The court of the Huns was breached, and Huo Qu quickly informed Wei Qing that after learning that his nephew had taken the Huns' nest, the Hun army had no supplies, and Wei Qing directly gave up the defense army and attacked.

At the same time, people were sent to spread the news to the Huns, the Xiongnu royal court was occupied, King Zuoxian was captured, the back road of grain and grass was cut off, and the family members were arrested, and the entire Xiongnu army suddenly became panicked.

Even if the king of the Huns clarified several times that this was a rumor of the enemy, the food in the army and some of the Huns who fled from the royal court had already explained that something really happened to the royal court.

The king of the Xiongnu wanted to lead his army to retreat several times and go back to recapture the royal court, but he was attacked and harassed by the army of Qianguo several times and had to give up.

Faced with this situation, the Xiongnu nobles suggested abandoning the army and retreating only with the elite of the personal guards, but the Xiongnu king refused.

For a time, the Huns were in a position to retreat. Seeing this situation, Wei Qing made up his mind to launch a night attack at night. It's easy to get lost on the prairie, let alone at night.

But Wei Qing still carried it out, and as a result, the army attacked at night, the Huns were trapped internally and externally, and the people were panicked, and the army of more than 100,000 Huns fell apart in a blink of an eye.

Wei Qing defeated the Huns in a battle, and even the king of the Huns died in battle. After a chaotic battle, the vast majority of the Huns knew that even if they fled, they would starve to death without food, so the vast majority of the Huns surrendered.

Some died in the chaos of the night, and some fled.

In the end, Wei Qing captured more than 70,000 Huns, beheaded them, trampled on each other, killed and injured more than 50,000 people, and escaped about 10,000 people in the night.

Wei Qing led the army and Huo Qubing to join the Xiongnu royal court, and sealed the Zen sacrifice in the Wolf Juxu Mountain to comfort the dead and wounded soldiers in this battle. Then he led a large army to escort the Xiongnu royal court and many captives to the south.

Wei Qinghuo went deep into the Beihai Sea in the first battle, and the battle report of Feng Wolf Juxu crossed the desert Gobi, crossed the Yin Mountain, crossed the Dahe Plateau, and finally came to Luoyang, the capital of the gods.

Emperor Wang Jing received this good news.

Wang Hao, the prime minister, took the battle report and read it aloud: "Your Majesty, the hussar general Wei Qing led 70,000 elite cadres to the north to attack the Huns, and the Shuofang army went north to Mobei to fight with the Hun army. Huo Quai, the captain of the Guardian Army, rode a thousand miles, traveled thousands of miles, raided the Hun royal court, and broke it.

In the first battle, he captured the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, beheaded 5,700 people, killed 57 Xiongnu nobles, forced the Xiongnu to surrender 8,000, 70,000 women and children, millions of cattle and sheep, and cut off the back road of the Xiongnu army, the minister led the army to attack at night, the Xiongnu army collapsed, beheaded 53,000 levels, captured 75,000 people, beheaded 93 nobles of the Xiongnu king and below, and the Xiongnu army was wiped out.

This battle is a great victory, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to the Great Qian! ”

After reading a battle report, the entire hall immediately bowed to the ground and shouted: "Congratulations for Your Majesty, congratulations for Daqian!" ”

Wang Jing couldn't help laughing, and suddenly got up and said, "Congratulations for the hussar general, congratulations for the great Qian!" ”

Wang Jing was already old at this time, and he had already begun to fantasize about how he would be described in the history books. has such a feat, when he reaches heaven and meets the ancestor, presumably the ancestor will also praise him.

"Marquis Changping is really the pillar of the country, Huo Qubing is his nephew, Jiangmen Huzi, Jiangmen Huzi!" Wang Jing said happily.

Then he turned around and directly issued an edict: "Hussar general, Changping Hou Weiqing, stick to the northern frontier, several setbacks to the Huns, this time the Huns were killed in a battle, the merit is great, the general is sealed, the Pinghou State is lengthened by 5,000 households, and the knighthood is not reduced for three generations." ”

"Captain of the Guardian Army, Huo Quai, although young, but enthusiastic to serve the country, driving thousands of miles, even breaking the Huns, seizing the Huns royal court, cutting off its back road, this battle bravely crowned the three armies, as the first merit, the champion Hou, 8,000 households."

The news of the army's victorious return soon spread throughout Luoyang, and Luoyang City suddenly turned into a sea of joy. There are singing and dancing everywhere, and Wang Jing ordered the capital to celebrate for three days.

The Xiongnu were defeated again, temporarily sweeping away the hidden dangers of the northern frontier of the empire. But if you don't occupy the grasslands and vast lands in the north, others will occupy them.

Daqian defeated the Huns, the strength of the Huns retracted to Mobei, this grassland has no owner, but if it is left unchecked, maybe after more than ten years or twenty years, the Huns will rise again. This is what Wang Jing does not want to see.

In order to prevent the Xiongnu from rising again, Wang Jing then set up the capital of Zhenbei. Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate has jurisdiction over the Mobei Provinces, and the Metropolitan Protectorate is set up in the royal court of a thousand Huns, Longcheng.

Longcheng is more than 3,000 miles away from Shuofang, and it is even farther away from Luoyang, the divine capital, which is a bitter cold place outside the fortress. However, there was also a reason why the Huns set up the royal court in Longcheng back then. The water and grass here are abundant, and there are mountains and rivers to rely on, which can block the wind and snow.

The winter here is not too cold, the wind and snow are not too big, suitable for cattle and sheep to spend the winter, so the Huns built the dragon city here as a royal court.

