Liaodong County, north of the Liao River.

It was autumn, and the withered grass in the wilderness was swaying in the cold wind, and the whole earth was only yellow, withered and dull yellow, and lacked life.

In the middle of nowhere, a black procession was heading north at dusk.

Ahead, several fast horses galloped towards them.

A young man in his twenties, Qin Jiang, immediately reported to Li Xin.

"General, the king of Donghu has accepted the cattle, sheep and treasures offered by the general, and is waiting for the day after tomorrow to make an alliance with the general, and has not been aware of our army's plan. The general will win a great victory if he moves tonight! ”

Li Xin said, "Well, it's done well." Luan Bu, you have seen the king of Donghu and their nobles, I will give you a hundred people. When you launch a night attack tonight, you should take people to capture and kill the king of Donghu and the dignitaries of Donghu, and return with great merit! ”

Luan Bu's eyes lit up, and he immediately responded with a full of anger: "Luan Bu will not let the general down!" ”

looked at the young Qin general in front of him with a heroic face, full of energy and vitality.

Li Xin's eyes were a little dazed, always thinking of another young man he had promoted.

It's just that the man who has grown up now is out of his reach.

"The night attack on King Donghu, I have been planning for half a year, this is the battle of my Li Xin's resurrection, and I must not afford to lose!"

Li Xin held the reins in his hand tightly and looked at the silent field ahead, his eyes full of determination.

The battle to recover Liaodong had lasted two years, and Li Xin changed his previous rash and rash advances in the early stage of the war, and chose a strategy of steady and steady fighting.

After stabilizing Donghu, Li Xin spent a year expelling and defeating foreign forces such as Gaoyi, Hao, Qian, and Jizi Joseon, and the reason why it took so long was not how strong these tribes were, but the limitations of the geographical environment.

After exterminating and driving out these alien races, Li Xin turned around and dealt with Donghu again.

After all, Donghu is one of the three giants of today's grassland, occupying the vast eastern grassland, its power is strong, and it has more than 100,000 people who control the strings, and even the Xiongnu have to bow to it.

Decades ago, Yan General Qin Kai broke Donghu and expanded the land for thousands of miles. One of the important reasons is that Qin Kai "is a hostage to Hu, and Hu believes in it". Relying on his undercover career, Qin Kai was familiar with the intelligence and geography of Donghu, and profited from it, so that he could lead the Yan army to break Donghu.

Just looking at its own strength, Donghu is not weak.

Li Xin led only a small Qin expeditionary force, and there was no stirrups, Gaoqiao saddles and other equipment, how could it be so easy to deal with Donghu, which had more than 100,000 cavalry and occupied the home advantage, on the grassland.

After more than half a year of fierce battles, although Li Xin won several small victories, he did little damage to Donghu, and the other side still occupied the northeastern part of Liaoning.

Li Xin decided to change his strategy.

After thinking about it carefully, he decided to bribe the king of Donghu and his nobles, pretending to cease the war and beg for peace, so as to lure the king of Donghu to come here to make an alliance with the Qin army and jointly survey the border of Qinhu, and at the same time secretly prepare to break it with one blow!

After a long period of correspondence, Li Xin successfully dispelled the vigilance of the Donghu people, and won the friendship of the Donghu king with expensive gifts, believing that the Qin people were sincere in peace.

Tonight is the time for Qin Jun to make a move.

On a field north of the Liao River.

Tens of thousands of Donghu troops gathered here, and the smell of barbecue filled the air.

In King Hu's big tent, singing and dancing are leveled.

The Donghu nobles in the tent were nibbling on the oily barbecue in their hands, while staring at the orchids writhing and dancing seductively.

"Touman, that fool, took 100,000 people south and was attacked by the Qin people, and he was beaten with a lot of fart. Look at this king, just sitting here, the Qin people lowered their heads and sent gifts to sue for peace, and they also used cattle and sheep to redeem their land, hahaha, compared with this king, Touman is simply too weak and stupid. ”

The fat King Donghu chewed a piece of fat meat in his mouth, and the oily spit spittled far away.

The nobleman in the tent smiled and said: "Of course, Tou Man has dedicated his Yan clan to the king, how can a weak person like him compare with the king." ”

Hearing this, King Donghu looked at the Hun woman in his arms, lowered his head, and smacked it on her face with his big oily mouth.

He turned to the nobles in the tent and laughed.

