Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the information from the front line made Meng Tian smile bitterly again and again.

At the beginning of the war, Touman also sent more than 100,000 Hu cavalry to make a posture to meet the battle, but Touman shrank his troops later. Because the Fifth Cavalry Regiment led by Wei Han needed to maintain a relationship with Touman's headquarters for at least 20 miles, as long as Touman did not send troops to meet the battle, the two sides could only fight a sit-down war 20 miles apart.

The Han army and the southbound Hu people did not fight, the rhythm of a dozen has never been so slow, the sudden change made Touman feel that it was not as simple as the Han army changing a commander and changing the combat style, he didn't know what kind of combat idea Meng Tian had, so he had to carefully choose a defensive posture.

"Could it be that the Han army's supplies were not ready, and the order from the center made Meng Tian go to war, and he had to go to war and there was a shortage of food, so he made such a show?" Captain Wan said what he thought was the most likely guess when Li Lian said.

The preparation for a big war naturally cannot be done in a spring and autumn period, and even since Sima Xin led the army to the source of the Yellow River to start the war again, the time given to the Han army has not been a spring and autumn, just a short season.

The central authority of the Chinese civilization is very heavy, whether it is a local army, a border army, or a general who goes to war, they must obey the orders from the central government. And in many cases, the center does not understand what the generals are facing outside, and inexplicable orders are issued from time to time, and even orders are given to bury the army that is fighting abroad.

"I heard that the new emperor of the south, Lu Zhe, has a lot of authority. No one dared to question his orders? "From Hujie, a member of the Captain, Wu Shikun obviously supports Li Lian's statement?

When the surname Yu is a medium surname in the Xiongnu ethnic group. The term "middle caste" does not mean the word "caste" as in the Indian caste, but refers to the number of people in a given caste. The population always measures the right to speak in each nomadic group, and the more the population of the surname, the more the number of soldiers, and the more the population of a surname, the heavier the right to speak.

The Xiongnu did not have a detailed and strict system like the Chinese regime, their social system tended to be more primitive, whoever was strong was respected, and whoever had more soldiers was the king. For example, the reason why the surname is a Xiongnu royal family is because of the large population of the surname Su. When he had a superior population, he gained the support of many allies, so he became the ruler of the Xiongnu.

At present, there are not many people with surnames in the land of China, so one of their ancestors needs to be a nobleman or a nobleman. The nobles are naturally the lords who own the fiefdoms, but the nobles refer to the people who serve the nobles. Such as the doctors and staff under the aristocracy...... Even those who collected taxes for the aristocracy and caught criminals.

The nobles of China generally use the clan as the prefix of the name, such as the fief is "Zhao", then it is called Zhao. However, the scholars have their own prefix based on the work they do, such as Kuang, who taught Jin Aigong music, and this blind musician used his own work as his prefix. Self-proclaimed or called a teacher.

It is not easy to have a clan or a surname in the Chinese civilization system, and a family with a clan will generally have a shining moment in their history, and a scholar with a surname must be a clan, a retainer, and a servant of a clan for a long time. People who do not belong to a clan and have never worked for a clan will not have a permanent prefix (either surname or last name) of their own.

People who don't have a fixed surname, they may be someone who was born in a certain place and calls themselves so-and-so, as in "I am from a definite land, my name is martingale", and they have not been given their own fief or worked for a certain lord. He could only keep calling himself "Wei Ying", waiting for him to obtain his own fief, and change his title to "I am the lord of Shang Land, Shang Ming".

The Chinese ethnic group with an advanced social system, whose family name and surname are still a minority, is definitely not much better than the Hu people in the primitive social system. Only one in ten million people have a clan in the land of China, and the surname will not exceed one in a million, and the rest will not have a surname or surname. On the Hu people's side, the ratio of surname and surname is even more rare, and the clan is unique to the Hu people. There may be only a few dozen or dozens of surnames.

In the social system of the Hu people, only the royal family belonged to the "clan", such as the Su Yu clan.

In the social system of the Hu people, except for the royal family, they can use "clan" to refer to themselves. Those with surnames need to be "given" by the royal family. The gift can be profitable, or it can be appreciated simply because it is appreciated by the royal family, but every time the royal family gives the "surname" is not so simple.

