Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

As Xiao Yu guessed, at this moment a super cold current is sweeping down from the north, sweeping across the entire continent, even the south of the Five Ridges couldn't escape it.

Rouran and Dongxirong are experiencing severe snowstorms that have rarely been seen in decades. The weather is so cold that dripping water turns into ice.In some places, the snow accumulated more than one meter, countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and many people also lost their lives in this snowstorm.

The Hu people who mainly herd herds have suffered heavy losses, especially in the Rouran area, where more than half of the cattle and sheep were killed or injured. It has only just entered winter, and it is not yet known what will happen next.

The Rouran people, who are born with no fixed place, drove their livestock and brought their families with them, and began to migrate to the warmer south.

They chose the weaker Dongrong as their destination. When they approached Dongrong, Rouran Khan directly sent someone to negotiate with Dongrong, asking to borrow the city for the winter.Naturally, he was rejected by righteous words.

In fact, the Rouran people, like the Rong people, are a branch of Xianbei. Compared with the Rong people who tend to be Sinicized, Rouran completely retains the habits of nomads. They look down on each other and have fought for hundreds of years.

There was no way out for the rejected Rouran, so he naturally wanted to win a chance for himself. Rouran Khan personally led his troops to attack Dongrong City.

Rouran people live in no fixed place, retaining the original sturdy blood, but also more brave and good at fighting. The Dongrong people have settled for a long time, and have lost some of their blood. They lost to the Rouran people in terms of combat power, and soon lost Two cities.

Dong Rong's 15-year-old emperor Yuan Song hurriedly sent envoys to seek peace, expressing his willingness to lend the two cities to the Rouran people for the winter.

The people of Rouran were actually not prepared for war, and they had a family behind them. They didn't intend to go straight to the Dongrong Emperor's lair, so they agreed to a truce, settled down in these two cities, and "borrowed" a lot of food and grass from Dongrong.

Dongrong's national power is empty at this moment. Since the old emperor of Dongrong was seriously ill and was bedridden the year before last, his sons began to compete for the crown prince. They have been fighting openly and secretly for two years.

Finally, the emperor died, but in the process of calculating and attacking each other, the most capable ones died, and the throne passed to the little prince Yuan Song who had the least sense of existence.

Compared with the few brothers who grew up on horseback and on the battlefield, Yuan Song grew up in the palace since he was a child. He has never experienced wind and rain, and he has not yet been in charge of the government.

At this moment Yuan Song said angrily: "Why don't uncle continue to fight with the Rouran people? If I lend out these two cities today, I am afraid that I will never come back. Keep them under our noses and wait for this wild beast to come back." The wolves regain their strength and may bite us at any time."

Murong dared to shake his head: "Rouran people have no way out, they will desperately fight with us in order to protect their people. We don't have an absolute advantage in strength at present, there is no need to create a situation where both sides suffer, keep this wild wolf, and we will fight against you in the future." Can contain Xirong."

Yuan Song was silent: "What if they don't leave after spring?"

Murong dared to say: "They will leave. Our grasslands are not enough to support Rouran and our own cattle and sheep. Why do the people of Rouran abandon their lush grasslands?"

But Murong Gan guessed wrong, after the beginning of spring, Rouran had no intention of leaving.Because they suffered heavy losses in the snow disaster last winter, even if the ice and snow have melted and there are aquatic plants, they cannot feed all the clansmen.

Yuan Song sent envoys to urge the Rouran people to leave, but they were kidnapped and blackmailed by the Rouran people.They put forward a condition: either the Dongrong people would withdraw from the two cities forever, or they would give them 40 cattle and sheep. If they did not agree to one of the conditions, they would kill all the Dongrong people in the city and rob them of all the cattle and sheep.

Yuan Song was so angry that he almost vomited blood when he heard the result, and Murong Gan sent another envoy to discuss with the Rouran people, expressing that they were willing to make an excuse and let the Rouran people go south to attack Anguo. losses in winter.

Sure enough, the people of Rouran agreed to this proposal and formed an alliance with Dongrong. Dongrong provided food and supplies for the people of Rouran. As long as they could get enough wealth from Anguo, they would return the city of Dongrong.

Xiao Yi originally planned to send troops to Guangzhou in the spring of last year. Unexpectedly, the rhythm of smallpox plague was disrupted by a raging smallpox plague in the fall and winter of the first year. The plague spread in the army, and one fifth of the soldiers died of smallpox.

The conscription didn't stop, and the plague didn't end until the summer as the temperature rose. Xiao Yi hurriedly recruited sailors for training, trying to send troops in winter, but it turned out to be extremely cold, and the river could freeze.

He was worried that the Hu people in the north would go south to attack them, so he strengthened the defense of the northern line. As a result, one winter passed, and everything was calm.

So they began to mobilize troops to attack Guangzhou, intending to make a quick decision and end the war before the hurricane-prone summer.

Unexpectedly, tens of thousands of Rouran iron cavalry easily tore through the slack defense of the northern line, drove straight in, burned, killed and looted all the way, and directly killed the edge of the Yangtze River, across the river from Jianye City.

