Zhao Yun gave the order to destroy the Xiongnu. This is a goal that the Han Dynasty has not accomplished for 400 years.

With Zhao Yun's 50,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry, can he complete such a difficult task?

Let's talk about the real history.

The Xiongnu Empire was a huge country close to the Han Empire. His area is no less than that of the Han Dynasty. His history is longer than that of the Han Dynasty. His continuation also lasted for hundreds of years longer than the Han Dynasty.

The Xiongnu nation is generally believed to be its birthplace in today's Inner Mongolia Yinshan and Hetao, which is called Henan in ancient times because most of this place is located south of the Yellow River. The name Xiongnu first appeared in the middle and late Warring States period, so there is reason to believe that it was a nation formed during the Warring States period.

"Historical Records: The Biography of the Huns" cloud "crown with the Warring States of the Seven, and the Three Kingdoms border with the Xiongnu", that is to say, three of the seven heroes of the Warring States border the Xiongnu, these three countries are Yan, Zhao, and Qin. Therefore, during the Warring States Period, these three countries all had records of fighting against the Xiongnu, and all built the Great Wall as a fortification to defend against the Xiongnu. In fact, these Great Walls became the border between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu.

The Han-Hungarian War, also known as the Han-Hungarian Hundred Years War, refers to a series of battles against the Xiongnu in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, with both sides having their own victories and defeats, and after more than 130 years of war. During this period, the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu was based on the coexistence of a policy of peace and a policy of war, and in addition, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to build the "Great Wall of Han" in the second year of Yuanzhan (127 BC) to defend against the invasion of the Xiongnu.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu suffered from the early locust plague for many years, thousands of miles of red land, countless deaths of people and animals, and a great reduction in strength. There was an internal strife within the ruling group for the right to rule, and in the twenty-fourth year of Jianwu (48 AD), the eight southern parts of the Xiongnu supported the establishment of the king of Risui than Shan Yu. Nandan Yu used the title of his grandfather Huhan Evil Shan Yu to lead his troops of 40,000 to 50,000 people to join the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han government placed them in Beidi, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Daijun and other border counties to help the Han guard the border. Since then, the Xiongnu have been divided into two parts: the north and the south.

From the beginning of its establishment, the Southern Xiongnu has always existed as a vassal of the Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has requisitioned the Xiongnu army to fight in many wars; In 89 AD, the cavalry general Dou Xian led the Han army, together with the Southern Xiongnu army, to carry out the last blow to the Northern Xiongnu, and the Northern Xiongnu failed to flee and were forced to move westward, and disappeared in the Chinese history books.

After the Northern Xiongnu moved westward and occupied the steppes of South Russia, they established the powerful Xiongnu Empire, which eventually led to the doom of the Western Roman Empire.

The westward migration of the Northern Xiongnu was a major event in world history, and this action caused great changes in the ancient world and affected the development of European and world history.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was another civil strife within the Southern Xiongnu. At that time, it was the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the former Zhongshan Taishou Zhang Chun rebelled, and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered the Southern Xiongnu to send troops to assist in the conquest, but the Huns were afraid that Shan Yu would curry favor with the Han Dynasty and kept sending troops, so they launched a coup d'état to kill Shan Yu.

Then Shan Yu's son, the right virtuous king Yu Fuluo set himself up as Shan Yu, but the Huns were afraid that he would hate and kill his father, so they set up a single Yu and did not recognize Yu Fuluo.

Yu Fuluo led his soldiers and horses to the Han Dynasty to appeal for help. At this time, the Yellow Turban Army uprising, the end of the Han Dynasty was in turmoil, Dong Zhuo "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes", and the feudal separatist forces in various places rose together, and the Han Dynasty had no time to take care of the Xiongnu.

There was no way, Yu Fuluo had no choice but to wander around in the Central Plains, and finally got involved with the Bai Bo Army of the Yellow Turban, participated in the peasant army's activities to fight local tyrants, and robbed houses everywhere to grab some food. But at that time, just after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the world's powerful people all set up a dock fort to protect themselves, and he didn't take advantage of it.

