There are no gorgeous words in Shen Bing's letter, and there are not too many facts and truths. He is not even talking about King Youxian but Ge Yu.
But the key to the problem is Ge Yu.
Because many people in the Huns, including King Youxian, would take Ge Yu as a reference before making decisions.
Now that Shen Bing had made the issue of Ge Yu clear in his letter, the concerns of King Youxian and all his subordinates were relieved.
Then King Youxian and others heard that the Qin army was treating herders and even useless old people well in the Longcheng area, so their focus quickly shifted to surrendering to the Qin army.
Finally, after several days of discussion with his subordinates, King Youxian decided to lead his troops to surrender to the Qin army.
As soon as the news reached Longcheng, the three armies of Longcheng immediately cheered.
For Shen Bing.
In addition to the actual benefits of King Youxian's surrender to Qin, such as the addition of more than 30,000 brave and capable Xiongnu cavalry, other benefits were even more attractive.
Thirty thousand Hun cavalry were just the icing on the cake for Shen Bing.
Although cavalry is very important, the main purpose of cavalry is to deal with the Huns.
Now that the Huns have fled Europe, the number of cavalry is not so important.
There are two main other benefits:
The first is to make all countries in the Western Region completely surrender.
Needless to say the reason for this is that all the countries in the Western Regions thought that the Xiongnu were stronger than the Qin army, so most of them sided with the Xiongnu.
Now the Qin army not only defeated the Xiongnu, but also King Youxian surrendered to Qin... This also means that the Xiongnu has reached the end of their rope, so what else can they think about, but to follow the Qin army with all their heart.
Another interest is the Xiongnu herdsmen stranded south of Longcheng.
There are quite a few of these Xiongnu herdsmen, especially since it is already autumn and the weather is about to turn cold. More than half of the Xiongnu herdsmen have moved from the north to the south.
Modun Shanyu took several groups with him when he evacuated, but about 300,000 people were still stranded.
If King Youxian refuses to surrender, these 300,000 Huns herdsmen will become a group of unstable factors...
The years of hatred between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu have made the people distrust each other, so these Xiongnu herdsmen will definitely look for any opportunity to escape and flee.
It would be fine if they could escape. The problem was that Yanran Mountain and Langjuxu Mountain were in the middle, and Dragon City was in the hands of the Qin army. It would be difficult for these herdsmen to escape if they wanted to.
Then what should Shen Bing do with these herdsmen who regard the Qin army as a scourge?
How many times did you go back and forth to clean it up?
This can indeed be done. Although the grassland is very wide and it is very difficult for the herdsmen to come and go like the wind, it is only a matter of time.
The question is, what is the point of the suppression?
For the cattle, sheep and horses in the hands of herdsmen?
Or should we drive out the herdsmen who have no power to fight back?
As soon as King Youxian surrendered, these problems were solved.
Shen Bing can establish a puppet government based on King Youxian in the grassland and hand over these Xiongnu herdsmen to King Youxian to manage... The herdsmen are worried that the Qin army will be detrimental to them. If King Youxian makes such a transition, , it is much easier to accept.
As a result, the political situation in the grassland will stabilize in a short period of time.
Shen Bing thinks this way:
The territory east of the grassland, which was the original Donghu, was handed over to King Youxian.
The area around Longcheng was handed over to the Yueshi.
The west side was given to the countries in the Western Regions to divide it among themselves.
The reason for this allocation is that the strategically important Dragon City cannot be handed over to King Youxian.
On the one hand, this was because he was worried that King Youxian would once again have something to do with Maodun Shanyu after he occupied this place.
In other words, King Youxian didn't want to have any contact, but there were always people in his command who were interested in Maodun Shanyu, so he secretly contacted Maodun and even cooperated with him to seize Longcheng.
On the other hand, as mentioned before, Dragon City is the holy city of the Xiongnu. If this area is given to the Xiongnu, it will definitely play into the Xiongnu's ambitions, and there will be no conflict between the various tribes.
This is not what Shen Bing wants to see.
At the same time, the countries in the Western Region are not strong enough and can easily be defeated individually.
Only the Yuezhi, a nomadic people who had the strength to fight the Huns, could suppress King Youxian.
So Yuezhi became the best choice.
It can be imagined that King Youxian must have been unwilling to accept the Yuezhi's occupation of the holy city of the Xiongnu. In addition, the Yuezhi and the Yuezhi were mortal enemies, so friction was inevitable.
There is friction between them and they often quarrel, so Shen Bing is easier to control, or it can be said to mediate and benefit from both sides.
As for the countries in the Western Region...the only ones left are the west. At the same time, the countries in the Western Region are closer to the west of the grassland, so of course they are more willing to choose the west.
Even in this way, the Gobi between the Western Regions and the grasslands belongs to the Western Regions.
Although these Gobi deserts are of little value, and they are of little value to this era, no one would think that the territory is too big.
But of course, these are not things Shen Bing can decide.
Shen Bing wrote a memorial in detail about the outcome of the war and the cutting plan, and sent a horse to Xianyang for Ying Zheng to make a decision.
While going back and forth with the memorial, Shen Bing also asked King Youxian, Yuezhi and other countries in the Western Regions for their opinions.
All parties were very satisfied with Shen Bing's arrangement, especially the Yuezhi.
No wonder the Yuezhi were satisfied. The reason why Longcheng was regarded as a holy city by the Xiongnu was not only because it was a strategic location, but also because its southern side had beautiful water, fertile grass and flat terrain. It had always been a battleground for nomads. Compared with the Yuezhi The oasis on the sandbank where we are now is many times better.
How could the Yuezhi have anything to say if they got this precious land for nothing?
There is not much to say about the Western Regions.
They are different from Yuezhi.
The Yueshi gave up the sandbanks and moved all of them to Longcheng, so there was no problem of geographical separation.
The countries in the Western Region are unwilling to give up their current location, so naturally they can only divide their interests in the west.
If anyone is dissatisfied, it is King Youxian.
The Holy City was given to the Yuezhi... no one would be happy.
But how dare King Youxian have any opinions!
It would be great if the defeated general can survive, but how can he expect to divide the Holy City?
Fusu and Yang Duanhe arrived on the third day after Shen Bing and his party entered Longcheng.
As soon as Fusu saw Shen Bing, he stepped forward to greet him:
"Long time no see, General, please don't come."
Shen Bing quickly saluted and said:
"Everything is well with you, I'm thinking of you, sir!"
Yang Duanhe laughed loudly and said:
"The general is indeed very brave."
"I also said that I am going to have a fierce battle with the Xiongnu this time, and I am ready to be wrapped in horse leather."
"I don't want the Huns to win without even seeing a few of them."
"I've been wondering all the way. The Huns were so difficult to deal with in the past, but why are they so easy to fight this time?"
Fusu smiled and said:
"Who has experienced fighting against a general?"
Yang Duanhe nodded in agreement.
Shen Bing just sighed in his heart:
Fusu and Yang Duanhe only knew the ease of this battle, but they did not see the dangers along the way!