I did it all for the Han Dynasty!

Chapter 437 Yuan Tan's Trail
"Tap tap tap tap!"

The resounding footsteps echoed from the mountains and forests, like a torrent of water pouring down from the sky, reverberating throughout the foothills of Jinping Mountain. Startled birds took flight hastily, hovering in the air, hesitant to land.

Inside the mountain path, Yuan's army was densely packed, like a thick snake from the Bashan Mountains moving its body towards Qingzhou in the east.

These Yuan troops were not all tall and strong Han Chinese; among them were many short cavalrymen riding warhorses and wearing animal skins.

Wuhuan people!
The Wuhuan Chanyu Tadun was a large and burly man with hands the size of palm-leaf fans. He could touch his knees with his arms without bending over. His legs were like two gnarled tree roots, firmly planted on the horse's back. No matter how the warhorse traversed mountains and rivers, it remained steady and walked as if on flat ground.

"Your Highness, is that person you mentioned reliable? On this mountain road, if we're ambushed, we'll all die without a burial place!"

Tadun's Chinese was unclear and extremely awkward, to the point that Yuan Tan could understand half of it and not understand the other half.

Yuan Tan, who was being searched for by the Han army, was now wearing iron armor and a fox fur coat, standing beside Tadun, trudging towards Qingzhou.

"It doesn't matter."

Yuan Tan uttered only two words, but he was extremely confident.

"I still have many old subordinates in Qingzhou, and they dislike Lü Bu just as much. They can't fool me about something like this!"

Tadun chuckled: "That's not necessarily true! You can't read people's minds!"

"The Wuhuan people, born in harsh and desolate places, know this best! If there is no meat, they will not trust even their closest brothers or sons!"

Yuan Tan was quite disdainful of Tadun's words!
How can the renowned scholars of the Central Plains be compared with barbarians?

However, given that the Wuhuan cavalry under Tadun's command, capable of traversing mountains and valleys, were the main force in this battle, Yuan Tan still gave a few perfunctory words.

Just then, a commotion broke out ahead, and soon after, Yuan's scouts arrived, looking troubled.

"Your Highness, a soldier has fallen off a cliff and died ahead. Could you please slow down?"

Yuan Tan snorted.

As the weather grew colder, the cold snort turned into a wisp of white mist and rose into the sky.

"If Liu Miao could cross the Xiaoshan Mountains back then, how could we not cross this little Jinpingshan Mountain?"

"Dead men? They can't even see the road. What use are soldiers like that? Order the soldiers at the front to advance quickly!"

"Here!"

Yuan Tan and Tadun walked for a while and indeed came to a steep cliff. Below the cliff, there was indeed a figure, motionless.

"Tsk!"

Tadun looked at the figures below and clicked his tongue in a cryptic tone.

"What? Does the Chanyu also find me a bit too cold-hearted?"

"No!"

Tadun could only sigh with some emotion: "They are Han Chinese after all!"

"They are from Zhao! And what exactly does the Chanyu mean?"

Tadun replied with a fawning smile, "Yes, yes, a man from Zhao."

"I just wanted to say that it's good to have more people!"

"In our Wuhuan state, let alone a person, even if a sheep falls in, we'll try every means to grope our way down and pull it up! We're not as good as the Zhao state, where a person's death is no big deal! Tsk tsk!"

Yuan Tan's lips twitched; he was about to lash out.

But upon seeing Tadun's expression, Yuan Tan knew that Tadun was not being sarcastic, but genuinely felt this way, and so he continued to remain silent.

"The Liu Miao you just mentioned, is he the emperor of the Han Dynasty?"

"The Han Dynasty is long gone! The previous emperor of the Han Dynasty abdicated the throne to my father long ago!" Tadun's expression was strange.

After all, according to the rules of the grasslands, Liu Miao, who had Liu blood in the south, should be the ruler of this land of Han... while the Great Zhao seemed to be the one plotting rebellion.

However, Taton swallowed his complaint.

Who cares about the Han or Zhao dynasties?

Just as Tadun said at the beginning, everything was for the sake of meat!

Yuan Tan, and even Yuan Shao, had made a promise long ago when they went to Qingzhou—

Wuhuan conquered the city, but will never sheath their swords!

They can plunder Qingzhou's wealth at will.

They can easily take away the women of Qingzhou!

The conditions were so favorable that Tadun even suspected that the Yuan family father and son were deceiving him.

It wasn't until he passed through a small village that Tadun believed it was all real!
The Yuan family treated the Wuhuan people well!

However, this made Taton even more puzzled.

He suddenly asked Yuan Tan, "I heard that Liu Miao's wife is the eldest daughter of the Yuan family?"

Upon hearing the words "legitimate daughter," Yuan Tan's face darkened even more!

But he still answered somberly, "Yes!"

Tadun kept smacking his lips.

According to the customs of the grassland people, this is clearly a struggle between the same tribe or even the same family!
For some reason, the Yuan family actually asked him, an outsider, to come and help... Not only did they ask him to help, but they also ordered him to slaughter ordinary people in Han territory.

If Han people act this way, are they really not afraid that all Han people in Han areas will be wiped out?
Even if the Han people are as numerous as weeds in the wilderness, if they continue to be ruined like this, I'm afraid that sooner or later nothing will grow at all.
However, a smile inexplicably appeared on Tadun's lips.

Why should a mere Wuhuan Chanyu concern himself with the affairs of the Han people?
Rather, he probably hopes for more infighting among the Han people! And that it will be more ruthless!
If, at that time, there are not many Han people in the entire Youzhou, the entire Hebei, or even the entire north, wouldn't the golden age of the Wuhuan be about to arrive?
So Tadun leisurely sang a little tune, feeling quite cheerful.
Yuan Tan glanced at Tadun beside him, unaware of his thoughts, but simply thought that this barbarian was stupid and foolish, truly like a wild beast, utterly uncultured.

After the troops crossed Jinping Mountain, they found that Jinyang Pass, which should have been a formidable pass, was now wide open, and the garrison commander inside was standing on bloodstains that had not yet dried to welcome Yuan's army.

Yuan Tan immediately dispatched soldiers to take over the area and obtained the key to enter Qingzhou.

"Chen Deng has sent intelligence!"

Yuan Tan took a look and found it to be a map of the Qingzhou garrison's deployment in various locations, as well as military orders.

Inside Jinyang Pass, there were already banners and armor of Lü Bu's army.

With these things, even a pig could take over Qingzhou!
Especially since Yuan Tan was accompanied by the swift and plundering Wuhuan cavalry, the outcome of the battle was almost without any suspense!
"Ten days!"

"Within ten days, wipe out Qingzhou! Leave Lü Bu with nowhere to land! Annihilate his entire army!"

Yuan Tan chose to take a shortcut from Lu to Qingzhou in order to catch Lü Bu off guard and annihilate all of Lü Bu's forces!
When the time comes, with attacks from both sides, Pengcheng will surely fall! Liu Miao will surely perish!

Tadun laughed heartily, seemingly unconcerned about such things.

He only asked Yuan Tan—

"In Qingzhou, where is the most prosperous place, and where are the most women?"

"As long as there is enough treasure, the Wuhuan cavalry will never stop their iron hooves!"

　Grandma will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, and I should be able to resume updating three chapters a day by the day after tomorrow at the latest! Thank you all for your recent blessings and support! Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)