Chapter 373 - 373
The good news of the Jian'an Battle soon spread to Qi Guoying Hill.
"Congratulations, King Huan!" The ministers knelt on the ground and congratulated Qi Xiaobai one after another.
The Battle of Jian'an annihilated Goguryeo's elite troops, and it was basically only a matter of time before the Qi State annexed Goguryeo.
After the end of the Jian'an Campaign, Donghu and Bohai also sent envoys to Qi in the hope of winning over Qi.
They knew that Goguryeo would soon perish, and that the fight against the Xiongnu would depend on the imperial princes of Qi.
"Adasu!"
"Murong Qing!"
"Meet King Huan!" These two men came from Donghu and Bohai countries, and they were the envoys of these two countries, and their status in both countries was not low.
Adasu is the nephew of a small tribal chief of Donghu, and his status in Donghu is very extraordinary, and the surname Murong is the surname of the king of Bohai, and this Murong Qing comes from the Bohai royal family.
"You two get up!" Qi Xiaobai said to the two of them.
Then the two stood up, and Adasu looked at Qi Xiaobai: "King Huan, our big chief, in order to show friendship, specially gave King Huan a top-grade BMW from Donghu!" ”
Donghu is the abbreviation of the Qi State, their full name is called, Donghu United Tribe, and their leader is called the Great Chief.
Donghu is different from other countries, their position of the great chief is not the succession of father to son, brother to brother, but by a group of chiefs of small tribes to duel, and the brave will inherit the position of the big chief.
The Donghu tribe is an alliance of a group of small tribes, each small tribe is actually a big family, and it is said that the Donghu tribe union is composed of more than 100 small tribes.
These more than 100 tribes are actually more than 100 families, and they are all located in the largest families in the area, with a population of 1,000 people, and these families dominate these many small families.
If the Great Chief of Donghu dies, these more than 100 families will have a duel match, and whoever wins will become the new chief of the Donghu Union, called the Great Chief.
It is also because of this custom that the Donghu tribe is very martial, it is a fighting nation, and in the union of the three kingdoms, the Donghu tribe has the strongest force, of course, because they live in the sparsely populated Monan and grassland, although their force is the strongest, but their population is the most sparse.
Moreover, they did not have a huge commercial system, nor could they farm, but only survived by nomadism and raiding, so although the Donghu were strong and strong, their troops were very small.
And the people of the empire, basically, evaluate Donghu as a group of bandits and horse thieves, in fact, they are indeed bandits and horse thieves.
It's just a group of bandits and horse thieves with a huge territory and strong force, if it weren't for the lack of horses in the empire and the lack of cavalry in battle, they would have struck at Donghu a long time ago.
Qi Xiaobai walked down from the throne, looked at the horse sent by Donghu, and Tian Dan on the side said: "Your Majesty, this is a bloody horse, and you will never get tired of traveling thousands of miles!" ”
Qi Xiaobai looked at the horse and nodded: "The big chief has a heart, I remember and accept your intentions and gifts!" ”
"King Huan, this is our big chief, we hope to unite with the Qi country, help each other, and fight against the Huns together!" Adasu looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.
Goguryeo no longer had the fighting power to become their allies, and they had to win over the Qi state against the Xiongnu, whose greatest enemy was the Xiongnu.
The structure of the Xiongnu and Donghu is almost the same, except that the Xiongnu tribes are more united, and the newcomers are single, unifying the western tribes and making them subjugated, and their power is strong.
And the living habits of the Xiongnu and the Donghu people are basically the same, for the Huns, the three countries in the East, Donghu must be destroyed, and the Donghu and the Xiongnu can be said to be one root.
At that time, the Xiongnu tribes were scattered, and the first big chief of Donghu, united more than 100 families, founded Donghu, ending the internal strife of the eastern tribes.
And this chief has no idea to participate in the struggle of the Western tribes, of course, the main reason is that when they want to participate, they are blocked by a Western tribe.
From then on, Donghu did not set foot in Mobei, did not enter the western grassland, guarded this acre and three points of land, plundered the Yan State at that time, and fought against the Bohai Sea and Goguryeo all year round.
When Goguryeo and Bohai did not have a strong rival, they were actually rivals and fought against each other, but in recent years they have become relatively peaceful.
It's only relatively peaceful, and there will still be a few small battles if there is friction.
Qi Xiaobai looked at Adasu and said: "Tell the big chief, your enemy of Donghu is the enemy of our Qi country, if the Xiongnu dare to attack, my Qi country will definitely support Donghu!" ”
Qi Xiaobai also understood the form on the grassland, the Xiongnu wanted to unify the north of the empire, how could Qi Xiaobai let it be completed? Once the north is unified, the Xiongnu will be extremely powerful, and won't the Qi country be dangerous at that time?
Of course, for the Xiongnu to unify the north, the Xiongnu's old friend Zhao was also making a stumbling block, and they also knew that once the Xiongnu were unified, Zhao would not feel good, so when the Xiongnu advanced eastward, they sent 30,000 cavalry to attack the Huns' Loulan tribe.
It made a big trouble for the Xiongnu to go east, Loulan was a relatively large horse farm for the Xiongnu, he sent powerful war horses to the Xiongnu, after Zhao won this horse farm, the Xiongnu instantly reduced the elite horses.
The new Shan Yu fought a decisive battle with Zhao State, wanting to recapture the Loulan Horse Farm, but Li Mu had 150,000 infantry, and the Xiongnu sent 100,000 cavalry, on the Loulan Plain, Li Mu and a general of the Xiongnu conducted a battle of Loulan, Li Mu killed 80,000 enemies, and the Xiongnu were killed.
After the defeat of the Battle of Loulan, the Xiongnu had no choice but to give up and negotiate with the Zhao State, where the losses of the Zhao State and the Wei State, the Zhao State recovered from the Xiongnu, and restored some of the national strength of the Zhao State.
In order to appease the Zhao State, the Xiongnu gave the Zhao State a lot of sheep and some money, and added some rare treasures from the merchants of the Western Regions to appease the Zhao State.
Of course, Zhao did this because he was worried that the Xiongnu would unify the north and be dangerous to Zhao, so Zhao took the initiative to attack and meet the Xiongnu.
Li Mu did not live up to Zhao Yong's expectations, defeated the Xiongnu, after the Xiongnu lost the war between Loulan and Zhao, the new Shan Yu, can only slow down the strategy of eastward expansion, but in order to test the strength of the Three Kingdoms, the Xiongnu Shan Yu sent 100,000 cavalry to attack the horse capital of Donghu, but after encountering the sniper of the Three Kingdoms, the Xiongnu had to withdraw from the horse capital and stop the attack.
If it weren't for Zhao to solve the 100,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu and seize the horse farm of the Xiongnu, how could the Xiongnu be so completely defeated in Madu?
With less than 100,000 elite iron cavalry, the combat power of the Xiongnu has greatly declined, but after Zhao State captured Loulan, he can provide Zhao State with sufficient war horses in the future, so that Zhao's cavalry can go to a higher level.