At the beginning of January of the summer calendar, when Wushi went out of the grassland west of the river, Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew were still in the court of Mobei Shan thousands of miles away.

Although the desert north is bitterly cold, the snow melts and falls, but even the rivers in the depths of the grassland are gradually melting and melting, and there is flow, and the cattle, sheep and horses are also restless, fighting for the pair, you can know that spring has arrived.

These days are important days for the Xiongnu elders to meet in the court, dedicate cattle, sheep and horses, and sacrifice to the heavens and the sun and the moon, and it is also a critical moment to decide whether to form an alliance with the "Chu State"!

The Xiongnu tribe came as promised, including a mighty army of 30,000 Xiongnu riders, as well as countless women, children, and slaves, who carried a large number of cattle and camped near Shan Yuting, and surrounded a city with camels and felt tents.

In the felt city, in order to go north to the Huns from Beidi County, Xiang Liang, who was frozen off one ear in the cold winter, is wrapped in a leather jacket at the moment, reminiscing about the ups and downs of his life.

When the Chu State fell, the Xiang clan was hit hard, his father and eldest brother were killed in battle, although he escaped death, but he was also moved to Guanzhong, fortunately, he was up and down, and his life was still passable.

But it's useless to keep a low profile, and several brothers in the family make trouble for him. A few years ago, Xiang Liang was implicated and imprisoned for the murder of his younger brother Xiang Tang, who was far away. Originally, he could get away with bribing the presiding judge Sima Xin, but unexpectedly, Sima Xin, who had always been greedy, ignored the request of his wife and brother Cao Xin, and handled the case to death, elevating Xiang Tang from homicide to treason, and the unlucky Xiang Liang was also sent to serve on the Great Wall......

In the past few years, Xiang Liang and his nephew Xiang Zhuang really lived a hard life, fortunately, after the death of Qin Shi Huangdi, Hu Hai arrested the black man's henchmen, Beidi County carried out a major reshuffle, the county lieutenant Zhang Han and many officials ran out, the Great Wall was in chaos, and there were countless fugitives, and Xiang Liang also took the opportunity to escape with Xiang Zhuang.

It's a pity that they didn't escape far, they were captured by a team of horsemen, and they thought they were going to die here, but it was actually someone from the Wu family, who brought them back to Jitou Mountain and treated them as guests.

Xiang Liang could have been hiding somewhere in Wu's village, but when he heard the news from the Kanto region: Heifu had broken with the imperial court, Xiang Ji had raised troops in Huainan and had recovered the Chu State, and the other five countries had also taken advantage of the situation, and the world was about to be in chaos......

"Great goodness! Ji'er is worthy of being the eldest grandson of my Xiang family, and has the style of his father! ”

Overjoyed, Xiang Liang, who was unwilling to be lonely, made a bold request to Wu Shilu:

Go north to the Huns! Lianhu hits Qin!

"Cousin Ru did a good job, restored Chu, and collected the old soil of Huaibei, but compared to the Northern Qin and Southern Qin, it is still small and weak, and it must be helped by strong reinforcements."

While waiting for Mao Dun to meet again, Xiang Liang muttered that in this small felt tent, only his nephew Xiang Zhuang held his sword, knelt in front of him, and quietly listened to his middle father's plan.

"Therefore, I want to follow the example of Gongsun Yan and form an alliance with the Xiongnu!"

When Xiang Liang was young, he heard Xiang's disciples say that more than 100 years ago, when King Qin Huiwen and King Chu Huai, Gongsun Yan was the prime minister of Wei and organized the five countries to join forces to attack Qin, and for this reason, he also hooked up with Yiqujun, so when the five kingdoms were at war with Qin, Yiqujun suddenly made trouble and defeated the Qin division in Libo......

It's a pity that Yiqu soon perished, and the Six Kingdoms forever lost a good friend who could stab Qin in the back.

But now, by mistake, Xiang Liang has found a Xiongnu who is more powerful than Yiqu!

Although in terms of population alone, all the tribes of the Xiongnu together may not necessarily have more Yiqu people, but compared with the side of the Central Plains for a long time, the customs are gradually Hua, and the Yiqu that settles in half agriculture and half pastoralism, the Xiongnu appear more primitive and barbaric.

They migrated from water to grass, and did not often work in the fields of the city, and lived by animal husbandry and hunting.

Xiang Liang once saw with his own eyes that a group of seven or eight-year-old children in the Xiongnu tribe were already riding sheep or ponies, leading bows to shoot birds and mice, and the older ones began to climb on horseback with their feet on their feet and go to the forests and grasslands with their elders to shoot foxes and rabbits to supplement the family's food.

After that, all the Huns gathered in the future, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, and they could bend their bows, all of them were armored horses! Whenever too many livestock froze to death in the winter snow, or when it was difficult to catch prey, the Huns would pass on the calamity of their tribe to their neighbors, who would invade their neighbors by attacking them, coming and going like the wind, and running away after the food and population.

