The Xiongnu were once a powerful and incomparably powerful existence that ravaged the north of the Han Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Mao Dun Shan Yu, they almost completed the feat of alien race going south to the Central Plains.

But even so, they still succeeded in fighting back against the powerful Donghu with a relatively weak force, and drove the Dayue clan to the west to the far west, forcing the Dahan to the south to take out a large amount of wealth every year and offer beautiful maidens to satisfy them.

However, as a bandit nation on horseback, the Xiongnu failed to successfully get rid of the identity of pirates like a pirate state in the future, and turned into a representative of a gentleman, even if the blood of pirates still flowed in the body, but it became a world-renowned existence on the skin, and then led the entire world civilization for hundreds of years.

So, after the continuous blows of the Han Dynasty, at this time, the originally powerful Xiongnu were not only divided into two tribal alliances in the south and the north, among which the Northern Xiongnu were driven to the far northwest, becoming a group of frightened birds, in the face of Li Shushi's crusade against the army of the Western Regions, even the courage to face it has been lost, and when he heard the news of the arrival of the Han army, he was terrified, and then heard the news that the Han people had defeated the Xianbei people, who had become the new grassland overlord in the eyes of the Huns, immediately moved the clan and looked south.

As for the other Southern Xiongnu, after recuperating after annexing the Han Dynasty, they had regained their strength, but at the same time as their strength was restored, they were also eroded by the ideas of the Han Dynasty, and they continued to resist desperately under the invasion of this advanced culture, but the result could only delay the speed of assimilation, but could not fundamentally change this trend.

Now, because of the appearance of Li Shushi, this assimilation process has been greatly accelerated.

Perhaps the concept of the Huns as a nation was maintained, but as those who wanted to resist this trend toughly went into the coal kilns. Sent to the construction site of the road, to become the builder of a better life in Bingzhou, to contribute every penny of sweat and even blood to the bright future of Bingzhou, the remaining Xiongnu people continue to sink in the beautiful vision woven by Li Shushi for him, and even many Xiongnu have become the most staunch supporters of the Bingzhou army, because they have more opportunities here. Their families can get a better life because of their efforts, which is a beautiful thing that the grassland people could never dream of.

If this situation can continue for more than 50 years, even if there are still people who want to use their identity as Huns to raise an army in the future, they will not be able to prevent the former overlord of the steppe from dying out as an independent nation. Because no matter how much they emphasize their identity as the Huns, the language they speak is the official dialect of Bingzhou, the food they eat is the delicious food that spreads in the Bingshuo region or the Guanzhong region, the characters they write are the official scripts and simplified characters taught to them by the Han people, and the knowledge they learn is basically the Han people's ritual music and poetry books, except for the knowledge of animal husbandry that has been passed down because of the recognition of the Han people. Their way of life is either to cultivate the fields like the Han people, or they are also engaged in agricultural and pastoral activities closely related to the Han people, and they have simply forgotten what kind of spirit their ancestors had and what kind of will they fought against the wind, frost, rain and snow on the grassland.

They can no longer go back to their old lives.

So even if it is not very obvious, the Huns under Li Shushi's rule have changed a lot from the original way of living of this nation, and even the Gongsun clan in Liaodong has heard of such changes.

In addition to the two major forces of the Xiongnu in the north and south, there are some "other tribes" of the Huns in the grassland. For example, he is more cruel and easy to kill, he takes pleasure in war, and likes to participate in various wars in the form of mercenaries. Hugh Tuhu, who takes money and sells his life without discipline.

But although these tribes also belong to the concept of the Xiongnu, because they are far away from the control of the Xiongnu royal court, and they go to various places to work as mercenaries on weekdays, even the customs between the tribes are different, let alone with the Xiongnu royal court.

It can be said that this group of Hutu Hu is really a "other department" that has become independent from the Xiongnu race.

The situation of the rest of the Xiongnu "other tribes", large and small, is basically similar to that of Hutu Hu, and a relatively unique custom has been formed for various reasons. Although it is not yet completely independent from the Xiongnu race, it is already easy to discern the differences.

It is precisely because of this understanding that when the sentinel reported that the Xiongnu appeared in the Xianbei people's array, although it seemed to be a little different from the Xiongnu royal court that can be said to exist in name only, it can still be seen that it is the habitual dress of the Huns. That's why Gongsun Du's first reaction after receiving the information was the idea of "Is there a peace between Li Shushi and the Xianbei royal court", and even the more he thought about it, the more he felt that such an idea seemed to be not unreasonable.

