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In the early spring of this year, when the winter snow in the north had not yet melted, the Xianbei king took the 50,000 barbarians of Fuyu Su Shen Wo and the 50,000 barbarians to drive the dogs and horses to trek through the snow and raid the Xiongnu tribes on the west bank of the Gonglu River. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Xiongnu tribes were caught off guard, the Huns who relied on fast horses and bows to dominate the grassland all the year round were dumbfounded in front of the knee-high snow, especially at the turn of winter and spring, the ice and snow seemed to melt and not melt very soft, the horses could not walk in the snow but people could walk, for there was a way to dismount and fight, but the Huns were far from being the opponents of the Xianbei people in terms of physique and foot combat skills, so when the war began, the balance of victory was unreservedly tilted past.

Not just a fiasco, it was a massacre that had been planned for a long time, and it was more brutal than an ordinary massacre.

After the identification of the Xiongnu traitors and captive Han slaves, the Xianbei people treated the "true Xiongnu" in all tribes differently from the tribes known as the "Xiongnu".

The screened out "real Huns" are all the upper class in the tribe, even if they are not nobles, they are stronger than ordinary barbarian herdsmen, and the Huns who have been screened out are obviously treated differently, and Zhao Meng, who has been the commander of the Han army around King Xianbei, told the Hun captives to choose one of the two to make a choice, either to let the "real Huns" die, or let the ordinary "Huns" die.

It was a very crude divisive tactic but it was very effective, and the Xiongnu were not intimate and rigid. The real Huns are only 500,000, but there are 4 million descendants of Rongdi in the entire grassland, who obey the orders of the Huns, the overlord of the grassland, and also call themselves the Huns, but where there is civilization, there will be nobles and commoners, and there will be rich and poor.

The real Huns were not natural aristocrats. Most of them are also ordinary herdsmen, but they enjoy the special preferential treatment of the Xiongnu Danyu, naturally have more cattle and sheep than ordinary Xiongnu herdsmen, can graze the best pasture in the pasture, can grab the most beautiful women, only other non-Xiongnu nobles have a higher status than them. And on equal footing, the real Huns were privileged.

Zhao Meng's divisive plan is very simple, between the "real Huns" and the ordinary Huns, one must die, under the persecution of the butcher's knife, the ordinary Huns did not hesitate to betray the envious and jealous "real Huns" in the past, the Xianbei people did not make a move from beginning to end, they just let go of the ordinary people of those majority factions. Let them kill their former comrades with their own hands, and they must cut off their heads and hang them on the necks of their horses, and use this action to signify a complete break with the word "Huns".

The Xianbei people succeeded, they were also afraid, this group of savage and honest steppe people discovered the horror of the human heart for the first time, it only took a moment to betray their comrades under the pressure of survival, and the anger, horror and incomprehension of the Huns who were killed before they died are still vivid, they did not die under the butcher's knife of the Xianbei people. But he died in the backstabbing of relatives and friends.

He killed his comrades, his old friends, his wives and children, with his own hands, and cut off their heads and hung them around the necks of his horses. Just as they once cut off the heads of the Han people to show off their military exploits, the huge psychological burden and guilt made many Huns completely crazy, and more people silently wiped the blood stains on their faces, and their eyes showed determination.

He ordered the Xianbei people to kill the crazy Huns, and everyone who survived was scattered and reorganized into the Xianbei departments, changed their names and surnames, shaved their hair and changed their names to Xianbei. From then on, they were just Xianbei, not Xiongnu.

The scale of this war was not large, and the intensity was far inferior to the victories of the Han army on all fronts. But the blow to the Huns was very terrifying.

In the next three months, the Xianbei people relied on the two banks of the Gonglu River to cross back and forth and set up ambushes repeatedly. The Hun reinforcements who repeatedly defeated the invading invaders rolled bigger and bigger like a snowball, and it was not until Yizhi, the king of Zuoguli, sent out the cavalry of the king tent of the headquarters that they could not help them, and the Huns realized that they were in big trouble.

