Summer is coming to an end.

A large Xiongnu tribe at the foot of Hangai Mountain is preparing to migrate.

The Xiongnu Empire, which has expanded to the present day, covers an area of tens of thousands of miles.

However, its headquarters, which belonged to the main force and backbone of the Xiongnu, had actually been living and active in a specific area.

Geographically, the headquarters of the Xiongnu actually lived in a large territory.

This area is surrounded by mountains.

In the east is the Xing'an Mountains, in the northeast there are Kent Mountains, in the south there are Yin Mountains and Helan Mountains, in the west there are Jinshan Mountains (Altai Mountains), and in the northwest there are Tangnu Mountains.

Tangnu Mountain takes a slight east-west direction, then turns to the southeast, and extends the lot, which is called the Hangai Mountains.

The Hangai Mountains are uplifted in the northwestern part of the Mongolian Plateau.

At the foot of Hangai Mountain, it is the summer and autumn residence of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King.

At this time, the desert had not yet swept the entire Mongolian plateau.

The climate is still warm and humid.

The rainy season in summer brings life to the pastures of this grassland.

But at the end of summer, the temperature quietly dropped to more than 10 degrees.

The change in temperature told the Huns that it was time to leave here and head to the warmer south.

For the Huns, they had adapted to the extreme climate of flying snow in August, freezing temperatures in September, and several feet of snow in October.

In general, the Xiongnu tribes would come to the north and west of the Mongolian plateau in the summer, and return to the south in the autumn and winter.

This is also one of the reasons why all the Xiongnu invasions recorded by the Han dynasty occurred in winter.

Because in spring and summer, their people and their livestock, are in the north.

Of course, this is before.

Now, with the tentacles of the Xiongnu Empire, it extends to the west.

Many of the northern and western tribes of the Makuku would choose to spend the winter in the later Zungar Basin.

It's safer, it's warmer, and it's better to have access to material things and wealth.

Especially after the Battle of Mayi, a large number of Xiongnu western tribes and northern Mubei tribes did not want to return to that sad place in the south.

There, there are both terrible Han cavalry and powerful Han Tianzi, and it is not economically cost-effective.

To return to the south, you have to cross the Gobi Desert, which is what the Huns called Hanhai.

However, the headquarters of King Zuoxian, as the most orthodox and powerful tribe of the Xiongnu, must return to his ancestral land at the foot of Yin Mountain, the Hetao Plain.

It is the birthplace of the Xiongnu, and it is also the place where Mao Dunshan is singing.

"Great Tu Luxury!" Huyan Dangtu took more than a dozen Hun warriors to Yu Dan, the Xiongnu Zuoxian King who was riding a sheep and playing, and knelt down on one knee: "We should go, Da Shan Yu is waiting for us in Juyanze!" ”

"Father Shan Yu triumphed?" Yu Shan raised his head and looked at Hu Yan Dangtu who was walking towards him.

"Yes, Tu Lu!" Hu Yan Dangtu said: "This time, I won a great victory over the Great Huns, broke the whole country of Dawan, obtained all its population, and became the slaves of the Great Huns!" ”

"Gold and silver, fine wine and grain, innumerable!"

As he said this, Hu Yandang Tu was snorting in his nostrils.

He did not participate in this expedition.

Instead, he brought the loyal and reliable Shan Yu Guard, here to protect the young and fragile King Zuoxian, the only clangine of the Xiongnu Empire now.

Yu Shan is too small and too fragile.

In today's complex environment, it is very likely to be killed.

The lessons of the past tell the Huns.

Sixty percent of the royal family does not survive to adulthood.

Disease, accident, assassination, can kill him.

And now, the most dangerous enemies of King Zuo Xian are those members of the Zuo Xian Clan's headquarters, who are full of hostility towards him, either overt or covert.

When Yu Shan heard this, he said happily: "Really? That's great! ”

So, under the protection of Huyan Dangtu, the entire headquarters of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu, 50,000 yi, with the wolf head battle flag of King Zuoxian, migrated to the south.

The Huns have been walking this migration route for hundreds of years.

They had to cross the Hanhai Sea, which divides the southern and northern parts of the Makuku, and enter the Makunan region, which is close to the Great Wall.

It was a dangerous and difficult journey.

Fortunately, this migration force is strong enough.

The protection of 50,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu headquarters was enough to make all foreign enemies retreat.

However, danger does not only come from the outside, but more often than not, it will come from the inside.

