Shan Yuting of the Xiongnu is now in Longcheng, the resting place of his ancestors.

At this time, Longcheng, the ancestral land of the Xiongnu, did not move away. (Note)

Still in the old place of Makunan.

If you want to judge according to the geography of later generations, it should be in Inner Mongolia.

This place is close to the mountains and water, the water and grass are abundant, and it is one of the most important religious and political centers of the Xiongnu people.

According to tradition, every year in May, all the leaders of the Xiongnu Empire would worship their ancestors in Longcheng, assemble all the tribes, and offer sacrifices to the gods of primitive shamanism that they believed in, and pray for the blessings of their ancestors and gods.

And usually, before May, the Huns will make all kinds of preparations for ancestor worship and worship of gods in Longcheng.

The military minister Shan Yu, at this moment, led the main force of his royal court and stationed here, making various preparations for worshipping ancestors and gods.

It should be pointed out that the Huns, like most of the steppe nomads, had the same totemic worship as the Han people in the Central Plains at this time: the dragon. (Note 2)

Moreover, the dragon of the Central Plains is generally similar to the dragon of the steppe in terms of image.

They are all two-winged on their backs, with scales and spines, large and long heads, thin necks and large bellies.

It's just that in China, the dragon is deified as a symbol of imperial power.

In tribes such as the Xiongnu, the dragon is still a god.

And it is a totemic god that is extremely worshiped by primitive shamanism.

Second only to heaven and earth, under the sun and the moon.

The name of the ancestral land of the Xiongnu, the dragon city, is also because, according to legend, the ancestors of the Xiongnu people had witnessed the dragon flying here, so the later Xiongnu dynasties were single. After they died, they buried themselves here.

In time. In the vicinity of this dragon city, a city was formed.

It's just that. The city is time-sensitive.

Usually, it is deserted in autumn and winter, while it flourishes in spring and summer.

Until the reign of Lao Shangdanyu, all the tribes of the entire steppe were swept away, all challengers were defeated, and the Xiongnu became the hegemon of East Asia.

The Xiongnu began to settle some of the settled population in Longcheng.

These people were often old Xiongnu nobles and sacrifices.

It can be regarded as a symbol that the Huns have initially walked out of ignorance and begun to step towards civilization -- in the past, the Huns were old. You can die.

No one cares about such a thing as pension at all.

And the reason for this change.

It's funny to say.

Because, such a change was born under the stimulation of the Han Dynasty.

At the beginning, Lao Shangdan was in the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of Taizong of the Han Dynasty.

The Bank of China said that as the first traitor in history, he was responsible for dealing with the Han Dynasty mission.

To put it simply, it's a mouthpiece.

At that time, the relationship between the Han and the Xiongnu. It is roughly equivalent to the relationship between the Mi Dynasty and Soviet Russia in the twentieth century.

The two big guys both want each other to die.

But after weighing the other party's physique, they invariably gave up this idea.

Since a full-scale war cannot be fought, it has no choice but to pay lip service.

In the field of mouth cannons. The Han family has an overall advantage.

Grabbed many uncommon places of the Huns, and sprayed them in a big way.

Although, the Bank of China said that the eloquence is good. Forcibly break some back.

But just like Maozi, the Huns also know shame.

After being sprayed. Of course there will be improvements.

This dragon city is inhabited by some old and weak nobles, not the same as in the past. Letting these old men die is one of those improvements.

Of course, only the nobles, and the big nobles, can enjoy such preferential treatment.

As for the herdsmen and slaves?

Then it can only be hehe.

At this time, the Xiongnu nobles who had settled in Longcheng for a long time included the two younger brothers of Shan Yulaoshang of the previous generation and the two sacrifices of the Maodun period.

These people, even if they are military ministers, must treat each other with courtesy, at least, in terms of face.

Many questions have to be symbolically consulted with these old people.

