Four hundred miles north of Jicheng (Beijing) in Guangyang County, there is a vast sandy land (Hunshandak Desert).

Although there are many small lakes in the sandy land, and the natural conditions are many times better than those of the Great Gobi, the herders are more willing to look for fertile pastures, so this place is empty, and it has become a natural dividing line between the Xiongnu and Donghu, which is called "Outuo" in Xiongnu language.

On the edge of Outuo, in the midsummer grassland, dried blood was congealed, countless corpses of men and horses lay in the grass that did not reach their calves, vultures and crows hovered high in the air, and packs of jackals kept haunting, gnawing and dragging the corpses......

Xiang Liang took his nephew Xiang Zhuang to ride during the ride, what he saw was shocking, Xiang Liang couldn't help sighing: "Mao Dun is only in the appearance of Gou Jian, he can endure humiliation for ten years, and finally break Donghu and repay the great shame, really Xiongxiong!" ”

It turned out that since the beginning of spring, Mao Dun took the entire tribe and began a long journey, from the bitter cold land of Mobei, crossed the Great Gobi, came to the grassland of Monan, stopped all the way, and finally arrived at Outuo at the end of April - this is the place where the Xiongnu pay tribute to the king of Donghu every year.

In previous years, Mao Dun offered a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and leathers, but this year was particularly humiliating, and the king of Donghu actually asked him for a BMW and a clan.

There was no shortage of opposition voices in the Xiongnu tribes, but Mao Dun said: "Why do you love a horse and a woman with a neighbor? ”

The left and right of the Huns, the left and right bones of the Marquis and so on saw that Da Dan was so cowardly, they were all very disappointed, the right bone Marquis was disrespectful, angry, and drew a knife to kill the Donghu envoy.

Mao Dun immediately ordered to take it, dragged it to the tent, and whipped it dozens of times himself, until his right bone was drenched in blood, and he fainted, and then ordered him to be locked in the sheepfold, and dragged out to feed the vultures another day.

So Mao Dun very generously sent the Yan clan, the horses and a large number of cattle and sheep to the king of Donghu, and sent a messenger who could speak well, and ordered him to say to the king of Donghu: "In the future, the two clans must be as close as one family."

But as soon as the Donghu envoy left with the weeping and weeping Yan, Mao Dun's face changed, and he released the right bone Duhou and solemnly apologized to him.

"After several years of recuperation, the Xiongnu control the strings is no less than Donghu, but a direct attack is afraid that the loss is too great, it is better to sneak attack. I would rather lose the Huns and BMWs than die one more Huns, so I gave the Yanshi, the good horse and the king of Donghu, just to make him think that the Huns were cowardly and did not take precautions, and everyone gathered their troops to attack Donghu tomorrow! ”

All the generals bowed to him, and the right bone was even more excited, bowing to the ground and thanking him, begging to be the striker. Mao Dun agreed, and the current army was divided into three routes, all of which were fine horses, stopping and staying at night, marching from the Outuo Desert around the path, meeting the shepherds, and catching all the soldiers to avoid leaking the military aircraft.

On the side of the Donghu people, they were still on guard, but when they saw that Mao Dun did not say a word, they offered the Yan clan and the famous horses, and listened to the words of the Xiongnu envoy who were extremely humiliated, and they were greatly relieved, withdrew the defenders, and drank and feasted in the tent for several days.

It is said that after the king of Donghu was drunk, he actually rode a thousand miles of horses with the Xiongnu clan, so he was not happy......

How do you know that the Huns suddenly launched an attack, in the dawn of the sky like the sky collapsed and rushed in, the Donghu people were drunk or asleep, in a panic, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the army collapsed, and the king of Donghu also died in the chaos.

After the battle, most of the tens of thousands of horsemen brought by the king of Donghu were killed, and the rest fled, and Mao Dun took advantage of the victory to pursue, so that his cavalry chased the remnants of Donghu all the way to the Chifeng of Donghu Shenshan hundreds of miles away, knocked down the stone mound, burned the felt tent, and the wisps of black smoke surged and rolled, straight up to the clear blue sky.

Subsequently, the Huns rode back and forth, waving their long whips, driving the survivors away from the smoking felt tents, killing the young and strong, and bringing all the women and children who had not had time to escape back to Outuo, and offering tribute to Maudun.

The Donghu women were expressionless and lifeless, staggering as they pulled their sobbing children, and as grassland dwellers, they knew their fate next.

Maudun was a generous man who declared that the people would own the population they had taken!

This move won the cheers of the Huns, and all the women of Donghu were divided, and then there was a hysterical orgy of rape, and in almost every felt tent, there were atrocities, and Xiang Liang listened to the women's weeping and sobbing all night.

The Xiongnu men were taking revenge, and when the Xiongnu were weak, didn't Donghu treat the exterminated Xiongnu tribes like this?

Like Donghu, the Huns also regarded marriage robbery as a custom, and the Hun Lan Shi, who was responsible for acting as an interpreter for Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew, said proudly:

"Many years ago, a man from a distant tribe brought his wife to Lanbu as a guest, and my father took a fancy to his wife, and immediately after the guest left, he took his brothers to kill the man and snatch the man's wife back to ......"