There are no eternal enemies in this world, and there are naturally no eternal friends, especially for the country and tribes, the front foot has just received Yuan Shao's intention to deduct the rewards and rewards promised to the Xianbei and Karasuma people in advance because of Gongsun Zhan's self-"exile", so it is indeed very likely that the Xianbei people will switch to the camp of the state army under the higher price offered by Li Shushi.

The state army has been fighting with the Xianbei people for many years, and its strength is naturally deeply recognized by those grassland people, even if Li Shushi stretches out a friendly hand, it will not be regarded as a sign of weakness, but will be regarded as the mercy of the strong - such a statement may also consider the problem of face for the Han people, but for the grassland people who value practical benefits, it is really nothing.

I didn't see that the life of the Huns was getting better and better after being annexed by the state army, so that the opposition among the Huns became smaller and smaller, especially those grassroots herdsmen, and now even if some Xiongnu nobles wanted to incite it, it would be difficult to cause a big commotion.

"No, this is not right, I Liaodong is alone overseas, and I have no grievances with that Li Shushi, Yuan Shao does not get rid of it, how can it be possible to cross the mountains and seas to attack my Liaodong, isn't this the mistake of the Qin State back then's 'distant attack and close breeding', no, this matter is really a little strange."

Until this time, Gongsun Du still felt that those Huns should have come from Li Shushi's instructions, so they would appear in the army of Xianbei people, as for whether those Hun troops came from other tribes, Gongsun Du did not think about it, but if the size of that army was only three or two thousand, Gongsun Du might not be so determined. However, although the sentinels who returned one after another, although they lost Yan zhòng, they still proved that the Xianbei people not only had Hun troops in their array, but even exceeded 20,000 in number.

With such a huge Hun cavalry, looking at the entire Han Dynasty, only Li Shushi's Bingzhou army can make it up!

But just like Gongsun Du's judgment, Li Shushi wanted to destroy his enemies with the hands of the Xianbei people. How do you look at it, you shouldn't throw your power to the distant Liaodong - after getting Liaodong, the wings fly together? Don't laugh at it, the muddy pond and saline-alkali land in the West Liaoning Corridor not only make it difficult to pass through the army for most of the year, but it is very likely that you will not be able to come back when you go over, and you will have to wait a long time before you can re-send the troops when you come back.

It can be said that the Liaoxi Corridor at this time will definitely not allow the two grandsons to fight each other like in the game, but is more like the two classic battles of Cao Cao and Sima Yi.

Letting go of Gongsun Kang at that time was not just because he was worried that the Yuan clan would unite with the Gongsun clan against Cao Cao. It is even more because after that long and arduous march, in fact, Cao Cao's army has completely lost the ability to continue to advance eastward, even if there is no Jian Yì who Guo Jia proposed to withdraw his troops, Cao Cao will definitely choose the option of withdrawing his troops after some hesitation, because that is the only option.

Sima Yi, on the other hand, can be said to have made all the preparations, and then relied on the powerful national strength of the Wei State, which had been completely restored, and the elite soldiers trained in the battle against Zhuge Liang's invasion, and crushed him all the way. It made Gongsun tired of coping. But even so, the 100-day march was enough to make any manager feel a wave of heart palpitations. That is, the national strength of Wei at that time was enough to support, and Sima Yi practiced an extremely strong ability to judge details after fighting with Zhuge Liang, a military commander who was very good at details, which made Liaodong end up in a miserable defeat in the battle with this super old vixen in the late Three Kingdoms.

In fact, in the history of another plane, until the later Sui and Tang dynasties, although he was a loser, it can also be said that he opened up thousands of miles of territory Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and since the crown prince, he has been constantly conquering the Goryeo regime established by the descendants of Goguryeo who occupied Liaodong.

In the later Tang Dynasty. simply turned to the sea route, which broke through the almost "moat" general road of the Liaoxi Corridor, and from this we can know how bad the idea of attacking the Central Plains from Liaodong is.

Moreover, although there was enough advanced shipping in this era, Liaodong did not have a fleet of more than 50,000 people at sea, let alone more than 50,000 soldiers who could quickly enter battle after a long sea drift. This means that if Li Shushi occupies Liaodong and prepares this qiē. That time was enough time for the war in the Central Plains to completely divide the victory and defeat.

