The Hu herdsmen kneeled in a row on the grass, their grandfather in a sheepskin jacket was a little rickety, the husband was holding his shoulders with angry eyes, and his round-faced wife was only holding her child tightly.Held in his mother's arms, the three-year-old Hu Er tried to squeeze his head out, looking at the Han cavalry coming and going and the large group of people and horses that were passing by, his eyes were frightened and confused, and finally he saw a Han general in dazzling armor beside him, and looked at him expressionlessly, so frightened that Hu Er retracted into his mother's arms, trembling.Ren Hong no longer had the hesitation and mercy of joining the army at the beginning of that year, so he only let these families be treated as slaves and given to King Xilu as a reward, and decided to camp on this fertile grassland tonight.The scout team sent to the front from afar had already turned back to report the news: "General, we went to the curtain first, but we did not see the Hun army. ”"The sun rises, and there is no one."
Ren Hong said with a smile: "I think I ran to Mobei." ”As Duan Huizong said in his investigation, the Han army was crammed for 2,000 Han miles, and there was no big tribe in the vast grassland, and only occasionally caught the small tribes in the remote areas where they lived or the Huhu who fought alone in the forest, and the Huns who did not move north with the large army.And those who were unwilling to move north, as early as a few months after the two sides were preparing for the war, surrendered to the Han Dynasty under the pressure of lobbyists and scouts, moved into the border countries, and also sent out some guides, among which the Xiluo tribe that led to the Han-Hungarian war with the entire tribe was the most active, and the king of Xiga personally led the way for Ren Hong."
It seems that the Xiongnu have had many disasters and difficulties in recent years, and if they come out like this, the herdsmen who are already struggling on the death line will be under even greater pressure."
Although it was a nomadic economy, the Xiongnu also had fixed pastures, and the range of activities was only larger than that of farmers, and the winter and summer did not exceed hundreds of miles.Leaving Monan and going to Mobei will deal a huge blow to the herdsmen's families, and sometimes Ren Hong even thinks that if there are a few more outings like this, the economy of the Xiongnu Monan will collapse in the migration.But there was also pressure on the side of the Han Dynasty, and the number of troops out of the fortress was less, and the Xiongnu were not afraid, so they directly fought in Monan with superior forces.And if there are too many, people will run away, and more than 100,000 Han troops will be assembled, which will also have a great impact on the domestic economy and people's livelihood.What's more, if you want to destroy the centripetal force of the Huns, ploughing and sweeping the caves is indispensable.They traveled north along a river called Nuoshui, also known as Nuozhenshui, which was sufficient for the army and livestock to drink, and at the end of June, when the rivers swelled because of the rains, flooding the flat grasslands and flowing into Naoer, with occasional grassy hills.But the farther north you go, the more rare rivers and lakes become, and even the meadows have changed from knee-high and fertile pastures to weeds dotted with red Gobi.At this time, a team of thousands of people appeared in front, cautiously approaching the Han army, which made the captains who did not know the truth very nervous.After waiting for the scouts to go back and forth several times and find out the identity of the other party, Ren Hong asked everyone not to worry: "It is the captain who protects Wuhuan and brings the Wuhuan people here as promised." ”Considering that he had done the trick of making the Hugh slaughter department disguise itself as a Hun to make a surprise attack, Ren Hong was still very cautious, and the two armies kept a long distance until a few nobles wearing wool on the opposite side followed the captain of Wuhuan and came over on horseback and worshiped in front of Ren Hong's horse.Radishes, who had entered a mid-life crisis, didn't like the unfamiliar smell of the Wuhuan people very much, and snorted, Ren Hong rubbed its mane, which was no longer a child, and let these Wuhuan "adults" with mustaches get up and speak.This Wuhuan was originally Donghu after more than a hundred years ago, the old king of Donghu who was killed by Maodun after the green Maodun, the Donghu people fled to the east, and the one who went to the northeast to rely on Xianbei Mountain was renamed Xianbei, and the one who entered the Liaohe River Basin to the southeast was Wuhuan Mountain.Wuhuan does not have a unified leader, hundreds of thousands of people gathered into one, with the "adult" as the leader, it is not a hereditary system, but by a smaller unit, each city is recommended by a small handsome, although the system is much more backward than the Xiongnu, but the economy is very similar: the vulgar is good at riding and shooting, and the birds and beasts are things.Grazing