Chapter 25: Stealing Chickens and Eating Rice (2)
However, the commander became more and more uneasy in his heart: After walking for so long, why hasn't he arrived? Just when he was about to have a nervous breakdown, he finally saw the lights of the Qin army's camp.
"I repeat, as soon as you rush in, set fire to it, the more the better. We will avenge the warriors who died in battle!" said the commander to several commanders around him.
The commander passed the order on to the centurion, and the centurion told the ten-commander the same, and the ten-commander told each of the soldiers. The soldiers all drew their arrows and drew their bows.
"Kill!" the captain gave the order excitedly. For a while, shouts rang out, and the Hun cavalry shot arrows together and entered the Qin army camp. They were able to breach the gate with great success, much to the delight of the captain.
"Set fire!" the captain never forgot the incident. After a while, the camp of the Qin army was full of fires.
"Who said that the Qin army was brave and unstoppable, wouldn't I just attack it easily now?" he laughed excitedly. The blazing flames reflected the face of the captain, and it seemed that he saw the scene of his promotion and fortune.
"Newspaperβ" the voice of a herald interrupted his illusions, "Captain Wan, this barracks is empty, and there is no one left. β
"What, no one?" he was shocked by the years of experience in war, and he immediately shouted, "Withdraw, we are in ambush, withdraw!"
But it was too late. The gate of the camp had been blocked by the strange chariots of the Qin army, and countless Qin Dynasty soldiers had also surrounded them.
"Hurry, rush out, before they have stabilized their position, rush out!" However, this is just a good image of himself.
The tragic scene was staged again: the Hun cavalry, who were not afraid of death, rushed to the chariot of the Qin army while indiscriminately firing arrows. Like their dead comrades, they did not find a way out, but lost their lives in vain.
There were a few warhorses that were lucky enough to rush out, and before they could run a few more steps, they were cut into meat by countless spears and horses.
The encirclement of the Qin army is getting smaller and smaller, and the fire that has just been set up is now burning on the bodies of the Hun soldiers themselves - is this considered "playing with fire and self-immolation"?
After several failed breakouts, the commander looked up to the sky and sighed, waved his hand helplessly, and asked someone to raise the white flag.
The battle slowly subsided, and Meng Tian, Meng Yi, and Meng Xingyuan rode to the front of the battle on a tall horse.
"Tell your captains to come and speak. Meng Tian said in a rough voice, looking domineering.
The captain also walked to the front of the line, and said through the chariots: "I am the leader of the team, but not the captain. β
"Oh?" Meng Tian was a little surprised, "Then what is your official position?"
"I don't have an official position, I'm just an ordinary clansman. The captain continued to lie clumsily.
Meng Yi was angry and asked, "What clan are you from?"
"Qiang, Wusun, Loulan, Yue's country...... There are just no Huns. The captain replied, not blushing at all.
"It seems that if you don't come up with some evidence, you won't give up. Meng Xingyuan also took a few steps before hitting the horse, "Come on, go to their team and bring a few old horses out." Then let the horses go and see where they go. β
The Huns, who have ridden horses all their lives, may not know the story of "the old horse knows the way", but they must understand that the old horse can run back to his camp. He had no choice but to admit: "You won." We are the Hun warriors. β
"Haha, you still dare to call yourself a warrior?" Meng Tian laughed, "I think you are all waste! β
The captain said coldly: "We are surrounded by you and have nothing to say. But you can't insult my warriors. β
"Okay, our Central Plains has a saying, 'A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated', then I will fulfill you. Meng Tian raised his arm, "Prepare to release the arrow!"
"Wait!" said the captain, jumping off his horse and kneeling on the ground, "please kill me alone." For everyone's sake, I beg you to spare these warriors. It was my own idea to sneak up on you. β
The Hun cavalry behind him exploded, and their faces were full of anger and they shouted. Although Meng Xingyuan didn't understand what they were talking about, he could guess that it was nothing more than "I'd rather die than surrender", "bloody battle to the end" and the like.
