In the evening, Yang Yan returned to his nest at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a small Han city built in the style of a typical Han Dynasty town.

It has a typical Han architectural style, and even the roads and shops are almost all copied from the Han design.

This is a small city specially established by the Xiongnu in order to win over and encircle Han people like Yanggang.

Here, they can live and live as if they were in China, and they can even drink tea, drink wine and even read books like Chinese aristocrats.

The Huns took great pains to build study rooms in these houses and put many books.

Of course, these are very common books.

For example, the Analects, the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, and the Spring and Autumn Period.

If you want any other books, you don't have them.

The Huns sent people to Longcheng this year, and with great effort, countless costs and painstaking efforts, they were able to get several sets of Legalist works and a fragmented version of "The Art of War".

It is said that no one can access these books except Juli Lake, and they are regarded as treasures and kept at the head of their bed.

Yang Yan walked into his study, waved away the few Huns who arranged to serve him, but in fact they were the maids of the Western Regions who were monitoring him, and then picked up a book of Analects on the bookshelf, lay on the bed and read it.

After looking at it for a while, Yang Yan stood up, squinted his eyes, glanced at the sneaky woman from the Western Regions at the door, and sneered at the corner of his mouth.

He had to admit that the current Huns were very skilled in how to win over and encircle the Han people.

Beauty, gold, status, give what you want!

Just like these women given to him, each of them is a woman carefully selected and trained from the countries of the Western Regions, whether it is a figure, appearance or personality, it is completely in line with the aesthetics and hobbies of Chinese scholars.

Yang Yan even heard that there was a down-and-out literati under Juli Lake who fled to the Xiongnu after the Battle of Mayi in the fourth year of Yuan De.

This person is said to have been born in the Lu Confucian faction, but he has never been able to pass the examination.

After stumbling in Chang'an for several years, he gained nothing, so he simply fled to the Huns.

This person has been mixed with the Xiongnu for several years, and he has not been able to come out until the first battle of Yan Ji, the Xiongnu were defeated, and a large number of Han people who were originally in the Xiongnu fled back to China, and he was able to emerge.

And it is such a scum literati who can't even pass the examination in China, and he is also mixed in the Xiongnu.

And because he is good at Longyang, in order to envelop him, Juli Lake actually asked King Loulan to offer three beautiful men for him to play.

As for high-level intellectuals like him, who belonged to the elite in the Han Dynasty, it can only be said that they have come to heaven, but they have something to ask for, and they can do almost anything.

If you want a woman, the beauties of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, and even the beauties of Daxia and Kangju, let him choose.

Even if he fell in love with Shan Yu's concubine and the woman of King Zuoxian, the other party was willing to cut his love!

Zuo Xian Wang Hu Lu She, once personally told him - my woman, no matter who Mr. fancies, you can take away!

If you want money power, it's even better.

Fox Lu Shi once promised him that as long as he assisted with all his heart, then he would be crowned king!

Such a generous and cost-effective woo made many scholars and literati who fled to the Xiongnu grateful and swore allegiance to the Xiongnu.

Many people even worked hard for the strength and review of the Huns.

Pity......

"I am a Zhuxia cloth, how can I abandon my ancestral temple for the sake of a mere woman and wealth?" Yang said in his heart.

What's more, the Son of Heaven is not thin on him, and if he entrusts him with such a heavy responsibility, he will naturally not live up to the trust and trust of the Son of Heaven.

Yang Yan deliberately held the Analects, walked to the door, and opened the door.

The woman, like a frightened fawn, hid at once.

Yang Yan didn't bother to care about him, held the book, walked to his yard, sat on a swing and continued to read, reading him while reciting aloud: "Zi said: If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you ......will perish."

He read this passage seven times in a row.

It seems to be very proud and liked these Confucian remarks.

But in a corner that no one had noticed or noticed, a short, ugly-looking slave in an animal garment, dragging a broom, forced in his mind to memorize these phrases and the number of times the impotence had recited.

An hour later, this information fell into the hands of a Xiongnu nobleman.

The man casually handed them over to one of his cronies.

Three days later, a piece of information written on a sheepskin was sent to a tribe located deep in the Junji Mountains.

An embroidered guard agent lurking here gets this information.

He immediately opened the Analects and a small book he carried with him, first found the source of these words in the Analects, and then translated them against the words in the book, and after a while, a piece of information about the high-level movements and strategies of the Xiongnu appeared in front of his eyes - the Xiongnu had made all the preparations for the westward expedition, and the thirteen tribes alone were sent to the west, and 70,000 horsemen marched westward!

When the spy saw these words, he immediately paid attention to them, and said to the left and right: "Immediately send a book with a flying pigeon and inform Yulinsai!" ”

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The Huns were indeed fully prepared for the westward expedition.