"Touman's Yan clan is good, and this king likes it very much. I heard that this woman's son is very favored by Touman, and maybe he can become a Xiongnu Shan Yu in the future. ”

The Donghu nobles all laughed.

Someone quipped: "The Qin army is fighting against the Xiongnu in the west, we might as well wait for the Qin people to kill Touman, and then support her son to be the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and at that time, the king will be Shan Yu his father." ”

"That would make him call himself 'Erdanyu', haha."

The Donghu nobles laughed and joked, and said all kinds of obscene and obscene words, and the tent was full of laughter.

Some people even drank their milk wine, stretched out their hands and pointed to a young man sitting at the end of the tent, and laughed: "The king wants to be the father of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, don't we have a son here?" Let him be the son of the king, and we will support him to be a Hun Shan Yu, this will come quickly, hahaha! ”

The Hun clan, who was hugged by the king of Donghu, suddenly changed his face.

She wanted to speak, but when she saw that the King of Donghu in front of her seemed to be very interested in this proposal, and thought of the various methods of torturing people by the King of Donghu, she lowered her head in fear.

King Donghu looked at the end of the tent.

The young man, with his characteristic Hun braid and a half-moon-shaped scar on his forehead, was sitting there obediently, cutting pieces of meat for the nobles in the tent with the dagger in his hand.

Mao Dun, the eldest son of the Xiongnu head Mandanyu, was sent to Donghu as a hostage to beg Donghu to raise his noble hand to the Xiongnu in civil strife.

"Mao Dun, recognize me as my father, as soon as I am happy, maybe I will let you be a Hun Shan Yu."

King Donghu grinned and stared at the young man who was cutting meat.

Mao Dun raised his head, showed a bright smile, and shouted very dryly: "Father! ”

The nobles in the tent were stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"Hey, this king's great son!"

King Donghu answered, laughing until his stomach trembled.

His fat hand vigorously kneaded the Xiongnu Yan clan in his arms, and shouted: "Mao Dun Wu'er, call a few more times, the king who called is happy, and I will let you be the Xiongnu Shan Yu in the future." ”

Mao Dun simply threw down the things in his hand and walked to the feet of King Donghu.

"If the king does not give up, he is willing to worship the king as his father."

As he spoke, Mao Dun had already lowered his head and kissed the toes of King Donghu frantically.

"Hahaha......"

Seeing that Mao Dun was really coming, except for the Tie Qing on the face of the Xiongnu clan, everyone in the tent laughed, and King Donghu even laughed tears.

While playing with Touman's Yan, he asked Touman's son to call him his father.

King Donghu had a special pleasure.

Touman, Touman, I don't know how you feel when you see this scene.

King Donghu thought that if Mao Dun became a Xiongnu Shan Yu, then wouldn't he Donghu King really become Shan Yu's father, and he would definitely be more energetic.

He patted his belly and said with a smile: "Wu'er Maodun, when this king and the Qin people make an alliance, this king will send someone to help you be the Shan Yu of the Huns." ”

Mao Dun raised his head and said respectfully: "If my father can make my son a Xiongnu Shan Yu, my son will definitely make the Xiongnu the most loyal hunting dog of my father." ”

Donghu Wang Le smiled, and smiled at the nobles left and right: "I heard that the people of Zhuxia in the south talk about filial piety to their fathers, do you think my newly adopted son is filial piety?" ”

"Filial piety!"

"It's so filial!"

The nobles burst out laughing.

Maudon laughed too.

It's just that his smile is a little cold.

……

The dinner party of the Donghu people lasted for a long time, and when the full moon stood high in the sky and the time was past midnight, except for those who were in charge of the vigil, the Donghu people fell into a deep sleep one after another.

Under the cover of night, a large number of black-armored cavalry was rapidly approaching.

Because Qin sent Li Xin many times to send gifts to express his relenting. Coupled with the fact that the two parties agreed to make a covenant, the Donghu people who kept vigil were listless and unvigilant, and shrank by the fire to sleep.

They Donghu is the number one country on the grassland, and now that even the Qin people are instigated, who would dare to provoke them?

Until, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves approached from afar.

The first thing the Donghu people saw when they woke up was a sword reflecting the moonlight in the dark night, and a pair of excited eyes.

Among the cavalry of the Qin army that attacked the camp, there was a young Qin general with a hundred horsemen under his command and went straight to the tent of the king of Donghu that he saw during the day.

