In early October, it was early winter. The scenery in Gaoliu County in the north of Dai County was different from that of the Central Plains, but more like the northern part of the Great Wall. Between the mountains, there was endless grassland. The wind was surging, and the withered yellow grass blades were swaying like waves. The whole world
Turned into bronze color.
In this vast and sparsely populated border town, a huge cavalry force was marching. There were tens of thousands of people and horses, all wearing animal skins and felt hats, holding horned bows. Nearly half of the riders were equipped with saddles and stirrups. The large group of people and horses trampled the ground,
The choking dust raised would even snatch away some of the people from villages and towns encountered along the way and fill them into the growing slave team behind the cavalry.
It is the troops of the Huns, which should have been the natural enemies of the people in the Yan Dynasty. But at this moment, the tall loess beacons not far away are obviously guarded by soldiers, but they are watching helplessly as a pack of wolves run rampant.
No accumulated salary was ignited.
This was an order from Dai King Han Guang, saying that these Huns were "allies" and were here to help the Dai people resist the brutal Qin army!
"No matter how cruel the Qin people are, how can they be as vicious as the Hu people?" This is the view of most local people.
However, all frontier fortresses have opened their doors under Han Guang's order to lure wolves into the house.
A hunting falcon was high in the sky, hovering in the deep blue sky, overlooking the Huns who continued to cross the Great Wall of Qin and headed south. It circled in a large circle and finally flew back to its master, resting gently on his arm.
On a high hill, the great Chanyu Maodun of the Huns, wearing a golden eagle crown, let the falcon stay with one hand, while saying to a Central Plains crowned scholar who came to greet him:
"Have you ever heard of this proverb, Mr. Kuai?"
Standing in front of Mao Dun was none other than Kuai Che, the guest minister whom King Zhao had trusted so much. Now he had abandoned the destroyed Zhao State and joined his new master.
He smiled and said in skilled Hun dialect: "I heard it translated into Xia Yan, withered weeds cannot cover the sharp eyes of an eagle."
"That's right."
Mao Dun looked at the falcon and said: "So I can see clearly that the hunting that Mr. Kuai Che persuaded me to come to the south is not easy. What I have to face is a ferocious black dog with sharp teeth and sharp claws.
If you're not careful, the falcon's wings will be broken by it!"
In the past three years, the Huns have almost regained their former strength. They have unified Maodun in Mobei. Taking advantage of the collapse of Donghu and the civil war between the various forces in the Central Plains, they first occupied Yunzhong, then took Northern False, and moved the royal court of Shanyu back to Mancheng.
They also plundered Shuofang and brought tens of thousands of Xinqin people to Shangjun. They feasted on them and were eaten by all the Xiongnu leaders.
But he was not arrogant enough to think that he could compete with the Heifu who were determined to unify. Even if he secretly learned saddles and stirrups, compared to the Central Plains, the Huns were still inferior in terms of national strength, population and technology.
Disadvantages.
Kuai Che did not hesitate to admit this: "The Qin army commanded by Heifu does look very powerful, with hundreds of thousands of halberds. It has just destroyed Chu and Zhao. It is in great momentum, and only the land of the Yan Dynasty has not been surrendered.
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"In that case, why should I fight Heifu for Han Guang? I wonder if he will be like those Chu people who agreed to form an alliance to attack Guanzhong together, but in the end he withdrew his troops first."
"At that time, Xiang Ji was arrogant, but Li Zuoche was stubborn and unwilling to form an alliance with the Huns. Now that Xiang Ji is dead, and Li Zuoche was defeated in Handan and imprisoned, no one will object to an alliance with the Huns anymore, and Han Guang, he has seen that
When it comes to the fate of those princes defeated by Qin, they have no way out!"
"And for the Xiongnu, this is also the last chance to prevent the unification of the Central Plains!"
Kuai Che pointed at the piece of land under his feet that was home to both agriculture and animal husbandry and said to Mao Dun: "As the Great Chan Yu knows, this place also belonged to the Prairie Kingdom in the past. However, three hundred years ago, Zhao Wuxie, the ancestor of the Zhao Kingdom, passed away. Note, and destroyed the Dai country and came to Hurao, so that the Dai country was merged into Zhongxia."
"His descendant, King Wuling of Zhao, also changed his clothes to Hu clothes and learned to ride and shoot. He broke through Linhu and Loufan in the north. He built the Great Wall, which was merged at the foot of Yinshan Mountain in Zidai, with Gaoque as a fortress. He built Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Daijun. Later When Zhao general Li Mu was in charge, he defeated the Xiongnu again."
"At that time, the state of Zhao had already prevented the Huns from going south, but at least they were able to defend themselves. When Qin unified Yan and Zhao, he sent Heifu, Li Xin, and Meng Tian to attack the Xiongnu with a force of 100,000 from the north, and they all took over Henan. Because of the river As a fortress, forty-four county towns were built near the river, and they were moved to the appropriate garrison to fill them. Then they crossed the river and occupied the northern part of Yangshan Mountain, and then opened a straight road from Jiuyuan to Yunyang, then from Lintao to Liaodong for more than ten thousand miles, and captured Qin, Yan and Zhao. The Great Wall of the Three Kingdoms is connected together.”
"At that time, the Great Chanyu was slandered by Chen Ping, a subordinate of Heifu. He could not defeat Qin, so he moved northward. It was not until recently that the princes bordered Qin and China was disturbed, so he was able to gain a wider area and once again crossed the border between Henan and China at the old fortress."
"Therefore, it can be seen that if China unites, the Huns will definitely attack the Huns; if China divides, the Huns will have some breathing space, and they can even counterattack southward and occupy more pasture land..."
