The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 224 The Northern Hu is Immortal, Why Do You Be King?
After Liu Bei returned to Xinye, time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival of the next year (206), when he learned that the spies had sent conclusive information that Kong Ming was at home.Then he ordered the diviner to pick yarrow, choose an auspicious date, fast for three days, wash and change clothes, and wanted to visit Kongming again in Wolonggang.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were very displeased when they heard the news, and they came together to persuade Liu Bei not to lose face by going to Wollongong again.

Kong Ming has made it clear that he doesn’t want to see us, so why should we beg for help with such shame!

At the same time, Cheng Yuanzhi had just finished dealing with Jiangdong affairs, and was planning to return to Xudu from Wanling and send someone to intercept Hu Liubei.

However, before the people here had time to leave, an urgent battle report from the northern border came from the Eight Hundred Miles:
Bu Dugen led an army of [-] troops to invade Bingzhou and plundered the people; Kebi Neng also led an army of [-] troops to invade Youzhou and ravaged Shanggu and Daijun; Each led tens of thousands of troops to go south to Youzhou to rob the three eastern counties.

Hearing the news, Cheng Yuanzhi was shocked. After reading the battle report, he found out that there were two reasons why more than 30 Xianbei troops violated the border at the same time.

Last year (205), the grassland experienced an exceptionally long and severe winter, and before spring began, the Xianbei people had no food.

Originally, with Cheng Yuanzhi's military strength today, even if the Xianbei people had no food, they would not dare to invade the country to rob it.

But there is a second reason here, that is, after Cheng Yuanzhi conquered Jiangdong, he stayed in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time and never returned.

This gave the Xianbei people the courage and opportunity to start a rob.

The three major Xianbei forces in the East, Central and West had already planned to grab Youzhou and Bingzhou and then run back to the grassland. By the time the Han court reacted, they would have been far away.

At the same time, they still have a certain fluke mentality. Just because of the loss of a little food and population, it is absolutely impossible for the big man to raise soldiers to settle accounts.

Firstly, Xianbei is very powerful, with 40 to [-] cavalry. Secondly, for this trivial matter, the Han Empire will not go to war.

Didn't they just rob something? In the past few hundred years, whether it was the Xiongnu or Wuhuan, or they Xianbei, which year did they not come to rob?There are not many people who rob big men!

After the robbery, nothing much happened. Except during the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, the other emperors of Han Dynasty did not dare to fart!
After analyzing the ins and outs of the matter, Cheng Yuanzhi stood up and said angrily: "This is unreasonable! The Xianbei people are seeking death!"

After all, quickly arrange all the affairs in Jiangdong and the officials left behind, and lead the crowd to rush back to Yecheng.

It turns out that Beihu's troubles have always existed.

As early as the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, after the Battle of Baideng, the humiliation in the northern border became the biggest nightmare of the Central Plains Dynasty.

At that time, the biggest threat to the Central Plains was the Huns, so Liu Bang adopted Liu Jing's suggestion and took the initiative to make peace with the Huns.

According to Liu Jing's idea, the Xiongnu Chanyu married a Han princess and became the son-in-law of the Han emperor.

In this world, how can there be any reason for a son-in-law to beat his father-in-law?

Moreover, the princess of the Han Dynasty is a golden branch and jade leaf. After marrying the Xiongnu Chanyu, she will definitely be the principal wife.The son born to him must also be the next Shanyu.

At that time, the second generation of Shanyu of the Xiongnu will be the grandson of the Han emperor.

How can grandson come to beat grandfather?

It has to be said that Liu Jing's idea is very logical and makes some sense.It is precisely because of this that Liu Bang was overjoyed when he heard this. He not only adopted the marriage proposal, but also implemented the marriage policy.

At first, Liu Bang wanted to marry his daughter Princess Lu Yuan to Modun Shanyu, but because Empress Lu disagreed, he finally changed his mind to marrying the royal daughter of the clan.

After that, the successive emperors of the Han Dynasty followed the same example, and they all pursued the policy of marriage and married their eldest daughter to the Xiongnu Chanyu.

In 192 BC, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty married his eldest daughter Yu Maodun Chanyu.

In 174 BC, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty married his eldest daughter to Shanyu.

In 160 BC, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty married his daughter-in-law to Shanyu, a military minister.

In 156 BC, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty married his eldest daughter to the military minister Chanyu.

In 140 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty married his eldest daughter to the military minister Chanyu.

However, blind compromise cannot buy respect.

There is always an inescapable gap between ideal and reality.

After Liu Bang's death, Mao Dun immediately wrote a letter to molest Empress Lu. The letter said: "Your Lu Zhi lost her husband, and I just lost my wife. Why don't you marry me and let's live together!"
This letter almost made Empress Lu angry. In a rage, she threatened to send troops to attack the Xiongnu. Later, because of the opposition of the officials, she endured the anger.

Afterwards, Empress Lu replied a humble letter to Mao Dun, saying that she was old and decrepit and not worthy of Mao Dun, so the matter was settled.

This letter is truly humble!

Because at this time, Maodun was nominally the son-in-law of Liu Bang and Empress Lu. The son-in-law openly molested his mother-in-law. Who could bear this?
But Queen Lu endured it.

Because the Han Dynasty was not strong enough at this time to defeat the Huns, and there were not only the Huns in the north, but also Wuhuan and Xianbei.

The newly established Dahan is like a baby in swaddling, and has to endure.

At this time, all the Han people realized that marrying relatives was destined to be just a stopgap measure and would not solve the problem at all.

As long as the Huns don't want to keep their promise, they can come to attack the Han at any time and plunder at will.

