Huns? No, no, no, this is the contempt of the Chinese ethnic group for them, they call themselves "the land of bears", and outsiders should actually call them "bear people", and there is no social form of forming a country at present, so even if there is a unified name, it refers to the ethnic group rather than the country, just like so many countries on the land of China, but the name of the human race is the same.

When did the Xiongnu appear? Probably in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Huaxia ethnic group drove the Rong people, the Di people, and the dog people away from the border, and then moved from the west to the new Hu people, and the two sides were hostile again, and the long-term war made the Chinese ethnic group have no good way to deal with the new Hu people, and the name was insulting, calling the new Hu people Xiongnu, so the name Xiongnu also appeared. To tell the truth, otherwise who would press the word "slave" on themselves when choosing a name, and it is not sick.

Judging from the naming of the "Land of Bears", according to the naming habits of the ancients, their history is not shorter than anyone else. Why? It's quite a simple inference, the first nest to live is called Youchao, and the first to find that plants can be tamed and repeatedly left for cultivation is called Shennong, which is a naming habit that only existed in ancient times, so how short can the history of these Hu people who call themselves "the country of bears" be?

There are many ethnic groups with a long history, but there are not many people who can establish their own civilization, as for why there is such a difference between the same intelligent creatures...... God knows.

Bearman ...... Well, they are still called Xiongnu according to the Chinese custom, they do not have enough wisdom to build their own civilization, but their creative power is not good compared to the rest of the ethnic groups, it does not mean that they do not know that science and technology can increase combat effectiveness and enhance productivity.

In fact, it's the same way, which is better, metal structure or wooden structure, which is more powerful, sharp metal weapons or bone weapons, as long as people with normal brains can understand, right?

The most money earned by the Xiongnu in the south this time was how much wealth they plundered, and they plundered a large number of people from the land of China, and there were all kinds of craftsmen among the captive population. For them, these artisans are far more valuable than the amount of land they occupy.

In fact, the Xiongnu people do not attach so much importance to land, and the nomadic people's desire to possess land has always been very targeted, which is related to their living habits. What kind of territory is valuable to nomads? Looking at the living habits of the nomads, the territory that is valuable to them is the land that can be grazing, and the more abundant the water and grass, the higher the environmental value.

If before going south, the various tribes of the Xiongnu were interested in the land in the south, then for the first time they were beaten by the Wucheng system established by the Qin army south of Yinshan, and after being knocked a little dazed, they retreated to the grassland outside Yanmen, and only during the rest there did they know from Qi Yan that a stronger force had risen further south than the Qin State, and they were not so keen on going south to occupy the land.

What about the other thing. The plundering and plundering of the Zhao land also gave the leaders of the various tribes of the Xiongnu additional thoughts, there are more mountains south of the Yin Mountain, and there is no flat terrain on the grassland, and the mountainous land is difficult to graze. Their herdsmen do not farm at all except for grazing, and occupy land that is mostly mountainous...... To be honest, they really didn't have much enthusiasm, but they were very interested in captivating people.

At this time, Mao Dun proposed a set of Jianyì, arguing that since both Qi and Yan said that the newly rising forces in the south were very strong, the Qi and Yan armies had little resistance in the face of the Han army, and the Han army could organize an army of more than one million people at any time. There are also cavalry that are more powerful than the steppe herdsmen from speculation, and the Huns should imagine whether they can fight against them.

How many people are there in the steppe, including the Xiongnu? Although they do not have the conditions for a census, they can always get an approximate figure if they do a rough calculation. They include warriors and herders, and even the elderly, women, and children. The population of the Communist Party will not exceed 800,000, is it necessary to fight against a force that can organize an army of millions of people at any time?

What does Maudon mean? He believed that the current Xiongnu were not suitable to participate in the traditional territorial warfare of the Chinese people, and that the Xiongnu should take advantage of this rare opportunity to plunder the population from the Central Plains. More attention should be paid to the population with a skill, and the population captured from the Central Plains returned to the grassland to develop their own iron-smelting technology, and stayed in the grassland to watch the Chinese fight and die by themselves.

I have to say that Mao Dun is very sensible. Seeing that it is difficult to stay in the Chinese region for a long time with the current strength of the Xiongnu, he also thinks that the Xiongnu can completely withdraw and return to the grassland to get out of the matter, if the Chinese are weak enough to be able to conquer and enslave lightly in the internal friction, the Xiongnu will naturally raise troops again to kill the generals, if the force called the Han State is light to eliminate the rest of the Chinese who are not satisfied, then it will form a situation where the Xiongnu stay in the grassland with peace of mind, and then plunder when there are conditions.

