Chapter 258: Ten Steps to Kill One Person (Part I)
It was not only the Xiongnu who attacked the Qin State this time, but the Xiongnu was the name agreed by the major princes of the Central Plains to the grassland peoples living outside the Great Wall. There were also several major factions and races among the Xiongnu, and each of them was very strong, so they discussed attacking Qin together.
Meng Tian got the news of the Great Wall Guard, although it was not very specific, but he also learned a lot of useful things. The five major Xiongnu tribes each had their own armies, namely the Abbasi tribe, the Kazakun tribe, the Keriel tribe, the Arosa tribe and the Amerik tribe, these five tribes were the main force of the Xiongnu army, adding up to nearly 300,000 troops, and most of them were cavalry.
The rest are small tribes like Xiang Rongdi and Tu'an, who were not strong before. Originally, Rong Di could be compared with the five major tribes, but unfortunately, since Meng Tian led his troops to raid their royal tent more than ten years ago and severely damaged the two big tribes, the Rong Di people were in a slump, and it didn't take long for them to be absorbed by the Amerik tribe who came to the door.
Even a powerful tribe like Rong Di was taken in by the Huns as vassals, not to mention a small tribe like Tuan, who had been struggling under the bloody scimitars of the Huns from the beginning, and could only be forcibly claimed.
The most troublesome are still those small countries in the Western Regions, because this is the most terrible threat to Qin. Because this time the Huns went south, all relying on the armies of these small countries, only they would climb the city wall in the Xiongnu army, which was mostly cavalry, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Qin army. But fortunately, the siege equipment they made was not very good, and some of the climbing ladders were even disconnected in the middle of the soldiers' climbing.
"So, we're mainly guarding against the armies from the small countries in the Western Regions, right?" Meng Tian asked the general who was defending the city to report the news.
The general guarding the city was named Gao Yang, and he replied respectfully to Meng Tian: "Yes, great general. Because the Huns' armies were all cavalry, they were only good at cavalry or foot combat with the enemy in a wide area, and this kind of thing was not their strength, only the armies of those small countries in the Western Regions would attack the city. When these people began to attack the city, the army of the Huns would fire arrows at our soldiers from a distance, and there were so many of them that our soldiers could not show their heads at all. ”
"Okay, I know, General Gao, you've worked hard, let's go down and rest first. Meng Tian said to Gao Yang.
"Yes, the last will retire. Goofy gave a fist salute and walked out.
Meng Tian looked at the border map of the Qin State hanging in the room, although it was said that the Qin State had now unified the world, but the border of the Qin State had become extremely long, from the westernmost point of the Qin State to the easternmost point, the difference between the two was thousands of miles away. And above these 10,000 miles, less than half of the places where the Great Wall is defended, and it is intermittent.
And this time the Huns went south to see this loophole on the border of Qin, they did not combine their forces, but dispersed, and when it was time to attack, they would discuss the date, and then attack together on the border.
The Qin army could only defend strictly in the city, so these people robbed the Qin people living outside the city, and everywhere they went, they killed people and set fires, and raped and plundered, and their acts were outrageous.
As soon as Meng Tian stopped, he received a report that fifty miles outside the city, a thousand Hun cavalry were infested, heading in the direction of a village.
After receiving the news, Meng Tian grabbed his helmet and sword, and said, "Let Xue Bin set off with his cavalry." Today, I'm going to meet these dog-bred Huns for a while, and see if their cavalry is powerful, or the cavalry of my Mengjia army is powerful. ”
By the time Meng Tian rode to the city gate, Xue Bin and his 1,000 cavalry had been waiting for a long time. After Meng Tian arrived, the city gate opened, and a thousand and two people rushed out of the city gate like a swift wind, killing the Xiongnu soldiers who dared to come to the territory of Qin to rob.
Every section of the Great Wall of Qin was built on the city, and the distance between the city and the city was nearly 100 miles, and there were only two patrols of the Qin army every day, and the rest of the time was completely undefended, which also gave Tarim Toji the opportunity to come to the territory of Qin to grab food.
Tarim Toji is the biological brother of Tarim Barrett, the chief of the Kazakun tribe, and both brothers grew up on horseback and learned kung fu on horseback. This time, he followed his eldest brother to the border of Qin, and saw the exquisite armor and long knife of the Qin army, which made him very greedy.
Because no one knew how to smelt iron ore and forge weapons on the grasslands, their fighting methods were mainly based on wooden clubs inlaid with the teeth of wild beasts and sharpened bows and arrows. However, after coming here again, Tarim Toji had already put on a piece of armor stripped from the dead Qin army, and he also wore an iron long knife around his waist, which was almost more valuable than all his cattle and sheep on the grassland.
Riding on horseback, with a thousand well-trained Kazakun warriors under him, Tarim Toji received a report from the spies that twenty miles ahead of him was a village of Qin people, where he could rob food, women, and horses. The women of the Qin Kingdom are much more beautiful than the women who herd cattle and horses on the grassland every day, especially the milk-white skin, the cheese-like fragrant breasts, and the slender waist like a foal. It really made him have an endless aftertaste, which reminded him of the little beauty who died in his bed yesterday who was tortured by himself and was only sixteen years old.
