Chapter 1153: The Siege of Mayi (End)
"I am a very reasonable person."
Looking at the strong-body herder in front of him with yellow teeth, Wang Xiao smiled and said, "If you don't offend me, I won't offend you. If you offend me, I will kill you."
It is the second half of the night, and the herdsmen are open but can't speak. They are strong, but they can't even close their eyelids.
Because Wang Xiao lit the acupoint, he had become a human-shaped sculpture at this moment.
Then look, Wang Xiao is alone and dressed very well. He even carries a huge iron sword on his back.
In the eyes of the Huns' herdsmen, all this is the fat sheep given to them by the immortal god.
It’s a pity that his luck was too bad this time. Although Wang Xiao was only one, the herdsmen chose to quietly come and take action when the person was most sleepy in the middle of the night. Even the tent where Wang Xiao was originally from the herdsmen, so familiar that they could not be familiar with it anymore.
Even if you have the right time, place, and people, you can't stop encountering a wall.
"I gave the money."
Wang Xiao yawned and stood up from the leather mat. "You could have made a lot of money easily, but unfortunately you are too greedy."
Ignoring the fear and pleading in the herdsmen's eyes, Wang Xiao raised the knife that fell to the ground, "I want to use this to kill me? Who do you look down on?"
It’s not Wang Xiao who boasted that he couldn’t even cut off his skin.
Putting the herdsman's hands behind him, Wang Xiao put the most valuable thing in the herdsman next to his heels with an iron pot, and then cut the blood vessels on the herdsman's wrist with a knife.
Blood dripped into the iron pot, like the death sound from the underworld.
"Stand by." Wang Xiao smiled beside the herdsmen and said, "I will come again until dawn. If you are not dead at that time, I will spare your life."
Wang Xiao himself didn't believe what he said.
Now it's dawn, there are at least four or five hours left. No matter how strong a person is, how much blood can heal?
But this is also impossible. Who made the herdsmen feel greedy and want to kill people and rob money?
Killing someone to pay for his life, robbing money and paying back money. This is a natural thing.
Wang Xiao took it for granted that he encountered a black store this time.
Because the grassland herders of this era are not the herders who sing and dance in later generations. The education they receive is to be excellent robbers and go to the robbers' home to stay, so there will naturally be no surprises in the future.
After dawn, Wang Xiao, who had changed his tent and slept, came to the herdsmen to check the situation.
It is obvious that I have already died and cannot die anymore.
For Wang Xiao, this time the matter is just a small matter that is not worth mentioning.
He sat on the flying sword and soared into the air, continuing to pursue Qing's army.
Li Guangcheng didn't know that there was no need to see it. Although they were numerous, they were mainly infantrymen.
It is impossible to catch up with military officials and cavalrymen with one man and a few horses.
Whether this big move can gain something depends on Wei Qing's actions.
Wang Xiao didn't want to be a result that was like in history, wasting time and energy in vain and not getting a single hair.
Wei Qing was very fast and started to make rice before dawn.
When Wang Xiao was still sleeping soundly, Wei Qing had already eaten and drank enough, and even the horses had been fed.
When Wang Xiao sat on the flying sword and caught up with him lazily, Wei Qing's army was already galloping towards the northwest.
How many days does the 300-mile flat grassland road take for Wei Qing?
The answer is two days!
Wei Qing took 20,000 cavalry and rushed for only two days. After joining Gongsun Ao, who had come out to inquire about the news before, he finally found the camp of the Huns next to a winding clear river.
With the warm sunshine, it shines on the clear river water.
In the northwest of the vast grassland, there is a mountain standing there.
The winding river flows through the foot of the mountain, like a jade belt, splitting the emerald green grass.
It was just dawning, and the sun left the horizon and dragged the morning glow to rise.
Thousands of light penetrate the hazy mist and brings light and warmth to the earth.
Wang Xiao sat cross-legged on the flying sword, holding a kettle in one hand and dry food in the other and eating breakfast. He now had no image of a great emperor with disheveled hair.
In fact, when Wang Xiao first learned the swordsmanship, he valued his image very much.
The white clothes fluttered like Ximen Chuxue, and the heroic figure was erect. That was the image he was pursuing at that time.
However, Ximen Chuxue may also be bald.
After a long time, Wang Xiao was disgusted. He could do whatever he wanted, no one could see him anyway.
I even did something like standing on a flying sword and peeing three feet in the wind.
There is no way, the strong capital is just the starting distance, and the main thing is to face the wind.
The early-rising Hun herders on the ground carried buckets to the river to fetch water, and if they were about to make a fire and cook.
But not long after they walked out of the camp, they felt the ground tremble slightly.
He raised his hand to wipe off his eyes and looked in confusion in the direction of the rising sun.
