Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 180 The Huns
"What?!" Xiang Zhuang was taken aback suddenly, and lost his voice, "Huns?!"

"It's probably the Huns!" Baili Xian said, "If the Huns hadn't gone south, how could they have left with King Xiutu's greed?"

"It's really troublesome if it's the Huns." Xiang Zhuang immediately raised his head and shouted, "Jin Xiang, go and invite Qin Ji over here."

"Here!" Jin Xiang, who was guarding outside the hall, suddenly agreed and took the order.

After less than half a meal, Qin Yu hurried into the Xingyuan hall, first bowed deeply to Xiang Zhuang, then bowed his hands to Wei Liao and Bailixian, and then said respectfully: "The general will be summoned late at night, but What's the hurry?"

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said, "Qin Ji, how is the bacon in the female barracks going?"

As early as two months ago, Xiangzhuang asked the female barracks to start smoking bacon. Specifically, the cattle and sheep were slaughtered, the internal organs were removed, washed, marinated for several days, and then smoked and roasted before drying. The bacon that comes out can be stored for a long time without rot, and it is actually the best choice for military ration meat.

Qin Ji said without hesitation: "Almost fifty thousand stones have been smoked."

Xiang Zhuangmo did the math, one stone is 120 catties (Qin catties, about 60 catties now), 600 stones is [-] million catties, on average, each Chu army soldier has three hundred catties on his head, and eating two catties of meat a day is almost enough It's been half a year!However, there should be more than these cattle and sheep captured from the Baiyang tribe, right?
Immediately Xiang asked, "How many cattle and sheep are left?"

Qin Ji said: "There are probably more than 5000 cattle and 10,000+ sheep."

Xiang Zhuang said: "Slaughter all these cattle and sheep, and then smoke them."

"Smoke all of them?" Qin Ji said in amazement, "General, there may not be enough salt."

The salt used by the Chu army was trafficked from Han, because Jiuyuan did not produce salt.

Although Liu Bang expressly ordered Han Wangxin not to trade with the Chu army, Han Wangxin was blatantly obedient to this, and had been trading horses with the Chu army in private with contraband such as salt and iron.

Xiang Zhuang said: "If you don't have enough salt, don't pickle it, just smoke it!"

It’s not a big deal to smoke it without marinating. The big deal is to let the soldiers eat it with coarse salt. Anyway, these cattle and sheep must not be left to the Huns.

"Here!" Qin Yu suddenly agreed and took the order.

Watching Qin Yu's beautiful figure go away, Xiang Zhuang said to Wei Liao and Bai Lixian again: "Military Master, you can stay in Jiuyuan when you are old. Ziliang will go to Gaoque with me to meet Meng Shi."

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When Xiang Zhuang and Gao Chu rushed to Gaoque with five thousand relatives, it was already noon the next day.

Before leaving Jiuyuan, Xiang Zhuang had already ordered all the troops to prepare for the evacuation. If the Huns really went south, the [-] Chu army alone would definitely not be able to stop them, not even the natural danger of the Great Wall!

In terms of combat effectiveness alone, the Chu army is certainly not afraid of the Huns, but the difference in strength between the two armies is too great.

What's more, there is really no need for the Chu army to fight the Huns in Hetao. The Huns, let Liu Bang have a headache.

Xiang Zhuang, Gao Chu, and Baili Xian were greeted by Meng Jie, the four of them had just met the ceremony, and the deputy Meng Keng hurried into Meng's Xing Yuan, cupped his hands and said, "General, the Huns are here!"

"Huh?!" Xiang Zhuang and the others changed their countenance slightly, and hurried to the city.

When Xiang Zhuang was surrounded by Meng Ke, Gao Chu, Bai Lixian, and Meng Keng, he climbed up the Gaoque Watchtower, and the Huns cavalry appeared on the vast grassland to the northwest. There is no difference between the cavalry, they are short and strong, and they all ride Mongolian pony horses.

However, Xiang Zhuang felt a bit of murderous aura from the Huns.

If you have to make a metaphor, the Linhu people, Lou Fanren, and Xiutu people are like a group of dirt dogs, a group of dirt dogs that have almost been domesticated by the Central Plains people, and there is not much wildness left in them, and this group of Huns Humans are a group of wild wolves, a group of wild wolves that were born and raised on the prairie, wild and untamed, with their fangs bared!

Gao Chu frowned, and said in a deep voice, "There are only five or six hundred cavalry. Could it be the outpost of the Huns?"

"Something is wrong. These Huns seem to be running away!" Meng Cui led the army to guard the border for many years and fought hundreds of battles with the Huns, big and small. He was very familiar with the Huns, so he immediately discovered the abnormality.

"Escape?!" Xiang Zhuang frowned, "Could it be that the Huns were defeated by the Donghu or the Yuezhi?"

"That's not necessarily the case." Bailixian said, "I don't know the general, the Xiongnu is not actually the name of a tribe, but the collective name of hundreds of tribes in Mobei, the largest tribe is the support of the Maodun tribe. These tribes are not monolithic, and they often merge with each other, maybe this is an expelled Hun tribe."

The Xiongnu was on fire, which was quite interesting, Xiang Zhuang twitched his short beard and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Bai Lixian suddenly pointed to the distance, and said in a slightly low voice: "Look, General, there are more Hun cavalry coming from behind!"