The situation in the Monan grassland is also very bad, since last year and the desert with 8,000 people raided the Xiongnu 20 army to scare away the Huns and returned victorious, Wei Qing has been dormant in the border county waiting for the opportunity, at the end of February learned that the Xianbei people and the Mobei Xiongnu left hinterland won a great victory, and immediately decided to rush north to attack the Monan royal court of the Zuoxian King.

On the one hand, he had to assist the king of Guli to guard against military threats near the royal court, and on the other hand, he had to beware of the newly moved Hujie people in the direction of the royal court, and the Zuoxian king's department left in the royal court of Mo Nan only had 30,000 control strings, and they were mainly old, weak, sick and disabled, and only a small number of royal tent cavalry were in charge.

In the first few months, even if he knew that Zuoxian's court was empty, he didn't dare to run thousands of miles and easily get into danger, but now the Huns have gone even if Xue Ze, who has always been calm, and Li Xi, who is shallow and cautious, also dare to make a noise to fight, the grumpy Gongsun Ao, the arrogant and brave Li Guang, not to mention Wei Qing himself, of course, also agrees with both hands.

So on the seventh day of receiving the news, Wei Qing ordered 60,000 cars and rode swaggering towards Zuoxian's court, and the herdsmen of the Xiongnu tribes encountered along the way were scared, just like the expressions of the Han herdsmen who met the Xiongnu army a few years ago were so similar.

This move opened and closed the attack and killed Shan Yuting in Mobei, but the right Xian Wang lost his foundation and was scared, the military minister Shan Yu suffered from repeated failures and was overly angry, and his physical condition was good and bad, and the prince Yu Shan was young and had no prestige, so the military and political power of the royal court fell into the hands of Zuo Xian Wang Qi.

As soon as the military and political power of Shan Yuting Longcheng arrived, King Zuo Xian did not plan to return it, he was a member of his mind to sit on the throne of Da Shan Yu, and he himself thought that he had to be this big Dan Yu, and now the Xiongnu were in internal and external difficulties and had to make a strong man raise the golden wolf banner to stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale, and regain the glory taken away by the Han and Xianbei people.

As for the Mo Nan Royal Court, it was no longer in Zuo Xian's plan, he himself hid in the big tent outside the Dragon City and remotely controlled the 80,000 elites outside Shan Yuting, and summoned the cronies who stayed in Shan Yuting's subordinates to plan day and night to usurp power and seize the throne, and Zuo Gu Li Wang Yi Zhixian. There was a clerical error in the right valley Liwang Juli to write the right Xianwang Tulu as Juli also has this idea, except for the big single in the headquarters of the 120,000 elite to maintain neutrality, these three parties are the main force guarding Shan Yuting, in the defense of Shan Yuting against the Xianbei people at the same time in the intrigue.

Until July of the second year of Yuanguang, the news that all the Monan tribes south of the Xiongnu Plateau had surrendered to the Han army came. The three Hun kings who were guarding the Xiongnu realized that the threat was imminent, and it was already too late.

That night, the three parties met quietly and decided that the enemy would temporarily abandon the previous suspicions and shake hands and make peace, and then make the final decision after the Han army and the Xianbei people were broken, but unexpectedly, Yi Zhixian, the king of Zuo Guli, deceived according to the plan of the Bank of China, and secretly falsely accused the two of these two people to pull his subordinates to plot rebellion day and night.

Zuo Xian Wang beggar. The right valley Li Wang Juli was killed on the spot, as the mascot of the right Xian Wang Tu Hao and other participants could not escape the fate of being killed, for a time Shan Yu in the court surging people panicked, and the military ministers Shan Yu was already sick and skinny, heart disease also needs heart medicine. There is a disease in the heart, even if Bian Que is resurrected, it is difficult to cure, after learning that the king of Zuogu Li, Yi Zhi Xian, killed all the Xiongnu nobles attending the meeting, the military minister Shan Yu shouted three times to kill the Xiongnu Yi Zhixian, vomited blood and died.

