Chapter 40: Once Humiliated
"Uh..." Wang Jin was choked by Zhang Yue all of a sudden.
Facing the example given by Zhang Yue, he found that he didn't seem to have any effective way to refute it.
To question the Book of Songs and the Book of Changes?
impossible!
Fang Shu and Nan Zhong even praised Confucius and regarded him as wise ministers of his ancestors.
On that day, Wang Jin could not have been persuaded like this.
He said stubbornly: "But in war, the people who suffer will always be the people and the people of the world!"
Thinking about the sufferings of the people that the teachers told him, and those who were suffering in the war, Wang Jin was excited: "Since the first year of Yuanguang, how many children have died in the battlefield, how many people have been displaced..."
"In the Battle of Dayuan alone, the country paid nearly one year of income and 100,000 heads, tens of thousands of soldiers... but what was it for? It was only thousands of horses..."
"Wrong..." Zhang Yue looked at Wang Jin with a smile: "The battle to attack Dayuan is indeed a lot of money, but it is not worth the effort... However..."
“This price is worth it!”
"Because, because of this, the Han family let the Wusun people see the power and combat power of the Han army..."
"It makes all the countries in the Western Regions know the power of the royal army..."
"Just for these illusory things?" Wang Jin shook his head: "Just let tens of thousands of soldiers bury their bones in a foreign land?"
"Maybe Brother Wang still doesn't understand what I am saying..." Zhang Yue stood up and shook his head, saying, "Let me let me introduce the situation in the Western Regions to Brother Wang..."
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Since Bowang Hou digging the Western Regions, the west of Hexi has entered the world's vision..."
"The countries in the Western Regions vary in size, strength and weakness. The big ones are like body poison, Kangju, rest in peace, and the Qin Dynasty, and the place is three or five thousand miles away, no less than China... The small ones are like Loulan, dangerous, but only a small place..."
"And Kangju, the body is poisonous, and is thousands of miles away from China, it is difficult to have any intersection for the time being... But this Wusun is the most important and powerful kingdom among the countries in the Western Regions!"
"The king of Wusun Kingdom called himself Kunmo, and he was the Kun people of Zhou in the Book of Documents. In the late Warring States Period, the Wusun people who were nomadic in Hexi were destroyed by the Yuezhi people..."
Zhang Yue talked freely and told the history of the Wusun Kingdom that he traced back from the Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han.
It is very clear that the complex and chaotic relationship between the Wusun Kingdom and the Huns is divided.
"Since the death of Kunmo Lijiaomi, the conflict between the Wusun Kingdom and the Xiongnu in the Western Regions has become more and more intense. In the third year of Yuanfeng, Wusun even sent envoys to Chang'an. The emperor married the emperor. Two years ago, the Xiong died, and the emperor relied on his worries to relieve his worries. The relationship between the Han and Wusun became increasingly close..."
"And Wusun is a great country with a control of tens of thousands of cavalry, and it is located west of the Huns..."
Wang Jin and Lu Wen were stunned when they heard this.
Western Regions?
Can Zhang Yue still know the situation of the countries in the Western Regions?
this……
It should be noted that at this time, not to mention the poor scholars, even the descendants of the nobles and marquis may not have any impression of the Western Regions.
Except for the generals and marquis of the army, as well as the officials who had been on missions to the Western Regions, few people would study these things.
But now, in Changshui Township, Nanling County, there is a person who carefully explains these things.
How can this not surprise them?
Lu Wen even smiled bitterly in his heart: "It turns out that this brother from the Huang-Lao School said that day in the Imperial Academy, and he also has profound attainments in geographical history..."
Zhang Yue continued, however, saying: "The greatest significance of General Ershi's attack on Dayuan is to show the muscles and determination of the king's army, so that the Wusun people know that the Han is stronger than the Xiongnu! If they can win over Wusun and make them an alliance with our Han family, they will completely realize the encirclement and encirclement of the Xiongnu..."
"At that time, the king's army will be in the east, Wuheng will be in the south, and Wusun will be in the west, and attack from three sides..."
"The king's army came out of Xingxing Gorge, crossed the Jishan Mountain, Wuheng cavalry came out of the Gonglu River, Wusun cavalry came from the west, the Huns will be destroyed, and the war will end!"
This is exactly the strategic decisive battle in history that determined the fate of the decline of the Hun Empire in the third year of Taishi.
The Huns died in the strangulation of the Han, Wuheng and Wusun Kingdoms.
When Wang Jin heard this, he had to admit that if this situation really occurred, the Huns would definitely have no way to live.
