Every winter, most of the Xiongnu herdsmen will return to the winter camp in Wolf Juxu Mountain, but not all tribes will be like this, so the Chuyan coalition army still encountered scattered small tribes all the way north, and all of these small tribes were brutally bloodbathed, and there were no chickens and dogs.

Half a month after going deep into the desert, the coalition forces appeared by a lake.

The lake is not big, the radius is more than ten miles, but the surrounding water and grass are extremely abundant, groups of cattle, sheep, horses and camels are leisurely eating grass on the grassland, the grassland is green, vast and boundless, clusters of sheep, cattle are like white or yellow patterns dotted on it, magnificent to suffocation.

However, the view that followed was not beautiful at all.

On the north shore of the lake, there are more than 100 burned tents, many tents even smoke from them, this should have been a small Xiongnu tribe settlement, but at this time, it has already become a Shura blood prison, under the butcher's knife of Huyan and five hundred wolf riders, there is no living creature here, no matter people or animals.

Bi Shu turned over and dismounted, and said to Meng Yan and Yan Prince Zangyan: "Let's camp here tonight." ”

"Whoa!" Meng Yan and Zang Yan responded violently, and each ordered the herald to issue a military order to camp on the spot, and then more than a dozen horsemen ordered the cavalry to fly away, and after the military order was issued, a group of cavalry officers and soldiers turned over and dismounted, and unloaded the tent equipment from the horseback to prepare for camping, and the scout rangers in charge of the vigilance also dispersed around the camp.

The quiet and peaceful lake was noisy in an instant, and the cattle and sheep who were grazing leisurely on the grass were also dragged to the lake to be slaughtered, and before and after a moment, tens of thousands of bonfires were raised in the open space by the lake, and a fat sheep that had been washed and peeled were also put on the fire, and the smell of barbecue soon spread in the air.

The march on the desert can be described as painful, but today it is finally possible to feast.

Bi Shu walked into the burned Xiongnu camp surrounded by Meng, Zangyan and hundreds of personal soldiers.

The whole camp was littered with wooden barrels, pottery, porcelain and other living utensils, as well as many broken and dumped ox carts, which can be judged by the scattered traces on the ground. The small tribe seemed to want to flee before bad luck struck, but unfortunately, Huyan's five hundred wolves rode too fast for them to run.

Meng Yan found two bodies hugging each other in the blood-soaked grass, a young mother holding her child, a throwing spear piercing through her vest and piercing the child's chest, both of whom had been exhausted for a long time. Seeing this extremely tragic scene, Meng Yan couldn't help but sigh, the wolf rider refused to let go of the child.

Bi Shu also sighed and said, "It seems that the hatred between the Huyan tribe and the Xiongnu is very deep. ”

Meng Yan nodded and said: "This last general knows a little bit about it, it is said that the Huyan tribe was originally one of the largest tribes among the Xiongnu tribes, and its strength is not under the plough tribe, and it also occupies the most abundant water and grassland on the bank of the Gonglu River, and the tribe reproduces very quickly, which is why it was suspected by Mao Dun." ”

Bi Shu said: "So, Mao Dun started the war? ”

"Yes," he said. Mao Dun gathered more than a dozen Xiongnu tribes and launched a siege of the Huyan tribe. A fierce battle on the bank of the Gonglu River, tens of thousands of strong men of the Huyan tribe were killed, and all the women and children were robbed. ”

Bi Shu said: "It turns out that there is still this grievance between Huyan and the Xiongnu, so it's no wonder." ”

Meng Yan said: "General." Huyan's behavior is still a little excessive, do you send someone to give a military order, of course the Xiongnu men have to be killed. But can you spare their women and children? ..., Bi Shu sighed, and said helplessly: "However, the king once had an edict, this time he went deep into the desert, and whenever he met the Huns, regardless of men and women, regardless of age or age, they were all killed, and the chickens and dogs were not left!" ”

"What?" Meng Yan said in disbelief, "There is an edict?! ”

Bi Shu bowed his head lightly, and said: "General Meng, don't think too much, if you don't kill these Hun women, they will raise dozens of Hun male babies in a few years, and in another twenty years at most, these Xiongnu male babies will grow into brave and warlike Hun cavalry, so you have the right to eliminate hidden dangers for future generations." ”

"That's right." Meng Yan said thoughtfully, "This is called prevention before it happens." ”

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"Whew......"

Huyan shot an arrow, the heavy wolf's tooth arrow suddenly drew a faint trajectory in the air, the Huns who were galloping in front of them responded to the sound of falling under the horse, Huyan's arrow directly pierced his entire head, and the sharp arrow cluster shot into the back of the head and through the front door, and the Huns died of anger without saying a word.