As a man of political integrity and a native of Yan, Kuai Che was very familiar with the geographical situation of this area. He even drew a map of the Yan Dynasty area specifically for Mao Dun, with various mountains and rivers marked on it. Chengguo grassland.
He immediately asked his subordinates to present it and pointed out: "Please see, Great Chanyu, the land of the Yan Dynasty is really the boundary between the grassland country and the country in the crown belt of the Central Plains!"
Nowadays, as the East Hu and the Central Plains princes have been eliminated, there are only two great political powers left in East Asia, the Xiongnu and Qin, which represent the nomadic people and farming civilization. They are on the verge of passing through three areas, namely Shuofang Shangjun, Daidi, Yan land.
This line not only happens to be the precipitation line, but also separates the two civilizations as the boundary between mountains and rivers.
"Shuofang, Shangjun is very close to Guanzhong, and there is a straight road, which makes it easy to mobilize troops. Therefore, once Qin sends his troops north, the Xiongnu cannot fight."
"Dai, Yan was not like that. They were blocked by Hengshan Mountain and far away from Guanzhong. It was difficult for the Qin army to mobilize. There were also Zhao people. The Yan people missed their homeland and were enemies of Qin. They were dissatisfied and dissatisfied. Now Han Guang had no help and turned to Shanyu for help. , this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”
The entire Taiyuan and Hedong are actually composed of countless mountain basins, such as Yuncheng Basin, Linfen Basin, Taiyuan Basin, Xinding Basin, Datong Basin, and a series of small mountain valleys sandwiched between the Luliang Mountains and the Taihang Mountains. , like candied haws on a stick, together form a corridor-like independent geographical unit. There is no doubt that if the Huns want to launch an attack on Taiyuan, then Yanmen County will be their must-win bridgehead.
Further east from Taiyuan, over the Taihang Mountains, we arrive at the endless North China Plain. Unless the Central Plains regime controls Yuyang and Youbeiping, and guards the Yanshan passes, this great plain will be basically undefeated from north to south!
In short, Daidi and Yandi are like the valves of two faucets, protecting the Central Plains from the harassment of nomads from the north. In the middle, the huge "screen" of Taihang Mountain is used as a boundary, each protecting Shanxi like a star. There are small basins that look like candied haws of apples, and the vast plains of Huabei.
Once the valve is lost, the iron hooves from the nomads will flow like a flood, splitting into east and west routes, and willfully plunder and destroy farming civilization!
If the Central Plains wants to reorganize its defense lines in Taiyuan, Hengshan, and Julu, it will undoubtedly consume huge national power.
This is the future strategy envisioned by Kuai Che for Mao Dun: "The Xiongnu may not be able to defeat Qin and destroy Qin, but they can keep the country of Dai, so that the Huns' cavalry can continue to raid southward, so that the soldiers who have been fighting for many years will not be able to let go.
Weapons, farmers and women are not allowed to rest. As time goes by, the world will see that the black man still cannot fulfill his promise to rest with the people and fight with the people, and they will be angry and rebel!"
"At that time, after the death of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the scene of China's division will appear again, and the Great Chanyu can also take advantage of this opportunity to lead the Hu people southward and enter Xianyang! To avenge the burning of Chanyu's court in the past!"
"At that time, you will truly become the emperor. Not only the emperor of the grasslands, but also the emperor of the Central Plains. Drinking the Ma River will turn the entire Hebei and Guanzhong into pastures, allowing tens of millions of Central Plains people to serve as vassals and concubines of the Huns.
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After Kuai Che finished boasting, he changed his tone: "Vice versa, if the Xiongnu did not fight for the land of the Yan Dynasty, once the Heifu unified the world and rested for ten years, many times the number of soldiers and horses than today would be dispatched from Yanmen to Ju
Yong went north and swept across the grassland. This time, even if the Huns fled to the bitter cold of Mobei, they would not be safe!"
Mao Dun listened. After a long time, he let go of the falcon on his arm and let it fly high into the sky again.
His purpose of going south was very simple, to take advantage of the chaos before the unification of the Central Plains and make another final grab. However, Kuai Che's words made Mao Dun realize that the Huns really had to fight this battle.
You have to at least give it a try. As long as you can protect the Dai Kingdom when the snow falls, the Xiongnu can delay it for another year and let the scars of the Central Plains heal one year later.
He only had one question left.
"Mr. Kuai."
Mao Dun showed a puzzled expression: "In the past, the great master of the Yan State, Ju Wu, worked for Touman because he wanted to use the power of the Xiongnu to restore the Yan State."
"But Mr. Kuai, why are you trying so hard to advise me?"
This question made Kuai Che burst into laughter.
"Da Shanyu, I have nothing to gain by doing this."
But Mao Dun didn't believe it: "Impossible, it could be gold and silk, sheep, women, or power. Your purpose must be among them."
He was very generous: "Just tell me, I will support you and I will satisfy you!"
Even if it is the Yan family, it is not impossible to consider it. After all, Kuai Che can be said to be the smartest Central Plains scholar that Mao Dun has ever seen...
Even no less than Chen Ping, who had tricked him with a letter more than ten years ago.
Kuai Che was stunned. He looked at the smoke and dust billowing south as the Huns' cavalry moved south. The people in the city looked frightened, and expressed his thoughts:
"Many people hope that the world will be unified and that the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe."
"But I think that's too boring!"
Kuai Che opened his hands: "I just want this world to be in chaos forever!"
"For us, the wise men."
"Chaos and strife are not just ladders to climb up."
"It is also the water that as fish, once we leave it, we will dry up and die!"
“Can a fish leave the water?”
"Can the people of Zongheng leave the troubled times?"
In Kuai Che's eyes, in addition to conspiracy and strategy, he is completely crazy. In order to prevent the unification of the black husband, he will do whatever it takes to stop his paranoia.