May, Northland Prairie.

On the earth, the vegetation is flourishing, and from a distance, it is like a green carpet, extending to the edge of heaven and earth.

The blue sky, white clouds, bright sun, and green space are like a beautiful picture.

White tents are lined up, like blooming white flowers, dotting the grassland.

At this time, in the center of the camp, the Xiongnu stood on a high platform in front of the "Golden Horde" of Touman, and the banner representing the identity of Touman stood high. Around this flag, there are hundreds of flags of various colors representing the grassland tribes, surrounding this flag.

"Shan Yu, Shan Yu, Tou Man Shan Yu!"

The cheers from the high stage made this grassland start to be noisy.

Touman, who was standing on the high platform, looked down at the crowd kneeling down the stage, and was extremely excited.

The Xiongnu was alone in Touman, with his hands open and held high, facing the sky and praying loudly:

"Thank you to the Immortal Heaven, your faithful people, Touman, and pray from the bottom of my heart that you will continue to protect your people and make your people prosperous and strong."

At the time of the continuous war in the Central Plains, the Xiongnu in the north also began to unify the grassland.

A few years ago, Touman, who ascended the throne as the Xiongnu Shan Yu, imitated the Central Plains system and established the Xiongnu royal court in Touman City.

After Touman ascended the throne, he judged the situation and changed the national policy of the Xiongnu to go south in the past, and turned to the north.

For Shan Yu Touman, going north does not mean giving up the Central Plains in the south, but being forced by the situation.

As the Xiongnu alliance originated in the Yinshan grassland, in the history of hundreds of years, the Xiongnu, like the Donghu, Yueshi and other tribal alliances on the grassland, have always wanted to go south to encroach on the prosperous Central Plains.

However, it is very tragic that in the face of the three kingdoms of Qin, Zhao and Yan in the southern Central Plains, the country of grassland tribes, every time they invade the Central Plains, the result is that they all return with a feather.

On the contrary, the territory of Qin, Zhao, and Yan continued to expand northward in repeated wars with the grassland countries.

In particular, what Touman remembers deeply is that in the seventh year of King Yan Wucheng (265 BC), the Xiongnu army fought against Zhao.

That year, Touman's father wanted to take advantage of the time when Qin and Yan attacked Zhao, and when Zhao had no time to deal with the Xiongnu, he led the main force of the Xiongnu down with the whole division, trying to recover the Xiongnu's hometown Yanmen and Yunzhong, but he didn't expect to meet Li Mu, the general of the Zhao army.

Li Mu gathered almost all the Zhao troops in Daijun, Yunzhong, Yanmen and other places to fight, and used 1,300 chariots, 13,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry, and 100,000 archers to fight with the main force of the Xiongnu in the clouds.

In this battle, Li Mu broke the main force of the Huns and chased Touman's father for hundreds of miles.

Touman's father was also injured in this battle, and after returning to the Xiongnu, he was depressed and died of depression.

This made Touman realize that with the national strength of the Xiongnu at this time, it was impossible to invade the countries of the Central Plains in the south.

If you want to finally defeat the countries of the Central Plains, you must complete the unification of the grasslands.

Under this national policy, after Touman ascended the throne, within a few years, he began the northern expedition.

Today, the Xiongnu finally let the tribal alliance of Ding Ling and other tribes in the north submit to their feet.

The territory of the Xiongnu was no longer limited to the Yinshan area, but extended to the west of Lake Baikal and the Selenga River basin to the south.

This time, the Xiongnu's troops pointed to Loulan, Wusun, Hujie in the Western Regions, and the twenty-six small countries around them.

Thinking of these, Touman's mood can be described as bittersweet.

Since ascending the throne as the Xiongnu, he eliminated political enemies, built the Touman royal court, established a court similar to the Central Plains countries, and went north to conquer, so that many grassland tribes in the north were subject to today.

On the high platform, Touman, who controlled the emotions in his heart, shouted loudly: "Dhara Tong." ”

"Yes." The Dhara in the audience stepped forward, touched his chest with his right hand, and bowed down to his great Shanyu.

"Dhara Tong in this expedition, outstanding achievements, not a loss for my grassland eagle, today named you the king of the left valley. If you lead the army to attack the countries of the Western Regions, if you make new achievements, you will be rewarded with this list. ”

Touman was on the high platform and loudly rewarded the Dhara.

According to the official position of the Xiongnu, the official position of the king of Zuogu Li is already very high, second only to the left and right Xian kings under Shan Yu.

For this, Dhara was very grateful in his heart, and knelt on the ground and thanked him loudly.

Next, Shan Yu Touman sealed the Xiongnu meritorious personnel of the Northern Expedition. One hundred and twenty-six thousand households were sealed in one go, which is all the essence of the Xiongnu now - a total of 126,000 households.

If calculated according to ten people per household, the population of the Xiongnu at this time was about more than 1.2 million.

Like the Central Plains, there are constant wars on the grasslands, and the number of premature deaths is even worse than that of the Central Plains.

However, one household in the grassland, at least one or two warriors can go out, so that the army of the Huns at least has more than 200,000 people at this time. For the tribes of the steppe, the strength is already the strongest.

