In 200 BC, Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang was besieged by the Xiongnu army at Baishan Mountain, and if it were not for Chen Pingji, the Han Gaozu who founded the Han Dynasty would almost die at the hands of the Xiongnu. In the story of the Siege of Baideng Mountain, the protagonists are often Liu Bang, Chen Ping and the Xiongnu Shan Yu of the Fu clan, Mao Dun Shan Yu, the overlord of the northern grasslands who single-handedly created the legend, but is often ignored.
1. MingDi kills the father
From an early age, Morton grew up surrounded by death threats, a threat given to him by his biological father. Mo Dun Shan Yu was originally the prince of Tou Man Shan Yu, but Tou Man Shan Yu's beloved Fu clan was a concubine and gave birth to a younger son. Like Liu Bang, Tou Man Shan Yu also wanted to make his younger son the crown prince because he loved Wu and Wu. It's just that Tou Man is more desperate, and he is ready to kill Mo Dun.
Tou ManDan sent Mo Dun to Yue Shi as a proton, and as soon as Mo Dun arrived, he sent an army to attack Yue Shi, hoping to kill Mo Dun by yue shi's hand, and Mo Dun stole a good horse before he escaped. Tou Man Shan Yu thought that Mao Dun was indeed brave and prepared to make the best use of his supplies, asking him to lead his troops to fight and pave the way for his younger son.
He was silent, but secretly cultivated a private army loyal to himself. Mouton created a kind of arrow and ordered his men to follow the target of his arrow, and behead the disobedient.
First, He shot at the birds and beasts, and if anyone did not follow the shooting, he beheaded them all; then he shot his own horses, and if some of his subordinates did not dare to shoot, Heton killed them; later, When Heton shot at his beloved wife, many of his subordinates did not dare to shoot, and Mouton beheaded them.
Until this time, those who survived were all those who were loyal to Morton and would not have any doubts about his instructions. So Mao Dun once again shot at his father's beloved horse with a loud arrow, and the left and right sides shot the arrows with all their might.
Surrounded by the shadow of death, Mo Dun finally broke out, and when he was hunting with his father, he shot at Tou Man Shan Yu with a loud arrow, and shot arrows at Shan Yu left and right, and Tou Man was killed on the spot.
Subsequently, Mouton killed all his stepmother and brother, seized power himself, and became the new leader of the Huns.
Second, lie down and taste the guts
Mo Dundan was then a male lord, and he had the spirit of the Yue King's conspiracy to lie down and taste the guts.
When Mo Dundan first ascended the throne, the power of the Huns was not yet strong, and the Donghu people were very prosperous, and they heard that after Mo Dundan had established himself in his father, he wanted to take the opportunity to provoke an incident and attack the Xiongnu, so he sent someone to ask for a Maxima. Mo Dun Shan Yu asked the ministers for advice, and everyone said that the Maxima was a Xiongnu BMW and could not be given, but Mo Dun Shan Yu gave the horse to the Donghu chieftain.
Later, the Donghu people again asked Mo Dun Shan Yu for his beloved wife, and the courtiers all said that the Dong Hu people had deceived people too much to agree, but Mo Dun Shan Yu still agreed to the rude request of the Dong Hu people and gave his beloved wife to the Dong Hu chief.
Therefore, the donghu chieftain believed that Mo Dun Shan was weak and could not be deceived, and was not enough to be afraid, so he dispelled the idea of attacking Mo Dun Shan Yu and acted more and more arbitrarily.
Later, the Eastern Hu chief sent envoys to demand a vacant lot between the Huns and the Eastern Hus. Mo Dundan asked the minister again, and some people said that it was okay to give empty land to the Donghu people. However, in the past, in their eyes, they were weak and incompetent, and Mao Dundan suddenly became furious, and he ordered the beheading of his courtiers who advocated abandoning the land, and personally mounted his horse, mobilized a large army, and suddenly killed the Donghu people. The Eastern Hu chieftains were caught off guard and were soon wiped out, and the Huns captured all of Donghu's population and supplies.
