Qin Official

Four hundred miles north of Jicheng (Beijing) in Guangyang County, there is a vast sandy land (Hunshandake Desert).

Although there are many small lakes scattered in the sandy land, the natural conditions are many times better than those in the Great Gobi. However, herdsmen are more willing to find fertile pastures, so this area became empty and became the natural dividing line between the Xiongnu and Donghu. It is "Outuo".

At the edge of Outuo, on the midsummer grassland, dried blood condensed. Countless bodies of men and horses lay in the grass up to their calves. Vultures and crows circled high in the sky. Groups of jackals kept coming and gnawing. Eat and drag corpses...

Xiang Liang rode with his nephew Xiang Zhuang during the ride. What he saw was shocking. Xiang Liang couldn't help but sigh: "Maodun Shanyu has the appearance of Goujian. He can endure humiliation and bear the burden for ten years, and finally defeats Donghu and avenges great humiliation. He is really heroic!"

It turned out that since the beginning of spring, Mao Dun took the entire tribe and began a long journey, from the bitter cold land of Mobei, across the Great Gobi, to the Monan grassland, stopping and stopping along the way, and finally arrived at Outuo at the end of April - -This is where the Xiongnu paid tribute to King Donghu every year.

In previous years, Maodun offered a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and leather, but this year it was particularly humiliating. King Donghu asked him for a BMW and a family.

There were many voices of opposition in the Xiongnu tribe, but Mao Dun said: "Why do you love a horse or a woman when you are a neighboring country?"

The Xiongnu's left and right lords, left and right Guduhou, etc. were all very disappointed when they saw that the Great Chanyu was so cowardly. The right Guduhou made rude remarks and became so angry that he drew his sword to kill the Donghu envoy.

Mao Dun immediately ordered him to take him down, drag him to the tent, and whip him dozens of times until his right bone was dripping with blood all over his body. He fainted, and ordered him to be locked in a sheepfold and dragged out to feed the vultures another day.

So Mao Dun generously gave the Yan family, his beloved horses, and a large number of cattle and sheep to King Donghu. He also sent an eloquent envoy and ordered him to say something to King Donghu: "From now on, the two races must be as close as one family."

But as soon as the Donghu envoy left with the crying Yan family, Mao Dun changed his expression, released the Right Bone Lord, and solemnly apologized to him.

"After several years of recuperation, the Xiongnu are no less capable than Donghu. However, I am afraid that the loss will be too great in a direct attack, so it is better to attack by surprise. I would rather lose the Yan family and BMW than die one more Huns, so I gave the Yan family a gift , Haoma and the King of Donghu, just to make him think that the Huns are weak and not take precautions, they gathered their troops and attacked Donghu tomorrow!"

All the generals paid homage to him, and Lord Yougudu was even more excited. He fell to the ground and thanked him, asking him to be the vanguard. Mao Dun agreed, and the troops were divided into three groups. They were all elite cavalry. They stopped during the day and stayed overnight. They marched around the small road from the Outuo Desert. When they encountered herdsmen, they captured them all and followed them to avoid revealing the military plan.

The Donghu people, on the other hand, were originally on guard, but when they saw Mao Dun offering the Yan clan and the famous horse without saying a word, they felt relieved after hearing the humiliating words of the Huns' envoy. They withdrew the defenders and stayed in the tent for days. Drinking and feasting.

It is said that after King Donghu got drunk, he rode his thousand-mile horse with the Xiongnu family. He was so happy...

Unexpectedly, the Huns suddenly launched an attack and rushed in like the earth was shattering at dawn. The Donghu people were either drunk or sleeping. In panic, the soldiers had no fighting spirit and were immediately defeated. King Donghu also died in the chaos.

After the battle, most of the tens of thousands of horsemen brought by King Donghu were killed, and the rest fled. Maodun took advantage of the victory and pursued them, letting his cavalry chase the remnants of Donghu all the way to Chifeng of Donghu Mountain hundreds of miles away, knocking down stone cairns, burning felt tents, and leaving a trail of blackness. Smoke billowed up into the blue sky.

Afterwards, the Huns rode back and forth on horseback, waving their long whips, urging the survivors to leave the smoking tents, killing the young men, and brought all the women and children who had not had time to escape back to Outuo to pay tribute to Maodun.

The Donghu women were expressionless and lifeless, and they pulled their sobbing children with staggering steps. As grassland residents, they knew their next fate.

Moton was a generous Chanyu. He announced that the population captured by everyone would belong to themselves!

This move won cheers from the Huns, and all the women of Donghu were divided up. What followed was a hysterical rape orgy. Atrocities occurred in almost every felt tent. Xiang Liang listened to the women's wails and sobs all night.

The Xiongnu men were taking revenge. When the Xiongnu were weak, didn't Donghu treat the annihilated Xiongnu tribe in the same way?

Like the Donghu people, the Huns also practiced robbery as a custom. Lan, the Huns who acted as translator for Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew, said proudly:

"Many years ago, a man from a distant tribe came to Lanbu with his wife as a guest. My father took a fancy to his wife. After the guest left, he immediately led his brothers to kill the man and snatch his wife back. …”

"Six months later, the woman gave birth to her eldest son, who was my brother, and I was the woman's third child. Yes, she was my mother."

