The mother river of all Xia peoples, the Yellow River makes a few bends here.
For millions of years, the Yellow River's continuous erosion has made this area of more than a thousand miles the most fertile land and the most beautiful pasture on the grassland.
When the Qin Empire was strong and powerful, 300,000 troops were stationed here, and 30,000 households were relocated.
The Qin people built water conservancy projects, built forts, and set up smelting workshops here.
At one time, this place was full of vast fields, with wheat growing slowly, and the grass and millet growing brightly. It became a fortress of heaven, a land of fish and rice in the north.
However, with the fall of the Qin Empire.
All of this was destroyed in the flames of war and gunpowder smoke.
The Huns who were driven away by the Qin people came back on horseback.
They don't understand production and they don't know how to farm.
They are good at almost nothing but enslaving and conquering others.
As a result, the city fortress built by the Qin people collapsed and was buried in the grass.
The workshops and workshops they built were abandoned, and weeds grew crazily in these handicraft centers that used to be bustling with people, until they were completely engulfed and collapsed.
The water conservancy facilities and channels built by the Qin people have long been buried in the loess and have disappeared.
Occasionally, herdsmen will find one or two bricks with traces of the Qin people in some forgotten places.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything.
After the Battle of Pingcheng, losers such as Yan Wang Lu Wan and Han Wang Xin from the Han Dynasty, as well as Chen Xi and Zhao Li, took their tribes and fled to the Huns.
Among these people was Lu Wan, who was named King of Donghu by Maodun Chanyu of the Xiongnu.
Lu Wan fled to the Huns and took thousands of people with him.
Lu Wan and his rebels thus became one of the few tribes in the Xiongnu Empire that developed both farming and nomadic life.
They know how to herd cattle, but their farming skills are not bad either.
At the very least, in the territory of the Donghu tribe of the Lu family, they reused the infrastructure left by the Qin people and dug many new channels for irrigation. Until now.
However, this is all over.
At this moment, the territory of the Donghu tribe, which used to be a land of houses and wild fields, has become a hell on earth.
Thousands of savage cavalry committed all kinds of evil in this fortress paradise of the past.
They killed men and raped women. They even spared children.
As for the houses and tents originally built on the grassland, they were all ablaze at this moment.
King Hujie Qizhi looked at all this with a ferocious smile, with blood dripping from his hands.
"King Lu Ta of Donghu is dead!" He raised his head high in the air and declared his tribe: "Tell the Xiuzhi that all those who surrender will kneel down and not be killed!"
Xiuzhi means army in Hujie language.
Just like Qie's own name, translated into Chinese, it actually means commander-in-chief of the army.
The Hujie language is a language developed after they took root in Jinshan for decades and communicated with the local Western Kingdoms.
Hundreds of years later, the Book of Jin recorded a prophecy of the Shi-Zhao regime: Showy branches will replace the violent hills, and the valleys will be bald.
It means sending troops to capture Liu Yao.
Archaeologists and historians of later generations analyzed the language of Shi Zhao and his ancestors, the Hujie tribe, based on this sentence.
After studying the languages of hundreds of ethnic groups that once appeared in China or around the world, archaeologists and historians classified the languages of the Hujie people and the Jie people of Shizhao into the Turkic language family, and believed that they should be Uighurs.
The distant ancestor of man.
At least in terms of language, that's the case.
But in fact, at least at this moment, the appearance and bloodline of the Hujie people have nothing to do with the Uighurs.
They are of mixed race.
They are a mixture of the ancient Indian Aryans, the ancient Tungus and the ancient Sogdians.
From the perspective of the Han Dynasty, they were hybrids of the Sai people, the Huns and the Kangju people!
Therefore, they not only have the short stature and strong body of the Huns, but also have the brown pupils and various hair colors of the ancient Aryans. They also have some characteristics of the Kangju people.
For example, this tribe no longer believes in the traditional Xiongnu shamanism.
They instead believed in Zoroastrianism, which came from a distant place.
Fire has become sacred and important in the lives of Hujie people.
At the same time, the Hujie people also learned farming.
In their home at the foot of Jinshan Mountain, there were many slaves who cultivated the land.
Although the technology is primitive, farming efficiency is very low.
But compared to the nomadic life of relying on the sky for food, which may not necessarily provide enough food, farming at the very least can feed more people.
This is also the biggest change made by the Hujie people after they moved westward.
Their way of life has changed from the nomadic life of their ancestors to semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural life.
