"This Maodun is really good at learning and applying it."
The snowfield under Baishan Mountain was full of dead people and horses. When Heifu arrived at the occupied Huns camp and looked at the white banner of the Xiongnu Chanyu captured by Han Xin, as well as the golden eagle crown, Heifu couldn't help but laugh.
road:
"When he saw that I had planted a fake flag to trick him into besieging Baideng, he actually gave his white paper to King Zuo Tuqi, disguised himself as an ordinary Hun noble, broke the siege and ran away..."
Heifu was also helpless. Even though his encirclement was very large, with more than 100,000 people in each group, the battle was hundreds of miles from east to west, north to south, and communications were difficult. It was a miracle that they could arrive on the same day.
How could it be possible to be as tight as a siege?
After Han Xin defeated Shanggu County, he quickly marched westward.
The Dongmen Leopard secretly followed Heifu's orders a few months ago and came up from the northeast of the Hebei River. With Dong Yi, the Marquis of Longchuan who was stationed in Taiyuan, and under the guidance of Ban Yi, a merchant from Loufan County, they captured Yanmen County and outflanked the eastward advance.
The most critical thing, Guan Ying, went to Shangjun early, led Beidi and Shangjun across the river, and launched a massive outflank along the Zhao Great Wall.
The soldiers are making dangerous moves because they are running out of food. If they fail to win, they may suffer heavy losses. Fortunately, no one got lost this time...
When Mao Dun discovered that he had been deceived, he immediately gave up on Dai Wang Han Guang, who was still fighting the Qin army on Baideng Mountain, and quickly fled north with the Huns.
They were intercepted by Han Xin's troops, and then ran into Guan Ying, who was coming from the clouds with his light cavalry. They fought in Cailiang Mountain, north of Baideng Mountain. Han Xin and Guan Ying cooperated well, and the Huns suffered heavy losses.
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Heifu, on the other hand, first surrendered his subordinates and then led his army to arrive. When he saw the Qin army, he cut off the tail of a gecko, abandoned most of his troops, and headed northeast with only 5,000 cavalry.
After breaking out of the encirclement, a fake tree and a white banner appeared, and the scene of him escaping with his flag down...
The generals of the Qin army happily surrounded Bai Yi, but they found that they were only King Zuo Tuqi of the Xiongnu, and the Yan family of Maodun, that is, Maodun's wife and children.
They were so angry that they scolded Mao Dun for being shameless, abandoning the Shan Yu flag that represented honor, and even sacrificing his own wife and son. They completely forgot that Mao Dun learned this trick from a certain Hei.
Although they left Maodun, most of the Xiongnu were surrounded and annihilated. A rough calculation showed that 2,500 people surrendered, 32,000 prisoners were beheaded, and the five Xiongnu kings, the Shanyu family, the prince, and his wife fifty were captured.
Nine people, generals, households, and sixty-three captains... It took Modu more than ten years to take shape. At least half of the Huns' administrative power was destroyed in this battle!
Han Xin came to report: "Looking at the direction of Mao Dun's escape, he wanted to go to Gaoliusei. According to Manqiuchen, the acting general who surrendered at Zisei to Guan Ying, Mao Dun had nearly 10,000 cavalry and followers in Gaoliu, and he was the most trusted.
The generals on the left and right are in command to provide support."
It is now mid-December, the weather is cold, the ground is freezing, and the snow is heavy. Although the three armies were able to arrive, they suffered heavy losses along the way. Twenty-three people out of ten had their fingers dropped, and thousands were killed...
In addition to the thousands of people who were killed and injured during the battle, the Qin army suffered over 10,000 casualties. This was the price of this battle.
After this battle, the Qin army was exhausted and had to stay in Dai County to rest. It was a bit difficult to go out of the Great Wall to pursue Mao Dun. However, if only Guan Ying was sent to pursue with chariots and cavalry, the number of them would be about the same.
Big, fear of unexpected events, but not beautiful...
Mr. Huang Shi, the adviser next to Heifu, also believed that there was no need to pursue him further, but what he thought of was another reason.
He asked in a low voice: "I dare to ask Duke Xia why he takes Xia as his title?"
Heifu did not hesitate to cover up: "I want to be the common leader of the people of all Xia, so that the people of the world will forget the past national differences and identify with the common identity of China."
Huang Shi said: "But Duke Xia knows how the Xia came to be?"
