My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 189 Great Victory
"Lü Yi has saved up a lot of money over the past year. Not to mention the other things, his monthly income from horses alone is a huge fortune. If I can get half of his wealth, it will be enough to support me, Su Shuang, to start all over again!"

Su Shuang was naturally very satisfied with this result.

However, thinking of the traitor in Luwu, his joy subsided a little, and he continued to speak to Hu Tuo.

"I hope Brother Hutuo will forgive me. The person who is meeting us in the city also has his own plans. We need to meet his demands before he will help us break into the city!"

"Oh? What does he want?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Tuo immediately acted magnanimously and asked.

But at the same time, he made up his mind that if the traitor's demands were too high, he would find an excuse to kill him when he attacked the city the next day.

After all, it's a war. Isn't it a normal error to accidentally kill a few traitors?

"He only wants two things!"

Su Shuang recalled the situation and immediately told the traitor all his demands.

"First, he wants Luwu!"

"Well, we can agree to this. Anyway, what we want is only the food and money in Lvwu. As for Lvwu, we have to burn it even if we capture it. Since this man has betrayed the Han people and joined us Xianbei people, we can naturally hand Lvwu over to him without worry. It can also be regarded as another chess piece planted by us Xianbei people in Bingzhou!"

Hu Tuo nodded and agreed.

"Secondly, he wants Lu Yi's woman!" Su Shuang heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Hu Tuo had agreed to his most important request.

"Hmm? This traitor is quite interesting. How many women does Lu Yi have?" Hu Tuo was stunned when he heard this, then he suddenly laughed and asked quickly.

"That Lu Yi has a wife and a concubine. His wife is the daughter of Zhang from Mayi, and his concubine is the daughter of the chief of the Xiongnu Hunye tribe!"

Su Shuang couldn't help but grit his teeth as he spoke.

He had been trying to find out where Lu Yi had smuggled the horses from, but after a long search he was unable to find the source of the smuggled horses.

Otherwise, he would have directly ordered the Xianbei people to attack the Hunye tribe and cut off Lu Yi's financial resources at the root.

The trade route at the Mayi Great Wall Pass that he monopolized would naturally become a sourceless stream and would not last for more than a few days.

If the traitor he bribed had not informed him, Su Shuang would not have been able to penetrate into the four alliances no matter how hard he tried.

"Huns?" Hutuo's expression didn't change when he heard about his wife Zhang Wan'er, but he couldn't help but become interested after hearing about Qiqige's identity.

"The Xiongnu and Xianbei are mortal enemies, far more hateful than the Han people. Therefore, the Great Chanyu has already made it clear that whenever we encounter Xiongnu, we must find an opportunity to get rid of them. I dare not keep this Xiongnu woman without permission. If the city is breached, I will humiliate her and then execute her!"

Although the Xianbei and Han peoples were hostile to each other for a long time, their ecological niches were not the same.

Therefore, there is still room for relaxation between the two.

But the Huns were different.

In terms of ecological niche, the ecological niche of the Xiongnu people highly overlaps with that of the Xianbei people.

They all make a living from animal husbandry, and their main occupation is herding.

But there is a law on the grassland.

No matter how many wolves there are in a place, even if the cattle and sheep in that place are everywhere, there will be a day when they will all be eaten up. At that time, the prosperous wolf pack will still die out due to lack of food without the sheep.

Therefore, it would be fine if the two greedy wolves of the grassland, the Xiongnu and the Xianbei, did not meet.

If they meet, it will be a life-and-death battle, and there is no way they will let the other party leave alive.

Killing the other party not only can obtain the other party's sheep, but also the other party's pasture, and obtain more living space. Therefore, if Hu Tuo didn't know, it would be fine. Now that he knows Qi Qige's identity, if he doesn't kill Qi Qige after breaking into the city, he will definitely be punished by Tan Shihuai.

"Haha, don't worry, Brother Hu Tuo. That Hu girl is just a fallen woman and is not wanted by the traitor at all. What he wants is Zhang, the legal wife of Lu Yi."

"Since she is a Han woman, it doesn't matter. If we can capture her alive after the city is breached, we can just give her as a reward to the traitor."

Hearing what Su Shuang said, Hu Tuo couldn't help but feel relieved.

"Brother Hutuo is right. Since Brother Hutuo has already agreed to the traitor's request, why don't we retreat ten miles and set up camp first?"

"On the one hand, we can build camps and restore morale."

"On the other hand, it can also make the people in Luwu relax, giving me a chance to contact the traitor and pass on the message!"

Su Shuang was relieved upon seeing this and quickly tried to persuade Hu Tuo.

"Alright! Let's follow Brother Su's advice!"

Huto was quick to accept advice.

It just so happened that the two or three thousand newly conquered warriors from other tribes also needed to be divided and conquered. He could take this opportunity to completely conquer them and turn them into his own subordinates.

"Look, Captain! Those barbarians seem to be retreating!"

"Should we pursue?"

Lu Yi's guards noticed the abnormal behavior of Hutuo's tribe and immediately reported it to Lu Yi.

"Don't chase after a desperate enemy. Our goal has been achieved if the Hutuo tribe can retreat. Besides, our two thousand auxiliary troops are not enough to withstand a charge of the 7,000 cavalrymen of the Hutuo tribe. If we didn't have the advantage of defending the city, how could we have easily won a great victory by killing 3,000 Xianbei people? The most taboo thing in everything is greed, which will lead to loss of wisdom!"

However, Lu Yi waved his hand, rejecting the guard's suggestion.

"Quickly finish off the enemy, harvest the heads of the Hu people, and return to Luwu as soon as possible!"

"promise!"

A moment later, without the threat of Hutuo's troops, Lu Yi quickly led a thousand spearmen with a full load back to Luwu.

Except for a very small number of them who were injured by the dying Xianbei people, most of them were basically safe and sound except for being a little weak.

Around their waists were hung a series of Xianbei heads, some one and some four or five, who had died with their eyes open.

These brave warriors who followed Lu Yi out of the city to pursue the enemy were warmly welcomed by the people of Luwu.

After having these one thousand men guarding Lüwu, Lü Yi sent another one thousand auxiliary soldiers out of Lüwu and came to the moat to salvage the bodies of the Xianbei people in the moat.

These corpses are enough evidence for Lu Yi to gain considerable military merit.

Although the military achievements of the Eastern Han Dynasty were much less than those of the Western Han Dynasty, sufficient military achievements were still a more solid proof than the so-called filial and honest origin.

He was awarded an official position and title because of his military merits, especially when the source of his military merits was a foreign race that was causing trouble on the borders of the Han Dynasty. If this were the case in the rest of the world, even aristocratic families would not risk the disapproval of the world and attack Lu Yi.

Therefore, these heads are Lu Yi's precious trophies and should not be given up easily.

At a time when almost the entire Hebei Province had been ravaged by the Xianbei people, it was a great achievement for Lu Yi to harvest so many Xianbei heads with the help of a small Luwu.

Moreover, if left unchecked, the corpses of these Xianbei people would likely pollute the water source, which was even more intolerable to Lu Yi.

(End of this chapter)