The first thousand five hundred and ninety-fourth chapter begins to fight (1)
Before we knew it, it was autumn and September.
It started to snow in Chang'an City.
Looking at the snowflakes falling on his palms, Liu Che also sighed a few times.
"Your Majesty, I just received a report from General Ju: General Zuo of the Western Huns was assassinated..." Yan Yi reported in a hurry.
"I know..." Liu Che nodded slightly, not surprised by this.
The internal strife in the small regime of the Western Huns is foreseeable.
Because this regime itself is unreasonable!
It is the product of the Battle of Yanji and the crystallization of the Han-Hungarian War.
In fact, even if there is no parallel channel and difficulty, some other difficulty will come up to do this.
But this small regime was inherently deficient from the moment it was established.
Qiqu, who came to power through a coup, was in trouble, so he could only proclaim himself a general of the left, rely on holding Yu Shan hostage, and jointly govern with Zhelan and other large tribes.
Since it is a joint government, it will naturally lead to many orders.
As far as Liu Che knew, the Zhelan tribe almost rebelled in order to cede Heli Mountain.
Heli Mountain (Gaolan Mountain) is the hometown of the Zhelan people and their ancestral pasture.
Qiqu Qiediao is difficult to sell immediately?
The Zhelan people were naturally dissatisfied.
But at that time, if the Western Huns did not sell Heli Mountain, they would starve to death!
The Western Xiongnu, who had no food and supplies, did not need the Han army and the Northern Xiongnu to fight. Famine would be enough to collapse them.
Therefore, it is difficult to cede Heli Mountain to Qingquqidiao, which is what has to be done.
Of course, at that time, the Western Huns had another option, which was to march to the west and take advantage of the internal uncertainty of the Northern Huns to go out of Xingxingxia to seize the Western Region.
At least they must occupy the vast area west of the Puchang Sea and east of the offshore area, and even invade the Tarim Basin to seize control of the Kongque River Basin.
It is a pity that the Western Huns at that time did not dare to leave the Xingxing Gorge.
They would rather choose to beg for mercy from the Han Dynasty in exchange for supplies and peace guarantees.
This naturally doomed the destruction of the Western Huns.
Under the current international situation, what kind of national achievements can a regime that is not enterprising have?
If the international situation changes even slightly, it will be wiped out immediately!
To be honest, the Western Huns' survival to this day is entirely due to the conflict between the Northern Huns and the Han Dynasty.
Both sides are somewhat defensive and dare not push too far.
This allowed the Western Huns to maintain internal stability to this day.
However, when the Han Dynasty began to prepare to take action against Hexi.
The peace within the small regime of the Western Huns was immediately broken.
Conflicts that have been accumulating for a long time will soon break out.
Qi Qu Qi Diao's assassination was just the beginning!
"Pass my order to the Weiwei Yamen and inform the Weiwei: Mobilize the main forces of the northern and southern armies and the Xiliu Camp and prepare for the expedition..." Liu Che issued the order: "At the same time, tell the Prime Minister: Summon the Xiongnu envoy and tell him that the left
The general is in trouble and must return the power to the Shanyu! Otherwise, I will send troops!"
This is a declaration of war!
At the same time, it is also necessary to further stimulate and intensify the conflicts within the Western Huns, and it is best to let them fight.
The troops who were loyal to Qi Qu and Di Di would first fight those who either wanted to draw chestnuts from the fire, or those who wanted to dismount the Huns from the north.
It would be best to attract the main force of the Northern Xiongnu to the Hexi area.
Annihilate them in Hexi!
Of course, Liu Che knew that this was impossible.
Because intelligence showed that the Northern Huns were preparing for the fourth western expedition.
A large amount of supplies, troops and horses are gathering towards their forward base in Dawan and Khotanchi.
As soon as spring begins, the Northern Xiongnu Chanyu will lead his army to the west, and the affairs of his country will be managed by his left virtuous king Hu Lushe.
