Volume 1 Chapter 101 A Great Gift for the Huns
The quartermaster was not optimistic about Bai Qi at all. Now all the Hun Khans had joined forces to launch a full-scale siege on Honghua City.
Moreover, their logistical supplies were cut off, and they would soon run out of grass and food.
But Bai Qi only took away 10,000 elite soldiers.
Ten thousand against five hundred thousand, what can he do?
Yang Wudi felt disappointed, but he couldn't fall down. He looked towards the grassland with only one belief in his heart: Bai Qi, you can do it!
There are billions of people behind you!
At this moment, Bai Qi was rushing to the Dragon Court of the Fifth Khan.
Along the way, the Xiongnu herding people saw Bai Qi and his men, and sometimes greeted them and asked about the war ahead:
"My friends, have you returned from the front?"
"Did our Khan capture Honghua City?"
"My son is a captain of a thousand men in there. He will definitely bring me a clean woman this time."
These people do not have the same reverence for cavalry as the people in the Central Plains.
After all, everyone on the grassland is a soldier.
In response to the herdsmen's questions, Bai Qi and his army remained silent. After all, many people had no idea what the Huns were saying.
There were only about one or two hundred people in the entire army who understood the Xiongnu language.
This is the result of special training.
They are Yang Wudi's favorites, and this time they were all sent out to cooperate with Bai Qi.
Bai Qi smiled at the herdsmen, enthusiastically performed the Hun etiquette to them, and then replied:
"Our Khan has laid siege to Honghua City and will soon return with a great victory!"
The herdsmen looked at Bai Qi's appearance, then looked at the appearance of the soldiers around them, and always felt that something was wrong.
Although Bai Qi and his men were wearing Hun clothes and had the unique Hun smell of cattle and sheep on their bodies.
In order to avoid being recognized, they also made their faces very dirty.
But this still made the herdsmen suspicious. Someone asked in confusion: "Why have we never seen you before?"
"Logically speaking, with so many of you, there must be a few of you that we can recognize!"
After this herder finished speaking, the other herders became more alert.
Yang Paifeng actually understood Xiongnu language. She clenched the scimitar in her hand and said in a low voice in the Central Plains language: "Should we kill them all?"
Bai Qi smiled and shook his head. "What a joke! Why kill them? If we kill them, our plan will be impossible to implement!"
When Bai Qi said this, the soldiers around him were all puzzled.
In fact, until now they still don’t know what Bai Qi’s plan is.
Just follow Bai Qi.
Bai Qi looked at the Xiongnu herdsmen who were gradually becoming alert and said, "We are not soldiers under the Fifth Khan, we are under the Second Khan."
"It's normal that you haven't seen it."
"We have never been to this pastoral area."
is that so?
These herdsmen were all confused. They didn't understand why the Second Khan sent his army here at this time.
Just when they were confused, Bai Qi drew out the scimitar in his hand and shouted in the direction of the Fifth Khan Xiongnu Longting:
"All troops attack!"
This was shouted in the Xiongnu language, but Yang Paifeng and the others understood it. Even if they didn't understand it, seeing Bai Qi's appearance, they knew what to do now.
That is to follow Bai Qi and attack the Xiongnu Dragon Court.
After Bai Qi finished speaking, he urged his horse to charge towards the Xiongnu Dragon Court, and killed a herdsman who was blocking his way with one sword.
After chopping the grass, he also ordered: "Don't worry about the herdsmen in the back, just charge forward!"
“Kill, kill, kill!”
Bai Qi had already taught his soldiers the simplest Xiongnu language.
His soldiers immediately shouted this sentence in the Xiongnu language. Those who had scimitars drew them out, and those who did not have scimitars directly picked up the bows and arrows on their backs.
But none of them used a crossbow.
Because the Huns did not have this kind of weapon, and even if they did, they were very few and it was impossible for them to be equipped on a large scale.
"What are you going to do? What are you going to do?"
"Oh my God! The Second Khan wants to kill us!"
"Run away!"