"Great Qin Iron Cavalry, indomitable!"

Luan Bu raised his arms and shouted, his eyes shining with excitement.

He was a native of Weidi, and when he was a teenager, because of his poor family, he rented a maid in Qi to protect the winemaker, and was later deceived by his fellow villagers in Wei and sold to Yan as a slave.

When the Qin army attacked Yanxiadu, Luan Bu once raised an uprising, which was quite famous for bravery. Later, his main family was killed, and Luan Bu avenged the main family and committed the crime as a prisoner.

happened to encounter Li Xin's expedition to Liaodong, and it was necessary to recruit strong men and a large number of people and prisoners from Yandi to serve in the army, so Luan Bu was sent to Liaodong to work and serve the army.

In an escort of grain and grass, the Qin army's grain team was attacked by the Hu people, Luan Bu stepped forward, fought with the Hu people with weapons, beheaded two of them, and was exempted from the crime with this merit, and was called into the army as a soldier.

Luan Bu fought bravely, dared to fight, and later made many military exploits, stood out in the army, entered the eyes of Li Xin, and promoted him.

Now, Luan Bu wants to capture and kill the king of Donghu and repay General Li for his promotion.

"I heard that the chief Zhao Tuo came out of General Li, from a pawn in the army to a famous general in the world, I should take him as a model!"

Luan Bu stepped forward and entered the Hu camp, shouting with hundreds of warriors behind him.

"Capture and kill the king of Donghu!"

The moon hangs high, and in its warm light, the grassland is constantly fighting.

The Donghu people were confused by Li Xin's previous posture and neglected their precautions, and when Luan Bu was on the envoy, he found out the location of the camp of the king of Donghu and led the Qin army to attack the king of Hu.

Under these circumstances, the Donghu people were unable to resist and suffered a heavy defeat, and the Donghu army either fled or died, or was captured by the Qin.

When the sun rises, the battle ends.

Li Xin rode a horse and stood in front of Hu Ying, looking at the messy battlefield in front of him, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked.

It's a big win!

A moment later, dozens of horsemen rushed in from a distance.

The first was Luan Bu, who he sent out to pursue and capture the king of Donghu.

"General Li, Luan Bu is fortunate not to be dishonored, and he returns with the head of King Donghu!"

Luan Bu turned over and dismounted, still carrying a bloody human head in his hand.

"Good, this is a great achievement!"

Li Xin's eyes flashed brightly, he didn't expect Luan Bu to really be able to capture and kill King Hu.

As soon as the king of Donghu died, the dragons of Donghu were leaderless, and he Li Xin could do more.

Luan Bu hesitated, but did not covet the full credit, and asked his subordinates to bring a Huren boy over.

"General Li, this person is the Xiongnu prince Maodun, who is hostage to Donghu, and in the chaos of the army, he rode a horse to guide us in the direction of Donghu's escape, and shot Donghu King with a bow and arrow!"

Li Xin's gaze looked at the young man with the scar on his forehead.

The young man Mao Dun knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Mao Dun was a proton in Donghu, and was bullied by the king of Donghu in every way, and he is willing to surrender to Daqin today." Mao Dun knew the intelligence and geography of Donghu, and was willing to lead the way for Daqin, go deep into the grassland, and completely destroy Donghu. ”

Li Xin's eyes narrowed slightly.

For the Xiongnu prince who was hostage to Donghu, it can be used.

"If you kill the king of Donghu, I will give you the reward you deserve, if you can eliminate Donghu, your benefits are indispensable."

Li Xin bowed his head and recognized the effect of Mao Dun.

"Thank you, General."

Mao was overjoyed, climbed in front of Li Xin, and stretched out his mouth to kiss Li Xin's feet.

Li Xin glanced at it with disgust.

However, he did not refuse, he knew that this was the other party's intention to surrender.

Li Xin glanced at the bloody human head on the ground again.

On the fat head of King Donghu, his eyes were wide open.

His gray eyes looked a little confused, as if he wondered who had shot him from whose hand the arrow had come from.

"King Donghu is dead."

"I will restore Liaodong completely, and destroy the trouble of Donghu, and expand the territory for Great Qin!"

Li Xin raised his head proudly and looked sideways in the direction of Xianyang in the west.

"When the time comes, I will be able to go back to see you, Zhao Tuo!"