The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 709: Seal the wolf as Xu, meditate in Guyan, and drink from the vast sea of ​​horses
"Wolf lives on Xu Mountain."

Crossing the Gonglu River and walking two hundred miles north is the majestic Langjuxu Mountain.

If the specific location here is unknown, you only need to know that a few hundred miles to the west is the famous Kulon City (Ulaanbaatar).

"Quick."

Li Yunze, who looked relaxed, greeted Huo Qubing and said, "Zhao's Hufu cavalry and archers expanded their territory for more than a thousand miles to the north. Yan's country also defeated Donghu and expanded its territory thousands of miles. Qin's Mengtian attacked the Xiongnu, and the furthest they could reach was Jiuyuan County."

He pointed at Langjuxu Mountain in the distance and said, "Since there are historical records, you are the first general to have fought so far!"

Huo Qubing saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty is also the first emperor to fight so far."

"It's no big deal, I've been to this place a lot, huh!" Li Yunze coughed and changed the subject, "Since history has been created, let's commemorate it."

"May I ask, Your Majesty, what should be done?"

Li Yunze's hand was still pointing to Langjuxu Mountain in the distance, "We'll wait for this mountain to build an altar to worship heaven for success!"

"This." Huo Qubing was a little embarrassed, "Your Majesty should be the one offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, my lord."

"Don't say such things." Li Yunze, who looked serious, waved his hand, "You have to do this."

Now that you have made a decision, you can naturally do the next thing directly.

The army moved forward and set up camp at the foot of Langjuxu Mountain.

All the captives were driven up the mountain to build an altar on the main peak.

The person who can be brought all the way here must at least be a noble person at the level of the prime minister.

As for the group of captives, who were mainly ordinary herdsmen, they arranged for the manpower to return early and send them back to the Han Dynasty to contribute their own efforts to the Han Dynasty's mining, salt drying, bridge building, canal building, road construction and mountaineering.

Li Yunze took these Xiongnu nobles all the way north just for this moment.

The altar was built very quickly, and it was actually just a matter of cutting wood and laying stones, and just put in the effort.

The altar has been built here, and Sima Xiangru has also written the prayer for worshiping the sky over there.

He went to the battlefield and participated in the battle. Although he didn't get any heads, Li Yunze also promised that he would no longer be a Langguan and would distribute them after he returned.

Therefore, Sima Xiangru was in a good mood and wrote thousands of words eloquently.

Judging from the amount of reading in this era, it is definitely a masterpiece.

"Write so much?"

Looking at the heavy prayer in his hand, Li Yunze put it back into Sima Xiangru's arms and said, "You can recite it yourself later."

Reciting prayers may seem very honorable, but it is actually a hard job.

First of all, the pronunciation must be good, and secondly, you must not pronounce the wrong words. If you make a mistake, you will be scolded.

In the end, the person who recited the prayer was really just reciting it. What happened after that had nothing to do with him. He was just a tool.

At noon the next day, a sad-faced Sima Xiangru stood on the altar. After going through the previous rituals, he spread out the large and heavy prayer and began to read it seriously.

Although the soldiers around him didn't understand, they listened carefully.

Those who were really flustered and couldn't listen to a word were naturally those Xiongnu nobles.

According to the tradition of the Huns, when offering sacrifices to heaven, a group of captives are always sacrificed to the heaven.

In the past, captured Han people were used to worship heaven. Now it is their turn to be captured by the Han people and arranged around the altar. It is estimated that the end will not be too good.
Langjuxu Mountain was originally a holy place for the Huns to worship heaven. These prisoners were very familiar with it and the process was also very familiar with it.

The sun at noon was very strong, and Sima Xiangru was sweating profusely while standing on the altar.

But he couldn't stop reciting the prayer, he had to concentrate not to read it wrong, and the most important thing was the heavy dress he wore according to the rules.

If it wasn't for his persistence, he might have fainted from the heat.

When he finally finished reciting the prayer, Sima Xiangru, who was sweating profusely, got off the altar with his feet tilted and sat directly on the ground.

But it didn't matter, no one paid attention to him at this time, everyone's eyes fell on Huo Qubing on the altar.

Huo Qubing, who was worshiping the heaven according to the rules, waved his hand vigorously towards the trembling Xiongnu nobles.

Immediately, the sergeants swarmed forward and dragged out half of the prisoners to the altar.

The bright Guan-shou sword was drawn out, and a sergeant held down the Hun nobles with their hands tied and knelt on the ground. Another sergeant pulled their whips out, exposing their necks.

Following the order, dozens of heads used for worshiping heaven suddenly fell to the ground.

The reason why only half of it was cut off to offer sacrifices to the sky is because here we only offer sacrifices to the heavens, and there is no sacrifice to the earth.

As Huo Qubing threw the heaven-sacrifice prayer into the fire, burning it into green smoke and floating up into the sky, Feng Lang Juxu was halfway done.

As for the other half of the work, it is the craftsmen accompanying the army who do it.

They picked a big rock on the mountain and hammered it with clanking sounds.

This is to erect a monument on Langjuxu Mountain, the holy place where the Huns worshiped heaven. A stone monument to boast about the martial arts of the Han army!
The meaning contained in this is almost equivalent to hanging a flag and building a statue in the toilet in my childhood.

After the erection of the monument was completed, the army set off again, heading to Guyan Mountain not far away.

Guyan Mountain is also a holy place used by the Huns to worship heaven.

After the Han army came over, they built an altar and wrote prayers here.

When the altar was being built, the remaining Huns prisoners were very uncooperative, and some even actively sought death.

