radicalducati Chapter 325
Chapter 325
After Zhang Mingshan's death, the situation in the Xiongnu temporarily stabilized.
In order to implement the policy of his mentor Zhang Mingshan to develop westward, Li Ling, Wei Lu, and Li Guanghong held a secret meeting in early 74 BC during the annual Longcheng Alliance to discuss the further weakening and disintegration of the Xiongnu Empire and the future arming and cooperation of the two Li Yiwei troops.
More than two dozen core decision-makers from the Western Sect of the Mo Family, as well as the group of strategists who inherited the Ghost Valley, also attended the meeting, and the central topic of the meeting was how to deal with the post-war problems of the Xiongnu.
After more than five years of bitter back and forth and fighting each other, the most elite and most experienced soldiers of the Xiongnu have basically suffered casualties, replaced by a brand new Xiongnu cavalry brought out by the western vein of the Mo family, these cavalry must not only receive military literacy education, but also receive Xiongnu education with Han culture as the core, in addition to the appearance of the Xiongnu, its soul is already half of the Han family!
In fact, the civil war hurt the Xiongnu Empire the most, but the loss of population cattle and sheep.
According to the statistical analysis of the Mexicans, in the five-year civil war, the population of the Xiongnu Empire plummeted by about 40%, and the scale of cattle, sheep and horses was estimated to have decreased even more.
In addition, this civil war also completely destroyed the confidence of the Xiongnu in the empire, especially the stereotypical customs of the steppe tribes are deeply hateful and hateful, such as the slaughter and wanton robbery and destruction between tribes, robbing the other party's population, especially women as slaves, arbitrary humiliation and abuse, etc., which has dealt a huge blow to the agricultural and animal husbandry production of the Xiongnu Empire!
The public opinion of the entire Xiongnu Empire, under the intentional guidance of Mojia, began to criticize this ugly war, and advocated new trends of thought such as love, non-attack, shangxian, shangtong, thrift, frugality, frugality, non-pleasure, and non-life, etc., rose in the grassland, and war-weariness was high!
At this meeting, Li Guanghong proposed to make strategic adjustments according to the latest form of development, focusing on appeasement and pacification for the eastern region where Han culture is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and trying to introduce Han people, realize mixed Han-Hungarian habitation, and accelerate the integration process, especially for the grassland area near Youzhou, further Chinese language education, etc., while for the western region, further oppress the Xiongnu to migrate west, with this as the precursor. Then conquer Kangju (present-day Central Asia) and the Kushan Empire, which has recently become popular! (Note)
Li Ling and Wei Lu, who were already in their seventies, completely obeyed Li Guanghong's planning and arrangement, and said that they would hand over half of their soldiers and horses to Li Guanghong's disposal.
Li Ling and Wei Lu had already secretly joined the Moxi lineage, and according to the rules of the Mo family, they should also obey the arrangement of Li Guanghong.
The current Hu Yan Shan Yu is basically an empty single Yu, except for less than 10,000 personal soldiers, there is almost no force, and this 10,000 personal soldiers, they are all selected by Li Ling and Wei Lu to help him, and the people's hearts are back, which can be imagined.
But after all, the time for the Huns to be indoctrinated was too short, and among the nobles and upper officials, there were still diehards who missed the good old days, so they could not be taken lightly. If Li Ling and Wei Lu were to guard the central and eastern regions separately, it would not be impossible for Li Guanghong to establish a large rear and strategic depth for Li Guanghong, and to further oppress the living space of King Zuoxian and King Li of Right Gu through the northwest, and even directly force him to surrender to the Han Empire.
As for that day by day king, this guy is now precarious, and he is afraid of Er Li Yiwei going to attack him all day, and he has already begun to make eye contact with the Han Empire, and intends to get closer to the Han Empire....
After this meeting, Li Lingweili began to hand over power to Li Guanghong, and spent nearly a year carrying out large-scale tribal migration and defense changes, disrupting the inherent territory between the original Xiongnu tribes and completely destroying the foundation of their alliance...
During the period, an interesting thing happened, that is, Li Ling and Huo Guang cooperated for the first time, staged a north-south doubles, and beat the newly rising Wuhuan in the northeast of the Han Empire to fat!
Wuhuan, also known as "Karasuma", was originally a Hu people active in the area of Wuhuan Mountain (present-day southern end of the Daxing'an Ridge), living by nomadic fishing and hunting, due to the internal war of the Xiongnu and the strategic contraction of the Han Empire since the "Luntai Edict", there was a power vacuum in the northeast, so Wuhuan took the opportunity to rise, and its territory was bordered by Rulou, Fuyu, Goguryeo, etc. in the east, the Xiongnu in the west, and Youzhou in the south.
