In May, the Xiongnu's Shan Yuting Daxu came to Longcheng.

The grand sacrifice also began.

In order to pray to the ancestors and gods, so that they will continue to bless the Xiongnu Empire invincible and invincible.

One by one, the slaves were placed on the altar.

The Xiongnu people believed that human worship was the best sacrifice to their ancestors and gods.

In particular, sacrificing enemy leaders and nobles to the ancestors and gods can make the ancestors and gods even more happy.

Therefore, in this sacrifice, dozens of Dawan nobles were carried and tied to the stone pillar.

Their wails and screams echoed in Dragon City for days.

Blood, almost blackened the grass beneath the stone pillars.

Countless flies are flying.

However, this year is different from previous years.

The shamans insisted that their witchcraft and supernatural powers had been further strengthened.

Therefore, this year there is an additional link to curse the Han Dynasty.

One shaman after another, they took the stage, playing with all kinds of means, cursing the enemy of the Han Dynasty.

Someone cursed and let all the horses of the Han Dynasty die of illness.

There were also people who cursed and caused the Han Dynasty to have a plague and the people to be displaced.

Even, some people directly cursed, the emperor of the Han Dynasty died violently, and the country was in civil strife.

With the performance of these shamans, the emotions within the Xiongnu were vented.

Many of the Xiongnu tribal leaders even raised their arms and shouted because of this, asking the gods to come down and punish the Han Dynasty.

The military ministers and other high-ranking Huns were also triumphant.

After the Battle of Mayi, the decline of the Xiongnu Empire seemed to have come to an end with this grand sacrifice.

And the wealth, slaves and materials obtained from Dawan convinced many nobles that the Great Xiongnu was still the world's first power.

Only in a certain dome in Dragon City, still dying of old age, the middle bank of the wind and candle said, lying on a bed made of hay, listening to the noise outside Dragon City.

The old eunuch suddenly burst into tears and was heartbroken.

Seeing this, Lan Tuoxin, who had been by the side of the Bank of China and took care of this old Shangshan Yu's wise man like a disciple, lowered his head and asked, "Why are you sad?" ”

"When Lao Shangdan Yu was in power, why did the Great Huns need to see the face of the Han Dynasty?" Bank of China said that he raised his head, on his shriveled cheeks, the skin was rough enough to retain tears, and he said sadly: "When Lao Shang Da Shan Yu was in power, my Great Hun was not able to say that he could give and give to the Han Dynasty, but he also had the upper hand!" When it was, the Han Dynasty did not dare to refuse it! Shan Yu gave the Han Emperor a book, with a foot of two inches, and said: Heaven and earth placed the Hun Dashan Yu to ask the Han Emperor! ”

"It's like now, not only is the national book an inch, but its words are even more cowardly!"

Lan Tuoxin was also ashamed to hear this.

Since the Battle of Mayi, the Huns have automatically changed it to one foot and one inch with the same specifications as the letter of state given to the Xiongnu Shan Yu by the Han Dynasty.

In his head-raising words, he automatically and consciously deleted those words that might anger the Han Dynasty.

The current Han and Hun books, the head of the Huns, have become simple: the Huns are only respectful to the Han Emperor.

Not only did the birthday and month of heaven and earth be deleted, but even the big characters of the Great Hun were omitted.

Not only that, the Emperor of Han became the Son of Han Heaven.

If we talk about the previous Han-Hungarian peace talks, the Xiongnu were the eldest brothers, and the Han Dynasty was the younger brothers.

So now, the Huns automatically put their place under the Han Dynasty, which is almost equivalent to recognizing the hegemony of the Han Dynasty.

It is said that these changes are the handiwork of the Hun traitor.

It was he who persuaded the nobles and Shan Yu in the court, saying that 'my great Huns have never paid attention to red tape, and the so-called etiquette of the Han Dynasty is useless to my Huns', and then persuaded the nobles of Shan Yuting to 'focus on the overall situation'.

Who wants to object, or boycott the matter.

He immediately jumped up, pointed at the other party's nose and scolded the other party as a 'scheming person' who tried to 'sabotage the great government of the Great Single's Western Expedition' and provoked the Han-Hungarian War and undermined peace.

And the nobles of Shan Yu and Shan Yu were carried away by the benefits brought by the Western Expedition.

It is difficult to operate the Han-Hungarian exchanges.

Under the auspices of the canal and carving, he could only watch the vassals of the Xiongnu in the south of the Munan, and the instability of large areas.

