It is more appropriate to escape from the west than to advance westward. After the defeat of Beidan in 9 1 A.D., the remnants fled westward to Wusun State in the Ili River basin. After their foothold, they still haunt the north and south of Tianshan Mountain, plundering wantonly. In 1 19, the northern Xiongnu captured Yiwu (now Hami, Xinjiang) and killed the Han general Soban.
In order to deal with the northern Xiongnu in the western regions, the Eastern Han Dynasty appointed Ban Yong as the long history of the western regions and stationed troops in Liu Zhong (now Turpan, Xinjiang). Ban Yong defeated the northern Xiongnu twice 124 and 126, and the situation in the western regions became stable.
After Ban Yong left office, Xiongnu forces in the north rose again. 137, the Han general Fei Cen led an army to kill the northern Xiongnu Huyan Wang Yu Barkun (now Barkun, Xinjiang). 15 1 year, the Han general Sima da led the Han army to capture the Prehai Lake (now Barkun Lake in Xinjiang) and defeated the new Huyan King of the Northern Xiongnu. King Huyan led the northern Xiongnu to the west.
The second stop of the northern Xiongnu's westward migration: the Syr Darya River basin
The Syr Darya River is an inland river in Central Asia, which flows through Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other countries today and flows into the Aral Sea. In the Han Dynasty, this was a comfortable country. The northern Xiongnu was hit by the Han dynasty in the western regions and could not stand on its feet. About 160, a part of the northern Xiongnu began to move westward and came to a comfortable country in the Syr Darya River basin. As for the activities of the northern Xiongnu in Kangju, it is unknown because of the lack of historical records.
The third stop of the northern Xiongnu's westward migration: east of the Don River and north of the Caspian Sea.
Around 290 AD, the northern Xiongnu appeared in Alan, east of the Don River. This history was recorded in China's History of the North and History of the Roman Empire. The northern Xiongnu killed the king of Aram and completely conquered Aram.
The fourth stop of the northern Xiongnu's westward migration: west of the Don River and east of the Danube River.
With Alan's rest and supply, the northern Xiongnu completely recovered its vitality, and their predatory and greedy nature made them covet the grassland west of the Don River.
In 374 AD, the Huns, led by Dahan Balambur, crossed the Don River and launched an attack on the East Goths. Ostrogoths was no match for the Huns, but after the fight, he was defeated. Some ostrogoths had to flee to the west, and fled to the visigoths, followed by the Huns, who pursued the visigoths' residence.
The visigoths set up an army on the Transnistrian River (which flows through Ukraine and Moldova today) to meet the Huns, while the Huns secretly crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Transnistrian River at night and then copied behind the visigoths' army. The visigoths suffered a disastrous defeat and had to flee westward to the Danube. With the approval of the emperor of the Roman Empire, the East and West Goths were able to cross the Danube and take refuge in the Roman Empire.
Since then, due to the cruel oppression of the Goths by the Roman Empire, the Goths were forced to rebel again. In 378 AD, the Roman emperor Vallans personally recruited Goths and was killed by them. The empire suffered a heavy blow. At this time, the Huns were temporarily stabilized because they occupied the grasslands in South Russia.
After the occupation of the grasslands in southern Russia, the activities of the Huns
After defeating the Goths and occupying the grasslands in southern Russia, the Huns were able to rest and the population began to increase sharply. At the same time, a few tarquin people are still harassing their neighbors: a tarquin crossed the Danube and harassed the Roman Empire with the Goths; Another group of Huns attacked Mesopotamia in 384 AD and captured Edesa.
In 396, another group of Huns invaded Sassanian Persian Empire. On the whole, during this period, Huns basically rested on the grasslands in southern Russia to accumulate strength for the next large-scale invasion.
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The fierce counterattack of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the Huns greatly hurt the Huns' vitality. By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Huns had split, Uhaanyehe led the army into the Han Dynasty, and Zhi Zhi Khan, who fled to Central Asia and was an enemy of the Han Dynasty, was wiped out by the Han general Chen Tang, on the grounds that "making the Han strong, though far away, will be punished", and the relationship between Han and Hungary moved towards reconciliation.
In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the anti-Han forces among Xiongnu nobles rose again, which led to the split of Xiongnu again, and the southern Xiongnu surrendered to the Han Dynasty, while the northern Xiongnu persisted in being an enemy of the Han Dynasty and often plundered the southern Xiongnu and Han people.
At that time, the Eastern Han Dynasty was just established and the national strength was still in the recovery period. So it was not until Emperor Han Ming launched a counterattack against the northern Xiongnu. In 73 AD, the Han army attacked the northern Xiongnu in four ways, and Dou Gu and Geng Zhonghan army pursued all the way to Tianshan Mountain and captured Yiwu (now Hami, Xinjiang).
When the Han Dynasty and the Emperor, they launched a counterattack against the Northern Xiongnu. In 89 A.D., Dou Xian and Geng Bing led the Han army to defeat the Huns and chase them to Yanran (now Hangai Mountain in Mongolia). In 9 1 year, the Han army attacked the northern Xiongnu again, and was defeated in Jinwei Mountain (now Altai Mountain), and Beikhan had to flee to the west.
At this point, the Eastern Han Dynasty won an all-round victory in the war against the northern Xiongnu, while the northern Xiongnu, which was an enemy of the Han Dynasty, was attacked by the Han army and the southern Xiongnu, and could no longer stand on the Mobei Mongolian Plateau, so it had to withdraw from the Mongolian Plateau and flee to the west.
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