grassland.

This is a vast grassland located west of Helan Mountain and northeast of Qilian Mountain. Standing in any place on this grassland, you can see endless green.

Looking up again, the blue sky is cloudless, and the spring sun shines from the sky, bringing a little heat and making people feel a warm smell.

But in this green grassland, something that looked a little abrupt began to appear.

Strictly speaking, this should not be considered a thing, because it is a city.

The city wall of this city is very low, only a height of only one meter. Any adult soldier can catch the upper edge of the city wall with just a few steps and jump hard.

The area of ​​the city is not large, and the circumference of the four walls is only seven miles in total.

Not only that, there are not many houses in the city, but there is only a two-story building that looks barely deliberate in the center of the city.

In addition, there are tents everywhere in the city, working under the whip of supervisors.

In this city, there are not many civilians, but various cavalrymen.

If we are talking about blood ties, these cavalry actually come from different parts, some are Lin Hu, some are Lou Fan, some are Yiqiu, and some are Dong Hu.

But here, they all have a unified name, that is, Zhao State.

Three thousand Zhao cavalry and more than five thousand coolies are the population in this city.

Needless to say, the people who led these people to build this city were Li Mu, the Northern Strategic Envoy of Zhao State.

After discussing cooperation with Yiqusheng not long ago, Li Mu led the three thousand Zhao cavalry and the eight thousand Yiqusheng cavalry led by Yiqusheng to merge across the Yellow River, and built a city in a place west of the Helan Mountains east of the Qilian Mountains.

In Li Mu's idea, this city will become a bridgehead for the Zhao cavalry to march to the west in the future.

Moreover, there is not only one such city. It will continue to extend to the west with the footsteps of the Zhao cavalry, and finally make the entire Hexi corridor covered with military cities of all sizes.

After almost two months of construction, when summer is coming, the city begins to look a little bit, at least the city wall has been temporarily completed.

Since the necessary stone is missing on the grassland, it is not practical to build a very tall city.

If it is built at the foot of Helan Mountain, it may be possible to mine enough feed, but this is a bit too conservative for Li Mu.

In Li Mu's opinion, the construction of these military cities is not for defense but for offense, so it is not a big problem to have a poor defense ability.

In Li Mu's view, the most important thing in war is people, not cities.

This can be seen from the fact that Zhao Kuo and Li Si were able to defend Dingxi City, which was also not high under the siege of the 100,000 Huns.

In fact, although he is the builder of this city, Li Mu is not in this city at this moment.

As early as half a month ago, Li Mu had already led his main force to leave here and go deeper into the grasslands in the west.

At the beginning of the day, smoke suddenly rose from the horizon to the west of the city, and it was obvious that a very large cavalry unit was slowly approaching.

Strangely, even though such a huge army was approaching, the slaves working in the city seemed to be completely moved and were still busy with their own work.

After a moment, the army gradually approached.

A flag looms in the smoke and dust, which is the huge character "Zhao".

Under the banner of Zhao, Li Mu and Yi Qusheng walked side by side surrounded by many personal guards, with very obvious smiles on their faces.

Behind the two, in addition to tens of thousands of cavalry composed of Zhao State and Yiqu people, there were thousands of captives of the Huns and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

As early as when the city was started, Li Mu's actions had already attracted the attention of the Xiongnu and Wusun people, but what surprised Li Mu was that after almost half a month, there were still no large number of enemies near his city.

This made Li Mu and Yi Qusheng a little confused. Could it be that the Huns and Wusuns are really indifferent to this?

Fortunately, when the city was first built, Li Mu had already sent a large number of sentries and spies to the grassland to reconnaise the whereabouts of the Huns and Wusuns.

Because Li Mu had a large number of Hu people from Lin Huloufan, this brought great convenience to Li Mu's intelligence reconnaissance work.

A Zhao man who appeared on the grassland would be chased by the Huns, but it might not be possible if he was Lin Huloufan or Yiqu.

It was also with the help of these Hu spies that Li Mu spent twenty days finally understanding the current situation on the grassland.

Since the death of King Yuezhi, the entire Yuezhi Kingdom has basically been destroyed.

The vast majority of the Yuezhi people became prisoners, and only a small group of Yuezhi people's defeated generals, with the few old, weak, sick and disabled, escaped from the continuous pursuit of the Wusun people and the Huns, and fled to the west.

This grassland, which originally belonged to the Yuezhi people, has completely become a territory for the Huns and Wusun people.

According to the agreed distribution rules, the Huns occupied more territory, while the Wusun people occupied less territory.

