"The Huns are going to have civil strife. ∈♀ Top Novel, www." Wang Ben, who knew more about the Xiongnu, immediately said that sentence when he learned the news ahead.

It is not a new thing for the tribes on the grassland to break away from Shan Yu, after all, the tribes on the grassland are a kind of joint chieftaincy, not a state system like the Chinese civilization, to put it bluntly, the various tribes on the grassland follow Yu Shan Yu is just a kind of seeking refuge, Shan Yu's orders can be listened to, and if they are not willing to listen, they will directly throw their faces, unlike the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the administrative system of the Chinese civilization.

Of course, the premise is that the tribe that dares to give Shan Yu a face must withstand retaliation afterwards, and it is not uncommon for Shan Yu to send troops to retaliate but was defeated, and Shan Yu became a laughing stock on the grassland.

In addition, the current inheritance law on the grassland is not based on blood, not who and whose descendants can inherit the position, for the time being, it depends on the strength of the tribe, if the tribe is not stronger than the other tribes, it is a matter of course that the family with a different surname becomes the new single.

The bloodline inheritance method on the grassland was only decided after the rise of Mao Dun, and that was also because Mao Dun established the system of left and right virtuous kings, so that the left and right Xian kings became the left and right virtuous kings, like the people who were also in charge of the left and right bloodlines, and only gave foreign surnames to the left and right captains.

On the grassland, that is, several families such as Sufu have surnames, and the rest are all surnameless and nameless. It is recorded that the Xiongnu were actually Shang Dynasty people who fled north when the Shang Dynasty fell, and fled to the grassland to live and intermarry with the Zhuhu before being Huized, and stated that the tribes with surnames on the grassland were actually of Chinese blood.

It is unclear whether the Hu people on the grassland have Chinese ancestry, but the families with surnames from the grassland have the same sacrifice habits as the Chinese people living in the Central Plains, so that some tribes on the grassland are distant relatives of the Chinese ethnic groups in the Central Plains, which seems to be somewhat reliable?

What's more interesting is that Mao Dun naturally did this so that the surname could dominate the grassland forever, but some other tribes with and without surnames had their own ways to deal with it, and the Xiongnu royal family was unwilling to give high-ranking officials a prominent position, so they called themselves kings. After Maudun's death, the Clans did not have a relatively iron-fisted ruler. Some of the tribes that claimed to be kings did not interfere with the rule of the Clan, and the new Shan Yu of the Clan's Clans did not do anything to them. As a result, the tribes on the grassland naturally saw that the Su Yu clan did not react, and then began to emerge from this king and that king, and in the end, the Su Yu clan did not do anything to them, but they felt that some tribes did not have the strength to call themselves kings and fight each other.

Wang Ben's judgment that the Xiongnu want civil strife is not quite correct, not every tribe on the grassland is a Xiongnu, in fact, many of them do not call themselves Xiongnu, but according to the habits of their ancestors, they call themselves Di people or Rong people, and the grassland vies to call themselves Xiong people (that is, Xiongnu) that is in Maodun westward expansion of the Western Regions to destroy more than 20 countries, and then the east and defeat the East Lake to drive away the Donghu people to abandon the ancestors of the grassland. Let the Donghu people have no pasture for grazing, and change from nomads to hunters. Some for survival, some for vanity (or self-preservation) of the miscellaneous beards, want not to be hit, want to have pastures to continue the tribe, and only then began to call themselves the Xiongnu.

"The information we have gotten is that the system on the grassland is very similar to the tribal alliance of Baiyue in the south, according to this words, can it be understood that their union is actually a kind of alliance, and they are willing to follow Touman is the same alliance. It's okay if you don't want to follow Touman, this single Yu? Xu Zhi said slowly.

Wang Ben looked at Xu Zhi strangely: "The kind of tribal alliance of the Baiyue people is relatively loose, and although the system of the Hu people on the grassland and the Yi people in the south looks the same, it is actually not very different. ”

There are some things that Wang Ben can't say clearly, after all, before the Han State sent troops north, he had been fighting with the Baiyue people. He can't say that compared with the brutal and brutal Hu people in the north, the Baiyue in the south is a waste at all, right?

Xu Zhi finally understood under Wang Ben's explanation, but he felt that there was a discrepancy between what Wang Ben said and the information spied on Jinyiwei's side, but in general, the discrepancy was not too big. For example, Jinyiwei's intelligence shows that the Xiongnu's single must be recognized by most tribes before it can be a leading position. It's probably a kind of election (election) system. However, Wang Ben said that the Xiongnu only looked at the tribal force competition, that is, compared the number of tribal troops, and then compared the quality of the army. Basically, there are different intelligence content on these small and inconsequential issues.

"The Shan Yu family has a history of two or three hundred years since it became a family on the grassland. For a long time, the candidates were all from the Zodiac clan, and they have almost formed a concept of bloodline inheritance similar to ours. Wang Ben continued to explain: "For example, Touman's generation became Shan Yu because some allies are because he is the Su Yu clan, and the tribe of the Su Yu clan is also as populous as the previous generations, so those allies will continue to support it. ”

Wang Ben also said that there were not no tribes on the grassland who tried to challenge the Su Clan, but each time they were defeated by the Yu Clan and their allies, and it was the first time for a long time that a tribe betrayed the Yu Clan, so he judged that the Xiongnu on the grassland must be in chaos.

