Chapter 148: Undercurrent
Now the Xiongnu are still divided between the north and the south, and the southern Xiongnu are dependent on the Han Dynasty and have defeated the northern Xiongnu many times. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć However, due to the acceptance of a large number of descendants, the power has increased greatly, which makes it more difficult to control. There was great internal instability, with frequent rebellions and Shan Yu being killed. Most of the Northern Xiongnu have moved westward, and the remaining numbers are scarce, although they occasionally come to the Southern Xiongnu to fight the grass valley, but there is no longer any threat. Hu Li's Northern Expedition this time is to deal with the northern and southern Xiongnu at one time, after all, the dead Xiongnu are the good Xiongnu.
And now is the best opportunity to eliminate the Xiongnu, just when Dong Zhuo was in the Central Plains, the Xiongnu were also very unstable. First, the Xiongnu generals killed Shan Yu Qiangqu, and then Qiangqu's son Zuoxian Wang Yufu Luo ascended the throne and became the new Shan Yu. After Yu Fuluo ascended the throne, he naturally began to take revenge on the countrymen and his men, but Yu Fuluo's strength was not strong, and he was defeated by the countrymen, so he had to rely on the Han Dynasty. But the Han Dynasty was just in time for Dong Zhuo's rebellion at this time, and Yu Fuluo found that the Han Dynasty was so weak now, so he naturally wanted to come in and get a piece of the pie. In history, it was at this time that Cai Wenji was captured by the Southern Huns. But now in this plane, Cai Yong was not killed, and Luoyang and Chang'an were under the control of the Han Dynasty, which avoided this tragedy.
Since the Southern Xiongnu entered the Central Plains to plunder, naturally many princes were unhappy, and Yuan Shao also took this opportunity to send troops and annex the state, and fought a few battles with the Southern Xiongnu. The Chinese people are self-proclaimed Dadanyu and control the northern region of Bingzhou. It was called the Hetao in ancient times, and as the saying goes, the Yellow River is only rich in one set of harms. So how could Hu Li let the Xiongnu occupy such a good place, and naturally wanted to recover the Hetao area.
But just after Hu Li went deep into the state. I found a very strange thing, the Huns were gone. Although the Xiongnu are nomadic people, there should be some movements. However, Hu Li's cavalry spies went out for dozens of miles and did not find any Xiongnu settlements. This made Hu Li feel a little strange.
Now Hu Li has about more than 15,000 cavalry, and the stirrups and saddles have long been equipped, and the war horses have heavy armor, so there is no pressure to fight against tens of thousands of Hun cavalry. However, what is unpleasant is that Hu Li has not encountered the main force of the Huns after walking for almost a month. Occasionally, I could encounter some small tribes, but they were the ones that had no combat effectiveness, and Hu Li easily incorporated many old and weak. They all sent people to escort them to the rear. However, Hu Li was also worried that there would be problems with logistics and supply if she continued like this, so she had no choice but to let Zhang Luozi and Li Zangying take the cavalry and a few shadow guards to protect the grain and grass in the rear.
"Any news?" Hu Li asked Jia Xu on the side.
Jia Xu shook his head and said, "There must be something strange about this matter, I got two pieces of news in my hands." The first one was sent back from our expatriate shadow guards. According to the news from Xiangma and bandits, the main force of the Xiongnu seems to have retreated north, and its whereabouts are unknown. Second, it seems that the Maison is going to carry out an operation against us. However, it has not yet been discovered what exactly the Maison wants to do. However, I suspect that there may be a riot in the area under our control. Of course, if it's just that, it's not a big problem. It's a pity that the Maison did it very secretly this time, and we didn't find the specific ideas of the Maison for several dark lines. However, one thing is certain, what the other party is trying to do will definitely not be small, this matter is estimated to be only known by the heads of a few families, and outsiders only know some words. However, what is certain is that the Zhen family is definitely involved. ā
"The Zhen family? How old is Zhen this year? She is said to be resourceful, but is it true? Hu Li suddenly thought of this superb girl, and someone wrote her a Luo Shen Fu later. It would be nice if we could see nature in the future.
Jia Xu thought for a moment and then said, "In the information, Zhen is thirteen years old this year. Naturally intelligent. It is said that Liu Liang, a divine calculation, once calculated the Zhen family and said that this woman was unspeakably noble. It is rumored on the street that this woman seems to have auspicious appearances on her body, and it is said that every night when she goes to bed, the family seems to see someone putting a jade robe on her. Moreover, Zhen is very smart and has a sense of the overall situation, and once encouraged the family to open a warehouse for refugees to release grain, which was used to avoid refugees' attacks on the Zhen family. However, it is said that Zhen is already engaged to Yuan Xi, and it is estimated that he will become Yuan Xi's wife in the next year or so. ā
Hu Li frowned: "In your opinion, it is likely that the mastermind who plotted against us this time was Zhen?" Or Yuan Xi or Yuan Shao? ā
"It's hard to judge, but my lord, do you want to continue the Northern Expedition? I always felt that there was a conspiracy in this, but my subordinates couldn't find out who was doing it. Jia Xu said with some concern.
"If you don't know, don't think about it." Hu Li shook her head helplessly, and asked Jia Xu again: "If the enemy's plan has already begun, can you find the culprit?" ā
This time, Jia Xu nodded very affirmatively, after all, it turned out that only a few people knew about things, and once the plan started, it would naturally be very easy to find out who was behind the scenes. After all, the shadow guards established by Hu Li are still mainly aimed at foreign races, and they have played a considerable role in the fight against Goguryeo and Samhan, and there is indeed a shortage of manpower internally, especially now when the Northern Expedition is underway. All of Hu Li's main forces are placed on this, so she is a little powerless in a territory that does not belong to her.
Hu Li contacted Shen Huili's side, but Anna's side couldn't be contacted at all, of course, Hu Li didn't count on it at all, she just hoped that Anna's side could brush up more points and improve the final evaluation of her team.
Now Anna is killing and killing, and Anna is also out of control, planning to recover the Western Regions Protectorate, which has lost control. Now the small countries in the Western Regions have set themselves up as kings because they have escaped the control of the Han Dynasty, and they are constantly killing each other. So Anna was naturally very happy and confident about this mission. And Liu Xie, at the instigation of Hu Li, gave Ma Teng a blank check, as long as it was the land that Ma Teng fell, it would be managed by himself.
Shen Huili stood in the middle of a Wuhuan tribe camp covered in blood, surrounded by Zhang Yan's countless cavalry, surrounded by this camp. It was a massacre, and thousands of unarmed Wuhuan natives were quickly killed. Shen Huili took a breath, looking at the corpses all over the ground, and there was a little pity in her eyes. "Although I hypnotized them more than once, treating them as NPCs, but this real touch, this salty flesh and blood, I, Shen Huili, can be regarded as a murderous maniac now. For the sake of our mission, or the nihilistic Chinese nation, my hands are really stained with the blood of many innocent people. Back then, we naively thought that we would be upright and not lose, but now it seems that in the eyes of Wu Huan, we are no different from butcher executioners, right? (To be continued.) )
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