with aquatic grasses, living in an impermanent place.Take the dome as the house, open to the sun in the east, eat meat and drink cheese, the expensive and the young and the old.In the past 100 years, Wuhuan has always been a subject of the Huns, providing cattle, horses, and sheepskins to the Huns every year, if the Hun envoy Sopibu tax is not given, the next is the Hun cavalry, the wives and daughters of the Wuhuan people will be collected, until the taxes are paid in full, and maybe a fat boy and fat grandson or something, the Wuhuan people dare not speak out.Until the Han Dynasty, Wuhuan hugged the thigh of the dark tide, migrated westward to the Xiongnu exit of Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong five counties outside the Saiwai, as a scout, for the Han to reconnoiter the Xiongnu movements, put the Wuhuan school captain to support the management of the festival, Wuhuan adults into Chang'an once a year to meet, but also began to attack the Xiongnu heavy, and even dug the tomb of the ancestor Shan Yu as revenge.But Wuhuan is an unfamiliar wolf after all, and he can't be an honest watchdog after all, Wuhuan gradually becomes arrogant, and Xiaoshuai ends by committing robbery without permission.As a punishment, Fan Mingyou was ordered by Huo Guang to fight without declaring a war, killing 6,000 Wuhuan people, and returning with the heads of three adults.As a result, Wuhuan rebelled against the Han and returned to Youzhou, and the relationship between the two sides has only improved slightly in recent years.After all, Wuhuan and Han and Xiongnu are all enemies, and the left and right cheeks are beaten at the same time, especially after Fan Mingyou's death, both sides have a step down, a few months ago, Ren Hong asked Zhao Han'er and Wuhuan adults to meet in the city to discuss the matter of the Huns.Wuhuan proposed to send troops to help the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty, but was rejected by Ren Hong, there are not many soldiers in the fine, Wusun and Xiaoyue's cooperation is quite reliable many times, Wuhuan people are at both ends of the rat's head, and it is a drag on it, the situation is unfavorable, and it may not stab you back.Ren Hong's eyes looked at the back of the Wuhuan people's team, which was a group of cattle, sheep and horses, and he only asked the Wuhuan people to do one thing: drive the livestock to meet in Monan and meet the Han army.This can relieve the supply pressure of the Han army, and it is naturally not free for Wuhuan to do these things, Ren Hong drew a big cake for the Wuhuan adults."
To the east of the city, south of the Great Gobi, to the east of Hudi, all of them will return to Wuhuan in the future."
Hundreds of miles of grassland were cut to Wuhuan at once, and the adults were happy.The Xiongnu was too big, like a piece of beef that was too huge, and the knife of the Han army would cut through it and divide it, making up for the deficiency with more than enough, supporting Wuhuan, Xianbei, Ding Ling, Xiaoyue's and even Jiankun, and one person biting a piece of meat, so that the Xiongnu would retract to the core area of the Huiman era and divide and rule the grassland.Anyway, north of the 200 mm isoprecipitation line, unless the economic mode is completely changed, the farming is turned into animal husbandry, or the Han people jump into modern times, the Han people will not be able to occupy it.The grassland is too big, and the nomads are like crazy grass, and after mowing one stubble and one stubble, no one is just thinking about it after all, and no one can do it.But we can't use "it can't be completely solved anyway" as an excuse, and let the unified Xiongnu go and ignore it, otherwise it will be someone else who will take advantage of the illness.After the Wuhuan people handed over the cattle and sheep and withdrew, Ren Hong led the army to continue to advance and arrived in the area of Erenhot in Inner Mongolia in the later generations, and it was already possible to see that the grassland in front of him had almost disappeared, leaving only the crimson Gobi.The first hurdle on the road to the Northern Expedition has arrived.Spread out the map made by the subject country, the Xiongnu was divided into desert north and desert south by a desert that was more than 3,000 miles long from east to west, and more than 1,000 miles from north to south, this is the "Gobi Desert", if it is like a curtain hanging in the north, it is impossible to bypass it at all, and later generations of Outer Mongolia have four provinces: East Gobi, West Gobi, Gobi Altai, and Middle Gobi, which can be seen that its scope is wide, and it takes at least 20 days to cross.In these twenty days, the logistics of the Han army will face great pressure, which is also the reason why Ren Hong and Zhao Chongguo must divide their troops, 100,000 people crowded together to cross the desert, and before they could wait for the place, they collapsed due to lack of water.Fortunately, after more than ten years of exploration in the Western Regions, the generals of the Han army have accumulated enough experience in desert marching."
Don't forget, my first nickname was the Desert Fox."
