Judging the situation has always been the nature of a smart person, and if you don't know how to look at your own situation and make the right choice, even if you have a strong strength, you are destined to sink somewhere.

Ordinary people don't know how to change themselves according to the changes in the environment, and they will only be affected. As a leader, if you don't know how to change your original intention according to actual needs, you will bury a large number of people.

Mao Dun is now a leader, he has his own army and his subordinates, the army was originally from the Xiongnu and related friendly tribes, but the subordinates were obtained in the Western Regions to conquer the west.

Lu Zhe in the land of China is rising, the rise of the trend is not only the old countries can not be stopped, the first batch of southward grassland tribes have also become a new batch of targets, Mao Dun felt at the beginning that he should not confront the new rise of Lu Zhe, should avoid its edge, but unfortunately he is only a prince of the Huns, and even his prince not only has no right to speak but is also disgusted by Touman, so it is even more difficult to have any right to suggest the direction of the Xiongnu.

"Really? Touman chose to advance lightly, and after successfully retreating into the desert, he replenished water in the oasis, and after going deep into the desert again, he was ambushed by the Han army? Mao Dun directly called his father's name, and he was not surprised in his demeanor and tone, and was silent for a while, and asked, "What about the loss?" ”

Huyan Shilan was very sad both in her demeanor and in her tone: "The whole army is annihilated......"

At that moment, Mao suddenly froze, he thought that Touman would suffer heavy losses, and it was even possible that Touman would only break through with a few people, but he didn't think that no one over there could escape.

"He's scared to death. I've always been afraid of death," Mao Dun seemed to be unable to accept such a result: "Shouldn't it? It shouldn't be like this. ”

Who is not afraid of death? It is human instinct to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and if you can live, no one will give up on survival. Maudun knew Touman, but Maudon didn't know Touman, and he didn't expect Touman to make a surprising choice......

Yes, Touman slaughtered a large number of cattle and sheep, discarded more cattle and sheep, and hurried to his destination with his troops, during which they were not intercepted by the Han army. After crossing five miles of desert, we arrived at the oasis. Touman, who arrived at the oasis, seemed relieved and happy that he had made the right move. They replenished water in the oasis and re-entered the desert until they were about to cross the desert and enter the grassland. But everything went smoothly until the Han army appeared and attacked.

The Fifth Cavalry Corps of the Han Army was an ambush at the edge of the desert for about five miles, the desert is not a flat terrain, in fact, there are many more small hills in the desert than other environments, and it is not difficult to hide troops in the geographical environment of undulating sand dunes.

It may be that it is a logical state all the way. Touman let his guard down and did not send a lead scout. When they thought that they were about to cross the desert and reach the grassland, they were also in a state of exhaustion after a dozen or twenty miles of desert marching, when a large number of Han troops suddenly appeared on both sides, and they also shot an overwhelming rain of arrows head-on, and they were a little stunned in an instant.

The desert was not suitable for cavalry engagement, after all, the horse's hooves could not speed up when they stepped on the soft sand, the horse's hooves were more likely to trip when they sank in, and the advancing head man was severely injured by the constant fire of arrows.

The Hu people did not fail to make a move to charge and fight. However, the terrain restrictions made it difficult for them to speed up, and in the face of the endless rain of arrows, the Hu people were all shot down on the road of the charge without exception.

Inherited from the Qin army's emphasis on long-range attacks. The Han army was more blue and better than the blue in the equipment of bows and crossbows, and they occupied favorable terrain in advance, and they maintained a propulsive chain of arrow strikes for at least an hour because of the sudden blows of the Touman Division, and the continuous feather arrows wiped out at least 20,000 Hu people in an hour, and the Hu army was constantly forced to retreat.

It can be said that the sudden ambush before he was about to escape was a great blow to Touman, so big that for a moment he fainted with a tightness in his chest and a daze, so that within an hour the army did not receive any orders from the Supreme Commander at all.

What was the condition of the Hu army that lost the command of Touman? They did not have a clear structure like the army of the Huaxia tribe, that is, a tribe or a group of people put together a force temporarily, and some people charged and some retreated without being ordered, and the result was that their uncoordinated movements first caused themselves to be chaotic.

