Two years later, .......

The cutting fan did drag the Han Dynasty enough, and as Gongsun Hong said before, within two or three years, it is best for the Han Dynasty to be a low-key person.

In order to stabilize the domestic situation, in the end, Liu Che still failed to resist the counterattack of the princes and kings in some aspects.

For example, Liu Che wanted to return the fiefs and all the power in the hands of the princes and kings to the central government, and let the princes and kings be idle kings, which was completely impossible, and encountered very great resistance during Li Cai's implementation of the power collection.

In the end, in order to stabilize the domestic situation as soon as possible and prevent changes in the domestic situation in the case of external attacks, Liu Che still retained half of the power and fiefs of the princes surnamed Liu, but compared with the previous princes, the power of the princes and kings has been greatly weakened, and it can no longer pose any threat to the imperial court.

In particular, the seven princes and kings who were finally retained were still as usual.

In order to win the support of most of the Xiongnu nobles, under the slogan of "reviving the majesty of the Great Xiongnu Empire", Yi Zhixian, who had first ascended to the Xiongnu Dadanyu, sent troops south to attack Han three times in the past two years.

The first time was in the summer of the third year of Yuan Shuo, Yizhi ordered the general Kirgin and the forward general Wu Thorn to lead 50,000 cavalry to attack Daijun, Wuzhangyuan and other border counties, Daijun was broken, Taishou Gongyou was killed, and thousands of Han people were taken captive.

This is also the first victory of the Han attack since Yizhixian ascended the throne, and this attack allowed Yizhixian to harvest the support of nobles, including King Zuoxian, and let King Zuoxian also see the future sun of the Xiongnu.

And in Shan Yuting, Yi Zhi leaned on this victory and stood firm, and the elders of the noble tribes in Dragon City also began to wonder if it was wrong to oppose Yi Zhi in the first place.

And Yi Zhixian is the opportunity of this victory to hold a ceremony to worship the sky in Wolf Juxu Mountain, and sacrifice Mao Dunshan Yu as a great figure with the same frequency as the Kunlun God, and the example of the Hun folk learning has also been set up.

Let the Huns be proud and glorious just by mentioning Maudun.

The second time was in the autumn of the third year of Yuan Shuo, Yi Zhixian ordered the forward general Wu Thorn to lead 20,000 cavalry to attack Yanmen, but under the effect of the Hu people's buffer zone, the damage to the Han was not very great, and the Wu Thorn took away thousands of Hu people who surrendered to the Han.

The third time was in the spring of the fourth year of Yuan Shuo, Yi Zhi ordered King Zuoxian, King Youxian and General Shan Yuting Kirkin to send 30,000 troops each, totaling more than 100,000 people, to attack Daijun, Dingxiang, Shanggu County, and Youbeiping Pingbian County.

It can be seen from the frequency of Yizhi's wars that he did not have a good time in the Xiongnu, and he urgently needed to win battles to stabilize his position in the Xiongnu, and urgently needed to show his legitimacy to the high-level nobles of the Xiongnu.

Of the three major attacks, except for the first one in northern Xinjiang, where the losses were relatively large, the losses in the last two were not very large.

Of course, this is all thanks to the strong war buffer zone on the frontier, and there are nearly 10,000 Hu people in these buffer zones.

Every time the Xiongnu attacked south, they first had to pass through the surrender area set up by the Han Dynasty in the area outside the Saiwai, so these Han Hu people also became the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty.

Li Guang, as the supreme military commander of Northern Xinjiang, sent troops himself every time the Hu people fought with the Hu people.

At this time, the Hu tribe in the surrendered city outside the Saiwai has also been exhausted by the Xiongnu soldiers and horses, and the Great Wall of human flesh is about to collapse, and Yizhi's determination to invade the Han is also extremely firm, and he attacks one round after another.

From this incident, it can also be seen that Yi Zhixian is indeed keeping his promise to the Xiongnu nobles: to restore the glory of the Great Xiongnu Maodun period.

The buffer zone outside the Saiwai was finally broken by the Huns, and the thirteen surrendered cities in the border counties were destroyed by the Huns, and some of the Hu people who had been surrendered before also reacted, and they were used by the Han court.

After the battle was fought in the spring of the fourth year of Yuan Shuo, immediately after the autumn, the Xiongnu made a comeback.

Zuo Xianwang's soldiers attacked the right Beiping in three ways, and the right Beiping finally fell.

This was also the first time that Li Guang had fallen since he took office as the Taishou of Youbeiping, but due to the appropriate measures, the casualties were not very large.

Faced with the crazy state of the Hu people and Li Guang's defeat, Liu Che once again recalled Li Guang to Chang'an to reprimand.

"It's so disappointing for me, in the case of using Hu to govern Hu, how can I still lose so much?" After Liu Che finished speaking, he threw a battle report to the ground, and the battle report also rolled down to Li Guang.

Li Guang was reprimanded by Liu Che for the second time, the first time was in the summer of the third year of Yuan Shuo, the Xiongnu attacked Daijun, Daijun was broken, Taishou Gongyou was killed, thousands of Han people were taken captive, Li Guang was equivalent to being admonished by Liu Che to talk.

Li Guang wanted to say something, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, as a courtier, he just didn't do a good job.

And the prime minister Li Cai on the side felt sorry for Li Guang, so he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Yi Zhixian has an army of tens of thousands of people going south twice a year, and the situation in the border counties is ......."

"You don't defend him." Liu Che took over the conversation and was a little angry, and said casually: "You can't be like Wei Qing?" He has never let me down, Taishou has been killed, what a shame is this? ”

Li Guang kowtowed: "The old minister is guilty!" ”

Liu Che loved and hated Li Guang, so he lazily criticized and educated Li Guang.

In the face of the Xiongnu's two large-scale attacks of 10,000 people a year, Liu Che's inner anger was about to explode, and he began to ponder whether to take the initiative to send troops to suppress the Huns' arrogance again.

"Prime Minister, what if I want to send troops?" Liu Che suddenly asked.

Li Cai looked at Li Guang, to be honest, it is relatively okay after two years of stability in the country: "If Your Majesty wants to raise the strength of the whole country to fight, I am afraid that this matter is still difficult." ”

Liu Che took a deep breath, and was a little more helpless about the current situation: "I heard that he said everywhere that he wanted to restore the majesty of the Maodun period? I always felt that it was time to suppress his arrogance. ”

"Where is Wei Qing now?" Liu Che suddenly asked.

Li Cai looked at Li Guang again, and then replied: "Go back to Your Majesty, and Zhao Xin is in Shuofang." ”

"Let him come back when he's okay." Liu Che was a little disappointed.

Li Cai replied: "Oh! ”

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Walking out of Jianzhang Palace, Li Cai and Li Guang walked side by side like this, and Li Guang did not speak.

"Brother, what's going on in Border County? Why were you reprimanded twice by Your Majesty? Li Cai couldn't help but ask.

Li Guang looked helpless, and stood still and looked at Li Cai: "It's not that Guang doesn't work hard, and you don't know the situation in the border county." ”

Li Cai was dull after hearing this, and he also lost confidence in Li Guang's future.

"The Hu people are the Hu people after all, after all, the buffer zone is built outside the fortress, and the four attacks are all more than 20,000 troops." The more Li Guang spoke, the more aggrieved he felt.

What else can Li Cai say? Because he also knew that Liu Che was partial, he had always treated the soldiers of the border counties badly, and only looked at the victory and did not look at the hardship, so Li Cai really had nothing to say.