Four hundred miles north of Jicheng (Beijing) in Guangyang County, there is a vast sandy land (Hunshandake Desert).

Although there are many small lakes scattered in the sandy land, the natural conditions are many times better than those in the Great Gobi. However, herdsmen are more willing to find fertile pastures, so this area became empty and became the natural dividing line between the Xiongnu and Donghu, which is called "Xiongnu" in Xiongnu language.

It is "Outuo".

At the edge of Outuo, on the midsummer grassland, dried blood condensed. Countless bodies of men and horses lay in the grass up to their calves. Vultures and crows circled high in the sky. Groups of jackals kept coming and gnawing.

Eat and drag corpses...

Xiang Liang rode with his nephew Xiang Zhuang during the ride. What he saw was shocking. Xiang Liang couldn't help but sigh: "Maodun Shanyu has the appearance of Goujian. He can endure humiliation and bear the burden for ten years, and finally defeats Donghu and avenges great humiliation. He is really heroic!"

It turned out that since the beginning of spring, Modu took the entire tribe on a long journey, from the bitter cold land of Mobei, across the Great Gobi, to the Monan grassland, stopping and stopping along the way, and finally arrived at Outuo at the end of April.

—This is where the Xiongnu paid tribute to King Donghu every year.

In previous years, Maodun offered a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and leather, but this year it was particularly humiliating. King Donghu asked him for a BMW and a family.

There were many voices of opposition in the Xiongnu tribe, but Mao Dun said: "Why do you love a horse or a woman when you are a neighboring country?"

The Xiongnu's left and right leaders, left and right Guduhou, etc. were all very disappointed when they saw that the Great Chanyu was so cowardly. The right Guduhou made rude remarks and became so angry that he drew his sword to kill the Donghu envoy.

Mao Dun immediately ordered him to take him down, drag him to the tent, and whip him dozens of times until his right bone was covered with blood all over his body. He fainted, and ordered him to be locked in a sheepfold and dragged out to feed the vultures another day.

So Mao Dun generously gave the Yan family, his beloved horses, and a large number of cattle and sheep to King Donghu. He also sent an eloquent envoy and ordered him to tell King Donghu: "From now on, the two tribes must be as close as one family."

But as soon as the Donghu envoy left with the weeping Yan family, Maodun changed his expression, released the Right Bone Lord, and solemnly apologized to him.

"After several years of recuperation, the Huns are no less capable than the Donghu. However, I am afraid that the loss will be too great in a direct attack, so it is better to attack by surprise. I would rather lose the Yan family and the BMW than die one more Huns, so I gave the Yan family a gift."

, Haoma and the King of Donghu, just to make him think that the Huns are weak and not take precautions, they gathered their troops and went to attack Donghu tomorrow!"

All the generals paid homage to him, and Lord Yougudu was even more excited. He bowed to the ground and thanked him, asking to be the vanguard. Mao Dun agreed, and the troops were divided into three groups, all of which were elite cavalry. They stayed day and night, and took a detour from Ouduo Desert.

On the march, when they encountered herdsmen, they captured all of them and followed them to avoid revealing the military plan.

On the other hand, the Donghu people were still on guard, but when they saw Mao Dun offering Yan's famous horse without saying a word, after hearing the humiliating words of the Huns' envoy, they immediately felt relieved and withdrew the defenders, staying in the tent for days.

Drink and have fun.

It is said that when King Donghu was drunk, he rode his thousand-mile horse with the Xiongnu clan, so happy...

Unexpectedly, the Huns suddenly launched an attack and rushed in like the earth was shattering at dawn. The Donghu people were drunk or asleep. In panic, the soldiers had no fighting spirit and were immediately defeated. King Donghu also died in the chaos.

After the battle, most of the tens of thousands of horsemen brought by King Donghu were killed, and the rest fled. Maodun took advantage of the victory and pursued them, letting his cavalry chase the remaining Donghu troops all the way to Chifeng of Donghu Mountain hundreds of miles away.

Smoke billowed up into the clear blue sky.

Afterwards, the Huns rode horses and galloped back and forth, waving their long whips, driving the survivors out of the smoking tents, killing the young men, and bringing all the women and children who had not had time to escape back to Outuo to pay tribute to Maodun.

The Donghu women were expressionless and lifeless, and they were holding their sobbing children with staggering steps. As grassland residents, they knew their next fate.

Modu was a generous Chanyu. He announced that the population captured by everyone would belong to themselves!

This move won cheers from the Huns, and all the women of Donghu were divided up. What followed was a hysterical rape orgy. Atrocities occurred in almost every felt tent. Xiang Liang listened to the women's wails and sobs all night.

The Xiongnu men were taking revenge. When the Xiongnu were weak, didn't Donghu treat the annihilated Xiongnu tribe in the same way?

Like the Donghu people, the Huns also practiced robbery as a custom. Lan, the Huns who acted as translator for Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew, said proudly:

"Many years ago, a man from a distant tribe came to Lanbu with his wife as a guest. My father fell in love with his wife. After the guest left, he immediately led his brothers to kill the man and take his wife back.

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"Six months later, the woman gave birth to her eldest son, who was my brother, and I was the woman's third child. Yes, she was my mother."

The eldest son of the Lan family is obviously the child of his predecessor, but his father does not feel dissatisfied and treats him as his own.

This is a custom that Xiang Liang cannot understand. In the Central Plains, robbery and rape will be punished, especially in the Qin State. However, on the grasslands, these evil deeds are the natural way of life of the Huns and Donghu people, and they will even be praised.

