In the Western Regions in the distance, at the foot of the White Mountain (Tianshan Mountain), it has become a large barracks at this moment.

At the behest of their military ministers, the Huns mobilized the cavalry of its eleven tribes in the west and other vassal tribes, plus the hardcore Aries tribe of the royal court who came to the aid from the east.

At present, under the great beetle of the military ministers, more than 140,000 cavalry have gathered.

This is a powerful force that is unmatched, unstoppable, and invincible in the Western Regions.

Everyone looked at this strongest cavalry group assembled by the Xiongnu in the west since Lao Shangdan Yu broke the Yue Clan.

The military minister was full of ambition and looked proudly at the army under his command.

"This army of Ben Dan Yu, even if everyone blows a breath, the combined strength can blow down the White Mountain, each person spits a mouthful of saliva, and immediately fills the holy lake of the Wusun people, under the iron hooves of this army of Ben Dan Yu, the Wusun people have no second choice except to kneel on the ground, bow their heads and surrender, and sacrifice cattle, sheep and slaves!"

Military ministers do have reason to be so complacent.

In today's world, except for the Xiongnu, there is no second country, regime, or nation that can easily assemble a cavalry cluster of such a scale.

This incomparably large army eats more than 2,000 cattle and sheep every day.

The herd of livestock they brought with them could nibble through a radius of 30 miles of pasture in a day.

The manure of people and livestock can be piled up into a mountain every day.

Even if you don't fight the Wusun people who have retreated to the south of the White Mountain.

Just let this huge army stay like this on the territory of the Wusun people, and in just one month, it will be able to take most of the territory of Wusun. gnawed into a desert.

All the countries of the Western Regions trembled under the hooves of the Xiongnu.

Right now. Among the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, other countries except Wusun. They had already sent envoys, carrying a large amount of goods and wealth, to the court of the military ministers, and respectfully expressed their submission.

There were even kings of the Western Regions who came to meet the military ministers in person.

But the Wusun people, in the face of such a military situation, did not give in.

This made the military minister angry, and in his opinion, when the Great Huns gathered so many troops. After fully showing his muscles to the Wusun people, then the only thing the Wusun people had to do was to kneel under his feet, kiss his boots, and beg for mercy with a dog-like wagging tail in front of all the countries of the Western Regions, asking for his forgiveness.

"The Wusun people must learn a lesson!" The military minister thought viciously in his heart.

If possible, the military ministers really want to wipe out the entire Wusun Kingdom from this world.

But he couldn't.

Because the hunt is still alive.

As long as Hunt Jiaomi is still alive, Wusun will not perish!

Because. The youngest son and younger brother have privileges on the grassland, not to mention, there is a big man above the head of the military minister. I don't want to see Usun perish.

"Is the Mu Yan clan okay in Dragon City?" The military minister looked coldly at the nephew who appeared in front of him with a respectful face, and asked the king of the day, Yizhi.

The female of the Xiongnu was the highest-ranking woman in the Xiongnu.

Since the old man was on the throne. The Xiongnu established the system of the mother and the mother, with the mother as the mother. The Mu Yan clan was not bound by the Xiongnu system of step-marriage to avoid incest.

Meantime. As the female patriarch, the status of the Mu Yan clan is respected, and she has the power to arbitrate the affairs of the clan and maintain the clan.

Among them, maintaining the purity of the bloodline of the Su Yan clan is the most important obligation of the Mu Yan clan.

In this regard, even if it is alone, it is not allowed to interfere in the work of the Mu Yan clan.

For the Huns, they didn't care about women's chastity at all, and they didn't care how many men their women had sex with.

They only care about one thing: the reproduction and growth of the race, and the purity of the bloodline of the race.

Therefore, in the Xiongnu, from top to bottom, they all pursued the tradition of 'receiving the step-marriage system' and 'killing the first son'.

Stepmarriage is easy to understand, that is, when the father or brother dies, the son or brother takes over everything from him, including women, property and heirs.

The Huns, on the other hand, would kill the first child born to their foreign wives.

The reason is simple, the Huns are worried that this son is not their own species.

