The envoy of the Qin army, Li Shiqi, once again stepped into the dome of Toumandanyu.

"The friend from the south is really refreshing, and before the appointed time has arrived, I will send a batch of things first, which makes Ben Shan Yu very happy."

Tou Mandanyu's voice is very hearty.

Because he had already gone to see it just now, the Qin envoy had brought a full five thousand stone of grain this time, and the amount was already equivalent to the conditions they put forward for the first time. You must know that the Huns agreed to Yan Wangxi's request before, and when they went south to help the country, the grain they asked for from the king was only 5,000 stones.

The Qin people sent food first, but the Huns didn't pay anything, so the king of Yan was still locked in their felt tent, and no one would be happy if they ate white food.

Li Shiqi said in a humble tone: "30,000 stone of grain is too much, and our army's carriage is not enough, so it can only be transported several times. At the same time, this first batch of grain is also to show Da Danyu's sincerity to my general. Da Dan Yu has a large number of soldiers and horses, and my general only has the intention of friendship, no hostility, and only hopes that Da Dan Yu can hand over the King of Yan to us as promised after getting the grain, so that the Qin State and the Xiongnu are very happy. ”

This time, without waiting for the translator of the Qin people to speak, Hou Huyanyu, the left bone who followed Tou Manshan Yu behind him, immediately translated, and added a sentence by the way: "Da Shan Yu is right to see what I said last night, the general of the Qin State is afraid of us, and he will not have any hostile thoughts at all, he only thinks about buying people with money and grain." ”

Tou Manshan nodded, a flash of disdain and disdain in his eyes.

The Huns have always respected the strong and revered the heroes.

How can a cowardly sheep make a ferocious hungry wolf fearful.

As for what Mao Dun said last night, the Xiongnu were defeated by General Zhao more than ten years ago, although Tou Manshan was a little vigilant for a while, but under the humble words and grain delivery behavior of the Qin envoys, he let down his vigilance.

In Tou Mandanyu's view, the general of Zhao who once defeated the Xiongnu was responsible for guarding the border of Zhao, and the Xiongnu raided the border of Zhao, and the two were naturally hostile.

But these Qin troops in front of them, they only came to destroy the Daiguo, and there was no conflict of interest with the Huns. The Qin people used the money and grain from the government treasury to buy the Yan King in the hands of the Huns, which was a reasonable transaction, and there was no need for the two sides to fight to the death. There is still a big difference between the two things.

"General Qin's sincerity, Ben Shan Yu knows, two days later, when you send all the things, Ben Shan Yu will hand over that Yan King to you. Hahaha, the messenger came here, just to have a drink with Ben Danyu. Come on, take mare's milk wine! ”

Tou Manshan Yu was very enthusiastic and invited the Qin envoy to drink.

Hearing this, Li Shiqi's face changed.

However, a smart person like him was naturally prepared, and said with a dry smile: "The mare's milk wine in the grassland is very delicious. But this time, on the orders of the general, I sent a lot of good wine to Da Shan Yu and all the nobles, and also let Da Shan Yu feel the beauty of my summer wine. ”

Tou Manshan Yu said, "You also brought wine?" ”

……

Half an hour later.

The Xiongnu ended the banquet with the envoys of the Qin State, and the two reaffirmed their agreement to reach a deal the day after tomorrow.

Accompanied by Hu Yanzu, Li Shiqi left Shan Yu Qionglu and prepared to return.

For the left bone of the Huns, Li Shiqi had a good heart, using the benefits of his tongue and a pair of jade bi sent in private, Hu Yanyu suddenly smiled and closed his mouth, and the envoy of the Qin State had a posture of hating each other.

The two walked and talked.

Halfway through the journey, the autumn wind blew through the felt tents, blowing the smell of all kinds of animal manure and bringing with it some bleak cries.

Li Shiqi turned his head and saw several ragged women tied up with ropes outside a felt tent in the distance, crying with their heads down.

Perhaps alarmed by the cry, a Hun man came out of the felt tent, and he reprimanded him loudly in Hu. Seeing that those women were still crying, Hu Ren picked up the horsewhip in anger and lashed at those women, and suddenly the crying became even more miserable.

"It was a slave, and women used it to give birth to children and take care of cattle and sheep. Men are to be used to graze cattle and horses. These slaves are not used to it, and when they get to the steppe, and they have been whipped enough, they will be docile like lambs. ”

Hu Yanyu noticed Li Shiqi's gaze and explained with a smile.

"Very well, disobedient slaves should be beaten with whips."

Li Shiqi said a nonsense sentence in his mouth, and the beard under his chin was trembling slightly.

He asked, "Are these slaves from the country?" ”

"Hahaha, look over there, these slaves are all snatched from that city."

Hu Yanyu stretched out his hand to a city in the distance, and said triumphantly: "The old and weak and the rebels in the city have been killed by our warriors, and we will take the women and men to the grassland to be slaves." This city is now empty, and when we return to the grassland, you Qin people can occupy this place, move your people to live here, and save you a siege of the city, which can be regarded as a gift from our Xiongnu. ”

"Hehe, the left bone is arrogant."

Li Shiqi praised, he looked at the small city in the distance, and the hand in his sleeve was already clenched.

