Early autumn 199 A.D. ＞≥

And the state, Xihe County.

The grassland is reckless, the grass is barren and the sky is in the sky, and at a glance, the four fields are lonely, and there is only the call of cattle and sheep from afar.

A dilapidated ancient Great Wall across the grassland, that was the barrier of the Qin people to the north of the Xiongnu, and later the Huns were beaten by the Han people, the territory of the Han Dynasty until Yunzhong County, this ancient Great Wall naturally lost its due role, so it was dilapidated.

At this time, on the city wall, there was a military horse of hundreds of people, each carrying a long knife, a quiver and a longbow at his waist, and a young general with a nervous expression.

I saw that the young general was about twenty-six or seventeen years old, about seven feet and five feet tall, dressed in a black coat, dressed in fish scale iron armor, and his face was full of solemnity, looking at the field in the distance.

One step behind him, a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old white-robed general followed, looking at the front with the same solemn expression.

These two people are Yuan Tan, the assassin of the state, and his subordinate general Xin Bi.

This place is not far from Meiji City in Xihe County, and it is only more than 100 miles away from the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yuting of Wuyuansai.

What they have to wait for is the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Hu Chu Spring!

The Xiongnu has been a major disaster in the north of the Qin and Han dynasties for hundreds of years, especially after the Xiongnu's male lord Mao Dun unified the Xiongnu tribes, his strength increased greatly, and the invasion of the Han border became more and more prosperous. The famous "Siege of Baishan Mountain" in history, "Zhaojun out of the fortress", as well as Huo Quai's "The Huns are not destroyed, why is the home", as well as the stories of "Feng Wolf Juxu" and "Le Shi Yanran" are all related to the Huns. Even for thousands of years, the Xiongnu have become synonymous with foreign invaders, such as Yue Wumu's "ambition to eat Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood".

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were divided into two parts, the north and the south, and the Xiongnu fought each other internally. Later, the Southern Xiongnu established Shan Yuting in Wuyuansai (Baotou), attached themselves to the Eastern Han Dynasty as vassals, and were placed by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu in the Hetao area with fertile water and grass to recuperate.

However, in fact, it turns out that the nature of the Huns is destined to be a group of white-eyed wolves, in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Han family was weak, the Southern Huns and Hugh Tu took the opportunity to invade and merge the state, plunder and kill the Han people, and even once slaughtered into the hinterland of the Central Plains, the famous Cai Wenji in history was captured and plundered to the Xiongnu during this period.

Later, Yuan Tan led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses into the state, forced by the prestige of the Yuan family, the Southern Huns had to retreat to the Hetao area, and stopped for a long time, and even provided tens of thousands of horses for Yuan Tan when Yuan Tan conquered Jizhou in the past, so that Yuan Tan organized a cavalry of 40,000 people in a short period of time, and the strength soared unprecedentedly. It's just a pity that in the battle of Jicheng, Yuan Tan's 40,000 cavalry and Gongsun Bai's 5,000 white horses fought without a victory, and they couldn't hold each other, and then they were attacked by Tian Yu's Wuhuan cavalry, and the 40,000 cavalry were wiped out, almost collapsed.

After the defeat of Yuan Tan in the Battle of Jicheng, the Huns' fear of Yuan was no longer as good as in the past, but they were still afraid of Yuan Shao, who was sitting in the land of Sanzhou, and after Yuan Shao was destroyed by Gongsun Bai, the fear of the Southern Huns for Yuan gradually decreased. Although he did not rebel, he gradually took Yuan Tan seriously, and even wanted to move, after all, because Yuan Tan still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, he did not dare to move lightly.

"Damn Hu Chuquan, the general of this car deigned to come to the West River to meet, and he dared to be late, he stayed in addition to Gongsun Bai, and the first thing he wanted to kill was this guy!"

Yuan Tan waited for a long time and did not see the shadow of the Huns, and his heart became anxious.

Since Yuan Shao died of illness in Yecheng, Yuan Tan has been in fear all day long, beware of Gongsun Bai coming to attack day and night. In the past two years, Gongsun Bai has not moved, and Yuan Tan has become even more restless. Because he knew that Gongsun Bai would not let go of the land of annexing the state, and the reason why he did not move for a long time was just to strengthen his troops and horses, recuperate his strength, and strike a fatal blow to him.

In recent years, he has also been recruiting troops, and has gathered 40,000 soldiers and horses under his command to train every day, just to fight to the death with Gongsun Bai, but the population of Bingzhou is sparse, and 40,000 soldiers and horses are already the limit of what can be recruited. It is far from enough to rely on these 40,000 soldiers and horses, and more importantly, most of his 40,000 soldiers and horses are foot soldiers, and it is simply impossible to resist Gongsun Bai's iron cavalry.

Therefore, he thought of an alliance with the Huns, one to borrow soldiers, but to buy horses.

"My lord, the Huns are alien after all, is it inappropriate to unite with the aliens against the Han Chinese?" Simbi beside him asked in a low voice.

Yuan Tan's face was full of displeasure, and he shouted in a deep voice, "If it is not my race, its heart will be different, how can this general not know?" It's just that now the thief army is strong, and he has to do it as a last resort, once he has to break through Gongsun Bai Xiao'er and take the land of Jizhou and Youzhou, he will have to suppress this group of alien thieves who don't know the height of the sky. ”

"It's coming!" Jiang Qi, the fierce general beside Yuan Tan, suddenly shouted.

Everyone looked up in unison, only to see that on the vast grassland in the distance, a black shadow suddenly appeared, galloping towards the ancient Great Wall.

The closer and closer he came, he could gradually see his face clearly, and he could see hundreds of Hu people in leather robes, with tall horses, swords and bows, galloping, looking very strong.

