Chapter 469: Royal Court Falls
Touman died without any reason, which caused panic among the people in the court of the Huns.
Mao Dun came to power forcefully, temporarily suppressing the internal unrest, and then ordered a large-scale and comprehensive recruitment of men from all tribes within the Xiongnu area to gather in the royal court to resist the Qin army.
This was also Bai Zhong's arrangement, to gather people in the Xiongnu royal court so that the Qin army could eat it all at once.
The Qin army went north, attacked the Xiongnu, and destroyed many tribes. This incident had long been spread among the Xiongnu. They hated the cruelty of the Qin army, and received orders from the new Shanyu. Many people rushed to the tribes one after another.
Within a few days, more than 100,000 people gathered.
These Huns clamored for revenge, with high enthusiasm and high fighting spirit.
Mao Dun didn't care what they did. He temporarily gathered people and quickly made various arrangements, waiting for Bai Zhong to come to attack. However, when he took power, he was questioned by others.
King Youguli didn't care what happened to Meng Tian in the south. He ran directly back to the royal court, pointed at Mao Dun and said, "I want to know how Shan Yu died!"
He didn't believe that Touman died for no reason, and thought there must be something wrong with it.
It was not just King Yougu Li who had this idea, many Xiongnu generals came to express their doubts.
Mao Dun said loudly: "Chanyu suddenly died suddenly. Everyone in our royal court knows it. Do you still doubt me? I will kill my father? Now that we are facing foreign enemies, you don't want to retreat from them, but first
Internal strife breaks out and you want to fight for power with me?"
This rebuttal made King Yougu Li and the others shut down for a moment.
There really shouldn't be internal strife now, otherwise you will die faster.
So they each performed their duties and prepared to fight the Qin army.
Most of what Mao Dun should do has been done.
He didn't know how to spread the news.
He can only wait for the people from Heibingtai to come looking for him again.
King Yougu Li left the royal court and returned to the camp where he was confronting Meng Tian.
"Modun is so abominable!"
He said angrily: "Chanyu's death must be related to Maodun!"
He didn't believe in the common reason of sudden death.
But without evidence, we cannot directly accuse Mao Dun.
"Keep an eye on Meng Tian for me first."
King Yougu Li said loudly again, "Destroy Meng Tian, and then go back to deal with Mao Dun."
But Meng Tian was stationed in the south and did nothing, which once again made him confused. He did not dare to attack Meng Tian at will. This behavior was too abnormal, and he was afraid that if he attacked rashly, he would fall into some trap.
The stalemate between the two sides lasted for some time.
One day, the uneasiness in King Yougu Li's heart became more and more intense, and he always felt that something important was about to happen.
At this time, a soldier came eagerly from the north and said: "Oh no, the Qin army is attacking Wang Ting!"
If the Qin army was not in the south, how could they attack the royal court?
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Bai Zhong came to the east of the royal court and camped and hid in a hidden canyon.
After getting the news about Heibingtai, he sent another order to Modu, asking him to set fire in the city, create chaos, and cooperate with the Qin army inside and outside. Then he ordered all the troops who were ambushing outside the Xiongnu royal court to attack the king.
court.
"It's the Qin Army... There's also the Qin Army here!"
The Huns gathered in the royal court were suddenly shocked!
When they slowed down, they found that the Qin army had approached the royal court from three directions, east, west and north. Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded the city and killed them directly.
"Didn't you say that the Qin army only had more than 100,000 men from Meng Tian?"
"Where did these Qin troops come from?"
The people in the royal court were panicking and started talking.
The remaining generals of the Xiongnu led troops to defend the city, but the Qin army was good at siege warfare, and their defense seemed not very strong.
When Mao Dun saw the Qin army coming in, he brought a few close followers with him to the military camp and whispered: "Set fire!"
"Chanyu, do you really want to set a fire?"
A confidant asked cautiously, unable to believe that Shan Yu would set fire to his camp.
This is very abnormal.
Maodun said: "Let it go!"
They can only set fire to it.
Not only were they set on fire in the military camp, they were also set on fire in various houses in the city.
Thick smoke instantly rushed into the sky, and the fire spread throughout the city. The royal court, which was already in chaos, was now even more chaotic. There were people putting out the fire, and there were people guarding the city, but they couldn't do anything.
The Qin army took advantage of the fire and broke through one of the city towers. After opening the city gate, the army rushed into the city. They were not merciful. As long as they saw the Huns, they would directly wave their swords and kill them.
"The Qin army has entered the city!"
Someone shouted.
There was chaos in the city.
Many people wanted to escape, but they couldn't escape at all. Waiting outside were more Qin troops who raised their long swords and brandished their horizontal knives to kill them in the flames of war.
"Why did Shanyu do this?"
When they learned that the person who set the fire was Mao Dun, the Huns generals immediately led their troops to confront Mao Dun and question him.
Mao Dun did not explain. He just summoned a large number of personal guards to protect him and confronted these generals. However, the confrontation could not last long. As more and more Qin troops entered the city, it had to end.
Those generals led their troops to resist and wanted to rush out and escape.
But the Qin army surrounded the city and did not give them a chance to escape.
The city became more chaotic, with fire, blood and corpses everywhere. The people in the royal court didn't want to resist, they just wanted to escape, but they couldn't escape. In the end, they had to fight to the death.
They lost all fighting spirit and their morale dropped to zero.
Basically, he was forced to kill.
When Bai Zhong saw that the fighting was going on, he also led his troops into the city and quickly found Mao Dun and others.
"Wu Anjun, I did it."
Mao Dun said respectfully.
The other guards who were following him changed their expressions when they saw this. They didn't expect that the traitor was their Shanyu. How could this be possible?
Bai Zhong said: "You did a good job, but it's a pity that the Huns killed them all."
He never thought of letting Mao Dun go.
The people from Heibingtai stepped forward with their crossbows and shot them dead.
Facing the powerful crossbows, these people had no ability to resist.
The war in the royal court gradually subsided.
The three armies that surrounded the royal court rushed into the city to meet up, and almost slaughtered all the Huns in the city.
Only Meng Tian and others were left in the south, still confronting King Yougu Li.
Bai Zhong said loudly: "Gengwu took fifty thousand people to the south to help Meng Tian."
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When he learned that the royal court was attacked by the Qin army, King Youguli looked back and saw the turmoil. He immediately said in a panic: "Go back quickly and save the royal court!"
As soon as they withdrew their troops and retreated to the royal court, Meng Tian made a move.
"Go to battle and kill!"
Meng Tian gave the order decisively.
By this time, the plan had been successful.
The light and heavy cavalry first charged towards the retreating rear army of King Youguli.
The infantry followed.
King Youguli found out that the Qin army was pursuing him, so he had to detach some Xiongnu soldiers to block the rear.
Those who left behind were soon killed by the Qin army.
After blocking Meng Tian for a while, King Yougu Li retreated a certain distance, but before he could return to the royal court, he saw the Iron Eagle warriors led by Geng Wu and 50,000 Qin troops coming to kill him.
Chapter completed!