On the southern slope of Junji Mountain, the sun is shining, more than a dozen tents are scattered between the valleys, the women are busy in the tents, feeding the chopped grass to the livestock in the pens, winter is coming, the grass has withered and yellow, can not graze, can only rely on the surplus forage to maintain, the women's workload has increased greatly, from opening their eyes to closing their eyes, they can hardly be idle.

The older children are also helping, the younger children are playing freely, and today there is a rare good weather without wind, and the little babies who are stuffy in the tent can't wait to take their little dog out and run wildly.

The old people curled up in thick oil-stained leather jackets, squinted their already dizzy eyes, pulled the xylophone in their hands, and hummed old songs.

A few scrawny slaves, dressed in shabby clothes, with their hands red and swollen from the cold, were brushing the horses with their hairs, their faces were blue, and their long snots slipped out of their noses from time to time, dragging out of their old ones until they were wiped off by their dirty sleeves, but it was not long before new snot dragged out.

"Someday, I'll kill that mother-in-law!" One of them muttered, "And her little cub." ”

He also glanced at him, looked around cautiously, and came over while working: "I was beaten again yesterday?" ”

The man rolled up his sleeves, revealing his scarred arms with two bright red blood marks on them. "She said I stole a piece of bread, and I said I didn't, and she beat me."

"You really didn't steal?" His companion looked at him suspiciously, "Winter is hard, and if you don't control it a little, you will starve to death." ”

"Then why don't you kill those old things and eat them?" He said indignantly: "It's useless to keep it, sing that broken song every day, it's better to kill it and eat some meat." ”

"Cannibalism?" The companion was startled, "Are you crazy? Man is not a sheep. ”

"Crazy? Do you think they treat us like human beings? In their eyes we are two-legged sheep, and this is what I have heard them say. They thought I didn't understand Xianbei language, hum, let me tell you, if there is really no food, they will kill us first, and then kill the sheep. ”

The companion was startled, and the brush in his hand fell into the bucket, and the sound it made alarmed the woman who was busy with her work. She raised her head and took a look, and when she saw the two Hannu gathered together, she was immediately furious, and ran over with a bronze knife with a straw, scolding as she ran: "Damn Hannu, don't work hard, I don't have anything to eat today......

The two Hannu were taken aback, one fell to his knees with a thud, and kowtowed again and again, but the one who complained was angry, his eyes were red, he looked around, and he lifted the bucket with dirty water and threw it at the woman, the woman was caught off guard, and was drenched in the face, she wiped the water on her face, looked at the dog-hearted Hannu in shock, and let out a scream.

"Hutu, go and call your father, Hannu has rebelled......"

"Ugh." A smaller Xianbei child jumped on a bareback horse and ran into the distance, while the older one ran angrily with a whip and whipped his head and face. The Hannu raised his arm to cover it, but the thin and torn clothes couldn't stop anything at all, he was beaten and screamed, and he snatched the horsewhip with his hand, and returned the horsewhip fiercely, beating the Xianbei child stunned. Then he pounced on it, snatched the bronze knife that the woman had fallen to the ground, rounded his arms, and slashed down with a roar.

The bronze knife was embedded in the child's shoulder, and the child let out a terrible scream. The woman screamed and pounced, grabbed the slave from behind, threw him to the ground, and reached for the knife. Hannu clung to the knife and rolled with the woman.

The companion looked at this scene in horror, then looked at the old people, women and children who rushed over, and then looked into the distance, he knew that the most terrible thing was not these old people, women and children, but the Xianbei men patrolling nearby. Although most of the men went on an expedition with the commander, the people who stayed behind were all strong men who killed people without blinking, and as long as one or two came, they would be dead.

He saw a knight appear on the hillside in the distance, and his heart sank to the bottom.

However, he was stunned again, and he saw a fiery red battle banner appear behind the knight, it was not the golden battle banner of the Wild Sand Tribe, but ...... Rather, it is the battle flag of the Han Chinese. Immediately afterwards, he found that the knight on horseback was shining brightly, and he suddenly reacted, this is the armor on his body is reflecting, he is not wearing the leather armor worn by the warriors of the Wild Sand Tribe, but the iron armor that only the Han have, not to mention that the warriors of the Wild Sand Tribe are not even wearing leather armor at this time.

Because there can be no war here, it is six or seven hundred miles away from the Han realm, and nearly two thousand miles away from the Niutou tribe in the north, and there will be no enemy at all.

Han Army? Hannu couldn't believe his eyes for a moment, he stood up, pointed at the knight who was galloping down the hillside, opened his mouth wide, but could not say a word.

The Xianbei man pounced on him and knocked him to the ground, whether it was an old man, a child, or a woman, they were all fierce and abnormal. There is no second way to deal with the Han slaves who dare to rebel except to kill them, and if they are not given the most severe lessons, there will be more life events.

