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The skin rope on Jin Chunbao's hands and feet was untied, and he drank a small sip of wine, slowly told his experience.

A few months ago, the Jin brother and sister and a maid entered the grassland and soon encountered the Huns. After explaining their identities, they were sent to the camp of the Dongshanyu.

They came to the grassland to find freedom, but they found another "Great Chu court".

"The East Huns were also divided." Jin Chunbao was extremely frustrated, especially when facing a group of familiar noble children, who had ridiculed and bullied him in the capital, but now he saw his most embarrassing side.

During the reign of Emperor Wu, the Xiongnu were divided into two parts: East and West. The Western Xiongnu insisted on being enemies with the Great Chu. As a result, they were defeated continuously and were forced to flee thousands of miles away. There was no news for many years. The Eastern Xiongnu paid tribute to the Great Chu and remained peaceful for decades.

In the past few decades, there was a clear division within the Eastern Huns. Ordinary Huns still lived a life of living by water and grass. A large number of nobles, including the Eastern Shanyu, settled in the Hanoi area, and exchanged horses, animal skins and other items for food and clothing in the pass. Except for entering the grassland to hunt in the fixed season every year, they basically had nothing to do with grazing.

When the King of Qi rebelled, he made generous promises to the Huns in exchange for help. The Hun nobles were moved. They were used to settle down and had long coveted the colorful world in the pass. They knew that they were not strong enough, but dared to think but did not dare to do it. The King of Qi gave them a chance.

But the nobles needed cavalry and a large number of cavalry.

The herdsmen in the north paid tribute every year in exchange for peace. I heard that they were going to recruit soldiers to fight an unpredictable battle, so many people chose to flee, and many tribes migrated north and west.

In order to collect enough cavalry and prevent the tribe from disintegrating, the Eastern Huns spent a lot of time and energy. When the army finally gathered, the King of Qi was defeated.

The army that was finally formed could not be dispersed just by scattering, so after a fierce quarrel, the Huns launched an attack on the Great Chu, seizing a lot of money and at least satisfying the ambitions of some nobles.

When the main force of the Chu army arrived, the Huns were scared, especially those ordinary soldiers who participated in the war but did not receive much spoil, fled in large numbers. Dong Shanyu had to lead his army to retreat. He had to pacify the rebellion of various troops in the grassland and gather more cavalry before he could fight with the Chu army.

There is also a saying that the old Dong Shanyu did not want to fight the Chu army at all. He indulged the cavalry to escape and used this as an excuse to avoid fighting.

Another group of Xiongnu nobles firmly believed that the Great Chu had declined and it was the turn of the Xiongnu revival. What the grassland people lacked was not cavalry, but courage. As long as they achieved a few battles, they could rekindle the ambitions of all the people who led the bow, and defeating the corrupt hundreds of thousands of Chu troops was no problem.

Prince Zhaheshan is the representative of this noble family. His ambitions were not so great. He even dreamed of unifying the entire grassland and not dividing anything else in the Huns.

After understanding the origin of the Jin family, Zhaheshan felt that this was an opportunity.

The ancestor of the Jin family was the Youxian King of the Xiongnu, and was a close relative of Xidan. Zhaheshan loved Jin Chuiduo's face and wanted to use the identity of the Jin family to claim the position of the Youxian King, so the next day we met, we sent someone to propose.

The Western Huns had long disappeared, and the Right King was just a name that had been interrupted for decades. Zhaheshan's move was nothing more than to raise his reputation and fight for the throne after the old Shanyu ascended to heaven.

Jin Chuiduo refused without hesitation. Zhaheshan was in his forties, with a large number of wives and concubines, and had no real respect for the Jin family. Of course, she was unwilling to marry her.

For any Xiongnu prince, rejection of a proposal is a shame. As one of the most powerful sons of the Dongshanyu, Zhaheshan could not tolerate such shame. After several persuasions failed, he announced that he would marry Jin Chuiduo when the first snow fell on the grassland, regardless of life or death.

The Jin brothers and sisters wanted to escape, but failed several attempts, but were more strictly cared for. Jin Chunbao was more obedient at the beginning and gained the trust of Zhaheshan. Just a few days ago, he took his younger brother and his sister to escape again. As a result, he escaped by chance, but he was separated from his younger brother and sister.

Jin Chunbao was not familiar with the grassland and didn't know who to go to. He rode his horse all the way, but finally fell off his horse because he was exhausted and was rescued by a Hun herder.

He was not very good at speaking the Xiongnu. The family thought he was a deserter from Chu, so they tied up and planned to hand it over to the Xiongnu nobles to receive a reward.

"Jianhou, please save my sister. She is tough and forced to do something urgent. She would rather commit suicide than marry Zhaheshan. How many people do you have? Too few can't..."

Han Ruzi did not answer and turned around and walked out of the tent.

It was already dark, and dozens of soldiers were guarding half an inside away. Fang Daye held a flag and looked up at the sky, as if it was part of the flagpole.

The other noble children were still in the tent. Cui Teng walked out alone, stood side by side with Han Ruzi, looking in the same direction, and said for a while: "It seems that the little girl from the Jin family just doesn't like to get married, and she refuses anyone who asks for a kiss."

Cui Teng had also asked the Jin family for a marriage, but was rejected and he didn't even see anyone.

Han Ruzi nodded.

"I've seen through it. Hu You is just a broom star. Men who are involved in her will be in trouble. I'm lucky, but I was sent to the branch by... this little brother Du, and I'm sitting for a while."

Du Chuanyun, who was standing on the other side of Juehou, laughed twice. He didn't know who Jin Chuiduo was, nor did he care. He lowered his head and gently poked the ground with the tip of his boot.

