Chapter 45: Lu Tan

Duan's Xianbei headquarters royal court is located in the Liaoxi Plain, behind the Liaoxi Mountains, the deep ravines and dense forests on the mountains, providing a steady stream of good materials for making arrows, goshawks and flying birds inhabit it, antelopes and fox dogs chase roe deer rabbits, providing an excellent training ground for grassland archers who like to hunt.

At the foot of the Liaoxi Mountain Range, there is a tent that cannot see the edge at a glance, there are twenty or thirty thousand tents, and groups of cattle and sheep are leisurely grazing on the grassland within a radius of hundreds of miles, looking from a distance, it seems like a white cloud fluttering in the sky. In the meantime, countless horseback herders look like stars in the sky.

Lu Tan also saw a lot of Duan Xianbei tribes on this road, and it was the first time he had seen such a huge scale, and a part of the Duan clan's headquarters at the foot of the mountain alone exceeded the sum of the scale of the four or five tribes on the road. He roughly estimated that there were twenty or thirty thousand accounts in the Duan clan headquarters in front of him, and the herdsmen who galloped back and forth would be swift and fierce cavalry in wartime, and there were no less than 20,000 at a glance.

Lu Tan looked around, and saw that among these dotted tents, the huge dome with a golden roof on the slope of the mountain was particularly conspicuous, this dome seemed to be a hundred zhang square, and it could accommodate thousands of people.

Outside the dome is an earthen city, on which there are tall small castle towers lined up one after another, and there are many archers with big bows on the earthen city, some leaning on the guardrail of the earthen tower, and some patrolling in formation. Looking coldly at Lu Tan's mission, Lu Tan saw that the most conspicuous thing was a large silk embroidered with flying eagles fluttering high on the huge dome.

Lu Tan could be regarded as having seen the majestic palace in Luoyang, but the five-hundred-step wide square was also small compared with this huge Duanbu royal court, and from a distance, he saw a young man wearing a fur hat, an eagle feather, and a beast-faced chain armor walked out of the big tent, and the Duanbu knights who stood densely between the dome and the city gate cheered in unison: Da Shan Yu, Da Shan Yu.

The sound was like a wave in the ocean, starting from the tent of the Duanbu Wangting, which quickly spread throughout the tribe, and all the male and female herdsmen who were still herding horses and milking sheep stopped what they were doing, dismounted and knelt on the ground, and shouted while saluting: "Da Shan Yu, Da Shan Yu!" The voices of tens of thousands of people roared in unison, like an angry tsunami, hitting the hearts of everyone in the mission.

Lu Tan and many strong men around him began to change slightly, although these people are all strong in martial arts, but few of them have really been on the battlefield, they have not seen this kind of tsunami-like momentum, their mounts were also frightened, Lu Tan, the war horse of a civil official, actually stopped for a while.

The team of the mission came to a stop in front of the gate of the earthen city of the Duanbu royal court, Lu Tan reluctantly jumped off the horse, took the scepter symbolizing the king of Yan from the hand of the deputy envoy, with a solemn expression, and walked towards the Duanbu Da Shan Yu, from the city gate to the front of the king's tent, there were a thousand steps, two thousand fully armed, iron-armed, sabers in hand, Turkic warriors with half-human tall bows on their horses, and the unsheathed steel knives flashed cold light in the sun.

Lu Qinhu glanced at the big man in front of him suspiciously, he heard that the person who took over Duan Da Shan Yu was Duan Qizhen's youngest son, only a teenager, why was this person in front of him so powerful and majestic? However, the matter has come to this point, and Lu Tan is not good at saying anything, after all, this trip is coming on behalf of King Yan, Lu Tan smiled, raised the edict in his right hand, and said in a deep voice in Chinese: "The edict of King Yan of the Great Jin Dynasty is here, please kneel down and accept the decree." ”

After listening to the translation beside him, the strong man standing there changed his face and said angrily: "What? Do you want to kneel and obey? As soon as these words came out, the surrounding Duan Knights glared angrily, and their eyes were full of murderous aura when they looked at Lu Tan.

