Spring is coming, everything is coming back, the snow that once covered the whole land has completely melted, and people can finally leave their homes and move freely outside.

It was the spring of 251 BC.

In the Monan grassland, not far from the border of Yunzhong County of Zhao Guo, there is a small city that has just formed a scale.

It is said to be a small city, but when you approach this small city, you will find that except for the few houses in the southwest where the officials of the Zhao State live, the rest are basically large or small tents.

The Huns, Danglu, lived in a tent on the edge of the town.

The word Danglu, in the Xiongnu language, means a very large sheep, which can also be translated as a strong sheep.

On the steppe, only the nobles were tigers, lions, and hungry wolves, and the highest expectations of his parents for a commoner like Danglu were nothing more than to make him the stronger of the flock.

When Lu was thirty-five years old at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, it was an age that could be called maturity and even old age for the Huns.

According to Danglu's deceased mother, Danglu's mother's grandmother used to be the wife of a nobleman of a large tribe among the Xiongnu.

For a long time in his childhood, Lu Du was proud of this, and often used it to brag to his friends.

Until one day, a little friend said to Dang Lu with some disdain: "You know all day long about the woman who brags about your family, so what's the use of you as a man?"

After saying this, the little friend had just won Dang Lu in a brawl, and his foot stepped on Dang Lu's head and stomped Dang Lu's head into the muddy grass.

Since that day, Lu has never mentioned this matter again, but has practiced riding and archery extremely hard.

Ten years later, when Lou became a well-known condor archer.

If you want to shoot down an eagle flying high in the sky, you need not only strong arm strength to pull out enough hard bow, but also excellent eyesight to observe, and you need extraordinary judgment to judge the next flight path of the eagle.

Even for the Huns, who grew up on horseback, this was an extremely difficult thing.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if you look at the entire Huns, a condor like Lu is also a one-in-a-million existence.

After being named the Condor Archer by the Evil King, the first thing Lu did when he returned to the tribe was to beat up the little friend who had humiliated him back then, and then snatched the beautiful wife of the little friend, a girl who was Lu's childhood sweetheart, back into his tent.

More than half a year later, when Lu's wife gave birth to a boy for him.

For the sake of his wife and son, as well as the children who later fell to the ground, Dang Lu fought very bravely, whether it was defeating the Aries tribe for the throne or defeating Donghu, Dang Lu had a shining record.

In the battle to defeat Donghu, when Lu even shot an arrow at a critical moment in the battle, one of the commanders of the Yue clan was killed, which directly caused the last fighting force of Donghu to completely collapse, thus laying the foundation for victory.

After this battle, when Lu was once the evil king of Huns, the then Xiongnu Shan Yu was named the commander of ten thousand horses, and led a thousand horsemen alone.

Everything seemed to be wonderful, but soon the turning point in Lu's fate came.

He met Zhao Guoren.

Under the leadership of Lian Po, the Zhao people defeated the Xiongnu, and when Lu was also cut off an arm by a Zhao general in this battle, he narrowly escaped with his life.

After that, everything changed.

With one less hand, Danglu would no longer be the famous Condor Archer.

With one less hand, Lu couldn't have been the man who was trusted by the Commander.

Because of this hand, Lu's life fell from heaven to hell in an instant.

He was stripped of his captaincy, driven out of the army, and returned to his tribe alone.

After learning all this, the original star-like clansmen scattered away from Danglu in an instant, and Danglu's life became more and more embarrassing day by day, and even had to become a herdsman slave of a Hun officer in the end.

It is worth mentioning that the owner of Danglu is the little friend who humiliated Danglu back then and was humiliated by Danglu later.

One person is a slave, and the whole family is a slave.

So many times, when Lu could only blush his eyes and bite his lip with his teeth, he could listen to the helpless cries of the woman and the rampant laughter of the man from his master's tent.

The woman in it was Danglu's wife.

The master did not snatch Danglu's wife back, because he had already married another Xiongnu woman, and his new wife was a great Xiongnu nobleman.

But this does not prevent the master from treating Danglu's wife as an object of venting, an excellent object to humiliate Danglu.

So every time, when Lou was ordered to be there.

Many times Lu thought about dying, but when Lu knew very well that if he died, then his wife and children would be reduced to an even more miserable situation.

So when Lou gritted his teeth and persevered.

It seemed that God had mercy on him, when another turning point in Lou's fate came.

