No one wanted to chase after the Han army, it was almost dark, on the one hand, and on the other hand, these Hu people were frightened by the combat power displayed by the Han army, especially for the extremely fast crossbow riding crossbow with an unimaginable fear.

After Mao Dun and Huyan Shilan rendezvous, Mao Dun strongly proposed to send people to clean up the battlefield, saying that he would also find the ordnance used by the crossbow cavalry of the Han army.

The Hu learned the use of stirrups from the Han army, and since then, the steppe Hu cavalry with stirrups has been able to ravage the people of the Western Regions with one enemy and three enemies, and may also ravage other populations that do not use stirrups in the future.

As a rare wise man among the Huns, Mao Dun has never had the current realization, that is, the equipment brought by science and technology can reverse the trend of war, and about 10,000 Han troops are armed because of the rapid development of civilization, and the creation of civilization is armed, so that 10,000 Han troops have the courage and enough confidence to face more than 30,000 enemies and dare to fight, and the most shameful thing for them is that the Han army swaggered away after winning the battle.

"Tanma returned, saying that more Han troops were found more than ten miles away, and several Han troops rushed to this direction together, each of which was at least 3,000, and the largest was 50,000, once we were dragged down, it was not so easy to break through."

Huyan Shilan was not alarmist, their location was less than thirty miles away from the Han and Qin camps, and it was only about an hour and a half for the cavalry to gallop for thirty miles, and it was three hours for the infantry to run. What's the worst part? There was no shortage of war horses on the side of the Han army, and they were not sympathetic to the horses galloping with all their strength to chase after them, and when they were approaching, they would be able to fight immediately if they put on their bodies and have plenty of horses. If they were entangled by the cavalry of the Han army. Then the infantry of the Han army rushed over again, who could be sure what would happen?

"It's only ten miles away?"

Maudun was not stunned, they had been delayed here for about half an hour. Then the closest Han army should be the remnants of the Han-Qin coalition army that had fought before.

To tell the truth, the combat strength of Zhang Han's subordinates and the rest of Zhang Lian's (deceased) troops cannot be said to be bad, and what Mao Dun is most impressed by is the resilience they showed when they participated in the war, and the courage to dare to go against the current in the face of unfavorable situations. Enemies with resilience and courage are often difficult to deal with, but that doesn't make Maudun completely give up on finding the ordnance left behind by the Han crossbowmen.

"Captain Huyan can take people first."

"What?! The eldest prince, there has been an order that when he sees you, he must take you and the representatives of all clans to the royal court. ”

"No, no, no. Don't get me wrong, Captain, I will naturally follow along, but I will stay temporarily to make arrangements. Leave some of your subordinates looking for the Han army's equipment, and then they will follow. The commander of the Ten Thousand Clans may first go to the provisional royal court with the representatives of the various tribes. ”

"Oh...... So I'm relieved. ”

Nonsense, lies, it is impossible for Mao Dun to go to the temporary court of the Xiongnu at the source of the Yellow River at this time. He wanted to directly lead the army to join the people of the headquarters who remained in the Western Regions. It is estimated that I will wait and see the development of the war here, and if there is a advantage, I will return to take advantage of it, and if it is not cheap, it is better to simply run away.

Lose face? It doesn't matter if it's embarrassing or something, the 7,000 Han army and nearly 10,000 cavalry of their own side are opposed, and the Han army estimates that they didn't even lose 1,000 people and directly killed more than 5,000 of their own side, and those ethnic groups who moved east will not care if the loss is the Xiongnu cavalry, they will only find that the Han army is unimaginably strong, and whether they dare to continue to be the enemy of the Han army is unknown.

Maudun originally brought various ethnic groups to show his military might. However, the military might was only shown when the number of cavalry was greater than that of the Han army. Even if there was a head-to-head score in the first battle, it was basically a clean loss in the latter game. It's all a negative impression. He didn't know how to continue to coax those representatives, and it was best for Touman to take over the past, saving him all the brains and tongues, and it didn't look like something that could be brought back.

Huyan Shilan didn't think much about it, and he didn't even care about Julian Bu'ao, who went to find the Hutu Department, as one of Touman's henchmen, what he cared about was contacting the representatives of the various ethnic groups that moved east.

The sun was about to set completely, and the 25,000 or so Hu cavalry under the command of Touman and the remaining less than 300 horsemen and horses of various ethnic groups who moved eastward drove westward with the sound of bull horns, leaving only more than 2,400 people in the headquarters of Maodu.