The next day, Xiang Liang once again saw the cruelty of the Huns. They took off the pants of thousands of captive Donghu children. The girls were lucky and pushed them into their mother's arms. As for the boys? As long as they are taller than the wheel, they can only

A dead end.

Those Donghu teenagers were taken to the desert to be slaughtered, but their mother just held her daughter in her arms and watched them go away with tears in her eyes. When they left, they were a large and dark group, but when they came back, they were just talking and laughing.

Hun rider.

There is also a bloody bronze sword.

Lan's translator shrugged and said disapprovingly: "If the Xiongnu were defeated by Donghu, they would also end up like this."

Xiang Liang finally understood the grassland. The residents here regard the law of the jungle as the rule of life. In their eyes, other people are just prey. It is much easier to kill a person than a sheep.

When the opponent is strong, if they cannot kill them, they will use the most humble and submissive attitude to flatter them and gain their trust. Then they will find opportunities to kill them. In their eyes, even if they offer their wives to their enemies for sexual pleasure, as long as they can win in the end, they will win.

It is also something worthy of praise and pride.

As for after victory, there is little forgiveness and generosity, but hysterical venting of revenge and brutality for brutality. Therefore, wherever the Hu people go, there is often destruction instead of construction, and civilization is reduced to nothing.

"Should Chu treat Qin like this?"

Xiang Liang was thinking this way. He heard from people in Zhongyuan that his nephew Xiang Ji had marched into the Central Plains, and the Qin Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse due to rebellions at home and abroad. If the Xiongnu attacked again from the north...

So Xiang Liang asked Mao Dun: "Please let us go south from Dai, and use the Zhao State to go to the Central Plains, so that we can contact the Chu State for the Great Chanyu!"

Mao Dun agreed to let fifty cavalry escort Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew south.

But Maodun himself was not in a hurry to leave. By mid-May, this great pursuit lasted for more than half a month. The towns under King Donghu fell on the vast grassland of thousands of people and fled in all directions. I don’t know how many Donghu people there were.

Died in this massacre.

The Donghu people who were still alive no longer dared to return to Chishan. They divided into two groups and began to evacuate towards the two grazing areas of Donghu.

One is deep in the Far East Grassland, called Wuhuan Mountain.

One is in the deep mountains and old forests of the Daxinganling Mountains in the northeast, called the Daxianbei Mountains...

Similar stories will be played out countless times on the grasslands in the next thousand years.

But now, it is the Xiongnu who has replaced Donghu and become the most powerful tribe on the grassland...

After this battle, Maodun was regarded as a powerful force in the grassland, and all the people who led the bow were afraid of submission.

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In late May, after the last pursuing unit returned, a loud cry rang out from Outuo.

"Support the plow and tutu Shanyu!"

"Support the plow and tutu Shanyu!"

"Plough" means "Heaven" in the Xiongnu language, "Gutu" means "child", and "Chanyu" means "vast".

Son of the vast sky!

The proud man of heaven!

The Huns thought that Maodun was now worthy of this name!

But what was Modu doing? He was standing in the tent, peeing into a urinal made of the skull of King Donghu.

Behind Mao Dun, her wife, Yan, was kneeling in disheveled clothes. Just now, Mao Dun greeted her in a rude way, and asked her in her ear, how did King Donghu do it before?

Ms. Yan felt that her husband should have "forgived" her for losing her virginity.

After all, he was the one who personally sent her to King Donghu...

"Mr. Yan, you have made great contributions to the Xiongnu."

Modu turned around, his smile still showing tenderness.

"So now, I am going to place you in the North Sea (Lake Baikal)."

Yan's face suddenly turned pale. Beihai was the northernmost territory of the Xiongnu. It was originally the territory of the Dingling people. After Maodun defeated the Dingling people, it became a place of exile.

The place is extremely cold, with snow falling in August, and the blue ice not melting until March of the following year. When it is the coldest, people will freeze into icicles when they urinate. Is this a place for people to stay?

She hugged Modun's legs and begged for mercy: "Da Shanyu, didn't you say that I have made great contributions..."

Modun pinched her chin, feeling heartbroken: "But when I saw you, I remembered that you had been insulted by King Donghu, and my heart ached, but it's not necessarily good."

Yan was desperate and screamed at the top of her lungs: "Didn't Shanyu once say that I am your moon..."

Modu lowered his head and looked at her with pity:

"Mr. Yan, do you know? Before you, there was another woman in Maodun. She was my first Mr. Yan and was called the moon of Helan Mountain."

"But later, I gave her to King Yuezhi in exchange for the opportunity to borrow troops, and then I killed Touman and won the position of Shanyu."

"After the demise of the Yuezhi, she came to seek refuge with me and took the children of the king of Guiyuezhi with her. I was very generous and allowed her and the children to live in Beihai. I also promised that as long as the ram can give birth to babies,

You can come back."

He patted Yan's face and wiped away her tears:

"So don't worry, you won't be lonely in Beihai, of course, provided they are still alive."

"And in Maodun, there will always be a new Yan family."

"I will definitely love them as much as I loved you before!"

After saying that, regardless of Yan's cries, Maodun had people drag her into a high cart and drove her to the north.

But now, he can raise the Chanyu's eagle flag high amidst the cry of "Plough the plow to spread the Chanyu" and announce where the Huns will go next.
To be continued...