Yanmen in October is destined to be restless.
Before all the people had time to react, and before all the nobles had time to escape, the arresting operation of the cavalry had quietly come to an end.
When everyone came to their senses, more than twenty cities, more than a hundred noble families, and no less than a hundred merchants and officials in Yanmen were all detained.
Loufancheng.
"What's going on? Isn't that Master Ya?"
"That's right! Look, those people are all from the Shen family. How come they were all arrested?"
At the city gate, countless people gathered around the city gate, looking at the people who were arrested on the high platform in the distance. Some of the sharp-eyed scholars recognized many of them.
There were actually many officials and even city guards among them.
See this.
Everyone felt numb and the city guards were arrested. Who gave the order?
He even dared to arrest the city guard!
Then some scholars who had read books and had seen the world analyzed each other and finally came to a conclusion.
That is the person who has the right and the qualification to move the city guard, that is, the Yanmen County Guard.
That is to say.
The one who came down to arrest these people was the governor of Yanmen County, now the chief of Zuo Shu of Qin State, Bai Yan!
"Bai Yan!"
"It's Bai Yan"
Along with a celebrity whispering in a low voice, the news of Bai Yan's order soon reached everyone's ears.
Following everyone's excitement, within a moment, under everyone's gaze, several Qin officials came out holding a piece of gray cloth with black writing and a seal on it, and looked at everyone on the high platform.
"Now we have found out! Loufan city guard Yazheng, Shen family, Xu family, Qin Gong took Su Han, Qin officials and officials to help"
The Qin official took the gray cloth and said loudly, reading out the names one by one.
All the people around the platform were shocked, because many people had heard that among the names, not only officials and nobles including Lou Fan, but also officials and nobles from other cities and even Some generals from Qin State were also among them.
What exactly is going on?
How could so many people be involved?
soon.
Under everyone's doubts, Qin Li finally finished reading the name after his mouth went dry, and then he told the reason.
"The above-mentioned people are all guilty of robbery and selling. In Yanmen, they secretly ordered people to rape the women of the people and sell them to others for profit. Nearly half of the women were sold to the Xiongnu. Their crimes are unforgivable. According to the law, According to Qin's law, those who plunder and sell will be punished with punishment!"
On the high platform.
Qin Li's words were like thunder, making the originally noisy city gate quiet.
Everyone was shocked by the contents of the announcement.
The matter of looting and selling.
In fact, in Yanmen, you can't see it on the surface, but the people living in Yanmen, as long as they are not blind and deaf, know more or less.
In this matter, everyone knows and no one cares.
After all, who would care about the life and death of farmers' daughters, who would offend the nobles because of some women, and who could resist the temptation of the nobles.
But for now.
Listening to the words of the Qin official on the high platform in the distance, everyone was stunned.
When things in the dark are brought to light.
This is equivalent to the ugly veil being completely lifted, which also means that the matter is bound to spread and spread throughout the world.
By then, it will no longer be possible to pretend to turn a blind eye to this matter.
"Extermination?"
"What is punishment in Qin's laws?"
Under the high platform, countless people on the floor were talking quietly, looking at each other, and asking softly.
Everyone couldn't help but be shocked when they heard that Bai Yan, the acting governor of Yanmen, was actually dealing with robbery and selling, and had arrested so many people.
Listen to the punishment that came out of the Qin official's mouth just now.
Countless people are curious, what kind of punishment is the punishment in Qin?
None of them expected that Bai Yan would actually investigate the robbery and sale and arrest so many nobles and officials. After Bai Yan lifted the veil of Yanmen County, he had plans to deal with these people.
After all, just listening to the names read by Qin Li, we knew that the scope of involvement and the number of people behind this robbery were unprecedented.
Now that Bai Yan has investigated clearly, how does he plan to deal with this matter.
"Extermination?"
"Extermination!!!"
When the scholars among the countless people in the building heard the Qin official's words, they all widened their eyes. In their round eyes, they looked in disbelief at the high platform in the distance, at the Qin officials, and at those who were being held hostage. The tied up nobles.
