Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 330 The Golden Cicada Escapes Her Shell (two chapters in one)

The distance that can be covered in half a day at a fast pace, Ziying walked for two full days.

And the Huns cavalry followed them obediently for two days.

Ziying was leisurely, but Morton, who was following behind, could not wait to rush up to capture the chief general of the Qin army and tear him to pieces.

Morton's scouts were served by a subordinate of a captain who had already surrendered to him, so Morton was not too worried about the news that the Qin army was very close to him being known by the rest of his subordinates.

But after all, the longer the delay, the more likely it is that his thoughts will be discovered by the Huns.

In the past two days, the Qin army in front of them advanced at a fast pace. In order to prevent his subordinates from noticing the abnormality, he ordered to search the grassland hundreds of miles north and south, and the only thing he let go was the east.

Morton's thoughts were indeed the same as Ziying's guessed, hoping to use the Qin army to weaken Haiyan's potential support.

If not, he would have dispatched troops to wipe out this Qin army long ago.

He passed by the ruins of the Royal Court on the way back to aid because he had seen Lan Shuliu once. Lan Shuliu was still so beautiful at that time, but his eyes were full of indifference when looking at him.

He must have resented himself for not being able to show up in time to rescue her from the sea of ​​suffering when she needed it most.

Seeing Lan Shuliu's still attractive figure, the first thing that came to Morton's mind was how the Qin man galloped freely on this beautiful body, and the man on Lan Shuliu's body would be better if he was himself.

"When I annihilate this Qin army, I must let the Qin man who made himself look so blind, suffer all the tortures in the world."

Mao Dun swore in his heart.

As the prince of the Xiongnu, Morton is naturally not a first-time brother, but none of the Hun women he has experienced can have the amorous temperament and charm of Lan Shuliu.

If Lan Shuliu was just an ordinary woman, she would have been overlord long ago.

However, she was born in the Lan family, a wealthy family in the grassland, and his father is the current head of the Zuo family. In the future, he will fight for the throne of Shan Yu, and the support of the head of the left is indispensable.

So he never dared to use force against Lan Shuliu, but his body, which he had no chance to touch, was preempted by an inferior Qin man.

Morton believed that Lan Shuliu, who was no longer a virgin, would never be as steadfast as before. At this time, she should worry whether she would choose her.

When the time comes, I will use the head of that Qin army nobleman to pry open Lan Shuliu's tightly closed legs. What the Qin people can get from her, I must demand ten times from her.

After thinking for a long time in the big tent, Morton clearly felt that the Qin army that was leaning so close made his emotions more and more difficult to control in the past two days.

Thinking of Lan Shuliu's pretty face and attractive figure, Morton's heart was filled with anger, and he immediately called a female slave accompanying the army to rush into the internal account.

……

At sunset, the Qin army had already set up camp about half a day away from King Zuoguli's court.

It would take half a day to go all out, but if we still follow the previous method, I'm afraid... it will take two more days.

The Xiongnu's scouts had already appeared on the outskirts of the camp when the Qin army began to set up camp, but Ziying, who had already guessed Morton's intentions, didn't care at all.

In the past two days, every time the Qin army set up camp, the scouts of the Huns would come to investigate.

Two days have passed, and Morton should be used to it, and looking at the moonlight last night, it is already close to a full moon.

If it is changed to the lunar calendar, I am afraid that tonight will be either the fifteenth or the sixteenth.

In the middle of the night, when everything was silent on the grassland, the Qin army's camp made a deep sound of horseshoes.

Teams of Qin troops in full armor came out of the tents, slowly slipped to the side of their horses as if they were thieves, and carefully wrapped each hoof of the horses with a thick piece of sheepskin. Fix the title piece on the mouth.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, he quietly left the camp without taking a trace of dust.

As for the tents, King Zuoguli's court was full of them, so let Morton take these as spoils of war.

He led the horse and walked quickly for a few miles. After making sure that even if there were spies around the camp, they would not hear him, Qin Jun stepped on the horse and rushed towards King Zuoguli's court under the bright moonlight.

Ziying was half a day's journey away from Zuoguli King's court, but Morton also fell half a day's journey behind Ziying.

With such a short distance, if Ziying chose the royal court of King Zuoguli directly according to Morton's thoughts, Morton would arrive immediately after Ziying finished fighting.