"Six months later, the woman gave birth to her eldest son, who was my brother, and I, the woman's third child, yes, she was my mother."

The eldest of the Lan clan is obviously the child of his predecessor, but his father does not think of it and treats it as his own.

This was a custom that Xiang Liang could not understand, in the Central Plains, looting and rape were punished, especially in the Qin state, but in the grasslands, these evil deeds were a natural way of life for the Huns and Donghu people, and they would even be praised.

And the next day, Xiang Liang saw the cruelty of the Huns again, they took off their pants of the thousands of Donghu children they had captured, and the girls were lucky enough to push them into their mother's arms, as for the boys? As long as you are taller than the wheels, there is only one dead end.

The group of Donghu teenagers were taken to the desert to be slaughtered, but their mother, just holding their daughters, tearfully saw them away, and when they went to the black and oppressive group, when they returned, only the Hun riders who were talking and laughing were left.

And the bloody bronze sword.

Lan's translator shrugged his shoulders and disagreed: "If the Xiongnu are broken by Donghu, this will also be the end." ”

Xiang Liang has a thorough understanding of the grassland, and the residents here regard the law of the jungle as the norm of life. In their eyes, others are just prey, and it is much easier to kill a person than a sheep.

When the opponent is strong, if you can't kill the opponent, use the most humble and obedient attitude to stammer, and deceive the other party's trust. Then look for an opportunity to kill them. In their eyes, even if they offer their wives to their enemies, as long as they can win in the end, it is a commendable and proud thing.

As for after the victory, there was little forgiveness and generosity, but hysterical venting and revenge, and cruelty in return, so wherever the Hu people went, there was often no construction and destruction, and civilization turned into a mound of nothingness.

"Chu State should be the same for Qin?"

Xiang Liang thought so, he heard from the Central Plains that his nephew Xiang Ji had marched into the Central Plains, and the Qin Dynasty was already crumbling under the internal and external rebellion, and if it was given another blow by the Xiongnu from the north......

So Xiang Liang asked Mao Dun: "Please let Da Dan Yu let us go south from Daidi, go to the Central Plains through Zhao State, and contact Chu State for Da Dan Yu!" ”

Mao Dun promised to let fifty horsemen escort Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew south.

By mid-May, the chase lasted for more than half a month, and the towns under the king of Donghu fell on the vast grassland of thousands and fled in all directions, and I don't know how many Donghu people died in this slaughter.

The Donghu people who were still alive did not dare to return to Chishan, so they divided into two groups and began to evacuate towards the two garrisons in Donghu.

One is in the depths of the extreme eastern grassland, called Wuhuan Mountain.

One is in the deep mountains and old forests of the Daxing'an Mountains in the northeast, called Daxianbei Mountain......

Similar stories will be repeated countless times in the grassland in the next thousand years.

But now, it was the Xiongnu who replaced Donghu as the most powerful tribe in the steppe......

After this battle, Mao Dun was regarded as a powerful grassland, and the people who drew the bow were not afraid to obey.

……

In late May, after the return of the last pursuing troops, a loud cry rang out in the Outuobian.

"The plough is lonely!"

"The plough is lonely!"

"Support the plow", the "sky" in the Xiongnu language, "Gu Tu" means "son", and "Shan Yu" means "vast".

Son of the Vast Heavens!

The chosen one!

The Huns thought that the current Maudun was worthy of this name!

But what is Maudon doing? He was standing in a tent, urinating on a urinal made of the skull of King Donghu.

Behind Mao Dun was kneeling with her Yan Shi, disheveled, so Mao Dun blessed her in a rough way, and asked in her ear, how did King Donghu do it before?

She felt that her husband should have "forgiven" her loss.

After all, he personally sent her to King Donghu......

"Yan Shi, you have made a great contribution to the Xiongnu."

Mao Dun turned around, his smile still tender.

"So now, I'm going to settle you in the North Sea (Lake Baikal)."

The face of the Yan clan suddenly turned pale, Beihai is the territory of the extreme north of the Xiongnu, which was originally the territory of the Ding Ling people, and after Mao Dun broke Ding Ling, it became a place of exile.

The local area is extremely bitterly cold, there is snow in August, the blue ice does not melt until March of the following year, and when people pee in the coldest time, they will freeze into icicles.

She hugged Mao Dun's leg and pleaded: "Da Shan Yu, didn't you say that I made a contribution......"

Mao Dun pinched her chin, full of distress: "But as soon as I saw you, I remembered that you had been insulted by King Donghu, and my heart ached, but it was still not good." ”

Yan Shi was desperate and hissed: "Didn't Shan Yu still say, am I your moon......

Maudun bowed his head and looked at her with pity:

"You know, you know? Before you, there was another woman in Maudun, who was my first clan, known as the moon of Helan Mountain. ”

"But later, I gave her to the King of the Yue Clan, in exchange for the opportunity to borrow troops, so I killed Touman and won the position of Shan Yu."