Between July and September is a good season in Mobei, the herdsmen gather on the riverside and lake to sing and dance and praise the good time given by Kunlun to support the plow, but this year's three months are the time when the Hun royal court is full of war clouds and bloody rain, since the Zuogu Liwang Jiao Zhao killed a large number of Xiongnu nobles, the undercurrent lurking in the Shan Yu court quickly exploded.

First of all, the nobles left behind by King Zuo Xian gathered to make a rebellion, intending to attack and kill King Zuo Guli. Helplessly, the main officer layer was killed by Yi Zhixian, the king of Zuogu Li, and there were not enough commanders to control the sloppy military spirit, and they were beaten by Yi Zhixian for a while, and they lost their armor and fled in all directions. Most of the soldiers of the right valley Liwang were even more simply turned against Yi Zhi and surrendered.

In less than a month, the successive annexation of various tribes made Yi Zhixian swell from 30,000 to 80,000, and at the end of August, after annexing most of the main force of King Zuoxian, it swelled to 130,000 people.

Yi Zhixian's perverse behavior naturally angered the nobles who were loyal to Da Dan Yu, and many people were originally optimistic that Yi Zhi Xian would help the new Da Dan Yu to stabilize the Xiongnu foundation. But he didn't want him to be a white-eyed wolf who just wanted to usurp the throne, so the Dragon City Rebellion broke out at the end of August. As the commander of Shan Yu's side, he quietly received the defeated and fugitive soldiers, and it was he who suggested that the young Yu Shan watch more and do less. Sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight before making a decision.

Zhao Shi replaced Yu Shan to command 120,000 Shan Yu elite thwarted Yi Zhixie's attempt to admonish the soldiers, and then relied on Longcheng to do a desperate confrontation with Yi Zhixian, pinching because of the Xiongnu infighting so that the Xianbei people in the direction of Gonglushui found an opportunity to break through the defense line and broke into the eastern foothills of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and the frightened Yi Zhixian shouted and hurriedly stopped the troops and went to be lower than the Xianbei people.

The conditions for the two sides to strike the army are intriguing, Yu Shan is unable to deprive Yi Zhixian of the military power of the rebellious minister and thief, and Yi Zhixian is unable to break through the dragon city that the two generations of Shan Yu have painstakingly managed, and each side gives up one step Yi Zhixian to give up the self-proclaimed Shan Yu and change his title to Zuo Xianwang, Yu Shan must give up control of Shan Yuting Dragon City, and allow him to take all the things and people in the city.

In fact, this is tantamount to admitting Yu Shan's failure in disguise, but this is also a helpless thing.

The elite cavalry left by the military minister Shan Yu is brave and good at fighting only under the personal command of the military minister Shan Yu, Yu Shan is young and has no prestige and can not suppress the army, and his shallow military experience is not proficient in the command of the battle array, please Zhao She, an outsider, to command the elite of the Huns, is even more unconvincing, but Yu Shan can only trust Zhao She, an outsider teacher, the commander of the Wang Tent warriors or the commander of the cavalry can not let him rest assured, the young Da Shan Yu knows his predicament, Every high-ranking officer standing beside him could raise a counter-flag at any time and do a second Yizhi oblique.

So Zhao Shi formulated a strategy for him to resolve the crisis, at the cost of withdrawing from Dragon City, let Yi Zhi swallow the poisonous bait of King Zuoxian, and defend the Xianbei people to him, and Yu Shan Yu had to use the fastest speed to gather the major tribes on the grassland to select the tribes who were willing to follow the migration, and the last step was to appease the noble leaders of the various tribes who were still loyal to Yu Shan Yu in the court, and send an envoy to the Han Emperor to negotiate a peace policy and migrate to the south or west.