And the Xianbei people have become accustomed to not treating these Han slaves as people, at best treating them as livestock, and killing one or two who dare to rebel, although it is also a loss, but it is better than causing a catastrophe.

What's more, they also have to train their children to dare to face blood.

The sound of horses' hooves, which was getting closer and closer, finally caught the attention of several Xianbei people, who raised their heads, and after a brief moment of surprise, fell into boundless terror, and a woman let out a heart-rending scream:

"Han Chinese—"

The Han slaves who were prostrate on the ground raised their heads in surprise, and the Han slave who was beaten to the point of breaking his head and bleeding and still did not let go of the bronze knife in his hand gasped, staggered and stood up, looking at the Han rider who was getting closer and closer, he was inexplicably excited, raised his arms, clenched his fists, and roared sharply: "The big Han is mighty-"

The Han knight who rushed towards him looked at him in surprise, shook the halberd in his hand, avoided him, and easily assassinated a Xianbei old man behind him.

"The Great Han is mighty-" Han Nu roared hoarsely, and used the bronze knife in his hand to cut down the Xianbei people around him one by one.

The knights of the Han army heard his frantic roar, saw his long hair dancing wildly, and invariably avoided him, and ruthlessly swung their weapons at the Xianbei man with the bearded head.

Dozens of Xianbei people were put down in the blink of an eye.

Lu Bu rode on horseback and looked curiously at this thin but crazy Han man. "Where?"

"Five Plains." Han Nu glanced at Lu Bu: "Are you Lu Bu Lu Fengxian?" ”

Lu Bu was surprised, "You know me?" ”

"Of course I know you, a famous horse thief." Hannu wiped his nosebleed with his sleeve: "How did you become an officer and soldier?" ”

Lu Bu and Wei Yue glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing. Wei Yue gently tapped his shoulder with a horsewhip: "Now that we are all officers and soldiers, this time we are here to hunt, I didn't expect to meet such a township party as you." Be bold enough, a man, don't stay here with the Xianbei people, go home. ”

"Home?" The Han Nu nodded vigorously: "I have been waiting for this day for a long time, but I never thought that the horseshoe of our Han people would really be able to set foot on this land one day." My lord, can I follow you? ”

Lu Bu glanced at him and shook his head: "We still have to continue to sweep, it is impossible to take you with us." You can gather some friends and go all the way south, as long as you go to the Han realm, you will be able to receive you. ”

"I want to join the army!"

"It's okay if you want to join the army, but not now, wait until you get well and pass the test." Lu Bu waved his hand very arrogantly, and let him look at the Han soldiers behind him: "Which of my people here is not elite, otherwise how can I run thousands of miles and be invincible?" ”

The Han slaves glanced at the strong and high-morale Han soldiers, and remained silent.

Lu Bu glanced around and waved his hand: "Rest here for a while, slaughter those cattle and sheep, replenish the supplies, eat a hot meal, and then continue to set off." You ......" He pointed to the somewhat frustrated Han Nu: "Responsible for guarding these Xianbei women, first get us food, and then take them to the Han realm." ”

"What about the old man and the child?" Companion asked.

"Do you need to ask?" Han Nu glared at him, walked up to the woman, kicked her, and said a few words in Xianbei, the woman looked at them in horror, but did not dare to resist, and followed the Han pawn tremblingly.

The Xianbei people began to get busy, slaughtering all the livestock they regarded as their lives, replenishing most of Lü Bu's provisions, and the rest of the Han people rushed to the border for rations. After Lu Bu finished eating, he drifted away with the army, leaving behind a place of bones and blood.

"Now, it's our turn to settle the score." Hannu looked at the humble woman with red and swollen eyes and smirked.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen Han people gathered escorted more than a dozen physically strong Xianbei women on the way home. Behind them were the bodies of dozens of old people and children, and the once fierce Xianbei woman was all over her body, lying in a pool of blood.

In the winter and December of the first year of Guanghe, Lu Bu, Han Sui, Zhao Yun, Tian Yan and Liu Xiu separately entered the territory of Xianbei in the west, and the main force of Xianbei in the west fought against the Niutou tribe in the north, leaving most of them women, old people and children, for the sake of safety, they had retreated three or four hundred miles to the north, but no one thought that the Han people, who had always been satisfied with guarding the border fortress, actually went deep into the grassland and slaughtered on a large scale. There was a bloody storm on the grassland, and fear flew in all directions like a winged eagle.

The survivors quickly spread the news to the royal court of Danhan Mountain and the tribes of the Northern Expedition, but this was already a matter of half a month after the Han army was out of the fortress.

…… Beihai, and Lian rubbed his hands vigorously, stomped his feet, and walked back and forth in the tent. Although the fire pit was filled with very precious dry firewood, the fire was not strong, as if it had been frozen by the biting cold, and there was not a trace of heat.

