Chapter 274: The Situation of the Xiongnu Prince (First Update, 4000 Words)
Although Wang Li belittled himself enough in front of Yinggao, he has been thinking about Xiang Yu's purpose every day in Chen County, and now that Yinggao has arrived, some thoughts in his heart have finally seen the light of day.
"What does the general mean...... Xiang Yu is not in a hurry this time? ”
What kind of temperament Xiang Yu is, of course Yinggao knows, and now Wang Li actually said that he is most likely ready for a protracted war with him, Yinggao couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart When did Xiang Yu become obedient?
"Yes, according to my previous observation with Xu Gong, if Xiang Yu was really anxious, he would directly attack Chen County after he took Shouchun, and now most of the places where we are can not be safeguarded, and there are only one or two thousand people stationed in Surabaya County, Xue County, Dangjun and other counties, and they are not good at fighting, but Xiang Yu did not move forward again, these days he is only building fortifications in Shouchun, obviously wanting to defend Jiujiang County."
Wang Li's analysis, Yinggao still agreed, and while he couldn't help nodding, the expression on his face became a little solemn.
"If Xiang Yu's guy really attacked my Daqin land first, it would be forgivable, but now this guy is waiting for me to attack, he must have a plan......"
After Ying Gao finished speaking, his eyes looked at the faces of the generals under him, obviously, he wanted to hear what they meant.
"Your Majesty, what Xiang Yu thinks, it should be that the monarch can't supervise the war here for a long time, if he can persist in this Shouchun for a few months, then the monarch has to return to Xianyang, this guy will be hyped around here, and I am afraid that I don't know why after a long time, so the hearts of the people in the old land of Chu will fall to Xiang Yu......"
If you want to look at the problem from the general direction, the one closest to Yinggao's thought is Meng Yi, Yinggao wants to listen to the opinions of these people below, and Meng Yi is naturally duty-bound.
And Xiang Yu's careful thinking, of course Meng Yi can guess it, but there is one thing, you can guess it, it is another thing whether you can forcibly break through the various fortifications set up by Xiang Yu in Shouchun within a month or two.
"Your Majesty, even if we defeat Shouchun's Xiang Yu army, I'm afraid that this guy will already be ready to return to Huiji County, and then we will be the same situation as before......"
Why didn't he go directly to Huiji County to kill Xiang Yu last time, in addition to Yinggao receiving a letter from Feng Quji, the most important reason is that there are no large number of warships that can't cross the river, and now, it's quite embarrassing that this problem still exists.
After listening to Meng Yi and Zhang Han's words, Yinggao did not have a worried expression, but showed a secretive smile.
Just when everyone was very puzzled, Ying Gao suddenly looked at Chen Ying, who was standing silently behind everyone, and asked: "If General Chen Ying leads an army of 30,000 to fight against Xiang Yu, I don't know if he can win the battle?" ”
"A certain talent, I'm afraid I won't be able to get anything cheap from that Xiang Yu's hands......"
"Then give the general half a month, can these 30,000 sergeants save most of them?"
"If you don't go all out to win, it won't be difficult to save most of the troops......
Chen Ying, the best advantage is that no matter what you ask, no matter what you ask me to do, when he faces Yinggao, he only can or can't in his mouth, but Yinggao also knows that his words are among the most reliable among the generals of Daqin.
Including Chen Ying, almost none of the people below knew what Yinggao meant, and Yinggao naturally couldn't tell them what he meant, he believed that if his plan really succeeded, in less than a month, the direction of this battle would change fundamentally.
Yinggao here is doing his own deployment in Chen County, as for what deployment he is doing, Xiang Yu naturally doesn't know.
At the same time, thousands of miles away, in the vast territory beyond the Great Wall of Jiuyuan County, the northernmost point of Great Qin, a newly rising empire was also undergoing its metamorphosis.
In the middle of nowhere, on a very sturdy bench covered with several layers of animal skins, sat a man who did not look very old, only a year or two older than Yinggao, but with a thick beard under his chin, which showed his status in the newly formed Xiongnu Empire.
But now, the look on his face was not good-looking, and in front of him, there were five Hun youths dressed in ordinary clothes, apparently, these people were his cronies.
"Shizi, I was hostage in the Yue clan before, if it weren't for the Shizi's resourcefulness, he would have been killed by the Yue clan, and I heard that this time Shan Yu is quite important to the courage of the Shizi, but his Yan clan still wants to put the Shizi to death as soon as possible, I have just returned to the clan, credible people are too rare, and I hope that the Shizi will prepare early!"
This young Hun is the son of the current Hun Shan Yu Touman, Mao Dun. Before, Touman listened to the advice of his Xiao Yan clan and sent Mao Dun to the Yue clan not far from the Xiongnu's territory as a hostage.
It was also during this period that Mao Dun learned through the dead soldier he kept by Touman's side that his father had given birth to the idea of giving up the position of the son to his half-brother who was only a teenager under the bewitchment of his little clan.
Among them, the Xiongnu in this period, the strength is not what it used to be, the Yueshi and Donghu, who were indeed much stronger than them before, are now stronger than the Xiongnu, and it is really uncertain who is stronger.
It is precisely for this reason that Touman sent troops to attack the Yue clan after a skirmish with the Yue clan, which would be nothing if it was put on weekdays, but his own son is still there as a hostage, and you have already sent troops to attack it, so isn't it selling your own son?
But the Huns are really so neat and so natural, and what people want to do, they have to do it.
But the reason why Mao Dun was able to become the son of Touman, of course, he was not a two-hundred-five who couldn't do anything, and he had already made all the preparations.
