Chapter 408
The King of Huns who was ordered to plunder the new Qin Dynasty was the "King of Zuoguli" Wudafuhou, who was second only to the Shanyu and the Left Virtuous Kings, and ranked fourth among the Huns.
When he set out from the Shanyuting who moved back to the south of the Mo, his father, the Great Shanyu, gave the Hou Wuda: "Hu Weixian was Tuqi and the prince was the Zuoxian King. According to the rules, my younger brother, King Youguli, should have been appointed as the Master Zhiya. After I went to see the God of Qilian, he would inherit the position of Shanyu."
"But he is the only son of Ninghu Yan! The position of Zuo Xianwang must not fall into his hands!"
Wuda Duke knew that he knew very well the feud between his father and Wang Zhaojun's descendants. Na Ning Hu Yan married into the Huns when he was the Shanyu period of his grandfather Huhanye and gave birth to a son for Huhanye, who was Zhiya Master, and was the seventh brother among his brothers.
Later, Ninghu Yan married Hu Hanye's eldest son and gave birth to two more daughters. The eldest daughter Yi Moju married the Xubu family of the Huns. The Xubu family strongly advocated marriage and also went to Xin Dynasty to serve as a mission to the Xin Dynasty. He was then left by Wang Mang and supported him as the "submission of the slave Gongyu" who confronted the orthodox royal court.
Although Xubu's death is now, Wang Zhaojun's daughter Yi Mo Juci is still in Chang'an. I heard that the fifth king of Wei specially built a mansion for them, mother and son, and treated him with the etiquette of the Han Dynasty.
The children of Ninghu Yan clan inevitably get close to the Central Plains, often choose the Huairou route, and even help China split the Huns, which is inconsistent with the ambition of the Great Shanyu to restore Maodun's territory and rebuild a great power of barbarians.
So the Shanyu planned to change the inheritance rules and break the rules that Huhanye's sons had successively become Shanyu since fifty years ago, and cut off the thoughts of Lao Qi Zhiya Master!
"Hu valued the most prestige. If he could take over the entire Henan area this time, I will be named Zuo Xianwang, and no one dares to object!"
In September, when the horses were fat in autumn, after attending the traditional Huns' storm conference, Wudafu Hou took five thousand cavalry with his headquarters and conquered the other small tribes to gather five thousand cavalry and headed south.
They received tens of thousands of forced Hu Han soldiers from Hu Han Shuofang County, with a total of more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry, and entered the New Qin Central in mid-September!
"The son-in-law attacked the Xihe River in the east and attracted Wei soldiers to resist."
The so-called son-in-law emperor was Lu Fang. Hu Han received support from the Xiongnu and his main goal was to seize the Xihe River and Dai County further east.
The vast land between Helan Mountain and Qilian Mountain was "dedicated" by Lu Fang to the Xiongnu Shanyu. Xia Wuyue's attack was just a test, and now it is the beginning of a full-scale war!
"Lost my Yanzhi Mountain will make my women look colorless. Lost my Qilian Mountain will make my animals not live."
Wuda Duke remembered the song that had been sung among the old Huns. For the Hu people who had no words, the stories and ballads told by the Hu witches of the tribe by the bonfire were the only memory of the humiliation in the past.
"I heard that Henan was where Lord Wei started his family."
"It's time to let the fifth reunion taste the taste of losing her!"
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The hometown, yes, in the anger of Jianzhang Weiwei Zang, the New Qinzhong is equivalent to half of his hometown.
Although he only stayed here with the fifth reunion for a short year and a half, this was the first time Zang Nu, who was a slave in the first half of his life, was regarded as a human being, rather than a beast.
I remember that their team was also called the "Fifth Battalion". At night, the wind blew up in the south, and the wheat covered the yellow and golden millet. The wheat was ripe as soon as possible. The people in the New Qin Dynasty were all scrambling wheat in the ground to harvest. Zang Nu and others were ordered by the fifth family to guard the beacon tower, wrapping yellow turbans on the heads, guarding against the disturbances of Lu Fang, who were entrenched in Qingtong Gorge at that time.
