Zhubei (eight)

King Hu Xie was not an incompetent person. When he suddenly saw Xiang Yu's halberd attack, he danced the steel knife in his hand, trying to block Xiang Yu's thunderous attack. The blade hit the back of the halberd. King Hu Xie was secretly happy and thought he had succeeded. However, the joy lasted less than a thousandth of the wonder. Naturally, he had no such concept of time in his heart. He felt that holding the steel knife's right hand was as if it was electric. The steel knife was shocked and made a low whine.

Although the direction of the halberd was slightly deviated, the halberd was still aimed at King Hu Xie's body, but it was moved from the throat to the chest. Most of the Chu generals' armor had a heart protection mirror to protect the chest, but the Huns did not wear armor for the convenience of riding horses and speed, so Xiang Yu's halberd was pierced in King Hu Xie's heart.

A halberd was caught in his chest. The Hu Xie King, who was still using a steel knife to block Xiang Yu's halberd, suddenly turned black in front of him, and the steel knife in his hand had no strength. Seeing that Xiang Yu succeeded, he shouted angrily, and the long halberd did not withdraw. He continued to move forward and actually pushed Hu Xie King past his chest.

King Hu Xie opened his eyes wide in disbelief, lowered his head to look at the dark phlegm of his life, and spit out a large mouthful of blood in his mouth. His eyes gradually blurred and spread to all directions. Finally, his head lowered and he accepted his life. Xiang Yu picked it hard, pulled it off his horse, followed by a guard of Xiang Yu cut off the head of King Hu Xie with a long knife. Although His Majesty the Emperor said that he would not need to cut the enemy's head, he had learned from Borichi's mouth just now that this was the leader of the Hun army, King Hu Xie, who was no better than an ordinary person.

The families of Hu Xie, who were evacuating and watching, saw that Hu Xie was knocked down by the Chu people and their heads were cut off, and they could no longer help crying. The eldest son could not help but burst into tears, and his eyes were filled with tears, but he would fight to fight to avenge his father. He could not stop him, so he hurriedly went up to protect him - but he was still one step late, and his mentality changed drastically, and his head was cut off by two guards of Xiang Yu.

Both the leader and son were killed, and the morale of the Huns was greatly damaged. Some of the original resistance was gone. Those who were far away from the Chu army had already fled in all directions. Those who were closer to the Chu army had no intention of resisting and quickly fled. Everyone was begging for the protection of the Kunlun God so that they could escape from the Chu people's butcher swords.

Once upon a time, they were also chasing and slaughtering the civilians of Chu in this way. At that time, their hearts were filled with great pleasure and pride, but they did not expect that when people were doing their own jobs today, they were so frightened and panic.

Xiang Yu immediately shouted loudly and said, "Those who wish to surrender can save their lives; those who escape will be killed without any hesitation!"

Borichi quickly conveyed Xiang Yu's order loudly in the Xiongnu language. After hearing this, several Huns who were approaching them quickly threw away the knife in their hands, rolled off their horses, knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing, hoping to avoid a knife.

When Xiang Yu's military order was conveyed, the Chu army did not slaughter the surrendered. When the other Huns saw it, they no longer resisted or fled. They rolled down and raised their swords high, and praised them repeatedly: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender."

The Huns who were still fighting desperately and fleeing just now immediately gave up their resistance, and all got off the horse and asked for surrender. Xiang Yu estimated that there were no less than 30,000 Huns who surrendered at once. This surrender was like a plague, with a transmission function. In fact, even if these 30,000 Huns were united, they would cause great harm to the Chu army, and at least 20,000 Chu troops would be no problem. But once one person dismounted and surrendered, many people would immediately follow, and they would even gradually spread to the entire army. Because the reason why everyone fought was to survive, and now they would have to survive without fighting, so why do they have to fight to the death? It is not difficult to understand why thousands of people could force the army to surrender tens of thousands of troops. The morale of the army was dispersed, how could a large number of people save the defeat?

Xiang Yu ordered the surrender of the Huns to be arranged into more than a dozen teams, put the weapons at the designated location, and then all walked to the open space on the side with their heads in their arms - this is good on the grassland, but there are too many open spaces, mostly open land. After all this is done, a deputy general will be asked to escort these prisoners to the original Nandaying of the Huns. Some things have not been removed and modified and can be put into use quickly. If nothing else is possible, it is okay to detain prisoners.

His subordinates quickly brought all the families of King Hu Xie, but Xiang Yu did not kill them all, but sent people to "escort" them to the Chu army camp. Although King Hu Xie was dead, his family was still the owner of the people and horses of the Huns. If they were put together with the Huns, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no change.

After Xiang Yu finished these things, he smiled at Borichi and said, "Our army will immediately lead its troops north into the royal court. You can go back and report to Zuo Xian King and ask him to come and take over these prisoners as soon as possible. I must leave some people for this future Grand Chanyu."

Borichi said gratefully: "I thanked His Majesty the Emperor on behalf of King Zuo Xian."

