Ah Man was very anxious, and walked around the house waiting for news, he had not slept a single sleep in the past few months, and the chaos on the grassland had put the entire Gongsun tribe in extreme danger.

It has been more than two years since the Gongsun clan came to Jishi Mountain, and since he moved to this place with his tribe two years ago, he has taken root here and built a permanent old camp. This is a good place, not only has a water source, the surrounding grassland resources are also very lush, and more importantly, Jishi Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, here, it is really suitable for the survival and development of a small tribe like him. He kept his cattle and so on at the foot of the mountain, and the sturdy warriors were also stationed at the bottom of the mountain, but the old and weak women and children were all placed on the mountain, and the stone houses and wooden houses were the result of his tribe multiplying here for the past two years.

But a big defeat of the Xiongnu, so that this beautiful life is about to come to naught, these months, Jishi Mountain has suffered several attacks, fortunately, the attack is some of the same as their own, or even weaker tribes, they rely on the terrain, has eliminated several groups of enemies.

But yesterday I got the news that a force of more than five hundred horse thieves had gathered fifty miles away, and their target was who they didn't ask.

Five hundred rides! Ah Man rubbed his head in pain, his entire tribe, including all the men from the age of sixteen to sixty, could only gather five hundred horsemen, how could they stop this wolf-like horse bandit?

"Aman, withdraw all the tribes to the mountains, defend the mountains, we still have more than a thousand slaves, and give them weapons, which can also help to guard, I think, they should also know that the horse bandits have killed them, and they will not survive." Explaining to them the benefits and disadvantages of this is more or less a bit of strength. "Aman's woman, the mistress of the Gongsun tribe, Dexiang, opened her mouth to persuade." Take the initiative to kill the enemy, we don't have this strength. ”

Ah Man smiled bitterly, "These slaves don't want to die, but they are very loyal to us, give them weapons, if they fight back, we will die faster." ”

Dexiang couldn't help but be silent. In the past two years, these slaves have been used to open up land on the shore of Jishi Lake at the foot of Jishi Mountain, and the Gongsun clan has a lot of fertile land. The current Gongsun tribe is not only herding. They can also produce their own food, which is why they don't have to move with the seasons like other tribes. Slaves were naturally disobedient, and most of them were still working in shackles.

"Patriarch!" A young warrior rushed in from outside, sweating profusely, but his face was indescribably terrified.

"Gongsun Yi, what's the situation, those damn horse thieves, have they already set off for us?" Aman asked in a loud voice. The scimitar on the table with his backhand was stuck in his belt, "Here they are, aren't they!" ”

"Patriarch. Dead, these bandits, all dead! Gongsun Yi gasped and said loudly. Patriarch, they were all killed. ”

"All dead, all the horse bandits dead?" Aman's first cry was a cheer of ecstasy. The second voice turned into a suspicious rhetorical question, and Dexiang was also full of fear after the momentary joy, for them, they were afraid that they had gone to a wolf, but they had ushered in a tiger.

"Who? Which tribe did it do? Aman's voice trembled a little.

"Patriarch, it's not our Hun tribe, it's the Fufeng people, I saw their banners. Their vanguard cavalry raided the horse bandit camp in the heavy rain yesterday, killing almost all of the more than 500 horse bandits, and only a very small number of them escaped. Gongsun Yi's face was a little distorted, and he said in a trembling voice.

"How did the Fufeng people end up here?" Ah Man shouted, "How many of them are there? ”

"There are about 300 of them!" Gongsun Yi's words made Ah Man just drop a little heart, but the next sentence made him fall into the abyss in an instant, "Behind the cavalry, there are also foot soldiers, I watched from a distance, I am afraid that there are thousands of people, with hundreds of carts, mighty and mighty, and I can't see the head and tail." ”

Ah Man only felt that the strength of his body was drained clean with Gongsun Yi's words, and the Fufeng Army attacked in a big way, within a hundred miles of this square garden, in addition to Jishi Mountain, where would there be a second target? At this moment, he prefers to face a group of horse bandits, although the horse bandits are difficult to deal with, but the discipline is lax, as long as they can survive their first few rounds of attacks, they may retreat because of too much loss, but the Fufeng Army is different, this is a disciplined team, against them, he has no chance of winning.

"What to do, what to do?" He muttered. In addition to the soldiers, he also has thousands of old and weak women and children of the Gongsun tribe, as well as the tribal property accumulated in the past two years, all of which are gone?

"Aman, evacuate everyone to the mountains." Dexiang's face was also pale, but compared to Aman, he still seemed calmer, "I once heard the caravan say that the Fufeng army is not particularly hostile to the Huns, isn't that Helan tribe particularly friendly with them, two years ago, we also bought their wine and some other goods through the caravan of the Helan tribe?" ”

"Yes, yes, the territory of the Fufeng people is not on the grassland, they must not come here to grab this territory, there will definitely be a way!" Ah Man jumped up, "Gongsun Yi, first withdraw all the people and livestock under the mountain to the mountain, and then, then you bring some people and some livestock to comfort them and find out their intentions." ”

He glanced back at Dexiang, "Then make a decision, Dexiang, what do you think is so?" ”

"That's very good, stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, we will be kind to reward, they will not meet each other immediately." Deka nodded.