At the end of the wheat harvesting, there were always the elders in the inner world carrying pots to pick up the slurry and rewarding the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion. They had never seen such a kind soldier - compared with the king's army in the Xin Dynasty.
Zang Nu had never received so much respect. He had gained love that autumn and was happy with a local woman. The girl from the frontier was heroic. She pursued her boldly when she saw that she liked her and settled her life with him in the dense wheat fields. Zang Nu only remembered that it was a stuffy afternoon, and blood marks were cut on his back by the seductive wheat ears.
Later, Zang Nu followed the Fifth Lun to cross the river and attack Hu. Because of his outstanding performance, he became a small official and became a relative by the Yellow River. Boyu Sima paid the betrothal gift for him and was a witness to the marriage matchmaker.
After many years, he had moved into Beique Jiadi, and the hostess in the family was still his first wife. His wife always talked about it, and she didn't expect that Zang Nu, the small corps in the past, would become a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones. The family was grateful to the King of Wei. She only occasionally thought about the past while she was rich and frugal, and sighed: "I don't know what happened to my hometown?"
In summer, Zang Nu was ordered to be sent here by the King of Wei. He had just retreated and the New Qin Dynasty was full of chaos.
The wheat field where he had fallen in love with his wife was trampled by Hu Qi. The inner wall of his father-in-law's house was burned to white land. Many relatives and relatives died. When they saw Zang, they cried non-stop. The other side of the river, which had caused many soldiers to get married together, is now full of smelly smells. The people of several counties have been lucky enough to escape, but unfortunately they were captured on the grassland and become slaves to the Huns.
In order to protect more people's transfer, Zhu Tufeng's robes Xuan Biao personally left behind the rear. He died in Shanghe City and his body has not returned yet.
Whenever I think about it, it always makes people furious!
Zang was not good at speaking. The fifth reunion often said that he was a dull gourd. Although there was a word "angry" in his name, he was not as outward as his colleague Zheng Tong. He felt sad and silently brought the refugees to repair the walls of Fuping County and strengthened the forts around the county. In August of autumn, he took off his shirt and took the lead in bent down in the field to cut millet. He could harvest several acres in one afternoon.
Refugees from several counties on the other side were all summoned to the army as militias. The King of Wei moved the elderly, weak, women and children to Weibei to eat. Now there are only a group of men left in the new Qin Dynasty. Some people joked that after four months, they felt handsome when they looked at the mare.
"Aren't ewes more handsome?" Men can only live through dirty jokes.
Every month, post carriages and supplies arrive from Guanzhong. In addition to sending armored soldiers, there are also some letters from relatives.
Zang Nu has been praised for his "progress" in recent years and is an advanced element in the night school for officers who have literate themselves from illiteracy to literacy, and can even recite a letter to his relatives in his wife's family.
Let me send letters from home to tell them that their relatives are safe and that their lives are peaceful in Weibei, so there is no need to worry about the attacks of the Hu people. There are even breads to eat during festivals.
Some people also complained: "My ancestors also moved from Guanzhong. Now it is better to let the King of Wei move us all back, better than to be frightened here."
This attitude was soon scolded by the commander of the Northern Territory Mengze: "Your father, the ancestor's tomb is here, so I will abandon it. I will leave it to the barbarians to destroy it?"
Meng Ze told everyone solemnly: "If we abandon the New Qinzhong, the Hu barbarians can chase and fight to Weibei. Are you willing to escape for a while, but ask your relatives to face the threat of Hu Qi again?"
"There are many people in the court who insist on abandoning the land, but the King of Wei was thinking about the good things in the new Qinzhong and refused to give up. He sent many soldiers here. How could the guest soldiers still be willing to stick to it, but the master wanted to give up the truth of Lujing tomb?"
These words made the refugees a little calmer, but shortly after the autumn grain entered the warehouse, the war smoke rose from the north and spread to the Great Wall, and finally reached the sight of Fuping County, which made Zang's fist clenched!
"It's really here!"