All of them took down the Huns' soldiers, and Xiang Yu ordered the troops to send several prisoners as guides to lead the army to the Xiongnu Shanyu royal court.

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At this time, the Great Khan of the Huns had already been in a mess. The army led by Han Xin suddenly appeared and caught Lao Shang Shanyu off guard. He arranged all the troops south of the royal court, but he never expected that a huge Chu cavalry would come from the north. When someone reported the news of the Chu army's arrival that day, Lao Shang Shanyu killed several soldiers on the charge of lying about military information. When the Chu army shouted to kill, he realized that this was not a joke.

There were not many soldiers in the royal court, and they were suddenly attacked by the Chu army. No one expected that the Chu army would come from the north, so the royal court was in chaos and could not organize an effective blockade. The Chu army soldiers were allowed to slaughter and burn and rob.

The Chu army traveled thousands of miles and wanted to retreat several times, but they were forced to advance by Han Xin with both soft and hard work. After more than a month of marching, they finally arrived at the Xiongnu Shanyu royal court. This Chu army was like a tiger with hungry eyes green and saw a group of elks. The bloodthirsty nature was revealed and the panicked Huns were killed for a long time. The Huns realized that it was not only the Huns who were extremely fierce, but those Chu people who looked more docile were not easy to mess with.

Under the protection of personal guards, the old Shang Shanyu abandoned the whole family and did not dare to look back and retreat westward. He sent people along the way to the south to rush back to the royal court to wipe out the Chu army. Han Xin did not know where the old Shang Shanyu was escaping, so he had to send troops to the mountains for a while. Then he caught a few live-actions and interrogated them to find out that the old Shang Shanyu had already escaped.

Han Xin was so angry that he wanted to curse himself. Such a once-in-a-lifetime great military achievements slipped away in front of him, which would be a regret for the rest of his life. If he could capture the Great Khan of the Huns, it would be a great achievement to be recorded in the history of the Great Chu. Unexpectedly, the duck that came to his mouth flew away. Han Xin's frustration and annoyance could be imagined, and he had to vent his anger with the Huns who had not had time to escape.

However, the Hun army in the south quickly rushed to the royal court and fought with Han Xin's army. Only then did several Hun leaders realize that the old Shang Da Shanyu had fled to the west and was about to abandon Han Xin, so he followed the west to retreat. Unexpectedly, the Chu army behind him came to chase him again, and joined the Han Xin army, chased him relentlessly, and continued to chase him all the way.

The Huns were defeated, and some leaders defeated without fighting, resulting in the entire Huns' army being in chaos and was no match for the Chu army at all.

Xiang Yu used his old trick again, and indeed more than 20,000 Huns dismounted and surrendered. After this battle, he killed about 40,000 Huns. Xiang Yu also knew where the old Shang Shanyu was, but the Chu army was exhausted and could no longer work hard to fight for the expedition. So Xiang Yu ordered to summon the generals and some Hun leaders in the Shanyu royal court to discuss the aftermath.

Han Xin also hurried over to see Xiang Yu. When Xiang Yu saw Han Xin, he naturally praised him. He traveled thousands of miles away and achieved such an immense merit. He really deserves the reputation of being a military immortal. Then he awarded him several empty titles. Although they were empty titles, they were all supreme honors.

After waiting for a few more days, the Chu army seized this rare opportunity to take a rest. Then, based on various information, Xiang Yu learned that the old Shang Shanyu was collecting the remaining soldiers, with only less than 50,000 troops left. His vitality was severely damaged and it was difficult to fight against the Chu army. Moreover, the old Shang Shanyu wanted to move his troops to continue to go west, so Xiang Yu no longer sent troops to pursue him.

Zuo Xianwang also came to the court of the Shanyu and was accepted by Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu made an appointment with the newly appointed Shanyu. In the future, every Xiongnu Shanyu must be enthroned by the Central Plains court. If there are people with two hearts trying to become independent, the court will send a large army to suppress it. In order to better manage the grassland divisions, the court will set up four more counties in the north and move the people from Shandong and Shanxi to fill it. The purpose is to help the new Shanyu rule the grassland, but will never interfere in grassland affairs. If any Xiongnu people are willing to be classified as Chu, the court will naturally welcome it. At the same time, a market is set up on the border to allow the grassland divisions to communicate with the Chu people.

In this way, we can not only prevent the Huns from ambition again, but also stabilize the people of the grassland tribes. If they can live and work in peace, no one will follow those ambitious people to make a living on the tip of the knife, so that the north will be completely peaceful.

However, in order to prevent the situation, the court still set up military districts in Jincheng and a newly established county, reducing the specifications of several military districts to the south, so that the total national troop strength will only increase slightly, which is not a big problem for the national finance.

After the new Shanyu took office, except for maintaining a standing army of 80,000 people, the rest were arranged for production. Of course, the new Shanyu was still worried that the old Shangshen would make a comeback and beg Xiang Yu to send a large army to help him once the old Shangshen comes back.

Xiang Yu naturally agreed to this request. Is his vassal state not obliged to help it?

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