The royal family of China used fiefs to give people the identity of the clan, and the Hu people allocated some of the population to someone who had the qualification of "surname". Then, a certain surname with its own population naturally has formed its own tribe. Because they have the endorsement of the royal family, they are actually under the protection of the royal family, and they are not part of the ~ split or independent ~ behavior. In this way, a set of rules belonging to the Hu people was formed, and those who were given a certain surname to form a tribe of the population actually had the responsibility and obligation to protect the royal family by nature.

It is almost a series of behaviors in the form of a covenant that make the Hu people also produce their own social system, and the current Touman controls the ethnic group under such a system, and she is the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu relied on a simple clan system to establish an unstable social structure, and the given surnames would gather herdsmen to obey orders under the recruitment, so it was usually the royal family who raised their arms and shouted and tribes from all directions gathered in the past. In many cases, the royal family also called friends, both to greet friendly tribes, which were peripheral troops in the assembled Hu army.

The support of the lords in the Huaxia ethnic group is the foundation of rule, and for the Hu people, their own "vassals" are also the basis for ensuring superiority over other ethnic groups, so what Touman is doing now is no different from the Xiongnu royal family of previous generations. He did everything possible to ensure the safety of the army under his own system, placing those of the outer tribes in relatively dangerous positions, as was evident in the Hu army that had been sent to confront the 21st Mixed Legion.

Just as Touman gathered everyone to discuss what Meng Tian was doing, new information was also sent through the investigation.

"Meng Tian's headquarters, which stopped behind, moved forward," Touman said of the 13th Cavalry Corps, and he sulked: "Then except for the infantry on the flank, we already have two cavalry legions and one infantry corps of the Han army in front of us. ”

They have been fighting with the Han army intermittently for nearly two years, so they should understand the military structure of the Han army, and they can also identify the number from the banner held by the Han army.

"Two cavalry regiments, the fifth and thirteenth cavalry regiments, two infantry regiments twenty-first and twenty-two. The 5th Cavalry Regiment was our old adversary, they were the first to enter the steppe, and the 13th Cavalry Regiment was the one that appeared later. "Touman didn't know that the Thirteenth Cavalry Regiment was adapted from the Forbidden Army sequence. The Hu people did not pay much attention to the intelligence spy in the hinterland of the empire, but the intelligence in front was concerned: "The 21st and 22nd Army Corps were originally the Qin army, but they were changed into the Han army's battle robes and banners three months ago. ”

"The Qin army changed its robes and banners, can it be considered that the Qin State has been annexed by Lu Zhe. Otherwise, how could Qin Jun be adapted? "Itai, the leader of the Hujie tribe, asked what he thought was the most important question.

The Xiongnu knew more about China than other grassland Hu tribes, after all, the Xiongnu often invaded south in the pre-Qin era in ancient times, and together with the Yueshi clan, they were called the two major evils of the Chinese frontier.

The Yue's main invasion in the long historical stage was the Qin side, the Yue's people and the Qin army fought for one or two hundred years in the Hetao and the northwest frontier, and at the same time, the Yue's army was also at war with the Xiongnu on the grassland. Since the beginning of Qin Xiangongshi, the main object of the Yue's war has also been placed on the Xiongnu, and since then, the number of Yue's southern invasions has become less and less.

In the Warring States Period, Zhao not only needed to deal with the threat from the Central Plains and Qin, but the pressure on Zhao was also extremely huge, so if you consult historical materials, you can find some information, which shows that even when Zhao and Qin were at the most intense war, Zhao would leave a large number of border troops in the north to defend against the Xiongnu.

The Yueshi people gradually weakened, the Xiongnu began to rise, and the pastures that originally belonged to the Yueshi people were taken by the Huns, and the Xiongnu bordered more and more borders with the Qin State. The number of battles between the Xiongnu and the Qin army gradually increased. Since Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji determined the national policy of going east out of the Central Plains, the Qin army was mainly on the defensive at the junction with the Xiongnu, and the territory of Qin in the northwest and northern Xinjiang was gradually occupied or encroached upon by the Xiongnu because of the small number of troops invested.