Mao Dun really wanted to find the repeating crossbow left on the battlefield by the crossbow cavalry of the Han army, and he was eager to discover another secret from the Han army, so as to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the steppe cavalry, so regardless of the fact that lighting the torch in the dark night would expose himself, all the people who could drive it were a tool that could illuminate each person, regardless of whether it was simple or something, anyway, it was the fastest time to find what he was looking for.

On the battlefield after the war, I don't know why so many flies suddenly appeared, and they seemed to appear out of thin air and "buzzed" all over the remains of the war dead, not only people, but also dead war horses.

Night fell, in this moonless night, the wolf howl from a distance was very unexpected, and the field not long after the fight was also replayed by the chirping of various insects, strange sounds accompanied by the footsteps of people walking, in addition to the flies flying back and forth in the air, a strong smell of blood could not be dissipated.

Originally, he was looking for the mounted crossbow left by the Han army on the battlefield, but as a result, Mao Dun's department not only found the mounted crossbow but also had a lot of additional gains. They are like a group of vultures that eat carrion, and when they find a relatively intact corpse of the Han army dead, they pounce on it, but not to eat meat, but to pick up the clothes and armor of the fallen soldiers of the Han army in a strange scream, and every piece is pulled off, regardless of whether it is bloody or not, it is directly put on the body.

In addition to some armor that had not been trampled by the horse's hooves, the Maudun department also picked up a lot of iron weapons on the battlefield, most of which were mounted spearheads with broken rods, and a small number of short soldiers such as war swords. Their goal was not only armor, spearheads, and swords, but also the collection of arrows and arrows on the battlefield, which lasted until Maudun ordered the assembly.

Mao Dun saw the crossbows used by the Han army, one was a three-shot crossbow that had been collected from the battlefield before, and the other kind of crossbow that looked relatively large and had a strange shape should be a new variety?

The Han army was already rapidly approaching, and Mao Dun was certainly unwilling to stop and fight again. Of course, he asked his subordinates to throw away all the torches and run away from the horses' hooves.

It was no joke to want to chase each other among the cavalry in the dark, and Mao Dun had every reason to believe that the Han army had sent elite scouts to hang from afar. The large forces of the Han army do not chase, so they have enough time to observe the guys in their hands on horseback.

To tell the truth, the Han Army's new style of riding crossbow is really different from the traditional crossbow, the new style of riding crossbow because of the internal need to install parts, the crossbow body is simply a box with a length of forty-five centimeters and a width of about eight centimeters, and there is something like a grip sticking out on the right side of this box, and only the extended bow arm can still be recognized as a crossbow from the appearance.

A curiosity drove Mao Dun to shake the external hand crank. A slight "crunch-crunch-crunch" sound emanates from inside the box.

Modern people are familiar with the sound of gears turning due to force, but Maudon is not a modern person, so he rocks the turntable and brings the crossbow machine close to his ear. I want to hear more clearly what is going on in the box. He also heard the "crunch" sound as he wished, and suddenly there was a sound in a series of "crunch" sounds that was not the same, of course he didn't understand what the internal hook device was triggered, but he felt the guy in his hand shake. There was a muffled snort in my ears. Then there was the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and then it seemed that many cavalrymen had tripped up?

A series of sound sources are from the side of Maudun, the first picture is a Hun cavalry who was originally happy to pick up an iron sword, he is happily imagining in his heart that with such a sharp weapon, the fight will be more courageous, and bravery also means that there will be much more looting than others, but a sudden crossbow arrow has pierced directly into the head from the temple when it first sounded.

The cavalryman who was unlucky enough to be shot to death by Mao Dun himself, before he died, he still had a happy imagination of living a good life with himself. This man's fall was too sudden, and the cavalry galloping behind didn't expect anyone to fall off their horses. Of course, it was impossible to avoid a tripping accident that collided in a series of collisions.

In the darkness, no one saw the stunned and then surprised and joyful expression on Mao Dun's face. He was expecting his army to have sharp weapons like the Han army. However, he probably didn't think of it for the time being. That is, the Han army can only produce because of its advanced civilization and advanced manufacturing technology, even if he gets the ordnance used by the Han army, with the social environment of the grassland people, which has almost no civilization, coupled with almost zero scientific and technological production capacity, and the production base that cannot be seen brick and tile, can they really produce the equipment owned by the Han army? Maybe one day it will indeed be able to produce, but at that time, the kingdom ruled by Lu Zhe does not know what new weapons have appeared.