Xiao Yi was terrified, and put all the sailors on the river to confront Rouran's iron cavalry.

The Rouran people didn't intend to cross the river. He made a condition with Xiao Yi, asking Anguo to pay one million taels of silver, 50 pieces of silk, and 20 catties of tea every year before he was willing to withdraw his troops.

Xiao Yi's annual tribute to the East Rong and Xi Rong has become a heavy burden for the imperial court. Now the people from Rouran, who are far away in the sky, also want to intervene. How can he swallow this breath? On the surface, he agrees with Rouran They are negotiating with the Rouran people, but they are secretly dispatching soldiers from Yanzhou and Sizhou to encircle and suppress the Rouran people.

But Rouran people are not easy to be fooled, it is okay to delay the negotiation, they just waited, while burning, killing and looting on the territory of Anguo, doing all kinds of evil.

Xiao Yi withstood the pressure and refused to let go, but some ministers in the court couldn't stand it anymore, their clansmen lived on the other side of the river, and all their foundations were there, they begged Xiao Yi to quickly agree to Rouran's request.

Xiao Yi still didn't want to agree to Rouran's request. In the end, except for the officials promoted by Xiao Yi himself, the rest of the ministers in the court and China united to force Xiao Yi to agree.

What made Xiao Yi give up was the cavalry reinforcements from Yanzhou. The reinforcements had a battle with the Rouran people. They were also cavalry, but the Yanzhou cavalry were completely vulnerable. The army was defeated, and the Yanzhou soldiers had to flee in a hurry.

Xiao Yi gave up completely and started negotiating with the Rouran people. The result of the final negotiation was even harsher than the conditions that the Rouran people had proposed before. The reason was that he didn't have the sense of humor and even sent troops to attack them.

When Xiao Yu heard the news in Panyu, he couldn't be happy at all. Whatever Xiao Yi encountered now, he would have to face in the future.

Those greedy wolves in the north will never be able to fill their greed. They regard the Han regime in the south as fat sheep, and they can bite any beast.

To deal with the Hu regime in the north, there must be strong cavalry, and Lingnan is not a good place to train cavalry. First, there are no horses, and second, there is not enough ground to train cavalry.

Xiao Yu said: "You said that when we attacked Xiao Yi, would the East Rong and Xi Rong send troops south?"

Pei Linzhi remained silent, this is very possible, they may not have finished fighting Xiao Yi, the land north of the Yangtze River has already been occupied by Dongxi Rong, after all they have been coveting An Guo for a long time.

Xiao Yao said: "Unless we form an alliance with the Eastern and Western Rong in advance, let them not intervene in our war."

Xiao Yu looked at him and smiled wryly: "When the war is over, shall we continue to pay tribute to the East and West Army? There must be something to restrain the East and West Army."

Pei Linzhi said: "Then we can only find Rouran and let the people of Rouran contain the East and West Rong. Once the East and West Rong attack south, Rouran can take the opportunity to go south and occupy the territory of the East and West Rong."

Min Chong nodded: "It's a way. The key is who will persuade Rouran?"

Xiao Yu said: "There is another way, which is to provoke a war between the Eastern and Western Rong, let them fight each other, and they will ignore us when they fight, so we can take this opportunity to take Xiao Yi down in one fell swoop."

Min Chong said: "Then I will arrange for people to collect information and look for opportunities to take advantage of."

Xiao Yu deeply felt that without the Great Wall as a barrier, it would be too difficult for the Han regime in the south to live with dignity, unless it could be as brave and skillful as Tang Taizong, strategizing and subdue the minority regime in the north.

Of course, all of this is based on playing, and all dignity is based on strength.

Pei Linzhi smiled wryly: "I originally thought that by clearing the Dayuling Pass this autumn, I would be able to directly invade Jiangzhou and take down Xiao Yi, but now I find that it is far from enough. Eliminating Xiao Yi is only the beginning of the war."

Xiao Yu nodded. He deeply felt powerless. He didn't like war, but he had to fight some battles. If he wanted to live with dignity, he could only persuade the other party with his strength.He would never present tribute coins to the East and West Rong. This would hurt people's dignity and national dignity. How could a great country beg for mercy.

The Song Dynasty was so rich, its economy and culture were so prosperous, why it was repeatedly ridiculed by later generations, isn't it because it surrendered to the force of the northern minority regime and survived.

Originally, he planned to start attacking Jiangzhou this fall, occupy Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou, use this as a base, and then have a decisive battle with Xiao Yi.Now it seems that the plan will not be so smooth, because once the decisive battle comes, Xiao Yi will definitely transfer all the troops from the north across the river to fight against him.

That's tantamount to letting Dongxirong completely open his mouth.He may be able to beat Xiao Yi, but the territory he won is the area south of the Yangtze River, and it will be very difficult to cross the river.He doesn't want to divide the river with the barbarians, and future generations will definitely scold him to death.

So the whole thing needs to be well planned.