However, although Xunxu felt very embarrassed, he still had to report the situation to Maodun Shanyu truthfully, including Geyu's surrender to the Qin army.
Xunxu had to report it, because it was a matter for tens of thousands of troops. Even if he didn't report it, he couldn't hide it from Maodun Shanyu, and Shanyu would eventually know the truth.
When Mo Dun Chanyu heard about this, he was furious. He was so angry that he knocked the food on the table to the ground and cursed:
"Incompetent bungler!"
"How dare you make your own decisions without telling me!"
"If you can let go of things like this, how can the Huns have any rules?"
Then he shouted "Here comes someone!".
His subordinates hurried forward and knelt down.
However, Maodun Shanyu thought about it for a while, and finally endured this tone, gritted his teeth and said:
"Get down!"
Zuo Xian Wang Jizhu asked doubtfully:
"Chanyu, King Youxian made such a big mistake, why should you spare him?"
Maodun Chanyu sighed and replied:
"Although King Youxian made a big mistake, he still has a heavy army to guard the west."
"Forcing him to a desperate situation and rebelling at this time... will cause serious problems."
Only then did Jizhu understand Maodun's concerns, and at the same time he also realized that although he was a Chanyu, he could not do whatever he wanted to do.
For example, now, if King Youxian is to be punished, what crime should be punished?
A charge that is neither light nor serious will have no impact on King Youxian at all, while a charge that is too serious will force him to rebel.
It would be better if the two armies were together in peacetime. Maodun Shanyu's army could suppress King Youxian's army, and King Youxian had to obey.
But now, King Youxian is far away in the Western Region, while Maodun's army is being restrained by the main force of the Qin army in Yinshan Mountain. If he is not careful, the whole army will be annihilated.
In fact, what shocked Mao Dun more, or what could be said to be his concern, was not Xun Xun's defeat, or even Xun Xun's disobedience of orders and his own actions.
It should be said that the defeat was expected by Mao Dun. After all, Xun Hao was facing Shen Bing. Even Mao Dun Shanyu himself had suffered several losses from Shen Bing. How could Xun Hao be his opponent?
Although Xun Hao disobeyed orders and took action on his own, although Mao Dun had not expected it, it was understandable from Xun Hao's point of view... With an absolute advantage in military strength, few people would be able to resist this temptation.
Maodun's concerns came more from the fact that Ge Yu's 10,000 Xiongnu surrendered to the Qin army.
This has never happened before.
The Xiongnu and the Central Plains armies have always been at odds with each other and hated each other to the core. If they captured each other's prisoners, they would either dehumanize them into slaves and torture them to death or leave them alive.
Under this "hidden rule", the Central Plains and the Huns did not need to worry about "surrender".
Because everyone knows that surrender will not lead to any good results.
But now, the Huns have taken the lead in surrendering, and the surrender cost ten thousand. The first person to surrender is still valued and promoted as a warrior... Geyu was appointed by Maodun to become the captain of ten thousand men.
It would have been fine if the Qin army had killed all these surrendered soldiers, but it is said that they were not beheaded but rather given preferential treatment.
Now the impact will be huge...
In the future, when the Huns fight against the Qin army, they will think like this:
It doesn't matter if you can't win, in the worst case, you will surrender, and you can still find a way to survive with the Qin army.
Therefore, every time there was a battle, the Huns soldiers no longer had the will to win, let alone the belief that they would die.
This is also one of the reasons why Maodun Shanyu did not dare to surrender to Xun Yu... What if Xun Yu was forced into a panic and he directly led his troops to surrender to the Qin army?
Therefore, Maodun Shanyu decided to weaken the handling of the matter, that is, to put all the blame on Ge Yu to excuse Xun Hao.
So not only did he not blame Xun Hao, but he comforted Xun Hao and even gave him some gifts.
If there is any punishment, it is to order Xunxun to arrest Ge Yu's relatives and question them.
But Xunxu was not a fool. He knew that Modun Shanyu was so uncharacteristically not blaming himself, but he was actually afraid of him, which meant that he did not regard him as one of his own.
So when he received the gift, he just sighed without saying anything, and just followed Maodun Chanyu's order and ransacked Geyu's house.
Shen Bing didn't know what happened to the Xiongnu.
The first thing he had to do was to surrender the Xiongnu troops and settle them down.
Shen Bing knew that the better these Huns surrendered, the greater the blow to the Huns.
This does not mean that many Huns will die, but it will have an unparalleled impact on morale.
Therefore, Shen Bing kept his promise. After Ge Yu led his troops to Jiaohe, Shen Bing returned all the weapons to the surrendering army.
In addition, what was handed over to the hands of the surrendering army was the walled city built by the Qin army and the tens of thousands of cattle and sheep left in Jiaohe.
With these fortresses, cattle and sheep, water and grass crossing the river, and weapons in their hands, the Xiongnu surrendering army can almost be said to have formed a separate force of its own.
Of course, both Shen Bing and Ge Yu knew that it was still early for the Huns to surrender their troops to the "separatist forces".
First of all, there is no war horse.
Secondly, it is impossible to smelt iron to make equipment.
Again, the arrows cannot be replenished.
Under these three points, the Xiongnu surrendered troops were actually very fragile and could not stop any attack by the Qin army.
In other words, the weapons in the hands of the Xiongnu surrendered troops actually only increased some sense of security.
But what the Huns needed most when surrendering their troops was a sense of security.
So Ge Yu knew that it was enough to have these, at least they didn't have to worry about survival... If the Qin army wanted to kill them, there was no need to go to the trouble of returning their weapons to them and giving cattle and sheep to the city wall.
The Qin army did their best and stationed themselves in Gushi City.
On the one hand, this is because there are not many soldiers and civilians left in Daomingjun's line... Before, there were still thousands of people gathered, but due to Daominjun's rush to restore the country and return to his disciples, only the surviving ones were left. There were more than 500 pitiful people, and most of them were wounded and had long lost their combat effectiveness.
If the Qin army stops stationing in Gushi, Gushi will become an empty city and will never be able to regain its vitality.
On the other hand, Xiang Shanjun has great trust in Shen Bing, not only Xiang Shanjun, but also the soldiers and civilians who follow him.
Needless to say the reason for this is because Shen Bing successfully snatched them back from the Huns.
Even the good lord of the village and the lord of the Tao people were alienated.
Because Xiang Shanjun believed that the reason why my aunt was tortured by the Huns was because of Daominjun... This idea is actually correct, it was indeed Daominjun who harmed them.
Shen Bing was also happy that Xiang Shanjun thought this way, so he instead supported Xiang Shanjun and asked him to recruit his uncle's old troops to serve the Qin army.
Of course, what Shen Bing said was not "serving the Qin army", but "jointly resisting the Xiongnu".
Sometimes it is a good thing to have the enemy the Xiongnu: with this enemy and this pressure, Shen Bing can unite all the countries in the Western Regions under his own tent.
At this moment, the news that Ge Yu was executed by his entire family reached Shen Bing's ears.
Shen Bing secretly thought that he came at the right time, and then sent someone to ask Ge Yu to come.