Following Hu Lushe, Yang Ming arrived in front of a dome hut after about a quarter of an hour of hiking.

"Meet Zuo Tushe..." A Hun nobleman who was on guard in front of Qionglu came forward with dozens of warriors. He knelt down on one knee and saluted Hulushe.

"Is Captain Zuo on duty today?" Hu Lushe glanced at the nobleman in surprise and asked in confusion.

After the Huns suffered a disastrous defeat in the sixth year of Yuande, the Hun nobles who retreated north held a meeting in Guyan Mountain. It was at that meeting that Hulushe and Gulihu reached a consensus.

A dual leadership system was established with Gulihu as the Chanyu and Hulushe as the Zuoxian King.

At the same time, it also established the distribution of the most important left and right generals, left and right captains, and left and right households in the Xiongnu system.

Among them, those who belong to the left are basically people from Julihu, while those who belong to the right are basically people from Hulushe.

As for the safety of Shan Yu and King Zuo Xian, these six people took turns to protect them.

This ensures that neither Julihu nor Hulushe can attack each other.

Because if either of them attempts to attack the other, he will definitely be attacked by the other's cronies.

It is this balance of terror that enables both Julihu and Hulushe to trust each other.

At the very least, you don’t have to doubt and speculate about the other party. Will it be detrimental to you?

It was precisely because of this that during the crisis at that time, the Hun Empire did not fall apart, let alone a civil war.

However, this system is not impeccable.

And the human heart is always fickle and suspicious.

Yang Ye smiled quietly in his heart. He already knew what he should do in the future.

"Reporting to the great Zuo Tushe, today the right big Danghu is on duty at Huyan Qesa. However, because King Qiuci and King Shule suddenly arrived, the great Great Chanyu sent the right big Danghu to greet them. Originally,

Lan She, the right general who should be the replacement, was sent to the Zhaosu Kingdom by you three days ago..." Captain Zuo smiled and said: "If the great Tushe is worried, I can call Captain Right now.

this……"

Hu Lushe's face froze, and after a while, he smiled and said: "I just said it casually, Captain Zuo is a little allergic..."

With that said, he took Yang Ming and walked directly to the entrance of Qionglu under the protection of his trusted warriors.

At this moment, Yang Ye clearly noticed the seriousness and uneasiness on Hu Lushe's face.

Although this look only flashed by, it was enough to explain the problem.

"That's right...even in China, there is still the matter of Zheng Gong overcoming Duan and Sand Dune..." Yang Ming thought in his heart: "How much less the Huns of Yi and Di?"

However, Yang Ming also knew very well that even if there were suspicions and quarrels between Julihu and Hulushe, their positions and determinations were the same.

Therefore, not only should we not alienate these two people at this time, we should also do a good job of comforting and persuading them.

Just as he was thinking about it, Hu Lushe had already opened the curtain of the Qionglu and walked into the camp of the Xiongnu Chanyu.

Yang Ye quickly followed in.

As soon as he entered Qionglu, Hu Lushe knelt down on one knee and said, "Hu Lushe has seen the Great Chanyu..."

Yang Zheng, on the other hand, only bowed slightly to show respect.

This is the privilege of senior Han intellectuals among the Huns! It is also one of the policies of the Huns eager to win over and win over literati from the Han Dynasty.

Among today's Xiongnu, especially the Northern Xiongnu, although the Han Dynasty is considered a life-or-death enemy by all the Xiongnu nobles, everyone has vowed to avenge the humiliation since the Battle of Mayi.

However, the status of the Han people within the Huns has soared!

Nowadays, a person with Han Dynasty blood can even be looked upon highly. Even a slave can get better treatment.

As for the civil servants and military officers who surrendered to the Huns, their status was even more unimaginable.

With all kinds of privileges, they are superior to others, and high-level intellectuals like Yang Ming are regarded as noble beings equal to the royal twins.

If you want women, have women; if you want slaves, have slaves.

Many Han officials and generals who were captured or came to surrender were attracted by him because of this.

Fortunately, so far, the Huns have never obtained an active-duty officer above Sima from the Han family.

The highest-ranking Han military officer the Huns received was nothing more than a team leader.

Moreover, this team leader refused to surrender. He ate the Huns, drank the Huns, played with the Huns, and cursed them every day.

The Huns are like a little bastard, they can beat them and they can scold them.

It seems that he wants to use water to polish his time, corrode and influence this person.

Unfortunately, Yang Ye never saw that man, let alone where he was imprisoned by the Huns.

I just know that this man was captured by the Huns from Youbeiping County during the Battle of Yanji.