"The Second Khan wants to annex our tribe."
"The Second Khan is so shameless. We are still at the front with him to attack the Great Zhou, but he sent troops to raid our lair."
"We will never let him go, even if we die!"
The Huns shouted angrily, but no one rushed forward to fight with Bai Qi and others. Instead, they fled in all directions.
Even a fool knows that these roaming herdsmen cannot compete with the regular army.
Going up would only mean death.
So they chose to escape at the first opportunity and spread the news that the Second Khan of the Xiongnu was attacking their Fifth Khan's tribe.
They wanted to let all the people of the grassland know that the Second Khan was treacherous.
For a moment, the grassland was in chaos, with all kinds of pleas for mercy, curses, and roars resounding through the sky.
..........
now.
Inside the Dragon Court on the grassland.
The more than 2,000 Hun cavalrymen who stayed behind heard the shouting and killing outside and immediately mounted their horses, with anger on their faces.
"How dare you!"
"We are the guards of the Fifth Khan!"
"Go back! Go back quickly!"
"This is the Dragon Court of the Fifth Khan. Living here are the Fifth Khan's Rouge and all the nobles under our Fifth Khan."
"Can't you tell the difference between friend and foe?"
The Dragon Court defenders roared hysterically.
He attempted to use the Huns' most strict hierarchical concept to oppress Bai Qi and his people.
After all, the attire of Bai Qi and others only shows that they are the lowest class of the Huns.
But Bai Qi didn't care about all that. He swung his scimitar and ten thousand cavalrymen grabbed their longbows and started shooting wildly.
After a round of arrow rain, both sides suffered minor damage.
But soon the two armies rushed together, and at this time the advantage of numbers was reflected, 10,000 soldiers fighting against more than 2,000 guards.
A single charge broke up the enemy's formation and directly killed five or six hundred of them.
After all, Bai Qi came well prepared, and his troops were all elite.
The defenders of the Grassland Dragon Court are usually lax, who would have thought that someone would attack here!
They are just like the Imperial Guards of the Central Plains Dynasty, all of whom are children of aristocrats. They are really not good at fighting, and their numbers are too small.
"Run, run!"
"We can't win."
"I'm going to the front and I'm going to tell our Khan."
The remaining five or six hundred defenders gritted their teeth and ran away without even caring about their wives and children.
Anyway, many of the Huns’ wives were captured. Today they captured someone else’s, and tomorrow someone else would capture theirs.
They don't care about these things.
They don't even know whether the children their wives gave birth to are their own.
Now they will not give up their lives to protect others, their lives are also precious.
"Kill, kill them all, leave no one alive!"
Yang Paifeng shouted excitedly and waved her scimitar to beat the man who fell into the water. In the past, she went to the grassland to hunt down the Huns, but they just ran away when they couldn't defeat them, which made her very depressed.
This time, these Huns needed to guard the Dragon Court, so they put up some resistance.
It’s not that easy to run away.
You can kill one to your heart's content.
If the pursuit continued, Yang Paifeng felt that he could leave all these people behind. After all, they came well prepared, while the other side was fleeing in a panic.
"Stop, stop right there!"
Bai Qi roared and ordered all the generals under his command to stop their actions.
Yang Paifeng reined in her warhorse, which raised its front hooves and stomped heavily on the grass. Although she obeyed Bai Qi's orders, her face was full of unwillingness.
"Why not give chase? This is a great opportunity to annihilate the enemy!"
Not only Yang Paifeng thought so, others also had this question.
Although they obeyed Bai Qi's orders, they all had puzzled expressions on their faces. It had been a long time since they had such a satisfying killing experience.
Bai Qi shook his head and said, "Killing people is not our purpose, and these people cannot die!"
Yang Paifeng was very puzzled and asked, "If they don't die, the news will spread. How can we sneak attack the dragon courts of other khans?"
According to her anticipated war plan, she should kill the opponent's Dragon Court and catch the opponent off guard.
After destroying the five dragon courts, they returned to support Honghua City.
