The Xiongnu envoy was stunned, he never expected that Zhu Song was not only not afraid of them, but even planned to conscript them!

You must know that the emperors of the Great Qian's dynasties were mainly defensive in the face of the Xiongnu, and occasionally one or two emperors who sent troops to conquer the Xiongnu finally returned with a feather.

The Hun iron cavalry is brave and good at fighting, unstoppable, and the soldiers of Daqian are very difficult to even hold on to the city, once they leave the city and go to the endless grassland, they are like meat on the board, and they are slaughtered.

Zhu Song said that he would mobilize a large army to conquer them, isn't this a fool's dream?

Thinking of this, the Xiongnu envoy suddenly laughed: "His Majesty the Great Emperor has such ambitions, it is really admirable, since this is the case, we will prepare the scimitar in the grassland and wait for the arrival of His Majesty the Great Emperor!" ”

After speaking, the Hun envoy saluted Zhu Song with disdain, turned around and left.

Zhu Song's face was gloomy, his fists were clenched, and a small envoy actually made a big statement in front of him, without the slightest sense of awe.

If it weren't for the two armies fighting and not killing him, Zhu Song really wanted to kill him.

After calming down, Zhu Song looked at the screen on the side and asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

In the next second, Yu Hao walked out from behind the screen.

When he learned that a Xiongnu envoy had arrived, Zhu Song sent someone to inform Yu Hao, so Yu Hao heard all the conversations between Zhu Song and the Xiongnu envoys just now.

Yu Hao saluted Zhu Song and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, according to Weichen's opinion, our Daqian has just won the battle, and the morale is flourishing, and the Xiongnu just want to force us to release Changsun Lang this time, and the possibility of launching an attack on us is very small." ”

"However, at this time, it is late autumn, and the grain harvest has just been harvested, and we still have to guard against the Xiongnu launching a large-scale plunder of our border areas."

Although the number of people in the border area is scarce, there are many people who have lived here for generations, and some people even live in the land outside the Jianmen Pass.

The soldiers were protected by the city walls, and the Huns did not dare to attack easily, but those people outside the city were fat in front of the Huns.

I am afraid that they will not attack the city, but will instead plunder the people's assets, and rob the grain and people.

This is also a big loss for Daqian.

"Then what do you think you should do, is it really possible to let me let the eldest grandson Lang go?" Zhu Song said with a frown.

He is the emperor, if he lets Changsun Lang go just because of this threat, then won't Changsun Xiao and the Huns be even more unscrupulous in the future?

Yu Hao shook his head and said: "Changsun Lang can't let go, although those ministers listed Li Songlin's crimes, but breaking the law is breaking the law, and Changsun Lang must be punished." ”

"I naturally understand this truth, but those ministers really give me a headache, although they are all henchmen of the eldest grandson, but they are also my courtiers, and I have to consider their feelings more or less." Zhu Song said helplessly.

Sometimes being an emperor can't do what he wants, especially for a Ming monarch.

These ministers account for half of the imperial court, Zhu Song can't demote them one by one, right?

They jointly wrote this time, Zhu Song always had to give them a little face, and many of them were also forced by the eldest grandson Xiao, and they couldn't help themselves.

Yu Hao thought for a while and said: "This is easy to do, Your Majesty can say this, if the eldest grandson Lang is pardoned, wouldn't it be that the assassination of the minister will happen again in the future, as long as the killed minister is not a good official who is honest and honest, the assassin can be pardoned and acquitted?" ”

"How many of these officials have clean butts, and if this gets out, how many people will have to be persecuted by them to assassinate them? If they are not afraid of death, they can pardon Changsun Lang according to their wishes. ”

"If they compromise, Your Majesty will also reduce the punishment of Changsun Lang a little, so that there is no need to pardon Changsun Lang, and the face of these ministers will be taken care of."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Song's eyes suddenly lit up, yes, such a simple method, why didn't he think of it?

"What about the Huns?" Zhu Song continued to ask.

Yu Hao smiled slightly and said, "Since we have just cleaned up the barbarians, and the Huns have jumped out to provoke again, let's fight!" ”

"That's what I mean, as long as you can provide enough heavy crossbows and trebuchets, the little Huns are not enough to worry about, I want them to know that from now on, the offense and defense will be easy!" Zhu Song said fiercely.

Yu Hao shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Huns have war horses, they are very mobile, and heavy crossbows and trebuchets are okay for defense, if it is a head-on confrontation with them, once our crossbow position is attacked, it will be a devastating disaster!" ”

The steppe was the territory of the Huns, and the terrain was open.

Compared to the agility and high mobility of the Hun cavalry, heavy crossbows and trebuchets were too cumbersome, and the position was easily attacked by the Hun cavalry.

It is not realistic to defeat the Xiongnu in the steppe with heavy crossbows and trebuchets.

"And what are you going to do?" Zhu Song hurriedly asked.

Since Yu Hao said to fight, there must be his way!

Yu Hao smiled slightly, took out a map from his arms, pointed to the location of Jianmen Pass above and said: "The 200,000 troops of the Huns are outside the Jianmen Pass at the moment, according to the intelligence of Jianguo Temple, the civil strife of the Huns has seriously consumed their army, and the current army that the Huns can mobilize will never exceed 250,000. ”

"And the Xiongnu, like the barbarians, are the combined army of various tribes, and as nomads, even if there is a war, they must leave some men to guard the tribe, on the one hand, to prevent the invasion of wild beasts, and on the other hand, to prevent harassment by other tribes."

"So these 200,000 troops are basically the entire strength of the Huns."

"Could it be that you want to wipe out all these 200,000 troops?" Zhu Song asked suspiciously, with a slight fanaticism in his eyes.

If these 200,000 troops are wiped out, then the men of the Huns will almost die, and then the army of Daqian will be able to go all the way north and completely destroy the Huns!

Yu Hao shook his head again and said: "The 200,000 cavalry of the Huns, with the current situation of the Great Qian's army, it is impossible to annihilate them, so the minister does not plan to move the 200,000 Hun army, Your Majesty, look here." ”

Yu Hao said, pointing to a large river named "Chimu River" on the map.

"It's autumn now, and the dry season of the steppe is coming soon, so basically most of the grassland tribes will migrate to the vicinity of this Chimu River, and the tribe of Chimu Ahan was originally here, which means that this Chimu River has now become the nest of the Huns."

"Jianmen Pass is in the northeast, I can lead a cavalry team, start from Yujiaguan in the northwest, run a thousand miles from the Western Regions, go around the Chimu River from the Western Regions, and directly attack the Xiongnu's lair."

"Don't they like to plunder, we will treat them in the same way, set fire to their lair, capture all their important people, and then return to Daqian from the Western Regions!"

"Their 200,000 troops are in Jianmen Pass, hundreds of miles away from the Chimu River, and when they get the news, we will already run away, as long as we can catch one or two key figures, such as what prince, princess or something, won't the Huns be with us in the future?"