At the end of February 70 BC in the first four years of the year, the spring flowers were already blooming in Guanzhong in the Central Plains, but the snow in the North Courtyard was just about to melt, and the place at a slightly higher altitude was still covered in silver.However, the banners of the kings of the Western Regions had already followed the army of the capital protector out of the Daban fortress and launched an expedition to the north.As a representative of the kings of the Western Regions, King Loulan was able to ride beside Ren Duhu, and he felt extremely majestic.In previous years, the Xiongnu suffered a white disaster and a black disaster, in addition to going south to plunder the Han land, it was to increase the extortion of the Western Regions, and the right Xian King once arrogantly said that the fifty countries of the Western Regions were his fifty slaves.or send horsemen to eat, or send servants and servants to ask for cattle and sheep food, and the position closest to the right of the chariot master and Yanqi are often stabbed, although Loulan is far away.And now the strategy of the Han ruling the Western Regions is different from that of the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu are directly robbed, although the Han also conscripted, but Ren Duhu is a reasonable person, knowing that the thriving leeks are good leeks, and will not cut too much.For the grain and straw materials provided by various countries, they also used silk cloth to pay, and also helped various countries to build beacons and prosperous trade routes, and sent agricultural officials to teach the method of increasing production, and the north and south of the Western Regions have never been so prosperous.However, the countries of the Western Regions were ruled by the Xiongnu for more than 100 years, and they were still very afraid of Shan Yu, until last year's war, Ren Du escorted the kings to stand at the head of Daban City, and saw clearly that the Xiongnu were strong and strong.Da Dan Yu will tens of thousands of horsemen to conquer, but even the Han army's barrier can not be broken, can only destroy the Pu Houguo to vent his anger, and when he returned to the division, he encountered heavy snow, Du Hu said so."
The Huns will return, and there will be no one out of ten!"
After returning to Shan Yu with the Xiongnu, he trumpeted that tens of thousands of Han troops were killed and wounded in Dongjimi and Daban City.In this way, the countries south of the Daban fortress breathed a sigh of relief and no longer worried about the revenge of the Xiongnu.After the winter, Duhu sent the kings back to China, but the king of Loulan did not want to return, he handed over all the affairs of the country to the minister of state, and followed Duhu with a team of cavalry, willing to follow him to attack the Huns."
The Huns have suffered disasters continuously, if I don't take advantage of his illness to kill him, I will not be far away."
Ren Hong led not many people, 3,000 Han army foot cavalry, 5,000 Western Regions city soldiers, Xiongnu Shan Yu and the right are busy with the domestic black disaster and Ding Ling rebellion, so busy with a lot of anxiety, just take this opportunity to clean up the last subject state of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions.Hujie is located in the Altay region of Xinjiang in the later generations, and the east and the bridge is separated by the great desert Gurbantunggut Desert, they bypassed the edge of the great desert, at the beginning of the world is vast, the world is vast, the Dajiang is connected to the sky, the Gobi is horizontal, and the eye is endless.After walking for a few days, the scenery in front of me has changed: the strong mountains and plump clouds all the way to the sky, looking up at the sky, so deep and high, light blue four fields, covering the mountains and rivers.The mountain road on the road is twisted and turned, accompanied by the stream passing in the same direction, and the Altai Mountains, the golden mountain that gave birth to the Turkic people, are in the northeast in the distance.After rounding the undulating mountains, the road became straight again, and suddenly it opened up, and the great river called the "Hujie River" Irtysh River arrived."
Do you know where this river is going?"
Ren Hong traveled to Altay in his previous life, and also went to Kanas Lake, and he still remembers the magnificent scenery in this area.Today's Altay is even more reckless, he only pointed to the Irtysh River and asked Gan Yanshou, who had just been named "Marquis of Yicheng" not long ago, since he was sealed, he may not stay by Ren Hong's side for a long time."
I remember, I drew it all on the map."
Gan Yanshou was encouraged and urged by Ren Hong these days, and he also made up some chemical lessons, he remembered that in Ren Hong's map of the world, the river flowed northward, and finally merged into a vast ocean."