At the foot of the Tien Shan, around this sacred mountain of the former Wusun people, the Xiongnu gathered all the mobile forces that it could now assemble and mobilize.

That's 10,000 horsemen of thirteen tribes, 70,000 cavalry!

This number, in the heyday of the Xiongnu, is naturally not worth mentioning.

But now, it is the Huns who smashed the pot and sold iron, and the last bit of the wife and coffin that they put together with all their might.

The crushing defeat at the Battle of the Swallow Thistle and the subsequent abandonment of the Swallow Beast cost the Xiongnu Empire half of its land, one-third of its population, and two-thirds of its livestock.

In particular, the young men of the headquarters were almost completely lost in the war.

This is also because the plough lake and the fox deer wade escaped quickly and stopped the loss in time.

Otherwise, the Huns may not even be able to piece together such a small number of troops.

Even so, in order to cobble together such a large army, the Huns exhausted almost all methods.

In order to form an army of this size, the Huns even allowed for the first time a cavalry that was not part of their headquarters exceeded the number of cavalry in their headquarters.

Even, an exception was made to give more than 10,000 prisoners of war Kangju, Daxia, and Dawan as Huns.

They were allowed to be loyal and fight for the Xiongnu in the form of 'naturalization'.

This trick was learned by the Xiongnu from the Han Dynasty.

Very easy to use!

Those Dawan, Kangju, Daxia prisoners of war and slaves in the Western Regions, when they learned that they could actually have the opportunity to become a noble Huns, fought for Dadanyu, they were grateful, and vowed to die for the Huns.

Of course, the Huns did not admit that this was copied from the Han Dynasty.

So, they changed the name of the naturalization system to 'lifting'.

In addition to this, in order to prepare enough weapons and food supplies for this army.

In the past five months, the Huns have been smashing pots and selling iron, trying every means to produce and manufacture weapons, and at the same time using a large number of slaves to buy large quantities of ordnance from Han Dynasty merchants in Longcheng in the south of the Makunan.

In just two months, the Huns sold more than 80,000 male and female slaves to the merchants of Longcheng in exchange for tens of thousands of weapons of all kinds and hundreds of thousands of arrows that they had lost in the battles of Mayi, Gaoque and Yanji.

Through these methods, the Huns finally prepared for the westward expedition before winter.

This western expedition was personally commanded and commanded by Juli Lake Shan Yu, and the royal court in the north of the curtain and the remaining armies and tribes were all entrusted to the jurisdiction and command of Zuoxian Wang Hulushe.

From this point of view, the top of the Huns, at least for now, is still united and close.

Shan Yu Ju Lihu has said many times publicly and privately that he will never pass on the throne of Shan Yu to his son, and will definitely pass it on to Zuo Xian King Hu Lu She, even if Hu Lu Shi dies, Shan Yu will also belong to the descendants of Hu Lu She.

And his mission was to revitalize and unite the Xiongnu tribes.

Lead the Great Huns to re-emerge and restore their homeland!

I have to admit that these actions and behaviors of Juli Lake have greatly united the Xiongnu tribes.

The Huns have never even been so united as they are today.

The relationship between Shan Yu and King Zuo Xian is even more intimate.

Fox Deer Wade can even veto the decision and order of the plough lake!

Juli Lake even entrusted such a major matter as the preparation of the Western Expedition to Hulushe, which was under unified command and planning.

Hulu is even more conscientious, without half a point of prevarication and complaining.

Such a high-level Xiongnu is obviously not in the interests of the Han family.

Walking in the hustle and bustle of the Xiongnu tribe, countless thoughts came to Yang Gang's heart.

"If flies don't bite seamless eggs, I don't believe that the Huns can really be selfless and ......" Zhou Gong is still afraid of the day when the rumors are still there, the Huns must not be able to be so united all the time.

"I'm just waiting for the end of the Western Expedition and the point where the Xiongnu contradictions broke out......" With such thoughts, Yang Yan devoted himself to his work.

On the surface, he was almost a perfect Hun decision-maker.

He put forward all kinds of suggestions and ideas, and then implemented them among the various departments of the Xiongnu, improving and perfecting the organization of the Xiongnu.

But quietly, he has quietly planted time bombs in these tribes.

For example, the system of 'lifting' was the first one he proposed.

It seems that it solves the problem of insufficient troops and insufficient combat effectiveness for the Xiongnu, which greatly relieves the pressure.

But in fact, it opened the gates of hell.

The Xiongnu headquarters, in the previous wars with the Han Dynasty, suffered heavy losses and the population withered.

Once these slaves from the Western Regions, along with the Kangju people and the Bactrian people, began to occupy a position among the Xiongnu tribes, it was a time of turmoil.

Yang Yan doesn't believe it, these alien races who are not Huns will have the same heart as the Huns?

Even if someone wants to do this, he will do everything possible to provoke it.

When he was in Chang'an, he had already received relevant targeted training.