It must be that in the cold winter, it was too difficult to cut wood and stone, so the Han army built dome huts in their camps to stay overnight.
Coupled with the aroma of half a mutton grilled in the pond fire that lingers in your nose, and the sour leather bag horse milk wine in your mouth, Hu Bo, who was born in the Xiongnu, felt very friendly.
Although the Southern Xiongnu have lived in the fortress for many years, their custom of eating and lodging in domes has never changed.
But in the narrative just now, Zheng Pu wanted to change the customs of his tribe.
And there is no room for maneuver.
Either the two sides continue to fight for the enemy, or they can lead their troops to surrender and follow the arrangements of the Han. There is no choice as he came to ask for, to serve the Han as the master and pay tribute every year as a vassal.
At first, he thought Zheng Pu was following the lobbyist's example.
Sons of the Han family have always been good at scheming and deceitful. When negotiating, they always have to put on airs and talk back and forth several times before they finally come up with the solution.
But he lowered his attitude and flattered him, but he received the final word from Zheng Pu.
"I have made up my mind, there is no need for you to say anything more, leader."
The decisive tone made Hu Bojuzhizhi feel for a moment that the big man had no intention of accepting other tribesmen, which was why he was so strong-armed.
After all, according to the practice of the Han Dynasty, didn’t they always implement the policy of restraint?
Not to mention that far away, Mangzhong, the king of Shaodang Qiang in the West Sea, was accepted as a vassal by the Han Dynasty, and he exchanged benefits with each other. Now that he has come to attach himself with the sincerity of returning to danger, why is he resolutely rejected?
Hu Bo was puzzled by his position and his position, and he also had some difficult thoughts.
Zheng Pu, who was sitting across from him, was cutting meat with a small dagger, leisurely enjoying the beauty of the rice.
Such a vaguely contemptuous move, if it weren't for the fact that there was a guard as strong as a bear standing next to him, Hu Bo would have doubted whether he could contain his anger, and would kill him with a small flesh-cutting dagger.
Apart from the constant whining of the wind and the occasional sparks from the firewood, the dome was silent for a long time.
In fact, Zheng Pu was not confident, but he really didn't care whether Hu Bo stayed or stayed in his position.
This is because Hu Bo's position and position are capricious.
He defected when he attached himself to the Wei Dynasty, he defected when he attached himself to the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei, and now he has become destitute by relying on Liu Bao, and he comes to seek to become a vassal of the Han Dynasty. There is no faith at all. Zheng Pu does not want to raise a tiger to cause trouble!
Furthermore, although the Han Dynasty is indeed in decline today, it is not yet as if it is hungry for a mere Xiongnu tribe.
If he was willing to surrender his entire clan, for the sake of benefiting the war effort, Zheng Pu would not mind putting aside the hatred of the two sides as enemies and imitating the story of Liang Yuanbi, the Xiongnu branch in the Yuanchuan River Basin, and Fu Zhang, the king of Wudu,
The above table asks him to be granted food and towns by the feudal lord, and then all his clan members are registered as households to add households to the Han Dynasty.
After a while, Zheng Pu finished eating.
Looking up, I saw that Hu Bo was still weighing the pros and cons without making a decision, so he gave up the idea of continuing to waste his time.
It was very tiring to brave the wind and snow all the way from Guzang to protect food and baggage.
"The leader is suddenly uninterrupted, so let's stop now."
Zheng Pu stood up and washed his hands and rinsed his mouth. He waved his hands and said in a calm voice, "It's late at night. The leader will stay in the camp tonight. I will ask Liu Yidong to protect the leader when he returns the next day. Well, today I will ask the prince for food for the leader.
This promise can be fulfilled after the leader returns to slaughter the area and we can fulfill it before I, the big man, sends out his troops to slaughter the area."
Deliberately dragging out the long ending, Zheng Pu suddenly became solemn and looked directly into his eyes, "However, once my sworn soldiers come out, the leader will not take the initiative to return to justice, but will be forced to surrender."
One is to be attached to Mo Wei, and the other is to be defeated and captured. Of course Hu Bo knows the difference between them.
But at this moment, he didn't care about this.
Instead, the panic from the shadow of childhood suddenly rose in his heart.
That was when he was seven years old. His riding skills had just improved, but he became so stubborn that he broke away from his guard and wandered alone on the grassland, where he was killed by an injured lone wolf.
One man and one wolf faced each other for half the night.
Although a guard later found him and frightened the wolf away, its green eyes left an unforgettable nightmare mark on him.
Now Zheng Pu's eyes were not green, but they reminded him of the wolf again.
It is a kind of hostility that selects people and devours them, a kind of ferocity that wants to kill them and then kill them quickly.
It made him feel fear.
