My life is like walking on thin ice

Chapter 484 Explosion!
Finally, Huyan Dangtu decided to send light cavalry to investigate the area around Xiu Tu Ze.

Of course, not tonight.

The north wind was howling outside Gaoque, and snow was flying on the wall. Not to mention riding out of Gaoque - the Hun soldiers guarding Gaoque were not even willing to guard the wall!

Anyone with a little background or strength would find someone of low status in their respective tribe to take over their defensive position.

Even those warriors who stood on the wall because of their job or for others, hid in groups of three or five in the parapets or even in the sheltered places outside the gate tower.

——If Huyan Dangtu hadn’t been nervous and made a special inspection, he would have known that there was even a section of the Gaoque wall that was dozens of steps long without even a single garrison soldier stationed there that night!
After deciding to send light cavalry to investigate Xiu Tu Ze and inspecting the pass wall himself, Huyan Dangtu, who still couldn't completely calm down, finally returned to his felt tent.

After taking a mouthful of beef jerky that was so dry that it turned black, and a mouthful of milk wine that was almost frozen into a smoothie, Huyan Dang the butcher finally let out a long sigh.

This is what life on the grassland is like.

Although Huyan Dangtu himself had not felt this kind of panic and uneasiness for many years, he would never forget this feeling for the rest of his life.

——Huyan Dangtu was not appointed as the right general and became one of the best warriors in the Huyan tribe at birth.

In the Huyan tribe, Huyan Dangtu had hundreds of brothers, uncles, nephews, and uncles and nieces of similar age.

There is no way. The super-large tribes, whether it is the four major clans including the Huyan tribe, or the Xiongnu headquarters represented by Shanyu Ting, all adhere to the principle of casting a wide net and catching more fish, pursuing quantity first and then quality as appropriate when it comes to reproducing offspring.

For example, the current grassland princess: Junchen Shanyu once had more than thirty brothers.

Although most of them are half-siblings, Caoyuan doesn't seem to care about the status of the biological mother, but only cares about the father's bloodline and whether his own strength is strong.

In some extremely rare cases, even the father's bloodline takes precedence over personal strength.

For example, Junchen and the current Right Wise King Yizhixie are half-brothers.

——Because their fathers are brothers.

This means that the fathers of these two people do not care about their own women, who are also each other's women.

Junchen's father is nominally the previous generation Laoshang Chanyu, but in fact, every one of Laoshang Chanyu's brothers - including Laoshang Chanyu himself - may be the biological father of the current Junchen Chanyu.

Including Yizhixie's father, the previous generation Right Wise King.

On the other hand, Yizhixie was nominally the son of the previous Right Wise King, but in fact, it was not impossible that Yizhixie was the descendant of Laoshang Chanyu.

The brothers Junchen and Yizhixie could only confirm their biological mothers, but could not be 100% sure of their biological fathers.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that their biological father must be a member of the royal family of the Luanti clan.

It should be said that the Huns' lifestyle, in terms of passing on their family line, did not care about who the biological father was, but only strictly required that the father be a member of a certain tribe.

For example, for Junchen, Yizhixie and other members of the royal family of the Luanti clan, it didn't matter who their biological father was. They only needed to ensure that their biological father was from the Luanti clan and that their royal bloodline of the Luanti clan was pure enough.

The four major clans were almost smaller versions of the Xiongnu headquarters.

The four tribes also have their own royal families, and they only care about the purity of their offspring's bloodline, but do not care much about the affiliation of women or the physiological affiliation of their descendants.

The Huyan tribe, where Huyan Dangtu was located, had more than forty male royal members of the previous generation!

These people may all be Huyan Dangtu’s father.

There are hundreds or thousands of royal descendants who are the same age as Huyan Dangtu, and they may also be the descendants of any one of these forty-plus people.

Huyan Dangtu didn't care - just like every nomadic people, especially the royal families of medium and large tribes.

Since childhood, Huyan Dangtu only knew one thing: on the grassland, everything must be fought for.

Food, clothing, foals, bows and arrows - even with his father, all were fought for.

Huyan Dangtu performed well and was strong enough, so he snatched the current King Huyan and the head of the Huyan tribe as his father.

Of the remaining thousands of Huyan clan descendants and nephews, more than half died young, and many others died in the normal course of events.

Some died of starvation, some died of freezing, and some died of illness.

Some died from falling off their horses, some were killed by wild beasts, some died suddenly in duels, and some were beaten to death by their brothers.

