May, the northern grassland.

On the earth, the grass and trees are flourishing. From a distance, they look like a green carpet that extends to the edge of heaven and earth.

The blue sky, white clouds, bright sun, and green space are like a beautiful picture.

A white tent is connected into one piece, like blooming white flowers, dotted with the grassland.

At this time, in the middle of the camp, a banner representing the identity of Touman stood high on a high platform before the "golden tent" of the Huns' Khan Tauman. Around this banner, there are hundreds of banners representing the grassland tribes, surrounding this banner.

“Chhanyu, Shanyu, Toman Shanyu!”

The cheers under the high platform made the grassland begin to roar.

Standing on the high platform, Touman looked down at the crowd kneeling down in the audience, feeling particularly excited.

The Huns Khan Touman, with his hands open and raised high, facing the sky, prayed loudly:

"Thank you to the heaven of Changsheng, your loyal people, and pray to you sincerely, hoping that you can continue to protect your people and make your people prosperous and powerful."

As the wars continued in the Central Plains, the Huns in the north also began to unify the grasslands.

Touman, who ascended the throne as the throne of the Huns' Khan in the past few years, imitated the Central Plains system and established the Huns' royal court in Touman City.

After Touman ascended the throne, he judged the situation and changed the past national policy of the Huns going south and moved north.

For the Shanyu Touman, advancing north did not mean giving up the Central Plains in the south, but was forced by the situation.

As the Xiongnu Alliance, which originated in the Yinshan Grassland, for hundreds of years, the Xiongnu, like the Donghu, Yuezhi and other tribal alliances on the grassland, have always wanted to go south to embezzle the prosperous Central Plains.

However, it is very tragic that when facing the three kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Yan and the grassland tribes in the southern Central Plains, the result of each invasion of the Central Plains is that they return in a desperate situation.

The territory of the Qin, Zhao and Yan Kingdoms continued to expand northward in the repeated wars of the countries on the same grassland.

What made Touman remember was that the battle between the Huns and Zhao State occurred in the seventh year of King Wucheng of Yan (265 BC).

That year, Touman's father wanted to take advantage of the Qin and Yan attacks Zhao, and Zhao had no time to deal with the Huns, and led the main forces of the Huns to go down, trying to recover the former land of the Huns, Yanmen and Yunzhong, and other places. Unexpectedly, he met the Zhao army general Li Mu.

Li Mu gathered almost all the Zhao troops in Daijun, Yunzhong, Yanmen and other places to fight, using 1,300 chariots, 13,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry, and 100,000 archers to fight with the main force of the Huns in Yunzhong.

In this battle, Li Mu defeated the main force of the Huns and chased Touman's father for hundreds of miles.

Touman's father was also injured due to the battle. After returning to the Huns, he was extremely depressed and died of depression.

This made Touman realize that it was impossible for the Huns to go south to invade the Central Plains countries with the national strength at this time.

In order to ultimately defeat the Central Plains countries, we must complete the unification of the grassland.

Under this national policy, after Touman ascended the throne, he began the northern expedition within these few years.

Today, the Huns finally made the tribal alliances such as Ding Ling in the north surrender to their own feet.

The territory of the Huns was no longer limited to the Yinshan area, but expanded to the Selenge River basin west of Lake Baikal and south of Lake Baikal.

This time, the Huns' troops pointed at Loulan, Wusun, Hujie, and the twenty-six small countries around them.

Thinking of this, Touman's mood was ups and downs.

Since ascending the throne as the Huns, he eliminated political enemies, built the Tauman royal court, established courts similar to those of the Central Plains, and went north to conquer, which led to the surrender of many grassland tribes in the north today.

On the high platform, Touman controlled the emotions in his heart and shouted loudly: "Duratong."

"At." Dharat in the audience stepped forward, stroked his right hand and bowed to his great Chanyu.

"Dharu Tong made outstanding achievements in this conquest, and he was not a loss to be the eagle on my grassland. Today, he was named King Zuoguli. You will lead your army to attack the countries in the Western Regions. If you make new achievements, this Shanyu will reward you."

On the high platform, Touman loudly praised the Tao to Dhara.

According to the official positions of the Xiongnu, the official positions of King Zuo Guli were already very high, second only to the Zuo and Youxian Kings under the Shanyu.

For this, Dharatong was very grateful in his heart and knelt on the ground and shouted loudly.

Next, Shanyu Touman conferred the meritorious personnel of the Xiongnu expedition this northern expedition. They enfeoffed 126,000 households in one go, which is all the foundation of the Huns now - a total of 126,000 households.

If calculated based on ten people and one household, the population of the Huns at this time was about one million.

Like the Central Plains, there are constant wars on the grassland, and the number of premature deaths in the population is even more severe than that in the Central Plains.

However, if a family on the grassland can at least one or two warriors go on the expedition. In this way, the Huns' army had at least more than 200,000 people at this time. For the tribes on the grassland, their strength is already the most powerful.

After the reward was completed, Touman shouted loudly to his subjects on the high platform:

"The warriors of the grassland and my subjects, guided by the heaven of immortality, our Western Expedition will surely make the countries of the Western Regions surrender to the feet of our Huns wolf cavalry. Go and conquer them!"

