I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 406 Finally!

"Whoo~"

"I don't know what's going on at Mayi's side..."

Weiyang Palace, outside the main hall of Xuanshi.

Slightly bowing his upper body, and propping up the dual axles on the guardrail at the edge of the far platform, Liu Sheng let out a long sigh regardless of the complex expressions of the guards around him who were frightened and frightened, who hesitated to speak.

And three or five steps behind Liu Sheng, Zhou Yafu, Li Ji and other veterans also lowered their heads. Although they were not gloomy, they did not seem to have much confidence.

——Unprecedented.

Since the Han Dynasty, there has never been a situation like the present in any war between the Han and the Hungarian.

Take the largest battle between the Han and the Hungarian since the Han Dynasty, that is, the famous "king against king" that has gone down in history as an example;
At that time, the front line of Mayi-Wuzhou was the front line of the northern border of Han Dynasty, and Han Wangxin personally guarded the new capital of South Korea: Mayi.

At the beginning of the battle, the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun swung his army southward, and Han Wangxin almost surrendered without a fight. Then he turned his back and turned his troops to the Great Wall of Zhao behind Mayi, as well as Shang and Dai to the south of the Great Wall of Zhao. .

The frontier fell without warning, especially when they rebelled, and the Han Dynasty was in chaos;
In desperation, Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bangyu drove himself, brought a luxurious team of advisers and generals, and personally led the Guanzhong court army to Daidi.

Afterwards, Emperor Taizu Gao was wise and mighty, step by step, with successive victories, pushing the Huns Maodun's army that had broken through Zhao's Great Wall back to the way it came back step by step.

When the battlefield was pushed back to Jinyang, the capital of Dadai, Taizu Liu Bang heard that Maodun had garrisoned troops in Daigu (from Fanzhi County to Yuanping City, Shanxi Province), so he sent people to investigate Maodun's reality.

At that time, in order to paralyze Taizu Liu Bang, Mao Dun hid his elite soldiers, fat cattle and horses, so that only the vanguard scouts of the Han army could see the old and weak soldiers and thin livestock.

The dozen or so batches of scouts sent back returned without any hesitation in deciding that they could attack the Huns.

Therefore, Liu Bang sent Liu Jing (Lou Jing) to investigate again, and Lou Jing came back and reported: The two countries should show off their strengths and demonstrate their most powerful strength when they are fighting each other;
But when I went to the place where the Huns garrisoned troops, I saw only weak livestock and old and weak soldiers;
This must be the Huns deliberately revealing their shortcomings, and want to win by ambushing surprise soldiers;
So I think the Huns cannot attack.

Only at this time, after Liu Bang, the whole army launched the main force of the Han army-the main force with 20 soldiers and horses had already crossed Juzhu Mountain, and could reach the battlefield in a few days.

Considering that the main force was about to arrive on the battlefield, the Huns couldn't even stop the vanguard they led, so they were very annoyed at Lou Jing, and cursed: "The idiot of Qi!"
With two lips to get an official job, how dare you talk nonsense to hinder my army from advancing?
After venting his anger, Lou Jing was imprisoned in shackles and locked up in Guangwu County, ready to be punished after the war.

What happened after that is well known to all women and children.

——The Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty disregarded Lou Jing's loyal words, underestimated the enemy, and rushed forward. He fell into the encirclement circle carefully arranged by the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun, and had no choice but to retreat to Baideng Mountain.

The siege of Baideng, which is "famous in history", was formed. The founder of the dynasty: Liu Bang, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, with only [-] to [-] vanguard elites, was surrounded by more than [-] large army regiments of the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun White climbing.

In just seven days and seven nights, Taizu Liu Bang lost his troops and generals.

Those who really died on the battlefield were only one hundred sergeants;

What is really fatal is the bitter cold of the Daibei border, and the despair of being surrounded and without food.

After that battle, the first lieutenant of the eight divisions of the Northern Army was almost completely reorganized, and nearly half of the soldiers in service had no choice but to retire due to frostbite and amputation of their limbs;
Even on the eighth day after the formation of Baideng's siege, the main force of the Han army led by Zhou Bo, Xia Houying and others arrived in the Pingcheng area and forced Maodu with the trend of anti-encirclement, indirectly taking over Taizu Baideng's siege. It failed to change the result of this battle, and it ended with the "failure" of the Han Dynasty.

Perhaps from a strategic point of view, the Han Dynasty won.

Cong Maodun came empty-handed and returned empty-handed, not only failed to take anything away from the Han-Hungarian border, but also left behind the corpses of thousands of Hun warriors;
The "Northern Han border wall grass forces" headed by Han Wangxin and Yan Wang Zang Tu were all removed after this war. The impression of the Huns on the northern Han border was greatly weakened, and the trend of Hanbei frontier defense gradually stabilized.

