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When the chill lifts and the snow melts in the north, hungry nomads emerge from their felt tents and experience a long winter of snow erosion, leaving their cattle and sheep skinny and hungry children looking at their fathers in need of food.

Hordes of herders organized themselves and waited outside the tribal tent, where they would starve to death for the next three months, and there was only one way to survive, to plunder south.

Something like this was born in the desert of thousands of grassland tribes, the long heavy snow stretched from the south of the desert to the north of the desert, the Xiongnu Shan Yuting Dragon City was a frozen city, the hungry Huns endured the pain to kill the emaciated cattle and sheep, drove the old parents to the grassland to fend for themselves, they gritted their teeth and sharpened their knives, and stared at the strong neighbors in the south.

"Big order! Let's send troops! ”

"Let's make a big decision!"

"If you don't do it anymore, the people can't be happy."

The hungry steppe wolf is roaring, and the wolf king must meet the urgent needs of the wolves, or his position will be shaken, and the enemies dormant in the wolves will jump out and wait for an opportunity to take his place.

The military minister Shan Yu knew his brothers too well, they were a pack of impersonal wolves, and if they were given even the slightest chance, the vicious wolves would jump up and bite his throat and suck his blood dry.

In fact, he is also such a wolf, the strongest wolf competition is the wolf king, and the law of survival of the fittest on the grassland is guided in the dark.

Zhao Shi hid in the crowd and was silent, he knew very well that the looting of the Huns was imperative. He is powerless and unable to obstruct, and the Bank of China says like a poisonous snake. Always keeping an eye on his every move.

The military minister Shan Yu stood up: "Rob!" Go to the south to grab food to eat! ”

The Xiongnu nobles cheered for this out of the king's tent, and the rest of the Han attendants were busy cleaning up the big tent. The military minister Shan Yu was going to the south to hunt and grab grain, and the king's tent would follow him south.

The nomads have no fixed residence, the single court in the north of the desert is only a summer resort and a camp in winter, the spring and autumn seasons of the king tent to migrate to the south of the desert, the desert south grassland is more fertile, if it is not for safety considerations, the military minister Shan Yu will also set the king tent in the south of the desert for a long time.

The Huns moved very quickly, and the military ministers gave the order to attack in the morning, and in the evening they packed up the big tent. The attack was mainly an operation of elite cavalry, and the old and weak women and children were left in the ranks of the king's tent to advance slowly.

That night, the Huns had eaten and rested early, waiting for the moment when the dawn sun rose to set up camp and head south.

There was still a camp where the lights were still bright, and the mute woman was holding the flask and lowering her eyebrows, her chin was plumper than before, and when she looked closely at the wide clothes and her belly was bulging so high, it was obvious that she was pregnant with Liujia.

"Blessed are the virtuous brothers! It's good to have children, and settle down to serve Da Danyu. Bank of China said with a smile.

The dumb woman's blush flashed, and she moved her body unnaturally towards Zhao She. She didn't dare to look at the middle bank, which was neither male nor female, and said that many times it was this gloomy eunuch who scared her, as if to force her to say something, but she was willing to give up because the mute girl could not speak or read.

She was a lonely woman. At a young age, she was only robbed of the instinct to speak because of a high fever, and her parents disliked her for not being able to speak, so she was left to be raised by a widower in the same village, and her adoptive father was a rough old man. More than ten years ago, the plague killed his wife and children, and the mute girl's childhood was not happy. Anyway, there are two meals a day.

Maybe God didn't want her to live an ordinary life, and fate stretched out his hand to her again. Unfortunate disaster came unexpectedly, when she was ten years old, her adoptive father violated the criminal law and was exiled to Yunzhong County Wancheng Dan, it was that year that the Huns raised troops to the south and plundered the four counties, her adoptive father was conscripted as a civil husband and died in that war, she was lucky to escape death, was plundered to Mobei Longcheng and reduced to slavery.

At the beginning, the military minister Shan Yuxin married a new Shan Yu Yan, and recruited Han maids to serve the Xin Yan family in Shan Yuting, just because she was a weak woman and couldn't speak, she was beaten to Shan Yuting to do rough work of pulping, laundry, and cleaning, I originally thought that my life would be spent between this grassland and the king's tent, but I didn't expect her life to break into a bad guest, and that person was her husband Zhao She.

Although she does not have the beauty of the city, although she is not a tall beauty, although she is just a stupid rough girl, Zhao Shi never disliked her, but tried his best to pity her, love her, and really like her.

