At the end of the 3rd century B.C., the Xiongnu Dadan was born in Maodun, swept through Donghu, Wuhuan was forced to migrate to Wuhuan Mountain, and then took the name of the mountain as the clan name.

In 119 B.C. (the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty), the Han army broke the Xiongnu and expelled the Xiongnu from Monan, Wuhuan was subordinate to the Han Dynasty, and moved south to Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong five counties stationed outside the herd, on behalf of the Han Northern Imperial Xiongnu.

In 49 A.D. (the twenty-fifth year of the establishment of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty), Wuhuan moved south from the five counties outside the Saiwai to the ten counties on the edge of Liaodong, Yuyang and Shuofang in the Sainei, that is, the lower reaches of the Liaohe River, the northern part of Shanxi Hebei and the Hetao of Inner Mongolia to live in the pastoralism.

Wuhuan moved south twice during the two Han Dynasty and gradually developed and expanded, but it was under the jurisdiction of the Han Wuhuan Lieutenant, divided into a number of tribes, each of which had its own government, and never formed a unified tribal alliance.

After Wuhuan migrated south, his original place of residence was occupied by Xianbei; Since the beginning of the 2nd century, the Wuhuan outside the Saiwai often helped Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu to plunder the Han border; Sene Wuhuan mostly fought against Xianbei and Xiongnu from Wuhuan Captain.

The Eastern Han court also frequently used Wuhuan cavalry to suppress rebels in various places. In the second year of Emperor Ling's reign (185), Zhang Wen was appointed as the general of the chariot cavalry, and 3,000 cavalry from Wuhuan in Youzhou were sent to Guannei to suppress the Qiang Rebellion in Liangzhou.

Wuhuan was requisitioned due to the number, the death was slightly exhausted, the people's hearts were fluctuating, the army had no fighting spirit, and they all fled to the various departments of Youzhou without a fight. In the fourth year of Zhongping, Taishan Taishou Zhang Ju, Zhongshan Xiang Zhang Chun and other antis, on the use of Youzhou Wuhuan, Kou plundered Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou four states, Zhang Chun called himself the king of Mitian stability, as the marshal of Wuhuan in the counties. In the sixth year of Zhongping, Zhang Chun died, and the Wuhuan army also collapsed.

At this time, there were four forces in the Sene Wuhuan Li, Qiu Li lived in the west of Liaoning, was a large single Yu, led 9,000 Luo, and fell into a large household, with an average of ten people and a tribe of more than 90,000 people; Nanlou Tun soldiers go to the valley, leading 5,000 Luo, it is a big tribe with 50,000 people, Qiu Liju and Nanlou each call the king, the remaining two are weaker, Su Fuyan is in the subject country of Liaodong, leading Qianluo, about 10,000 people, claiming to be the king of Qiao, Wuyan Tun soldiers are in the right Beiping, leading 800 Luo, about 8,000 people, claiming to be the king of Khanlu.

Nanlou, Su Fuyan, and Wuyan are all brave and healthy people, Qiu Liju can deter them, in addition to being more powerful, he also has his own way of control. Now Qiu Liju is dead, his son Lou Ban is young, and his nephew Badun has a martial strategy, and he is appointed as Wuhuan Da Shan Yu, and he is the general director of the three kings' departments, and everyone obeys his orders, but the other three kings do not obey Badun very much.

Tian Chou thought about it carefully for a while, and resolutely said: "As long as it is beneficial to the overall situation, everything can be done!" It's just that I have no dealings with that Wuhuan person, I'm afraid it's hard to convince them, Brother Yan, can you help me? ”

Yan Rou bowed down and said, "I don't dare to ask for ears." ”

Tian Chou falsely claimed to the leader that he had completed his mission and was going back to report to Wei Yan and left the Xianbei Royal Court.

After walking for more than a few miles, Yan Rou waited on the side of the road.

Under the leadership of Yan Rou, Tian Chou went to Karasuma Mountain in western Liaoning and met with the new Wuhuan Shan Yu Badun.

In that period of history, after years of hard work, the unification of the four counties of Wuhuan, the momentum was great, when Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan competed, Bun Dun had sent troops to assist Yuan Shao, defeated Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao therefore falsely passed the imperial court edict, and gave the title and seal of the three kings of Nanlou, Su Fuyan, Wuyan and others. Later, the Lou class grew up, and Nanlou and Su Fuyan led their subordinates to establish the Lou class as Shan Yu, and Badun abdicated as the king and was still in power. After Yuan Shao's death, Yuan Shang was defeated by Cao Cao, and turned to seek help from Bunton, when the officials and people of Youzhou and Jizhou fled to Wuhuan with more than 100,000 households, Yuan Shang tried to recapture Hebei with these troops and manpower, and Bunton also wanted to be with Cao Cao for a long time.

But now the Bun Dun has just ascended to the throne, the status is not stable, Shanggu, Liaodong, and the right Beiping, the three Wuhuan are Yang Feng Yin against him, and the Xianbei people are eyeing Wuhuan and want to annex the Wuhuan, when the Bun Dun heard that there was a messenger from the Han Dynasty to come, he hurriedly walked out of the Wuhuan royal court, and greeted the ten miles of land, which was in stark contrast to the arrogance of Xianbei Shan Yu Kuitou.