After the reward was completed, Touman shouted to his subjects on the high platform:

"Warriors of the steppe, my subjects, guided by the Immortal Heaven, our expedition to the west will surely make the countries of the Western Regions submit to the feet of my Hun wolf rider. Go, go conquer them! ”

"Venerable Shan Yu, we are the descendants of wolves. This expedition to the west will definitely make the countries of the Western Regions submit to the feet of Da Shan Yu, and we will not let Shan Yu down. ”

Dhara shouted at the foot of the platform.

In late June, the Thistle Palace, the Affinity Palace.

It was getting late, and the sky was full of stars.

The palace gate of the Ji Palace has been closed at this moment, but the Affinity Hall is still brightly lit.

Ji Kang crouched on the desk, still annotating the paperwork under the light.

After reading the information from the grassland from the Intelligence Bureau, Ji Kang frowned slightly.

From the attendant Ling Wang Cong's hand, he took a silk towel soaked in ice water, and Ji Kang wiped the sweat beads on his face.

He picked up a piece of paper from the table and looked at it carefully. This document is a document made by several cabinet ministers and the military department on the future development direction of Yan and even the deployment of Yan country's military forces.

This document is the document for the future development and planning of Yan Kingdom.

After reading it in detail twice, Ji Kang got up and came to the map in the hall and looked at it again.

After this battle against the five-nation alliance, the top and bottom of the Yan Kingdom finally saw the hope of dominating the world.

The people of Yan are full of confidence in this, and the officials of Yan have no doubts about it.

Several ministers, including Ji Kang, are also full of confidence in this.

In this document, the overall strategy of Yan Guoda is very clear and very clear.

That is, first the Central Plains, then the grassland. Starting next year, it will take five years to unify the countries of the Central Plains; Then he went north and spent three years to incorporate the northern grassland into the territory of Yan Kingdom.

In this way, China is unified.

In this process, the Xiongnu were undoubtedly the biggest enemy of the Yan State when it unified the grasslands in the future.

Therefore, Ji Kang is very concerned about the development of the Xiongnu in all aspects.

For the continuous growth of the Xiongnu, Ji Kang is very unhappy to see this situation. However, in view of the current situation in the Central Plains, Ji Kang really couldn't spare his hands to weaken the Xiongnu.

And the strategy of using Donghu, Yueshi and other countries to shackle the Xiongnu now seems to be not very effective.

"In order to reduce the cost of China's future reunification, the pace of unifying the Central Plains must be accelerated."

The chamberlain Ling Wang heard his young king at the table and whispered.

The king was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly looked around, and found that there was no one else in the Affinity Hall except himself, so he was relieved in his heart. Wang Cong knew that the passage that came out of Ji Kang's mouth just now was the highest strategic secret of the Yan Kingdom.

After reading the document in his hand again, Ji Kang still felt a little regretful about this planning document.

In view of this era, the people's understanding of geography did not plan the Western Regions and even the plateau.

However, Ji Kang is also quite satisfied with this.

After Yan Guo has achieved the above planning, it is not too late to make another plan, isn't it?

With the end of the war in Weidi, the country of Yan has returned to peace.

The armies of the Yan Kingdom, according to Ji Kang's edict, have begun to withdraw from Wei County one after another.

Only two regular army corps remained in the garrison, namely the Sixth Army led by Qing Qin, and the Ninth Army led by Bo Wang. The Sixth Army was stationed in the area of Diqiu and Fancheng, while the Ninth Army was stationed in Chaoge, Juncheng and other places.

At this point, the Eighth Army led by General Liu Sheng, the Third Army of Hu Guiliang of the Gaotang Dynasty in Jixi, including the Sixth Army and the Ninth Army of Weidi, had formed a huge encirclement of Zhao.

In the two counties of Shanggu and Yuyang at the northern end of Jidu, the first army led by Rong Yan and the second army led by Zuo Zong could also attack Daijun, Yunzhong, and Yanmen of Zhao State at any time.

The strategic direction of Yan Guo is already very clear.

That is, if you want to unify China, you must first unify the Central Plains; If you want to unify the Central Plains, you must first fight against Zhao.

Although Yan won a great victory in this year's Battle of the Frontier, Ji Kang did not take the advice of the court and many generals in the army, and went to attack other countries. Although the battle was won, the Yan State also suffered a lot of losses.

Moreover, there are a lot of things that happened after the war. The army needs to rest and be rewarded; Ordnance needs to be repaired; The wounded need to be treated; Soldiers who have died in battle need pensions; There are also many things such as promotions and rewards.

More importantly, the casualties of the Yan army in this battle amounted to more than 70,000 people, which needed to be supplemented and trained; Besides, Yanguo's economy and people's livelihood have been greatly affected because of this war, which also needs to be restored as soon as possible.

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be walked step by step.

Ji Kang hopes that after reunification, China will be a prosperous China, not a China where all industries are withering.

Occupy one place, stabilize one place, and prosper one place.

Ji Kang is very clear about this.

Returning to the table and sitting down, Ji Kang took the pen and wrote the word "quasi" on this document on the development and planning of Yan Kingdom in the next few years. Looking at the desk, there were no other papers, so he stretched his waist and yawned.

Standing up, he commanded the king, who was waiting for him:

"Tomorrow, let the widow approve these documents and let several ministers circulate them and implement them as soon as possible. In addition, for this planning document, inform several cabinet ministers, after circulation, temporarily archived, will not be transmitted. ”

"No." Wang Cong bowed and answered.