The eldest son of the Lan family is obviously the child of his predecessor, but his father does not feel dissatisfied and treats him as his own.

This is a custom that Xiang Liang cannot understand. In the Central Plains, robbery and rape will be punished, especially in the Qin State. However, on the grasslands, these evil deeds are the natural way of life of the Huns and Donghu people, and they are even praised.

The next day, Xiang Liang once again saw the cruelty of the Huns. They took off the pants of thousands of captive Donghu children. The girls were lucky and pushed them into their mother's arms. As for the boys? As long as it is higher than the wheel, there is only a dead end.

Those Donghu teenagers were taken to the desert to be slaughtered, but their mother just held her daughter in her arms and watched them go away with tears in her eyes. When they left, they were a large and dark group, but when they came back, they were just talking and laughing. Hun rider.

There are also bloody bronze swords.

Lan's translator shrugged and said disapprovingly: "If the Xiongnu were defeated by Donghu, they would also end up like this."

Xiang Liang finally understood the grassland. The residents here regard the law of the jungle as the rule of life. In their eyes, other people are just prey, and it is much easier to kill a person than a sheep.

When the opponent is strong, if you cannot kill the opponent, you will use the most humble and submissive attitude to flatter the opponent and deceive the opponent's trust. Then look for opportunities to kill them. In their eyes, even if they offer their wives to their enemies for sexual pleasure, as long as they win in the end, it is something worthy of praise and pride.

As for after victory, there is little forgiveness and generosity, but hysterical venting of revenge and brutality for brutality. Therefore, wherever the Hu people go, there is often destruction instead of construction, and civilization is reduced to nothing.

"Should Chu treat Qin like this?"

Xiang Liang thought this way. He heard from people in Zhongyuan that his nephew Xiang Ji had marched into the Central Plains, and the Qin Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse due to rebellion at home and abroad. If the Xiongnu attacked again from the north...

So Xiang Liang asked Maodun: "Please let us go south from Dai, and use the Zhao State to go to the Central Plains, so that we can contact the Chu State for the Great Chanyu!"

Maodun agreed to let fifty cavalry escort Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew south.

But Modun himself was not in a hurry to leave. By mid-May, this great pursuit lasted for more than half a month. The people under King Donghu fell on the vast grassland and fled in all directions. I don’t know how many Donghu people Died in this massacre.

The still alive Donghu people no longer dared to return to Chishan. They divided into two groups and began to evacuate towards the two grazing areas of Donghu.

One is deep in the Far East Grassland, called Wuhuan Mountain.

One is in the deep mountains and old forests of the Daxinganling Mountains in the northeast, called the Daxianbei Mountains...

Similar stories will be played out countless times in the grasslands in the next thousand years.

But now, it is the Xiongnu who has replaced Donghu and become the most powerful tribe on the grassland...

After this battle, Maodun was regarded as a powerful force in the grassland, and all the people who led the bow were afraid of submission.

…

In late May, after the last pursuing troops returned, a loud cry rang out from Outuo.

"Support the plow and Gutu Shanyu!"

"Support the plow and Gutu Shanyu!"

"Plough" means "Heaven" in the Xiongnu language, "Gutu" means "child", and "Chanyu" means "vast".

Son of the vast sky!

The proud man of heaven!

The Huns thought that Maodun was now worthy of this name!

But what was Modu doing? He was standing in the tent, peeing into a urinal made of the skull of King Donghu.

Behind Mao Dun, her wife, Yan, was kneeling in disheveled clothes. Just now, Mao Dun greeted her in a rude way, and asked her in her ear, how did King Donghu do it before?

Ms. Yan felt that her husband should have "forgived" her for losing her virginity.

After all, he was the one who personally sent her to King Donghu...

"Mr. Yan, you have made great contributions to the Xiongnu."

Modu turned around, his smile still tender.

"So now, I'm going to place you in the North Sea (Lake Baikal)."

Yan's face suddenly turned pale. Beihai was the northernmost territory of the Xiongnu. It was originally the territory of the Dingling people. After Maodun defeated the Dingling people, it became a place of exile.

It's extremely cold there, with snow falling in August, and the blue ice not melting until March of the following year. When it's the coldest, people will freeze into icicles when they urinate. How can it be a place for humans?

She hugged Modun's legs and begged for mercy: "Da Shanyu, didn't you say that I have made great contributions..."

Modun pinched her chin, feeling heartbroken: "But when I saw you, I remembered that you had been insulted by King Donghu, and my heart ached. It's not necessarily good."

Yanshi was desperate and screamed at the top of her lungs: "Didn't Shanyu once say that I am your moon..."

Modun lowered his head and looked at her with pity:

"Mr. Yan, do you know? Before you, there was another woman in Maodun. She was my first Mr. Yan and was called the moon of Helan Mountain."

"But later, I gave her to King Yuezhi in exchange for the opportunity to borrow troops, and then I killed Touman and won the position of Shanyu."

