To the north of the big river, the sky is like a dome, covering the four fields.

On the vast plains, cattle and sheep are everywhere, and from time to time you can see herdsmen on horseback galloping with whips, and teenagers riding sheep with bows and shooting rats.

The world says that the Huns migrated by water and grass, and the city was often in the field of farming.

That's true, but it's also wrong.

As a nomadic people, the Huns will indeed drive livestock to migrate and graze with the change of seasons, and the people live in felt tents and do not build houses and pavilions.

But the Huns did not stop building cities.

In the distant place north of the Yin Mountain, there is the sacred place of the Huns, Longcheng (Yucheng).

And under this Yin Mountain, there is also a stone city standing in the field.

The city is not large, and the construction is not very exquisite, compared with the Zhuxia city in the south, it looks simple and vulgar, with a wild taste of primitive wilderness.

This is the place where the head of the Xiongnu Mandanyu meets with the nobles of various tribes, receives foreign envoys, and deals with government affairs and military, and is the political center of the Xiongnu near Yinshan.

Head Manchester City.

This city is a small city built on the field after the Xiongnu went south, using the stone materials of several Zhao city fortresses that they occupied.

The construction of this city has great symbolic significance, representing that the grassland under the Yin Mountain is the territory of the Xiongnu.

At this moment, in this iconic city of the Huns.

The Xiongnu's plough was sitting on a wooden bed (small bench), with his legs wide open, his face covered with iron blue, and his black eyebrows wrinkled into a thick cloud of ink on his round face.

"Still can't get by?"

Tou Manshan said with a cold face.

Hu Yanyu, the Marquis of the left bone, shook his head and said: "The Qin people guard the river very tightly, there are a large number of cavalry patrolling along the river, even at the bend of the river in the west, there are also people stationed, our Xiongnu warriors can't pass at all, once they are discovered, they will be shot by the Qin people with their bows and crossbows, their bows and crossbows are too strong, we are not opponents at all." ”

"Hmph, rubbish."

Tou Man Shan Yu scolded, stood up and turned around and kicked over the Hu bed, pacing back and forth in the center of the house.

His heart was upset.

Since the first war of Daidi, after the Xiongnu were injured and fled to the north, several Xiongnu tribes led by Wuluxu, the king of Zuogu Li, coveted the position of Shan Yu of Touman, and brazenly launched a rebellion.

During the war, many tribes participated in the rebellion, and some tribes remained neutral and waited for the head wolf challenge among the wolf packs, making it very difficult for Touman Danyu to suppress the rebellion.

One of the reasons for this result was that Tou Mandan showed his incompetence on the battlefield.

The leader of the pack must be the most powerful and ferocious one.

In the past ten years, Toumandan Yu has been defeated twice in a row by the people of the crown belt in the south, which can be called incompetent.

Many of the older Xiongnu still remember that just over a decade ago, the young Toumandan Yu unified the steppe tribes and established a powerful regime comparable to that of the Yueshi and Donghu, firmly occupying the fertile grasslands in the center.

At that time, Tou Mandan was the most dazzling sun on the grassland, and was known as the great plough of the Huns, and won the awe of the Huns, and everyone obeyed him.

But just when the Xiongnu were in full swing, Tou Manshan Yu was in the process of invading the country of the crown belt in the south, he mistakenly fell into the trick of the Zhao people, and was lured by the Zhao general Li Mu, killing more than 100,000 horsemen of the Xiongnu, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Xiongnu, and could only flee back to the north in embarrassment to lick the wounds.

More than ten years have passed, and the Xiongnu, who had just regained some strength, were taken to the land by Toumandan Yu, and once again fell into the conspiracy of the people of the crown belt, and were lured by the Qin general Zhao Tuo, and were attacked at night, and more than 10,000 people were killed overnight.

Being beaten twice in a row is enough to discredit Touman Danyu's prestige.

In addition, the Qin general Zhao Tuo seemed to be deliberately targeted, and only fought the elite of the royal court and several tribes close to him in the night attack, which led to a war on behalf of the land, and the strength of the Xiongnu tribes was not greatly lost, only Toumandanyu was weakened.

Twice in the scheme, the majesty was swept away, and the elite was injured, which made Tou Mandan's strength in this wolf king greatly damaged, and he lost his deterrent power to his subordinates.

Under such circumstances, the rebellion was difficult to quell, which left him with a lot of headaches.

Moreover, the Xiongnu, whose strength was greatly damaged, also attracted the covetousness of the king of Donghu.

In the face of the powerful Donghu, Tou Mandan was frightened, so he could only send an envoy to the king of Donghu to present his beautiful Yan, a strong BMW, and even sent his son Mao Dun to Donghu as a hostage, hoping that Donghu would spare them.

It happened that at that time, the Qin people sent troops to recover Liaodong, which posed a threat to Donghu, which saved the Xiongnu from the danger of being robbed by Donghu.

However, Rao was so, and it was still difficult for Touman to defeat the rebels and reunite the Xiongnu for a while.

At this time, the people of the Yue clan helped him a lot.

Henan was the territory of King Ligu and some rebellious tribes, because they mobilized men and horses to fight with Toumandanyu near Yinshan for the position of the head wolf, resulting in the emptiness of Henan.

As a result, the Yue clan copied the back road, except for some young people who fled, the cattle, sheep and livestock were lost, and many of the clansmen who stayed there also became slaves of the Yue clan.

The strength of King Ligu of Zuogu was greatly damaged, and in front of him was Tou Manshan Yu under the Yin Mountain, and behind him was the two Yueshi who robbed Henan.

