Huo Quzhi gave an order, and there was a loud bang.

The earth shook and the mountains shook, and lightning and thunder roared.

Rubble flew and smoke billowed out.

……

These are all pictures that Guo Xie made up in his own brain later.

In fact, just after that earth-shattering roar, the defenseless Guo Xie and those Huns who were charging forward, for a moment, their brains went blank.

Everyone only felt that their ears were suddenly deaf, and the only thing they could hear was the pounding of their own heartbeat.

The huge heat wave swept by, flying sand and stones, whistling and whistling, just between these three or two breaths, more than 100 Huns who rushed to the front, even people and horses were swept by the rubble that swept through and beat into blood gourds, although they did not die on the spot, but seeing those people bleeding and dull eyes, they could know that they were dead.

At the same time, just when the Huns were sluggish and dazed, there was a loud rumbling, but the cliffs on both sides of the canyon suddenly collapsed, and the rocks the size of houses and millstones were wrapped in yellow dust rising into the sky, and the momentum was amazing.

"Retreat!"

"Retreat!"

“……”

The Huns' complexion changed greatly, and one by one they showed a terrified expression, turned their horses' heads, and fled to the depths of the canyon in a chaotic manner.

Some of the frightened Huns looked up at the sky with a demented face, as if they wanted to see something in the depths of the blue sky.

And then.

With the rolling wave of boulders, those Huns, as well as their crotch horses, were silently buried on the spot by the huge rocks.

This scene came quickly and ended faster.

In the words of Yang Chuan and Cao Xiang, Huo Quzhi has no other strengths, so he highlights a fast word.

At first, Huo Quzhi was quite proud when he heard this, grinning and laughing, but it wasn't until later that he understood that it didn't seem like a good word to say that a man is fast.

However, he doesn't care.

Is it bad for men to be faster......

……

In fact, seeing that dozens of 'Yang Chuan Zimu Thunder' could cause such a might, even Huo Quzhi was a little confused.

It's just that the expression on his face hasn't changed much, he still looks like a handsome man with a breezy demeanor, and he turned his head to shout to the soldiers around him: "Build a city!" ”

The soldier waved the two-sided colored chess pieces in his hand.

The orphans of the Eight Hundred Feather Forest immediately took action, and used some timber that they had just taken the time to cut down to make some simple tools, and gathered the large messy stones in order, and in the blink of an eye, it became the foundation of a pass city wall.

Immediately afterwards, two or three hundred orphans of Yulin took off the 'sapper shovels' from their horses, turned into a group of 'humanoid excavators', threw the sand onto the rocks, and poured it into the cracks, making this 'foundation' about two or three feet wide more solid.

Logging, tooling, earthwork, piling, wall building......

After a whole set of processes, it was extremely smooth, as if this was not an elite iron horse that dominated the world, but a construction engineering team, and Guo Xie was stunned on the side.

At that time, whether it was Huo Quzhi, Cao Xiang, Li Dang and other 'leaders', or ordinary soldiers, they all hated this, thinking that this thing was useless, and it was a net toss.

Now it seems that the move to make the Yulin Army a 'sapper battalion' is simply too correct.

Also, it's amazing.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Huns were frightened and only dared to look at this side from a distance, the project progress of the Yulin orphans was extremely fast, and they built a pass city wall three zhang high and two zhang wide under the nose of the enemy.

On the pass, some arrow stacks and female walls were also built very intimately, and two sturdy 'wooden huts' were built with huge logs, so that the patrol soldiers could take turns to rest in them.

The Huns in the depths of the canyon did not know that the 'earth work' of the orphans in Yulin had just begun......

"Thirty feet in the direction of the mouth of the canyon, build another wall."

"Now there is no disturbance from the Huns, everyone should do some fine work, and there must be a city gate, an urn city, and a city gate building on that wall."

"Also, digging a trench should be our moat......"

There was originally a small river in the canyon, and the foundations of the previous pass walls were all boulders, so there was no need to dig another ditch, and the river could leak and flow.

So, this strange city took shape in just a short time.

As for worrying about flooding......

It doesn't exist, anyway, the Yulin Army doesn't live in the city, so whatever, let's do a few major things in front of him first.

"Guo Jie, it's time for you to appear," after settling down the construction of the city, Huo Quzhi turned his head to look at Guo Jie, "Your Xiongnu words are good, just make a hard trip, trick some more Huns to come over, let them pan for gold, dig sheep fat and jade seeds." ”

Only then did Guo Xie understand Huo Quai's intentions, and said: "Let the Huns come to pan for gold and mine?" ”

Huo Quzhi looked at Guo Xie with a smile: "What, Ben Hou's idea doesn't work?" ”

Guo Xie promised: "Okay, the grass people will set off......"

