Chapter 21: Da Shanyu (Part 2)
The noble status of the Tuoba Xianbei emperors had no deterrence at this time. Yilu's loud shout was not responded to, and he was simply a target of siege. Before he finished speaking, four or five long swords were thrown in the air. Finally, he was agile and could not help but dodge.
Immediately, more eastern chiefs Qu generals rushed towards Yilu. Yilu cursed repeatedly, and ordered everyone to gather together to resist. The entourages waved swords to block the enemy. When they were fighting and retreating, the sound of sharp blades hitting them was as dense as raindrops. In the blink of an eye, even Yilu himself had several more knife wounds, one of which fell straight from his left flank to his hips, only a slight difference was the end of the swelling.
Lu Guan was dead, but the chiefs of the eastern Tuoba Xianbei Qu suddenly rushed wildly, causing Yilu and others to fall into an extremely dangerous situation again.
Yilu brought a hundred-man guard when he climbed to Danhan Mountain, but at this moment, there were only more than ten people around Yilu and Wen Qiao. These more than ten men were almost injured, but they had no time to bandage them, so they let the bloody wounds be exposed, which looked very ferocious. Judging from their movements and expressions, they seemed not to care about the injuries. Only when certain movements in the fight and fighting would the corners of their mouths twitch slightly.
Just now, Yilu was waiting for death, and these warriors were ready to die together, but they never thought that today's events would turn around. They immediately leaned over and retrieved the discarded weapons and protected Yilu and Wen Qiao in Gaixin. Several others rushed out and stripped armor, swords and other objects from the corpses that were lying on the ground.
Compared with the inner central plains, northern borders are scarce, but whenever weapons are put into battle, the loss will be great. Therefore, cleaning the battlefield at any time has almost become Hu'er's instinct. When a small number of chiefs and coaches belonging to the western part of the Tuoba Xianbei were excited, these entourages had already re-armed themselves to their teeth and were ready to go into battle again. This vigilance alone is enough to be amazed.
The western Tuoba Xianbei led by Yilu was mainly in the Shengle area occupied by the ancestor Li Wei of the Tuoba clan migrated south, which roughly included the establishment of Dingxiang and Yunzhong counties during the Former Han Dynasty. This place was originally a descendant of the Xiongnu Zahu tribes. After the Tuoba Xianbei invaded this place, they fought for the water source of the grassland and accumulated deep hatred. For decades, the two sides had almost never fought. After Yilu took office as the Western Lord, he vigorously consolidated the sphere of influence, annexed the various tribes Zahu tribes or expelled them. I don’t know how many bloody battles were accompanied by. Therefore, in terms of bravery and good fighting, the Yilu tribes were indeed better than the eastern Tuoba Xianbei.
Yilu's entourage warriors were all dead soldiers who charged in battle countless times, and even the ones from a hundred people were selected. Before, a hundred people fought against each other and they were in a blink of an eye to kill Luguan's troops. Even when the Nuo people suffered heavy losses and even when the leader Chi Li Ningta lost his life, these soldiers were still full of enthusiasm. Not to mention that at this moment, Luguan died suddenly and the situation on Danhan Mountain had undergone earth-shaking changes.
These more than ten people were elite. They all fought to the death, surrounded Yilu and others with their backs against the bonfire to form a semicircular defensive formation. However, compared to the hundreds of crazy beards who rushed in front of them, Yilu's side was a little less, and it was very hard to resist for a while.
Those who can become a great chief in the Hu tribe, certainly depend on their bloodline and methods of dealing with things, must also have considerable martial arts and courage. They are definitely not comparable to Han officials who are powerless. At this moment, those people are generally in a state of turmoil, like furious beasts. Hundreds of sane men rushed over and rushed over, and instantly killed several of the rich chiefs from the Tuoba Xianbei who were cheering around Yilu.
The two sides rammed violently, pushed, and cut into the flesh, and instantly they died and injured.
Yilu and others used the bonfire in the center of the altar as the cover behind the defensive formation, but those people were simply confused. Some even walked around with the raging flames, trying to surround the back. The question was how fierce the bonfire several feet high was? Halfway through the way, his clothes were burned by the flames, turning into a human-shaped torch, and running around screaming.
In the previous battle, Dugu Zhe's three fingers were cut off by Qigen. Although he wrapped the wound with a felt cloth, the blood was still flowing. It was really difficult to fight like this, so he had to retreat in the inner circle to breathe. He was judging the human-shaped torch, so he stepped forward and kicked it into the fire.
After getting back, Dugu Zhe also had a bunch of bubbles on his forehead. He roared to Yilu: "Damn, are these people crazy? Lord Yilu, you can't stay in this ghost place anymore, let's rush down the mountain!"
"Going the mountain?" Yilu sneered: "Is this Danhan Mountain so easy to get down?"
The only thing that can connect to the mountain top of Danhan Mountain is the winding mountain road that everyone climbs in the early morning. When they went up the mountain, they didn't feel it. At this moment, they looked down a little, but saw that the road was narrow and only one person was allowed, with strange rocks and dangerous cliffs along the way. The steep and strange places made people feel heart-wrenching.
