The winter on the grassland is extremely cold, with dark sky and heavy goose-feather snow.

In just one night, the ground had accumulated enough thickness to reach the ankles, making a crunching sound when walking on it.

Whenever winter comes, it is the beginning of a disaster for the grassland peoples.

War horses, cattle and sheep that have been raised for a year will quickly lose weight in this winter.

There is no livestock shed like the Central Plains Dynasty to protect it from wind and rain, and there is no shelter in all directions.

For the grassland people, spending the winter means a group of people get together and hug each other to tide over this difficult time.

It is difficult for cattle, sheep and horses without any shelter to survive this winter.

So their home is a shed built by herdsmen with stones or wood and hay before winter.

This kind of temporary shed can barely block the wind and snow. Basically every year, the shed will be collapsed by the snow, and then a large number of cattle and sheep will die. If the snow falls more heavily, the tent will collapse

, directly causing casualties.

Located in Longcheng, the King's Court of the Huns, more than a thousand miles away from the northern Han territory, a group of cavalry was slowly approaching.

For them, early winter is not intolerable.

Today's Xiongnu is also a process of accumulating self-confidence.

The leader is none other than the current star of the Huns, the Luotang family.

In the early years, the Kuantang clan was not taken seriously and was sent to Yuezhi by Touman Chanyu to be a proton. Later, Touman Chanyu ignored the safety of the Kuantang clan and rashly sent troops to attack the Yuezhi.

Yueshi was so angry that he wanted to kill him, but Luotuan took advantage of the chaos and escaped and returned to the Huns.

Touman Shanyu felt that perhaps the Luotian clan did not deserve to die, or perhaps it was because he thought that his ability to come back alive meant that he had good luck.

So he happily gave him 10,000 troops.

After receiving the troops and horses, the Luotian clan began to work hard to strengthen their power, and they won many battles when attacking the Yueshi clan.

Touman Shanyu was very happy that his son finally had someone who could beat him.

Under the Luantang clan's southern and northern campaigns, the Xiongnu unification accelerated.

However, now, the Luantang family has made a very dangerous move, which makes Touman Chanyu very dissatisfied.

So he called back the Luotian family who was away, intending to scold him severely and teach him a lesson.

Entering the main tent of the royal court, Mr. Luantan secretly glanced at Touman Chanyu with cold eyes, and then bowed politely.

However, Touman Chanyu in the tent did not notice anything unusual about Luotuan.

"Who asked you to attack the Yuezhi?" Touman Shanyu asked in an even colder tone.

"The King of Han sent envoys to Yuezhi, and King Yuezhi promised to give them 300,000 war horses. If we don't take the opportunity to attack Yuezhi, and when Han has enough cavalry, the Xiongnu's advantage will no longer exist." Luantang's tone was flat.

said.

"Can your attack this time stop the Yuezhi from giving Han war horses? Tell me how many you captured?" Touman Chanyu said sarcastically.

"Of course not, but we must teach the Yuezhi people a lesson. This time we captured nearly 10,000 horses and more than 200,000 cattle and sheep," said the Luotang clan.

"For the Yuezhi people, these are just a pain at most. If you do this, they will speed up their defection to the Han. Also, who asked you to send troops to the border of the Han?" Shanyu Touman continued to ask.

"The purpose of sending troops to the border of Han is to attract the attention of Han so that they cannot focus on the Yuezhi side and prepare for our spring offensive. If the Han army joins in, our plan to exterminate the Yuezhi people will be

I'm afraid it won't go smoothly." Mr. Luantan explained without any confusion.

'Snapped……'

Touman Shanyu angrily threw the knife in his hand on the plate, making a crisp sound.

There are too many reasons for him to be angry.

The Luotang clan actually launched an offensive against the Yuezhi without their own orders.

The original plan was to attack Yuezhi after the beginning of spring.

Similarly, the Luotang clan sent troops to wander around the Han border without their own orders.

To put it nicely, it is to attract the attention of Han State and prepare for the attack on Yuezhi in the coming year.

But doesn’t this attract the attention of the Han State?

The king of Han could defeat Qin Ting and unify all Xia in just a few years, how could he be such a mediocre person?

