Chapter 354

"Then what can we do!"

"I can't just sit and watch all my Xiongnu people be slaughtered by these inhuman beasts!"

"Look at them—they're trying to wipe out every last one of my Xiongnu people!"

"Even babies still in their swaddling clothes, they won't spare them!"

Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu shouted, at this moment, both furious and enraged!

Fan Zeng, meanwhile, frowned!

He looked toward Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu for a while, then could not help but sigh:

"If only we hadn't been in such a rush to climb the snow mountain, or if only before climbing we'd left behind a contingent of troops to hold them off!"

"Everything was too rushed!"

He said, opening his mouth.

But… the moment these words left his lips, he shook his head again!

Hold them off?

What good would holding them off do?

How many troops would it take to hold off Li Yuanba!

For every man who blocked the way, another man would die!

He sighed without cease!

At the same time, he could not help but marvel at how truly formidable Han Xin was!

His deployment was simply too cunning!

Moreover, even now he still hadn't figured out why Han Xin had reached the foot of the snow mountain so quickly!

Let alone that Han Xin had ambushed a thousand men up here months in advance—truly brilliant!

Don't be fooled just because it's only a thousand men!

But these thousand men were about to cut off the escape route of more than three million Xiongnu people!

At this moment, even Fan Zeng was nearly at his wit's end!

Before, he had always refused to accept Han Xin!

But now, he had no choice but to accept it!

This man truly wielded troops like a ghost!

He sighed again and again!

But he also knew sighing was useless!

After thinking for a long while, he said to Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu: "Two hundred thousand men charging down won't work!"

"Five hundred thousand men!"

"How many?"

Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu swallowed hard!

Fan Zeng said: "Don't expect these five hundred thousand men to survive—they all have to die!"

"You…"

Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu was shocked to the extreme!

Fan Zeng said:

"Han Xin's army is too small, only a hundred thousand men at most!"

"And these five hundred thousand men, even if they just stood in front of them and let themselves be slaughtered, would still take some time to kill!"

"No matter how fierce Li Yuanba is, he still needs time to kill!"

"What we need is to use the lives of these five hundred thousand men to buy two hours of time, and use those two hours to let everyone who can escape get away!"

"Also, those Central Plains experts—letting them charge up to kill the Qin Army is too difficult and not very realistic. Better to have Weizhuang, Gai Nie and the others circle around to the rear of the Qin Army and find a way to kill Ying Su, Han Xin, and Wang Jian!"

"If we can kill them, we might still win!"

Fan Zeng said, opening his mouth!

And the moment these words left his lips, Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's eyes lit up at once!

He could not help but give Fan Zeng's thigh a hard slap: "Just like that!"

He shouted, and at once began arranging the troops!

And in fact, everything went just as Fan Zeng had said!

These five hundred thousand men truly were just throwing their lives away!

And even without Li Yuanba and Li Cunxiao having to act!

Just five hundred thousand men charging down the mountain—slipping, trampling, tumbling and the like—had already caused massive casualties!

Add to that the Qin Army's bow and crossbow fire!

By the time they actually reached the Qin Army's front, over a hundred thousand had already been lost!

But Fan Zeng was right—these five hundred thousand men, even if they stood in front of Han Xin's hundred thousand and let Han Xin kill them, would still take some time to slaughter.

Even if Li Yuanba came over, it would still take some time!

In fact, these five hundred thousand men did indeed hold up Han Xin's army, and even tied down Li Yuanba!

And during this process, countless people immediately began fleeing for their lives!

But… Fan Zeng had ultimately still underestimated Han Xin!

Han Xin had remembered Ying Su's order from beginning to end—not to defeat the Xiongnu, but to annihilate the Xiongnu!

Annihilate the Xiongnu!

What does annihilate mean?

It's about killing the Xiongnu until not a single one is left alive!

That's what it means to annihilate the Xiongnu!

Not the so-called defeat of the Xiongnu!

If we're talking about defeat, they were already defeated even before the Lun Grassland Decision!

The victory at Lun Grassland defeated the Xiongnu, drove Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu to flee to the Snow Mountains, and created an absolute triumph unmatched in all of history!

Even in later ages, only Emperor Wu of Han and Huo Qubing could be compared to it, and only barely!

Crossing Langjuxu Mountain and driving their three million people all the way to the Snow Mountains here had already completely surpassed Emperor Wu of Han and Huo Qubing!

If we're talking about victory, the victory was truly won long ago!

And this battle is the annihilation of the Xiongnu!

So, so, his entire strategic deployment was arranged according to the annihilation of the Xiongnu!

Likewise, the very moment they charged down, the military formation was immediately deployed!

A formation of thirty thousand men actually managed to encircle over three hundred thousand!

And within the formation, it was nothing but Li Yuanba's slaughter!

According to Zeng's argument, these five hundred thousand men could hold out for at least two hours!

But... the military formation was something Han Xin invented!

Before this, Fan Zeng had never witnessed a military formation, let alone understood its might!

He had no idea just how terrifying a military formation truly was!

Put it this way — without a military formation, even Li Yuanba plus a hundred thousand troops would need at least two hours to kill five hundred thousand men!

But with the coordination of a military formation, it was completely different!

Li Yuanba's killing speed was increasing exponentially!

Half an hour!

In just half an hour, he slaughtered all five hundred thousand of them!

When Fan Zeng saw all this, he was utterly dumbfounded!

At the same time, without any delay, he immediately shouted for everyone to run!

Hurry and charge through this stretch!

But... no matter how fast they were, they still couldn't outrun Li Yuanba!

Li Yuanba rode Wanli Yanyun Zhao straight over!

Then, with his great hammer swinging, he beat every one of them back!

However, what made them even more desperate was not this!

What was even more desperate was that Weizhuang and the others had also returned!