The population of the Huaxia region is really too much, and the current Chinese people are not the kind of group that is afraid of being killed under the butcher's knife of the alien race, they are not stingy when facing the Hu people, and they are often forced to fight against hundreds of Hu people, but they are not the kind of two-legged sheep who are afraid of being killed in later generations, which the Hu people have a deep understanding when they loot in Zhao Land.

The history of the war between the Xiongnu and the Chinese ethnic groups is not a day or two, it is very clear that the Chinese ethnic groups do not have much interest in the grassland, the previous battles between the two sides were on the border, even if the Xiongnu war is not good, the Chinese army that retreats to the depths of the grassland will not pursue, they think that the emerging Han State in the south should also be like this.

And Mao Dun has another opinion, he thinks that the Xiongnu now have no need to fight with the populous Chinese ethnic group, what the Xiongnu should do is to digest the fruits of this plunder in China, and then point the finger at Donghu, defeat Donghu and digest Donghu, wait for the Xiongnu to grow stronger and then examine whether it is a southern invasion, if the conditions do not allow the southern invasion, they will focus on the feuding Yue people.

Touman doesn't like Maudun, he hasn't liked it all the time, and if he does, he won't send Maudun to Yue's side as a hostage. But Touman didn't like it at the same time, he had to agree that Mao Dun's idea was very right, the Qin State and the Zhao State established by the Xiongnu and the Chinese ethnic groups had not been fought before, and the two sides had fought not thousands of times but hundreds of times, and it seemed that most of them were the Huns who suffered losses.

The Xiongnu have never taken advantage of the Qin army and the Zhao army, and now the Chinese ethnic groups are in civil strife, busy killing each other, but the 300,000 Xiongnu army to the south is not as powerful as imagined, not by the generals of the Qin State...... Did that guy named Meng Tian block the south of Yinshan and beat him hard?

The state of Qin was so weak that Cheng dù could still resist the Xiongnu. The Zhao people encountered by the Xiongnu during the plundering of the Zhao land also had a strong sense of resistance, and a Han army that could defeat the Qin army and seemed to be able to abuse Qi, Yan, and Zhao with ease came to the south, and it was really not so rational to continue to stay in the land of China, right?

In fact, what the Huns don't understand the most is that they heard a more incredible news from Qi Yan, how to listen to the cavalry established by the Han army is more fierce than the steppe people who stay with the horses when they are young, the cavalry of the Han army is constantly carrying out long-distance attacks, and can flexibly ride on horseback to fight, which is something that non-elite grassland cavalry can't do, how did the Han army do it?

It's incredible. A race that has not been playing with horses since childhood, but can flexibly ride across war horses to fight, and seems to have found a way to ride long distances without causing large-scale attrition of war horses, which frightened some tribal leaders to hear such a thing.

The cavalry of the Han army has appeared in the Hetao, and the infantry of the Han army is also rapidly approaching, if you have not heard so many descriptions of the Han army from Qi Yan's side, the Xiongnu are still interested in competing with the emerging Han army, but as soon as they heard that the Han army can organize a million army at any time, they also know the fierceness of the cavalry of the Han army. How stupid are they to be willing to collide with the Han army.

What are the characteristics of nomads? The literary point is that the weak are accustomed to obeying the strong, and obeying the strong in exchange for survival, which is also the law of survival on the grassland. To put it bluntly, it belongs to the kind of national character that bullies the weak and fears the hard, and they can't beat it and choose to run away, and they won't have any psychological burden at all.

The building of Maudun is very good. The leaders of the various tribes were not at all interested in fighting the surging Han army, and it took a very short time to negotiate a result.

Needless to say, it's nothing to give up some small tribes, and it won't feel any inauthentic to leave Qi Yan's people aside. Touman didn't even summon the leader of the small tribe, and he didn't bother to go to see Tian Jiao and Wei Man, so he directly sent someone to order them to go north first.

The characteristics of the grassland are also destined to the leaders of those small tribes, and they don't even dare to let go of a fart, and immediately obey the order to go north. However, Tian Jiao was a little puzzled to find Touman, wondering why they went north first, while the main force of the Xiongnu stayed behind.

Tou Man was too lazy to talk to Tian Jiao, and if he didn't see it, he just had to tell Tian Jiao, if he still wanted to get the protection of the Xiongnu, he only needed to obey orders, if he was not willing to obey orders, the various tribes of the Xiongnu were very interested in cutting off Tian Jiao's head, and then divided up the tens of thousands of young and strong Qi troops.

In fact, Touman could completely deceive Tian Jiao with a kind and cheerful attitude, saying that the main force of the Xiongnu was to send the spoils back to the grassland in order to create conditions, so that the main force would stay and break the rear. But what is a nomad? Before, Touman felt that Tian Jiao was a little useful, so he naturally showed a few smiles, but now Touman feels that Tian Jiao is useless, and treats it with the same attitude as a dog, this is the character that Hu people should have.

