Fufeng Song

The cloudy sky brightened at some point, and a few rays of sunlight fell down, painting the iron-gray city tower and the rolling hills outside the city with shiny golden edges.

At this moment, the fiercest offensive and defensive confrontation has come to an end. After the Hu people left about [-] cavalry walking around Jiexiu City to monitor the movement of the defenders, the large army retreated hundreds of steps and began to dig trenches and pile up earth mountains.

These men and horses seem to be very large for siege, but if they are used for civil work, they seem to be a little less.However, after the last time the Xiongnu army swept through the Taiyuan Kingdom, the people were scattered, and there were no people within dozens of miles, and there was nowhere to recruit civilian husbands.As a result, in addition to the proper repair of the troops participating in the siege battle, many soldiers had to put down their swords and guns to dig the soil.

Li Jingzhi is one of the digging army.

Li Jingzhi was about thirty years old, he was a great man with sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a dignified appearance.He belonged to the few Han army in the Xiongnu Han army.The main components of this army are the private soldiers of several Han wealthy families, and there are also some soldiers of the Jin army who were defeated and surrendered and recruited miscellaneous Hus.

The status of this force is quite low. The Xiongnu usually use them to take care of the security of the rear, and rarely use them to fight.Therefore, Hu Yanyan arranged a lot of construction work for them without any suspense, and the weapons in their hands were replaced with crude wooden shovels, wattle frames and the like.

This is almost an insult to the aggressive Hu people; but it does not seem to be unacceptable to the demoralized Han army.Li Jingzhi looked around at the soldiers.Ragged, with dull eyes and dusty faces, they looked more like a group of lowly slaves than an army as they lumbered across the dirt.

Li Jingzhi lowered his head and sighed deeply.

The Li family was originally from Longxi, and Li Jingzhi's ancestors were officials in Bingzhou, so the whole family signed to Xinxing County.Xinxing County is where the northern part of the Xiongnu is located, so the local rich people have frequent exchanges with the Hu people.When the Xiongnu Han Kingdom was established, the family of Chen Yuandaju, a local celebrity, took refuge in the Xiongnu and became the servant of the Huangmen of the Han Kingdom.The Chen family was very powerful in the local area, and the Li family was just a vassal under it. Therefore, Li Jingzhi had no choice but to vote for the Xiongnu official.

Because of this relationship, when Liu Yuan sealed off his group of officials, Li Jingzhi got the position of "General of the Bravery" and was responsible for leading the Han army of more than 1000 people.But this meant nothing to Li Jingzhi.Different from Chen Yuanda who is keen on dragon art, Li Jingzhi originally just wanted to lead his family soldiers to protect his father's hometown, but who knew that he somehow became a servant of the so-called Huns and Han, working for the Hu people?Thinking of this, Li Jingzhi couldn't help feeling somewhat resentful towards the servant of the Huang family.

He couldn't continue his thoughts, because a sudden violent shouting and cursing not far away attracted his attention.

Li Jingzhi urged the horse to trot to the place where the scolding sound came from, and he arrived in a blink of an eye.This place is about five miles away from Jiexiu. It is a naturally prominent small mound, about twenty feet high.The mound is located on the side of the avenue from Jiexiu to Zhongyang, Pingtao and other places, with a very wide view.According to Hu Yanyan's instructions, Li Jingzhi's department should build a high platform on the top of the mound as soon as possible to monitor the surrounding movements.

But this project is really not small, not to mention the complexity of the building, the felling and transportation of the wood alone caused the soldiers who lacked tools to suffer.So after a whole day of tossing, the high platform barely had a foundation, and there was no shadow of anything else.

Li Jingzhi came in a hurry, muttering his prayers along the way, it must not be Hu Yanyan who sent someone to ask about the construction period.Those Huns were very violent. They treated the Han people like nothing, and beat and kicked them at every turn. It was really difficult to serve them.Unexpectedly, the sky did not fulfill what people wished, so when he went to the side of the mound and looked closely, he couldn't help crying out bitterly.

It was a tall Hun who was jumping around and shouting and cursing.This person looked ugly, his face was covered with scars all over the place, where there should be only two open holes where the nose should be, the skin from the left cheek to the neck was like a melting candle.And his yellow-brown eyes shone fiercely, making people dare not look at him.

