Chapter 191: Rebellion of the Left
Outside the Zi City, Black Bear reined in his horse and watched.

This is not a big county town, it has been attacked and conquered by the Huns several times.

Since the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, the city's residents have been mainly Xiongnu.

These people have no habit of repairing and maintaining the city walls, so when looking from afar, one can see large pieces of yellow mud pasted on the wall falling off.

Without the protection of the yellow mud layer, the walls built with the inner layer of boards are exposed to wind and rain.

The city wall was not very high. After Black Bear estimated the workload of transporting sand and building a slope outside the city, he felt that this could be done.

But he could not use his own army, so he thought of using the captured Huns to build the earthwork.

They had originally wanted to practice this siege tactic when they surrounded Chiyang City, but because the situation changed too quickly, Ma Wan committed suicide and the city was breached.

Now the tribes of all sizes on the left have gathered here one after another, and the situation has actually matured.

The prisoners can be used to transport soil and attack the city, which creates a lot of variables.

Thinking about it, Black Bear turned his horse around and returned to the left royal court.

As soon as he returned to the royal court, he saw Liu Qubei leading more than a hundred cavalrymen approaching.

Liu Qubei took the lead and pointed at the representatives of the right tribes behind him: "General, these are the sons of the kings of the right tribe."

Then he said with a bitter face: "The general's proposal can be barely accepted by the nobles of the right department. But it is really difficult for the common people to accept it. The nobles are still nobles when they enter the Han Dynasty. But the common people of the tribe will be like a broken family without the women in their families. The nobles of the right department are willing to follow the general, but ignoring the requests of the common people will force them to rebel. Without the common people, what kind of nobles are you?"

"Well, what you said makes some sense. But I still hold the same view. When you were strong, you could rob the border women. Now that I am strong, why can't I let you return them?"

Black Bear spoke through the mask: "You should take them back and discuss this further. I gave you three days last time, but this time it's only two days. Give me an answer in two days. If I'm not satisfied, I will lead the left wing to attack the right wing."

"General, two days is only enough for my return trip. Can you give me one more day so I can lobby the various tribes?"

"In two days, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow morning, I will lead my army eastward. So you have two and a half days. If you can persuade the Right Tribe to surrender and accept the conditions, they can still keep their women and reproduce. Afterwards, I will recommend you to be the Right Wise King."

Black Bear turned and left after saying this. Liu Qubei wanted to ask him to stay, but he saw a dozen of his personal guards glaring at him.

Liu Qubei had no choice but to give up, bowed on his horse, turned his horse around and returned to his team, and told the nobles on the right about Black Bear's attitude.

The hundred people were already exhausted, so they had to change horses and return the same way.

In the left royal court, strips of meat were hung on wooden poles everywhere.

In addition to air-dried meat strips, there are also sausages made from lamb intestines stuffed with minced meat.

The mutton strips coated with salt powder were tied with thin sheepskin ropes and hung in rows to be blown by the wind. The strips of meat that were hung a few days ago had turned dark red and their surfaces were dry and hard.

Today, nearly 8,000 Huns slaughtered sheep, and yesterday they slaughtered nearly 30,000 sheep.

There were so many sheep bones that they could not be eaten up, which was a painful but happy experience for many Huns.

Even the Xiongnu nobles could not slaughter sheep and eat fresh meat every day.

According to the Huns' slaughtering method, the slaughtering efficiency could have been higher.

In nomadic life, all materials are very precious, including the blood of cattle and sheep.

However, Black Bear ordered them to bleed first, then skin and take the meat, which was a little unfamiliar to the Huns and their efficiency was much lower.

"Master Qu, the lamb tripe stuffed with meat is ready."

A personal soldier came over with a wooden tray. On the tray were two layers of steaming hot belly meat buns the size of goose eggs, including three belly meat buns the size of ostrich eggs.

The largest tripe meat is wrapped in a whole sheep's stomach.

This way you can use the least amount of space in the stomach to make the largest meat ball.

The tightly tied tripe meat is easy to carry and can delay the spoilage of the cooked mutton.

Now that the weather is cold, it can be carried for a long time.

The black bear felt that a piece of tripe meat was a little hot, so he bit open the sheep's stomach and sucked up the hot juice, which was very satisfying.

I immediately said to the people around me: "Try them all. If they are delicious, make more tomorrow."

It was distributed among the people, and everyone ate it with both hands.

A few unlucky souls had their tongues and lips burned by the gushing soup, but they still slurped the soup.

It is now afternoon and mutton bone soup is being cooked in pots everywhere. The sheep's heart, liver and lungs are also cut into pieces and boiled.

The Huns, Guanzhong soldiers, and armed slaves, who had been tired for the whole morning, ate to their heart's content.

In fact, for the vast majority of lower-class Huns, life was very happy during these days.

There was no need to go out for nomadic travel or fight desperately. Every day when they woke up, they would slaughter the fat sheep in autumn and then have three meals a day with peace of mind.

As for the last group of women and children in the camp, they all set off early this morning.

There were only about 30,000 horses left in the camp, and not many sheep either.

The Huns will probably be able to slaughter and clean up the remaining sheep in one morning tomorrow.

Happy times are always short, and soon it was night.

The entire left royal court was filled with a strong smell of sheep. Outside the camp were piles of sheep dung from broken sheep stomachs. Inside the camp were dried meat and sausages hung everywhere. There were also piles of sheep bones waiting to be tanned, as well as already tanned sheepskins.

These sheepskins are also placed in piles. The weather is cold and there is no strong odor.

Even on the slope where sheep were slaughtered during the day, blood flowed down the gentle slope, and the coagulated sheep blood looked like a huge dark red blanket spread there.