When the news of the Xiongnu's attack on the Yue clan reached his ears, there was less than half an hour left before the Yue clan's royal family came to kill him, and it was by taking advantage of this half an hour that Mao Dun stepped on the Yue's good horse that he had prepared a long time ago, and ran back to the territory of the Xiongnu on his horse.
When Mao Dun gasped and entered Toumandanyu's camp, he was almost shocked by the Xiongnu people.
In the Huns, if you want to gain respect, you have to have the ability, what is the ability, people take the road to walk a thousand miles and ride alone is even ability.
has the ability, and is the son of the Huns, but his little woman is no longer satisfied, Touman has to reward Mao Dun, and among the many rewards, Mao Dun only chose one, that is, to command 10,000 Hun cavalry.
With these 10,000 Hun cavalry, Mao Dun can be regarded as having the capital to save his life in the world of the Huns, but he wants more than that......
In order to practice the coordination ability of these sergeants and their ability to ride and shoot, he deliberately invented a kind of arrow, so that the people under his command could practice under his leadership, and set a very peculiar rule for the cavalry under his command.
In Maudun's rule, whenever he fires an arrow, his soldiers must shoot exactly the same target as him, that is, whatever he shoots, his men will shoot. If anyone fails to obey this command, there is only one result, and that is death.
In the previous exercise, Mao Dun led them to shoot the birds and beasts in the forest, as long as he released the arrow and did not respond in time, he was really killed by Mao Dun.
Gradually, this rule was really cultivated in his army.
A month later, in the course of a military exercise, Mao Dun suddenly shot his horse with an arrow, and at this time, many of his soldiers thought that he had shot the wrong shot and did not follow, needless to say, after that, there was a bloody rain, and all the disobedient ones were clicked by him.
At this moment, the people under him finally knew what kind of person his master was, and since then, almost no one has made a mistake, until today.
"How much time is left until our people's annual hunt?"
"Less than half a month ......"
"Okay, it looks like we're going to have to do a test tomorrow to make sure things are foolproof......"
Mao Dun spoke, his eyes showed a trace of determination, he knew that in the current world, in his own race, unless you finally become the real king, there is no one above you to suppress you, otherwise, death may come at any time, let alone the family around you.
The next day, Mao Dun was still dressed in the uniform of the Huns, followed by two hundred Hun cavalry carefully selected by himself, before setting off, Mao Dun had already explained to them, this time it was to prepare for the hunt after half a month.
This time the hunt, not only now the Xiongnu's Shan Yu Touman will participate, but several of Touman's wives will also participate, of course, there are other sons.
The half-day training was soon coming to an end, and just as Maudon was about to go back with them, suddenly a lady from Maudon appeared in front of them, looking at the posture, obviously looking for Maudun.
But to everyone's surprise, the first thing Maudon did when he saw his wife was to pick up the arrow in his hand and point it at her.
This arrow went down, and directly shot his wife to the ground, and the people below were basically frightened, but then he thought about it again, if someone's own wife died, he would also take the lead in shooting it himself, but if he didn't shoot with it, he would be the one who died.
So, these people directly faced Mao Dun's wife and gave him a thousand arrows to pierce his heart, this time, Mao Dun's eyes showed a satisfied smile, he knew that it should not be difficult for him to finally achieve his goal.
Since Yinggao left, the Xiongnu really haven't attacked the border of Daqin again, which still makes Meng Tian very satisfied, but what he doesn't know is that now there is about to undergo a powerful power change within the Xiongnu, and after this change, the pressure on him will be unprecedented......
This half a month is undoubtedly difficult for Mao Dun, he has too many things in his heart, because he has become a thorn in the side of Touman Shan Yu, who loves his brother more and more, the only thing he doesn't understand is that he and his younger brother who doesn't understand anything are born to his Touman, why is the gap between the two of them so big?
And it was also half a month, but it was easy and pleasant for Xiang Yu.
Because after Yinggao arrived in Chen County, he did not attack with as much fanfare as Xiang Yu imagined, but only sent Chen Ying to lead the 30,000 horses to carry out several tentative attacks on Xiang Yu.
With only 30,000 horses, it is not enough for Xiang Yu, who is full of ambition, but this Chen Ying is also strange to say, he is obviously the attacking party, but when he attacks, he always stops at a shallow level, and never goes deep into Xiang Yu's camp to fight with him.
The two sides will come to a fight every few days, but the casualties are only 1,800 people, and they will not hurt their muscles and bones at all, so in the past half a month, Xiang Yu is also a little interested, although he has not relaxed at all according to the advice of Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang, but the passion for fighting has indeed been almost grinded.
What Xiang Yu didn't know was that when his passion was almost grinded, there might be some changes in some things that he couldn't even notice.
Let's not talk about the changes on the battlefield of Chenjun and Shouchun for the time being, let's just say that as soon as the half-month period arrives, the annual hunting of the Xiongnu royal family will begin.
The Xiongnu, the empire that claimed to grow on horseback, can be seen from the fact that Mao Dun was able to escape from the Yue's territory and return from the Yue's territory with a whole horse, and horseback riding was too important in the culture of the Xiongnu.
And this hunt was really a lot of fun for them, and it was also the best time for Tou Manshan to see how his generals, especially his sons, were riding and archery.
This time the hunt, the head man Dan Yu must not be able to bear the loneliness, he let his wives and those children who were not yet the height of horseback sit on the high platform, watching from a distance that he was about to show his strength in the hunting ground.
And Mao Dun's task this time is to do a good job of protecting behind Tou Mandanyu, but the cavalry that can follow him into the hunting ground is not the two hundred horsemen he thought before, but only fifty horsemen.
The area of the hunting ground is still very large, and there are all kinds of fierce beasts in it. At first, the crowd was quite dense, but after less than half an hour, the crowd gradually dispersed.