In summer, the grassland climate is changeable, and a sudden storm sweeps across the northern border, turning wetlands into mires, mires into lakes, babbling streams and lakes dotted with lakes as far as the eye can see. ∈♀

It was a beautiful time, even though the savannah north of Yinshan Mountain was passing by with hordes of wild animals, and the inquisitive Yellow Sheep stopped and looked at the strange team a few hundred meters away.

The huge Xiongnu tribes trekked the muddy ground, and the sudden attack of the storm made the Huns depressed, and the cattle and sheep of the tribe groups lost more than half of the cattle and sheep in the war, and all the looted booty was lost.

Theoretically, there is no shortage of cattle and sheep in the grassland, as long as you survive the winter and lose fat, and breed in the spring for two seasons, most of the prey on the grassland can be hunted in the summer, not to mention that there is war to supplement blood loss, even if you lose millions of cattle and sheep, it only takes a war to plunder it back.

The military minister Shan Yu rode his horse depressedly, turned his head sideways and asked, "Mr. Zhao, do you think the Han people will catch up and attack our tribe?" ”

"Da Danyu don't worry too much, with my understanding of the Han army, I don't dare to go too deep into Mobei at present, at least this time, it will be difficult to say that the Han land will become richer and stronger in the future."

"Really not chasing? If I were the commander of the Han army, I would definitely chase after him, the general of the Han army was that Pingyang Hou Cao, I heard that he was in the south to destroy several big countries, he is not like a mediocre general with ordinary qualifications. ”

Zhao Shi said helplessly: "Da Dan Yu is worried about the reason, but we have no way to resist the Han army, and it is useless to worry about more." ”

"Yes! There are more and more black armor soldiers of the Han people, and our Great Huns can't resist it, but what should we do? ”

"There is only another way to plunder the two major tribes of Xianbei and Wuhuan."

The military minister Shan Yu lamented: "These two tribes are hiding in the mountains with bears and leopards. We Huns are not happy to go to the mountains to hide and seek, it's not easy to do! ”

Zhao Shi glanced at the figure in the corner. The Bank of China said that the scar on his face was not yet good, and that the defeat ten days ago had severely damaged the ambition of the military minister Shan Yu. Let the Xiongnu generation of male lords begin to examine their ambitious plans, and by the way, they are also dissatisfied with the initiators of the southern invasion plan with their own hands, and the Bank of China said that it has fallen out of favor.

The total number of Han people in the territory of the Xiongnu is between 8 and 100,000, most of them are slaves with no status, among which there are about 50,000 Han slaves living at the foot of Longcheng, and only two people of nearly 100,000 people have a higher status in the Xiongnu.

Zhao Shi once scoffed at the rumors circulating in secret. The rumors also describe the characters of the two "traitors", and the rumors say that the Bank of China is full of bad water, and the old villain with sores on his head and pus under his feet, probably the Bank of China said that he was a lackey in the territory of the Xiongnu and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the jokes in the rumors described in the Bank of China are endless, the Han people hate him, and the Huns also look down on him.

Of course, Zhao Shi didn't get any favors, and became a narrow-minded and jealous of the despicable villain. Or maybe it was because he married a mute girl and often took the dumb girl out for a walk, the Han people were not too black this "despicable villain", and the Huns also respected and trusted him. At least he has a much better reputation among the Han and Hungarian ethnic groups.

Clear-eyed people can see that Zhao Shi and the Bank of China are not in harmony with each other, and the Bank of China says that he is a big brother on the surface and amiable, and he uses all means to sue the black behind his back to create discord. What is more important is not the conflict of interests, but the conflict of ideas.

The Bank of China said that it was a firm southward invasion of the Han faction. Zhao She, on the other hand, advocated moving eastward into Xianbei Wuhuan to strive for greater strategic space. There are Xianbei Mountains and dense forests to protect calmly, and there are also guarantees for advancing and retreating.

The Xiongnu alone in the court related debates no less than 20 times, every time the side of the Bo citation will always be Zhao She's victory, the Bank of China said that it can only be regarded as a rough writing, many things are by their own pondering debut, compared to Zhao She's professionally trained literati is much worse, the theory of attacking Han in the south is more fragmented and fragmented, it is inevitable that it will be caught in the logic of the imrigorous attack, several times to deal with the blow is not small.

The military minister Shan Yu himself is more interested in going south, after all, it seems unprofitable to go east into the mountains and dense forests, and it is very good to go south to the Han land to plunder, but I didn't expect that the well-planned plunder was hit as soon as it appeared, nearly 10,000 corpses were soaked in Yanmen County, and millions of cattle and sheep were also thrown down, and it was reasonable for the Bank of China to say that it fell out of favor.

"We also have our own black-armored soldiers to fight the Huns, but what if the Huns can't make black-armor?" The military minister pondered.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice came out of the team: "Da Danyu, please listen to me!" You let me go......"

"Let go!"

The military minister Shan Yu rode over and walked over: "I remember you, you are the crown prince of the Wei dynasty, what do you have to say!" ”

"Ahh The big order is still remembered below. Wei Youqu was grateful: "There is a word below, my Wei's North Korea was a subject country of the Han emperor, and the business and trade ties are very close, there are craftsmen who are proficient in forging and smelting in our country, although they are not as exquisite as the craftsmen of the Han land, but there is no problem in making the Han people's armor, iron knives and iron arrow clusters, I heard that there is an iron mine in Wusun Kunmo in the west of the Great Huns, and the big single may as well let Wusun Kunmo sacrifice iron ore every year according to the amount, and invite craftsmen from the country to create weapons and armor for the Great Huns, and the elite cavalry has been armed in less than a year! ”

The military minister Shan Yu was overjoyed: "Kunlun supports the plow and blesses, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"Think about it again, but no one wants to listen to me, they think I'm just a little prince and not worth mentioning, and some people insult me as a useless person with wine bags and rice bags."

