Chapter 7 1. Past and Present of the Huns

In the far northwest grassland, there is a group of white wolves peeping at the land of the Central Plains, and their name is Xiongnu. Before the Opium War, in China's 2,000-year history, almost all its foreign enemies came from the Northwest.Huns, Turks, Mongolia, etc., came one after another, drove away the white wolf, and then came the leopard, drove the leopard away, and then came a big tiger.In short, there is no end, no peace.Therefore, since the Zhou Dynasty, the Great Wall has been built longer and stronger, and the impact has been more fierce. It has never really effectively stopped foreign enemies.

The reason why foreigners in the Northwest like to visit the Central Plains is probably related to the geographical environment and the nature of nomads.First of all, the Central Plains is fertile and wild for thousands of miles, with a humid climate and suitable for life. There are ten miles of lotus flowers and Sanqiu osmanthus in the south of the Yangtze River; The sun reflects the golden light; there are thousands of beauties who make people drool in the majestic palace. This beautiful scenery, let alone people, animals want to move to live when they see it; again, nomads are born to travel and rob , Shooting a gun to change a place, grabbing today and eating tomorrow, has always been the old line passed down from the ancestors.Otherwise, why do we live on horseback instead of getting off our horses and imitating the Central Plains people to live by the water and live and work in peace and contentment?

Let's not blame the shameful behavior of the nomads, think about it from another angle, if the Han people live in the vast grasslands, and the Hu people live in the warm and spring-like Central Plains, let's see if you Han people come to the Central Plains to rob food and beautiful women?Since ancient times, being jealous of others, hurting others' interests, and enriching one's own selfishness have always been things that everyone wants to do in their dreams.That being the case, you can only speak with your strength. If you have strength, you can do whatever you want. If you don’t have strength, you can just obediently continue squatting in the northwest and eating sand.

This Xiongnu, whose previous name in the Zhou Dynasty was Quan Rong, took advantage of the opportunity after King Zhou You played with the princes, broke through the Great Wall, and robbed him so much that King You of Zhou regretted it.Later, when the Qin Empire was established, Yingzheng carried forward the great thought of "If you don't attack me, I will attack you", he devoted 300,000 troops to garrison the Northwest, but the Huns were 700 miles away, and they dared not go south to herd horses.However, it is a pity that once Qin was destroyed and Meng Tian died, no one cared about the white wolf on the grassland anymore.Later, when the Huns were beating the Central Plains to the death, they rapidly developed their power, so in just ten years, they raised their bodies and horses, showed their fierce looks again, and rushed towards the Central Plains aggressively!

These Huns, their leaders have names that are unfamiliar and difficult to pronounce.This is almost the characteristic of all nomadic peoples, their names are like their people, they come and go like wind and rain, and they will never stop until you are blinded.Their leader is not called the emperor, but Shan Yu. The leader who is directly threatening Han Wangxin in the Northwest is called Maodu Maodun. How many ethnic groups in ancient times wanted to expand their territory and expand their industries once they had strong strength.The same is true for Mao Dun. In his opinion, the Mongolian grassland is too small, so small that even when he sleeps at night, he feels that his inner ambition has no place to rest.That being the case, they had to wield a saber to attack the Central Plains, and Han Wangxin, who was stationed in Mayi, was the first to bear the brunt.Han Wangxin at this time is not Meng Tian ten years ago; the Xiongnu at this time is not the wimp who was chased and beaten by Meng Tian for more than 700 miles ten years ago.

In the autumn of 201 BC, the Han Dynasty will follow the invasion of Modu, thus changing the direction of history! Having said that, the reason why Mouton is today is not entirely due to family and good luck, but purely due to personal struggle.The father of Maodun is Shanyu Touman. Like the Han people, Touman implemented the eldest son inheritance system. When the eldest son Maodun grew up, he named Maodun the prince.Mao Dun thought that he was born with a golden key in his mouth all his life, as long as he was free from illness and disaster, he would just wait for the old man to ascend to the sky, and he would be firmly seated in Shan Yu's position, and he would be sure of the size of the grassland.

