My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 274 Earth-shattering
"What's going on? Why hasn't the messenger returned after being gone for so long?"

King Zuo Xian, who was unaware that his messenger was gone, persisted for a while longer. When nearly half of his men were killed or wounded, he could no longer endure it and started shouting and cursing.

"Alliance leader, Lü Yi has been delaying for so long, he must have betrayed us. Now Jiang Qu's army is attacking relentlessly, just to kill us!"

"It's better not to hold out any more hope for Lu Yi and retreat first. As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood!"

Some sober princes among the lords had already seen through Lu Yi's true intentions, and hurriedly pulled Zuo Xian Wang, who was fighting hard, to persuade him.

"You are talking nonsense. The deputy leader is definitely not a coward who is treacherous and disloyal. You dare to slander the deputy leader of the alliance in front of me. Are you taking advantage of me because I am too old to chop off your dog head?"

He Sutuo, who was standing by, couldn't help but look pale when he heard that, and started yelling and cursing at the man.

And his son, Hartler, Lu Yi's loyal little fan and brother-in-law, was even more determined to draw his sword and draw it, ready to kill him if they disagreed.

In fact, Hexu himself probably believed what the princes said.

He is old and experienced, and has been wandering in the grassland for decades. What kind of things has he not encountered? What kind of experiences has he not experienced?

There are no eternal enemies on the grassland, and naturally there are no eternal allies.

As long as there is benefit, the brother who drank and chatted with you and became sworn brothers with you last night may betray you today, and even lead his men to attack you and fight you to the death.

Betrayal and selling out are the behaviors that bring the least psychological burden to the Hu people.

Hesuto was no longer as passionate as Hartler. Time and suffering had long washed away the few fantasies and optimism in his bones.

But even though he knew that his son-in-law had ill intentions, He Xutuo was too frightened to let anyone openly accuse Lu Yi.

His relationship with Lu Yi has long been known to everyone. Even if he himself knows that he and Lu Yi are in no way connected, will others think so?
If others were allowed to attack Lu Yi, Zuo Xian Wang would only think that he and Lu Yi were in the same group, and the Hunye tribe would also be regarded as Lu Yi's accomplices by the princes.

Therefore, when someone stood up to accuse Lu Yi, Hexutuo not only disagreed, but also strongly opposed it.

Otherwise, both he and his son might not survive today.

After all, Lu Yi's situation, who had the protection of a camp, was not as dangerous as his and his son who were in the army.

"Humph, you got a great son-in-law!"

"Forget about Lu Yi. Since he wants to be alone with Jiang Qu, I will grant his wish!"

"We retreat!"

King Zuo Xian stared at He Xutuo with a gloomy face for a long time, then he gritted his teeth and made a sarcastic remark, then hurriedly led his people to retreat.

"Father, should we follow the Zuo Xian King now, or go to the camp to join my brother-in-law?"

"Ugh……"

"Go to the camp and follow your brother-in-law!"

Hesuto pondered for a long time, and finally chose to go against the alliance.

Now Zuo Xian Wang has become suspicious of him. Even if he follows Zuo Xian Wang and leaves safely, once he is safe, without the strong support of Lu Yi, Zuo Xian Wang may not necessarily take out his anger on the Hunye tribe.

It would be better to go all the way with Lu Yi.

After all, no matter what he said, he was still his father-in-law, and they had business dealings, so Lu Yi would never give up on him.

Zuo Xian Wang's troops were originally fighting with Jiang Qu's troops, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce battle.

Therefore, he could not retreat safely even if he wanted to.

First of all, it depends on whether Jiang Qu will give him this opportunity!

Therefore, when Jiang Qu saw that Zuo Xian Wang finally couldn't hold on and began to retreat, he was immediately overjoyed.

"The rebels have been defeated. They fled in panic and left their backs to us!"

"Men! Warriors!"

"What are you waiting for? Today is the day to achieve success!"

"Whoever kills the rebel leader will be rewarded with 1,000 slaves, 5,000 cattle and sheep, and will be allowed to establish his own tribe!"

"Whoever kills the rebel leader, Zuo Xian Wang, will be rewarded with 10,000 slaves, 50,000 cattle and sheep, and will be named You Xian Wang of the Xiongnu!"

With Jiang Qu's generous reward, all his soldiers were excited, and they roared and killed the enemies who were fleeing madly with their backs turned.

This kind of favorable situation is the fighting style they are best at!
The allied forces, which were originally retreating, were completely defeated. Countless allied soldiers fled in panic, and no matter how Zuo Xian Wang and others ordered, they could not be controlled.

"oops!"

"I regret listening to Lu Yi's lies, which caused my alliance plan to fail!"