"The noble Chanyu, we are descendants of the wolf. This Western Expedition will surely make the countries of the Western Regions surrender to the feet of the Great Chanyu, and we will not disappoint the Chanyu."

Dhara was under the platform and shouted loudly.

In late June, Ji Palace, Qihe Palace.

It was already very late, and there were stars in the sky.

The palace gate of Ji Palace has been closed at this moment, but the lights are still on in the Palace of Qihe.

Ji Kang was lying on the desk table, still compiling documents under the light.

After reading the information from the Intelligence Bureau from the grassland, Ji Kang frowned slightly.

From the servant, the king took a silk towel soaked in ice water, and Ji Kang wiped the sweat beads on his face.

I picked up a document from the table and read it carefully. This document was made by several cabinet members and the military department on the future development direction of Yan State and even the deployment of the military forces of Yan State.

This document is a document for the future development and planning of Yan State.

After reading it in detail twice, Ji Kang got up and came to the map inside the hall, and looked at it again.

After this battle against the Five-Nation Alliance, the Yan State finally saw hope of unifying the world.

The people of Yan State were full of confidence in this, and the officials of Yan State had no doubts about it.

Several ministers, including Ji Kang, were also full of confidence in this.

In this document, the overall strategy of Yan Guoda is very clear and very clear.

That is, first the Central Plains and then the Grassland. Starting next year, it will take five years to unify the Central Plains countries; then head north and take three years to incorporate the Northern Grassland into the territory of Yan State.

In this way, China is unified.

In this process, the Huns were undoubtedly the biggest enemy of Yan when they unify the grasslands in the future.

Therefore, Ji Kang was very concerned about the development of the Huns in all aspects.

Ji Kang was very unhappy to see this situation as to the continued growth of the Huns. However, given the current situation in the Central Plains, Ji Kang really couldn't make any moves to weaken the Huns.

The strategy of using Donghu, Yuezhi and other countries to bind the Huns now seems to be very effective.

"In order to reduce the cost of China's future unification, the pace of unifying the Central Plains must be accelerated."

The attendant ordered the king to hear his young king at the table and said softly.

Wang Cong's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly looked around, and found that there was no one else in the Palace of Kissing Hall except himself, so he felt relieved. Wang Cong knew that the passage he had just revealed from Ji Kang's mouth was the highest strategic secret of Yan State.

After reading the documents in his hand again, Ji Kang still felt a little disappointed with this planning document.

In view of this era, the people's understanding of geography did not plan the Western Regions and even the Plateau.

However, Ji Kang was quite satisfied with this.

After Yan State has achieved the above plan, it is not too late to plan again, right?

With the end of the war in the Wei and local areas, the country of Yan had calmed down.

The various armies of Yan State, in accordance with Ji Kang's edict, have begun to evacuate Wei County one after another.

Only two regular army troops were retained in the guards, namely the Sixth Army led by Qing Qin and the Ninth Army led by Bo Wang. The Sixth Army was stationed in the Diqiu and Fancheng areas, while the Ninth Army stationed in Chaoge, Juncheng and other places.

At this point, the Eighth Army led by General Liu Sheng returned to the Third Army of Hu Guiliang, Gaotang, Jixi Gaotang, including the Sixth Army and the Ninth Army, which had formed a huge encirclement of Zhao State.

In Shanggu and Yuyang counties at the northern end of Jidu, the first army led by Rongyan and the second army led by Zuo Zong can also launch attacks on Dai County, Yunzhong and Yanmen of Zhao at any time.

The strategic direction of Yan State is already very clear.

That is, if you want to unify China, you must first unify the Central Plains; if you want to unify the Central Plains, you must first fight to occupy the State of Zhao.

Although Yan State won a great victory in the Battle of Wei and Di this year, Ji Kang did not adopt the suggestions of many generals in the court and the army to attack other countries. Although he won this battle, Yan State suffered great losses.

Moreover, there were many things after the war. The army needed rest and rewards; the armies needed repairs; the wounded needed treatment; the soldiers who died in the war needed pensions; and there were many things such as promotions, rewards, etc.

More importantly, more than 70,000 soldiers of the Yan army were injured and killed in this battle, which needed supplementary and training. Besides, the economy and people's livelihood of Yan State were greatly affected by this battle, and this also needed to be restored as soon as possible.

The rice must be eaten bite by bite, and the road must be taken step by step.

Ji Kang hopes that after unification, China will be a prosperous China, not a China with all industries withered.

Occupy one place, stabilize one place, and prosper one place.

Ji Kang was very clear about this.

After returning to the table and sitting down, Ji Kangti wrote the word "accurate" on this Yan State development and planning document in the next few years. After looking at the desk, there were no other documents, he stretched out his waist and yawned.

He stood up and ordered the attendant of the servant who was serving him:

"Tomorrow, let the documents I have reviewed will be passed on by several cabinets and implemented as soon as possible. In addition, let the ministers inform the ministers of this planning document, and after the circumcision, they will be temporarily archived and will not be circulated."
Chapter completed!