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Jiang Tian's military camp.
"Huo Qubing, I still stand by what I said to you. The sky is high enough for birds to fly, and the sea is wide enough for fish to leap. As long as I have Li Guang by my side, that's enough."
Now that we've come all this way to the Xiongnu, it would be a bit unreasonable for us to go back without doing anything.
We must destroy the Xiongnu royal court and force the Xiongnu Chanyu to submit, thus eliminating a threat from the 16 kingdoms of the northern steppes.
Upon hearing this, Huo Qubing immediately cupped his hands and said, "My lord, rest assured, I know what to do."
Huo Qubing mounted his horse and whistled.
Thousands of cavalry followed Huo Qubing out of the camp and headed north.
Soon, these thousands of people disappeared into the vast grassland.
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The royal court of the Xiongnu.
Huge buildings, one after another.
The sacred site for the Xiongnu's worship of Heaven.
The Great Chanyu of the Xiongnu, the Left Wise King, the Right Wise King, the Xiongnu National Preceptor... they, along with a group of civil and military officials, knelt before a huge totem.
The huge totem is carved with wolves and bears, and at the top of the totem are two eagles soaring with outstretched wings.
The Xiongnu Chanyu respectfully kowtowed three times before the totem.
Immediately afterwards, hundreds of shamans began to dance in front of the totem, chanting incantations.
Dozens of cattle and sheep were led over.
These wizards, wielding knives, jumped around as they used their sharp blades to chop off the heads of the cattle and sheep.
The cattle and sheep let out cries of agony.
The Huns who were watching burst into laughter when they saw this.
The Imperial Advisor walked over.
"Grand Preceptor," the Great Chanyu slowly stood up from the ground, "the princess sent by the Great Xia Dynasty for a marriage alliance will arrive soon."
However, to everyone's utter surprise,
The Imperial Advisor closed his eyes, trembling all over, and raised his hands high, stretching them straight towards the sky.
The same was true for the wizards following behind the Grand Preceptor.
After a long while, the Grand Preceptor suddenly opened his eyes: "Great Chanyu, the people of the Great Xia Dynasty have come from afar, not with good intentions."
They have ulterior motives.
Upon hearing this, the Xiongnu Chanyu laughed heartily: "Everyone knows that the Great Xia Dynasty is already beset by internal and external troubles. They are too busy to even take care of their own domestic affairs, yet they dare to extend their reach to the grasslands to be my enemy."
"Imperial Advisor, you've performed countless divinations; I suspect this one has been wrong."
Not only did the Xiongnu Chanyu feel that this marriage alliance was just sending him money, gold, silver, jewels, and women.
The Left Wise King and the Right Wise King were the same.
In the eyes of these Xiongnu people, the people of the Xia Dynasty needed something from them.
The Great Xia Dynasty was a fat sheep they could slaughter at any time.
"Great Chanyu, be careful in everything you do. I see the future; we Xiongnu are in a perilous situation."
Upon hearing this, the Great Chanyu still refused to believe it: "Grand Preceptor, you are unaware that the Great Xia Dynasty sent a princess here for a marriage alliance in the hope that my Xiongnu would send troops to attack the Liao Dynasty with them."
"Grand Preceptor, at worst we can marry the princess, take their gold and silver treasures, and not attack the Liao Kingdom. Then, what bloodshed would there be for us Xiongnu?"
The Imperial Preceptor angrily jabbed his staff into the ground repeatedly: "The princess is a jinx, and the procession escorting her to the marriage alliance is a bloody disaster."
Upon hearing this, the Great Chanyu was greatly surprised: "Don't worry, Grand Preceptor, how could I let a weak woman take my life?"
I cannot allow these people from the marriage alliance to kill our people.
After the Great Chanyu finished speaking, he stepped down from the high altar.
"Gentlemen, the Grand Preceptor is divining today," the Xiongnu Chanyu said loudly to the civil and military officials below the altar, spreading his arms wide. "The people of the Great Xia Dynasty harbor evil intentions."
They used the pretense of marriage alliances to plot against us, the Xiongnu.
Since they are unrighteous, they shouldn't blame us for being unjust.
We must win this time; they'll be utterly defeated.
Upon hearing this, the civil and military officials roared in fury: "Kill them all! Kill all the people of Great Xia!"
The Xiongnu Chanyu nodded in satisfaction.
The Left Wise King approached and said, "Great Chanyu, I've heard that the princess who came to marry you is so beautiful that she could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky, and the moon hide and flowers blush."
She is the most beautiful woman in the world.
If you want to kill him, you might as well leave this woman to me.
I wonder what the Great Chanyu thinks.
The Great Chanyu of the Xiongnu glared fiercely at the Left Wise King: "Left Wise King, don't you think you've gone a bit too far lately? Even if my woman is dead, she's still my woman?"
"I am the Great Chanyu of the Xiongnu, how dare you lay a hand on my woman!"
Upon hearing this, the Left Wise King quickly cupped his hands and said, "Great Chanyu, I dare not. I only feel that it would be a great pity if you killed that woman, Great Eel."
Over the years, how many princesses has the Great Xia Dynasty sent to our Xiongnu?
None of the princesses had any problems.
Xiao Wang thought that if the Great Chanyu didn't want the princess, he might as well give her to me.
"How dare you..." the Great Chanyu roared.
The Left Wise King immediately knelt down on the ground with a thud.
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The tribe of the Left Wise King.
The Left Wise King returned to his military tent in a huff: "What right does a cowardly and incompetent person have to be the Great Chanyu of my Xiongnu?" The Left Wise King picked up a bucket of mare's milk wine, tilted his head back, and gulped it down in one go.
The women inside the tent, seeing that the Left Wise King was angry, did not dare to breathe loudly.
The twelve commanders of ten thousand men under the Left Wise King stepped forward quickly.
"Left Wise King, the Great Chanyu has been suppressing our Left Wise King tribe for a long time. If we continue to swallow our anger, the Great Chanyu will definitely intensify his actions."
"Left Wise King, if I may say something I shouldn't, we have fought for the Great Chanyu in the east and west all these years and conquered such a vast territory, but the Great Chanyu treats us worse than a stray dog on the roadside."
"Left Wise King, there is no need for us to continue to swallow our anger. Haven't these people from the Great Xia Dynasty arrived? The Grand Preceptor has already calculated that these people from the Great Xia Dynasty have ulterior motives."
"Why don't we impersonate people from the Great Xia Dynasty and take action against the Great Chanyu?"
"If we can eliminate the Great Chanyu, that would be best. Even if we fail and the operation fails, we can still pin the blame on the Great Xia people."
Upon hearing this, the Left Wise King nodded repeatedly.
"That's right, I've long been tired of enduring all the difficulties imposed on me by the Great Chanyu."
Since this bastard is heartless, don't blame us for being ruthless too.
The Left Wise King slowly stood up, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
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Jiang Tian's convoy sped up its journey.
Around noon.
Li Guangxing rushed up to Jiang Tian.
"My lord, guess what I discovered?"
Seeing Li Guang's enthusiasm, Jiang Tian smiled slightly and tossed him a bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor): "Tell me, what did you discover?"
"My lord, I have discovered a place where there is raging oil everywhere."
Jiang Tian was overjoyed upon hearing this.
If an open-air oil slick is found, it indicates that the oil production there is extremely high.
"Take me to see it quickly." Jiang Tian couldn't wait to mount his horse.
A troop of cavalry escorted Jiang Tian and Li Guang straight towards the distant Menghuo Oil Lake.
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