Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 532
"General, Wumu City, Wumu City is also lost!" In an ordinary small courtyard in Yandu Jicheng, a general who looked like he had just returned from the front line said in a low voice to an elderly man.

"Understood." Although the old man's hair and beard were all white, he couldn't hide the soldier's temperament on his body. Although he didn't wear armor, he just stood there in civilian clothes like an indestructible mountain.

This person is the Zhao Guojun God of the year——Li Mu.

"The Huns went crazy. They forced the Donghu captives to climb up the city wall. The walls of Wumu City were filled up with the corpses of the Donghu people!" He has been fighting for many years and is used to seeing the light of swords and blood, and he still feels a little creepy.

Of the [-] Qin troops staying in Wumu City, except for a few cavalry who escaped after the city was broken, all of them died in the city.

Once the Qin army, which was dominated by infantry, lost the protection of the city, it would have little possibility of escape in the wilderness facing dozens of times the Hun cavalry.

In the past ten days or so, the Xiongnu seemed to have gone crazy suddenly. They drove out more than [-] Donghu captives and the old and weak, and used their flesh and blood to level the five cities of Qin, including Wumu City.

"I ordered you to prepare things, are you ready?" After listening to the general's description, Li Mu sighed and asked Li Zuoche who was standing beside him.

"All preparations have been made. Our army has obtained a total of [-] barrels of black water day and night." Li Zuoche replied.

"Bring my battle armor." After hearing Li Zuoche's reply, Li Mu said in a low voice: "The order is to withdraw the army from Jicheng, and all the people in Juyang City will withdraw except for the [-] defenders!"

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At this time, outside Wumu City, teams of Donghu captives were digging pits under the whips of the Huns. If they were lucky, they could find a few tree branches or rubble for help, and more people could only dig with bare hands.

Even though the hands of these Donghu people were bloody, they still didn't dare to stop their movements, because the Hun overseer was swinging a long whip at the side, and if he hesitated a little, he would be hit hard on his back.

As for the purpose of these potholes, it is natural to bury the corpses on the hill outside the city. Although the Huns did not know that the corpses would cause the outbreak of the plague, they knew that if so many corpses were left unattended, they would be destroyed when the corpses decayed. In that case, there is no need to wait for this city.

Because he was not used to living in Han houses, although the Xiongnu occupied Wumu City at this moment, Maodun Shanyu still lived in his military tent at this time.

"Da Shanyu, there is news about the Qin Army in the South." At this moment, a Hun Qianqi commander came to Mao Dun to report.

"Say."

"According to the information sent by our spies just now, the Qin army has surrounded the Chu army. Although there is no decisive battle between the two armies for the time being, I am afraid that the Chu army will not last long." The Qianqi commander reported.

Just as Daqin had always wanted to place spies in the Huns, since Ziying wandered around in the Huns, the Huns have never stopped investigating Daqin.

When the Great Qin was unified before, the Xiongnu’s infiltration of the Great Qin could not be said to have achieved any results. However, in the past few years, the Central Plains has been in chaos, and who cares about some suspicious people. Therefore, the spies sent by Maodun are all over the Great Qin. A lot of useful news came.

A while ago, after Maodun got the news that Daqin was about to fight the Chu army, he couldn't stay any longer.

Now the Qin army is just two generals Li Mu and Meng Tian leading part of the Qin army at the border, and they have firmly blocked the Huns' army in the north. If the main force of the Qin army goes north after the Great Qin has settled Chu, the Huns may never be able to return. There is no chance to touch the rich land south of the Yin Mountain.

So after learning that the decisive battle between Qin and Chu was imminent, Mao Dun immediately gathered the captives and the old and the weak of Donghu nearby, and drove them south to start this extremely bloody war.

So far, the results have been good. Although our own casualties were heavy, all the dead were Donghu people, but our main force of the Huns did not suffer much loss.

Moreover, the five cities and large tracts of land in Qin State have actually belonged to the Xiongnu.

His eyes swept across a piece of lambskin that was full of lines, and his eyes saw the next target - Juyang City.

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Because of driving away a large number of Donghu people, the Huns arrived at the city of Juyang after five days.

As soon as he arrived at Juyang City, Mao Dun suddenly felt that the Juyang City in front of him was a little different from the five cities before him.

Although Juyang cannot be compared with the strong city in the Central Plains, as the city where Shanggu County is located, it is already considered a strong city in Yandi.

