Gao Huan sat on a ballista that had been scattered, watching the sergeants clean up the battlefield, the corpses of dead and wounded people and horses everywhere, the flags and knives and guns on the ground were messily poured or inserted, the blood was gathered into small puddles, the fireworks were burning with black smoke everywhere, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and the strange smell of burnt corpses.

This battle is the most tragic battle Gao Huan fought, in the past, it was a small fight of 20,000 or 30,000 people, but today he knew how tragic the big fight of hundreds of thousands of people was, and people were harvested by death like rice. Life seemed so fragile and helpless at this moment, that I almost died on this position, and the feeling of almost despair at that time made me feel terrible when I think about it now.

Murong Shaozong led the horse and slowly walked towards him, Gao Huan threw away the artemisia grass in his hand, turned around and asked, "Thanks to you today." But aren't you in the party, how did you end up here? ”

"It was General Heba who said that he was afraid that Yuwentai, who would be alone with the king, would be disadvantaged, just in case I brought an elite cavalry to support, I hurried and hurried, and almost delayed the big event, I hope the king will forgive me." Murong Shaozong admired Gao Huan at this age, who was comparable to himself, and was able to calmly dispatch and command in the face of such a strong enemy, and worked hard to support the large army on the verge of collapse. How did he know that Gao Huan was desperately waiting for death at that time.

"I see." Gao Huan didn't say anything, and got up and left expressionlessly.

The news of the emperor's escape was quickly told to Gao Huan by the courtiers, but he did not have time to pursue the emperor at this time, he had to kill Erzhu Zhao first before he could spare his hands to deal with Erzhu Tianguang in Guanzhong.

Erzhu Zhao's troops were blocked by He Batsheng in Shangdang, and Erzhu Dulu was also unable to capture Julu, and Gao Gan died in the front line of defending the city, but his younger brother Gao Gao was so brave that Erzhu Dulu's troops were frightened back.

After Gao Huan's main force repelled Yuwentai, he took a short rest, and on the third day, he went north to march to Shangdang, and Erzhu Zhao heard the news and reconciled Sichun overnight with only 2,000 elite abandoned troops and fled back to Jinyang. The Shangdang army without a main general all surrendered, and Gao Huan asked Gao Yue and Murong Shaozong to lead a partial army to kill back to Julu to support Gao Gao, and Erzhu Dulu retreated to Jinyang after a hurried engagement.

Gao Huan and He Batsheng led the remaining army to clear the southern part of Bingzhou, and waved their troops to meet Gao Gao and Murong Shaozong, who were only a few dozen miles away from Lutai Mountain in Jinyang.

There was not much time left for Erzhu Zhao, and in the face of Gao Huan's encirclement and suppression of nearly 200,000 troops, he discussed with Erzhu Dulu that he planned to abandon Jinyang, which had been painstakingly operated for many years, and return to Xiurong County, the birthplace of their Erzhu clan.

But Gao Huan didn't plan to let Er Zhu Zhao and them go like this, after stabilizing Jinyang, let Murong Heng, who stayed in Luoyang, send people to Jinyang, and he wanted to stretch the front into Yanzhou to pursue Er Zhu Zhao and them.

Er Zhu Zhao and they were desperate, so they had to take dozens of escorts to flee to Mobei across Hengzhou and Liuzhen, and went to Rouran Dadan Yu Jiulu.

Since then, in addition to Erzhu Tianguang in Guanzhong, the Erzhu forces in the Central Plains have been swept away.

Gao Huan also caught Erzhu Caihuang's two younger brothers in Xiurong Erzhu's lair, and took them back to Luoyang. The entire empire was celebrating Gao Huan's military victory, and it took less than three months to wipe out the Erzhu clan entrenched in the northwest, which was a major victory that no one had ever won before.

However, because the emperor Yuan Xiu had fled to Guanzhong, the Luoyang court could only elect Yuan Shanjian as the new emperor under the instruction of Gao Huan, and under the advice of Murong Heng and Xu Mingzhi and He Basheng and other generals, Gao Huan moved the imperial capital from Luoyang to Yecheng on the north bank of the Yellow River, far away from the war, as the new imperial capital.