In fact, for about 150 years, the Qin State would rather have its frontiers plundered by the Hu people, and even the land occupied by the Xiongnu, and many times was unwilling to deploy its troops to the battlefield with the Xiongnu. That is the successive Qin kings to ensure that they have enough troops to compete with the various wars, but also because the Hu people's concept of land is a little different, the Hu people do not have a fixed territory, they live by water and grass, many times the Hu people retreat The Qin army can easily recover the land that was previously occupied by the Hu people.

One is before the first emperor unified the "world". Neither the Qin State nor the Xiongnu had any large-scale wars, and the historical event that should have occurred after the First Emperor unified the countries did not happen, so Touman's understanding of the Qin State or the Qin army was very vague, but because the Han army launched the conquest war on the grassland in the north. Whether it was the Xiongnu or other steppe ethnic groups, they knew far more about the Han army than about the Qin army.

On the premise that some things happen for a reason, Tou Man cares very much about what is happening in the land of China, and he tries his best to spy and learn that Lu Zhe has not completely unified the so-called "world" of the Chinese people. And just before Lü Zhe completely unified the "world", he was able to send so many troops north, and the Qin army's acceptance of reorganization can be regarded as Lü Zhe's biggest threat or hidden danger in the "world", and Touman had to worry that more Han troops would go north.

"We made the right choice." Touman refers to the fact that the whole army is not rushed to press: "We still need to continue to be right." ”

At that moment, the expressions on the faces of some of the people who were qualified to participate in the discussion meeting in the big tent made of wool felt changed.

Touman hesitates and hesitates, and in the face of his son's increasingly obvious challenge to power, he must consider the key to survival.

After retreating to the vicinity of the source of the Yellow River, Touman and the others cultivated and recuperated for half a year, and their strength was slightly strengthened from the surrounding captives and population plunder, but the development of the war situation repeatedly showed that they were always at a disadvantage in the battle with the Han army.

"If we defeat Meng Tian's legion, we can gain the overwhelming strength to weaken them, and it is indispensable to set up a battle in a big battle," Hu Yanmi is Huyan Shilan's father, and he is also the leader of the Huyan tribe, "But can we really achieve the goal of severely inflicting damage on Lu Zhe after destroying the acquired tribe?" Perhaps we should be more cautious. ”

Tou Man squinted his eyes at Hu Yanmi, and from the slightly hooked corners of Tou Man's mouth, it could be found that Hu Yanmi's tone was in line with the atmosphere that Tou Man needed at the moment.

Prudence often means cringe, usually in a sense of taking a kind of retaining strength, although they have been cultivated and replenished strength, but Touman obviously does not think that there is a certainty of defeating the Han army, or should it be said that Touman thinks that even if he can defeat once, the next time will be very difficult?

"You have to fight, but you can't fight brainlessly." Touman wants to preserve his strength, but he can't show a backing side: "What the enemy wants is what we should destroy." ”

In other words, Meng Tian led the army up, and they shouldn't meet it?

"Shan Yu ......" He Sui Kui Nie asked blankly: "Reinforcements are being organized on the grassland, do you mean that before the reinforcements arrive, we will take the defensive?" ”

Hu Yanmi saw Tou Man's expression stiffen, probably understanding that He Sui Kui Nie was thinking that Tou Man was weak, and being considered weak was fatal to Tou Man more than anything else, and even far more deadly than being defeated by the Han army. He stood up one by one: "Shan Yu means that even if we are facing a battle, we can't be led by Meng Tian's nose, we should have our own actions." ”

He Sui Kui Nie obviously also noticed that what he said had a bad effect, and he smiled stupidly: "Of course. Sneaking a look at Touman, he found that Touman was staring at him viciously, and he buried his head and decided not to speak.

"We need to understand what Meng Tian wants to do, and what is the purpose of doing it." Touman's volume gradually increased: "Before spying on Meng Tian's intentions, the tribes must be ready to go to war, and who will pull the hind legs ...... then", he "hummed" twice, it was full of warnings, and after waiting to look around, the conversation suddenly changed: "Also send someone to find Mao Dun, he shouldn't wander away from this war!" (To be continued.) )