Chapter 050: Destroy the Southern Huns and Xianbei

In September, he led Che Niu as Chanyu, led Wuhuan to the east, and collected tens of thousands of Qiang and Rong people from the west. He broke through the Huya camp in Jingzhao, killed the captain of Shangjun and the army commander, and plundered Bing, Liang, You, and Ji 4 state.

In 156 AD, Tan Shihuai unified all Xianbei tribes and divided the land into three parts: the east from Youbeiping, the middle from Youbeiping to Shanggu, and the west from Shanggu.

Each of the three departments is managed by an adult and is directly under the control of Tanshihuai.

The important strategic materials that the nomads relied on were "water grass", "cut grass" and "salt land". After Tan Shihuai became a Xianbei master, he began to carry out a series of rectification measures.

"So we set up court on the Qiu River of Danhan Mountain and went more than three hundred miles north of Gaoliu. There were many soldiers and horses, and all the great people from the east and west returned."

Under his commander-in-chief, "because they raided the margins in the south, rejected Dingling in the north, captured Fu Yu in the east, and attacked Wusun in the west, they completely occupied the Xiongnu's homeland, covering more than 4,000 miles from east to west and more than 7,000 miles from north to south, covering mountains, rivers, swamps, and salt ponds. "After many days of planting, there was not enough food for the field animals to shoot and hunt, so Tanshihuai went on his own. He saw Wuhou Qin's water flowing from hundreds of miles wide, and the water was not standing. There were fish in it, but he couldn't catch it.

Hearing that the people in Lou were good at Wangpu, they attacked the country of Junren in the east and captured more than a thousand families. They moved to Qinshui River and ordered them to fish for food. "

After unification, Xianbei began to invade the borders of the Eastern Han Dynasty for many years.

In AD 177, Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty ordered the Wuhuan captain Xia Yu to defeat the Xianbei Zhonglang general Tian Yan and the Xiongnu Zhonglang general Zang Min each led more than cavalry, respectively from Gaoliu (today's Yanggao, Shanxi) and Yunzhong. County (now northeast of Inner Mongolia) and Yanmen County (now northwest of Dai County, Shanxi) went out of the fortress and attacked Xianbei in three ways.

The Han army had been out of the fortress for more than 2,000 miles. The leader of Xianbei, Tan Shihuai, ordered the adults of the East, Central and West tribes to lead their troops to fight separately.

There is no record of this battle on the Internet, but Zhou Wenwen saw the ending on the other side (Zizhi Tongjian).

In August of the sixth year of Xiping (the 177th year), Emperor Ling used Xianbei to raid the border counties. He ordered the Wuhuan captain Xia Yu to protect him. They set out from Gaoliu (now Yanggao, Shanxi), Yunzhong County (now northeast of Inner Mongolia), and Yanmen County (now northwest of Dai County, Shanxi) to attack Xianbei in three ways.

The Han army had been out of the fortress for more than 2,000 miles. The leader of Xianbei, Tan Shihuai, ordered the leaders of the East, Central and West tribes to lead their troops to fight separately, and defeated the Han army.

Xia Yu and other troops lost all their baggage, and seventy-eight out of ten soldiers died. The three of them each fled back with dozens of cavalry, and they were all exempted from the crime of defeat and became commoners.

After that, the Xianbei army became more powerful and invaded the Han border for many years.

Fortunately, in 181 AD, Tan Shihuai died. As soon as Tan Shihuai died, Xianbei began to split. Xianbei in the west rebelled, and Monan split into three groups from the east of Yunzhong.

The first is the Budugen Group, which has tens of thousands of people and occupies the Yunzhong and Yanmen areas.

The second is the Kebineng Group, which is distributed in Daijun, Shanggu and other places. The third is a number of small groups belonging to the original "Eastern Masters" of the alliance, scattered outside the Liaoxi, Youbeiping and Yuyang Great Walls. Suli was later regarded as the Chanyu. Among the three, the Kebineng Group is the most powerful.

In 216 AD, Cao Cao divided the Southern Xiongnu into five tribes: left, right, south, north and center, and placed them in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and other places. The Xianbei took advantage of their old territory and further entered Monan, replacing the Southern Xiongnu's position and approaching the Central Plains.

Because Kebineng was determined to unify Xianbei, he showed respect to the newly established Cao Wei. In 220 AD, Kebineng presented his horse to Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi.

