Fusu led Bai Shilai to chase them for dozens of miles, and sure enough he found a few remaining Huns galloping northward with bows and arrows on their backs and scimitars on their shoulders.
They obviously didn't expect the Qin people to catch up, and they chased casually and leisurely.
Fusu reined in the horse's head, took out the crossbow arrow, and with a "whoosh" sound, the sharp arrow flew away from the string, hitting the shoulder of the frontmost Huns without any bias.
The Huns fell off their horses with a cry of "Ouch" and were captured alive by the Qin army.
When the other Huns saw this, they were shocked and wanted to pull out their scimitars to fight back. The Qin army behind Fusu also immediately set up crossbows and shot them off their horses.
Soon, the Hun who was shot in the shoulder by Fusu was pushed in front of Fusu.
A Sima asked in Hun language: "Do you know who we are?"
"I don't care who you are, if you dare to kill us, the Great Chanyu will not let you go!"
The Huns scratched their necks and snorted coldly.
"So, you are from Moton?"
The Huns frowned and carefully looked at the Qin soldiers in front of them, and then their eyes fell on the face of Fusu who said nothing. This Qin general with a mask and sharp eyes looked a bit familiar. Oh, it turns out he is Zheng Qin, the governor of Yunzhong County.
The Huns were immediately frightened, and their expression softened.
Fusu saw that the other party's eyes were on him and he remained silent. He must have recognized his identity, so he asked in a deep voice: "How many of you are there in total?"
"These five people came out to hunt."
"Oh?" Fusu looked into the distance and said to Sima: "Let them go after healing their injuries."
"Let go?"
Sima was a little surprised and said: "General, they are the Huns!"
Fusu stroked the war horse and sighed after a long time: "The Huns are also human beings. They are ordinary people like the Qin people. War is the responsibility of soldiers. What does the decision of the master have to do with them?"
"If it wasn't for Mao Dun's greed, if it wasn't for the tribal leaders who wanted more benefits, how could they have launched a war? Soldiers are the most dangerous weapons of the country, and they are used as a last resort. Their wives, children, and children are still looking forward to their return home. When the late emperor was here, Nor did they exterminate all the Huns."
"But."
Sima was still a little puzzled, but Fusu interrupted him with a wave of his hand. Without further explanation, he came directly to the seven Huns and said in Huns dialect: "This is the border, you are too far away from home, go back quickly! "
When the five Huns heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked. Over the years, the Huns and the Central Plains people have been in a state of incompatibility. As long as they fall into the hands of the Central Plains people, it means death.
Therefore, when Fusu wanted to let them go back, they froze on the spot, looking at Fusu in disbelief.
"Thank you General for not killing me!"
An ordinary-looking Huns glanced at Fusu with a complicated expression, then saluted Fusu with the unique etiquette of the Huns, turned around and left.
The rest of the Huns looked at each other and were about to leave. At this moment, there was a sudden roar in the distance.
Everyone looked with horror on their faces.
Through the heavy fog, Fusu soon discovered that black clouds were rolling in from the distance. Gradually, the clouds became clearer and clearer, with shouts of "ho ho" mixed in among them.
"General——!"
Sima's expression changed drastically, and he subconsciously reminded Fusu: "It's the Huns army!"
Fusu still ignored him and turned his head to focus on the five Huns just now.
They were seen quietly looking into the distance, as if waiting for the Huns army.
Seeing that Fusu was unmoved, Sima quickly reminded Fusu again: "General, leave quickly! If you don't leave, it will be too late!"
The officers and soldiers of the Qin army were all aware of sacrificing their lives for the country. They did not panic one by one. They got on their horses one after another, drew their swords from their waists, and tightened their horse ropes.
Fusu did not mount the horse. He pressed the hilt of the sword with his right hand and held the horse's rope with his left hand, leaning tightly against its neck.
His eyes never left the five Huns who were preparing to leave.
He knew that any action he made at this moment would affect the current situation.
Sima lost his temper: "General, let's retreat quickly, otherwise we really won't be able to leave!"
"Why panic!"
Fusu glared at Sima fiercely: "Didn't you realize that they are not here for us at all!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at the five Huns in front of him.
I saw one of the Huns taking out a wolf-head flag from his arms and waving it in front of him. After a while, the rushing Huns army stopped.
"this"
Sima was stunned and wondered what was going on.
