Xiang Zhuang immediately stepped forward to help Huyan Zhengde up, and said with a smile: "Huyan, from now on, you are the former captain of the Heavenly Wolf in this general's tent, and you will be on duty with Captain Huben Jinxiang on duty!" ”

Gao Chu, Meng, and You Yuan generals suddenly changed color slightly when they heard this.

With Huyan Zhengde and Jin Xiang taking turns to guard the guards, doesn't it mean that in the future, the safety of Xiangzhuang will be jointly responsible for the more than 500 warriors of the Huyan tribe and the more than 500 veterans of the Chu army under the command of Jin Xiang? Less than a day after the Huyan tribe returned to Chu, it was too reckless to arrange for them to serve as the guards in front of the general's tent?

Only Bai Lixian praised in his heart, he deserves to be a general, he is smart!

The general arranged more than 500 warriors of the Huyan tribe as the guards in front of the tent, which seemed reckless, but it was actually very clever, because compared with the Chu people, Wei people or Qin people in the Chu army, the Huyan people had the most no foundation and were the least easy to be co-opted, and they served as the guards to protect the safety of the big tent, even more secure than the veterans of the Chu army.

Moreover, this move can also give Huyan Zhengde and the more than 500 warriors of the Huyan tribe great confidence, and most of the generals will tell the Huyan people unmistakably through such an arrangement, my Xiangzhuang trusts you very much, and I am very relieved, and this should be what the general usually says about employing people without suspicion, and suspecting people is not needed, right?

At that moment, Bai Lixian, Gao Chu, and Meng Keng generals stepped forward to greet Hu Yan respectively.

Hu Yan originally didn't know what Su Wei meant, but after listening to Bai Lixian's explanation, he couldn't help but change his face slightly, and when he looked at Xiang Zhuang again, there was already a trace of inexplicable admiration in the tiger's eyes, and the trace of doubt in his heart disappeared in an instant.

Huyan also summoned You'er and a few Huyan households to meet Xiang Zhuang and others.

Seeing Huyan You'er, the generals couldn't help but be a little surprised, they didn't expect that such a big wind and sand in Mobei could raise such a beautiful woman! Xiang Zhuang didn't feel anything, because there were already two big beauties around him, whether it was Wei Yue Wuyang or Ying Zhen Shiman, they were all peerless celebrities who were not inferior to Yu Ji.

In the cold noise, a sentry suddenly came to report: "General, there is a Hun envoy who is closing the door and calling the door!" ”

"Hun envoy?!" Xiang Zhuang suddenly woke up, Mao Dun's tens of thousands of iron cavalry were just outside the Gaoque Pass, and he came straight to the city with the generals, and asked Hu Yan, "Hu Yan, how many cavalry are there in the Huns now?" ”

Huyan Zhengde said: "The Xiongnu have just conquered Donghu, and dozens of Donghu tribes have been incorporated into the Xiongnu, and now the Xiongnu tribes combined, there are almost more than 300,000 people who control the strings. ”

Xiang Zhuang's heart sank suddenly, more than 300,000 cavalry, this is not a joke!

At least it is not something that the current Chu army can resist, and then Xiang Zhuang asked again: "This time when you go south to the Hetao, how many cavalry did Mao Dun bring?" ”

Huyan Zhengde said: "There are about seventy or eighty thousand riders." ”

Speaking voice, everyone has gone up to the Gaoque Pass, standing on the pass and looking out, as far as the eye can see, it is all gray and simple Hun cavalry, the grassland outside the Gaoque Pass has been completely covered by the Hun cavalry sea, only seventy or eighty thousand horsemen are already such a momentum, I really don't know what kind of scene should be when more than 300,000 horsemen all appear?

When Xiang Zhuang looked down, he saw a Hun standing proudly under the city, and he thought it was the messenger of the Huns.

When Xiang Zhuang waved his hand, a personal soldier had already stepped forward to lift the Hun envoy with a hanging basket.

The Hun envoy is not tall, at most six feet like this, but he is extremely strong, the neck is almost thicker than his head, seeing Huyan Zhengde behind Xiang Zhuang, he suddenly looked at each other angrily, and yelled at Xiang Zhuang a few words, Xiang Zhuang naturally did not understand the Xiongnu language, and looked back at Baili Xian, Bai Li Xian could understand the Xiongnu language.

Baili Xian said: "General, this guy said that as long as we hand over Huyan, Mao Dun will leave immediately with the army, and he will never be embarrassed by us." ”

Leave? Only a three-year-old child would believe this!

Mao Dundu has already taken the Hun army south, and will he let go of the fat of the Hetao?!

However, Xiang Zhuang didn't want to turn his face with Mao Dun immediately, anyway, it would take time for the Chu army to evacuate from Hetao, so he immediately instructed Baili Xian: "Ziliang, tell him, give us two days to think about it." ”,

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Outside the high gate, there is a big tent.

The messenger had returned and brought back Xiang Zhuang's reply.

"Two days?" Mao Dun touched the beard that curled up at the corner of his lips and said loudly, "Just give them two days!" After that, Mao Dun said to the uncle who was sitting at the bottom of the stove and raised the pottery bowl, and said, "Mr. uncle, please." ”

"Big order is please." The uncle said that he raised the bowl and respected Yao, covered his face with his sleeves, and drank the mare's milk wine in the pottery bowl, although he felt that this was likely to be the Chu army's delaying tactic, but in any case, his uncle said that he had just joined the command of Mao Dun, and he had not even stood firm on his heels, so it was better not to say more for the time being.

