Chapter 40: The Humiliation of the Past
"Forehead......" Wang Jin was choked by Zhang Yue all of a sudden.
Faced with the example given by Zhang Yue, he found that he didn't seem to have any effective way to refute it.
To question the Book of Songs and the Book of Changes?
No way!
Uncle Fang and Nan Zhong were even full of praise for Confucius, and regarded them as virtuous ministers of the sages.
On that day, Wang Jin could not have been persuaded like this.
He said stubbornly: "But in war, it is always the people and the people of the world who suffer!" ”
Thinking of the people's sufferings that the teachers had told him, and the people who suffered in the war, Wang Jin became excited: "Since the first year of Yuanguang and the Xiongnu, how many children have died on the battlefield, and how many people have been displaced......"
"In the battle of Dawan alone, the country paid the price of nearly a year's annual income and 100,000 heads and tens of thousands of soldiers...... But in exchange for what? It's just a few thousand horses......"
"Wrong...... Zhang Yue looked at Wang Jin with a smile: "The battle of Dawan is certainly costly, and some of the gains outweigh the losses...... However......"
"The price is worth it!"
"Because, because of this war, the Han family let the Wusun people see the power and combat power of the Han army......"
"Let all the countries in the Western Regions know the power of the king......"
"Just for these ethereal things?" Wang Jin shook his head: "Just let tens of thousands of soldiers bury their bones elsewhere?" ”
"Maybe Brother Wang still doesn't understand what he said...... Zhang Yue got up and shook his head, and said, "Let me tell Brother Wang about the situation in the Western Regions......
Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said, "Since the Marquis of Bowang carved out the Western Regions, the west of Hexi has already entered the world's field of vision......
"The countries of the Western Regions are different in size, strong and weak, the big ones are like body poison, healthy dwelling, resting in peace, Great Qin, the place is three to five thousand miles, no less than China...... The small ones are like Loulan and Weisu, but they are ...... in the land of projectiles."
"And Kangju, body poison, thousands of miles away from China, it is difficult to have any intersection for the time being...... But this Wusun is the most important and powerful kingdom among the countries of the Western Regions! ”
"The king of Wusun called himself Kunmo, who was the Kun people of Zhou Tianzi in the "Book of Shang", and in the last years of the Warring States Period, the nomadic Wusun people in the land west of the river were exterminated by the Yueshi people......"
Zhang Yue talked eloquently, telling the history of the Wusun Kingdom that he traced back from the historical records and Han books.
The complex and chaotic relationship between the Wusun Kingdom and the Xiongnu is very clear.
"Since the death of Wusun's ancestor Kunmo Hunting, the contradiction between Wusun and the Xiongnu in the Western Regions has become more and more intense, Yuan Feng three years, Wusun even sent an envoy to Chang'an, the Son of Heaven married the fine monarch, two years ago, the fine monarch died, the Son of Heaven and the wife of the main wife, Han and Wusun relationship is becoming more and more intimate......"
"And Wusun is a big country that controls 100,000 horsemen, and it is ...... west of the Xiongnu."
Wang Jin and Lu Wen were stunned when they heard this.
Western regions?
Can Zhang Yue still know the situation of the countries in the Western Regions?
This......
It must be known that at this time, Mo is a scholar of the Han family, and he is the heir of a noble prince, and he may not be able to have any impression of the Western Regions.
Except for the generals and princes of the army, and those officials who had been on missions to the Western Regions, few people would study these things.
But now, in Changshui Township, Nanling County, there is a person who carefully talks about these things.
How does this not surprise them?
Lu Wen even had a bitter smile in his heart: "It turns out that this brother of the Huang Lao School was true in what he said in Taixue that day, and he is also ......quite accomplished in geography and history."
Zhang Yue continued: "The greatest significance of the second division general to defeat Dawan is to show the muscles and determination of the king division, so that the Wusun people know that the Han is stronger than the Xiongnu!" If we can win over Wusun and make it an alliance with our Han family, we will completely realize the encirclement and encirclement of the Xiongnu......"
"At that time, Wang Shi will be in the east, Wuheng will be in the south, and Wusun will be in the west, and they will attack ...... on three sides."
"Wang Shi out of Xingxing Gorge, over Junji Mountain, Wuheng rode out of the bow Lu Shui, Wusun cavalry came from the west, the Huns will be destroyed, and the war will end!"
This is exactly the situation in history, in the first three years of Taishi, the strategic decisive battle that decided the fate of the decline of the Xiongnu Empire.
The Xiongnu died in the strangulation of the three kingdoms of Han, Wuheng and Wusun.
When Wang Jin heard this, he had to admit that if this situation really formed, the Huns would definitely have no way to live.
Since ancient times, no country has been able to survive the enemy on three sides.
It's just that......
