Introduction: How did Mo Dun Shan Yu seize the position of Shan Yu and make the Xiongnu powerful? Invent a kind of dysprosium arrow, shoot war horses and beloved wives, shoot singles on the old father, and destroy Donghu to establish a powerful empire.
How did the Xiongnu suddenly become powerful from a nomadic people, and even be able to surround hundreds of thousands of troops led by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the most elite troops of the Han Dynasty were almost completely destroyed by the Xiongnu? Leading the rise of the Huns was a key figure in The Humble. If you want to understand Mo Dun Shan Yu, you must understand the head Man Shan Yu.
Toumandan established the Xiongnu Dynasty,
It should be understood from the beginning of the first Xiongnu Shan Yu that in the Central Plains, after Qin Shi Huang established the first feudal dynasty Qin Dynasty, at the same time in the northern Mongolian plateau region, the Xiongnu produced the first generation of Xiongnu king ManDan Yu, who unified the Xiongnu departments into the Xiongnu territories of Donghu in the east, Yueshi in the west, and qin in the south.
The "Chronicle of the Xiongnu" records that "when it was, Dong Huqiang, Yue Shisheng, Xiongnu Shan Yu Yu Tou Man"
After the unification of the Xiongnu tribe, Touman Shan did not lead the Xiongnu to the road of prosperity like the later Genghis Khan, Apaoji, and Guanyan Akuta, and when the Xiongnu suddenly became powerful and rose, it was the period of Mao Dun Shan Yu, and Mo Dun Shan was the son of Tou Man Shan Yu, so how did Mo Dun Shan lead the Xiongnu to become stronger?
The "Chronicle of History" records that "the prince's name was Mao Dun, and the Hou Fu clan gave birth to a young son, and Shan Yu wanted to abolish Mo Dun and establish a new prince, but he made Mo Dun hostage to the Yue clan, and the head man rushed to attack the Yue clan, and the Yue clan wanted to kill Mo Dun, and Dun stole his horse, and rode back, and shan Yu thought that he was strong, so that he would ride ten thousand horses." ”
The above information records that Mao Dun was the crown prince of Tou Man Shan Yu, and later Tou Man's favorite Fu clan gave birth to a young son, Shan Yu wanted to abolish the position of prince of Mo Dun and established this young son of the Fu clan as the prince; at that time, the yue clan state was stronger than the Xiongnu, and Tou Man Shan Yu mortgaged Mo Dun as a hostage in the Yue clan, but the old Shan Yu Yu actually disregarded the life and death of the prince, sent an army to attack the Yue clan, and was ashamed of the anger of the Yue clan and almost killed the hostage Mo Dun, fortunately, Mo Dun stole the good horse of the Yue clan and fled back to the Xiongnu and retrieved a life; Tou Man Shan Yu thought that this prince was very powerful. So he was given ten thousand cavalry for his command.
Prince Mouton killed his father to seize the throne,
It was this ten thousand cavalry that created a powerful Xiongnu king, and when Mo Dun learned that Touman was going to depose his son of the Lifu clan as crown prince, he made up his mind to kill his father and seize the throne; in order to build a force that only obeyed his orders, he invented a kind of Mingdi (Ringing Arrow), and ordered that where Mingdi shot, those who did not follow were beheaded. After that, he trained again and again, first by hunting birds and beasts, then shooting his own horses, and the cavalry who did not follow the shooting were executed; later, he shot his beloved wife, and all those who disobeyed the order were beheaded, and finally, when the thunderbolt shot at Tou ManDan Yu, Tou Man Shan Yu became a hedgehog. Subsequently, Mo Dun killed his stepmother, brother, and ministers who disobeyed his orders, and established himself as Shan Yu, which was Mo Dun Shan Yu.
After Mo Dun killed his father and seized the throne, he established a hereditary system of the throne, and the Xiongnu were positioned as the successor system of father and son or brother and brother. The Xiongnu state power consisted of three parts, which ruled over Shan Yuting in the central Xiongnu, bordering Dai Commandery and Yunzhong in the south; ruling the eastern xiongnu was the Zuoxian Wangting, adjacent to the Western Han Shanggu County in the south, and bordering the Qin Raccoon and Korea in the east; and the Xiongnu Right Xianwang Court ruled the western xiongnu, adjacent to the Han Dynasty Shangjun in the south, and bordered by the Yueshi Kingdom, the Qiang, and qiang states in the west.
Mo Dundan was then a military commander with great talent and great strategy, and he began to implement the strategy of conquest when he first ascended the throne; but at that time, the eastern Hu state was much more powerful than the Xiongnu, and when the eastern Hu state heard that Mo Dundan was killing his father and established himself, when his new monarch was not yet on the throne, he asked him for the thousand-mile horse ridden by the head ManDan Yu, and Mo Dun swallowed and swallowed it; Dong Hu asked for a beloved wife from Mo Dun, and Mo Dun gave it to him again in spite of the opposition of the ministers; Dong Hu thought that Mo Dun was a weak and deceitful person, so he had to go forward to occupy the abandoned land between Dong Hu and the Xiongnu This touched the bottom line of Mo Dun Shan Yu, Shan Yu was furious, and immediately personally led the army to attack Dong Hu, but Dong Hu despised Mo Dun and did not take precautions, the king of Dong Hu was killed, Mo Dun won a great victory, captured his people and livestock, and Dong Hu perished.
After Destroying Donghu by surprise, Mao Dun took advantage of the victory to march in three directions: west, south, and north to expand his territory.
The "Chronicle of the Xiongnu" records that "the Yue clan, and Lou Lou, sifu Mengtian seized the Xiongnu land, and the hometown of Henan Sai, to Chaona, then invaded Yan and Dai" "Houbei served the kingdoms of QuJu, Hun Yu, Ding Zero, and Man Kun." ”
From the above documents, it can be seen that Mao Dundan drove the Yueshi kingdom to the west, annexed the tribes such as Lou Fu and Baiyang in the south, recovered the Xiongnu territory seized by General Meng Tian during the Qin Dynasty, and also occupied part of the territory of the Qin Dynasty, and then conquered the states of Qu Zhi, Hun Yu, Ding Zero, Yu Kun, and Salary Plough to the north, and established a great Xiongnu Empire that stretched to the liao river valley in the east, the onion ridge in the west, the great Xiongnu empire in the south, and the vast territory on the shore of Lake Baikal in the north, and had a cavalry force of 300,000 people proficient in bows and arrows, and the Central Plains. Soon after the rebellion at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Chu and Han dynasties fought each other and their national strength withered, making the Xiongnu the most powerful empire in the region.
References: "History", "Book of Han", etc