Then he successfully avenged Shanyu Wangting and Zuoguli Wangting.

However, if they do not advance in the direction Morton drove, I am afraid that Morton's army will rush up immediately.

No matter how strong the fighting power of my 1000 troops is, it will be difficult to compete head-on with the Huns.

Although Ziying had already decided to "help" Morton, Ziying didn't want to follow the script written by Moton, so he had to take advantage of the night to jump out of Moton's layout and lead the plot by himself.

The destruction of the Shanyu Wangting and the Zuoguli Wangting's two great courts was enough to stir up turbulent waves in the Huns army on the front line.

After the slow march of the first two days, it must have been enough to confuse Maodun, making Maodun think that he planned to rush to the court of King Zuoguli all this time.

Then, after setting up camp in front of the Huns exploring the horses, they left quietly in the dark.

Leaving the tent is naturally to confuse Morton more.

In case Mao Dun was more careful, even at night, he had arranged for scouts to monitor the Qin camp from a distance, and these flickering tents would be the last cover.

The least optimistic possibility is that even if the news that the Qin army had left was known to the Huns tomorrow morning, it would have won half a day.

An extra half day was enough for the Qin army to retreat calmly after breaking through King Zuoguli's court.

The sky brightened slightly, and the outline of King Zuoguli's royal court had already appeared in Qin Jun's field of vision.

Some shepherds who got up early had already lit the fireworks, preparing to cook in advance.

Last year's severe drought made the grass turn green much later than in previous years. They planned to eat early, and drove the cattle and sheep to the pasture to graze in advance, so that the livestock could be fatted as soon as possible.

"For Daqin, kill..."

Although the royal court of King Zuoguli was not smaller than that of King Youguli, King Zuoguli, who was in the hinterland of the Xiongnu and had no external threats at all, had already transferred most of the young and strong to Shanyu to "eat big households" "went.

After all, the continuous severe drought made the rations not so sufficient.

In less than an hour, King Zuoguli's court fell into the hands of the Qin army.

"Which of the Huns understand Qin language, I mean those with higher status?" Seeing that the Qin army had begun to skillfully drive the Huns into the open space one by one according to their status, Ziying seemed to suddenly think of something asked the accompanying guide.

"The Huns did not engage in production, but only lived on herding, and some of the food, cloth, and salt they needed had to be exchanged with the Central Plains for trade.

In order to facilitate communication, there are not a few Huns who understand our language, but if they speak higher status. "

The guide pondered for a while, then slapped his head and said suddenly: "Large tribes such as King Zuoguli's royal court will have a meeting of nobles, and one of the nobles of the Xiongnu in the meeting of nobles is responsible for trading with our tribe and training female slaves.

This nobleman must know Qin Yin well, but it is not clear which one it is. "

At this time, the power on the grassland does not belong to the Shanyu or the kings of the various tribes. According to the customs of the grassland, there is a meeting of nobles in the big tribes, which restricts the power of the Shanyu and the kings.

Most of these nobles are military commanders and clan elders who have retired to the second line due to old age. Although they are old and frail, they still have influence, and they can even influence the decisions of the patriarch on some major issues.

It can be said that it is similar to the existence of the Western Senate.

Like Li Mo of Shanyu Wangting before, he is the great nobleman of Shanyu Wangting's nobles' meeting.

It's easy to have a goal, and I don't care who this person is, anyway, I just thought of a way to make some trouble for Maodun by the way.

If it doesn't work, it won't affect the overall layout. If it works, it will be a big trouble for Morton.

A group of Huns who looked gloomy at twilight were trapped together by a hemp rope at the moment, and were driven away from the royal court.

Different from other old and weak women and children in the royal court, everyone in this group of old people was dressed gorgeously, with extremely conspicuous decorations on their bodies, necks, and heads.

Some gems and the like had already been looted by the Qin army, leaving only some feathers, beast teeth and other decorations that the Qin army did not like.

This group of people were the nobles from King Zuoguli's court, and they were escorted by two officers who seemed to be officers of the Qin Army.

"You said that kid, Mo Dun, is the map he gave us accurate? Don't we follow his map and run directly to the old lair of Zuo Dazhu?"

Walking and walking, the two in charge of the escort and Qin Jun suddenly chatted, and the sound was not loud enough for these Huns to hear.