At this moment, in Shan Yu's royal tent, the military minister, in the appearance of a good student, asked several elders sitting below him: "The whereabouts of the Yue clan have been determined, and they are indeed preparing to attack the poison in the Amu Darya, four thousand miles away in this country called Dawan, in the Western Regions...... Elders, do you think, I'm a big Huns, how should I deal with it? ”

As long as there is a clear direction, it is not difficult to find the Yueshi people.

Not to mention, the Dawan people actually hated the Yue people to death.

Twenty or thirty years ago, the Xiongnu and the Yueshi competed for the position of the supremacy of the grassland.

After the defeat, the Yueshi moved west to the pseudo-water river.

During the migration, the Yueshi severed Dawan's connection with his home country. (Note 3)

Until now, the Dawan people have not been able to connect with their home country.

And, in fact, Dawan has suffered from the bitter consequences of the Yue's westward migration over the years: a large number of nomads who settled near the Amu Darya River were defeated by the Yueren, broke into Dawan's territory and fought war with Dawan's descendants of Greek conquerors.

Of course, the Dawan people hated the Yueshi people to death.

Naturally, the Huns easily learned from the Dawan people where the Yueshi people were and the recent situation of the Yueshi people.

Sure enough, like the information from the Han Dynasty, the Yueshi people had gained a firm foothold in the pseudo-water region west of Dawan, and had regained their prosperity and established a royal court.

It's just that the problem is: the Dawan people refused to open their borders to the Xiongnu.

That's for sure.

Although the Dawan people knew that the Xiongnu were very powerful, opening the border to the Xiongnu was no different from raising their hands and surrendering.

Dawan people are not stupid, who doesn't know, developing the country and cities, and letting the Xiongnu army enter and exit, this is equivalent to leaving their fate to the Huns to decide.

On the other hand, the Dawan people are very confident in the strength of their city's defenses.

The defense system of their city was derived from the Greek-style Wu forts that their ancestors brought from Greece.

The defense of this kind of Wu fort is very strong, the Huns found after close observation that the fortresses on its border, such as Luntou and Yucheng, are very strong, the defense system is complete, if there is no shortage of food and water in the city, it is enough to hold on for more than half a year.

What's more troublesome is that in Dawan, it is an ordinary small town. A similar castle design is also used.

The Huns lacked the ability to storm these cities. It's really at a loss.

At present, the only way can only be to take advantage of the rapid mobility of the Hun cavalry. Bypass these fortified cities, attack them and save them, attack their cores, and mobilize the defenders in their cities.

After fighting with the Han Dynasty for 60 years, the Xiongnu had incomparably rich experience in this regard.

Just after summing it up, the decision-making level of the Xiongnu has already come up with several plans.

At this moment, the military ministers and these old nobles are sacrificing. In fact, it was just a greeting, and there was no real intention to ask or adopt their opinions.

These old guys also know their roles.

Just being able to let them retire in this ancestral land and enjoy the treatment of the past is already a great gift.

Don't dare to ask for more.

One by one, they said: "Everything is only big and single, and the ministers are old, only bowing their heads......"

Hearing this, the military minister nodded with satisfaction.

He was really just trying to test it.

The thief of the right Xianwang is among the older generation of Xiongnu nobles. It has a lot of popularity.

If the military ministers want to go west, those stubborn old guys in the Munan area will have to be cleansed.

Can't let them mess with the rear!

The lessons of the Xiongnu dynasties told the military ministers. The war at the front, not terrible, the civil strife in the rear. is truly deadly.

In particular, the Xiongnu had a long tradition of killing kings.

Meet the old guys. They didn't dare to talk about the big politics, and the military ministers were relieved.

The spirit of these old guys. It's all gone, and it's impossible to make any more waves.

In this way, he was able to concentrate on moving westward and expanding the territory of the Xiongnu Empire.

When the military ministers were full of ambition, suddenly, a young Xiongnu nobleman walked into the tent, saluted the military ministers, knelt on the ground and bowed: "The great plough is lonely, and the king of Hutu and the king of Aries sent an urgent report: The Han army has gone out of the fortress, killed one hundred and fifty of my herdsmen, captured hundreds, and the cities of the Great Wall. ”

When the military minister heard this, he instigated and stood up.