However, Mao Dun's troubles still came.The trouble is that his father fell in love with a little woman and gave birth to a cute little boy.Human nature is always connected. In ancient China, not to mention the emperor, it was an ordinary man. Having three wives and four concubines has always been a part of their life struggle.Touman's concubine is called a concubine by the Han people, and Yanshi by the Huns.The real trouble for Maodun is not that his father found him a Wanniang, but that his father wanted to make Wanniang's child the crown prince. What a depressing news this is, but Mouton is still in the dark.Touman's scene is like Liu Bang later, who wanted to make Liu Ruyi the prince, so he came up with many excuses to abolish Liu Ying.Fortunately, Liu Ying was surrounded by many people like Zhou Chang who protected him, so Liu Bang's dream of setting up another prince was shattered.At this time, Mao Dun's life is not so good. Touman thinks about it, and in order to fulfill the dream of the child prince, he decides to borrow a knife to kill people and kill Mao Dun.

The sword that Touman wanted to borrow was Yuezhi, who had an enmity with the Huns at that time.At that time, they lived in the same prairie with the Xiongnu, and there was also a brother tribe - Donghu.Of the three major groups, Donghu is strong, Yuezhi is weak, and Touman, the Xiongnu tribe, is caught in the middle.In order to deal with Donghu, Touman decided to send Modun to the Yuezhi as the prince, and united with the Yuezhi to attack Donghu.However, when Maodun was sent to Yuezhi, Touman suddenly launched an attack on Yueshi, trying to force Yuezhi to kill Maodun. Of course, Yuezhi has no reason to let Maodun go. Your father backtracked and stabbed me backwards, and he wouldn't kill anyone else if he didn't.Therefore, Yue Yue also waved his saber, ready to attack Maodun!But Touman was confused by Yuezhi's 180-degree turn. He didn't know what his father wanted to do.No matter what Touman wanted to do, he had no strength to think about it. When he heard that the Yue family wanted to kill him to avenge his hatred, he immediately stole a good horse and fled back to the Xiongnu's base camp.

When Dangtouman saw Maodun appearing in front of his eyes like a ghost, he felt both embarrassed and depressed.He asked Mouton: How did you come back? Mouton: I escaped back. In such a dangerous situation, you can escape back, you really deserve to be my son.It is the arrangement of heaven that the sky never dies.Since Modun is blessed by God, let him be the prince. So Touman, feeling depressed, suddenly gave up the idea of ​​murdering Modun, and assigned 10,000 cavalry to lead Modun's training. Touman was wrong.He thought that after changing his face, Mao Dun thought he was a good father.In fact, when Mao Dun later learned that Touman wanted to use Yuezhi's knife to get rid of him quickly, he only had one thought, that I would also put this old man to death and live again.Otherwise, for one day of Touman, I would not be able to live peacefully for one day of Moton.

As the saying goes, if you survive a catastrophe, you must have revenge.Mo Dun is not Touman. In order to kill Touman, he came up with a perfect plan: train sharp archers and take the opportunity to kill his father and rebel.In this world, there is nothing that can inspire more strength and inspiration than vengeance. The vengeful Mouton invented a supreme assassination weapon - Ming Di. The so-called Ming Dy, also known as the sound of arrows.The structure and function of this arrow are different from ordinary arrows.Ordinary arrowheads, whether iron, copper, or bone, are solid.This is not the case with Mingdi. Its special feature is that there is a small eye the size of a match head drilled on the small arrowhead for air circulation up and down.And yes, the direction of the small eye is mostly perpendicular to the shaft of the arrow, because only in this way, after the arrow is shot, there will be a whistling sound.