He Lian regretted it very much, he didn't understand how he accepted this mission and led the army of Xianbei in the west to attack the Niutou tribe, was it the expectant gaze of his father Tan Shihuai, or the disdainful eyes of Murong Feng?

He Lian did not like to fight, he liked to drink hot wine, huddle in the soft and warm quilt to read, while the beautiful slave girls beat their shoulders and pinched their legs, he hated this kind of march, especially did not like to be led by the wind and tired.

He is not Huai Zong, he doesn't like this kind of life. However, in order to please his father, in order to convince a handsome man like Murong Feng, he had to endure such a thing. Xianbei people do not advocate learning, no matter how many books they read, no matter how good their knowledge is, it is useless, and the military exploits they believe in are strength.

Being able to defeat the Wind Crack is the best way to prove his military talents, and it is because of this idea that he took the initiative to ask Ying to attack the Minotaur Tribe, but he now finds that this is an absolutely wrong decision.

Wind Crack wasn't that easy to deal with, and it was still in his territory, and even though he had three times the strength of Wind Crack, he still couldn't catch the shadow of Wind Crack. The narrow North Sea was impassable to him, but it was a thoroughfare for the Wind Crack, and he saw countless soldiers of the Minotaur tribe disappearing into the depths of the North Sea in wooden boats wrapped in horseskins.

But his people can't do it, they will make horseskin boats, but they won't make the kind of big wooden boats that can hold dozens of people at once, and the horseskin boats are not the opponents of the big wooden boats at all, and the warriors of the bull-headed tribe set up this kind of big wooden boats, and twenty or thirty oars row together, walking like flying, knocking over the horseskin boats like war horses hitting flying foot soldiers, and then they easily watch his warriors struggle in the water and slowly disappear.

Two attempts, at the cost of more than a hundred people, made him give up his plan to compete with the Minotaur tribe on the water.

Winter came, the North Sea was covered with thick ice, the Niutou tribe could no longer bully him with big wooden boats, the North Sea became land, and he could finally cross this water that once frightened him with confidence.

But the Minotaur tribe disappeared, and they hid further north, disappearing without a trace in the ice and snow.

Continue the pursuit? Not to mention whether or not to find the wind crack is a big problem, even if he can find it, his supplies are not enough, whether it is the law deduction of the Wild Sand tribe or the banquet of the Wild Wolf Tribe, they all show that they don't want to fight, although they support him, but they are not as firm as at the beginning.

Not chasing? Then when he returns to Danhan Mountain like this, how will he face the people of the Great King and Murong Feng?

And Lian is in a dilemma.

Suddenly, the door of the tent was opened, and the snowflakes were swept in by the howling north wind, and the fire in the fire pit was crushed low by the wind, and was almost extinguished. He Lian was terrified by this gust of wind, he was furious, and he was about to scold, but he was frightened by the expression of the fallen Qiandiao.

He Lian was taken aback, suppressed his anger, and hesitated for a moment before asking, "What's the matter?" ”

The look on Luo Gandhio's face was very strange, with excitement, nervousness, and a hint of fear. He took out a piece of paper from his bosom and handed it to Helian. He Lian was very surprised, Xianbei people have no words, and they never use paper, where did he get this paper from?

When he took it and looked at it, he understood.

This is a letter written to him by Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu first stated that he was very disappointed after hearing the news that Helian led the army to the north. He thinks that it is very wrong for Helian to do this, although the Xianbei people do not have a prince, but it is obvious that King Tanshihuai wants to pass the throne to his son, which even we Han people can see. Huai Zong is dead, you are the undoubted heir, in this case, you have no benefit in winning the wind crack, but if you lose, the loss is very large.

Why would such a smart person do such a thing? This kind of thing should be done by Murong Feng, he is a famous general on the same level as Wind Split, but now that he is fighting in a land that Wind Crack is familiar with, can he still win? But if he can't win with superior forces, how can he be called a famous general? If he wins, he should be, and if he can't win, his reputation will be ruined. And if he goes to war, he will inevitably lead his tribe, and the loss will not only be his reputation, but also his strength.

Seeing this, He Lian suddenly realized, while admiring Liu Xiu's analysis that it was reasonable, while regretting that his choice was extremely stupid.

Then Liu Xiu said, Fengxue is now my wife, I can't sit idly by and watch the Niutou tribe be wiped out by you, so I will not only support the Niutou tribe in terms of materials, but also send troops to contain you. I have now sent troops to attack Xianbei in the west, because the Red Tribe has a cooperation agreement with me, so I will not take the initiative to attack them, but the Wild Sand Tribe and the Wild Wolf Tribe have no agreement with me, I don't need to spare them, I will kill all their people, loot all the livestock, and burn all the tents.