Therefore, Hu Yan Dangtu's main duty is to keep an eye on those men who are about to move.

Those side branches that are eyeing each other!

Thanks to his presence and protection, Yu Shan was able to survive this dangerous summer after the expedition of the military ministers, and to see his father alive.

After half a month of travel, this migratory team, driven millions of livestock, crossed the vast sea and entered a new world.

The water and grass here are abundant, and the autumn is high and refreshing.

The warm wind was blowing slowly, although there was a little sand, and the face of the person who hit it was a little painful.

But the air was filled with the scent of water vapor and grass.

Ju Yanze is already in sight.

Even, on the plains in the distance, there are some star-studded corn fields and wheat fields.

Of course, the existence of these corn fields does not mean that the Huns have learned to farm by now.

In fact, almost all nomads will find a plot of land, set a fire, and throw some seeds when they have free time.

This is the most primitive way of farming.

This is also known as slash-and-burn farming.

Just sow the seeds, not the cooking.

When the harvest comes, the Huns will return.

These corns and wheat were the seeds sown by King Zuoxian's headquarters this spring.

Now, it's time to harvest.

These harvested grains will become reliable rations for the Huns to survive the winter.

So, now, some Xiongnu tribes have begun to turn to farming.

In the Western Regions, the tribes of the King of Gushu and the King of Fox She, this is the case.

However, they did not farm their own fields, but drove the people and slaves of the Western Kingdom to farm.

In this way, it was called riding field by the Huns.

But, whether it is to sow seeds with their hands, or to drive others to plow.

The food shortage of the Xiongnu was still very large.

It still relied on importing grain from the Han dynasty to supplement its people's vitamins.

Therefore, since the Battle of Pingcheng, the Han and Hungary, although they have repeatedly fought and fought each other, have to negotiate peace in the end.

The main driving forces for peace negotiations are grain, salt, and tea.

Even, it once happened, the two countries fought in the dark.

But in the city on the side of the battlefield, the Hun cavalry did not commit any exaggeration.

When the Wolf Head Banner of King Zuo Xian's headquarters appears on the horizon.

A Xiongnu tribe on the other side was immediately mobilized.

The nobles of the tribe, with the people, pushed flatbed carts - a primitive and simple cart driven by two wheels, and it was also the main means of transportation of the Xiongnu.

In fact, all the Xiongnu tribes were heavily dependent on the forest.

Because they need the trees of the forest to make all kinds of equipment, they also need the beasts of the forest to provide them with extra food, and they also need the shelter of the forest to protect their safety.

In fact, the forest was the most important arsenal of the Huns - almost 70% of the Xiongnu weapons, especially bows and arrows, were now produced in the forest.

Therefore, in the history books, the Huns attached great importance to all mountain ranges.

Many times they would rather give up those pastures than defend their mountains to the death.

At this moment, the nobles and people of this tribe pushed these flatbed carts made of logging from the nearby mountains, and on the carts were placed **** male and female slaves tied up with ropes or wine, rice, wheat and other food, and greeted the mighty Zuoxian King headquarters.

"A male slave with ten lambs and a horse, and a female slave with two foals!" Many people shouted for it.

Immediately, it attracted the attention of the herdsmen and nobles of King Zuoxian.

Hu Yan Dangtu glanced at these people and found that there was no threat, so he ordered his troops to move freely, and he himself, with a thousand Shan Yu guards, was tightly protected by Shan's royal tent.

"General Zuo, it seems that this time Father Dan Yu really obtained countless booty, even a small tribe like the 'Mo Clan' can have so many slaves to sell!" Yu Dan rode a docile foal and said to the loyal General Zuo beside him.

"It should be!" Huyan Dangtu looked at the situation in the distance, and was also very happy, for the Xiongnu, slaves and livestock, represented wealth.

They are more precious possessions than gold.

"I heard that Da Danyu captured 50,000 or 60,000 prisoners this time, and as for the captured population, the combined number of men and women is almost more than 400,000!" Hu Yan Dangtu said excitedly: "Now it seems that this is true!" ”

Then, he lowered his head in some frustration and said: "I hate that stupid Yin Zhixie, who actually lost tens of thousands of warriors in the Han Dynasty, forcing my Great Huns to return those Han slaves and their descendants!" ”

In the Battle of Mayi last year, the Xiongnu were forced to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.

The new peace treaty ordered the Xiongnu to inventory and return all captive Han Chinese and their descendants within a time limit.

It was even subject to the supervision and censorship of the Han Dynasty.