Fortunately, it is also limited by the terrain, and the Hu people are relatively long in the posture of marching, otherwise if the Han army charges or is completely squeezed, the loss of the Hu people will definitely not be only 20,000 people.

Touman immediately asked about the losses as soon as he came to his senses, and the answer he received was that his side had suffered heavy losses and probably did not kill any of the Han soldiers. He asked again about the development of the war situation, and the answer was that the front of the army was constantly compressed, the Chinese army was in a daze, and the rear army was fleeing to the rear.

In fact, the Hu people do not have such an establishment as the front army, the middle army, and the rear army, because the marching posture is drawn into a long dragon and inevitably forms a disjointed posture, and the Hu people who walk in the front are the strong Hu people and the henchmen of Touman, the Hu people in the middle are relatively good in physique, and the Hu people at the back are either old and weak or sick and disabled.

In these years, people have no concept of time, and the Chinese ethnic group still has at least one tea, a stick of incense, a quarter of an hour, half an hour, and an hour, while the Hu people simply use the rising and setting of the sun, or the change of seasons as the statistics of time units.

The unit of counting hours has only recently been applied in Lu Zhe's realm, and Touman will not know what "hour" is. The current king of the Xiongnu, Shan Yu of a large tribal alliance, only knew that he had lost at least 20,000 people in the process of being unconscious, and he almost fell into a coma when he heard the news.

"How many Han troops are ambushing us?"

"At least 30,000 have appeared, and I don't know how many are still hidden."

"Which way can you break through?"

"There are Han troops in front of us, on the left and on the right, and they are fanning and shooting arrows all the time."

"Can you press it up and break the enemy's line?"

"A few chiefs have tried, and the sand here is too soft. Unable to make the horses run, all the charging warriors fell on the road. ”

Touman was silent, his eyes staring straight at the flying arrows. I heard screams from far and near, and I felt that it was difficult to breathe.

"No matter how many Han troops there are ahead, due to the terrain restrictions, even if we can break through, we will definitely suffer heavy losses." He Sui Kui Nie's face was full of dead gray: "Even if it succeeds in breaking through here, the Han army will inevitably be outside the desert and ready to fight......"

Since he encountered the ambush, Touman knew that this time it was over, completely finished, so he vomited blood and fainted. Their detour and breakthrough were known by the Han army because of leaks. Or the Han army itself judged that it was already over before the Han army formed an ambush before it crossed the desert.

"It's okay to go backwards. But when we retreat back to the Gobi before entering the grassland, we have to face the Han army led by Meng Tian, ......" He Sui Kui Nie was desperate, he pulled his messy hair: "It is impossible for them to let us return to the grassland, and they thought of annihilating us all from the beginning." ”

Touman remained silent. The palms of both hands will be clenched into fists and then released. While he was silent, the Han army was still approaching, and one after another living beings were swept into his body by arrows in the sound of breaking through the air, and fell to the ground as a corpse or a wounded.

"There's no way you're going back to the prairie, is it?" The head man who reopened his mouth seemed to get an affirmative answer.

Whether it was He Sui Kui Nie or the rest of the people gathered around, judging from their expressions, none of them felt that there was any hope of breaking through. They knew the Han army too well, and every military operation of the Han army would have a clear goal in advance. According to that goal, a series of deployments were made, and since they were ambushed by the Han army here, there must be a Han army waiting for them somewhere. Even if they were able to escape from here, they would have lost most of their troops and fought again exhausted.

"We shouldn't go south......" A sad cry, a leader seemed to be unable to accept such a result, and directly broke down, constantly shouting: "We should not go south...... ...... shouldn't have gone south"

"Kill him." The first moment Touman came back to his senses from deep thought, he ordered to kill the guy who had a nervous breakdown, and then looked around at the people around him, "Hahaha" burst into laughter, laughing sadly and like relief: "Surrender, we surrender, surrender to the Han army!" ”

At that moment, they were all stunned when they heard the hysterical roar of the head man.

Originally, they could have escaped, even if they didn't know if the road ahead was smooth, but they could take a detour to the Western Regions. At that time, it was Touman who was reluctant to go, and wanted to fight again for the so-called dignity of the king, and he struggled for the sake of a small drop in prestige, which led them to stay near the source of the Yellow River. Now, the head man, who led to all this, said to surrender?

