Chapter 64 3. Defend Chang'an

This time, the old Shang Shanyu came out with 140,000 troops to rob, and his purpose was nothing more than two.First, undermining the Han Dynasty's policy of recruiting people to strengthen the border; second, looting winter supplies.More importantly, the Bank of China, who deserved a thousand cuts, said that he ruthlessly satisfied his desire for revenge. As long as the Bank of China says that they will live for a day, the Han Dynasty will not even think about living a peaceful life.I believe that this is the sentence that the Bank of China said most wanted to tell the emperor Liu Heng.

And so it is.The old Shang Shanyu was able to wipe out more than 20 northern countries including the Yuezhi, which shows that he is not a simple-minded person.He has long seen that Liu Heng's emigration to the village was nothing more than trying to build a distant human wall in an attempt to keep the Xiongnu out of the Great Wall.If Liu Heng really has this kind of plan, the old Shang Shanyu will tell him now with practical actions: You are a human wall that recruits people to strengthen it. It depends on whether you can repair it quickly or I can tear it down faster. So, after the old Shang Shanyu Dana tasted the sweetness, he entered the border year after year, like casting a net for fishing, from west to east, killing, looting and plundering along the border.Among the counties, Shuyunzhong County (Toketuo County, Inner Mongolia) and Liaodong County (Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province) suffered the most, with more than 10,000 border residents killed in each county.

Even though Liu Heng was full of bitterness, he couldn't confide in anyone.Is it true that a strong border policy is really ruined in the hands of that bastard traitor and Hun wolf?If this is the case, why didn't God throw the Huns to a small island in the Pacific Ocean or to Africa when God created the Han people, why did they just put them on the vast prairie?Is this intentional to balance the ecology? Existence is reasonable, whether it is God's trouble with the Han people, or the Xiongnu's trouble with the Han people, the most urgent task is to find a countermeasure to stop the Huns from looting and beating!

Now the only way is still that trick: get married! In fact, this marriage is, to put it bluntly, blackmail.If it was just a marriage, wouldn't the 140,000 cavalry of the old Shang Shanyu be in vain?War is the most risky sport in the world, and it is also the most profitable industry in the world.If you win once, the negotiated price will be raised once.When the price mentioned that the annual tribute property of the Han Dynasty is equivalent to the remuneration of the cavalry for robbery, and the Han Dynasty can meet this condition, the Xiongnu can of course consider a truce. It was June of 162 BC that the old Shang Shanyu received the letter of reconciliation brought by Liu Heng's envoy.In nearly four years, how many innocent border people died under the knife of the Xiongnu wolves; how many fat cattle and sheep were taken away by the Xiongnu wolves;You want to use the barbarians to control the barbarians, right? You want to recruit the people to make ends meet, right?Okay, now I'm afraid of being beaten, I'm not recruited, right?If I knew this earlier, why did I do it in the first place?

Perhaps, when the old Shang Shanyu held Liu Heng's national book in his hand, what he wanted to say to Liu Heng most in his heart was this sentence that was so proud that he would fly to the sky. But no matter what, the old Shang Shanyu finally accepted the marriage again.Because Liu Heng mentioned a condition in the letter of credence: as long as the Xiongnu ceased fighting, the Han Dynasty was willing to pay a certain amount of material gifts every year. In fact, a year later, Liu Heng discovered that this kind of marriage is no longer useful.He even concluded that there seemed to be rules to follow when the Xiongnu fought or fought.

At the beginning, Mao Dun led 300,000 cavalry to attack the border of the Han Dynasty in the winter. It was when he was first promoted to Shanyu, and the last time he got married, he flew into the sky within a few days.This old Shang Shanyu is almost a clone of Mao Dun. He led 140,000 cavalry to dispatch, and he took office not long ago.And after he accepted Liu Heng's marriage proposal, it took only half a year for him to reach the sky. According to this law, the person who takes over the senior position will launch a large-scale attack again. The prophecy is not terrible, what is terrible is that it is said.Sure enough, in the winter of 158 BC, the Huns swept again!

Another terrible winter! The Shan Yu who attacked the territory of the Han Dynasty this time was named Junchen.After the old Shang Shanyu died, his son Junchen succeeded him.The Bank of China said that it would carry forward the spirit of traitors to the end and continue to serve the Huns.Therefore, the military officials prepared for this robbery for three years.Finally, he couldn't hold back anymore. It is said that wolves are territorial.Especially the leader wolf, when it is the leader, it must look for assault objects to attack.The advantage of doing this is that it promotes and preserves the spirit of wolves fighting fiercely and bravely, so as to establish the unshakable position of the leading wolf.Until death, or being defeated by the next provocateur.

The Huns seem to be born with the consciousness and spirit of wolves.The bad ecology will inevitably make him fight a way of survival at all costs.I would rather die in battle than wait to die.This may be a good interpretation of the leader of the Huns and their warriors. The army minister Shan Yu went south in a large scale this time, and the number of cavalry was greatly reduced.From these figures alone, we can even see that the three generations of the Modun family are really inferior to each other.Back then, Maodun's 300,000 cavalry trapped Liu Bang in Baideng City; a few years ago, the old Shang Shan Yu's 140,000 cavalry wandered 80 kilometers away from Chang'an City;

But the fact is that only these 60,000 people made the Han Dynasty feel as if it had experienced an earthquake. The army minister Shan Yu's 60,000 cavalry attacked the Han Dynasty in two ways: all the way into Shangjun, and all the way into Yunzhong County.Both groups of cavalry were unstoppable, like the flood of the Yellow River. Regardless of how many border people were slaughtered in the Han Dynasty, how many cattle and sheep were plundered.What is even more frightening is that when the military minister Shanyu burned and killed all the way, the beacon fire of the Han Dynasty spread from Shangjun to Ganquan and then to Chang'an.

The Xiongnu attacked the Han Dynasty this time, and it was only six years since the old Shang Shanyu invaded Chang'an City last time.However, at this time, almost all Chang'an people issued the life-saving cry six years ago: Defend Chang'an! Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of Chang'an, Liu Heng reacted quickly and made the following deployments: Zhou Yafu, the prefect of Hanoi, was stationed in Xiliuyuan in the northwest of Chang'an; Zhu Zihou Xu was stationed in Thorny Gate in the north of Chang'an; Yu Bashang.The intention of the deployment of the above three armies is to defend Chang'an on three sides along the Wei River.

At the same time, in order to deal with the two cavalry units of the military ministers, the following deployments were carried out: the Chinese doctor Lingbu was the cavalry general, and he was stationed in Feihu (north of Laiyuan County, Hebei Province today) as the frontier guard of Zhao; It means general, stationed in Juzhu Mountain (between Dai County and Shenchi County in Shanxi Province today), as a frontier guard guarding the fiefdom of Liu Heng's hometown. The common defensive goal of the two armies of the Han Dynasty was to block the 30,000 cavalry from the army minister Shanyu who had entered Yunzhong County from going south to join. In addition, Liu Heng stationed his troops in Beidi (now Ning County, Gansu Province) with his general Zhang Wu.From the map, Zhang Wu's troops are the first line of defense to defend Chang'an.The intention of this army is to block the 30,000 Xiongnu soldiers killed from Shangjun. However, when Liu Heng arranged all this, the Han Dynasty had no mobile troops available. The Han Dynasty is in a state of comprehensive defense! The whole Chang'an is holding its breath. They are all waiting!Waiting for the baptism of a blizzard of life and death!