"We have suffered a great defeat today, and the Zuo Xian King's army will certainly be in danger. How can I face the previous kings?"

Amid the chaos of the army, Zuo Xian Wang saw that the situation was hopeless and was about to draw his sword to commit suicide in grief and anger, but was stopped by his close followers.

"My lord, victory and defeat are common in the military. As long as we grassland men have scimitars in our hands and war horses under our crotch, are we still afraid that we can't revive our tribe?"

"If I commit suicide, it will be the end of everything, but my ambitions to be king will also be in vain!"

"Don't try to stop me!"

However, Zuo Xian Wang's mind had been destroyed by failure, and he was determined to commit suicide despite the efforts of his followers to stop him.

However, he was in the midst of a chaotic army, just like being in the midst of a raging sea. How could he allow himself to be at ease?

In the chaos, he was rushed by the chaotic soldiers, and the gold-inlaid scimitar in his hand was washed away. He and his followers were also swept away by the chaotic soldiers.

"Brother! Zuo Xian Wang's troops were defeated!"

"Now Jiang Qu has completely exposed his back to us, just like Zuo Xian Wang and others before him."

"Let's do it quickly!"

"I am willing to be the vanguard and cut off the head of the slave chief Jiang Qu and present it to you, brother!"

In the camp, Lu Bu roared excitedly upon seeing this, and immediately challenged Lu Yi to a fight.

"Okay, then I will give you a thousand armored cavalrymen as the vanguard of our army to attack the careless Jiang Qu's troops."

"My brother is brave and it's child's play for him to defeat the bandits. But the slave chief is still very useful to me, so I'll take his head for now! If we meet him in the chaos, just drive him away, but don't kill him!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yi was excited and immediately agreed to Lu Bu's request to fight.

"Brother-in-law, I am willing to serve you too!"

Hatter, who had fled into the camp with Hesuto, stepped forward excitedly to ask for a fight upon hearing this.

"I am indeed a Xiongnu warrior, but you and your father-in-law have been fighting for so long that your people are already exhausted. You should stay in the camp to guard the captured cattle and sheep for your brother-in-law. Once you have recovered your strength, you will have more time to contribute!"

Lu Yi's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he immediately stopped Hatler's request.

He and Hexutuo were still kept in the dark by himself, and Lu Yi was not prepared to let them out, so it would be inconvenient to let them in in some occasions in the future.

"OK then!"

Hatter nodded in disappointment, but his old father Hesuto behind him couldn't help but frowned when he heard that.

"All the rest of you, regardless of whether you are a combat soldier or an auxiliary soldier, follow me to kill the enemy!"

"Without my order, the horse cannot rein in its hooves and the man cannot put away his sword!"

After settling his father-in-law and brother-in-law, Lu Yi mobilized all the soldiers in the camp to attack together, determined to defeat Jiang Qu's troops in one blow. "Yes!" Gao Shun and other generals finally received Lu Yi's order to fight. Everyone was very excited and knelt on one knee to receive the order.

A moment later, the camp gate, which had been closed during the battle between Jiang Qu and Zuo Xian Wang, suddenly opened.

Two thousand mighty cavalrymen in silver armor rushed out of the camp gate.

Behind them were larger numbers of leather-armored light cavalry.

These five thousand fresh troops, who had been gathering their strength for a long time, immediately caused a huge wave as soon as they entered the battlefield.

After a series of fierce fighting on the battlefield.

The defeated Zuo Xian Wang Alliance had less than 10,000 remnants of soldiers who were fleeing.

Although Jiang Qu's troops had completely gained the upper hand, their losses were also enormous, with only less than 20,000 soldiers.

However, these soldiers were already exhausted after a series of battles. If the enemy had not been even more vulnerable, and if Jiang Qu had not offered a huge reward, they would have been exhausted long ago.

Now he seems to be invincible in chasing down the defeated Alliance soldiers, but in fact he is just holding on with his last breath.

And Lu Yi's army of nearly 5,000 were all elite soldiers who had rested leisurely for half a day. Now they suddenly appeared on the battlefield like a tiger out of the cage or a dragon crossing the water.

The soldiers under Jiang Qu's command fled as soon as they were touched, and died in battle.

The scene suddenly changed drastically.

Jiang Qu and the soldiers under his command seemed to be the winners who were about to win everything in the previous second, but in the next moment they immediately became losers who lost everything.

"Kill Hu!"

Lu Bu was like a fierce god descending to the earth. He led a thousand cavalrymen and cut a path through Jiang Qu's army like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

On this road to death, no one can resist him even for a moment.

Any Hun who fought with him either immediately turned into a warm corpse or turned into pieces of broken limbs, dying in an extremely miserable way.

The Huns around him were so frightened by this that they avoided him as much as possible.