Tian Chou saw the diligence of the Bun Dun in his eyes, he understood that although the current Wuhuan and the Han court were not as close as before, but the Han Yu Wei still existed, and there was still a great deterrent effect on the Wu Huan, especially the invincible Wei army, presumably this Bun Dun was also a person with a heart, if Wei Yan supported him, he would definitely be able to sit on the throne of Wuhuan Shan Yu.

With the intention of seeking Wei Yan's support, and with Yan Rou's help, Tian Chou successfully persuaded Bunton.

Bundun was willing to dispatch 20,000 elite cavalry from Wuhuan in western Liaoxi to block the communication between Xianbei in the west and Xianbei in the central and eastern Xianbei, and take the opportunity to attack some tribes in the Xianbei in the west.

As a reward, Tian Chou promised to let Badun go to Xudu after the war and accept the canonization of him as Wuhuan Shan Yu by the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty.

Yan Rou ran from it, in order to protect the title of Wuhuan lieutenant, Tian Chou also accepted Yan Rou on behalf of Wei Yan, after the end of the war, after Yan Rou met Wei Yan, Wei Yan will definitely recommend Yan Rou as the general of Wuhuan Zhonglang, and it is even possible to seal Yan Rou and lead the Xianbei Zhonglang general, which is the same as the general of the Hun Zhonglang, which is one level higher than the original title of captain.

Although Yan Rou is unscrupulous, deep down in his heart he still longs for the recognition of the Han court, as long as the court recognizes him, he will not be like Li Ling who has the reputation of a traitor for the rest of his life and cannot kneel down to worship the ancestral tomb.

Tian Chou left the Wuhuan court and learned from the agents that Wei Yan's army had arrived in Wuyuan County a month earlier, and had successfully joined forces with Xu Huang, the general of Duliao, Zhu Ling, the general of the Huns, and the Southern Huns.

In the past month, Wei Yan took Liu Bao's 40,000 cavalry as the front, Xu Huangbu as the left flank, and Zhu Lingbu as the right flank, and began to sweep from Jiuyuan County in Wuyuan County to the Hetao area, from east to west.

At the same time, Zhao Yun led 20,000 horses to join forces with Liangzhou Thorn Shi Ma Teng in Fuping, Beidi County.

Prior to this, Jia Xu, the captain of Sili, took advantage of his fellow Wuwei villagers to persuade Ma Teng to unite with Wei Yan, and sent food and equipment to help Ma Teng defeat Han Sui and occupy most of Liangzhou, and Ma Teng formed a strategic alliance with Wei Yan.

Ma Teng himself wanted to guard Wuwei against Han Sui, so he did not go out in person, but sent his eldest son Ma Chao, the general Pang De, and his eldest daughter Ma Yunlu to lead 20,000 cavalry, and under the unified command of Zhao Yun, they advanced to the east.

The two armies, choosing the same day, fought without declaring war, and began a fatal blow to a large number of Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Qianghu tribes entrenched in the Hetao area.

These tribes have lived in this place for decades or even hundreds of years, they live in pursuit of water and grass, grazing cattle and sheep, except for the Xianbei Lao Shan Yu Tanshi Huai in the lifetime of these tribes to give in for a short time, the rest of the time, they are not subject to the rule of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu, and do not obey the governance of the Han court, their own forces, living in the Hetao area, as if becoming the master of this world, but they do not know that the place they occupy should have been the Han Dynasty's thousands of hectares of fertile land, and now it is time to take it back.

Wei Yan rode his horse and galloped on the Hetao grassland, looking at the green grassland and the blue sky, and couldn't help but feel relaxed.

After being intoxicated for a while, Wei Yan came to his senses in an instant.

This fertile land was called Eilechuan during the rampant Northern Dynasties of the Hu people, and a famous song sang for thousands of years, "Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain, the sky is like a dome, covering the four wilderness." The sky is blue, and the weeds are low to see cattle and sheep. ”

This ballad is very beautiful, singing about the good life of the nomads, and as for the blood and tears of the farming Han people, it is always ignored by garbage historians who believe in the success of kings and defeats.

A few miles away, outside a tribe's tent, many Hun men on horseback and with long bows on their backs brandished whips and drove cattle and sheep. Now is the season of the herd to get fat, the horses and cattle and sheep grow meat, and they always look so happy, these men are very happy to see that their cattle and sheep are all fat and strong, and they are very happy, and they all smile and say: "It seems that there is no need to venture to the south to grab grain this winter, these cattle and sheep alone are enough to survive the winter." ”

Since ancient times, the nomads on the steppe have constantly infested the Han people, except for some careerists who are looking for food for the picturesque rivers and mountains of the Central Plains.

Nomads live by water and grass, in case of a major drought, the water is exhausted, the grass dies of drought, in case of heavy snowfall and severe cold weather, cattle and sheep will die in large areas, and the livelihood is difficult to maintain, the nomads are forced to have no choice but to go south to plunder, of course, it evolved later, to be a robber to do the habit of doing cool, do not want to be the original kind, enthusiastic, can sing the auspicious three treasures of good herdsmen.

