Nine hundred and ninety-fourth chapter prisoners of war for time (seeking the month
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After finishing the day's sacrificial activities.
The Xiongnu Chanyu military ministers returned to their royal tents.
After paying homage to the newborn moon as a routine, he waved his hand and dismissed the surrounding guards.
Then, a tiptoeing figure appeared beside the military minister.
"Da Chanyu!" The man knelt down and prostrated on the ground: "King Hunxie just sent a message: The emperor of the Han Dynasty sent a message to inform him that the Han army will leave the fortress in August..."
The military minister's face instantly turned cold.
"August?" The military minister took off his felt hat, exposed his braid, and asked: "Where will the Han army leave the fortress? How many people are there? Who will lead the army?"
"Reporting to the Great Chanyu, the messenger sent by the Han Dynasty only said that the Han army would leave the fortress in August..." The man lowered his head and said.
The military officials then fell silent.
Today, within the Xiongnu, most of the nobles, including military officials, are wary of the rising Han Dynasty in the south.
After all, most of the important political and religious places in the Xiongnu Empire were in Munan.
After the Battle of Mayi, the Han Dynasty took the initiative between Han and Hungary.
The Xiongnu lost the ability to take the initiative to attack. Although the Great Wall was long, there were only a few breakthrough points that could threaten the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
The Xiongnu Empire could not afford the second disastrous defeat like Mayi.
No nobles dared to go to the Great Wall to try the power of the Han Dynasty's iron cavalry.
In the eyes of the Xiongnu nobles, the current Great Wall of Han Dynasty is the same as the Yinshan Mountain where the Qin army was stationed seventy or eighty years ago.
That is a place of death.
No one has the guts to go.
However, precisely because of fear, the Xiongnu became more vigilant towards the Han Dynasty than ever before.
In the Battle of Mayi, the Han army's Xiliu Camp went hundreds of miles out of the fortress and took away Nanchi, where King Youxian was stationed, which made the Huns' hair stand on end.
Two years ago, the Han army already had the ability to march hundreds of miles away from the fortress.
Two years later, has the Han army already had the ability to go out and compete with the Xiongnu on the prairie?
No one can guarantee it!
In fact, current military ministers also know it.
Sooner or later, there will be a fight between Han and Hungarians.
Either the Xiongnu wanted to repay the blood debt of Mayi to the Han Dynasty, or the Han Dynasty wanted to avenge the Huns for Pingcheng and the shame of Empress Lu.
The only difference is who will fire the first shot.
The military ministers hoped that the Huns would fire the first shot no matter what.
He hoped more than anyone else that the Han Dynasty could stay in the Great Wall, waiting for him to conquer the west, plunder countless wealth and return slaves.
Then, go to settle the general accounts with the Han Dynasty.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard the military minister tried to hypnotize himself, he knew that this was impossible.
The people of the Han Dynasty would definitely go out of the fortress!
Just like the Huns Empire five or six years ago, a peace treaty and a few empty words could not restrain or constrain the desire of the nobles and the army for war and plunder.
In the same way, the Han Dynasty's army and nobles' desire for military glory and rewards would also urge and force the Han Dynasty's monarchs and ministers to launch wars to solve problems.
After the Mayi War, the world structure was reshuffled.
The Huns, especially the Xiongnu nobles, had to face up to the Han Dynasty and the so-called "Zhuxia Civilization" and "Chinese System" that the Han Dynasty claimed.
Either to save the nation or to realize one's own ambitions.
Many Xiongnu nobles tried to learn or understand the culture and thoughts of the Han Dynasty through various channels.
Of course, there are also more tribal nobles who have become more conservative.
King Hujie, for example, insisted that the failure of the Battle of Mayi was because the Huns abandoned their traditions and settled for pleasure.
If they want revenge and gain the power to defeat the Han Dynasty, the Huns should return to tradition.
What kind of tradition?
Of course, during the period of Maodun Chanyu and Laoshanghanyu, the Xiongnu nobles personally charged into battle, and the soldiers drank blood and were brave and fearless of death.
The military officials sneered at the disturbances caused by King Hujie.
as the ruler of this empire.
Even if he didn't want to admit it, the Battle of Mayi told him.
The Huns are indeed falling behind.
The Huns must learn from the excellent experiences of the Han Dynasty and absorb them.
Whether it's stealing or robbing.
Therefore, the military minister knew that one of his political opponents, Zhong Xingyue, had been quietly brought back to Shan Yuting.
He also pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to know.
However, the Bank of China said that he had been away from the Han Dynasty for too long.
So long that he himself was almost dying of old age.
He can no longer provide any wisdom or advice to the Huns.