But Bai Qi asked them to let them go, and it was obvious that he and Yang Paifeng had a completely different plan.
Bai Qi did not explain, nor did he want to explain to these people.
Instead, he once again swung his scimitar and issued a battle order to the entire army: "Capture half of the Xiongnu nobles, especially the women, and let the remaining elderly and children go."
“But don’t put it too deliberately.”
"Take away all the gold and silver."
After Bai Qi finished speaking, Yang Paifeng and others were stunned.
"Are you attracted to the queen of the Xiongnu Khan?"
Yang Paifeng directly asked what was on his mind.
Bai Qi's mouth twitched, "How is this possible?"
"I don't even like Princess Anyang, so why would I like a woman from the Xiongnu?"
"Stop talking nonsense and execute the order immediately!"
Bai Qi hit Yang Paifeng on the head with his scimitar. This woman's train of thought was really weird.
Yang Paifeng then led his men into the Xiongnu Dragon Court, looted all the Xiongnu's gold and silver treasures, and then captured the rouge of the Xiongnu's fifth Khan.
He also captured the wives of all the tribes under the command of the Fifth Khan of the Xiongnu.
After capturing these people, the others fled and scattered, and Bai Qi did not chase them excessively, but just shot a few arrows symbolically.
Some people were just shot and seriously injured.
But most of the Xiongnu nobles and priests fled.
Bai Qi then laughed out loud and shouted to everyone in Xiongnu language:
"This time we captured the wife of the fifth Xiongnu Khan. As long as we present her to the second Khan, you can have as many cattle, sheep and women as you want."
Yang Paifeng’s eyes widened.
Bai Qi wouldn't do that!
But she suddenly realized that if Bai Qi really did this, it would seem interesting.
At this moment, Yanzhi, the fifth Khan of the Xiongnu, stared at Bai Qi and said angrily in Xiongnu language: "My Khan will never let you go!"
Bai Qi replied in Xiongnu language: "When you become the woman of my second Khan, you will not think so. Someone take you away."
As they spoke, the soldiers captured Yanzhi, the fifth Khan of the Xiongnu, and loaded him onto war horses. All the captives rode on horses and headed towards the Dragon Court of the second Khan of the Xiongnu in a mighty procession.
In the distance, the fleeing Xiongnu nobles gnashed their teeth in hatred and swore a poisonous oath in the direction of Bai Qi:
"Damn it, we must avenge this!"
"We must go to the front and tell our Lord Khan that the Second Khan has evil ambitions and we cannot cooperate with him at all."
"They were fighting the Great Zhou on the front line, and the bastard Second Khan actually sent people to raid our hometown."
"They stole our treasures and women."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
"We must not let the second Hun Khan's conspiracy succeed. If he becomes the Great Hun Khan, we will be in even greater trouble!"
Among these people, some elderly people and children who were unable to ride horses, as well as some people who were seriously injured, were left behind.
Everyone else found a horse and rushed to Honghua City frantically.
They will report the situation to their Lord Fifth Khan and make the Second Khan pay the price!
This is a blood feud!
Blood must be repaid with blood, tooth for tooth!
………………
Bai Qi looked at the backs of these people leaving and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
I want you to cause trouble for the Second Khan!
At this moment, he was leisurely escorting the queen of the fifth Huns Khan and the nobles to the dragon court of the second Huns Khan.
After ten days of marching, we finally saw a group of tents ahead.
There are also various platforms for sacrificial ceremonies.
Densely packed flagpoles were placed on a high platform, hung with animal carcasses and skeletons. Colorful strips of cloth were tied to the flagpoles, fluttering in the wind.
On the high platform, some totemic symbols were painted with animal blood and dyes.
That’s it!
The Dragon Court of the Second Khan of the Xiongnu!
"stop!
The Dragon Court Guards of the Second Xiongnu Khan felt their scalps go numb when they saw the huge army.
Before Bai Qi and his companions could get close, they immediately adopted a defensive posture, and each of them drew his longbow.