Takayanagi.

The former Zhuxia city is now depopulated.

The goods and food have been looted by the Hu people, and the corpses of the people who have been hacked and killed are everywhere.

In some places, there are still ashes from the ashes of the burned ruins.

A dead city.

A moment later, Li Shiqi got into the carriage and returned to Pingyi City in the south with the convoy.

……

Outside the city of Pingyi, in the tent of the Qin military camp.

After Li Shiqi returned from sending the Xiongnu army, Zhao Tuo immediately summoned the generals for the next military discussion.

"Mr. Li is a wise man, this time he came back from the Hun camp, he must have a plan in mind, right?"

Zhao Tuo sat on the main seat, looked at Li Shiqi, and asked.

As the only high-ranking member of the Qin army who entered the Hu camp twice, the opinion of this strategist is very important.

Li Shiqi groaned slightly, stroked his beard and said: "General, from a contemptible point of view, the nobles of Tou Manshan Yu and the Huns have let down their vigilance under the general's weak strategy, and they do not suspect that our army has the intention of sneak attack. This is beneficial for the next actions of our army. But the Hu soldiers are all cavalry, during the day, their sentry cavalry can run to a hundred or twenty miles away to patrol, and most of our army is foot, once the army approaches the Hu camp, it will definitely be discovered by their cavalry, the Huns can quickly react, it is difficult to succeed in a sneak attack. ”

"If you want to attack the Huns, you can only rely on night attacks! Taking advantage of the cover of night, first quickly approached the assault with cavalry, set fire everywhere, burned their vaults, caused chaos in the Xiongnu army, and then pressed on the foot, so that these Huns would definitely be broken. ”

Zhao Tuo nodded, and asked the generals again: "What do you think of Mr. Li's strategy?" ”

"Very good. The strength of the Huns lies only in the war horses. We are waiting for a sneak attack at night, most of the Huns must be in their sleep, too late to get on their horses, not the opponent of our Qin soldiers, then coupled with the fire to cheer, this battle will be won! ”

Meng Tian immediately nodded in agreement, and the other generals also agreed.

Zhao Tuo bowed slightly, and asked again: "What do my soldiers think about the matter of making a deal with the Huns?" ”

The black buttocks immediately shouted: "It's all scolding them, those Huns in Ma Ri said that they would trade with us, and they even temporarily broke the contract and raised the price, such an untrustworthy thing, our soldiers all hate it very much, and they can't wait to pick up their swords and fight with those Hu people." ”

Speaking of this, the black buttocks muttered again: "But there are still many people who say that the general is cowardly, saying that our Qin State has even destroyed the Five Kingdoms, how heroic and mighty, why is it a shame to bow to a group of Hu people now, anyway, it is very unfair." I was very angry when I heard it, but it was a pity that the general did not allow us to speak out about our plan to show weakness. ”

Li Shiqi said with a smile: "If you say it, there are many people and you accidentally reach the ears of the Huns, it won't be a bad thing." Moreover, if I expected it to be true, the reason why the general did this was also to arouse the anger and fighting spirit of the soldiers. ”

"That's what the gentleman said."

Zhao Tuo nodded, and then asked: "The Huns are camped near Gaoliu, I don't know what the current situation of Gaoliu City is." ”

Hearing this, Li Shiqi's face became gloomy.

He lowered his head and told the scenes he saw when he entered the Hu camp and what Hu Yanyu said.

Suddenly, the Qin camp was full of the roars of the generals.

"The Hu people actually attacked the old and weak, and plundered the people of my Zhuxia as slaves, how poisonous!"

"The Huns are brutal, we really should wipe out their species!"

In the anger of the generals, Zhao Tuo's face was also full of frost.

Although the Qin State was called the country of tigers and wolves by the Six Kingdoms, in the wars against the other six countries, there were few slaughter of cities, and even in the unification war of the past ten years, there was basically no slaughter of cities.

Even under the military merit system, meritorious service is recorded by head, there are strict regulations, and only enemy soldiers are considered meritorious. Qin soldiers killed the elderly, weak, women and children not only had no military merits, but even were severely punished for violating the law.

As for the slaves, except for the enemy troops captured on the battlefield, who would be selectively reduced to slaves, ordinary civilians would basically be retained their property and lives, and as soon as they turned around, they would become civilians of the Qin State and continue to live.

And those Huns, they slaughtered Gao Liu, killed the old and weak, and the men and women Ding Zhuang will be taken to the northern grasslands as slaves, needless to say, I know how miserable their fate will be.

Comparing the two, how can people not be angry.

"Li Shang, send short soldiers to write down what Mr. Li just said. Sent to various departments to tell the story, arousing the hearts of the soldiers and soldiers. ”

Zhao Tuo spoke, and a terrifying light appeared in his eyes.

"Let the soldiers' fighting spirit brew for another day, tomorrow evening, Meng Tian will lead our army chariots and cavalry to raid the Hu camp and set fire to it. I will press myself with a large army. ”

"King Yan is still second, and it is the right thing to kill Hu Renfang."

"In this battle, I will break the Xiongnu army and wipe out this Huyi barbarian race that has invaded my summer land!"

"In the land of summers, how can the grass be rampant!"

(End of chapter)