Punishment!
All the scholars felt cold all over at this moment, and the words they just heard kept echoing in their minds.
At this moment, they couldn't believe what they heard.
Looking at the tied up nobles and recalling the names that Li Qin had just read, everyone wanted to ask, is Bai Yan crazy?
This is to kill all those who have committed crimes!
Even some generals from Qin!
"Execution!"
Just as the scholars in the crowd were lost in thought, Yisheng, who was wearing official uniform on the high platform, had already given an order.
Then, in the eyes of all the people who didn't know what punishment was, a famous cavalry soldier pulled the criminal scholar onto the high platform. Under everyone's eyes, he raised his axe, and struck it down hard.
The bloody scenes accompanied by jealousy shocked all unprepared people.
As the round head fell from the high platform.
In the shocked and dull eyes of all the people, the next step was to dismember the corpse. With the bright red blood ax being lifted and dropped again, the corpse was divided into limbs.
This scene.
All the people in the entire city gate were dumbfounded. Such a cruel punishment also made these people unable to forget the words they just heard for the rest of their lives.
Punishment! ! !
This is punishment!
However, when they saw the execution platform, the noble men who used to wear silk clothes and go in and out of the restaurant now struggled with fear and kept twisting their tied bodies.
Looking at the past, in their eyes, they have always been a noble clan from the time they were born.
At this moment, all the people were confused.
It's all punishment!
This means that Bai Yan plans to execute all the nobles who have committed crimes.
Thought here.
At this moment, all the people felt troubled and had goosebumps all over their bodies. Looking at the bloody corpse, the nobles who used to be aloof and inviolable in the hearts of the people fell to the ground and were replaced by the Yanmen whom they had never met before. Acting Governor Bai Yan.
This was the first time for everyone to see an official taking charge of looting and selling.
This was the first time I saw, or even heard, that an official dared to kill so many people and nobles at once.
No one knows the marriages and connections behind these noble families, but it will definitely make people shudder when they think about it.
This Bai Yan! !
He actually found out about the robbery and selling in front of everyone in the world, and executed all those involved!
As the scorching sun rises, the scorching heat shines on the entire land.
This day.
Pingcheng, Nao, Juyang, Wuzhou.
Like Loufan City, it happened in every city in Yanmen, even Shanwu, the capital of the county, was no exception.
Countless nobles looked at this scene in despair. Faced with such a rapid execution, many nobles did not even have time to find connections and send bamboo slips.
Shanwu City is in the city guard's mansion.
Chai was in the study. Servants, maids, and even cavalry soldiers would approach the study from time to time and report to Chai that there were people outside the mansion asking to see him.
"Tell them! The general is not here. If it is for robbery and selling, ask them to come back!"
One sentence.
Chai said this no less than a hundred times.
Looking at the bamboo slips in his hands, Chai was sitting here, feeling suffocated just by hearing those countless nobles.
Chai couldn't help but sigh, that is, the general dared to be so direct, without any regard for other nobles.
Turning to look out the window.
The news from Yanmen will probably arrive in Handan in two days and be delivered to General Wang Jian. I don’t know how General Wang Jian will react by then.
Chai calculated the time in his mind.
By this time, the general should have arrived at the grassland!
Northern grassland.
On a broad plain covered with green, on a mound.
Suddenly, a pair of iron-clad horse front hooves stepped on the green grass, and then slowly stopped.
Follow the line of sight and look back.
Rows to the left and right passed by, and densely packed war horses appeared in the grassland. Countless cavalry soldiers holding black flags with the word Qin quietly followed behind the first war horse.
Floating in the breeze, hundreds of black flags with the word Qin fluttered in the wind.
At this moment, accompanied by Qin crossbows and Qin armors on horseback, the entire cavalry felt majestic and powerful.
Bai Yan was riding a war horse at the front.
"General! Here we come!"
Yanmao rode a war horse and came to Bai Yan's side. He looked at the Huns army in the distance and said.
