Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

But in this piece of green prairie, something that looks a bit abrupt began to appear.

Strictly speaking, this should not be considered a thing, because it is a city.

The city wall of this city is very low, only one foot high, any adult warrior can grab the upper edge of the city wall and climb up along the city wall as long as he runs a few steps and jumps hard.

The area of ​​the city is not large, and the total circumference of the four walls is only seven miles.

Not only that, there are not many houses in the city, only a two-story building that seems barely deliberate in the center of the city.

In addition, there are tents everywhere in the whole city, coming and going to work under the whip of the supervisors.

In this city, most of them are not civilians, but all kinds of cavalry.

In terms of blood relationship, these cavalrymen are actually from different parts, some are Linhu, some are Loufan, some are Yiqu, and some are Donghu.

But here, they all have a unified name, that is Zhao Guo.

Three thousand Zhao cavalry plus more than 5000 coolies, this is the entire population of the city.

Needless to say, the person who led these people to build this city was Li Mu, Zhao's northern economic envoy.

After negotiating cooperation with Yiqu Sheng not long ago, Li Mu led [-] Zhao cavalry and [-] Yiqu cavalry led by Yiqu Sheng to join forces and cross the Yellow River, at a place west of Helan Mountain and east of Qilian Mountain , built a city.

In Li Mu's vision, this city will become a bridgehead for Zhao's cavalry to march westward in the future.

And there is not only one such city, it will follow the footsteps of the Zhao cavalry and continue to extend to the west, until the entire Hexi Corridor is covered with large and small military cities.

After almost two months of construction, when summer is coming, the city is starting to look a little bit, at least the city wall has been temporarily completed.

Due to the lack of necessary stone materials on the steppe, it is not practical to build a very tall city.

If it is built at the foot of Helan Mountain, it may be possible to mine enough fodder, but this is too conservative for Li Mu.

From Li Mu's point of view, the construction of these military cities is not for defense but for offense, so it's not a big problem if the defense ability is poor.

In Li Mu's view, the most important thing in war is people, not cities.

This can be seen from the fact that Zhao Kuo and Li Si were able to defend Dingxi City, whose city wall was also not high, under the siege of a [-] Hun army with only a few thousand soldiers and horses.

In fact, although he is the builder of this city, Li Mu is not in this city at this moment.

As early as half a month ago, Li Mu had already led the main force to leave here and go deeper into the western grasslands.

In the middle of the day, smoke and dust suddenly rose from the western horizon of the city. It was obvious that a very large cavalry force was slowly approaching.

The strange thing is that the slaves who were working in the city seemed completely unmoved even though such a huge army was approaching, they were still busy with their work.

After a while, the army gradually approached.

A flag is looming in the smoke and dust, it is a huge "Zhao" character.

Under the banner of the State of Zhao here, Li Mu and Yi Qusheng drove side by side surrounded by many personal guards, both of them had obvious smiles on their faces.

Behind the two, apart from tens of thousands of coalition troops composed of Zhao Guo and Yiqu people's cavalry, there were thousands of Hun captives and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

As early as when the city was built, Li Mu's actions had already attracted the attention of the Huns and Wusun people, but what surprised Li Mu was that after almost half a month, there were still no large numbers of enemies appearing near his city. .

This made Li Mu and Yi Qusheng somewhat puzzled. Could it be that the Huns and Wusun people were really indifferent to this?

Fortunately, when the city was first built, Li Mu had already sent a large number of sentries and spies to the grassland to scout the whereabouts of the Huns and Wusun people.

Since Li Mu has a large number of barbarians from Lin Hulou under his command, this has brought great convenience to Li Mu's intelligence and reconnaissance work.

A person from the state of Zhao would be chased and killed by the Huns if he appeared on the grassland, but not necessarily if it was someone like Lin Huloufan or Yiqu.

It was also with the help of these barbarian spies that it took Li Mu 20 days to finally understand the current situation on the grassland.

Since King Yuezhi died in battle, the entire Yuezhi Kingdom has basically been destroyed.

Most of the Yuezhi people became captives, only a small group of Yuezhi remnants and defeated generals with a small number of old, weak, sick and disabled escaped the continuous pursuit of the Wusun people and the Huns, and moved towards a more peaceful life. fled to the west.

This piece of grassland that originally belonged to the Yuezhi people has completely become the territory of the Huns and Wusun people.

Originally, according to the agreed distribution rules, the Huns occupied more territory, while the Wusun people occupied less territory.

But after learning that the Huns had just suffered a big defeat, the Wusun people repented decisively and seized many rich pastures, and only handed over a small part of the poor pastures to the Huns.

In this way, some filth inevitably occurred between the Huns and the Wusun people.

Although the Huns entrenched here are not all the elite forces of the Huns, if the Huns and the Wusun people join forces, the chances of winning are not very great just relying on the [-] cavalry in Li Mu's hands.

After all, this time Li Mu's troops were not [-]% Zhao's cavalry, most of Li Mu's cavalry came from the Yiqu cavalry under Yiqu Sheng's command.

In such a situation, Li Mu did not have a strong opponent, but chose to outsmart him.

He very cleverly grasped the contradiction between the Wusun people and the Huns. First, he asked Yiqusheng to send envoys to persuade the Wusun people, and got information about the Huns from the Wusun people, and then he personally led the army. Raided the court tent of the Huns.

Under these kinds of quiet arrangements, Li Mu really won a big victory.

The tribe of King Lutu who was stationed here by the Huns was determined by Li Mu in the first battle. The high-ranking members of King Lutu's tribe were almost wiped out by Li Mu, and all the others were taken as Li Mu's captives. The sacrificed cattle and sheep also became Li Mu's trophies.

With such a big victory, it's no wonder that Li Mu and Yi Qusheng are both smiling.

At this moment, what the two chiefs were discussing was about the division of spoils.

Yi Qusheng smiled and said to Li Mu: "Li Mu, follow the previous rules, how about half of you and half of me?"

Li Mu seemed a little distracted, nodded when he heard the words, and said casually: "It should be so."

Yi Qusheng rolled his eyes, and said again: "This time I caught a lot of women, and these women should all belong to me."

Li Mu looked at Yi Qusheng with a strange expression: "Didn't you already have several wives, why do you need so many women? And if I remember correctly, there must be at least two or three thousand women this time, don't tell me?" Do you want to be a stallion?"

Yi Qusheng laughed loudly and said: "Then you have misunderstood, although it is true that I like women very much, but you don't think about how those ordinary herdsmen can get into my eyes, I am wrong, This king is the king of Yiqu Sheng."

Li Mu nodded slightly, and then said: "You want to reward those women to your subordinates, and let them give birth to your subordinates, right?"

Yi Qusheng nodded and said with a smile: "That's natural, how can there be population without women? You shouldn't object."

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Of course not."

For the grasslands that believe in the principle of the jungle, everything of any loser belongs to the winner, and women are no exception.

And the women on the grassland have already made up their minds. As long as they fall into the hands of the victors, these women will usually not resist.

In fact, it’s not just now, thousands of years later, Temujin’s wife was snatched away by the enemy for a period of time, and when Temujin snatched his wife back, his His wife was pregnant and gave birth to Temujin's eldest son Jochi.

If it was in the Central Plains, the woman and the child might not have survived, but Temujin chose to raise Jochi and even allocated a piece of land to him.