It is said that after holding back technology at home for a long time, it is easy to create the ultimate class of troops and learn the ultimate magic, but when I go out, I see that the original chaotic world has returned to peace, and if I continue to stir up trouble, I will face the encirclement and suppression of people from all walks of life across the continent. Nima simply hangs on himself directly, and the mind of the southeast branch is there, there is wood!

It can be said that compared with Jiangdong on the other side of the Yangtze River, Liaodong is actually easier to defend and difficult to attack, but the population here is really far less than Jiangdong, and the development potential is not as suitable as Jiangdong, which is more suitable for climate, or hotter so that plants can mature faster, so the success rate of the secession regime here against the central power is even lower than that of Jiangdong.

By the way, in these war years, the more times the plant is harvested, the better, the higher the yield, the better, as for the taste and so on, only modern people will pursue it when they are extremely rich in material, and for the ancients, and even for the old people who have experienced three years of natural disasters, the present life is a matter of course.

It's like if you let an emperor who has been hungry for three days eat rotten cabbage and tofu soup, and you can still eat the pearl jade and white jade heavenly fairy flavor.

I thought about it for a long time but didn't come up with any results, but the changes in the situation would not stop because of Gongsun Du's thinking.

Soon, the Xianbei and Karasuma had amassed more than 150,000 troops near the border of Liaodong—an exact number, as the scouts and sentinels were unable to get close to the Hu garrisons, and the results were only speculations based on circumstances on the periphery. Accuracy or anything can obviously be said to be at all, but even so, the total strength of Hu Cai's total strength can definitely only be less than this number, and it is impossible to be more than this number.

If Li Shushi was here, he might sigh - the information provided by Yuwentuo was really not too much of a problem, and with the help of that group of "mysterious people", even the leader was still a little unwilling. However, Qianman's integration of the Xianbei tribes has obviously made a substantial breakthrough, and now on the grassland, in addition to Yuwen Tuo and some Xianbei tribes desperately resisting, only Tuoba Liwei, Yan Rou and Yelida are left to huddle together for warmth, barely gaining a firm foothold.

As for the leader of the struggle, it is just an ornament without power, and Qian Man is no longer worried about the "dying old" waste, and he wants to realize the expectations of his ancestors with the help of those "mysterious people", and achieve the great cause that even Sandalwood has not been able to achieve. All the obstacles in his way will be destroyed, including his former best friend Yuwen Tuo!

Finally, when the Xianbei people felt that the pressure they had put on Liaodong was great enough, on an afternoon when the clouds were thick and it seemed that a downpour would be ushered in at any time, Qian Man, who had been patiently waiting, finally gave the order to attack in the tooth tent.

In the face of the vanguard of the 15,000-strong Xianbei army led by Su Li, Gongsun Du naturally could not sit still.

As a native of the Liaodong Peninsula since childhood, Gongsun Du is not very familiar with the situation in Liaodong and its surroundings. But it is also enough to watch the fire and face the possible attack of the Xianbei people. He immediately worked at full speed and mobilized a force that could be mobilized, and the most important of these was the archers from the Mi and the support of Buyeo.

The relationship between the Buyeong and Xianbei people has always been bad.

It stands to reason that one comes from the grassland, and the other comes from the mountains and jungles, and between the two should be well water and not river water. But in fact, as a union of two equally aggressive alien tribes, the fighting between the two has never diminished.

It's just that the cavalry on the grassland can't go deep into the dense forests, and the warriors who are good at fighting in the mountains and jungles are also difficult to extend their power to the beautiful pearl of the grassland. A delicate balance has been struck.

Under normal circumstances, it is naturally impossible for the Buyeo people to run over to help Gongsun Du, no matter how much money and food Gongsun Du gives, it is a big deal to deduct the down payment, as for whether the final payment can be cheated, it is another matter, anyway, Buyeo people will not run to the plains near Xiangping to enjoy the treatment of being abused by the Xianbei cavalry.

Even if you look for death, you won't find it in such a way.

But this time things seem to be a little different.

