Chapter 258: It only takes two years to defeat the Huns

The night was getting darker, and just when Han Yannian was at a loss, a sneaky figure suddenly appeared outside the camp, and when it was discovered by the soldiers standing guard.

"Tell me, do you have any important military information to report?" Han Yannian looked at the visitor with a calm face, and from the looks of it, he didn't look like the Wusun people.

There are some similarities with the Huns, although the races are similar, and it is difficult for most people to distinguish them, but if you look closely, you can still distinguish them from some characteristics.

"The matter that the general demonstrated here earlier has been passed to the Xiongnu royal court, and Captain Zuo Dadu was ordered by the Xiongnu Wushi Luer Shan Yu to send me to inquire about the situation of the general's army!" The other party directly explained his intentions.

"Oh?" Han Yannian suddenly smiled.

Although I know that my plan may not be reliable, it has now proved that the previous thinking is okay.

No, didn't the news that the Han people's motives had no combat effectiveness reach the ears of the Xiongnu Shan Yu.

It's this scout who is a little silly, the first time he saw the scout, he directly swaggered and reported it first, and then said that I came to spy on the military.

Of course, funny is funny, Han Yannian won't take this matter too seriously.

Even if you were a fool to spy on the news, I'm afraid you wouldn't do that, right?

So the other party must have other purposes.

"The general may have guessed that there are still many Hun scouts in Chigu Castle, although they can't send the news back in a short time, but that's just a matter of time, so I can only come over when it's dark." The other party first explained, and then said his true purpose.

"Captain Zuo can no longer endure the tyranny of Wushi Lu'er Shan Yu, so he plans to kill Wushi Lu'er Shan Yu and join the Han!"

"But after all, Captain Zuo has limited troops, and the Hun court is thousands of miles away, once he moves, it is very likely that he will be caught up by the pursuers before he leaves the Huns."

"So Captain Zuo hopes that the general can go north to help us break through......"

"Are you guys very grumpy?" Han Yannian did not respond directly, but asked.

The other party was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Very irritable, every few days he has to kill one or a few people for pleasure, for this he even raised a few hunting dogs, those hunting dogs are grown up eating human flesh, and Wu Shi Lu'er Shan Yu's favorite thing to do is to let the hunting dogs bite people to death, he succeeded to the throne for less than two years, and the people who served him around him have changed I don't know how many batches, and even some powerful people who refuse to obey will be caught by him to feed the dogs......"

Groove ......

Even the well-informed Han Yannian couldn't help but be taken aback after hearing about this Wushi Lu'er Shan Yu's hobby.

It's okay to like to kill people for fun.,It's a monarch anyway.,Even if there's some incomprehensible hobbies, it's not completely incomprehensible.。

But if you kill someone, you kill people, and you like to feed live people to dogs, so that they are bitten to death.

Even Qin Shi Huang, who is called a tyrant, doesn't seem to have done this?

Even if Qin II, who is not reliable at all and likes Hu Lai more than his father, doesn't seem to have done such a thing, right?

It's just appalling......

Of course, shock to shock, Han Yannian still did not forget his duty.

"You want to go south and attack General Ben?" Han Yannian keenly grasped the crux of the problem.

The news has been spread, and although it is necessary to send someone to verify it again, since they have a lot of scouts in Akiti Castle, why should they send someone to verify it alone?

As soon as the information was summed up in this way, the answer came out.

The Huns seemed to be unable to wait, because under normal circumstances, the scouts in the city would not have spread the news until after the beginning of spring.

And after the beginning of spring, such a back and forth, when the Huns kill it, it will be the end of spring at the earliest, and at that time, no one dares to guarantee whether the Han army has regained its combat effectiveness.

Wu Shilu really wants to seize this opportunity, or for him, he must seize this opportunity, otherwise he will not be able to solve his more than 20,000 Han troops, and they will have to go south in the coming year, and even if they can grab something, it will be difficult to retreat.

"Yes, the snow on the grassland this year is too big, and the livestock will lose fat just after winter, this is the conscription of the disaster year!" The other party nodded directly in acknowledgement.

Han Yannian smiled slightly, his speculation was right, what Liu Xijun said was also based on evidence, this year is really a disaster year for the grassland.

It's the middle of November, and winter on the prairie has just begun, and it's still a long way to go.

Counting the time it takes for the news to come back, even if they start to prepare now, it will take a month and a half to two months, to say the least.

First lunar month?

Although the New Year is still very cold on the grassland, according to past records, the snow on the grassland will melt quickly after the New Year, and the further south you go, the faster the snow will melt.

But again, this is the most unsuitable time for marching.

The cold is only one thing, the most important thing is that the ground is too muddy, which has a great impact on the livestock, and it is customary for them to start their activities gradually after February.

But judging from the current situation, if the Huns want to move, the first month may be the last chance, or in late December?

As for whether Captain Zuo really surrendered or wanted to lure them north, Han Yannian didn't care about this.

