When a passerby becomes a princess

This time the leader of the Hu State was Prince Huval. Although he was a mediocre man, he was extremely talented and ruthless. He killed several of his elder brothers a few years ago, and then recruited the national teacher Hu Zan. He imprisoned his father and supervised the country as a prince.

The Hu country is vast and sparsely populated, among which tribal conflicts are serious, and the leaders of the major tribes are not convinced by the young Huval. In addition, the climate has become colder and colder in the past two years, and food is scarce. A large number of people die in the cold winter season.So Huval summoned all the tribes to launch this war against Daliang. On the one hand, he gained military exploits to consolidate his position, and on the other hand, he wanted to weaken the strength of other tribes.

A few days ago, the fire that suddenly appeared under the city wall frightened the bearded soldiers and generals. The flame that suddenly rose into the air, with thick black smoke and a strange smell, was like the legendary hell fire. Unable to extinguish it, many bearded soldiers were burned to death on the spot, and more cried bitterly after returning, and refused to fight no matter what.

Huval also saw those flames, and he had to grit his teeth hard to restrain the trembling of his body. No one knew that what he feared most in his heart were thunder and flames.

After returning, Huval drank a few bowls of wine to suppress his fear, but he was at a loss when he thought about how to attack the city.After finally convincing the major tribes to attack Daliang Kingdom together, they must not retreat now, otherwise, let alone becoming emperor in the future, even the current crown prince would not be able to keep it.But continue to attack, how to deal with those flames?He could see clearly, those flames could burn on the snow.

When the national teacher Hu Zan came in, Huval's tent was like a typhoon passing through, and there was a mess everywhere.

"His Royal Highness, don't be angry. You are the one who wants to inherit the great position. How can you be discouraged by a single failure?" Hu Zan twirled the rosary in his hand and said, "Besides, from the perspective of my national teacher, the flame is not impossible. think."

Huval's eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "Does the national teacher have any good plans?"

Hu Zan showed an inscrutable smile, and said, "Hasn't His Royal Highness noticed? The flame has no power to continue, and it only burned for less than a quarter of an hour before it went out."

At that time, Huval was only concerned with suppressing his fear, so as not to be discovered by the leaders of the tribes who went out together. How could he pay attention to how long the flames had been burning? Now, from what Huzan said, it seems that this is true. The soldiers fled all the way back to the camp from under the city wall. When they ran to the gate of the camp, the flames had already been extinguished.

Hu Zan sat cross-legged on the carpet, plucked the rosary and waited for Huval to think slowly. Huval is indeed capable and ruthless enough, but unfortunately he lacks wisdom in many cases.What Hu Zan wants is an emperor who can bring glory to Hu, not a puppet.

After a long time, Huval's frown finally loosened. He picked up a golden bowl from the ground, poured a bowl of kumiss in front of Hu Zan, and said, "Thanks to the reminder of the national teacher, the wisdom of the national teacher Enough to be the Venerable Wisdom Mind."

Hu Zan opened his eyes sharply, his eyes were full of brilliance, he looked at Huval with burning eyes, and Huval also stared into his eyes. After a long time, Huzan stood up, saluted Huval respectfully, and said: "The prince has With this ambition, the poor monk is willing to submit to His Royal Highness the order of the prince."

The Venerable is the highest religious leader of the Hu State, and only the Holy King who unifies all the tribes of the Hu State can be rewarded.In fact, the tribes of the Hu State have been divided for many years. Huval's father is the emperor of the Hu State, and he only owns the largest tribe.When Huval mentioned His Holiness, the meaning is self-evident.

That night, Huval and the national teacher Hu Zan discussed all night, and the next day they summoned the leaders of several big tribes such as Ha Qihai, Hu Seda, and Bi Eran, and told them that the flame could not burn for a long time.

Ha Qihai cut a piece of meat from the roasted leg of lamb with a golden knife and put it in his mouth, saying inarticulately: "Even if the flame doesn't burn for a long time, many people who lead the battle will be burned to death. There are few people here, but they can’t stand such a fire.”

The other leaders couldn't help but look at him contemptuously. Habu is a big tribe second only to Hubu, so it's useless for him to say that his population is small.

Huval laughed, and said: "Why should we waste the lives of our soldiers from the Hu country? There are many slaves in our tribes. We just need to let these slaves lead the battle."

When the leaders heard this, their eyes lit up and they all nodded. To them, although a slave is also a property, a slave is worth less than a sheep. As long as they conquer the pass and enter the Liang Kingdom, There are as many slaves as you want.

Seeing that they all nodded, Huval said again: "Then we will make an agreement that any tribe that captures the pass, all gains in the first three cities will belong to this tribe."

The eyes of the several chiefs became brighter, and they couldn't help but roll their eyeballs and began to think about which city behind the pass was the largest and richest.

After a while, Ha Qihai swallowed the mutton and said: "The Heisong pass is the largest, and the guards are the most. Our Habu suffers a bit, so let's fight that one."

