Straight man of steel

Chapter 460
When Zhang Yuan was worried about how to deal with the Huns.

Under the calm appearance of the big man, there are also undercurrents surging.

Liu Che has already reduced the territory of Huainan Kingdom, and two other kingdoms have also been abolished this year.

The power of the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty was further weakened.

Everyone knows that Liu Che is going to launch a decisive battle against the Xiongnu, and they also understand that Liu Che's first thing after solving the Xiongnu is to solve the problem of princes and kings.

Originally, the Tweet Order was a very gentle method, but there were always a few people who refused to accept it.

It's no wonder that Liu Che wanted to be tough in his heart.

During the autumn festival, Liu Che announced that this year would be the first year of Yuan Shuo.

A new start.

Entering the first winter of Yuanshuo, Hengshan King Liu Ci was ordered to go to Beijing to meet Liu Che.

Liu Che guessed that he wanted to beat these rebellious princes and kings well before the decisive battle between the Han and the Hungarians.

Liu Ci himself has no objection.

It's just that a few months ago, because of Wei Qing, an alchemist under his command, he became rebellious.

Liu Che has such strict control over the big man, how could he not know about Liu Ci.

Besides, Huainan King Liu An and Hengshan King Liu Ci are two brothers. If the elder brother wants to rebel, the emperor must also keep an eye on this younger brother.

Speaking of Wei Qing's matter, it's quite funny.

Speaking of it, it is somewhat similar to what happened to Lei Bei.

Wei Qing knew that Liu Che had become interested in immortal alchemy, so he wanted to enter Chang'an to serve Liu Che.

As a result, this matter was known by Hengshan King Liu Qing.

Liu Qing was furious and felt that it was simply unforgivable for his subordinates to betray him.

Wei Qing was sentenced to death immediately, and he was tortured severely, forcing Wei Qing to confess his guilt.

As a result, Liu Che was appointed by Liu Che to be in charge of civil affairs in the Hengshan Kingdom. After knowing this, he refused to carry out Liu Ci's order, and rejected Liu Ci's death penalty.

Liu Ci was originally a narrow-minded, selfish, and short-sighted person.

The appearance of a person like Wei Qing already made him angry, and as a result, the internal history of Hengshan Kingdom dared to disobey his orders.

However, the internal history of Hengshan Kingdom was appointed by Liu Che, and Liu Ci had no right to dispose of it, so he had to file a letter to accuse the internal history of the crime and ask Liu Che to arrest him.

This move was exactly the same as that of his eldest brother, Huainan King Liu An, who told the Huainan Prime Minister.

As a result, when Tingwei tried Hengshan's domestic history, the internal history directly exposed the various crimes of Hengshan King Liu Ci.

For example, the seizure of people's land, and even the destruction of people's ancestral graves as fields have all been exposed.

After Tingwei's officials verified the facts, they were going to arrest King Hengshan immediately.

Speaking of it, King Hengshan was lucky, and he was stuck at the time when the master father Yan was bestowed to death.

Liu Che rejected the request of the officials of Tingwei Mansion, but only deprived Hengshan King of the authority to appoint officials, and all small officials with more than [-] shi had to be appointed by Chang'an.

Hengshan King Liu Ci was furious, so he began to gather people who could command the army and know how to divination, thinking day and night when he would start to rebel.

Speaking of which, Hengshan King Liu Ci seemed to be forced by Liu Che to rebel.

In fact, it was his own small belly.

Water flows to lower place, man goes to higher position.

Wei Qing is a small visitor, and he wants to serve Liu Che and have a good future, so you, the King of Mount Heng, just let him go.

As a result, King Hengshan didn't do this, it's fine if he didn't do this, if he wants to serve Liu Che, you have to kill him.

It was a good time, and Liu Che had not yet planned to attack these princes and kings, otherwise Hengshan King Liu Ci would be sentenced to death for these crimes alone.

Knowing that King Hengshan wanted to rebel against Liu Che, he summoned him to Beijing.

I didn't even think about what to do to Liu Ci, but just told him, uncle, take it easy, rebellion is fine, can you rebel after nephew finishes dealing with Uncle Xiongnu?

Liu Che is really proficient in playing this game.

Let others have no way to figure out his mind.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many ministers and princes and kings committing suicide.

Although the King of Hengshan was irritable and impulsive, after arriving in Chang'an City, he understood Liu Che's meaning and felt more and more uneasy.

He hurriedly paid his respects to the queen mother, Wang Zhi, and fled back to Hengshan Kingdom as if he had escaped.

On the way back to Hengshan Kingdom, Hengshan King Liu Ci visited his elder brother Huainan King Liu An via Huainan Kingdom.

What was conspired between them, no one knew.