Since ancient times, no country has been able to support it when it is attacked from three sides.
only……
"So what if you win?" Wang Jin shook his head and said, "The food and money consumed in the expedition are all people's wealth..."
"Who said that?" Zhang Yue asked back.
"How can you lose money when fighting? As long as you win, you will make a big profit!"
"Have you never heard of the fact that when the Grand Sima was there, the king's army was on the expedition and never consumed money or food?"
Thinking back to the time when Huo Qubing was alive, the Han army dominated the world and beat everything.
This famous general, who was born in the world, has taken the path of fighting to support the war since his first expedition.
The main force of the Han army led by him often rushed thousands of miles to hit the hearts of the Huns.
Along the way, I ate the Huns, wore the Huns, and used the Huns!
In the Battle of Hexi alone, he defeated and annihilated tens of thousands of main forces of the Huns, captured more than 100,000 people, and seized as many as one million cattle, sheep, and horses.
That year, the Han Dynasty's fiscal revenue was almost overflowing.
Unfortunately, there was only one Huo Qubing, and only one Huo Qubing.
Since the death of this champion Hou, the Han army went to war and became a loss-making business.
The more you fight, the more you pay, the more you pay.
Finally, he fell into a vicious cycle.
This made Zhang Yue really not understand!
Although, after Huo Qubing, the Han generals may not be able to catch up with this pride of heaven in command and command.
But you can always learn from others’ fur?
He entered the hearts of the Huns and specifically selected those weak tribes to attack.
Isn’t this a few times solved all the problems?
Besides, although Huo Qubing died, his old subordinates were all there, so why no one followed suit?
"Don't Brother Zhang think that the war technique of the Grand Sima is too harmful to the heavens?" Wang Jin shook his head and said, "Although the Huns are barbarians, they are also humans! Benevolent and loving, and the spirit of a gentleman..."
"The life of the barbarians is fate, but the life of the Han subjects is not fate?" Zhang Yue suddenly interrupted Wang Jin coldly. Zhang Yue had lost patience for this young man full of benevolence, righteousness and morality.
"But……"
"What's it?!"
"Do I need to read for my brother, is there any record of the Huns' invasion since Emperor Gao?"
"In the seventh year of Emperor Gaozu, the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun led 400,000 cavalry to invade China in three directions. Taiyuan fell and Jinyang fell. Most of the northern country was shrouded by Hu Ting. Emperor Gao resolutely raised an army, went north to defend the enemy, and fought with the main force of the Xiongnu in Pingcheng..."
"Emperor Gao was besieged for seven days before he could rescue him. This Han family was extremely humiliated!"
"For decades after that, Han Dynasty dressed women in silk and the Huns, thinking that they could stop their greed...
"However, they are greedy and often stand up with each other, and then tear them apart..."
"In May of the third year of Emperor Xiaowen of Taizong, the Xiongnu Right Xian King entered Henan, invaded Shangjun, burned, killed and looted, and tens of thousands of dead people were captured by innocent people..."
"In the 16th year of Emperor Xiaowen, the Xiongnu Shanyu personally led 140,000 cavalry to invade Taiyuan, Shangjun, Beidi, Pengyang, and returned to the central palace to kill Sun Ju, the commander of the northern part of Han, and abducted more than 40,000 people, and killed 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers, civilians and officials..."
"In the second year of Emperor Xiaowen, the right Xian King of the Huns entered the frontier again..."
"In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, the right wise king of the Xiongnu invaded Shangjun, and nine thousand men and women were killed in the Yunzhong..."
"Since Emperor Gao and now ascended the throne, in sixty years, the Xiongnu invaded more than a hundred times, the soldiers and people were killed and injured 100,000, hundreds of thousands of families were destroyed, their wives and children were separated, more than 30 cities were slaughtered, Yanmen Pass and Mayi changed their hands three times, and more than ten officials in the Han family were killed in battle with just two thousand stones..."
"Brother Wang thinks that the Huns can influence the reliance on benevolence, righteousness and morality?"
"If there is no Shuofang, Jiuyuan, and Luntai barrier, Brother Wang thinks you and I can still sit here?"
"From Emperor Taizong to the previous emperor, in more than thirty years, the Xiongnu invaded thirty-eight times, and the beacon fires were seen in Ganquan Palace three times!"
"Brother Wang wants to be Dishan or King Wuqiu Shou?" Zhang Yue asked directly at the end.
Wang Jin was fooled by Zhang Yue's series of combined punches.
After a long time, he murmured, "Are these true?"
"Why... why... my teacher has never told me these things..." He asked only to know that the Huns had invaded many times, but no one had ever told him about these specific things.
Chapter completed!