Qin Official

In early October, it was the beginning of winter. The scenery in Gaoliu County in the north of Dai County was different from that of the Central Plains, but more like the northern part of the Saibei. Between the mountains, there was endless grassland. The wind was surging, and the withered yellow grass blades were swaying like waves. The whole world Turned bronze.

In this vast and sparsely populated border town, a huge cavalry force was marching. There were tens of thousands of people and horses, all wearing animal skins and felt hats, holding horned bows. Nearly half of the riders were equipped with saddles and stirrups. The large group of people trampled the land, raised up choking dust, and even carried away some of the people from the villages and towns they encountered along the way, filling them into the growing army of slaves behind the cavalry.

It is the troops of the Huns, which should have been the natural enemies of the people in the Yan Dynasty. But at this moment, the tall loess beacons not far away are obviously guarded by soldiers, but they are watching helplessly as a pack of wolves run rampant. No accumulated salary was ignited.

This is an order from Dai Wang Han Guang, saying that these Huns are "allies" and are here to help the people of Dai against the brutal Qin army!

"No matter how cruel the Qin people are, how can they be as vicious as the Hu people?" This is the view of most locals.

However, all frontier fortresses have opened their doors under Han Guang's order to lure wolves into the house.

A hunting falcon was high in the sky, hovering in the deep blue sky, overlooking the Huns who continued to cross the Great Wall of Qin and headed south. It circled in a large circle and finally flew back to its master, resting gently on his arm.

On a high hill, the great Chanyu Maodun of the Huns, wearing a golden eagle crown, let the falcon stay with one hand, and said to a Central Plains crowned scholar who came to greet him:

"Have you ever heard of this proverb, Mr. Kuai?"

Standing in front of Mao Dun was none other than Kuai Che, the guest minister whom King Zhao had trusted so much. Now he had abandoned the destroyed Zhao State and joined his new master.

He smiled and said in skilled Hun dialect: "I heard it, translated into Xia Yan, even the withered weeds cannot cover the sharp eyes of the eagle."

"That's right."

Mao Dun looked at the hunting falcon and said: "So I can see clearly that the hunting that Mr. Kuai Che persuaded me to come to the south is not easy. What I have to face is a ferocious black dog with sharp teeth and sharp claws. If you're not careful, the falcon's wings will be broken by it!"

In the past three years, the Huns have almost regained their former strength. They have unified Maodun in Mobei. Taking advantage of the collapse of Donghu and the civil war between various forces in the Central Plains, they first occupied Yunzhong and then Beijia. They moved the royal court of Shanyu back to Mancheng. They also plundered tens of thousands of Xinqin people from Shuofang and Shangjun. They feasted on them and were eaten by all the Xiongnu leaders.

But he was not arrogant enough to think that he could compete with the Heifu who were determined to unify. Even if he secretly learned saddles and stirrups, compared to the Central Plains, the Huns were still inferior in terms of national strength, population, and technology. Disadvantages.

Kuai Che did not hesitate to admit this: "The Qin army commanded by Hei Fu looks indeed very powerful, with hundreds of thousands of halberds in hand. It has just destroyed Chu and Zhao, and is in great momentum. Only the land of the Yan Dynasty has not been surrendered. "

"In that case, why should I fight Heifu for Han Guang? I wonder if he will be like those Chu people who agreed to form an alliance to attack Guanzhong, but in the end he withdrew his troops first."

"At that time, Xiang Ji was arrogant, but Li Zuoche was stubborn and unwilling to form an alliance with the Huns. Now that Xiang Ji is dead, and Li Zuoche was defeated in Handan and imprisoned, no one will oppose the alliance with the Huns anymore, and Han Guang, he has seen that When it comes to the fate of those princes defeated by Qin, they have no way out!"

"And for the Xiongnu, this is also the last chance to prevent the unification of the Central Plains!"

Kuai Che pointed at the piece of land under his feet that was home to both agriculture and animal husbandry and said to Mao Dun: "As you know, this place used to be part of the Prairie Kingdom. However, three hundred years ago, Zhao Wuxie, the ancestor of the Zhao Kingdom, passed away. Note, and destroyed the country of Dai and came to Hurao, so that the land of Dai was merged into Zhongxia."

"His descendant, King Wuling of Zhao, also changed his clothes to Hu clothes and learned to ride and shoot. He broke through Linhu and Loufan in the north. He built the Great Wall at the foot of Yinshan Mountain from Daidai to Gaoque as a fortress. He built Yunzhong, Yanmen and Daijun. Later When Zhao general Li Mu was in charge, he defeated the Xiongnu again."

"At that time, the Zhao state had already prevented the Xiongnu from going south, but at least it was able to defend itself. When Qin unified Yan and Zhao, Hei Fu, Li Xin, and Meng Tian sent 100,000 troops north to attack the Xiongnu and take over Henan. Because of the river As a fortress, forty-four county towns were built near the river, and they were moved to the appropriate garrison to fill them. Then they crossed the river and occupied the northern part of Yangshan Mountain, and opened a straight road from Jiuyuan to Yunyang, and then from Lintao to Liaodong for more than 10,000 miles. Qin, Yan and Zhao The Great Wall of the Three Kingdoms is connected together.”

"At that time, the Great Chanyu was slandered by Chen Ping, a subordinate of Heifu. He could not defeat Qin, so he moved northward. Until recently, when the princes bordered Qin and China was disturbed, he was able to expand his territory and regain the border between Henan and China at the old fortress."

"Therefore, it can be seen that if China unites, the Huns will definitely attack the Huns; if China divides, the Huns will have some breathing space, and they can even counterattack southward and occupy more pasture land..."

As a man of political integrity and a native of Yan, Kuai Che was very familiar with the geographical situation of this area. He even drew a map of the Yan Dynasty area specifically for Mao Dun, with various mountains and rivers marked on it. Chengguo grassland.

