Chapter 753: Return

On the fifth day, Yun Yao also dealt with the captured Bailing people, and the other Zhu Shi had no objection to Yun Yao's treatment plan, and after some investigation, Feng Yi, Yun Qi and other nine people were executed, and the other thirteen people were expelled from the clan and exiled to the grassland, leaving them to fend for themselves.

The army of this era and the people of the Bailing clan also packed all their things and just waited for the next day to set off on the road. In the afternoon, Mo Jing, Mo Cheng, Mo Ye, Zhai Jin and others led the Mo family disciples from Mojia Village to the big camp to join the team.

The Mo family's younger brothers and daughters do not have much property, so they are very simple, only more than 300 carts are pulled, of which more than 100 are pulled by some tools made by the Mo family over the years, and only a dozen cars are pulled by oxen and horses, and the rest are pulled by manpower.

When Gao Yuan saw this, he gave them a thousand horses and a hundred carts, all of which were horse-drawn instead, and a considerable part of the old, weak, sick and young walked in chariots, and the rest could ride on horseback. Because there are enough horses in the team now, it can ensure that all the people in the team can have chariots and horses to travel. Only the captured Hun soldiers walked.

Mo Jing, Mo Cheng, Mo Ye, Zhai Jin and others did not expect such treatment at all, so they were also very grateful to the plateau, and many Mo family disciples began to look forward to life in Dai County.

The personnel had arrived, and all the preparations had been completed, so the next day the brigade set up camp and began to march towards Daijun again.

Although during the rest and recuperation of the brigade, no movement of the Xiongnu army was found, but the plateau still did not dare to be careless, and the brigade was divided into three sections to walk, and a large number of scouts were dispatched to the perimeter.

After resting and recuperating, everyone's body was basically restored, and after the great battle of the Xiongnu army, the morale of the whole army was strong, and now all the people had horses or vehicles to travel, although the Xiongnu captives walked, but the captured Xiongnu were all young and strong people, so the speed of walking was faster than when they just left the base of the Bailing tribe.

After walking for more than ten days in a row, the Hun captives were very honest and did not make any trouble, because there were large groups of beasts around them, looking at the wolves, who dared to make trouble. In the first two days, there were still some Hun soldiers who wanted to escape, but the guards of the army were also extremely strict, and almost all the escaped Hun captives were buried in the mouth of the tiger and wolf, so no one dared to move such a thought anymore. And even if you escape from the brigade, what can you do, in the vast prairie, defenseless, without spare food, you can't last a few days at all, honestly follow the brigade, at least you can eat two full meals a day, which is more important, I believe most people can clearly distinguish.

In addition, I also encountered other Xiongnu tribes a few times on the way, but these Xiongnu tribes really did not dare to attack the brigade of the Bailing tribe, as soon as they saw the scouts of the Dai army, they immediately avoided it far away, for fear of provoking the fire, so that these captives naturally did not dare to act rashly.

And on the way to the march, the army also newly housed a lot of Hun soldiers, among them, a few days ago, on the way met a lot of Hun soldiers who fled from the battlefield, although these soldiers successfully escaped from the battlefield, but at that time the food in the Hun camp has been exhausted, so most of the soldiers have no food with the army, can only live by killing horses or hunting along the way. But a considerable number of soldiers did not even have horses, and all soldiers lived by hunting, and not everyone was able to hunt prey. As a result, many Hun soldiers were full of hungry meals, and when they saw the arrival of the army, they didn't even have the strength to escape, so they could only obediently tie their hands and capture.

However, after walking for a few days and sheltering three or four hundred defeated soldiers, there were basically no Hun soldiers fleeing from the battlefield, so at this time, the Hun troops who fled from the battlefield either fled far away or died on the road. But after walking for more than ten days, the Dai army began to encounter a small group of fleeing Xiongnu troops.

After the Dai army contained these small groups of Xiongnu troops, they inquired and learned that there was indeed an infighting among the Xiongnu tribes. It turned out that the Hun army was defeated, and the news of the death of more than ten Xiongnu tribal leaders below Mao Dun had reached Shan Yuting. At the same time, the leaders of more than ten tribes were killed, and some tribes did not have successors, although some tribes had successors, but there was no clear designation, and second, even if it was designated, some people were not convinced, so there were many variables.

Although the prestige of Mao Dun in the Xiongnu tribe was not high in the past, after all, it was Shan Yu's identity, and there was also a big name, among which the Xiongnu tribe was not convinced, but they did not dare to blatantly resist Mao Dun. But now that Mao Dun is dead, he naturally has no scruples, and the leaders of some big tribes see the opportunity to compete for the position of Shan Yu, and at the same time there is an opportunity to merge other tribes and expand their strength, so they also immediately began to act. Some people directly annexed other tribes, and some people raised puppets in other tribes, either openly fighting or secretly fighting, and of course some tribes fought for this. Some of the herdsmen of the tribe fled from the battle, but they did not expect to meet the Dai army on the way.

