"Whew~"

"I don't know what the situation is over there······

Weiyang Palace, outside the main hall of the Xuan Room.

Bowing his upper body slightly, propping up the twin axes on the guardrail on the edge of the remote platform, Liu Sheng let out a long sigh despite the frightened and complex expressions of the guards around him.

In the position of three or five steps behind Liu Sheng, veterans such as Zhou Yafu and Li Ji also lowered their heads, although they were not gloomy, but they couldn't see much certainty.

- Unprecedented.

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there has never been a war between the Han and the Hungarians.

Take the largest battle between Han and Hungary since the Han Dynasty, that is, the famous 'king to king' in history, as an example;

At that time, the northern Han border was based on the Mayi-Wuju line, and Han Wangxin personally guarded the new capital of Korea: Mayi.

At the beginning of the campaign, the Xiongnu marched south, and Han Wangxin surrendered almost without a fight, and then turned his troops to the Zhao Great Wall behind Ma Yi, as well as the Shang and Dai places south of the Zhao Great Wall.

The border pass was lost without warning, especially when it was still on the verge of defection, and the Han family was in chaos;

In desperation, Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang personally drove the expedition, brought a luxurious team of strategists and generals, and personally led the Guanzhong court army to arrive in Daidi.

Subsequently, it was Emperor Taizu Gao's wise and martial arts, step by step, successive battles, and pushed the Xiongnu Maodun army that broke through the defense line of the Great Wall of Zhao back step by step.

When the battlefield was pushed back to the area of Jinyang, the capital of the Dynasty, Taizu Liu Bang heard that Maodun was stationed in Daigu (now Fanzhi County, Shanxi Province to Yuanping City), so he sent people to reconnoiter Maodun and the truth.

At that time, in order to paralyze Taizu Liu Bang, he hid his elite soldiers, fat cattle and horses, etc., and only let the Han army vanguard scouts see the old and weak soldiers and thin livestock.

The more than ten groups of scouts sent to turn back did not hesitate to conclude that they could attack the Huns.

So, Liu Bang sent Liu Jing (Lou Jing) to investigate again, and Lou Jing came back and reported: The two countries should show off their strengths and show their most powerful strength when they fight each other;

But when I went to the place where the Huns were stationed, I saw only thin cattle and old and weak soldiers;

This must have been the Huns deliberately revealing their shortcomings and trying to achieve victory by ambushing the strange soldiers;

So I think the Huns can't attack.

It was only at this time that the whole army after Liu Bang had opened the main force of the Han army, the main force of 200,000 soldiers and horses, had already crossed the Juzhu Mountain and could reach the battlefield in a few days.

Considering that the main force was about to arrive on the battlefield, the Huns could not even stop the vanguard led by themselves, so they were very angry with Lou Jing and scolded: Qi is a bad seed!

With two lips, he got the official work, and now he dares to talk nonsense to hinder the advance of my army?

After venting the anger in his heart, he immediately detained Lou Jing in shackles and locked him up in Guangwu County, preparing to punish him after the war.

After that, women and children know and are familiar with it.

——Han Taizu did not accept Lou's loyalty, lightly advanced the enemy, and was trapped in the encirclement carefully arranged by the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun, and had no choice but to retreat to Baishan Mountain.

The siege of Baideng, which is famous in history, was formed, and the founding ancestor of the country: Liu Bang, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, only took 30,000 or 20,000 vanguard elites, and was surrounded by more than 200,000 legions of the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun in Baishan Mountain.

In just seven days and seven nights, Taizu Liu Bang can be described as a lost soldier.

Those who really died on the battlefield were only one hundred and ten sergeants;

What really kills is the bitter cold of the winter on the border of Daibei, and the despair of being surrounded and without food.

After that war, the first generation of the Eighth Lieutenant of the Northern Army was almost completely reorganized, and nearly half of the soldiers in service had no choice but to retire due to frostbite amputation of their hands and toes;

Even on the eighth day after the formation of the siege of Baideng, the main force of the Han army led by Zhou Bo, Xiahou Ying and others arrived in the area of Pingcheng, and forced the Han army to take advantage of the siege with a counter-encirclement trend, and indirectly received the siege of Taizu Baideng, but it still failed to change the outcome of the battle, and ended in the 'defeat' of the Han family.

Perhaps from a strategic point of view, the Han family won.

He came empty-handed, and returned empty-handed, not only failed to take anything away from the Han-Hungarian border, but also left behind the corpses of thousands of Hun warriors;

The 'grass forces on the northern Han border' led by Han Wangxin and Yan Wang Zang Di were all uprooted after the war, and the impression of the Xiongnu on the northern Han border was greatly weakened, and the trend of border defense in northern Han gradually stabilized.