The other leaders immediately glared at him. The Heisong pass is indeed the largest and has the most guards, but behind the Heisong pass is the largest county in northern Xinjiang. to eat.

Huseda's tribe is not much smaller than Habu's. Hearing what he said, he was about to turn his face on the spot, but seeing Huval winking at him, he was stunned and said nothing.

There was only one Bieran and several small tribes left, and they were even more afraid to speak, so Huval announced that Habu would attack Heisong Pass. He and Hu Seda would attack one each, and the remaining small tribes would be led by Bieran to attack one .

The leaders of all the tribes went back to their garrisons to dispatch troops, and only Hu Seda remained in the big tent.

"Why did you let Ha Qihai attack the Heisong Pass? The Beisong County behind it is the largest grain-producing county." Hu Seda is Huval's cousin, and their mothers are also sisters, so they have been together since childhood Growing up, it can be said that they are intimate, and they have no scruples when speaking.

Huval laughed a few times, went to sit beside him, put his arms around his waist, and said, "Do you know who is guarding the Heisong pass?"

Hu Seda patted his hand hard, and said angrily, "How do I know?"

Huval was not angry when he beat him, and while putting his hand into his leather jacket, he whispered in his ear, "Lin Lian."

"Really?!" Hu Seda opened his eyes wide.

For the Hu people, the name Lin Lian is almost synonymous with demons, but Hu Seda needs to thank Lin Lian, because Su Hongyi killed the Hu country's son-in-law, and the princess who was just [-] years old soon remarried Hu Seda, and Hu Seda also got the favor of his father, and finally inherited the tribe.

Huval unbuttoned his leather jacket, pressed him on the thick fur carpet, and said: "Let that idiot Ha Qihai and Lin Lian fight to the death, you just need to knock down the Baijiang pass, and the next few The county seat is also very good.”

Hu Seda rolled his eyes in his heart. The counties behind the Baijiang pass are indeed good, but Lin Yue, the guard of the Yingzuiya pass that Huval attacked, was hit by a poisoned arrow, and he would die in a short time. Without the black killing god, Ying Zuiya Pass is almost easy to grasp.But he wisely didn't say anything, and put his arms around Huval.

After a day of rectification, the next morning, the tribes attacking the pass gathered the slaves together, dressed them in the clothes of Hu soldiers, but only gave them some sticks, and forced them to attack the pass with bows and arrows.

Looking at the wooden sticks in their hands, a group of skinny slaves wept bitterly. These slaves also saw the fire during the siege two days ago, and now it was clearly for them to die.They kept begging the beards, even if they lived a life worse than pigs and dogs, they wanted to continue to live.

But how could Beard change his mind because of their entreaties, and shot and killed several slaves who refused to come forward one after another, and the rest of them had to hold sticks, weeping loudly, and walked towards the pass.

On the city wall at the mouth of Yingzui Cliff, several torches kept swinging back and forth in the wind and snow.

"It seems that someone is crying." The night watchman said to the people next to him.

The person next to him listened carefully for a while, and there seemed to be crying in the wind and snow. He poked his head out of the city wall and looked out, but he couldn't see anything in the dark night.

At this moment, a cloud ladder approached from far away, and hit the battlement next to him with a "bang".

"Beard is coming!" He just yelled, and the long arrow had already shot through his throat with a "swish".

Numerous defenders ran out of the shelter tower, and several defenders threw torches under the city wall, "Boom", the flames ignited again.

"Don't burn me..."

"Help me, I'm from Daliang..."

"Save me, save me..."

The defenders looked at the faces in the firelight. They were faces like hungry ghosts in hell. Judging from their hairstyles, they were indeed from the Liang Kingdom. Listening to their accents, some of them were even from the north. Xinjiang natives.

"I, I... ah...!!" A defender who had thrown torches under the city wall just now collapsed. The last time Beard attacked, it was the torch he threw. Seeing the beards howling in the fire, he Completely unchanged.But now the one who howled in the fire was the man of Liang. He bumped his head against the city wall a few times in pain, and suddenly jumped down from the city wall with a loud cry.

No one pulled him, because everyone was stunned by what they saw. They guarded the frontier to protect the people of Daliang, but now, it was they who personally ignited the fire that burned the people of Daliang to death.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, the sky in the east had begun to light up, the flames below the city wall had been extinguished, and in the darkness, countless charred corpses stung the defenders' eyes.

"Siege!" The beards rushed over pushing the ladder.

"Shoot the arrows! Let the arrows go!" the generals defending the city shouted loudly.

Arrows were still raining down like rain, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the arrows had lost their previous murderous intent.Without the morale of the defenders, it was only a matter of time before the pass was broken.

"Qiu'er!" Almost at the same time, Liang Xi shouted and woke up suddenly from his sleep.He was gasping for breath, the appearance of Lin Qiu covered in blood in his dream frightened him.

Looking at the fire that had not been completely extinguished, Liang Xi clenched his fists.

I want to go back, I have to go back, whether it's just a dream, or... I have to go back.