svetikya Chapter 318
Chapter 318
When Li Guanghong and his group heard the news, they were a little uncertain at first, but after the analysis of Zhang Mingshan and his senior brothers, they brought him a surprise
! Under Zhang Mingshan's analysis, this news is very vague on the surface, but the amount of information behind it is very large!
First of all, the small tribe determined that these people were Han soldiers and pawns, and they were collectively captured alive, which means that these Han troops must be led by leaders, otherwise in the absence of leaders, they would not have fled thousands of miles in an organized way, and they would have long since collapsed in place and looked for a way to survive;
secondly, they were driven to the northeast of Hanhai, rather than killed on the spot, which further shows that there must be officers here! And the reason why the Xiongnu cavalry drove them to the direction of Hanhai was to sacrifice them to the Xiongnu royal court——
Dragon City did not have a fixed place before, specifically referring to the place where the Xiongnu king Shan Yu was stationed, and later, with the unification of the Xiongnu by Shan Yu, he defeated Donghu to the east; to the west, he forced the Yue people to move west; to the south, they annexed Loufu, Baiyang, and besieged Han Gaozu in Baidengshan, and conquered Hunyu and Hu to the north. The five kingdoms such as Qu Shu realized the formal unification of the Xiongnu in the north, and established two royal courts, one in the south and one in the north, called Touman City (in the area of present-day Baotou), and the northern one was Longcheng (about 200 kilometers southwest of present-day Ulaanbaatar).
In the fourth year of Yuangari, after the Great Battle of Mobei, the head of Mancheng was returned to the king, and the Xiongnu Empire only had the Northern King Court - Dragon City left
! The Xiongnu have fought with the Han army for a hundred years, and they have admired and admired the military technology and tactics of the Han army for a long time, and they feel that the Han people are noble from their hearts, as long as they capture the Han army generals, no matter how murderous and inhuman they were when they slaughtered the Xiongnu before, they can be blamed in the past, as long as they can serve the Xiongnu, then immediately seal the official! !
Before Li Guang was captured by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu respected him very much, and even the defense was very lax, he ran away, the Marquis of Xunye Zhao Ponu killed countless Xiongnu, and when he was caught, he did not surrender, and cursed the Xiongnu alone, and was also a guest, and later ran back.
(To make a digression, Zhao Ponu grew up in the grassland since he was a child, and he is most likely not Han himself, but later joined the Han army and made up a place of origin in Taiyuan, Shanxi, in fact, it was to hide people's eyes and ears, and it did not prevent him from being a marquis and a general! At that time, no one was more true in terms of origin and bloodline, and obeying the Han law and abiding by the Han system was a Han people, and the Han Empire was so broad-minded!)
In addition, Li Guanghong's eldest brother
Li Ling, who is still serving as the king of the Xiongnu, is not an empty king, but a heavy minister with real power! Speaking of Li Guanghong's eldest brother Li Ling, it is a human tragedy!
Li Ling surrendered with all his strength at that time, in fact, with the intention of imitating the story of his grandfather Li Guang, he chose the opportunity to escape from the Xiongnu, but because the Xiongnu escaped the captured Han generals one after another, even if he was a fool, he knew that he could not be taken precautions, so he guarded him quite strictly.
After more than a year, Li Ling had not yet found an opportunity to escape, but as a result, the news came that his whole family had been slaughtered, and Li Ling was immediately blinded and resentful! After that
, a Han envoy went to the Xiongnu, and Li Ling said to the envoy: "I am a Han general who marched 5,000 people to run amok with the Xiongnu, and I was defeated by death to save me, so why lose to the Han and accuse my family?"
Li Xu was stationed in Xihou City, and the Xiongnu came to attack and surrendered, and the official position in the Xiongnu was still above Li Ling at that time!
Even so, Shan Yu still protected him, married his daughter to him, made him the king of the right school, and established Wei Lu as the king of Ding Ling, becoming the real power king of the Xiongnu at that time....
Since it is determined that Li Shi is most likely alive, he must go to the rescue, but he must make perfect plans.
Li Guanghong's journey to the west, dignified under the banner of the Han family, because whether it is Guzi, who is wholeheartedly towards the Han, or Wusun, who is eyeing the Xiongnu, is very afraid of the Han army, and does not dare to provoke easily, only a small number of nomadic Xiongnu tribes who come south will take the initiative to attack them because they have been fighting with the Han for a hundred years and have accumulated a lot of grievances, in general, as long as they do not enter the territory of the Xiongnu north, they are really fearless!