Wuhuan rose quickly, and in a few years of hard work, he laid such a big river, he was a little floating, and began to launch a tentative attack on the Han Empire, the most serious one, dispatched nearly 20,000 people, attacked several towns in Youzhou, killed and plundered thousands of people, and caused a lot of trouble to the Han Empire.
Because the center of gravity of the Han Empire was in Chang'an, its military strength was mainly deployed in the central and western regions, and the northeast was empty, and it took almost a year to transfer heavy troops.
Huo Guang vaguely knew that Li Ling and Wei Lu were making trouble in the Xiongnu and took military power, so he tentatively asked him for help, and after Li Ling received the news, he made up a lame reason that "Wuhuan once sent people to dig the grave of Lao Dan Yu", sent 20,000 horsemen to attack Wuhuan, beat him fat, directly destroyed half of Wuhuan's main force, and then dashingly collected the troops and left, not to mention occupation, or oppression of its submission, just simply fight and leave.
Soon after, Fan Mingyou sent by Huo Guang led 3,000 horses to kill, and beat Wuhuan again, this time really subdued them, from then on, Wuhuan's subjects belonged to the Han, and the Han Empire simply moved them to Beiping, Liaoxi and Liaodong, allowing them to take the Xiongnu in northern Han, and the northeast border was stabilized for a long time, even if the chaos arose later, this place always belonged to the Han family and never changed owners!
With the large-scale migration and mobilization of tribes in the grassland, those tribes that had been completely subdued, or had a high degree of acceptance of Han culture, were transferred to the east, and those tribes that were close to Shan Yu, or the old nobles, and the old ideas still dominated, came to the west, and a new round of attack began, and then, the Zuoxian King and the Right Valley Li King immediately felt that there was a kind of Taishan overpowering, oppressing them breathless...
In 73 BC, news from nowhere, spread among the steppe tribes:
King Zuoxian and King Li of Yougu wanted to lead their people south to obey the Han because they did not have the strength to fight against Shan Yu's army, but they were afraid that the Han army would liquidate history with them and be wiped out by them, so they coerced King Lu Tu to enter the Wusun Kingdom together to surrender, and then plotted to fight back against the Xiongnu and make battle achievements in order to offset their sins.
When King Lu Tu heard this rumor, he panicked and quickly expressed his allegiance to Shan Yu, and expressed his willingness to be the vanguard and attack the combined forces of King Zuoxian and King Li of Yougu.
King Zuo Xian and King Li of Right Valley also heard the news, and knew that this must be another trick by Er Li, which was to make the entire grassland not accept them, and it was also a precursor to an all-out attack.
So the two of them discussed, simply did not do one thing or the other, coerced Che Shiguo, attacked Wusun from the north and east, on the one hand, to dispel the rumors of their surrender, on the other hand, to avoid the threat of Li Guanghong's army.
In 72 BC, King Zuoxian and King Li of Yougu led his army of 100,000 people and 500,000 troops to attack Wusun, even half of its mountains and rivers, and even the city of Wusun was surrounded by him.
Wusun Wang Weng Guijing, who had always been a wall-riding faction before, ostensibly subordinate to the Han, but in fact secretly colluded with the Xiongnu, was dumbfounded, he thought that he was so filial to the Xiongnu, and when he plundered the Han land, he also received them military weapons and horses, how could he also mix the dominant position of left and right, but he did not expect to usher in a catastrophe, and in panic, he asked Princess Xieyou for help, and Princess Xieyou wrote with Weng Guijing, asking Han to send troops to rescue.
Due to the death of Princess Xiaojun, Princess Xieyou was ordered to marry Wusun Wang Jun Xu Jing in the first year of the Tianhan Dynasty (100 BC). Jun Xu died and was succeeded by her brother Weng Guijing, who remarried according to Wusun custom (in fact, it is inheritance, and to show respect for Princess Han is called remarriage). The
Han Empire then sent Chang Hui to lead five people and horses, a total of 160,000 people to the rescue, here are two highlights, first, this time the commander is Chang Hui, who followed Su Wu back then, he is a Wen Chen, but also a loyal minister, since then, the Han Empire has begun the history of using Wen to protect the military, and there is no general like Wei Huo Liguang, and second, the previous army conscription, several times, to defeat the enemy, made him fearful, but this time the troops were doubled and doubled, and the actual dispatch was only 40,000 people.
