General Qin

Liaodong County, north of the Liaohe River.

It's autumn, and the withered grass on the wilderness is swaying in the cold wind. The whole land is only withered, yellow and dark yellow, lacking vitality.

In the desert, a black team is heading north at dusk.

Ahead, several fast horses galloped forward.

A young Qin general in his twenties reported to Li Xin immediately.

"General, Donghu King has accepted the cattle, sheep and treasures offered by the general. He is waiting to make an alliance with the general in the future. He has not noticed our army's plan. The general will fight tonight, and he will win a big victory!"

Li Xin nodded and said: "Well, you did a good job. Luan Bu, you have seen Donghu King and their nobles. I will give you a hundred people. When you launch a night attack tonight, you should lead people to capture and kill Donghu King and their nobles. Donghu dignitaries, make great contributions and pay back!"

Luan Bu's eyes lit up, and he immediately responded with great enthusiasm: "Luan Bu will not let the general down!"

He looked at the young General Qin who was full of vigor and vigor, with a handsome face in front of him.

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

It's just that the man has grown so far that he is out of reach.

"I have been planning for half a year to attack King Donghu at night. This is the battle for Li Xin's resurgence, and there is no room for loss!"

Li Xin tightly held the rein in his hand, looking at the deserted wilderness ahead, his eyes were full of determination.

The battle to regain Liaodong has lasted for two years. At the beginning of the war, Li Xin changed from his previous rash advances and chose a steady and steady strategy. After the Qin army entered Liaodong, it first tied the Donghu, the largest force in the north.

After stabilizing Donghu, Li Xin spent a year expulsing and defeating foreign forces such as Gaoyi, Yan, Ji, and Jizi Korea. The reason why it took so long is not how strong these tribes are, but the geography environmental constraints.

After eliminating and expelling these alien races, Li Xin turned around to deal with Donghu again.

After all, Donghu is one of the three giants of the grassland today, occupying the vast eastern grassland, and its power is powerful, with more than 100,000 people who control strings, and even the Huns have to bow their heads to him.

Decades ago, General Qin Kai of Yan defeated Donghu and expanded the land thousands of miles away. One of the important reasons is that Qin Kai "belongs to Hu, and Hu really believes in him". Relying on his undercover career, Qin Kai was familiar with Donghu's intelligence and geography, and profited from it, so that he could lead the Yan army to defeat Donghu.

Just looking at his own strength, Donghu is not considered weak.

What Li Xin led was only a small Qin expeditionary force, without stirrups, high bridge saddles and other equipment. It was not so easy to deal with Donghu, who had hundreds of thousands of cavalry on the grassland and still had the home court advantage.

After more than half a year of fierce fighting, although Li Xin won a few small victories, they did little damage to Donghu. The opponent still occupied the northern part of Liaodong.

Li Xin decided to change his strategy.

After serious consideration, he decided to bribe King Donghu and his nobles, pretending to cease fighting and beg for peace, so as to lure King Donghu to come here to make an alliance with the Qin army and jointly determine the borders of Qin and Hu. At the same time, he secretly prepared to break it with one blow. !

After a long period of communication, Li Xin successfully dispelled the wariness of the Donghu people, and won the friendship of the Donghu King with expensive gifts, thinking that the Qin people really made peace.

Tonight is the time for Qin Jun to act.

In a field north of the Liaohe River.

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

In Hu Wang's big tent, singing and dancing are peaceful.

The Donghu nobleman in the tent was gnawing on the oily barbecue in his hands, while staring at the orchids wriggling their bodies and doing seductive dances.

"That idiot Touman brought 100,000 people to the south and was attacked by the Qin people. The shit was beaten. Look at me, just sitting here, the Qin people bowed their heads and gave gifts to ask for peace, and even used cattle and sheep. Come to buy their land, hahaha, compared with this king, Touman is simply too weak and stupid."

The fat King Donghu was chewing a piece of fat in his mouth, spraying oily saliva far away.

