Three Kingdoms: I am not Liu Bian

Chapter 164 The deer of the Han people is not for the Xiongnu to chase!
I'm so glad you came to ask for my help!

But I don't like your attitude!
Although doing so lacked some of the grandeur and righteousness, it did not diminish the demeanor of a great power. However, Liu Bian never considered sending back this powerful successor of the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu.

Firstly, this is a powerful and blatant declaration that as long as Yufuluo and Huchuquan are in the hands of the Han Dynasty, the Han army has the righteous right to send troops to the Southern Xiongnu or even occupy them.

Whoever becomes the Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu will have to carefully consider the weight of the two cards held by the Han Dynasty before attempting to raid and seize the pass.

Although cultural customs differed, and the Han army did not truly need such a puppet to wage war against the Xiongnu, it served as a fig leaf for the Xiongnu people's surrender to the Han Dynasty.

Roughly equivalent to Sun Ce's son, Sun Shao, falling into Cao Cao's hands, while Sun Quan was in power in Jiangdong at the time, and the pro-war faction around Sun Quan had been severely weakened.

Secondly, Hufro had a good grandson.

Liu Bian didn't care whether the guy who called himself Emperor Guangwen of Han treated the Han people sincerely or out of political necessity; he only knew one thing.

Non-my family, its heart must be different!
Unless you are a member of the Chinese nation!

Especially when facing foreign tribes in the context of the impending Little Ice Age, Liu Bian had no compassion for them!

He was not a saint; he only knew that even without war during the Little Ice Age, the population that this land could support under such conditions was limited. For every Hu person who was fed, one more Han person would starve to death.

Don't expect him to be kind-hearted. During the Five Barbarian Invasions, 16 million Han people died in 135 years. He cannot call the Five Barbarian Invasions "the migration of the Five Barbarians" like some experts do, nor can he accept the so-called "national integration" narrative.

I sympathize with you, but who sympathizes with the Han people who end up on the dinner table?
On average, they only kill 120,000 foreign tribes a year. Liu Bian believed that the Han army should not have difficulty achieving this KPI. At worst, they could accomplish in one year what would take several years to achieve!
Just as Liu Bian's murderous intent arose, a series of hunts had already begun in the Shanglin Garden hunting grounds.

Fortunately, Liu Hong has not had the leisure to hunt in recent years, so the animal breeding situation in Shanglin Garden is still quite good. Even if there is not enough prey, they will temporarily capture animals from gardens such as Xiyuan and throw them into Shanglin Garden.

Under the blazing sun, Dian Wei and Xu Chu each rode a fine horse, their hooves shattering the dappled light and shadows in the forest. Behind them were ten guards from the Crown Prince's residence. The two men fixed their eyes on two sika deer that had just darted out of the bushes not far away, their strong hands gripping the reins tightly.

They didn't care about these empty titles or rewards. In the entire Han Dynasty, were there any ministers who were closer to the Crown Prince than they were?
Do you even know what an inner court official is?
The Crown Prince often bestowed gifts upon Dian Wei and Xu Chu, including more than a dozen brocade robes and seven or eight jade belts.

The rest of the armor and weapons were all made by the master craftsmen of the Imperial Workshop. Even Dian Wei's halberd was carefully forged by the Imperial Workshop, and the shape of the halberd's blade was optimized to greatly enhance its armor-piercing ability.

The reason the two of them had their eyes on these two sika deer was simply because the prince liked to eat venison.

However, just as the two slowed their horses down and stopped on a small hill, drawing their bows and preparing to shoot, Dian Wei's rough fingers rubbed the bowstring, and he squinted slightly. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the Southern Xiongnu cavalry flanking him like a pack of wolves.

A group of Southern Xiongnu cavalrymen dressed in Hu clothing, with their hair loose and their robes fastened on the left, passed by them. Ten cavalrymen quickly surrounded the two sika deer in their formation and kept circling around them, giving the sika deer no chance to escape.

“I’m sorry, Dian Zhongdun and Xu Weilü, my brother and I have already surrounded these two sika deer. According to the rules of the grassland, they are already our prey. Please go and find other prey, Dian Zhongdun and Xu Weilü.”

Yufuluo wore a polite smile. Although he was resentful that the Crown Prince of the Han Dynasty did not allow them to lead troops to Bingzhou, he was not stupid and still treated Dian Wei and Xu Chu with great courtesy.

On the other hand, Hu Chuquan's loose curly hair was blown wildly by the wind, and a provocative smile appeared on his lips. He deliberately pulled the bowstring of his Mo bow so hard that it thumped loudly, and the arrow tip swept across Dian Wei and Xu Chu in a provocative manner, as if he already regarded the two sika deer as his own.

