Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 19
At that time, the Southern Xiongnu was Shanyu Qiangqu. Since the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu had gradually fallen into various internal and external conflicts. At the beginning of its existence, some Huns moved southward due to the colder climate in the north and the sharp deterioration of the living environment. In the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they surrendered to the central rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty in exchange for living space and material support.

The Southern Xiongnu retained the Shanyu and most of the Xiongnu's political ruling system, but it was also subject to strict control from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, the Southern Huns played an important role as a barrier between the Han Dynasty and the Northern Huns. However, as the natural environment in the north further deteriorated, some Northern Huns continued to go south to join the Southern Huns, while the rest The Northern Huns were also forced to abandon their original land under the constant attacks of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Southern Huns, Wuhuan, and Xianbei, and migrated to West Asia and even Europe.

When the power of the Northern Huns gradually disintegrated, the existence of the Southern Huns itself became no longer as important as it was at the beginning, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was always unwilling to see the Southern Huns in view of some lessons learned between the Western Han Dynasty and the Huns. Complete unification and integration with the Northern Huns.

In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huns who fled from the Northern Huns into the Southern Huns in large numbers were called Xinjianghu. They were forced to live in the area north of the Southern Huns at the beginning. After many years of living together, although these new Huns It has been integrated to a considerable extent with the original political life system of the Southern Huns, but it has always been strictly controlled by the Eastern Han Dynasty. As a result, there has been an irreparable gap between this part of the new Jianghu, the Southern Huns and the Eastern Han Dynasty. contradiction.

In the fifth year of Yongyuan, after the death of the eighth Chanyu of the Southern Huns, serious chaos erupted within the Southern Huns, which eventually led to more than 20 newly surrendered Huns leaving the Southern Huns. They broke through the blockade of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and finally crossed the Yin Mountain Entering the prairie in the north, this crisis is called the chaos at the right time.

After the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty’s intervention in the Southern Huns became more and more strict. From the very beginning, it never interfered with Shanyu’s succession to later intervened in the Southern Huns’ succession many times. The existence of the Eastern Han Dynasty actually led to the Southern Huns Shanyu's ability to control the entire Southern Huns continued to decline.

And when Shanyu's ability to control the Southern Huns declined, he would further rely on intervention from the Eastern Han Dynasty, which led to a vicious circle, which continued to trigger rebellions within the Southern Huns. It has intensified. At this time, the Shanyu's internal control ability of the Southern Huns is already very weak.

The number of the Southern Huns themselves is not large, so the number of rebels in the Southern Huns is also very limited, and the rebellion itself is often scattered. The internal ruling structure of the Huns is much looser than that of the Central Plains Dynasty. Regular meetings and some particularly important events will only be gathered together under Shan Yu's convening.

Most of the time, the tribes do their own things, and Shan Yu himself will not intervene too much in these tribes. Therefore, in many cases, the rebellion of the Southern Huns is difficult to solve once and for all. The question is, maybe the suppression of the rebellion has just been completed here today, and there will be another rebellion in another tribe in a few days.

Therefore, counterinsurgency itself is a long-term and arduous task. Of course, for ordinary soldiers who are eager to kill the enemy and make meritorious service, this task is often one of the few opportunities that they can seize to change their own destiny.

Dong Zhuo did not send his confidant generals to carry out this counter-insurgency mission, but sent Xiang Yu, who was young and lacked background and achievements. It has to be said that he also had many considerations of his own.

On the one hand, I definitely want to train Xiang Yu, and by the way, check and accept Xiang Yu's training results in the past two years, and at the same time, let Xiang Yu win a certain amount of military merit through this opportunity, which will also make it easier for him to seek a higher military rank for Xiang Yu in the central government Even the title, Dong Zhuo is actually a good boss and a good boss to a certain extent, he has always been very generous to his loyal subordinates.

The southern Xiongnu rebels were attacked by ten cavalry led by Xiang Yu. After returning, Xiang Yu rewarded the five men who were still alive. Many other soldiers also expressed their determination and ideas to follow Xiang Yu to fight together.

But Xiang Yu was not in a hurry at this time, and just let his subordinates continue to set up camp in the same place, neither marching northward nor doing anything else, and even stopped the daily training that had to be done every day.

This situation continued for several days. During this period, some scouts sent by the rebels of the Southern Huns would watch nearby from time to time. That night, there was a loud shout outside the tent, as if an enemy was attacking in the dark.

However, after a while, only the sound of killing was heard, but no real enemy was coming. Xiang Yu quickly dressed neatly and walked out of the big tent. From a distance, he saw many torches in the distance, which seemed to be moving away.

"General Xiang, these Hun rebels are really cunning. They used the night to approach our tent, just creating the illusion of attacking but not really launching an attack. They obviously wanted to confuse us!"

One of Xiang Yu's lieutenants said that Xiang Yu felt that what he said made some sense. "Pass my order, the whole army is on alert, and no one is allowed to go out of the tent to fight without authorization."

"General Xiang, they are clearly using a set of deceitful tricks to make us nervous by feinting. I'm afraid they will make another feint after a few times. After a few times, our soldiers will definitely be exhausted. , At that time, they will catch us by surprise again, so the subordinates think that we must look for opportunities to take the lead, or temporarily withdraw our troops!"

Xiang Yu glared at the adjutant, and the adjutant was a little frightened by Xiang Yu's stare.

"You just need to arrange more people to strengthen the vigilance, I can only care about the rest."

After speaking, Xiang Yu turned around and walked towards the middle tent, leaving the lieutenant with his hands up in the air, as if he wanted to say something more, but he couldn't say it.

The next day, Xiang Yu ordered everything to continue as usual. No matter what tricks the Southern Huns rebels were playing outside, they would not react. It's up to them to act.

Repeatedly like this, the Southern Huns rebels really staged two more feint attacks. At this time, Xiang Yu ordered his soldiers to maintain a high level of alert at all times, and be ready to fight the Southern Huns rebels.

At this time, many soldiers under Xiang Yu felt a little strange, especially the lieutenant who often followed Xiang Yu was even more puzzled. Seeing his confusion, Xiang Yu said, "You will know soon!"

The deputy general had no choice but to suppress his doubts, and strengthen the defense of the camp according to Xiang Yu's order, so that the soldiers are ready to fight at any time.

It was late at night again, and the Southern Huns rebels attacked again at night. However, unlike the previous times when they shouted loudly and were astonishing, this time they came a little quietly. Hundreds of horses came from the darkness, approaching Afterwards, he let go of the charge and attacked directly towards the place where Xiang Yu's troops camped. This time the attack seemed to be for real at last!

The lieutenant exclaimed when he saw this, and he didn't know if he was surprised by Xiang Yu's foresight. He seemed to have anticipated the opponent's attack in advance.

Although the opponent was coming fiercely, Xiang Yu's soldiers were already ready to face the battle. The camp they chose had high slopes on both sides, which was not conducive to the cavalry charge. The cavalry rushed into the camp smoothly.

At this time, the crossbowmen who had already been placed on the high slopes on both sides poked out their heads quietly, and two rounds of crossbow arrows shot across the dark night, shooting at the position where the Southern Huns cavalry came in.

The Southern Huns rebel cavalry who attacked at night were in full swing, thinking that Xiang Yu's troops were so vulnerable that the camp had no defense at all. When their hearts were full of arrogance, ruthless and cold arrows shot through them A thin layer of leather armor pierced directly into their flesh and blood.

(End of this chapter)