The Xiongnu Empire needed a new understanding of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty people were full of hostility and hatred towards the Han Dynasty and the Liu family.
It is best to be a noble of the Han Dynasty.
It's just a pity that such people do not exist in the Xiongnu today.
The Xiongnu Empire has been in existence for three years, and has not encountered any officials or nobles from the Han Dynasty who took the initiative to seek refuge.
Moreover, the most important thing for the current Xiongnu Empire is to confirm when the Han Dynasty will leave the fortress?
So, this spring, when he discovered that King Hunxie was colluding with people from the Han Dynasty, he came up with a plan.
Use King Hunxie to test the Han Dynasty.
Originally, the military officials thought that the Han Dynasty would probably reveal all their strategies.
After all, decades of exchanges between the Han and Hungarians have made the rulers of both Han and Hungarians eager for internal changes in the other party.
There are endless attempts to use espionage and subterfuge to sow discord, divide and bribe each other.
When the military officials thought about it, when King Hunxie and King Xiutu took the initiative to express to the Han Dynasty that they were willing to act as internal agents, the emperor and ministers of the Han Dynasty should have found a treasure.
Even if you can't express your heart and soul, you should still show something.
But the current situation makes the military officials feel confused.
The Han Dynasty only said that they would leave the fortress in August?
Who knows if what the Han Dynasty people said is true or false?
However, today's Hun Empire has to make a choice between belief and disbelief.
Because time is very tight!
The Xiongnu Empire conquered Dawan last year, opening the door to the Western world.
The vanguard cavalry even crossed Congling once and reached another world, bringing back some local information.
And it was confirmed and discovered that the Yuezhi people had indeed reestablished the royal court in the distance.
Moreover, my life as a child was pretty good.
They and the local indigenous people, the nomads named Kangju, carved up a kingdom called Bactria.
Moreover, there is indeed a country with poisonous bodies, rich and weak.
This left the Huns to make a choice.
Should we march westward or stick to Munan?
The Western Expedition meant acquiring a whole new world and a whole new source of wealth and slaves.
However, if the main force of the Huns marched westward, Munan would be captured by the Han Dynasty.
For the Xiongnu Empire, this was also an unacceptable pain.
Longcheng Nanchi, Tellurium Forest and Yinshan Mountain in Munan were all important political and religious centers of the Xiongnu Empire.
Among them, Yinshan Mountain is the birthplace and ancestral home of the Huns.
The last Xiongnu Chanyu who lost his life in Yinshan was named Touman.
The military officials knew very well what would happen to Touman.
Not to mention, if Yinshan is lost, Hexi will be in danger.
If Hexi is lost, the Xiongnu Empire will have its legs broken.
"Leave the fortress in August...Leave the fortress in August..." The military officials murmured this information.
Now, he can only take a gamble.
Choosing to believe that the Han Dynasty left the fortress in August meant that the main force of the Xiongnu could only stay in Munan this year.
And if you don't believe it, then after the Dragon City Conference, the main force of his Chan Yu Ting can break camp and move westward to the conquered Dawan and set up an advance base there.
Then, mobilize the Tokugawa tribe and the Western Region servant army, and everyone will take advantage of the heavy snow in winter to go to the west to grab it.
If everything goes well, then the Western Expedition Army will return to Munan in the spring of next year when the ice and snow melt.
The military minister knew very well how difficult the decision he was about to make would be.
Once you make the wrong choice.
What if he didn't go to the west, but the Han army did.
Then, it is equivalent to wasting a year in vain.
If he chose to march westward, the Han army would leave the fortress in August.
There is going to be a problem in the Loop.
Even Hexi is in danger.
If you lose the Hetao, then lose the Hexi.
He, the Chanyu, will definitely be overthrown!
"Father Shanyu..." The military minister couldn't help but think of his father who had died ten years ago: "If you were still here, what would you choose?"
Then, a picture in his memory emerged.
It was a summer more than twenty years ago.
Just like this summer, the Hun Empire achieved a great victory.
The Yuezhi, the great enemy that had troubled the Huns for two generations, was finally defeated.
The heads of the kings of the Yuezhi people were cut off, made into wine vessels, and placed in front of Shan Yu's case.
The Xiongnu Empire reached its peak.
At that time, he was just a young Zuoxian King.
In fact, not even a beard has grown, and there are no scars on his face.
His father, Lao Shanyu, was the undisputed and unobjectionable leader and master of the Xiongnu Empire.
The Huns at that time also faced a multiple-choice question.
Should they pursue the main force of the Yuezhi people to the west, or should they look back to the south and teach the Han Dynasty a lesson?
