In the late summer and early autumn of the third year of Jian'an, after the situation in the three counties in the northwestern Bingzhou stabilized, the Huaxiong Xurong army each dispatched two battalions of light cavalry to support Zhang Liao.

With the cooperation of elite scouts equipped with falcons, cheetahs and hounds, the Zhang Liao army of Liang launched a comprehensive and precise attack on the Huns on the Hetao Plain. Thousands of Huns were captured and more than 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses were seized. The Huns in the Hetao area suffered a heavy blow.

However, compared with the Liang army's mobilization and attack, what made the Huns even more difficult was the blockade of salt and grain. This made the Huns' tribes miserable. Some even advocated the migration of the entire tribe, crossing the desert, and going to the northern desert or Hexi, where at least salt could be eaten. There were also voices who advocated reconciliation with the Liang State.

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A broken and lonely city stands on the grassland with light winds and clouds. This is Shuofang City. It was the first city built in the Heshuo area when Wei Qing conquered the Huns in the north. Shuofang County was also named after it.

Today, it has been abandoned by the Central Plains dynasty for decades. Only the city walls that have become mounds of soil and are covered with weeds. The houses in the city have long been turned into rubble and buried in the earthy yellow sand.

A flag rose from the horizon in the distance, which were hundreds of Liang army cavalry. They were the vanguard troops stationed in Shuofang City. There were two baggage battalions and a large number of civilians coming behind them. They were escorting a large number of infantry and cavalry toward Shuofang City.

These Liang army cavalry didn't know that there was a camp full of camps of Xiongnus ninety miles east of Shuofang City. That was the new royal court of Huchuquan.

At this time, outside the royal court tent, there was a large wooden table and two benches, and there were about ten people sitting. The patriarchs of more than a dozen tribes of the Huns came here to discuss matters openly.

"Da Shanyu, we can't stay in Hetao anymore. We are worried every day and are robbed by the Liang army from time to time. Who can bear it?"

"Yes, even if we want to fight Liang Jun, we don't have the strength anymore."

"This is still a small matter. Now that we have cut off salt and food, this is a big matter."

"I think we should move north to Mobei. Go west, move to Hexi, and go to the Western Regions."

"There are Xianbei in the north and Wusun in the Western Regions. Can we stand there and stand firm? I think we should make peace with Liang State. See what conditions they have to offer."

Everyone was talking and talking, Hu Chuquan's expression was cloudy and sunny.

Hu Chuquan said, "Everyone, it is impossible to let a certain surrender to the Han Dynasty. So I am going to move all the Xiongnu tribes to the southern part of the desert first. If the Liang army presses forward step by step, then we will move to the northern part of the Mobei. The Xianbei people are now much stronger than our Xiongnu, but since Tan Shihuai's death, they have been a pile of loose sand. I believe that the Xiongnu people can still regain our hometown of Mobei!"

As soon as he said this, except for a few people who agreed, most of the people in the tent remained silent. Then someone muttered in a low voice:

"Isn't it because I can't get any salt and food when I move to the north of Mo, and I've been to the bitter and cold place once in the early years. Is that place a place where people stay?"

"Yes, many of us Xiutuge people make a living by farming, and the southern part of the desert cannot farm. It is a bit difficult to restore our nomadic life."

At this time, Liu Qubei, who had been silent, said: "Da Shanyu, since we are going to move to the south of the Mo River, why not surrender to the Liang Kingdom? Feng Yuti's condition was nothing more than to move partly to the south of the Mo River and partly guard the Hetao area outside the Great Wall..."

Hu Chuquan cast a fierce look at Liu Qubei, interrupting him and said, "What? Liu Qubei, you actually colluded with the enemy privately! Otherwise, how did you know these?"

The tent suddenly became silent, and everyone was silent, waiting for the development of the situation.

Unexpectedly, Liu Qubei was not panicked and admitted in a big way: "The Great Shanyu, his subordinates did have contact with Feng Yu's Han envoys. But this is all for the future of our 100,000 people of the Huns."

Hu Chuquan sneered: "I had expected you to collude with the enemy privately, because you are not our Huns at all! Come on, take this person down and behead him and show him to the public!"

More than a dozen personal guards behind Hu Chuquan agreed in unison and wanted to come up to get the people. Liu Qubei's side, and more than a dozen Iron Fo warriors had their swords unsheathed and guarded them. The two sides were in a stalemate and stood up.

On the outside, more Huchuquan tribes were coming. Liu Qubei shouted loudly: "Kill!"

A leader of the fresh branch on the left side of Huchuquan suddenly blew his knife and stabbed Huchuquan into Huchuquan's chest with one knife. Huchuquan spitted blood, said the word "you..." and fell to the ground.

The personal soldiers of seven or eight tribe leaders also drew their weapons and pointed at the Huchuquan personal soldiers who were confronting Liu Qubei.

Some of the tribes where these leaders were located were the Hun tribes that were still in Yunzhong and Yanmen. They had surrendered to Xu Rong and Hua Xiong. Some of them were contacted by Liu Qubei in private.

The situation suddenly changed in the lightning and fire. These Huchuquan personal soldiers were at a loss. There were hundreds of people on the other side, and Huchuquan was dead. The Huchuquan tribes who were rushing to stop all of them. A large number of heavy iron cavalry appeared behind them, and they would never be the Huns' war cavalry!

The remaining half of the tribe leaders were stunned and shocked by this mutation. But then, most of them were indifferent. Only one person slapped the table and shouted: "Liu Qubei, you dare to commit crimes..."

Before he could finish his words, he was slashed off his head with a knife. The personal soldiers behind him also did not dare to move.

At this time, the personal guards and subordinates of Hu Chuquan had already put down their weapons under the threat of heavy troops.

Liu Qubei then said loudly: "Everyone, it's not that I am greedy for the position of Shanyu, so I have to replace Huchuquan. In fact, we will continue to make trouble with Huchuquan like this. I am afraid that the Huhunus will suffer the disaster of the destruction of the clan and the race!

But as long as we surrender King Feng Yu of Liang, we can still live in the Hetao area and on both sides of the Yellow River. If any tribe is unwilling to do so, I, Liu Qubei, would not keep him, but I, led my tribes to leave Hetao and the southern part of the desert. From then on, I have nothing to do with my Huns."

The seven or eight tribal leaders and patriarchs who had not participated in this coup muttered to each other for a while. Then they bowed to Liu Jubei and said, "We are willing to respect you as the Great Chanyu and follow your orders to act."

Then everyone in the camp knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Qubei, calling him Shanyu. The tribes who called Chuquan were a little unwilling to accept it, but seeing that everyone was like this, they had to kneel down and bow to him.

Feng Yu knew about this news before Feige passed the news to Zhuyang. Because his system mission [Putting the Huns] was completed, he received the reward of [100 Li Chidao Building Card x20, Jiangchen Orange Card x1]

Feng Yu divided the Xiongnu into two parts, and the farming tribes were arranged outside the Great Wall and within the Hetao. The nomadic tribes were placed in the south of the desert. They also established military camps in two military towns, Shuofang and Zhenbeicheng, to consolidate the defense of their territory in the northern border.
Chapter completed!