When Wei Man received the order from the Xiongnu Shan Yu, he only silently made a gesture of obedience, and about 40,000 Yan soldiers wearing green robes packed their bags and followed those small tribes on the northbound road.

Not to mention, hesitate to build a straight road to the north by the Qin State some time ago, and the team that was ordered by Touman to go north, they moved closer to the straight road, stepped on the straight road built by the Qin State and then drove north The speed is not slow at all.

It was on the second day of the departure of the Yan army led by Wei Mansuo that the Qi army led by Tian Jiao slowly moved north along the straight road.

There are too many reasons for the slow movement of Tian Jiao's force. First of all, Tian Jiao didn't think that the Xiongnu would have such a big sentiment, and when there was danger, he let Qi Yan leave their main force behind, thinking that there must be something wrong here, so he chirped with Touman for a while. The second is that the Qi army has a lot of materials in their hands, in addition to being able to let more than 200,000 people eat the grain for half a year, a large number of weapons and other equipment are also a lot. In the end, when Tian Jiao ordered the troops to pack up the supplies, Touman came with a new order, so that the Qi army only brought a small part of the grain, weapons and other equipment to be left, and the advantage was entangled for a lot of time.

If it were possible, Tian Jiao would definitely not be willing to leave a large amount of grain, let alone hand over weapons and other materials, but he didn't have much capital to argue with Touman, and he was entangled in the future. It was always the end of the man that asked the Hu army to make a gesture of encircling the Qi army, and Tian had no choice but to give up so many supplies, and reluctantly embarked on the road to the north.

How many left the northward direction of the main forces of the Xiongnu? Counting Qi Yan's 100,000 and those small tribes, the number should be around 250,000. However, 250,000 refers to the number of troops, and if the Qin and Zhao people who were captured by Hu are counted, the total number is around 350,000.

The non-Xiongnu, Qi, and Yan side, and the scouts who belonged to the Qin, Han, and Zhao armies scattered in the area soon found that the enemy army was divided into two parts.

"The enemy army heading north is a bit complicated, in addition to the Hu people, there is Qi Yan's army, and the other is the captured Qianshou." Zhang Han has been introducing the military situation for a short time, and now it is time to summarize: "The enemy troops who stayed in place first stayed on the front line of Dingyang, which we abandoned, for two days. He then made a gesture of moving southward, but after about ten miles of walking, he suddenly turned eastward, and according to the latest intelligence reality, he now changed direction and showed signs of moving northwestward. ”

The main force of Touman must be about 160,000 people, and their group of Hu people has at least 500,000 horses, and they carry so many cattle and sheep that it is difficult to calculate......

If Zhang Han said it in more detail, they would definitely be able to find a phenomenon, that is, no matter how the main force of the Xiongnu turned, it actually revolved around sheep, grain, and materials.

"Do we have troops in those directions?" The lieutenant listened for a long time, and this was the first time he spoke.

Zhang Han replied with certainty: "There is no large army in those directions except for a few scout teams. ”

The lieutenant asked again: "So did the Hu people raid those areas?" ”

Zhang Han didn't answer immediately this time, the reason why the scout sent out was a scout. That's because the number is definitely a minority, and if the number is small, you can only keep an eye on the enemy's main force, and the attention of some scattered enemy troops is dispensable, so it is really difficult to determine whether the enemy army has plundered.

They didn't know what was going on with the Huns. Negotiations are about guessing an outcome so that the troops can react in a timely manner.

The Hu people are all marching on horseback, and the speed of running is naturally extremely fast, which makes it difficult to guess the final movement of the Hu people.

"The enemy forces in the south have also been active in recent times. The enemy army led by Mao Dun was accepting the Hu cavalry that was originally in a state of wandering every day," Zhang Han pointed to the position of Gao Nu to the northwest on the sand table: "This is about seventy miles away from Gao Nu. The enemy forces of Maudun had dispersed in small groups on several occasions since they had retreated backwards in Eagle Yin. The range of activity is near the upper reaches of Luoshui. Our scouts guessed that the enemy was looking for a shallow area of the Luoshui River and that they were looking for a suitable place to cross the river. ”

So the question is, after Mao Dun went south, he turned around and went north, and then he has been moving upstream of Luoshui, obviously he is detecting the terrain, and he didn't run to find a crossable river section, but what does Mao Dun want to do after crossing the river?

"My king once said a word." The lieutenant looked around at everyone present: "What the enemy wants to do is what we should destroy, and what the enemy wants is what we must fight for." ”

Lu Zhe said a lot, and some reasonable words were recorded, and the sentence that Gongwei said was one of them.

Obviously, the goal that the enemy wants to achieve must be beneficial to the enemy, so even if you can't understand why the enemy wants to do that, you can do sabotage.