It only took Shanyu one night to make a decision: go south to fight the Han Dynasty. This set off the longest and largest war between the Han and Hungarians to date.
He didn't understand this at the time.
The Han Dynasty in the south was huge and its fighting power was amazing.
It is basically impossible to eliminate and conquer.
Why did the Xiongnu give up the possibility of exterminating the Yuezhi people and look back to fight a war with almost no winners?
So, he asked the old Shanyu about this issue.
The military minister remembered clearly that at that time, his father, holding a riding crop, pointed at the head of King Yuezhi placed in front of his case and said: "Yueshi, you are already a dead dog!"
"And the Han Dynasty might turn into a fierce tiger!"
"The Great Huns must suppress and defeat the Han Dynasty at all costs before they turn into tigers!"
"Because, in this world, there can only be one overlord and one master!"
Then, the old Shanyu looked at the young military minister and said earnestly: "King Zuoxian, you must remember that the Great Huns must always maintain their undisputed power and overlord status, otherwise..."
The old Shanyu held up his riding whip, pointed to the vast grassland, and said to him: "The people who lead the bow have been living in pursuit of water and grass since ancient times, and they depend on the heaven and the earth for their livelihood. Their dwellings have no fixed place, and their tribes have no home! Now I am a big man.
Although the Xiongnu defeated the Yuezhi, Donghu, Dingloulan, Wusun, Hujie and the twenty-six countries in the Western Regions, all the people who used the bow were Xiongnu! However, to maintain this trend, the great Xiongnu must prove that they are the world's leader.
The number one powerful country and clan, once someone can challenge the great Xiongnu, there is no guarantee that Loulan, Hujie, and Wusun will not have second thoughts!"
"And once someone within the group shows dissent, the power of the Huns will inevitably decline, and the various tribes will kill each other!"
Looking back now, the military official sighed.
He hated himself for not implementing the national policy of his elder Shanyu.
He indulged the Han Dynasty in the south, so that he grew into such a terrifying existence today.
If everything could happen again, the military official swore that when Wu Chu rebelled five years ago, he would immediately lead his troops south to seize the pass and cooperate with the Wu Chu rebels inside and outside.
No matter how great the sacrifices and losses are, the Liu regime in Chang'an will still be destroyed.
It would be best to split the Han Dynasty into several countries that are hostile and hostile to each other.
Unfortunately, there is no if in this world.
Therefore, today's Huns Empire has been forced to a dead end.
Are there cliffs ahead or a smooth road ahead?
The military officials didn't know.
But he knew that he and the Xiongnu had missed the opportunity to interrupt the rise of the Han Dynasty.
That terrible enemy has grown into a monster that can tear everything apart!
And he must obtain more people and wealth for the Hun Empire, and accumulate more strength and national power before this monster leaves the fortress.
At the same time, we must carefully maintain the loyalty of the empire, especially the half-hearted tribes to Shan Yuting.
To achieve this, the Xiongnu must march westward.
Only by marching westward and plundering wealth and slaves could all the tribes from top to bottom unite under his leadership.
However, the threat from the Han Dynasty made him dare not act rashly now.
"Let me test the Han Dynasty again..." the military minister thought in his heart.
If not even King Hunxie and King Xiutu can be used as bait.
Let the Han Dynasty people reveal their intentions.
Then, the Xiongnu only had one bargaining chip with those Han prisoners of war and slaves.
"Now, Shan Yuting has found out how many slaves of the Han Dynasty?" The military official turned sideways and asked his confidant Huyan Dangtu who was standing behind him.
"Reporting to the Great Chanyu, we have found more than 30,000 people from various ministries. In addition, more than 20,000 people were returned to the Han Dynasty last year and this year. They were used to exchange hundreds of thousands of dan of grain and cloth for the Han Dynasty.
More than seven thousand horses, thousands of bows and crossbows, hundreds of thousands of arrows..." Huyan Dangtu lowered his head and said.
"Gather all these people together, and then return five hundred to the Han Dynasty every day!" After hearing this, the military officials said without hesitation.
Huns, it takes time now.
And more than 20,000 people can buy the Huns at least one year.
As long as the emperor of the Han Dynasty was still dreaming of his sage and benevolent king.
It was impossible for him to go out to fight against the Huns while his own people and subjects were still controlled by the Huns.
In this way, the Hun Empire gained valuable time.
At the same time, you can also obtain valuable wealth such as grain, cloth, weapons and metals paid by the Han Dynasty to redeem these slaves.
And one year is enough time for the Xiongnu to go to the west to rob it again.
More importantly, the military officials discovered that the pastures in the west seemed to be very fertile.
In this way, if one day...
It can be considered a way out. (To be continued.)