In 221 AD, Kebi was able to return more than 500 Han families living in Xianbei to the Han Dynasty.

In 222 AD, he led more than 3000 horsemen and drove more than 7000 cattle and horses to "trade with each other" with the Wei State, and then sent more than a thousand Han people back to Shanggu and other places.

However, after maintaining good relations with Cao Wei, Kebineng began to annex other tribes.

In 228 AD, Kebi Neng annexed the various tribes of Xianbei in the east.

In 233 AD, Kebi Neng annexed the roots of Budu and unified Monan, posing a threat to the border of Cao Wei.

In 231 AD, during Zhuge Liang's fourth Northern Expedition, he sent envoys to contact Ke Bineng, intending to attack Cao Wei from both front and rear. Ke Bineng led his troops to Shicheng (now Gaolan, Gansu) and stationed troops on the border.

In order to prevent Xianbei from going south, in 235 AD, Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou in Cao Wei, sent the assassin Han Long to stab Kebineng to death. Xianbei began to "disperse tribes and conquer each other", and each Xianbei tribe entered a period of independent development.

In 237 AD, Cao Wei sent the famous general Guanqiu Jian to lead the Youzhou tribes to unite with Xianbei and Wu Heng to attack them and defend Zhenjian. However, the Wei emperor refused to listen. Gongsun Yuanni fought with Jian, but Jian was disadvantaged and led him back.

Gongsun Yuan then established himself as King of Yan, appointed hundreds of officials, sent envoys with talismans, and used the royal seal of the Xianbei Chanyu to confer titles to the northern tribes on the border and lure the Xianbei people to invade the northern areas of Wei.

During the Cao Wei period, in the battle of Wei to destroy Yan, Murong Xianbei gained control of western Liaoning due to his alliance with Sima Yi, Wu Heng, Goguryeo, and Liuxing to destroy the Gongsun clan's Yan state.

Xianbei in the east formed three tribes: Murong tribe, Yuwen tribe, and Duan tribe, occupying western Liaoning.

The Tuoba tribe also moved south for the third time to Yunzhong (today's Tuoketuo area in Inner Mongolia) under the leadership of Tuoba Liwei.

The Tuofa tribe also separated from the Tuoba tribe and moved from Saibei to Hexi.

Before the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Qifu tribe had already moved into Yong and Liang prefectures on a large scale.

After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, it adopted a policy of appeasement to the surrounding Xianbei tribes and granted official titles to some tribal leaders to strengthen its rule.

Although there were rebellions in Xianbei from time to time (such as Murong Shegui, Murong Xin and his son invading the border, Bald Tree Function's anti-Jin uprising, etc.), generally speaking, the Western Jin Dynasty and Xianbei maintained a good affiliation.

However, after the Eight Kings Rebellion began, the Western Jin Dynasty was in internal chaos, its national power was weakened, and the world was in chaos. Various ethnic minorities went south one after another to compete in the Central Plains.

At this time, the Xianbei tribes, especially the Xianbei tribes in western Liaoning, also took the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. The Duan tribe and the Tuoba tribe took refuge in the important border ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty and participated in the disputes in the Central Plains, which had a major impact.

Therefore, in order to prevent Xianbei from having an impact on the Central Plains like history did after he left, Zhou Wenwen decided to declare war on Xianbei. It would be best to drive Xianbei away and force Xianbei to move north.

And if Xianbei is not defeated, then the three armies will annihilate the Southern Huns. At least after Zhou Wenwen leaves, the situation of Chengdu King Sima Ying being counterattacked by his Hun Liu Yuan cannot develop.

Around 60 BC, the Xiongnu's Chanyu Quanqu died, causing internal divisions. Five Chanyus fought for supremacy, and scuffles continued. Finally, it developed into mutual attacks between Huhanxie Chanyu and Zhizhi Chanyu.

In 53 BC, Huhanxie Chanyu attached himself to the Han Dynasty and became the Southern Xiongnu.

Under the leadership of Zhizhi Shanyu, the Northern Xiongnu defeated Dayuan, Wusun and other countries, forced all ethnic groups to pay tribute, and shocked the Western Regions. They once led a brief revival of the Xiongnu, but were later defeated by the Han Dynasty and began to move westward on a large scale.

The Southern Xiongnu (48 AD - 216 AD) was a regime established by the nobles of the southern Xiongnu who expelled the Shanyu.

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To be continued

Chapter 051 Preview of the Northern and Southern Huns

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