Yixieer Chanyu of the Northern Xiongnu always adhered to the strategy of "accumulating grain, building high walls, and delaying the declaration of kingship," and never had any friction or conflict with other forces.

Previously, when facing Aixin, the Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu, he was far stronger than the Southern Xiongnu.

However, they still adopted a submissive posture and did not go with the Southern Xiongnu to compete for the so-called "Howling Golden Wolf".

Yixie'er's political thinking is quite mature: the so-called ancestral sacred objects are nonsense. Whether you have them or not is not important at all. What's reliable is having soldiers in your hands and grain in your granaries!

When you are strong enough, you won't need any "objects" to prove yourself; you yourself will be the best sacred object!

Given his personality, he wouldn't be so reckless as to directly attack the Qin state.

Firstly, Qin was, after all, a powerful state.

If Yixie Er could mobilize an army of 400,000, so could the Qin state!

However... the defensive pressure at Hangu Pass will be relatively high.

The reason Yi Xie Er did this was actually to anticipate Jiang Ming's prediction...

Unlike Aixin, the Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu who only knew how to dominate the grasslands, Yixie'er relied on caravans to transmit information and had a thorough understanding of the situation of the various vassal states in the Central Plains...

He already knew that Jiang Ming, his formidable rival, had become the new King of Chu, as well as the Prime Minister and Governor of the Great Gan Dynasty.

Therefore, we absolutely cannot deal with him using ordinary methods...

Actually, before Young Master Luo fled to the Northern Xiongnu, Yixie'er already knew about Jiang Ming!

Furthermore, I have studied him and his battle tactics in detail.

Yi Xie'er was fully aware of Jiang Ming's series of brilliant victories, including the surprise attack on the Southern Xiongnu's old camp!

Even though Yixie'er was in the northern desert, he knew all about how the foolish King of Zhongshan and the Rouran Khan were completely fooled by Jiang Ming.

It's just that they see through it but don't say it out loud!

After Young Master Luo arrived, he vividly described to Chanyu Yixie how despicable Jiang Ming was and how adept he was at framing others...

And how he used his connections to commit P2P fraud and swindle food from various countries.

What's most hateful is that he was the one who launched a sneak attack on the Southern Xiongnu's main camp!

As a result, he framed the Zhongshan State, causing the Xiongnu and the people of Zhongshan to fight each other, and then he and the Xianbei people reaped the benefits.

Right now, among Jiang Ming's troops, there are still seventy or eighty thousand foolish Xiongnu people who are kept in the dark and are working for him!

Young Master Luo repeatedly persuaded Yixie'er to take a two-pronged approach: First, send someone to the Yanbei camp to tell the Xiongnu people there the truth, that is, the one who really massacred the Southern Xiongnu's old camp was Jiang Ming, not the people of Zhongshan... In this way, more Xiongnu tribesmen could be persuaded to defect and return north!

Secondly... send someone to infiltrate Luoyi and tell the Xiongnu cavalry who are fighting alongside Jiang Ming in the Central Plains the truth, so that they will immediately turn against Jiang Ming. At that time, Yixie'er can lead his troops south and directly conquer the Central Plains!

It must be said that Young Master Luo's wicked scheme was indeed deadly.

But Yi Xie didn't take it seriously!

He believes these methods are all underhanded tricks that can't be openly discussed...

It's okay to disgust Jiang Ming.

But it's impossible to really injure him or even cripple him!

If telling the truth really works, why didn't you, Young Master Luo, persuade more people to follow you when you fled here?

The so-called right and wrong are not actually the most important factors in people's choices.

What determines people's decisions is human nature!

Now, most of these former Southern Xiongnu people, following Jiang Ming on the Yanbei grasslands, at least have enough to eat and wear, and no longer have to wander from place to place, worrying about starving to death in the winter when water and grass are scarce...

There's no need to worry about other ethnic minorities launching sneak attacks.

After all, the Rouran are gone, the Zhongshan Kingdom is gone, and the Xianbei are allies. Isn't it nice to live comfortably?

Therefore, Yixie Er Chanyu believed that in order to truly eliminate Jiang Ming, one must be "bold and decisive," using genuine military and political strategies to control him.

I heard that Jiang Ming has gathered two-thirds of the military strength of all the vassal states in the entire Da Gan region, reaching an astonishing 600,000 men!

Instead of seeing this as a huge threat, Yixie Er thought it was a good thing!

Because if these 600,000 people were eliminated in one fell swoop, the entire military strength of the Central Plains dynasty would be completely crippled...

He could then march straight in and completely dominate the Central Plains!

The Qin state was merely a bait thrown by Yixie Er to Jiang Ming!

This is his plan: If he attacks the Qin state, Jiang Ming will definitely think that the Northern Xiongnu have their eyes on the Qin state's strategic location and want to use Hangu Pass, which is "advanceable and defensive," to continuously annoy the Central Plains states.

In that case, according to Jiang Ming's battle tactics, he would definitely let Qin hold out first! Then he would personally lead a large army north to directly attack the Northern Xiongnu's stronghold, thus "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao".

In this way, Yixie Er could set an ambush and annihilate these 600,000 people in one fell swoop.

This is equivalent to waiting in comfort for the enemy to tire themselves out!

Otherwise, if I personally lead the troops south, they will suffer from acclimatization problems and insufficient food supplies...

Even though his 400,000 iron cavalry were brave, they could not exert much power.

Moreover, once defeated, the Northern Xiongnu would be completely finished!

Yi Xie'er believed that, given Jiang Ming's tendency to go to extremes, he might, in a fit of anger, kill all the people of the Northern Xiongnu and completely eradicate them!

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