The problem is that those tribes are going to betray Touman and go to Maudun, and Maudun is also a member of the Su Clan, so Wang Ben is not right to say that those tribes betrayed the Su Clan. However, he is right about one thing, once those tribes take refuge in Maoton, it will inevitably make Touman even more jealous of Maoton, and such a thing makes Touman and Maoton, the father and son, become the head wolf, and the competition may not be without this possibility.

Wang Ben also said that it is naturally best for the Xiongnu to be in chaos at this juncture, so that the Han army can defeat the Hu people who entered the Qin land more easily, if there is no chaos, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is whether the tribes that betrayed Touman can help them find the location of Touman.

"You can't pass up this opportunity, but you can't fully believe it." Xu Zhi wondered if those Hu people were pretending to betray and deliberately lead in the wrong direction, or whether they were leading the Han army into a position favorable to the Hu people.

Wang Ben naturally had relevant considerations, so the subsequent order was to send only a small force to follow those Hu people to explore, and about 10,000 tribes followed them at a relatively safe distance, and at the same time did not give up their own search.

The vast terrain is really not so good, and don't think that the terrain is flat is really no ups and downs, although there are no towering mountains or anything, but there is no shortage of low mountains and packs, and then the place is big and there will always be a basin, so it is normal to have a high bottom. So, don't think it's easy to explore, the view is really not much less obstructed.

"To say something that doesn't sound good," Wang Ben smiled bitterly: "Even if we confirm the location of Touman, it will be difficult for us to go south now." ”

At present, there are only about 70,000 Han troops in this direction of Woye, and it is really a little insufficient to defend the area of 20 miles in length, and it is already the limit for them to send about 10,000 cavalry to the south, and it is really impossible to have more.

"Hongling urgent envoys have been continuously sent to urge the rear," Xu Zhi didn't seem to hesitate: "There has been a rumor stating that the reinforcements at the forefront are only sixty miles away from us, and I think that the reinforcements will definitely arrive in the early hours of this morning at the latest." Therefore, we should send some more troops to the south to enrich the strength of the south, and ask for orders to go south, after all, the situation on the front line is more complicated, and the highest rank of general and colonel there is only partial general, and if we encounter things that exceed our duties, we cannot deal with them in time. ”

The chief of Woye is Wang Ben, and Xu Zhi calls himself a "job". The habit of the lower-level officers calling themselves "job" to the higher-level officers also comes from the Qin army, and Wang Ben naturally does not feel awkward when he listens to it. In fact, the system of the Han army was not improved at all before it was not improved at all and there was no difference between it and the Qin army, even if it was improved later, it was only to remove some military positions and add some positions, and the military law was still the same as that of the Qin army.

Xu Zhi said that the reinforcements would arrive in Wang Ben in the early hours of tonight, and he believed that the military law in the military discipline is a felony for missing the deadline, as long as it stipulates when and where it should arrive, if the time limit is reached, the troops will not be able to behead the head of the leading officer, and the officers at all levels will also be beheaded by one out of ten, and the non-commissioned officers will be whipped even more, which can be said to be strict to the extreme.

There is also a reason why Wang Ben believes it, that is because the military discipline of the Han army is in the same vein as the Qin army, but he is also worried that the follow-up reinforcements have been on the road for four or five days in a row, even if they arrive, can they still maintain their combat effectiveness?

Of course, Xu Zhi saw Wang Ben's concern, but he didn't give any explanation, many times the explanation of the language was very pale, and he knew very well that only Wang Ben would understand it when he saw the arrival of reinforcements.

In view of the fact that there are only general-level generals in the front will cause a delay in the decision, and because of Xu Zhi's strong suggestion that the troops should be increased, Wang Ben, who has recently joined the Han State, firstly thinks that Xu Zhi is so confident that he should give support, and secondly, he also decides that only about 10,000 troops in the front are really not enough, so he agrees with Xu Zhi's construction of increasing troops to the south.

The arrangement made by Wang Ben was to send out another 10,000 cavalry, and then watch Xu Zhi lead these 10,000 troops south.

"The main general, the deputy general's construction is too risky, holding here is far more important than losing 10,000 troops, why ......"

Wang Ben stopped the man from continuing, and the person who would say those words to Wang Ben was naturally the original cronies.

Of course, it is more important than anything else to hold the main road for the Hu people to go north, not to mention discarding the 10,000 troops who went south in the early stage, as long as they can block the main road and prevent the Hu people from breaking through the defense line and escaping to the grassland, Wang Ben believes that there is nothing here of more than 70,000 troops that cannot be lost. However, who made him a newcomer to the Han State not long ago, but Xu Zhi was the one who followed the Han King Lu Zhe from the time of Yiling, some things did not affect the overall situation, he knew very well that there was no need to hard top, after all, he had already suffered such losses in the Qin State, but the Wang family was isolated, if he continued to do so in the Han Kingdom, how could the Wang family develop? (To be continued......) R527