It was like a survival game in later generations - when Huyan Dangtu grew up successfully and became an outstanding nomadic warrior, there were hundreds or thousands of people joining the game, but in the end there were only less than ten people left in the final circle.

Huyan Dangtu defeated them one by one.

Some were killed by Huyan Dangtu on the battlefield, some were defeated in duels with Huyan Dangtu, and some, knowing they were no match for him, decided to join Huyan Dangtu's protection.

Climbing up step by step, Huyan Dangtu finally became the best among the royal members of the Huyan tribe that generation, and inherited the position of the right general that belonged exclusively to the Huyan tribe.

Before that, similar panic and palpitations as today would appear in Huyan Dangtu's mind almost every day.

——Under the heavy pressure of competition, Hu Yandang slaughtered many half-brothers, but he also encountered many life-and-death crises!
During that period, even though he had become the most powerful male of the Huyan tribe, Huyan Dangtu still did not dare to be careless or even let his guard down.

For a period of time, Huyan Dangtu, who lost a duel to an elder brother but luckily survived, even experienced a miserable life of lack of food and clothing.

In desperation, Huyan Dangtu could only go out hunting alone to fill his stomach and accumulate more energy for himself.

Yes.

On the grassland, having a full stomach is a sign of strength, and being able to have a full stomach is also a skill.

After so many years, when he sensed that special danger warning again, Huyan Dangtu still didn't dare to tell himself: It's okay, it's an illusion.

Because once upon a time, it was this unknown and inexplicable danger warning ability that helped Huyan Dangtu survive crisis after crisis, and eventually stand at the pinnacle that a male member of the Huyan tribe could reach.

Moreover, at that time, almost every time Huyan Dangtu felt panic and heart palpitations, he could ultimately point to a different brother of the same clan who had bad intentions and wanted to get involved in a high position.

Therefore, Huyan Dangtu firmly believed that as long as one panicked, as long as one sensed danger, there would definitely be danger!

There have never been exceptions!

But today, Huyan Dangtu was a little dazed.

This was the first time that Huyan was a butcher, and despite his best efforts, he still couldn't find the source of this sense of danger.

"If you're afraid of the cold, you don't have to stay on the wall all the time."

"Leave a few people to watch over it. The others will go to the tents to rest and come back to take a look every once in a while."

"With such a heavy snowstorm, the Han people can't even deliver a hair to Gaoque."

Huyan Dangtu thought about the series of coups and mutinies that had taken place in the Chanyu's court and within the Huyan clan since he was a child.

Therefore, Huyan Dangtu was able to show some leniency to his garrison soldiers, in an attempt to nip the possible unrest in the bud.

After making these arrangements, he went to the top of the wall and inspected the wall after the defense force had weakened.

Finding that there was no difference - they were all symbolic sentry posts, Huyan Dangtu returned to his felt tent again.

Can't sleep.

I can't sleep anyway.

It was not until the second half of the night that Huyan Dangtu fell into a deep sleep with uneasiness in his heart. At the same time, the snoring in the tents in Gaoque was even louder. The snoring was so loud that it was like a symphony played without any tacit coordination.

On the wall, the few defending soldiers gathered together, forming a circle like penguins to keep warm.

The unlucky guy who is squeezed to the outermost edge will not give up either, but will keep trying to squeeze in.

There was no one standing on the southern wall of Gaoque anymore, focusing on the pitch-darkness outside Gaoque.

Just at the time when everyone relaxed their vigilance - or in other words, at the same time when they were taking a symbolic garrison posture as they did every day in the past, a military mobilization of 100,000 people took place outside Gaoque.

——At the beginning, it was the vanguard army led by Zhidu. They sent out a total of 150 elite scouts, who used ropes to build battlements on the top of the Gaoque wall and climbed up the wall of the pass.

Then, the elite scouts divided into twos and threes and spread out on the top of the wall.

Those brave warriors who huddled together for warmth under the tower could not figure out until their death: In this horrible weather, where did the Han people come from?

Did it fall from the sky?
Afterwards, the scouts used this method to descend from the inner wall, but did not go too deep.

The next period of time is very critical!

On the northern inner side of Gaoque, the scouts hid their bodies and hid at the foot of the wall to buy enough time for the vanguard of Zhidu's troops behind them.

During this period of time, every time the vanguard army had one more soldier who climbed up the wall of Gaoque with a rope, the battle would be more certain. If all 30,000 vanguard soldiers could be sent to the top of the wall, Gaoque could be breached from the inside!
But unfortunately, things don't always go as planned.

