Chapter 597: Approaching the Royal Court
A black-inky battle flag hunted and flew on the grassland.
Under the battle flag, the Luoyang army, dressed in red robes, lined up in a neat formation, facing the snow-white Hun camp tents in the distance.
From the place where the Luoyang army was arrayed, it can be clearly seen that in a Xiongnu camp tent, the top end is inlaid with a large tent with gold edges.
Compared with other tents, the big tent is obviously much larger, and in the midst of the tents, it gives people a sense of nobility and standing out from the crowd.
Looking at the Xiongnu royal court in the distance, Liu Wei raised his horsewhip, pointed forward, and shouted to the Luoyang army in formation: "Forward!" β
Tens of thousands of Luoyang troops, following Liu Wei, marched neatly and slowly towards the Xiongnu court.
Liu Bao, who had already joined Liu Wei, also led the remnants of the Xiongnu soldiers and horses under King Zuoxian, guarding the flank of the Luoyang army.
Liu Bao, who returned to the barracks, did not punish those betrayed generals.
Not only because Liu Wei protected those generals in it, but also because Liu Bao knew that the generals did those things that day to protect themselves.
People, when disaster strikes, can easily make radical choices. In the face of the approaching Luoyang army, if the generals did not react, it was really beyond Liu Bao's expectations.
The Xiongnu court was getting closer and closer, and Liu Wei led the army to a place only one or two miles away from the Xiongnu court, but a Hun army of thousands of people appeared in front of him.
The Hun army, which suddenly appeared, guarded a magnificently shaped carriage, stopped its advance when it reached the distance where Liu Wei could see them.
The wheels and roof of the carriage were trimmed with gold, and shimmered in the sunlight.
Due to the distance, Liu Wei couldn't see clearly who led the Hun army, and when the Hun army appeared in the field of vision, he raised his arm, stopped the march of the army, and said to the soldiers behind him: "Go over and see who is in front of you!" β
"Your Highness!" Before Liu Bian's words were finished, before the pro-soldier could respond, Guan Qing on the side raised his hand and pointed forward, and said to Liu Bian: "Someone is coming ahead!" β
Hearing what Guan Qing said, Liu Wei made a gesture to his own soldiers for the time being, and turned his head to look forward.
Sure enough, he saw a Hun man riding a white horse, leading more than a dozen Hun soldiers, galloping towards him on horseback.
Riding his horse and galloping, when he arrived at a place thirty or twenty steps away from the Luoyang Army's main array, the man on the white horse pulled the reins, turned over and jumped off the horse, and quickly ran towards Liu Wei's side.
More than a dozen Huns who followed him also jumped off their horses after he dismounted, but those Huns did not follow him to the Luoyang army.
When they arrived only three or four steps away from Liu Bian, the Huns first looked at Liu Bian and the generals on the side, and saw that Liu Bian was wearing gold armor and standing at the forefront of the army, so he hurriedly covered his left heart with his right hand, bowed down deeply, and said to Liu Bian: "King Li, the right valley of the Huns, meet His Royal Highness the King of Luoyang!" β
"Oh?" The right valley Li King recognized him at a glance, Liu Wei felt a little interesting, smiled slightly, rode on horseback and asked him: "Dare to ask how the right valley Li Wang recognized this king?" β
"Your Highness is an eagle above the sky and a tiger above the grassland!" Maintaining the posture of saluting Liu Bian, the king of Yougu Li said to Liu Wei without a sycophant: "Your Highness is just standing on the grassland, and even the wolves have to take a detour to dodge." With such a kingly spirit, I am afraid that there is only one person in the world! β
"Ha Lu Ha!" After listening to the explanation of the king of the right valley, Liu Wei raised his head and smiled, and said to the king of the right valley: "The king is really praised!" β
"The Huns Da Dan Yu learned that His Royal Highness had arrived, and he specially went out of the king's tent to greet him!" Seeing Liu Bian's cheerful smile, King Yougu Li's heart was also wide, and he hurriedly said to Liu Bian: "The Great Hun Royal Court, I look forward to His Highness's arrival." β
Nodding his head towards the right valley king, Liu Bianxu raised his hand and said to him: "Please ask the right valley king to guide the way for this king!" β
After getting Liu Wei's order, the king of the right valley Li answered, and after getting on the war horse, he accompanied Liu Wei and slowly walked towards the Hun army outside the Xu Kai.
The more than ten Hun soldiers who followed the king of the right valley to come here could only walk on horseback on the side of the Luoyang army column, but they had no sense of existence.
The Hun troops who were waiting in line for the Luoyang Army, seeing that the King of Yougu Li was accompanying Liu Wei, jumped off their horses one after another, knelt on the ground, and did not even dare to raise their heads.
Approaching the Xiongnu queue, Liu Wei saw the gold-encrusted carriage clearly.
The gold wrapped around the wheel and roof of the car was carved with some strange patterns, and although the patterns and textures were clear, Liu Wei couldn't see what was engraved.
Slowly came to the carriage, Liu Wei was looking at the decoration on the carriage, and the right valley Liwang on the side turned over and jumped off the horse, walked to the side of the carriage, opened the door, and took out Liu Jian, who had changed into the clothes of the Huns.
