The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 227 I Came Here for the Righteousness of the Country

As soon as Han Long left, Wang Xiong's secret letter reached Yecheng.

After reading the secret letter, Cheng Yuanzhi looked northward with his hands behind his back and began to think deeply.

This assassination plan was more than 20 years earlier than in the original time and space.

He was very curious about how Han Long assassinated Kirbineng, but he was even more worried about the failure of the assassination.

If the assassination fails, the two sides will inevitably put up chariots and horses, and fight fiercely to the death.

Today's Zhongxianbei is strong enough under Kirby Neng's management. Cheng Yuanzhi doesn't want to have a head-on confrontation with it unless necessary.

The three Xianbei can cause today's great disaster, but it has to start from 100 years ago.

The Xianbei nationality evolved from the Donghu, and gradually became stronger from the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was controlled by the Huwuhuan Xiaowei and leader at the earliest.

As mentioned earlier, during Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were split into northern and southern parts. The southern Huns moved inward, and the northern Huns escaped to the north for some time, but soon returned and continued to occupy the grasslands, causing harm to the northern border.

By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han court had been using the Xianbei people to contain the Northern Xiongnu. Naturally, Xianbei did not want to be used as a spear by the Han in vain.Therefore, the Han court had no choice but to use inducements to "control the Hu with the Hu", giving 7000 million in money every year to drive the Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Southern Xiongnu to attack the Northern Xiongnu.

The Xianbei people didn't want to go at first, but the big man gave too much, and the price was so high that Xianbei was tempted.

Immediately, Xianbei accepted the canonization of the Great Han and began to attack and plunder the Northern Huns. Under the combined attack of the Han army and the Southern Huns, Xianbei, and Wuhuan Allied Forces, the Northern Huns were quickly defeated and the rest collapsed.

After the Northern Huns dissipated, a vacuum appeared on the grassland. Originally, the Southern Huns wanted to inherit the entire territory of the Huns, but the Han court did not give the Southern Huns this opportunity, but continued to divide the Southern Huns.

Therefore, Xianbei took this opportunity to occupy most of the territory of the Northern Huns, and together with the more than [-] tribes left by the Northern Huns, their strength increased rapidly.

In just over 20 years, it has become a new border danger in the north.

Beginning in 115, some Xianbei tribes repeatedly invaded the frontier fortress. Shanggu, Yuyang, Liaoxi and other places, Youzhou and Bingzhou became the focus of Xianbei tribe's harassment. This situation was not expected by the Han court.

Subsequently, Tan Shihuai was born, quickly unified Xianbei, and became the biggest hostile regime of the Han Dynasty.

The court of the Han Dynasty had no choice but to "send envoys to hold the seal and ribbon to seal Tanshihuai as king, and want to make peace with him, so as to calm things down."But Tan Shihuai refused to accept the canonization and continued to harass the frontiers. He also divided the whole territory of Xianbei into three parts according to the left, middle and right, and granted three "adults" to govern.

In 177 AD, after Xianbei invaded the border again, the Han court could not bear it anymore and sent Xia Yu, Tian Yan, and Zang Min each with [-] cavalry to attack Xianbei in three groups and marched more than [-] miles out of the fortress.

In this battle, under the leadership of Tan Shihuai, Xianbei defeated the Han army, and seven or eight out of ten of the Han army died.

After this battle, Xianbei completely became the climate.

Fortunately, Xianbei's social system and development level did not keep up with the military forces. Tan Shihuai died in 181, and his successor, Helian, was too mediocre. He also died in the same year, and Xianbei split into three tribes.

Subsequently, Budugen and Fuluohan controlled the Yanmen area of ​​Bingzhou; Kebineng had more than [-] soldiers and occupied the Daijun and Shanggu areas; Suli and Mijia controlled the Liaoxi and Yuyang areas.

After Cheng Yuanzhi unified Hebei, he adopted a gentle policy towards these divided Xianbei tribes, and canonized the leaders of each tribe as Xianbei king to temporarily maintain the stability of northern Xinjiang.

For him, a divided Xianbei is less of a threat than a unified Xianbei. If there is another person like Tan Shihuai in Xianbei, it will definitely make the northern border never peaceful.

But unfortunately, another character similar to Tan Shihuai really appeared in Xianbei-Ke Bineng.

Ke Bineng's control range is adjacent to Youzhou and Jizhou.Before, when Cheng Yuanzhi, Liu Yu, and Gongsun Zan were fighting for the hegemony of Youzhou, many people from the Central Plains fled to Kebineng to make a living to avoid the war.

They brought advanced production technology and cultural system to Kebi Neng, "teaching how to make weapons and armor, learning literature and customs, controlling the tribe, imitating the Chinese system."