Just like the male lion on the African savannah, when he occupies a lion pack, he will brutally kill all the juvenile lion cubs to ensure that his bloodline can be continued.

In the Xiongnu, the two complemented each other.

Because there is a tradition of killing the first son, once a woman is widowed, basically, if she dares to remarry, then all her children will not survive, and the new husband will kill all the children who are not his blood according to tradition.

If you don't remarry, you won't be able to live at all.

Therefore, only the system of step-marriage can be implemented.

Let the eldest son and brother in the family take on the obligations and responsibilities of supporting the family.

And when it came to the royal family of the Xiongnu, the Sulu clan, these two traditions rose and distorted into a kind of political correctness.

In the eyes of the Mu Yan clan, all men with the surname of the Su Yan clan have the same status.

Every man of the Zodiac clan is hard-won!

In particular, only one of the military ministers has survived until now, and none of the other male heirs have lived past the age of ten.

Therefore, Yi Zhixian was sheltered by the mother of the Yan clan.

This is to prevent the rule of the Tyranny, just in case of an accident, and the rule of the Sulpa clan can still continue.

Although the military minister was uncomfortable with this, deep down in his heart, he agreed.

It may be incomprehensible to the Chinese, but for the Huns, father, son, brother, uncle, nephew, are all one and the same.

It is completely acceptable for the son to kill his father and rob him of the throne, the younger brother to kill the elder brother and take his place, and the nephew to counterattack the uncle or uncle and get the status of the other party.

Just as the later history of Hu Han Yeshan before entering the Han Dynasty and the emperor, his ministers fiercely opposed: now brothers fight for the country, not brothers are in the younger brothers, although they are still famous, their descendants are often in charge of the countries...... The ministers are in the Han, and the humiliation is the first in the ......

For the Huns, as long as the surname is only Yu.

It doesn't matter how he got it!

On this prairie, it is the survival of the fittest. The world of survival of the fittest.

Yi Zhi leaned forward slightly, and said to the military minister: "The great plough is lonely." Mu Yan ordered me to bring you a message, Wusun's hunting arrogance must be confused this time. The Mu Yan clan has already sent someone to reprimand him, please wait for a few days, I believe that Hunt Jiaomi will definitely wake up, change his past mistakes, and come to you to apologize! ”

The military minister knew that this would be the case.

For his mother, the military minister knows too well.

Back then, when the Right Virtuous King was there, the Mu Yan clan was unclear and unclear with the Right Virtuous King.

Although the Huns did not care at all about the relationship between men and women within the same clan. Uncle and sister-in-law fornicating or something is a common thing.

But from the perspective of a military minister, such a mother naturally makes his face lacklustre.

After that, the Mu Yan clan sheltered Yi Zhi Xian, not the other sons of the Right Hyun King.

It made the military ministers even more puzzled.

In particular, there are rumors in the clan that Yi Zhixian is the illegitimate son of the mother Yan clan and the right virtuous king.

This made the military ministers even more vigilant.

The Xiongnu did not implement the primogeniture inheritance system, let alone the elder brother and brother that people traditionally believed.

It's more simple and realistic, with fists being king.

As long as your strength. If you are better than your competitors, then you are Shanyu.

On the contrary, it's not bullshit!

Just like the head man who was hung on the gate by Mao Dun Shan Yu and the second son of the Yan family, and the one who was cut off by the military minister. Take it to feed the dogs of the right virtuous king.

The military minister knew very well that if the Mu Yan clan was completely biased towards Yi Zhi. How much damage it will do to him.

"Mother, if you continue to favor Yi Zhi like this. Don't blame me......" Silently reciting these words in his heart, the military minister looked at Yi Zhi's slanted young face. Every time he saw this face and the seven scars on his face, the military ministers were eager to peel Yizhi diagonally and cramp - the Xiongnu tradition, whenever a loved one died in battle, or was killed, he would cut a wound on his face with a knife, so that the blood would flow down with his tears, remembering this hatred.

And the seven scars are exactly the same as the number of Youxian King and his heirs killed by the military ministers three years ago.

Pity......

The warlord shook his head.