Meng Xingyuan approached Meng Tian and whispered a few words in his ear. After hearing this, Meng Tian nodded again and again.
"You're a man, too. I promised you. β
Captain Wan kowtowed vigorously: "Thank you, I die without regrets." β
"Wait, I didn't say I'm going to let them all go. Meng Tian pointed his horsewhip at the captain and said, "Go and call out all your wounded." Remember, they can't carry any weapons. β
Soon, more than a thousand wounded Hun cavalry stood in front. Some of them had burns, some had arrow wounds.
"If you can understand me, stand forward. β
More than a dozen wounded soldiers walked out of the crowd by supporting each other.
"Take my words to heart, and bring them to your leaders word for word. Meng Tian pretended to be serious and said to them, "During the daylight today, we originally went to negotiate with you with great sincerity. However, I have been repeatedly and unreasonably harassed by you. We don't want to fight, we don't want to cause more casualties on both sides, so we don't condemn it too much.
"And you have come to the camp, and you have once again added obstacles to our peace talks. Do you have to force us to continue attacking you? Now, I'll give you one last chance. Tomorrow by noon, I must see your leader and come to my camp to negotiate in person.
"If, after that time, your leader does not come. Not only will I kill all the thousands of people I have detained, but more than 100,000 men and horses will surely attack and swear to level your camp!
The wounded soldier was stunned by Meng Tian's momentum, and he didn't dare to say a word, just nodded in fright.
After all the wounded soldiers stumbled away, Meng Tian sent people to take away all the horses of the Hun cavalry. Looking at the thousands of sturdy war horses, Meng Tian said happily: "Brother Meng, you have made a great contribution by getting so many war horses without much effort! Ha ha. β
At noon the next day, Meng Xingyuan and the Meng brothers were discussing the issue of negotiations, and someone came to report that Shan Yu, the leader of the Xiongnu, had arrived at the gate of the barracks.
"That's how to behave," Meng Tian overjoyed, "let's go and see." β
The three of them came to the gate and saw Shan Yu kneeling on the ground with a shameful face, bare feet, and a few thorns in his hands.
Meng Xingyuan thought to himself: This leader still understands the culture of my Central Plains, is this 'guilty of asking for guilt'?
"Who's from? Meng Tian's tone was full of pride.
"The general of the defeated army, ashamed to nominate him. Shan Yu lowered his head again, "For the sake of the thousands of warriors of my clan, and for the sake of the two sides to negotiate peace again, I specially came to ask for guilt." β
"If I hadn't detained your soldiers, would you have come? If I hadn't driven you back more than 700 miles, would you have come? If I hadn't killed your tens of thousands of cavalry, would you have come? You have only come once, and that was last night, when you 'came on purpose' to attack my camp!"
Shan Yu couldn't raise his head in shame: "I was also confused for a while, and I believed the words of my subordinates, so I had the stupid thing last night." I hope that Marshal Meng has a lot of them, don't mind. β
"Last night, we just burned down a couple of tents, and we don't mind. Meng Tian's eyes shot a fierce light, "But, your cavalry violates our prestige, hurts my people, and robs me of money and food, may I not mind?"
"We ...... We'll pay for it. Shan Yu whispered.
Meng Tian shouted: "How many people have you killed me? How can you compensate me? Is one life worth one life?"
"This ......" Shan Yu was speechless.
Meng Xingyuan glanced at him, meaning that it was almost over, and he took the opportunity to negotiate with them.
Unexpectedly, Meng Yi was even more ruthless, he threw Shan Yu a pair of shoes with exposed toes, and a piece of tattered clothes that the groom only wore when feeding the horses, and said, "You can come in and negotiate with us now." β
Several tall soldiers swarmed up and dragged Shan Yu into the barracks. The retinue brought by Shan Yu was kept out.