Chapter 439: The Huns Are Coming?
The life of the Huns was very difficult.
From the beginning to the end, they didn't understand why the Han Dynasty suddenly became so powerful.
Is it just because he got the war horses of the Yue Clan?
Of course not!
Although the Xiongnu did not fight with the Qin people in the early years, their ancestors fought with the Qin people and the Zhao people.
Li Mu, Meng Tian and other famous generals have all known about it.
There have been misses, but they were just misses.
Prior to this, it has always been confirmed that as long as the grassland people want to run, the agricultural civilization in the south will never be able to catch up.
Speed is their advantage, so they take advantage of this advantage every time to attack quickly, and the southern farming civilization is caught off guard and panicked.
They have tried and tested this trick repeatedly.
But now, here's the problem, the Han people seem to have changed dramatically overnight, they are not only able to defend, but they are also able to attack, not only to attack, but also to win.
If the battle at the end of the autumn of the previous year was an accident, everyone does not know the inside story thoroughly, and even feels a little suspicious.
Now, that doubt has been completely discarded.
There's nothing suspicious anymore.
The equipment of the Han army, they are not comparable, and the training of the Han army for cavalry has also undergone great changes through the innovation of equipment.
The Huns also learned some skills, such as stirrups.
But due to the lack of materials, lack of technology, their stirrups had to be replaced by a hard wooden block.
But the power he bears is not the same as that of the wooden block.
Coupled with the wind and sun, it may not be directly clicked off one day, and in addition, they have more doubts that need to be solved.
And in addition to these, there is a more serious problem in front of them.
That is, how to deal with today's crisis?
After the Xiongnu annexed Donghu, counting those who had not yet had time to completely surrender, even the old and the young, and then the women, the total size was less than 1.5 million.
And what consequences did this war bring to them?
In the east, more than 100,000 women were taken captive, while in the west there were even more than 100,000 women.
The Han Dynasty abducted more than 200,000 Xiongnu women in one go, nearly one-seventh of the population.
If there are men, women and children, although the flesh hurts, it is not so passive.
In another word, there are about 100,000 school-age women left in the Huns.
That is, it refers to women between the ages of twenty and thirty.
The age is being relaxed, down to fifteen years old, and the rest is about 130,000.
At the age of forty, it adds up to less than two hundred thousand.
How to say it, if you add the more than 200,000 women who were taken captive by the Han Dynasty, the number of women of appropriate age in the Xiongnu is almost more than 300,000 to nearly 400,000.
That is, less than a quarter of this ratio, removing some of the old and young, basically can still ensure that every man has a woman.
But now, only three men can compete for a woman, and it's the kind that doesn't limit age, good or bad.
Will this work?
Therefore, it is not entirely to blame the Huns for coming up with a ridiculous method, but the situation forced them to do it.
Otherwise, if nothing else, some internal struggle could tear this tribe, which had just risen for a short time, apart.
This is not alarmist, but a very real one.
There is actually no essential difference between humans and animals, when the time comes, the same is going to be in estrus, a man who is used to dissolving, you let him hold it for a month or two, you let him hold it for a year or two?
This is the nature of human nature, and no one can change it.
"What? You say the Huns are coming? Wang Bu was hungry and blinked, feeling as if he had heard a big joke.
The Huns, who were full of wolves, would send an envoy to Luoyang?
What are they going to do?
"Yes, that's what the border pass said, the leader is the prince of the Huns, the number of people is 200, I feel that they should all be guards." Peng Yue nodded in confirmation.
He shouldn't have reported it.
But there is no way, the transmission speed of the scout system is the fastest, and the Xiongnu suddenly sent a prince to visit, this kind of thing must be transmitted back as quickly as possible.
As for the Hun mission!
I'm sorry!
Before receiving a reply from Luoyang, the border army would never let them enter the customs.
"It's kind of interesting!" Wang Buyu smiled slightly.
"Then Your Majesty, how should the minister reply?" Peng Yue was a little uncertain.
"Yes!" Wang Buxing agreed directly, he wanted to see what kind of medicine the Huns were selling in the gourd.
Who is the porridge?
Of course Wang Buxing knew, Peng Yue also knew, and the high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty knew.
The scouts on the Xiongnu side have already sent news that last year, they led 100,000 troops south to besiege Yuyang County.
Mao Dunshan attaches great importance to this prince, and last year's battle inevitably had no intention of paving the way for him.
How so?
Although he did not complete the task, but in the same way, because of his sensitivity and sense of smell for the dangers of the battlefield, he was able to leave the battlefield safely with 100,000 people, without being wrapped up by the baby.
