Chapter 15 Hetao Walnut
The road between Seoul and Yeongmu is full of wide four-wheeled carriages all day long.
When the carriage arrives at Lingwu, someone will unload the tired horse. Put the well-fed and rested horses on them, and rest the horses without stopping. Try to rush to drink the mountains of supplies in Seoul as quickly as possible.
The family foundation accumulated by the three generations of the lord of Hancheng is indeed rich, and 900 carts have been pulled for half a month. And there are mountains of ordnance and food looted by the Han army in the city of Drinking Han. There are also women who are corralned like sheep.
Yun Xiao is going to die of worry now, so many good things can't be pulled up for him for another half a month. More than 3,000 looted Xiongnu girls were forced to march on foot towards Lingwu City, because there was no transportation capacity to carry them. Cangxiong took 200 villagers to escort him, and Gu'er Bei quickly carried 30 catties of grain. This is her ration, and the person who manages them said that he will rely on these thirty catties of food to survive this winter in Lingwu.
She can choose not to carry it, but when the time comes, she can't blame others for starving. Each of the sisters tried to carry more food, but they kept slipping and falling on the side of the road. The clever Gu'er didn't hurry up and got the plank, found a rope and put the grain on it and dragged it away. This method soon became widespread among the girls, so that the planks were no longer sufficient.
The road that is usually off the beaten track has now become very lively. The convoy of horses was pulling things from Seoul to Lingwu.
The bull and the white are qualified guards, and Batu leads his people to wait here. Yun Xiao took care of their national sentiments and did not let them participate in the plundering of the Huns. Mutilated corpses hung from the walls of the line. It's all a good thing done by the brute bull and the little white, they never understand the hard work of the corpse collectors.
The defenders of Lingwu numbered more than 5,000 people. But now none of them dared to fight the idea of those goods. Ever since they had enjoyed the stunt of the brute bull tearing the living, this thought had completely erased from their minds.
Yun Xiao sensitively felt that there was not much time left for him. Except for the 200 men who were sent out to loot every day, all other transportation capacity was used to rush supplies. Tanma was released for more than 200 miles, and as long as there was a situation, Yun Xiao would not hesitate to burn the city and escape.
The Huns in the city of Hancheng have been screened, and as long as they are not old, weak, sick and disabled, they have all been arrested. Selling slaves is also a good income, and in the eyes of the Longyou soldiers, they are all walking money.
Especially the women who Hou Ye doesn't want, although they are not yellow flower girls, they also have beautiful ones that are sold at a good price.
Nacha opened his eyes, and he didn't know how long he had been asleep. It's a tent. Hun style tents. Weapons hung from the felt cloth. Bows and arrows and water bladders of jerky. There was a fire on the ground, and a crucible was placed on a shelf supported by three logs. I don't know what it is boiled inside, and it is very fragrant and tempting. On the side of the crucible sat a few Huns in leather armor, apparently waiting for the meal to be served.
"Where is this?" Nacha sat up straight. Look at those Hun men.
"You're awake. Wusun served him a bowl of broth. Let him drink it and go to see Da Shan Yu. A stout man looked back at Nacha and said.
"Is that you?" Hesitant backlight, Nacha didn't see very clearly. But judging by the voice, this is a distant cousin of his own.
"Hah, my cousin. You remember my voice, we haven't seen each other for six or seven years. How did you get it like this? Drink the broth and I'm going to see you. ”
Rukari said with his mouth wide open, missing a front tooth, smiling at Nacha.
"What happened to my brothers?" Nacha took the broth and said as she drank it.
"After five lives, the rest are dead, and Da Shan Yu wants to ask you about drinking Seoul. How did you do it, you were actually dodged by a group of Han people who were so strong. Don't anger Da Shan Yu when he talks for a while, he has been in a bad mood recently. If you provoke Dashan to anger, no one will be able to save you. The heads of the lord of the city of Drinking Han and his thousands of horsemen are still hanging on the flagpole. ”
Nacha silently took a sip of the broth, as the person sent by Da Danyu to monitor the lord of Han City. He knew that Da Shan Yu attached great importance to drinking Hancheng, but he now had more important things to report to Da Shan Yu.
"What? You say that the Han Chinese trained an elite cavalry and crushed your team under a frontal assault? ”
The military minister looked at Nacha who was kneeling beside him in disbelief.
"Yes, Da Dan Yu's Han cavalry is very elite, and the cavalry is not under our own cavalry. I only fought them for one round before I was crushed. ”
Nacha's head was low, and the poor record made him a little unable to lift his head. Since he was sensible, he had never heard of any Hun cavalry being defeated by the Han cavalry, and he never thought that he would actually be the first to do this.
The military minister threw away the leg of mutton in his hand, and his eyes were purring.
