Chapter 223: The Battle Begins
August 20 of the first year of Great Qin II, night.
Darkness shrouded the earth, and a half-moon hung high above the night sky, and the bright moonlight poured out from the half-moon like mercury, covering the entire land, the vast green grassland.
It was supposed to be a beautiful night. It was supposed to be a beautiful night on the vast grasslands. Then at this moment, the grassland outside Jiuyuan County was brightly lit, the cars were roaring and the horses were neighing, and the noise was abnormal.
Countless flaming torches seemed to compete with the stars hanging high above the sky.
The Hun cavalry, which was like dozens of huge fire dragons crushing towards the Jiuyuan Great Wall on the northern frontier of Great Qin, finally slowly stopped. If anyone could look down on this vast land from the air at this moment, they would find that no matter how those fire dragons moved, they always surrounded the square square in the middle that was slowly moving forward.
That is where the Shan Yu of the Huns and the Maodun Chinese army camp are located.
This time, Mao Dun led the army south to capture Jiuyuan and seize the Hetao Plain before the Xiongnu had completely digested the gains of Donghu.
After all, what Mao Dun took away was only 300,000 strong people of the Donghu clan, and nearly 6,700,000 old and weak women and children of Donghu gathered around Wolf Juxu Mountain. The task of the left and right bones to stay in the Wolf Juxu Mountain is to sit in the Xiongnu Holy Land and complete the differentiation and absorption of the six or seven hundred thousand Donghu people as much as possible.
Therefore, Mao Dun left 200,000 Xiongnu elites near Wolf Juxu Mountain.
Mao Dun was not worried that the left and right bones would take the opportunity to seize power. He is now a god-like existence in the hearts of the Xiongnu people. In the past few decades, the Xiongnu have had enough of the bullying of the Yue clan and the Donghu clan, which are already extremely powerful in the eyes of the Huns, not to mention the Great Qin, which occupies countless rich lands in the Hetao Plain.
However, after the great Mao Dunshan Yu led the Xiongnu, the powerful Yue clan and Donghu were annihilated in an instant, and more than one million people in Donghu became slaves of the Xiongnu clan; Immediately afterwards, the great Mao Dun Shan Yu personally led his troops to break through the immortal dragon that the Qin people had spent countless money and grain to build in front of the nomadic descendants of the steppe. The Great Wall, and captured tens of thousands of Qin people.
Looking at the Qin people who were chained, looking at the white and tender Qin women with fine skin and tender meat. The Huns discovered that for decades, the Qin people, who had made the Huns hate and fear, turned out to be nothing more than that.
What Maudun brought to the Xiongnu was not only glory, but more importantly, in the face of the Qin people, the Huns are no longer as afraid as before. Rather, there is a feeling of salted fish turning over.
Mao Dun was not like his mediocre old man Touman, who had to bring enough Hun beauties to wait every time he led his army, and he had to sit on his movable single tent pulled by dozens of horses.
Maudun, like all the Hun cavalry, rode his horseback. The march never used his father's extravagant single tent to fight.
Now surrounded by thousands of elite Hun cavalry, Mao Dun was riding his horse on a low dirt slope outside the Great Wall. Zema looked at the dark direction of Jiuyuan County from afar, and his gloomy eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the night sky.
In the distance, the pitch-black Great Wall in the moonlight blocked the hooves of the Huns as they moved south, like a desolate monster. For more than ten years, the Xiongnu tribe has never approached this moat since that war.
Today, for the second time, I led the children of the clan to the edge of the moat.
Qin people, from tonight onwards, tremble under the hooves of the great Huns.
Several cavalry galloped from the front of the army, apparently to ask the great Mao Dun Shan Yu whether the army was encamped or directly broke the Great Wall.
Looking at the galloping Hun heralds, Mao Dun retracted his thoughts and said to the Subu Baye who was a horse behind him: "Bahu, pass the book to the order, and order Mohuer to lead 100,000 Donghu people to break the last barrier of the Qin people within an hour." Tonight, this is to let the Qin woman warm the big tent! ”
"Yes! The great Maudon Shan Yu! When he heard Mao Dun's words, a pair of leopard eyes suddenly glowed with a silver evil color. The Qin women who were captured from Liaodong and Liaoxi were naturally divided into several with the status of the Subu page. The delicate and smooth skin and soft body of the Qin woman made Su Bu Baye no longer interested in the rough-skinned, big-waisted Hun woman in his tent after tasting it.
However, although the Qin woman has a gentle and delicate moaning voice, although her skin is smooth and tender, and her body is soft, her body is too weak. It's simply unbearable to be whipped by a big man like Su Bu Ba Page.
The three Qin beauties that Mao Dun rewarded to Su Bu Baye have been ravaged to death by him, and the other Qin woman has also committed suicide. Su Bu Baye is now thinking about taking a few more Qin women to his big tent in this war. Maudun's words really spoke to his heart.
The fiery heart of Su Bu Baye did not let his own soldiers give the order this time, but went out himself. With a whistling sound, he whipped his horse desperately and ran towards the bottom of the dirt slope. He will go to Namohur himself and supervise the battle himself.
