A story similar to that of the young prince Mao Dun also happened in the land of the former Jin Kingdom.

Thinking back to the past, the mediocre Jin Xiangong doted on the young concubine Li Ji, and wanted to take the young son born to Li Ji as the heir, and regarded the two sons who had grown up, Prince Shensheng and Gongzi Chong'er, as the most troublesome obstacles.

Later, the honest prince Shensheng was always unwilling to leave the motherland, so he was forced to commit suicide for his father and Li Ji;

And Gongzi Chong'er chose to flee, wandered for 19 years, silently accumulated strength, waited for the opportunity, and finally killed his nephew Jin Huaigong, and successfully restored the country, which was for a generation of famous monarchs Jin Wengong.

On the grassland, not far from the Jin Kingdom, the crown prince Maodun chose to seize power in a more simple and crude way, and he only used a new type of weapon - Ming Di.

Naruto, call also; Dysprosium, arrows also.

Mingdi, to put it simply, is a kind of arrow, and when the arrow flies, it will sound, like a god of death who can sing in a low voice.

The Ming Di arrowhead polished by the Xiongnu prince every night is made of the most ferocious head wolf leg bone on the grassland, the whole body is polished and smooth, there are countless small holes in the hollow, one end is sharp, the other end is a four-cornered melon prism, the wolf bone of Bai Sensen is fluorescent, there is a kind of bleak and simple beauty.

Mao Dun took the opportunity of training the ten thousand horsemen given by his father, changed the previous state of individual combat in which the Xiongnu troops gathered and scattered, and did not obey orders, and with the experience learned from the Yueshi country, he planned to train a group of dead soldiers who obeyed their words and obeyed their leaders.

These dead soldiers will only obey the orders of Maudun alone, and their arrows will only follow the path of Maudun's Ming Di flying.

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The crown prince Mao Dun was full of confidence and wanted to train these 10,000 dead soldiers into the first team with iron discipline in the history of the Xiongnu tribe.

For the first time, the prince's chirping whistle whined in the wind and flew to his favorite horse, and the dead were so shocked that they were beheaded by any hesitant to shoot.

The second time, the prince's Ming Di shot at his favorite Yan Shi (yān zhī), and there were more hesitants among the dead soldiers, and those soldiers who were soft-hearted and did not shoot, together with the poor Yan Shi, died in an instant under the sunset of the long river in the desert.

This is a kind of quick training, which is not based on the constraints of traditional Central Plains morality, bloody and brutal, but very effective.

In contrast to the slow process of the Jin Wengong, who was like a jade person, gradually built up his prestige and won over the people in exile, the princes on horseback chose to establish their political authority through absolute violent conquest.

The environment of the grassland is cruel, people need to fight with blizzards, droughts, wolves, other tribes, killing and conquest have long been accustomed to killing, life is fleeting, and those who miss it will only become a new ownerless soul on the desert.

Fortunately, the god of fate favored Maudun and did not make him wait too long for his ambition.

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In a hunting activity not long after, the prince, who was hunting with Mandan, once again took a deep look at his father, who was showing off his might and raising his whip to kill in front, and silently touched the Ming Di from the quiver behind him.

Take the arrow, buckle the string, straighten the upper body slightly, take a deep breath, push on the left shoulder, pull on the right shoulder, and force the back, pulling this horn bow that is familiar as if it is a part of your body, to the fullest-

Be steady, this arrow must be steady, as it had been practiced in my mind for hundreds of nights before, and aim steadily.

Then, staring ahead, he easily opened the three fingers of his right hand to pull the string, and his eyes were as sharp as a falcon, and there was neither sorrow nor joy.

This time, the crown prince's song swirled in the air with the belief of victory, let out a mournful cry of death, and flew towards his father.

The dead soldiers, who had been trained to be absolutely loyal to the crown prince, did not think twice, and fired ten thousand arrows in unison, slaughtering the head Mandanyu, the stepmother Yan who followed the hunt, and all the ten thousand cavalry commanders who were unwilling to surrender immediately.

In the rain of arrows howling in the sky, the green pastures on the earth were soaked with blood, and dried by the fiery sun, leaving only traces of the faint smell of old rust.

A new generation of wolf kings on the prairie was born in this baptism of arrows and blood.

After killing his father and taking the throne, Mao Dunshan faced external and internal difficulties did not decrease in the slightest.

The powerful neighbor Donghu deceived him into the new king's ascendancy, the foundation was not stable, and he constantly provoked and made trouble, and suddenly let him enter the good horse, and suddenly let him enter the Yan clan.

However, at this time, Mao Dun was already a king who knew how to accumulate thick and thin, and he would not be easily provoked like others in the royal court.

While quietly training his troops, he continued to paralyze the king of Donghu with rich gifts, so that he took off his guard against himself, a reckless but unambitious Hun boy.

A few years later, Han Xin, the god of war in Middle Earth, led his troops out of the Hanzhong Plain, and the war between Chu and Han was raging, and the princes were involved in it, and no one had time to take care of the northern border.

At the same time, thousands of miles away on the grassland, the fledgling Mao Dunshan waited for the opportunity to move, broke Donghu in the east, attacked Yueshi in the west, merged Loufu and Aries King in the south, and served Hun Yu and Ding Ling in the north, not only unified the north and south of the desert, but also recovered all the Henan land that his father had lost in the hands of the Qin people.

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Liu Ji recalled the well-known ruthless stories of Mao Dun Shan Yu, and thought of the absolute overlord whose territory stretched from Liaodong to the Tianshan Mountains and dominated the north, and couldn't help but shake his head again and again:

I actually want to seek skin with the tiger through marriage, and I want to use what benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and family affection to restrain the Huns, which is simply a pipe dream.

"However, even if the method of long-distance friendship and close attack is adopted, it will take time to find those Western Regions countries that have been driven away, and to persuade and unite them one by one.

If you don't negotiate peace with the Xiongnu through peace with your relatives, how can you drag on in the past few years? ”

Lu Pheasant rolled his eyes and said lightly,

"Your Majesty, why did you suddenly abandon your roots and get up again?

If you and the Huns change places, you should think about it, what is the origin and what is the end of this whole thing?

Could it be that the Xiongnu made peace with the Han Dynasty, but it was the Han princess herself?

Harmony is just a reason, and it can't be a problem, because what the Huns really want is the wealth and property of Middle-earth. ”

History proves that even if you make peace, you will inevitably be able to offer silk and rice and grain on time every year, but it is better to remove this set of false and useless patterns and start directly with trade property;

Moreover, even in the context of the Han-Hun alliance with Kundi, the iron cavalry of the Huns still traveled all over Longxi, Beidi, Yanmen, Daijun, and Yunzhong, which can be said to be ruthless.

"The current plan is only a 'drag' word.

Drag until our Han country is strong, drag until we can raise an elite cavalry to compete with the Xiongnu, drag until we find the Western Regions and become allies. ”

According to the "Historical Records", when Emperor Wu was in the Dynasty seventy years later, when Zhang Qian finally found the countries of the Western Regions with great difficulty, they had already lived and worked in peace and contentment in their new territory, and they no longer thought about revenge in their hearts;

And this time, Lu Pheasant secretly thought that he must find them as soon as possible, while their blood is still not cold, and the hatred is still in his heart, while they still want to fight the Xiongnu again.