Many small tribes have lost faith in Shan Yuting.

It's just that Landosin must also admit it.

And it is difficult to carve, it makes sense.

Now, the Han is strong and the Xiongnu are weak.

The results of the Battle of Mayi clearly prove this.

Before the Xiongnu did not find a way to defeat the Han cavalry that besieged and annihilated Zhelan, Youxian Wang's headquarters and the Lou Fu and Aries coalition forces under the city of Mayi.

The Xiongnu could only retreat in front of the Han Dynasty.

in exchange for time.

This is a clear and unmistakable fact, even if Lan Tuoxin and the others are dissatisfied, they can only accept it.

Lying on the hay, the Bank of China said excitedly and continued: "Today, if you just forbear or endure humiliation, the Great Huns may still have hope, but it ......."

BOC said it was listening to the noise outside.

The curses of the shamans, and the cheers of the Hun nobles.

He bowed his head: "His actions today clearly prove that he is a cowardly king!" ”

"Today's so-called curse is nothing but the wail of a defeated dog!"

"I hate it so much that back then, I didn't persuade King Youxian to strike first, so that there is today!"

"The foundation established by Lao Shangshan is probably going to be lost in less than ten years!"

Lan Tuoxin listened to these rebellious words that came out of Zhongxing's mouth, and he could only bow his head in silence.

Because he knew that what the old eunuch said was not wrong.

Today's Xiongnu Shan Yu, today's Xiongnu nobles, have been frightened in front of the Han Dynasty.

The Battle of Mayi, the painful defeat, was widely publicized by the Xiongnu nobles who exchanged prisoners in the past two years.

The invulnerability, with its own strength, smashed the Han cuirassiers of the Zhelan army formation, so that every Hun could not have the confidence to win against it.

Especially in the hearts of the herdsmen and cavalrymen of the lower classes, the cavalry of the Han army has been deified.

Originally, things might not have gotten so bad.

After all, the lower herdsmen and cavalrymen are ignorant, and they don't believe what the nobles and masters say.

But the problem is that the entire Shan Yuting was stupefied by the scene described by the nobles who exchanged prisoners.

They looked at the Han Dynasty with trepidation.

And this emotion is transmitted to the lower classes.

So much so that today's Xiongnu can only rely on shamans in Longcheng to curse the Han Dynasty.

But they did not dare to send people to kill, even if it was to insult and humiliate those Han envoys who were investigating the captives in the various major tribes of the Xiongnu.

The tribes in the border area between the two countries are either taking the initiative to retreat now, or they are already eyeing the Han Dynasty.

Today's Xiongnu carnival, as the Bank of China said, is nothing more than the wailing of defeated dogs, the grand gathering of cowards and cowards.

They are only willing to go to the west, conquer and plunder those weak Cypriots, Yueshi people, and Kangju people, and they don't want to go back to the Great Wall of the South when they die.

Even, some tribes exaggerated that they did not even return to the south for the winter.

They moved their tribe's winter retreat to the western basin.

Since the founding of the Xiongnu, there has never been such a situation, nor has it ever faced such a situation.

Randosin sighed.

He looked up at the Bank of China, who was lying on the grass pile and had reached the end of the road, and asked: "Mr. Bank of China, you are the wisdom of the old man Da Danyu, and you are also the wisdom of the Great Huns. ”

The Bank of China said that he was lying on the grass, looking at Lan Tuoxin, and first shook his head.

Then he remembered the fragment of his memory that he would never forget.

It was the summer of twenty-seven years ago.

Lao Shangdan was established at the beginning, and a new peace treaty was reached between Han and Hungary.

He, a dispensable eunuch in the court, became the head of the peace treaty, and was tied up and sent to the grassland.

He didn't want to come to the Huns anyway.

It's just that those nobles hold the power and don't give him the opportunity to decide his own destiny at all.

So, before leaving, he swore to the wall of Chang'an Palace: I will do it myself, for the Han patient.

The officials in charge of the escort, listening to his oath, laughed one after another: "The eunuch slave also has backbone? ”

Since then, it has become his long-cherished wish to take revenge on the Han Dynasty, the Liu family, and the world.

Now, he's going to die.

The BOC made it clear that he would not live for more than a few days.

You might even be choked the next moment.

But his vows, his long-cherished wishes, and his obsessions have not seen the dawn of fulfillment.

On the contrary, the Han Dynasty and the Liu family became more and more prosperous and powerful.

The newly enthroned little emperor is said to be the heir of Liu ********Heng, Taizong of the Han Dynasty.

