Eastern Han Dynasty Figures to Ban Chao Thirty-six People Threatening the Western Regions (I)

The Eastern Han Dynasty recorded to Ban Chao Thirty-six people threatened the Western Regions

It is rumored that Han Shi can drink wine, which is true. Reading the Zizhi Tongjian, I saw That Ban Chao and his thirty-six heroes ran rampant in the Western Regions, beheaded the xiongnu emissaries, promoted the prestige of the Great Han Dynasty, covered up and sighed, and was not happy.

Because of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions and the Han Dynasty had severed ties for more than fifty years. During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the general Dou Gu sent his acting military officer Sima Banchao (military attaché) and Guo Ke on an envoy to the Western Regions.

One day, Ban Chao and his party went to Shanshan Country.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the state of Loulan was called Loulan, because Loulan balanced between the Xiongnu and the Western Han during the Western Han Dynasty, and the king of Loulan was killed by the emissaries of the Western Han Dynasty, and another king was established, and the name of the country was changed to Shanshan.

When Ban Chao first arrived in shanguo, he was warmly welcomed and warmly welcomed and warmly received by the king and ministers of shanshanguo.

However, this enthusiasm for the envoys of heaven did not last for a few days, and Ban Chao and his party obviously felt the slackness of the king and his ministers.

When Ban Chao and others discussed this change, the entourage thought that this was hu human nature that could not last long, and that this was due to nature.

Only Ban Chao felt that there must be something strange in it, Ban Chao was also a family of poets and books before he joined the army, and vaguely felt that history was going to repeat itself, it must be because of the Xiongnu, so he decided to test it.

Where Ban Chao and the others were stationed, they were accompanied by officials from Shan Shanguo. Ban Chao immediately summoned the official in charge of the reception, Shan Shanguo, pretended to be very angry, and asked: The envoys of the Xiongnu have been here for a few days, and where are they now.

The officials of shanshanguo were shocked, thinking that Ban Chao and others already knew that the Xiongnu were coming, so they told Ban Chao where the Xiongnu emissaries were stationed.

Ban Chao had the officials of Shan Shanguo locked up so as not to leak the wind. Then he gathered the thirty-six men who followed and feasted with them for a drink.

After drinking a few cups, Ban Chao slapped the case and told everyone about the arrival of the Xiongnu emissary.

Ban Chao was impassioned and said: All the brothers and I came to the desperate situation in the western region, life and death together, now that the Xiongnu emissaries have just arrived, the King of Shanshan has neglected us, and the next step is for the Xiongnu emissaries to let shanshan kill us, I am afraid that we will be ghosts of a foreign land, what should we do after consultation?

The crowd was enraged, and said, "Now in the land of peril, all who obey you will not be afraid of life and death."

Ban Chao drank a glass of wine bitterly and said, "If you don't enter the tiger's den and don't let the tigers, the only way today is to make a dangerous move, kill all the Xiongnu emissaries, and put an end to the idea of the Good Kingdom to surrender to the Xiongnu, then great things can be accomplished." There were many Xiongnu emissaries and guards, and we should take advantage of the black fire of the moon to attack, bluff and kill them unexpectedly.

The crowd nodded and said yes, and someone proposed to communicate this matter to Guo Ke, who was engaged in it. Ban Chao said angrily, the matter is urgent and cannot be leaked, Guo Ke is a civilian official, after hearing it, he will inevitably hesitate, and even leak the wind and noise, becoming a big thing without details, and the name of the ancient merits is here.

The people said, "Well, look up and dry the wine in the bowl, and each of them will return to the account to prepare weapons, and so on."

That night, the moon was dark and windy.

Ban Chao had people ambushed outside the account of the Xiongnu emissaries, and he himself bladed three guards and set the tent on fire. The crowd shouted at zhentian with the fire as a trumpet, rushed in from all directions, and slashed and killed the Xiongnu emissaries.

The history books record that the super hand killed three people, the officials beheaded their envoys and subordinates for more than thirty ranks, and the remaining hundreds of people were burned to death.

After returning to the garrison, Ban Chao had people summon the King of Shanshan, and after the arrival of the King of Shanshan, the first thing he saw was the head of the Xiongnu emissary.

King Shanshan was horrified, and the whole shanshan kingdom was shocked, so he was pleased and sincere, saying that he had no second heart and sincerely submitted to the Han Dynasty.