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Chapter 61 Chain Reaction

"Xinli tribe, Ding Ling tribe, Hunyu Bu, Qu She tribe, and Ge Kun tribe... Almost eight tribes have been burned by the Han people to spend the winter food and tents!" A thousand cavalry leader bowed his head to report, "This is what we already know. If we add those long journeys and the news has not yet reached the tent, there will probably be more!"

"Eight tribes? These are thousands of people!" King Kunxie also frowned. According to historical records, twenty years later, Huo Qubing sent troops to Longxi. King Kunxie and King Xiutu surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Apart from the murdered defectors, only more than 40,000 people surrendered to the Han Dynasty! Even if they were not damaged by the war, the total number of people in the territory was only more than 80,000! If only the subordinates of King Kunxie were counted, there would be only more than 40,000 people!

Now this Han Dynasty mission has made at least one-tenth of his troops lose their support for winter. When he thinks about the population that will be lost next year, King Kunxie was really heartbroken!

For slave-based nomadic tribes like the Huns, population means wealth! In the past, the prisoners they captured when they entered the territory of the Han people would not be executed easily. It was precisely because of this reason that Zhang Qian and Su Wu saved their lives! Now the territory is about to face thousands of losses, which makes King Kunxie regret his original decision.

Look at King Xiu Tu, he did not take the letters spoken by the Bank of China seriously! Let these Han dynasty missions go over, and never heard of them burning the hay and tents of King Xiu Tu's subordinates, and robbing a little horse and food at most. What is this loss? But now he can't help the King Kun Xie to take back the order, and if the tribes of the subordinates know that they surrender to the Han people, how should they view themselves? King Kun Xie is in a dilemma!

"King, the news has now reached the west! The elders of all tribes have photographed people and sent messages to those warriors who sent intercepting Han people. These warriors are worried that the Han people will go to their tribe! If the subordinates had not forced them to suppress them, they would have run away long ago!" After saying that, the Thousand Cavalry Captain Yi Molie looked at King Kunxie, as if he wanted to get a new order from him. Although his Yi Mo tribe has not been harassed by the Han people, it is difficult to ensure that he will be safe in the future.

"What should we do now based on your intention?" King Kun Xie wanted to retreat, but he didn't want to speak first, so he threw the question back to Yi Moliere.

"King, there has not been a single snow since the beginning of winter! These hays are the lifeblood of each tribe! Nowadays, young and strong people are far away from the tribes and search for Han missions! They are unable to guard against it at all!" The Huns are not a country, but a relatively loose alliance of thousands of small tribes. Their control over the territory is much weaker than that of the great men! It is obviously impossible to control such a large territory with 40,000 people!

Before, they could block their way forward according to the Han mission that was going west. Now, the Han mission temporarily gave up the plan to travel west and circled them on the grassland, which made them unable to find the direction! They had no way of judging that the Han army would attack that tribe next time.

"Now the warriors of various tribes are a little impatient! The day before yesterday, several soldiers from the Cheli tribe were shouting that they would go back to their tribe, and even fought with the soldiers who came to stop them! If this continues, my subordinates may not be able to suppress them!" Yi Molie began to complain. Not to mention others, even he is worried every day whether his Yi Mo tribe will become the next target of attack.

King Kunxie's eyebrows moved slightly, as if he was talking, but in the end he did not speak, but nodded and signaled Yi Molie to continue speaking.

Yi Molie understood that King Kunxie was already a little moved. He gritted his teeth and said boldly, "King, my subordinates thought that it was the idea of ​​the king to round up the Han Dynasty's mission. What does it have to do with us? Now the Great Yuezhi has been broken by our Great Xiongnu, so how dare we provoke us again? Moreover, Kunmi (king) of Wusun Kingdom, Liejiaomi, had long wanted to attack the Great Yuezhi! Even if these Han Dynasty missions were allowed to go west, what could it be?"

He secretly looked at King Kunxie, and saw that his eyes were slightly closed and he had no intention of stopping him, Yi Molie lowered his voice and continued, "Neither the King of Heaven nor the King of Xiu Tu stopped this mission. Even if the Great Shanyu was angry, he would not blame you for not coming over your head!"

This sentence seems to touch the heart of King Kunxie. The reason why he soberly surrounded the Han Dynasty was because he knew that the Bank of China said it was the confidant of the Great Shanyu and was afraid that he would be punished for complaining to the Military Minister Shanyu! Now that the Bank of China said and King Xiu Tu helped him take the blame, what else should he be afraid of?

He immediately opened his eyes and looked at Yi Molie and said sternly, "Yi Molie, send the order..."

"The King of Heaven, I haven't seen a snow after walking for so long. I'm afraid King Xiu Tu and King Kun Xie will have a hard time!" After crossing a small river with little water, Xu Bu Mo said to the Central Committee.

"Those Han people are also much more convenient to escape!" The Bank of China, who has lived in the Huns for a long time, said of course that he knew the terrible damn disaster, but what he and Subumo thought were completely different! The weakening of the power of King Xiu Tu and King Kun Xie was good news for the Great Shanyu!

In his opinion, the political structure of the Huns was too loose! Although the Great Shanyu was the nominal leader of each tribe, his jurisdiction over each tribe was not great! The Great Han all knew that weakening the power of the kings and strengthening centralization. If the Huns wanted to fight against the Great Han, powerful factions such as King Xiu Tu and King Kun Xie were the biggest opponents of the Great Shanyu. He was very happy to see these two princes suffer losses!

Alas, it’s a pity that the Huns and the Han Dynasty are still different after all! The Great Shanyu was absolutely not as willing to fight as Emperor Jing of Han, and even weakened the abilities and courage of the princes and kings.

"The King of Heaven! There is a small tribe not far ahead! We can go over and rest for one night and ask for supplies by the way!" While speaking, the guide came back to report.

Everyone immediately accelerated their horse speed when they heard this. It was very hard to travel all the way. They couldn't wait to eat fresh mutton and drink sweet wine! Of course, it would be even more beautiful if they could find a woman to hold her and sleep!

The desire for food, wine and women made them arrive at the tribe that the guide mentioned, but when they climbed over the hillside, the first scene that caught their eyes stunned them.

"Tian Wang, what's going on? Why do the tribes under King Kunxie kill each other?" Xubu Mo widened his speech and looked at the two Hun cavalry fighting fiercely under the hillside.

Their fighting was so tragic that the young and strong men couldn't help but carry their swords into battle, and even the old and strong women cried out and collided together, which surprised Xubumo and others.
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