Chapter 59: A Thousand Years of Hatred
(Thank you to Dameng and Xiaopang, for their unwavering support...... )
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Pursuers are imminent, and they will emerge from the woods on the other side of the river at any moment.
Deng Zhan suddenly felt a lot of pressure. Not only did he have to place traps, set up barricades, and plant light and dark sentinels, but he even had to arrange for people to cross the river and travel more than ten miles to monitor the northeast where the Huns were most likely to appear. Deng Zhan was not worried about the inexperienced government guards monitoring the Northeast, and he was not worried about the safety of the young master. I really hate that I can't be separated in two places, if Tao Sheng is here, it would be good if he was there, at least it could relieve him of pressure, but it was just ...... Alas!
Zhang Fang also has a sense of crisis, but on the surface it is still relaxed, but he has been drilling the felt tent with Qingyan for a longer time.
Lin Tianci and Li Ren saw it in their eyes, and couldn't help but shake their heads, in the end, they are still the noble sons of Chang'an, the situation is so sinister, and there are still such thoughts and maidservants...... Lu Nu pursed his lips even more, seriously questioning the taste of this gentleman - it's nothing to mess with the maidservant, but the maid's body hasn't grown.
At dinner, Lin Tianci and Li Ren were close to Zhang Fang on the straw mat, but they smelled a faint smell of sulfur at the end of their noses, just like the smell of gunpowder smoke smelled when the thunder roared in the early morning. Slightly surprised, they felt that things might not be what they imagined.
"I don't know what the thunder fire that Gongzi used to attack Mo Xibu is?" Lin Tianci hesitated, but still asked. He has also read a few scrolls of bamboo slips, and he has the Han family heritage, so he is not as ignorant as the Hu people, and uses sharp weapons as witchcraft. He actually wanted to ask for a long time, but this obviously involved other people's secrets, and he couldn't open his mouth. But now it's different, everyone is in the same boat, what means to defend against the enemy, it's best to ventilate.
Zhang Fang motioned for Qingyan to take a thunder cannon and show it to Wudan's detached people: "That's it...... Light the fuse, throw it out, and just like you can see - bang! ”
From Lin Tianci, Li Ren to Lu Nu, Alimu, and even Cao Xiong and Chu Liu, who were injured and crawling, all watched it curiously. I can't figure out how such a gray thing can be so powerful?
Facing a pair of skeptical eyes, Zhang Fang didn't have the slightest intention of demonstrating, handed over the thunder cannon to Qingyan and put it away, and said lightly: "The movement of the demonstration is too big, don't invite the 'wolf'." ”
Lin Tianci and others thought about it, it was indeed this reason, and apologized again and again.
Zhang Fang waved his hand, his eyes were fixed on Li Ren's face, and he went straight in: "I want to know, how did you, the little king of Jiankun, become a slave of Bu Guxu?" Also, what is the relationship between Wudan fragmentation and Jiankun? Why did the three of them go to great lengths to save each other? ”
Just as Lin Tianci and others were worried, since everyone was on the same front and traveled thousands of miles, Zhang Fang must also understand the ins and outs of these people. It was inconvenient to inquire about the meeting before, but now I must ask to understand.
Li Ren exchanged glances with Lin Tianci and Cao Xiong, as if he had made some kind of decision, looked back at Zhang Fang, and said: "As the prince of the Han Dynasty Fuping Hou, he must be no stranger to a person, right?" ”
Zhang Fang's foundation as the "Marquis of Fuping" is a bit empty, but he still nodded: "Tell me, who is it?" ”
"Han cavalry captain, Li Gong's tomb."
Li Gong ...... Li Ling! Fortunately, Zhang Fang's ancient writing foundation is good, and he can understand this "human language", and his eyes widen for a moment -- as long as he is not historical blind, who doesn't know Li Ling.
"Yes, it's the ancestor." Li Ren stared at Zhang Fang with some dissatisfaction, and the other party directly called the name without calling the word, which was a serious faux pas, but thinking of the ancestor's poor reputation in the Han Dynasty, he endured it. In fact, Li Ren here is wrong to blame Zhang Fang, there are many people who know Li Ling in later generations, but there are not many people who know Li Ling's character Shaoqing.
Zhang Fang's eyes widened: Actually, Li Ling's descendants?!
Does Li Ling have any descendants? Of course there are, and there are two branches in the north and south, this Jiankun Xiaowang Li Ren is the north branch.
The matter dates back to 99 BC (the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty), when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Li Guangli, the general of the second division, to march with 30,000 iron cavalry to conquer the Xiongnu. The two armies met at the Tien Shan Mountains and immediately set off on the battlefield. In order to alleviate the pressure on the frontal battlefield, Li Ling, the cavalry commander, took the initiative to ask Emperor Wu to lead 5,000 foot soldiers from the north of Juyanhai to penetrate into the enemy's territory and open up a second battlefield to contain the Xiongnu army. After Emperor Wu's edict was corrected, he agreed to Li Ling's request.
Li Ling led 5,000 foot soldiers, marched for a month, and fought a fierce battle with 80,000 cavalry led by Xiongnu Shan Yu in Junji Mountain, which lasted ten days, and killed many Xiongnu. In the end, because Li Ling was outnumbered and ran out of food, he was captured during the breakout, and his deputy lieutenant Han Yannian was killed in battle.