But I saw the ordinary Huns just now, riding their horses back to Fusu and others, and said with a smile: "Although this matter is a bit ridiculous, I still want to thank you for letting us go. This time, I can still count on you." Next time, don’t show mercy to your favors!”
After saying this, he was ready to turn his horse's head and run towards the Huns army.
"Who are you?"
Fusu asked in a deep voice: "Why are you pretending to be a Xiongnu commoner?"
The Huns laughed hoarsely: "I didn't say I was a Huns citizen, how could I pretend to be one? What's more, I'm not a Huns either. My name is Liejiaomi, and I'm from Wusun!"
"Hunting pride?"
Fusu frowned, as if he had heard this name somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.
However, Liejiaomi didn't wait for him to think of it, and rode away before he even finished speaking.
"General! I remembered, he is Moton's adopted son! Prince Wusun Liejiaomi!"
Sima slapped his forehead in sudden realization.
Fusu's eyes darkened, but he did not order the pursuit. Instead, he decisively turned his horse's head before Liejiaomi returned to the Huns' formation: "The whole army immediately withdrew to the hillside to rest!"
"General, this is"
"Those who disobey orders will be killed!"
Fusu's sword flashed a cold light in the air, and he drank without a doubt.
One hundred cavalrymen quickly rode their horses to the hillside and dismounted to rest.
Fusu arranged sentries to observe the movements of the Huns' formation, and asked Sima to organize people to bury pots and make rice.
The thick smoke from the thatched grass slowly drifted along the north wind to the Huns' military formation a few miles away, and the air was filled with a pungent smell.
Lie Jiaomi looked back at Fusu's formation behind him strangely, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.
The hunter's favorite thing is not the prey that stays still, but the prey that desperately runs away. Only such prey can stimulate the hunter's desire to hunt.
If Fusu immediately attacks or escapes when he remembers his identity, there will only be one outcome, and that is to be chased to death by thousands of troops.
But now, Fusu not only did not launch an attack, but also chose not to escape. He even buried a pot on the hillside to make rice, which really impressed him.
Although the guard general of Yunzhong County was definitely not an ordinary person, it was the first time he had seen General Qin who was so calm and generous in the face of danger, and he couldn't help but admire him.
"Xiejiaomi, why did you sneak out to hunt again?"
The next moment Liejiaomi was thinking about Fusu, a very mature-looking Huns boy rode up to him and shouted complainingly: "The Great Chanyu is looking for you!"
"oh."
Liejiaomi reacted, responded with a smile, and said, "Jizhu! Why are you here too!"
This old boy named Jizhu was Modu's favorite son.
But I heard him say: "Didn't you ambush a group of Qin cavalry? Shanyu was worried that you were in danger, so he asked me to come and meet you!"
Saying that, Jizhu glanced at Qin Jun on the hillside again, frowned and said, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, just a little injured!"
Lie Jiaomi shook his head and said with some humor: "It was the wound that Qin people bandaged for me!"
"Will the people of Qin be so kind?"
"I'm surprised too!"
"Then shall we?"
"Forget it this time, I still have important military information to report to the Great Chanyu!"
Liejiaomi naturally knew what Ji Zhou meant, but still refused.
"Oh? What important military information?" Jizhu's eyes widened.
Liejiaomi smiled secretly: "Do you think I went out hunting just for fun? I have already discovered a way to break through the Nine Plains Great Wall!"
"real?!"
Ji Zhou's face was filled with excitement.
Lie Jiaomi waved his hand: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, before the Qin army has reacted, we have to notify the Great Chanyu as soon as possible!"
"good!"
Ji Zhou responded and immediately returned to the military formation with Liejiao Mi.
On the other side, Fusu's soldiers had already prepared the meal.
He watched the soldiers fill their bowls with dried millet and rice before he began to dine with Sima.
Sima put a piece of dried beef in Fusu's bowl and asked, "General, why didn't we retreat just now?"
Fusu handed the beef jerky in the bowl to the soldiers who were eating next to him, and said with a smile: "You are still leading troops in war, and you don't even understand the principle of soldiers never being afraid of deceit? Liejiaomi was adopted by Maodun since he was a child, so he must have looked down upon him. If you are born, the mentality of such a person is different from that of a normal person. The more you let him see clearly, the faster he will die; the more you let him see clearly, the greater the chance of living!"