But there is no doubt about it: Liu Bang lost.

As the founder of the country, he was defended by the leader of the barbarian tribe on the snowy mountain, no matter how much he whitewashed, Liu Bang could not escape the stigma of being 'surrounded by the Northern Barbarians'.

This is the end, Liu Bang returned to Chang'an with all his beards and tails.

Otherwise, if Liu Bang really wants to have a good job, or even something like 'studying in the Huns', then the negative impact of this incident on Chinese civilization may not be much better than the civil fort of later generations.

After all, no matter how the God of War is, he is not the founder of Zhu Ming······

Considering all this, and looking at the battle of Han-Hun Pingcheng from an overall perspective, it can be summarized in the following sentences.

- At the beginning of the campaign, the Huns, like every nomadic civilization as a whole, won part of the initiative in the early stages of the campaign by virtue of surprise attacks without warning;

- Then Han Wangxin defected, making the Han family, which was already chaotic due to the surprise attack of the Huns, more embarrassed;

After that, the Han Dynasty, like every Chinese agrarian civilization, began to gradually reverse the decline as soon as it launched the war machine.

It's just that Liu Bang, the emperor of Taizu Gao, who drove the expedition in person, rushed into the enemy lightly and almost turned this Han-Hungarian decisive battle into a prehistoric version of the civil fort.

Fortunately, Liu Bang was able to break through, and he did not miss a business trip, and the Battle of Pingcheng did not bury most of the elite of the Han family.

Then, with the humiliation and shame of 'you dare to surround the emperor Lao Tzu of our family', the Han army pushed the Huns all the way back to the grassland, and pushed the border line north for a hundred and ten miles.

To put it more simply, it is: the Huns came, broke through the border defenses, penetrated deep into the hinterland, and then were pushed back again;

Putting aside the episode of Taizu being trapped in the siege of Baideng, the gains and losses of the Huns in this battle were almost the same as the Qin army that was pushed back to Hangu Pass by the countries after the Battle of Changping.

In other words, the Battle of Han-Hun Pingcheng was a war of counter-aggression in which 'the invaders invaded successfully and were then driven away'.

After the Battle of Pingcheng, whether it was a small fight during the Empress Dowager Lü, or a small robbery in three years and a big robbery in five years during the first emperors of the Wen and Jing dynasties, it was just a unilateral invasion of the Han border by the Huns, and then retreated to the grassland before the main force of the Han army arrived on the battlefield.

Like the Battle of Mayi, the streets of Chang'an, some people have already begun to call this war that.

Like the Battle of Mayi, both sides knew that the deployment of troops and generals no longer took the premise of 'the Huns suddenly knocking on the border' as the beginning of the battle, which was really unprecedented.

Not to mention between Han and Hungary, even in the land of China, I don't know how long it has not been like this kind of 'gentlemen's war' that almost has an agreed time and place.

As a Han dynasty with less mobility, a more passive strategic situation, and a greater need for sufficient reaction time, such a start was undoubtedly much better than the Huns in the past when they suddenly broke through a defensive line at a border pass.

But Rao is like this, Rao is experienced in a hundred battles, accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, and even a veteran like Li Ji who has experienced the friendship of the Qin and Han dynasties - the devastation era, has no bottom in his heart about this battle.

The reason for this is still that cliché.

Fighting with the Huns, the Han family has not won so far······

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about it."

Seeing that Liu Sheng couldn't retract his gaze from the north, from the grassland, and from the direction of Mayi for a long time, Li Ji finally stood up tremblingly.

I'm very old······

As one of the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty, the only one who is the founding father of the country, but he credits all the credits to his father, and he is willing to be a 'Hou Shizi' Jiangmen Huzi, Li Ji can live until now, which is undoubtedly a long life.

After all, more than 60 years have passed since that brilliant era.

Rao was at that time, with the body of a young man overcoming thorns and thorns, the second Qu Zhou Marquis, has also passed his old age.

- Liji, who is over 80 years old.

But it is precisely because of this - it is precisely because of Liji's identity as the 'founding father' and the beard that can't pick out the slightest black hair, that Liji's next words can make Liu Sheng feel a little more at ease.

"At the time of Ji Zhou, the world was divided into seven, saying: Qin, Chu, Yan, Qi, Zhao, Wei, and Han."

"Among them, Qin is based in Guanzhong, Bashu, and Hexi, and it is even stronger through the change of the law by the merchant king, which can be said to be the best in the world."

