However, the vision is beautiful, and the reality is cruel.
Gu Lian took the bow and performed Qinggong to avoid the arrows, and took time to attack the Huns, but none of the arrows was hit.
However, Gu Lian was not discouraged, she quickly found a safe position, where it was difficult for the Xiongnu shooters to shoot her. Then he drew a bow and an arrow, and shot an arrow with a whoosh.
The arrow flew towards Khan's head and finally hit the arm.
Gu Lian: …
Come again!
Gu Lian brought about twenty feathered arrows, but he couldn't believe that he could not hit it.
Qiao Mingyu in the distance stared at her closely, originally planning to appreciate Gu Lian's archery, but... Seeing the sweat who had been shot with twenty arrows, Qiao Mingyu silently shed tears of sympathy for him . Those arrows either missed or were blocked. In the end, only seven or eight arrows were left, and they were all inserted in a position that didn't matter. The whole person was inserted like a hedgehog, but there was no fear of life.
He gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow on his body, wishing he could swallow Gu Lian alive.
Gu Lian: _(:з"∠)_
Qiao Mingyu couldn't stand it any longer. Seeing that Gu Lian had finished shooting his arrows, he reluctantly took the bow and arrow from the lieutenant's hand. She sat upright on the tall horse, holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, pulling the string full, aiming at the sweat in the crowd.
After a while, let go of the arrow.
I saw that feather arrow attacked the Great Khan with a thunderous momentum, giving him no time to resist at all, straight to the eyebrows. The sweat's pupils dilated, and he opened his hand to grab a handful in front of him, but he didn't catch anything, so he fell straight down.
Gu Lian was stunned. This was the real archery. In contrast, what she was shooting was nothing.
She subconsciously turned her head to look at Qiao Mingyu, but saw that Qiao Mingyu put down her longbow indifferently, as if she did not shoot the Huns, but just killed a nobody.
Gu Liantou deeply felt Qiao Mingyu's handsomeness.
It is not the handsomeness of men, but the valiantness of women.
Qiao Mingyu also turned his head to look over, his eyes were facing each other, as if he could no longer hold anything else.
Gu Lian slightly curled her lips and smiled at her. Then he turned his head abruptly and looked away.
Gu Lian breathed a sigh of relief after the eyes focused on him moved away, reached out and patted his hot cheek, feeling a little embarrassed.
That person is like a child on weekdays, but at critical times, he is very reliable. This contrast made Gu Lian moved, and felt a little embarrassed for a while.
Because of the death of the Great Khan, the battle ended quickly, most of the Huns were killed, and only a few were captured. Qiao Mingyu stood in front of the three army, curled his lips coldly, and said what to do with these people: "Throw them from the tower. Throw them down together with the bodies of their companions."
This group of people came from the grasslands, and they should go back to their grasslands.
Lieutenant General Zuo felt that it was not right. If he dropped people like this, he would probably fall to his death. While there is no mercy on the battlefield, killing prisoners of war is not a good name.
Qiao Mingyu glanced at the Zuo lieutenant lightly: "Then you should throw the body first, and then throw the people."
With the corpse as the back, it should be impossible to die, but whether it will be disabled, then I don't know.
Looking at this gloomy sky, I am afraid that there is still a heavy snow coming. Even if these people are not dead or disabled, it is absolutely impossible for them to return to the tribe alive, and the heavy snow will bury them.
Qiao Mingyu was just too lazy to get her hands dirty, but it didn't mean she was kind enough to let this group of people die. What's more, regardless of the mere 100 people, what if they join the remnants of the Huns in the tribe? Qiao Mingyu didn't plan to let the Huns go. This time, she wanted to wipe them all out, so that the Xiongnu nation would completely disappear from the Tianxi Dynasty.
Gu Lian is naturally very supportive of Qiao Mingyu's decision.
The Xiongnu in this world are much more cruel than the Xiongnu in their world history. They slaughter cities, kidnap women and children, rape and even cook food. Their cruelty doesn't seem to come from education, but from blood, which is inherently so.
For the sake of those people who might be brutally murdered by the Xiongnu in the future, Qiao Mingyu was willing to do things that might go against heaven, such as genocide.
"Don't think about it." In the evening, Gu Lian untied the hair rope for her distressedly, put it aside, and pulled her to the bed, "Your decision is right, it's good if I understand you."
Qiao Mingyu responded in a low voice, and suddenly reached out and hugged Gu Lian.
The two women of the same stature hugged each other, both of which were soft and fragrant bodies, which fit each other like a natural fit. Gu Lian wants to be a little petite, with the smell of medicine on her body. Qiao Mingyu likes it very much. She rubbed against her neck and took a few deep breaths, so that the tip of her nose was filled with her smell.
Gu Lian reluctantly allowed her to rub against her, this person was like a puppy.
"You are very heroic today." Gu Lian couldn't help but softened his voice and said.
Qiao Mingyu paused and looked up at her with excitement in her eyes.