It's just a group of natural cavalry, and using them to attack Qin Biansai couldn't be more wonderful.

With such a plan in his heart, Xiang Liang did not have the psychological burden of "colluding with foreigners" at all.

Chu and Qin, although they are both crowned states and eighteenth in-laws, have formed an undying hatred since King Chu Huai entered Qin and did not return.

The common people can forget, but the nobles can't.

For Xiang, Qin is an enemy, the Qin people are foreigners and invaders, and the Xiongnu are also foreigners, and they have no intersection with Chu Su, so they are really incompatible.

And the enemy of the enemy is the friend!

Xiang Liang couldn't help but regret: "When Touman, the father of Maodun, was there, the Xiongnu were even more powerful, and if the Yan State Juwu Alliance Xiongnu strategy was completed early, maybe the Six Kingdoms would not have perished so quickly." ”

He said so much, but Xiang Zhuang on the other side didn't say a word.

Because, he can't speak anymore!

Xiang Zhuang's injuries were not only the whip marks on his face, but also his tongue, as early as when he was on the Great Wall, because he was angry with Qin officials and insulted his uncle and nephew, he scolded him more than once, and he was cut off in his entirety, and now he can only make a vague voice in response......

At this moment, the door of the felt tent was opened, and the interpreter entered.

"Xiang Jun, Da Shan Yu wants to see you!"

Xiang Liang stood up, motioned for Xiang Zhuang to stay here, and said to him again:

"If Ji'er leads the troops of the six countries to knock on the Hangu Pass, we will lead the Xiongnu to break through the Great Wall and enter, and attack Shuofang, Beidi, and Shangjun, then Qin's belly will be attacked by the enemy, and destruction is just around the corner!"

"The hatred between the Xiang family and Qin, the hatred of the eldest father, the hatred of the elder brother, the hatred of yours, and the hatred of the Chu State!"

All these chains of hatred, all these burdens of endurance.

"It will be done within this year and a half!"

……

Xiang Liang saw Mao Suddenly again, but was poured cold water on his words.

"The rulers of various tribes still remember that many years ago, my father Touman fought with him for Henan, but was defeated by the Qin army, and the Xiongnu were almost wiped out, so he didn't want to be an enemy with him."

Xiang Liang immediately asked the translator to help him translate: "Qin is no longer the Qin of many years ago, Qin Shi Huang is dead, the north and south are divided into two, attacking each other, and more than 20 counties in the east rebel. And the Xiongnu are no longer the Xiongnu of the past, Da Danyu has restored the Xiongnu to their strength, and most importantly, this time, the Xiongnu have Chu as an ally! Chu attacks the east of Qin, and the Huns attack the north of Qin, then Qin will be destroyed! ”

Mao Dun asked the slave girl to pour wine for herself, and the wine bowl seemed to be made of bone: "Help Chu attack Qin, what is the benefit of the Huns?" ”

When Xiang Liang went north, he heard the legend of Mao Dun told by the Wu guide: Mao Dun was separated by Heifu and Chen Ping when he was young, and had to run away, sacrificed his wife and horse to join the Yue family, and then killed Touman with his own hands, seized the position of Da Shan Yu by force, returned to the grassland, killed his brother and stepmother, took the Xiongnu to the desert in the north, recuperated, annexed Ding Ling to the north, and suspended the army with Donghu, so that the Xiongnu restored their strength......

But Xiang Liang didn't care too much, no matter how smart the Hu people were, they were also Hu people, a group of robbers, greed, was their common essence.

Therefore, at the beginning, Xiang Liang explained the wealth of the Central Plains to Mao Dun, and he described the endless silk and silk delicacies of Xianyang, and once the Xiongnu cooperated with the Chu army to capture it, they could plunder its goods to their heart's content......

But Mao Dun was different from those Xiongnu princes with bright eyes, he shook his head and said: "I'm not interested in clothes and food. ”

"The total population of the Xiongnu is not comparable to a county of the Qin Dynasty, but the reason why it was defeated and did not die is that the food and clothing are different from those of the Qin people, and they do not need to rely on China. If I change my original customs and like the clothes and food of the Central Plains, and everyone below me will follow suit, then the Xiongnu will be like Aries, Lou Fu, and Lin Hu, losing their ancestral ways and treating themselves as Chinese people. ”

"I once made the silk wool obtained from the Qin Dynasty into clothes and trousers, and wore it to ride a horse and gallop among the weeds and thorns, so that the clothes and pants were torn and damaged, so as to show that the silk wool was not as strong as the Xiongnu's leather jacket. Throw away all the delicious food trafficked by the Central Plains merchants, so as to show that they are not as convenient as the buttermilk of the Xiongnu......"

"This is to maintain the tradition of the Huns to be able to attack and fight, and not to be eroded by the Central Plains artifacts and lose their sharpness."