Fight in the east and fight in the west, and fight in the south and in the north.

In just a few years, it has expanded thousands of miles.

Nantun Dongyue, so that Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, and the Minyue people trembled, prostrate on the ground, and called the Holy Son of Heaven, as well-behaved as a lamb.

In the East, he wielded the Sword of the Son of Heaven, not only drawing the entire Korean kingdom and the entire peninsula after Korea into the bowl of the Han Dynasty.

Further north and west, the land was expanded for thousands of miles.

Even, through the Battle of Mayi, the Xiongnu were forced to cede all the land east of the entire Karasuma Mountain.

Xianbei and Wuheng became the slaves of the Han Dynasty from then on.

The huge territory of the Han Empire, so far, south and the South China Sea, north to the Great Wall, east to the snow field, west and Bashu, with a territory of tens of thousands of miles, with millions of mountains and rivers, heroes and heroes, endlessly.

On the other hand, since the internal strife eight years ago, the country's situation has deteriorated.

As for today, he can only comfort himself by relying on the Western Expedition.

The offensive and defensive trend of the Han and Hungarian has changed since then.

As a former Han Chinese, the Bank of China made it clear that the next step, the strategy of the Han Dynasty, would definitely be to go north.

The Hetao Plain, the homeland of the Qin people, no Han monarch will forget and give up.

Either this year, or next year, the Han army, which has completed the repair and reorganization, will inevitably cross the Great Wall and launch the Hetao Campaign.

After the Hetao, it is naturally Hexi.

As soon as the Hexi Corridor is reached, the whole world will be exposed in the eyes of the Han Dynasty.

The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.

The Han Dynasty will definitely continue to advance westward and compete with the Xiongnu for the Western Regions.

And if the Xiongnu suffered defeat in Hetao and Hexi, then how to defend the Western Regions?

As soon as the Western Regions were lost, the Xiongnu were trapped and died in the desert and wasteland north of the curtain, and they could never turn over!

If so, what is the meaning of his life?

What is the point of all the hard work and efforts he has exhausted in this life?

Isn't the oath he made back then just as the Han Dynasty official laughed at: the eunuch slave also has backbone?

No way!

It can't be so!

Bank of China said that his eyes suddenly widened!

However, he knew very well in his heart that today's Han and Hungarian national strength and national strength were no longer enough to support the Xiongnu to continue to attack Han.

Even, as long as the Han Dynasty did not make mistakes, it fought steadily and steadily, and ate away at the power of the Xiongnu little by little.

For example, take the Hetao this year, go down to Hexi next year, step by step, the Huns have no way at all!

What to do? What to do?

BOC said that he asked himself repeatedly in his heart.

"I must let the emperor of the Han Dynasty and the people of the Han Dynasty know that they are wrong, they shouldn't treat me like that!" BOC said swearing in his heart.

Then, he thought of a place.

Yes, now, if the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty were engaged head-on, judging from the military strength of the Han Dynasty and the combat effectiveness of the almost invincible cuirassiers, the Xiongnu had no chance of winning.

However, the Han Dynasty also had a fatal weakness - he could not support a large-scale expedition.

At least not yet!

With an army of 10,000 out of the fortress, the cost of a year is enough to bankrupt a large county with a population of one million!

In other words, the Han army could not fight on the steppe for a long time.

Its institutions, its mobilization mechanisms, and its citizens cannot withstand the stress of a long war and a large number of casualties.

Thinking of this, Zhongxing raised his head, hoarsely voiced, and said to Lan Tuoxin: "If, after my death, a full-scale war breaks out between Han and Hungary, please tell the nobles of Shan Yu and Shan Yuting, although Han is strong, its strength is limited!" If the Han Dynasty attacks the Hetao, please send the Hexi and Hetao tribes to defend Gaoque, as long as Gaoque is defended, the Hetao will not be lost! ”

"If you really can't hold it, then don't keep it!" Bank of China said strugglingly: "When things can't be done, abandon the Hetao and retreat to Yinshan, Yinshan can no longer be defended, abandon Yinshan, retire Qilian!" ”

He stared into the distance, the landform of the Qilian Mountains, clearly reflected in his mind, where every canyon, every mountain and every mountain forest could delay the actions of the Han army, making the whole war cruel and long.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is –

The Bank of China said that he looked at Lan Tuoxin and said: "If the Han Dynasty pushes to Qilian, and Shan Yu can't make a decision, please tell General Zuo and ask him to say to Shan Yuyan: Gaolan Mountain is located in the west of the river, and it is connected with rouge, which can be a battlefield, which can make a clan defeat and induce a part of the Han army to rush here, and then, my Great Huns gather all the main forces and gather and annihilate them!" ”

"It's better to break one of its fingers than to break one of its fingers!" The Bank of China told Lan Tuoxin: "As long as the main force of a Han army can be encircled and annihilated, the other Han armies will inevitably fall into a situation where they cannot advance and retreat......