The black wolf turned over and dismounted, pulled out a chirping stick from the Huns' quiver, and said, "General, it's a sentry horse!" ”

The black bear looked fierce, waved the mace in his hand viciously, and then said with a hideous face: "So there is a camp nearby? Let's have a good time again, hehe. ”

The black wolf lay on the ground and carefully discerned the hoof prints of the cows, sheep and horses on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "This is a veteran, he wants to lead us away from the camp. After saying that, the black wolf pointed to the northeast direction and said, "I'm afraid the scale of this camp will not be small, it should be in this direction, and the distance will not exceed ten miles!" ”

Hu Yan said fiercely: "How many people will there be in this tribe?" ”

The black wolf said categorically: "At least five hundred, no more than two thousand." ”

"There are less than 2,000 people, and at most 500 strong men!" The corners of Hu Yan's mouth suddenly bloomed with a trace of incomparably hideous murderous intent, and there was a wolf howl when he looked up to the sky, and hundreds of horses suddenly rose up in the deep artemisia grass behind him, and on the back of these hundreds of horses, five hundred wolf horses were already waiting for him.

Huyan raised his right hand again and pressed it forward, and the five hundred wolf riders suddenly surged forward like a flood that had broken the embankment.

The black wolf is worthy of being the lone wolf who is the best at tracking on the grassland, five hundred wolves rode forward and rushed forward for less than ten miles, and a winding river appeared in front of him, the water and grass on both sides of the river were abundant, scattered with clusters of cattle, sheep and horses, and in the bay not far away, there were scattered tents, not to mention three or five hundred.

The five hundred wolves rode for a moment and became excited.

Almost at the same time, the Huns also discovered the arrival of this group of "horse thieves", one after another in the angry shouts, there were constantly Hun men out of the tent, picked up the horse fork, and then turned over the horse to meet this side, before and after less than a moment of effort, at least 100 horsemen gathered on the river beach, and more Huns gathered here.

Hu Yan slowly pulled out the Dumb Moon Sword, and the corners of his mouth had already bloomed with an extremely cruel smile, and vaguely, the incomparably tragic scene on the bank of the Lugong River twenty years ago appeared in front of his eyes.

Today, we can finally avenge our dead people!

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Lu Tai had already rushed to the royal city of the Yue clan with three thousand elite Han troops.

It is said that it is a royal city, in fact, it is a small earth city with a radius of only ten miles, the Yueshi people are also nomadic tribes, and there was no habit of building a city to settle down until 20 years ago, after forming an alliance with the Han State, it was only with the help of Han craftsmen that a soil city was built near Yueshi Ze, which is now the Yueshi Wangcheng.

In Lu Tai's view, the defense capability of this royal city is undoubtedly quite bad, the city wall is rammed, the surface is not wrapped with green bricks, the strength is obviously insufficient, it is difficult to resist the impact of hitting the city hammer; The height of the city wall is also insufficient, but the two-zhang high wall is more than enough to resist the invasion of wild beasts, and it is obviously not enough to block the attack of the army. ..., but this is not the worst, the worst thing is that the Yueshi people have no concept of repairing the city at all, this royal city has collapsed several times in less than twenty years after its completion, if you can't repair these gaps before the arrival of the Xiongnu army, then this city will not play any defensive role at all.

The only good news is that the Yueshi people are obviously jealous of the Huns to the extreme, so they are very enthusiastic about the arrival of Lutai, although Lutai only brought 3,000 infantry troops to make the Yueshi King and the four Marquis very disappointed, but they still showed great enthusiasm for defending the city, in the eyes of the Yueshi people, the Central Plains people are all guarding the city.

Accompanied by the king of the Yue clan and the four marquis, Lu Tai finally said: "King Yue, if you can agree to the three conditions of this general, this general can guarantee you that the king of the Yue clan will not fall in at least six months!" Of course, Lu Tai does not speak Yue's language, but Hu Shang, who is proficient in Central Plains, is in charge of translation.

The king of the Yue clan hurriedly said: "As long as you can hold the royal city, don't say three conditions, even thirty conditions." ”

Lu Tai nodded, stretched out three hands and said: "First, from now on, the strong men of the Yue clan near the royal city must unconditionally accept the general's reprimand and make every effort to repair and strengthen the city wall; Second, all women, children, oxen, horses, and vehicles were requisitioned to transport and store black oil as much as possible into the city; Third, a large number of corpses were produced to pollute all water sources in Hexi. ”

"Yes, yes, all do." The king of the Yue clan nodded again and again, and accepted it with a full mouth.

The Marquis of Guishuang was not at ease, and asked again: "Dare to ask the general, what if the Xiongnu still refuse to withdraw after six months?" Will the Han Kingdom launch a large army to attack the Xiongnu? ”

"The Huns didn't last more than six months." Lu Tai said coldly, "My prime minister has already made arrangements. ”

Lu Tai did not think that Bai Mo's arrangement could play a role, not to mention whether the scouts of the Han army could find the logistics base for the Huns to hide women, children, cattle and sheep in the vast desert, even if they found it, it would be difficult to get their wish, the Huns would definitely leave enough troops to protect women, children, cattle and sheep, and how easy it would be to intercept their back roads?

But no matter what, Bai Mo is now the prime minister, what can he say about Lu Tai?

The only thing Lu Tai could do was to assist the Yue people in defending the royal city, and nothing else was his business.

However, I heard Lu Tai say that Bai Mo had already made arrangements, but the king of the Yue clan and the four marquis finally relaxed a little, no matter what, the battle of Hexi had the backing of the Great Han State as the Yue clan, which was much better than the Yue clan facing the Xiongnu alone.