It's into the North Sea.""
Isn't Beihai a place where Ziqing shepherds?"
Gan Yanshou can't tell the difference between the two.Ren Hong said: "No, it's just a big lake, the sea where the Hujie River flows into is the real North Sea, the Hanhai Sea is dry, the ice is thick, and it doesn't melt all year round."
There, the days will be extremely long, with some days lasting months, and some nights lasting months, and there will be great electric light in the sky around the Big Dipper. ”Looking to the north, Ren Hong seems to see the aurora of the Arctic Ocean, and near the lower reaches of the Irtysh River, there is Western Siberia and the Ural Mountains, which for at least a thousand years will be a bitter cold land that the Han people will hardly set foot in.They couldn't go that far, and after turning around the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, they found that the pastures here were empty, and the Hujie people probably detected the Han army going north in advance, and evacuated with cattle and sheep.According to the confession of the captive, the king of Hujie either went to the jungle at the foot of the majestic Jinshan Mountain, or went north along the Irtysh River to hide from the Han army.Ren Hong couldn't help laughing: "King Hujie is really gutsless, he is afraid of me?"
”King Loulan and others just rightly cheered: "If you are angry, the kings of the Western Regions will be afraid, and if you live in peace, you will rest in the northern court, and you will not be afraid of Wang Yan?"
”So, is he going to change his name to General Sabbatio?
But Hujie has a vast area and more than 10,000 cavalry, if he really plays hide and seek with Ren Hong in this world, he is not their opponent at all, and the purpose of Ren Hong's northern expedition this time is not to kill Hujie, once the other party migrates, with his back to Jiankun, it is not easy to destroy.Ren Hong only regretted that he could not meet Li Ling, the king of Jiankun, and heard that he had died in the first year of Yuan Ting.But regardless of whether Li Ling is still alive or not, it was these two subject states that saved King Youxian before, and if they were not eradicated, Beiting would not be able to go east with peace of mind.As for whether the recovery of the two countries will block the road of the Xiongnu westward, there is no way to think about it so much for the time being, there are still many years before the Common Era, and it is not known whether God will be born, and the whip that whips the West does not necessarily have to be the Huns.Ren Duhu wrote a letter, wrapped it in the bark of a local birch tree, handed it to the captured Hujie captives, gave them a few horses, and sent them to the place where the king of Hujie was."
Tell King Hujie that those who follow the Han will prosper, and those who oppose the Han will die!
Don't think that it will be safe to call for Liaoyuan, Kou can go, and I can go!
”Since the snowstorm last year, the king of Hujie has migrated his whole country to the vicinity of a huge lake called "Jaisangbo", hundreds of miles downstream of the river.King Hujie is one of the members of the Xiongnu royal family, but he is already a distant relative who was separated from Mao immediately, otherwise he would not have been assigned to the remote and remote Hujie to be the king.Ren Hong probably thought that like King Youxian, the kings of the Xiongnu had literate Han strategists around him, but the reality was that no one around King Hujie could necessarily read Chinese characters, so he could only read the letter sent by Ren Hong over and over again.Until the person invited by the king of Hujie arrived at Zhaisangbo, it was a little king of the Huns who looked like a Han person, wearing a fox fur on the left, with braided hair on his head, but his eyebrows and eyes were quite different from those of the Huns, and the king of Hujie immediately went up to greet him."
King Jiankun has arrived!"
The person who came was Li Ling's son, Li Jiankun, who succeeded the king of Jiankun three years ago, because Hujie and Jiankun were not neighbors, and the royal courts of the two sides were one in the Irtysh River and the other in the Yenisei River, separated by at least two or three thousand miles, and there was a majestic golden mountain in the middle.But Zhai Sangbo is the junction of the two forces, Hujie King and Li Ling are good, often meet here, after Li Lingang died, his son Li Jiankun also inherited this, last year the big single in the pro-expedition was fruitless, and suffered a white plague, Hujie Wang guessed that the Han people would definitely do something to Hujie, migrated far away, and asked Jiankun for help, if the Han army marched here regardless of the distance, it will face the elite attack of the two countries.Li Jiankun arrived, and King Hujie immediately asked him to take a look for himself, what was written in Ren Duhu's letter?