King Zuogu Li was also single, and directly surrendered to Touman Shan Yu, praying for Shan Yu's understanding and dealing with the Yue clan together.

Tou Manshan Yu was eager to dismantle the traitor, but in the face of the opportunity to reunite the Xiongnu and the threat from the Yue clan, he still smiled and accepted the submission of the king of Zuogu Li, and did not punish him.

It's just that after the reunification, the strength of the Xiongnu is not as good as before.

To the north of Yinshan, many tribes that had originally submitted to the Xiongnu took advantage of the time of civil strife to secede.

And in Henan, many Rong tribes that originally belonged to the Xiongnu also fell into the hands of the Yue clan.

Tou Manshan is scraping together, and the entire grassland is still under his control, and there are only about 90,000 cavalry left who can be recruited to the battlefield, which is not much more than the two Yue clans in Henan, so there is no action to go south to recover Henan.

Until the Qin army came.

According to the information obtained by the Huns before the Qin army blocked the river, the army of the Qin State to conquer Henan was 300,000 people!

The sheer number of them made everyone who heard it gasp.

In particular, the name of the general of the Qin State who led the troops made the Huns even more eyelids jump when they heard it.

"Zhao Tuo!"

Tou Manshan gritted his teeth and often put the name of Qin Jiang who deceived him on his lips.

However, he was happy about Zhao Tuo's expedition to Henan.

Well played!

The Qin army is the enemy of the Xiongnu!

The Yue clan is also the enemy of the Huns!

When two enemies fight, it's really dog-eat-dog.

Maybe in the end, he will lose both sides, and he can also get the benefit of a fisherman, take advantage of the situation to lead the army south, and clean up the Yue clan and the Qin people together.

Therefore, Tou Mandan Yu paid close attention to the situation in Henan, and while watching the battle, he was ready to intervene at any time.

How do you know that before the news of the Qin army and the Yue clan fighting came, a Qin army from the county blocked the river.

Henan is surrounded by large rivers, and the places that can cross the river are extremely limited, so the Qin army directly cut off the news exchange of the Huns.

The Qin people's strong bows and crossbows, strong armor and sharp blades are not easy for the Huns to break through, so Tou Mandan, who can't get the specific battle situation, can only be in a hurry in Touman City all day long, and can only let his subordinates send scouts from time to time to see if they can get lucky enough to break through the blockade of the Qin people and bring him some useful information.

At this moment, in the face of the news that the left bone capital Hou came back and could not do anything about crossing the river.

After Tou Manshan scolded a few times, he felt bored and asked about the situation of King Zuogu Li.

"Wu Luxu has recently gotten close to General You, and it seems that he has the intention of wooing, should we warn him."

Huyan reported on the recent state of Wuluxu, the king of Zuogu Li.

A cold glint flashed in Tou Mandan's eyes.

That guy doesn't die with a thief's heart.

However, at this time, Tou Manshan Yu really didn't dare to take Zuogu Liwang.

His prestige was lost in two major defeats, and the reason why the Xiongnu were able to reunite at this moment was entirely because of the threat of foreign enemies, which prompted the tribes to temporarily put aside their internal fighting, not because the rebels were truly convinced of his head Mandan.

If he kills the king of Zuogu Li at this time, the newly unified Xiongnu are likely to fall apart, and it will be difficult to gather again.

After all, his head Mandanyu's headquarters was seriously damaged, and he couldn't go all out to suppress and annex the rest of the departments.

"The only way to secure my position is to kill powerful prey to show the strength of the head wolf."

"I was defeated by the Qin people, and Henan was seized by the Yue clan, if I can win against either side, I can establish authority again and make them convinced of me."

Touman whispered.

The reason why he paid attention to the war in Henan was precisely because he wanted to fish in troubled waters and win a battle to consolidate his authority.

Only when he wins the battle can he have a real say.

Even if it was just to defeat the Qin army's partial division, or to rob the tribes of the Yueyue clan, it would make him ashamed and make the Xiongnu tribes obey him again.

As time passed, just when Tou Manshan was anxious about not being able to get news of Henan.

The Qin army, which was blocked along the Great River, actually moved.

According to the investigation of the Xiongnu scouts, this Qin army seems to have received some urgent news, except for a small number of people who continue to guard the main communication routes, the rest of the army all pulled out their camps and went south, and went in a hurry.

"It must be that the Qin people and the Yue clan fought fiercely, and the Qin people need to mobilize this army to go south to support!"

"I know that although the total number of the Yue clan is not as large as the number of the Qin army, the grassland is a place where the cavalry gallops, and most of the Qin army's troops are foot soldiers, and it is impossible to be the opponent of the Yue clan's cavalry on the grassland."

"Hahaha, here's your chance!"

Tou Manshan made up for the fierce battle situation in Henan.

He looked at Hu Yanyu, who came to report the news, and said with a smile: "Do you still remember what the old Yan King said about the snipe and clam fighting and the fisherman profiting. ”

Hu Yanyu blinked, and also remembered the story that Yan Wangxi had said, and replied: "It seems to say that a river mussel is basking in the sun with its shell open." When one of the sandpipers saw it, it stretched out its beak and pecked at the mussel's flesh. The mussels hurriedly closed their shells and clamped the beaks of the sandpiper tightly, but none of them would let go. Finally, a passing fisherman saw it and caught them both. ”

Tou Manshan Yu laughed and said: "Yes, don't you think that the current Yueshi is the river mussel basking in the sun, and the Qin people are the stupid sandpiper bird with the mussel between its beaks?" ”

"And my great plough will be the last fisherman!"

Tou Man's eyes are bright.

He seemed to see the scene where he wiped out Qin Jun and Yue's family.

(End of chapter)