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The Huns will definitely come again after the autumn, which is the consensus among all the civil and military officials of the court.
In order to prove this, King Wei also organized sergeants of the court to read the records of the Han Dynasty and search for the time when the Huns went south.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the secretary Lang Ban Biao in the court. Although this person secretly hopes that the great man will be restored to the sky, when facing the debate between China and the barbarians, Ban Shupi's butt will not sit in the wrong position. He is well aware of historical books. In just one day, he selected the nodes for each time the Huns entered the Barclays from the records of the previous dynasty.
For example, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, in the sixth year of Yuanguang, "In the autumn, the Xiongnu robbed several borders, especially in Yuyang." The second year, in the autumn, 20,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu went south to attack Liaoyang, Yanmen and other counties, killed the prefect of Liaoxi, and captured 2,000 people. They also defeated the Han army in Yanmen County, killing more than a thousand soldiers of the Han army. In the autumn of the third year of Yuanshu, "The Xiongnu entered Yanmen again and killed more than a thousand people."
From Wenjing to Hanwu, almost every autumn, the Huns went south to cut leeks, especially in mid-to-late September, which was extremely punctual!
The nomadic economy of the Huns was actually more fragile than agriculture. A snow and drought could cause a devastating blow to the herds and could not be recovered for a few years. Lorption of farming areas became part of their livelihood, with the main purpose of robbing grain and population. When autumn comes, the autumn grain is harvested in the Great Wall. The Huns also happened to be fat and strong, so they would use the forest conference to gather various tribes and gather in the south of the border to plunder.
Unlike Xia Tian's tentative attack, this time the invasion was no longer dominated by Hu Han's miscellaneous soldiers, but the serious Xiongnu cavalry came! The commander was personally led by King Zuo Guli, and soon bypassed the Huns and rushed to the New Qinzhong Plain!
However, this time, because the Huns were expected to be limited by customary economy and difficult to change the time for sending troops, Xin Qinzhong made sufficient preparations. Zang Nu and Mengze cooperated to complete the clearing of the walls and clearing the fields within just a few days. The people and food were concentrated in the Qin Canal and Han Canal built around Fuping County.
These two ditches, like two moats, surrounded Fuping County. They played an important role in the attack on friendly forces in the fifth reunion, and now they have become the key to this battle.
"In the Han Canal, there are ten large and small forts, each with one to three thousand guards, and the food for three months is stored, and each is supported by Mengze, the commander of the northern commander, and is connected by beacon towers."
These forts may be contributed by local big families. Their ancestors have lived here since they moved in. Now they live and die in their hometown. Among the rich, there are cowards who have gone to Chang'an to take refuge, and some heroes and heroes have chosen to stay and stick to them. After letting go of the fort, the people and their disciples flocked in nearby.
"In Qinqu, there is only Fuping County, with 20,000 people guarding the city."
In addition to the residents of Fuping, most of the 20,000 people are refugees across the Yellow River. In the past four months, half farmer and half soldiers have all issued spears, and many people have even put on armor.
Although the training days are a little unfamiliar, although many people participated in the battle for the first time this time, they were border residents after all, and they were somewhat of a martial arts. Seeing that there were many people in the city and commanders from Guanzhong, their courage was slightly inspired.
"But don't forget that those ancestors were moved to Xinqin as military farm soldiers."
Zang Nu remembered what King Wei said a few months ago when he decided to make the new Qinzhong completely militarized, and adopted the "Commentary on the Border and Encouragement of Farming" by Chao Cuo of the Han Dynasty. The country used soldiers to farm to ensure self-sufficiency in military rations. The army would fight if there was a police officer and farm if there was no problem. This would save the transfer of labor service and consolidate the border territory.
After several generations, these immigrants became indigenous people, familiar with the geography of the border, and then set up city and dock forts in the transportation fortress to "fall the tigers in the middle of the Zhou Dynasty", so that the people on the border could watch over each other and fight side by side like father and son.
