Eight hundred and thirty-sixth military minister's remorse and hatred
After the meeting, the military officials found it difficult to calm down.
His mind was filled with all kinds of tangled emotions. He looked to the south. Thousands of miles away, the majestic Great Wall was like an iron gate, firmly guarding the dividing line of the world.
To seize the Great Wall defense line, the Huns paid a higher price each time.
Five years ago, King Youxian invaded and approached the core of the Han Dynasty, frightening the Han people into mobilizing the whole country.
Today, five years later, the Xiongnu army, which was as powerful as King Youxian's southern invasion, was surrounded by the Han Dynasty at the foot of Mayi City.
It even damaged the Zhelan tribe.
But the hooves of the Huns cavalry could not even reach the dust on the Great Wall!
If things continue like this, in another five years, won't the Han army be able to leave the fortress, approach the core of the Huns, and compete with the Huns' cavalry on the vast grasslands?
The military officials were deeply worried about this.
However, knowing this, the military ministers found that they seemed to be helpless about it.
In fact, he could not put Shan Yuting's main force in the south to confront the Han Dynasty to ensure the safety of the grassland.
This is both an economic and a political reason.
Economically, the Xiongnu Empire could not bear the heavy burden of hundreds of thousands of main cavalry stationed in Munan for a long time.
Politically speaking, military ministers cannot change their established strategies.
That is equivalent to slapping yourself in the mouth, and it is equivalent to telling others that Shanyu made a mistake.
And Chanyu who makes mistakes will not live long!
In this world, not to mention the monarch of a country, even ordinary people, there are very few people who can realize their own mistakes and openly admit and review them.
In the political arena, individuals or interest groups who refuse to admit their mistakes after making mistakes, act like a dead pig and will never look back even if they hit their head against the wall, have emerged in endlessly from ancient times to the present.
This is true whether it is East or West.
Junchen will not be the first, and he will definitely not be the last.
"Emperor of the Han Dynasty..." the military officials murmured in their hearts.
He understands and understands that the hegemony of this world is now shifting to the Han Dynasty.
The Battle of Mayi informed everyone with the clearest fact that the Han Dynasty had gained the initiative in Han-Hungarian relations.
Although the Huns still had an advantage in the number of cavalry.
However, the days when the Xiongnu Empire only used tens of thousands of cavalry or even cavalry from one tribe to wreak havoc on the border of the Great Wall and even robbed the lives and property of the Han Dynasty border residents. Gone are the days!
From now on, the Han Dynasty no longer had to worry and guard against the cavalry coming from the north.
Today they can encircle and annihilate more than 40,000 Xiongnu elites under the city of Mayi. Tomorrow, they can also encircle and annihilate the same or even greater number of Xiongnu troops in Yunzhong or Shanggu.
They can even bring the flames of war to the grassland.
The offensive and defensive dynamics of Han and Hungary have changed.
The Han Dynasty gained strategic offensive power!
Just like the Huns' cavalry in the past. Along the long defense line of the Great Wall, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty could leave the fortress from different angles anytime, anywhere, and come to the grassland to guide the people's country travel, hunting, and sightseeing.
What’s even more frightening is that the Xiongnu did not have the Great Wall, so they did not even have the time or opportunity to warn.
Once the Han Dynasty cavalry leaves the fortress, it is usually possible to pierce through the Xiongnu tribe on a certain path.
Not only farming civilizations were afraid of being invaded and attacked by nomadic cavalry.
The nomadic people are actually more vulnerable in front of the powerful Central Plains Empire!
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Yan and Zhao armies in the Central Plains swept across the entire prairie.
Zhao general Li Mu and Yan general Qin Kai dyed their armor red with the blood of many tribes, including the Xiongnu.
The briefly unified Qin Empire shocked the whole world.
The Great Wall Corps of the Qin Army built the fortress directly to the foot of Yin Mountain. In the entire Munan, there was not even a single nomadic tribe grazing.
The Qin army beheaded thousands of heads every year just at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.
Today, the powerful, unified and centralized Central Empire has once again revealed its ferocious minions and cruel and bloodthirsty side.
The fear of "dare not go south to herd horses" resurfaced in the minds of military officials.
It reminded him of the powerful armies from the southern Central Plains in the legends and myths of the elders.
And those casual descriptions hidden in certain details of these stories and legends - because there is not enough breast milk, hungry babies cry all day long, livestock cannot eat fresh green grass, and groups of hungry animals
die.
Occasionally, a few strong ones will become the hope of the tribe.
Even cheese and kumiss became delicacies of the nobles.