The Xiongnu nobles resolutely opposed the migration, but the reality had to be faced in front of them, and it was a certainty that Yi Zhi would take away the Dragon City. Although the elite Chengdu under his command is far inferior to Shan Yu's department, but if the prestige of the current Da Shan Yu can not suppress the army's heart at all, it will definitely not be able to defeat the old Yi Zhixian, and the western Xiongnu right land is being robbed of territory and cattle and sheep by the Hujie people, and the south is swept by the fierce Han army and is accepting the integration of the Han people. The Xianbei people in the east led the barbarians to shout and kill to destroy the Huns, and the terrible things were simply one after another.

In the end, the only choice was to make a choice, to the northeast Xianbei people to die, to the west and the Hujie people to grab territory, to the south to be taken over by the Han court for reorganization, and to the north to go to the colder Arctic and polar bears to play. As well as staying in place, they were played to death by Yizhixian, Xianbei people, Han army, Hujie people, and cold winter.

In the era of worse than rotten, there was only a difference between bad and worse, and the Xiongnu nobles used a few wisdoms to break their fingers to calculate the pros and cons. It wasn't until the first cold air came from the north that they realized they didn't have enough time to think about it, so they made their own decisions, either west, south, or stay put.

Of course, Yu Dan and Zhao Shi wanted to go west, but there was not much space left for them in the west, so they had to go north-northwest and sweep Ding Ling and Qi Kun farther away.

When the snowflakes fall on the ground. When the Han envoys came to Longcheng, they saw a sparsely populated empty city, as well as some Xianbei nobles and Han slaves who lived and farmed outside the city, and these Han people's efforts were bargaining chips for the Xiongnu and the Han court to negotiate peace. Whether it was Yi Zhixie, who was guarding near Wolf Juxu Mountain, or Yu Dan, who had already left the country, he had no intention of continuing to be the enemy of the Han people.

Negotiation and release are the final choice, Yi Zhixian is not stupid enough to block it, what he wants is Longcheng, as for the population, they can collect it from all over Mobei at will, not to mention that there are still a lot of southern Monan clans who have fled to Mobei. This is the foundation of Yizhi's self-confidence in keeping the foundation.

Until the beginning of the third year of Yuanguang, the spring flowers bloomed and the snow melted. It was only when the Han chariots and horses from the Han land were brought back to their hometowns that the Han people had been terrified for decades, and Yi Zhixian got his wish to get Longcheng and a large area of Mobei grassland, as well as the well-cultivated farmland nearby. Gearing up, just waiting for the opportunity to teach the Xianbei people a cruel lesson.

Liu Che, the Son of Heaven, seized a large area of territory in Monan as he wished, and sealed Weiqing as the general Changping Marquis with the great merit of breaking the Huns, and ate 10,000 households, Li Guanggong Sun Ao Li Xi also sealed the Marquis for merit, and Xue Zeyi, the Marquis of Pingjiao, sealed a thousand households, and the rest had their own rewards, and the Hedong Zuoyi where the Son of Heaven temporarily camped was also renamed Wenxi, in order to celebrate the joy of the Son of Heaven.

After the Son of Heaven freed his hands to deal with government affairs, he was stunned to find that Cao Shi, who was guarding the Jincheng Fortress, had already gone out of the customs last year, and there were more than 100,000 well-trained black-armored warriors with him.

The Son of Heaven didn't want to agree, but Cao Shi was willing to sacrifice all the industries operated by the Pingyang Marquis Mansion in Chang'an to be included in the Imperial Village, and was willing to summon away those military meritorious princes and princes who made the Son of Heaven feel an eyesore to the northwest border.

At first, Liu Che was still very concerned about monitoring Cao Shi's movements, but later with the news that Wei Qing sent troops to attack Monan and the civil strife in Mobei, the emperor finally couldn't sit still and went to Hedong Zuoyi to personally command the border pass to seize the military and political affairs, followed by the queen Wei Zifu and the prince Liu Ju and other big families, Dou Ying stayed in Chang'an City to take care of the small things in the corners, and all the major military affairs had to be transferred to Hedong Zuoyi to be handled by the emperor personally, and the edict that allowed Cao Shiqian to move the people was just "small things in the corners".

