Chapter 5: Murong Xiong
Heart of the City Fragments: Special items, collect three Heart of the City Fragments to merge into a complete Heart of the City.
In the early morning, the slightly cold morning wind blew away the fog in the valley, and also made the bloody atmosphere a lot lighter, and the soldiers were divided into teams to count the receipts of this battle, these things naturally have Li Shan and others to worry about, there is no need for Li Xuan to waste his spirit, at this moment he is standing on a protruding boulder at the mouth of the valley, playing with the broken crystal in his hand.
It is not as bright and thorough as the heart of the complete city, and under the illumination of the daylight, it can clearly see the slightest crack on the crystal, but even so, it can't hide its beauty, a kind of incomplete beauty, under Li Xuan's imperial golden pupils, you can faintly see the trace of dragon qi cruising in the crystal, and in the heart of the complete city, these dragon qi can converge into a lifelike dragon under the emperor's golden pupil.
Unexpectedly, but it is also an inevitable result in the underworld, in the chaotic Three Kingdoms, each city has its own city heart, and as a nomad, there is no fixed residence, but each tribe, but also has its own city heart, although for the nomads, the heart of the city can not bring them city-like defense, but can improve their attack power, cold resistance, hunger resistance and other survival ability, for the peoples on the grassland, a stable shelter will make them perish, on the contraryWhat they need more is the ability to survive against fate and nature in the face of the cruel living environment, so the way of expressing the heart of the city is also very different from that of the Central Plains.
In the Central Plains, if you capture a city, you can get the full power to execute the heart of the city in this city, and you can choose to stay in the city, or you can choose to take it away or even destroy it. On the grasslands outside the Saiwai, there are obviously no cities for people to conquer, but each tribe of sufficient size has its own city heart to bring protection to its own tribe, and destroying or subduing this tribe can also obtain the city heart of this tribe.
Of course, with the current power in his hands, it is not easy to wipe out a powerful Xianbei tribe at once. But last night's battle had definitely traumatized this tribe that was enough to condense the heart of the city, otherwise it would not have been possible to obtain the fragments of the heart of the city.
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Lord, here's a list of last night's battle damage and loot. Li Shan came behind Li Xuan, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, and said respectfully.
"Read!" Li Xuan didn't look back, his golden pupils revealing a masculine charm in the sun.
"Yes." Li Shan nodded, unfolded the bamboo slip in his hand and read aloud: "In the first battle last night, our department lost 17 sword and shield men, 5 elite spearmen, and 7 elite archers. and three cavalrymen, annihilated 2,000 Xianbei cavalry, killed two enemy generals, captured more than 700 fine scimitars, 500 strong bows, more than 10,000 arrows, 308 war horses, and 30 catties of gold. Herds of cattle and sheep. β
"What else?" Li Xuan played with the crystal in his hand and asked casually.
"And?" Li Shan was stunned. Looking back at the valley, his eyes suddenly moved, and he turned back and said: "There are still a large number of Han people who have been kidnapped by the Xianbei people, and there are no statistics yet. β
"For us, the most valuable treasure is not those weapons and horses, nor gold, cattle and sheep. Population is our most precious asset, Li Shan, and I hope you will remember this in the future. Li Xuan sighed, the land of Youzhou is already vast and sparsely populated. And Dai County, especially the area north of Gaoyanagi, has been invaded by the Hu people all the year round, and it is even more sparsely populated, sparsely populated, which also represents the shortage of soldiers, relying on the accumulation of a little bit of exile, not to mention saving enough capital to dominate the world, even if it is a little difficult to maintain a force of 3,000 people, so Li Xuan must find ways to make up for his shortcomings in this regard, and the Han people who were abducted by the Hu people are naturally the largest source of population at present.
"Remember!" Li Shan hurriedly bowed and said.
"Let people build a wall here first, and send Li Feng to closely monitor the dynamics of the secret passage, but if anyone enters through the secret passage, they will be killed!" Li Xuan pointed to the valley mouth in front of him, which was not spacious, although it was secret, but it was someone's territory before, and after losing contact for such a long time, even if the other party's main general was a brain-dead, he should find out that something was wrong.
"Let the Hermes-Epitek in the valley help." Holding the dragon slaying knife, Li Xuan raised his eyes and looked at the sky, at this time, the other party should also be aware of it, right?
After hearing the name of this tribe from the rescued Han people, Li Xuan had an intuition that the opponent he had to face this time was probably not simple, not that it was not that this tribe was famous, on the contrary, in this era, it was far inferior to the tribes of the steppe heroes such as Budugen and Kirbineng among the same clan, and it could not even be compared with the tribes of the famous Micah and Su Li, but in Li Xuan's heart, he did not dare to underestimate this tribe with little prestige but good strength. The leader of the Guy tribe has a very famous surname - Murong!
If I am not mistaken, during the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms after the Three Kingdoms, the emperor who created the hegemony of the Yan State used such a surname.