Lu Qin looked calm, nodded, and said in Xianbei instead: "Duan's Xianbei Department exchanged letters with King Yan, expressing the intention of attaching, His Royal Highness King Yan has agreed, His Royal Highness King Yan's attitude is the attitude of the imperial court, His Royal Highness King Yan has submitted to the court at this time, and in a few days, the edict will be sent, and the Xianbei Department of the Duan family will officially become the people of my Great Jin, this time His Royal Highness King Yan sent me, just to question you and other things about the attack on my Youzhou soldiers and horses some time ago, His Royal Highness King Yan must ask for an explanation for the soldiers who died!" Otherwise, the souls of the two thousand soldiers will stare at His Royal Highness King Yan and can't sleep!

Lu Qin paused and said, as a subject to His Royal Highness King Yan, who represents the emperor, and as a courtier, he kneels down to his direct boss to receive orders, what should he not do? ”

Duan Wenpi originally got a strong man to act as a façade, Duan Wu Muyu didn't know where to run to play, Duan Wenpi didn't want to be too embarrassed, and hurriedly gave his eyes to the strong man, and the strong man got the news, so he naturally got off the donkey, and everyone knelt down to receive the order.

This is in public, and the herdsmen under the mountain have seen Da Danyu kneeling down to receive the order, and their hearts are also mixed. After Lu Tan finished reading the edict, Duan Wenpi hurriedly greeted everyone into the king's tent, and everyone discussed the specific matters of Duan's annexation in the king's tent.

Lu Qin thought about what King Yan explained before leaving, and said to Duan Wenpi and the others, His Royal Highness King Yan attaches great importance to the Duan Department, and a few days ago, His Royal Highness the King of Yan sent someone to persuade the Mo Na Lou Department that originally belonged to your Duan Department, Mo Na Lou is now my people of the Great Jin Dynasty, just in the area of Baitan Mountain, this time I heard that the Duan Department intends to be attached, of course I will not be stingy with the title and official position, you can wait and rest assured!

Duan Wenpi was more concerned about this title, so he asked, I don't know how His Royal Highness King Yan is going to reward our Duan Ministry? Can what His Royal Highness King Yan said represent the imperial court? Won't we put it?

Lu Tan laughed and said, I said virtuous nephew! Don't worry! When your father was there, he had a lot of dealings with His Royal Highness King Yan, but you know that His Royal Highness King Yan will do what he says, and he will never speak falsely, hey! Speaking of which, what about your father? Why not come this time? Isn't it a disease? Can't come?

Duan Wenpi heard Lu Tan talk about his father, and his heart was also painful, so he said, Don't hide it from Lord Lu, my father has turned into a wisp of soul on the grassland.

Yes! When Lu Tan heard this, he was taken aback, he had already heard that something big had happened in the Duan Department recently, but he didn't expect that the Right Xian King of the Duan Department was actually dead! Over the years, the position of Duan Ministry's Zuo Xian King has been vacant, Duan Chen has been doing it for a few days, and his whereabouts are unknown, Duan She, the Right Xian King, has always been taking care of tribal affairs, but I didn't expect that now Duan Shi is actually dead! Lu Tan hurriedly put on a sad expression and said in a low voice, It's a pity that the last time I saw your father was last summer, when your father went to Youbeiping to discuss some affairs, and it was more than half a year, and it was already a world and a man! After that, Lu Tan also squeezed out two tears. Lu Tan said in his heart, these barbarians are good to die, and they are all good when they die! Hey!

Lu Tan wiped his tears with his sleeve and asked, I don't know how your father left? Is it a sudden illness? Still is? Duan Wenpi was silent for a while, or not, it doesn't hurt to tell the adults, my father was killed by a villain, and this villain is none other than my cousin Duan Bo!

Lu Tan was also taken aback when he heard it! It seems that there has been a lot of turmoil in the section during this time! When he wanted to learn more about it, Duan Wenpi waved his hand and said, Okay, let's not talk about these things today, let's talk about Duan Wu's affairs! Lord Lu, what you said is that Duan Wu led the army to attack the officers and soldiers of the Great Jin, is there any evidence? Is this true?

Lu Qin looked at Duan Wenpi who could quickly switch emotions, and secretly said in his heart, this Duan Wenpi is definitely not simple, he must be careful to deal with it! As he was talking, suddenly a man broke into the king's tent and brought in a gust of wind, and everyone was trembling when they looked at the man, and they were a little surprised, how could he be here?