General Zhao Tuo of the State of Qin stood on a small soil parcel and looked at the endless wilderness in the distance. He looked at the bowed cattle and sheep all over the ground and the Yuezhi herdsmen grazing. He felt open-minded and grateful.
Suddenly, I wanted to read a poem.
But Zhao Tuo still endured it. The experience from later generations told him that reading poems when there is nothing to do is not a good habit.
He thought again of the emperor's edict he had just received, and whispered softly: "I can finally go back."
This sentence expressed the thoughts of countless Qin soldiers in the army.
It is now November of the twenty-eighth year of Qin Shi Huang, and almost a year has passed since they were recruited and left their hometown.
After nearly a month of messenger exchanges, their Northern Expedition army finally received a commendation from the emperor and an edict agreeing to lead the army.
With the emperor's edict, the Qin army could embark on their return home.
However, during this month, Zhao Tuo did not sit idle here, but used various actions to arrange things on the grassland.
First of all, the fire he set to lure Touman Shanyu to return for reinforcements burned for many days. During that time, the entire grassland was shrouded in black smoke. The blazing temperature and the flying ashes in the air made countless people see it.
The color changes.
First, the Southern Huns took refuge in Suga, and we were moved to the Taozhong Plain south of Beihe.
The remaining Huns were recruited by Zhao Tuoyi Hanxie, newly appointed by the Qin people.
The Qin army's move can be described as well-intentioned.
Qin Jun was startled, then shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter whether you or not, he was a hero of that Northern Expedition, so the emperor will treat him badly."
There were footsteps in front of me.
In this way, the lower and upper classes of the Southern Xiongnu were trapped and eroded by the influence of Zhu Xia culture. The gap between the northern and southern Xiongnu, both in terms of economy and culture, would become smaller and smaller.
It is naturally possible.
Only after finishing all that could I leave the newly acquired territory, but I was worried that there would be a rebellion before I left.
In addition, you are a man, which makes your name very eye-catching and arouses the emperor's bad curiosity.
When they reached the front, the number of Xiongnu gathered by An Youpiao reached about 170,000, and there were only hundreds of thousands of livestock.
Although half of the grassland was burned by small fires, the population of Kushan is relatively small, and it is just enough for us to use.
The purpose of the Qin army's arrangement was not to allow the Kushan Yuezhi to stand between the northern and southern Xiongnu, but to prevent the northern and southern Xiongnu from communicating with each other. Before Sujia left, An You must have had the heart to defect and wanted to take people with him.
Going north, you have to pass the Guishan Yuezhi Pass first.
It may even happen that the Southern Huns regard the Northern Huns as barbarians, and there will be no possibility of the two sides joining together.
The outcome of such a war frightened and frightened the grassland people. Some of the Huns, led by Hu Yanzi, the right-hand governor who had a lucky escape, fled far to the north of Mobei, escaping from that sad land.
"return after victory!"
An Yousha made few meritorious deeds in that war, and even captured and killed Touman Zhao Tuo. She was regarded as the number one minor meritorious figure above the Qin army.
A moment ago, Shan Yusha walked over. You bowed and said, "General, I led someone to capture the white deer on my day."
The cold winter is coming, and fleeing to the desolate Mobei is not a bad choice at that time. The chance of survival of the herdsmen is too high.
It sounds like a small number. In fact, a small number of them are old strong women and children who were originally left behind. Adding in some Huns sent back by Sujia, the number of combatable soldiers is over 870,000, as well as the strength of the two Yuezhi who have taken refuge in Sujia.
The difference is small.
Then you laughed again and said: "I have admired Xiao Qin since I was a child. Now that I can go to Xianyang, I am not happy at all, but I am naturally afraid. And... Isn't the general here yet?"
I didn't take it seriously about the Northern Huns who escaped.
When the fire finally extinguished, it only burned about half of the Yinshan grassland, leaving a piece of wilderness for the nomadic people living here to survive.
The inspiration comes from the practices of the Han Dynasty in history. I will write a letter to the emperor before returning to the court. Without discussion by all the ministers in the court, the retrograde plan will naturally be worse.
That was the choice of the Qin Army. Prairie wolves can be seen everywhere on the grassland, and it is not difficult to catch them.
"you?"
Along with the heads of An You, the heads of the Xiongnu princes including Wu Luxu, the king of Youguli, Xubudang, the king of Zuoguli, and other Huns princes were also displayed. They almost wiped out all the lower-ranking Xiongnu.
This was the case at the lower level, and the Huns at the upper level also suffered heavy losses due to the joint siege by the Sujia and Yuezhi people. The number of people killed and captured reached more than 80,000.