Several Hun heralds jumped off their horses from a long distance and crawled towards Maudun.
"The great Mao Dun Shan Yu, General Huyan Gul came to report that the Qin scout cavalry that followed the army had all been dispersed and killed." A member of the Hun cavalry was a few feet away from the foothold of Maudun, and the respectful five-body report to the ground.
"Very well, I ordered Huyangul to lead 50,000 warriors to follow Namohor and supervise the battle. If the Donghu people dare to disobey the order, they will cut off their heads. Maudun looked at the large number of cavalry that had already moved below, and said lightly.
"Yes!"
…… The Donghu tribe to which Mohuer belongs is one of the several Donghu clans in the Donghu clan after the Donghu royal family. With lightning speed, Mao Dun captured the patriarchs and family members of several major clans in Donghu, including the Donghu royal family, who were gathering in the Laoha River valley at that time.
However, Mao Dun did not kill all the Donghu clans, but killed the Donghu royal clan and the two Donghu clans that were close to the Donghu royal clan and had extremely fierce resistance, leaving behind the Mohuer clan and the remaining dozens of weaker Donghu tribes.
This time, following Mao Dun on the expedition, Mohuer was the commander of the Donghu army. The rest of the Donghu tribe basically evacuated all the Qingzhuang tribesmen. Although Mohuer was unwilling to do this in his heart, all the family members of the Donghu clan, including his relatives, were under the control of the Huns, and he had no capital to resist at all.
What's more, in the battle of Laoha River, the ferocity and terror of the Huns have been deeply imprinted into the minds of every Donghu person. They could not and did not dare to resist.
Mohuer was not stupid, he knew very well what Mao Dun had gathered all the Donghu Qingzhuang for going south. Not only to recapture the Hetao Plain and Henan Land of the Huns. More importantly, in order to consume the strength of the Donghu people.
Only in this way can the Huns enslave the Donghu people with peace of mind.
However, he could not resist.
Looking at the condescending Mao Dun in front of him, he didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction with the commander of the ten thousand horses, and he didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction at all. Although he was the commander of the 300,000 Donghu army, Su Bu Baye, as a close confidant of Mao Dun Shan Yu, was not comparable to him in terms of status or identity. Needless to say, even if it was an ordinary Hun thousand cavalry commander, he didn't dare to offend at will.
"Rest assured, the Donghu warriors will definitely follow the order of the great Mao Dun Shan Yu to break through the Great Wall within an hour and present the Qin woman to the great Mao Dun Shan Yu." Speaking of this, Mo Huer hurriedly lowered his voice flatteringly: "Of course, there will definitely be a few Qin women for the Wan Qi Elder Lord." ”
"Hahaha! Lord Mohur has a heart! Seeing Mohuer so upright, he jumped off his war horse and strode to Mohuer's side and patted him on the shoulder, with a look of "You are very good", I am very satisfied.
Mohuer, who bowed his head, didn't know how many times more noble than the Subu page. But now, not only did he have to give the Qin women to the Subu Page, but even the Donghu beauties in his own clan were snatched by this Subu Page.
With a flash of anger in his eyes, Mohur raised his head and smiled at the Subu Page.
"Then I'll be here waiting for the good news from Lord Mohuor!" A glint flashed in his eyes, and he said with a smile. He was going to wait here for Mohuer to send the Qin woman.
Of course, the Qin woman can't send it, and the Donghu beauties can make do with it.
Mohur couldn't help but froze when he heard the words of the subu. He was well aware of his intentions. This kind of thing has not been done once or twice. He even gave his favorite concubines to the Subu Page.
This is the sorrow of the enslaved Donghu clan.
And, of course, the sorrow of all enslaved peoples.
...... "Woo woo"
A desolate horn pierced the silent night sky of the vast prairie. muffled the roar of the hooves of the Hun cavalry galloping back and forth.
100,000 Donghu cavalry separated from the brigade and began to slowly break away from the Xiongnu army, crushing towards the Great Wall standing in the dark. Mohur was among the Donghu cavalry.
As the heralds galloped back and forth, the 100,000 Donghu cavalry was soon divided into 100,000 troops.
The sound of the desolate trumpet came to an abrupt end.
The Donghu cavalry in the two Donghu 10,000 troops at the forefront began to speed up, brandishing the scimitars in their hands and roaring towards the fortress in front of the Great Wall.
At the same time, another Donghu 10,000-strong team gave up their war horses, carrying some simple ladders built thousands of miles away from Maodun, or crashing into the city, shouting and following the 20,000 Donghu cavalry in front of them, who were responsible for suppressing the Qin soldiers on the fortress with bows and arrows, and quickly approached those fortresses shrouded in darkness.
Neither Maudun nor Mohuer knew that the Great Wall was empty at the moment. All the soldiers and civilians of the Jiuyuan Army have already arrived at Jiuyuan City or are on the way to retreat to Jiuyuan City.
(To be continued)