In the end, Liu Xiu said, don't blame me, this is not only helping the Niutou tribe, but also helping you. I know you're in a dilemma now, and I'm attacking the Wild Sand Tribe and the Wolf Tribe before you have an excuse to retreat. Moreover, your army marched north, Danhan Mountain has the responsibility to protect the safety of your rear wing, and we succeeded in attacking, precisely because of Danhan Mountain's stupidity and Murong Feng's connivance, I think with your cleverness, you must be able to understand the truth.

After reading the letter, He Lian and the face of Qiandi Ao became as complicated, he was ecstatic that he no longer had to play hide and seek with the wind here, and he was shocked by Liu Xiu's boldness, he actually dared to take the initiative to sweep the western Xianbei? As a result, the Wild Sand Tribe and the Wild Wolf Tribe suffered heavy losses, and not only could they no longer covet the Red Tribe, but they also had to rely on the Red Tribe to survive.

As Liu Xiu said, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for him.

He Lian was even more shocked by another thing, no wonder Feng Crack was able to hold on until now, it turned out that it was because he had the support of the Han people. The kind of big wooden boat that can hold dozens of people must be the handiwork of the Han people, and the Xianbei people can also build wooden boats, but they can only hollow out a big tree to make a canoe, and they can't build such a complex wooden boat at all.

I see.

He Lian stroked his forehead and sighed, hesitated for a moment, and threw the letter in his hand into the fire.

"What exactly does the letter say?" Luo Di Ao asked curiously.

"The Han attacked the territory of the Wild Sand Tribe and the Wild Wolf Tribe." He Lian tried to make himself obviously very calm, "Your Red Yue tribe has not been affected, have you?" ”

Luo Zhi Qiandi Ao nodded again and again: "I received news from my father, the Han people accidentally injured dozens of our families, but I heard that it was from the Hongyue tribe, and they immediately released them." He rubbed his hands happily: "Fortunately, the Han people are trustworthy, otherwise we would be miserable." ”

He Lian smiled contemptuously, Han people talk about credit? This is to sow discord, the Red tribe originally explained to Danhanshan that their surrender to the Han was only an expedient measure, not a real surrender, otherwise Danhanshan could tolerate their continued existence? But now that the Han people have come to such a show, can they give up the law deduction and banquet Liyou, they will definitely complain to Danhan Mountain.

"Hurry up and clean up, the Wild Sand Tribe and the Wild Wolf Tribe have been attacked, and this battle can't be fought. Be careful, don't be hacked by them. He Lian said: "In addition, the Niutou tribe has collusion with the Han people. ”

Gandhiao was shocked, and it took a long time to come back to his senses: "No wonder they can't be defeated and can't die of hunger." ”

"I'll build a ship that big." He Lian reminded quietly.

"Yes, yes." Luo Zhi Qiandi Ao nodded again and again: "I just said that there are ghosts here, the boats used by the Niutou tribe were the same as ours in the past, why did they suddenly have such a big warship, it turned out that the Han people helped them." ”

"Yes, Feng Xue, the daughter of Feng Crack, married Liu Xiu, and Feng Crack became Liu Xiu's father-in-law." He Lian smacked his lips and felt a little bitter: "The Niutou tribe colluded with the Han people, the crime is unforgivable, and the king will definitely not let him go." ”

Luo Zhi Qiandi Ao nodded blankly in agreement, but in his heart he had been glad that the Hongyue tribe had not been attacked by the Han people this time, and he suddenly felt that last year's defeat did not seem to be entirely bad.

He Lian told them the news that the Niutou tribe had collusion with the Han people, and then reminded them intentionally or unintentionally that when they were on the northern expedition, Danhan Mountain should send troops to invade the Han border and attract their troops, but this year Danhan Mountain did not move at all, which gave the Han people a chance to free up their hands, and there may be something wrong with this.

The law deduction and the banquet Liyou invariably thought of Murong Feng.

…… At the end of December, the coalition army with the western Xianbei retreated as quickly as possible, in addition to the Hongyue tribe, the western Xianbei tribes suffered a lot of losses to varying degrees, some small tribes were directly wiped out, relatively speaking, the wild wolf tribe facing Yunzhong County suffered heavy losses, and the women, children and livestock left behind were almost looted. Yan Liyou was so angry that he asked for help from Danhan Mountain, and at the same time launched a fierce attack on Yunzhongsai, trying to recapture the robbed people and property.

Yunzhongsai had been waiting for a long time, and while they relied on the dangerous terrain to counterattack, they transmitted the news of the Xianbei invasion to the hands of Liu Xiu, the general of Beizhonglang, in the form of beacon fire. Since Liu Xiu arrived in northern Xinjiang, they have been training, and in the second half of October, they have just conducted a drill, replenished supplies and ordnance, and their morale is strong.

Yun Zhong Chang Zhang Yang looked at the Xianbei people in the distance and laughed excitedly.

(To be continued)