Mao Dun was well aware of the advantages of the Huns: only the bitter cold land and the lack of materials could raise extremely vicious warriors, and for the Huns, it was better to take it by force than to work hard!

So Xiang Liang turned his head and began to describe the beauty and grandeur of the Xianyang Palace, and he felt that the Huns might yearn for a hillbilly like the Huns.

But Mao Dun still scoffed, pointed to the simple decoration of the big tent in front of him, and said: "The felt tent is very good, the emperor of China tried his best to build the palace house, and the manpower will inevitably be exhausted." ”

"The Chinese people worked hard to cultivate the fields and mulberry just to get food and clothing, and to build cities to accommodate themselves, so their people did not practice their offensive skills when they were in a hurry, but they were exhausted by labor when they were relaxed, so they were weak, such as the more than 100,000 immigrants in Henan, who also needed to build a long wall to protect themselves."

"If I take the cities of China, I will burn down their houses, bulldoze the cities, and trample the fields into pastures, on which the children of the Huns can practice bow fighting."

After listening to the translator's relay, Xiang Liang was a little surprised, he didn't have any desire and didn't care, so what was Mao Dun interested in?

"I'm interested in women in the Central Plains."

Maudon said with a smile, and raised the chin of the beautiful slave girl next to him.

"Tell this distinguished guest of the Chu State, where are you from?"

"Shuofang ......"

The slave girl was pitiful, and in the Central Plains dialect, she was a gift from the Ushi to Maudun.

But the next moment she said the wrong thing, her slender neck was cut open by Mao Dun!

Blood, redder than wine in a bowl.

"That's not called Shuofang, it's called Henan."

Mao Dun corrected this mistake, asked the body to be carried away, looked at Xiang Liang, who was familiar with this, and said with a smile: "I am interested in regaining the land and pastures that belonged to the Xiongnu. ”

He placed a bowl of wine made of his father's head man and bones on the table, and his eyes were like hungry wolves!

"I'm also interested in taking revenge, cutting off the enemy's head, hollowing out the flesh, drying it and making it into a wine vessel!"

……

Mao Dunshan finally overrode public opinion, agreed to an alliance with Chu, and a few days later, he took a huge Xiongnu tribe, drove ox carts, and carried felt tents, and began a long journey.

"Isn't Maudun's enemy Heifu and his staff Chen Ping?"

Xiang Liang felt more and more that the Xiongnu were really the natural friends of the Chu State, not only to recover the Henan land under the control of the Northern Qin, but also to remember the festival when he was killed by a letter from Chen Ping and was almost killed by Tou Mandanyu.

"Even if Heifu enters the pass first, the Xiongnu in the north are enough to become its great enemy, and the Chu State can sit in the eastern part of the country, unite the five countries, and even drive Heifu back to the south!"

Thinking like this, Xiang Liang looked ahead, Mao Dunshan was in a good mood today, riding the sweaty and bloody horse obtained from the Western Regions, carrying his most beautiful Yan clan, the two of them rode together, and one horse took the lead.

Xiang Liang shook his head, this Yan clan is the daughter of a northern tribe monarch who was annexed by Maudun, and it is said to be the most beautiful flower in the entire Mobei grassland, when her veil is removed, all the livestock will stop breathing in amazement......

Although Xiang Liang has never seen it, one thing is for sure, Mao suddenly often boasted, saying that the sweaty BMW and the Yan family were his two treasures.

"Mao Dun really loves this Yan clan!"

Xiang Liang thought so.

When he set off the next day, he noticed a problem.

Hurrying forward, Xiang Liang found Mao Dun, who was drinking with his arms around the beautiful Yan.

"Da Danyu, we are not to the south, but to the east?"

"That's right, it's going in the direction of the rising sun."

Mao Dun said with a smile: "Because before attacking the Qin Dynasty and recovering Henan, I have to go to a place to settle an old grievance on the grassland." ”

This is different from what he said, Xiang Liang secretly said that it was not good: "I don't know where Da Danyu wants to go?" ”

Mao Dun said: "In China's Yuyang, north of Shanggu, between Donghu and the Xiongnu, there is abandoned land, the two ethnic groups live in Mo, more than a thousand miles from north to south, the Xiongnu language is called Outuo, I want to go there, and meet the king of Donghu." ”

As for what to do when he went to the East to meet with King Donghu, Xiang Liang didn't ask for the answer from Mao Dun's mouth.

There is no way, his uncle and nephew are duckweed, and they can't control the whereabouts of the Huns at all, so they can only follow hard.

is a huge tribe, and only Mao Dun knows in his heart what he is going to Outuo for.

He wrapped his arms around the waist of the Ran, kissed her earlobe gently, spoke love words, and stroked the mane on Maxima's neck with the other.

She and it are indeed his most beloved things.

But so what?

There is affection in his mouth, but in his eyes, he is extremely cold!

"I'm going to put my best horse."

"And the most beautiful of all."

"Send them all to the king of Donghu to ride!"

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