This was in October of this year, and at the end of December, two bizarre things happened in Guanzhong one after another: first Erzhu Tianguang died of inexplicable illness in Xianyang Palace, and then Yuan Xiu was killed in Chang'an. Under the leaderless group of dragons in the entire Guanzhong, Yuwentai, who has gradually gained popularity, was elected as the leader to replace Erzhu Tianguang.

Then Yuwentai and the Guanzhong forces elected Yuan Baoli as the new emperor, and Gao Huan continued to maintain a confrontational posture.

In the blink of an eye, the end of the year is already the second year of the new emperor's accession to the throne, that is, the second year of Tianping. Regarding the choice of the era name when the emperor ascended the throne, Gao Huan means that now the Erzhu clan has been wiped out and the world is peaceful, so the emperor chose Tianping as his first era name.

That's right, Gao Huan is now the ruler of the world, although he has no interest in being the emperor, but everyone in the world thinks that it is only a matter of time before he Gao Huan usurps the throne, and in order to have a good relationship with the emperor, he plans to marry the daughter of the family to the emperor as a concubine as a political marriage.

"What do you think of this covenant sent by the Khan of Rouran?" The first "gift" Gao Huan received in the New Year was the head of Erzhu Zhao and others and the alliance covenant sent by Yu Jiulu.

The newly promoted military department Shangshu and Xuzhou Thorn Wang Daozhi patted Gao Huan's sycophants and said: "I think that the king's power has made the barbarian sects near and far kneel at your feet with pleasure and sincerity, and we can make conditions to accept their alliance request." ”

"Hmph, do you think who took the initiative to form an alliance would make such a request?" Gao Huan snorted coldly, and threw Yu Jiulu's alliance book in front of Wang Daozhi, Wang Daozhi hurriedly picked it up respectfully, it doesn't matter if you don't read this alliance book, you will be angry when you look at it. Throughout the alliance, Yu Jiulu mentioned how much alimony and grain, cattle and horses Gao Huan had to pay every year, as well as beautiful singers. It is said that Gao Huan's regime represents the Northern Wei Dynasty and is his own suzerain, and it is necessary to protect and help Rouran, but fools know that with Rouran's current power, an invasion of the south can make everything that Gao Huan has worked hard to manage in the past few years come to naught.

This is a naked threat and intimidation, and the implication is that since I, Yu Jiulu, can solve Erzhu Zhao and them for you, I will naturally solve you in minutes, and it will be good for you to serve me well.

Gao Yue and Gao Gao expressed their attitude on the spot: they were willing to follow Wei Qinghuo's example to go into Mobei to exterminate Rouran. In this scene of strong morale at that time, no one would go to war with Yu Jiulu's Rouran now, not to mention that the national strength could not withstand consumption, Yuwentai in Guangguan was still eyeing him and wanted to rush out to make trouble.

"So far, we can only learn from Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and use the policy of harmony to temporarily forbear and make an alliance with them, and when Yuwentai is eliminated, we will go back and solve the problem of Rouran." Murong Heng didn't have a good way to solve this problem at this time.

"Harmony is a helpless choice, but should I choose the clan or my family as the object of harmony?" Gao Huan already had two realizations at this time for the temporary low-voiced service Rouran, so he simply went straight and found someone similar to send him over, but the specific candidate was also very important, not only to reflect Gao Huan's sincere attitude, but also to become Gao Huan's secret secret outpost to spy on the northern military situation.

"My lord, I have an idea, I wonder if I can mention it?" Xu Mingzhi stood up and said at this time.

"What's your clever trick, sir? Gao Huan wanted to make fun of him, because this person often made clever jokes about himself.

"Harmony is two-sided, we can send the princess to Rouran's side, but we can also ask Yu Jiulu to marry the woman, everyone marrying each other is the basis of sincerity, and leave the problem to him to solve."

This idea is the most reliable idea that Xu Mingzhi has said to Gao Huan over the years, and even Murong Heng agreed, Gao Huan was right when he thought about it, why can you marry our woman as a wife, and I can't make one of your maidens a concubine? Damn, Lao Tzu also wants to open foreign meat.

So the burden of taking the initiative to ask for a marriage with Yu Jiulu was handed over to the second brother Sun Teng to deal with, Gao Huan trusted him and felt that he should not have much of a problem as soon as he came out.

