The yellow grassland is bare with patches of sand. The wind swept through the snow and danced all over the sky. Tiny snow particles hit a person's face and hurt like a pinprick in the face.

In the vast heaven and earth, the headquarters of the Xiongnu Shan Yuting's iron cavalry is scattered into a huge fan, slowly marching towards the north. In order to resist the invasion of the wind in the northern frontier, the Hun cavalry on horseback took out a wine bag and drank it from time to time to drive away the cold. The army of hundreds of thousands of Huns, long without the momentum of the rainbow when they waved their troops south, all looked worried, and looked at Longcheng from time to time in the northwest direction, where their parents, wives and children were there.

A few days ago, the Han army in Yanmen set fire to the forest, and the Hun iron cavalry, who were originally sitting firmly in the camp, did not realize that under the thick night, there was a strong killing intention. The pungent smell came over the face as the yellowish light smoke carried by the wind and filled the entire camp and gradually drifted into each camp.

However, in a short time, most of the Hun soldiers began to have tears in their eyes, coughing incessantly, and their throats were burning even more excruciatingly. The entire camp was suddenly in chaos, and the panicked shouts of the soldiers and the neighing of the war horses were heard for miles away, and even the Han troops in Yanmen Fortress could hear it.

The Hun generals hastily covered their mouths and noses with silk silks, and then went out of the camp to appease the soldiers, they all had been in battle for a long time, and naturally understood the horror of bombing the camp. It took hundreds of heads to stabilize the battalion, but the irrepressible coughing was still heard. At this time, the Hun soldiers did not have time to cherish the precious drinking water, so they took out the water bag, wet their sleeves, and covered their mouths and noses. The pungent smell of smoke is still unavoidable, but it's better than nothing.

Seeing that the situation was slightly stable, the Xiongnu generals immediately gathered in the big tent, their faces full of anxiety. At this time, the military ministers were also choked by the smoke and their eyes were red, so they had to order the warriors guarding the tent to seal the big tent tightly from the outside with thick felt. With the influx of the Hun generals, the almost airtight tent became more and more stuffy, and the breathing of everyone in the tent became heavier and heavier.

The military minister Shan Yu really didn't want the generals to stay here longer, so he took a sip of mare's milk wine and asked in a hoarse voice: "Why are these cigarettes so choking?" ”

"Yes, I haven't seen much fire on the grassland in the past, even if the smoke is billowing up, it doesn't seem to be choking with the faint light smoke now. It smells like the lava in the sky on Mount Chahar. A Hun general stepped forward and echoed.

The Bank of China was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then his face was shocked, and he couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "Magma...... Magma ......"

Everyone in the tent looked at him, and some Xiongnu generals saw that he looked abnormal, thinking that he was timid, and couldn't help but show a sarcastic look on his face, and was about to make a provocation, but was stopped by the military minister Shan Yu waved his hand. The military minister has been familiar with him for many years, and he knows that he must have thought of something, so he will be so out of shape.

Sure enough, after a while, the Bank of China came back to his senses, and his eyes returned to clarity: "It's sulfur!" It must have been the Han army that placed a large amount of sulfur in that mountain forest! In ancient times, in the Central Plains, there were small countries that mixed horseshoe, stone powder and sulfur, which could emit poisonous smoke after burning. Once inhaled, the mild case will be weak, and the severe one will die on the spot. ”

When the military minister Shan Yu heard this, he suddenly roared in a low voice: "No wonder the Han army wants to set fire to the mountain, so vicious!" ”

The Xiongnu generals were also indignant, and they all shouted that they would send troops to sweep the Central Plains and kill the despicable Han people.

The Bank of China shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The matter has come to this, don't be rash, it is only right to find a way to stabilize the army first." ”

The military minister Shan Yu waved his hand to stop the unwilling generals, nodded in agreement: "What the national teacher said is very true, you should go and take care of the camp, and those who want to take the opportunity to make trouble will be killed on the spot!" If you don't do it well, hang your heads on the flagpole outside your tent! ”

The generals heard the monstrous killing intent in Da Danyu's words, and couldn't help but tremble, and they didn't care about talking to the Bank of China, so they hurriedly took the order and went to suppress the chaotic camp.

That night, the Xiongnu camp was brightly lit, and the military minister Shan Yu stayed awake all night, leaving the Bank of China in the tent and talking all night. It wasn't until early in the morning, when he led the generals through the camp, that he realized the real seriousness. Many soldiers were suffocated by inhaling these poisonous smoke spasms, and many more soldiers had red eyes and bloodshots, as if they were burned. And the war horses were all weak and powerless, neighing in the middle of the night, and many people died.

"I regret not listening to the words of the national teacher, I should have pulled out the camp overnight and retreated!" Seeing the tragic situation of the hundreds of thousands of troops, the military ministers couldn't help but look up to the sky and lament.