Li Jiankun was born to Li Ling and the Xiongnu princess, and is only in his twenties, inheriting his father's appearance and knowledge, and laughed when he saw the letter."
King Hujie, do you know what Ren Hong calls you?"
King Hujie looked dazed, until Li Jiankun clicked those words and said, "He calls you Hujie Shan Yu!"
”"AhhKing Hujie was shocked, he had heard about Ren Hong's strategy of cultivating books in Tiemen Pass back then, and he was immediately shocked, knowing that most of the words in this letter were words of surrender."
I'm very loyal to Da Danyu!"
Li Jiankun raised his hand to protect the letter: "There are only you and me here, why be afraid?"
Let's see what he said. ”It turned out that in the letter, Ren Hong was righteous and awe-inspiring to criticize the collusion between Wei Lu and the Yan clan back then, abolishing the elder and the young, and Hu Yan's single position was not right, which led to the domestic deviation and the re-establishment of the sword with the Han Dynasty.For the peace of the two countries, the virtuous and respected elders should be singled out, and the king of Hujie has guarded Hujie for many years, which is the right person and the later Mongols Lida Khan only recognized the golden family, and the Huns also only recognized the "Son of Heaven" of the Zhuan clan, because it is good to decorate the golden eagle crown with turquoise, which can be called the turquoise family.As long as the king of Hujie is willing to take refuge in the Han Dynasty, he can not go to the Han land to be a marquis, and he will protect his wish to propose to the emperor, and implore the Son of Heaven to entitle the king of Hujie as Shan Yu, build a single court under the golden mountain, seize the right land, and fight against the "pseudo Shan Yu" Hu Yanyu court.The more King Hujie listened, the more anxious he became, if Ren Hong's letter was known to Da Shan Yu and King Youxian, I am afraid that he would be suspicious, after all, King Hujie also used the excuse that the country was far away, and he had not attended the Dragon City for many years."
Destroy this letter!"
Li Jiankun laughed out loud: "King Hujie, what this Ren Duhu said is not unreasonable. ”"Hu has not dared to enter the fortress for many years, and he has been defeated repeatedly in the Western Regions, and now he has hit Hujie, he is just to tell the king of Hujie, no matter how far you move, the Han army can find it."
The Han army's ability to run long distances, even if they forget the fiasco of Yi Zhi's slanted single time, they should also remember Ren Hong's great exploits in seven battles and seven victories of two thousand miles in the past few years.Li Jiankun expressed his worries: "You can't expect Shan Yuting to come to help this year, has King Hujie heard about it?"
Taking advantage of the white disaster and the black disaster, Ding Ling rebelled, took advantage of the weakness to attack my north, Wuhuan entered the left land, and Wusun also moved.Many people in the country starved to death, the dead tithes, the livestock tithes, Hu Da was weak, the people in custody of all the countries collapsed, and the raiders could not be ignored."
In this case, what should we do if the Han army marches north and hangs alone in the Western Regions?
And Hu Jie and Jiankun are like lips and teeth, lips and teeth are cold, Li Jiankun's family has complicated feelings for the Han Dynasty, although his father was occasionally homesick when he was alive, but the stronger the Han was, the more uneasy the Li family became.Li Jiankun then persuaded King Jie: "The king might as well agree to negotiate peace with Ren Hong, pretend to be pro-Han, and drag out time, while I continue to obey Shan Yu's orders."
In the future, Hujie can be the Han and Jiankun, and the Jiankun is the Hun and the Huns, you and I come to Zhaisangbo every year to pretend to fight a war, but in fact, they protect each other, the two countries are far away, and the Han and the Huns can not be controlled. ”"In this way, no matter how the Han and the Xiongnu fight, Hujie and Jiankun can be independent of each other in the northwest!"