"Chai Yun is quite unlucky. She even paid for Hu You's life." Cui Teng sighed. Although he had awkwardly and had a fight, he still missed Chai Xiaohou quite well. "You have been unlucky for a while, and you can't be the comfortable and erectile marquis, so you ran to the north of the Selangor and were exposed to the sun..."

"What exactly do you want to say?"

"I'm urging you to stay away from Hu You and let her bring bad luck to the Huns. Maybe we can enjoy the fruits without doing anything."

"I didn't say I wanted to save someone."

"Is this more important? Look at your appearance: you don't speak, your eyes are distracted, and your face is melancholy. Chai Yun taught me that this is the expression of missing a woman. I can't tell my sister, but you have to promise not to save Hu You. Also, how much preferential treatment will be given to me in the future..."

"Nothing nonsense." Han Ruzi scolded, "I was thinking that Jin Chunbao's words were a little incompatible with Chai Yue."

"Oh, then I'm in vain. Yes, didn't Chai Yue say that the Hun Prince thought you had broken Hu You's body and wanted to seek revenge on you? Why didn't Jin Chunbao mention it? I'll ask you, this kid was afraid of me in the past and would never dare to lie to me."

Han Ruzi did not stop Cui Teng from turning over and returning to the team, and ordered Tongzhi to interrogate the Huns again to find out which direction they came from.

A few screams came from the tent, and not long after, Cui Teng and his group surrounded Jin Chunbao and walked out of the tent.

Jin Chunbao cried with a sad face, "Juenhou, what I told the truth is that I can't be in front of everyone..." Cui Teng and others glared at him, and Jin Chunbao didn't care about anything and hurriedly said, "My sister likes Juenhou. She often said that she had been the Queen of Great Chu, how could she be the Princess of the Huns? Zha Heshan was very jealous because of this and claimed that she must kill Juenhou."

Han Ruzi reached out to stop Jin Chunbao from talking further. He was obviously threatened and "confessed". That was obviously impossible to be what Jin Chuiduo could say.

The general translator also came to report, "I think they were telling the truth, they did come from the west. They had relatives in the Zhaheshan army, and they drove cattle and horses to join their relatives."

Fang Daye still looked cold and unrelated. Han Ruzi had to make his own judgment and decision. After thinking for a while, he issued several orders: "Let the Huns go, don't give them horses, take all the livestock away, and take Jin Chunbao away too."

Cui Teng smiled and said, "Golden bracelet, have you heard that, you will treat the livestock together and get on your own."

The golden bracelet is a nickname that Jin Chunbao had when he was a child, but he didn't expect to escape to the grassland.

The seven Huns begged, hoping to keep a few livestock, without these cattle, horses and sheep, they would not be able to survive the winter. Han Ruzi ordered the soldiers to draw their bows, but the Huns had no choice but to leave overnight crying.

"It's better to kill them and bring seven heads back, which is a little credit." Cui Teng felt regretful.

Han Ruzi watched the Huns disappear into the night and said to all the soldiers: "The Hun cavalry must be tracking Jin Chunbao, and it will not be too far from here. I let the seven Huns go away to make them confused the Hun cavalry and think that the Chu army would camp and rest on the spot. My order is to retreat immediately! Take away the livestock and let it go halfway."

Everyone was shocked and prepared to set off immediately. Cui Teng was even more shocked, "Is the Hun cavalry nearby?"

Han Ruzi looked at Jin Chunbao, "The Huns deliberately let him escape, trying to lure the Chu army into the trap. In order to let us take him back to the Broken Iron City to lure more Chu troops, the Huns may not chase him too tightly."

Cui Teng raised his foot and kicked Jin Chunbao and said angrily: "So you are still the same as when you were a child, you are a traitor!"

Jin Chunbao shook his head desperately, "Jianghou, I really didn't lie..."

"You may not have lie, you were just exploited by the Huns."

Jin Chunbao was speechless.

Cui Teng said again: "No, since the Huns deliberately let the gold bracelet go, why did someone arrest him?"

"This is an accident. These Hun women and children did not know about Zhaheshan's plan."

Everyone got on the horse and drove dozens of livestock to the night road, so the speed was naturally not fast. Many people looked around frequently, for fear that the Hun cavalry suddenly jumped out of the darkness.

The more Han Ruzi thought about it, the more he felt that his judgment was correct: in order to persuade Juanhou to come to Shatter the Iron City, Chai Yue not only exaggerated the local advantage, but also exaggerated the hostility of Zhaheshan towards Juanhou. In order to lure the Chu army, the Huns exaggerated the internal division and the danger Jin Chuiduo was in.

The Huns and Chai Yue's approaches were the same, but their arguments were different, which meant that they had no collusion, but Chai Yue underestimated the intelligence of the Hun prince.

Han Ruzi sighed lightly, not understanding why everyone thought he had ulterior motives for Jin Chuiduo.

An hour later, he ordered the livestock to be driven away, hoping to confuse the Huns who were catching up and then speed up the marching. However, if he wanted to identify the direction in the dark and keep the formation intact, he still did not dare to be too fast.

Fang Daye, who rarely spoke on his own initiative, suddenly spoke, "The Huns recognized the flag."

"What?" Han Ruzi turned his head and asked.

"As long as you remember the shape of this long banner and describe it, the Hun cavalry will guess that there are generals here. With their temper, they are reluctant to let the generals of the Chu army go."

The long banners are both symbols of generals and sometimes troublesome. Han Ruzi smiled slightly, "You agree with my guess so?"

Fang Daye didn't say anything.

Han Ruzi ordered acceleration. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!