At this moment, I saw the complete water conservancy facilities inside and outside the Donghu tribe, countless ditches and granaries filled with grain.
Let us know that the population of this tribe is very important to him and his tribe.
As long as these people are obtained, the Hujie people will probably no longer need to worry about starvation in the future.
At the same time, Qie Zhi also curiously turned his gaze to the south.
He knew that at the foot of the Great Wall in the south, there was the mother country of the Donghu tribe in front of him, the Han Dynasty that defeated the Zhelan tribe!
"I have long heard that the Han Dynasty was rich and prosperous. The whole country was engaged in farming, and the land of tens of thousands of miles supported tens of millions of people..." Qi Zhi sighed in his heart: "If one day, I can lead the army south
, just go rob and purge the Han Dynasty!"
If they could rob the south, the population they robbed would be enough to kill the Hujie tribe.
pity……
He shook his head.
Now, the Han Dynasty in the south was incredibly powerful.
Now, the news of Yin Zhixie's defeat has spread all over the grassland.
Some people even said with certainty that they saw with their own eyes that the Han Dynasty army escorted Zhelan, Baiyang and the prisoners of King Youxian southward. The defeated and captured cavalry were strung up with ropes by the Han Dynasty people, and they were strung up several times in a row.
Ten miles.
The war horses, cattle and sheep captured by the Han Dynasty were all over the mountains and plains, and they were hard to count.
Such a powerful empire was no longer something he and his people could mess up.
Just as I was thinking this, suddenly, I saw several horses galloping on the grassland in the distance.
"Who is King Hujie!" A knight who was leading the galloping asked loudly in Xiongnu language: "I am the Sima of Yunzhong County of the Han Dynasty. On the orders of Duke Wei, the governor of Yunzhong County of the Han Dynasty, I order King Hujie. Hurry up.
Heed the order immediately, stop all killing and looting, immediately release all the prisoners of the Donghu tribe, and wait for the decision of the Emperor of Han and the Chanyu of your country!"
Qi Zhi raised his eyebrows and shook his head in disbelief. He thought to himself, "Are you looking for death?"
How can you spit out the meat that reaches your mouth?
Besides, why did the people of the Han Dynasty control him? How could they control him?
However, the next second, Qi Zhi was stunned.
Because he saw a familiar figure of Shan Yu's legion, the general of the left, Huyan Dangtu, also rode on the left and right of the Han cavalry, and said loudly to him: "King Hujie obeys the order. This is the order of Shan Yu. Immediately
Stop the killing! Gather the prisoners. Wait for Shanyu’s orders!”
After hearing this, he immediately became furious.
Others are afraid of Huyan and should be treated as if they are afraid of Mao!
Shan Yu's military ministers can't protect themselves now, so why should they interfere with him?
Moreover, it was his military officials who ordered the Donghu tribe to be exterminated.
The good and the bad were all done by Shanyu.
What's the use of having his lineage of the Luotang family? (Now that Yin Zhixi's death has been confirmed, he automatically regards himself as a lineage of the Luantang family.)
"Xiu Zhi, obey the order:..." Qi Zhi raised his hand and ordered angrily: "Keep killing, don't stop, let me see what the Han Dynasty can do to me?"
He has been fighting at the foot of Jinshan Mountain all year round with the alien races in the West.
The Hujie people have long developed the habit of being unruly and unruly.
In the past, Shan Yuting was powerful, but he could still restrain and order the Hujie tribe.
but now?
Shan Yu can't even wipe his ass clean, so what does he want to do to the Hujie Warriors?
More importantly, Qingzhi needs to be tough enough to gain support from the Luotang clan and the four major clans.
Moreover, he and his father had been away from Shan Yuting's decision-making center for too long.
It has been a long time, and now there is no one of him in Shan Yuting.
In the Xiongnu Empire, a tough leader with an iron fist can always gain support.
But he has never thought about another issue. Of course he is not afraid of the Han Dynasty now.
His home base is tens of thousands of miles away at the border of the world, which is beyond the reach of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, the Hujie people have never dealt with the Han Dynasty in the south. In their concept, the Han Dynasty is probably the same as the Western Han Dynasty.
Kangju is similar to Wusun and Yuezhi in the past.
Strong is strong, but it is also limited.
However, King Kunxie and King Xiutu did not see it that way.
After seeing the Han cavalry, they immediately ordered to stop killing and looting.
Their home base is right on the border between Han and Hungary. It offended the Han Dynasty people, but that was a big mistake!
As the saying goes, leave a thin line in your life so that you can meet each other easily in the future.
