Ran Min and Murong Ke still didn't decide the final victory.

After the first battle of Mulu, the Wei army withdrew to Kushan Province and continued to rest. This time, the Wei Empire's westward expedition seemed to be coming to an end.

But Ran Min is really unwilling, he can't kill the Xianbei people, so it's okay to destroy the Northern Huns, right?

So Ran Min mobilized 300,000 foot cavalry troops in Kushan Province, and in October of the 25th year of the emperor's reign, he climbed the Caucasus Mountains and attacked the Huns.

Under the strong offensive of the Wei army, the Huns, who had brute force and very backward weapons and equipment, could not be defeated, and were almost crushed at the touch of a button. So the Wei army took advantage of the situation to destroy the Xiongnu in Utigar and took the vast area north of the Caucasus Mountains and east of the Don River.

There were three powerful tribes in the Northern Xiongnu, the Utigar Xiongnu, the Saville Xiongnu and the Kutrigar Xiongnu, and one Utigar Xiongnu was destroyed, and there were two strong Xiongnu tribes and numerous Xiongnu tribes were eyeing each other.

In this vast steppe, the cavalry of the Huns came and went like the wind, and the Wei army could not easily catch it, and was always beaten by guerrillas, so it was delayed until the beginning of the spring of the second year, and the Wei army failed to achieve greater results.

In early spring, heavy snow falls.

The north wind was howling, and at the Wei army's Chinese army tent, Ran Min summoned all the generals to discuss whether to withdraw the troops.

Xun Ji was the first to come out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this battle can no longer be fought." The expedition of the army, deep into the Volga River, heavy snowfall, many of our soldiers could not stand the local climate, and even winter clothes were insufficient, and many people had died of cold and frozen! In addition, the snow is too much, and the logistics and supplies can't keep up, and we will starve in a few days! If you can't even fill your stomach, how can the soldiers fight? ”

General Lu Qian also said: "What Lord Xun said is right. Your Majesty, the Huns have been avoiding and not fighting, and they have not dared to resist the front of our Wei army head-on, but they have been hiding in Tibet and have been attacking and harassing the scattered parts of our army, and we have killed and wounded many soldiers. Because the situation of non-combat attrition in severe cold weather is also serious! If this continues, before the Huns attack, our soldiers will collapse! ”

Just when everyone was at a loss, and Ran Min was already about to withdraw his troops, a junior colonel ran in and said, "Your Majesty, a group of envoys claiming to be Alans are asking to see you!" ”

"Alan?" Ran Min was stunned.

Xun Ji said: "Your Majesty, according to the records of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms": 'There is also an Alan in the country of Xiangcai, all of whom live in the same customs as Kang. It is connected to Daqin in the west and Kangju in the southeast. There are many minks in the country, and the livestock chase water and grass, and they are in Daze, so they belong to Kangju when they are detained, and they do not belong to them now. This should be the kingdom of Alan. ”

Xun Ji doesn't know much about the situation of the Alan people, but Sima Xu around him knows a lot, because he likes to know the history, culture, customs and customs of some Western countries when he has nothing to do.

So Sima Xu immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister knows some information about this Alan people. ”

"Please."

"The Alans are a nomadic people who occupy the steppes of the northeastern Black Sea and have existed for a long time. They are said to have specialized in breeding horses and often raided the Caucasus provinces of the Sabbatical Empire and the Roman Empire. After the conquest of the Alans by the Huns in previous years, only some of them remained to settle near Orléans and Valence, and most of them moved to Africa. ”

"Around the third year of the Emperor's reign (350), the Hun cavalry launched a fierce attack on the Alans, and finally the two armies fought on the Don River. Although the Alans were nomadic like the Huns, their tactics were more like those of the armies of Europeans. The Alans were dominated by horse-drawn chariots, and although they resisted desperately, they could not defeat the elite Hun cavalry! Now the Alans are estimated to have no way, and they are almost wiped out by the Huns, and they want to come to ask for help when they see our Wei army attacking. ”

If Ran Min was familiar with this period of history, he would have known that in another year or so, that is, in 374 AD, the Alan kingdom would be destroyed by the Huns, and most of the Alan people would surrender to the Huns and join the Xiongnu army.

The king is killed, and Alanna (the kingdom of Alan) is destroyed!

After that, a large part of the Alans joined the Xiongnu Alliance. The other part fled into the mountains.

However, it was not long before that part of the Alans succeeded in separating from the League, and most of them migrated to Western Europe, where they bordered the Vandals and Suebi.

After the Roman Empire withdrew the Rhine border garrison in 406, the Vandals, together with the Suebi and the Alans of the Sarmat tribe (who had escaped from the alliance), poured across the Rhine into Gaul. They plundered all the way, crossing the Pyrenees in 409 and capturing most of the western and southern parts of the Spanish peninsula.

Rome was powerless to stop them, so they recognized them as "allies" and stationed them in Spain.

Soon, however, the Visigoths from the north seized most of Spain, forcing the Vandals to retreat to the southern and northwestern corners of the peninsula.

In 429 A.D., the Vandal's military and political leader, Gaisarik, took 80,000 Vandals and Alans to North Africa, and established the Vandals kingdom with Carthage as his capital in 439.

The fall of Carthage hit Western Rome the hardest, cutting off its financial resources in Africa. In 442, Rome finally recognized the Vandal kingdom's rule over most of North Africa.

The Alans, who were in the coalition, later united with the Kipchaks in the steppes north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea against the Mongols.

Finally, it is the color eye people formed by the Yuan Dynasty. They are the ancestors of the "Vosetians" of the modern Caucasus.

The Alan country established by the ancient Alan people is also called Alan Liao, Alan Na, and is called Amcai in the ancient books of China. Its general location is in the Don River basin of today's Russia, north of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, east of the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azov (known as Daze in ancient Chinese books).

It was divided into east and west by the Don River, with the east dominated by yellow people and the west dominated by Caucasians, who lived a nomadic life for a long time.

Although the people are of different races, the people of the Don Valley have long formed a national identity, calling themselves Alans, and thus forming a unified nation.

Ran Min felt that the Alans would be the key to the victory of the Wei army, so he asked people to bring in the envoys of the Alans.

After some courtesy, the Alan envoy lowered his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty, the greedy and murderous Huns are burning and looting in the land of our Alans, and they are doing all kinds of evil. I heard that Great Wei is the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, and Your Majesty is the great King of Kings, and the savior who came down from Heaven to save all the people in the world, so I beg Your Majesty to destroy the evil Huns and save the people of Alan! ”

Ran Min smiled faintly: "You speak Chinese well." But Alain Emissary, I am already planning to withdraw my troops. You must have seen it on the way here, the warriors of the empire can't stand the local climate, and the Huns are too cunning to dare to come out to fight, avoid fighting, and if this continues, the situation will be greatly unfavorable to our Wei army. Moreover, the blood of the warriors of the empire will not be shed in vain, and the lives of the warriors of the empire cannot be sacrificed in vain! ”

Hearing this, the Alan envoy sighed and said, "Your Majesty the Great Emperor, when the contemptible people came here, the king has already told me again and again. The Alan Kingdom is willing to become a vassal state of the Empire, and the Alan people are willing to submit to Your Majesty forever and to the Great Wei forever! ”

"I need to see the sincerity of the Alans!"

"I wonder what kind of sincerity Your Majesty wants?"

"Cattle and sheep, furs and grain! In addition, the Alans are the natives of the Don River and the Black Sea, so they should be very familiar with the local terrain, and I need the Alans to cooperate with the Wei army to eliminate the Huns together! ”

"It's natural."