But there is no doubt about it: Liu Bang lost.

As the founding king of a dynasty, he was guarded by the leaders of the barbarians on the snow-capped mountains. No matter how much he whitewashed it, Liu Bang could not escape the stigma of being "under the siege of the northern barbarians".

This is the end, Liu Bang returned to Chang'an all the way.

If not, if Liu Bang really wants to have something good or bad, and even something like "studying the Huns" happens, then the negative impact of this incident on Chinese civilization may not be any better than the civil castles of later generations.

After all, no matter how God of War is, he is not the founding king of Zhu Ming...

Considering all these, and looking at the Han-Hungarian Battle of Pingcheng from an overall perspective, it can be summarized in the following sentences.

——At the beginning of the battle, the Huns, like every nomadic civilization as a whole, won part of the initiative at the beginning of the battle by virtue of surprise raids without warning;

——Then Han Wangxin turned against him, which made the Han Dynasty even more embarrassed because of the surprise attack of the Huns;
After that, the Han Dynasty, like every Chinese agricultural civilization regime, began to gradually reverse its decline immediately after launching the war machine.

It's just that Liu Bang, the Taizu Gao emperor who was personally conquered by the emperor, rushed forward underestimated the enemy, and almost turned this Han-Hungarian decisive battle into a prehistoric version of a civil fort.

Fortunately, Liu Bang was able to break through, and he did not miss a business trip, and the Battle of Pingcheng did not kill most of the elite of the Han family.

Then, with the humiliation and anger of "you dare to surround my emperor Laozi", the Han army pushed the Huns all the way back to the grassland, and pushed the border north by a hundred miles.

To put it more simply, it is: the Huns came, broke through the border defense, penetrated deep into the hinterland, and then were pushed back;
Regardless of the episode of Taizu being trapped in the siege of Baideng, the gains and losses of the Huns in this battle are almost the same as those of the Qin army who were pushed back to Hangu Pass by all the countries after the Battle of Changping .

In other words, the Han-Hungarian Battle of Pingcheng was an anti-aggression war in which the invaders successfully invaded and then were driven away.

After the Battle of Pingcheng, whether it was the small fights during the Empress Dowager Lu's period, or the small robbery in three years and the major robbery in five years during the period of the Wen and Jing emperors, it was nothing but the unilateral invasion of Hanbian by the Huns. Then retreated to the grassland before the main force of the Han army arrived on the battlefield.

Like the Battle of Mayi - the streets of Chang'an, some people have begun to call this war that way.

Like this Battle of Mayi, it is unprecedented for both sides to dispatch troops and generals knowingly, and no longer start the battle on the premise of "the Huns suddenly knocked at the side".

Not to mention between the Han and the Hungarians, even in the land of China, it has been a long time since there has been such a "war of gentlemen" with an almost agreed time and place.

As the Han Dynasty with less mobility, a more passive strategic situation, and more need for sufficient reaction time, this kind of start is undoubtedly much better than the sudden breakthrough of the Huns in the past.

But even so, even a veteran like Li Ji who had experienced the turn of the Qin and Han dynasties—a veteran of the destructive era—had no idea about this battle.

The reason is still the old saying.

Fighting against the Huns, the Han family has not won yet...
"Your Majesty need not worry."

Seeing that Liu Sheng couldn't look away from the north, from the grassland, and from the direction of Mayi for a long time, Li Ji finally stood up tremblingly.

Li Ji, already very old...
As the only one among the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty, he credited his father with all his credit for being the founding father, and he was willing to be a "Hou Shizi" general. Li Ji's ability to live to this day was undoubtedly considered a long life.

After all, more than 60 years have passed since that glorious era.

Rao was at that time, cutting through thorns and thorns with the body of a young man, the second Qu Zhouhou had already passed his octogenarian age.

——Li Ji, over eighty years old.

But it was precisely because of this - precisely because of Li Ji's status as the 'Founding Father' and his hair and beard that couldn't pick out the slightest black, that Li Ji's next words made Liu Sheng feel a little more at ease.

"During the time of Ji Zhou, the world was divided into seven, namely: Qin, Chu, Yan, Qi, Zhao, Wei, and Han."

"Among them, Qin ruled in Guanzhong, Bashu, and Hexi, and became stronger through the reform of the Shang monarch. It can be said to be the best in the world."

"Chu is based on the old lands of Jing, Chu, Wu, and Yue, and has millions of armies. Although there are only three households of Qu, Jing, and Zhao, it has a vast territory."

