One of the biggest advantages of nomadic peoples over agricultural peoples is the speed of maneuver and assembly of their armies.

After the military officials gave the order, within three days, he had already assembled an unprecedentedly large force.

With the main force of the royal court, about 50,000 cavalry as the core, and four elite 10,000 cavalry from the Xubu and Lan clans as the left and right wings, with dozens of tribes of miscellaneous soldiers, they formed a formation on the vast grassland.

It is a huge military formation that is four hundred miles long from north to south and about three hundred miles wide from east to west.

The reason why it is so sparse is also determined by the characteristics of the nomadic people.

They need enough space to graze livestock.

The cheese produced by livestock is their staple food.

When such a huge cluster passes through the grassland.

On television in later generations, the spectacular herds of the Malamala River reappeared in East Asia.

Countless cattle and sheep followed the tribal herdsmen all over the mountains and plains.

Wherever it passes, all green disappears.

Pieces of grassland, bare and exposed to the wind and sand.

Even a gentle breeze is enough to create a puff of dust.

If the wind is slightly stronger, sandstorms may occur.

In order to prevent the Han Dynasty from discovering their intentions, the Huns deliberately bypassed areas that might be exposed and tried to walk in the heart of the grassland.

The heart of the grassland is endless grassland.

This further damages the already fragile grassland ecology.

The nobles of many tribes watched all this with worry.

"If we can't grab enough things this time...I'm afraid, even if we win, the future will be very difficult..." Countless people whispered.

The main reason why the Xiongnu rarely assembled such a large army was that they were afraid that the huge army and its attached vassal livestock would destroy the fragile grassland ecology, leading to disaster!

In fact, the Huns and other nomadic peoples are ignorant.

But they respect the maintenance of grasslands and ecology very much.

Just like the farming people who practice fallow farming in order to protect their cultivated land, the Huns also know how to fallow grazing - that is, a piece of pasture, which must be grazed for one year if possible, and then not grazed in the second year, leaving time for the grassland to recover.

But now, after this huge team swept through, decades of hard work were wiped out overnight.

There will definitely be a serious grass crisis in these areas next year.

Desertification may even occur in some places.

Then, famine will follow.

A large number of livestock will starve to death, and a large number of babies will cry heartbrokenly because they can't get their mother's milk!

What's more serious - when winter comes, due to lack of food and thin livestock.

Many tribes will come to an end due to hunger and cold.

"This is too big a gamble..." Many people were a little afraid.

Especially those whose own ranches are on this route are almost in despair.

These people cast their helpless eyes on the nobles of the Chinese army.

But no one paid attention to them...

It’s not your own ranch anyway!

The high-ranking nobles of the royal court don't care at all what kind of pain their livestock will leave on this grassland!

Even if there are some people who can't bear it, in front of the military ministers, they want to persuade them to disperse the army further or go out in batches to avoid damaging the grassland too much.

However, apart from getting reprimanded by military ministers, there is no other benefit!

The military ministers themselves also thought clearly - if this southern invasion can be a complete victory, they may even capture the capital of Yan State in the Han Dynasty and seize enough wealth and food.

Then all the destruction now is worth it!

The Huns will get everything they dream of!

And if the expedition fails, the Han Dynasty people will fight back.

So……

In this Munan area, we have no choice but to give up.

If you want to give up, why should you care?

Do we want to leave this wonderful world of flowers, fertile pastures, and green grasslands to the people of the Han Dynasty and to the rebellious enjoyment?

dream!

What I can't get, what I will lose!

Of course it must be completely smashed!

The most important thing is that the military minister hopes to use this method to tie all the Makunan clan to his chariot.

Let them have to fight and kill with them.

Otherwise, they will wait to starve to death!

Therefore, the military officials did not hesitate to integrate all the tribes along the way, and under the banner of "preventing the Han Dynasty from knowing", they bound up all the livestock and people.

At the same time, he continued to issue orders, asking all nearby tribes to come and serve him.

They offered their livestock, cheese, furs, grain, salt, and even their women and their houses.

The Huns were like a hurricane, blowing through the depths of the grassland.

Wherever it passes, not a blade of grass is left behind, and everything is reduced to nothing!

Before attacking the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu themselves had already suffered harm.

Countless tribes, wives and children were separated, and countless people were displaced.

In order to supply military supplies, the Huns do not care whether you are the Huns themselves, another branch of the Huns, or a vassal.

All tribes are treated equally!

This is the biggest gamble the Xiongnu Empire has made since Maodun Shanyu angrily went to war with Donghu!

This time, Jun Chen put all his chips on it!

If you lose the bet, running naked won't be a problem.

But, as a Chanyu, he had no way out.

This southern invasion is so important!

Therefore, the military minister not only sat in the central army personally, he also sent his cronies to all directions, going deep into each tribe to supervise and supervise.

Even Huyan Dangtu was put on the side in the name of "paying for his crime and making meritorious service".

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There was so much movement on the grassland.

The intelligence department of the Han Dynasty, the scouts on the border of the Great Wall, and some Xiongnu insiders who were bribed and won over by the Han Dynasty were certainly not blind.

Three days after the Huns began to gather, in Yunzhong County, the Han Dynasty had received news of the main movement of the Huns.

But at that time, no one paid attention to it.

Because in the past few years, the Huns had also assembled the main force in such a mighty manner.

But in the end, they all went to the west.

Therefore, Yunzhong initially thought that the Huns were going to conquer the west again, so they did not take it to heart.

He didn't even report to the higher-ups.

However, seven days later, the Han army scouts at Yanmen Pass brought back an important piece of information - the main force of the Huns seemed to be moving eastward?

This immediately aroused the vigilance of the entire Yanmen Pass.

On the same day, Su Wen, the governor of Yanmen County, ordered the Juzhu Army to enter a state of combat readiness and announced the mobilization of county troops.

Within two days, Yanmen Pass completed combat mobilization.

All men in the county who were over twenty-three and under forty were conscripted into the army.

The arsenals of each military fort are all opened.

The weapons eliminated by the Juzhu Army and the Feihu Army will be distributed immediately.

In an instant, a total of six corps of captains and nearly 15,000 new recruits were raised.

At the same time, the 13,000 county soldiers originally owned by Yanmen County were mobilized.

The Juzhu Army immediately completed its combat assembly.

Each beacon tower was also filled with firewood, ready to light the beacon fire at any time to inform the Han army behind them of the Huns' invasion.
To be continued...