Because he didn't plan to go north, no matter what the other party said, he wouldn't be able to go north, at least not now, and even if he went, it would be after the beginning of spring, after the snow melted, and the ground began to be less muddy.

Han Yannian will not let go of his advantages and create a disadvantageous environment for himself to fight.

Of course, Han Yannian is not a traverser, and his thoughts are largely influenced by Liu Ponu's command ideas, so he will be as stable as an old dog.

And in history, this Zuo Dadu Lieutenant made the same choice.

Of course, people really wanted to surrender to the Han Dynasty, and they really did it to Wushi Lu'er.

It's just that his skills are not as good as others, and instead of killing Wu Shilu after he started, he was killed by Wu Shilu.

The Han Dynasty also accepted the surrender of the Zuo Dadu, and sent Zhao Ponu to lead 20,000 cavalry to attack the Xiongnu Zuo Xianwang to respond to the surrender of the Zuo Daduwei, and at the same time ordered Gongsun Ao to lead his troops to build the surrendered city.

As a result, after Captain Zuo was counter-killed, the Huns were able to concentrate their forces against Zhao Ponu, and in the face of 80,000 Hun cavalry, Zhao Ponu was finally captured by the Huns, and the entire army was annihilated.

The loss of 20,000 people may not seem like much, but if you look at the entire historical line, it was this battle that opened the way for the defeat of the Han Dynasty in the next few decades.

The Han-Hungarian War was divided into four phases, the first of which was the period of forbearance and humiliation before the siege of Mayi in the early Han Dynasty.

The second stage is the stage of Gao Ge Kaijin in the early stage of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the third stage is from the second year of Taichu, that is, the year that is about to come, and the entire third stage of the Han Dynasty has not tasted victory and suffered heavy losses.

Although only 200,000 or 300,000 people were lost on the battlefield, it directly led to the Han Dynasty's population dropping by more than 10 million in less than 20 years.

In other words, in the decades since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, the population of the Han Dynasty has dropped sharply from nearly 50 million to more than 20 million, directly cutting it by half.

Next, it was not until Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne that the fourth stage of the war began, and it was also the last stage, which completely defeated the Xiongnu and ruled the Western Regions.

Why did Liu Ponu desperately form a new army?

And why did you send the new army to the Western Regions for training when it was not yet fully formed?

Why did he reject Huo Guang's suggestion and send Zhao Ponu to lead his troops to respond to the new army?

In addition to the fact that Zhao Ponu's troops need to use a lot of logistics to move, isn't the rest just to change the third stage of the war in history?

In Liu Ponu's view, the war between Han and Hungary has been going on long enough, and the third stage of the war should not be a war in which the Han Dynasty was defeated, but should be the final end and a stage that completely ends the war.

Therefore, in the previous letterhead from Liu Ponu to Han Yannian, he deliberately explained a paragraph.

Wait for reinforcements, focus on stability, and seize the fighters.

These twelve words are contradictory, but they are not contradictory at all.

Translated as a rear, reinforcements are being formed, it will take about a year or so, during which we must focus on stability, if the fighter plane appears in front of you, we must seize the fighter, if not, then continue to focus on stability, everything is waiting for the reinforcements to arrive in the plan.

These twelve words not only reveal Liu Ponu's strategic arrangement, but also reveal Liu Ponu's ambition to completely defeat the Huns in one battle.

Liu Ponu has already said it so clearly, as a general who was trained by Liu Ponu, how could Han Yannian not understand?

Even if he couldn't understand it, he didn't dare to disobey Liu Ponu's arrangement.

The signal he released earlier can actually be seen as actively looking for fighters.

The advantage of the new army is defense, although the surprise attack is not afraid, but the defense advantage will be greater in comparison.

Han Yannian's arrangement was made based on a comprehensive judgment of the strength of the new army, so even without Liu Ponu's explanation, he would not attack rashly, let alone under such bad weather conditions?

"It is impossible for this general to go north to respond, the imperial court is already forming more troops, probably by the summer of next year, there will be more than 100,000 troops under this general who are exactly the same as now, and even if the Huns do not go south, this general will go north to find you."

"And the current Han army is different from the previous Han army, this general can even tell you very responsibly, don't look at us as fast as the cavalry, but we can maintain a speed of running day and night, can the Huns do it?"

"Even if the combat troops can do it, can the herders do it?"

"You have also seen our vehicles, all of them are made of steel, and the weight of each one is thousands of catties, no matter how your cavalry group charges, it is impossible to break up the formation of this general, and any soldier of this general can attack you from a hundred and fifty steps away, and this general can also tell you that this general's means of attack are not only that."

Han Yannian put on a very pretending posture, stretched out two fingers, and said, "Two years!" In two years at most, General Ben will wipe out the entire Huns! ”

"Captain Zuo wants to take refuge in the Han Dynasty, General Ben is still very welcome, but it is a little too irrational to kill Wu Shilu, go back and tell him that if you can lead the main force of the Huns here, General Ben will personally introduce him to Your Majesty at that time......"

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