It must be noted that as the most special grassland people, that is, the Khitan who were the first to master the smelting technology on the grassland, it took them nearly 700 years to master this technology.

The Khitan ethnic group comes from Xianbei, and Xianbei had a history of civil war during the Wuhu Rebellion, when Murong, Tuoba, Lonely, and Yanjing ...... More than a dozen tribes with different surnames have established their own countries, but they all perished one after another in the later period, among which the Tuoba Department, the first to establish a country, is the predecessor of the Khitan, and the emergence of the Khitan is still after the defeat of the Tuoba Department, some small tribes are scattered after the product.

Then the entire rise of the Khitan began from about 300 A.D. in the Five Hu Chaohua and lasted until 936 A.D. at the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and if you calculate it seriously, it took 636 years.

Of course, Maudun didn't know that much, he was in a state of joy.

Another location, far away near the Yangtze River basin...... To be precise, in the palace city of Nanling City, Lu Zhe, who was wearing a light single coat and put his long hair on his shoulders at will, was located in a pavilion somewhere in the harem, blowing a cool breeze with a moist feeling in the early summer and flying in his hair, his ears were gently playing Qin Zheng, and around him were more than a dozen beautiful girls were laughing and laughing.

Nanling City is leaning on the Yangtze River, but this Xiongcheng is in the north of the Yangtze River, and the current season is generally blowing southeast wind, and the wind is blowing from the water surface of the Yangtze River to the palace city, which will inevitably have a trace of coolness.

Lu Zhe is in a good mood not only because the wives around him are harmonious, but also because the merger negotiations with the Qin State will have results tomorrow, but also because tomorrow is the time for the statues in Nanlingcheng to be unveiled.

There have been many twists and turns in the negotiation with Qin, and the merger conditions offered by Fusu can basically be called a sky-high asking price, and he asked Lü Zhe to keep Neishi County, Beidi County, and Shangjun ...... That is, the three counties that the Qin center still holds in his hands, and these three counties are used as the territories of the princes and kings of Qin.

If Lu Zhe agreed to Fusu to keep the land of the three counties, it would be contrary to Yiqiē's original intention at all. Maybe nothing will happen in the short term, but after such a decade or twenty or thirty or forty years, will the relieved Zhao family win the surname "go east" again?

The best part? It was not that Lü Zhe was unable to use force to achieve the goal of reunification, but that Lü Zhe did not want the large-scale loss of population due to the civil war, which hindered the rare opportunity for the Chinese nation to expand outward, so that Lü Zhe did not grasp the advantage of the "Chosen People" in his lifetime, so that he did not have the tendency to simply use force. If Fusu bites and retains the land of the three counties, Lu Zhe can only use force even if he is unwilling, and when the time comes, the land of the three Qins will be killed and the blood will flow into rivers or something, and the worst result for Lu Zhe will only be to reduce the two or three million people who should have been retained.

As a representative of the negotiations, Xiao He, the consul of the Han State, his reply was not complicated, Fusu was willing to be a vassal king of the new empire, and only kept Xianyang City and the surrounding thirty li as a territory, and the treatment was no different from that of Zhao Wang Xie, who was stronger than the king of Korea, and Han Cheng, who was unwilling to go out to expand, was only a first-class marquis of the new empire, and the rest such as Chu, Qi, and Yan simply disappeared in the long river of history, and it was already determined that Wei Ji, who became the king of the outer princes, was still a prince.

Xiao He also gave Fusu another choice, that is, like Wei Ji's choice, while retaining the prince, Lu Zhe provided financial and material support, and recruited talents and soldiers on his own, so that he could ...... in the Han army in the early stage Wrong, after the merger of the countries, it should be called the "Imperial Army", with the help of the Imperial Army, you can first lay a piece of land to gain a firm foothold, and the Empire will continue to give a certain amount of support in the future.

Lu Zhe didn't know what kind of choice Fusu would make for the time being, but it didn't prevent him from having a good mood, and that was because of another thing.

After the Han army landed on Wajima Island, they found some interesting people after entering the inland, the height of the natives of Wadao is about one meter two, but when it runs, it is a cavalry that can follow the cavalry galloping on a war horse for a long distance, which is really a bit novel...... (To be continued......)