When there was a lot of chaos up and down Jishi Mountain, the army led by Sun Xiao and Helan Yan had already approached Jishi Mountain, and after the horizontal knife brought back the exact news, Sun Xiao did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered to advance. In the evening, the brigade arrived at Jishi Mountain, beside Jishi Lake, and set up camp for the camp.

"Great place, really good place!" Looking at the steep Jishi Mountain in the distance, and then looking at the clear, mile-radius Jishi Lake next to Daying, and the crops by the lake that have been reclaimed and are growing just right, Sun Xiao couldn't be more satisfied. Here, it is really a good place to build a nest.

The best thing is that this Gongsun family has done a lot of preliminary work for him, which has saved him a lot of effort.

"This Gongsun clan's Ah Man is a wonderful person!" Sun Xiao looked at the generals under his command, "You actually still grow crops in the fields, the head of the sect, this is different from most of your Xiongnu tribes!" ”

"What's the difference?" He Lanyan said angrily: "Have you ever been to the court of the Huns?" There, also formed a very large market town, although not as good as the Central Plains city, but not small, under the command of the Xiongnu king, in addition to the nomadic tribes, there are naturally also slaves of the cantonment. It's only a big scale here, and if you go to the royal court and see the scale of it, won't you even swallow your tongue? ”

Listening to Helan Yan's words, Sun Xiao couldn't help but say curiously: "Which is Helan Ministry, why has it never done this?" ”

"Our tribe is small, we have been displaced, we don't have a fixed territory, and even if we have a fixed territory, we don't have such geographical conditions, how can we reclaim it? Later, after getting to know Gao Yuan, we did more caravan work, using this to make money, and then bought food and other items from Fufeng, but we didn't need to farm. Helan Yan said.

"I see!" Sun Xiao nodded again and again, "I thought that the Xiongnu tribes only graze and don't grow grain?" ”

"You're right, but all this kind of reclamation is done by slaves, and the Huns really don't know how to farm." He Lanyan said lightly: "It seems that the Gongsun clan of this Jishi Mountain has a lot of Central Plains slaves in their hands!" ”

Sun Xiao laughed, "The more the merrier, it will be all ours in the future." ”

A few people were talking, and above the outpost tower in front of the battalion, there was a sudden sound of a warning horn, Sun Xiao and He Lanyan glanced at each other and looked at each other, "This Aman won't have his head burned and confused, does he dare to attack us?" Helan Yan muttered.

The two of them wanted to rush to the front camp, but they saw that the tiger head in front of them was flying from his steps, "General Sun, the head of the sect, the Gongsun clan doesn't know what kind of fame the road is doing, and now a guy named Gongsun Yi drove a large group of cattle and sheep to the gate of our camp, asking to see the general, and what did he say to treat our army!" ”

"Yo, this man even knows this?" Sun Xiao laughed, "Cattle and sheep take it, isn't this Gongsun Yi coming to explore our reality, give him this opportunity, prepare in the camp, and let this Gongsun Yi open his eyes." ”

Gongsun Yi's legs were a little weak, although the other party did not embarrass him, after accepting the gift he sent, he only said that the general would thank him in person, so he asked people to lead him into the camp, looking at the Fufeng soldiers in green uniforms standing with knives along the way, his legs and stomach trembled involuntarily. It made him feel a little ashamed. He is also a Hun warrior, how can he be so unbearable?

He tried to puff out his chest to make himself look more high, but immediately, his eyes were drawn to a group of busy people next to him, oh my God, what are they assembling? Looking at the bed crossbows that had been assembled beside them, Gongsun Yi almost fainted, and with a cursory glance, he saw more than twenty bed crossbows.

His face turned pale, and the spirit he had just picked up immediately wilted again. Finally arrived in front of the Chinese military tent, what he saw was a forest of knives shining with cold light, two rows of soldiers holding huge long knives, looking at him coldly, at the mouth of the big tent, two eight-foot men with fierce eyes, like beasts. One of the guys with a scar on his face even licked his lips, and it was this simple action that made him shiver involuntarily.

"Gongsun Yi, right?" Another man with a large knife in his hand stepped forward, and between the ups and downs, the iron ring on the knife rattled.

"Yes, yes, Gongsun Yi of the Gongsun Clan, I came to camp the army on the order of the patriarch!" Gongsun Yi bent down and replied respectfully.

"Treat?" The man hissed and laughed, "Please, my general wants to see you!" (To be continued......)