"Huns!"

Putting down the bamboo slip in his hand, Lu Bu's eyes narrowed slightly, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and the momentum of his whole body was condensed, and the evil qi accumulated.

For this nation, Lu Bu has dealt with them a lot, and in addition to killing intent, he only has killing intent in his heart.

But as long as there was a Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were an unavoidable problem, and it was also during the Han Dynasty, the most powerful of the many ethnic groups around the country was the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu, originally a nomadic tribe that arose around the 3rd century BC.

From weak to strong, from small to large, little by little, the heyday of the Xiongnu Empire, from 176 BC to 128 BC, the Xiongnu were mainly distributed in the Ordos Plateau east of the Altai Mountains.

The Hun character in the Xiongnu is actually equivalent to the vicious fierce, dating back to the oracle bone period, and the hieroglyphs of these two characters are the images of bows and arrows.

The Huns rode horses and archery was an indispensable skill for them, so the people of the Central Plains took the word Hun to represent them.

Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Rong people began to threaten the Central Plains Dynasty, and after the Zhou Youwang Fenghuo played the princes, the Dog Rong tribe captured Haojing and forced the Ping King to move east. During the Warring States Period, Lin Hu and Lou Fu invaded Zhao many times, and Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu rode to expel Lin Hu and Lou Fu, and set up Yunzhong County in the newly opened area in the north. Lin Hu and Lou Fu moved north to integrate into the newly rising Xiongnu.

At the end of the Warring States Period, Li Muzeng, the general of Zhao State, defeated the Huns, dispatched 1,300 chariots, 13,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry, and 100,000 archers, and fought with the Huns, breaking more than 100,000 horsemen of the Huns, and the Huns did not dare to invade the south for more than ten years.

After Qin Shi Huang unified China, in 215 BC, he ordered Meng Tian to lead 300,000 Qin troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, collect the Hetao, and garrison troops to the county.

There is also a widely spread in later generations "but the Xiongnu more than 700 miles, the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses"

Meng Tian built a city fortress from Yuzhong along the Yellow River to Yinshan, connecting Qin, Zhao and Yan for more than 5,000 miles of the old Great Wall, according to Yangshan Mountain to the north, and built a straight road from Jiuyuan in the north to Yunyang in the south, constituting a long defensive line in the north.

Later, Meng Tian defended the north for more than ten years, and the Xiongnu were afraid of its might and did not dare to commit it again.

Until the powerful Qin Empire collapsed in the wave of peasant uprisings, the Great Wall Army of Qin, which was originally stationed in the Hetao area on the order of Qin Shi Huang, and monitored and attacked the Xiongnu, Donghu and other nomadic peoples, also fell in the Battle of Julu.

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Through the efforts of Mao Dun and Lao Shang Shan Yu, the territory of the Xiongnu Empire expanded unprecedentedly, from the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty to the far Western Regions, the Xiongnu established a huge empire with an area of tens of thousands of miles.

Obviously, with the civilization and political level of the Huns, it was impossible to effectively rule such a huge territory.

Therefore, during the reign of Lao Shangdanyu, the Huns determined a double-headed eagle strategy similar to that of Lao Maozi in later generations.

Set up the left and right virtuous kings, the left and right valley kings, the left and right big households, the left and right bones and so on.

The left expands to the west, and the right penetrates into the Han land.

In the Xiongnu tradition, the left is respected, and the Xiongnu Zuoxian King is both the leader and the heir responsible for the expansion of the West.

As a nomadic people on the Mongolian plateau in ancient times, the Xiongnu arose in the foothills of the Yinshan Mountains in present-day Inner Mongolia.

Around 215 BC, the Xiongnu were driven out of the Hetao and the Hexi Corridor by the Qin general Meng Tian.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu became powerful and repeatedly invaded, posing a great threat to the Western Han regime and controlling the Western Regions.

After experiencing the siege of Baideng, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, clearly realized the gap between the strength of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, which was currently weak in national strength, so he decided to let the princess of the Han royal family marry the Xiongnu far away, and pay tribute to the Xiongnu every year with gold, silver, silk and other treasures, so as to ease the relationship with the Xiongnu.

But even so, the Xiongnu often sent cavalry to raid and plunder the frontier areas of the Western Han Dynasty.

Due to the weakness of the country, the Han Dynasty began to recuperate and develop an agricultural economy.

After the efforts of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, the country's economy has been greatly developed, and its economic strength has been greatly strengthened.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che ascended to the throne, the Western Han Dynasty began to gradually change its long-term attitude towards the Xiongnu.

In 119 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a powerful cavalry force into the territory of the Xiongnu to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Xiongnu cavalry. The Han army defeated the main force of the Hun cavalry in this battle, annihilated more than 90,000 Hun troops, Huo Qu was sick and sealed the wolf Juxu Mountain, Zen in Guyan, and landed in Hanhai.

At this point, after the Battle of Mobei, the strength of the Xiongnu was greatly reduced, and they were unable to form a large-scale threat to the Han Dynasty.

The Xiongnu, who were defeated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, retreated to Mobei and split into five parts.

In 53 BC, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu, Hu Hanxi, led the people to surrender to the Western Han Dynasty.

In 36 B.C., the Western Han Dynasty destroyed the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi Shan Yu.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were again divided into the Southern and Northern Xiongnu.

In 48 A.D., the leader of the Southern Xiongnu surrendered to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu and was placed in the Hetao area. However, the Northern Xiongnu still rebelled, so that the Eastern Han Dynasty was determined to destroy the Northern Xiongnu.

In the original history, in the first year of the Han Dynasty Emperor Liu Zhaoyong, that is, in 89 A.D., Dou Xian defeated the Northern Xiongnu, and Ban Gu was in the southern foot of Yanran Mountain, and engraved the "Feng Yanran Mountain Inscription".

Later, the Southern Xiongnu established the former Zhao regime during the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms.

The Xiongnu and the descendants of Xianbei, the Tiefu, established the Huxia regime.

It can be said that the Xiongnu soldiers and horses, to a certain extent, influenced the historical process of China at that time, and even in the "Historical Records" and "Book of Han", this is also recorded.

Sima Qian quoted the Xiongnu as saying, "The descendants of the first Xia and Hou clans are also called Chunwei (獯鬻, fumigation)." Above Tang Yu, there are Shanrong, Qiyun, and Xun porridge, which live in the north and move with grass and animal husbandry."

In fact, the royal lineage of the Xiongnu nation is from Chunwei to Toumandanyu, and there is no history. The above-mentioned royal family comes from Chunwei, the son of Ji, and is a legend of the Xiongnu people.

Wang Guowei systematically summarized the evolution of the name of the Xiongnu in "Ghost Fang Kunyi Qiangli Examination", and believed that the Ghost Fang, Chaoyi, and Qiangqi in the Shang Dynasty, the Qiangli in the Zhou Dynasty, the Rong and Di in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Hu in the Warring States Period were all the so-called Xiongnu in later generations.

There is also a saying that the different ethnic groups seen in historical books such as Guirong, Yiqu, Yanjing, Yuwu, Loufu, and Dali are collectively referred to as the Xiongnu.

"To destroy the Yue clan, kill and decide. Loulan, Wusun, Hujie and the 26 countries next to it have been the Xiongnu, and the people of the bow are one family, and the northern state is determined. ”

The entanglement between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty was quite "inseparable".

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