Chapter 270: Escape and Tracking
The faint moonlight like water could not resist the inky darkness that covered the entire heaven and earth after the sun set. Originally, Bai said that he could look at the vast wilderness for dozens of miles at a glance, but now he can't see what it is like a hundred steps away.
More than a thousand war horses galloped like lightning in this wilderness that had been completely shrouded in darkness, and the roar of the hooves of more than a thousand war horses galloping in the vast wilderness in the quiet late night was heard far away, far away.
Dozens of miles behind them, the roar of horses' hooves and the sound of fighting that seemed to resound throughout the grassland were heard in the distance, gradually stopped, and finally became silent, and the entire grassland fell into a deathly silence again.
With the roar of horses' hooves and shouts of slaughter behind them, an aura of panic and sadness hung over the group of knights who seemed to be dying.
They all knew that the more than 100,000 warriors who had scattered to attract the main force of the Qin people had been completely buried in this dark wilderness, and they could never return to the prairie again.
At the forefront of this group of knights was a tall Hun man in a golden brocade robe with a gloomy face. It was the missing 40,000 great Huns who fought endlessly, and even in the end, they did not appear in the end.
At this moment, Mao Dun has long lost the vigor and confidence of controlling everything, and the gloom and viciousness revealed in his brown pupils are terrifying. The murderous aura like a mountain on Mao Dun's body seemed to condense into substance, so that none of the Xiongnu guards or the Xiongnu nobles who fled with him dared to approach Mao Dun's side.
The great Maudun is single, and the omnipotent Maudun is single. Now in their eyes, it is equivalent to the wolf king who is mating on the grassland and is robbed of his mate by another wolf, eerie and terrifying.
Endless remorse, when he saw Mohuer's 50,000 Longxi troops entering the battlefield, he was biting Mao Dun's not very broad heart all the time.
The betrayal of the Donghu clan Mohuer made him taste the first fiasco in his life. It's just that the consequences of this first fiasco were so serious that it almost ruined the hard work he had worked hard for more than ten years, and even put him in a situation where he was almost certain to die.
From the time those pillars of fire rose into the air, Mao Dun knew that the three-way army he had divided his troops had been discovered by the Qin people. And with the cavalry strength of the Qin Jiuyuan Army, it is impossible to catch up with all the Hun warriors of the three roads in such a short period of time, and then exterminate them. Even if the Qin people arrived with reinforcements, it would not be possible.
However, the sound behind him, which lasted less than an hour and gradually fell silent, clearly told Mao Dun that the three decoys composed of more than 100,000 Hun cavalry that he used to attract the main force of the Qin people to track had been completely destroyed.
Damn Donghu again!
Mohull!
Only the more than 200,000 Donghu people who wanted to preserve their strength took refuge in the Qin people, and the Qin could have so many cavalry to track the fleeing Hun cavalry in three ways at the same time, and launch three battles at the same time, completely annihilating more than 100,000 Hun warriors in less than an hour.
Never before did he hate a man so much as he did today. I have never hated myself so much as I do today. If he had followed the advice of the Marquis of the Left and Right Bones and killed Mohuer at the moment when he pledged his allegiance to the Xiongnu, then there would have been no fiasco for him to defeat as he said today, and there would not have been a disastrous defeat for him as he did now, as if he had abandoned the 200,000 Hun warriors who had followed him south, and fled for his life like a lost dog.
This battle with Daqin in the south will be a shame that he will not be able to wash away in his life. Unless he ventures and can lead the Xiongnu clan to truly recapture the ancestral land of the Xiongnu clan, the Hetao Plain and Henan, from the hands of the Qin people in his lifetime, and kill the betrayed Donghu clan, can he redeem the shame imposed on him.
More importantly, Mao Dun keenly discovered the huge crisis facing the Xiongnu clan today.
That is, before this, the invincible Great Qin defeated his father Toumandan's 500,000 army that poured the power of the entire Xiongnu clan into a battle, and at that time, the 300,000 Jiuyuan army of the Great Qin could take advantage of the situation to go north and annihilate the Xiongnu clan in one fell swoop.
However, in the end, whether it was the majestic First Emperor or Meng Tian, who was already the first general in the world, he did not choose to take advantage of the situation to go north, but shrank his forces and stuck to Jiuyuan, and even spent countless money, food and manpower to build the Great Wall to resist the invasion of the Xiongnu.
Although at that time, Great Qin had just unified the world, and the fire of the restoration of the remnants of the six countries in the territory was one after another, and the internal instability was one reason, in fact, the main reason was that the attack on the Xiongnu was a long distance, required huge manpower, and the Great Qin did not have an accurate map of the Xiongnu settlement.
This is the main reason why Daqin did not take advantage of the situation to go north into the steppe more than ten years ago to destroy the Xiongnu.
This time, however, the situation is a different story than it was more than a decade ago.
The Qin people got more than 200,000 Donghu cavalry without much effort. With the help of the Donghu people, who have been nomadic on the grassland for the same generations as the Huns, and after the Donghu people knelt down on the Huns, they traveled all the way south, and they knew where the various tribes of the Huns lived, and even the sacred land of the Huns.
