This early spring in the third year of Zhongping is really not easy for Helian and even the entire central Xianbei, not only because of this long winter, but also because of the pressure from the Han people.

At the beginning of the year, the battle of the tribal alliance besieging Jincheng was, in hindsight, a trap for the Han people, a trap with the entire Jinlian River as a bait.

No matter who it was, he didn't expect that Li Xuan would let the hundreds of thousands of allied troops of several major tribes besiege Jincheng, and he personally led a partial division to attack the rear of the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei Royal Court, which did not attack Helian, even if Helian was eager to occupy the Golden Lotus River to establish his prestige at that time, and transferred most of the royal court's men, the royal court at that time was indeed very empty, and Li Xuan did not choose to attack Danhan Mountain, but set his sights on other tribes and attacked wildly.

The final result was that the 200,000 coalition troops were panicked and self-defeating, even if He Lian explained his interests and promised all kinds of benefits, no one had a reason to continue to attack Jincheng, leaving only the people of Helian headquarters who were killed by Yue Fei under Jincheng lost their armor and abandoned their armor, wolves and rats, 50,000 elites of the royal court, and less than 10,000 were able to escape back to the royal court in the end.

What's even more terrifying is that because of Helian's decision-making mistakes, the three large tribes of Daozhì were uprooted, which made Helian's already precarious position even worse.

For Li Xuan, Helian now hates to the bones, but he is helpless, now the central Xianbei and even the entire grassland, for this wolf butcher is talking about the tiger's color change, with the prestige of Helian's plummeting, it is difficult to convene an alliance again, and the central Xianbei has been greatly injured after that battle, and the remaining tribes have either fled north or gone south to accept the naturalization of the Han people. Or join the other two tribes or the tribes of the Huns.

Seeing that the Han people unscrupulously built pastures under their noses, as the heir of Tanshi Huai, the co-owner of the entire Xianbei nation, and Lian was helpless, although the name of the co-owner was only nominal, but as the descendant of Tanshi Huai. He Lian still felt an indescribable sense of shame.

On the grasslands around Youzhou, except for the Danhan Mountain area, it is now difficult to see the shadow of Xianbei and even all the Hu tribes, and instead of pastures established by the Han people.

This winter, for the Xianbei people living in this area, is destined to be a difficult winter, there is no supply from the Han family, and they have lost the courage to go south to plunder, and they don't even need Li Xuan to continue to do it. Just the Xianbei tribesmen who froze to death, starved to death, or disappeared were enough to make Helian and the remaining tribal leaders vomit blood, and by the time the winter passed, the remaining population of the entire central Xianbei was less than half of what it had been before the arrival of winter.

And these are just the beginning, and even the leaders of all the tribes know that if they can't pull out Li Xuan, the nail that has pierced the Xianbei people's vital point. In the next winter, for the Xianbei people living in this grassland. It will be another painful season, there is no need for the Han people to do it, only need to maintain the current situation, and in less than three years, the entire central Xianbei will face a huge crisis of extinction.

Sadly, however, even if this outcome is known. But after a winter of tossing, He Lian and the tribal leaders sadly found that they no longer had the ability to attack Li Xuan, not to mention the two cities, only those ranch owners who had gained huge benefits. In order to protect their own interests, they spontaneously organized private armies and became a natural defensive circle outside the two cities.

For this situation, Helian and the leaders of various tribes are itching with hatred, because among those ranchers, many ranchers are Xianbei people who planned the past, and even many of them are the leaders of some small tribes before, and now they not only willingly accept the rule of the Han people, but also help the Han people to deal with their former compatriots with a servile face.

For this situation, He Lian and the tribal leaders hated it but were helpless, and Lian sent people to Youzhou more than once, hoping to seek Liu Yu's help, and his posture was extremely low, far less arrogant than in previous years, and now, the backbone of Xianbei in the entire central part has almost been broken by Li Xuan, and in the face of the Han people who were weak as lambs in the past, there is a kind of fear from the bones.

For this situation, Liu Yu said that he couldn't help, and he also wanted to clamp Li Xuan's power, but at present, the focus of Li Xuan's development is not internal, but in the expansion of the territory, if it is defeated, it is better to say, but unfortunately, Li Xuan has been winning, the reputation of the hero of the resistance to Hu, so that Li Xuan has a great reputation in the north, and even thousands of miles away, the emperor in Luoyang, His Majesty, is highly praised for the hero of the expansion of the territory, Liu Yu knows very well, this is not only the reason for the expansion of the territory, but also because at the beginning of the year, Because Li Xuan had plundered a large amount of gold and silver from the grassland, the greedy majesty had obviously tasted the sweetness.