This strategy was implemented for a hundred years. Until Emperor Xuan of Han, the Huns' problem was completely solved. The frontier garrison gradually relaxed, and there was no warning of fireworks for several generations. The people were in full swing, and the cattle and horses were spreading in the wild. Three generations of people came to peace, and the people in the New Qin Dynasty had forgotten to fight. This was a great blessing for the predecessors and a misfortune for the present.
Just like last time, more than 10,000 people surrounded a corner of the city, while the Huns watched the battle outside and occasionally shot a round of volleys. Everyone in the city also started to move, either holding bows and crossbows at the top of the city, or were busy transporting stones, bricks and other objects to defend the enemy.
Seeing this scene, Zang Nu only remembered what they were puzzled by then.
At that time, Zhu Tufeng bravely entered the New Qin Middle School. After the fifth reunion attacked friendly forces, he became a well-deserved warlord in the local area. However, he asked Zang Nu and others to "match the military and civilians together". Before every meal, he would shout: "We take food and clothing from the people, so we should be soldiers who protect the people and not harm the people."
At that time, many soldiers did not understand, and Zang Nu was also confused. He just kept guarding the military orders. Anyway, before the meal, when the fifth reunion said these words on the top, he didn't care whether he understood or not, so he took the big-headed soldiers to applaud to death - he could only eat after the drumming!
Until today, Zang Nu began to understand the meaning of the fifth reunion.
"How can we achieve success by relying on a few thousand soldiers to defend the new Qin Dynasty? It is difficult to hold people but I have fewer people. This is why the land in Henan is lost at the end of Qin."
"If the local people must be allowed to participate, and the whole people will be soldiers, the situation will become that we are the most powerful and the few will be captured!"
The Hun cavalry, who were showing off their power outside, were not aware of the Hu Han soldiers. This time, in the city, there were no longer panicked lambs waiting to be slaughtered. They once again put on the armor of their ancestors, held the flags of their fathers in their hands, and turned into a group of soldiers to defend their country!
Zang Nu, who had always been introverted, looked at the distance from the city, and all the 20,000 troops of the barbarians entered the Qin Canal. In the middle of the special terrain of the Han Canal, the fighting spirit also burst out in his eyes.
"The one who was besieged this time was not Fuping County."
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This time I went south, I had very few gains, and I had more than a hundred miles from Hunhuaizhan to the south, and I couldn't even see a single person in the wild.
Han Canal and Qin Canal are just irrigation canals, which can not be covered by the depth of horses. They can easily pass by water, but there are no one inside. The locals brought food to Fuping County and the fort.
This made Wuda Duke quite depressed. After his subordinates reported that the plunder failed, he became angry and embarrassed.
"burn!"
In front of the people of Xin Qinzhong, burning the land where their ancestors lived into ashes might lead some bloody people to die.
But the locals in the county town and the walls of the fort were silently leaning on spears, watching the fire snakes rage in the village, and their anger was like a water-stacking embankment waiting for the moment when the breach was breached.
If a plan fails, Wudashi Hou asked more than 10,000 Huhan soldiers to start besieging the smallest fort, intending to defeat them one by one.
"To make one fort anxious and lure the rest of the forts to come and help."
Wudashi Hou guessed that there would be no more than 10,000 soldiers in the new Qin Dynasty and would be stationed in a scattered manner. They would be unable to hide in the city, but as long as they went to the wild and faced with cavalry, they would be unilateral killing!
The siege only took one afternoon, and the plan worked. After nightfall, as the besieged forts fought against ten, they began to set off fireworks of unknown intentions, and the scouts who could clearly see the movements of the forts, saying that someone had come out of the county town to help!
But before the long wait for the Marquis of Wudashi to be happy, the other scouts from all over the world came back to report:
"Inside the ditch, there are nine forts, ranging from two thousand to more than one thousand, and all of them are out!"
The shouts of killing sounded from the county town and the forts. Forty thousand soldiers and civilians were commanding with the beacon fires of the fortress, either rushed to the bridges of the two canals to break the road, or rushed towards the Huns and the Hu Han army. These sounds finally formed a sentence:
Chapter completed!