In the Mobei grassland, full of cattle and sheep, a sixteen-year-old girl riding a horse and wearing a soft service was galloping at a high speed, and a large group of guards behind her were whistling by.

The girl is the only daughter of Yu Jiulu's pearl, Princess Anahuan, because of her outstanding beauty and kindness, people also call her a curvaceous princess. However, this graceful princess is not a good stubble, since she was a child, riding a horse and archery without a teacher, the first beauty on the grassland archery skills are also quite superb, it is said that you can shoot down the autumn geese without arrows.

The curvaceous princess is not brutal and willful, she is just a little wild horse that no one dares to tame, her father's love makes her unscrupulous, and the brave men who pursue her in the grassland line up behind her ass all day long, this sense of superiority in her heart and the favor of being pursued by others make her feel that there are few men in the world who are worthy of herself.

In the big tent of Ao Bao, Sun Teng was discussing the importance of harmony with Yu Jiulu Khan, and he had already talked about the topic of Gao Huan's marriage. Just as he was talking about the excitement, someone opened the curtain and broke in.

The person who came was the beautiful and graceful princess, and everyone stopped discussing it because of her sudden intrusion. I saw that she hadn't walked in front of Yu Jiulu and said coquettishly in a soft voice: "Abba, what are you busy with?" Don't play with me all day. ”

Yu Jiulu Zhengse said in a soft voice: "Didn't you see that I had a distinguished guest here?" Don't hurry out yet, I'll take you hunting and shooting eagles when I'm done in a while. For his daughter's arrogance, the leaders of Rouran present had long been aware of it, but Sun Teng stared at the curvaceous princess vigorously, he didn't know that there was such a beautiful woman in this wild desert north.

This curvaceous princess is a mixed race of Rouran and Han nationality, her mother is the perished princess of Yanguo, fled to Rouran to marry Yu Jiulu, who was only a small leader at the time, and later gave birth to the curvaceous princess in the second year because of her frailty and illness, and died of illness in Mobei. So this beautiful and curvaceous princess has lacked maternal love since she was a child, Yu Jiulu feels sorry for her, and she loves this daughter in every way.

Yu Jiulu Khan smiled at Sun Teng embarrassedly: "Let the guests laugh, this is my daughter, usually negligent in discipline and don't know how to be polite, I hope the guests don't mind." ”

For the Khan's politeness, Sun Teng was flattered and replied: "The Khan said that it was our blessing to see the most beautiful sacred bird of the grassland here today." After that, he looked at the curvaceous princess.

The little girl was stared at like this for the first time, and she was very angry and said in a soft language: "Look at what you see, and if you look at it again, you will gouge out your eyes." With that, he gestured at the short knife in his waist. The leaders of Rouran who were present laughed one after another.

Sun Teng didn't understand, turned his head to look at Yu Jiulu for help, only to see Yu Jiulu shaking his head with a wry smile and saying, "Don't mind, guest, my daughter was just joking with you just now." ”

At this time, Gao Huan behind him stood up and said to the princess: "The princess is always fluent in foreign languages, so it is a pity that those of us from other countries cannot appreciate her talent for humor." ”

This time, he disguised himself as an entourage and followed Sun Teng to the royal court of Mobei Rouran, which was requested by Gao Huan himself, since he was asking for a kiss for himself, he still hoped in his heart that first, he would see the object and then decide, in case he looked ugly, he could push it off and give it to the emperor, second, he wanted to see Yu Jiulu's people and affairs, and third, he wanted to collect and understand more information about Rouran, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other side won all battles.

"Who is this?" Yu Jiulu looked at Gao Huan very strangely and asked Sun Teng.

Sun Teng replied respectfully: "Khan forgives my sins, this is my personal guard." ”

"How dare the guards speak to our beautiful prairie eagle? Licentious! Yeluhan, the small leader of the tribe on the side, rebuked loudly. Say it, get up and pull out the knife, point at Gao Huan and say, "I'm going to duel with you!" Come out! After saying that, he picked up the curtain and went out.

Gao Huan thought to himself, what, today's young people like to go it alone when they don't agree?