The felt tent was on fire, and wisps of black smoke billowed up into the blue sky in late autumn. Under the crumbling earth walls, Hun knights galloped back and forth, shooting bows and arrows at those Xuyan men who tried to resist.
The long whip in his hand drove the weeping women and children to leave their smoking homes and join the ranks of slaves along with thousands of sheep.
Hu Yanlan, Marquis of Gudu, rode a tall horse and wore a helmet made of wild boar tusks. He watched all this with satisfaction. The Huama Pond, a land full of salt and grass, was torn apart by the hooves of the Huns.
"This is the price for betraying the great Chanyu of the Xiongnu who was established by heaven!"
Huyanlan is one of the few people among the Xiongnu who have their own surname. In the Xiongnu, all nobles who have been officials for generations have their tribal names as their surnames. The larger ones include the Huyan family, the Lan family, and the Xubu family.
All surnames are noble.
Their family had been the left-bone princes around Chanyu for generations. They had previously been ordered by Touman Chanyu to come to Henan to recall Prince Moton and the four princes. Unexpectedly, Moton learned the news in advance and escaped on his own. Henan
The four tribes on the ground were also panic-stricken, especially Xu Yan and Lin Hu. Perhaps they had some evil intentions in their hearts, fearing that they would never return to the north. They were so frightened by Touman Shanyu's order that they immediately rebelled!
Huyanlan can imagine how angry Touman Shanyu will be after hearing about this, and may even be angry with him. So Huyanlan can only strive to put down the chaos in Henan within this year. He asked Helan to gather all the people.
He led more than a thousand cavalry to Xuyan to punish the rebels!
According to the rules of the Huns, the rulers and family members of rebellious tribes would be put into sheepskin bags and trampled to death by thousands of horses!
And their tribes will disappear from the grassland, and boys who are taller than a wheel will be killed! The remaining women will be distributed as rewards to the tribes that have contributed to quelling the chaos.
Huyanlan is just the vanguard. Behind him, there are Helan's 4,000 Huns riding followers who are already on the road and will arrive in a few days!
After spending a few days and leading more than a thousand Huns cavalry to sweep away the Xiuyan tribe along the way, Huyanlan led his troops to attack Huamachi City. Xiaoyi was tightly closed, and the city was crowded with fleeing Xiuyan people.
Jun Yanyan was also at the top of the city, watching with trepidation the punishment brought by the Huns.
The Hun cavalry gathered in a group, whipped and screamed, and whipped an unarmed man who had been deprived of weapons. They slapped his back and cheeks, making him run away with his head in his hands until his flesh and blood were bloody, and then he hooked his ankles with the whip.
, causing him to fall to the ground, and then shot an arrow through his back.
Hu Yanlan personally cut off the man's head and sent the cavalry galloping close to the city. He dodged the scattered arrows from the top of the city and threw him to the bottom of the city!
This man was the leader of a small nearby tribe, and the Huns hoped to use his death to spread panic.
In the eyes of the Huns, they were unstoppable wolves and eagles soaring proudly on the grassland, while Xu Yanrong was just their salt slave, a bleating sheep, and a chicken flying in fear!
The Huns laughed loudly, and the Yuyan soldiers in the city were filled with indignation. They all asked Jun Yuyan to fight: "Sir, we also have horses and thousands of warriors. Let's rush out of the city to teach the Huns a lesson!"
"No, just close the city tightly and no one can leave the city!"
Yan Yanjun has lost his former wealth, his hair has turned whiter, his body looks a little stooped due to cold or fear, and his mustache that he forgot to oil is hanging weakly.
Yan Yan has always been a small tribe of Rong people in Saibei. It is said that they are descendants of Quan Rong. Two hundred years ago, they surrendered to the powerful Yiqu State. After the decline of Yiqu, Qin State focused on annexing the six countries eastward, and annexed the six countries far away.
Xu Yan was not interested in the desolate land outside the Great Wall, so Xu Yan was able to live a free life, amassing wealth by developing Huamachi.
But about twenty years ago, the Xiongnu gradually became stronger and unified the central part of the grassland. They crossed the river and desert and came to the Huama Pond. Although the Rong people were martial, they were no match for the Xiongnu cavalry that came and went like the wind. Xu Yan could only choose to surrender.
He paid a huge amount of salt and sheep every year in exchange for the Huns not to plunder him.
Over the past twenty years, the fear of the Huns has been rooted in Jun Yanyan's heart. He went to Shanyu's court as a hostage and knew that the Xiongnu had hundreds of thousands of men who could control strings.
Therefore, unless there is a stronger backer worth defecting to, Lord Yan Yan will never dare to abandon the Xiongnu.
"Qin is ten times as big as the Xiongnu, Qin's people are a hundred times as many as the Xiongnu, and Qin's wealth is a thousand times as much as the Xiongnu! If Yu Yan does not follow Qin, he will perish together with the Xiongnu. If he follows Qin, you will not have to go.
Shan Yuting, for generations to come is the Rong Zhai Lord of Qin!"
Wu Shiyan, who often came to buy salt, was so tempting that he persuaded Yu Yanjun.
