Great Qin had a prosperous age

Chapter 601 The Huns: Weak, pitiful and helpless (please give me a monthly recommendation ticket)
At the turn of spring and summer, Li Xin took the initiative to plan and launch a campaign to leave the Yinshan Mountains and raid the Xiongnu northward.

For the Huns, this was unprecedented in more than ten years.

Meng Tian's northern defense against the Xiongnu always only defended but did not attack. With an army of 30 men under the Yin Mountains, the battle line was extremely long.

As long as the Huns climbed to the mountain, they could see groups of Qin people at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.The Qin people were as numerous as ants, with tens of thousands of black tents.

At night, countless lights flicker on the vast green land at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.

To the generals of the Qin State, this scene was very pleasing to the eye. Tens of thousands of candles looked like flowers blooming in the dark night.

But to the Huns, these lamps are like poisonous snakes in the desert, making people run away when they see them.

As long as the black military flag totem of Qin is fluttering at the foot of the mountain, the Huns will stay away from the foot of Yinshan Mountain even if they are grazing.

The Qin people were so powerful that everyone was afraid of them, and the Huns were no exception.The Xiongnu who were expelled from the Hetao Plain had to graze north of Yinshan Mountain.However, their national nature does not know how to farm, but only herds animals. If there are any internal disputes, they will be settled with a fight.

Nature and seasonal food shortages forced them to head south or starve to death.

The Huns had no choice but to starve to death or seize food from the tiger's mouth and attack the Central Plains.Apparently the latter gave them a way to survive inside.

For the Qin people, the Huns went south to plunder from time to time, but this was a deliberate offense to the Qin State and a challenge to the Qin people's majesty.After hundreds of years, the three and four generations of Qin people grew up and then withered like grass and trees. In this process, the people of Qin naturally accumulated a supreme sense of pride and superiority.

The Huns actually robbed their food. To the Qin people, it was like kittens and puppies opening the lion's bloody mouth and stealing some meat scraps while the lion was sleeping.

That's just the nature of things.Without the internal drive of military merit and nobility, the Qin people naturally had a playful attitude toward the Xiongnu.

The Huns sent a large number of spies to patrol the outside and observe the terrain. When the time was right, they stole a small amount of grain from the fertile land of the Central Plains and then quickly fled back.

For example, the soldiers guarding the granary, they took turns guarding Gu Cang day and night, and took all precautions, but they were only guarded against a few cunning mice.

Under the leadership of Meng Tian, ​​these soldiers guarded tightly and blocked all the entrances.Rats can only come out at night and steal a small amount of food for their own use. Even so, the strong and brave Qin people did not intend to let these Huns go.

But now the mice are working hard and surviving in the dark, stealing a little bit of food. However, the Qin people did not intend to let these mice go. In the most peaceful and happy days of the Huns, they set fire to the pastures. He robbed the horses and almost went straight to the Huns' lair.

Li Xin's initiative to attack even seemed narrow-minded in the Qin people.For such a small loss, I wish I could let the mouse family become extinct.

At least in the eyes of the people of Qin, Li Xin's offensive launched a few months ago was unnecessary.

Moreover, after a battle broke out and the army was at odds, the prime minister's son ran back to Xianyang City, spending tens of thousands of food supplies and bringing back countless horses.

Although they won the battle, none of the lieutenant generals felt happy.

However, the Huns, who are like mice, don't think so.They were originally weak nomadic peoples, and under the oppression of powerful farming peoples, they lived tremblingly.

But now that Li Xin took the initiative to leave seclusion and gave him such a good beating, everyone was filled with fear before the Huns went to sleep every day.

Li Xin took the initiative to attack this battle, which made everyone in the Huns feel in danger.The people of Qin were no longer satisfied with just enjoying the land given to them by God. Instead, they were greedy and shameless and took a fancy to their cattle, sheep and horses.

This is often the case in reality. No matter how violent the family quarrels within the family, when they are offended by outsiders, they can always unite as soon as possible to jointly resist the foreign enemies.

Li Xin took the initiative and penetrated thousands of miles into the Xiongnu's heart, frightening the Xiongnu tribes.

The tribal leaders held a meeting and after discussion, they concluded that if they were still fighting among themselves and falling apart, they would only be beaten. Only by uniting could they resist the Qin people.

Husband Qin is greedy.

After the contest, the tribes elected Juqu Gaier as the leader, and many tribes were merged together, collectively called Dabu.

After months of preparations, the Huns gathered all adult men and brought all their belongings to prepare for the enemy.

There was already a shortage of food, and now the cattle, sheep and horses have been taken away by the Qin people. The Huns can be said to be poor and only have pants.Many people are so hungry that they scream every day, so they almost treat themselves like cattle and sheep.

It's not that Li Xin was so crazy that he didn't leave any cattle or sheep for the Huns.It's just that raising cattle and sheep is the same as raising rice and wheat. You can't eat all the wheat in one go, otherwise there will be no seeds to sow next year.This is especially true for cattle and sheep. You can't eat all the cattle and sheep in one go. You often have to leave one-third of the total number to prepare for the reproduction of cattle and sheep.

Moreover, the growth cycle of cattle and sheep is very long. Even if one-third of the cattle and sheep are left, they have to wait two or three years before they can be slaughtered.

After the slaughter, one sheep is enough for several people to cut into pieces for several days.

It is said that the Huns were strong and brave because they were forced out by their innate environment.

The reason why the Qin people have a developed political system of rituals and music and a high degree of civilization is not all because the problem of food has been solved.

The Huns have always been very envious of the Qin, Zhao, and Yan people, just because the land under their feet can grow enough food for the entire nation to thrive.

Therefore, the Huns often went south, not looking at Qin's women, Qin's houses, or Qin's flags. They had no honor or conquest in their hearts, but only the desire for survival.The Huns always focused on the land of the Qin people.

Why did the Huns all attack south during the harvest season? It was because they lost most of their cattle and sheep.The situation will only get worse, and many of them will not even survive this winter.

Under Li Xin's initiative, the weak, pitiful and helpless Huns were forced to unite in order to survive!
(There is a saying that the later Han Dynasty fought so hard against the Xiongnu. On the one hand, it was because the Huns had completed their unification, and on the other hand, it was because the Han people in that period had experienced two unification wars between the Qin and Han Dynasties and lost a large number of young men. Especially at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the total number of people in the census was between 1500 million and 1800 million. An uncertain 300 million of them were hidden people.

The disparity in numbers left the Han people unable to fight back against the Huns.The Huns found that the Han people could not defeat them, so they chose to actively provide food, but this only fueled the Huns' arrogance.The Huns really don’t want to fight the Han people anymore, because they have found a better way to solve the problem of survival, that is, not to seize the land of the Qin people. Farming is a troublesome thing for them, why not let them be timid and afraid of death The Han people help them farm the land, and then they just sit back and enjoy the fruits.From this level, the Han people became slaves of the Huns.The so-called humiliation is not sending food and cloth to the Huns, because to the Han people, it is like throwing a piece of cake when a rich businessman passes by a beggar village.It's really humiliating in another sense. An empire with many resources and a huge territory is actually a slave to a nomadic people. )
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