"What? And someone insults you! The military minister Shan Yu said angrily: "Pass my order, no one is allowed to insult him from today onwards!" ”

Wei Youqu was naturally grateful to the Huns, and automatically ignored the behavior of the Huns in his mind and ignored the behavior of the first offender of the insult, and thought about giving advice to the Huns, without noticing the shame and contempt of the Hun nobles.

Zhao Shi listened quietly, and after listening for a long time, he felt creepy in his heart.

Wei Youqu this person is extraordinary, even more extraordinary, he has stayed in Chang'an City in the capital of the Han Dynasty for several months, is familiar with the customs and cultural environment of the Han Dynasty, and even has seen the most elite cavalry equipment of the Han Dynasty, what he knows is even more than Zhao She, after all, Zhao Shi has left the Han Empire for several years, and has very little understanding of the Han family.

If you want to ask what kind of enemy is the most terrible.

The first in line must be to understand you, the knowledgeable enemy is the most terrible, the Xiongnu is a typical steppe nomadic civilization, its own customs and habits and the era of the huge restrictions on vision, resulting in the Huns are not the opponents of the elite black cavalry of the Han army at all, and the head-on hedge will inevitably be a defeat for the Huns.

This defeat made the Huns realize the gap between the two sides, but the Huns suffered from a lack of technology, and could only watch the black armored cavalry of the Han army gallop back and forth, but the appearance of Wei Youqu was very different, Wei Joseon was not an uneducated indigenous nomad, and the founding monarch Wei Man himself was a Han general, and after becoming a vassal king in the Han Empire, he learned a lot of techniques from the Han land one after another.

Although the Han people will not teach Wei's Joseon a very important technology, but even if it is just the simplest smelting process, can only cast relatively rough iron tools, inherited for decades for two or three generations to develop and perfect, Wei's Joseon's smelting technology has also improved, their technical improvement in the Han land is not worth mentioning, not to mention the steelmaking skills of the Marquis of Pingyang, but in the Xiongnu who have just left the Ru Mao blood drinking life for hundreds of years, this is a divine skill.

It doesn't matter if you really trust it, or if you just use it.

The military minister Shan Yu mentioned Wei Youqu to his side as a confidant, and the Bank of China said that he saw his position being replaced by a stinky boy who didn't grow up, Zhao Shi didn't listen to the things outside the window on the surface and put on an indifferent posture, and he was secretly gritting his teeth and worrying in his heart.

It's easy for two people to sing against each other, but a third person becomes complicated, especially Wei Youqu has a very sensitive identity, he will go back sooner or later to be the king of Wei's Joseon, according to the logic of the Huns, he is an untrustworthy outsider, just like Zhao Shi before he married was the same, Zhao Shi married his wife and became pregnant, and the Huns really regarded him as their own, because he wanted to take root in the prairie and not leave.

Will Wei Youqu take root in the prairie and not go? Apparently impossible.

Therefore, no matter how much he is favored now, no Hun nobleman Wei Youqu will be a dish.

Wei Youqu didn't know that he was still trying his best to repay the kindness of Da Dan Yu, and on the way to the north, he figured out a new set of horse tools, and he seemed to have to give two gifts: "Da Dan Yu please see!" This is the simple stirrup and saddle that is made under it. ”

"The two things you mentioned did appear on the black-armored cavalry of the Han army, and they were stirrups and saddles?"

"Exactly! The ordinary cavalry of the Han army should also be installed one after another, and the Han people rely on these two things to maintain the balance of the cavalry in high-speed movement. Wei Youqu gushed about, not surprisingly, the stirrups made of leather lasso, the saddle was made of cowhide and wood, and the four were not like harnesses wrapped in felt cloth.

Zhao Shi wanted to mock the non-standard production, opened his mouth and thought for a while but still didn't speak, the progress of the Huns seemed inevitable, what he needed to do was to send the news to the distant collaborators, reminding him to prepare for the response this morning.

At the same time, hundreds of miles away.

As early as three days ago, 15,000 Yulin cavalry and 8,000 heavy cavalry pulled out the camp and went north into the Monan grassland, and the original 10-day rest period was shortened to seven days, and each person carried three horses to chase at a speed of 200 miles a day.

Today is a short rest after three days of pursuit, and three hundred miles away is the location of Zuo Xian Wang's court, Zuo Xianwang's position is about one hundred and fifty miles due north, and there is still a day and a half away from his old nest, Zuo Xian Wang's department is retreating at a normal speed, without carrying old and weak women and children, if it is not for a few days of rest and delay in the camp outside the mouth, maybe he will be in Zuo Xian's court at this moment.

Cao Shi was lying on the hillside basking in the sun, and after looking at the sun for a while, he suddenly raised his head: "The scout army who summoned Meng has not come back yet?" Encountering an enemy situation? (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)

ps: It's not appropriate to go straight to Huanglong, it should be more appropriate to go straight to the royal court, but the title can't be changed, so I have to go down