Therefore, although the Huns suffered heavy losses in women and logistics, they still achieved some of their goals.
At least the people who followed the porridge at that time were relatively stable, and these 100,000 were even more combat power, which was the old bottom of the Huns' recovery.
"Pass the Bayar!" The king was not hungry and commanded.
Bayar and Batu, the two unlucky guys, have not returned to Yueshi since they went out with the Han army last year.
The main thing is that they are afraid to go back.
They disobeyed the orders of the king of the Yue clan and privately led their troops to cooperate with the Han army to launch a war against the Xiongnu.
And some people who are self-confident even put the charge of the Huns suddenly turning around and counterattacking the Yueshi on the two of them, thinking that if there was no help from them, the Yueshi would not be hated by the Huns, even if the two had a grudge, they would not retaliate so quickly, so that the Yueshi was caught off guard by the Huns when they were completely unprepared, and suffered heavy losses.
Among the captives brought back by Zhang Buyi at that time, there were not only more than 100,000 Hun women, but also nearly 100,000 Yueshi women.
And these women are still being held by the Han Dynasty, even if they belong to the Yue clan and belong to friendly forces, but the Han Dynasty still has no intention of releasing them.
After a short time, Bayar was led into the palace and outside the council hall.
However, before he came, Shang Shu Ling Chen Ping, Xiao He, and Shang Shu Guan Ying of the Ministry of War were already waiting here.
Bayar had met the Han Emperor from afar at the enthronement ceremony three years ago, and after that, he never had this opportunity again.
This expedition, he and Batu made meritorious contributions not small, but the Han Emperor rewarded everyone, but did not reward the two of them.
Of course, Bayar knows the reason, because they are not Han Chinese.
There's no way around it.
And today's scene is the first time Bayar has seen it.
In the past, Bayar, who was accustomed to seeing the market, would not be too shocked, but now, under the fence, of course he knew the horror of the people in this room.
Entering the council hall, Bayar quickly knelt on the ground, and the whole person almost lay on the ground.
"Foreign Minister Bayar Meets His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty......"
"Get up!" Wang Bu said casually.
Bayar got up nervously, and then hurriedly found an empty seat to sit down.
The council hall is also kneeling, but there are not many cases, and there are only eight in total, and when the number of people is large, these cases are removed, and everyone is standing, which also saves space.
"The king of the Yue clan violated the agreement three times and twice, not only did he not cooperate with the military operations of the Han Dynasty, but often made some stumbling blocks in private, you say, what should be done in this matter?" Wang Bu asked lightly.
"Your Majesty, the King of the Yue Clan should also have a hard time, right?" Xiao He said.
"What's the problem? If you violate what you agreed on, what's wrong with your troubles? My big man deserves to die because of his hardship? The baby slapped the table and shouted on the spot.
"What is your attitude? Is there still a bit of a subordinate concept? In terms of position, the old man is a servant, just say the cabinet, the old man is also the deputy chief of the cabinet, which one is not higher than you? Xiao He immediately said dissatisfied.
"Don't give the old man an official position, the old man doesn't eat this, if you Xiao Shizhong want to use the official position to suppress the old man, then you have to ask the brothers who died in the war if they are willing!" The baby did not have the slightest concern, and immediately went back.
"Okay, okay, what's the noise? Can a quarrel lead to a result? Chen Ping hurriedly interrupted the quarrel between the two.
After a long time of contact with the Han people, Bayar can still understand some of the Chinese dialect.
So at this moment, on such an occasion, the only thing he could do was to keep his head down and breathe carefully.
He couldn't intervene in this matter at all, and he didn't dare to express his opinion casually.
Why is the baby angry?
He probably knew.
Although Bayar and Batu had already helped Guan Ying and Han Xin last year, there was no way, the two of them combined were more than 4,000 people, and there were not many of them at all.
Because of the lack of guides, there were a lot of problems in the Han army, although it was not a big problem, but now that the baby is talking about it, it is a big problem.
Bayar is not a fool, he naturally knows that Dahan is going to attack the Yue clan.
However, what he didn't understand was that since Dahan was going to operate on Yue's family.
So what does it mean to bring yourself over this prince of the Moon Clan?
Although he didn't dare to go back, the king of the Yue clan had not deposed his status as a prince, so he was still the prince of the Yue clan in name.
This scene, of course, is acted.
Wang Bu looked at Bayar expressionlessly and asked, "Bayar, what do you think?" ”