Otherwise, Yang Ye would have already taken action and contacted this person.

"The Xiongnu ethnic group may appear to be courageous but unintelligent, ignorant and backward, but they are unyielding in setbacks and unyielding in defeats. They know their mistakes and can correct them, and they can put their talents to use... They are indeed the great enemy of China!" Yang Ming thought in his heart.

As I was thinking about it, I heard the voice of Gouli Lake: "King Zuoxian is here... Get up quickly..."

He took Hu Lushe's hand, walked to a map drawn on sheepskin, and said proudly: "Zuo Tushe, please look at this map of the West that the craftsmen just drew... It's really exquisite. With this map, you can

The land thousands of miles to the west is all under the iron hoof of my Huns..."

Since the time of the military officials, the Huns have never stopped exploring and detecting the Western world.

Even when the Xiongnu went south and launched the Battle of Yanji, the Xiongnu nobles in the Western Regions never stopped investigating the west.

This time, the Juli Lake Western Expedition mobilized all its forces and tried its best to understand the geography and reality of the Western world.

Now it seems that he did it!

From then on, the world west of Congling was open to the Huns cavalry!

This made Yang Ye even more worried. He was afraid that the Huns were really determined to move westward!

Hu Lushe looked at the sheepskin map. Although it was rough and far less refined and detailed than the Han Dynasty military maps that the Huns had obtained, the general outline of the Western world was also depicted.

On this map, there are not only the main cities and activities of Kangju, Daxia and Yuezhi, but also the location of Shendu, and even the more western world.

That unknown country tens of thousands of miles away.

"Good!" Hu Lushe clapped his hands and praised: "With this picture here, I, the Huns, have no worries!"

For today's Xiongnu, the most fearful thing is actually that Qiequ Qiediao in Hexi suddenly surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and then the Han Dynasty soldiers crossed Hexi like lightning and directly attacked the weak underbelly of the Xiongnu Empire - the Western Regions.

By that time, the Huns will really be at the end of their rope.

It is even possible that he was strangled by the Han army within Congling.

With this map, the Huns could prepare various strategies step by step and even arrange their retreat.

Once the Han Dynasty captured Hexi, or if Qiqu Qiediao suddenly went crazy and surrendered, the Xiongnu could calmly move westward.

If I can't beat him, can't I run away?

Of course, the Huns would not move westward unless absolutely necessary!

Because both Hulushe and Gulihu understand it.

The Xiongnu who moved westward will no longer be Xiongnu.

Just like the Yuezhi, today's Yuezhi still looks like the biggest enemy of the Xiongnu Empire in the past?

Their army was like a toy, broken in front of the Huns' cavalry.

The tens of thousands of horsemen could not withstand the attack of thousands of Xiongnu horsemen, so they had no choice but to flee, even discarding the imperial banner!

Is this the same Yuezhi who once competed with Maodun Great Chanyu and Laoshang Great Chanyu?

When did the Yuezhi people become so weak?

The Huns were puzzled.

Finally, when Goulihu withdrew his troops, he figured out that it was not that the Yuezhi people had become weaker, but that the Huns had become stronger! And they were so strong that the Yuezhi people looked up to them!

Why did the Huns become stronger?

The answer is the Han Dynasty!

Without the pressure of the Han Dynasty and the deterrence brought by the Han army, what stirrups and saddles would the Xiongnu have today? How could they have so many exquisite and powerful tactics?

How can we unscrupulously play tricks on Western countries?

To be fair, the military officials attacked Dawan for a full year, killing and injuring tens of thousands of people. In the end, Dawan was destroyed only through siege and massacre.

But now, the Xiongnu Empire can sweep through other countries like a rolling curtain, and it is like entering uninhabited territory in the west.

Kangju, Daxia, and Yuezhi, such big countries that could mobilize tens of thousands of cavalry, were vulnerable to the Huns!

Once the Xiongnu abandoned Mubei and the Western Regions and chose to move westward, without the pressure of the Han Dynasty, the Huns would follow the same path as the Yuezhi amidst prosperity and ease.

"The land of China, the center of all nations, is the place beloved by all gods..." Julihu thought in his heart: "Once you are expelled from this place, it means leaving the center of the world and losing the favor of the gods..."

This was a change in his thinking caused by the invasion of culture from the Han Dynasty, and it was also the emotion caused by what he saw and heard during the Western Expedition.

Western countries, even the most civilized country of Daxia, are just babies that are just learning to speak compared to the Han Dynasty in the south.

There is no comparison at all!
To be continued...