General Qin

Li Shiqi, the envoy of the Qin Army, once again stepped into Touman Chanyu's dome.

"The friends from the south are really refreshing. Before the agreed time, they sent a batch of things first, which made Ben Shanyu very happy."

Touman Chanyu's voice was hearty.

Because he had already gone to see it just now, the envoys of the Qin people brought a total of five thousand shi of grain this time, which was already equivalent to the conditions they first proposed. You must know that the Xiongnu agreed to Yan Wangxi's request before, and when they went south to help Dai, the food they asked for from the Dai king was only five thousand shi.

The Qin people sent food first, but the Huns did not pay anything, and the King of Yan was still locked in their felt tents. Anyone who eats for free will be happy.

Li Shiqi said cowardly: "30,000 shi is too much grain, and our army's carriages are not enough to use, so we can only transport it in several times. At the same time, this first batch of grain is also to show the sincerity of our general to Da Shanyu. Da Shanyu's soldiers and horses There are many, my generals only want to be friendly, not hostile, I only hope that after receiving the food, the Great Chanyu can hand over the King of Yan to us as promised, so that both Qin and the Huns will be happy."

This time, without waiting for the translator from Qin to speak, Hou Huyantiao, the capital of Zuogu, who was following Touman Shanyu, immediately translated, and added a sentence by the way: "Look at what I said last night, Da Shanyu. That Qin The general of the country is afraid of us, so he has no hostile thoughts at all, he only wants to buy people with money and food."

Touman Shanyu nodded, a look of disdain and contempt flashed in his eyes.

The Huns have always respected the strong and heroes.

Cowardly sheep, how can let the ferocious hungry wolf give birth to fear.

As for what Maodun said last night, the Huns' disastrous defeat by General Zhao more than ten years ago, although Toumandan was a little vigilant for a while, but under the humiliating resignation and food delivery behavior of the envoys of the Qin people, it made him He let go of his vigilance.

In Touman Chanyu's view, the Zhao general who had defeated the Huns was responsible for guarding Zhao's borders, and the Huns plundered Zhao's borders. The two were naturally hostile.

But the Qin army in front of them came only to destroy the Dai country, and they had no conflict of interest with the Huns. The people of Qin used the money and food from the treasury of Dai to buy King Yan from the Huns. There is still a big difference between the two things.

"Ben Shanyu knows the sincerity of General Qin. Two days later, when you have brought all the things, Ben Shanyu will hand over the king of Yan to you. Hahaha, the envoy came here just in time with Ben Shanyu. Yu has a drink. Come, bring the kumiss!"

Touman Shanyu was very enthusiastic and invited the envoy of Qin to drink.

Hearing this, Li Shiqi's expression changed.

However, a smart person like him is naturally prepared, and said with a dry smile: "The kumiss in the grassland is very delicious. But this time, I was ordered by the general to send a lot of good wine to the Great Chanyu and all the nobles. , and let Da Shanyu feel the beauty of my Zhuxia's wine."

Touman Chanyu said in amazement, "You brought wine?"

...

After half an hour.

The Xiongnu Shanyu ended the banquet entertaining the Qin envoys, and the two reiterated their agreement to reach a deal in the future.

Accompanied by Huyan Tiao, Li Shiqi left Shanyu Qionglu and prepared to return.

Li Shiqi wanted to make friends with the left bone capital of the Xiongnu. Using his eloquence and a pair of jade bis that he gave privately, Huyan Tiao burst into laughter from ear to ear. The envoy seemed to hate seeing each other late.

The two walked and chatted.

Halfway through the journey, the autumn wind blew through the felt tents, bringing the smell of various livestock manure and some desolate cries.

Li Shiqi turned his head and saw outside a yurt in the distance, several ragged women were tied up with ropes, crying with their heads bowed.

Perhaps startled by the crying, a Hun man walked out of the yurt, and he yelled a few words in nonsense. Seeing that the women were still crying, the barbarian picked up his horsewhip and whipped the women in anger, and the crying became even more miserable.

"Those are slaves. Women are used to bear children and take care of cattle and sheep. Men are used to herd cattle and horses. These slaves are not used to it yet. When they are on the grasslands and are whipped enough, they will be as docile as lambs. "

Huyan Tiao noticed Li Shiqi's gaze and explained with a smile.

"Very well, disobedient slaves should be subdued with a whip."

Li Shiqi muttered a nonsense answer, and the beard under his jaw was trembling slightly.

He pretended to ask, "Are all these slaves from the country?"

"Hahaha, look over there, these slaves were all snatched from that city."

Huyan Tiao pointed to a city in the distance, and said triumphantly: "The old, weak and rebels in the city have been killed by our warriors. We will take women and men to the grassland as slaves. This city is now empty. Come down, when we return to the grassland, you Qin people can occupy this place, move your people here to live, and save you a lot of siege, it is a gift from us Xiongnu."

"Hehe, the left bone is full of pride."

Li Shiqi praised. He looked at the small city in the distance and clenched his hands in his sleeves.

tall willow.