Maodun stipulated to the shooter: Where the sound of the sound of the dysprosium is also the place where the shooter shoots, if he violates the order and does not shoot, he will be killed!However, a sharpshooter cannot be created in a day. In order to train a team of sharpshooters who are absolutely loyal to him, Mao Dun worked hard day and night. Finally one day, when the time for the experiment came, Modu pulled the archers into the field. He sacrificed his beloved horse and shot Ming Di at the BMW. The archers also shot arrows one after another, and the horse died. Well, the lads are doing well, brave and decisive, and the marksman is a good shooter.So, Mao Dun pulled out another person to test again. This person was not a prisoner, let alone his soldier, but his beloved wife. We can imagine that on the vast grassland, a Hun woman, wearing a large robe, stands in the strong wind, like a bird about to be blown away by the wind.However, this is a bird without wings. Even if it has wings, it is difficult to fly.I saw Mao Dun shoot an arrow at his beloved wife from a distance, followed by tens of thousands of arrows coming towards her. On the grassland, there is no love, only cold hard work and cruel and ruthless arrows.However, there are still people under Maodun who dare not shoot arrows. What a crazy move, even his beloved wife can be killed. May I ask who else in Maodun can't kill?However, these soft-hearted archers immediately died for their Buddha-like mind and compassion, and Mao Dun beheaded all those who dared not shoot arrows. From then on, as long as the arrow was released, no archer would dare to disobey his orders.For this legendary Arrow team, Mouton is training them step by step to become unique death killers.Immediately afterwards, Modun offered another thing for training, which was his father Touman's mount.Mao Dun shot an arrow at Touman's mount, and the arrows roared down the sky and covered the sky, and the horse died. He smiled smugly. In this training, no one missed an arrow, no one hesitated, and no arrow was missed.I have endured the humiliation for many days, and what I have been waiting for is today. Let me tell you, don't think that killing my beloved wife is ruthless. As the saying goes, if you don't want your wife, you can't kill your father. The next target is Shanyu Touman. On this day, Touman took Maodun out to hunt, and the time for Touman's death finally came.When Touman was running unabated on the prairie to chase his prey, Maodun slowly raised his long arrow.Therefore, the prey, Touman, and Modun constitute the most beautiful and cruel aesthetic picture on the grassland.Touman hunted, and Modu followed, and Modu shot arrows without hesitation, like a long-eyed hornet that locked Touman's throat, followed by tens of thousands of long-eyed hornets buzzing down from the sky. Man fell to the ground and died like a prairie eagle unable to struggle! After killing Touman, Modun killed Wanniang Yan's family and his younger brother who was trying to snatch his crown prince, and became Shan Yu himself from then on.This is a vivid scene of animal evolution on the prairie, the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest.After Mao Dun ascended the throne, his next goal was to get rid of Donghu.However, Donghu is too powerful. When dealing with a strong opponent, Mao Dun is like dealing with his father. He bears the humiliation, strengthens his training, and waits for the opportunity. At this time, Donghu Shanyu sent an envoy and said to Mo Dun, "I heard that your father is dead. I want the BMW he once rode!" Needless to say, this is a real challenge and bullying.My dad kept his BMW and provoked you, why do you want to ask for it?So, all of Maodun's subordinates jumped up, and they unanimously said to Maodun: Touman rides a Xiongnu BMW, and he must not give it to Donghu! Mao Dun smiled, why bother to hurt the peace of neighboring countries because of a horse, let it be.So Mao Dun gave the Chollima to Donghu.However, within a few days, Donghu sent another envoy and said to Mo Dun: I heard that Shan Yu's queen is very beautiful, and I want your queen! In fact, Donghu’s move is called aggressive method. All BMWs and queens are fake. It’s ready, just waiting for you to make a move. As long as Maodun makes a move, they will come to the sky like Maodun’s whistle .Now, Maodun's subjects can no longer sit still, and if the Huns don't show their power, you, Donghu, really think we are sick cats. So the ministers unanimously yelled at Mao Dun: Donghu is simply too deceitful, please go to Shanyu quickly, and fuck Donghu up! Mao Dun laughed again, only to see him shaking his head, and said to the ministers: Why bother to hurt the peace of the neighboring country because of a little girl, let him be! Men on the prairie are born strong men. For them, women are trivial matters. The problem is that there is no more hateful shame than this when their wives are robbed.But seeing that the queen is about to be robbed, Shan Yu Maodun can still laugh, so he endured again and again, if