After learning these news, the plateau was also greatly relieved, so it seems that the Xiongnu tribe must not have time to attack itself, in addition, the Xiongnu tribe has a full-scale civil war, and it will be flawless to plunder south, so that it can greatly reduce their pressure in the north, and they can concentrate on dealing with the battle in the interior of China, and do not need to disperse their forces. This is also another huge gain from my trip to Saiwai, which is of great significance for improving the strategic environment of Daijun.

In the past, the Zhao State was faced with a two-front battle for a long time, on the one hand, it had to compete with the Qin State, and on the other hand, it had to face the huge pressure of the Northern Xiongnu, so the Zhao State had been very careful to deal with the Qin State in the era of King Zhao Huiwen, and did not dare to expand the Chong of the Qin State lightly, and the Qin State wanted to exchange the fifteen cities for the Heshi Wall, and the Zhao State could only let Lin Xianghe take the Heshi Bi to the Qin State, and later the King of Qin Zhaoxiang invited Zhao Huiwen Wang Michi to meet, and King Zhao Huiwen also had to take the risk of doing it.

It's just that in these two incidents, Zhao Guo relied on Lin Xiangru's personal wit and courage, not only to make the He family return to Zhao, but also to humiliate Zhao Guo at the Michi meeting. But on the whole, in the relationship between the two countries at this time, Qin was in the active position, while Zhao was on the passive side.

During this period, although there were many wars between the two sides, such as in the twentieth year of King Huiwen of Zhao (the thirty-eighth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, 269 BC), there was a famous battle between Qin and Zhao, and the famous general Zhao Hao (the father of Zhao Kuo) led the army to break the Qin army, but this battle was also provoked by the Qin State, and the Zhao State passively defended the battle, and after the victory of the Zhao State, it did not take advantage of the situation to attack the Qin State. On the one hand, this is because the strength of Zhao is not as good as that of Qin, and on the other hand, Zhao is facing a two-front battle, and the Xiongnu in the north contain a large amount of Zhao's national strength, so during this time, Zhao has always been cautious and does not dare to fully confront Qin.

But later the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao was completely different. In fact, this battle had nothing to do with the Zhao State, when the Qin State attacked Korea and occupied Yewang (now Qinyang, Henan) in Korea, cutting off the connection between Shangdang County and the Korean mainland. In order to lure the Qin army away from Korea, Feng Ting, the commander of Shangdang County, decided to dedicate the seventeen cities of Shangdang County to Zhao State, provoking the Battle of Zhao and Qin, and Zhao State knew that receiving Shangdang would anger Qin State and set him on fire, but he still decided to accept Shangdang, and at the same time sent Lian Po to lead the army to garrison Changping in case the Qin army attacked, which led to the Battle of Changping that changed the course of history.

At that time, Zhao Guo dared to accept the party and took the initiative to provoke a confrontation with Qin, on the one hand, he underestimated Qin's determination; On the other hand, it was also because at that time, Li Mu had broken the Xiongnu's army of more than 100,000 at Yanmen Pass, so that the Xiongnu did not dare to go south for more than ten years, and temporarily relieved Zhao's northern troubles, so that Zhao could concentrate all his strength to deal with Qin. Therefore, although Zhao suffered the defeat of Changping later, he was still able to hold Handan and did not lose the country, and later slowly recovered his national strength, and Li Mu relieved the Xiongnu in the north of Zhao, which was also an important reason.

Now that the Xiongnu have civil strife, of course, they will no longer be able to go south, so the northern border of Daijun will not be threatened by the Xiongnu for a long time, and they have just expanded their territory and want to turn their strategic focus to the south, and when they will start a full-scale battle with the Jiuli people, they can first stabilize the situation on the northern border, which is naturally a great strategic victory. And before the plateau came out of the jam, he never thought that there would be such a result.

If China was a unified regime at this time, it could even wave its army to the north and severely damage the power of the Xiongnu, or support agents among the Xiongnu tribes to divide and control the Xiongnu tribes, which could not only expand the territory and ensure the peace of the north for a hundred years, but also force the Xiongnu to move west into Europe in advance. Of course, this is just for thought, after all, it is still far from the unification of China, but the Xiongnu tribe fell into civil strife, and Daijun is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary.

Now of course, the plateau will not participate in the civil war of the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu tribes naturally do not dare to provoke the Bailing tribe at this time, but when they encounter a small group of Xiongnu tribes or scattered defeated troops, they will unceremoniously include them in their own ranks.

As a result, on the way back, the Dai army successively annexed several small tribes and scattered defeated armies, and by the time the large group of men and horses crossed the Yinshan Mountain Range, the number of Huns accepted reached nearly 2,000 people, all of whom were incorporated into the ranks of the captives, but they could keep their own property and walk with the large group of men and horses.

After crossing the Yinshan Mountain Range, it was basically far away from the Xiongnu's sphere of influence, and the brigade also accelerated its speed and marched towards Yanmen Pass, and at the same time, the plateau also sent people to rush back to Yanmen Pass in advance, notify the army guarding the pass, prepare to meet the returning people, and place the Xiongnu prisoners.