Wei Yan came here this time to let these nomadic people remember that their original identity was herdsmen, not robbers.

Perhaps it was the actions of Wei Yan's two armies a few days ago that alarmed the leader of this tribe, and he ran out of the big tent in a panic and sounded the call for summoning: "All adult men, bring your bows, bring your arrows, put on your armor, put on your helmets, say goodbye to your women and children, mount your horses, follow this king, and go to meet Wei Yan!" ”

In the steppes, every tribal leader seems to have the audacity to claim to be king.

"Wei Yan?! That god-killer?! Did he call? ”

Prior to this, Wei Yan's conquest of the Southern Xiongnu made these herdsmen feel uneasy about Wei Yan's daimyo.

The leader of the tribe couldn't help but be furious when he saw that the men of his tribe were silent when they heard Wei Yan's name, and his soul was not possessed: "Bastard, have you all forgotten that you are the descendants of Maudun? Where is the glory of our Great Huns?! What kind of face do you have to meet our Kunlun God?! ”

Although the head of the man was hoarse and fierce, those Xiongnu men were still indifferent, they had heard in the past year that the Shan Yu Liu Bao in Xihe County had surrendered to Wei Yan, and now only their scattered tribes were scattered in the hinterland of the Hetao.

Wei Yan was busy with other things, so they were able to survive, if Wei Yan poured the strength of the country to fight, such a small tribe like them would only be sent to death, it was better to be like those Xiongnu brothers in Xihe County and Wuyuan County, or fight for Wei Yan, or graze for Wei Yan, or simply switch to farming.

This head man called Han Jiang has long been accustomed to the numbness of his own tribe herdsmen, and he doesn't care, as long as they follow him to join forces with those big tribes and deal with Wei Yan together, they can't be afraid in front of the two armies.

The tribe of Hanjiang is not big, only more than five or six thousand, and there are less than a thousand young and strong men who can fight when they are pulled up, compared with some large tribes of forty or fifty thousand herdsmen in the hinterland of the Hetao, it is inconspicuous, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, Han Jiang is afraid that Wei Yan will remember his small tribe, so he contacted several big Xiongnu tribes in the west a few days ago, these big tribes used to slaughter various tribes with the Xiongnu royal family and included in the nine major tribes of the Xiongnu, and now although they have declined under the engulfment of the Xianbei people, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, It is still available for him to attach to Han Jiang.

Just when Han Jiang thought that there was no opposition in his tribe and was about to take these young men to those big tribal alliances, a clear voice came from outside the tent: "Han Jiangtouren, since Wei Qing and Huo Qubing swept through Mobei, since our Xiongnu was divided into two parts, north and south, since Dou Xianle Beibei Yanran Mountain, since Liu Bao surrendered to Wei Yan, what glory do our Great Huns have, we are just sandwiched between the Han Dynasty and Xianbei to survive." I heard that Wei Yan is very friendly to the Xiongnu brothers who surrendered to the Han Dynasty in Xihe County and Wuyuan County, as long as they surrender sincerely, they will ensure that they have enough food and clothing, and their lives are better than in the past, Han Jiangtou, why don't we surrender! ”

Han Jiang was furious, and looked at it, the young man who returned from outside the tent was named Han Broom, he left the tribe for no reason a few months ago, saying that he wanted to go to Xihe County to find some way to live, he was frightened because of Liu Bao's return to Wei Yan, and he didn't stop it at all, and now that this guy is back, it turned out to be disturbing the hearts of the tribe, and it is very likely that this guy surrendered to Wei Yan in Xihe County.

Han Jiang stepped forward, picked up his saber, and slashed at Han Broom: "Han Broom, you dare to disturb the hearts of our army, you should be killed!" ”

Han Broom rode his horse out of the camp and shouted loudly: "Everyone listen, Wei Yan is here, only kill this leader, only kill those who resist, as long as everyone is honest, the Wei army will not embarrass everyone." ”

Except for the leader's henchmen, who were chasing after the young man with him, the other Hun men all turned a blind eye and slowly packed up their things.

The Huns have lived in areas close to the Han people for nearly a hundred years, and they no longer have the arduous spirit of living a lifetime on horseback during the Maodun period, and they have the same psychology as the Han people, as long as they can live in peace, without worrying about eating, drinking, and wearing, they are not willing to fight, and they are not willing to work for the noble leaders who rode on their necks before.

Wei Yanduan sat on the black horse, holding a glass clairvoyant mirror, looking at the Xiongnu tribe not far away, the back of the Wind Shadow Guard agent had escaped from his tribe, and the leader with more than 200 people followed behind to chase and kill.

Han Jiang, the leader of this tribe, couldn't chase for miles, and saw the smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and a large group of cavalry came, people like tigers, horses like dragons, banners waving, and the momentum was extraordinary, Han Jiang couldn't help but be overjoyed, could it be that the people and horses of the big tribes in the west came over?