Chapter Ninety-Six: The Huns Rebellion

The Xiongnu were a nomadic people, who had been entrenched in the Hetao area in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, that is, in Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, and western Shanxi in the 21st century. The Huns were tall, explosive and powerful, and because they had been herding horses and sheep on horseback since they were children, they had superb riding skills, far beyond the Han people.

In 202 BC, Gaozu Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and unified the Central Plains. At the same time, the strength of the rapidly developing Xiongnu tribes has also reached its peak, from a population of more than 200,000 to 560,000 people, all of whom are soldiers, and the number of elite soldiers who can go to the battlefield has reached more than 100,000.

In 196 BC, Han Wangxin rebelled, united with the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan to plunder and merge the state, killing the people. In order to stabilize the frontier and combat the arrogance of the Huns, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, personally led an army of 320,000 people north to the Yunzhong area to defeat the Xiongnu and the traitor Han Wangxin.

It should be pointed out that this Han Wangxin is not the well-known "soldier saint" Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin, but a Korean nobleman during the Warring States Period, the concubine of King Han Xiang, who was named King Han after Liu Bang ruled the world, and later generations called Han Wangxin. Because Empress Lu wantonly cut off the heroes, and successively killed Yingbu, the king of Jiujiang, Han Xin, the king of Chu, and Peng Yue, the king of Liang, Han Wangxin was worried that he would follow in their footsteps, so he surrendered to the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun and plundered the territory of the Han Dynasty together.

In the early days, the Han army won one after another with strict military discipline and elite combat weapons. Later, due to the light enemy's rash advance. Falling for the Huns' plan to lure the enemy, Gaozu Liu Bang and 20,000 vanguard troops were trapped on Baishan Mountain in Pingcheng, and were besieged by the Hun army for seven days and seven nights, completely cutting off contact with the main army in the rear.

Ice and snow, lack of soldiers and food, the founding emperor Liu Bang is in danger. Fortunately, the strategist Chen Ping offered a plan and bribed Shan Yu Yan with jewelry, as well as the beauty to provoke the general, and only then did he relieve the siege of the White Horse.

After this battle, Gao Zu's spirit was frustrated. It was not advisable to settle the dispute with the Xiongnu by force alone. Then he adopted the policy of Huairou and opened a market with the Xiongnu and his relatives, which lasted for decades. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne that the national power of the Han Dynasty became stronger and stronger. Emperor Wu then changed the policy of gentleness of the previous emperor. Began to use force to defeat the Xiongnu.

With Wei Qing and Huo Quai, two handsome talents who are not born in the world, were born. The Han Dynasty army defeated the Huns in the Western Regions and won many battles. Tens of thousands of beheadings and millions of livestock were captured. He even captured more than a dozen of the Xiongnu Shan Yu's uncles and nephews, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Xiongnu, and expelled the Xiongnu tribes from the fertile Hetao Plain, so that the Xiongnu turned from prosperity to decline. In desperation, some Xiongnu tribes went west and entered what was later Europe to make a living.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the regime became increasingly corrupt, first there was the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and then there were Black Mountain Thieves, White Wave Thieves and other rebellions. The Huns made a comeback and once again invaded the territory of the Han Dynasty. Taking advantage of the invasion of Chang'an by Li Dao and Guo Yan, they also entered the two capitals in a big way, plundering in Luoyang and Chang'an, and the imperial court was unable to resist, so they could only let the Xiongnu barbarians plunder.

During the rebellion of Li and Guo, the Huns captured tens of thousands of women and hundreds of thousands of livestock from Sizhou and Bingzhou, and returned with a full load, and the people of the Central Plains were struggling to make a living. Later, the Huns distributed the spoils unevenly, there was civil strife, the rebels killed Shan Yu Quqiang, and later the son of Quqiang succeeded to the throne, cleared the rebels, and named his younger brother Hu Chuquan as the king of Zuoxian, and went to Bei as the king of the right, and continued to make chaos in the western part of Bingzhou, the northern part of Sili Prefecture.

After Dong Zhuo's death, Yuan Shao became the overlord of the north, and used both soft and hard measures against the Xiongnu, hoping to recover the Xiongnu tribes. But the Huns did not believe in their words, sometimes they called their ministers, and sometimes they made chaos, which gave Yuan Shao a headache. I had to camp troops on the border to guard against the invasion of the Huns.

With the existence of Yuan Shao, a powerful warlord, the Huns did not dare to be too presumptuous, and they have always been mainly engaged in small-scale guerrilla harassment. In the past four or five years, there has not been a large-scale battle against the Yuan regime, and the reason why he gathered 50,000 troops this time and wantonly joined the Kou Shang Party was not only annoyed by Zhang He's active attack, but also at the invitation of Gongsun Zhan to relieve the siege of the isolated city of Yijing.

The Huns were good at riding and shooting, their mounts were excellent, they came and went like the wind, and the 50,000 men were all cavalry. Grassland warfare was their advantage, and siege was their weakness, so the Huns besieged Shangdang but did not attack. Just looted, burned, killed and looted around, just waiting for Yuan Shao's army to come to the rescue.

Seeing the Huns wreaking havoc in a radius of 100 miles, Zhang He was furious and went out of the city several times to fight the Huns. However, the infantry against the cavalry suffered a loss, and in the case of the inferior troops, there was no chance of victory, and after several battles, the soldiers were lost, and more than 3,000 people were lost, so they could only retreat to the party and continue to defend to the death.