The sharp arrows were aimed at Bai Qi and others.
"Stop, we are family!"
Bai Qi immediately shouted loudly in the Xiongnu language, as enthusiastic as if he was back home.
"One of our own?"
"Which part are you from?"
"What's the password?"
The Dragon Court guards are not stupid and would never let strangers in.
Especially Bai Qi and others, they always felt something strange about them.
It lacks the unique flavor of the grassland people.
Bai Qi immediately shouted in Xiongnu language: "We are sent by the Second Xiongnu Khan to encircle and suppress the Fifth Xiongnu Khan!"
What! ?
The Dragon Court guards were all stunned. The leading Dragon Court guard angrily said, "Bullshit! How could our Khan allow people to attack the Fifth Khan?"
As soon as they heard it, they felt something was wrong and became even more alert.
Bai Qi spread his hands and sneered, "You idiot, isn't the purpose of the five khans' meeting this time to compete for the position of the first khan?"
"Logically speaking, the Second Khan should be the heir to the First Khan's throne."
"But the Fifth Khan and the Fourth Khan disagree."
"So the Second Khan came up with this idea. He captured the families of the Fourth Khan and the Fifth Khan and saw if they agreed or not!"
"We came back from the front to force the Fifth Khan."
Bai Qi looked at him with an expression that said, "You know nothing," and started to curse him.
What you said makes a lot of sense!
The Dragon Court guards nodded one after another, feeling that there was nothing wrong with this.
But the leader of the Dragon Court Guard frowned and looked up and down at Bai Qi and the others, his doubts growing stronger, and he asked carefully: "Why have I never seen you before?"
Bai Qi shook his head and said, "Of course you have never seen me, because I am under the command of the Third Khan, and my Lord Third Khan has surrendered to the Second Khan!"
If the queen of the fifth Huns Khan had not been gagged at this moment, she would definitely have said that Bai Qi was lying with open eyes.
But the Dragon Court guards let down their guard, especially when they saw the captives behind Bai Qi.
They spotted the queen of the fifth Hun Khan at a glance, after all, the queen was dressed differently from everyone else.
“It seems to be true!”
Bai Qi and others not only captured the Fifth Khan's queen, but also seemed to have brought many nobles.
Especially these women, just by looking at their headdresses and attire, you can tell they are important figures!
The eyes of the Dragon Court guards were all shining.
If these were real prisoners, maybe they could pick a few of them to take back and make them their wives.
After all, this is the most traditional custom of the Huns.
My wife's things are basically not found, they are all borrowed from others.
Bai Qi saw that these people gradually relaxed their vigilance, so he smiled and said: "We won't go in either. According to the order of the Second Khan, we just need to bring the people here."
Then he waved to the people behind him and said:
"Hand over the prisoners to them, and also the gold and silver treasures we have robbed."
After Bai Qi finished speaking, Yang Paifeng immediately made a sign language, and the soldiers immediately followed their instructions and handed all the captives over to the Xiongnu Longting Guards.
He also threw all the gold, silver and treasures he had on him onto the ground.
When the package was opened, all kinds of gold and silver utensils shone brightly under the sunlight.
It directly blinded the eyes of the Xiongnu Longting people.
Originally, the leader of the Xiongnu Longting still had some doubts about Bai Qi's identity, but when he saw so many Xiongnu women and so much gold, silver and treasures, he became more suspicious.
It was right before his eyes, within his reach as long as he reached out and took it.
All the defensiveness in his heart disappeared.
Will the enemy give you treasure? Will the enemy send you a woman?
This must be a friendly force!
He looked greedily at the gold, silver and treasures on the ground, then looked at the captured Xiongnu queen and others, thinking that now that they are here, can I still let them go back to you?
Besides, even if the queen of the Fifth Khan of the Xiongnu were released now, would the Fifth Khan of the Xiongnu agree?
So he gritted his teeth and said, "Follow my orders and receive the prisoners and treasures!"
As he spoke, he kept staring at Bai Qi, afraid that Bai Qi would suddenly attack.
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