Since then, Mao Dundan yu has opened his path of conquest, he drove the Yue clan west, annexed the Lou Nu and other tribes to the south, and reoccupied the territory that had been laid down by Meng Tian, and also occupied the northwest region of the Qin Dynasty.
After a series of major conquests, Mao Dundan yu established a large empire stretching from the Liao River Valley in the east, the Pamir Plateau in the west, the Qin Great Wall in the south, and Lake Baikal in the north. The tribes on the steppe all submitted, and the power of the Huns reached its peak, claiming to have more than 300,000 people who controlled the strings.
Three, two insults to the Han Dynasty
Mao Dun Shan Yu twice brought great shame to the Han Dynasty, once the Siege of Bai Deng, and once after the insult to Lü Hou.
The occurrence of the Siege of Baideng was actually not unexpected, because At this time, Liu Bang would not have thought that the backward Xiongnu in the north would actually appear with such a male lord.
Liu Bang thought that he was in control of the world, and even Xiang Yu was defeated in his hands, so when Han Wangxin defected to the Xiongnu, he decided to fight the Xiongnu together.
Liu Bang's military ability was not weak, but Mao Dundan Yu was also a male lord who had grown up in the war. Therefore, when Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops came to attack him, He Dundan pretended to be invincible and fled in a hurry to lure Liu Bang. Liu Bang was sure of the plan, and only led some light horses to pursue the Xiongnu, and was surrounded by 400,000 troops of Mao Dun Shan Yu at Baishan Mountain.
Many people believe that Mao Dundan was a leader without a strategy, who listened to his bribed beloved wife, let Liu Bang run away, and missed the opportunity.
In fact, this view is an underestimation of Mao Dun Shan Yu, this person can kill his father and abandon his beloved wife in order to succeed, how can he be calculated because of his wife's few words?
In the final analysis, Mao Dundan let Liu Bang go because Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops were on the way to support, and he attacked Liu Bang for seven days and seven nights without success, and the troops were already tired, and once the han army arrived, the situation of the Xiongnu would take a sharp turn. Therefore, Mao Dun Shan Yu would let Liu Bang go.
As for the insults to Lü Hou in the letters, I am afraid that they are not just for bad taste.
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou took power, and Mao Dundan suddenly wrote a letter to Lü Hou one day, saying that I have no wife, you have no husband, and we are quite suitable.
As the supreme ruler of the Han Empire, Lü Hou was humiliated in this way, which was a great shame for the Han Dynasty. The courtiers were furious and advocated fighting against the Huns. However, the purpose of Mao Dundan's writing of this letter may be precisely to stimulate Lü Hou and let the Han army come to the north to fight against him. Lü Hou was equally shrewd, and she saw the conspiracy of Mao Dun Shan Yu, so she chose to swallow her anger.
Fourth, the end of the ominous
Mo Dundan lived until the time of Emperor Wen of Han. In the past, the Xiongnu had been tearing up the peace treaty signed with Liu Bang, taking the money given by the Han Dynasty on the one hand and plundering the border people of the Han Dynasty on the other.
However, by the time of the reign of Emperor Wen of Han, the Huns were no longer so arrogant, because Mao Dun shan Yu realized that the empire located in the south of him was no longer what it used to be.
When the Han Dynasty was weak, he constantly attacked the Han Dynasty, and when the Han Dynasty was strong, he immediately turned the wind around and sent people to ask Emperor Wen of Han for peace. Emperor Wu of Han agreed to the request and sent envoys to send gifts.
This was the last thing Moton Shan Yu did, because he died soon after.
A generation of tyrants, just like this. What he didn't know was that in the decades after his death, the Han Empire in the south would also give birth to a tyrant overlord, who would sweep away the steppe empire that Mao Dun had worked hard to create.
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