CHAPTER XXXVI
Sima Dan's kung fu, which he had practiced since he was a child, showed his true strength at this time.
His waist horse burst out like a slingshot, although he was wearing iron armor, but under a flick he turned backwards, his waist drove his arms, the big man originally restrained his hands, but when he twisted it, he was weak and loosened, and he split a few blood holes in the oncoming blades.
Sima Dan strode forward with the enemy's blade inserted into the big man's body, and slashed the three people in front of him under the knife.
The Huns had already broken into the west city, but at this time it cut off the retreat for the Dayue soldiers, the Huns in the other three directions had relaxed the pressure, trying to concentrate on the Xicheng breakthrough, who knew that at this time the city head gave the Dayue soldiers the upper hand, a large number of sassaga rolling stones from the height down, hit the Huns under the city wow wow yelled, originally to the Huns to relieve some of the city defense weapons have been put on the shelves, a pot of oil that has been burned hot sprinkled downward, the Xiongnu who attacked the city suffered heavy casualties.
Because they thought that the city gate had been broken, many Xianbei people, even if they were Helian's descendants, thought that the time for merit had come, and they rushed to be the first to squeeze together when attacking the city, making the city defense weapons such as sasswood, boulders, arrows, and boiling oil become the demon king who killed people, especially the boiling oil, which not only directly scalded countless people, but also made the city slip and scorch, and the latecomers slipped and fell on the boiling oil, and fried straight into rotten meat.
Helian saw that his tribe had suffered such a fatal blow under the city, and he was so hated that he couldn't speak, but if his own tribe was weakened, the other tribes that had submitted to him would also have two hearts, and at this time he didn't dare not press his anger and ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
Some other tribal generals were furious: "Great Khan, now collect the troops, our clansmen who enter the city will all die cleanly, and besides, there is already a response in the city, why stop now?" ”
Helian pointed his whip at the head of the city: "Don't you know? They set up an ambush on the city, the so-called breaking of the city, just a plan, if the Huns who entered the city are really useful, they will not put down the iron gate for them, and then attack it, there are only more dead people, and today is here first. ”
The fact is that the Xiongnu who advanced the city did not think about helping the people behind them to come in, they thought that the city was broken, and they wanted the people behind to enter a little slower, so these people just rushed to the city, thinking that they could grab more property, and some people were even in ** women, so when they heard Mingjin withdraw the troops, they woke up like a dream.
For the Huns trapped in the city, the tall city walls became a tight spell for escape, and now they found that not only the soldiers of Dayue, but even the people of Dayue, became their hunters, and for a while, they became prey in the sea of people.
"Surrender or kill!"
After the siege of the Xiongnu retreated, a group of Dayue soldiers swept inside and outside the city, gathering the Xiongnu who had surrendered before they died.
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Sima Dan was most concerned about the Han slaves who surrendered first, and hurriedly met with the elders they had elected.
Zuo Yong quickly handed over the list, and there were 1,240 people, of which 183 were women and children, and the rest were among the best of the slaves.
A 30-year-old representative named Wen Qiang cried and complained: "The old man has long been unable to survive and almost died, these children are all in their teens, too few are either killed, or they can't survive on the way, and the women are all ...... ......" he wiped his tears with his sleeve, and he couldn't speak.
Sima Dan said in a deep voice: "In the troubled times, you can only rely on yourself to protect yourself, Father-in-law Zuo, I order you to be the overseer, Gao Chun to be the left guerrilla, Niu Tian to be the right guerrilla, immediately arm these thousand people, and teach them how to kill people."
"Wen Qiang, how many Han people are still in the hands of the Huns?"
"I don't know! But at least tens of thousands, I'm talking about being as strong as us. ”
At this time, Long Er reported: "There are two hundred and seventy-three Xiongnu who have been captured. ”
"Are they all humble? Or are they all slaves? ”
"There are Xianbei, and there are Tiefu and Dangxiang, but these people who can enter the city to rob the merits and treasures are no longer Xiongnu slaves, they are all real clan warriors."
Sima Dan was overjoyed: "Those who know me are longerye!" ”
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The next day, Sima Dan shouted to Helian at the head of the city, and Helian also went to the bottom of the city and looked coldly at the top of the city.
"Helian, let me ask you, how many slaves each of your people has."
Helian proudly said: "Our warriors are brave and good at fighting, how can we not have more than ten or twenty slaves? There are more, and hundreds are not rare! ”
"Okay, there are two hundred and seventy-three Huns here, and I want to exchange them for 10,000 Jin!"
"Humph! Is there such a big talk in the world? It's a shame that you are still the prince of the Great Jin Dynasty, and you actually said such ridiculous things! ”
"Our Jin people are the largest tribe in the world, tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of people are still so many, but your clan warriors are extremely precious, hundreds of deaths, maybe a tribe will perish, so you see, most of the people who died in front of the siege yesterday were slaves, and they only came up to fight for merit when the city was broken, and they each had twenty slaves, and you didn't make a profit by exchanging slaves for the master's life?"
Helian was silent.
"If you don't agree, I will tell them to order the women of the family to exchange all the slaves in the city, and if they don't comply, push them down here one by one, and see if your generals and patriarchs will agree with your statement."
Those slaves are indeed private property, and whoever wants to exchange them for their own lives, the patriarch can't stop them, not to mention yesterday's incident, and now the clan still thinks that his command has killed many clansmen, and Helian doesn't want to punish the generals anymore, so he can only hand over this decision to the leaders of the tribes.
