Chapter 248: Mount Tanhanshan, Surrender City!

When Yufuluo fell and was lifted from the ground by Duan Yu with one hand.

The Xiongnu cavalry scattered in all directions.

Except for the five hundred elite royal guard cavalrymen by Yufuluo's side, the Xiongnu cavalry that had been pierced through by Gao Shun and Chen Qing'an were instantly split into two halves, left and right.

The Xiongnu cavalry, which clearly had twice the number of troops, were instead surrounded and driven back.

And after Yufuluo fell, the Xiongnu cavalry began to collapse.

The Xiongnu cavalry was composed of various tribes.

In times of war, the Shanyu or the Left and Right Worthy Kings would summon herdsmen from each tribe to bring their own warhorses and bows and arrows.

They were fulfilling the call of the Xiongnu Shanyu.

But in reality, when these Xiongnu herdsmen mounted their horses for battle, they were essentially loyal to their own tribes first, and the Xiongnu Shanyu second.

If the war went smoothly and there was profit to be made, the chieftains of the various Xiongnu tribes would support the Shanyu.

But once the war became passive, or there was no profit to be made at all, the chieftains in the tribes would take their own tribal cavalry and leave.

This time, Yufuluo had led nearly five thousand men, originally to trade salt, iron, and warhorses with Wang Rou.

And this battle had broken out without any warning.

The sudden losses last night had already caused quite a few tribal chieftains to have complaints.

Without profit, the current Xiongnu Shanyu did not have the same cohesion as when the Xiongnu were powerful before.

Seeing that the Han cavalry was so fierce, the Xiongnu cavalry, after suffering nearly one-third casualties, instantly scattered like birds and beasts.

They began to flee in all directions across the Monan grasslands.

Gao Shun, Chen Qing'an, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Xun split into four groups and began to hang behind the Xiongnu cavalry, pursuing and shooting them.

And Duan Yu, after leading nearly three hundred men to capture Yufuluo, faced off against the five hundred elite royal guard cavalrymen under Yufuluo's command.

The so-called royal guard cavalry were the Xiongnu herdsmen from the tribes directly under the Xiongnu Shanyu or the Left and Right Worthy Kings.

These people were the elite directly under the Shanyu's command.

They were also the loyalists.

It was a pity that they had encountered Duan Yu.

After throwing Yufuluo to Tie Shitou with one hand, Duan Yu pulled the Heaven-Dragon City-Breaking Halberd out of Yufuluo's dead mount.

Then he launched a new round of slaughter.

Not long after, when Gao Shun and Chen Qing'an returned from pursuing the other tribal cavalry of the Xiongnu, these five hundred elite cavalrymen under Yufuluo were wiped out.

It was noon, and the sun was high.

The sunlight, without the cover of trees or high mountains, shone down on the earth without reservation.

The Liangzhou soldiers cleaned the battlefield around the hillside, cutting off the heads of the dead Xiongnu soldiers, counting them, and finally hanging them beside their saddles.

Except for the few herdsmen who were grazing their flocks here, the Xiongnu cavalry under Yufuluo had either run away or died.

Yufuluo, whose thigh had been simply bandaged, was now pale due to excessive blood loss.

Those few herdsmen were slaughtering sheep and cooking rice to prepare a meal for the Liangzhou soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield.

In front of the master's tent.

Duan Yu sat on a wooden stump.

In front of him was the bound Yufuluo.

Gao Shun, Chen Qing'an, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Xun were seated on the left and right, and the table in front of them was already filled with mutton.

Several people were eating heartily.

Tie Shitou and Wang Hunu stood behind Duan Yu.

The dark-skinned Xiongnu girl timidly poured a bowl of butter tea for Duan Yu.

"Don't... don't kill me, I... I will have my father use countless cattle and sheep to exchange for me."

"As long as you don't kill me."

The pale-faced Yufuluo looked at Duan Yu, his voice trembling as he begged: "I have no grudge against you, it was Wang Rou, it was Wang Rou who lied to me!"

"I was just deceived by Wang Rou."

"I can still take you to find them."

"Please don't kill me."

The Xiongnu girl kneeling beside Duan Yu turned her head to look at Yufuluo.

Her eyes were full of contempt.

Then she said something in the Xiongnu language.

Duan Yu couldn't understand Xiongnu, but Zhang Xun could.

Zhang Xun, holding a lamb leg in his hand, looked up at Yufuluo and sneered.

"What is she saying?" Duan Yu asked curiously.

Zhang Xun turned his head and said: "She said Yufuluo is not worthy of being the Right Worthy King of the Xiongnu; he only knows how to brandish the whip in his hand at his own herdsmen."

Duan Yu looked at the Xiongnu girl, and when he saw the whip marks on her face, he instantly understood what the Xiongnu girl meant.

Yufuluo, having no place to hide his shame, lowered his head.

"Don't worry, just as you said, you won't die for the time being."

"Didn't you say your life is worth many cattle and sheep?"

"And your brother Huchuquan is also in my hands."

"I want to see how many cattle, sheep, and warhorses your father Qiangqu can use to exchange for the lives of you two brothers," Duan Yu said with a cold laugh.

"Ah?"

Yufuluo was stunned and suddenly raised his head.

"Shitou, bring the map." Duan Yu reached out to Tie Shitou behind him.

Tie Shitou nodded and pulled a sheepskin map from his bosom.

Duan Yu threw the map in front of Yufuluo.

"Mark the location of your father's royal tent, and the location of the Xianbei royal tent."

Yufuluo tremblingly picked up the map from the ground in front of him.

It was currently spring, which was the time when the grassland herdsmen migrated to various pastures to prepare for grazing after surviving the cold winter.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei were different from the Han people, who lived in one place from beginning to end, farming and building.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei, these grassland tribes, migrated many times every year.

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter were all spent in constant migration and grazing.

So finding the Xiongnu or Xianbei tribes was not simple.

Only their own people knew these migration routes best.

Soon, Yufuluo made marks on the map. ===== CHAPTER 250 =====