The former Zhuxia cities are now devoid of human habitation.

The barbarians have looted all the goods and food, and there are murdered corpses everywhere.

In some places there are still ashes of the ruins after the fire.

A dead city.

A while later, Li Shiqi got into the carriage and led the team back to Pingyi City in the south.

...

Outside the city of Pingyi, in the camp of the Qin army.

After Li Shiqi returned from his envoy to the Xiongnu army, Zhao Tuo immediately summoned the generals for the next military discussion.

"Mr. Li is a wise man. After returning from the Huns camp this time, he must have a plan in his mind?"

Zhao Tuo sat in the main seat, looked at Li Shiqi, and asked.

As the only high-level Qin army member who entered the Hu camp twice in the Qin army, this counselor's opinion is very important.

Li Shiqi pondered for a while, stroked his beard and said, "General, from my humble opinion, the Touman Chanyu and the nobles of the Huns have let down their vigilance under the general's trick of showing weakness, and have not suspected that our army has the intention of sneak attack." This is beneficial to our army's next actions. However, the Hu soldiers are all cavalry. During the day, their sentry cavalry can run ten or twenty miles away to patrol, while our army is mostly infantry. Once the army approaches the Hu camp , will definitely be discovered by their cavalry, and the Huns will be able to respond quickly, and it is difficult to succeed in a sneak attack."

"If you want to attack the Huns, you can only attack at night! Using the cover of night, first use the cavalry to quickly approach and attack, set fires everywhere, burn their huts, cause chaos in the Huns army, and then press down on the infantry. This will surely defeat these Huns .”

Zhao Tuo nodded, and asked the generals: "What do you think of Mr. Li's strategy?"

"Very good. The strength of the Huns lies only in their horses. When we sneak attack at night, most of the Huns must be asleep and have no time to mount their horses. They are not the opponents of our Qin soldiers. With the help of fire at that time, this battle will surely Win!"

Meng Tian immediately nodded in agreement, and other generals also agreed.

Zhao Tuo nodded slightly, and asked again: "What do our soldiers think about the deal with the Huns?"

Heizhi immediately shouted: "It's all scolding them. Those horse-riding Huns agreed to make a deal with us, but they broke the contract and raised the price temporarily. All our soldiers hate such untrustworthy things. Pick up your sword and fight those barbarians with your life."

Speaking of this, Heizhi muttered again: "However, there are still many people who say that the general is cowardly, that our Qin State has destroyed even the five kingdoms, how majestic and mighty, why now it is a shame to bow to a group of barbarians, anyway, it is very unfair. I was very angry when I heard it, but it's a pity that the general forbids us to speak out about our strategy of showing weakness."

Li Shiqi said with a smile: "If you say it, people will talk too much, and if it accidentally spreads to the ears of the Huns, wouldn't it be a big deal. Moreover, if I expected it, the reason why the general did this is to arouse The anger and fighting spirit of the soldiers."

"Sir said so."

Zhao Tuo nodded, and then asked, "The Huns are camping near Gaoliu. I don't know how the situation in Gaoliu City is now."

Hearing this, Li Shiqi's face darkened.

With his head down, he recounted the scenes he saw when he entered Hu Ying, and what Huyan Tiao had said.

Immediately, the Qin camp was filled with the roars of all the generals.

"The barbarians attack the old and the weak, and take my people from the Xia Dynasty as slaves. How poisonous it is!"

"The Huns are cruel, we should really exterminate them!"

Amidst the anger of the generals, Zhao Tuo's face was also full of frost.

Although Qin was called the country of tigers and wolves by the six countries, it seldom slaughtered cities in the war against the other six countries. Even in the nearly ten years of unification war, it basically did not slaughter cities.

Even under the military merit system, merits are recorded by the head, there are strict regulations, only the soldiers of the enemy army can be counted as meritorious service. Qin soldiers slaughtered the old and weak, women and children not only had no military merit, but were even severely punished for violating the law.

As for slaves, except for the enemy troops captured on the battlefield who will be demoted to slaves selectively, ordinary civilians will basically keep their property and lives, and if they turn around, they will continue to live as Qin civilians.

And those Huns, they slaughtered tall willows, all the old and weak, men and women will be taken to the northern grassland as slaves, needless to say, they also know how miserable their end will be.

Comparing the two, how can one not be angry.

"Li Shang, send short soldiers to write down what Mr. Li said just now. Send them to various ministries to tell them, so as to arouse the soldiers' hatred of Hu."

When Zhao Tuo opened his mouth, a frightening light appeared in his eyes.

"Let the soldiers' fighting spirit brew for another day. Tomorrow night, Meng Tian will lead our army to raid the Hu camp and set fire to it. I will lead my own army to press on."

"The king of Yan is the second priority. Killing the Hu people is the main task."

"In this battle, I will defeat the army of the Huns and wipe out the barbarians who invaded my land of Xia!"

"In the land of the summers, how can the barbarians be rampant!"