"Kill Hu!"

Generals such as Gao Shun and Hou Cheng behind Lu Bu also responded loudly.

The morale of Lu Yi's army is high and they are invincible. Every move they make is earth-shattering!

"Aren't Lu Yi's troops too exhausted to fight?"

"Why can they recover their combat power so quickly?"

"Could it be that their previous resistance when they were blocked in the camp by our army was just a disguise?"

Panic and doubt immediately appeared in the hearts of every soldier in Jiang Qu's camp.

And their king, the Great Khan of the Xiongnu and the ruler of Mo Nan, Jiang Qu, was horrified as he watched Lu Yi's army galloping on the battlefield and rapidly harvesting his own soldiers.

"Is this all the tricks of Zuo Xian Wang?"

"That's right!"

"If it weren't for the Zuo Xian Wang using himself as bait, how could I have so easily believed Lu Yi's disguise of losing his fighting power?"

"Zuo Xian Wang is a despicable and cunning man. In order to compete with me for the position of Chanyu, he even colluded with the Han people and let the wolf in."

"I just can't accept losing to such a villain!"

At this time, Jiang Qu's tribesmen were all huddled together because of the threat of death, and they were scrambling to escape, with no organization at all.

What happened to Zuo Xian Wang just now happened perfectly to Jiang Qu at this moment.

"Come on, Han dog! Even if I die, I will bite a piece of flesh off your body!"

However, unlike Zuo Xian Wang who wanted to commit suicide and could not face failure, although Jiang Qu was extremely disappointed, he was still unwilling to surrender and was ready to lead his people to fight to the death with Lu Yi.

However, contrary to Jiang Qu's expectations, Lu Yi did not choose to attack Jiang Qu directly.

Instead, it was an extremely abnormal move. After the entire army drew an arc obliquely in the battle formation, it actually exposed the escape route to the eyes of Jiang Qu and others.

"Ok?"

"Does Lu Yi not want to suffer casualties, or does he intend to let me go?"

Before Jiang Qu could think more, his confidant immediately grabbed the reins of his mount and, together with the surrounding personal soldiers, surrounded Jiang Qu and fled away in an escape route.

"No matter what your purpose is in letting me go today, you will know in the future that this is the biggest failure of your life!"

With a way out in sight, Jiang Qu naturally would not seek death. After cursing angrily in his heart, he hurriedly fled away with his troops, less than 10,000 of whom had lost more than half of their number after the sudden attack by Lu Yi.

"Brother! Jiang Qu really ran away!"

"Should we continue chasing him for a while and kill more of his followers?"

After letting Jiang Qu escape, Lu Yi's army immediately changed from pursuit to encirclement.

The originally united army was divided into many small encirclement groups, which were besieging and killing the surrendered Hun prisoners.

At this time, a general like Lu Bu had no place to use his skills, so he rode his horse to Lu Yi and asked.

"No!"

"Now Jiang Qu's army has less than 10,000 people. If we continue to pursue him, I am worried that he will be at a disadvantage in the subsequent battle with Zuo Xian Wang and will be defeated easily. This will be detrimental to our plan to weaken the Xiongnu!"

"Besides, isn't it more satisfying to capture captives and loot than to chase down desperate enemies?"

Lu Yi smiled easily, raised his hand and pointed in another direction and said.

"Just now I deliberately drove Jiang Qu to the north in order to separate him from the camp in the east."

"Now Jiang Qu's main force has either been captured by us or has been defeated by our army and fled to the back with Jiang Qu. Now his camp and the camps of his lords are extremely empty. This is a good opportunity for us to reap the rewards!"

"Don't forget, I have already made an agreement with the Zuo Xian Wang that all the spoils captured by our army, whether prisoners, cattle, sheep, or horses, will belong to our army."

"Brother, you are right. I was so excited about killing that I almost forgot about the main task!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Bu couldn't help but slap his forehead and quickly reacted.

"Gao Shun will lead a thousand heavy cavalry and a thousand light cavalry to collect prisoners and clean up the battlefield. The rest of you will follow me to attack the camp left behind by Jiang Qu and others!"

"promise!"

At Lu Yi's command, all the generals immediately took action.

The flames of war stretched for hundreds of miles and did not stop all night, illuminating the snowy northern region as if it were daytime.

By dawn of the next day, the war was gradually put out by Lu Yi.

In this battle, Lu Yi seized a huge amount of spoils.

Not only were tens of thousands of prisoners captured, but also thousands of horses, and the remaining cattle and sheep numbered nearly 100,000.

Because of their defeat, Jiang Qu and other princes had to give up all the people and livestock they had collected from all over the south of the desert to the victor Lu Yi.

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(End of this chapter)