Liu Yu knew better that Li Xuan had plundered most of the wealth of Xianbei in the central part of the country, but it was more than that, just those plundered cattle, sheep and war horses, if all of them were converted into gold and silver, they would almost be comparable to the taxes of the entire Han Kingdom for two years.

But this kind of thing, he can't say it clearly, because by the emperor's side, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong are helping Li Xuan to speak, needless to say, Liu Yu also knows that this damn Li Xuan must not have given these eunuchs less benefits in secret.

But even if he knew what to do, all he could do now was to gather heavy troops around Macheng, hoping to put a little pressure on Li Xuan, but it had little effect, and Liu Yu himself knew very well that if he really dared to make trouble in the back at this time, on the side of the court, a hat that killed Zhongliang was probably indispensable.

After all, although the current Han Dynasty is declining, it is still there, and it is far from reaching the situation of the division of princes in history, even if he Liu Yu is a pastor of Youzhou, and he is a member of the Han family, he has to consider the consequences in many things.

For Helian's request for help, Liu Yu could only respond with silence.

For Liu Yu's silence, He Lian was a little desperate, recently, the Han troops in Longcheng who had been dormant for a winter began to act again, plundering and slaughtering the Xianbei people everywhere, and even blatantly bypassing Danhan Mountain, in the spring, the races on the grassland naturally can't shrink together like winter, and must be scattered to graze to feed themselves, otherwise, relying on Danhan Mountain alone, they can only starve to death, and Li Xuan's troops have also been reduced to zero, under the auspices of the generals of all parties, A new round of slaughter was launched against these scattered Xianbei people.

Yes, slaughter.

After destroying several large tribes one after another, relying on these Xianbei tribes as nutrients, the generals under Li Xuan's command have grown sufficiently, coupled with the generals from the north who continue to come to serve as Li Xuan's reputation spreads, and now in the troops under Li Xuan's account, even a small military marquis may be a third-rate general.

Helian is now unthinkable, and all who can ask for help have asked for help, and even the Huns have tried, but unfortunately with little success, the other two Xianbei are only restricting the scope of action of the subordinates, and there is no intention of getting involved, as for the Huns, although Li Xuan's troops are rampant now, they resolutely do not fight the Huns.

This kind of differential treatment makes the Huns happy to watch the jokes of the Xianbei people on the sidelines, and the truth of cold lips and teeth will not work on the grassland, even if they know that Li Xuan will threaten them in the future, but most of the Huns prefer to watch the Xianbei people unlucky.

Li Xuan obviously fought a strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and the plan was very successful, and soon, He Lian sadly found that he had become a loner.

West of Danhan Mountain, there were originally still a lot of Xianbei tribes in Zài, here has been out of the scope of Youzhou, last year, the Han army of Youzhou is rarely hit here, although there is also a fierce god here in the state, but people mainly deal with the Southern Xiongnu, but rarely come to provoke the Xianbei people, so in previous years, although the Xianbei people in this area have heard of the notoriety of the wolf butcher, but they have only heard of it, life has been very moist, grazing when there is nothing to do, if you feel bored, gather a group of people, Go to the territory of the Han people to loot and see the rivers and mountains of the Han people, anyway, as long as you are more active, don't touch the interests of the people of Bingzhou, and the killing god of Bingzhou is too lazy to take care of them.

It's just that after the beginning of spring this year, these herdsmen living in the west of Danhan Mountain suddenly found that the world has changed, and it is no longer so harmonious and beautiful.

In front of a team of wolf-like Han troops, their resistance seems pale and powerless, in the face of the Han army's rare strength, many Xianbei herdsmen habitually chose to surrender, it is not without such a thing in the past, as long as they choose to surrender, it will not be long before these Han people who are full of incomprehensible benevolence and morality will put them back and start over again in the coming year.

It's just that it didn't take long for these Xianbei people to find out painfully, maybe dying in battle is a good result, this time, there is no courtesy, there is no so-called edification of those Han Confucian students, some are just endless enslavement, domestication, and then sold to other Han people, continue to accept enslavement, endlessly work for the Han people, until they are tired to death, for these grassland people who advocate freedom, perhaps returning to the embrace of immortality is the best destination

Groups of tribesmen were shackled, sent to Longcheng, and became the lowest slaves, one tribe after another could not bear the abuse of the Han people, and chose to leave or accept the naturalization of the Han people, and watched the Han troops gradually encroach on the tribes around Danhan Mountain. (To be continued......)