Yu Fuluo had a home and could not return, so he finally found a place to stop in Pingyang (now Linfen, Shanxi Province) in Hedong County. (If you want to return to the country, the people of the country will not accept it, but stop at Hedong.) Later, the Bai Bo army protected Emperor Xian of Han and fled from Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Yufuluo's Youxian King Qubei also participated.

In 195 AD, the Southern Xiongnu in Fuluo participated in the melee of the feudal warlords in the Central Plains, and went down the Yellow River, and Cai Wenji, the daughter of Cai Yong, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was taken captive to the Xiongnu during this period. At this time, the Southern Xiongnu had occupied many counties in the Yellow River Valley.

Later, Yu Fuluo died, and his younger brother Hu Chuquan ascended the throne, and in 202 AD (7 years of Jian'an), Cao Cao sent people to attack Pingyang, and Hu Chuquan surrendered to Cao Cao. Cai Wenji returned to Han.

Cao Cao then divided his subordinates into five parts, with 10,000 households on the left and placed in Guzi County (near present-day Fenyang City, Shanxi Province), 6,000 households on the right and placed in Qi County (present-day Qi County, Shanxi Province), 3,000 households in the south and placed in Puzi County (present-day Xi County, Shanxi), 6,000 households in the north and placed in Xinxing (present-day Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province), and 6,000 households in the middle and placed in Tailing (near present-day Wenshui, Shanxi). This is the so-called Five Huns.

Then, Cao Cao summoned Huchuquan Shan Yu to Yecheng (Cao Cao's capital) and asked the Right Xian King to go to Bei to manage the affairs of the Xiongnu, and at the same time each ministry selected Han people as Sima to supervise them, so that Shan Yu de facto lost control of his tribes, and the Xiongnu actually became the household of Wei.

And the Shan Yu who was established by the original Xiongnu King Ting, died after a year of reign, and then did not set up a new Shan Yu, but the patriarchs managed the people. Cao Cao also completely controlled it through various means (such as absorbing all the upper-class figures into the imperial court, organizing young and middle-aged people into armies, assigning them to garrisons or fighting in various places, and calling all family members to Yecheng as hostages).

Cao Cao also incorporated the middle and lower class Xiongnu people in the annexed states into the Han nationality. In this way, the Southern Xiongnu were completely integrated into the Cao Wei regime, and the actual unification of northern China was completed.

However, this measure reduced many of the lower classes of the Xiongnu to slavery, so during the Wei and Jin dynasties, there were many areas in the Yellow River valley where the Xiongnu and other miscellaneous people were sold as slaves.

During the period of "Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms", Liu Yuan, a descendant of the Xiongnu, took advantage of the rebellion of these lower-class slaves to establish the "Later Han regime".

As mentioned earlier, he had a son named Liu Bao.

After Yu Fuluo's death, his younger brother Hu Chuquan ascended the throne, but Liu Bao became the king of Zuoxian. Liu Bao has a son named Liu Yuan. When Liu Yuan grew up, he was already a hostage of the Three Kingdoms to Jin, and Liu Yuan was a hostage in Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, and it is said that he had an excellent demeanor.

Later, in the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, sent Liu Yuan back to Pingyang to gather the Xiongnu army, so after Liu Yuan returned to Pingyang, he gathered the five Xiongnu and rebelled, destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, and opened the situation of the five Hu Chaohua.

Liu Yuan said: In the Western Han Dynasty, there was peace between the Han and the Huns, and the emperor married the princess to us Shan Yu, and we are all descendants of the princess of the Han Dynasty. In this way, the Xiongnu inherited the great cause of the revival of the Han dynasty of Liu Huangshu and Adou, and established the "Later Han regime".

In addition to the Liu Zhao regime, the Xia (Helian clan) and the Northern Liang (Fuqu clan) in the Sixteen Kingdoms were also established by the Xiongnu tribe.

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