"At that time......" Bank of China said with a cruel smile and laughed: "The entire Hexi will become the land of the souls of the Han Dynasty, and every canyon, every oasis, every lake, and every mountain will become a bloody place and a sad mountain for the Han people!" ”

Landosin also heard that his hands trembled.

The scene he was described by the Bank of China was so frightened that he trembled.

Of course, he was not frightened by the battlefield described by the Bank of China.

Rather, they were frightened by the prospects described by the BOC.

The Xiongnu Empire, when will it not even be able to keep Hetao and Yinshan, and even, it will have to surrender Qilian Mountain, and even gather the strength of the whole country to have a chance to eat a Han division?

Is the Han Dynasty really as powerful?

Thinking about it, Landosin had to admit that it was!

Today's Han Dynasty, in terms of equipment, tactics, spirit and combat effectiveness, comprehensively surpassed the Xiongnu and the cavalry that the Xiongnu were proud of.

The Battle of Ma Yi told everyone: playing mounted archery, Han people are experts! The Huns, at best, were a child with a slingshot!

But......

Lan Tuoxin raised his head, looked at the appearance of the Bank of China, and said, "Sir, I'm worried that no one will listen to me!" ”

"Yes!" Bank of China said and sneered: "They will listen, when the Han people attack Gaoque, and Gaoque can't be punctual, you stand up and propose to surrender Yinshan, Shan Yu will definitely agree......"

The reality of today's military minister Shan Yu has been completely seen through by the Bank of China.

He is just a mediocre master, and he does not have the courage and strategic determination of the old man at all.

When encountering problems, the first thing he thinks about must be to reduce losses.

Since Gao Que can't be defended, it is natural to give up Gao Que and retreat to Yinshan.

And when Yinshan can't hold it, it is also predictable to surrender Qilian.

retreated again and again, when retreating to Qilian Mountain.

Whether it is the Xiongnu nobles or the nobles of the Sulu clan, they will no longer let the military ministers retreat.

At that time, the military ministers could only drive the ducks into battle and fight with the Han army.

At the time, Hu Yan Dangtu, a close confidant of the military minister, proposed to encircle and annihilate a Han Dynasty division.

With the character of a military minister, he will definitely agree and fully support it.

However, this is not the most vicious strategy of the Bank of China.

Bank of China said that he looked at Lan Tuoxin, took his hand, and said earnestly: "In addition, there is a plan, which can only be known to you and me, and God to know!" ”

He lowered his voice and said, "Once the Han Dynasty began to attack Yinshan, its main force was assembled at Hetao. Please lead the main force of the Lan clan and the elite of King Hujie to bypass the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty and enter the territory of the Andong Protectorate of the Han Dynasty from Karasuma Mountain! ”

"Even, you can divide the troops, make a partial division, from the right Beiping, invade the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, if possible, the troops will come to Jicheng, and kill and loot the villages of the Han Dynasty as much as possible!"

"In this way, the emperor of the Han Dynasty will inevitably have to mobilize the county soldiers of Yan Zhao and even Qilu......" Zhongxing's hand increased his strength at this time, and grabbed Lan Tuoxin to death: "Once the reinforcements of the Han Dynasty arrive, don't be entangled, withdraw the troops immediately, even if you discard all the looted wealth and slaves!" ”

"This trick is called 'encircling Wei to save Zhao' in the Han Dynasty soldiers'!" BOC said in a low voice.

When he finished his whole plan and all his strategic ideas.

He finally felt satisfied.

As long as Lan Tuoxin and the Xiongnu acted according to his plans and strategic ideas.

Then, even if the Han Dynasty can win, it will be extremely embarrassing and miserable.

They will have to pay at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of casualties, and the whole war will last for more than ten years or even decades.

The one surnamed Liu may even catch fire in his backyard because of the drag of the war.

As for the loss of the Xiongnu and whether the Xiongnu will perish as a result of using his strategy?

He's going to die right now.

Where do you care so much!

"After I die, the flood will be monstrous!" (To be continued.) )