But Liu Che knew that it was enough for Liu Ci to meet Liu An.

The genes of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, were also strong. With so many descendants, they never thought of other possibilities when they encountered the matter of cutting down the feudal clan.

No one compromised, no one took the initiative to surrender to the emperor, and all of them were thinking of treason.

Everyone's surname is Liu, why can't we be if you can be the emperor.

In other dynasties, princes competed for the throne. In the Western Han Dynasty, it seemed that these princes did not have such thoughts. On the contrary, these princes and kings wanted to be emperor more and more.

If it weren't for Liu Che's mother Wang Zhi and Dou Taizhu Liu whoring, he probably wouldn't have thought of being a prince in his life.

Even Emperor Xiaojing's younger brother, Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu, only wanted to be emperor after he became a prince.

From this point of view, the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty are not worthy.

In the period of transition between the enfeoffment system and the prefecture and county system, these princes and kings are destined to become fragments under the wheel of history.

Liu Che is doing his best to maintain the internal stability of the big man, so naturally Zhang Yuan cannot live up to Liu Che's efforts.

When he was studying the map, he discovered an extremely important point.

The military officials of the Hun Shanyu didn't know that King Hunxie wanted to join the Han.

The last time King Hunxie and King Xiutu exchanged news with military officials was before King Hunxie sent letters to Zhang Yuan.

King Xiutu asked his cronies to send Li Shuo to the Xiongnu military officials to prove that the Han army had narrowly blocked the Xiongnu reinforcements at Fuyangju Mountain.

Later, King Hunxie adopted neither affectionate nor indifferent approach to the big man, which can further prove Zhang Yuan's idea.

If the big man wins, King Hunxie can come to Chang'an to be a prince in comfort. If the Xiongnu Grand Shanyu wins, King Hunxie can continue to be his king without accepting sanctions from military officials.

This kind of person who sits on the wall is the most annoying. Zhang Yuan doesn't want King Hunxie to continue to sit on the wall so comfortably.

Thinking of this could be the key to winning.

Zhang Yuan immediately started writing letters to Liu Che.

The general content is to ask Liu Che to send someone to inform King Hunxie.

The big man planned to fight against the military officials of the Hun Shanyu in the spring, and then let King Hunxie send troops to assist the military officials.

In this way, the military officials will definitely increase their confidence. Even if they know that the Han army has sent another 20 troops to Yuyang County, they will not easily choose to retreat.

Then at a suitable opportunity, King Hunxie directly launched a rebellion and launched an attack on the Xiongnu headquarters of the military ministers.

Zhang Yuan also suggested to Liu Che that if King Hunxie agrees, he should allow him to set aside a county for King Hunxie to settle the Huns.

If they do not agree, they will directly threaten that the 20 troops will not be sent to Yuyang County, but will go directly to the Hexi Corridor.

As for how to choose, Hunxie King himself decides.

After writing this letter, Zhang Yuan started to write a second letter, explaining his intentions to Liu Che.

And in detail, even if King Hunxie cooperates with the military ministers, the 50 Han army will have an absolute chance of winning against the 70 Huns cavalry.

Doing all this is not to win over King Hunxie, but for the sake of the military officials, who must feel in their hearts that the Huns can win.

After packing the letter, Zhang Yuan hurriedly found someone to send it to Jianzhang Palace.

Spring is not a few months away.

If King Hunxie agreed, no matter if it was pretending or sincerely, he had to set off in the first spring, and then he had better arrive at Tuidang City within a month.

When he arrived at Dandang City, the 20-strong army of the Han Dynasty could set off towards Yuyang County.

After sending someone to deliver the letter, Zhang Yuan immediately asked the officials of General Hussar's Mansion to start the simulation.

Simulate the situation when the Huns have 70 cavalry, while the Han only has 15 cavalry and 35 infantry.

However, after simulating many situations, the big man's chances of winning are not very high.

The main reason is that it is difficult to encircle a superior force with weak forces on the grassland.

Without the support of buildings, and more importantly, the opponents are all cavalry. No matter how well equipped the Han army is, as long as they don't dig a trench five or six meters long on the battlefield, there is no way to stop the Xiongnu cavalry from breaking through.

Zhang Yuan was very troubled by this point.

The Xiongnu are not stupid, and they will definitely not flee to the east. They only need to flee to the north or west, and it only takes a few hours to completely get rid of the pursuit of the Han army.

Zhang Yuan watched and found that there was still a force west of Daxinganling.

Everyone knows this force, the Xianbei clan.

However, because the scope of activities of the Wuhuan clan is east-west, along the area of ​​Rao Leshui, the communication between the big Han and the Xianbei clan is basically blocked.

The big man only knew that there was a Xianbei clan to the north of the Wuhuan clan.