In the 60 years of Sino-Hungarian relations, there has not been a year without war.

Even last year, after the signing of the treaty of peace between the two countries, there were occasional misfires on the border -- the cavalry of the two countries patrolling along the Great Wall would always be stunned and do stupid things on their own initiatives.

However, under the control of the high-level leaders of the two countries, these misfires eventually turned into misunderstandings.

Moreover, the two armies clashed, their skills were not as good as others, and they were killed.

Whether it is the Han family or the Huns, they don't have that face to stand up for these guys.

But this initiative is to attack and kill the other side's civilians.

But it means war.

Especially the Han family!

In the history of the Han and Hungarians, in several major wars, except for those active invasions deliberately provoked by the Xiongnu, the Han army only took the initiative twice.

One was Pingcheng, and the nascent Han regime made the Huns understand through the Battle of Pingcheng that the Han people were not easy to mess with.

Once it was Henan, this time, in the name of the fool Youxian Wang who attacked Shangjun without authorization and killed the Han people, he mobilized 85,000 troops and launched the Henan Campaign to completely expel the Xiongnu from the Great Wall.

"What the hell is going on?" The military minister was furious.

At this critical juncture of westward expansion, the military ministers did not want the south to fight a big battle with the Han people in an unknown victory.

The current Han army is not the Han army of Pingcheng, or even the Han army of five years ago.

As far as the military ministers know, the size of the Han cavalry has nearly doubled compared with five years ago, a large number of new weapons, redressed, and the Han army on the front line of the Great Wall has even achieved all-iron.

This made the Han army suddenly distance itself from the Hun army in terms of equipment.

Although the military ministers did not think that after the Han people changed their clothes, the Xiongnu would not be able to defeat them.

But the combat effectiveness of the other party has indeed increased.

Moreover, the Han army also had the ability to take the initiative to engage in a cavalry chase with the Hun cavalry in the field.

Through small-scale contacts and frictions over the past few years, the military ministers have been convinced of this.

Therefore, if possible, the military ministers did not want to make enemies with the Han people in the south.

The weak kingdoms in the west, the feuding Yue clan, and the legendary rich poison country, are the places he wants to conquer the most.

Of course, if the Han really wanted to provoke the Xiongnu.

The military minister didn't mind moving the army, and taught his son-in-law a lesson and asked him to be honest.

In this regard, the military ministers had absolute self-confidence that as long as the tribes in the Makunan region were mobilized, the military ministers would be able to gather 100,000 cavalry, and these 100,000 cavalry. It is enough to disturb the Great Wall defense line of the Han people.

But so what?

Which of those fortresses on the edge of the Great Wall is easy to gnaw on?

A fortified city like the clouds. If the Huns don't break a few teeth, I'm afraid they won't even be able to break the bricks on the city wall.

So. In this way, neither side can bargain for a good deal, and the military ministers are unwilling to do it.

He believed that the Han people were not willing to do such a thing either.

Well, the answer is obvious.

The military minister almost subconsciously thought: there are some rabbit cubs who have done stupid things that annoy the Han people!

Han and Hungary have been in contact for decades, and they have a certain understanding of each other.

They all know very well that the bottom line of the other party is there.

Like the military ministers, it is very clear that when the two armies are rubbing, the Han people will definitely not be so irritable.

Only the civilians who killed them, attacked their villages. That's why they're so angry.

In the midst of rage alone, no one dared to hide it.

The young nobleman knelt on the ground and replied, "Hui Zhu Zhu Tu, it is the left bone of King Hutu's subordinates, who led people to attack a Han village, killed some Han people, and abducted the rest of the village......"

"Hugh slaughter king?" The military minister sneered twice.

In the eyes of the military ministers, the Hutu tribe is not a good person.

This tribe used to be a diehard loyalist of the Right Virtuous King.