Being able to establish a country, regardless of whether the country is weak or not, can last for a short time in such a chaotic era, it is enough to prove the ability of this family with Murong as the surname, although it is not sure whether the Murong in front of him is that Murong, after all, if according to the official history, the surname Murong should not appear among the Xianbei people now, but the Chaos Three Kingdoms Plane is not an orthodox historical plane, and it does not make much sense to trace these Yan SΓΉ historical issues, However, this surname is indeed one of the important factors that attracted Li Xuan's attention.
Murong Xiong, the name is domineering, but it is also ordinary, domineering is naturally the name itself, but it is ordinary because in Li Xuan's impression, there is absolutely no such thing as this name, but the speed of the other party's return is a little beyond Li Xuan's surprise.
From Li Xuan's attack on this valley to Murong Xiong's discovery of the abnormality and his decisive counterattack, it was only a short period of four hours.
The back road is broken, if this passage cannot be reopened, even if there are now three thousand elite Xianbei cavalry who are good at fighting, and there are even more incalculable Xianbei rangers around, but it can still only be counted as a lone army, and the lone army is deep, it has been a taboo for soldiers since ancient times, even if the people outside the Saiwai nation have no art of war at all, but the simple truth in this kind of war is strange that the leader of a large tribe does not understand.
However, what really surprised Li Xuan was the decisiveness of the other party, according to the time calculation, he almost began to return as soon as he discovered the abnormality, this kind of cautious attitude and decisive style, whether it was once left in the history books or not, is enough to make people pay attention.
But such a character is around, and if it can't be eliminated as soon as possible, it will also be a scourge! I have already made a decision in my heart, even if I have to pay a certain price for this, I must take advantage of this rare opportunity to get rid of the other party in order to prevent future troubles!
In his heart, almost when Murong Xiong's army appeared out of sight, he had already given birth to a killing machine, and now his meager family business could not withstand the toss, this time out of the city, Li Xuan fought the idea of fighting to raise war, but he didn't want to fight a protracted war of attrition with such a cautious and decisive figure, which was undoubtedly not in line with his own interests.
Four hours, although not a long time, is enough to do a lot of things, at least to leave a large area of horse rejection nails in the open space outside the valley mouth, and to completely seal the valley mouth that is not wide with a simple wooden wall made of logs.
Although there is not much defense, but with the shortcomings of the cavalry is not good at attacking fortifications, even if the simple wooden wall can not support it for long, but with the already easy to defend and difficult to attack terrain, it is enough to completely resolve the cavalry's survival charge advantage, and the cavalry without speed is just an infantry on horseback, and it is not even as flexible as the infantry.
"Listen, people in the valley, no matter who you are, I don't want your filthy name to insult my ears, immediately roll out of this valley with your men and horses, I can bypass your lives, otherwise, all of you, including those captives and lowly Han slaves in the valley, will be cut one by one with thousands of knives and broken into thousands of pieces!" Instead of attacking immediately, Murong Xiong's gaze swept over the imperceptible horse rejection nails in the open space in front of the wooden wall, a flash of coldness flashed in his eyes, and he stepped forward on his horse, standing an arrow away from the mouth of the valley, and used his proficient Chinese to send his voice far into the valley with his internal force.
Li Xuan, accompanied by Zhao Min and Li Shan, slowly stepped onto the simple wooden wall, looking at Murong Xiong's burly and majestic figure from a distance, Zhao Min beside him pouted his lips disdainfully and said, "It's really funny, if you really have this ability, why do you want to stop and talk nonsense with us?" It's clearly trying to demoralize us! β
Li Xuan nodded, and laughed loudly in Murong Xiong's direction: "Leader Murong heard it, your joke is not funny at all. β
Murong Xiong's face sank, and his eagle-like eyes swept over Zhao Min, without the infatuation and greed of ordinary men when they saw Zhao Min, some were just a touch of murderous intent, and his eyes immediately fell on Li Xuan and said coldly: "Han, report your name, Murong Xiong will not kill unknown people under the knife!" β
"Captain of the Han Huns, Li Xuan!" Li Xuan's face was solemn and he said loudly.
"The general of the Han people!" Murong Xiong's eyes shrank, although his face remained unchanged, but his heart was a little heavy, this place must not be known to the Han court, otherwise if he attracted the imperial army, his plan would be snuffed out at all, this was something he could not tolerate, and the man in front of him must die!
Sen Ran's killing machine met Li Xuan's gaze unabashedly, the four eyes collided in the air, and the surrounding temperature seemed to have decreased a little at this moment, and the two of them almost killed each other in their hearts the moment they learned each other's identity.
"Knock that wooden wall through me!" With a fierce wave of his hand, a group of Xianbei knights suddenly surged out behind him, with ten people as a team, let out a terrible roar, urging the war horses under his crotch, and launched a crazy charge towards the wooden wall where Taniguchi Li Xuan was.
Li Xuan and the others' faces changed, and the other party actually wanted to destroy this wooden wall that had just been built with flesh and blood! (To be continued......)