After Cheng Yuanzhi regained Youzhou, Kebi Neng paid tribute to a large number of horses, livestock and other things through Yanrou to show his submission.

Later, Yan Rou and others turned against each other, and were dealt with by Cheng Yuanzhi.

Ke Bi Neng, who had already risen, continued to choose to befriend Cheng Yuanzhi. Not only did he return more than [-] households of the Central Plains people who had fled to Xianbei, but he also responded to Cheng Yuanzhi's call to conduct mutual trading at the border.

Afterwards, Kebi was able to recruit the Han people, and asked them to teach the Xianbei people how to make weapons and shields, teach characters, imitate the Central Plains to make banners, and use drum festivals as a way to advance and retreat to train the army. Budugen and Fuluohan's tribes, the heart of unifying Xianbei is clearly revealed.

Over the years, Cheng Yuanzhi has always been well aware of Kirby's situation. He planned to deal with Kirby after cleaning up the situation in Jiangdong, but he didn't expect Kirby to be the first to jump back.

If Kebi is allowed to unify the entire territory of Xianbei, it will tantamount to a second revival of Xianbei. At that time, Cheng Yuanzhi will need to deal with Liu Biao and Liu Bei in Jingzhou while defending Xianbei from the north.

Such a situation is no different from what he does not want to see.

The governor of Youxi, Wang Xiong, discovered this potential threat early on. At first, he wanted to delay Ke Bineng's pace with the appeasement policy, but soon discovered that the appeasement strategy didn't work, and Ke Bineng did not stop the pace of unifying Xianbei.

Realizing that Ke Bineng's growth must be stopped, Wang Xiong wrote to Cheng Yuanzhi many times, asking for advice on countermeasures, and gradually formed a plan to send warriors to assassinate Ke Bineng.

Assassination is exactly what Wang Xiong is good at.

Cheng Yuanzhi's letter just confirmed his thoughts.

Generally speaking, the strategy of assassinating the supreme ruler of a tribe is simply a killing method with twice the result with half the effort for a loose political power.

A tribe like Xianbei, which is dominated by barbaric plunder, operates its own livestock and does not collect corvee. The relationship between the tribes is not close. It all depends on the chief to conquer the tribes and form a military alliance. Once the chief dies, it will be "death". .

Therefore, assassination can be described as the simplest and most effective method.

Once the assassination is successful, Xianbei will instantly "separate the tribe, and the weak please surrender."

Cheng Yuanzhi sat in Yecheng, patiently waiting for news from Han Long.

……

Two hundred miles to the north of Gaoliu City, on the endless grassland, a horse galloped from the south and galloped to the north.

The sky was gray, and the cool wind whizzed across his face. Although the grass was lush and green, the whole world seemed particularly bleak.


Towards evening, the red sun slanted to the west, and patches of clouds diffused, covering the last light from the sun, and reflecting the sky and the earth red.


In a place where aquatic plants are particularly abundant, there are more than a dozen Xianbei tribes, with about a few hundred households, in a radial shape, surrounded by a luxurious tent like stars and moons.

Han Long grew up in the frontier fortress since he was a child, and he is proficient in Xianbei language. He pretended to be a Xianbei person and traveled all the way without attracting too much attention.

But there are still four problems that need to be solved urgently: How to blend into Kebineng's Xianbei ethnic group?How to get close to Ke Bineng?How to assassinate smoothly?How to escape after being assassinated?
Although Han Long was young, he knew very well that Xianbei, as a grassland nation, was different from the conscription and recruitment system in the Central Plains.The clan military system is adopted, and all the people are soldiers. They can shoot when they are dismounted, and charge when they are mounted.

In this ethnic military system, where blood relations are the fighting unit, fortresses can be seen everywhere, and it is conceivable how difficult it is for a stranger to sneak into the most central tent.

Each tribe under the jurisdiction of Kebineng has a marshal, and dozens of tribes have an adult. When people greet each other, they use wood chips engraved with the marshal symbol of their tribe to identify themselves, and they communicate with each other. Not tight.

Han Long rode his horse to the front of the tribe, on a slightly higher soil slope, took out a long Xiao from his arms, and blew it loudly.

The sound of the flute was melodious and frustrating, and scattered in the wind, soaking into every tent.

Under the setting sun and dusk, Han Long's proud figure and sharp-edged profile attracted the attention of many Xianbei girls in the distance.

Before the song was finished, a girl in Xianbei costume came running quickly on a pony.

The person was still far away when a cheerful voice came over:
"Aaron..."

　The above error has been corrected, Wang Meng is actually Wang Xiong.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)