"Although the state of Zhao lives in a mountainous place, it is surrounded by other countries. After King Wuling of Zhao rode and shot, he expanded the territory for thousands of miles to the north. Although the state is not strong, the army and soldiers are very strong."

···
"To this day, when it comes to the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, most people in the world think that: the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, those who win Qin, Chu, and Zhao are said to be strong, while the four kingdoms of Yan, Qi, Wei, and Han are said to be weak."

"Among them, the country of Yan, which lives in a bitterly cold place in the northeast, has no benefits of industry and commerce, no land for farming, and no deadly soldiers, is the 'leading one'."

"Even so, Yan, being the weakest of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, can still drive the Hulu northward and promote the prestige of China."

"To this day, outside the border wall, in the land east of Yan, there are still uncivilized barbarians. They don't know the bravery of the soldiers of Qin and Han, but they run away when they hear the soldiers of Yan."

"Isn't this enough to explain the problem?"

After hearing this, Li Ji's voice, which was full of energy but also faintly mixed with phlegm, came from behind. Liu Sheng, who was full of sorrow, only straightened up quietly, but did not turn around immediately.

——There are some things that cannot be brought to the table.

Just like now, Liu Sheng is very worried about the battle situation in Mayi, and everyone in the world knows that Liu Sheng has his heart attached to him, and he really has no idea.

As for this moment, the generals who could be summoned by Liu Sheng to the distant platform outside the Weiyang Palace Proclamation Hall, and listen to Liu Sheng's long and short sighs, only need to look at Liu Sheng's back to know what this young emperor is going through. What kind of mental torture.

But this does not affect Liu Sheng's worried face at an angle that cannot be seen by all the generals present, and even ordinary people in the world.

"What do Hou think?"

Stand up straight, hold your head up, still looking to the north, and put your hands behind your back;
Letting the setting sun slant on his young, even slightly immature face, Liu Sheng just said so.

Behind Liu Sheng, Zhou Yafu moved almost in sync with Li Ji - once advancing and retreating, he roughly stood where Li Ji had just stood.

"His Majesty."

"Although what Qu Zhouhou said is a little unreasonable, it still makes sense."

"—Since the Three Kings and Five Emperors, the hardships and tribulations that our Chinese people have experienced cannot be written down by bamboos or expressed by words in the world."

"But even so, my Zhu Xia has still continued to this day."

"From Si Xia to Yin Shang, from Ji Zhou to Liu Han."

"Although there are changes in dynasties and generations, and despite changes in the country, the people of the Xia are still the people of the Xia."

···
"What about turning out to be barbaric?"

"—A single winter snow can exterminate a tribe, or even all creatures on a piece of fertile soil;"

"—One rain and hail can bury a pasture under ice and snow, so that cattle and sheep can't eat water and grass, but they can't do anything about it."

"For my people of Xia, slash-and-burn farming is already a symbol of uncivilization."

"But these barbarians haven't even learned how to sow seeds. They can only rely on rain, aquatic plants, and unavoidable natural and man-made disasters for their survival."

···
"Although I read most of the military books, I still know some truths."

"I know that it is impossible for an uneducated farmer who is busy wielding a hoe all day to defeat a husband who is full of knowledge and has been baptized in the battlefield."

"It's the same reason: a group of uncivilized barbarians who even need an eunuch sent by my Han family to teach them to count cattle, sheep and herds is impossible to defeat my strong man."

"It's just the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period on the weekend, and there were Ying Qin and Xiang Chu—hundreds of years of wars before and after, which caused the world to be exhausted and the people to live in desolation. Only then did my Han family have a six-year-old history, unable to be ruled by the barbaric majesty."

"However..."

Just saying "Ran Jin" in a meaningful way, Zhou Yafu stopped the conversation with a long sound, and proudly raised his head.

Just like the triumphant Wang Yousheng in a certain film and television work beginning with the word "liang" in later generations, he looked around proudly.

Just as he was about to say something to his colleagues beside him, or the young emperor not far away, he heard a drum beating and roaring outside the palace gate.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom! !

"Border Military News!"

"—Eight, eight hundred miles, hurry up!!!"

In the crowd, the two exclamations that could not hold back their impulses only made everyone's hearts twitch!
Even Liu Sheng, who was strong and calm, couldn't restrain his hand lightly on the guardrail, and began to tremble slightly as the knight rode his horse into Sima Gate.

Till the knight took the reins;
Until the war horse neighed and stopped under the long steps outside the main hall...

"Great victory!!!"

"Great victory in Mayi!!!!!!"

(End of this chapter)