The nobleman in the tent smiled and said: "Of course, Touman dedicated his Yan family 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 sucked her face hard with his big oily mouth.

He turned his head and smiled at the nobles in the account.

"Touman's Yan family is good, and this king likes it very much. I heard that this woman's son is very popular with Touman, and maybe he can become the Shanyu of the Xiongnu in the future."

The nobles of Donghu all laughed.

Someone joked: "The Qin army is fighting against the Xiongnu in the west. We might as well wait for the Qin people to kill Touman and support her son to be the Shanyu of the Huns. At that time, the king will be Shanyu's father."

"That would allow him to call himself 'Er Shanyu', haha."

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

Someone even got drunk with kumiss, pointed to a young man sitting at the end of the tent, and said with a big laugh, "Your Majesty wants to be the father of the Xiongnu Chanyu. Don't we have Touman's son here? Let him be the king's son. Let's support him as the Shanyu of the Xiongnu, and it will come soon, hahaha!"

Hun Yan, who was embraced by King Donghu, suddenly changed his face.

She wanted to speak, but seeing that King Donghu in front of her seemed very interested in this proposal, and thinking of King Donghu's various torture methods, she lowered her head in fear.

King Donghu looked towards the end of the tent.

The young man wore the unique braids of the Huns and had a half-moon scar on his forehead. He was sitting there obediently, using the dagger in his hand to cut pieces of meat for the nobles in the tent.

Mao Dun, the eldest son of Hun Tou Manchanyu, was sent to Donghu as a hostage, begging Donghu to show respect to the Xiongnu in civil strife.

"Modun, recognize me as your father. If I am happy, maybe I will let you be the Hun Shanyu."

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

Mao Dun raised his head, showed a bright smile, and called out very simply: "Father!"

The nobles in the tent were startled, then burst out laughing.

"Hey, my king's big boy!"

King Donghu responded, laughing until his stomach trembled.

While kneading the Xiongnu Yanshi in his arms fiercely with his fat hands, he shouted: "Modunwu, please shout a few more times to make this king happy, and I will let you be the Xiongnu Shanyu in the future."

Mao Dun simply dropped the things in his hands, and walked to Donghu King's feet on his knees.

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

As he said that, Mo Dun lowered his head and kissed King Donghu's toes frantically.

"Hahaha……"

Seeing Mao Dunlai really, except for Xiongnu Yan's face that was livid, everyone in the tent laughed together, Donghu King laughed so much that tears came out.

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

Donghu Wang had a special pleasure.

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

King Donghu also thought that if Mao Dun became the Shanyu of the Huns, wouldn't King Donghu really become Shanyu's father, and he would definitely be more excited.

He patted his belly and laughed, "My son, Maodun, once the king and the people of Qin make a covenant, the king will send someone to help you become the Shanyu of the Xiongnu."

Mao Dun raised his head and said respectfully: "If the father can let the son be the Shanyu of the Xiongnu, the son will make the Huns the most loyal hunting dog of the father."

Donghu Wang was happy, and smiled at the nobles on the left and right: "I heard that the people of the Xia in the south said that they should be filial to their father. Do you think my new son is filial or not?"

"filial piety!"

"Too filial piety!"

The nobles laughed out loud.

Mao Dun also laughed.

It's just his smile, a little cold.

...

The Donghu people's dinner lasted for a long time. When the full moon stood high in the sky and it was past midnight, all the Donghu people fell asleep one after another except for those who were in charge of the night watch.

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

Because Qin general Li Xin sent people to send gifts many times to express his softness. Coupled with the fact that the two parties agreed to make a covenant, the Donghu people who were watching the night were listless and unvigilant, curled up by the fire and slept.

Their Donghu is the largest country on the grassland, and now that even the people of Qin have been persuaded, who would dare to provoke them?

Until, the sound of rumbling horseshoes approached from a distance.

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

Among the cavalry of the Qin Army who attacked the camp, there was even a young Qin general who led a hundred cavalry under his command and went straight to the Donghu King's tent that he had seen during the day.

"Daqin iron cavalry, go forward indomitable!"