Not all the people on the top of the mountain had their eyes red, and the calmer people tried to escape to protect themselves. Just as Yilu and others were watching, one of them ran away from the mountain, but was caught by others from behind. He slashed and penetrated with a knife, and then screamed and fell into the bottomless abyss. It was obvious that the people in the western Tuoba Xianbei were still able to join forces and barely protect themselves. If they stepped on the mountain road, they would be limited to the narrow road and could not show their courage, and mutual assistance was even more impossible. If there was any discord, they would be completely dead.
"Don't go down the mountain, hold on for a while!" Yilu gritted his teeth. He rushed forward and slashed the two of them one after another. After a while, he retreated back with the enemy's howl. Several entourages who had rested with his help quickly moved forward side by side and blocked the gap in the front again. Yilu threw away the broken long sword in his hand and pulled out another long sword with his backhand: "Everyone, just hold on for a while!"
His judgment is correct.
After all, those who were able to participate in the Dahan Mountain Sacrifice Ceremony were all the high-ranking and powerful generals of the Tuoba Xianbei tribe. From beginning to end, the number of people on the altar was no more than 500. Considering that Lu Guan and Yilu's entourage warriors had suffered heavy casualties in the previous duel, at most more than 200 people were fighting wildly. At first, these people had some purpose, but after the fight, they seemed to be crazy and slashed each other.
Everyone is killing people, everyone is killed, and every moment someone dies. Under such circumstances, two hundred people are not a big number.
After only a short moment, the altar on the top of the Danshan Mountain suddenly became empty, and more than a dozen or twenty people were scattered and kept a considerable distance from each other. At such a distance, even holding a spear and a large halberd was not enough to pose enough threat to others. The mind, which was once boiling due to killing, finally gradually cooled down.
Some people looked around vigilantly, some showed a blank look, some were seriously injured and shaky, and would die at any time, and some people found their relatives and friends in the corpses around them, so they suddenly thought that they had fallen into something evil. They suddenly knelt on the ground, making a hissing sound of crying or laughing.
The mountain wind whistled past, and the bonfire in the center of the altar was still burning. The bonfire was so huge that it could be clearly visible dozens of miles away. According to previous practice, the bonfire will gradually be extinguished only after the rituals have been completely over. At the foot of the Danhan Mountain, tens of thousands of ordinary Xianbei tribes were looking at the bonfire. Even though they belonged to different tribes, they were all looking forward to a new Great Chanyu to appear and end the situation of the East-West and East-West split of Tuoba Xianbei. In the hearts of these simple herdsmen, Danhan Mountain is a sacred mountain, and the ceremony of sacrifice to heaven is a sacred ceremony. The chiefs inspired by the gods at the ceremony of sacrifice to heaven will inevitably choose a wise leader. But they would never imagine that such a situation occurred on the top of Danhan Mountain.
After the second battle, only ten chiefs and serfs in the western Tuoba Xianbei were alive. Everyone didn't care about calming down their feelings and immediately dispersed and inspected the situation everywhere to prevent another change.
Yilu turned around and bowed deeply to Wen Qiao. He shook his head and said, "This situation is really shameful. Wen Changshi, Brother Taizhen, I..."
Before he could say a few words, a subordinate of Yilu pointed to the southeast corner of the altar and shouted, "Look, isn't that Weishi?"
The altar of Danhan Mountain was built nearly a hundred years ago. Although the Tuoba Xianbei Grand Chanyu organized repairs in all dynasties, after all, it was a long time ago. The altar was covered with wind, rain and snow, and it was inevitable that it would be damaged. A few stone slabs in the southeast corner of the altar collapsed, and the earthwork under it was also lost, becoming a big pit about a foot wide and half a person deep. At this moment, the corpses around the pit were slowly lifted up, and it was not Weishi who struggled to climb out from under the corpse.
As a weak woman, and unarmed, Weishi was able to survive the unreasonable battle with each other on the altar. She didn't even have any scars on her body. She was so smart that she was extremely lucky. However, looking at her hair disheveled and her eyes were panicked, she had no original charm and majesty, and she was like a female slave who was being sold.
Yilu didn't bother to chat with Wen Qiao, and rushed to the southeast of the altar. He reached out and helped Wei up, and his words were rarely soft: "Thank you for your hard work."
Weishi carefully looked at Yilu's face, and after a long time, his nervous expression gradually faded. The actual controller of Tuoba Xianbei, the wife of Yiyi, the former Da Shanyu, was bowed down with relief by the witches who were regarded as gods by the tribes: "How can we work for the Da Shanyu? Finally, Lu Guan was killed in time and never let down the heavy trust of Da Shanyu."
Yilu was stunned and laughed to the sky.
But Wen Qiao could only smile bitterly.
Lu Guan bribed dozens of divine witches, thinking that they could be a means to turn the world in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. Unfortunately, Yi Lu thought farther and more thoughtful than he thought. Later, Lu Guan wanted to succeed the Great Chanyu, and Wei finally had to complete the ceremony for him. The wine at the ceremony was naturally poisonous wine, and the sharp blade used by Lu Guan to cut his arms and blood was even a poisonous blade that sealed his throat with blood. Yi Lu had already decided. When Lu Guan had the upper hand, he only needed to beg himself to come forward to protect him for a while... Fortunately, he was so desperate that he begged him for pleading for him!
Chapter completed!