The last Huns "God of War"
After a period of historical training among the ethnic minorities in northern China, a man of great influence will always appear to unify the tribes and become powerful for a while.
The Xiongnu, a nation that was so powerful for a while that their iron cavalry even traveled all over Eastern Europe, came to the end of the world and was almost extinct. Finally, another talented military strategist appeared, allowing this ancient and powerful northern alien nation to , rises again in Chinese history, and interprets the Xiongnu's last madness on the land of northern China like a flashback.
He is the desert war god - Helian Bobo.
In the fourth century AD, while the celebrities of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were still drinking extravagantly in the courtyard, the horses of the Sixteen Kingdoms had begun to compete for land in the north, and independent regimes changed continuously.
Messy and bloody. At this time, a war god who traveled across the desert relied on his talent, courage and cruelty to push the power of the Xiongnu to the highest peak in history. He raised the banner of the Great Xia Kingdom among the sixteen kingdoms and made it a The powerful empire dominates the north. ——He is Helian Bobo, the last iron-blooded man of the Huns. In the wild blood, savage creativity and destructive power surge. The surname Liu given to him by the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty has been "devalued" and can be thrown away; the title of "Anbei Wuyuan Gong" is no longer glorious. He jumped back on his horse and proclaimed himself the King of Heaven - Chanyu - eventually establishing a great empire.
In 407 AD, the 27-year-old Helian Bobo founded the Great Xia Kingdom and started the glorious history of the last Xiongnu empire. After that, Helian Bobo led his tribe to conquer the north and south, and his illustrious military exploits scorched the entire history. And only ten years after the founding of Daxia, Chang'an, the thousand-year imperial capital, was already in Helian Bobo's possession. In 418 AD, the Xiongnu army marched southward with great momentum and destroyed Liu Yu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who had occupied Chang'an in the Later Qin Dynasty. Due to the continuous civil strife in the country, he quickly retreated to Jiangnan and left only his twelve-year-old son to guard Chang'an. And this is tantamount to handing over Chang'an to Helian Bobo. Sure enough, the Desert God of War not only captured Chang'an with ease, but also took possession of the entire Qinchuan, thus reaching the pinnacle of Great Xia's glory.
In its heyday, Daxia exceeded the small countries in the Western Region in both territory and population. Its territory includes the entire province of Shaanxi, the Hetao area of Inner Mongolia, central and southwestern Shanxi, and southeastern Gansu. However, everything that goes great must come crashing down. Just after reaching the glory of national power and capturing Chang'an, Bobo gradually lost his previous ambition. The iron-blooded man who fought with swords and horses and galloped on the battlefield began to indulge in wine, sex and pleasure. From this moment on, the balance of history has tilted towards another ethnic minority in Mobei.
The Great Xia Empire gradually went into decline, and its power was declining day by day. At the same time, another ethnic minority regime in the north, the Northern Wei Dynasty, was quietly becoming stronger and stronger. In 425 AD, the controversial desert "god of war" Helianbobo died of illness. This handsome, talented and ruthless hero passed away forever, leaving only a legacy for future generations. Commentary on the legendary journey.
In the year when Helian Bobo passed away, the Northern Wei Dynasty, which had coveted Mobei for a long time, launched an all-out offensive against Daxia. Just six years later, the Wei army captured Tongwan City, the capital of Daxia, and captured the new emperor Helianchang. At this point, the last empire of the Xiongnu, Daxia, was destroyed.
More than 1,600 years ago, Helianbo's cavalry headed south with swords pointed at Chang'an. However, after seizing Chang'an and becoming king, they abandoned the prosperous Chang'an city and quickly headed north. To the north of Chang'an—— Tongwancheng, the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom located in the upper reaches of the Wuding River in northern Shaanxi, settled down. This white city was destined to be linked to the fate of the Xiongnu Kingdom of Great Xia from the beginning of its construction...
In 413 AD, the desert lord Lian Bobo sought to "unify the world and rule over all directions". "The great ambition of the emperor ordered Chiqian Ali to be the general craftsman and build the capital of his empire at "the north of Shuofang water, the guide of black". Thus, the most unique and cruel scene in the history of Chinese city architecture began: 100,000 people, working day and night, for seven years, used blood and bones to build a city on the platform of the Ordos Plateau. In order to make the city wall "hardenable with swords and axes", Yu Ali, who was in charge of building the city, ordered the city to be built with steamed earth. After the soil was dry, iron nails were used to test the city wall. If it penetrated even an inch, the migrant workers who built the city were killed and torn down. Build again. This is the core castle of the Great Xia Empire. No one seems to know, and there is no record of how many souls of craftsmen are buried in it, and how many Meng Jiangnu are fighting for the land here.
One general succeeds and ten thousand bones wither. Isn't this the case with the construction of cities?