Most people regretted the encounter of this talented chariot general, and even regretted his stupid choice to go to a place farther away from the Hexi Corridor, and the persuasion, admonition and even persecution could not change Cao Shi's determination, Dou Ying knew Cao Shi's thoughts better than the hundreds of officials and ministers in the court, and he was also part of Cao Shi's migration plan.

No matter how the Dou family is, after all, it is one of the princes, at this moment, except for the relatives of the Zheng'er Eight Classics, Hou Weiqing, Li Guang, Li Xigong, Sun Ao and others, as well as the princes of the Liu family, the princes and princes of the princes, and the branches of the princes, the Lu family, which has been finished for decades, has declined to the Bo family with no one. The Dou family, which is close to the decline to no one, and the Chen Ajiao family, which has been finished, cannot be regarded as a foreign relative, they do not have the privileges of a relative, they are just ordinary princes.

And Dou Ying knows all about the changes in the court, and now the Son of Heaven is wise and powerful. intends to strategize the world and create an unprecedented prosperous era of the Han Dynasty, this prosperous era is the prosperous age of the Son of Heaven, the prosperous age of the famous ministers, but not the prosperous age of the princes, especially not the prosperous age of all the nobles except the prince Hou Enzehou, Dou Ying has long lost the trust of the Son of Heaven, and the reason why he has remained in office so far is only because the confidant of the Son of Heaven is not qualified enough, so he temporarily deposited the position of prime minister.

The Son of Heaven has alternatives. The cunning rabbit has three holes, and Dou Ying is not a dead eye, so he naturally knows the truth that eggs cannot be put in the same basket, although he is also extremely unoptimistic about Cao Shi's plan for the Western Regions, but he is very smart enough to know that it is pointless to stop Cao Shi. It's better to take the opportunity to give convenience and form a good fate, maybe according to all the magic in the past, Cao Shi can play a beautiful flip again.

He didn't think at all that a hurried farewell in Weiyang Palace would be the last time for the two, Cao Shi went to the Western Regions and never came back, and Dou Ying was cautious and cautious for another five years and was dismissed by the Son of Heaven and returned home to retire, and died of illness in Chang'an after three years.

Cao Shi returned to Chang'an with his family and entourage, until the Xianbei people stabilized the various fronts of Wolf Juxu Mountain. Zhao Meng Chun Yu Tiying and his wife, Wei Buguang Zhuang Su and his wife, and Chen Zhangzhao Rui and other old people of the Hou Mansion all returned to the team. In addition to the old and sick people who moved westward and stayed in the old mansion of the Pingyang Hou State to retire, the young men and women recruited by the Hou State and the old people in the Chang'an Hou Mansion were all taken away, and the property in the palace was sold out, and the palace was left to the Shaofu Cheng to receive and be classified as the property of the Huangzhuang.

In addition, there have been witnesses who saw a woman suspected of being Liu Ling. The light car Jane disappeared from Chang'an City forever behind the Cao family's brigade, and some people said that there was a crying baby in the car. The rest of the rumors in the market are varied, but the parties concerned are silent. only said that he didn't know where his daughter was at all, and he devoted himself to the work of "Honglie", intending to go further and further on the road of making a statement.

In Changle Palace, the Queen Mother was very reluctant to leave her daughter, and she didn't understand why Liu Wan, who was smart enough to listen to her son-in-law Cao Shi's words, and followed him to the Western Regions thousands of miles away to open up land.

The Empress Dowager Wang Wan is a person who resolutely opposes Princess Yang Nobunaga going to the Western Regions, but the Empress Dowager's arm can't twist the thigh of the Son of Heaven, Liu Che thinks that the eldest sister wants to follow her husband to the Western Regions, just let her go, anyway, all the real estate that Cao Shi has accumulated over the years are all classified into the Imperial Village, and it is a big deal to let them and his wife suffer for a few years in the Western Regions and then recall Rongyang Chang'an.