"After the fall of the Yue Clan, she came to me, and with the children of the King of the Yue Clan, I was also very generous, let her and a group of children go to live in Beihai, and promised that as long as the ram can give birth, it can return."

He patted Yan's face and wiped away her tears:

"So don't worry, you are in Beihai, you won't be lonely, of course, provided that they are still alive."

"And Maudun, there will always be a new Ran."

"I will definitely love them as much as I loved you before!"

After that, regardless of Yan's crying, Mao Dun asked her to be dragged into a high car and drove north.

And now, he can hold high the Shan Yu Eagle Banner in the call of "supporting the plough and being alone", announcing the next destination of the Huns.

"Hu Zhe, the pride of the sky!"

"From Beihai in the north to Helan in the south, they are all pastures given by the sky!"

Mao Dun Da Danyu put on a crown of eagles decorated with green feathers, and waved a blade decorated with gold:

"To the west, go back to the bottom of Yin Mountain, and go back to Manchester City!"

"What the father has lost, the son wants to get back!"

"Shan Yu Wangting, I'm going to move back to Monan!"

"Let the people of China tremble again in the sound of the hooves of the Huns!"

……

On the Fusu side, I also learned the news that Donghu was broken by the Xiongnu.

"Now the Donghu people themselves can't protect themselves, so they can't enter the Great Wall to loot."

When his subordinates were all happy, and felt that Liaodong and Liaoxi were safe from now on, Fusu's worries became even more serious:

"Nine years ago, I was in the Heifu army as a supervisor, chasing the Huns for hundreds of miles, there was no royal court in Monan, and then the Huns stopped for nearly ten years, and now Maodun has merged with Donghu, the strength has risen sharply, and there is no strong enemy in the grassland, and the Central Plains is disturbed, the soldiers are more rebellious, the Great Wall is empty, the Huns, will they take the opportunity to attack and disturb the south, and want to recapture Shuofang?"

However, now is not the time to worry about the Huns, now Fusu has left Yangle (Yixian County, Liaoning) and arrived at Tuhe (Jinzhou, Liaoning) with 3,000 forwards.

Tuhe is the entrance to the corridor of western Liaoning, relying on the mountains and seas, isolating Ronghu, the land is large and the things are numerous, and it is necessary to meet.

However, nearly 400 miles to the west, as far as Jieshi, there were almost no other cities in the month's journey, at most there were a few post stations along the gallop road, and most of them were destroyed in the turmoil.

If they want to go westward through the Liaoxi Corridor, logistics and supply are a big problem.

What's more, the "Yan Kingdom" in the west will never give way easily.

Therefore, Fusu decided to let the army rest and train in Yangle first, and he brought thousands of people to Tuhe, and then made a decision after finding out the movements of the Yan army.

Like many cities along the way to Liaodong and Liaoxi, there are no Qin officials in Tuhe.

However, knowing that Fusu arrived, the local elders still went out of the city to greet each other, a few years ago Fusu had passed through this place, and his reputation became more and more prominent in the past few months, and the Tuhe people went out of the city to watch, and the city gate was congested for a while.

Fusu's style, has always wanted to get the head of Qian's affinity, but it is not as simple as before, the security work is in place, the guards will be thirty steps around the city gate, no trespassing, the fathers and elders of the wine is also sent to prepare in advance, poured by the guards, so as not to poison.

He has indeed changed, and he is becoming more and more like someone in his dealings.

I especially remember that when I saw this scene in Huamachi, Fusu also questioned that Heifu was too suspicious, which hurt the hearts of the local tribes and made their good intentions go to waste.

"My son."

Heifu said at the time: "If something really happens, and the dignified county lieutenant dies on the spot, and the person who came to greet me today will be punished regardless of whether he is innocent, then he really disappoints their good intentions!" Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years! ”

Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, it sounds cowardly, but now that I think about it, it actually makes quite sense.

At the moment, Fusu followed the wine that his fathers and elders had saluted, but before he could drink it, he suddenly heard a person next to him shouting:

"Be careful, King!"

Fusu glanced at it, but saw that standing beside him, Liu Ji, who had been quite trusted recently, suddenly drew his blade, rushed to his own step with an arrow, raised the blade high, and was about to slash down in front of Fusu!

Exclaimed, Fusu has some skills, and after sensing the danger, he immediately threw the wine cup and rolled to avoid it.

"Clank!" But when he heard a loud noise, it was Liu Ji who waved his hands and blocked a short halberd thrown from nowhere!

Its goal is the position where Fusu is standing!

"Someone stabbed it!"

On the edge of the city gate, the elbows and armpits changed, and the incident happened suddenly, and everyone was stunned or shocked, but Liu Ji shouted loudly and asked the guards to protect Fusu.

Thirty paces away, among the crowd of onlookers, in addition to the assassin who suddenly threw his halberd was too eye-catching and had been shot to death by the guards, more than a dozen brown-clothed men suddenly took out their hidden blades, wanting to break through everyone and rush towards Fusu.

They also shouted in a Yandi accent:

"Kill Qin Yu!"

……

PS: The second chapter is in the evening.

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