The menacing Xianbei people not only seem to be planning to solve the pattern of the Gongsun clan in Liaodong and are still alive and well, but also look at the prepared and posture, even if they enter the deep mountains and compete with the Buyeo people, there is a great possibility - those Xianbei infantry who don't ride horses at all but seem to be able to walk on any terrain Although they don't show up much, when Gongsun Du passed the news to the Buyeo people and was confirmed by the Buyeo people, The two forces that originally harbored their own ghosts had to work together sincerely under the oppression of reality, because if they still went their own way, each defeat would be their only result.

For this reason, Goguryeo, who had been negotiating with the Liaodong side over the issue of the heir, also sent his second son, Baqi, who was automatically promoted to "eldest son" after the death of his eldest son, to lead the troops of Goguryeo to help him.

Of course, compared to the Buyeo soldiers who came out of the mountains, the overall Suzhì of the Goguryeo soldiers was much worse.

As a perennial enemy of the Han Dynasty, I don't know whether it should be regarded as the Dongyi or Beidi regime, Goguryeo should have a not weak army, but firstly, this army needs to surround the royal city of Marudu, especially when the old king may return to heaven at any time, and secondly, because the previous two major wars really hurt Goguryeo's vitality.

As for believe it or not, that's how Uju explains it anyway.

Anyway, now that the strong enemy is pressing the border, Gongsun Du really can't do anything to repair Goguryeo, the mountain monkeys who are still fighting with the heavens, or according to some gossip, if it weren't for the fact that Goguryeo's envoys who contacted the Xianbei people in private several times failed to return to their homeland but went back to their hometown to get married, Goguryeo was obviously ready to throw himself into the arms of the new master.

"I'll settle accounts with you after the war!" This is what Gongsun Du, who gritted his teeth, thought in his heart.

"After the war, whether you have Gongsun Du is still a problem, we are afraid of a bird" This is the idea of the third son of the current king of Goguryeo, Baegu, who served by his father's side day and night, or was always ready to take over the power once his father breathed.

Obviously, His Royal Highness the prince was obviously not optimistic about Gongsun Du, and the large army of the Xianbei people made the prince tremble, and he strengthened his determination to kneel and lick no matter what—obeying the strong was not a big deal for these aliens anyway.

Speaking of which, even those families under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty who pay attention to the so-called "etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame", although they will symbolically resist in the face of the coercion of power, they will eventually resist from that power instead of really fighting to the end.

Well, the goddess or something is actually in this tone, because this can obviously increase the introduction fee of the goddesses, in fact, if there is no support from the force, it is indeed the result, but the reason why the big family can last for thousands of years is not only because of how many industries and how many people they have, but also because proper discipline is also very important.

Those guys who are too undisciplined and have milk are mothers can only be dogs at most, and have no possibility of becoming confidants.

Because you never know if it will betray you for a higher bid as soon as it turns around.

Of course, the shape that Gongsun Du had to face this time was indeed extremely severe.

The number of Hu people's troops on the steppe is often a problem for those border generals who often deal with them, because the grassland tribes can be said to be a model of all the people's soldiers, not to mention that the gap between the regular army and the herdsmen is often difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, even those women who seem to have little combat effectiveness often undertake various logistics work as auxiliaries, maybe these women are not needed to kill the enemy in ordinary times, but when necessary, they can also pick up swords and arrows to fight the enemy.

Don't say it, ordinary Han men can't really say that they are sure to win in the face of these women on horseback, and it is even very likely that these Hu women who are also good at bows and arrows torture a two-legged county soldier to death by flying kites.

So normally, when the scouts report, they will report the number of invading Hu troops and their auxiliaries together, but usually the number of Hu troops participating in the battle is only about the reported number - unless the city is broken and enters the looting stage, the auxiliaries will not be dispatched lightly, and even if it is in the looting stage, there are few women involved.

This time, however, the situation seems to be a little different.

Until now, the scouts had not found any obvious traces of auxiliaries in the Xianbei army's assembly area, and even when Su Li's troops penetrated deep into the territory of Liaodong County, the scouts still did not find out whether the other party was carrying auxiliaries.

From a distance, the entire army led by Sully looked as if it was shrouded in a dense black fog, which made people can't help but be terrified, and at the same time, it completely cut off the possibility of the scouts wanting to investigate, if it were not for the size of the team to roughly deduce the number of Sully's troops, perhaps the scouts would not even have the courage to reciprocate.

Even if it's a small bit of information, no one can be completely sure.

This left the scouts in a state of demoralization from the start.

But anyway, since Sully is here, let's prepare for a fight! (To be continued......)