Li Guanghong sent people to pretend to be Xiongnu to escape, and informed the Han Empire of the false truth of the Zuoxian King and the Right Valley Li King, they said that it was a hundred thousand troops, but in fact it was not terrifying at all, most of these 100,000 people were old, weak and sick, and those who could basically get on the horse were all charged into the army, because in the years of war, the warriors in the Zuoxian King and the Right Valley Li King tribe were dying, and the 500,000 troops they led, including nearly 350,000 women, were not afraid at all!
In such a comparison of strength, the Han army actually sent 40,000 horses, really too cautious, look up to them, is a person will fight
without the slightest suspense, Chang Hui led the army to break the Xiongnu, beheading more than 40,000 levels, the Xiongnu fled north!
Weng Guijing personally led more than 50,000 cavalry under the Marquis of Yi to enter the Liting Court of Yougu from the southwest direction, capturing more than 39,000 people, more than 50,000 horses, oxen, donkeys, mules, camels, and more than 600,000 sheep, totaling more than 700,000.
After this battle, the countries of the Western Regions were terrified, and their fear of the Han Empire reached a new height!
Imagine, the Xiongnu fighting Wusun is the same as killing chickens, while the Han army fighting the Xiongnu is no different from slaughtering dogs.
Wusun no longer dared to lead the two ends of the rat, completely subordinate to the Han Empire, and the power of King Zuoxian and King Li of Yougu disappeared, and the two disappeared, I don't know whether they died on the battlefield or fled, anyway, there was no movement after that, a large number of his people were absorbed into the Western Regions such as Wusun and Che Shi, and nearly 50,000 young women were escorted to Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and Zhangye, and distributed to the soldiers as wives and concubines.
Emperor Xuan of Han received this great merit because of Changhui, and made him the Marquis of Changluo, thinking that the civil officials led troops to fight the war were no worse than the military generals, and they were loyal to the emperor, and they would let the civilian officials lead the troops in future wars, thus sowing the seeds of the Han Empire's military strength....
As history learns, sometimes the success of mistakes is more harmful than the failure of the right!
This battle of Wusun completely dispersed the confidence of the Xiongnu Empire, and from then on, the Xiongnu in the Zhao and Xuan Emperor Dynasties, can no longer pose a threat to the Han Empire, small-scale invasions, only relying on the border county national troops is enough to deal with.
In 70 BC, there was such a spectacle: the Han Empire sent 3,000 people, divided into three teams, and went deep into the Xiongnu, and actually captured thousands of people, and the Xiongnu did not dare to organize resistance from beginning to end.
With the weakening of the Xiongnu's national strength and military strength, its internal fragmentation, and the collapse of its external hegemony, a small number of small countries in the Western Regions that still stubbornly stood on the side of the Xiongnu, or wavered between the Han and Huns, basically drew a line with the Xiongnu at this time and accepted the protection of the Han Empire.
In 70 BC, the Han Empire officially restored the tuntian in Quli and Luntai, and repeatedly sent envoys to the countries of the Western Regions, and all countries were happy and sincere!
In 68 BC, the Han Empire sent his attendant Zheng Ji to lead troops at Cheshi Tuntian. He also ordered Zheng Ji to protect the southwest of Shanshan, that is, to govern all the places south of the Tianshan Mountains, and became the "Emperor Taishang" of the countries of the Western Regions!
Zheng Ji, the son of Zheng Song, the former boss of Li Shi, Li Guanghong's father, is familiar with the situation in the Western Regions and knows some changes in the Xiongnu Empire.
Zheng Ji has such a backstage, then what are you afraid of, if there is something, send someone to find Li Guanghong to help, set up some military merits, and deter small countries in the Western Regions.
In the year he took over, Li Ling and Hu Yan Shan Yu died of illness one after another, and under the planning of Li Guanghong and Wei Lu, Hu Yan Shan Yu's younger brother, the new Zuo Xian Wang, succeeded to the throne, claiming that the power of Zhu Yan Shan Yu was single, but the actual power was in the hands of Zhu Yan Yan of Zhu Yan Shan Yu.
This Zhuanqu Yan clan was chosen for him by the mother of Wei Lu and Hu Yan Shan Yu, and his father was also a powerful nobleman Zuo Da and Qu of the Xiongnu.
According to the grassland customs, this Zhuanqu Yan clan remarried to Zhuanqu Shan Yu, and in the past, he was also Zhuanqu Yan clan, and he was unhappy with Qiuququ Quanqu Shan Yu and often clashed.