There was only a small amount of dried meat on Shanyu's dining table.
All tribes are dying.
had to migrate further west and north.
The military officer took a deep breath.
This kind of disaster occurred only a hundred years ago.
It’s only been four generations so far.
"This Shanyu will never let such a thing happen again!" the military minister said in his heart.
As a Chanyu, he knew very well that if the Han army went out, they would definitely do it more simply and excessively than their ancestors.
By that time, the Huns will continue to bleed.
Countless people and livestock will die from fire, famine and disease during the war.
Nomadic tribes are actually far more vulnerable than agricultural tribes.
On the prairie, a small-scale snowstorm can often prevent a tribe of a thousand people from seeing the grass sprouting the next spring.
A large-scale locust plague may cause countless tribes to disappear without a trace overnight.
And humans, especially the human army.
But it is a disaster more terrible than all natural disasters!
They will burn pastures, attack herdsmen, kill and rob all livestock.
Even turning grasslands into cultivated land...
Such terrible disasters have happened countless times in the past thousand years.
There was bleeding and floating oars on the grassland, and corpses were scattered everywhere.
Those once glorious and powerful tribes have disappeared forever in the long river of history.
"No matter what, we must sign a new peace treaty with the Han Dynasty!" the military minister thought in his heart.
Once upon a time, when the Huns felt dissatisfied with the peace treaty, they would tear up the treaty at any time, invade south, burn, kill and loot, forcing the Han Dynasty to come up with better conditions and more resources to satisfy and fill the vanity of the Huns Empire.
Heart and greed.
Now, the situation has been reversed.
The Huns were begging for peace, but they were anxiously worried that the Han people would tear up the peace treaty. Tens of thousands of cavalry entered the grasslands from all directions, burning, killing and looting.
However, the Xiongnu Empire is likely to be like the Han Dynasty back then. Even if it is full of humiliation, even if it is slapped in the face, it still has to pray for peace.
Thirty years in Hedong. Thirty years in Hexi.
Although the military minister did not know this sentence, his mood at the moment was like this.
"It's hard to call Qiequ Qiediao..." After thinking for a moment, the military officer made a decision.
Now, in the royal court, there are two groups of people shouting the loudest.
One side is the main war faction headed by Landosin. They believe that the Han Dynasty must be punished. The Han Dynasty's pastures and cavalry bases in the north should even be destroyed at all costs.
But the military officials knew that this was impossible.
The Han army was able to encircle and annihilate Yin Zhixie's 40,000-strong army at the foot of Mayi City, and defeat the Zhelan tribe in front.
Then they can copy this myth.
Encircle and annihilate other tribes in the clouds or other places.
Moreover, when fighting on the inside, the Han army still had hundreds of thousands of infantry to rely on.
The Hun cavalry is trapped. Want to get out? I'm afraid it won't be that easy!
Moreover, the most important thing is that if you do this, it will be equivalent to the military minister himself admitting that he was wrong.
This is something that military officials cannot accept under any circumstances.
Therefore, no matter how reasonable what Landosin and the others say is true, no matter how high-pitched their voices are.
The military officials would not listen to their opinions.
On the other side is the powerful ‘Zhuhe Faction’.
It is said that it is a peace party, but it is not.
These people are basically the tribal leaders of the Northern and Western Regions and some nobles within the four major clans.
They were all the group of people who followed the military ministers to purge King Youxian five years ago.
Naturally, they won't slap themselves in the mouth.
More importantly, for them, the southern invasion was equivalent to mobilizing troops and consuming countless resources to confront the Han Dynasty at the foot of the Great Wall.
In the past, tribes that invaded the south could make up for these losses by looting wealth and people from the rich treasuries and cities of the Han Dynasty.
But now, even Zhelan has been defeated by the Han army, and King Youxian, Aries and Loufan are about to perish.
Only a fool would support something that has no benefit and has nothing to do with him!
Anyway, even if the worst thing happens.
Those who died were also from the tribe in Munan, and had little to do with them.
A dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist.
This is human nature.
Thousands or even tens of thousands of miles away, but you have never met each other, and you are not even a so-called "comatriot" of the same nation?
Before the rise of nationalism, political powers all over the world had the same attitude: love them to death.
But as Chanyus and military ministers, they cannot think like this.
What's more, if the tribes in Munan, Mubei and the Western Regions are really lost, is there really no loss?
Without the pastures in Munan and the tribute from vassal tribes, how could the tribes in Mubei live such a comfortable life?
The military ministers knew very well that the Xiongnu Empire could not afford to lose Munan.
