In fact, all the nomadic tribes north of China can be called Quanrong, including the Xiongnu.
It's just that now the two are not completely mixed together like their inherent history.
When the Quanrong were at their peak, there were seventy-two nomadic tribes under their jurisdiction, and their borders even extended into the heart of China.
Before the founding of the Qin Dynasty, everything north of Xianyang was owned by the Quanrong.
So when King You of the Zhou Dynasty played with the princes with beacon fire and made war a child's play, Quan Rong could immediately send his troops southward and destroy the Western Zhou Dynasty.
King You was also killed by the Quanrong people, and his body fell under the hoofs of horses and was trampled into pulp.
When Qin Jianguo became queen, he stepped on the shoulders of the Quanrong people and made many meritorious deeds. However, as one went up and the other faded, the Quanrong began to decline and continued to retreat.
Up to now, the Quanrong tribe has been forced out of the Qin territory a hundred miles north, and another five hundred miles away is the main scope of activities of the Quanrong tribe.
In recent years, some of the Quanrong tribes have begun to merge with the Xiongnu. The two have become one, and the inherent Quanrong tribes have become increasingly weak.
However, Quanrong still had sixteen divisions under its jurisdiction.
They hid in the northwest to recuperate for several years. The troops from various departments gathered together, and the number of people and horses gradually increased, with as many as 80,000 elite cavalry.
King Zhao was plotting against Qin, so he took the initiative to contact Quan Rong to seek help.
Time flies so fast, half a month flies by.
By late January, it snows on the grassland.
The Dirong tribe where King Quanrong belonged to had blown the horn of King Quanrong half a month ago to summon all the tribes of Quanrong to gather.
Subsequently, various tribes of Quan Rong such as Wanyi, Quanyi, Kunyi, and Kuiyi gathered from various places to Rongcheng, seven hundred miles north of the Qin territory.
Rongcheng was built on rammed earth, and its area was small, about two thousand steps from north to south.
This is the temporary royal city that the Quanrong people have lived in in recent years. Nomadic tribes rarely stay in one area for a long time. In order to maintain flexibility and pursue more fertile land, they often move.
It's snowing in the sky and the night is dark.
In Rong City, all the tribes under the jurisdiction of Quan Rong gathered together, and there was a great buzz of people.
In a ring-shaped building in the center of the city, Kobatanji, the contemporary king of the Dog Rong, sits on a wolf-skin throne.
He is fifty years old this year and has been in charge of the Inu Rong tribe for twelve years. He has a high position and a red face. His nose is a little flat, but his nose is very wide and his mouth is big, which is the legendary appearance of a lion with a nose and a wide mouth. .
He wore a colorful cloth band on his forehead and wore a black leather robe. He was sitting there, looking very imposing.
On his left and right sides sat the leaders of the various tribes of the Inurong.
One of them was wearing a Chinese costume, and it was Qiu Ji, the counselor under Guo Kai of Zhao.
"Last time you came to my Quanrong Department and mentioned the company's attack on Qin, did you bring me the things I asked for?" Kepotanji asked for things without any concealment.
Qiu Ji is in his forties, with a thin face and a weak temperament.
Because he was proficient in the Quanrong language, he was appointed by Guo Kai as an envoy to the Quanrong, to contact the Quanrong tribe and be used by King Zhao to jointly attack Qin.
Kebadanji asked for gifts, and Qiu Ji cursed these barbarians for being greedy and shameless, but a smile appeared on his face: "Last time I came, the king asked for a hundred beauties, fifty orbs, and various metal objects. send troops.
This time when I come here, I have prepared everything."
Kepotanji laughed when he heard this. Seeing Qiu Ji also laughing in apology, he suddenly stopped and said coldly:
“It’s not enough, we have to double the amount.
You go back and tell King Zhao that this time my Quanrong Ministry will ask for two hundred beauties, one hundred orbs, and other items will be increased accordingly."
Qiu Ji was stunned for a moment and glanced at the many Quanrong generals in the palace who were looking at him coldly. He suppressed his anger and said: "As the leader of a country, how can you do this repeatedly?
Do you think I, the Zhao people, are easy to bully?"
Kepotanji said: "Do you think that our Quanrong tribe, staying here in the northwest, will not know the changes in the central land?
You Zhao people want to attack Qin, but independence is not the enemy of Qin, so you want to follow the strategy of a pack of wolves hunting tigers.
The strategy is good, but if you don’t pay the price, why should I, Quan Rong, cooperate with you, Zhao people?”
"What did your Majesty say?" The rest of the Quanrong generals scolded in unison.
Qiu Ji's face turned pale.
He really didn't have the courage to fall out on the spot, so he pursed his lips and wanted to curse several times, but held back.
Kepotanji looked contemptuous and stared at Qiu Ji:
"I can promise that this is the last time I have set out a condition. If King Zhao agrees, my Quanrong tribe will send troops to cooperate with Zhao in the next spring to invade Qin from the north."