He immediately asked his subordinates to present it and pointed out: "Please see, Great Chanyu, the land of the Yan Dynasty is really the boundary between the grassland country and the country in the crown belt of the Central Plains!"

Nowadays, with the East Hu and Central Plains princes being wiped out, there are only two great political powers left in East Asia, the Xiongnu and Qin, which represent the nomadic people and farming civilization. They are on the verge of passing through three areas, namely Shuofang Shangjun, Daidi, Yan land.

This line not only happens to be the precipitation line, but also separates the two civilizations as the boundary between mountains and rivers.

"Shuofang and Shangjun are very close to Guanzhong, and there are straight roads, making it easy to mobilize troops. Therefore, once Qin sends his troops north, the Xiongnu cannot fight."

"This is not the case for Dai and Yan. They are blocked by Hengshan Mountain and are far away from Guanzhong. It is not easy to mobilize the Qin army. There are also people from Zhao and Yan who miss their homeland and are enemies of Qin. They are dissatisfied and dissatisfied. Now Han Guang has no help, so he turns to Da Shanyu for help. , this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”

The entire Taiyuan and Hedong are actually composed of countless mountain basins, such as Yuncheng Basin, Linfen Basin, Taiyuan Basin, Xinding Basin, Datong Basin, and a series of small mountain valleys sandwiched between the Luliang Mountains and the Taihang Mountains. , like candied haws on a stick, together form a corridor-like separate geographic unit. There is no doubt that if the Huns want to launch an attack on Taiyuan, Yanmen County will be their must-win bridgehead.

Further east from Taiyuan, over the Taihang Mountains, we arrive at the endless North China Plain. Unless the Central Plains regime controls Yuyang and Youbeiping, and guards the Yanshan passes, this great plain will be basically undefeated from north to south!

In short, Dai Di and Yan Di, like two faucet valves, protected the Central Plains from the harassment of nomads from the north. In the middle, the huge "screen" of Taihang Mountain is used as the boundary, each protecting the small basins in Shanxi like candied haws and the endless plains in Huabei.

Once the valve is lost, the iron hooves from the nomads will flow like a flood, splitting into east and west routes, and willfully plunder and destroy farming civilization!

If the Central Plains wants to reorganize its defense lines in Taiyuan, Hengshan, and Julu, it will undoubtedly consume huge national power.

This is the future strategy that Kuai Che envisioned for Mao Dun: "The Xiongnu may not be able to defeat Qin and destroy Qin, but they can keep the Dai Kingdom, so that the Huns' cavalry can continue to raid southward, so that the soldiers who have been fighting for many years will not be able to let go. Weapons, farmers and women are not allowed to rest. As time goes by, the world will see that the black man still cannot fulfill his promise to rest with the people and fight with the people, and they will be angry and rebel!"

"At that time, after the death of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the scene of China's division will appear again, and the Great Chanyu can also take advantage of this opportunity to lead the Hu people southward and enter Xianyang! To avenge the burning of Chanyu's court in the past!"

"At that time, you will truly become the emperor. Not only the emperor of the grassland, but also the emperor of the Central Plains. Drinking the Ma River will turn the entire Hebei and Guanzhong into pastures, allowing tens of millions of Central Plains people to serve as vassals and concubines of the Huns. !”

After Kuai Che finished boasting, he changed his tone and said: "The opposite is also true. If the Xiongnu did not fight for the land of the Yan Dynasty, once the Heifu unified the world and rested for ten years, many times the number of soldiers and horses would be dispatched from Yanmen and Ju. Yong went north and swept across the grassland. This time, even if the Huns fled to the bitter cold of Mobei, they would not be safe!"

Mao Dun listened. After a long time, he let go of the falcon on his arm and let it fly high into the sky again.

His purpose in going south was simple, to take advantage of the chaos before the unification of the Central Plains and take another final step. However, Kuai Che's words made Mo Dun realize that the Huns really had to fight this battle.

You have to at least give it a try. As long as you can protect the Dai Kingdom when the snow falls, the Xiongnu can delay it for another year and let the scars of the Central Plains heal one year later.

He only had one question left.

"Mr. Kuai."

Mao Dun showed a puzzled expression: "In the past, the great master of the Yan State, Ju Wu, worked for Touman because he wanted to restore the Yan State with the help of the Xiongnu."

"But Mr. Kuai, why are you trying so hard to advise me?"

This question made Kuai Che burst into laughter.

"Da Shanyu, there is nothing I want to gain by doing this."

But Mao Dun didn't believe it: "It's impossible. It could be gold and silk, sheep, women, or power. Your purpose must be among them."

He was very generous: "Just tell me, I will support you and I will satisfy you!"

Even if it is the Yan family, it is not impossible to consider it. After all, Kuai Che can be said to be the smartest Central Plains scholar that Mao Dun has ever seen...

Even no less than Chen Ping who had tricked him with a letter more than ten years ago.

Kuai Che was stunned. He looked at the smoke and dust billowing south as the Xiongnu cavalry moved south. The people in the city looked horrified, and expressed his thoughts:

"Many people hope that the world will be unified and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe."

"But I think that's too boring!"

Kuai Che opened his hands: "I just want this world to be in chaos forever!"

"For us, the wise men."

“Chaos and strife are not just ladders to climb up.”

"It is also the water that as fish, once we leave it, we will dry up and die!"

“Can a fish leave the water?”

"Can the people of Zongheng leave the troubled times?"

In Kuai Che's eyes, in addition to conspiracy and strategy, there is nothing but madness. In order to prevent the unification of the black husband, he will do whatever it takes to stop his paranoia.

"There are no troubled times."

"Then create chaos!"