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

He is a native of Wei. When he was young, because of his poor family, he rented a servant in Qi to serve as a wine guarantor. Later, he was deceived by his fellow villagers in Wei and sold him as a slave in the kingdom of Yan.

When the Qin army attacked the capital of Yanxia, ​​Luan Bu raised an uprising and was quite famous for his bravery. Later, his master's family was murdered, Luan Bu avenged his master's family, and committed a crime as a prisoner.

It happened that when Li Xin conquered Liaodong, he needed to recruit strong men and a large number of civilian husbands and prisoners from Yan to join the army. Luan Bu was sent to Liaodong to work and serve the army.

During an escort of grain and grass, the grain team of the Qin army was attacked by Hu people. Luan Bu stepped forward and fought with the Hu people with weapons. He beheaded two of them.

Luan Bu fought bravely and dared to fight hard. Later, he made many military exploits and stood out from the army. He fell into the eyes of Li Xin and promoted him.

Now, Luan Bu wanted to capture and kill King Donghu to repay General Li for his promotion.

"I heard that Zhao Tuo, the great concubine, came out of General Li's command. He became a famous general in the world from a small soldier. I should take him as a role model!"

Luan Bu rushed forward on his horse and charged into the Hu camp, shouting with hundreds of warriors behind him.

"Capture and kill King Donghu!"

The moon hung high, and under its warm light, fighting continued on the grassland.

The Donghu people were confused by Li Xin's previous posture, and they were negligent. In addition, Luan Bu found out the location of Donghu King's camp when he was on a mission, and led the Qin army to attack King Hu's place.

In this case, the Donghu people had no ability to resist and were defeated miserably. The Donghu army either fled or died, or were captured by the Qin people.

When the sun rose, the battle came to an end.

Li Xin stood in front of Hu Ying on horseback, looking at the messy battlefield in front of him, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

This is a big win!

A moment later, dozens of riders came rushing from a distance.

The leader was Luan Bu who he sent out to chase and kill King Donghu.

"General Li, Luan Bu was fortunate enough to not disgrace his life, and returned with the head of King Donghu!"

Luan Bu got off his horse, holding a bleeding head in his hand.

"Good, this is a great achievement!"

The light in Li Xin's eyes flashed brightly, he didn't expect that Luan Bu could really capture and kill King Hu.

Once the Donghu king died, the Donghu group would have no leader, and Li Xin could do a lot.

Luan Bu hesitated for a moment, but he didn't want to do all the work, so he asked his subordinates to bring a barbarian boy over.

"General Li, this man is Maodun, the prince of the Huns, who is a hostage to Donghu. He rode a horse to guide us in the direction of Donghu's escape in the rebellious army, and shot him to death with a bow and arrow!"

Li Xin looked at the boy with the scar on his forehead.

The young man Maodun knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Modun was a hostage in Donghu, and was bullied by the king of Donghu in every possible way. Today, he is willing to surrender to Daqin. Maodun knows the information and geography of Donghu, and is willing to lead the way for Daqin, go deep into the grassland, and completely destroy Donghu. .”

Li Xin narrowed his eyes slightly.

For the Xiongnu prince who is in Donghu, he can use it.

"If you kill King Donghu, I will give you the reward you deserve. If Donghu can be eliminated, your benefits will be indispensable."

Li Xin nodded, acknowledging Maodun's contribution.

"Thank you General."

Overjoyed, Mao Dun climbed up to Li Xin, stretched out his mouth and kissed Li Xin's feet.

Li Xin glanced at him in disgust.

But he didn't refuse, he knew that this was the meaning of the other party's submission.

Li Xin took another look at the bloody head on the ground.

On Donghu King's fat head, his eyes opened wide.

The gray eyes looked a little confused, as if he was wondering who shot the arrow that shot at him.

"King Donghu is dead."

"I will completely restore Liaodong, wipe out the troubles of the Donghu, and expand the border for the Great Qin!"

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

"At that time, I will be able to go back to see you, Zhao Tuo!"