And because of its proximity to water control, Juyang City is surrounded by a moat that other small cities in the Northland do not have.

However, Mao Dun's doubts at this time were not because of Juyang's external conditions, but because he fixed his eyes on the black handsome flag flying above the city.

Mao Dun, who had always regarded Da Qin as the final imaginary enemy, naturally recognized it. Since this flag is erected here, it means that the commander of the Qin army must be in this city.

And now the commander-in-chief of the Qin army is the butcher who made the entire grassland dare not go south to graze horses for more than ten years-Li Mu.

After the Huns set up their camp, Mao Dun, escorted by a team of guards, went to the city of Juyang more than a hundred steps away.

At this distance, even if some strong bows can be shot, their strength has long since exhausted, and there is no much threat to him.

"Here is Maodun, the great Shan of the Xiongnu, and where is Mr. Li Mu!" After reining in his horse, Maodun shouted loudly towards the top of the wall, and what Maodun said was the correct Qin dialect, obviously referring to Daqin. After becoming his own opponent, Mao Dun also put in a lot of effort against Da Qin.

At this time, the Xiongnu had just arrived at the bottom of the city, and Li Mu happened to be patrolling this section of the city wall, and immediately came to the top of the city when he heard Maodun's call.

Looking from a distance, the leader of the group of Hun cavalrymen, wearing a golden crown on his head and a big wolf fur coat, has a broad and upright face, sword-like eyebrows and tiger eyes, and sits in a group of pure white men without a trace of variegation. On the battle horse, Li Mu understood that this should be the Huns' Great Chanyu Modun.

"Don't dare to be arrogant, Maodun, I advise you to return to the grassland as soon as possible, so as not to miss your own life!" Li Mu replied mercilessly.

With Li Mu's qualifications, although it is somewhat contemptuous to call Maodun a child, he does have the capital. When Li Mu ran across the grasslands, Maodun's father, Touman Shanyu, was just an ordinary general of the Huns.

"Mr. Li is nearly seventy years old now, don't know how to mount a horse and draw a bow?" Mao Dun sneered when he saw Li Mu here.

You must know that Li Mu's deterrent effect on the Huns is indeed a bit strong. Many Huns of this generation were frightened by their parents when they were young when they heard Li Mu's "savage" legends.

So what Maodun is doing now is to use Li Mu's age as an excuse to remove the Huns' fear of Li Mu and boost the morale of the army.

No matter how powerful Li Mu is, he's just a bad old man now, so what's so scary about it!

However, after listening to Mao Dun's sarcasm, Li Mu looked up to the sky and smiled happily.

Then he ordered Qin Jun beside him, "Bring my bow."

Immediately, a hard bow, which was different from ordinary bows and arrows in terms of length and material, was sent to Li Mu.

Li Mu stroked the longbow that had accompanied him all his life with some admiration, and said silently: "Old man, this time it's up to you."

After finishing speaking, he took the arrow and bent the bow, and as Li Mu loosened his arm, three feathered arrows quickly shot towards Maodun under the astonished eyes of the Huns.

Even if they came to the position where Maodun and the others were standing, their strength still remained undiminished!

Mao Dun was shocked and quickly drew out his long sword to block one of the feathered arrows. However, this time Li Mu shot not just one arrow but three arrows. The three arrows shot towards Maodun one after another like a string of arrows.

Li Mu's arrows were so fast, although the guards around Mao Dun had already rushed towards him, but when they got in front of Mao Dun, the two arrows would have arrived first.

Under the crisis, Mao Dun didn't care about his face, and immediately used the etiquette of blocking the first arrow, clamped his legs desperately on the horse's belly, leaned back, and then swayed his body to the side of the horse's belly.

However, when Maodun dodged, the two arrows shot into the horse's back. Under the pain of the horse, with a mournful neigh, the horse of Maodun immediately went berserk.

At this time, Mao Dun had already jumped off the horse.

"Protect the Great Chanyu!" Until then, Modu's guards blocked Modu's body, and one of the guards hurriedly got off his horse and gave the horse to Maodu.

Looking from a distance, seeing Li Mu on the top of the city taking his bow and arrow again, the guards hurriedly left towards the rear.

At this time, all the Huns who saw this scene had a question, how could Li Mu be so ferocious when he was young, if he could pull such a strong bow at this age!

Watching the Xiongnu Shanyu retreat, the Qin army on the head of Juyang city suddenly remembered the sound of mountains roaring and tsunami.

"General Li is mighty!"

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(End of this chapter)