As for the left bone Duhou. The military minister remembered that this person seemed to have invaded Han twice with King Youxian in the past and reaped a lot of benefits.

"Send someone to slaughter the tribe. Tell King Hutu about his left bone and his tribe. Immediately give Ben the plough and set off for the west. Go and report to King Zuo Xian and prepare to participate in the war against the Dawan people! The military minister made a cold decision.

Take the initiative to attack the villages of the Han Chinese. This is tantamount to tearing up the peace treaty.

However, no matter how much he hated the left bone of the left bone who acted without permission, and no matter how much he hated the Hutu tribe.

The military commander could not punish the person directly responsible (the Hutu tribe) and the left bone marquis who acted without permission.

Not to mention taking them to apologize to the Han people.

Not to mention, a military minister can't do such a stupid thing!

In that year, King Youxian tore up the peace treaty without authorization and attacked Shangjun, killing the border people, which eventually led to the Han-Hun War, and the Xiongnu completely lost their influence within the Han dynasty and were all expelled from China.

But in the end, he was just transferred to the west by Lao Shangdan, who was responsible for attacking the Yueshi.

In terms of results, instead of being punished, King Youxian was promoted.

Now, the military minister can only choose this - to transfer the person who provokes without permission and send him to the west, so that he will not cause trouble again.

As for the Han Dynasty, it must also be explained.

Otherwise, in case the Han Dynasty launched a madness and launched an attack on the Hetao.

Although the military ministers were not afraid - the cavalry fought, the Huns were not afraid of anyone.

It's just that, judging from the physique and strength of the Han and Hungarian countries, if they start a war now, it is very likely that it will be a war of attrition.

Hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of cavalry, stared at each other on the border.

Why bother, at this time, there are more than a dozen countries in the west, and tens of thousands of slaves have been brought back.

Moreover, starting a war with the Han Dynasty is equivalent to the difficulty of shifting the center of gravity, not to mention the slightest benefit to the military ministers, and it also gives those two-minded tribes in the south of the country a chance to strengthen themselves.

After thinking about it for a long time, the military minister finally made a decision: "Go and call the Subu and Diao Difficult, in addition, not long ago, didn't King Zuo Xian bring back a few white slaves from Dawan?" Send it together, let it be difficult to carve, take these slaves, and this book of national letters that support the plough and the lonely Tu, go to Chang'an, negotiate with the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the border market, must be restarted, and the two countries cannot go to war, in addition, it is called Xubu and carving, get in touch with the Beihai clan, in the future, such a thing will happen again, and the Beihai clan should fulfill her obligations and responsibilities as the heir of the Great Huns! (To be continued......)

PS: Note 1: The Dragon City in the early Han Dynasty and the Dragon City that later appeared in the Book of Han are two different concepts.

The former is the resting place of Shan Yu after the death of the Xiongnu dynasties.

However, it was destroyed by Wei Qing during the time of Emperor Wu, and six years after Yuan Shuo, the Xiongnu adopted Wei Lu's suggestion to shrink their power, and there was no royal court in the south of the curtain, so Longcheng moved to the place in Outer Mongolia recorded in the Han book.

The Book of Han once recorded that during the reign of Emperor Zhao, the Wuheng people who submitted to the Han Dynasty once dug up the coffin of the Xiongnu Shan Yu in the ancient dragon city to retaliate.

Note 2: Cui Hao of the Northern Wei Dynasty once said: The Western Hu is the dragon god, so its assembly place is called Dragon City. This record shows that at least during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the steppe nomads still used the dragon as their totem, and the typical example is the Murong clan of the Xianbei tribe, who established a dragon city.

Note 3: Dawan should be an independent regime of the Bactrian Kingdom mentioned in Western history books, and it was the westward migration of the Yue clan that gave him the opportunity to become independent, and the so-called Bactrian Kingdom, commonly known as the Greco-Indian Kingdom, belongs to an extension of the Seleucid Empire, that is, the Great Xia mentioned in the Han Book and historical records.