With the attention and protection of the Mu Yan clan inside, the Su Bu clan, the Lan clan and the Huyan clan outside, it is impossible for him to do anything to Yi Zhixi.

Unless his son Yudan can live to adulthood.

Otherwise, among the Xiongnu people, Yi Zhixian is the natural heir of the next generation.

In order to protect the 'young master', those madmen will do anything!

For the first time, the military ministers felt that the current system of the Xiongnu was too backward.

Throwing these thoughts out of his mind, the military minister looked at Yi Zhixian and said: "I know, for the sake of the face of the Mu Yan clan, this Shan Yu will give an order to stop the army for three days, and after three days, if the Wusun people do not surrender, then Shan Yu will have to wipe them out!" ”

"King Richai, you go and tell Hunter Jiaomi, tell him not to force Ben Danyu to regard him and his tribe as enemies!"

There is no doubt what will happen to the enemies of the Huns.

The fate of Donghu, Yueshi, Ding Ling, and Linhu is a bloody example.

All men taller than the wheels will be killed, all women will be taken, all children will be sold into slavery, and all livestock will be snatched.

Even, in order to prevent future troubles, the Huns would poison the water source and fill the rivers and lakes of the enemy territory with a large number of corpses, turning it into a plague-ridden hell.

Yi Zhi lowered his head, knelt at the feet of the military minister, and said, "Your will, the great plough is lonely!" ”

Out of the king's tent, Yi Zhixian sneered a few times.

He is not a peacemaker who has come to mediate.

On the contrary, he is a messenger of war who has come to sow death and fear.

"It's a pity, the Han Dynasty in the south didn't take the bait......" Yi Zhi looked at the south obliquely, thinking with some disappointment.

For him, if it was this time, the Han Dynasty in the south would stab the military ministers in the back.

Then, with the current Wusun, he can perfectly provoke the disappointment and disgust of the nobles within the Xiongnu clan for the military ministers.

In the Xiongnu, you can do anything wrong, you can be cruel and tyrannical, but you can't disappoint.

Once the people of the tribe are disappointed, then this Shan Yu is not far from death.

………………………………

It is different from the menacing and arrogant attitude of the Huns.

The Wusun people were already full of fear and worry on their faces at the moment.

In the entire Western Regions, no one knows better than Wusun the strength of the Xiongnu.

Even if it's a one-on-one situation. The Wusun were also far from being the opponents of the Huns.

The Huns, who looked short, were actually extremely strong in their limbs. Endurance is also very good, every Hun man. Since the age of four, he has been riding sheep.

If it's a little bigger, it will ride on the back of the foal.

Around the age of ten, they are given various combat skills.

The countless vassals and subordinate tribes that survived in the huge country of tens of thousands of miles provided the most basic guarantee for the growth of these Xiongnu warriors.

These people were further emancipated by the slaves and wealth plundered by war.

Many of the Hun cavalry, in fact, did not graze cattle at all, and they had slaves to help them graze and take care of the pastures.

They just need to keep sharpening their skills.

And Wusun is compared to it. Far from it.

In the face of the coercion of 140,000 Hun cavalry, the surrender faction inevitably appeared in Wusun.

The right candidate Shaxiu and the middle candidate Sass began to complain in private, and Kunmo caused trouble for Wusun.

Some Cypriots and Yue nobles were even ready to surrender when the Huns came to kill them.

The flaws of the loose clan kingdom system are exposed at this moment.

Fortunately, today's Kunmo hunting is arrogant. It has a huge reputation that is unmatched among the various clans of Wusun.

As a god in the world, he is worshiped by all classes of Wusun.

So, now, Hunt Jiaomi can still control the situation. On the part of the army, it still maintains loyalty, and even a strong will to fight.

"The current situation is that there is no fight. There is no way to do this well! Hunter said to his two sons.

Kun Dun and Ni Mo both lowered their heads and said, "Ye Ye Yingming, this is indeed the case!" ”

As the top of Wusun. They all know very well that if nothing is done. Surrender in front of the Hun cavalry like this, then, in the future, there will be no place for the Wusun people to speak in this steppe.

From then on, Wusun would be shattered and become a lackey and cannon fodder for the Huns.