This treaty almost made the position of Da Shan Yu insecure.

Fortunately, the Xiongnu still have the West to grab.

Moreover, the looting gains of the West were enough to make up for the losses of the Xiongnu, and even to make up for it.

Otherwise, this winter, nine times out of ten there will be a coup d'état within the Xiongnu.

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At this moment, beside Juyanze, a natural lake that guards the road to the Western Regions and the Hetao.

The Xiongnu's Shan Yu court was full of celebration and joy.

The rice and wheat brought from the Dawan Kingdom were piled up in the various vaults of the entire Shan Yu Court.

Every man has a cheerful smile on his face.

Slaves under the age of thirty were driven by the Huns with whips and had to start feeding livestock.

And the fate of those female slaves was even more tragic.

The Xiongnu were a nomadic people who lived in settlements.

A settlement is like a family in China.

The Xiongnu claimed to control 400,000 strings, but in fact it meant that it had about 400,000 towns in its headquarters.

In the midst of the falls, the strongest man controls everything.

Including slaves and livestock, as well as the distribution of food.

But at the same time, he also needs to follow the nobles in battle.

Naturally, when he went on an expedition, the wives and concubines and female slaves who remained at home would conceive the children of other male members.

However, the Huns did not care about this.

As long as it's your own clan's species, it doesn't matter who it is.

So, many times, the clan kinship within the Xiongnu tribe was very confusing.

As a result, the Huns simply didn't bother to straighten out these relationships that were impossible to straighten out.

All the offspring, no matter who it is, will follow the strongest man and recognize him as their father.

When he dies, the man who inherits his position will treat this person's wife and concubine and heir as his own wife and heir.

It is only among the high-level aristocracy that there will be such a high-class family lifestyle as who is the child of whom.

And this chaotic system and family life has led to the fact that women, especially beautiful female slaves, are public facilities in various settlements.

These captive Dawan slave girls, no matter what status they had before and what kind of wealth they had.

Now, they are all pushed into the vault by the Huns without discrimination.

Men from fourteen to forty years old have the power to overthrow them.

The descendants of the conquerors of Greece and Macedonia suffered disasters that they could not have imagined.

In the screams and cries of the slave girls, the men of the Xiongnu headquarters laughed and shouted wildly.

When they were excited, these men all shouted: "Da Shan Yu, Da Shan Yu, you are the embodiment of the gods and ancestors, the darling of heaven and earth, and the son of the sun and the moon!" ”

After the Battle of Mayi, the people's morale and morale of the Xiongnu, who had fallen to the bottom, began to gradually recover by relying on these vents and shouts.

As a result, the status of the Shan Yu clan has returned to its original height, and even its ruling foundation has become more solid.

It was not only the lower-class herdsmen who began to regain their confidence in the rule of the Sulu clan.

The chiefs of the upper clans and the patriarchs of the clans also knelt at the feet of their military ministers in the face of unprecedented wealth and victory.

All of them were like docile hounds, wagging their tails and begging for mercy, just hoping that they could take themselves and their tribes to the west to make a fortune on the next expedition to the west, and enjoy the wine, women and food of the Cypriots, the Yueshi people, and the Kangju people.

And the military minister, of course, knows that at this time, he should make as much promise as possible.

to co-opt and unite these tribes and clans.

He's doing that every day these days.

Keep telling the leaders of the various tribes and clans who came to Shan Yuting from all directions: The next expedition to the west, you must bring a loyal and reliable department.

Finally, when the last tribal leader who had come to the audience departed with a satisfactory answer.

The military minister also collapsed on a soft bearskin cushion with satisfaction and exhaustion, and then, reaching out to hug a defenseless Dawan noblewoman, and lewd his hands up and down.

And what he thought was a loyal dog knelt at his feet, watching the actions of the military ministers.

Since returning from the great victory of the Western Expedition, he has found that his status and importance are declining.

Moreover, it is getting lower and lower.

After the Battle of Mayi, he was allowed to report standing up.

But now, he's lost that privilege.

The reason lies in the great victory of the Xiongnu in the west.

Shan Yuting and the nobles felt that the role of canals and carving was so much.

It made him feel very aggrieved and humiliated.

"Wait......" and Qu and Diao lowered his head and showed a cruel smile: "I'll let you come and beg me!" ”

What happens when you don't matter anymore?

Of course, it's about finding a way to make yourself important again.

How can I make myself important?

Experience tells that it is difficult to carve and carve, and the Han army must be allowed to beat the Huns again!

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