Xiang Zhuang immediately stepped forward and helped Hu Yan Zhengde up, and smiled and said, "Hu Yan, from now on, you will be the Tianlang Captain in front of this general's tent, and will be on the guard together with Hu Ben Captain Jin Xiang!"

Gao Chu, Meng Shu, and when the generals of Yuyuan suddenly changed their expression slightly.[]

Doesn’t it mean that the safety of Xiangzhuang will be jointly responsible for the more than 500 warriors of the Huyan tribe and the more than 500 veterans of the Chu army led by Jin Xiang? It was less than a day before the Huyan tribe returned to Chu, so I arranged for them to be the guards in front of the general’s tent. Isn’t this too reckless?

Only Bailixian praised in his heart, saying that he is worthy of being the general, so how could he be a great general!

The general arranged more than 500 warriors from the Huyan tribe as guards in front of the tent. This behavior seemed reckless, but in fact it was very clever, because compared to the Chu people, Wei people or Qin people in the Chu army, the Huyan people had the least foundation and were the least likely to be attracted. They were the guards to protect the security of the big tent, and they were even more secure than the veterans of the Chu army.

Furthermore, this move can also give Huyan Zhengde and the more than 500 warriors of the Huyan tribe great confidence. Most of the General should clearly tell Huyan people through such an arrangement that I, Xiangzhuang, trust you very much and feel at ease. This should be what the General usually says about hiring people without doubt, and no doubt about them, right?

At present, Bailixian and Gao Chu, Mengkeng and other generals came forward to meet Hu Yan.

Hu Yan didn't know what Su Wei meant. After listening to Bailixian's explanation, his face changed slightly. When he looked at Xiang Zhuang again, there was already an inexplicable admiration in the tiger's eyes, and the doubts in his heart disappeared in an instant. Originally, he was worried that Xiang Zhuang would demote him and his tribe members to slaves.

Hu Yan summoned You'er and a few Hu Yan Baihu to greet Xiang Zhuang and others.

Seeing Hu Yanyou'er, the generals were a little surprised. They didn't expect that such a big wind and sand in Mobei could raise such a beautiful beauty! Xiang Zhuang didn't feel anything because there were already two great beauties around him. Whether it was Wei Yuewuyang or Ying Zhen Shiman, they were all peerless beauty that was not inferior to Yu Ji.

During the cold and cold noise, a whistleman suddenly came to report: "General, a Hun envoy was closing the door!"

"Emunior Huns?!" Xiang Zhuang suddenly woke up. Maodun's tens of thousands of cavalry were just outside Gaoque Pass. He immediately came straight to the city with his generals, asking Hu Yan, "Hu Yan, how many cavalry do the Huns have now?"

Huyan Zhengde said: "The Huns had just conquered the Donghu, and dozens of Donghu tribes were incorporated into the Huns. Now, the Huns tribes combined have almost 300,000 string-controlling men."

Xiang Zhuang's heart suddenly sank. More than 300,000 cavalrymen were not a joke!

At least it was not something that the Chu army can resist now. Xiang Zhuang asked again: "How many cavalry did Maodun bring in this south of Hetao?"

Hu Yan Zhengde said: "There are about 70,000 or 80,000 riders."

Speaking, everyone had already reached the Gaoque Pass. They stood on the gate and looked out. They saw that they were all covered with gray and simple Xiongnu cavalry. The grassland outside Gaoque Pass was completely covered by the Huns' cavalry. Only 70,000 to 80,000 cavalry were already in such a momentum. I really don’t know what the scene would be when more than 300,000 cavalry all appeared?

While looking at it, a whimpering roar suddenly came from the city of Guan. When Xiang Zhuang looked down, he saw a Hun man standing proudly under Guan. He thought he was the envoy of the Huns.

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and a personal soldier had already stepped forward to use a hanging basket to lift the Hun envoy up.

The Hun envoy was not tall, at most six feet tall, but he was extremely strong, and his neck was almost thicker than his head. Seeing Hu Yan Zhengde behind Xiang Zhuang, he immediately glared at him and shouted at Xiang Zhuang a few more words. Xiang Zhuang naturally didn't understand the language of the Huns. He looked back at Bailixian, who could understand the words of the Huns.

Bailixian said: "General, this guy said that as long as we hand over Huyan, Maodun will leave immediately with the army and will never make things difficult for us."

Leave? Only a three-year-old child will believe this!

Maodun has already taken the Hun army south, and will he let the fat piece of Hetao go?!

However, Xiang Zhuang did not want to turn against Mao Dun immediately. No matter what, it would take time for the Chu army to evacuate from Hetao. He immediately ordered Bailixian: "Ziliang, tell him, give us two days to consider."

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Outside Gaoque Pass, Maodun’s big tent.

The messenger has returned and brought back Xiangzhuang's reply.

"Two days?" Maodun touched the curled beard on the corner of his lips and shouted, "Let them get two days!" After that, Maodun raised the pottery bowl to the uncle sitting at the lower head, and said, "Mr. Gongdun, please."

"Great Chanyu, please." Uncle Gong raised the bowl and respectfully, covered his face with his sleeves, and drank the horse milk wine in the pottery bowl in one go. Although he thought this might be the Chu army's delaying strategy, no matter what, his uncle said that he had just joined Maodun's command and had not even stood firm yet, so it would be better not to say more for the time being.