The old husband and young wife are like glue, the husband sings and the wife is harmonious with Jinse, often sees Zhao Shi taking the dumb girl to walk in the grassland near the king's tent, he will softly tell the story of his childhood, the dumb girl loves to listen to those good stories, she can learn about Zhao She's past from the story, the majestic father and loving mother, that is the love of relatives that she has never enjoyed, she is very envious of her husband, really envious.

Zhao Shi patted the back of her hand: "Brother, is there any news?" ”

"Da Shan Yu wants to personally lead the army south, and this time the target is Mayi, Yanmen County, where the Huns and the Han people traded with each other, and it is most convenient to choose there."

"Ma Yi? That time Zuo Xian Wang led the army to go, killed a Yanmen Taishou offended the Han Emperor, a few years ago a lot of money to renovate and build the county to govern the good city, the county Taishou Bush is a very powerful general, I am afraid that it is not good to take the Mayi. ”

"Other locations either go deep into the Han realm, or it is difficult to get hold of them, and only the selection of Ma Yi has the best effect."

"In the whole army of the headquarters alone, how many people will be dispatched from the Zuo Xianwang department?"

"All the troops are attacking."

"You mean 278,000 people this time? There are too many people and too much movement, and it is inevitable that there will be wind and grass. ”

The Bank of China said with a smile: "It is to mobilize the people, not afraid that the Han people will know the wind and grass of the Huns, even if he knows, he can't do anything?" Our big Huns want to eat, robbing their horses is not a matter of course, Da Shan Yu said that this is to borrow the food of his brothers and nephews to live, after this pass to the autumn high horse fat, Da Shan Yu can be the master to send a million sheep as a gift, the Han people a stone of grain 100 yuan, a sheep 150 yuan. rob them of a million stone of grain, and lose a million sheep by the fall. The Han emperor was earned. ”

The most talked about in the desert grassland must be cattle and sheep, and herds of cattle and sheep are scattered in all corners of the grassland. In addition to the artificially raised cattle and sheep, there are many wild cattle and sheep, the bison herd and the yellow sheep herd are almost innumerable, just because this winter snow makes the whole grassland in a state of hunger, the Huns can not kill most of the grassland cattle and sheep in order to eat, because they still have the next winter to survive, no one can say which winter will come again cold and snowstorm.

As long as they are given a chance to survive this spring, the emaciated cattle and sheep will become fat and strong, and they will raise the next generation of cattle and sheep, and the Huns can rest assured and boldly drive the herds of cattle and sheep south. As long as the Han people acquiesced to this forced purchase and sale agreement, they could be forced to buy enough grain to survive the winter every winter in the future, which was precisely the ultimate ideal of every Xiongnu Shan Yu.

Zhao She's eyes narrowed slightly, and he talked perfunctory with the Bank of China, and the Bank of China said that he felt bored and got up to leave.

"Are you okay? Shall I help you out for a walk? ”

The mute girl shook her head and wanted to say no, but now her husband's eyes were full of persistence, so she had to nod silently and follow her out of the tent. The mute girl loves to look at the starry sky because the starry sky can shine on her family.

Fluttering!

A dove flew out of the woods, and the inconspicuous black dove had a small copper ring on its paws, and the copper ring had a clasp attached to a roll of paper. When he took out the letter, it was a three-finger-wide slip of paper with a secret letter written in small letters, instructing him to check the military plans of the Huns this year and whether they were ready to go south. How many troops are you going to send, and which city are you going to attack against.

Zhao Shi took out a new note from his hand, rolled it up and stuffed it into the small copper ring. The snap lock was made sure that the pigeon was correct, and the clever little one fluttered out of the woods and headed south. Smart pigeons know how to avoid the attack of birds of prey, borrowing instinctive positioning and navigation can identify the direction day and night, so the night is the best time for the pigeon to fly, but most pigeons do not dare to fly at night, only special training can.

The mute girl quietly watched the pigeon spread its wings and fly high, through the cover of night, through the barrier of thousands of rivers and mountains, as if the destination was her hometown of Zuoyi County, Hedong County.

She doesn't remember what her hometown looked like many years ago, her memory has been washed away by too much hard life, she only remembers her mother's warm hand, leaving her reluctant eyes when she left, maybe that's maternal love.

The degree of the Huns' southward movement was far slower than imagined, and the 150,000 horses of the Xiongnu royal court rode away very slowly, and Da Dan Yu hesitated and decided to move slowly with the Xiongnu king's tent, perhaps he also thought that the rapid advance could easily enter Yanmen County and plunder Mayi.