The exchange of hostages was the most common thing in the grassland, but now Sima Dan's conditions were too harsh, and it took everyone a whole day of bargaining before they finally came to a conclusion: a deal.
They thought that it was okay to ransom the captives first, and then launch a siege and snatch the slaves back, and besides, the siege was already an arrow with a bow, and it couldn't be stopped anyway, so it was certain that those slaves would eventually be snatched back, and no one wanted to leave an impression at this moment that they were indifferent to the life and death of the clansmen.
Sima Dan wanted all the Han Chinese to be strong, and he also believed that the next wave of attacks would get more prisoners, so that women and children could be exchanged.
Thinking so ideally is also one of the ways to encourage yourself to persevere.
When Mira saw that the city gate was wide open and the Huns retreated thirty miles, she couldn't help but sneer, but her maid said: "This is the eloquence of the prince of Jin, only a few hundred people will be exchanged for tens of thousands of people, so wouldn't it be more and more for cattle and sheep?" Yes! So handsome! ”
"You know what? Tens of thousands of people come in and don't eat? We're guarding a lonely city now, and we're done eating, so let's peel your skin and eat it! ”
"Ahh Miss is so terrible to say these words! ”
"The families of these 10,000 people are all hostages in the hands of the Huns, do you think they will help us? Even if they will, they are just ordinary people, with the tyranny of the Huns remaining in their hearts, as long as the Huns shout, they will be so frightened that they will kneel, so they will only become a burden, and even internal ghosts, what is the use of exchanging now? Didn't the Huns come in and recruit them all? ”
"This ...... This...... Princess......"
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Dark.
A dark shadow ran in the darkness, full of echoes of footsteps, stepping over the water, stepping through the dark reflection, and resolutely walking towards the destination.
The man in black arrived at a starry mountain, led his horse, and looked at the Huns' military camp from a distance.
The main camp of the Xiongnu Tiefu tribe was heavily guarded, by no means like the camp of the ordinary Huns, but the black shadow seemed to be not afraid at all, and he stepped on the horse and ran straight towards the Tiefu camp.
Helian looked coldly at the man in black who was brought.
The man in black peeled off his outer robe, revealing his snow-white body inside, completely unafraid of Helian and his guards.
"Princess Mira? If I'm not mistaken. ”
"It's just a defector tonight."
"Haha, you won the battle yesterday and led our people into the city."
"That's just a coincidence, the city was broken in the meantime."
"Perhaps, but if I believe anyone, am I not putting my people and soldiers in danger?"
"The king is so powerful that he doesn't believe in a woman's sincerity, what if I marry the king? As long as the king guarantees that I can ascend to the position of lord of the city, what is there not to trust if I dedicate the Great Moon Castle to the bravest men on the battlefield? ”
Helian pulled Mira into his arms and toyed with her, causing her to cry out.
The guards quickly withdrew, but a team of musicians appeared in the tent, strange and jumping music appeared in the air, a strange fragrance wafted in, Mira only felt fluttering, her whole body was itchy, Helian brought in the pain at the right time made her feel like a fairy to death, there were many illusions in front of her eyes, there was amniotic fluid attached to the baby, there was the queen mother and artificial love, there was flesh and blood on the battlefield, there was Sima Dan's face, there was Helian on the horse's majestic posture, there was the doomsday image of arrows and locusts, the real Helian appeared on his body, and he galloped like a horse, Rushed through the grassland, arrived at the Great Snow Lake in the north, rose into the air, and flew like clouds .......
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Long Er was in Sima Dan's account: "Prince, so many Jin slaves, now the city is uneasy, this matter is not handled well, but it will become a hidden danger." ”
Sima Dan nodded: "The wives and sons of these people are still in the hands of the Huns, and they can be beneficial to us or devour us, but they are my people, and I must do this." ”
While the two were talking, the king of Otsuki Castle asked the envoy to invite him, so the two of them rode to the north of the city.
The palace of Dayue City occupies one-third of Dayue City, it is a big castle, and the lord of Dayue City originally kept half of the soldiers here, and was ready to defend it according to the palace when the city was broken, but Sima Dan was extremely optimistic, and urged her to put the soldiers into the big city, if the city was broken, it would be impossible for the palace to keep it, so now the garrison of the palace is much less, and only the personal guards remain.
Sima Dan and the others entered the palace, did not dismount, and galloped straight outside the reception hall.
The Great Moon City Lord asked, "You can definitely suppress the more than 10,000 Jin people?" They were all born in the Northland, many of them have Xiongnu blood, and their wives and children are still in Helian's hands, facing their previous masters, do they dare to draw their swords against each other? ”
"The city lord rest assured, the Great Jin Dynasty has a deep blessing for the people, and these people have just been captured, I have already thought about it, the south of the city is the most dangerous place, and the walls there are the most easily broken, I will settle them in the south of the city, and by the way, complete the fortifications that have not been done, as for the food, it is still the same as the people in the city, so that we can hold out for at least a few months, by then the reinforcements from all sides have already arrived, and the Xiongnu cannot spend so long here, within a few days, they will leave."
The city lord of Dayue had a worried face: "I always think that the city will be broken in the next few days, in addition to these more than 10,000 people, Helian is known for his cunning, in short, the prince must be careful!" Our whole city will entrust the military to the prince, the prince has also shown the style of a general, I hope the prince can lead us to avoid this catastrophe, this morning Miss Min also chatted with me for a while, and now she is arranging everywhere, really hard for you. ”
Sima Dan didn't expect that Xiao Min had already been to the palace, and he couldn't help but be a little strange.