Tongwan City is very grand in scale. "The city is ten ren high" and several miles around. It has three cities: the palace city, the inner city and the outer city. There are palaces, drum towers, bell towers and other buildings inside. There are also several watchtowers built on the surrounding city walls. Even 10 kilometers away, across the wavy sand dunes, you can still see its majestic shape from a distance, which shows the huge scale of Tongwan City. Like the origin of the name Tongwan City, the four city gates are named Beishuo, Zhaowei, Chaosong, and Fuliang respectively. The ambitions of a generation of heroes are ready to come out and shock people's hearts.
However, even the "solid and powerful" Tongwan City, even the impregnable iron and copper walls, cannot change the fate of history. In 428 AD, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, broke through Tongwan City, which was a "solid axe", with almost no destruction. As a result, the Xiongnu, a once powerful nation on horseback, came to an end. The altar eventually disappeared into the vast smoke of history.
For the next 600 years, Tongwancheng, which had lost its glory as a capital, was still an important military town in northern my country. It served as the political and military center of the southern Ordos Plateau through the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Western Zhou, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties. Until 994 AD, Song Dynasty Minister Lu Mengzheng believed that Xiazhou was "deep in the desert". In order to prevent the Dangxiang people from "taking the city and seizing the city," he approved the imperial court's order to destroy the city and move 200,000 of its people to what is now Hengshan, Mizhi, Lives in Suide area. Since then, the 600-year-old Tongwan City has gradually become sparsely populated, increasingly reduced to ruins, and finally disappeared into the endless sea of sand, unknown to the world.
The seas have changed and the stars have changed. This is the most complete, majestic and strongest capital city of ethnic minorities in Chinese history and the only remaining ancient city wall of the Huns. It stands quietly outside of time, telling the heroic sighs to the tourists who come to pay their respects...
The glory of the Great Xia Kingdom lasted only a short period of more than ten years, and the glory of ruling ten thousand cities was fleeting, but the impact of the Xiongnu Empire was far-reaching. The barbarian people who "hang heads in front of horses and carry women behind horses" unloaded their luggage from Tongwan City and "dwelled in the soil". Nomadic culture and farming culture perfectly blended here - although it is only a five-thousand-year history of China. A drop in the ocean.
After the capital of Daxia was established to rule Wancheng, there was a saying in historical materials that "Helian lived in the land". The so-called "dwelling in the land" means that people have settled down in terms of lifestyle. They no longer live without a fixed place and live in pursuit of water and grass, but have begun to rely on the land in the settlement area for food. The site of Tongwan City was chosen on the bank of the Wuding River where the soil is rich and the fertility of the soil was naturally taken into consideration. The social environment in which barbarians and Xians live together in the interlacing zone of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the lifestyle of agriculture and animal husbandry blends together is also conducive to the nomadic people turning to farming. The great integration of nationalities has brought civilization and hope, and has brought prosperity from generation to generation until today.
Since Tongwan City was abandoned in the Song Dynasty, this place has been deserted. At some point, people dug cave dwellings on the ruins of the majestic palace and thrived here with the glory and glory of their ancestors. I don’t know how many years have passed, but the harsh environment has caused people to abandon their homes and leave their homes empty. The fiery red couplets left at the door of the cave dwelling are extremely dazzling against the gray city wall. Outside the window of the abandoned cave dwelling, the vast desert is filled with desolation. The departing cave owner stored the coffin prepared for his death here. People live tenaciously and watch life and death with a smile.
Walking at the bottom of the dry moat, looking up at the city wall more than 30 meters high - equivalent to a building with more than ten floors, the wind and clouds of 1,500 years ago, across the red wasteland, from Sese The sound blew from the tips of the rustling reed leaves and spread endlessly. The towering city walls are naked, like white dangerous rocks, silent, making people dare not look directly. It was a heroic history belonging to Helianbobo, and it was also a glorious period belonging to the Xiongnu nation. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Huns relied on force to fuse several tribes, turning most of the people north of the Yellow River into Huns. After the fourth century AD, the Huns integrated into other ethnic groups, and then to the last Xiongnu regime. Build and die. ——Who are the descendants of the Huns? The blood of the Huns may have been integrated into the blood of our ancestors. If you are bold and unrestrained by nature, you may be a descendant of the Huns.
The grass and trees are withered, but the setting sun remains. From the capital to the ruins of Tongwan City, from glory to desolation, what remains unchanged is the magnificent final glory of the nation on horseback.
It is the only capital site left by the Xiongnu people in ancient my country in the long history of mankind. It has an irreplaceable historical position. It is the most exemplary example of the blending, penetration and convergence of grassland culture and Central Plains culture in the history of our country. It is also a disappeared A special testimony left by the nation to history.
The wind blows and the sand blows. The ancient country of Daxia will once again disappear in the afterglow of the setting sun...