The slow king's tent only traveled more than 50 miles a day, and at night in order to save time, he only set up a small tent to barely survive the night, and most of the people were clothed and burrowed into the felt tent and squeezed into a ball to make do with sleep, just because reducing the felt tent could improve the degree of camping.

There were 100,000 women and children in the king's tent, and 30,000 old and weak people stayed in Longcheng to take care of the safety of the lair, and the Huns made up their minds to have a full meal in the Han territory and then return to the depths of the steppe desert to spend a short summer.

On the fifth day of the Xiongnu royal court's southward journey, the first to receive news were the two counties of Yunzhong and Yanmen.

"There is an abnormality on the grassland, do you mean the Zuoxian Royal Court in Monan? King Zuoxian's losses this winter were very severe, and he experienced three months of heavy snowstorms, and it was natural to send troops to retaliate against Yanmen County. ”

Yanmen Taishou Bushman rolled up his sleeves and grinned, the county officials lowered their eyebrows and didn't dare to say half a word, they didn't count as farts in the eyes of the county guard, the biggest style of the Bushman as a Taishou is to trust and reuse the power of the caravan, especially the caravan of the Pingyang Hou Mansion was used because of his henchmen, and the black cavalry that created a miracle was grown up with his connivance.

Zhao Meng sat on his right hand, drank wine and frowned and pondered: "Otherwise, it will snowfall heavily in the Xiongnu for three months in a row, but I am afraid that this year's situation will be different from previous years." ”

"What does the virtuous brother mean?"

Zhao Meng knew the Xiongnu very well, he and in the past five years he fought with the most of the Xiongnu tribes in Monan, except for the Huns' royal tent cavalry has not touched, almost all over the entire Monan good invincible hands, including a few Zuo Xian Wang under the large number of small king's cavalry, he has captured more Hun prisoners than the Han army in Yanmen County killed more Huns, the prisoners of war slaves in their hands selected strong ones to flow down, and the rest were all sent to Taishou to do military exploits, so he knows the living habits of the Huns very well.

"The grassland desert is peaceful and has suffered heavy losses, and the rivers and pastures in the north of the desert are slightly inferior to those in the south of the desert, and the winters in the north of the desert are longer and colder, and the summers are shorter and cooler, and the livestock that starve to death will only be more."

"That is, Shan Yu Wang Court is also going to move?"

"It will inevitably move, and it is very likely that it will be poured out to the south to loot through this spring, I know the habits of the Huns very well, they will treat the border counties as better pastures, eat the cattle and sheep of the border counties and then return to the northern desert to eat their cattle and sheep."

Bushman said angrily: "A group of despicable Huns, isn't it that there is no one in my Han family?" ”

Zhao Meng coughed and reminded the bushman that he had lost his dignity, but he didn't want him to turn his head: "Brother Xian, it's better to fight the Huns with me by surprise, so that they can see the power of the Xia Khan family." ”

The county lieutenant suddenly became very unhappy: "Yanmen County only has a population of 220,000, and there are only more than 37,000 soldiers who can fight when it is full, and if you want soldiers with good morale, you have to cut down and beat half, at most more than 10,000 soldiers can be used, and the food supply is enough for the army to eat for 36 months, but counting the city residents and the border county residents who fled to escape the war, the food is only enough to eat for three months at most." ”

Trimester?

The bushman looked at the county suspiciously, and got the answer provided first, more than 10,000 people and more than 100,000 people are two different things, before the summer grain was not entered the granary, everyone ate the grain stored in the granary, and now it is only early March, at least about three months before the summer harvest, theoretically the grain is barely enough to eat, but the actual situation is not the case, usually the training of defending the city does not consume too much energy, and the soldiers only need one person to share the rations.

During the war, the high tension and high intensity of the battle consumed enormous, and the food that had to be the best food had to be eaten for two people, and the people who contributed the most during the war had to give at least 1.5 people food, because during the war, everyone was working hard, and the people were not willing to work if they were not fed.

Theoretically, three months of rations can't last even two months in practice, unless you want to starve people to death in the city of Shanwu, you have to find a way to reconstruct a complete new defense.

Jun Cheng suddenly had an idea: "There are rich copper coins in the Yanmen County Yali, so it is better to take them out and buy grain from the country next door, so that our food problem can be solved." ”

"Hey, you have a point! But in case the Huns feel that Yanmen is not easy to fight, what if they turn around and go to fight Daiguo? After all, Daiguo is also one of the border counties, and I will be unlucky for the king to have three long and two short. (My novel "The Great Han Liehou" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 1oo% lucky draw gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued!)

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