Looking at the Huns army approaching like a sea of people from the north, Yan Mao looked at his old rival from nearly a year ago. Thinking of the battle between Gao Nu and Yan Mao, Yan Mao's heart was full of ridicule.
a year ago.
They Bai's cavalry faced the Xiongnu alone.
A year later, the Huns came again, but the Bai cavalry were still not afraid.
"If there is a battle later, lead your troops to the right wing! Restrict the Xiongnu's movement!"
Bai Yan looked at the Xiongnu army and whispered.
Bai Yan had fought against the Huns before, and knew that although the Huns had many war horses, their shortcomings were also obvious.
Although the Xiongnu had strong mobility and were skilled with bows and horses, their weapons were short and not good at close combat. In addition, the range of the Xiongnu's curved bow was far inferior to that of the Qin army's crossbows, not to mention that the Xiongnu's fighting style was single.
Li Mu had summed up these things in the past, so when there were few horses, he used to lure the enemy deep into the army, and finally wiped them out in one battle.
"promise!"
Yanmao bowed his hands to Bai Yan and accepted the order, then turned his horse and walked towards the army behind him.
a moment later
Under Bai Yan's gaze, the Huns army in the distance slowly stopped, and a Hun on horseback walked out of the Huns army.
Bai Yan raised his hand to signal.
Then behind Bai Yan, a cavalry soldier also rode on horseback and rushed towards the direction of the Huns army in the distance.
After a while.
Under Bai Yan's gaze, after a few words of conversation between the confidants and the Huns cavalry, both parties rushed back.
"General, the Xiongnu Chanyu wants to meet with you!"
The confidant rode back to Bai Yan, raised his hands to Bai Yan and said.
Bai Yan nodded.
Turning his head, he looked at the mighty cavalry army behind him. At a glance, he saw countless black flags with the word Qin fluttering in the wind, and long poles standing upright.
Bai Yan looked at the Xiongnu army in the distance and saw that among the people led by the Xiongnu, there were no less than a hundred Xiongnu following them, rushing towards here together.
See this.
Bai Yan couldn't help but mutter.
With so many people, is this negotiation or preparation for war?
Bai Yan waved.
Then he took his cronies and rushed towards the Huns army in the distance.
On the plains.
This time Bai Yan could see with his own eyes the leader of the Xiongnu, the same Touman Chanyu who led the Xiongnu army and ordered the attack on the canyon last time.
Looking at the young and strong Touman Chanyu, Bai Yan was a little surprised. He originally thought that Touman Chanyu should be quite old, but he did not expect that Touman Chanyu was only around thirty.
Under Bai Yan's gaze.
The Huns beside Touman Chanyu turned to Touman Chanyu and said something.
Then he saw Touman Chanyu looking at Bai Yan with fearful eyes.
"Um?"
When Bai Yan saw Touman Shanyu riding forward, he took off the sharp blade from his waist and handed it to other Huns.
He saw Touman Shanyu looking at him while riding a horse.
Although he didn't understand the language, Bai Yan looked at it and understood what Touman Shanyu meant.
However, Bai Yan was a little curious, was this a gesture of goodwill or something, and why he had never heard of the Huns removing their swords during negotiations before.
The Huns never follow rules.
Even when envoys from the vassal states of the Central Plains went to the Huns' territory, the previous Xiongnu leaders would kill the envoys if they disagreed, taking advantage of the terrain of the grassland to act unscrupulously.
"Take it!"
Bai Yan looked at the Hun leader in the distance, frowned, and finally took off the sword from his waist and handed it to his henchman.
"Walk!"
Bai Yan opened his mouth and walked towards Touman Shanyu in the distance with two of his followers.
After a while.
Bai Yan rode a war horse and came to Touman Shanyu.
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Bai Yan looked at Touman Shanyu and said a lot of unintelligible words, and then made the same ebony gesture as before in Gaonu.
Bai Yan looked at the Central Plains man next to Touman Shanyu.