Ren Hong asked the three armies to set up camp, collect the water in the river, slaughter all the thousands of cattle and sheep sent by the Wuhuan people, and eat a big meal, only for more than a year, tens of thousands of camels and mules, horses, and donkeys that were slowly introduced from the Western Regions depended on them for more than 20 days.After arranging the route of the two partial divisions and the army, Ren Hongfu wrote a letter on a big rock, and after entering the Great Gobi, communication with Chang'an would be completely cut off, which was probably the last letter to Liu Xun before the victory.He bit the brush and thought about the wording, smiled, and wrote: "Chengling is mighty to descend to foreign countries, wading through quicksand and subduing all sides, and being a thousand miles away, driving the athletes into the athletes, and going deep into the fortress of Shan Yu!"
”At the end of June of the second year of Jingning, when Ren Hong was about to lead the army into the Great Gobi, in the Weiyang Palace of Chang'an City, the Son of Heaven had just received the news of their exit."
A long way to go!"
No, in the greenhouse hall, Xu Pingjun was woken up by Liu Xun's shout, and he couldn't cry or laugh.Listening to her husband calling someone else's name in a dream, or his uncle, Xu Pingjun only felt a little strange in his heart, but it was better than calling Huo Chengjun.She only gently woke up Liu Xun: "Your Majesty, didn't you dream of Xi'an Hou again?"
”Liu Xun touched the sweat on his forehead, it was indeed a dream, he dreamed that the three armies were surrounded by the Huns and defeated one by one, and the Marquis of Xi'an was also martyred, the last scene was Ren Hong looked at the south affectionately, and made a gesture to him, and then with tears in his eyes, he resolutely killed himself The dream is the opposite, it is the opposite, Liu Xun can only comfort himself like this, but it is difficult to sleep tonight, only get up in his regular clothes, holding a lamp and candle, regardless of Xu Pingjun's dissuasion, and ran to the side hall to see the huge picture of the Han-Hungarian war.This war was different from usual, there was no barrier city as a screen, and it was not an encounter in the northern court of the Western Regions, but a direct attack on the Xiongnu's lair.Although he was full of pride when he declared war, he did not have a 100% chance of winning this war, let alone Liu Xun, even Zhao Chongguo and Ren Hong.The first battle of Mobei was successful, and the results were brilliant, but there was no victory after that.In 103 B.C., the general of Junji, Zhao Ponu, was besieged by 80,000 cavalry of King Zuoxian, and all 20,000 Han troops were destroyed.In the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty, the fourth year of the Tianhan Dynasty, and the third year of the expedition, the Han army made three desperate expeditions to the north, lost three times, lost Li Ling, lost the second division, and more than 100,000 soldiers were buried in Mobei, but the Xiongnu regained strength.And the five generals of Yuan Tingnian's northern expedition, if it weren't for Zhao Chongguo and Han Zeng's victory, if it wasn't for Ren Hong's outstanding performance, it would be a joke: Qi Lian general Tian Guangming was only 1,200 miles out of the fortress, and the beheading was only 18 levels, and the Huya general Tian Shun was even more out of the fortress for 800 miles, and they were afraid that they would not even touch the curtain, and they were afraid that once they entered the Gobi, they would be besieged by the Huns.So Liu Xun was replaced by a group of generals who dared to fight.If the mistakes of the past are repeated this time, Liu Xun may lose his beloved general, and the name of the Son of Heaven, which was established with great difficulty, will also be greatly hit, and the last wishes of Emperor Xiaowu and General Huo Da may be difficult to fulfill.But now, I can only trust the front-line soldiers, otherwise I can still command them to arrange troops from thousands of miles?
The candlelight in Liu Xun's hand illuminated the map little by little, Gaoque, Jilusai, Decadence City, Damu, and Dragon City, these names he was already familiar with, and he just hated not to be able to come to them.Suddenly I thought that when Wei Qing and Huo Qu were sick and swore to the Northern Expedition, was Emperor Xiaowu also so restless?
He sighed, looked outside, there was silence and darkness in the Weiyang Palace, the lights in each palace room were extinguished, and when he asked, it was only three minutes before the night leaked, Liu Xun stopped outside the hall, as if he could hear the wind blowing on the Great Gobi, and his three generals did not know the safety.Liu Xun made a decision to recruit Zhan Shi and Wei Wei Han Dangdang."
Tomorrow move to Ganquan Palace!"
Ganquan Palace is two or three hundred miles north of Chang'an, but it is just a day's trip to move the post horse, but for Liu Xun, it can make him feel anxious."
I want to know the good news of the generals as soon as possible!"
PS: Chapter 2 is before 0:00.