Li Jingzhi recognized this person as Diaoqunan, one of the five lieutenants directly under General Zhenglu.It is said that these terrifying scars on his face were caused by rescuing Huyanyan in a dangerous battle, so he is extremely trusted by Huyanyan.That's all it needs to be, but this guy is a complete sadist, taking pleasure in killing soldiers.This time he came here to urge the construction period, and he didn't know how many people would be unlucky. Seeing several soldiers rolled down beside him, it was obvious that he had already done something bad.

Li Jingzhi muttered in his heart, his movements were not slow.He dismounted from the horse far away, bowed his head and saluted deeply: "I have seen Mr. Captain!" Although his official position is actually higher than that of Diao Qu Nan, he can't take care of it now.

Heavy footsteps sounded, and it was Diao Qunan who approached Li Jingzhi.Following his hoarse voice, a foul stench came from his nostrils: "Don't come here, kid. The general asked me to ask you, when will this watchtower be completed?"

"Master Lieutenant Mingjian..." Li Jingzhi hesitated for a while, and then said in a low voice, "Brothers are all doing their best. Although we lack skilled craftsmen and tools, everyone will rush to work overnight. Neizhun can..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound in his ear, and then a tearing pain came from his cheek.Li Jingzhi only felt buzzing in his head, as if dozens of bison were rampaging.He staggered a few steps and fell to the ground involuntarily.

"Three days? Three days, mother! Three days?" Diao Qunan yelled loudly, "The general said that it must be finished at noon tomorrow. Otherwise, cut off your dog's head, Li Jingzhi first!"

Li Jingzhi shook his head, intending to answer, but Diao Qunan lifted his foot and kicked him over.A rough boot sole pressed his face firmly on the ground, and Diao Qu's irritable voice came from his ear: "Tomorrow noon! Tomorrow noon! Do you know? Say it!"

Li Jingzhi felt that his entire jaw was about to be dislocated, how could he speak?He made a whining sound, and frantically scratched the ground with his hands and feet, but he couldn't withstand the strange force of the canal, and he couldn't struggle no matter what.

Diao Qu stared at everyone, and wherever he looked, dozens of Han soldiers all looked ashamed.Even a general who commanded thousands of people and was officially appointed by Liu Yuan, king of the Han Dynasty, was still inferior to pigs and dogs in front of the Huns.What else can these pawns do?

"Stop!" Suddenly someone yelled: "If you have this spirit, you can go to the battlefield and have a good time. Why vent your anger on the pawns?"

"Nainai, who is so bold, dare to stop your master?" Diao Qu turned his head to look cursingly, but his voice suddenly dropped.He took a few steps forward, knelt down on one knee, and instantly completed the transformation from a ferocious dog to a docile domestic cat.

Enduring the burning pain in his cheeks, Li Jingzhi reluctantly raised his eyes to look.I saw more than a dozen knights in bright armor lined up on the main road, staring at this side.A man dressed as a Hun noble at the head jumped off his horse and strode forward.This person is about twenty years old, of medium build, with bright eyes and a heroic look.He wears a red gold crown on his head; he wears a gorgeous and unusually pure white fox fur cloak, which is fastened with a five-finger-wide belt; and the belt is inlaid with gold and jade, shining with precious light, which is obviously a priceless treasure.This kind of style and clothing are definitely high-ranking military officials and dignitaries, and extraordinary people can reach.

Diaoqu was a Hun, so he knew better than Li Jingzhi, a Han, what this attire represented.Just look at the golden crown, the top of the crown is in the shape of a flying eagle spreading its wings, and the crown is embossed with exquisite animal patterns-this is a hereditary king and chieftain of the Xiongnu tribe, and at least it can only be used by aristocrats over 24 years old!Among the five tribes of the Southern Huns today, there are no more than twenty people who are qualified to replace this kind of golden crown.

It should be known that the Xiongnu is a military-state body. Except for the Great Shanyu and the clan kings, the tribal princes have their own strengths, their status is extremely respected, and they have the right to life and death over ordinary Xiongnu tribesmen.Diaoqu Nan was very clear that even though he was Huyanyan's confidant, his official rank was low after all; he might be domineering in front of Han officers like Li Jingzhi, but in the eyes of the famous kings of the Xiongnu tribes, he was not even as good as an ant.His thoughts turned sharply, although he couldn't remember the origin of this nobleman for a while, but he was quite dissatisfied with himself in his words, if he disobeyed a little, he was afraid that the end would be very bad.

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