"In the beginning, there was no such thing as the theory of Zhuxia. The princes of the Zhou emperor had different surnames and clans. The Dukes of Lu and Zhengwei were surnamed Ji after the Zhou people, the Dukes of the Song Dynasty were after the surnames of the Yin people, and the Dukes of Qin were surnamed Yin and Shang.
After the nobles, the Chen family is after Yushun with the surname of Gui, and the Duke of Qi is after the Qiang people with the surname of Jiang. As for the Chinese barbarians in various countries, they are either Zhou people, Yin people, and even Rong, Di and barbarians."
"So in the past, there were only Zhuji and Zhujiang. They were just princes who were entrusted by the Emperor of Zhou. They had a clan lineage but no blood relatives. After hundreds of years, the rituals and music collapsed, and they began to carry out their own affairs, annexing and strife with each other. And
There are people in the country who are savages, and they don’t even understand the language.”
"There was such chaos until a hundred years after King Ping moved eastward, when the Southern Yi and the Northern Di crossed paths, China was like a straight line..."
At that time, the internal and external Rongdi states of the Central Plains launched an attack on the princes of the Zhou Dynasty. Nanman refers to Chu in the south, which claims to be barbarians, and Beidi refers to Chidi, Baidi, Changdi, and Shanrong.
Waiting for the semi-nomadic tribes, they destroyed the Wei and Xing, and even captured Luoyang for a time, and the Emperor of Zhou fled in a hurry.
That's why Guan Zhong's "respect the king and resist the barbarians" came into being. With Duke Huan of Qi as the overlord, he summoned the princes of Zhou to unite to fight against the Southern Barbarians and Beidi!
"The people of Xia are so intimate that you can't abandon them; the Rong, Di and Jackals are people you can't get tired of!"
This was the slogan of Duke Huan of Qi's hegemony. Qi led the princes to conquer the north and south, restored the Xing Guard, expedition to Shanrong, and forced Chu to stop entering Qin, Chen and Cai...
Over the past hundred years, the ideas of Zhu Xia have been deeply ingrained, and they no longer divide each other according to surnames and origins. As long as they follow rituals and music, use crowns and belts, and eat grains, they all call themselves "Zhu Xia", and even the state of Chu has gradually integrated into it.
in this concept.
"That's why Confucius praised Guan Zhong highly and said that I was sent to Zuojun even though Guan Zhong was insignificant! That's why Xia Gong proposed to build Jingbian Temple in his early years, and the first person to worship was Guan Yiwu!"
It is no exaggeration to say that Guan Zhong is China's first national hero.
"I believe that the reason why Zhu Xia is called Zhu Xia is because there are Southern Yi and Northern Di outside, and they have a common enemy!"
Mr. Hei nodded, Zhang Zifang indeed had a unique vision. After jumping out of the narrow vision of "Korean people", his suggestions were mostly far-sighted!
He was right, the so-called nation is an imaginary community.
The reason why we are who we are is not only due to internal factors such as blood, culture, history, etc., but also because Zuojun was fed buttermilk and "they" who have no city walls and farmland are wandering outside!
Huang Shi continued: "Now, Duke Xia wants the people of the seven countries to no longer be enemies of each other. He wants to unify the world, let everyone put aside their long-cherished wishes, and realize that the nine states have the same wind and the same body, and they also need a common enemy."
Heifu once promoted Chu as the common enemy of Qin, Han, and Wei, but he finally accepted Zhang Liang's advice and gave up his harsh treatment and oppression of the Chu people.
After Xiang Ji's death, the hostile regime in the Central Plains ceased to exist.
They must find a new enemy, a common enemy that allows the people of the Seven Kingdoms to put aside their estrangements.
During this trip to the north, Huang Shi felt that he had found it.
"Today's Xiongnu is a ready-made enemy!"
Huang Shi pointed to the Qin army who fought bravely against the enemy in the Battle of Baishan Mountain, the Zhao people who, under Li Zuoche's persuasion, transported grain and fodder to the Qin people, and the Yan and Zhao cavalry recruited by Han Xin in Yan.
Huang Shi lamented: "Before this, I never thought that the people of Qin, Zhao, and Yan could treat the outside world in unison."
Not only Qin and Yan Zhao had a hatred of destroying the country and the country, but Yan and Zhao themselves were beaten to the point of losing their minds, and the people also despised each other. As a prosperous metropolis, the people of Handan Zhao always looked down on the Yan State in the backward areas.