Not only because he has long passed his forties and has begun to enter the twilight years of old age.
It's more because he no longer has the fearless strength.
In the past, when he was the protector of the Xiongnu in Anding County of Wei, he had tens of thousands of troops and more than 10,000 people who controlled the strings. He was very powerful for a while.
However, he was driven by Cao Zhen, the former great commander of Wei, for profit, and he and the Xianbei Begging Tribe were under the control of Wei Ping. The Tibetan troops were in Xiaoguan. During a great epidemic, half of the clan members died. Later, they rebelled against the Wei State with the Xianbei Begging Tribe and the Tufa Tribe.
They lived in the south of the Helan Mountains, but a war of annexation broke out with the Xianbei Tuoba tribe who had migrated from Dingxiang County in Bingzhou, resulting in a sharp decline in the number of tribesmen again.
When Liu Bao from the left of the Southern Xiongnu came to Shuofang County, he competed with the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei for supremacy. He secretly sent envoys to marry him, but he defected to Liu Bao before the battle.
Although he was no longer under the command of Xianbei, after the war, there were only more than 3,000 young men left in his tribe.
Increasing depression is inevitable.
Liu Bao wanted to express his friendship with the rebels, so he sent his tribe to migrate to Xiutuze, allowing him to slowly recuperate and annex other small tribes to grow, giving his tribe a chance to become stronger again.
In order to obtain funding and support from the Wei government, he participated in the Battle of Lingju.
Who would have expected that the Hexi Allied Forces would be so unbearable!
Defeat the North in one battle!
Putting him into a desperate situation.
It is truly a desperate situation, not an exaggeration.
He continued to stay in Xiutuze and followed the Han army into Wuwei County, so they did not forgive him for repeatedly making enemies of the Han Dynasty.
Even if you are temporarily unable to attack Xiutuze, you can still use Shu brocade, tea and other trade materials to buy his head from other Qiang and Hu tribes living in Xiutuze!
There is no need to question whether those Qiang and Hu tribes were lured.
For hundreds of years since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, analogies have never ceased.
And he did not dare to migrate back to Shuofang and take shelter under Liu Bao's wings.
First, it is the wind and snow in midwinter. Cats hiding in the leeward mountain valleys are inevitably hit by white disasters in winter, and livestock freeze to death. If they trek and migrate, countless cattle, sheep, women and children will die on the way.
Not to mention, if the Han army gets the news, they only need to send two or three thousand lightly armed cavalry to chase, and his tribe will be wiped out.
On the other hand, on the grassland, the strong are respected.
Although he had been kind to Liu Bao before turning against him, Liu Bao had already repaid him.
If he was to slaughter Zeligu in Xiu and send an envoy to Shuofang to ask for Liu Bao's resistance in the form of promised reward, Liu Bao would continue to think of his previous kindness. But if he was impoverished and fled back with his tribe, then Liu Bao would prey on the weak.
The law of the prairie treats him.
Because those who have lost power on the grassland have never had the right to speak.
In other words, in the eyes of Zheng Pu, who is as cruel as a wolf, he has no right to speak.
"Thank you to the guards for your thoughtfulness."
Bowing down and stroking his chest in salute, Hu Bo Juzhi said goodbye and left, "The matter of returning to Yi is related to the future of the tribe. I need to go back and discuss it with the tribe's great shaman and nobles before I can reply."
"Um."
Zheng Pulu cupped his hands and motioned with his eyes to his subordinates to lead him to spend the night in Qi Yacuo.
As soon as their figures left Qionglu, Liu Zhu, who was also inside, came over and asked in a low voice, "Do you mean that the guard ordered me to escort the thief tomorrow?"
He stopped talking and just used his hand to draw a knife across his neck.
It also made Zheng Pu speechless for a while.
Indeed, killing Hu Bo Ju Zi Zhi would cause chaos in his tribe.
For example, when a group of dragons is leaderless, they are coveted by other Qiang and Hu tribes, or there is internal strife due to competition within the tribe for the position of leader.
But it would not be of any benefit to the Han army, so why add a bad reputation?
"No, let him go."
Zheng Pu got up to patrol the night. When he left Qionglu, he left a message behind him, "I know that Yidong's men have been working hard for several months. However, scouts are the eyes and ears of the army. They are a matter of life and death and cannot be ignored. Today's matter, I will not
I will inform Jiang Boyue, but I hope Yidong will be more attentive in the future."
Hearing this, Liu Zhu was stunned.
I pondered alone for a while, feeling red in the face.
Because Zheng Pug just arrived with his army today, Hu Bo Juzhi came to find him.
It can be inferred from this that he must have been monitoring Xuanwei City for a long time, but Liu Zhu, who led thousands of cavalry here for more than ten days, was not alert, which was dereliction of duty.