When the Great Qian broke the Dragon City in the first battle, it was abandoned here, of course, it is abandoned to mean that the Xiongnu royal court is no longer here, but there are still many Xiongnu tribes living here.

Wang Jing set up the Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate here, wanting to use the Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate to control the grassland.

Thousands of miles of grassland, Wang Jing is reluctant to make wedding dresses for others.

Although the Huns are gone, this grassland is still there, and there are no Huns, but there are still Donghu people, Xianbei people and so on. If you ignore this grassland, then this grassland will soon rise an enemy that is not inferior to the Xiongnu Empire.

Solve the Huns by himself and let the other Hu people become bigger, Wang Jing will not make such a mistake.

So after Wang Jing set up the capital of Zhenbei, he began to move the people to the north, and at the same time wanted to divide the feudal princes on the grassland.

The grassland is vast, cattle and sheep can be raised, horses can be herded, and it is easy to train a large number of cavalry, coupled with the weapons and armor of the great cadres, it is easy to form a large army.

At the same time, a large number of cattle and sheep can completely feed the internal digestion of the big cadres, and can perfectly complement the Central Plains. As long as it is developed, the grassland can make the great cadres stronger and more prosperous.

In the past, although there were many cattle and sheep on the grassland, they could not be sold to the Central Plains, and now Wang Jing has set up the Zhenbei Metropolitan Protectorate, which can sell the cattle and sheep on the grassland to the Central Plains.

The emergence of a large amount of beef and mutton can make the people physically strong. Cow and sheep fur can be used to make armor and warm clothes, and cow tendon and horn can be used to make bows and arrows.

It can be said that there are many benefits.

The salt, ironware, lacquerware, cloth, grain, etc. of the Central Plains can be sold to the grassland to improve the lives of the people on the grassland.

The grasslands and the Central Plains can form an economic cycle, allowing the common people to benefit and at the same time increasing the tax revenue of the imperial court. In Wang Jing's view, this method can perfectly solve the problem of grassland border problems.

Of course, this plan requires a high investment in the early stage, and it is necessary to build several cities on the grassland and divide the grassland into several areas, which are used to manage the grassland, and this will also be the place where the merchants of the Central Plains come to trade.

At that time, the imperial court only needed to set up yamen in these cities, and it could govern the grasslands and collect taxes.

Several princes and the Protectorate cooperated with each other and could easily control the grassland. Even if some steppe tribes are strong, they can be easily defeated.

Wang Jing is ready to emigrate hundreds of thousands of people to the grasslands, and these people will be the basic force for the great cadres to control the grasslands.

The more he thought about it, the more Wang Jing felt that this matter was feasible.

So Wang Jing found important ministers such as the internal minister, the left and right prime ministers, and the Taifu order to come to discuss.

After hearing Wang Jing's thoughts, the left and right prime ministers, internal ministers, Taifu Ling and other high-ranking officials were also shocked, if they could really succeed and the grassland was controlled by the Central Plains, the strength of the great cadres would be improved again.

Of course, there are many difficulties with this idea, the initial investment is huge, and it is not easy to immigrate people to the grassland.

"It is difficult to immigrate to the grassland, but hundreds of thousands of immigrants have been immigrated to the Western Regions thousands of miles away, compared to the grassland, which is only a few thousand miles, and the reward is increased!" An official said.

"Hundreds of thousands of people migrate, and they also need to build cities on the grassland, which requires a large supply of money and grain, can the imperial court afford it?"

"The Taifu warehouse is quite abundant, and there is no need for a one-time allocation, according to the annual allocation, it can be supported by ten years."

"It's bitter cold in the north, but I'm afraid that the people don't want to go!"

"Prisoners can be exiled to the Northland Prairie." The crowd continued to deliberate, and soon the whole plan was almost perfected.

Then Wang Jing asked the children of the royal family to refine the plan again, and finally after a month of revision, at a court meeting, Wang Jing ordered people to put this plan forward for discussion, wanting to see the reaction of the hundred officials.

After learning that the imperial court was preparing to open up the grassland, and the plan to build a city on the grassland and settle the feudal princes, soon these news spread as if they had grown wings, and the news spread quickly to the surrounding counties.

People don't seem to be very different, but sometimes people think bigger than people than dogs.

Wang Jing discussed with the important ministers of the imperial court several times, and some of the children of the clan checked and filled in the vacancies, almost all aspects and various factors were taken into account, but they did not expect that no one paid attention to the immigrant grassland and the feudal grassland.

In the eyes of the people, including those officials, the Western Regions are already regarded as a land of alienation, a barbarian land, full of wind and sand, which is used to exile prisoners, not to mention the grassland with a worse environment than the land of the Western Regions.

For so many years, the imperial court has not been able to reverse the impression of the vast majority of people on the Western Regions, let alone the grassland.

The people of the steppe are considered to be blood-drinking, uncivilized savages, and the grassland land is considered to be a bitter cold land full of blood.

In winter, heavy snow can freeze people to death, the land cannot be cultivated, only grazing, and all year round you have to look for pasture, there are many wolves and Hu people, and there are many dangers.

Think of the grasslands as a place of exile worse than the Western Regions.

As for dividing the feudal princes, they will divide a large area of pasture, as well as slaves, cattle and sheep, but even so, how does the life of the Marquis of the Grassland compare with that of the Marquis of the Central Plains?

And even if there is a grassland, you can easily pull out a large number of cavalry and have not weak force, but this will also be regarded as a thorn in the side of the emperor.

As a result, none of the marquis lords were willing to go to the steppe.

(End of chapter)