Especially the person who galloped in the front, the figure was as high as eight feet, with a long beard, very rough, dressed in a gorgeous satin beard, and the blue horse under his crotch was actually nine feet high, extremely powerful.

Yuan Tan stretched out his hand, and then led hundreds of personal soldiers and guards to run down the city wall, stepped on the horse, and rode up to meet him.

The two sides slowed down more than a hundred paces apart, and a personal soldier under Yuan Tan's command, who was proficient in Xiongnu language, rode forward, shouted loudly in Xiongnu language in front of him for a while, and then rode back.

"Lord Qiqi, the one who came in front was the right virtuous king of the Huns and his attendants."

Yuan Tan frowned slightly, and his heart was furious, but after all, he still led his troops to move forward slowly, and finally the two sides stopped more than ten steps away, and the soldiers behind him were all on guard and guarding.

The soldier who could speak the Xiongnu dialect rode out again, shouting something to the opposite side, to the effect that the Huns would come to salute.

The Huns on the opposite side looked at each other, and after discussing carefully for a while, they saw the right virtuous king of the Huns flashing out of the queue, and bowed slightly to Yuan Tan, looking very arrogant.

Yuan Tan shouted angrily and asked, "Why didn't you call Chef Quan Shan Yu to come?" ”

He proclaimed himself a general of the chariot cavalry, and naturally felt that the Southern Xiongnu could only be equal to him if he was only in Huchuquan, and he was very dissatisfied that the Huns had only sent a right virtuous king. The Huns are arrogant and single, that is, the left and right Xian Wang, the left and right Gu Li Wang, the left and right generals, the left and right Dadu Lieutenants, the left and right big households, the left and right bone Duhou, and then the thousand commanders, centurions, even chiefs, etc. The left and right Xianwang are equivalent to the prime minister and the general, if it is according to the Han etiquette system, it is naturally above the general of the chariot and cavalry, but after all, the Southern Xiongnu is not the Xiongnu of the past, and it is just a small king of different races in the eyes of the Han people, and it is also subject to the control of the history of the state assassin and the general of Duliao, Yuan Tan naturally thinks that he must call Chuquan to come forward in person in order to be equal to his status.

The key is that the so-called phoenix that falls into the grass is not as good as a chicken, and now although his strength still exists, at most he can only make Hu Chuquan pay attention to it, and it is very polite to send the right sage king to meet him.

Without waiting for the pro-soldier to translate, Xin Bi beside him hurriedly stopped and whispered to Yuan Tan: "Lord, now we are asking for them, why bother to meet them in general." ”

Yuan Tan gave up at this time, and returned the salute to the right virtuous king.

With a satisfied smile on his face, the Right Sage King on the opposite side rode forward and said loudly: "Your Excellency, Honorable Che Cavalry General, we have received your letter and are full of interest in your suggestions, but due to ill health, we have entrusted this king with full authority to deal with the affairs of the covenant. We Huns like to talk straight, ask the general of the chariot to make your request, and at the same time say your bargaining chips, give a good time. ”

"We need 40,000 horses over 7 feet and 10,000 cattle and sheep. The corresponding return is that the boundaries north of the Great Wall in Xihe County, Wuyuan County, and Yunzhong County are all under the control of the Xiongnu alone, and all the Han officials, soldiers and horses should be withdrawn, and they will no longer be controlled by the Han officials. ”

When Yuan Tan said his conditions, the other party was silent.

Since the Southern Xiongnu were attached to the Han Dynasty, they were no longer a nominal country, although they still maintained their own establishment, but they had to accept the governance and jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty, although they had the right to live in the Hetao area, but they did not have the right to govern in the real sense, to put it bluntly, they were only vassals of the Han Dynasty.

And the conditions set by Yuan Tan meant that they now had their own truly independently managed territory, and the northern part of Xihe County, Yunzhong County and Wuyuan County became independent kingdoms.

After a long time, he laughed and said: "The war horses that my entire Hun clan can choose more than seven feet are now only more than 100,000, and the 40,000 war horses that Your Excellency wants account for almost half of my Huns, but Your Excellency only gave less than two and a half counties of land, and these two and a half counties were originally under the control of my Huns, not to mention that Yuan Cheqi still owed us 40,000 war horses back then, this deal is not cost-effective!" ”

Yuan Tan's face changed slightly, and he asked urgently, "What conditions do you want?" ”

Qubei looked solemn, (uukansh.com) and discussed with the people behind him for a long time before the pro-soldier replied: "10,000 elite soldiers can lend you, and 10,000 cattle and sheep can also be given to you, but you can only provide 30,000 war horses, and you can't do more." What we want is all the land north of the Great Wall, including Shuofang, Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Dingxiang, Xihe, Yanmen and other places. ”

"Fuck it!" Yuan Tan gritted his teeth with hatred, the Huns almost wanted most of the land to annex the state, but they had no choice but to agree in their hearts.

Who knows, he just agreed, but the words from the opposite side made him half angry: "The Che Cavalry General's promise is too refreshing, we have to doubt the Che Cavalry General's sincerity." ”

At this time, Xin Bi beside him finally couldn't hold his breath, and he stepped forward and said angrily: "The name of Gongsun Bai must have been admired by you for a long time. If you wait for the Huns not to be liquidated like the Wuhuan people, Goguryeo people, and Xianbei people, it is best to agree to our request, you must know that you Huns plundered and killed countless Han people a few years ago, with the temperament of Gongsun Bai, how can you let you wait? ”

The other side fell silent again, and it took a long time to hear Qubei's sincere voice say, "Very good, we are very willing to cooperate with General Cheqi." ”

(Eat first, and there will be a shift in the evening.) (To be continued.) )8