And Zhang Yuan knew the biggest beneficiary of the Xianbei people after the Huns were driven away.

A piece of territory as large as the Xiongnu basically fell into the hands of the Xianbei people.

And this group is not as rigid as other nomads.

They are more like Qiang Hu.

But it is a little more bloody than Qianghu.

The Xianbei never surrendered to the Xiongnu, but they occasionally surrendered to the Han.

Zhang Yuan had thought about contacting the Xianbei tribe before, and then form an alliance with them to fight against the Xiongnu, but he couldn't find a suitable person to choose Xianbei as an envoy, and he couldn't find a suitable route to Xianbei.

The Huns' defense was very tight, and it was quite difficult to get past the Wuhuan tribe.

Just after thinking about it, Zhang Yuan gave up this idea.

This is more strenuous than cooperating with King Hunxie, and the person sent there is basically dead.

At least the Han Dynasty envoy sent to King Hunxie's side was not in any danger of life.

Zhang Yuan couldn't do the thing of sending people to die.

He was now thinking that it would be great if he could have a phone number to call Chu Da and know what was going on with the military officials.

Zhang Yuan was thinking about Chu Da, and Chu Da was also thinking about Zhang Yuan.

The sky in Decadang City is extremely gloomy, and the thick clouds almost crush people's mood to death.

The priests of the Huns built an altar on the heights of Tuidang City.

The Xiongnu Da Shanyu was lying on a pile of dead wood, his face was bloodless, and his body was wrapped in animal skins.

There was a circle of Huns dancing around, and the rest of the people didn't know what they were saying.

Chu Da and Li Shuo were also in the crowd. They knelt and muttered strange languages ​​like the Huns.

Looking at Chu Da, there are almost all Han people around him, but now they have all put on the clothes of the Huns.

Taking a closer look, Zhang Yuan thought that Li Ju, who was missing, was kneeling behind Chu Da.

"The military minister still can't bear it anymore. Brother Chu, you have stayed in the Xiongnu for the longest time. Tell me, could it be that Yi Zhixie is the chief chanyu?"

Li Shuo tilted his head and asked Chu Da in a low voice.

Chu Da looked at Yi Zhixie who was at the front, and nodded.

"The army of military officials has basically been controlled by Yi Zhixie. Three of the four Xiongnu vassal kings have been killed by the Han army, and only King Hunxie is left.

But King Hunxie refused to come to Tuidang City, and King Guli and King Youxian of the Xiongnu were already old, and they would not resist Yi Zhixie. "

"What do you think Yi Zhixie will do with us after he becomes the Grand Chancellor?"

Li Shuo was very worried about his situation. After he was sent to the military officials, he said that he wanted to join the military officials, so he was saved from death.

However, Li Ju refused to surrender, and after the Xiongnu Grand Chanyu sent Chu Da to communicate with Li Ju, Li Ju chose to surrender to the Huns.

All three of them survived because of the military officials.

No one knew what kind of attitude Yi Zhixie would have towards the Han people.

Li Shuo didn't want to just escape from the tiger's mouth and then fall into the cliff again.

"I don't know, just wait and see.

The few of us have no other place to go except the Huns. "

Hearing this, Li Shuo lowered his head.

Slowly the sacrificial ceremony came to an end, and it seemed that God did not favor the military ministers.

The military officials lying on the dead wood didn't look like they were shining, but their spirits became more and more depressed.

In the end, amidst the sound of offering sacrifices, the military minister closed his eyes forever.

The Huns fell into weeping.

Zhang Yuan and Liu Che probably didn't even think that the reason why the Huns didn't retreat and still gathered in the city was because the military officials were sick and there was no way to go back to the north.

In this way, Dangdang City gathered almost all the Xiongnu people except the Hunxie and Xiutu tribes because of the military officials.

It is normal that some uninformed Hun tribes did not come.

But King Hunxie obviously knew this, but he didn't tell the big man about it.

Even if Chu Da wanted to spread the news, he was powerless.

After all, when delivering the news of King Hunxie and King Xiutu's arrival, Chu Da experienced far beyond what anyone could imagine.

He kept probing and managed to deliver the news to Wei Qing.

Moreover, after the military minister became seriously ill, the Huns' supervision of him became stricter.

Although he can still move around at will, there are many people staring at him in the dark.

Naturally, these people are not military ministers, these people are all Yizhixie's people.

Yi Zhixie didn't regard Chu Da as one of his own, since he wasn't one of his own, he had to keep an eye on him at this time, so as to save some troubles.

As soon as the military official died, Yi Zhixie stopped kneeling, walked directly to the side of the military official's body, and announced to the Huns that he was the great chanyu of the Huns.

(End of this chapter)