But the peculiar smell of sheep blood still cannot cover up the smell of sheep in the camp.

The nobles from the left wing, who had been drinking water for three consecutive days, were given mutton bone soup and fried corn tonight.

At night, Black Bear led the guards to patrol the small camps.

Because guards continued to be assigned to the transport team, there were less than two thousand cavalrymen from Guanzhong and more than seven thousand armed servants left in the camp.

During these three days, he continued to reorganize the troops, and after the reorganization, they formed seven thousand-man teams, among which the elite were organized into Black Bear's own team. When he inspected the seventh thousand-man team, the thousand-man and hundred-man generals sat in front of Black Bear. The firelight illuminated Black Bear and he said, "Today, when I heard that the right wing refused to surrender, I guessed that there would be unusual movements in the camp. Around dark, a spy among the Huns informed me that the Huns were going to seize horses and escape after three o'clock."

The dozen or so temporary military officers in front of him were all furious, and the general of a thousand men said, "General, we can't wait."

"Well, when I return to the tent and see me setting fire to the haystack in the north, you can attack together and take the initiative."

Black Bear observed the expressions of these people and said, "Hold more torches. Anyone without a torch is an enemy."

"Here!"

After finishing the notification work for the last team of a thousand men, Black Bear led his personal guards to the hayfield in the north of the royal court.

There are already two thousand cavalrymen gathered here at the upwind side. The torches are sparse and the formation can barely be seen.

These two thousand people will not participate in the counter-insurgency and suppression work within the left royal court. They will lurk outside the royal court to counter other forces that may emerge.

Black Bear felt the time had come after assigning some people to control the herd of horses. He wanted to give the order but felt that it was a bit cruel.

It's like breaking off one of your arms and throwing it away. It's impossible to find it again, and it's impossible to put it back together.

It seems like I am no longer my complete self, just like a polished jade.

It has become a useful tool, but has also lost its original appearance.

But he had been restraining himself and trying not to have any contact with any of the women he had met during this period.

The more you come into contact with it and the more you understand it, the more you will be dominated by anger.

For example, at this moment, anger surged into his body from all directions, and Black Bear raised his hand and waved it down: "Fire!"

The officer beside him turned around and shouted, "Fire!"

Military officers in the distance shouted, "Light the fire!"

More than a hundred knights holding long torches approached the huge haystack from the upwind side. As the cold north wind blew, the flames immediately spread from the initial red color to bright yellow.

As the fire spread and the smoke filled the air, the flames once again turned into blazing red flames.

"The last time I saw a fire like this was in Pengcheng."

The black bear sighed softly, feeling that his anger was like fodder, turning into flames and burning, and this burning was consuming his anger.

In the left royal court, when a huge flame burned in the north, the men in the seven thousand-man camps rushed out holding spears, sticks and torches.

When the weather got cold, the Huns wore leather clothes made by sewing together various scraps of leather.

Although dirty, it is also excellent warm clothing.

Perhaps out of hatred, the armed slaves who participated in the action generally carried wooden sticks.

It may be that this was the tradition of the Huns, or more likely that weapons were too precious, so the Huns liked to use sticks and stones to execute enemies who were difficult to resist.

Organized versus unorganized, armored versus unarmored, equipped versus unequipped.

The Huns were also divided into small camps, and were surrounded and fought as soon as the battle began.

The north wind was howling, and the heavy bearskin cloak on the black bear's back began to shake slightly.

He approached the royal court and looked out at the chaos that was happening there.

The four gathering areas mainly populated by the Huns have been illuminated by torches, and low-quality bone and stone arrowheads are now put to use.

Although his vision was normal at night, he now discovered that the armed slaves were particularly ferocious.

The Huns also tried their best to resist, struggling even with stones in their hands.

In the fight, although the Huns had more people, they were still suppressed and beaten.

This was the first time he had observed an encirclement and annihilation war up close since he had led troops in combat.

The battle was still going on. From time to time, wounded people retreated, but they did not give up the fight. They wandered around like lame lone wolves, finishing off the Huns on the ground.

After tonight, we will truly lose trust with all the Hu people.

The black bear blinked and felt that he had broken through some shackles again.

In some ways, I was the same as those people in my previous life. I attached great importance to promises to outsiders, but neglected promises to my family.

Your family may understand and tolerate you over and over again; outsiders will not, so if there are conflicts in your travel plans, for example, you will have to give up your promise to your family.

What are the essential differences between the various Hu people and outsiders?
Thinking of this, the black bear looked up at the sky and saw grass debris burning into white ashes falling down.

He reached out to take it, but saw a piece of white ash gradually melting in the palm of his deerskin glove.

It finally started snowing. It was neither early nor late.

These days, it is possible to have snowfall in late August.

As the sky gradually brightened, the entire left royal court began to move the bodies.

Sun Zi rode his old horse slowly approaching. When a team of scouts approached, Sun Zi immediately showed them Jia Kui's letter.

Led by the scouts, Sun Zi approached the outskirts of the royal court.

I saw the gentle slope in the distance was stained red with blood, and there were large bloodstains at the bottom of the slope.

The thin layer of snow that fell last night had been blown away by the wind, and the large blanket of solidified blood appeared in front of Sun Zi.

Pairs of armed servants, two in a group, dragged the corpses of the Xiongnu rebels to the slope and beheaded them with axes.

For Sun Zi, he had no idea that it was the place where the Huns gathered to slaughter sheep and bleed them.

In his eyes, the Zhenbei Army was executing prisoners of war in a concentrated manner, so much so that the blood accumulated into a lake.

The chill rushed in from all directions and flowed into his lungs. At this moment, his mind froze and he could only feel his heart pounding.

(End of this chapter)