Late August.

The Big Yuezhi and the Little Yuezhi jointly launched a campaign to recapture Gaizang City. In order to regain the place where the bones of their ancestors were buried, the Yuezhi King mobilized 30,000 warriors from the tribe, including more than 50,000 strong horses.

Literally speaking, the tribe's army is unprecedentedly powerful.

However, another battle with the Huns resulted in failure.

Facing the fierce wolf-like Huns on the grassland, the Yuezhi soldiers were helplessly killed like sheep. The battle for supremacy between a tribe that had long been obsessed with the glory of its boss and an emerging bloodthirsty tribe was about to begin.

It ended so easily.

The old Yuezhi King was killed.

Of the 30,000 warriors, only less than 5,000 managed to escape with their lives in the end. Most of the men from other tribes became prisoners of the Huns. The Yuezhi were not a nation with strong willpower. For them, as long as they could

Just live. As for dying gloriously in battle, many people have never thought about it. This may be the reason why the Yueshi were defeated by the Huns.

This is true for soldiers, and it is the same for leaders.

The succeeding Yuezhi king belonged to the Da Yuezhi lineage. The frightened Xinyuezhi king soon decided to lead the tribe to move westward in order to avoid the fierce wolf Xiongnu. Bai Guangji joined the Xiao Yuezhi tribe.

They did not want to leave the place where they had lived for generations. Their idea was to move inland to Longxi, hoping to use the power of Qin to fight against the powerful Huns.

choose.

There is only one time, life or death.

In fact, in the long course of history, there have been countless cases where an entire tribe suffered disaster due to a wrong decision. The Guifang tribe not long ago is a very realistic example.

A big river separates east and west.

When the Yueshi and the Xiongnu were fighting fiercely in the Hexi area, the Qin State's territory in the East of the Hedong was prosperous with herds of cattle and sheep, and the wind and grass were low.

For nomadic tribes, pasture is their lifeline. Without pasture, cattle, sheep, and horses will starve to death, and the population of the tribe will decrease. Then the entire tribe will be annexed by other powerful ethnic groups. On the grassland

Countless wars have been fought over ranches.

Bai Guangji followed the first batch of small Yuezhi people who moved inland, mainly because he came from Longxi County and was familiar with this place, and he could guide the Yuezhi people on the road.

All the way east. The closer he got to the border of Qin, the more Bai Guangji became hesitant. In the past six months, he had been living among the Yuezhi tribe, which not only made him familiar with the habits of the grassland people, but also gave him another name: Jiang Cong

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Jiang Cong, that’s right.

Bai Guangji had an idea and took the name of this Qiang warrior as his own foreign name. Compared with Bai Guangji's name from the Central Plains area, Jiang Cong was undoubtedly more acceptable to the Yuezhi people.

"Jiang Cong, the big leader has an order. You are the vanguard and go to Qincheng to find out the news. Go back as soon as possible." Just when Bai Guangji was thinking wildly, a Yuezhi warrior shouted on horseback.

"Follow the chief's order." Bai Guangji responded, raised his left hand high, and kicked the old horse hard on his crotch with his toes, urging the old man to use more strength.

After a losing streak, the Yuezhi's vitality was severely weakened. Even warriors like Bai Guangji could only ride on old horses to fight, while the women, children, old and weak people in the tribe could only rely on their two feet to trudge step by step.

Their fate can only be left to God to judge. If they are lucky and the Huns do not catch up, then they are lucky enough to survive. If they are unfortunately caught up by the Huns cavalry, then in addition to being killed, the only thing waiting for them is to be captured.

A slave.

The slaves of the Huns were worse than pigs and dogs. They had no dignity, no status, no freedom. Life was worse than death, and people would quickly fall into despair, and then die early——.

The old horse panted heavily.

Summoning the last remaining strength, he kicked the ground, hoping to use his strength again to speed up a little. The friction and collision between the horse's thin backbone and the buttocks made Bai Guangji feel bursts of burning pain. He didn't need to take off his clothes, he knew the pain in the buttocks.

The old place was scratched open again. Not only him, but also the other warriors in the tribe looked listless and listless.

Lintao.

It still takes two days and two nights to travel from where Bai Guangji and the others are. As long as they cross the border town of the Great Wall established by the Qin State, the Xiaoyue people can basically escape the pursuit of the Huns. And this last stretch of journey is very important for them.

For the Xiaoyuezhi people, it is a death march.

Bai Guangji could feel that the Huns were not far behind, like wolves staring with green eyes, staring at Yuezhi's fat piece of meat.

——.

Longxi is covered with war clouds.

This border county located in the far west of the Qin State, like the Jiuyuan County in the far north, was the front line of the Qin State's defense against nomadic tribes, and was also a pasture for the Qin State's cavalry to train and graze.

After receiving Li Yuan's urgent order, Luo Jia, who had just become the county guard for the first time, did not dare to neglect, and immediately began to issue a recruitment order throughout the county. All young men of the right age must register at the pavilion and county where they are located within three days, and then

At the same time, Luo Jia dispatched more than a thousand cavalry to monitor the approaching Xiaoyue people in the Hexi area, in order to prevent the remnants of this unnaturalized nomadic tribe from waiting for an opportunity to cause trouble.