Xiao Liu Jian was born with a tiger's head and a tiger brain, and his appearance is very cute. Wearing the Huns' clothes made of sheepskin, he looked more and more like a native of the Huns.
was picked up from the carriage by the king of the right valley, Xiao Liu Jian frowned, pouted, and looked very unhappy.
But when he saw Liu Bian, a pair of big eyes flashed with a look of closeness, and his small mouth was bent up, showing a bright smile, and stretching out his little hand, as if he wanted Liu Bian to hug him.
Riding on horseback, Liu Wei took Liu Jian, who was handed to him by King Liwang of the Right Valley, held it in his arms, and pinched Liu Jian's little face affectionately.
Liu Wei and Liu Jian both showed their closeness to each other, and the Right Gu Li Dynasty took a few steps back, raised his arms high, knelt on the ground, and made a Huns-style five-body bow to Liu Wei, shouting loudly: "Long live the King of Luoyang, long live Da Danyu!" β
The king of Yougu Li took the lead in shouting, and the Huns who came to greet Liu Wei and the Luoyang army all shouted one after another.
However, the shouts of the Hun soldiers were very different from those of the right valley Liwang. The king of the right valley is chanted in the language of the Han people, while the Xiongnu soldiers are chanted in the mountain in the Xiongnu language.
After receiving the mountain call of the king of the right valley and the Hun soldiers, when the mountain call of everyone was over, Liu Wei raised his hand and said to the king of the right valley: "Please lead the king of the right valley to lead the king and Da Shan Yu into the royal court!" β
Standing up and making a Hun salute to Liu Wei, the king of the right valley Li answered, leading more than 1,000 Huns to lead Liu Wei in front.
At this time, Zhao Yun was also leading the Luoyang army under his command and the newly surrendered Xiongnu army to advance in the direction of Wangting.
In the team led by Zhao Yun, there was a wooden carriage that was very eye-catching.
It was a carriage towed by only an old horse, and the carriage was very rough, with thick branches nailed in rows at the edge of the carriage.
At the top of the carriage, there is also an opening that allows people to show their heads.
Inside the carriage, there stood an unkempt man. The man was naked, and since he hadn't washed his body for days, he had a foul smell on his body.
Guarding the carriage were two cavalrymen of the Luoyang Army riding war horses. Because it was too close to the carriage, the unpleasant smell of the man in the carriage wafted straight towards the two cavalrymen, and although they were walking in the wilderness, they still smoked the two cavalrymen and frowned.
Following Zhao Yun at the forefront of the team was less than 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Luoyang Army.
Due to the continuous battles, the heavy cavalry of the Luoyang Army suffered serious losses, and the 10,000 people when they set out on the expedition are now only seven or eight thousand people who still have combat strength.
Immediately behind the heavy cavalry of the Luoyang Army were tens of thousands of Huns who had recently surrendered.
Because they were about to enter the territory of the Huns, although they were recruited, Zhao Yun did not issue them weapons, but loaded their weapons on the baggage cart and brought them to the Xiongnu royal court.
It is more appropriate to say that these tens of thousands of Huns were just absorbed troops than that they were captured by Zhao Yun.
Walking behind the most of the team, sandwiching the Huns in the middle, it was the three thousand tiger guards led by Tao Hu entrusted by Zhao Yun.
This army, which was called the "White Bird Army" by the Huns, although the number was not very large, but every officer and soldier was very energetic when marching.
Three thousand people rode forward, almost the same stride of the war horses under their crotches, which was even more neat than the heavy cavalry team of the Luoyang Army, which was already extremely neat at the front of the queue.
"General, it's only a hundred miles away from the court of the Great Huns!" As he was marching, a Hun general designated by Zhao Yun to follow him to guide the way raised his hand and pointed to the front and said something to Zhao Yun.
"What Huns?" Before Zhao Yun could speak, Pei Yuanshao, who was following him, glared at the Hun general, and said angrily: "In front of my Han general, I dare to say anything about the Huns." The Huns are the Huns, and they are not allowed to bring a big character! β
was drunk by Pei Yuanshao, and the Hun general hurriedly lowered his head, but he didn't dare to refute.
Looking at the vast meadow, Zhao Yun couldn't help but be a little glad to have incorporated these Huns at this time. If he was on the shore of Baishui, he killed all these Huns, and didn't say whether it was good to explain to Liu Wei, just said that this endless grassland in front of him, if there was no one to guide the way, Mo said that he wanted to find the Xiongnu royal court, I am afraid that it would not be easy to even meet a Xiongnu tribe.
While the Luoyang army defeated the Xiongnu and the Xiongnu army surrendered one after another, in the area where the south and Huainan meet, Lu Bu's army was doing nothing all day.
There was no fighting, and they were not summoned by Liu Wei to return to Luoyang, so LΓΌ Bu had to station his army at the foot of a mountain only twenty or thirty miles from the Huainan border.
The officers and men had nothing to do all day long, except to eat or sleep, and some officers and men were even so bored that they threw stones and jumped circles in the army.
Walking in the barracks, looking at the bored soldiers, although Lu Bu did not reprimand anyone, his brows were always tightly wrinkled.
"General, what is the intention of the King of Luoyang?" Wei Xu, who was following behind Lu Bu, saw the unhappiness on his face, moved closer to him, and asked in a low voice: "Attack the Huns, don't let me wait to go forward, there is no war in Huainan, but why did you leave us here?" β