Moreover, if he really loses the Munan region in his hands, then those tribes in Mubei and the Western Regions that are now clamoring for peace will immediately turn against him and pull him, the Chanyu, from power.
Therefore, Qi Qu Qi Diao Di, who had just returned from a mission, was remembered by the military officials.
In fact, the military officials now regretted sending Yin Zhi to invade southward.
"Even if the remnants of the Wusun people are taken over and protected by the Han Dynasty, so what?" The military minister thought with annoyance: "The defeated army of only two to three thousand people cannot pose any threat to the Huns!
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Better now!
The plan to force the Han Dynasty to hand over the remnants of Wusun and take the opportunity to rob them not only failed to come true, but also used the Xiongnu's trump card - the Zhelan tribe.
It is more likely that a valuable HQ Ten Thousand Cavalry will be lost!
This made the military officials feel very uncomfortable!
"This Chanyu is so confused..." The military official lamented regretfully: "Why did this Chanyu forget the lesson he learned eighteen years ago?"
Eighteen years ago, Zhang Ni, the leader of a large tribe in the Xiongnu Empire, offended his boss, Shanyu. In order to survive, he led more than 3,000 tribesmen across the Great Wall and took refuge in the Han Dynasty.
This triggered an unprecedented war between the two countries.
In the early days, the Xiongnu army fought very hard.
Chaonasi was captured, the fire burned back to the central palace, and the war approached Guanzhong.
Unfortunately, the Han Dynasty soon fully mobilized, with hundreds of thousands of mixed infantry and cavalry troops advancing steadily, driving the 140,000 Xiongnu cavalry out of the Great Wall.
Then, the two countries stood at the foot of the Great Wall, staring at each other for a year or two.
Finally, both countries were exhausted.
So a marriage agreement was reached.
In addition to reaffirming that "Han and Hungary are brothers, with the Great Wall as the boundary," the most important achievement of this peace treaty is that it stipulates in the peace treaty that "all the past affairs shall be forgotten", and then "the Han will release the fugitive people, and the Chanyu will be silent"
Zhang Ni et al.'.
It means that everything that happened in the past was all a misunderstanding.
The two countries, Han and Hungary, have now restored their old friendship.
The Han Dynasty liberated all wanted officials and people who fled to the Huns, and the Huns should stop making excuses for Zhang Ni and others.
Just pretend these things never happened.
But can it really be treated as if it never happened?
It was after the signing of the peace treaty that the nobles in the Huns and the officials in the Han Dynasty began to learn and use the skills of "if you can't survive, run to the other side".
It is true that many criminals and officials appeared in the Han Dynasty and fled to the Xiongnu.
However, many nobles also appeared in the Xiongnu country, taking their tribes and people with them to flee to the Han Dynasty to seek asylum.
Now, at the foot of the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, the large and small tribes that serve as guard posts for the Han Dynasty people and the three Guiyi Marquis in Chang'an City are all the results of this treaty.
From then on, the Xiongnu understood that by going south, they would both suffer losses and not take advantage.
The Western Region is better, the West is better!
There was neither a solid defense line like the Great Wall nor those huge Han army legions.
One thousand knights can subdue more than a dozen kingdoms and make them serve as slaves to the Huns.
When the military officials recalled this incident now, facing the facts of Zhelan's defeat and Yin Zhixie's siege, they felt regretful deep down in their hearts.
"This Chanyu has known for a long time that going south will not bring good results. Why did he get so confused and go south?"
If there had been no southward invasion, Zhelan would not have been defeated.
Yin Zhixie and the Aries and Loufan tribes will not fall into the siege of the Han army.
The Great Xiongnu is still the most powerful country in the world.
And he is still the great Chanyu who has been protected and blessed by his ancestors and gods.
Things like this would never happen, and he didn't have to worry about his status and authority.
The more the military officials thought about it, the more annoyed they became, and the more they thought about it, the angrier they became.
At this moment, he completely forgot how proud and proud he felt when he decided to let Zhelan, Loufan, and Aries go south to invade with Yin Zhixie.
At that time, he was convinced that this invasion would be an easy armed march.
With an ace like Zhelan in charge, and Lou Fan, Aries and Yin Zhixie's headquarters guarding the formation.
Stop talking about Mayi!
Even Yanmen Pass can be easily captured!
"It's all the fault of those damn Xianbei slaves!" The military official suddenly said with a ferocious face, clenching his fists hard: "It must be these scoundrels and slaves of the Donghu people who deliberately framed and alienated the relationship between the Han and Hungarians in order to achieve their unspeakable goal.
Man’s purpose!”
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