"Even if you win, so what?" Wang Jin shook his head and said: "The thousands of miles of expedition, the grain, grass and money consumed, are all the people's fat and people's ointment......"
"Who said that?" Zhang Yue asked rhetorically.
"How can you lose money in a war? As long as you win, you will make a lot of money! ”
"Haven't you heard that when the Great Sima was here, the king went on an expedition and never spent money and food?"
Back then, Huo Quai's illness was alive, and the Han army ruled the world and beat everything.
This immortal famous general, since the first expedition, has taken the road of fighting to support war.
The main force of the Han army led by him often traveled thousands of miles, smashing the heart of the Xiongnu.
Along the way, it is to eat the Huns, wear the Huns, and use the Huns!
In the Hexi Campaign alone, he crushed and annihilated tens of thousands of Xiongnu main forces, captured more than 100,000 people, and captured as many as one million cattle, sheep and horses.
That year, the financial income of the Han family was almost bursting.
It's a pity that there is only one Huo Quai, and only one Huo Quai.
Since the death of this champion Hou, the Han army's expedition has become a loss-making business.
The more you fight, the more you lose, the more you lose.
Finally stuck in an endless loop.
This made Zhang Yue really incomprehensible!
Although, after Huo Qu's illness, the generals of the Han army may not be able to catch up with this proud son of heaven in terms of command and command.
But the fur of the learner will always be there, right?
Penetrated into the heart of the Xiongnu and specifically picked those weak tribes to open the knife.
Wouldn't it be possible to solve all the problems after a few times like this?
Besides, although Huo Qubing died, his old ministry is all there, why is no one following suit?
"Brother Zhang, don't you think that Da Sima's tactics are too hurtful to the heavens?" Wang Jin shook his head and said: "Although the Xiongnu are Yidi, they are also people!" Benevolence is a love for others, and the style of a gentleman ......"
"Yidi's life is fate, but the life of the Han family's subjects is not?" Zhang Yue suddenly interrupted Wang Jin's words coldly, Zhang Yue had lost patience with this young man who was full of benevolence, righteousness and morality.
"But ......"
"What is it?!"
"Do you need me to read it for Brother Wang, the record of the Xiongnu since Emperor Gao?"
"In the seventh year of Gaozu, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun, led 400,000 iron cavalry into Kou China in three ways, Taiyuan fell, Jinyang fell, most of the northern country was shrouded in Hu, Emperor Gao resolutely raised troops, went north to resist the enemy, and fought with the main force of the Xiongnu in Pingcheng ......"
"Emperor Gao was besieged for seven days before the siege was lifted, and this Han family was extremely humiliated!"
In the following decades, the Han decorated women's clothes and silk with the Huns, thinking that they could stop their greed......
"However, they are insatiable, and often stand up with their relatives, and then tear up their ......"
"In May of the third year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the Xiongnu Youxian King entered Henan, invaded Shangjun, burned, killed and looted, the dead were tens of thousands, and the innocent people were taken captive tens of thousands of people......"
"In the sixteenth year of Emperor Xiaowen, the Xiongnu Shan Yu personally commanded 140,000 horses into Kou Taiyuan, Shangjun, Beidi, Pengyang, burned back to the Middle Palace, killed Sun Wei, the commander of the northern Han Dynasty, abducted more than 40,000 people, and killed 20,000 or 30,000 officials and officials......"
"Two years after Emperor Xiaowen, the right king of the Xiongnu re-entered the border ......"
"In the first year before the first emperor, the Xiongnu Youxian King entered Koushang County and Yunzhong, and 9,000 soldiers were killed......"
"Since Emperor Gao and the current ascending the throne, in 60 years, the Xiongnu have entered the Kou more than 100 times, the soldiers have been killed and wounded, hundreds of thousands of families have been destroyed, wives have been scattered, more than 30 cities have been slaughtered, Yanmen Pass and Mayi have changed hands three times, and the Han family has killed more than 10 people in the battle with only 2,000 stone officials......"
"Brother Wang thinks that the Xiongnu can be influenced by benevolence, righteousness and morality?"
"If there is no barrier of Shuofang, Jiuyuan, and Luntai, Brother Wang thinks you and I can still sit here?"
"From Taizong to the first emperor, in more than 30 years, the Xiongnu entered the Kou 38 times, and Ganquan Palace saw the beacon fire three times!"
"Brother Wang wants to be Dishan, or is he going to be the king of Wuqiu Shou?" Zhang Yue finally asked directly.
Wang Jin was blinded by Zhang Yue's series of combination punches.
After a long time, he muttered, "Are these true?" ”
"Why...... Why...... My teacher, never told me about these ......" he asked only to know that the Huns had entered the Kou many times, but no one had ever told him these specific things.
Now from Zhang Yue's mouth, he only feels creepy, and his entire worldview has collapsed.