……

So, day and night later.

The first batch of Hun 'gold diggers' came, the number was small, only forty or fifty people, led by a young Huns, and by the way, more than a thousand sheep came.

Immediately afterwards, several groups of Xiongnu gold diggers arrived, and as before, they all brought their own rations and brought some cattle, sheep and livestock.

There are even some Huns who seem to have a bit of identity, not only with some young adults in the tribe, but also with some little women, saying that they can help the men cook and wash and relieve their difficulties.

For these Hun gold diggers, Huo Qubing showed unprecedented gentleness and generosity, slaughtering cattle and sheep, treating them well, and letting them temporarily live in temporary wooden houses.

The Huotou Battalion of the Yulin Army, with excellent cooking skills and excellent craftsmanship, can be called the existence of the Han Empire's second only to Yang Chuan's kitchen and Liu Che's imperial dining room.

Stir-fried calf, roasted whole lamb, cumin barbecue, naan wrapped meat, spicy soup, finger lamb, roast deer leg ......

The excellent food for three or four consecutive days finally dissipated the last doubts in the hearts of the Huns, and everyone who saw Huo Quai, the 'captain of the guard of the Right Virtuous King', would inexplicably admire.

In that case, it's time to get to work.

Huo Quai's method is very simple, that is, let the Huns with status live in the city, eat and drink well, let those Huns with low status enter Xiaojingou, and help those old men with status to pan for gold and mine.

In this way, life in the city is very comfortable.

In the depths of the canyon, it has become a Shura field.

It turned out that he had already inquired clearly in Guo Xie that the Huns occupying Xiaojingou at the moment were mainly dominated by two relatively large tribes, and they coerced people from four or five small tribes to mix well in this Grand Canyon and make a lot of money.

However, as people from other tribes continued to arrive, the conflict between the gold diggers began to escalate rapidly.

Fighting, killing people, seeking money and killing people, these are all common things.

There is only one thing that the Huns seem to have forgotten-

At the exit of the canyon, others have built a pass wall, even if they dig up more gold and dig up more mutton fat jade seeds, how can they transport it?

This really corresponds to an old saying of the Han people, people die for money, and birds die for food.

In the face of the temptation of gold, sheep fat and jade, this man has lost even the most basic judgment, but nests in the depths of the canyon, constantly working, dreaming, and living in a muddy ......

In order to let those Hun miners work with peace of mind, Huo Qubing discussed with those 'Hun masters' living in the city after careful consideration, whether to do some small business?

And so.

Hit it off.

This strange canyon city soon became lively and transformed into a huge bazaar for trading.

A steady stream of people poured in, and a steady stream of cattle, sheep and livestock were herded.

Then, it turned into golden gold and uncut mutton fat jade seeds, and even, those 'Hun masters' in the city began to gamble on stones, often hundreds of sheep, a few taels of gold bets, Huo Qubing and other Yulin orphans were dumbfounded......

If Yang Chuan was here, he would definitely be dumbfounded.

How did Huo Quai, the iron Hanhan, do it?

A war of annihilation between ethnic groups was done with the simplest 'wealth to move people's hearts' in the world, and I have to say that Huo Qubing has brains.

Maybe only Yang Chuan can understand that in the eyes of others, Huo Quzhi is proud, ruthless, ruthless, and purely simple, but in fact, for worldly things, it is not that Huo Quzhi is not good at this, but he disdains it.

In this way, in a short period of seventeen or eighteen days, thousands of people poured into Xiaojingou, and the vast majority of them were young and middle-aged laborers.

These guys, if they don't cheat to pan for gold and mine, they will be a real grassland warrior and the mortal enemy of the Han Empire, but once they come to this place to pan for gold and mine, this identity is a little different.

In Yang Chuan's words, it is the workers and peasants of the stratum who are exploited.

Protection is needed, mercy is needed.

Of course, when necessary, you can also wipe it out and never suffer from it.

It is impossible for Huo Quzhi to be like Yang Chuan, who has been thinking about long-term strategies from the beginning, and it is even more impossible to stay in the same place and organize people to open up wasteland, farm, mine and make iron.

His mission is to travel long distances and conquer the world.

So, when the matter of Xiaojingou was roughly stabilized, he summoned Guo Xie and handed over this city destined to be stained with sin, tears and blood to Guo Xie to take care of.

"Ben Hou will hand over this place to you today, how to take care of it later, this is your Guo Jie's business, of course, it may also be Yang Chuan and Cao Xiang's affairs, and it has nothing to do with Ben Hou."

"There is only one Benhou."

"Try to deceive as many Huns, Qiang people, Di people, and those Hu people in the Western Regions, anyway, as long as it is an enemy of the Han Dynasty, you Guo Xie can be deceived to help you pan for gold and mine."

