Chapter 1: Hu Yangpo's Twists and Turns (1)
The next day, the father and son had breakfast, Tuoba Jie meditated and practiced, Dou Tianzhi said that he went out to the street, he wanted to see if the place where the Xiongnu Kingdom built weapons could rebuild an umbrella handle for himself. After walking through several weapons workshops, he finally found the iron-smelting process like the Han Dynasty, and waited for the smelting of bronze to make the umbrella handle before he came out of the weapons workshop.
Near noon, Dou Tianzhi thought of the decisive battle of Huyangpo in Tuoba Jie's afternoon, and decided to go to Huyangpo to inspect the terrain first. He went out of the city about ten miles to the east, and saw a hillside full of poplar forests, and there was a path that separated the woods from north to south, and it was indeed a good forest, and the leaves covered the sky and the sun, and the forest was silent, and the occasional bird's cry was unusually terrifying. Dou Tianzhi looked around, walked quickly into the woods to the south, and walked inside.
The forest was quiet and deep, and he suddenly thought: "Why don't you hide and wait for Jie'er to fight in case of accidents." He leaned into a tall poplar tree and waited for Tuoba Xue and Tuoba Jie.
Tuoba Jie grew up in the Han Dynasty since he was a child, has been living with Dou Tianzhi, deeply influenced by Dou Tianzhi, and is also a man's husband, is a person who must go to an appointment.
Approaching noon, Tuoba Jie really arrived at the poplar as agreed, he looked at the dense poplar forests everywhere, tied his horse and dodged into the woods to the south, jumped into the trees and waited for Tuoba Snow to arrive. After waiting in the forest for a long time, there was still no trace of Tuoba Xue, and I suddenly thought in my heart: "Could it be that I am afraid and will not come?"
While he was thinking, a war horse suddenly galloped from the path, and Tuoba Jie was in the tree, peeking at it. The horses came from far and near, and immediately sat a girl, running while the horse whipped, only to see that the girl had a fair complexion, willow eyebrows and almond eyes, cloud temples fluttering, graceful figure, wearing a red embroidered satin coat, and the Hun women dressed differently, at a glance to know the foreign women, look at their dress, is not an ordinary girl.
When he arrived at the poplar slope, he quickly entered the woods to the north, jumped down, touched the horse's neck, and said, "You have to wait for me in the depths of the forest, the farther away the better!" The girl slapped the horse twice, and the horse ran towards the depths of the poplar forest. When the girl saw that the horses were gone, she flew up the tree and hid herself in the head of a leafy tree.
Just as Tuoba Jie saw clearly that it was not the person who was about to fight, dozens of war horses came in the distance, getting closer and closer, the people on the horse were completely different from the Huns, they were all silk handkerchiefs, wearing white martial clothes, embroidered with auspicious patterns, waist fine red silk, feet pedaling black combat boots, similar to the Han people's dress, all of them looked like standing eyebrows, carrying bows and arrows, holding a pair of double knives, at a glance it looked very princely general's style, but it can be confirmed that it is not a person from the Xiongnu country.
When they arrived at the edge of the poplar forest, the leader took the reins of his horse and said, "You must have entered the woods, search for me!" These people immediately divided into two columns, one column into the south forest, the other into the north forest, and after searching for half an hour, a general came out and said: "Prince Qiyu, I didn't find it!" I saw that this man called the prince was burly, and he looked like a brave and good fighter, and said: "Set fire to the whole forest." "The soldier is lighting a fire,
Suddenly, dozens of war horses flew out of the South Forest, only to see the head of a hand, wearing a silver helmet, wearing a yellow robe, with a cross flower arrangement around his waist tied on both sides, stepping off the spear in the horse's palm, the figure is handsome, sitting upright on the horse, it can be described as majestic, this person raised a spear and shouted at the prince: "Stop!" The prince looked stunned, and said with some differences: "Murong Detao, it's you again?" You Xianbei deceive people too much, just a tribe, repeatedly come to my Loulan to plunder, these years, my father went to the Han Dynasty to learn to govern the country, and had no intention of fighting with you Xianbei, today, I was bumped into by my lieutenant Chi Kunyu again, it is really a narrow road!"
The person known as Murong Detao drove his horse forward slowly, and said in a sarcastic tone: "Yu Chi Kunyu, you are really ashamed, your Loulan is attached to the Han Dynasty on the one hand, and the Xiongnu on the other hand, and you actually do something to steal chickens and dogs, won't it make the world laugh!" Murong Detao's words hit the weakness of Loulan Kingdom.
For a long time, because Loulan was located in the transportation fortress between the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions, the Han Dynasty could not cross Loulan to attack the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu must also use the power of Loulan to threaten the Han Dynasty. Therefore, both the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu tried their best to implement a policy of tenderness towards Loulan.
Loulan sometimes became the eyes and ears of the Xiongnu, and sometimes it was attached to the Han Dynasty, between the two major powers of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, skillfully maintaining its political life. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he once sent troops to attack Loulan, and as a sign of surrender, Prince Loulan was sent to the Han Dynasty as a hostage. Loulan was helpless and at the same time sent a prince to the Xiongnu, saying that he would strictly maintain neutrality between the Xiongnu and the Han.
Murong Detao's words ruthlessly revealed the embarrassing situation that Loulan had been in between the two parties for a hundred years and was difficult to gain a foothold, which was the sore spot of Loulan's life and a fact that Loulan people could not accept.
Yu Chi Kunyu was furious, so angry that the two knives in his hands were staggered, the cold air was shining, and he roared loudly: "Murong Detao, your Xianbei tribe is even more despicable and shameless, and you actually came to the Xiongnu country to explore the mandarin duck copper lock!"
Murong Detao clenched the spear in his hand and said: "The mandarin duck copper lock is the cavalry and archery martial arts of Li Guang, the general of the Han Dynasty, I Xianbei has no intention of plundering, but what does this mandarin duck copper lock have to do with your Loulan?"
Murong Detao stared intently and said: "I am a family of Xianbei Murong and a friend of the Han Dynasty, how can the things of the Han Dynasty fall into the hands of other countries?" ”
Murong Detao didn't want to be entangled by Yu Chi Kunyu, and he was worried about the woman in red in the woods, so he shook the spear with both hands and said, "Then it depends on whether my spear agrees or not!" As he spoke, the spear had already stabbed at Yu Chi Kunyu.