Chapter 39 Two, match idioms

Princess Lu Yuan's wedding is approaching, and there is joy and harmony in the ruling and opposition parties.Suddenly, an urgent report came from the border——the Hun army is going south! The cruelty of the Huns is well known.Since the middle of the Warring States period, the Xiongnu have frequently invaded the south, fighting and robbing, and winning a battle will make a lot of money.In the late Warring States period, Touman Shanyu unified the various tribes of the Huns, and these nomads from the north became organized and disciplined professional bandits. Liu Bang once sent Han Wangxin to garrison Jinyang to resist the Xiongnu.Han Wangxin said: Jinyang is far away from the frontier fortress, so it should be stationed in Mayi.

Han Wangxin was the concubine grandson of Han Cang, the King of Han Xiang in the Warring States Period, and was later named Han Wang by Liu Bang. Because of the same name and surname as Han Xin, in order to distinguish him, the world called him Han Wangxin. After Han Wangxin became a royal family, he didn't have the brains of a king. He stationed in Mayi, which is really a brain-dead move. Mayi, now Shuo County, Shanxi, was very close to the dividing line between the Han and the Huns at that time, and was under the direct threat of the Huns. Liu Bang sighed deeply: They are all called Han Xin, why is there such a big gap in fighting!

Han Wangxin looked at the high sky and calm clouds in the frontier fortress, his heart was very disturbed, and he regretted that he should not rush for success.He didn't expect that when he used a move to push the seedlings forward, the Xiongnu took advantage of the situation to hide, and counterattacked with a move of ambush from all sides, and he made up for it. Just make up for it?Han Wangxin asked Liu Bang for help, and at the same time sent envoys to negotiate peace with the Huns. Liu Bang was angry and suspicious.What is angry is that Han Wangxin's tactics are inferior and his idioms are lacking; what is suspicious is that this guy was originally stationed in Jinyang, but he wants to move to Mayi.

So Liu Bang sent envoys to question him. Han Wangxin waited in Mayi for several days, but did not wait for reinforcements, but for an investigator. Did Liu Bang suspect that he was treasonous?For a while, Han Wangxin was even more frightened, for fear of repeating the mistakes of Zangtu and Liji. People in fear, the instinctive choice is usually to flee. Speaking of fleeing, I think of Monroe's words: Too many things are regarded as jokes, just like too many things are regarded as tragedies, but many things are neither jokes nor tragedies, but just a certain way of life. Like fleeing.

In fact, many times, people's escape is not so much a choice of lifestyle, as it is for survival. On the surface, Han Wangxin's escape was ridiculous and sad; in essence, it was just to survive.He directly surrendered to the Xiongnu, donated Mayi City, and agreed to unite against the Han. After Zang Tu and Li Ji, Han Wangxin ranked third in the rebellion list. Liu Bang was furious and decided to hit the list, and beat him to death. He personally led an army of 300,000, and went straight to the frontier.The army marched to a place called Tongda and encountered Han Wangxin. Han Wangxin led only more than 10,000 troops. If you fight, you will die. If you don't fight, you will die. To fight or not to fight?Quite embarrassing.As the song sang: In the age of someone, we meet each other on a narrow road, and we will not be spared in the end. Suddenly, entangled curves grow out of the palms of our hands.

Liu Bang didn't allow Han Wangxin to be entangled, and immediately ordered a full-scale siege.Han Wangxin desperately broke through and fled.Liu Bang pursued him to Mayi, where he repelled the Xiongnu's reinforcements. At this time, an urgent report came that Mao Dun Shanyu, the new generation leader of the Xiongnu, was leading an army of 200,000 troops to Jinyang. Liu Bang sent the vanguard Fan Kuai to meet him, and the Xiongnu army fought for a while, and then quickly lost.Fan Kuai pursued fiercely, and the Xiongnu fought and retreated. Liu Bang was very excited. He didn't expect the Xiongnu to be so easy to fight.The cruelty of the Huns seems to be a rumor.They sent sergeants to investigate and learned that Maodun Shanyu stationed troops in Daigu.But the soldiers are not strong soldiers, and the horses are not fine horses, they are just a bunch of old soldiers and thin horses.Liu Bang was even more delighted, and wanted to send Qingqi to attack, trying to capture Maodun Shanyu alive in one fell swoop.

How did he know that the bandits of the Xiongnu who didn't have much culture used another idiom at this moment: please enter the urn. He doesn't know, but someone knows, the doctor Liu Jing dissuaded him: "This is Mao Dun Shanyu's idiom trick, your Majesty must not fall for it." This Liu Jing was precisely Lou Jing who persuaded Liu Bang to move his capital. Because of his meritorious speech, he was promoted to be a doctor and given the surname Liu. Today, Liu Jing made another suggestion, and Liu Bang was upset. In Liu Bang's view, the Xiongnu were nothing more than mediocre. After several battles, there were only a few remnants and defeated generals left. How dare they use tricks?Besides, I know idioms. Now, we just take advantage of the crisis to show our talents.