In desperation, Wang Wan allowed them to leave, before leaving, the old woman was reluctant to give up her daughter and granddaughter, and took out the gold, silver and jewelry gifts sent by the princes and kings of various places accumulated in Changle Palace over the years and gave them to Liu Wan, only hoping that the two of them could live comfortably and peacefully in the Western Regions, and repeatedly told them before leaving, if there are difficulties in the Western Regions, come back quickly, left and right is just a trivial matter for the court to re-appoint a farmer official, if you have the heart, often go back to Chang'an to see.

On July 16 of the third year of Yuanguang, Jianzhang Palace was in the luxurious palace group of Taiye Pool.

"Brother-in-law and sister are gone?"

Liu Che held the long letter in his hand and looked stunned: "I originally wanted to keep my brother-in-law by my side to consult on military affairs, but I couldn't ......"

Wei Zifu gently snuggled up to Liu Che, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, why should you sigh, the concubine can see between the lines that the general is in a good mood, look at this sentence...... Although the Western Regions are bitter, although the Rong people are numerous, and the people are difficult, the ministers are not afraid, there is His Majesty's grace, there are scholars who use their lives, and there are scholars who forge ahead, and there must be changes in a few years...... Your Majesty, you see that the ambition of the general has not changed. ”

"Yes, I also noticed it, that's why I feel uncomfortable" Liu Che stared at Changxin for a long time, and there was a stack of letters written to him by his sister Princess Yang Nobunaga on the desk, written to the Queen Mother, in a blink of an eye, the third year of Jianyuan has passed halfway, and it has been nearly a year since Cao Shi left, and the last batch of people who went to the Western Regions left Jinchengsai a month ago, and the emperor himself did not know when and when he could see his sister and brother-in-law again.

After a long time, when the lights were put on in Jianzhang Palace, Liu Che woke up from his memories: "I will give him the last gift and call Sang Hongyang to draft an edict...... Well, he's resting today? That's it, the son is extraordinary, you will draw up an edict for me, seal the Pingyang Marquis Cao Shi as the general of the chariot and cavalry, and allow him to open a mansion in the Western Regions, if he makes great achievements in the future, the marquis is rewarded from the land of the Western Regions, and he is allowed to run his own business Tuntian and the border, but he must stick to the banner of the Han Empire, and must remember that I am the emperor and a minister."

Liu Che paced back and forth, and said for a long time: "The military and political affairs of the Western Regions are self-determined, I believe that your ability can handle it, if he expands his territory in the future, he will appoint Changshi to supervise the affairs and affairs of the Western Regions, as for the affairs of thousands of miles beyond the Western Regions...... I don't care, let him decide for himself not to bother the court, he must always remember, I still remember the white horse oath of Gaozu, and Wang'er will not be able to regain his old oath."

After saying all this, Liu Che's whole body strength seemed to be drawn by more than half, and he grabbed Wei Zifu's arm and looked at the bright moon hanging in the west, unable to speak for a long time.

"Son-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law may not come back."

Wei Zifu gently hugged the man who was the first in the world, felt his body trembling slightly, and looked at the bright moon with a quiet smile: "The concubine knows, a long time ago, when the concubine was very young, I heard the prince say that there is an ancient country called Greece outside the Western Regions, which was annexed by the powerful country Rome in recent times, and its land is many seas and islands, literature is prosperous, and saints are produced......

Wei Zifu smiled and talked about the strange news of childhood being forgotten in the corner, Liu Che held her and listened quietly without saying a word, and slowly he showed an expression of sudden realization, maybe it was his lifelong ambition to cross the Taklamakan Desert of the Sea of Death and go to the end of the world, and Cao Shi, who put down his burden, picked up the ambition of the year and restarted the journey.

"The End" is not finished, to be continued

PS: It is difficult to take care of most of the content after shrinking the content of 1.2 million words to 120,000 words, and you have to wait for the next book to explain it one after another. There is a summary of this book later.

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