This made Liu Che a little regretful. The affairs in Hexi would be meaningless without the main force of the Northern Huns.
Among the tribes in Hexi, in Liu Che's eyes, only the Zhelan tribe could catch his eye.
However, the elite of the Zhelan tribe had been wiped out in Mayi four years ago. The current Zhelan tribe has at most 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 warriors, and most of them are new soldiers, and their weapons and equipment are also very backward.
It may even be inferior to the Xiongnu headquarters in the Battle of Yanji.
But even so, Liu Che still didn't dare to look down on the other party.
After all, the Battle of Hexi was about how far the Han army could go.
You can despise the enemy verbally, but you must pay attention to the opponent strategically.
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On the first day of autumn and ninth month in the eighth year of Yuande, Han Dynasty Prime Minister Chao Cuo sent a note to the envoys of the Western Huns who came to Chang'an for pilgrimage: Our emperor heard that General Zuo of your country insulted Shanyu and reversed the principles. This disobedient thing was not done by human ministers. I hope you will honor him.
The country was brought into order after chaos, and the government was returned to the Shanyu. Above it was in harmony with the laws of nature, and below it was in accordance with human relations.
If not, the army will advance together, and the king's army will come out!
Don’t say you didn’t predict what you said!
The envoy from the Western Huns replied: I dare not disobey the orders of my superior country. However, I cannot make the decision on this matter. I need to ask my lord for instructions.
This is obviously just to waste time.
The Han Dynasty was naturally happy to be dragged along by him, and these words were not meant for him, but for everyone in the world.
The military came up with war plans and plans within three days.
The reason why they were able to come up with the plan so quickly was because the military had actually been preparing for the Hexi Battle for nearly eight months, but it had always used the Juyan Battle as a cover.
Now, they no longer hide it, and have come up with a whole set of war plans aimed at destroying the Western Huns, taking over all of Hexi, and opening up the road to the Western Regions.
According to the military plan, the Han army will gather 40,000 infantry and cavalry in the Heli Mountain area before the third month of spring.
Among them, there are 23,000 cavalry, mainly composed of Xiliu Camp, Hu Ben Guard and the Southern Army. The Hu Ben Guard will dispatch 1,800 cuirass cavalry and 2,000 light cavalry. Xiliu Camp will dispatch more than 5,000 dragoons and light cavalry.
There are more than 4,000 cavalry, and the Southern Army will dispatch two cavalry captains.
As for the infantry, the two Modao captaincy corps of the Thorny Gate Army, the three crossbow captains of the Northern Army will be mobilized, and the two light infantry captaincy corps and one tunnel battalion captaincy corps of the Bashan Army will be mobilized.
At present, in the Heli Mountain area, the Han army has assembled a main force of nearly 10,000 infantry and cavalry.
In other words, the Han army will mobilize nearly 30,000 field troops to Heli Mountain.
They will set off from Chang'an in the first month of spring next year and arrive at Mount Heli before mid-February.
In order to support this battle, the military took out a whole box of documents detailing the various supplies and ordnance requirements for this battle.
Zhao Yu, the young minister, was almost frightened.
He never imagined that so much material would be spent to support an army of more than 40,000 people in the expedition to Hexi.
Just corn, wheat flour, dried meat, oil, salt, and medicinal materials add up to more than two million stones!
In addition, the military also needs tens of thousands of stones of cheese, more than 100,000 stones of dry food, and tens of thousands of feet of vinegar cloth.
As for ordnance...
There are millions of arrows, 100,000 spare parts for crossbows, tens of thousands of spare parts for horseshoes and saddles, more than 500 heavy-duty carriages for transporting military supplies, and more than 7,000 saber handles.
These are materials that need to be produced immediately by the Shaofu Examination Office and must be in place before spring and February next year.
If one thing is missing, the army will cause trouble for the young master!
Therefore, in the ninth month of autumn, the Shaofu Examination Office took the lead in entering a state of war.
Tens of thousands of craftsmen began working day and night.