The Bank of China said that it was exquisite, so naturally he didn't dare to take it seriously, and hurriedly comforted: "In fact, Da Shan Yu's concerns are very reasonable, and when the camp is pulled out overnight when it is chaotic, it will inevitably be disheartened, and once the camp is bombed, it will be a great disaster." Chen's thoughts are really a bit Meng Lang, far less thoughtful than Da Dan. ”

The military minister was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he didn't speak for a long time, but just patted Zhongxing's shoulder and sighed lightly. He understood that after a series of incidents, their originally intimate relationship had produced a trace of inexplicable estrangement. The Bank of China said that as the confidant of the old Shangshan Yu, after his death, he has been wholeheartedly assisting the military minister Shan Yu, and he is also a teacher and friend. However, as the military ministers gradually consolidated the power in their hands, they faintly distanced themselves from Zhongxing. This made the Bank of China, who taught him the way of the emperor since he was a child, feel melancholy, and have a great taste of digging a pit to bury himself. Now the repeated defeats have made the two drift apart.

Looking at the mountain fires still burning in the distance, and the billowing smoke drifting in the wind, the military minister Shan Yu reluctantly ordered the camp to retreat. A few days later, with the arrival of heavy snowfall, the raging wildfires finally gradually went out. But at this time, the Hun camp had been cut off for many days. They had already discovered that the source of the disease was the contaminated water source, and they did not dare to use it again. Originally, he could still draw a little clean spring water from the mountains, but now he had to send all the people to the upper reaches of the river hundreds of miles away to get water, which was really unbearable for hundreds of thousands of troops. Now that the weather is getting colder, the difficulty of attacking the city is getting more and more difficult, and the Han army is so difficult that it obviously doesn't see any chance of victory. If you persist, it's just a waste of strength.

In desperation, the military minister looked at the towering Yanmen Plug on the ridge from afar, sighed, and ordered the squad to return to Longcheng for the winter. Although the Xiongnu generals were unwilling, they did not have the confidence to win, so they had to silently order the whole army. When the Hun soldiers got the news, the whole camp was jubilant, celebrating their departure from this cursed land.

The military minister in the big tent was pale-faced when he heard the cheers of the earth-shattering sky, and this defeat would become a shame that he would never be able to wash away. It is conceivable that the great nobles of the Xiongnu, who have always believed only in strength, will support King Zuo Xian even more, posing a huge threat to his single position.

Hearing the news of the withdrawal of the Huns, there was laughter and laughter in Yanmen. In the palace, Yanmen Taishou Zhi patted Ma Yu and Gongsun He on the shoulder, his eyes were full of approval, and he sighed: "Sure enough, it is a hero who is a young man, and in this battle, Hu Ben and Yu Lin have made great contributions!" ”

Ma Yu's face was slightly red, and his eyes were full of excitement, not to make a great contribution, but to fulfill the prince's entrustment. Now hundreds of tiger guards have seen the battle array, although it is only in the city defense, but the hands have been stained with blood, and they also know the cruelty of the war, at least they can do it without being weak in the battle, and they are not disgusted when they see blood.

However, Gongsun He pursed his lips and said with a little regret: "It's a pity that the burning forest didn't dare to risk attacking the camp, if you can kill a few thief chiefs, you can go back and ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for more rewards." ”

Zhi couldn't help laughing, it was really rare to be able to make his face a 10,000-year-old dead fish smile, in addition to the excitement of today's big victory, but also because he admired Gongsun He very much. In Zhidu's eyes, this casual and whimsical young man, leading more than 100 Yu Lin Wei under his command, exterminating thieves and talking and laughing, everything is consequential, never cares how despicable the means are, and even sneers at the so-called rules and hypocrisy, which is really very appetizing to him.

A few days later, Emperor Jing, who was far away in Chang'an Weiyang Palace, received Zhidu's secret recital, and couldn't wait to read it, with a look of ecstasy on his face, without any scruples about the so-called courtesy of the monarch and the father-son discipline, and invited the prince Liu Che to drink all night and have a long talk. After three rounds of drinking, the drunken father and son, hooking shoulders and backs, almost called brothers, cut off the head of the chicken and burned incense to worship. Fortunately, he was stopped by the crying and laughing queen Wang Huan, otherwise this father and son, who had lost their morality, would probably become the first pair of emperors and princes to be impeached by the imperial history at the same time since the founding of the Han Dynasty.

Unlike the ecstatic Emperor Jing's father and son, the magnates of Chang'an City did not react in the slightest. In the past, when the Xiongnu attacked, it would always cause shocks in the government and the opposition, and attract the power of the country to resist the enemy, but Emperor Jing rarely sealed the news tightly, and did not mobilize a soldier from elsewhere, and the courtiers with low official positions had no way to know, and those in high positions, even if they knew, they could only pretend not to know.

This is not only the Han-Hungarian War, but also the dispute between the two factions of Emperor Jing and Empress Dowager Dou, and now Emperor Jing only relies on the local border army of Yanmen County to steadily resist the Xiongnu Dadan more than 100,000 iron cavalry, and even in the court has not caused a trace of movement, it is obvious that he is already a stable pressure lord and a pro-conservative head. After all, the Han men are so hot-blooded, since they can hold the country and the society steadily, why send the Han women to the bitter cold grassland and be humiliated by the Huns?!

Even the Empress Dowager Dou breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the good news from Yanmen County. She and Emperor Jing are only different in the concept of governing the country, but they also hope that this great man can be immortalized for ten thousand years. This time, she lost willingly and comfortably! Although this does not change her usual conservative stance, she vaguely hopes that she can keep losing, preferably losing completely. As the queen mother of the Han Empire, but also as a mother, a woman's psychology is so unreasonable, but it is so natural!

(Huhu, I slept for more than ten hours, I'm really embarrassed, and I used hard to code words.) ）

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