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In the Gaoque Pass, Xiang Zhuang Xingyuan.

This will Xiang Zhuang is meditating and thinking, how can he leave Gaoque Pass unnoticed?

Bai Lixian suddenly stood up, held a feather fan and said to Xiang Zhuang: "General, Xian has a plan, but he can quietly leave Gaoque without alarming the Huns." ”

"Oh?" Xiang Zhuang said happily, "Ziliang said quickly." ”

Bai Lixian shook the feather fan and said: "Before the Duke of Qi Huan returned to Linzi from Ju to succeed to the throne, he was trapped on Cen Mountain by the son who was also preparing to return to China to succeed to the throne. ”

"Hanging sheep beating drums, hungry horses neighing grass?" Xiang Zhuang's heart suddenly moved when he heard this, he knew this allusion, and then Xiang Zhuang asked Meng Yan again, "Tianfang, are there any live sheep in Gaoque Pass?" ”

Meng Yan hurriedly got up and replied, "Hmph, the five hundred sheep that I rescued last time have only eaten half of them. ”

Xiang Zhuang struck the knot fiercely and shouted: "Leave fifty rams, hang them on drums, and then kill the rest of the sheep, throw them on the road, and let them rot." ”

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Two days passed quickly, and the Huns outside Gaoque Pass did not realize anything wrong.

Because in the past two days, there will be dense war drums from time to time in Gaoque Pass, and there is a faint sound of horse neighing, even at night, obviously, the vigilance of the Central Plains people is very high, and it is a little puzzling that at night, it is pitch black at Gaoque Pass, and the Central Plains people do not even light a torch.

When the appointed time had come, Mao Dun sent an envoy again to call for the pass.

However, the messenger sent called under the Gaoque Pass for a long time, but there was no response from the pass, and the messenger had no choice but to return to the big tent and report the situation to Mao Dun.

"What do you say, no one answers?!" Maudun couldn't help but frown.

The uncle who was sitting at the bottom said that Shi Shiran said: "Da Danyu, the Central Plains people are only afraid that they have already run away." ”

"It can't be!" On the other side, the Xiongnu Zuoxian King Duomuxiu said without thinking, "Just now, the dense sound of war drums and the neighing of horses can still be heard in Gaoque Pass, and there are clearly people in the pass!" ”

Uncle said silently, some words are enough, and if you talk about it, you will offend people.

Mao Dun thought about it for a while, and instructed Dong Muhe, the head of the left family: "Dong Muhe, send a few hundred-person teams to rush the pass!" ”

Dong Muhe suddenly agreed, led the order, Dong Muhe went to less than a meal, outside the big tent there was a mountain of cheers, Mao Dun with a dozen Xiao Wang hurriedly out of the tent to inspect the end, only to see Dong Muhe sent a few hundred people team has grabbed the Gaoque Pass, is struggling to wave his wolf flag at the juncture.

"Did the Central Plains people really run away?" Mao Dun couldn't help but look back at his uncle and said.

Half a quarter of an hour later, several hundred-person teams that rushed to the juncture wrung up the 10,000-jin gate and opened the gate again.

Mao Dun led the way under the escort of a dozen little kings and hundreds of personal guards and iron horsemen, but found that there were dozens of bad horses tied to the open space in the pass, and not far from these dozens of bad horses, there were a full trough of hay, and these bad horses could see the hay but could not eat it, so they kept making a sad horse neighing.

On the west side of the open space, there are dozens of copper drums, and directly above the dozens of copper drums, there are dozens of rams, and the rams will struggle from time to time, and the hind hooves will make a "dong dong" sound when they kick on the copper drums, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you will definitely mistake it for someone beating the drum.

"Da Danyu, this is called hanging sheep beating drums, hungry horses neighing grass." Uncle said that riding a horse followed behind Mao Dun, and immediately told the allusion between Gongzi Xiaobai and Gongzi, after listening to this story, Mao Dun's understanding of what Uncle said was aggravated, and he thought that although this Central Plains man was not good-looking, he could also be regarded as knowledgeable and useful.

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On the north bank of the river, more than 20,000 Chu troops were marching towards the clouds.

Two days ago, Xiang Zhuang adopted Baili Xian's "hanging sheep drumming, hungry horses neighing grass" strategy, successfully deceived the Huns, returned to Jiuyuan with 3,000 elite horsemen in the starry night, and then left Jiuyuan with the army, before leaving, Xiang Zhuang burned almost all the baggage and excess grain, and only took away 40,000 stone corn and 60,000 stone bacon.

These 100,000 stone corn and bacon occupy 50,000 pack horses!

After disposing of the excess grain and all the baggage that could not be taken away, Xiang Zhuang burned the entire Jiuyuan with another fire, and then immediately raised the army and carried 5,000 Han prisoners of war to kill and rushed to the clouds.

After the Xiongnu occupied the Hetao, Lin Hu would most likely choose to surrender.

Although there are less than 5,000 strong men in the Linhu tribe today, there are more than 100,000 women and children, because after the defeat of the Lou Fu tribe, all the women and children were captured by the Linhu people, if these hundreds of thousands of women and children surrendered to the Xiongnu, then within 20 years, the Huns will add at least 100,000 strong men, which is not a good thing for the Central Plains countries. ）