When Xiang Zhuang raised his head anxiously, he saw a faint black line appearing on the horizon in the northwest direction. After seeing it, Meng Chuan's face changed drastically: "Look at the situation, there are at least five thousand cavalry!"

"The Huns beat the Huns?" Gao Chu said, "It's interesting."

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"Woo..." Huyan Zhengde reined in the reins lightly, and the steed under his crotch slowly took a step back, and the more than five hundred riders who followed aggressively behind him also stopped.

Ahead, Xiongguan blocked the way.

Behind, the pursuers are tight!
Looking back, most of the last remaining 500 warriors of the Huyan Division were wounded and tired, and a trace of loneliness suddenly appeared on Huyan Zhengde's face. The supreme Sirius God, have you really abandoned him? Are we, the Huyan Department, going to watch us perish?
"Patriarch, the Su Yang tribe is catching up!" Suddenly a clansman shouted.

Huyan Zhengde looked back leisurely, and sure enough, he saw the densely packed Su Yang cavalry on the horizon behind him, Su Yang, damn Su Yang, do you really want to capture my Yu'er and dedicate it to that tyrant of Modun?
All of a sudden, Huyan Zhengde's eyes fell on the young Hunnu woman beside him.

The young Xiongnu woman has bright eyes and white teeth, and her skin is snow-like. She does not have the bloated figure of the women in Mobei and the rouge face caused by long-term sun exposure. The young Huyan woman is called Huyan Youer. The women of the Huns, there is no saying that close relatives cannot marry.

Taking a deep breath, Huyan Zhengde slowly drew out a large black sword.

This great sword is the sword of the town clan of the Huyan tribe. It is said that the ancestors of the Huyan tribe paid a huge price hundreds of years ago and bought it from the people of the Central Plains. The tribe fell out because Maodun fell in love with the clan sword of the Huyan tribe and Huyan You'er, the most beautiful woman on the grassland.

Holding the sword in his hand, Huyan Zhengde reined in his horse and turned back slowly.

The last remaining 500 warriors of the Huyan tribe also raised their bloody bronze swords one after another, and then spread them out behind Huyan Zhengde.

In less than a moment, the Hun cavalry rushing forward had already approached within [-] paces.

Surrounded by hundreds of cavalry, a Xiongnu general in bearskin armor stepped forward slowly, pointed at Huyan Zhengde with a whip in his hand and shouted: "Huyan, you can't run away. If you are sensible, you should be obedient to me!" Go back to Longting and ask the Great Chanyu for your sins! Considering that you have fought for the Huns for many years, the Great Chanyu will most likely spare you!"

"Su Yang." Huyan Zhengde said indifferently, "Are you really going to kill them all?"

Su Yang said: "It's not that I want to kill them all, today's result is all your own fault."

Huyan Zhengde said in disdain: "Su Yang, if it were you, would you offer your own woman?"

Su Yang was silent, of course he would not give away his woman, even if it was Da Shanyu, but Huyan Youer is different, Huyan Youer is a flower of the prairie, she is destined to become Da Shanyu's eunuch, you Although Huyan Zhengde is the number one warrior in the grassland, he can't compete with Da Shanyu for a woman. Da Shan is the reincarnation of a god.

Huyan Zhengde sighed, and said a little lonely: "Su Yang, don't force me, I really don't want to kill you."

Su Yang was taken aback when he heard the words, and then laughed loudly: "Haha, Huyan, you are still as arrogant as before, and you still want to kill me with your 500-odd crippled riders?"

Huyan Zhengde smirked slightly, then said calmly: "To kill you, one ride is enough for me!"

"Really?" Su Yang laughed angrily, "I'm right here, come and kill me if you have the ability!"

"Then don't blame me for not remembering my childhood friendship." Huyan Zhengde sighed, picked up a white wolf helmet from the side of the saddle and buckled it on his head, and then lightly urged the horse, riding alone Going up, as for the more than 500 cavalry of Huyan's department, without Huyan Zhengde's permission, none of them stepped forward to help in the battle.

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Gao Que closed.

Gao Chu took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Is this Hun crazy? What does he want to do?"

Xiang Zhuang's eyes also froze. Could it be that this Hun wants to take the head of the enemy general among the ten thousand armies?
"White wolf helmet?!" Bai Lixian recognized the murderous white wolf helmet with bared fangs at a glance, and immediately said to Xiang Zhuang, "General, this man is the number one warrior of the Huns—Huyan Zhengde! "

"Huyan Zhengde?" Xiang Zhuang frowned, "Ziliang, do you know this guy?"

Bai Lixian shook his head and said in a low voice: "I have only heard of him, but I have never dealt with him. This man can ride and shoot well, and he has the courage that is unworthy of a man. What is especially rare is that this man is familiar with the characters of the Central Plains." , has read a lot of military books, and is the most important general of the Xiongnu Shanyu Modun, but for some reason, he was chased and killed by the Huns?"

"Really? The most important general of Maodun?!" Xiang Zhuang's eyes narrowed.

Suddenly, Xiang Zhuang turned his head and told Meng Ji: "Heavenly Fang, gather the cavalry and be on standby at any time!"

"Here!" Meng Chu promised with a loud bang, and hurried down to the top of the city with Meng Keng, gathering his troops and going.

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