"After the demise of the Yuezhi, she came to seek refuge with me, taking the children of the king of the Guizhou clan with her. I was very generous and allowed her and the children to live in Beihai. I also promised that as long as the ram can give birth to babies, You can come back."

He patted Yan's face and wiped away her tears:

"So don't worry, you won't be lonely in Beihai, of course, provided they are still alive."

"And in Maodun, there will always be a new Yan clan."

"I will definitely love them as much as I loved you before!"

After saying that, regardless of Yan's cries, Maodun had people drag her into a high cart and drive to the north.

But now, he can raise the Chanyu's eagle flag high and announce where the Xiongnu will go next, amidst the cry of "support the plow and spread the Chanyu".

"He is a proud man of heaven!"

“From Beihai in the north to Helan in the south, they are all pastures given by heaven!”

Modun Shanyu put on an eagle crown decorated with green feathers and waved a sharp blade decorated with gold:

"Go west, back to the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and back to Manchester City!"

"What the father throws away, the son must take back!"

"The Chanyu Royal Court is moving back to Monan!"

"Let the Chinese tremble at the sound of the Huns' hooves again!"

…

Fusu had just learned that Donghu had been defeated by the Xiongnu.

"Now the Donghu people can't protect themselves, so they can't enter the Great Wall to plunder."

When his subordinates all looked happy and felt that Liaodong and Liaoxi were safe from now on, Fusu's worries became more and more serious:

"Nine years ago, I served as a supervisor in Heifu's army. I drove the Xiongnu hundreds of miles away. There was no royal court in Monan. Then the Xiongnu disappeared for nearly ten years. Now Maodun has merged with Donghu. Its strength has greatly increased, and the grassland has returned. There is no strong enemy, but the Central Plains is in turmoil, the garrison troops are rebellious, and the Great Wall is empty. Will the Huns take the opportunity to attack southward and try to retake Shuofang?"

But now is not the time to worry about the Xiongnu. Fusu has now left Yangle (Yixian, Liaoning) and arrived at Tuhe (Jinzhou, Liaoning) with three thousand forwards.

Tuhe is the entrance to the Liaoxi Corridor. It is surrounded by mountains and seas, isolated from the Rong and Hu, and the land is vast and diverse.

However, there are almost no other cities within a month's journey of nearly four hundred miles to the west until Jieshi. At most, there are a few inns along Chidao, and most of them were destroyed in the turmoil.

If they want to move westward through the Liaoxi Corridor, logistical supplies will be a big problem.

What's more, the "Yan Kingdom" to the west will never give way easily.

Therefore, Fusu decided to let the army rest and train in Yangle first. He brought thousands of people to Tuhe. He would make a decision after finding out the movements of Yan's army.

Like many cities along the way from eastern Liaoning to western Liaoning, there are no Qin officials in Tuhe.

However, upon learning that Fusu had arrived, the local elders still went out of the city to greet him. Fusu had passed through this place during his Eastern Expedition a few years ago. Over the past few months, his reputation had become more and more prominent. People from Tuhe came out of the city to watch, and the city gate was crowded for a while.

Fusu's style has always been to win the favor of the head of Guizhou, but it is not as simple as in the past. The security work is in place. The personal guards will surround the city gate thirty steps and no unauthorized entry is allowed. The elders' wine is also sent to be prepared in advance. Okay, let the guards pour it to avoid poisoning.

He has indeed changed, and he is becoming more and more like a certain person in the way he handles things.

I especially remember that when he saw this scene in Huamachi, Fusu also questioned that Heifu was too suspicious and hurt the hearts of the local tribes, causing their good intentions to go to waste.

"My young master."

Heifu said this at the time: "If something really happened, and the dignified county captain died on the spot, and if we were to investigate afterwards, the people who came to greet me today would be prosecuted regardless of whether they were innocent or innocent. Then we would have really let down their good intentions. Here! Be careful about sailing the ten thousand year ship!"

It sounds timid to sail with caution, but now that I think about it, it actually makes sense.

At this moment, Fusu was taking the drinks offered by the elders. Before he could drink it, he suddenly heard someone next to him shout:

"King, be careful!"

Fusu glanced at him, and saw Liu Ji, who was standing next to him, and who had been quite trusted recently, suddenly drew his blade, rushed within one step of him, raised the blade high, and was about to strike down in front of Fusu!

There were exclamations of surprise. Fusu had some skills. After sensing the danger, he immediately threw the wine cup and rolled to avoid it.

"Ding dong!" But there was a loud noise, and it was Liu Ji who waved his hands and blocked a short halberd thrown from nowhere!

Its target is naturally where Fusu was standing just now!

"There's an assassination!"

At the edge of the city gate, something happened suddenly. Everyone was dumbfounded or shocked, but Liu Ji shouted loudly and asked his guards to protect Fusu.

Thirty steps away, among the crowd of onlookers, apart from the assassin who suddenly threw a halberd because he was too conspicuous and was shot to death by his bodyguard's crossbow, there were more than a dozen big men in brown clothes who suddenly took out their hidden weapons. Wanting to break through the crowd, they rushed towards Fusu.

They also shouted in Yandi accent:

"Kill Qin Lu!"

…

ps: Chapter 2 is at night.

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