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In Gaoque Pass, Xiangzhuang is on the head of the road.

At this moment, Xiang Zhuang was thinking hard, how can he leave Gaoque Pass without knowing it?

Baili Xian suddenly grew up and held a feather fan in his hand and bowed to Xiangzhuang, "General, Xian has a plan to leave Gaoque quietly without disturbing the Huns."

"Oh?" Xiang Zhuang said happily, "Ziliang said quickly."

Baili Xian shook his feather fan and said, "Before Duke Huan of Qi returned to Linzi from Ju State to succeed, he was trapped on Cen Mountain by the young master Ji, who was also preparing to return to the country to succeed the throne. Later, the young master Xiaobai adopted Bao Shuya's plan of "hanging sheep and beating drums, hungry horses neighing the weeds" and was able to escape smoothly. After returning to Linzi to inherit the throne, the young master Xiaobai returned to his army and defeated Prince Jiu."

"Hanging sheep and beating drums, and hungry horses neighing the weeds?" Xiang Zhuang's heart moved when he heard this. He knew this allusion. Xiang Zhuang asked Meng Shuo again, "Tianfang, are there any living sheep in Gaoque Pass?"

Meng Fengyu quickly stood up and replied, "Yes, the five hundred sheep I sent out last time only ate half of them."

Xiang Zhuang beat the chorus hard and shouted: "Leave fifty rams, hang them on the drum, and then kill the rest of the sheep, throw them on the road, and let them rot."

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Two days passed quickly, and the Huns outside Gaoque Pass did not realize anything was wrong.

Because in the past two days, dense drums and horses would be heard from time to time in Gaoque Pass, and even this was the case at night. Obviously, the people of the Central Plains were very vigilant. What is somewhat puzzling is that at night, the people of Gaoque Pass were pitch black, and the people of the Central Plains did not even light a torch.

The agreed time has come, Maodun sends an envoy to call Guan again.

However, the envoy sent to the envoy called under Gaoque Pass for a long time, but he still didn't respond to the envoy. The envoy had no choice but to return to the big tent and report the situation to Maodun.

"What did you say, no one agreed?!" Maodun couldn't help frowning.

The uncle who was sitting in the lower head said then, "The Great Shanyu, the people of the Central Plains have run away."

"This is impossible!" The Zuoxian King of the Huns on the other side said without thinking, "Just just now, you could still hear the dense sound of war drums and the neighing of horses in Gaoque Pass. There were clearly people in the Pass!"

Uncle Gong said silently, and just click some words, but you will offend others.

Maodun thought for a while and ordered the Zuo Dada Dong Muhe to say, "Dong Muhe, send a few 100-man teams to grab the pass!"

Dong Muhe responded with a loud promise and took the order. After Dong Muhe had gone to a meal, there were crowds of cheers outside the tent. When Maodun hurried out to the tent and checked out the final investigation, he saw that several hundred-man teams sent by Dong Muhe had already rushed to Gaoque Pass and were waving his Tianlang flag at the moment.

"The people of Central Plains really ran away?" Maodun couldn't help but look back at his uncle and said.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the 10,000-pound teams that were at the juncture pulled up the 10,000 pound gate and opened the door again.

Maodun led the way to the pass under the escort of more than a dozen little kings and hundreds of personal guards, but found that dozens of inferior horses were tied to the open space in the pass. Not far from these dozens of inferior horses, there were troughs of hay. These inferior horses could see hay but could not eat it, so he kept making sad horse neighing.

There are dozens of bronze drums on the west side of the open space. Just above the dozens of bronze drums, dozens of rams are hung. The rams will struggle from time to time. When they push their back hooves on the bronze drum, they will make a "dongdongdongdongdong" sound. If they were not seen with their own eyes, they would definitely think that someone was beating the drum.

"The Great Shanyu, this is called hanging sheep and beating drums, and hungry horses neighing in the weeds." Uncle Gong said that he was riding a horse and followed Maodun, and immediately told the allusion between Gongzi Xiaobai and Gongzi Jiu. After listening to this song, Maodun's understanding of Gongzi said a little more. He thought to himself that although this person in the Central Plains was not good-looking, he was also very knowledgeable and could be useful.

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On the north bank of the river, more than 20,000 Chu troops were moving towards the clouds.

Two days ago, Xiangzhuang adopted Bailixian's plan of "hanging sheep and beating drums, hungry horses neighing weeds", and successfully deceived the Huns and brought three thousand elite cavalry to Jiuyuan at night, then all the troops left Jiuyuan. Before leaving, Xiangzhuang burned almost all the baggage and excess food, and only took away 40,000 stones of corn and 60,000 stones of bacon.

This 100,000 stones of corn and bacon occupy 50,000 pack horses!

After disposing of the excess food and all the uncarried supplies, Xiangzhuang burned the entire Jiuyuan with another fire, and then all the troops were launched, escorting five thousand Han army prisoners of war to the clouds. Although it was just a passing by in the clouds, if time permitted, Xiangzhuang would not mind slaughtering the Linhu people.

After the Huns occupied Hetao, Lin Hu would most likely choose to surrender.
Chapter completed!