However, after learning that the Huns had just suffered a great defeat, the Wusuns refuted very decisively and occupied many lush pastures, and handed over a small number of relatively poor pastures to the Huns.

In this way, some dirty things inevitably arise between the Xiongnu and the Wusun people.

Although the Huns entrenched here are not all the elite forces of the entire Huns, if the Huns and the Wusun people join forces, the chances of victory will not be very high with the ten thousand cavalrymen in Li Mu's hands.

After all, this time, Li Mu was not 100% of the Zhao cavalry, and most of the cavalry under Li Mu were from Yiqusheng's Yiqu cavalry.

Under such circumstances, Li Mu did not compete with him, but chose to take his wits.

He cleverly grasped the conflict between the Wusun people and the Huns. He first asked Yiqusheng to send an envoy to convince the Wusun people and obtained information from the Wusun people. Then he personally led a large army to raid the Huns' court tents.

Under such meditation arrangements, Li Mu really won a great victory.

The Huns were responsible for the Lutu King's tribe stationed here and were determined to be in battle by Li Mu. The senior leaders of the Lutu King's tribe were almost beaten by Li Mu, and all the others were captured by Li Mu, and all the animals, cattle and sheep became Li Mu's spoils.

With such a big victory, it is no wonder that Li Mu and Yi Qusheng both had smiles on their faces.

At this moment, what these two leaders were discussing was about the issue of dividing the spoils.

Yiqusheng said to Li Mu with a smile: "Li Mu, it's better to follow the previous rules, what about you and me?"

Li Mu seemed a little distracted. He nodded after hearing this and said nonsense: "That's what it should be."

Yi Qusheng rolled his eyes and said, "This time I have caught a lot of women, and all of these women are my."

Li Mu looked at Yi Qusheng with a strange expression: "Don't you already have several women? Why do you need so many women to do? And if I remember correctly, there will be at least two or three thousand women this time. Can you be a stallion?"

Yiqiusheng laughed and said, "Then you misunderstood. Although it is true that I really like women, you don't think about how those ordinary herders can get into my eyes. I... are not right. I am the king of Yiqiusheng."

Li Mu nodded slightly, then said, "You want to reward those women to your subordinates and let them give birth to children to your subordinates, right?"

Yiqiusheng nodded and smiled, "That's natural. Where can the population come from without women? You probably won't object."

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Of course not."

For grasslands that believe in the principle of the strong prey on the weak, anything that falls into the winner belongs to the winner, and women are of course no exception.

The women on the grassland have long been awakened. As long as they fall into the hands of the winner, these women usually will not resist.

In fact, it is not just now. Thousands of years later, Temujin, the world-famous pioneer of the Mongolian enemy country, was once snatched away by his mortal enemy for a period of time. When Temujin snatched his wife back, his wife was already pregnant and gave birth to Temujin's eldest son, Jochi.

If it were in the Central Plains, the woman and the child might not be able to survive, but Temujin chose to raise Shuchi and also distributed a piece of land to Shuchi.

This is the difference between the grassland and the Central Plains.

After getting Li Mu's consent, Yiqiusheng became even happier and said to Li Mu again: "This battle is really exciting. Tell me, when will we have such a battle again? Why not...just next month?"

For Yi Qusheng, he is now considered to be a marrow-eating person.

The victory of a war can achieve such a rich spoil that Yiqu Kingdom usually produces at least two or three years. How could it be that Yiqusheng, a nominal monarch, could not be allowed to be the king, but in fact he was so poor that even the guy under his command could not feed his mouth, his eyes were red with excitement.

However, what Yiqiusheng did not expect was that Li Mu actually chose to refuse this question.

"no."

Yiqiusheng was surprised, and even his tone when he spoke couldn't help but increase several degrees: "Why not?"

Li Mu said in a deep voice: "My king just sent an order that Zhao State is about to start a war with Qin State. As the northern governor of Zhao State, I should return to Shuofang County as soon as possible to prepare for the war with the Qin people."

When Yiqiusheng heard Li Mu's words, he couldn't help but shook his head in disappointment and sighed: "It's really not a good thing. Tell me, why did your king choose to start the war at this time?"

Li Mu shrugged his shoulders and said to Yiqiusheng: "This is not something I can decide. However, according to the prior agreement, once I leave, the safety here will be maintained by you."

Yiqiusheng patted his chest heroically and smiled at Li Mu, "You are not at ease with me when I do things? Just leave. I will stay on the grassland here for a while. Maybe when you come back, I have already won several big victories! Just wait for jealousy! By the way, when you are not here, all the spoils will be my!"
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