Shangjun County governs the city, and Zhang Ji is inspecting all kinds of war materials.

"Farewell, there is news from the northern market, and there has been a significant increase in Han merchants from Hetao recently."

Zhang was not surprised when he heard this, and he asked a little about the routes traveled by these caravans, the goods they traded, and the number of people they came into contact with.

"Well, although it has been specially trained and disguised, the difference is still too obvious."

Such a good goods are completely in the hands of the Han people and Zahu, the route is slightly different from the ordinary trade routes, the people who are not familiar with the place are more people come to the door, and the things sold are comparable to their consumption......

Even if he didn't have Jia Xu's ability to perceive qi and people's hearts, and he didn't have the flexible thinking like Wei Qi, he had rich experience in business all year round, coupled with his meticulous handling of things, and he quickly sensed the intentions of the Huns.

He said to himself, "The Huns probably won't be as light on the enemy as before, and it will definitely not work to simply lure the enemy deep, so let's use my method." ”

After speaking, he checked the previous caravan and contacted all parts of Shuofang, looked at the number comparison, and couldn't help but smile.

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For the Huns, who had lost a large number of livestock and southern cities, this cold winter was even more difficult.

Groups of older, chronically undernourished slaves could not hold on and froze to death in simple dwellings. Even many poor Huns were in great difficulty, and they prayed to the leaders of the tribe to sell their sons and daughters in exchange for food and charcoal.

The kings of Shuofang on the left and right sides of the Xiongnu were not in a hurry when they saw this scene, as long as the clansmen were hard, they could force out their ruthlessness in plundering the Central Plains. What's more, this time he also heard about the defense deployment of Shangjun and knew where the abundant supplies were hoarded.

Sure enough, after the caravans stopped coming from the south, groups of tribes appealed to the south. Seeing that the army was available, the king of Shuofang raised 30,000 troops in November and chose to go to the market and Tuntian to attack the nearest road.

However, when they arrived at the border passes, some small tribes did not listen to the orders and entered some border passes and fortresses of the Xinxi Liang Army on their own, and the smell of roast mutton soon came from inside.

Scattered to pursue the main descendants of the small tribes, they thought that they could attack these small defenses from the inside and outside.

But they never imagined that when they were stationed, a group of cavalry of the Tuntian Army occupied a favorable position in advance and eliminated many scattered Hun soldiers out of nowhere.

The kings of Shuofang on the left and right did not dare to divide their troops again, so they had to act according to the original plan, continue to concentrate their forces to break through a certain point, and then attack the rich area behind.

However, when they were attacking the repaired Great Wall of Qin, news came from the rear that many tribes rebelled with the support of the Han people and Wuhuan Nalou because they were unwilling to fight with the Han.

The Wuhuan building department reached an alliance with Tuoba Xianbeidu and Shangjun in Yinshan, and attacked the remnants of the Xiongnu from three directions.

And because the Yinshan trade route has long relied on the Xinxi Liang Army, the entire Shuofang forces, large and small, that are not the descendants of the king of Shuofang, have a tendency to rebel.

The kings of Shuofang on the left and right did not dare to stay, and quickly fled back to Shuofang, but they could not control the situation at all.

At the same time, Zhang Ji also sent Yu Poison and Shen Long to follow the Huns, and used mutton, grain, shelter, etc. to rebel against nearly 10,000 people, so that the two kings abandoned Shuo and went to the Xiongnu Tiefu Department in the northeast.

In this local discourse, this Tiefu means that the father is a Xiongnu and the mother is a Xiongnu hybrid of the Xianbei people. As a result, due to the decline of the conservative old Xiongnu king, the Tiefu tribe in the north gradually rose and replaced, and its strength surpassed the remnants of the old Xiongnu royal court.

Zhang dealt with Shuofang, mainly by uniting all the forces that could be united in Shuofang County, and expelling the remnants of the old royal court that exploited the lower classes, trade routes and other clans, and fought the main battle.

He lost no more than 100 soldiers and horses in battle, and he won the support of a county, which later became a good story in history.

After a short rest, Zhang received Tong Yuan's order, and was not in a hurry to enter Shuofang County immediately, but first bribed a wave of Huns, asking them to identify the Huns who had invaded the Central Plains and the spies lurking there.

The situation reversed, and a large number of Huns, in order to survive, tied up all those who plundered the Central Plains in the clan and sent them to the Xinxi Liang army.

Some of the Xiongnu thieves knew that they had reached the end of their rope, and those who had committed many crimes but did not have the strength to flee could only switch to other tribes and Han people who had been driven by them.

These hospitable people accepted them at first, but later they also changed hands and sold them, which became the credit for cooperating with the Xinxi Liang Army.

The old man of the Han people and a group of his accomplices were confessed without any suspense. His unspeakable crime immediately attracted attention, and even Zhang Ji and Yu Poison came to deal with this matter in person.

At first, the old man was good at words, and defended, "Impossible, I used to be a slave, and I was bullied by the Huns all my life, how could I do things for them?" ”

Because the Huns had already seen some invading people, in order to survive and bite others in vain to show that they were still valuable, some military officials really thought that the old man was slandered.

Zhang Ji noticed some suspicious points, such as according to the feedback of the grassroots officials in Tuntian, he did have been lazy and slippery, and he was scurrying around to inquire about news.

He discussed with Yu Poison, and planned to ask these Huns separately from their point of view, and test their cognition with different questions to see if they could match.

Yu Poison and the others were very impressed by that battle, the formation on the road was scattered by the fire bull formation, and none of the teams stationed in the key positions survived, and the mighty herd slipped away from under their noses......

Even later, under the mobilization of Yu Poison, they chased after them, broke the enemy army and seized the herd. But it was still a humiliation, a defeat to be repulsed head-on by the enemy and break through the defensive line.

Zhang Ji and Yu Poison made up their minds to find out about this matter, whether it was the old man or not, they must find out what was going on for the soldiers who died.

Zhang came up with a way, and they found the fifteen Xiongnu soldiers who had participated in the battle.

First of all, let the first five people talk about the situation at the time in detail, and Zhang Ji and them carefully recorded it, and combined it with their experience to restore the situation at that time.

Then find five more people, and don't let them say it themselves, but Zhang Ji and them ask questions according to the restored situation. Ask for specific details and timelines, record them one by one, and eliminate any vague or confusing parts before.

Finally, tell the remaining five people about the entire progress of the battle and let them listen to it if it is correct. If there are doubts and discrepancies, they are double-checked until everyone is basically right.

This method seems troublesome, but it is actually very effective, and the most critical part of it is that the Xinxi Liang Army has gone down three links and can understand the nuances of this battle.