Today, the Qin people no longer have the obstacle to go north, and even have many Donghu guides who can not only fight but also guide the way. There seems to be no reason to take advantage of this God-given opportunity to eradicate the Huns in one fell swoop.
Even if the Qin people didn't want to go north, Mao Dun believed that Mohuer would definitely not ignore the hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children of Donghu who were still detained around Wolf Juxu Mountain. Those talents are the foundation of the Donghu family. At the beginning, the reason why Mohuer and the Donghu clan chose to join the Xiongnu was largely because Maudun controlled these people.
Then, now that he has found a new master, Mohuer will inevitably go to the steppe wolf Juxu Mountain to rescue these Donghu people.
Regardless of whether the Qin people are willing to go north or not, Mohuer's twenty yuan Donghu cavalry will inevitably choose to return to the prairie again! At the same time, the Qin people will inevitably do everything in their power to keep themselves in the territory of Great Qin.
Once the Donghu people or the Qin people entered the Wolf Juxu Mountain, then the foundation of the Xiongnu clan would be destroyed in his hands. This is a guilt that Maudon cannot bear. He will be a sinner of the Huns.
The premise of saving everything is that he can escape under the tracking of the Qin people this time, return to the prairie, and return to Wolf Juxu Mountain.
If he can't live in the prairie and return to Wolf Juxu Mountain alive, then don't say that he will wash away the shame of being put on him by the Donghu people, and even die for it, and forever bear the charge of destroying the Huns.
He exhaled a deep breath of turbidity, and his gloomy eyes suddenly shot out a chance essence!
I can't die in this Qin territory, I must return to the prairie!
"Change horses!" A burst of cheers came out of the mouth of Mao Dun, who had not spoken a word for several hours since he left the Hun army!
After the explosion, Mao Dun didn't seem to care whether the Hun guards and nobles behind him heard his words, the tall and strong body jumped up from the back of the war horse dexterously, and then landed steadily on the several unridden war horses that had been following him, his legs clamped the horse's belly hard, and the whip in his hand hit the horse's buttocks.
Mao Dun is not only the single Yu of the Xiongnu clan, but also his riding and archery skills are also among the best in the entire Xiongnu clan.
"Drive!"
Put on a new horse, and ride away first. Mao Dun, who figured out the cause and effect, was very clear about the situation he was facing now. He Mao Dun has never been a person who gives up lightly, even if he was sent to the Yue clan by his father Touman, and when he sent people to the fence and was unarmed, he was not the same as sitting on the position of the Xiongnu clan?
Now that the Qin people have eliminated the more than 100,000 Hun cavalry, when the Qin people find that they are not in the army, they will inevitably send countless scouts to track along the road, and now maybe the Qin people's scouts have left the camp to catch up.
More than 100,000 Hun warriors used their surnames to delay the time they had gained. Maudun didn't want to waste, and he didn't want to die.
There are not many people in the line of Maoton. How could Maudun not understand that in the vast prairie, horses are the most important? So he left behind the 40,000-strong army and fled, and the real guards were only 200 people, and there were dozens of Hun nobles who he could not abandon. The statistics are only 2670.
More than 200 people, placed on the vast prairie, it is completely a drop in the ocean, and the chance of being found is naturally much smaller than that of tens of thousands. What's more, although there are many wild wolves on the grassland, more than 200 people are enough to resist the general wolf pack, after all, there are very few wolf dogs with thousands of wolves in the entire grassland.
Except for more than two hundred people, the rest are all war horses, vacant war horses. In addition to the one horse under the crotch of each person, there were four other vacant war horses that only carried a little air-dried beef and mutton and water.
These war horses are the hope of Mao Dun to escape from Daqin and return to the grassland!
The cavalry of Maoton's personal guards and the Xiongnu nobles behind him, seeing that Maoton, who had never spoken, finally spoke, and from the words, they heard that the great Maodun Shan Yu seemed to have recovered from the defeat, and they suddenly cheered out loudly.
In fact, in the eyes of many Huns, especially the Hun nobles who experienced the battle outside Jiuyuan City, Mao Dunshan Yu did not make any mistakes at all, and there was only one reason for all the failures, the Donghu people, Mohuer.
If it weren't for their betrayal, how could the great, invincible, all-powerful Maudun Shan fail to do so? I'm afraid that now the Jiuyuan City of the Qin people has long become the bag of the Xiongnu clan.
Mao Dun regained his previous domineering, and they found the backbone! After all, the great Maudon is omnipotent.
The panic that shrouded the hearts of hundreds of Hun barbarians was suddenly swept away! In the midst of the cheers, they jumped from one horse to another with great dexterity, and then whipped the horses and galloped forward with their sneaky steps.
In the temporary camp of Daqin, a hundred miles away from where Mao Dun was located.
One by one, the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army got up from the tent silently, led a team of 100 war horses, formed a huge fan and quietly left the continuous tent standing on the wilderness, and tracked it in the north, east and west.
(To be continued)