And Quhai is actually a very new name.

The reason why it is new is because the name has only been adopted for a year.

The origin of the name of the canal sea is actually very simple, because it was occupied by an army led by a Xiongnu and the canal (official name), so it is called the canal sea.

Compared with Beihai (Lake Belga), the old nest of the Huns, the temperature here in winter is slightly higher, and it is more suitable for winter.

Historically, this place was once the territory of the Mongol Jungar Department of the Qing Dynasty, and was later forced by the Tsarist Empire to sign the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary" in 1864 by the Tsarist Russian Empire.

At this moment, the lake has begun to thaw, and it is a lush green scene. A wide river (the Irtysh) flows from the south, giving the lake a lot of life.

On the east side of the lake, a large area of trees has been cut down, many rafts are going back and forth on the lake, where the Huns are fishing, and many older children are riding ponies to gallop back and forth on the lake, and some smaller children are playing in the lake.

And a little further east, about five or six miles from the lake, thousands of dense tents spread over the green grasslands, and countless livestock leisurely grazed the turf all around, and occasionally a Xiongnu man galloped by a woman triumphantly on his horse, showing off his victory to the surrounding herdsmen, and there were bursts of good-natured or unpleasant cries of goodwill and unhappiness in the place they passed, and even a few small stones.

All in all, it was a spring full of energy.

In the center of these camps, there is a group of tents that are more regular and larger than other chaotic camps, which is where the first Xiongnu Shan Yu Uwei Shan Yu's royal tent is located, that is, where Li Muxin's Xiongnu royal court is located.

This Uwei Shan Yu is about forty years old, and his appearance is quite similar to the previous Du Long Qi Shan Yu, a pair of small eyes on his weather-beaten face are shining, the whole person is straight, and his whole body is full of a taste of not being angry and arrogant.

As a Shan Yu who successfully integrated the Xiongnu tribes and allowed the Xiongnu to successfully evolve from a tribal alliance to a country, the power of Uwei Shan Yu is not comparable to any Xiongnu Shan Yu before, just by looking at these bowing Xiongnu nobles on both sides of the tent now.

In fact, this Uwei Danyu's methods are indeed very powerful.

A few years ago, when the Huns were defeated by Li Mu in a battle, Shan Yu was injured and died again, and the entire Huns were in chaos.

It was at this time that this Uwei Shan Yu stepped forward.

With the help of the Great Wizard of the Huns, he summoned almost all the high-level Huns in the Dragon Court, and then launched a surprise attack in one fell swoop to control all the Hun patriarchs.

It was a very bloody and brutal battle, which lasted four days and four nights, and Uwei Shan Yu finally took full control of the situation and cut down all the opponents.

After that decisive battle, it took less than half a year for Uwei Shan Yu to gather most of the strength of the Huns under his command.

After surviving an extremely difficult winter, Uwei made a very decisive decision - to go west!

So in the spring of the following year, the hungry and cold Huns began their westward expedition.

Fortunately, the heavens did not abandon Uwei Shan Yu, and since this westward advance, they first defeated their former ally Wusun, forcing Wusun, who had moved west one step in advance, to become a vassal of the Xiongnu again, and at the same time began to invade the Western Regions after a short period of recuperation.

At the beginning, the Xiongnu were actually quite cautious about the invasion of the Western Regions, after all, the Xiongnu were still quite weak at this time, and the Western Regions was also a place that the Xiongnu had heard of but had not personally visited.

To put it bluntly, the Huns were also afraid of encountering a powerful opponent like Zhao in the Western Regions, and they would be beaten to pieces.

This time, however, the Huns seemed to have been favored by heaven again.

The weakness of the countries of the Western Regions was obviously far beyond the expectations of the Huns.

Hundreds or even thousands of Hun cavalry, plus enough mares, were enough for the Huns to come and go freely in the desert.

After a year of small-scale exploration, and after another winter, Uwe finally led most of his royal court to settle on the shore of the canal, and used it as a base to begin a large-scale invasion of the Western Regions.

Then, it was the plot that Perseus told Zhao Guoren.

In general, although the Huns also suffered a lot of losses in the war with Diodotus, the governor of Bactria, they were much stronger than the remnants of the Huns who were beaten and shrugged back to Mobei a few years ago.

And all of this was brought about by the leadership of Uwei Shan Yu.

Because of this, when Uwei Shan Yu did not speak, no one in the huge king's tent dared to speak.

Uwei Shan Yu coughed and said slowly: "Everyone, Ben Shan Yu just received a message that the 40,000 army led by Li Mu has begun to move north, and the target seems to be coming at us. If nothing else, in as little as ten days or more than half a month, they may be here. ”

Uwei Shan Yu's words were equivalent to a super bomb, which exploded in the king's tent at once, making the faces of all the Hun nobles in the big tent change instantly, and even a few people who were not calm enough instantly exclaimed.

For the people of Zhao State, these Xiongnu nobles present are too familiar.

You must know that the battles in which the Xiongnu were beaten by the Zhao State over the years have basically been experienced by the nobles present.

It can be said that the word Zhao Guo is a nightmare in the hearts of the Huns!

Originally, I thought that if I didn't go south to take the initiative to provoke Zhao Guo, then across the vast plateau and desert, the people of Zhao would have no way to take the Huns, but I never expected that they had already run from the north of the desert to the Western Regions thousands of miles away, and the people of Zhao still chased after them.

And it's no one else who is chasing after him, it's that damn evil star Li Mu!

Uwei Shan Yu looked at the discoloration scene in the king's tent in front of him, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, revealing a slightly dissatisfied look.

He patted the table in front of him vigorously and shouted, "Enough! Now, what Ben Shan Yu needs is an idea, not a bunch of cowards who just know how to cower! Let's talk about how to deal with the attack of the Zhao people! ”