Entangled with the Han army for a year and a half, they went from being unfamiliar to being familiar with the Han army, from the beginning of their contempt to the fear of the back, but at least they have always been in a military contest, and now they want to surrender? Surrender to the enemy with whom they have been entangled for almost a year and a half? Some people can't turn the corner, but some people are relieved.

No one said anything, no matter what kind of psychology or what kind of expression, they were all looking at the head man who was laughing miserably.

"The Han army is very strong, we have always known that they are strong, and it is not a shame for us to submit to the strong side." Touman seemed to convince everyone, and as if to convince himself: "I heard that Han Wangzhe is a benevolent and strong man, and those who surrender to Han Wangzhe are treated kindly. During the conquest of the grasslands, Han Wang Zhe captured many people from the Hetao and Yanmen, and those people were not slaughtered, and even lived better than other people who were not included in his rule......"

Nonsense, after the Han army came out of the fortress, every place in the early stage was accompanied by blood, cleaning out all the Hu people who could be caught on the way, and only in the later period did they have the action of being incorporated into slaves, and the grassland people who became slaves became slaves for the Han army, and some of the grassland people who became slaves became slaves who raised livestock, although the situation was not terrible, but it was definitely not much better.

"Surrender, the Han Wangzhe will need us." Touman suddenly aged ten years old, and his speech became weak.

Of course, Lu Zhe will be able to use Touman and others, once Touman disappears, Mao Dun will definitely find an opportunity to strengthen himself, at that time, whether Lu Zhe uses Tou Man as a bargaining chip to threaten Ji Tuo, or suppresses Mao Dun from public opinion, Tou Man will always be of some use.

surrendered, Touman asked He Sui Kui Nie to risk his life to approach the Han army with an apricot yellow flag to express his willingness to surrender.

Why the apricot yellow flag? It has always been until the Yuan Dynasty, and the white flag was not raised in Chinese culture to express surrender, such as the giant thief Song Jiang of Liangshanbo erected the apricot yellow flag for Tianxingdao in order to express his desire for Zhao'an to the Great Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan became the master of the land of China, and the culturally inherent Chinese civilization system was basically cut off, and the grassland culture and the Western Regions became the mainstream, and many things and cognitions have actually changed.

It was Han Xin who first sensed that the Hu people were going to surrender, Zhong Liwu who ordered to avoid He Sui Kui Nie's archery, it was Shen Tujia who received He Sui Kui Nie, and it was Wei Han, the commander of the Zhonglang General's corps, who accepted the surrender of the Hu people.

Of course, the surrender process of more than 100,000 troops was not so simple, and Wei Han also suspected that Touman had some conspiracy, so he adhered to a cautious posture, first asking the Hu people to hand over their weapons and horses in batches, and then urgently sending people to contact Meng Tian, until Meng Tian brought the army over, and the entire surrender procedure was accelerated.

Mao Dun, who was far away in the Western Regions, knew that it had been more than two months since Touman led the army to surrender, and he had been making preparations with both hands before that, obviously it was impossible to meet Touman's headquarters in the east, and the other preparation was to go west.

Mao Dun knew very well that there was no possibility of confronting the Han army under the current conditions, and the idea of going west had long appeared in his heart, but some things were involved, and it was also Wusun who blocked the way over there that made him not make up his mind. Now that Touman's department is gone, he should have made a decision early even if he had any doubts.

"There are still more than 100,000 people on my father's side, are we ......" Huyan Shilan looked at Mao Dun with expectant eyes, expecting to get the answer he wanted.

"Nearly 150,000 or so people surrendered, and it will take at least three months for Meng Tian to settle the prisoners," Mao Dun took a deep breath: "Maybe Meng Tian will also seek to completely annihilate the Yanmi Department while placing the prisoners of war, I will not lead the army to go, you can take 10,000 people to try to take a look." ”

Huyan Shilan knew that what Mao Dun said was the truth, and respectfully accepted the reality.

Of course, Mao Dun also hopes to accept the inheritance left by Touman, and with the more than 100,000 people on Hu Yanmi's side, he can also have more capital when facing Wusun.

At present, the most important thing is that Mao Dun must determine one thing, in the face of such an aggressive and powerful Han army, should he go directly to the west, or return to the grassland to compete with Jituo for the position of Shan Yu? (To be continued......)