"Chu is based on the land of Jing, Chu, Wu and Yue, with a million, although there are only three households of Qu, Jing and Zhao, it is also vast."

"Although the country of Zhao lives in a mountainous place, and is surrounded by other countries, through the Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu cavalry shooting, the north expansion territory of thousands of miles, although the country is not strong, but the army, the strong ones are very strong."

···

"Today, when it comes to the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, most people in the world also think: The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, Qin, Chu, and Zhao are said to be strong, and the four kingdoms of Yan, Qi, Wei, and Han are said to be weak."

"Among them, Yan Guo, which lives in the bitter cold land of the Northeast, has no industrial and commercial benefits, agricultural land, and no death-defying soldiers, is the 'best among them'."

"However, even so, Yan is the weakest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, and he can also chase Hu Lu north and raise the prestige of China."

"To this day, outside the border wall, in the land of Yandong, there are still uncivilized barbarians, I don't know that the soldiers of Qin and Han are brave, but they flee immediately when they hear that Yan is coming."

"Isn't that enough?"

Hearing that behind him, there was a voice that was full of anger but also faintly mixed with phlegm, and Liu Sheng, who was full of sadness, only quietly straightened up, but did not turn around for the first time.

- There are some things that can't be put on the table.

Just like now, Liu Sheng is very worried about the battle situation in Mayi, and everyone in the world knows that Liu Sheng cares about him, and he is really a little bottomless.

As for the generals who can be summoned by Liu Sheng to the remote platform outside the Xuanyu Hall of this Weiyang Palace, and listen to Liu Sheng's long sighs, they only need to look at Liu Sheng's back to know what kind of mental torture this young son of heaven is experiencing.

But this did not affect Liu Sheng's worried face at all, hiding it in an angle that the generals present and even mortals in the world could not see.

"What does the Marquis think?"

Straighten up, hold your head high, still looking far to the north, and put your hands behind your back;

Letting the sunset shine obliquely on his young, even slightly immature face, Liu Sheng only said one word.

I saw that behind Liu Sheng, Zhou Yafu was almost synchronized with Liji's movements - one advance and one retreat, and he roughly stood in the position where Liji was standing.

"Your Majesty."

"What Qu Zhouhou said, although it is a little unreasonable, but it is also somewhat reasonable."

"——Since the Three Kings and Five Emperors, the hardships and tribulations experienced by the people of China are by no means what the bamboo in the world can write and the words of the world can say."

"But even so, my summers still continue to this day."

"From Xia Xia to Yin Shang, from Ji Zhou to Liu Han."

"Although there have been changes in dynasties and generations, although there are changes in the country, the people of Zhuxia are still the people of Zhuxia in the end."

···

"On the other hand, what about the foreign barbarians?"

"—A single winter snow can wipe out a tribe, or even all living beings on a fertile soil;"

"A hailstorm can bury a pasture under the snow and ice, so that the cattle and sheep cannot eat the water and grass, but they have nothing to do."

"For the people of my summer, slash-and-burn farming is already a symbol of uncivilized."

"But these barbarians have not even learned to sow seeds, and can only rely on rain and water and grass for their survival, as well as unavoidable natural and man-made disasters."

···

"Although most of the ministers read military books, they still know some truths."

"The minister knows that it is impossible for a peasant who has no knowledge and is busy wielding a hoe all day long to defeat a husband who is full of wealth and has been baptized on the battlefield."

"The same reason: a group of uncivilized barbarians, who even need to count the cattle, sheep and livestock, need to be taught by a eunuch sent by my Han family, it is impossible to defeat my strong man."

"It's just the weekend of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and there are Yingqin and Xiang Chu - hundreds of years of war before and after this have caused the world to be exhausted, and the people are not happy.

"Yet······

only said a meaningful 'Ran Jin', Zhou Yafu stopped talking with a long note and raised his head proudly.

For example, in a film and television work that begins with the word 'bright' in later generations, the triumphant Wang Yousheng looked at the left and right with some pride.

I was about to say something to my colleagues next to him, or the young man not far away, when I heard a drum roar outside the palace gate.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!!

"Border Pass Military News!"

"- Eight or eight hundred miles expedited !!"

In the crowd, the two exclamations that failed to suppress the impulse only made everyone's hearts slam up!

Even Liu Sheng, who was strong and calm, couldn't press the hand that was lightly holding on the guardrail, and began to tremble slightly as the knight rode into Sima Gate.

until the knight took hold of the reins;

Until the war horse neighed and stopped at the foot of the long staircase outside the main hall······

"Victorious !!"

"The Great Victory !!!!! Mayi"

(End of chapter)