After Li Ling surrendered to the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu paid great attention to him, even marrying a daughter to him. At this time, Li Ling was always ready to find an opportunity to escape back to Dahan, but a catastrophe occurred a year later, completely cutting off the way home for this peerless general.
In the third year of the Tianhan Dynasty, Gongsun Ao was ordered to go out to fight against the Xiongnu, returned in vain, in order to exonerate the crime, he passed back to Emperor Yuwu from the Hun captives, saying that Li Ling taught the art of war to the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and was ready to invade the Han Dynasty, so there was this defeat. Emperor Wu was furious when he heard this, and ordered Li Ling's family to be wiped out.
The pain of annihilation finally made Li Ling determined to stay in the Xiongnu. It wasn't until the Han Dynasty sent the Xiongnu that it became clear that it was not Li Ling who taught the Xiongnu the art of war, but another general, Li Xu.
When Li Ling learned the truth, he was sad and indignant. Because he hated Li Xu for training troops for the Xiongnu and his whole family was executed, he sent someone to assassinate Li Xu at a banquet. In fact, Li Xu's status in the Xiongnu was even higher than that of Li Ling, and he also married the daughter of the Xiongnu clan. The Da Yan clan was angry and wanted to kill Li Ling, but he cherished Li Ling's talent, so he named him the king of the right school, and ordered Jian Kun, who supervised the north, to leave Longcheng (Shan Yu Wang Ting), and did not return until after the death of the Da Yan clan.
Li Ling has been the king of Jiankun for nearly ten years, and in this extreme north, he left the blood of the Li family, which is the northern branch. The descendants born to him and the Xiongnu princess Tuoba clan live in the royal court and are the southern branches.
In 74 B.C., Li Ling, who had been entangled in national hatred and family hatred all his life, passed away after living in the Xiongnu for more than 20 years, leaving behind a thousand years of infinite sighs.
After Li Ling's death, his descendants in the southern branch participated in the Wushan Yu controversy and supported Wu Yi Shan Yu. After Wu Yishan Yu was defeated by Zhizhi, Li Ling's descendants surrendered to the northern branch of Jiankun.
The two descendants of Li Ling's north and south finally met in Jiankun, thousands of miles away, and originally thought it was the beginning of happiness, but they didn't expect the end of the catastrophe.
A few years later, in order to get rid of the joint attack of the Han Dynasty and the Southern Xiongnu, the Zhizhi moved north. Wantonly attacked and slaughtered the tribes along the way, defeated the tribal alliances such as Jiankun, Ding Ling, and Hujie in one fell swoop, and rebuilt the royal court in Jiankun - one can imagine what kind of revenge Li Ling's descendants would suffer.
The Zhizhi adopted a strategy of fighting with one hand and pulling with one hand to the descendants of Li Ling: the southern branch of the Li family, which came from the same source as the Xiongnu, had some incense feelings, and was also inextricably linked with the Zhizhi clan, which was the object of wooing. The northern branch of the Li family, in the early years, had united with Ding Ling and Hujie, and cooperated with the Han Dynasty to attack the Xiongnu.
The final result was that the northern branch of the Li clan was exterminated by the Zhi branch, and Li Ren was the only surviving descendant of the northern branch. Because he was still young at the time, he was not taller than the wheel, so he escaped. After that, it was resold all the way to the hands of the Southern Xiongnu Pi Xiaowang, and finally as a reward, he was given to Bu Gusu as a slave.
Zhang Fang never thought that a slave boy would be involved in such a large period of historical secrets.
Li Ren said this in one breath, took the hand of Lu Nu on the side, and said to Zhang Fang: "Lu Nu is the orphan of the right general of Jiankun, and when he resisted the invasion of Zhizhi, the right general was the commander. ”
Zhang Fang realized: "So, I saw the skull that the two of you desperately protected in the Sanshui restaurant that day......"
"It's the remains of the right general......" Li Ren's voice choked, and Lu Nu cried bitterly.
Lin Tianci stretched his arm and pointed to the north, and said quietly: "Behind that mountain, there is Junji Mountain, where the Han army fought against the Huns in blood. ”
On that summer day when the wolf smoke peaks gathered, the 5,000 Han army fought a bloody battle against 80,000 Huns. Three wounded people were carried, two wounded people were carred, and one creator insisted on fighting...... They shed the last drop of blood for the Great Han!
Zhang Fang looked north for a long time, remembering the martyrs, and sighed.
The bonfire "snapped" a few times, and sparks burst out from the top of the flames, drifting high with the wind, and the red light flickered in the black night sky, like stars in the night sky. The countless stars embedded in the sky must be the soul of the Han soldiers.
After a long time, Zhang Fang slowly turned his head, and his eyes were focused on Lin Tianci: "What is the relationship between Wudan and the descendants of the Li family, why do the three of them have to travel thousands of miles to save each other desperately?" ”
Lin Tianci also looked up at the starry sky with great fascination, retracted his gaze when he heard the words, and said quietly: "Because we are all descendants of the Han army under the command of Li Duwei and Han Xiaowei back then. ”