Chapter 115: The Iron Blood King
Thousands of miles away from Guangyuan County, Longcheng, the base camp of Donghu, is like a bright pearl, inlaid in the vast grassland of the East.
Longcheng, the political, economic, military, and cultural center of Donghu, is not as magnificent as the ten major princes of the Central Plains, but compared with Yanjing City, the Black Tiger City of the Rong Nationality, and Youzhou City, the capital of Guangyuan County, it is even more than that.
As the capital of Donghu, Longcheng is different from the Central Plains built with earth and built with bluebricks and stones, and the city defense of Longcheng is mostly made of bluestone, which is similar to the Donghu people, rough and heavy.
For hundreds of years, the bluestone strips have been blown and rained, and a thick layer of moss has been deposited on them, which makes it more and more solemn, solemn, and has historical precipitation.
This largest city in the eastern grassland, with a population of more than 500,000, is the political and economic center of the Donghu people, and it is also the military center of the Donghu king, Antila, who controls the Donghu forces.
In the Dragon City, there are 200,000 elite troops of the Donghu royal family, in the four strategic places on the four sides of the Dragon City, four cronies led 50,000 male soldiers, stationed in the upper and lower Yong, the south and the north of the concave, from all sides to defend the Dragon City. Forming an iron bucket-like defense, almost even a mosquito would not want to fly in without permission.
In the early days, Donghu was divided into dozens of unrelated tribes, and Donghu did not have a prominent position among the eastern steppe tribes.
A hundred years ago, a strongman Temuri appeared in Donghu, and Temuli became the leader of the Donghu tribal alliance, quickly gathering the Donghu tribes, and Donghu quickly developed into a powerful tribe on the eastern grassland.
Unwilling to be lonely, Temuli used thunderous power and iron-blooded means to conquer and annex more than a dozen Donghu tribes, form a tribal alliance, and establish the Donghu royal family.
Temuri became the leader of the tribal alliance and was awarded the title of tribal leader by the Xiongnu, the only overlord of the steppe. Temuri took advantage of the support of the Xiongnu to step up the unification of the Donghu tribes.
Fifteen years later, Temuri died, and his descendants fought for the leadership of Donghu, and the tribe fell into a scuffle, and the royal family's control over the tribes below was greatly weakened.
As the hundred-year melee continued, Donghu has always been a second-rate force in the eastern grasslands, and its status is almost the same as that of the Rong people, and even in some cases, it is not as good as the Rong people.
Even the Donghu royal family, in the internal affairs of the ministry, gradually lost its command power, and played more of a mediating role.
With the change of time, in the past fifty years, the Donghu royal family has given birth to two super strongmen, soul-like characters.
Nadal, the leader of the previous generation of tribes, and Antila, the leader of this generation, under the efforts of these two khans, the Donghu royal family flourished, and their control over the Donghu tribes became stronger and stronger.
Nadal succeeded to the leadership of Donghu, and Donghu's power has declined significantly. The Xiongnu were still in full swing on the grassland, and Donghu was blackmailed by the Xiongnu.
When Nadal first ascended the throne, the Xiongnu demanded BMWs, beautiful women, pastures, and water from Donghu, and Nadal adopted the method of paralyzing the enemy and satisfied the Xiongnu's demands one by one.
Taking advantage of the Xiongnu's light enemy, Nadal quickly attacked, successively unified the Donghu tribes, and became the leader of various tribes in the eastern grassland, and the strength of the entire Donghu was second only to the Xiongnu in the grassland.
Then, they launched an attack on the Xiongnu and broke the Xiongnu, and since then the Xiongnu tribe has withdrawn from the eastern grassland, standing side by side with the east and west of the Donghu, maintaining the situation of the two heroes of the grassland.
Nadal restored the Donghu royal family to its former glory, turned Donghu into a competition for the supremacy of the grassland, and became strong on the grassland alongside the Xiongnu.
After his death, his son Antila inherited the tribal leader, and during the reign of Antila, he continued to expand externally, and the nearly ten years of war with the Jin State swallowed Hulin County, Xiapi County, and Hunhe County under the control of the Jin State, so that Donghu had a large area of fertile land, and many slaves operated this fertile land for Donghu, so that they no longer had to worry about food.
In the thirty years since Antila succeeded to the throne, the Jin State not only lost thousands of miles of territory in the three counties of Hulin, but also lost its ambition to compete with Donghu and recover the lost territory under the continuous strong suppression of Donghu.
Thirty years of war are still continuing, which greatly reduces the strength of the Jin State, and gradually falls behind in the competition with the Central Plains countries, and can only be maintained hard, but unable to expand outward. The country is in a difficult situation.
These 30 years, but Antirah's most brilliant, the most proud 30 years, 30 years of war, the Donghu royal family to the east and west, in the foreign war, he continued to annex the grassland tribes damaged by the war, to the end of the war, most of the other grassland was shocked to find that Antila under the control of Donghu has become an unshakable behemoth.
But Antilla was not satisfied with the status quo, and raised troops to attack Jin, captured the three northern counties of the Jin Kingdom, and solved the problem of Donghu's survival.
Today, the strength of the Donghu Upper and Lower Clans reaches 500,000 elite soldiers, and all mobilization can summon more than one million people, and the elite army under the control of the royal family. It reached more than 300,000. Surrounded by large and small tribes and countries, only the Xiongnu fought with Donghu.