"Really." Gu Lian chuckled lightly, "I was stunned."
"That shows that you have vision." Qiao Mingyu was stunned, and finally there was one thing that could compare to Gu Lian.
Gu Lian blinked, pulled her down on the bed, and looked at her sideways. Qiao Mingyu was embarrassed to see, twisted her body, and turned to look at her.
"Look at what?"
"look at you."
The relationship between the two seems to have changed, and it seems that nothing has changed. Qiao Mingyu only felt that she and Gu Lian were closer, which made her very happy.
She reached out to touch Gu Lian, and wanted to hold her hand to talk to her, but found that she couldn't find her hand after turning off the light, so she simply put her arms around her waist. The two were very close, their breaths intertwined.
"Ah Lian, I'm going to fight Mincheng tomorrow and recover Mincheng as soon as possible." Qiao Mingyu said.
Gu Lian looked at her encouragingly, although the room was dark, the other party could not see at all.
"Okay, I will accompany you to recover Mincheng." Gu Lian said softly, "Then, I will go to the North Central Plains area for disaster relief."
Tianxi's North Central Plains Road, the area in the south-south part of North China, is also a province that has been hit by snowstorms today. Gu Lian didn't know what was going on in the North Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty, but Tianxi was arid and lacking water, and there was not enough food to eat. In the past, if there was a heavy snow in winter, the water supply would not be so stressful in the coming year, but this year there is too much snow.
The food is enough to keep people hungry, and there is not enough charcoal and firewood. The people there are poor, and most of them live in thatched huts. I don’t know how many houses were collapsed by the heavy snow and how many people were frozen to death.
Although the snow has stopped now, melting snow is colder than snowing, not to mention the fact that the dead bodies were not disposed of in time, buried in the snowdrifts, the snow melted, soaked the dead bodies, and then seeped into the ground and into the tributaries, drinking this water, who knows Will there be any disease. King Jian was there to provide disaster relief, but the situation he sent was not optimistic. Many doctors were cold and sick. It was really difficult.
The imperial court had no choice but to ask the prefectures to order that the common people were not allowed to drink water from rivers and wells. If you want to drink water, take clean middle layer of snow and boil it into water. If anyone's body is buried in the snow, it must be dug up as soon as possible and properly placed.
In this way, the situation has stabilized a little. It's just that there is not enough firewood, and this move will not last long.
Qiao Mingyu had long known that Gu Lian was going to help, but had been waiting for her to conquer the Huns. Gu Lian also took out a map of the grassland to her, saying that it was drawn by her own calculation of the constellations. Qiao Mingyu did not suspect him, so he kept it properly, and prepared to turn back and attack the Xiongnu tribe after the snow melted.
"You also have to be careful in the North Road." Qiao Mingyu urged worriedly.
Gu Lian smiled.
On the second day, Qiao Mingyu set out on an expedition and continued to besiege Mincheng.
Mincheng still didn't know what was going on outside, so Qiao Mingyu asked a group of loud voices to shout in front of the city around Mincheng, telling them that the Hanyue Pass had been broken and the Huns had abandoned them.
At first, the Xiongnu in the city did not believe their words, but they did not believe it until Qiao Mingyu asked someone to throw out the personal token of the Great Khan.
If he didn't flee in a hurry, how could he drop such an important token? The Great Khan was simply unable to protect them any longer, and now they were deep into the hinterland of the Tianxi Dynasty, surrounded by enemy troops, and sooner or later they would be captured.
There is not much food in the city, and I am afraid that it will not last for a few days. When Qiao Mingyu saw those people go up the city wall one after another, ready to struggle to the death, she gave an order to let the arrows.
The Xiongnu, who had used up their feathers and arrows, had no choice but to defend themselves passively. They couldn't attack the soldiers of the Tianxi Dynasty. Even if there were archers picking up arrows on the spot to fight back, it was only a few.
A round of riding and shooting not only killed a group of Xiongnu, but also shot through their courage. Who else would have thought of resisting? Many Xiongnu had given up resistance, and only mechanically protected themselves, avoiding the arrows that were shot.
The Xiongnu leader looked at the fallen compatriots beside him, gritted his teeth with hatred, but could do nothing. In the end, he was shot by Qiao Mingyu with an arrow, and his body fell from the high tower.
The rest of the Xiongnu hid in the city and did not dare to go up to the city wall, but the city gate was quickly smashed, and they also had no way to survive.
Qiao Mingyu stood at the gate of the city, looking at the empty streets in the city and the blood on the ground, sorrow flashed in his eyes. With such a strong smell of blood in the city, needless to say, the people are probably already more fortunate. The most terrifying thing is that there is a strange smell of cooked meat coming from a house, I am afraid that the meat is not ordinary meat.
Qiao Mingyu closed his eyes, waved his hand, and spit out two words: "Tucheng."
None of the Xiongnu in the city will be spared. If there are still living Tianxi people, they will take care of them first. There's no guarantee they'll be traitors or lucky survivors, so they can't be decided arbitrarily.