

The Han Dynasty, who had just entered the iron society, had no satellites, no coordinates, and no even accurate maps.

Not only did they enter the desert many times and inflict devastating blows to the Hu people, but they also built more than 10,000 miles of fortresses on the grassland.

In the end, they even built checkpoints along the Silk Road all the way to the Western Regions...

In this kind of dynasty, apart from cheating, there is only one explanation left: awesome!

Now Ji Han has created a human-shaped barrier, which is only based on the fortresses of the previous Han Dynasty. He selected a few relatively complete city barriers and rebuilt them as outposts.

The farthest of these city barriers is only five hundred miles away from Juyan County.

Even for these five hundred miles, the generals leading the army must be cautious.

Every time you reach a road sign, take out a map and compare it carefully to avoid going astray.

Every ten days, Juyan County will send out cavalry troops to patrol along the pass to ensure the safety of the soldiers within the city barrier.

The Han cavalry that appeared here was responsible for the last patrol of this month.

"General, there is a scout report."

Hearing this, the young general put away the map, carefully put it back in his backpack, and looked at the scout who was slowing down his horse not far away.

"Report! General, there is a barbarian camp ahead. It looks like they are a tribe."

The scouts came forward and loudly reported the news with excitement on their faces.

As soon as these words came out, before the general could speak, the guard next to him was already full of joy:

"General, could it be that those fleeing Xianbei Hu'er have gone and come back?"

It’s not impossible!

This place is hundreds of miles away from Juyan County. It is normal for Hu'er to want to come back to try his luck.

In the past, when people were robbed on the grassland, they would only steal some cattle, sheep and horses.
To be continued...