In the Battle of the Hexi Corridor, the combined forces of the Xiongnu and Wusun were defeated by Li Mu, and Danglu's master was also seriously wounded and killed in this battle.

By the time Lu learned the news, Shan Yu had already returned to the tribe and was ready to flee to Mobei with the tribe.

That same night, when Lu quietly killed his master's family and his eldest son with a knife, and then fled south with his wife and children.

"We're going to go to Zhao Guoren." These are the exact words that Lu said to his wife and children.

When Lu's second son asked with some fear: "Father, the people of Zhao will kill us."

Dang Lu, who smelled of blood, grinned, "They may or may not kill us. But if we continue to stay here, we will be dead. ”

Escaping was very hard and very difficult, and Lu was even mentally prepared to be hunted down to death.

But this did not happen, because Shan Yu was busy leading his tribe to retreat north, and all the Xiongnu nobles were panicking, and no one would pay attention to a runaway herdsman at this time.

So when Lu escaped to the edge of the Great Wall in Yunzhong County very smoothly, he was discovered by the Zhao army there and became a prisoner.

When Lou thought he would be a slave again, he was amazed by the turn of events.

After carefully inquiring about Danglu's identity and confirming Danglu's ability, Danglu was sent back to the small city called Zhongwang City, where he was responsible for training the 1,000 Hun cavalry here.

It was at this time that Lu learned that Xianshan Yu, who was originally loyal to Zhao, had ascended to the throne, and that the entire Monan had completely become the territory of Zhao.

Not only that, but even the insulting title of Xiongnu was changed to Huns.

When Lou's life changed dramatically again.

He has his own tent, dozens of cattle and sheep of his own, and even his own Yulu.

Although it was only a small bag of rice a month, it was enough to make Dang Lu cry grateful.

As a prairie man, Lu knew deeply what food meant.

Every winter, many people starve to death on the grasslands due to lack of food, and this is how Lu's two older brothers left Danglu when they were young, and Danglu's father also ventured out to find food one winter and never returned.

When Lou lived happily ever after another.

In this regard, when Lu was satisfied.

No longer have to worry about precariousness, no longer have to worry about a powerful enemy taking your life, no longer have to worry about suddenly losing Shan Yu's trust and die, no longer have to worry about being killed by the master's family when you wake up one morning, is there a happier life in the world?

When Lu knew very well, all this came from the great king who lived in the far south in the city of Handan, the king of Zhao.

If there was no King Zhao, there would be no peaceful life for Danglu today.

On this day, when Lu got up, he immediately came to a tablet in the tent, threw himself on the ground very devoutly, respectfully bowed to this tablet sincerely, and then quietly prayed in his heart:

"O great and omnipotent king, when Lou is here to offer you my loyalty and my life, please bless your humble and insignificant people as Lu, so that he and his family may be safe and happy."

This was learned by Danglu from those officials of the Zhao State, and it was said that as long as he had such a divine position, the majesty of the king would protect Danglu.

Considering his earth-shaking life, Lu felt that what the officials of Zhao State said was not wrong at all.

Behind Danglu, two Hun teenagers knelt and prayed with the same sincerity.

This is the most solemn and solemn ritual of the Danglu family every day, and according to Danglu's knowledge, many Hun families in Zhongwang City also do this.

After praying silently in his heart, Lu once again prayed reverently: "Long live the king."

His two sons bowed down in the same vein: "Long live the king."

After the ceremony, when Lu stood up and said to the two sons behind him, "We must remember the king's kindness to us, understand?"

This is what Lu says almost every day.

"Yes, father." The sons replied respectfully.

When Lu nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, you guys will go to graze outside the city, a winter has passed, and the cattle and sheep also need fresh grass to replenish their bodies." ”

After the two sons left, Lou went to see his wife again.

After such inhuman torture, Lu's wife was already a little insane, and would only sit at home all day long smiling stupidly, and sometimes even crying suddenly.

The person in charge of taking care of his wife is Danglu's six-year-old daughter.

When Lu kissed his wife's cheek, touched his little daughter's head, took out a pot of mutton that had been hot in the pot yesterday, told his little daughter to take care of her mother, and then strode out of the tent.

The sun outside was a little dazzling, which made Danglu can't help but squint his eyes slightly.

A spring breeze greeted him, with a bit of spring-specific coolness, which made Dang Lu's body tremble slightly, and let out a comfortable moan.

He likes it.

"Today, I have to serve the king well!" When Lu thought silently in his heart.

When Lou mounted his horse and headed east.