However, if they swagger all the way north, the fool will know that it is no different from sending them to death....
At this time, we can see the importance of
Zhang Mingshan coming with him! Just when Li Guanghong was desperate to break into the north, and the others could not come up with any good ideas, he had to rely on Zhang Mingshan, who had traversed various countries for many years and was very savvy and calculating, to come up with a plan
! Zhang Mingshan called everyone together and planned a grand "conspiracy"
! First, Zhang Mingshan analyzed the current situation for them and the situation of his own group!
These 88 people, with little strength, hanging alone in the desert north, like candles in the wind, there is a dangerous road ahead, no reinforcements behind, and there is not much food and grass, so they went all the way to Dragon City, it is estimated that all of them will die halfway, let alone rescue Li Shi!
Second, Zhang Mingshan told them in detail about the situation of the Xiongnu Empire, so that they had a general understanding of the future struggle environment!"
Above Tang Yu, there are mountain rong, lynx, and meat porridge, living in Beibaran, and moving with animal husbandry..."
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The Xiongnu, the result of a confederation of nomadic tribes in northern China, are not a state in the exact sense.
The Xiongnu rose with the unification of the Qin Empire, and from the historical origin, the birth of the Xiongnu Empire is also related to the rise and continuous westward expansion of the Qin and Han dynasties! In the past, the range of activities of nomadic tribes was mainly in the grassland area under the plateau, which was not only arid and rainy, but also extremely unstable rainfall, and whenever winter turned to spring, it was necessary to deal with sudden snowstorms at any time. The environment is very difficult and difficult, and the search for pasture for livelihood will inevitably lead to conflicts over pasture. Even the tribes within the Xiongnu are mostly enemies and friends
, in addition, the Xiongnu rely on their own production alone, there is no way to obtain the necessary materials for life, such as salt, iron, tea, medicinal herbs, wood, spices, clay pots, etc., these are all critical things that determine the survival of a tribe, but they need to rely on trade with the Han people for a long time!
However, trade is not a safe way for these nomadic tribes, because there is too much uncertainty about the surplus that the tribes can use for exchange. A blizzard may kill or injure most of the tribe's cattle and sheep, and there is simply not enough capital to trade, in this case, there is no other way but to rob!
As a result, first the unification of Qin, then the unification of Han, the armed forces of the border plug began to improve, and the robbery of a single tribe in the grassland faced a sharp increase in risk, so, forced by the situation, the nomadic tribes also began to unite, this is the prototype of the Xiongnu Empire, the so-called Shan Yu, and this king, that king, in fact, is the commander of the organized armed robbery, the leader of the larger tribe
! ! On weekdays, these tribes lived in the vast desert north, and only when there was a disaster year, or when there was turmoil within the Han Empire, the loose tribes sent their respective men to gather together and form a joint force...
With Zhang Mingshan's narration, Li Guanghong's eyes are getting brighter and brighter
! He has been fighting wits and courage with his teacher for many years, playing tricks with his heart, and he really knows the character of his mentor too well
! His own teacher is sanctimonious, but he has a bad stomach, intrigue and trickery come and go, and many of them are very shady, sometimes Li Guanghong secretly thinks that the reason why his teacher is old and lonely is definitely because of retribution, and he has done too many lack of virtue
! ! Even for his own disciples, he is playing with his heart all day, such as the first time he was beaten, if it were not for the teacher's understated connivance at the beginning, how could he have the audacity to miss class?
These guys are so bad....
Zhang Mingshan's scheme was quickly implemented, Li Guanghong took the lead in shaving, and the whole hairstyle similar to the Xiongnu tribe with bare middle and four sides of braid was made, plus he himself had a bearded face, which could not be more similar - this hairstyle is also because the helpless move of the Xiongnu people who do not bathe almost all their lives, in order not to raise lice, later became a custom, but it was laughed at by the Han!
The woman's name is "Wasu", the man's twenty crowns, etc., all come around the hair, now let them shave....
Among Li Guanghong's senior brothers, there are a few who have the toughest style, with black faces, gritting their teeth, and shaving their hair first, and then, several of them have become the stars of others, grabbing one at will, and no matter how he cries and struggles, he starts to shave his hair when he falls down....
As more and more people shaved their hair, those few who insisted on not shaving became the target of everyone, until finally, 87 people, all staring at Zhang Mingshan, who was still happy to watch the lively at the beginning, looked at the tiger and sharpened the knife Huo Huo...
