At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three kingdoms were divided, and the world rose up. However, during this period, the Wuhuan tribe of the Xiongnu, which had earlier been conquered by the Western Han Dynasty soldiers and horses, also took advantage of the chaos. And Cao Cao's insistence on personally sending troops to fight was the leader of the Wuhuan tribe who had previously replaced the Han Dynasty to ensure the peace of the Xiongnu tribes in the north! The alias of Gandun is wuhuan wang, so since jiantun is the leader of the tribe, why is he called not Shan Yu but wuhuan wang? In fact, this is related to the cause of his early rule over the Wuhuan tribe!
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According to historical records, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shan Yu, who commanded the Wuhuan tribe, was named Qiu Liju, but Qiu Liju was supposed to be succeeded by his son Lou Ban after his death. However, at that time, Lou Ban was very young and had no ability to command the Wuhuan tribe at all, and Qiu Lijudan thought that his nephew Jian Dun had courage and strategy before his death, so he temporarily replaced Shan Yu in his position. Since then, He Dun has been in charge of the three Wuhuan kings of Right Beiping, Yuyang and Shanggu.
Because of his excellent leadership ability, the subjects of the three tribes were very supportive and trusted of him! Later, after Lou Ban became an adult, the generals of the Wuhuan tribe supported Lou Ban as Shan Yu and Jian Dun was revered as the King of Wu Huan, although he had already planned the position of Shan Yu, and Jian Dun also never had the heart to usurp the throne, so Jian Dun was still a high-status decision-making leader of the Wu Huan tribe! So how did Hedun threaten Cao Cao's hegemony, causing Cao Cao to annihilate him so resolutely?
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At that time, Yuan Dun intended to make friends with the warlord Yuan Shao, not only sent emissaries to ask for relatives, but also sent troops to assist Yuan Shao in his crusade against Gongsun Zhan, and after Gongsun Zhan's defeat, Yuan Shao officially accepted Jian Dun's joining, and not only did he give Jian Dun and his subordinates such as Nan Lou, Su Shuyan and Wu Yan the title and seal of Shan Yu in the name of the imperial court. Later, he also fulfilled the courtship of Jiandun and married the leader of the Wuhuan tribe! Unfortunately, not long after, Yuan Shao died in the Battle of Guandu, which was fighting with Cao Cao! However, Jian Dun chose to continue to maintain an ally relationship with Yuan Shao's descendants.
After Yuan Shao's death, his two sons Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang launched a civil war for the struggle for power, and the cunning Cao Cao also took advantage of this to reap the benefits of the fisherman, and it was not long before he took the opportunity to kill Yuan Tan. Yuan Shang also suffered heavy losses, and could only lead the remnants to flee to Youzhou in the Liaoning region to defect to his second brother Yuan Xi, but it was not long before the Yuan brothers encountered a mutiny. In the end, the two brothers could only flee to the Wuhuan tribe for help! Because the yuan brothers brought also brought a large number of followers to Jiandun.
At this time, the Wuhuan tribe was already very powerful under the leadership of Gandun, so Gantun decided that it was time to start establishing his own hegemony in the north. According to historical records, at that time, the soldiers and horses of the Yuan brothers and the soldiers and horses of The Yuan brothers were strongly combined, and this army that claimed to be the hegemon of the north mainly recovered the Central Plains was as high as more than 300,000 people, but the history of the rise of the Yuan brothers was called "to be majestic and barbaric". It didn't take long for The Great Army of Gandun to repeatedly invade the border and march into the Central Plains in the name of recovering Yuan Shao's territory.
In Youzhou, around Liaoning, Heton's army had plundered the property of more than 100,000 households, and later Gandun openly challenged Cao Cao and led his troops to attack Hou Xianyufu of Changxiang County, who supported Cao Cao, and Cao Cao could not bear it, and was determined to personally lead his troops to defeat this growing wolf from the north and never worry about the north! In May 207, Cao Cao officially sent an army to fight against Jiandun.
However, Cao Cao's luck in this expedition did not seem to be very good, because at that time, the early summer was upright, and the heavy rain for several days made the road of the march unusually muddy and difficult to walk, and Cao Cao was very worried about it, and at this time, the strategist Tian Yu around him suggested that the army pretend to retreat from this inevitable road of attack, so that they would be neglected, and there was a great hope of catching Them alive in finding another way to raid the empty place of their defense! Cao Cao agreed, and deliberately left behind "the weather is hot and the road is difficult to walk, so it is left to attack again in the autumn and winter." The news, Jian Dun really began to neglect to guard, was surrendered by Cao Cao's army to launch a fierce attack, and the final outcome of Guan Dun is still a mystery, one theory is that he was killed by Zhang Liao, and the other is that he died under Cao Chun's sword!