Not long ago, the three families joined forces to attack the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu were defeated on both sides of the east and west, and retreated to the extreme west of the grassland.
In the first war of the Xiongnu, the territory of Donghu continued to expand to the west, almost bordering the Xiongnu, tens of thousands of miles of grassland, only the Xiongnu and Donghu, and a few tribes that survived in the gap between the two behemoths, such as the Rong people.
The Xiongnu retreated to the far west, and looking around, Antilla could not find an opponent worthy of a battle.
However, the king will never stop the pace of conquest, not to mention, Attila has always been ambitious, although he is old, but he is ambitious, and he is not satisfied with the current harvest.
After a ten-year war with the Jin State and a lot of success, Donghu did not continue to go south. Just because Antila knew in his heart that there were Xiongnu in the northern grasslands, if he continued to move forward, the Xiongnu would inevitably secretly attack Donghu and take the opportunity to attack Donghu.
In addition, if the Donghu people stepped into the Central Plains with one foot, the Rao is Jin army would not be able to resist the Donghu iron cavalry and scimitars, but the lips and teeth would be cold, and the other countries in the Central Plains might not unite to deal with Donghu.
Once the vassal states of the Central Plains united and disturbed the Zhao State, which was sideways in the west, Donghu was definitely not an opponent. After all, Zhao Guo lies in the north like a lion, although he occasionally squints and naps, but whoever dares to take steps into its territory, this lying male lion will immediately stretch out his claws.
If Donghu really advanced into the Central Plains, Zhao Guo would make a move, maybe what Donghu ate in his mouth would have to spit it out. If he suffers a heavy blow, then Yu Donghu's prestige will be infinitely reduced.
Over the past hundred years, the strong rise of Donghu has attracted the western Xiongnu to eye, as early as the Eastern Front stationed heavy troops, looking for fighters to defeat Donghu, so that the Huns will seize the opportunity.
Today, after the melee of the four countries, the main force of the Xiongnu was wiped out by the Zhao State, and the tribes in the eastern region were swept away by the Donghu people.
There is no one on the grassland to threaten Donghu. The male lion of Zhao State, who showed his fierce minions on the grassland, was injured in the south, and it is estimated that he will recuperate for a while, and Antila is determined to take the opportunity to go south.
In the very center of the dragon city, a platform within a radius of several miles has been artificially built, and to go up to this platform from the city, you need to climb up the stairs and climb hundreds of steps to arrive, and the royal court of the Donghu royal family is built on it, which is an imitation
The palace complex built in the style of the palace of the Central Plains Dynasty, but because it is high above all other buildings in the city, its power is even more amazing.
Antillah is over fifty years old, and in the past six months, many Donghu nobles and generals in Dragon City have admired this iron-clad Donghu king.
The old King of Donghu not only did not lose the enthusiasm of his youth, but he was fierce. On the contrary, after ten years of silence, it is ambitious. Under the lead of the Rong people, he and Zhao achieved a great victory in attacking the Xiongnu on two lines.
There were no tribes on the grassland that threatened Donghu, and the king of Donghu, who was not satisfied with the status quo, had already begun preparations to go south to seize the northern region of the Jin Kingdom.
At present, many Donghu men are sharpening their knives, just waiting for the king of Donghu to give an order, cross the horse and swing the knife, and kill into the Central Plains.
The wealth like the mountains and the women like the water all made Donghu Erlang excited, looking forward to the early arrival of the war.
Guangyuan County, which currently borders East Huhulin County, was broken by the Yan army during the Grassland War, and all the northern Jin regions changed hands.
Suddenly changed opponents, the king of Donghu and even the nobles of Donghu, not only did not feel surprised, but on the contrary, they felt that they could do a lot.
The Jin State is one of the top ten vassal states, although its strength has deteriorated in the harassment of Donghu, and it is at the bottom of the top ten. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Jin Kingdom is a behemoth after all.
Yan Guo is different, small, too small, in front of the behemoth, like an ant, how can he shake this giant on the grassland.
In Donghu, this is the new five counties, the area has increased fivefold, but the actual area is only the size of Hulin County, Xiapi County and Hunhe County.
Once the swords and soldiers meet, how can the weak Yan State stop the Donghu cavalry from going south, and the Donghu people will slap it to death?
It must be known that although Guangyuan County and Hulin County are poor in land, and the people are hungry in disaster years, Xiapi County and Hunhe County are fertile land because they are close to the sea.
At present, the king of Donghu has been silent for ten years, and he has accumulated a lot of money and grain in ten years, and his edge is prosperous, which is a good opportunity to expand his territory and go south to the Central Plains.
The Xiongnu were newly defeated, Donghu flourished in the grassland, and the iron-blooded king Antilla became more and more stable in the hearts of various tribes.
Taking advantage of the high morale and the weak time of the Yan State, the requests of the Donghu nobles to send troops continued to pour in from all over the country, and they were piled up on the desk.
In the face of tribal nobility, high morale, and unfillable ambition, Antilla sent a petition for war from all over the country, occasionally glanced at it, smiled faintly, and put it aside.
He was waiting, waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for the Donghu people to be full of hatred, to fight into the Central Plains, and immediately determine the world.
If you don't make a move, it's enough, and if you make a move, you will fight the country!