Now, the Han Dynasty showed its strength in the battle of Mayi.
The arrogant King Zhelan was captured, the powerful King Youxian's headquarters was also annihilated, and even King Loufan surrendered.
The Han Dynasty currently holds nearly 20,000 prisoners of war.
Every tribe on the grassland knows that prisoners of war are also called Iron Army!
Not only the Chinese people know that the two Japs are more terrifying than the Japanese.
Nomads know this truth better.
After being defeated and captured, the tribal cavalry fought to survive, to get rid of their slave status, and to prove to their new masters that they had indeed broken with the past.
They will kill their own race and compatriots more actively than anyone else.
The headquarters of Zhelan, Loufan, Baiyang and Yinzhixie were already the most elite Xiongnu cavalry in the southern part of the country.
Now, these cavalrymen have been given a badge called "For the Master".
It is conceivable that if the Han Dynasty was offended, the emperor of the Han Dynasty would be furious. Even if he just released those prisoners of war, it would be enough to turn the entire Mu Nan upside down.
What's more, in the Battle of Mayi, the Huns still don't know how the Han Dynasty defeated the coalition forces commanded by Yin Zhixie.
They only knew that all the southern invading tribes, including Zhelan, were defeated by the Han cavalry.
The Zhelan tribe was crushed by the Han cavalry even after launching the desperate charge for which they were famous.
The unknown is the scariest thing.
Now, there are already rumors on the grassland.
It is said that the emperor of the Han Dynasty invited the gods. The gods shook the earth and mountains, first blocking Yin Zhixie's return path, and then when Zhelan charged, thunder fell from the sky and killed the charging Zhelan cavalry.
They trampled on each other in panic, and were defeated.
Some people even provided conclusive evidence: a Han Chinese book called "Poetry" recorded that hundreds of years ago, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty invited the gods to send down great power to help him win.
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As the saying goes: Xu Fang's show shocked Xu Fang, like thunder, Xu Fang was shocked.
Thousands of years ago, the Chinese emperors of the Xia and Shang dynasties talked directly with God and asked God to teach them how to govern their country. God generously responded to these emperors' requests and sent down auspicious signs and blessings.
As a result, China at that time was in good weather, the country was peaceful and the people were peaceful, and no punishment was used for hundreds of years.
Obviously, these random rumors and myths were carefully planned and instigated by Xiuyiwei's Huns.
But the key point is that the Huns didn't know.
Among these rumors that are true or false, half true or half false, and even mixed with fantasy novels and fairy tales, the Xiongnu people, especially the tribes in the southern part of the country, can only be said to be panicked.
In their minds and thinking, Zhelan's invincible army was defeated, and not even a single person escaped.
If it’s not a god descending to earth, what is that?
Moreover, what is even more terrifying is that the Hussar generals of the Han Dynasty deliberately released 120 captured Huns slaves and returned to the grassland to report the news. These slaves were all captured Zhelan during the Battle of Wuzhou Fortress.
slave.
These slaves were basically guys who were frightened by the breastplate and had their minds completely broken.
Yi Zong felt that raising them was a waste of food and it was better to recycle the waste.
And these slaves did not live up to Yi Zong’s ‘good intentions’.
He spread the message everywhere on the grassland that the Han army was powerful and invincible, and deified the cuirassiers. Everyone told everyone that the Han army had dispatched magic soldiers and generals.
Everyone is three feet tall and three feet wide at the waist, rides a mountain-like horse, and holds a huge weapon that can kill a bunch of people with one sweep.
When asked about the specific situation, these guys immediately went crazy.
Their performance further deepened the fear and uneasiness of the Tokugawa clan towards the Han Dynasty.
As of now, today, no Tokugawa tribe dares to show off their power in front of the envoys of the Han Dynasty.
In fact, many tribes have experienced subtle psychological changes.
Especially the Xiutu and Kunxie tribes.
King Xiutu and King Kunxie even discussed privately: Should they establish contact with the Han Dynasty?
Can't blame them.
It is true that they are too close to the Yunzhong County of the Han Dynasty.
After leaving the Yunzhong Frontier Fortress, the Han cavalry could reach the heart of Hetao within a few days and go sightseeing in their old nest.
King Xiutu and King Kunxie believed that they could not defeat the Han army that defeated Zhelan and destroyed Yin Zhixie no matter what.
In this case, of course you should contact us as soon as possible so that you can make early plans for the future.
If the Xiongnu ship fails, it can change its master and continue to dominate and dominate! (To be continued.)