In the end, 88 people transformed into a Xiongnu tribe, the name is ready-made, just with Li Guanghong called "Gohana tribe", from the distant Yue clan, the ancestor was driven to the west by Mutun Shan Yu, and now he wants to return to Hanhai!
Zhang Mingshan is their old leader, and Li Guanghong is their young leader, each of them also took the name of the Xiongnu, and the gang also changed their black clothes and replaced them with the leather jackets and leather pants of the Xiongnu, and the body was full of smell, like can no longer be like
Of course, tribes like them, which are all men, don't think about it, there must be fraud, so, in the process of traveling north, they saw a small tribe, attacked and annexed it, and then drove the men of the small tribe to continue to annex other tribes they saw on the road....
In this way, walking and walking, they turned into a large tribe of nearly 10,000 people, and because the scale was too large, it was impossible to gather and graze, divided into four parts, east and west, Li Guanghong personally led more than 20 senior brothers to sit in the front, sent reconnaissance horses everywhere, and searched and advanced in front; Zhang Mingshan led more than 30 senior brothers to sit in the rear, most of the grain and grass were heavy, Cattle, sheep, livestock and important supplies were concentrated in the rear, while the east and west wings were commanded by Hu warriors recruited by Senior Brother and Li Guanghong, respectively, on a relatively small scale, whose main task was to graze war horses, and when necessary, cooperate with the front to carry out flank attacks.
Li Guanghong integrated such a great force, and it took nearly two years to train troops while walking, and they actually allowed them to train a grassland powerhouse by the way!
According to his teacher Zhang Mingshan, the elite level of this cavalry, unless it encounters the same number of soldiers and horses of his own unit, there is basically no problem in traversing the grassland!
In the fourth year of the first century, that is, in 83 BC, after a long journey of two years, spanning 3,000 li, they finally came to the northern royal court of the Xiongnu Empire - Dragon City, also known as the "Hanhai King Court" in the mouth of the Xiongnu!
Li Guanghong led his troops to the grassland less than 200 miles away from the Xiongnu's royal court, but was prevented from moving forward by the soldiers and horses of Shan Yu's headquarters, and let the head of the tribe go to the royal court to see Shan Yu!
In fact, when they approached the royal court 500 li, they sent several messengers, drove some cattle, sheep and horses as gifts, and went to the royal court first to make a report, expressing their willingness to return north to Hanhai's hometown, and Juyan Shan Yu out of caution sent 2,000 cavalry to monitor the guard at 200 li to prevent accidents!
These things were already expected by Zhang Mingshan, and he also expected that Hu Yan Shan Yu would definitely not easily let these ten thousand people return north, but would let them graze 200 miles south of Dragon City, and the tribe who did not know the details was still so powerful, it must be placed under the nose to be reassuring...
Li Guanghong and Zhang Mingshan, with ten senior brothers and ten Hu warriors, traveled for two days under the leadership of Shan Yu's guards, and finally saw the legendary Hanhai King Court
! Li Guanghong looked at the various domed tents of different colors and a little mess in front of him, a little speechless and very disappointed!
It is on the stone piers made of stone, erected one by one large trees, and then hundreds of steps to build watchtowers, between the watchtowers tied wooden fences, and then planted some poplars and other straight small trees, forming the so-called wooden wall, through the huge gap of the wooden wall, you can see the situation in the city....
The city is also a variety of colors of dome tents, but the arrangement is much more neat than outside the city, vertical columns, horizontal rows, tents also formed roads, but are all people stepped on the mud road, this if it rains, it must be muddy, only the road into the city, cushioned with stones, and nailed some stakes on both sides, presumably used to tie horses....
Zhang Mingshan took advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention, and turned Li Guanghong with his elbow, signaling him not to be disappointed too obviously, but to pretend to be shocked, which is like a small tribal leader who has never seen the market, not a Han...
Therefore, they made a fuss and shouted all the way, completely playing the role of Xiongnu who did not understand the rules, did not know respect and humility, and were used to wandering freely, and came to the "royal court" under the leadership of the disdainful Shan Yu guards
! The so-called royal court is a large tent, followed by a series of smaller tents, but unlike ordinary tents, it has a wall, and the whole is built on a wooden wall, which is much stronger and larger than ordinary tents
! ! Of course, no matter how big it is, it is also a tent....