"However, the end result is that the people in here cannot leave alive."

Huo Quai's words were very casual, as if he was at home, and he casually explained a few words to Guo Jie, and then led the orphans of the Eight Hundred Yulin to leave.

As for the fact that Guo Xie later took care of the grasslands, Haizi, snow-capped mountains and deserts within a radius of several hundred miles into an independent kingdom, in addition to giving Yang Chuan, Cao Xiang, and Huo Qubing a large amount of gold and jade every year, he himself became the king here.

These posthumous events, Huo Quzhi naturally can't know.

Even if you know, you won't care.

What he wants is for the enemy to die!

……

Just when Huo Qu was tossing in Xiaojingou, Cao Xiang, who was three hundred miles away, suffered a lot.

He led 1,200 soldiers and horses to set up an ambush in the area of the Great Slope Valley, and took advantage of the terrain to fight two beautiful ambush battles, and died in the shadow......

Ahem, the seven or eight hundred cavalry under the account of the Hun Evil King who followed him in the formation hurt the Hun Evil King, and at the same time, it also angered the Hun King of Wanhu.

He had already figured out that the Han Dynasty army in front of him was not large in number, even if the combat effectiveness was very strong, but now it was on his own territory, he was chased by the nose for more than a thousand miles, and he was ambushed twice, which can simply anger a person!

To be honest, if this Han Dynasty army continued to run around in the grassland desert, he was really not sure that it would be left behind, after all, the configuration of one person and five horses on the other side was very terrifying, as long as there was water and grass, it could be said that it would be able to fight forever.

If you don't want to die, you still want to ambush?

The Evil King suddenly felt that he had done it again.

He spilled out dozens of scouts and sentinels, and ordered the Hun cavalry within a radius of thousands of miles to hurry over, and he wanted to besiege this Han Dynasty army, torture it slowly, and finally, swallow it in one bite......

In this way, Cao Xiang's life was miserable.

A mere 1,200 people and horses were trapped in the Great Slope Valley, with the cliffs of Altun Mountain on one side, the 10,000-year-old ice and snow of Qilian Mountain on the other, and behind them was an ice and snow trail that plunged into the sky.

If he hadn't taken advantage of the terrain and sent troops to build a pass camp to hold the only passage, it is estimated that he would have to abandon the weight of the war horse and climb the snowy mountain with a lot of urine at this time......

At this time, what he misses most is not Huo Quai.

It's Yang Chuan.

The key is that people have good brains, especially in the face of complex geographical environments such as grasslands, Gobi, deserts, snow-capped mountains, and glaciers, they always seem handy, easy and freehand, and they can break the game at will.

"Where did Huo Qu die?"

"It's been a good day and a night, it's been more than 20 days, why haven't you seen anyone?"

"This dog's injustice has allowed us to be trapped in a Jedi, but he himself has led people to live happily outside, probably running out to sow seeds!"

"Hey, maybe that's true."

"The Huns were hospitable, and when they saw that the dog day was good-looking, maybe they built a city for him, and let those Hun women, old and young, after being stripped and cleaned, line up to let Huo go to the sick and ...... disaster."

After being trapped here for more than 20 days, the stolen cattle, sheep and livestock had been eaten, and Cao Xiang and other 1,200 Yulin orphans had to start eating the 'stock'.

Braised beef jerky, fried soybeans, compressed pot helmet, this is the basic food of Yulin Army.

At first, everyone thought it was delicious, after the snow melted, then boiled a large pot of hot soup, sprinkled with some salt, minced coriander, minced ginger, minced green onions, etc., soaked in a bowl of beef jerky, and it was very beautiful......

can eat for one or two decades in a row, and the other Yulin orphans still feel that the food is good, but Cao Xiang, who is a little evil in Chang'an City, can't stand it anymore.

So much so that when he dreamed at night, he would always dream that he had returned to Chang'an City and was eating and drinking at Yang Chuan's house.

"Stir-fried calf, scallion and lamb tripe, sour meat!"

"Oh, who is that, Yang Chuan, get Ben Hou a bowl of oily meat noodles to satisfy his hunger, another jar of wine, another roast sheep, and stew a pot of chicken and mushroom soup......"

“……”

There was a muffled rumble.

This was accompanied by a chaotic mass of whistles, shouts, and death-wailing cries.

The Great War has broken out!

Cao Xiang woke up from his dream, didn't care about wiping the saliva from the corners of his mouth, turned over violently, grabbed a spear at hand, and asked loudly: "What happened?" ”

A pro-soldier rushed into the big tent quickly: "Report! ”

"Report to the Marquis of Pingyang!"

"Those Huns went crazy, drove thousands of Qiang people to death in front, and began to attack in a big way!"

(End of chapter)