He added: "My Quanrong tribe has always had a deep hatred with the Qin people. We have been dormant for several years in order to accumulate strength and attack the Qin people in one fell swoop.
Cooperating with the Zhao people is also what I, the Quan Rong, want, and I will wait until the early spring of next year to enter the Qin territory and plunder the Qin women and property, in order to avenge the Qin army for killing all the men and horses of my Quan Rong tribe over the years."
Qiu Ji breathed a sigh of relief: "Then it's settled. I hope the king can keep his word and won't change it easily."
Kepotanji sneered, and when Qiu Ji was taken down to rest, he looked around at the generals and said, "Do you know why I summoned all of you here?"
Sitting on the lower left side of Kepotanji is a majestic Quanrong man nearly two meters tall. He is the famous Quanrong general Tuoke Lanyu.
He sat there with his leather robe open on his chest, revealing his curly chest hair, and his voice was deafening:
"The leader summoned us, naturally he wants to attack Qin."
"In my opinion, we should have attacked Qin long ago. None of our warriors from the Quanrong tribe can fight with one against many.
In order to be safe, the leader has been saving up in this bitter cold land for several years, so the time must have come now."
Ke Potanji nodded and said: "This is indeed a good opportunity at this moment. Originally, the Qin army was so powerful that it was difficult to defeat it, but since the Zhao people want to unite other countries to attack Qin, our Quanrong tribe has an opportunity.
The ministries will go back to reorganize their troops and horses later, and when the weather gets warmer in two months, we will go south together, plunder the land of Qin, and kill the people of Qin."
Tuoke Lanyu and other Quanrong generals agreed with a bang, and everyone's eyes were filled with fierce gleams.
Sitting on the right side of Kepotanji was a veteran of the Dog Rong army, with strange tattoo patterns on his face, and said in deep thought:
"The Zhao people contacted various countries to resist Qin, and there was a lot of commotion. The Qin people thought they had received the news and were prepared.
Does the chief think it is possible for us to send troops now to launch a surprise attack on Qin?"
Generally speaking, cold weather is not conducive to starting a war.
Therefore, severe cold is mostly a truce period, and few large-scale battles occur.
But it is not absolute. The power of immortals and demons has been passed down in this world, and the qualities of the human body, horses and other riding animals are not martial ethics, and are much higher than ordinary ones.
Starting a war in severe cold will increase consumption, but it is not necessarily impossible.
After the old general finished speaking, Ke Potanji shook his head slightly and said: "Our Quanrong tribe can send troops at this time, but the Zhao people cannot cooperate. Then we will face the Qin people alone, and the damage will be heavy.
It will be safer to get along with Zhao people in the coming year."
The other generals also nodded slowly.
Kepotanji thought for a while: "But you did remind me that the last time the Huns went south to plunder Zhao.
At that time, the Qin people sent a team to raid Bailang City and killed the Xiongnu leader Luo Tituo in one battle.
This incident alarmed all the grassland tribes. We are planning to invade Qin this time. If the Qin people are aware of it, we must take precautions in advance.
We must deploy layers of defenses for hundreds of miles around where we are, and we must not give the Qin people a chance."
The Quanrong veteran general said: "Captain, you can rest assured. I have sent four rangers outside the royal city to take precautions. There will be no problem."
The majestic Tuoke Lan Yu interjected: "In my opinion, the Xiongnu leader in White Wolf City was beheaded by the Qin people. The rumors about this matter may be somewhat inaccurate.
I don't believe that the Qin people can attack and kill the Xiongnu leader Luo Tutuo with just one army.
It would be a good thing if the Qin people dare to attack my Quanrong tribe, because all my subordinates would like to eat the flesh and blood of the Qin people alive."
A smile appeared on Kepotanji's face. The generals under his command were confident and not timid about fighting the Qin people, which made him very satisfied.
As the night grew darker, the generals of the Dog Rong army dispersed.
Kepotanji also returned to his dormitory where he lived.
In the palace where he lived, there were two Han women huddled in the corner of the sleeping tent with frightened expressions.
These two women were the two women Qiu Ji brought to Kepotanji as gifts, and they were the two most outstanding ones.
The nomadic tribes have a harsh climate and are exposed to wind and sun, so it is rare to see women with delicate and fair skin.
Kepotanji licked his lips and grinned.
He reached out and grabbed a woman, exerting force on his hand.
The woman was in pain, her pretty face turned pale, but she did not dare to cry out, she only had a look of supplication in her eyes.
Seeing that this woman was as weak as a lamb, Kepotanji became more and more interested. He took off his leather robe and stared at the two trembling women with eyes like wild beasts.
However, at this moment, Kepotanji suddenly stopped and made a gesture of listening.
Woo~!