In other words, this is exactly the effect Li Guanghong wants to see.
In the second year, Wei Lu died of illness, and Qiulu Quan Quan Shan Yu finally desperately abolished the Zhuanqu Yan clan, which coincided with the snow disaster in that year, so the tribes abolished the Yan clan with Shan Yu and were punished by heaven, setting off a rebellion that lasted for four years, until the Qiulu Quanqu Shan reinstated the Zhuanqu Yan clan in desperation, which slowly subsided.
This rebellion and dispute plunged the eastern region that was not originally affected by the Xiongnu civil war into turmoil, with countless deaths and injuries of people and animals, the disappearance of a large number of small tribes that could not be named, and the loss of large tribes was also great, further intensifying the internal contradictions of the Xiongnu, and several tribes such as the Western Gangbu took the opportunity to defect to the Han, and the entire grassland set off the first wave of the Han Empire to flee south.
By 60 BC, Zhuanquan Quan Shan died of illness, and because of his previous fornication with Tu Qitang the Right Sage King, the Zhuanqu Yan clan conspired with Zuo Da and Qudu Longqi, and established Tu Qitang as the commander of Yanqu Shan Yu.
Holding Yanqu Shan reused the younger brother of Zhuanqu Yan clan Du Longqi, and used the minister to punish Weiyang when he was false Lu Ququ, and also denounced the former Shan Yu's close relatives, and Hou Shan, the son of Zhuanqu Quan, was forced to surrender to his wife and father Wuchan Mu.
Since then, many disobedient grassland aristocrats have rebelled and set themselves up as singles, and the grassland has become a pot of porridge, which is known in history as "five singles in contention"!
In 60 BC, the king of Richao, Xianxian, was forced to descend to Han and sent people to contact Zheng Ji, and Zheng Ji immediately sent 50,000 people from the Ququ Plough and Guizi kingdoms to greet King Richao, and King Richao led only 12,000 people and twelve large and small leaders to the Hequ region with Zheng Ji, and then took King Richao and his subordinates to Chang'an, made him the Marquis of Guide, and later died in Chang'an.
In 60 BC, the Han Empire established the Western Regions Protectorate in Wulei City (that is, Luntai), and Zheng Ji was the first Western Regions Protector, officially set up officials, garrisons, and administrative orders in the Western Regions, and began to exercise national sovereignty. "
Since then, the Western Regions have become an inseparable part of Huaxia!
In 54 BC, Zhi Zhi Shan Yu defeated the army of Min Zhen and pursued Huhan Xie Shan Yu with victory, according to the Mobei royal court. Hu Han Xie Shan was defeated and went south to submit to the Han Empire, and then, with the strong support of the Han Empire, counterattacked Zhi Zhi Shan Yu and expelled him to the northern area of Kangju in Central Asia, Hu Han Xie Shan Yu reoccupied the Mobei royal court and submitted to the Han Empire.
In 36 BC, in order to eliminate the influence of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions, the Western Regions protected Gan Yanshou and the deputy captain Chen Tang went on an expedition to the Xiongnu in Kangju and killed Zhi Zhidanyu.
Later, Hu Han Xie Shan Yu personally entered Chang'an to pay tribute, and invited himself as a son-in-law, and the emperor then gave the palace queen Zhaojun, which is the famous "Zhaojun out of the block"!
After Hu Hanxie's death, his descendants followed his will and maintained friendly relations with the Han Empire, and the Xiongnu gradually merged into the big family of the Chinese nation.
Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Xiongnu problem, which the northern Han people have been unable to solve for more than two hundred years, has been completely solved in just forty years, when the two emperors Xuan and Zhao pursued a contraction of defense, almost no major wars, and even substantially withdrew from the Western Regions!
Later generations often wondered why the Mobei grasslands and the vast western regions were completely different from the Central Plains in terms of astronomy and geography, customs, language and culture, and even appearance, but they could always be attributed to kings in a history of two thousand years and have not been divided for a long time?
This is because there are conspirators such as the Western Vein of Mojia who silently lay out plots and foresight behind their backs, deeply implanting the core of Chinese culture and the ideological basis of "Shanghe", "Shangtong", "Love" and "Non-attack" for this land and people, and the unification of the world, so that any separatist proposition will not be widely supported by the people.
And the director behind all these major historical events, the Mojia West Vein, has quietly begun, in accordance with the will of Zhang Mingshan, the last generation, to the west, to the west, and constantly to the west, and began their new journey!
Brush off your clothes, hide deep and famous!