Chapter Forty-Eight: The Xiongnu Move West, and the Demon Race Returns
May is a beautiful season, but there are bloody slaughters on the steppes of the East.
In order not to be attacked when the Eastern countries were exterminated, Emperor Ying ordered to destroy the Xiongnu first, and then destroy the remnants of the six countries. As a result, more than 600,000 people from the mighty Great Qin Longxi Army and the Jiuyuan (Great Wall) Army began to fight on two fronts and invaded the Xiongnu in the north.
Li Jiye is a descendant of Li Zinc, Li Xin was favored by His Majesty the Emperor of Qin because he led a thousand cavalry to capture the mastermind of the assassination of Qin, Prince Yan, when he attacked Yan, but he was heavily fined and degraded to Longxi for burying 200,000 Qin troops during the war against Chu. But when the Six Kingdoms rebelled, it was he who led his troops south to save the Qin State. So the Li clan began to regain their glory again. Xin Zhongguo, the commander of the Great Wall Army, is a descendant of Xin Sheng, a famous general of the Nine Plains, both of whom are important ministers of the empire, and the purpose of their troops this time is to eliminate the Xiongnu. After hundreds of years of development, Daqin is no longer the Great Qin of the past, so the Xiongnu are not opponents at all, and all the tribes of all sizes have been wiped out, regardless of men, women and children. Da Qin is not Ying Zihan, a pseudo-Qin, they don't need so many slaves. The Xiongnu are indeed powerful, but their horse bows are not as good as those of Daqin, especially after the Great Qin army formed a formation, no matter how the Xiongnu attacked, they could not tear a gap.
As long as the infantry formation is stable enough and the soldiers are well-organized, even the heavy cavalry will not be able to break through the infantry camp. Cavalry is generally used as a rear or flank raid, and letting the cavalry charge the infantry in formation is to die.
As a result, the Xiongnu were defeated, and their cattle and sheep were taken away by the Great Qin to feed the war and replenish the military supplies. In the past month, the Xiongnu have been forced back for more than 500 miles, and now the Xiongnu have begun to discuss surrender or escape.
Xiongnu king's tent,
Shan Yu looked at the noisy crowd of people in the tent and said loudly: "Shut up, say them one by one, King Zuoxian, you speak first." ”
Curry Yi didn't expect Shan Yu to let him say it first, because King Youxian was Shan Yu's cronies. But he still spoke: "I think we should surrender, the Qin people will not give up their great land to fight us for the grassland." What they want to do now is to annex other countries, and the reigning Emperor Qin is not easy to kill, we are just vassals to them, and the grassland is still ours. "This guy actually has a bit of knowledge, and he is talking about the truth.
The Falcon didn't pay attention, but looked at the Right Virtuous King and asked, "What advice does Kai Khan have?" This treats the two of them with completely different attitudes.
Kai Khan, the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu, replied: "No, how can we steppe wolves surrender to others, now that the Qin people are strong, we should migrate to the depths of the grassland, and the Qin people do not have many cavalry, so they can't catch up with us." After the Qin people retreat, we will come back from the beginning. His words clearly moved the Khan of the Burning Falcon. However, the scorching falcon was still not in a hurry to express his position, he looked at the most respected old shaman of the Hun clan and asked, "What does the shaman think?"
Lao Saman's face was wrinkled, and he replied weakly: "West." ”
The Falcon didn't understand what it meant, so it asked, "What west?"
The old shaman replied weakly: "As early as hundreds of years ago, the Qin people had already reached the extreme west, where there was a grassland, boundless...... Although the country is heavy, the strength of the individual is not strong, we should move the clan west and occupy it, this is the guidance of the Immortal Heaven. The old shaman's voice grew weaker and weaker.
The Khan of the Falcon was suddenly entangled, if it weren't for the old shaman's words, he would have been preparing to move north, but after listening to the old shaman's description, the far west was like a paradise, and he had a strong desire to conquer there. But the journey to the west was fraught with difficulties, and he did not know what to choose. The patriarchs of the remaining tribes, large and small, all looked at the Burning Falcon Khan, who was the one who decided all this.
But he really needs to think about this matter, so he announced that he will talk about it tomorrow.
But what he didn't expect was that the old shaman would not be able to do it at night, and when the falcon arrived at the old shaman's tent, the old shaman's last words were to let him move west.
After a night of thinking, the Falcon finally made up his mind, and he was ready to listen to the old shaman's words and travel west. Dodging is not a good way after all, when the Qin people sweep through the country, they will definitely be stronger, and the situation of the Xiongnu will be even more difficult at that time. And the shamans of the Xiongnu were their prophets, predictors of fate. The Falcon prepares to follow the guidance of the Immortal Heaven.
After he announced this matter the next day, King Xian hesitated and agreed, but King Zuo Xian firmly disagreed, in his opinion, leaving the grassland was a betrayal of the Immortal Heaven. So he resolutely disagreed with this matter, and the patriarchs of the various tribes below were also divided into two parts.
Shan Yu originally wanted to purge these people, but after being reminded by his subordinates, he split the team in two, and he took the people who were willing to leave with him. Well, he didn't force those who didn't want to be immediately, because he still needed people to contain the Qin army, otherwise they would be stopped by the Qin people in the Western Regions.
However, Ying Zihan didn't know how much impact the Xiongnu's westward migration would bring.
The city in the sky is an exaggeration, but it is located like a city in the sky. This is the front line against demons, a collective term for several murderous races. Most of them are not as powerful as humans, but they are disgusting, such as vampire bats, and most of them are not intelligent. But they love to suck human blood, and it's hard to kill them. These demons are numerous and have been trying to storm the city in the sky, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions every year. But this time their first batch of cannon fodder was five million, and the place they passed was three feet high. Wave after wave impacted the first city in the Western Continent. The mountains of corpses had completely blocked the demon's path, but they were soon incinerated by human magic and fire oil. The sky was blackened by pitch-black smoke, and the stench of burning the demon's corpse filled a hundred miles around.
At this moment, the big people have already quarreled with each other, the cardinal archbishop of the church Bishop is the highest person of the church here, and the rest of the people are several archbishops and the army of several countries under the church.
Well, that's right, the church is headquartered in a small principality, but there are more than a dozen principalities and kingdoms that are subordinate to the church, including the three empires that were once the greatest. It's just that with the development of time, the three empires no longer listen to the orders of the church, and other powerful kingdoms or remote countries also have some listen to the tune, and the influence of the church is gradually decreasing. But those present were die-hard Church loyalists.
Seeing the archbishop and the general below arguing and not listening, Bishop sighed in his heart, maybe this is the reason why they can't climb up for the rest of their lives.
"Silence," Bishop said, seeing that he was almost enough to stop the arguing, "and this is not the time to discuss why the demons are attacking in such a big way. Even if they want to break through here, see if they have the ability. Defending the city is the key, and they don't have a chance to plan anything. Bishop told the truth, no matter what tricks you have, you must first break through this city, otherwise it is all delusional.
"But our mages don't have enough to support the attack of the demon's follow-up army. An archbishop said
"Yes, our army has also been severely reduced this time. ”
"There are too few soldiers, and there are a hundred times as many demons as there are us. "The generals spoke one after another
Bishop smiled slightly: "These are not problems, someone will help us solve them." ”