How did Xiongnu Shan, the overlord of grassland, almost strangle the Han Dynasty in the cradle?

In 20 1 BC, Han Wangxin rebelled against the Han Dynasty in Datong, and at the same time colluded with the Xiongnu, the overlord of grassland at that time, to conquer Yanmenguan and lay the foundation of Taiyuan.

At this time, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bangwen was furious and vowed to behead Han Wangxin, defeat the Huns and solve the border crisis. So Liu Bang led 320,000 troops into the land of Xiongnu.

This 320,000-strong army has just experienced the baptism of the peasant war at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the hegemony between Chu and Han, and each has experienced many battles. Under the command of Liu Bang and others, the Han army won many battles, and the allied forces of Han Wangxin and Xiongnu had to avoid its edge.

But it was precisely because of the unusually smooth war that Liu Bang began to underestimate the enemy. After several encounters, Liu Bang found that the Huns who fought with him were old, weak and sick. Liu bang couldn't decide whether to fight or not, so he sent several troops to inquire about the situation and finally got the information that he could attack at this time.

But the main force of the big fellow hasn't arrived yet, and there are not many people around Liu Bang at this time, so Liu Bang decided to send Liu Jing to inquire about the situation again.

In view of the abnormal situation of Xiongnu, Liu Jing thought that Liu Bang should not continue to entangle with Xiongnu at this time. He said: "These two countries should show their strength in the war. At this time, the troops sent by the Huns were old, weak, women and children. This must be the Huns deliberately leading us into a trap. At this time, we should not go to war with the Huns. "

At this time, Liu Bang was in the joy of victory and wanted to use the momentum of Lien Chan's winning streak to continue his pursuit of victory. However, at this moment, Liu Bang heard the news of the withdrawal, and his interest suddenly disappeared. He ignored Liu Jing's dissuasion and asked people to win Liu Jing. After the victory of the army, he disposed of Liu Jing, and led thousands of military forces to continue the pursuit.

If Liu Bang can listen to Liu Jing at this time, then history may come to another end.

Sure enough, as Liu Jing expected, when Liu Bang led his army into the mountainous area of Deng Bai, he was ambushed by 400,000 Xiongnu troops. At this time, the Han infantry in the rear was stopped by the Xiongnu army because of its slow action.

At this time, there were only thousands of cavalry troops around Liu Bang. How can it be an opponent of 400,000 elite tarquin? Liu bang couldn't rush out after several breakthroughs, and what's more, the grain and grass he carried with him would be reported.

Liu bang at this time can be said to have no reinforcements outside and no food and grass inside. In addition, it was the middle of winter and the climate was very cold. Many soldiers are not used to this weather, so there are not a few people suffering from frostbite in the army.

Finally, Liu Bang had to listen to Chen Ping's plan, bribing E Shi and Xiongnu to take a modu operandi, and finally modu operandi listened to E Shi.

Liu bang was finally besieged in Dengbaishan for seven days and seven nights, and finally retreated despondently, and formulated a pro-Xiongnu policy, which influenced the Han Dynasty.

The famous siege of Deng Bai in history ended in the overall victory of Xiongnu. Objectively speaking, it is not without reason that the Great Han Dynasty failed in this war:

First, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Bang's wanton slaughter of heroes chilled many people, among which Huaiyin Hou Han Xin was the most regrettable. If Deng Baizhi's siege was still in Han Xin, Han Xin couldn't have failed to see such an obvious "arrogant plan", and Liu Bang's own military was also very general, so he would have underestimated his enemy.

Second, at this time, the Xiongnu and the Dahan dynasty were not directly proportional in military strength. At this time, the foot soldiers of Dahan have been exhausted at home after years of fighting. As early as the Chu-Han War, the Xiongnu had unified all the tribes of Xiongnu, and recovered the Hetao area captured by Meng Tian, the general of the State of Qin, and the Xiongnu began to increase in strength.

In this war, the commander-in-chief of Xiongnu, Modu Hayden, was a very talented man. We only know that Genghis Khan later unified the grassland. But as early as the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, there appeared the grassland overlord who unified the tribes of Xiongnu. He is modu chanyu, the first person to unify the grassland in history.

Xiongnu is a tribe that lived in the northern grassland during the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. At that time, Qin, Zhao, Yan and other countries were invaded by nomadic people. Bordering the Huns was Zhao, whose cavalry troops came and went without a trace, which made Zhao very headache.

Until the appearance of Li Mu, Zhao changed his disadvantage against Xiongnu. During his stay in the northern frontier of Zhao, once the Huns attacked, he ordered the troops to stick to the camp and strictly forbade the soldiers to go out. Every time the Huns invaded the border of Zhao, they got nothing. But at that time, some people in Zhao Tangchao thought that Li Mu's way of fighting was too timid, so the prince of Zhao changed him and sent another general.

However, the newly appointed general is not as calm and cautious as Li Mu. Every time the Huns attacked, he led the army to attack, but it seriously weakened the strength of Zhao, so the prince of Zhao had to use Li Mu again.

After Li Mu came to power again, he still used the method of dealing with Xiongnu before, but after a long time, Zhao soldiers began to gnash their teeth at Xiongnu, which was exactly what Li Mu wanted.

So in this case, Li Mu took a arrogant plan, deliberately let his soldiers eat grass all over the mountain, to confuse the enemy. Seeing the opportunity, the Huns invaded Zhao and took this opportunity to outflank Li Mu. The Xiongnu army was defeated and lost more than 100,000 people.

Modu chanyu is the eldest son of huns khan Tou Man. When he was young, he fought with Tou Man Khan everywhere.

Not surprisingly, he was the next Khan, but later Khan's beloved E Shi gave birth to a little son, and Khan's position in modu chanyu was greatly threatened.

Tou Man Khan also made the same mistake as the King of the Central Plains at this time, and made a big mistake on the issue of heirs. It turns out that Moduhayu is the first heir of Khan. But at this time, Tou Man wanted to pass Khan's position to his younger son, so the eldest son became a threat, so he sent Modu Hayden to Da Yue as a hostage.

As the saying goes, tiger poison doesn't eat children, but at this time, Tou Man Khan had to try his best to kill Morton. When modu chanyu arrived at Dayue's house, he immediately led an army to attack Dayue's house. Obviously, his purpose is to get rid of his eldest son by Da Yue.

My parents-in-law were angry with Touman's behavior, so he wanted to kill him. Unfortunately, Yueyue stole Yueyue's good horse overnight and took this opportunity to escape back to Xiongnu.

After fleeing to Xiongnu, modu chanyu was valued by Tou Man Khan. He originally wanted to kill modu chanyu by the hand of the big moon family, but at this time he thought that this son was a usable material, so he allocated 10 thousand cavalry to modu chanyu for his disposal.

At this time, Morton already had the idea of killing his father and standing on his own feet, and his attack on Da Yue's life has completely chilled Morton. In the past, modu chanyu had no power or influence, but now there is a universal blog. However, although this Maneba takes orders from him, many of them are loyal to Khan, so first of all, he will build this army into his confidant.

So modu chanyu invented a whistling arrow at this time. He ordered his sergeants: the target of his arrow is your target, and whoever dares to doubt or hesitate will be beheaded.