Yi Xie Er's actions, while somewhat surprising to Jiang Ming, also seemed to make sense...
The Northern Xiongnu, who wanted to go to war with the Central Plains dynasties, were most afraid of being harassed from their flanks!
In the unlikely event that the Northern Xiongnu were to launch a surprise attack, and the Xianbei Khan of the Great Xianbei Mountains, being Jiang Ming's father-in-law, were to swiftly seize their stronghold, such a scenario must be guarded against...
On one hand, it was causing trouble in the Qin state in the far west.
On the other hand, they concentrated their forces to deal with the Xianbei people.
Yi Xie Er's "feint to the east while attacking the west" tactic spanned thousands of miles, which can only be described as a "grand move"!
However, what Jiang Ming didn't expect was that while he was still analyzing the distribution of wolf droppings in Yan and listening to the scouts' reports, Yi Xie'er's army had already launched a general attack on Da Xianbei Mountain!
Yixie'er's strategic intentions couldn't be clearer.
To defeat Jiang Ming, we need to proceed slowly, lure him deep into our territory, and play hide-and-seek with him on the vast northern grasslands.
He would launch a final attack after exhausting Jiang Ming.
However, when fighting the Xianbei Khan, we must adopt a blitzkrieg strategy, a swift and decisive victory, and quickly eliminate the hidden dangers on our flanks so that we can devote ourselves fully to the battle against the Daqian Dynasty!
Otherwise, with the Xianbei and Da Gan's armies supporting each other, we'd be on guard on both ends, creating too many hidden dangers!
The Xianbei Khan Murong Hong never dreamed that Yixie'er of the Northern Xiongnu would attack him first!
Actually, it's not surprising that he lacked a sense of crisis.
The distance between the Northern Xiongnu and the Great Xianbei Mountains was not short at all... the distance was equivalent to that from Jicheng in the Yan state to Yanying in the Chu state.
One is in the far north, and the other is in the far northeast...
Previously, the Southern Xiongnu and the Xianbei fought back and forth.
Now that the Southern Xiongnu have been destroyed, the so-called Northern Xiongnu seem to be something that exists only on the horizon to the Xianbei tribes... No one would have thought that the Northern Xiongnu would be so bored as to travel thousands of miles to fight them!
In war, the most frightening thing is being caught off guard and completely unprepared!
The Xianbei Khan Murong Hong led six tribes, with a total force of about 150,000.
However, due to being caught off guard, they suffered a crushing defeat, with countless casualties. The remaining troops were completely surrounded by 200,000 Xiongnu troops in the Daxianbei Mountains and their water supply was cut off, leaving them in a desperate situation!
The Xianbei Khan Murong Hong was also shot in the back with an arrow, and his life was in danger...
Yixie'er even deliberately left an opening, allowing the Xianbei messenger to escape...
His meaning was also very clear: lure Jiang Ming to come to the rescue, and then set up an ambush halfway there!
This Yixie Er is well-versed in the military strategies of the Central Plains and is highly skilled in various tactics. He has set up countless traps for Jiang Ming, and if Jiang Ming falls into any one of them, the consequences will be irreversible!
Since Jiang Ming's debut, apart from Dugu Yan's underestimation of his enemy and recklessness, which led to his downfall in Zhongshan, he has never suffered a defeat!
In his battles against the states of Qi, Jin, Zhi, and Chu, Jiang Ming achieved remarkably impressive victories!
His divine prowess has cast a deep and strong psychological shadow on the feudal lords of the Central Plains!
Therefore, as long as Jiang Ming can be defeated once, breaking his myth of invincibility... then the Da Gan vassal states will become restless, and the Da Gan court will once again lose its 'authority' and have no appeal.
The reason why the feudal lords listen to the emperor now is because they are afraid of Jiang Ming!
Therefore, this factor also played a role in the war between Yixie'er and the Xianbei: "Look, I've wiped out your father-in-law's family, and Jiang Ming is still powerless, isn't he? If I can do it, then you vassal states oppressed by Jiang Ming can do it too..."
In ancient times, the distances between countries were vast and the flow of information was poor, unlike in modern society where a phone call can immediately inform the other party of the situation.
So when Jiang Ming's messenger quickly reported the news to Da Xianbei Mountain... Da Xianbei Mountain, having suffered a defeat, also arrived with a messenger urgently requesting Jiang Ming's support!
Upon entering the main hall and seeing Jiang Ming, the Xianbei envoy knelt down and wept, recounting how badly the Northern Xiongnu had attacked them, how severe the losses to Xian'er were, and how Jiang Ming's father-in-law, the Xianbei Khan, had been wounded by an arrow... and how critical the situation was!
When Murong Xue heard that her father had been shot by an arrow and was trapped in the Great Xianbei Mountains, she cried and begged Jiang Ming for help to save the Xianbei Khan's life!
Jiang Ming did not act immediately, but continued to formulate a reasonable battle plan based on the distribution of wolf droppings!
Yixie Er Chanyu is extremely treacherous!
He besieged the Xianbei Khan at Daxianbei Mountain, luring Jiang Ming to come to his rescue.
On the other hand, halfway to the Great Xianbei Mountain, Jiang Ming poured the blood and excrement of diseased and dead livestock into the water source...
The goal was to make Jiang Ming's army drink contaminated water during their rescue mission, causing many soldiers to fall ill. Then, he would fight and retreat, wearing down Jiang Ming's army until they died of illness... He could even crush Jiang Ming without losing a single soldier!
Throwing dead animals into water sources, causing widespread disease outbreaks, is the greatest taboo on the grasslands, just like killing children shorter than a cartwheel—it would incur the wrath of the 'Eternal Heaven'!
However, the usually 'wise and benevolent' Yixie Er Chanyu showed absolutely no regard for such things when dealing with Jiang Ming...
When Jiang Ming massacred the Southern Xiongnu's old camp, he was just as indiscriminate, killing so many innocent old people, women, and children.
And his subordinate, Dugu Yan, wiped out the entire Rouran tribe...
Therefore, in order to defeat Jiang Ming, Yi Xie Er would use any insidious and vicious tricks, without any moral or religious constraints!
However, Jiang Ming, although he did not expect Yi Xie Er's scheme to be so vicious, had already taken precautions!
The reason is simple: history is a mirror. Reading more history can make us wiser and help us avoid making mistakes!
In Jiang Ming's previous life, it was said that Huo Qubing, the greatest general of the Han Dynasty, died after drinking water contaminated by livestock that had died of disease.
Therefore, Jiang Ming had long ago made a rule in the army that water must be boiled before drinking, no matter what!
To this end, he specially made tens of thousands of marching pots, just for boiling water along the way!
Simple changes in lifestyle habits can directly prevent countless tragedies!
Here on the grasslands, there is the most terrifying plague, as well as typhoid and salmonella... If these diseases were to spread in the Central Plains dynasties, the death toll would not be just a matter of hundreds of thousands of people, but tens of millions of people would be wiped out!
These large-scale royal troops, following Jiang Ming, were guided by modern hygiene concepts, which directly prevented many disasters!
Faced with the crisis of his father-in-law being besieged, Jiang Ming did not take immediate action. Instead, he pondered the map carefully all night and finally came up with a brilliant plan to defeat the enemy!
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