Meng Tian nodded, but he said: "The headquarters of Mao Dun is one hundred and thirty miles away from us, and if we send an army to go, there will be more than 200,000 enemy troops led by Tou Manqin on the way. Small forces interspersed with the past to increase casualties, and large forces will inevitably be intercepted by Touman's department. ”

Gongwei understood, Meng Tian wanted to know the current movements of the several Han troops coming from the land of Qilu. He thought to himself, "Those are not particularly secret, just ask." Thinking about it, he looked at Li Liang and motioned for Li Liang to introduce.

It is not clear whether it is confidential or not, but he has been the commander of the first army for a long time, and there is no ambiguity about the matters that he should know, the two sides are friendly forces at present, and they will become robes under the same empire in the near future, but now the Han army is the Han army, and the Qin army is the Qin army, and some things cannot be too casual.

Li Liang said what to say and what not to say, he briefly introduced some movements, and in Meng Tian's expectant gaze, he first asked the lieutenant for permission, and then said: "Some of the cavalry near the Hetao have already entered the line of Shangjun. This force of cavalry numbered only 30,000, and their goal was to march along the north bank of the Yellow River to the territory of the Hu people south of Yinshan, and to clear and understand the terrain there in advance. By the time we crossed the clouds and moved towards Jiuyuan, the number of cavalry had exceeded 50,000, and in addition to our own 30,000 cavalry, the other 20,000 were Hu people who had been subdued in the clouds. ”

Having said that, Li Liangke didn't say what kind of structure the 30,000 cavalry were, not to say that he didn't want both sides to be embarrassed.

Of the 30,000 cavalry as the vanguard cavalry, 20,000 were from Wang Ben's department of the Qin army, and 10,000 were the first cavalry regiments of the Han army, and the main commander of the cavalry was Wang Ben. They entered the Loop two months earlier. He has been resting for almost a month on the grassland called Yunzhong by the Chinese ethnic group, and while clearing the Hu people in the area, he is also understanding the terrain and buying the Hu people for his own use.

It is true that Lu Zhe is a democrat, but he also knows the importance of subduing foreign races for his own use, and the military orders issued when the army marches into the grassland are extremely clear, and the Hu people who can be subdued will be subdued as guides, and those who are not convinced will be given iron and fire to destroy.

What kind of urine is Hu Ren? If Lu Zhe didn't understand this, he would have studied so much war history in vain, and he would have been blind to his identity as a democrat. The Hu people have never had any national concept. On the grassland, it has always been the status quo of the survival of the strong and the submission of the weak, showing strength and then subduing some Hu people, under the bloody slaughter and relatively good attitude, the emergence of "Hu traitors" is definitely one after another.

The 20,000 Hu people subdued by the vanguard cavalry were very mixed. It is not only the tribal relationship, but also the women who account for more than sixty percent of the 20,000 people. It is not surprising that there would be such a reason, after all, before Touman went south, he called on the tribes of the steppe to go south together, and the young people of each tribe went south. Naturally, those who remain are the old and the weak and women.

"Thirty thousand?" Meng Tian was a little confused: "Isn't there 170,000 cavalry on the North Road, why only 30,000 appear in Hetao?" ”

Li Liang smiled and explained: "Several cavalry teams were assembled in Yanmen, and after the assembly, they were divided into several directions to move separately. ”

Meng Tian nodded and stopped talking. He has always been very interested in the mode of operation of the large corps of the Han army, and for a long time he has not been able to understand how Han Wangzhe used to command the combat mode of this large corps but division of troops so smoothly.

You know, although the era of cold weapons is said to be hundreds of thousands against hundreds of thousands, many times the two sides are concentrated together for movement, and only at special moments will the troops be divided into battles, and it is very rare that the armies that are divided into several roads from the beginning act separately. The reason for this is actually very simple, mainly due to the constraints of communication, once the main general divides the army, the army separated from it has a delay in information, and the war has never been suspended and archived again.

Now is not the time for Meng Tian to explore how Lu Zhe commands the large corps to divide the troops into battle, what he wants to know most is the position of the Han army closest to the enemy, so that he can know it in his heart, and he can also deploy it in a targeted manner, and play the role of their army in the subsequent battles.

"General Meng, in fact, there are more than 170,000 cavalry that can move at high speed, our entry into the grassland has a strong suddenness, and we have achieved good results in the Hetao area, and there are nearly 200,000 horses called 'Mongolian horses' by the king in the spoils of war, although these horses cannot be used for riding for the time being, but they can be used for transportation," Li Liangshen smiled mysteriously for a while, and said: "We can now move at a high speed of no less than 350,000 troops, except for some troops who accept other king's orders, Within fifty miles of the enemy, there should be nearly 200,000 troops ready to join the engagement. ”

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