Chapter 441: Help you dominate the desert, look to the Central Plains, and become a king!
Dun Ruo knocked his knees to the ground and knelt in front of Mao Dun.
Ten steps away, the still restless temporarily calmed down their anger.
There were expressions of surprise, confusion, puzzlement, and vigilance on the officials. They looked at each other, wondering what this Central Plains man under Prince Maodun was doing.
A strange look flashed in Maodun's eyes, and in just a moment, he was horrified. He quickly bent down to help Dunruo up, saying as he helped him:
"Why is Mr. Ye kneeling down? Why is it so?"
Dun Ruo was unwilling to stand up. He raised his head slightly, with a guilty expression on his face, and spoke in a low voice.
"Please punish me, Prince.
"I am the one who led this cavalry here..."
Maodun's body froze and his iron arms suddenly lost their strength. It seemed that he was too shocked by the news and was a little unconscious.
After a while, his arms regained strength, and when Dun Ruo tried to fall down and kneel on the ground, he forcibly lifted him up!
His smile was uglier than crying, and the expression in his eyes was extremely complicated, as if a dyeing shop had opened in it.
"I wonder how Maodun has offended you, sir, to the point that you want to kill me?"
As early as when Dun Ruo said that he knew the enemy's main general and volunteered to be an envoy, Maodun was certain that this Qin army was closely related to his Mr. Ye.
When the two armies met suddenly, the Xiongnu cavalry were like rabbits, being driven, chased and chased by the black-armored Qin army on the opposite side, which were like jackals.
Apart from the exchange of sharp arrows, the clash of weapons, and the obscene language of "Hun dog", "Qin dog", and "eat your great father bird", there was no effective communication between the two sides.
Until now, he still didn't know who the enemy's main general was.
Mr. Ye, who was protected by the Hun cavalry and had no direct contact with the enemy, said that he was an old acquaintance of the enemy commander and knew the identity of the enemy commander. How could he know that he was an old acquaintance if he didn't know who the enemy commander was?
If he wasn't in a desperate situation with his life hanging by a thread, this last clue would still be in Mr. Ye's hands.
Maodun had already chopped off Mr. Ye's head the moment he volunteered.
Long before Dunruo came, Maodun had already been designated by Touman as the next Chanyu. He was already a great leader.
Dun Ruo's arrival was just the icing on the cake, giving this fierce Xiongnu tiger wings and securing his position as the successor to the prince.
"It is precisely because the prince has treated me so well that I cannot bear to see him die!"
Dun Ruo took the initiative to get close to Maodun.
"Going to the Yuezhi is a trick of the Chanyu to kill someone with a borrowed knife! He has been delaying the appointment of the prince as the Zuotuqi King, which means he wants to kill the prince and replace him with the son of the Wusun Yanshi!"
Maodun was horrified, his strong body trembled, and he grabbed Dun's weak hand.
"How could this happen! Please, sir, save me!"
Dun Ruo stretched out a hand and pointed in the direction of the Taotie army.
“This army is the private army of Ying Jianglu, the third son of the Qin emperor. Although it is the Qin army, it is not the Qin army.
"The First Emperor appointed his eldest son Ying Fusu as the crown prince. His third son was dissatisfied with being trapped in Xianyang, so he spent all his family property and recruited 50,000 warriors to live in the desert.
"They have just arrived and know nothing about the desert environment. This is the best time to recruit them and they can be used by the prince. The leader is my old friend, Chang'an Jun Ying Chengjiao. He received my letter and led the army here.
"If the prince is willing, this army can help the prince."
Maodun thought for a moment and said with a sad face:
"My father has hundreds of thousands of capable and skilled warriors under his command. How can Maodun resist my father with only 50,000 soldiers? This matter still needs to be considered in the long run. Sir, maybe you can let this Qin army disperse first."
"Prince, this opportunity is rare and will never come back! The scimitar is already on your neck. If you don't resist, your head will be used as a drinking vessel by others!"
Maodun wiped his tears, his eyes red.
"You have the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues in the Central Plains. Although we Xiongnu do not have such a written record, we also have something similar. We have known since childhood to be filial to our parents and obey the Chanyu.
"If my father Chanyu wants to kill me, I will die. How can I resist? Please disperse this Qin army and let me rush to Yuezhi smoothly and complete the order given to me by Chanyu."
Dun Ruo had a look of disappointment on his face, and gritted his teeth and said:
"Prince, think carefully. Going to Yuezhi will bring disaster, not blessing.
“I have already found out everything when I came here. Once the prince reaches Yuezhi and meets the Yuezhi leader, the Chanyu will cross the Xiying River, raid the Purple Mountain grassland, and restart the war.
"Then the Yue clan leader will be furious and will definitely kill the prince!"
Zishan, also known as Guzang Mountain, was the territory of the Yuezhi and Xiongnu tribes.
It is located at the source of Gu Shui, in the Lenglong Ridge area.
This mountain is surrounded by strange peaks, one after another, and the mountains are majestic.
There is a big river at the foot of the mountain, named Xiying River, and the river water comes from the melted ice and snow of Qilian Mountain.
The surging Xiying River moistened the vast yellow land and nourished the creatures on both sides of the river, thus creating the Zishan Pasture, a large pasture with lush grass and fertile land, where cattle and sheep can be seen when the wind blows through the grass.
The Xiongnu and the Yuezhi used the Xiying River as the boundary, each occupying one side of the Zishan grassland.
Zishan Grassland is both a grassland and a battlefield. The two armies shed countless blood and buried countless corpses in their fight for this fertile land.
The war that had just stopped not long ago was triggered by the Yuezhi's attack on the Zishan grassland on the Xiongnu side.
Maodun's trip to the Yuezhi Kingdom was nominally to express the Chanyu Touman's utmost sincerity in wanting to stop the war and continue to use the Xiying River as the boundary to graze together on the Zishan grassland.
Maodun closed his eyes and looked up to the sky, tears streaming down his greasy face very quickly.
"It is my honor to die for the Xiongnu's cause! The gods will send angels to take me away!"
Dun Ruo was so angry that he could no longer control his voice and pointed at Mao Dun with a trembling finger.
"I, Ye Tun, am as good at writing as Guan Zhong, and as good at martial arts as Yue Yi. If I were not born a commoner, I would not have been able to be promoted to an official. Why would I condescend to come to this desolate desert to serve an uncivilized person like you?
"You used to listen to me and respect me. I thought that there were heroes among the barbaric nations. I wanted to follow the example of Guan Zhong in serving Duke Huan of Qi and help you dominate the desert, look to the Central Plains, and achieve your goal of becoming a king!
"I never thought that you are ignorant of etiquette and so stubborn about corrupt things. You are no different from those withered bones in the tombs of the Central Plains! I am really blind to favor you!"
This curse, which was not muffled, could be heard clearly by the Huns fifty steps away, not only those ten steps away.
The cavalrymen were furious. They drew their scimitars and put their bows and arrows on, wanting to kill Dun Ruo, the Central Plains dog who dared to curse Prince Maodun!
"Prince, get out of the way!"
"How dare you! You are a Central Plains dog that can't be tamed! You deserve to be killed!"
"You're looking for death! You deserve to be eaten alive by jackals!"
The crowd shouted and cursed in the Xiongnu language, and the whole place was in chaos.
Dun Ruo was surrounded by 3,000 Xiongnu cavalrymen, and his life was in danger at any time, but he showed no fear. He laughed wildly and pointed at a circle of cavalrymen, and said in Xiongnu language:
"You are barking wildly, but are you interested in this big bone with flesh and blood next to Naigong?"