"Alright, let's not cause any more trouble. After all, we're on Han Chinese soil. Let's just hunt these two sika deer and take them back."

Yufuluo frowned slightly, whispered a word to his younger brother in the Xiongnu language, then took up the Mo bow, turned slightly to the side, locked his eyes on the stag, drew the bow, nocked an arrow, and aimed at the target.

Normally, he would simply give the deer to Dian Wei or Xu Chu, as a favor.

But don't the Han people of the Central Plains often say, "When Qin lost its deer, the whole world chased after it"?

If he were to hunt down these two sika deer, wouldn't that mean "the Han lost their deer, and the Xiongnu gained them"?

The two sika deer seemed to sense a deadly danger, their forelegs pawing anxiously at the mud, the white patches on their necks heaving violently with their rapid breathing. Hufro suddenly released the bowstring, his body arching slightly backward with the force of the movement, the arrow whistling through the air, aimed straight for the stag's throat.

However, just as the arrow left the bowstring, his intuition, honed through years of fighting on the grasslands beyond the Great Wall, made him instinctively turn his head to the side.

In an instant, Yuvro's pupils contracted sharply. He saw a sharp blade, reflecting the scorching sunlight yet exuding a chilling aura, slice through the air almost grazing his cheek, heading straight for the two sika deer.

Keng!
The halberd precisely sliced ​​the arrow shaft to pieces, its momentum undiminished, embedding itself deeply into the grass beside the deer's hooves, startling the male deer into rearing up and trying to escape.

"The deer of the Han people are not for the Xiongnu to chase!"

Before anyone could be seen, the sound arrived; a thunderous roar reached everyone's ears, making them instinctively want to cover their ears.

Before Fu Luo could even get angry, Dian Wei rode a blue-maned horse at breakneck speed, charging through the formation of horses circling around the two sika deer.

Dian Wei leaned back, and the murderous aura emanating from him frightened the two sika deer so much that they could only watch helplessly as Dian Wei charged straight at them.

As Dian Wei passed two sika deer, he leaned back on his horse and suddenly reached out with both hands, grabbing the deer's antlers, which were as thick as bowls, and capturing the two sika deer alive.

The instinct for survival made the two sika deer thrash about with all their might, while Dian Wei just chuckled.

Boom!
Dian Wei used both hands to forcefully slam the two sika deer together, repeating this collision more than a dozen times. Deer blood splattered onto the wolf head pattern on the iron armor, dripping down the armor plates and gathering into a stream.

By this time, the two deer heads were covered in blood, unrecognizable, and almost turned into a lump of mud, making them unbearable to look at.

Dian Wei was panting heavily, his face splattered with deer blood, but he grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, looking like a thoroughly satisfied god of war.

"Stop it right there!"

Xu Chu roared, dismounted, and reached out with his bare hands towards the tails of two horses in the formation.

His thick, muscular arms were like bulging rocks, his eyes were wide open like copper bells, he clenched his teeth, and gripped the horse's tail tightly. He stood firmly on the ground and managed to bring the two horses to a stop. Even the two Xiongnu riders on the horses were thrown to the ground.

When the two warhorses were too exhausted to run any further, Xu Chu swiftly moved forward, grabbed their legs, and with a shout, like Dian Wei wielding his double iron halberds, smashed all the other warhorses in the formation to the ground.

Xu Chu, panting heavily, wiped away the sweat that was about to drip from his forehead into his eyes. He revealed a ferocious smile to Hu Chuquan, made a sword-like gesture with his right hand, and lightly drew it towards his own throat, saying viciously, "The prey of the Han people has always been taken using only the methods of the Han people!"

"On the land of my Great Han, the rules of your grasslands... are utterly worthless!"

After saying that, Xu Chu spat a mouthful of phlegm hard onto the ground.

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PS: I have to say, the strength of Dian Wei and Xu Chu is just like the real story of Lü Bu shooting the halberd at the gate, even more like a novel than fiction.

The Records of the Three Kingdoms states: "The Yamen banner was so tall that no one could surpass it; it was built by Wei himself."

Records of the Three Kingdoms: Chu then stepped forward from the front of the formation, dragging an ox by the tail with one hand for more than a hundred paces.

Xu Chu's strength in dragging the ox's tail is well-known. Dian Wei's gate flag, according to later accounts, weighed about ten kilograms, but due to its excessive length, it was difficult to lift according to the lever principle, especially in the event of a strong wind capable of blowing the flag down.

As for the double iron halberds weighing eighty jin, that would be equivalent to ten kilograms per halberd in later units.

(End of this chapter)