Throughout history, the struggle between the Central Plains Dynasty and the nomads has never stopped. Before the Qin Dynasty, the Central Plains were in turmoil, and nomadic peoples frequently went south to plunder. After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the construction of the Great Wall, the cost of the nomadic people going south was large, and for a time the two sides also settled down a lot. But the hearts of the nomads to go south have never stopped, and every time they seize the opportunity, they want to go south, and every time the Central Plains is in turmoil, there will basically be a foreign invasion. The Hu people went south during the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Mongols went south when the Southern Song Dynasty was weak, and the Manchu Qing Entered the Customs during the Peasant Revolt of the Ming Dynasty, and there were nomadic invasions in these chaotic worlds, but only the Three Kingdoms period did not record the invasion of nomadic peoples. Why? Nomads turned sex? Today we will take a look at why there are no nomadic invasions.
First of all, before the Three Kingdoms, the nomadic peoples were weakened by epics, and the Xiongnu in the north and the Qiang in the northwest were basically crushed by the Han Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, Huo went to the Northern Expedition and sealed the wolf Juxu; during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dou Xian Northern Expedition, Yanran Leshi. These two titles were the glory of the general, and what was more interesting was that Dou Xian had gone north with the idea of killing the Xiongnu to atone for his sins. In the eyes of others, the nomads are very powerful beings, and in Dou Xian's eyes, the nomads are stepping stones for promotion and wealth. I wanted to make a simple northern expedition to build a career, but I didn't expect to directly become a king, so much so that I created a record of Yanran Leshi.
The Qiang people are even more unlucky, and the "Liangzhou Sanming" at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty all came to power by stepping on the corpses of the Qiang people. Emperor Fugui broke the Qiang soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Qiang people surrendered; Zhang Huan beheaded the qiang leaders and captured more than 10,000 Qiang people; Duan Ying fought against the Qiang people, killing more than 38,000 people and losing more than 400 people. Dong Zhuo fought against the Qiang Clan, but he was still inferior to these three big men. The most critical of these things happened in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty is about to perish and the surrounding neighbors are cleaned up, so that later people: "Guoheng is destroyed by weakness, and Han independence is destroyed by strength" Although the Three Kingdoms period was in civil strife, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan were all unborn talents, and although they were in a chaotic world, they still crushed the nomads, and then we look at the achievements of these three.
Cao Wei's external record
At first, Yuan Shao's descendants defected to Wuhuan, and then Wuhuan plundered the border many times, and Cao Cao, who could not bear it, began to wage war against Wuhuan, which was the Battle of White Wolf Mountain. At the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, Cao Cao's generals Xu Huang, Zhang Guo, Zhang Liao, Cao Chun and others fought bravely, and Zhang Liao killed Cao Dun on the spot, and the final result was that Cao Cao won a complete victory and captured more than 200,000 people in Wuhuan. The main force of wuhuan in the three counties began to collapse completely, and Cao Cao took the opportunity to absorb the elite cavalry of Wuhuan and form the world's famous horse. This war was Cao Wei's earliest foreign war, after which Cao Cao rarely personally led troops to fight Against Wuhuan, basically allowing his generals or sons to accumulate combat experience, which is the so-called gilding.
When Wu Huan rebelled, Cao Cao sent his son Cao Zhang to go on a crusade. At that time, Cao Cao equipped Cao Zhang with Tian Yu (a famous general who was seriously underestimated during the Three Kingdoms period), and Cao Zhang, at Tian Yu's suggestion, broke the Wuhuan. The focus is not on Cao Zhang's great destruction of Wuhuan, the point is that the Xianbei clan at that time watched Cao Zhang's great destruction of Wuhuan and then surrendered without a fight. Subsequently, Cao Cao sent Tian Yu to guard the northern frontier of Cao Wei, and during Tian Yu's reign, Foreign Hu heard the wind and fell. The rebellions in northern Cao Wei were basically used to gild the generals, and Wuhuan provided Cao Cao with elite cavalry for a long time, so that Cao Cao's cavalry could sweep the world.
Eastern Wu's external record
Unlike Cao Wei's record, Eastern Wu never had a large-scale annihilation war, but the rebellion of Eastern Wu (Shanyue) never stopped. The Rebellion of the Yamaetsu ethnic group has been recorded many times in history, but all of them were suppressed without exception, and after each crackdown, they had to be recruited locally. If we directly list a few historical materials, you can understand the importance of Shanyue to Eastern Wu.