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, glanced around, and said to Sima: "Inform all the soldiers, light a bonfire, sit around, untie the horses and unsaddles!"
"Ah? Why is this?"
Sima was a little confused: "In case of an attack, how should our army respond?"
"The Huns thought we would leave, but we refused to leave. They couldn't see through us, so they wouldn't act rashly!"
As soon as Fusu finished speaking, a sentry came from a distance and said that he had spotted a Hun general riding a white horse and coming towards this direction with more than a dozen Hun soldiers.
Fusu frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he concluded that this was a trick by the Xiongnu, and it must be to detect the truth, so he got on his horse and rushed out with more than ten soldiers.
The two armies could only meet within a hundred or so steps before Fusu fired a crossbow arrow.
In the dusk, only a scream of "Ah" was heard, and the Hun general fell off his horse and fell to the ground. When the other Hun soldiers saw this, they fled one after another.
When Fusu saw this, he didn't send anyone to pursue him and quickly returned to the hillside.
Sima was very surprised and praised: "The general is really a god! He actually knows the habits of the Huns so well!"
"hehe."
Fusu smiled noncommittally and said nothing. He picked up the wine bottle on his waist, took a sip, and said to Sima: "It's cold at night, do you want a sip?"
"this"
Sima hesitated for a moment, but was quickly attracted by the strong aroma of the wine. He thought it must be good wine, so without saying anything, he drank heavily until his cheeks turned red and he laughed happily.
Seeing him laughing, Fusu also smiled, then squinted his eyes to look at the Huns army in the distance, and murmured to himself: "I guess they won't come tonight."
After saying that, he turned to the soldiers sitting around the campfire and said, "What about the old Qin people from Guanzhong?"
One of the soldiers, about eighteen years old, stood up and said: "Report to the general, I am from Lao Qin!"
"Can you sing an old Qin tune?"
The young soldier smiled honestly: "I heard my father sing it when I was at home!"
"How about singing a song?"
"this"
The young soldier hesitated for a moment, then hummed a rough Guanzhong ditty from his chest: "My family lives by the Wei River——!"
"By the Wei River——"
All the soldiers laughed and harmonized.
"It's been a long journey since joining the army——"
"On the road!"
"The sword comes out of the body to kill the enemy!"
"Kill the enemy!"
"You have accomplished a great job and come home to see my slave!"
"Look at me slave!"
"It's my slave!" The young man glared at his colleague dissatisfied.
"It's my slave!" All the soldiers agreed with a smile, and suddenly burst into laughter.
Fusu looked at the young man with some confusion and said, "Who is my slave?"
"Yes Yes"
The young man scratched his head and hesitated to speak.
The troublemaker winked and said, "Tell me! What is it!"
"That's right, that's right"
"That's it, man, what are you acting like?" Sima also followed suit.
The young man blushed and said hesitantly: "She is the villain's wife!"
"Hahaha--"
All the soldiers burst into laughter.
Fusu was also infected by the emotions of the soldiers and couldn't help but stand up and said: "Believe me, the war will be over soon. By then, you will definitely be reunited with your wives, children and children!"
A captain took Fusu's words and sighed: "General, please don't comfort us. If Duke Meng hadn't been imprisoned for no reason, how could the Huns dare to go south? I once heard someone mention that the eldest son committed suicide, which was inexplicable. I think he should have been Someone was framed!”
"You don't want your life!"
When Sima heard this, he quickly stopped the captain.
The captain shrugged indifferently: "Anyway, we are about to fight the Huns. Whether we can survive or not is still a question. What are we afraid of?"
"Yes! If Duke Meng and the eldest son were still there, my brothers could still stay at home to take care of their old mother! Now except for the eldest brother, all the men in the family have come out, either to do corvee service or to serve in the military! Hey"
"Who says it's not the case! I'm afraid it's impossible to reunite the family."
"."
Listening to the somewhat plaintive voices of the soldiers, Fusu couldn't help but squat down and flick the bonfire in front of him, and the firelight illuminated his face.
"Fusu is so ignorant, I feel ashamed of everyone."
"General, you."
"As I said before, please believe me, the war will end soon, and Great Qin will be at peace soon!"
Fusu's eyes stayed on the bonfire in front of him, and he said like an oath.
All the soldiers looked at each other and couldn't help but look at each other.
After a while, the young man who sang started to hum again.
"My family lives by the Wei River——!" (End of this chapter)