Jicheng.
But now, they fought side by side, sharing weal and woe in the excruciating snowfield, and achieved this great victory.
Huang Shi very much hopes that this scene can continue.
He pointed to the direction in which the Huns were escaping and said: "If we let them go, after this great defeat, half of the Huns' military strength would have been reduced. Even if Maodun was not betrayed by his subordinates, his army would have been broken. The Huns would have been defeated within ten years."
No more trouble. Duke Xia can do more to publicize the evil of the Huns in the country and exaggerate their strength. It only takes one or two generations to make Qin, Zhao, Yan and other border areas become one..."
If there are no enemies, politicians will create enemies or even exaggerate them to achieve their own goals.
This is Heifu's favorite part of "storytelling". There is no doubt that he is the best person in the world at this.
Unanimous foreign policy sounds very good, and the long-term confrontation with the Xiongnu may be an important reason for the seven heroes of the Warring States Period to finally form a nation called "Han".
But Hei Fu still refused Huang Shi's proposal!
"Modu must die."
Heifu has been emphasizing this point, as if he and Mao Dun have a grudge against killing his father and seizing his wife...
There really is.
"This wolf was in the Northland more than ten years ago. I failed to kill it, so it escaped to Mobei to sit in power and returned to the New Qin Dynasty. In the past two years, Mao Dun took advantage of the civil war in the Central Plains and ravaged the border fortress.
How many men were killed and how many women and children were kidnapped?”
"The hatred of the people is my revenge! I must avenge it today!"
"As for what you said, the common enemy of all Xia?"
Heifu pointed to the vast and desolate grassland outside the Great Wall and sighed:
"Don't worry, even if there is no Maodun, or even no Xiongnu, new tribes and new enemies will continue to appear on the grassland!"
Xianbei, Diqiang, Rouran, Turks, Mongolia, one after another. Historically, the Central Plains dynasties also tried to annex, farm, massacre, and occupy. But when one tribe died, new tribes would rise and reunify the grasslands. In the past
The herdsman named Xiongnu changed his name and became Xianbei...
Even though Heifu is a time traveler, he cannot change this general trend.
Farming and nomadism are not determined by blood or ethnicity.
It's determined by lifestyle.
Because as long as the climate remains unchanged, the 400 mm precipitation line will be firmly fixed on the line of the Great Wall. It will be nomadic in the north and farming in the south. The production methods and production relations will never be changed.
Even if Heifu throws millions of Qin people into the deep grasslands north of Yinshan Mountain, if they want to survive there, they can only live a life of nomadic hunting. When a few generations pass, these people will also convert to the life of the grasslands.
Way, alienated from the Central Plains, becoming a nomadic nightmare more terrifying than the Huns...
The Central Plains way cannot survive in that land, and the Xia people who enter will eventually turn into barbarians.
Just like the barbarians who entered the Central Plains, over time, they will eventually become Chinese. Those who cannot be Chinese will soon lose their footing and be driven back to their hometowns.
The nomadic lifestyle has strengthened their warlike character and militarized management. After all, the most basic life skills are to move quickly, set up camp quickly, break camp, pack belongings efficiently, etc., and their daily training is to drive herds of cattle.
Sheep, fighting wild beasts.
This group of nomadic cavalry has an extremely huge advantage when facing ordinary farmers who have been dealing with the land all their lives. However, farmers can only rely on the huge population gap and use huge finances to support professional frontier troops and technology that surpasses the nomads.
Weapons to fight against.
They will fight like this for two thousand years.
Until gunpowder becomes popular in the world, any farmer with a little training can knock down an enemy who has only been trained to shoot a bow on a horse with one shot. Only the population and technological advantages of farmers can completely crush the nomads, thus ending this war.
Thousand Years of War...
So, Hu has no one, and Han Dao is prosperous? It sounds domineering, but it is actually a dream that can never be realized. Instead of thinking about how to spread salt on the grassland to turn it into a desert, build the Great Wall, and enclose the land for farming, in
Climbing the technology tree honestly is the cheapest and most realistic way...
"My ambition is not as great as that of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. I cannot conquer the vast sea in the north, drive out the Xiongnu, and turn the grasslands into cultivated land."