Because most of the nobles couldn't understand Qin Yu, they were still at a loss, immersed in the pain of the royal court being tortured, but one of them suddenly perked up his ears when he heard the word Maodun.

"Keep your voice down. Your Majesty has repeatedly instructed you not to spread this matter. If you return to the Qin Kingdom and let the ministers in the court know that your Majesty will compromise with the Xiongnu Prince, it will really affect your prestige."

After a sentence, another person hastily stopped his words.

"What are you afraid of? This group of Huns who are like pigs may be chopped off by the king after a while. Besides, the two of us speak Qin language, how can they understand it?"

"This is really..." Another Qin Jun sighed and said after listening to the explanation: "The situation is stronger than others, so there is no way, if you don't follow Maodun's request, the tribe of King Zuoguli will be wiped out. Cut off the wings of Prince Haiyan, and we will be flattened."

"I hope that Modun will keep his promise and give us the map of Zuoda Danghu's territory, so that we can escape from the grassland and return to Daqin."

……

Although the old, weak, women and children in Zuoguli King's court were no more than Touman's court, there were still 7000 to [-] people. What surprised Ziying was that this royal court, whose territory was not bordered by Qin, had nearly a thousand southern female slaves.

Calculated in proportion, it is more than Shanyu Wangting.

Ziying originally thought that a tribe deep in the hinterland of the Xiongnu, even if there were southern female slaves, there would not be too many. If dozens of people were transferred together, it would not have a great impact on the marching speed.

However, what I didn't expect was that there were so many female slaves here!

Mao Dun discovered that it was only a matter of time before the Qin army tried to return south through the territory of Zuo Dadanghu, and he would definitely ask the Zuoda Danghu tribe whose strength was not damaged to send troops to encircle and suppress Ziying.

If these people were abandoned on the grassland, Ziying and all the cavalry would be able to cross quickly through the map given by Lan Shuliu, and return to Qin before Maodun and Zuoda's pursuers could catch up to him.

However, if they march together with nearly a thousand female slaves, the speed will inevitably slow down. I am afraid that they will be overtaken by the Huns before they can walk halfway.

Let Ziying throw these innocent women on the grassland, Ziying will never make such a hard-hearted decision, don't look at the bloody sea of ​​blood on the grassland where the alien Ziying was killed.

However, Ziying was still hard-pressed to be ruthless towards his own race.

Originally, it was Daqin's disgrace that his people were plundered and humiliated by foreign races. If he discarded these poor people who had suffered so much, it would be even more difficult for Ziying to forgive himself.

How to safely let these people return to the Qin State has become an insoluble problem in front of Ziying.

"The only feasible way is the way across Zuoda Danghu's territory."

"The premise of passing through safely is that the Zuoda Danghu tribe has never been aware of the appearance of this team."

"Modun didn't notify the Zuoda Danghu tribe."

"Cheated Mouton."

Time is tight, and Morton may see through his arrangement at any time and catch up.

Ziying thought of all the prerequisites in his mind, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

……

The process was the same as that of the Touman royal court. After the royal family of the Zuoguli king's court was excluded, Ziying ordered all the remaining old and weak women and children to be shot together.

The only difference is that when identifying the royal family, Qin Jun accidentally counted some ordinary nobles who were tied to the royal family as the royal family.

For example, the nobles who were dressed in a string were all lucky enough to survive.

Of course, in order to avoid the suspicion of the Huns, there were hundreds of nobles who escaped this time.

With one thousand more mouths to eat, this time Ziying not only brought enough food from King Zuoguli's court, but also brought thousands of horses.

In order to let these women living in the Xiongnu learn to ride horses as soon as possible, regardless of the difference between men and women, Ziying ordered these women to temporarily choose a Qin army to ride a horse with them.

After traveling for more than ten miles, when he was about to enter Zuo Da Danghu's territory, Ziying suddenly gave an order to stop his progress.

"All those who ride alone stand out," Ziying ordered.

Two thousand Shenzhou iron cavalry, after five hundred women and children rescued by Wang Ting returned, the remaining 500 people lost 20 people when they attacked Shan Yu Wang Ting for the second time.

And this time the number of women rescued will be less than 1000.

Every woman rode with a cavalryman of the Qin army, and there were about 500 other solo riders.

(End of this chapter)