‘Dong.’
The wooden bucket fell on the grass, and the owner of the bucket looked dull and his eyes were frightened.
In the distance, under the reflection of the rising sun, a huge cavalry group like mountains and seas bathed in the sun and slowly pressed towards them.
The cavalry group holding high the red flag was like a torrent of steel, bringing a mountain-like oppression.
Even though these Xiongnu herders were illiterate, they knew that the red flags represented the Han army!
The herdsmen felt unbelievable. Didn’t they say that the army of the Great Shanyu was attacking the Han area? Where did these Han armies come from?
The Han cavalry would not answer their questions and answer their questions. As the sound of horns sounded, groups of Han cavalry rushed into the camp with shouts.
The next thing is very simple.
Although there were more people in the Huns camp than Wei Qing, those who fought may have almost been taken away by military officials, the rest were not the opponents of the elite Han family cavalry armed to the buttocks.
The sword light flashed, and the ring-headed swords that integrated the blade body could easily cut off the Huns' heads.
The ring-headed sword is the Han sword, which is a truly cross-age weapon. It is precisely because of this new weapon that can withstand strong stress that the Han army can be even more powerful on the battlefield.
The shape of this sword is actually similar to that of a sword, and its length is even more than one meter four.
But the blade is taking a light and agile route, not the thick nine-ring slaughtered golden sword that I remember.
This is because when the cavalry moves at high speed, it is about being light and sharp. At the moment when the war horses pass by, they swing over and cut half of the enemy's body away, and then quickly withdraw the knife.
If you use that thick and short sword, you will either be a living idiot or a joke made by a brainless screenwriter.
Looking from the perspective of Wang Xiao, who was constantly lowering his height, it was when a Han cavalry roared past and caught up with the Xiongnu herder who was running away on his back, and the knife in his hand gently slashed across his neck.
The herder would run a few more steps forward along the inertia, and then he would fall to the ground without getting up.
In the long river of history, most of the nomadic people on the grassland are performing, or the wild boar skins in the white mountains and black waters.
The highlight of the Han people was actually only the strong Han and prosperous Tang dynasties.
Cavalry is the armored group in the era of cold weapons.
The decline of Han cavalry was largely due to the loss of horse farming sites.
Without the grasslands in the north, there will be no powerful cavalry, and without powerful cavalry, you can only watch the slow-moving infantrymen flying kites by the cavalry.
Wang Xiao's eyes quickly passed the chaotic battlefield below, but the overall situation was determined.
He looked at the vast grassland around him that seemed to be endless, and his belief was already firm in his heart.
"This grassland must be given his surname Han!"
The Mayi siege that took place in the fifth year of Yuanguang marked the rare large-scale war between the Han and the Hungarians that had been quelled for more than ten years and started again.
The military minister who came with greed was defeated outside Mayi City.
Although he successfully escaped from the encirclement, the logistics tribe was taken away by Wei Qing.
More than 30,000 Huns were killed and captured, and more than 200,000 cattle, sheep and horses were seized.
Wei Qing took away all the things and livestock that could be taken away, and killed them all and burned them.
The tens of thousands of military officials lost their logistics and could only escape all the way to starvation. They fled back in a panic by eating up all the herders along the way and the small tribe.
Because of worrying about the pursuit of the Han army, there were at least thousands of horses and people who died along the way.
As the saying goes, don’t have any hope for the transportation system of this era.
Even the transportation system in the Han Dynasty, after years of hard work, is still a rural-level road. Not to mention that there is no road here on the grassland.
Even if it is a cavalry, it is a very deadly thing to do when traveling a long distance.
After learning that the logistics tribe was destroyed, the military ministers did not think about going to take revenge at all. Instead, they fled desperately, for fear that they would be caught by the Han army.
After finally returning to his gold tent, the military minister who came to his senses immediately broke the sharp arrow and sweared to the sky that he must take revenge!
For him, this was a lifelong shame.
I thought I was going to be a robber with a relaxed and pleasant feeling, but I didn't expect that I almost made dumplings by someone from the government.
The military minister who pretended not to be a slut was deeply humiliated. After returning to the golden tent, he ordered the Hun tribes and tens of thousands of cavalry to attack the border walls of the Han Dynasty.
This time, there will be no more concerns, and everyone will do their best to attack the Han people.
Burn their houses, trample on their fields, kill their men, and steal their women!
To be honest, the orders of the military ministers were indeed murderous, but they really didn't have much to do when facing the big men protected by the side walls.
Breaking the border wall is too embarrassing for the Huns who lack the means of siege.
Wang Xiao did not stay to watch Wei Qing return, but flew back to Chang'an City directly.
The war with the Huns, which had such a vast territory, was destined to be a long-term war. Now, it is just the beginning.
Chapter completed!