Chapter 403: The Calm Before the Storm

Meng Tian's plan to capture the Dayue clan and Donghu in one fell swoop failed to start in the end, these ethnic groups living on the grassland, not to mention anything else, still have a set of running away. Meng Tian's army on the left and right flanks only caught a few small trash fish in the end.

The Qin army withdrew to Yuecheng with the captives of the Red Wolf Division, and although the Huns had more than 10,000 casualties, the gold, silver and jewels rewarded by Meng Tian could be regarded as making up for the losses.

For seven or eight days in a row, although the atmosphere on the grassland was tense, there was no fighting. All the tribes of the Donghu people have been mobilized, ready to attack the Qin army. The Da Yue clan still wanted to mediate as much as possible, but now the targets of mediation have become Da Qin and Donghu. However, if you want to mediate the war, you must first have a prerequisite, that is, you must be stronger than both sides, and it is obvious that the Otsutsuki clan does not have this condition. Moon City is now closed, and the envoys of the Otsuki clan have come several times, but they have been turned away.

The tranquility before the storm, the current scene is the tranquility before the storm for the grassland, and Daqin will not suffer this dumb loss, so the longer Daqin brews, the more it is not a good thing for Donghu.

Steppe, Hun Department.

At this time, in the big tent of Touman Danyu, the leaders of the Xiongnu tribes had already quarreled. In the war on the steppe, the Huns became fragrant and sweet. At this time, the envoys of Daqin, Dayue, and Donghu all came to the Xiongnu.

Daqin's side asked the Xiongnu not to move lightly, and if they were willing to send troops to help Daqin, there would be a large number of rewards. In order to ensure the balance of the Hetao region, the Da Yue clan wanted the Xiongnu and Da Yue to send troops together to help Donghu, at least they had to put on a posture of advancing and retreating together of the three tribes of the grassland. As for Donghu, he came to apologize to the Xiongnu with a large number of gifts.

The peoples of the steppe are nothing more than a few people who have a strong physique and no wisdom and barbarism. In the Xiongnu tent, most of the leaders of the Xiongnu tribes believed that they should send troops together with Daqin to exterminate Donghu. First, the Huns of this meeting were resentful of Donghu. Second, the large number of rewards promised by the Qin people is really a bit tempting.

"Shan Yu, let's fight, the Qin people said that they only need the population of Donghu, and the rest of the things will belong to us?" The patriarch of the Xiongnu tribe shouted.

"That is, the Donghu people are doing businessless business, and they must have accumulated a lot of wealth." There were also Xiongnu patriarchs who agreed.

"Donghu, these bandits have robbed our Huns' caravans, and we can be regarded as revenge and revenge." By this time, most of the tribes in the Great Horde had already expressed their approval.

"Don't be in a hurry to decide, let's take a look first, if the Qin army has the upper hand, we will help the Qin army, if the battle is deadlocked, we will wait and see what happens." Tou Manshan Yu said.

Now the Huns are a fragrant glutton, and Touman Shan Yu still wants to sell at a price. Entering the game too early is too risky for the current Huns, and if it is not good, it will be wiped out. When the situation is clear, although the harvest will be smaller, what is sought is a stable word.

Moon City, Council Hall.

"Master Hou, Touman has suffered too many casualties in the tribe and needs to recuperate and refuses to send troops for the time being, but he also promised that he will not send troops to help Donghu." Meng Tian told Li Chen the reply from the Xiongnu's side.

"Knock, knock, knock."

"Touman is a smart person, and he really has some means to sit on the Hun Shan Yu."

Li Chen tapped on the arm of the chair, thinking in his heart.

The strength on the grassland can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, in addition to the three tribes of Dayue, Donghu, and Xiongnu on the Hetao Plain, Li Chen also has to beware of the Guishuang in the distance, Lou Fu and so on. The reason why Li Chen did not send troops these days was that he wanted to win over the Xiongnu first and break the alliance between the three tribes in Hetao first.

In order to attract the Xiongnu to send troops to attack Donghu, the remuneration promised by Daqin was not ungenerous, almost equivalent to all the dirty work Daqin to do, and the Huns beat the side drum on the side, but gave most of the benefits to the Xiongnu.

However, the Huns did not agree to send troops, and the whole situation was full of uncertainty. Once the Xiongnu are moved, the three ethnic groups of Dayue, Xiongnu, and Donghu will unite, and the battle situation will inevitably stalemate. And once Great Qin can't win in a short period of time, Guishuang and Lou Fu, these grassland clans who are farther away will inevitably come to an end.

For Daqin, it is now a situation where the arrow is ready to be launched. Li Chen finally directed a good show, which gave Daqin another excuse to send troops to Donghu. But now it is a bit difficult to ride a tiger, and Tou Mandanyu's restraint has caused a lot of uncertainty in the whole plan.

"That is, the old turtle of Touman can suppress the Hun tribes, why don't we ...... Touman" A general under Meng Tian made a movement to wipe his neck.

Meng Tian also looked at Li Chen, as if asking for his opinion.

Whether it is Donghu, Dayue, or Xiongnu, they are actually just very loose tribal civilizations. And Shan Yu is the only existence that can restrain these tribes, and if Touman dies alone, then the Xiongnu will naturally have no leader.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Li Chen tapped on the table, thinking about the feasibility of this method. Soon, he rejected this approach. Now killing the head of Man Danyu is really doing more harm than good to Daqin.

"Master Hou, I have a way." Meng Tian pondered for a moment and said.

"Oh, what a good way to do it." Li Chen asked, Meng Tian is the one who knows the grassland the most among the Great Qin generals, and he has the most say in how to deal with these grassland peoples.

"Touman is the co-leader of the Xiongnu tribes, he can't form a coalition without saying anything, but we can bypass Touman and let these Xiongnu tribes attack the Donghu tribe." Meng Tian groaned.

"Meng Shuai, what are you going to do?" Li Chen asked.

At this time, Meng Tian got up and came to the map, he pointed to the map and said, "Now the various departments of Donghu have formed a coalition army, and the location of the coalition army is roughly on the line of the Wind Wolf Valley. If we want to attack Donghu, we can only attack from the front. The Huns bordered Donghu, and at this time, the Donghu army was all concentrated in the front, and the tribes in the rear were full of old and weak women and children. ”

"Although Touman did not agree to raid Donghu from the rear, if we promise gold and silver to capture a Donghu woman and child alive, we will promise ten taels of silver, and we will also give eight taels of silver for the head of a Donghu cavalry. As long as the silver is in place, the Xiongnu tribes will inevitably crush the defense line of Donghu from the rear. At that time, Donghu can't be taken care of before and after, and it is time to take Donghu in one fell swoop. Meng Tian breathed a sigh of relief and continued.

"Okay, just do it." Li Chen clapped his hands and said.