Although the ideal was perfect, in the end, reality gave the soldiers of the vanguard camp led by Zhidu a result that was neither good nor bad.

——After the infiltration operation began, about half an incense stick of time, the vanguard army sent less than a thousand people to the city wall, and a small-scale riot began to occur on the north side of the city wall.

Zhidu didn't know the exact situation, but he was certain: no matter what the source of the chaos was, the next step would be that the movement on the wall would be discovered by the Huns.

At this point, Zhidu finally stopped hesitating, stood up on the top of the Gaoque wall, and looked down at the northern side of the wall, where the Xiongnu defenders kept coming out of their felt tents to investigate.

He cleared his throat, and then let out a roar, resounding through the sky and earth above Gaoque.

"Soldiers!"

"If we defend the wall for half an hour, there will be 30,000 more vanguard warriors on the wall behind us!"

"If we can hold out until dawn without being repelled, we can wait for the main force of 50,000 troops of Marquis Bowang!"

"--Now, hold every step of the wall where the Huns can wait, and hold on until help!!!"

"After the war, if possible, I will personally host a banquet for you all!"

"Even if you die, I will still lead the way for you on the road to the underworld!!!"

With a roar, Zhidu's eyes widened with anger, he drew the sword from his waist, and began to move back and forth on the wall while shouting and killing.

The several-mile-long wall of Gaoque began to be occupied by more and more Han soldiers.

The Huns were very anxious, but they could not easily return to the wall no matter how hard they tried.

The war, almost the moment it broke out, completely became white-hot and entered into a brutal meat-grinder-like high-intensity attack and defense.

"kill!!!"

“Ah~!”

"You bastard, look at my sword!"

“Help, help!!!”

For a moment, people and horses were thrown to the ground on the walls.

Outside the wall, on the other side of the river, it is located just south of Gaoque and slightly west.

Seeing the previously agreed-upon fire signal lit up on the top of the Gaoque wall, Cheng Buzhi finally drew the sword at his waist, turned around and looked at the river bank, where the soldiers in the central army were already panting from exhaustion due to the field training.

"Your Majesty's secret decree!"

"Yanmen Governor Zhidu, the vanguard general, will attack Gaoque first!"

"Shuofang Governor and Bowang Marquis Cheng Bushi is the General of Chariots and Cavalry. He will lead the main force of the central army to follow and provide support!"

After the same roar, Cheng Buzhi pointed his sword at Gaoque on the opposite bank, his face flushed sickly in the midst of the ice and snow.

"At this moment, Gaoque has been broken!"

"The warriors of the vanguard camp are fighting against the Xiongnu bandits in Gaoque!"

"Gentlemen, are you willing to give up all your military merits to the vanguard battalion of Fly Zhidu and be reduced to being young and strong civilians who escort food and fodder!!!"

After Cheng Buzhi roared and shouted, the soldiers in the central army slowly came back to their senses from their shock.

Then, there was a sudden burst of ecstasy, which quickly swept through the entire central army like a plague.

——Fuck!
——Gaoque!
——And they’ve already broken in!

——If you follow them, you will get great merit!
"I don't want to!"

"We also want military honors. We also want to attack Gaoque and kill the barbarians!"

It didn't take too long, just to arouse the anger of the soldiers in the central army. Cheng Buzhi immediately turned around and pointed his sword at the other side of the river again.

"Target, Gaoque!"

"All troops advance quickly!"

"If you can reach Gaoque before dawn, I will reward you with ten thousand coins!"

"The first hundred people to enter Gaoque will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan!"

There was no need for Cheng Buzhi to make any more movements. As soon as Cheng Buzhi gave the order, the 50,000 soldiers in the central army rushed towards Gaoque on the opposite bank like wild horses.

Looking at the speed at which the army crossed the river, Cheng Buzhi's face was indeed slightly stern. He looked towards the other side again, at the top of the Gaoque wall where the flames were becoming increasingly fierce.

"You must hold on!"

"We must hold out until the central army arrives!"

"This is an opportunity that my Han family fought hard to get for you, Zhidu!"

“You must – you must seize this opportunity…”

On the wall of Gaoque, Zhidu was covered in blood, but as if he sensed something, he subconsciously turned around and looked towards the river south of Gaoque.

After seeing the soldiers from the central army rushing towards Gaoque with roars, Zhidu just grinned.

Then, continue to engage in the brutal fighting.

(End of this chapter)