Shi Wu, Hui Ji, and Dan Yang have many ambushes, Sun Chen is cheap, begging and fundraising. The grand marshal of the mountain thief Pan Lin, the old poison, has not been a bird for many years. Sun summoned soldiers with his men to seek treatment of deep dangers, and obeyed everything he wanted, and there were more than 2,000 people in the department. - The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms
The Shanyue people rebelled, Lu Xun suppressed, and then recruited two thousand troops.
Jianchang of Bixian County became a thief, transferred Jianchang, added lieutenants to fight the evil people, and the moon was at peace, summoned and scattered, and eight hundred people were returned to Jianye. - The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, Pan Zhang's Biography
The Shanyue rebellion, Pan Zhang suppressed, conscripted 800 people.
The people in the mountains are still strong and strong, and they can be seduced by grace, and the power is ordered to occupy and beg for them, and the orders belong to the city, and all that the unity asks for, first give it to the later. Tongsu loves the soldiers, and the soldiers are also Mu Yan. More than 10,000 soldiers.
Although the soldiers were sent forward, they only had civilians in other counties, but the rest was far-reaching, and they could not exhaust themselves, and they repeatedly begged for money to be officials, and they could get forty thousand soldiers in three years... The number of persons shall be as in these Terms and Conditions. He will take ten thousand people by himself, and give the rest to the generals. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, XIX
These meanings are the same as above, that is, yamakoshi rebellion, then someone suppressed, and finally conscripted.
After sun quan came to power for five years since Jian'an, after a decade-long suppression of Shanyue, the vast majority of Shanyue people in Jiangnan were forced to leave the mountains, partly to replenish the source of troops, and the other part to become peasants. You must know that these people originally lived in the mountains and forests, and their physical quality was better than that of people living in the plains, and they were high-quality soldiers. Only the "Book of Wu" clearly records that Eastern Wu has successively recruited more than 100,000 troops, and how many people are there in Eastern Wu? The Yamakoshi people directly contributed more than 100,000 people. For Sun Quan, such a good thing is difficult to find with a lantern. During the peak period of Eastern Wu, the Shanyue people were crushed, and even when the Wu kingdom declined, it crushed the Shanyue people. History records that at the time of the fall of Eastern Wu, there were 200,000 troops, half of whom were Shanyue people. From beginning to end, Eastern Wu was overwhelming against Shanyue, but anyone with a little brain would not rebel (Xiaobian was very suspicious that the Shanyue rebellion was actually an excuse for Eastern Wu to recruit soldiers).
Shu Han's external record
Although the leader of the Shu Han was Liu Bei, it was Zhuge Liang in the later period, and the foreign wars were basically also Zhuge Liang's responsibility. The Shu Han dynasty was the Southern Manchus to the outside world, and when the national strength of the Shu Han Dynasty was booming, the Southern Manchus were still relatively peaceful, and the two sides were peaceful. However, after Liu Bei's fiasco at Yiling, Nan Man became restless. Yong Min in the south killed Taishou and then surrendered to the State of Wu, but as soon as he heard that Zhuge Liang wanted peace, Yong Min's younger brother stopped doing it and directly killed Yong Min. After Yong Min's death, Zhuge Liang freed his hands and began to clean up meng yu in the south, so there was the famous seven capture of Meng Yu incident.
The first time Zhuge Liang easily captured Meng Yu alive and asked him to visit Shu Han's military camp to see Shu Han's lineup. Meng Was not convinced, saying that it was a sneak attack. Then what he didn't expect was that Zhuge Liang let him go and captured him again. The real strong one is like Zhuge Liang, you are free, I am invincible. You say I sneak attack, then I'll let you go, and then Guangming will catch you. Not once twice, not twice or three times, no matter how you end up being caught by me anyway. In the end, Meng Yu also submitted to Zhuge Liang, and there was no large-scale war in Southern Manchuria after that.
Now do you understand why there are no foreign invasions? Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, these are all people who survived the battlefield of the princes, they are themselves crazy to swallow other people's fierce characters, you still want to pick up the tiger's whiskers, is this not a typical act of sending people to death?