At this time, Luo Jia still didn’t know that the Yuezhi people had suffered an extremely miserable defeat this time, and it was impossible for them to disrespect the Qin State. However, the migration characteristics of the grassland tribes made the Yuezhi people believe in the same as the Qiang people.

The concept of the strong is king. If the Qin army cannot show enough strength to overwhelm these Yuezhi people, there will be no lasting peace on the Qin border in the future.

September 17th.

Li Yuan's horse did not stop. After meeting up with Luo Jia's seven thousand cavalry at Yongyi, Li Yuan's cavalry galloped all the way west toward Lintao, a famous fortress on the border of Qin.

The further west you go.

Grassland replaces cultivated fields and becomes the protagonist of the scenery.

"Anyone who offends us and strengthens the Qin Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away!" Looking at these dazzling pictures of the prairie, what surged in Li Yuan's heart was his strong sense of pride as a descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, and to be able to become a hero against foreign invaders.

For a man, it is the most honorable thing.

Both the Dahe River and the Weishui River are the mother rivers of civilization.

It is also the place where the people of Da Qin live a prosperous life.

The Huns are invading!

What stirred up was the blood of the descendants of Yan and Huang in Li Yuan's bones. The land of Da Qin, the home of Da Qin, and the people of Da Qin, how could they tolerate barbarians from outside the country trampling on them——.

Facing the Huns' cavalry, Li Yuan's heart was filled with fighting spirit. This collision of different civilizations! The confrontation between the two major ethnic groups, farming and nomadic people, is a vivid textbook throughout Chinese history, from ancient times to modern times, and even

In modern times, this kind of conflict arising from different cultures has never stopped!

The inheritance of civilization does not require stupid preaching, but requires strength and blood to defend. Li Yuan is not a pedantic person. He comes from later generations and has seen too many rioters in border provinces under the harmonious society of the Republic.

Facts have proved that the soft policy can only cure the symptoms, but not the root cause.

There is only one way to truly solve the problem once and for all: fight.

The Huns who were beaten fled and did not dare to look eastward. The most correct approach was to harvest the heads of generations of Xiongnu chanyus and use them as dazzling emblems on military medals.

War requires savings and national strength to support it.

More than two hundred years later in history, the Han Dynasty spent several years recuperating and recuperating, accumulating a lot of wealth for Emperor Liu Che's Northern Expedition to the Huns, and supporting the Han army's huge military operations. Under Liu Che's insistence, the Han army's expeditions again and again,

The Huns were driven all the way to the west, and in the end they could only harm the declining Roman Empire in distant Europe.

The current Qin State does not yet have the strength to completely eliminate the Huns. However, Li Yuan can also judge that having just solved the Maodun of Donghu and Yueshi, it also faces the problem of digesting the results of the war and solving internal instability factors.

Therefore, the main purpose of the Huns going south was to compete with Qin for population, wealth, cattle and horses and other materials through robbery again and again, just like the last time they plundered Hetao, in order to weaken Qin's national power and strengthen their own tribes.

In this case, Li Yuan doesn't mind giving another bloody lesson to make Mao Dun remember that Da Qin is absolutely untouchable. Even if it means consuming the wealth he finally saved, Li Yuan will not hesitate to sacrifice the survival of the nation.

Compared with the previous war, the previous civil war with Xiang Yu, Liu Bang and other princes was really nothing?

——.

Gaizang City.

The temporary royal court of the Xiongnu.

This resting place operated by the Yuezhi tribe for many years is now the military tent of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu. After the Great Chan Yu Maodun came to the throne, the positions of the left and right kings were given to his two most capable men.

In this battle with the Yuezhi, the main force of the Xiongnu army was the troops of King Zuo Xian.

But, tonight.

King Zuo Xian is not the protagonist. The real master is the great Chanyu Modu. As early as two months ago, the great Chanyu Maodun learned from Xizuo that the Yuezhi King was trying to counterattack. He was estranged from the ambitious and talented Yuezhi.

Unlike the king, Mao Dun, who was good at cunning and cunning, deliberately pretended not to know the actions of the Yuezhi people, but secretly recruited all the elite Xiongnu soldiers to hide by the Blackwater Lake not far from Gaizang City.

When the Yuezhi King got carried away and led the Yuezhi army to attack Zuoxian King, Maodun suddenly came out from behind and beheaded the old Yuezhi King under his horse in one fell swoop!

The wine vessel that Mo Dun is holding in his hand is made from the old Yuezhi King's head. The production process of this skull wine vessel is somewhat complicated. First, the skull will be cut along the eyebrow arch, and the skull part will be taken out.

Wrap it in animal skin and rim it with copper or other metal to make a drinking utensil.

Not long after the death of King Yuezhi, the skull wine vessel in Mao Dun's hand had just been made, and it still smelled of blood. This fishy smell made timid people tremble, but Mao Dun was not afraid at all.

Attacking Donghu in the east and Yuezhi in the west, the Xiongnu finally became the unshakable overlord of the grassland in just three years.

To such a young and rough hero, the Huns were all surrendered and did not dare to have the slightest dissent.
Chapter completed!