Sure enough, in the time of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu abandoned the covenant and invaded the territory of the Han Dynasty three times. After burning, killing and looting, they fled away.

The end is extremely arrogant!
Among them, the invasion in 166 BC was the most arrogant.

At that time, 14 Xiongnu cavalry broke through Xiaoguan and burned down the middle palace. The forwards reached Fengxiang, only [-] miles away from Chang'an, directly threatening the core of the Western Han Dynasty's court.

The military situation was urgent. After Emperor Wen got the report, he immediately dispatched troops and generals. On the one hand, he mobilized [-] troops to station in Chang'an to make a defensive posture;

In this battle, the Han army fought hard for more than a month, and suffered huge losses, killing tens of thousands of soldiers.It was only then that the Huns were forced to withdraw from beyond the Great Wall.

Since the Han army did not have the ability to fight outside the fortress, they only drove the Xiongnu army out of the Great Wall and stopped the attack.

However, giving up when things got better did not win the respect and fear of the Huns. Instead, they saw through the Han's lies and reality.

It turns out that the big man is a paper tiger.

The Huns became more aggressive.

In 160 BC, as soon as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty made peace with the Xiongnu, the military officials of the Xiongnu launched a war against the Han in the back foot.With [-] cavalry, they were divided into two groups and looted Shangjun and Yunzhong counties.

In the end, the Han Dynasty was forced to let the Xiongnu return with a full load at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.

The unscrupulous reneging of the alliance by the Huns proved that the marriage has no actual binding force.As long as the Huns were short of food, they would mount their horses and come to the big men to loot them.

They won't stop beating big guys just because they're married.

They will not come to rob the big man for any reason!
The meaning of their lives is to herd horses, sleep, and rob big men!
At this time, a difficult problem was placed in front of the Han emperor.

Continue to make offerings to your relatives?Or attack the Huns at all costs, completely maim and hurt them!
The previous history has already proved that continuing to pay tribute to relatives cannot solve the problem, and the barbarians are all hungry.Today you take one step back, tomorrow you have to take ten steps back!

The day after tomorrow, you’ll have to kneel down and sing Conquer.

It is precisely because he understood the unbelieving nature of the Huns that Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty would fight back with the whole army every time the Huns invaded, so as to warn the Huns not to be unscrupulous, the big man has the ability to fight back.

However, because the big Han was not strong enough at that time, the cavalry was scarce, and the combat power was weak, and they were unable to carry out long-range strikes against the Xiongnu. Therefore, Emperor Wen's several counterattacks seemed thunderous and rainy, and they were not active enough.

But the Huns' madness continued.

After the death of Emperor Wen, Emperor Jing continued to recuperate. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was already strong and rich, and fully capable of counterattacking the Huns.

At this moment, if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty does not organize his army to prepare for war, he will launch an extermination counterattack against the Huns.The fate of the Han Dynasty.It is likely to be the same as the Western Jin Dynasty.

In another time and space, after the Western Jin Dynasty unified the whole country, Yu Shi Guo Qin wrote a letter: Rongdi's strong and rugged has always been a disaster for the Central Plains. Although they surrender to our dynasty now, who knows if they will rebel in the future?Once this kind of thing really happens, Hu Qi will be able to kill Luoyang in three days from Pingyang!Therefore, we should take advantage of our strong soldiers and horses to drive away the barbarians in the north!Fix problems early rather than leaving them for future generations.

However, Emperor Wu of Jin regarded Guo Qin as a lunatic.He flatly rejected his offer.

A few years later, Prince Xima Jiangtong wrote "Lun on Migration to the Rong" and also suggested that Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty expel the Hu people.

However, the princes in the court at that time regarded him as a lunatic.

Let's live in peace and prosperity, but what kind of war is it fighting?
As a result, ten years later, the Xiongnu army broke through Luoyang, the capital of Jin.Created the famous "Yongjia Rebellion" in history.

The emperor, princes and ministers were captured by the Huns to be servants, and the queens and princesses were captured to be concubines.Ordinary people were directly killed by the Huns in piles, with blood flowing everywhere.

Another five years later, the Huns broke Chang'an again, and the majestic Central Plains unified dynasty was actually destroyed by the Huns, and the reason for this was Lu Shen for 300 years!
At this time, those who originally called Jiang Tong a lunatic had either been hacked to death by the Huns or taken away as slaves.

The end of the Western Jin Dynasty should have been the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

But the Western Han Dynasty came out with a far-sighted Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu knew very well that when you are strong, you find it troublesome and don't bother to fight Beihu. When you are weak and the Huns beat you, he will not find it troublesome.

He is ruthless!
Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose to launch an all-out war against the Xiongnu.

Anyway, if the Han didn't fight back, the Huns would invade.

Instead of being beaten passively, it is better to take the initiative to solve the border problem once and for all.

There is no need to say much about the wars in between. To sum it up in one sentence: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reigned for 54 years, and it took 44 years to defeat the Xiongnu alone.

God will not treat an emperor who works hard.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took office, he immediately crippled the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu were forced to divide into northern and southern parts. The northern Xiongnu fled far away from the fortress, while the southern Xiongnu was moved inland and accepted Hanization and rule. The southern Xiongnu was basically destroyed at this moment. .

Of course, in the later period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, many social problems arose because of his militarism for decades.But these questions are not contradictory to whether the Xiongnu should be attacked.

Therefore, since Cheng Yuanzhi came to Dahan, his goal has always been firm, to eat every bite, and to eliminate Beihu step by step.

Although this time only some food and people were robbed, it was not serious.

But Cheng Yuanzhi's inner anger could no longer be suppressed.

Three of the Four Hus in the North have died, and it’s time for the remaining Xianbei clan to settle the accounts!
(End of this chapter)