Isn’t the intention of sending envoys north to Yuezhi to ask for war horses not obvious?

The King of Han has noticed the situation in the north and is making arrangements here.

At this time, the Xiongnu's top priority should be to complete the unification before the Han Kingdom was ready, and then go south before their cavalry could form an army.

In the eyes of Touman Chanyu, this behavior of the Luotang family would only speed up Han's preparations for war.

To say that he has no brains is just one of them. After all, he is his own child. He is definitely angry, but it is not like he acts like an enemy.

But what dissatisfied Touman Shanyu the most was.

Touman Chanyu's series of actions seemed like a challenge to his prestige as a Chanyu.

Originally, only Chanyu could make the decision, but now Luotuan made it himself. Not only did he do it, but he also made it happen.

There are currently less than 30,000 people under the Luantang clan. From Touman Shanyu's point of view, his hands cannot reach anywhere else.

But he really reached out and asked other tribes to cooperate with him to do this.

And this also made Touman Shanyu feel a deep sense of crisis.

This is also the main reason for recalling Kuantan.

"The attack on the Yueshi aroused the vigilance of the Han people. The Donghu people will not fail to see it. Your actions will definitely bring huge disasters to the Xiongnu in the coming year. I don't think next year's offensive can continue.

, please don’t go back yet, stay and help me resist the Donghu people’s offensive!” Touman Shanyu glanced at the Luotian family and said in a relaxed and peaceful tone.

"Yes!" Mr. Luantan was not surprised.

What Touman Shanyu said was to give face, but if you peel off the outer layer, the essence of what he said was to take away the military power in the hands of the Luotang family.

Because he was prepared, Mr. Luantang did not panic at all.

His accumulation over the years is not achieved by paddling. Men on the grassland naturally respect the strong, and his own achievements are enough to suppress those people.

Therefore, the Luantang family naturally chose to obey the orders of Fuman Shanyu.

But at this moment, Touman Shanyu was stunned, and he agreed like that?

Don't you want to resist?

If you feel unhappy, you can just curse a few times, right?

You don't resist, you don't scold, you don't show dissatisfaction, what do you want me to do?

Touman Shanyu was reluctant to give up due to the fighting prowess of the Kuantan clan, but he also didn’t want to see him continue to grow bigger.

Therefore, the original intention of Touman Chanyu's move was to reduce the number of troops in the hands of the Luotang family, with the goal of having him only have 10,000 people.

Let's take them all back temporarily first. The Luotian family resists, and when they let him go after a while, they take advantage of the situation and take back the 20,000 people permanently. Perfect!

but……

However, before Touman Chanyu could come to his senses, Luotang continued to say respectfully: "Da Chanyu, this time I captured a set of Han army equipment when I attacked the Yuezhi people. It is said that it is

It was left behind when the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Yuezhi. It is invulnerable to invulnerable weapons and arrows cannot even leave a trace..."

"What?" Touman Shanyu couldn't help being shocked.

There is such a thing in Han Dynasty?

Invulnerable?

How can this be?

If there really is, then what else will we fight next?

I made a lot of violent moves with my knife and bow and arrow, which made me tired. But the enemy still stood there calmly, looking at you with a smile, and then came over with a knife to complete the counter-attack.

?

"I have brought this thing here, but the space in the tent is too small to display it. Please ask the chanyu to move outside the tent and take a look for yourself." Luotuan said while still maintaining a humble posture.

.

"Let's go and take a look!" Touman Chanyu nodded immediately.

The group of people arrived outside the tent. Even though this was a grassland and even though it was a royal court, the deployment here was still very dense in winter.

Touman Chanyu touched the cold armor with a shocked face. His whole body seemed to be made of iron?

What surprised him the most was that only the eyes were exposed on the helmet, and it was still a very thin slit.

After walking around in a circle, I found that the only weak point of this armor was its eyes.

If they want to deal with enemies wearing this kind of armor, the only way is to shoot them in the eyes with bows and arrows.

And people can move. Even if they stand still and let them shoot, it will be difficult to hit, let alone a moving target. Whether they can hit it is completely a matter of probability.

However, Touman Chanyu had a very strange feeling. Why does this set of armor look so awkward?
To be continued...