Chapter 46: Massacre
"Heavenly King! This is the last tribe within a hundred miles! Looking at the smoke rising in the distance, a Hun soldier reported to the Bank of China.
"Attack it! Burn their ferryboat and ask them if they have seen the Han people coming! The Bank of China's brows furrowed slightly, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and he had not yet discovered the whereabouts of the Han Dynasty mission! Didn't they go to the north? Beckoned to the emissary in charge of falconry in the procession, "No news from Submo?" ”
The Eagle Envoy gently combed the eagle's feathers on his shoulders, shook his head and replied, "Heavenly King, the Divine Eagle who saw off General Subu only set off the day before yesterday, and I'm afraid I won't receive a reply until tomorrow!" ”
"If Su Bumo had discovered the whereabouts of the Han Dynasty mission, he would have sent a letter a long time ago!" The Bank of China said that it is estimated that there is little hope of blocking the Han Dynasty mission on the east bank of the river! Although he couldn't guess how the Han people crossed the river, he realized that he had to start planning his next step!
"Bring pen and ink!" The entourage hurriedly presented pen and ink and parchment, and the Bank of China said that he sat on the horse and wrote two short messages to the Eagle Envoy, "One for King Hugh Tu, and one for King Kunxie!" Let them stop the Han mission! ”
Although the Kun Evil King and the Xiu Tu King are not as respected as the Zuo Xian King and the Right Xian King, they are also the number one force among the Huns! They each led tens of thousands of nomadic herds on the west bank of the Yellow River, and the Han Dynasty mission was on the way to Dayue.
Among them, King Hutu's tribe controlled the later generation of Wuwei County, and if the Han Dynasty mission crossed the Yellow River, it would soon enter King Hutu's sphere of influence! The tribe of the Kun Evil King controlled the Zhangye County generation, and in the eyes of the Bank of China, even if those Han Dynasty missions could escape the siege and interception of King Xiu Tu, they would be controlled by the Kun Evil King.
"Yes, Heavenly King!" The eagle took the letters with both hands, rolled them into paper rolls, and stuffed them into a bamboo tube tied to the eagle's legs and sealed them; A moment later, the two eagles spread their wings and flew high above their heads, one after the other, towards the west bank of the Yellow River, and soon disappeared into the clouds.
By this time, the Hun cavalry had occupied the small tribe, and the ships were found and piled together and set on fire; The leader of the tribe was brought before the Bank of China.
"Have you ever seen or heard of Han people passing through here in the past few days?" Bank of China said coldly looking at the cringe-cating guy, and the answer naturally disappointed him! The small tribe has not encountered any outsiders in recent days.
"Leave some people here to guard the ship! Follow me for the rest! The Bank of China shouted loudly, coming out of the valley, there are only a few roads to the west! Since they have not been found here, they must have crossed the river from somewhere they passed!
"Heavenly King!" The Hun soldiers escorting the tribal leader cautiously glanced at the Bank of China and said, "The ship has been burned out!" "Didn't you order that all the ships you found should be burned? Why are you going to send someone to guard it now?
"What!" The Bank of China said that it was only then that he remembered that it was customary for each tribe to burn the ship first, and he could only watch the flames rising in the air not far away, and regretted it; Without these ferries, how would they be able to cross the Yellow River? Is it impossible to cross the river from somewhere else in a big circle?
It's a pity that the other tribes closest to them are already a hundred miles away, and when they meet up with Submu and then find a tribe with a boat to cross the river, the Han Dynasty mission didn't know that it had run there at that time!
"Heavenly King! This is the last tribe! Where should we go next? The soldier didn't seem to see what the Bank of China said, and asked in a daze.
"Where are you going?" The Bank of China said that he held a breath in his heart for a long time and couldn't disperse, first he was defeated by someone with fewer blows and more beatings, and then he ran in such a big circle in vain, when did he suffer this kind of setback! It's so depressing!
His eyes wandered around, and it happened to fall on the tribal leader! The Bank of China said that he took a deep breath, picked up the horsewhip and slashed his head and face, and pumped it at him! "Kill them all! Then let's go back! ”
"Noble man spare his life! Noble man spare his life! The tribal leader wailed hoarsely, but his voice not only failed to arouse the sympathy of the Bank of China, but also made him more and more disgusted! A glance passed, and immediately a guard pulled out a scimitar and cut off his head.
The wailing here stopped, but even louder cries erupted from the small tribe not far away! Groups of Hun soldiers laughed and rode around the tents, wielding scimitars and slashing at the poor Qiang! The cries of being struck by a scimitar before dying, the cries of heart-rending, the cursing of despair and the laughter of the Huns mixed together, turning the place into a cruel scene like hell.
The blood stained the earth red after a while, the tent was lit by torches thrown by the Huns, and several Qiang people hiding in the tent ran out of the tent covered in fire, fell to the ground and rolled desperately, and those Hun soldiers also put away their scimitars at this time, and looked at these unlucky guys with a smile! They knew that being burned to death was much more painful than being hacked to death.
In less than a stick of incense, this tribe, regardless of men, women and children, was slaughtered by the Huns! The bloody air soared into the sky, attracting countless vultures and crows to hover in the sky, and as soon as the Huns left, they would fly down and feast on them.
If I were to catch those Han people, I would make them a hundred, a thousand times more painful! The dying wails of these Qiang people finally made the Bank of China feel better, and he turned his horse's head and ordered, "Take all their horses that can run!" Let's go back! ”
He had a fluke in his heart, if he was fast, maybe he would be able to catch up with those Han envoys at the last moment, and when the time came, he would definitely let them learn the king's methods!
A moment later, the gallop of thousands of horses shook the earth, and the vultures and crows hovering above were also frightened and flew upwards in fright, until the sound gradually stopped, and they circled and pounced on the food they had been longing for!
And outside the other Qiang tribe, Li You was hesitantly looking at those Qiang captives! What should we do with them? If it doesn't seem appropriate to let them go now, should we kill them all?
"Envoy! It's time to cross the river! Father Tang Yi jumped down from the sheepskin raft and urged, in this moment's effort, most of the baggage has been transported to the other side of the river, and now six sheepskin rafts are enough to transport the rest of the men and horses at once!
"Well, after disposing of these people, cross the river!" Li You seems to have made up his mind!