Outside the dormitory where he was, in addition to the sound of flying snow, there seemed to be a low whimpering sound, as if it was caused by some heavy object flying and tearing apart the void.
The sound seemed to be very far away and inaudible at first, but in an instant it became clearer and louder.
Woo~!
Kepotanji's expression suddenly changed and he shouted: "There is an enemy attack..."
Before he finished speaking, the wall beside him shattered, and earth and rocks flew everywhere.
A bronze arrow as thick as a war spear, with curse lines flashing on the arrow shaft, suddenly penetrated the wall.
A strange pattern appeared on Kepotanji's chest. As soon as the pattern emitted light and blocked him in front of him, the arrow was forced into his chest, breaking through the defense in an instant. With one arrow, a bloody hole was pierced in Kepotanji's chest.
Buzz!
The penetrating force brought by the arrow caused Kepotanji's majestic body to fly up, and he was nailed to the opposite wall, with blood splattering!
Kebadanji's eyes were wide-eyed and he could not rest in peace.
A few hundred meters outside Rongcheng, under the windy and snowy night, the generals of the Yeyu Mansion gathered on a low hill.
Xia Xin excitedly patted the large siege equipment in front of him, a row of more than twenty siege crossbows.
The siege crossbow, also called the bed crossbow, first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was mounted on a winch and was very powerful, but it was inconvenient to carry and extremely heavy.
It is the size of a bed, is taller than an ordinary person, and has four wheels underneath.
A bed crossbow can be equipped with multiple bow beds to twist the axle at the rear to open the bow and load arrows. It can also be used with multiple people twisting the axes to make several bows fire arrows at the same time.
Its ejection power far exceeds that of a crossbow used by a single person.
Half a month ago, Fan Qingzhou received news of the sudden movement of the Quanrong troops, and Zhao Huaizhong immediately ordered a surprise attack on the Quanrong troops.
But this time it was different from the last attack on White Wolf City.
Last time, Zhao Huaizhong was the prince of Qin, not the monarch, and the Qin army he could mobilize was limited.
This time we came to fight against the Quanrong, but a large army pressed forward. Although it was a surprise attack, the purpose was to completely defeat the Quanrong.
The generals of Ye Yu Mansion are just the vanguard.
Behind them, there are three Qin army troops of ten thousand people, marching rapidly, commanded by famous Qin generals Yang Ruihe, Wang Ben and others, approaching Rongcheng.
Just because of the snowy winter, when the Zhao people were busy coordinating all forces and preparing to attack Qin in the spring, no one thought that the Qin people would kick off the war first and raise their troops to attack the Quanrong.
After Zhao Huaizhong issued the order, Ye Yufu immediately spent half a month collecting information, making preparations, and looking for a suitable time to start the war.
The generals of Ye Yufu, commander of Baiyao, arrived first. The routine was still the same as when they attacked Bailang City, but the fighting method had changed.
This time it was not a beheading operation, but a large army pressing down on the border.
Baiyao and others, as the vanguard, brought the Qin army's large-scale engineering equipment with small gourds, including more than twenty crossbows, which were lined up on a low hill outside Rongcheng.
They descended from the sky, attacked and killed a squad of patrolling dog soldiers, then deployed their crossbows and fired a volley.
"Cum again!"
Baiyao waved his hand.
More than a thousand elite troops from the imperial palace, plus more than a thousand secret Qin troops, lined up under the low hill and were ready.
Xia Xin and others personally controlled more than twenty crossbows, strung the gallows, and fired giant spear-like arrows in turn.
For a moment, arrows shot through the air and continued to shoot into Rongcheng.
The bed crossbow in this world, blessed by the power of the curse pattern, is powerful enough to break armor instantly, and can even penetrate a city wall several feet thick without the protection of the pattern pattern. The lethality is astonishing. Even if the Holy Land is suddenly attacked, it will also
will be shot.
At this time, no one noticed that Kepotanji, the leader of the Quanrong, was unlucky and shot him to death in the first volley of crossbows.
After Baiyao and others fired volley after round, screams could be heard one after another in Rongcheng, and chaos broke out.
"Deputy Shi Bai, when do we rush into the city?"
Xia Xin held the ghost-headed hammer in his hand, and his body was shaking with excitement.
"There are nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses of Quanrong and various tribes gathered in Rong City at this time. We have two thousand vanguard troops. Do you want to enter the city?
We have to wait for the rear army to come up and defeat the Quanrong army in one fell swoop." Baiyao's voice was low.
At this time, the Quanrong generals in Rong City reacted quickly after being attacked and were organizing the elite Quanrong troops to assemble.
These dog soldiers were not afraid of death, and they actually charged in the direction of the bed crossbow.
Ps: Quan Rong was originally the defeated general of the Qin army. This plot will end in a big chapter tonight~ Today’s update is very long. Please order and vote~