The Han people actually have cavalry with good cavalry and archery, this news is too incredible. In the past two days, news has been received that the tribes in the Helan Mountain area west of the Hetao have been harassed by a group of Han Chinese. The methods of these people are very cruel, and they almost follow the strategy of burning and killing all the people who pass by.
Several weak tribes have already been exterminated by them, and the morale of the western tribes in the army has begun to waver. Many of the Great Elders asked them to lead their armies to the aid of the west, but there was also a shortage of troops on the eastern front.
The cavalry archery of the cavalry of the headquarters was confident that those who could defeat them in a cavalry duel would not be easy to fight.
"How many cavalry are there for those Han Chinese?"
"I've seen more than 200 of them, but there will be more. There were about 10,000 Han troops attacking Drink Han City, and the closest Han city to Drink Han City was Lingwu City. From the fact that they were able to kill from Lingwu to Drinking Sweat City overnight, I estimate that most of them are cavalry. Otherwise it wouldn't have been so fast. ”
"Ten thousand cavalry." The military minister Shan Yu gasped, and 10,000 cavalry suddenly appeared behind him. This was not good news, once these cavalry used the city of Seoul as a base to raid the tribes under Helan Mountain. The western front will be completely eroded, and the tribes under Helan Mountain will not agree.
If you just forcibly block it, maybe those tribes will mutiny.
And these things looted by the Han people are also the most precious of the Xiongnu, that is, women. In the bitter cold land of Mobei, productivity is very low. Women die in childbirth, with five or six out of every ten babies born dying from various plagues and diseases, and dying before they reach adulthood.
Women are very precious in the Xiongnu tribe, because one more woman will give birth to one more child. One more child will make the tribe stronger and stronger. This is also why the Huns like to rob Han women when they go to the Han land to loot. Because the mortality rate of women on the grassland is too high, and the reproduction of the race is inseparable from women.
"Da Danyu, these Han cavalry are dividing into small groups to plunder our tribe. As I went, many tribes were burned to the ground. Cattle and sheep were looted and the population was slaughtered. They almost wanted to snatch everything they came across, from goods, cattle and sheep to women.
They have a big cart with four wheels that can hold a lot of things. I saw a big cart full of female children, if Da Dan Yu didn't quickly eliminate them, Helan Mountain would not belong to the Great Huns in the future. ”
Nacha was visibly excited, and the tragic scenes along the way were vivid. The charred corpses, and the peck at them by jackals and crows, made him very ashamed. As a Xiongnu man, if you can't protect your tribe, it's better to die.
"Da Dan Yu, if you let the cavalry of this Han army continue to loot Helan Mountain. The tribes there will be separated from us, and then we may lose the entire loop.
The Hetao is so important, it is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the Han people......"
A dark voice came out from the corner of the tent, and it was shrill and piercing, saying that men were not like men, and women were not like women.
"You Han people like to talk half and leave half, and if you have something to say, you can let it go."
Seeing that Da Shan Yu was dissatisfied, the Bank of China hurriedly walked out of the dark corner and said: "Da Shan Yu, there are now 400,000 Han troops stationed on the eastern front. If we want to fight all the way through, we need to gnaw city by city. By the time we break through this line, we will lose a lot of troops.
The advantage of the Xiongnu lies in maneuvering, not in attacking the city, and it is better for us to quietly move westward. Only a part of the eastern front was left to attack and harass, and the main force of the whole army attacked to the west. Now the main force of the Han army is in the east, let's open a road from the west.
With so many Han troops concentrated on the Eastern Front, then the Han must be like a walnut now. As soon as you burrow into the shell, there is sweet flesh inside. As long as we open the opening on the western front, we will go all the way south to Chang'an. At that time, let alone a princess of the Han family. It is that the three thousand beauties in Weiyang Palace will be all for the big order. ”
Zhongxingyue's words made the military minister Shan Yu very happy in his heart, this Han man was right. The advantage of the Hun cavalry was mobility, since so many Han troops were concentrated on the eastern and central fronts. Then the Western Front must be empty, and Lao Tzu ran to the Western Front overnight.
As long as the western front is opened a little, the 300,000 army will go straight to Chang'an. When the Han people's foot soldiers slowly rushed back, Lao Tzu was probably already drinking and watching songs and dances in Weiyang Palace.
The more the military minister Shan Yu thought about it, the more right he became, and immediately ordered: "The whole army is assembled, and the king of Zuogu Li is ordered to take 30,000 people to stay on the eastern front." The rest of the men and horses followed me straight to Seoul. I want to see if the Han cavalry is as powerful as you say. ”
The Xiongnu generals under the big order received the order with a bang, and they went back to gather their subordinates and prepared to rush to the western front overnight. From there, the gap was opened and the city of Chang'an of the Han people was rushed. (To be continued......)