He also has 40,000 troops directly under his command, stationed in the Jinyang area of Taiyuan Zhizhi, and about 20,000 county soldiers can be mobilized. But the cavalry under his command was only 6,000 men, and if he fought against the Hun cavalry with infantry, he would inevitably suffer a great loss. Therefore, Gao Gan left 10,000 people to garrison Jinyang, and he led 30,000 people to slowly move south, walking only 30 miles a day. Its purpose was nothing more than to wait for the arrival of Yuan Mai and Liyi's Yanmen soldiers, so that they could take the lead and reduce the casualties of their own troops.

In April, the flowers are in full bloom, and the fields are green. But the horse's hooves that galloped back and forth rolled up the dust, crushing the beautiful ink paintings!

Nearly 20,000 defenders spread all over the city to prevent the Huns from suddenly attacking the city. It's just that they have been trapped for more than half a month, but the Huns only besieged the city, did not attack, and then plundered everywhere, which made the defenders in the city very depressed. But when he went out to fight a few battles, he couldn't take advantage of it, so he could only watch the people being plagued by the Huns.

"Look, general, the Huns have plundered again!" A lieutenant shouted loudly.

The banner of the word "Zhang" was waving in the wind, and a general with a height of seven feet eight inches, a delicate face and sharp eyes pressed the hilt of his sword and glared angrily at the city. He was not a burly man, but his arms were long, his hands were thick and powerful, and his legs were strong and slender, making him the most suitable for martial arts. He is one of the "Four Pillars of Hebei" under Yuan Shao, Zhang He of the River, the word Junyi, and now the official worships the general of Xiaocai.

After listening to the captain's words, Zhang He looked around and saw that two or three miles to the east, there was a group of Hun cavalry, about 1,000 people, driving the people's cattle and sheep.

Most of the so-called common people are women and children, and the women go back and are assigned sex slaves and coolies, and the children are kept to do rough work when they grow up, and because they are relatively young, they are easy to adjust. As for the adult men and the old and weak, they were killed mercilessly.

At this moment, their heads were hanging bloodily on the necks of the Hun cavalry, one or two horses were less, and there were three or five more, and the blood stains had not yet dried up......

The women were tied together by a long rope, like a long dragon walking forward with difficulty, a little slower, will be whipped on the body of the whip, this is still light, if it stimulates the beastly nature of the Huns, they will be desperate to pull out of the ranks, and then dragged to the side of the road, like beasts in public rape, not ashamed at all. The other Huns screamed evilly, whistled, and shouted in a barbarian language......

If the women are a little rebellious, after the Huns have vented their animal desires, they will mercilessly stab the weapons in their hands into the woman's lower body, for them, being able to hear the screams of Han women is a kind of enjoyment, full of the pleasure of conquest, so they continue to draw joy in the killing, and enjoy it!

"Huhu...... Roar ...... ...... Hehe"

With the screams of the Huns, a bearded Hun soldier dragged out a slightly slower woman from the crowd, who looked about twenty-six or seventeen years old, with some dirt on her face, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but her figure was very plump......

"Wow, whoa, whoa, yes, mixi!"

The Hun soldier let out a ghostly roar, turned over and dismounted, grabbed the woman's ankle with both hands, and dragged her to the side of the road without mercy. The Hun companions behind him and in front of him immediately let out a series of ghost screams to cheer for him......

"Brute, let me go!"

The woman let out a terrible scream and tried to resist. But in the face of the tall barbarian, it was in vain, and he was slapped in the face by two big mouths, and blood suddenly overflowed along the corners of his mouth......

"Wahaha......"

The Huns let out a lewd laugh, "whoop", and tore the woman's coarse cloth blouse, revealing two white. The brute pounced on him with a smile, and his hands went up and down, touching and gnawing.

"Brute, I'll fight with you!"

The Han women struggled hard to push away the Xiongnu barbarians, where could they push? He kicked each other with his feet, but he grabbed his ankle with a wicked smile and pulled his pants hard, and the whole person was naked. Naked in front of my eyes.

"Roar ......"

The Xiongnu barbarian Mount Tai pressed the women under the body, brutally and rudely separated the women's legs, because of too much force, even the Han women's bones could be heard "click" sound, the severe pain made the women let out a miserable scream, in exchange for the more rampant laughter and screams of the Hun warriors on the horse team, as well as whistles......

The burly Hun soldier took off his pants, lay on the semi-unconscious woman for a while, and after the beast wanted to vent, he breathed a long sigh of relief, fastened his trouser belt, and then touched the Hun short sword beside him, mercilessly stabbed into the woman's lower body, penetrated from the heart, and then waved the knife and cut off the head. Finally, he walked in front of the horse, hung his bloody head on the horse's neck, turned over on the horse, and entered the horse team......

For them, there are enough women who have come back from the plunder, as long as they are not the peerless color of the country, they can be killed at any time, and the head is their military medal.

"All the cavalry follow me out of the city, meet this barbarian, kill the Hulu, and save the people!" Zhang He's beard was all open, his liver and gallbladder were split, he touched the tiger's head golden gun, and ordered loudly.

On the soil of my Han family, how can you allow barbarians to run rampant, and no one will deceive me? Even if you die on the battlefield, what is the pity of the horse leather shroud? (To be continued......)