After all, they also know their fate. Anyway, both the left and right will die, so they might as well just fight to the death.

There is no other way, just break the hands and feet of these people and keep them aside, and let the Han soldiers build the altar themselves.

As for saying prayers, that was naturally Sima Xiangru’s job.

It's just that after Sima Xiangru suffered a loss, he thought to save himself trouble, so he wrote a prayer of no more than a thousand words and gave it to Li Yunze for review. "What the hell is this written about?"

Li Yunze threw the prayer back casually. "Based on the last prayer to worship the sky, the number of words can only be more or less. Write it before dawn, if you dare to fool me."

There was a smile in his eyes and he joked, "Then I'll leave you here as a mountain god to take care of the altar inscriptions."

Although Li Yunze said the words in a joking tone, they were the emperor's words after all. How dare Sima Xiangru turn a deaf ear to them.

I had no choice but to bite the bullet, light a lamp, boil wax, and worked all night to write a new article.

When it was time to offer sacrifices to the earth in the afternoon, he was the one reciting prayers under the scorching sun.

After completing a set of procedures, everyone felt exhausted.

Of course, no one would pay attention to him at this time. Everyone's eyes were on the sacrifices used to worship the earth.

The nobles of the Huns, who knew that they were bound to die, cursed one after another, especially the kings of various tribes who spoke fiercely.

The sergeants stepped forward and struck hard on the mouth with the handle of the Ganshou knife, and the obscene words immediately stopped.

The next process is similar to offering sacrifices to heaven, just follow the previous steps.

"Seal the wolf to live in Xu, and meditate in Guyan."

Seeing Huo Qubing coming down from the altar, Li Yunze clicked his tongue, "There is still one last step left."

"His Majesty."

Huo Qubing came over and saluted and said, "The army is here, do you want to return to the court?"

"Don't be so anxious." Li Yunze waved his hand and said, "Isn't King Zuo Xian not caught yet? Let's catch him first."

If Li Yunze was not in the army, Huo Qubing would have no problem chasing him to the ends of the earth to capture King Zuo Xian.

But the problem is that if the emperor stays in the army for a long time, if something unexpected happens, the consequences are really unimaginable.

He didn't dare to say this worry. If he said it in front of Li Yunze, Li Yunze would pat his shoulder and respond, "Don't be afraid, I am invincible." '

The Han army attacked again and continued to pursue the remnants of the Xiongnu northward.

It was late summer and early autumn, and the weather conditions were very suitable for fighting.

Grass grows on the grassland and warblers fly. The Han army, which has run out of feed, leads a semi-nomadic life, grazing while traveling.

As for a thousand miles in six days or something like that, at least it can’t be done now.

Because of the lack of feed, the horses cannot stand simply eating grass.

This time, it took half a month to reach the North Sea (Lake Baikal).

"Su Wu."

Looking at the rippling lake in front of him and the freshwater seals on the shore who were not afraid of life at all, Li Yunze called Su Wuxiao and asked, "What do you think of this place?"

Su Wu was a little confused and didn't know why Tiantian wanted to ask him such a thing.

But naturally he didn't show it on his face and responded calmly, "The water and grass are abundant and there are many game animals. If it is used to escape the heat, it will be a good place."

"Hey."

Li Yunze said with a smile, "What about shepherding sheep in Beihai?"

Su Wu frowned for a long time and responded with a slight puzzlement, "Your Majesty, this place is too far north. It's fine in summer and autumn, but it must be very difficult in winter."

Raising his hand and patting Su Wu's shoulder, Li Yunze nodded in approval.

In history, Su Wu simply endured year after year on the north coast and refused to give up his identity as a Han official and surrender to the Huns no matter what.

"I intend to set up the Beihai Protectorate, and everything from Mobei to Beihai will be included in it. Kulun City will be built at the Mobei Royal Court of the Huns. This first Beihai Protectorate, it will be up to you. .”

Su Wu, who looked serious, immediately saluted, "Here~~~"

"His Majesty!"

Zhao Ponu galloped over, dismounted and saluted, "We are looking for the Huns' old camp!"

"Oh?" Li Yunze was slightly surprised, "Did you really escape here? Where is Huo Qubing, have you beaten him?"

"The general has personally led his troops to attack the camp!"

It wasn’t just King Zuoxian’s troops who broke up and fled to the north coast.

Yi Zhixie, who was beaten by Wei Qing and fled in embarrassment, also fled all the way.

When the two sides gathered together and were still mourning this tragic defeat, the Han army actually pursued them all the way here!

The Huns, whose morale had long been depleted and their warriors exhausted, had no strength to resist at all, and were defeated by Huo Qubing in one blow.

King Zuo Xian and other nobles were killed in the battle. Seeing that there was no way to escape, Liu Ling simply lit the tent with fire. He left the words "I will not let the emperor of the Han family go even if he is a ghost", turned around and rushed in Into the flaming tent.

As for Yi Zhixie, under the protection of the last Xiongnu warriors, he desperately escaped from the camp.

But outside the camp, Han troops were still everywhere.

In desperation, they kept fleeing and breaking through, and were finally forced to the north coast.

Seeing countless Han soldiers rushing toward him with red eyes, Yi Zhixie knew that even one of his legs could return the title of marquis to the Han soldiers. He laughed wildly in despair and rushed in on horseback. into the lake.

The Han soldiers on the shore jumped and yelled, and some even took off their clothes and threw themselves into the lake to salvage them.

Unfortunately, Yi Zhixie went into the water wearing armor, and it was very deep into the North Sea, so he could not be fished out in the end.

The last strength of the Huns also dissipated on the north coast!

(End of this chapter)