"Sons, the women of the Qin State are ahead, they are waiting for your submission, rush me!" Tarim Toji roared loudly in front of him on his horse.
Encouraged by the deputy commander, the Kazakun warriors rode on their horses and began to shout, and they also gained a lot of benefits from the battle against the Qin people. Because the great commander said that the head of a Qin army is worth five cattle and sheep, and whether a person is rich on the grassland is to see how many cattle and sheep he raises. Therefore, every time they followed the leader to plunder a place, they would cut off the man's head and hang it on the horse under his crotch, and then bring it back to reward him for meritorious deeds. make
The target of this raid had already appeared in the field of vision, and Tarim Toji pulled out the captured Qin army war knife, slapped the horse's buttocks hard, and drove towards the village that was destined to be unlucky today.
The sun was about to set, and the villagers of Anning Village were tired from a day of labor in the fields, and the men who were working in the fields carried their hoes on their shoulders and sang the songs passed down from the mouths of the older generation to Anning Village, and the wives and children at home had already prepared meals and were waiting for them.
"Village Chief, Qin soldiers came to our village the day before yesterday, what are they here for? Could it be that they are here to collect taxes?" said a young man to an elderly man in the group.
"Ah Qi, don't worry, I'm not here to collect taxes. They came to say that there were Hu people on the border not far away, and they wanted us to move to the city temporarily. We are nearly a hundred miles away from the nearest city, and if we are killed by the Hu people, it will be all over. The old man, who was called the village chief, said.
The young man called Ah Qi said, "So that's the case, then why didn't you agree?"
The village chief replied: "You young people, what is good about going to the city, don't you have to spend money on food and housing, you see that the food and drink in our village are all grown by ourselves, how can the city compare with us?"
"That's right. ”
As the group continued to walk towards the village, they could clearly see the curling smoke rising from the village.
The sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and the pebbles on the ground jumped up. Ah Qi put his palm between his eyebrows and looked in the direction where the sound of horses' hooves came from in the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Ah Qi, what do you see?" asked a man a little older than Ah Qi.
"I saw a lot of people coming towards us on horseback. But looking at their outfits, it doesn't seem to be Qin Jun. Ah, no, it's Hu Ren, run!" The horse team in the distance was running very fast, and Ah Qi was surprised when he saw the outfit of the man on horseback.
"Hu people, run!" Everyone saw that it was Hu Ren on horseback, and everyone began to run frantically towards Anning Village.
The village chief was old, far inferior to Ah Qi and the others, and before he could run a few steps, he was slashed in the back by Tarim Toji, who had caught up, and fell down.
The two legs of the man are comparable to the four legs of the horse, and they are also the war horses trained by the Huns. As soon as the Huns rushed over, more than a dozen villagers of Anning Village all fell on the way home. The last scene that Ah Qi, who was the fastest runner, saw in his eyes was that the bearded man wielding a long knife killed the little child who looked like his son, he wanted to shout, but his body had no strength, and his raised arm fell down and stopped breathing.
It took nearly half an hour to reach Anning Village from the city according to the speed of the Mengjia army's war horses, and when Meng Tian led the Mengjia army cavalry to Anning Village, he found more than a dozen corpses lying in pools of blood on the road not far from the village. Meng Tian knew in his heart that the big thing was not good, so he rode a black horse and rushed into Anning Village first.
At this time, Anning Village was almost about to become a hell on earth, there were fires everywhere, corpses everywhere, the corpses of children of several years old, the corpses of white-haired old men, and even the corpses of women who were stripped naked and humiliated to death.
Meng Tian got off the horse, the back of the hand holding the Zhengang sword at his waist had been clenched out of the back, Meng Tian continued to walk towards the village, when he saw a little girl with pigtails that was not yet his waist, stripped naked, with scratches all over her body, a pair of big eyes staring straight at him, her face was full of fear.
Meng Tian walked over, untied his cloak and put it on the little girl's body. After walking a short distance, I suddenly heard the voice of someone not far away. Meng Tian strode forward, and when he came to the place where the sound came from, he saw the scene in front of him, and Meng Tian's eyes were about to split.
Two men dressed as Huns are committing an atrocity against a pregnant woman with a bulging belly. The pregnant woman under them was covered with their big hands to their mouth and nose, their mouths were speechless, and their heads kept shaking, but they were powerless against the two Hun men who grabbed them, and finally, her eyes lost all their brilliance. Before she died, her eyes were wide open, and she didn't know if it was because of the injustice of fate, or because of her strong hatred for these two damn scumbags.
"Beast, die to Lao Tzu!" Meng Tian jumped up, the sword in his hand drew a bright light, and the two Hu people who were committing violence didn't see who was talking at all, and the two heads flew up in the air.