But at this moment, the crisis of the tribe's demise and the extinction of the race was right in front of him. He couldn't help but doubt the decision he made. After telling everyone at the top of the city not to leave the city rashly, Jun Yanyan tilted his head to the right and didn't have time.
After leaving, Wushi Yanzheng, who was staying here, stood up to observe the Huns' movements.
Jun Yanyan forced out a smile: "Jun Wu... when will the Great Qin Heavenly Soldiers arrive?"
"The Beidi County Lieutenant has led his troops to leave Yiqu City. I also ordered the envoy to go to Xiaoguan to ask for help. I think it will be here soon..."
Even so, Wu Shiyan was not sure.
Although Heifu got to where he is today with his military exploits, the places where he fought in the past were all in the swampy areas of the south. The conditions in the north and the south were very different, so Wu Shiyan didn't know. Heifu, the lieutenant, commanded the athletes from the north to go out.
In battle, can he be as skilled as Li Xin, Qiang Yu and other native Kansai people?
"If he comes with light cavalry, he will arrive today or tomorrow. If he is cautious and the army marches together, it may take several days..."
Wu Shiyan also has some regrets now. Their family wanted to prove themselves in this war and was too active in doing things, but now they are trapped in the city. This Huamachi City was built by Wu Shiyan by inviting craftsmen to help Mr. Yanyan build it.
It is to protect the green salt transported from the south to the north.
The conditions outside the fortress are limited, and the city is only two feet high. Although Jun Yanyan has brought in all the young men in his army and has enough manpower, can he withstand the Huns' attack for several days without collapsing?
Wu Shiyan and Jun Yan went down to the city. While they were thinking, they heard the Rong people at the top of the city suddenly shout: "Be careful! The Huns are coming!"
When he was in a daze, Yu Yanjun's two sons had already thrown him to the ground!
A low-pitched buzz sounded, like a swarm of bees flying by, and the whizzing arrows were like a winter rain, falling on the head of Huamachi City, nailing to the erected wooden boards and shields, making a clanging sound.
From time to time there were screams.
Wu Shiyan also had an arrow nailed to his side. The black bird feathers trembled slightly. When he pulled it out, he saw that it was an arrow cluster made of bone...
This was just a test by the Huns. More than a thousand Huns cavalry roared in, fired their bows and arrows, circled around and then returned. The Huns did not have much experience in attacking cities, but they also understood that their bows and arrows could not cause much damage to the city.
, the Xiongnu commander was a shrewd hunter and would not waste his precious bows and arrows on useless random shots.
"But it would be different if all the young Huns from Helan Mountain gathered here..."
After getting up from the ground, Jun Yanyan looked sad. According to what he knew, there were four to five thousand Xiongnu riders in Helan alone, and many of them were good at shooting. By then, five to six thousand arrows would be fired from all sides.
Come in and let the horses pull down the thin city wall. At that time, the Yan Yan people will be wiped out.
Under the command of Guduhou, the Huns sometimes dispersed and sometimes gathered, coming and going like the wind around Huamachi City. They separated four hundred cavalry, led by four centurions, and harassed the surrounding city from time to time. The other cavalry
Then they broke into pieces and began to disperse in all directions, plundering the tribesmen around Huamachi who had no time to escape into the city.
The intermittent harassment by the Huns lasted all night. They seemed to be able to eat, drink, and relieve themselves on horseback without having to dismount. In the early morning of the next day, Wu Shiyan was sleeping in a daze when he was suddenly surprised by the soldiers who were waiting for him.
Concubine wake up!
When he put on his clothes in a daze and came to the city, Jun Yanyan looked at the west with a pale face...
In the distance, dense crowds of Hun riders were slowly coming from among the yellow sand and withered grass. There were one hundred and one teams, more than ten teams in total. Together with the ox carts pulling felt tents, they covered an area of several miles in radius.
The Xiongnu reinforcements from Lanshan set off in batches according to distance, and this was only the first batch.
"It's over now." Mr. Yan Yan almost collapsed to the ground.
At this desperate moment, a burst of exciting cheers sounded from the south of the city...
"Could it be!"
Jun Yanyan and Wu Shiyan looked at each other and were immediately overjoyed. They ran to the south of the city and took a look. Sure enough, a few miles to the south, on the salt flat beside Huama Pond, a car carrying a black flag appeared.
Military chariot!
The flag is bright, with the Chinese character "Qin" in seal script written on it in plain white paint! As the strong wind blows through the fortress, the flag makes a roaring sound!
As the military chariots appeared, some black spots gradually appeared on the horizon. They kept leaping forward, more and more, and finally occupied the entire field of vision!
It is the cavalry of the Qin Army. The vanguard of more than a thousand troops sent by Hei Fu has arrived at Huamachi!
This is also the first time that the Central Plains army appears in the north of Xiaoguan!
Although the number of reinforcements was not yet known, Jun Yanyan seemed to have been saved. He prostrated on the ground with tears streaming down his face and bowed his head towards the south. When he raised his head, he opened his arms and shouted to his troops:
"Today, the sun of the Yanyan people rises from the south!"
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