"Your Majesty, do you think this wine is warm enough to taste?"
Yang Chou filled Lin Mu's wine glass with a flattering look, but his hands seemed to be shaking a little.
Lin Mu gave Yang Chou a strange look. Although Yang Chou was very flattering to him before, now he was not only flattering, but also seemed to have... some fear?
Yang Chou saw Lin Mu drink the wine and continued.
"Your Majesty, now that the Huns have escaped, what should we do depends on your Majesty's orders."
Yang Chou didn't dare to let Lin Mu feel that he was a little disrespectful, so he almost stripped himself naked and let Lin Mu do whatever he wanted.
Lin Mu is actually thinking about this problem now. Although he killed the Huns and his morale collapsed, the Huns are like a piece of dog skin plaster.
After you defeat him, they will bow to you and not dare to disobey in the slightest.
Once you start to decline a little bit, they will enter the Central Plains and start burning, killing and looting.
This has nothing to do with their personal likes and dislikes, because once they suffer extreme cold weather, they have no way to survive.
In order to survive, they had no choice but to go south and plunder. Only after plundering enough supplies could they survive the severe winter.
It is simply impossible for them to endure the severe cold on the grassland and not go south to plunder until they die.
Even though Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty beat the Huns like that, decades later, the Huns began to take action again.
So now, despite the fact that Hu Chuquan seemed to have escaped and was frightened to death by Lin Mu, their main force did not actually suffer too many casualties.
Lin Mu alone could not kill an army of 150,000 people even if it took him a month.
Their morale has just been shattered. As long as there is a slight natural disaster, they will still face the problem of looting or waiting to die, and they will continue to go south to loot.
Therefore, although the Huns are now fleeing in all directions, they cannot just let them go. Huchuquan must die.
"Pass my decree and send out troops to hunt down Huchuquan. If you want to see people alive or dead, you will see corpses!"
As Lin Mu spoke, he drank the wine that Yang Chou had just filled in one gulp, and then walked out of the house.
Now there was a heavy snowfall on the grassland. The heavy snow would trap the horses' hooves in it, and they lost their baggage due to such severe cold. Therefore, even if Huchuquan was full of cavalry, they would definitely not be able to run far.
"Yes, I'll do my humble job now."
Yang Chou quickly stood up and began to order the soldiers and horses of Jinyang City to start attacking.
Outside Jinyang City, Yang Chou looked at Lin Mu riding on his horse.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing?"
"You and others have sent troops to pursue the Huns, how can I sit here in Jinyang? I want to go to the north personally and annihilate the Huns!"
Three days later, the soldiers in Jinyang City, led by Lin Mu, began to pursue the Huns.
However, due to the heavy snow, we could only travel dozens of miles every day.
Although it had been four days since the Huns fled, the Huns had already escaped far.
After chasing for three or four days, Lin Mu found a body lying on the roadside.
From this moment on, there were more and more corpses on the roadside. There were so many corpses along the road that there was no need to worry about not being found. These Huns' corpses were the best road signs.
These Huns were demoralized by the forest attack and had no time to bring any luggage with them when they fled.
Moreover, the food of the Huns was cattle and sheep. Who could take care of the cattle and sheep when they were fleeing for their lives?
They didn't bring much food, and the army numbered hundreds of thousands. Coupled with the severe cold and heavy snow, the Huns couldn't get very far even though the trees didn't pursue them too fast.
Then they pursued forward. On the fourth or fifth day of pursuit, the bodies of some war horses appeared on the roadside.
Along with the corpses of these war horses appeared some naked Huns.
The flesh on the horse's corpse was cut away, leaving only a bare skeleton.
Yang Chou was wrapped up like a bear. Gu Yong stepped forward to inspect it and then said to Lin Mu.
"Your Majesty, they are starting to kill the horses. They can't run far."
Yang Chou glanced at Lin Mu's open mind and felt numb in his heart.
The number of corpses lying on the roadside increased as the journey progressed, and even some of the corpses began to have marks of knife cuts.
By this time, some soldiers began to be unable to bear the severe cold and began to suffer casualties gradually.
Lin Mu ordered the frostbitten soldiers to be sent back to Jinyang City, and he led the remaining soldiers to pursue northward.
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes. Ten days later, Lin Mu and the remaining three thousand soldiers have reached the border of Taiyuan.
In such a severe cold weather, the trees actually open their arms. It seems that such a severe cold is like a breeze to the trees.
"Keep chasing."
Lin Mu patted his horse and continued to move forward, but Yang Chou hurriedly stepped forward and said to Lin Mu.
"Your Majesty, we are going from Taiyuan to Jiuyuan. The cold wind blows like a knife and the snow falls on the ground like a mire. Your Majesty, you should put on some extra clothes."
"The cold wind is just a breeze blowing on my face. General Yang doesn't need to say anything, just keep moving forward."
Yang Chou had no choice but to mount his horse and pursue forward. Soon the remaining three thousand soldiers left Taiyuan and arrived at Jiuyuan.
Jiuyuan was originally the land of Bingzhou, and Ding Yuan was stationed to guard the border. However, due to the tragic death of Ding Yuan and the subsequent poor management of Zhang Yang and Lu Bu, the Huns were moved southward by the Han court, and Jiuyuan was gradually occupied by the Huns.
Judging from the dead bodies along the way, Huchuquan most likely entered Jiuyuan City.
Although Jiuyuan City is called a city, it is actually only the size of a small county, and the city walls are not high.
After Lin Mu inspected it, he ordered the siege to begin.
Lin Mu took the lead in this battle. The Huns could not support themselves under Lin Mu's men. The morale of the army increased greatly. In addition, the morale of the Huns was not high. Jiuyuan City was defeated in just one hour.
Huchuquan wanted to take advantage of the heavy snow to escape, but found that he was blocked by Han soldiers outside Jiuyuan City. With no hope of escape, he wanted to fight to the death, but his men cut off his head and presented it to the emperor. The rest of the Huns saw this They all knelt down and prayed for surrender.
After it was over, Lin Mu realized that due to the obstruction of the wind and snow group and the lack of food, less than 10,000 of the 150,000 troops fled all the way back to Jiuyuan.
The Xiongnu's situation, which had just improved, was instantly defeated by Lin Mu.
The original Longting of the Huns was moved to Hedong by the Han Dynasty and guarded, and it had already declined.
Now we have finally seized an opportunity to gather all the Huns. Now most of the young Huns are dead, and the Huns will not be able to recover for decades.
From then on, the Huns within the Han territory were completely defeated, and Bingzhou was surrendered.
Out of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court now occupies four states and has become the largest force in the world.