However, Liu Jing believed that if he attacked rashly, he might be taking advantage of the emptiness to get in. Liu Bang disagreed, he decided to put the Huns to death and then cut the mess quickly. Liu Jingxin said, you are awesome, you can make up new idioms, and the words are connected. Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, Liu Jing asked for orders again, saying: "I would like to go in person to find out the truth first."Just imagine, the troubles of the Huns, even the strong Qin army could not take it down in one fell swoop. How could they lose their elite after a few battles, and they would be so helpless that they would flee?

Liu Bang was annoyed, and on second thought, what Liu Jing said was somewhat reasonable.Okay, then don't compete in idioms here, go and come back quickly. Liu Jingyi left for three or four days without hearing from him, no one was alive or dead.Unable to hold back, Liu Bang led an army of 300,000 troops to march northward. Wherever the army went, the people of the Xiongnu fled.Satisfied, Liu Bang walked forward for dozens of miles. Looking around, he saw military tents on the snowy ground. The military tents were well organized and the military flags were broken.Obviously the Huns had just escaped not long ago.

Liu Bang confirmed: The Huns are already at the end of their rope! After confirming, order the troops to advance at full speed. Soon, 300,000 Han troops arrived in Guangwu, and Liu Jing greeted them. Liu Bang teased and asked: How is the situation? Liu Jing looked serious, and said in a low voice: At first glance, there are indeed only some remnants of defeated soldiers and weak and thin horses in Daigu. What about another look?Liu Bang asked. Looking at it again is not as good as looking at it at first glance.Liu Jing answered. So what's the point!Liu Bang shouted loudly: "Hurry up and fight."

Don't rush in.Liu Jing dissuaded: There is an idiom that hearing is believing, seeing is believing.But seeing is not necessarily believing.When the two armies confront each other, they usually show off their strength to intimidate each other, but the Xiongnu did the opposite, which is really counterintuitive. When the army was not moving, Liu Bang only felt that Liu Jing was cowardly and ridiculous. Now that the army has arrived and the situation is clear, Liu Jing still dissuades him, so he is very angry. You're just a mouth-watering product!Liu Bang scolded: "At this moment, my army's morale is disturbed. I should have killed you. I think you have made great achievements in the past. I will temporarily detain you. I will argue with you after I wipe out the Xiongnu." After Liu Jing was dealt with, Liu Bang took the lead in directly attacking Pingcheng. More than ten miles away from Pingcheng, there is a Baideng mountain, and Liu Bang ordered to camp here.Unexpectedly, there is no free lunch in the world, and there is no free mountain to climb. The name Bai Dengshan is very deceptive, just like Mao Dun's trick.After the Han army entered Baideng Mountain, the hidden 400,000 Xiongnu elite troops immediately besieged the entire mountain. After being trapped for six or seven days, the Han army ran out of food. Liu Bang never expected that the consumption on the mountain would be so high. It was midwinter at this time in October, the night was long, the wind was bitter, the snow was flying, the ice muscle was cracked, and the Han army was rushing from south to north. How could it stand such a cold? After a few days, it was almost broken. If you lose your fingers, you can't even hold a weapon. The situation is extremely critical. If they are not beaten to death, they will starve to death, and if they are not starved to death, they will freeze to death. Liu Bang thought, could it be that I just explained it like this?As the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, he rebelled against Qin, punished Xiang Yu, and pacified the world; in the end, he ended up on a snowy mountain that did not match the name. How will future generations evaluate himself?There is probably a saying-"The organ is too clever to calculate, and it will miss Qingqing's life." Fortunately, there was Chen Ping beside him, and he called him immediately to make him conspire.Chen Ping did not disappoint Liu Bang, and used a trick to make Maodun Shanyu retreat. Exactly what kind of strategy is not recorded in history books, and unofficial history has not recorded, the world only bases groundless speculation, saying that Chen Ping sent a picture of a beautiful woman to negotiate peace with Mao Dun, on the condition that he withdraws as he wishes, and he will offer the beautiful woman in the picture.Take a moment to tempt, and then open the net. This matter is quite complicated, and it is difficult to determine whether it is true or false. It is only said that when Liu Bang escaped from the siege, there was a heavy fog from the sky, and it may be that the fog blinded the eyes of the Xiongnu army. Liu Bang's side broke through, and Fan Kui also led the rear army to arrive.Mao Dun saw the strength of the Han army, so he abandoned Pingcheng and ordered to withdraw northward. When the Xiongnu withdrew, Liu Bang was shocked. He breathed a long sigh of relief. He was grateful for the heavy fog in his heart. , How can you see the white mist outside the city. After sighing and sighing, Liu Bang returned to his teacher Guangwu, thinking of Liu Jing's kindness on the way, and also remembering the mistakes of Daigu's investigators.So, as soon as he arrived in Guangwu, he ordered that all those who made mistakes in investigation be beheaded.He also ordered Liu Jing to be released, granted the title of Marquis of Jianxin, and given food to 2,000 households in the city. After killing and rewarding, Liu Bang took Zhao Guo and moved his division back to Chang'an. As everyone knows, after this evacuation, Mao Dun Shanyu made a comeback in the rear, and there was even more danger waiting for his arrival in the front.