"My guard told me that you are Bai Yan of the Qin State who was in Gaonu last time, and I am Touman Shanyu. Counting it, we have also fought against each other, but I can't figure it out. Although it was us Xiongnu who went south last time, we Xiongnu An unbearable price has been paid, and the matter has passed. When Qin attacked Zhao, we Huns did not intervene, so why do Qin’s cavalry set foot on the grassland again today!"
When the man from the Central Plains faced Bai Yan's gaze, he was both excited and a little timid.
Maybe it was because of Bai Yan's identity, or maybe he saw the endless Qin cavalry behind Bai Yan in the distance, with rows of black flags with the word Qin constantly fluttering.
"I'm here to ask for someone!"
Bai Yan thought for a while and said something to the man from Zhongyuan.
Because of the drought in Zhao State for many years, the people on the border of Zhao State have always fled to other places. It has been a long time since the Huns came to live on the border of Zhao State. Therefore, Bai Yan has never found someone like Wu Muhu who understands the Huns language and has moved to the Central Plains. The person who talks.
"Tell this Huns, if you don't return the women from the Central Plains you bought earlier, winter will come in two months. At that time, I will lead an army of cavalry to hunt Huns and animals for fun. If our Qin country can afford it, let's see. Look at the Xiongnu who just went through the war, can they afford it?"
Bai Yan said.
Hearing Bai Yan's words, the face of the Central Plains man beside Touman Shanyu changed obviously. He didn't expect that the young Bai Yan would have such a strong attitude in his words, and he would directly ask for someone.
But for now.
The man from the Central Plains thought for a while, then turned his head to Touman Shanyu, and told Touman Shanyu what Bai Yan said intact.
really.
The next moment, Touman Shanyu's expression became extremely embarrassed, and his eyes looking at Bai Yan already contained murderous intent. With that captivating look, he seemed to want to kill Bai Yan right here.
However, when he saw the large army of cavalry behind Bai Yan, Touman Shanyu's eyes were full of fear.
on the plains.
Bai Yan rode his horse and faced Touman Shanyu's murderous gaze without any concern in his heart.
For Bai Yan, after experiencing life and death, he no longer cares about these looks.
It took the Huns ten years to recover from the trauma Li Mu inflicted on the Huns ten years ago. However, for more than ten years, the Huns have not dared to go south, which also led to the Huns' life not being very good.
Ten months ago, there was a battle between Bai Yan and the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu were first killed by Bai Yan's cavalry and many people were killed.
Then the Yuezhi killed more than 10,000 people in one breath.
In addition, due to the subsequent conflict with the Yuezhi, under the alliance between the Yuezhi and the Qin army, the Xiongnu not only had no time to recover, but instead continued to consume their own strength.
Facing the Huns today.
Mr. Wei's advice to him was that since there were cavalry equipped with stirrups, he did not need to lead the cavalry to confront the Huns head-on. He only needed to make the Huns uneasy during the winter, and then the Huns would collapse without a fight.
On the surface, the Huns have ceased war with the Yuezhi.
But now, both the Yueshi and the Xiongnu want to recuperate, and neither really trusts the other.
What the Xiongnu are most afraid of now is that they cannot recuperate. Once the Qin army desperately hunts the Xiongnu's humans and animals in the winter, the Xiongnu will not be able to cultivate themselves. The Xiongnu will not dare to confront the cavalry head-on. Sooner or later, they will be annexed by the Yueshi.
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Under Bai Yan's gaze, Touman Chanyu looked straight at Bai Yan, looked at Bai Yan, and spoke a bunch of unintelligible words.
After a while.
The man from Zhongyuan looked at Bai Yan.
"We Xiongnu bought women from Zhao State, but we did not offend Qin State. Could the King of Qin really deal with the Xiongnu regardless of the cost for some women from Zhao State? I think it is the general's intention to ask for women! If it is the general's intention, What should we do about the price we Xiongnu paid to buy women before?"
(End of chapter)
