(a)

"It's late. Qin'er, haven't you gone to sleep yet? I turned around and said, "Uncle." I said, "I'm not sleepy." The night is so beautiful. ”

My uncle said, "The starry sky is so bright tonight." ”

I said, "This is the starry sky in the eyes of the victors." For those who fail, it will be eternal night from now on, and such a starry sky will never be seen again. ”

My uncle said, "The world of men has always been like this, you live and die." ”

"Heaven and earth are so vast, we are so small, why can't we coexist peacefully between heaven and earth?" I said, "Like the stars in the sky, each shining its own light, reflecting each other's light." ”

My uncle said, "Because, the world in people's hearts is very small. Although the outside world is large and boundless, the world in people's hearts is so small that they can't hold anything but themselves and their own people. ”

"I want to know where my brother is at the moment and what he is doing?" I said, "I hate myself for not being a man." If it is a man, he can follow him, help him, and protect him like Wu Shun. ”

My uncle looked at me.

He said: "You live peacefully near the water, you are helping him, you are the best protector for him." If you have peace, his heart is settled. ”

"However, it is really torturous to be separated and wait day by day, and there is no news." I say. Uncle sighed and said, "Yes." But these are troubled times. People in troubled times are suffering like this. ”

At that time, I didn't know that this was the fate of my life.

I was destined to be like this all my life, in separation, in the absence of news, thinking of you.

We will not have a day when we will be reunited.

No matter how much you wait, there will never be a day of reunion.

Like those who have died, there will never be a day when they will be reunited with each other.

(b)

You entered the steppe twice in succession to fight, and dealt a heavy and accurate blow to the forces of the Khan's lineage, especially the forces of Dasuo, who was the successor of the Khan, and his main supporter, Wendam.

Your attack has affected the intricate tribal relations of the steppes and shaken the distribution of forces.

With years of observation and analysis of the battle situation, you have skillfully exploited the contradictions between their clans.

Not all clans hate your attacks. There are also many people who are optimistic about their success.

If they all work together, you don't have so many opportunities, and it will be much more difficult to get out. However, someone took advantage of your attack.

When you attack one tribe after another in the steppe, Bemu, another son of the Khan, actually has a chance to stop you. But his tribe did not act.

Bemu is the most powerful Khan son who competes with Dasuo for the inheritance of the Khan King. He himself and his eldest son were also on their way to the south. The one who stayed behind in the pastoral area of the headquarters was his second son. He received the news that the surrounding Dasuo tribes had been repeatedly attacked by the Han army, but on the surface, he pretended to go to the rescue, but in fact he waited and watched. He deliberately gave you time to finish the slaughter, and he deliberately gave you time to escape.

After you led the Han army away, he launched a large-scale attack, seized the rich water and meadows of these neighboring tribes in the name of aid, and picked up the baggage, cattle and sheep that you discarded.

This act of taking advantage of the fire to loot has served as an example.

When the news of the capture of Wendamu's family spread on the grassland with the destruction of many tribes, the clansmen of the Khans, who were at odds with Dasuo and Wendamu brothers, began to compete to divide the cattle, sheep and horses of the original grassland department of Wendamu.

This blatant act made Dasuo furious.

Under the blow of the annihilation of the front army on the left, center and right, every day the Han army continued to hit the tribes loyal to him, and the other tribes either did not save them when they saw death, or took the opportunity to rob the news, Dasuo's mood became more and more irritable. His confidence in inviting the Khan to take command of the army and encroach on the Han land has now disappeared halfway.

He summoned his advisers to counsel.

He had the idea of postponing the southward advance, dividing the army to quell the friction on the grassland, recapturing the pasture and livestock of his own department, and clearing the attacks of the Han army on the grassland.

However, the advisors persuaded him not to turn back to take care of the small turmoil on the grassland because of a small loss, to endure your blows, continue to advance southward with all his might, seize Linshui, besiege Yantang Pass and Wangyuan Pass, enter the Han land in depth, gain a foothold in the Lingbei area, establish immortal achievements, and lay the foundation for inheriting the throne of the Khan.

Between the exhortation of the advisors and the grief and indignation of the remnants of Wendamu, Dasuo hesitated.

After weighing it, he decided that the long-term strategy of the southern invasion cannot be easily abandoned, and you and the internal provocations against him must not be let go.

He decided to divide a part of his forces, turn around and go north to block your retreat back to Han, and some troops to threaten the various ministries to return the territories and property of Wendamu and other tribes. He himself led the rest of the troops to prepare for another assault on Linshui.

(c)

Just when Da Suo decided to personally supervise the battle and attack Linshui again, and there was still one day away from Linshui, he saw the head of his most beloved woman.

Dasuo's concubine's father's horse team rushed into the camp in a hurry. The concubine's father, holding a brocade box in his arms, stumbled and dismounted, and rushed into Da Suo's big tent with a rolling belt, crying and falling at Da Suo's feet.

In the horror of Dasuo's eyes, he cried to Dasuo about your sudden night attack on the tribe, capturing the whole tribe, taking them hostage, and then leaving the camp with his women, and the words you said when you came back from the lake.

Da Suo's eyes suddenly burst into Venus, and his heartbeat almost stopped!

His hands trembled as he opened the brocade box filled with spices, and the empty eyes of the woman he loved the most stared blankly at him in the box.

He let out a heartfelt scream, a mouthful of blood spurted wildly, and then he fell backwards on his back and fainted on the spot.

He didn't wake up all night. The whole army was in a state of panic.

When he wakes up, the first thing he does is order the whole army to turn around and pursue you north.

When the advisors heard this, they hurried to persuade him, but the grief-stricken Da Suo knocked the advisors on the ground with a whip.

He roared, "Shut up!" Now it's not a matter of strategy, it's a matter of a man's honor! ”

He said: "I can't even protect my own woman, what qualifications do I have to be an eagle of the grassland!" How not to become a humiliation and a talking point for the whole steppe ?! How can people still believe that I can lead the entire steppe tribe and continue the glory of my father Khan?! If I don't catch him immediately, kill him, and divide him into five horses and break his body into ten thousand pieces, I won't be a man! ”

So, Dasuo's army frantically abandoned Linshui, and they turned around and spread out along the vast steppe to advance northward.

They search the steppes like a sieve for your tracks, and along the way they threaten the tribes that once robbed the cattle and sheep herders to return the looted goods and people at once.

They tightly block all the ways you can return to Han from the south.

You and the New Han army you led were trapped on the grassland by them.