Dong Hu asks you to sacrifice your life next time, will you still be willing? The ministers really guessed it right. When Mao Dun sent his beloved queen away, Donghu was so proud that his buttocks almost went up to the sky.Between the Donghu and the Xiongnu, there is a piece of land that is more than a thousand miles long from north to south. The two countries have always set up guards on their respective borders. Got this idea of ​​the commons. The Donghu people chose this useless piece of land not because they love it, but to further test Maodun. If Maodun can abandon the public land, then the next step may be private land.Even Donghu had to be complacent about this idea. If you don’t give it, I will beat you; if you give it, I will continue to blackmail and eat up the Xiongnu. Therefore, Donghu repeatedly sent envoys to Mo Dun and said: I want the abandoned land between the two countries, please give it to me! Donghu's trick reminds me of a story.It is said that someone saved someone. For the sake of convenience, let's call someone A saved someone B for the time being.Person B said to Person A: You saved me, and I am now yours. From now on, no matter what you want from me, I will give it to you without hesitation.A didn’t know whether it was for the fun of the experiment, or if he really had ulterior motives, so he said to B, I heard that human meat is delicious, and I want to eat your meat.X did not hesitate to cut a piece of flesh from his body for X. A few days later, A said to B again that one of my eyes is broken and I want to replace it with yours.B also dug out an eye and gave it to A without hesitation.One day, a person A said to a person B again, I heard that people's hearts are delicious, please give me your heart, will you?This time, a certain B couldn't bear it anymore, and without hesitation, he picked up a knife and killed a certain A. From this incident, we can see that no matter who it is, bullying and being bullied must have a limit. Once the bottom line is exceeded, life and death can only be judged.To Mouton, the BMW and the Queen are nothing but a piece of flesh and an eye on his body, but the Gongtu mentioned by Donghu is the lively atrium in his body.Once the atrium is handed over, how can we survive? This time, Mao Dun didn't laugh anymore, he asked the minister very seriously: Donghu forced us to cede the public land, what do you think of this matter? The strange thing is that this time the ministers were no longer as angry as the previous two times, and their opinions were not in agreement. Some said that it was an abandoned land and could be given; some said it could not be given.Mao Dun was furious when he heard this, stood up and cursed: Idiot!The land, the foundation of the country, how could it be given to Donghu for nothing? In the vast grassland, if you don't work hard in adversity, you will perish in adversity.Mao Dun immediately pulled out those who were in favor of cutting the land and beheaded him. He jumped on the horse and announced loudly: "Today we will fight Donghu to the death. If there are latecomers in the country, behead them!" Mao Dun's scene was really brilliant. He knew that Donghu had repeatedly tasted the sweetness, and the soldiers must be proud and loose on defense.And he killed the army of slack with the army of anger, God will only stand on the side of the former, and will not guard the latter.Sure enough, when Maodun led a group of fierce warriors to rush towards Donghu, like a pack of wolves breaking into the sheepfold, Donghu collapsed for thousands of miles, and then was wiped out by Maodun. After destroying Donghu, Maodun took advantage of the victory and attacked Yuezhi westward.Overnight, the Yue clan was also destroyed by Maodun, followed by Loufan and Baiyanghe and other minority tribes in the northwest were also annexed by Maodun, and then followed by Maodun to advance towards the Central Plains, bringing ten The Xiongnu land that General Meng Tian took away years ago has also been taken back. At this time, Maodun had more than 300,000 people who controlled strings.The so-called man who controls the strings is the cavalry. We also know that a cavalry two thousand years ago is no less than a tank on the modern battlefield today.At that time, more than 300,000 tanks lined up on the prairie. Who can resist it?As a result, Maodun became the biggest king on the northwest grassland like a fierce snake swallowing an elephant. To be a Shanyu is to be the biggest Shanyu in the world.Relying on his unprecedented strength, Mao Dun was ready to create a myth and a great era that belonged to him, so he set his sights on Han Wangxin, the guardian king of the Han Dynasty. In the autumn of 201 BC, the King of Han in Maodunwei believed in Mayi. In September, Han Wangxin surrendered, so Maodun led his troops across the mountains and ridges, captured Taiyuan, and came to Jinyang City.The crisis of foreign enemies in Maodu is like a huge mushroom cloud covering the land in the northwest. An inevitable foreign war of the Han Dynasty is about to start!