It's like the tribes of Aries, Lou Fu, Xiu Tu, and Kun Xie.

And this is absolutely unacceptable to the Wusun people, who aspire to the hegemony of the steppe.

"But how to fight, but there is a ......" Hunter arrogantly stood up and said: "There must not be a large-scale conflict with the Huns, in that case, even if I win, my Wusun will perish!" ”

It's a fact!

The power of Wusun, in front of the Huns, is just a child.

It's okay to lose, but the left and right are just for the Huns to be dog legs and cannon fodder.

Lie Jiaomi knew that with his relationship and status in the Xiongnu country, Shan Yuting would not be too harsh.

But if it wins in a large-scale conflict, it will be a nightmare for Wusun.

The Huns will definitely gather all the forces he can muster and exterminate Wusun.

And the hatred generated in the war will also quickly dissipate the relationships and connections of the hunters in the Xiongnu.

At that time, unless Wusun can completely defeat the Xiongnu, defeat the Xiongnu back to their original form, and dismember that huge and terrifying empire, otherwise, the Wusun people will face annihilation.

And this time, there will be no Mao Dun and Lao coming up to help and support.

"Therefore, I have decided to lead the tribe and retreat a hundred miles west to the Liehe (Ili River), there must be very few Hun cavalry who can keep up with us, we will set up an ambush beside the Liehe, eat them, preferably capture most of them alive, and then, send someone to bring Meiji, livestock, slaves and gold to ask for the forgiveness of the military ministers......" Hunter looked into the distance and said: "If this is not possible, then we will have to surrender......"

Hunting Jiaomi knew very well how big the gap was between the power of his country and that of the Xiongnu.

At that time, if the military ministers still insist on their own views and refuse to accept Wusun's reconciliation and goodwill, then Wusun really has no other choice but to surrender.

But with his understanding of the Huns, he felt that there was a high probability that the Huns would not take risks, and they must completely surrender and surrender to Wusun.

Because that would most likely lead to a brutal war.

Vassal tribes or something, no matter how many deaths there are, the Huns will not feel distressed.

But if thousands or even tens of thousands of men from his own tribe are lost, then Shan Yu's position will also be unstable.

Just like the Han Dynasty in the south, Hunt Jiaomi felt that as long as the Huns knew that the Wusun people would not give in easily, then, without much interest and hatred, the Huns would not take risks.

It's just that it's still not safe.

After thinking about it, Lie Jiaomi looked at his second son and asked, "Da Lu, don't you have some connection with Yi Zhixie?" You send someone to contact you, and it's best to encourage Yi Zhixian to rebel behind the military ministers......"

Although this probability is very low, I have to try it.

What if it succeeds?

Before Ni Mo could answer, suddenly, the voices of the attendants came from outside the tent: "Kun Mo, the messenger of the Mother of Dragon City is here!" ”

When Hunter Jiao heard this, he immediately stood up, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face: "Hurry up, please!" ”

The arrival of the envoy of the Mu Yan clan finally allowed Hunter Jiaomi to find a safe and dignified opportunity to step down.

But Hunting Jiaomi didn't know that this messenger of the Mu Yan clan brought not peace, but disaster! (To be continued......)

PS: Note: The mother of the Xiongnu, there is more than one who has fornicated with her brother-in-law in the history books, and she simply ignores it.

According to the analysis of Mr. Wu Mu's "Research on the History of the Huns", this is because the Huns only care about the purity of the clan, in other words, women, with a little uncle or something, even if they give birth to children, people who are cuckolded usually only go to their brothers for trouble, but they will not punish women and children, because, in the ethics of the Huns, as long as it is the blood of their own clan, they will be regarded as family members.

According to historical records, the Bank of China once boasted that the Xiongnu were superior to the Han Dynasty, and they were superior in the purity of the clan.

In addition, the juvenile and young males of the Xiongnu would ride sheep, which is recorded in the historical records and Hanshu.

The main basis is from the child Shan Yu.

When he ascended the throne, he was only ten years old, and he often rode sheep and inspected the royal court.

In the Xiongnu language, a person who rides a sheep is called a son.

This is where the name comes from.