As Hei Fu spoke, he gave Guan Ying the order to pursue him. He even got out of the car and asked someone to put his four horses on the military chariot! He also handed over all the horses that were not frozen to death to Guan Ying's men.
Use it!
"I just ask that Mao Dun, the so-called proud son of the emperor, be killed within the Great Wall, no matter the cost."
"Let all the nomads who covet the wealth of the Central Plains remember this lesson, and let them return the abducted people obediently! Let us make sure that within thirty years, the barbarians will not dare to go south to herd horses, and the scholars will not dare to bend their bows.
Complain!”
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"The wild geese fly high in the dark moon, and the Chanyu escapes in the night..."
It is said that many years ago, during the military parade when Emperor Qin Shihuang welcomed Li Xin, Heifu, and Meng Tian in triumph, Heifu asked his northern cavalry to sing it, and it was later spread to the Xiongnu.
Maodun often asked a Yan musician who was living in the Xiongnu to sing this song to him, so as not to forget the shame!
Shan Yuting was trampled on, and the Huns fled the shame of their homeland!
But now, although no one has opened their voices to sing, the sound of singing has been lingering in Maodun's ears.
He escaped again.
The first time he escaped was after being framed by Chen Ping's suicide note, Weitouman sent people to hunt him down. As a last resort, Maodun took his newlywed wife and a few cronies across the desert to seek refuge with the Yuezhi King. He did not hesitate to sacrifice his wife and famous horses for this purpose.
The second time was when he borrowed Yuezhi soldiers and killed Touman in Ju Yanze, gathered the remnants of the Huns, avoided Li Xin and Heifu who were constantly chasing him, and went to the bitter cold of Mubei.
, it was a great migration filled with death, and it was also the beginning of the rebirth of the Xiongnu...
Now he has escaped again, just like his father Touman. After a huge defeat, he lost most of his tribe, even the Yan family, his son, and even the white banner and eagle crown that symbolized the Great Chanyu.
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It was humiliating, but Mao Dun could only hold the horse tightly, break through the encirclement with the remaining troops, run wildly to the northeast, and told himself:
"As long as you survive, you can make a comeback!"
The Yan family can find new ones, and the sons can have more than a dozen.
Mao Dun felt that he could afford to wait. He had previously plundered nearly 100,000 people from the northern counties of the Qin Dynasty and brought them into the grassland. Most of them were women. They would give birth to new Hu'er for the Huns, and the foals deep in the grassland
, will grow up one day!
Thinking of this, Mao Dun couldn't help but feel grateful for his foresight. The total number of Xiongnu cavalry and followers he brought south was 70,000.
Fifty thousand were stationed at Baishan Mountain, and ten thousand were scattered in the east, south, west, and north as a warning.
But there are still 10,000 cavalry, led by the generals on the left and right, staying at Gaoliu Station where they entered the fortress, in case of any eventuality...
Now, although Mao Dun only has more than 5,000 cavalry left, and the Qin army's cavalry in the rear are still pursuing him more than ten miles away, as long as he can escape to Gaoliu, he can gather his troops and repel the pursuers.
Then immediately leave the territory of this terrible Great Wall and return to Shan Yuting. Regardless of whether it is still there or not, Mao Dun will not stay at the southern foot of Yin Mountain for long. He will immediately go north to the Gobi, return to Mobei, lick his wounds, and wait for more than ten years.
Rise again later!
This idea was very strong, and Mao Dun firmly believed that he could rise again and become even more powerful, until he saw the billowing smoke of Gaoliusei in the distance, and met the right general who arrived in embarrassment and thousands of remnants who retreated south in a hurry...
"Da Chanyu! We encountered the enemy. More than ten thousand cavalry suddenly attacked from the northeast. We fought hard for half a day. Gaoliu has been lost, and we can't get out of the Great Wall!"
The right general rolled his saddle and dismounted, bowed in front of Mao Dun, and slammed his head into the snow. There were wounds on his body, and drops of blood fell on the white snow.
"More than ten thousand cavalry, are they the Qin army?"
Mao Dun found it a bit unreasonable. The Qin army could come from the southeast, the west, or even come from the northwest along the Great Wall. But how could it be possible from the northeast? Logically speaking, there are no enemies there, only their potential allies.
, at least this is what Kuai Che analyzed...
But General You's words made Mao Dun feel despair.
"It's the Qin army, but, it's not Heifu's new Qin, but... the Qin of the two Liaos!"