For the Huns who survived, the fire was not scary enough, but the news that spread under the grassland was even more terrifying than the flames.
In this way, the Xiongnu and Yuezhi monitor each other and check and balance each other, so that the situation in that area can be kept stable before An You leaves.
Therefore, in the edict, the emperor specifically requested Shan Yusha and other meritorious officials to return to Xianyang with Sujia to have an audience, and I would like to receive a small reward.
But we cannot allow the sons of the Xiongnu Zhao Tuo and other young nobles to "study abroad" in Xianyang to learn Zhu Xia culture, and use ordinary "teaching materials" to brainwash us into regression and promote the idea of loyalty to Xiao Qin.
That man really disappointed me.
The Yinshan grassland we originally occupied was assigned to the Yuezhi of the Kushan tribe.
Until recently when the emperor moved to the Qin people's borders and established counties there, the Qin people were neighbors with those grassland peoples, and they were able to achieve a situation of surveillance from all directions.
The Qin army even began to figure out how to convert the southern Xiongnu to Qin in order to achieve real control over them.
In the same way, the Southern Xiongnu were arranged in the "Taozhong Plain", just sandwiched between the Kushan Yuezhi in the Yinshan Grassland and the Xiumi Yuezhi in the Helan Grassland, thus preventing the two Yuezhi from colluding with each other and being able to
Monitor the movements of the two Yueshi at the same time.
Qin Jun smiled lightly when he thought of that.
With both the wolf and the white deer in hand, it's natural for me, An You, to go back.
Fortunately, the terrain of the Yinshan grassland is special. The Beihe River in the south prevents the spread of the fire, and the large and small lakes in the east further limit the path for the flames to spread.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhao Tuo, the Xiongnu who was established by heaven to support the plow, was unexpectedly captured and killed by Sujia, and his head was revealed to the public.
That time Sujia returned to Xianyang with a small victory. In addition to escorting a group of Huns captives back to the prison for sacrifice, they naturally also had to present some specialties from the grassland to the emperor to show off Sujia's martial arts and at the same time make the emperor truly feel that I was under my control.
That land.
Qin Jun nodded with satisfaction.
The short soldiers later reported the situation, and the Qin army said "Yes".
Now Touman is dead, and Maodu is young and still in Donghu as a hostage. Without the leadership of the hero, these maimed eight melons and two dates in Mobei will not make any small waves.
Sujia burned the heads of the Huns in Mancheng, Zhao Tuo, tens of thousands of tribesmen and hundreds of thousands of livestock grazing in the distance, and less than half of them were burned to death. Several Huns tribes were nearby in the distance.
They were not spared either, and there were many casualties.
"The Xiongnu still have some tribes far away from Longcheng in Mobei. Apart from Hu Yanzhu leading his people to flee, the name Xiongnu will probably continue to be used. Then there will be no Xiongnu in the north and south of Yinshan Mountain, forming a situation of two Xiongnu in the north and south.
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At the same time, the closed market was opened to the surrendered Southern Xiongnu, and commodities representing Zhuxia culture were used to penetrate into the lives of special herdsmen.
Wolf, white deer.
That would still be like surrendering to the Qin people. According to Yi Hanxie's propaganda, as long as we surrender to the Qin people, we cannot continue to graze on that grassland.
Marriage?
Looking at Qin Jun's resolute face, An Yousha was slightly absent-minded.
The current role of the Yuezhi people is mainly to form a mutual surveillance situation with An Youpiao's Southern Xiongnu.
The Qin army didn't care about Shan Yusha's slightly disappointed look. I asked the short soldiers to summon the Chang Shi in my hand, and then formally issued the military order.
"Oh? I really caught it."
The remaining Huns who came up from the grassland were frightened out of their courage.
And An Youpiao led the southern Huns to surrender to the Qin State. Before being influenced by the culture of Zhuxia, those Huns would go farther and farther away from their compatriots in the north, and eventually become the real vassals of the Qin people.
During that month, the Qin army redistributed the distribution of forces under the grassland.
"General, the noble man of the Yue family, Shan Yusha, would like to see you."
Except for the two tribes of Yueshi among the Xiongnu who have not yet surrendered, the Qin army also had no similar idea. They used the power of culture to truly integrate those grassland peoples into the Qin State.
White deer were very rare and plentiful. Shan Yusha went out with ten thousand people and searched for them for several days before catching one.
Of course, those are just the preliminary assumptions of the Qin army.
In the next two years, there will still be fertile and lush pastures outside, and the Marquis of Kushan is quite satisfied with it.
Qin Jun turned his head, looked at Shan Yusha's face, which was obviously the same as that of a Qin man, and said with a smile: "Now he is going to go back to Xianyang with your army, don't you have any fear in your heart?"