The Silent Concubine [Mute Slave]

Chapter 219 - A Desperate Gamble

The Zhenbei army occupied various passages and outposts, blocking connections between the Xiongnu, and trapping thousands of Xiongnu within their borders.

The Huns are also as cunning as wolves. In a situation where they were isolated and without help, they knew that they would be destroyed if they confronted the northern army, so they simply disbanded into scattered soldiers and went into hiding.

As a result, the Zhenbei Army was involved in a lot of troops.

Time has dragged on for a long time, the Zhenbei army has received news that many villages and households have been robbed by the Huns. The Xiongnu were cruel, not only robbing the grain, but also massacring the people of Dajing. They burned, killed, looted, and did everything they could. And for a while, there was a great deal of grief everywhere.

The Huns, like bandits crossing the border, after killing and looting, they do not stay; but disappear again in the endless mountains and wilderness.

Because the Huns are too scattered, the Zhenbei army has no way to start. They can only send their elite soldiers, to search the mountain tops and wilderness one by one to start clearing, but the Xiongnu ran at the first sign of trouble. From time to time, the Zhenbei army destroyed squads of a dozen or two dozen men, but the effect is still very little. The longer the Xiongnu remain, the more people will suffer.

Apparently the Huns were short of provisions and could not capture the big cities. So Song Qing, who was in charge of cleaning up the Xiongnu, was so confused by this that he thought of all sorts of ways. The total number of Huns eliminated in ten days was only seven or eight hundred. The Xiongnu were moving more and more widely, and Song Qing was upset and irritated all day long.

.......

After being released, Shen Ruofei stayed in the city for ten days or so. She pawned her valuable hairpin and bracelet to pay for the room at the inn.

"Strange, Shen Yu, that cheap bastard, would really be kind enough to let me go? In front of the emperor, he pretended that he was repaying his grievances with virtue, and he was able to fool the Emperor. I have underestimated the sophistication of this sick devil..."

Shen Ruofei, who is very careful, deliberately stayed in the city to see if anyone was watching her. But in the end, she was not discovered.

"It's been so many days, there shouldn't be anyone following me."

With no money, Shen Ruofei had to leave the inn, and now she was so ashamed that there was only one way to go.

Shen Ruofei gritted her teeth and left the outskirts of the city. How could she be willing to do so?

When she left the palace at that time, she met the Xiongnu man named Wu Liang in the capital, who introduced her to Chanyu. Being coerced and enticed, Shen Ruofei was so enamored of the benefits that Chanyu had promised, that she pretended to defect to the governor of Wuding City, but in fact she was a lobbyist for the Xiongnu.

TN: [Wu Liang] the one who chased Shen Yu and Chu Ling when they're sneaking out of Dajing, the guy with his d*ck cut off by JXX.

[单于 Shanyu or Chanyu] - this is what they call the leader of the Xiongnu Empire, like their king; not his actual name.

The governor of Wu Ding City originally did not have the courage to rebel against Da Jing, but the Xiongnu's offer was too tempting. In any case, at the beginning of the establishment of Da Jing, whether Jun Xuan Xiao, the emperor, will continue to be an emperor is still unknown. The governor was lustful and was convinced by Shen Ruofei.

After the incident, the governor died too quickly, and the one he hated most was Shen Ruofei.

Things have come to this point, and there is no turning back for Shen Ruofei.

Shen Ruofei's feet were blistered from walking. After taking several turns, she carefully entered a mountain. In the hidden mountain road, she found two men dressed as people of Dajing. She approached and lowered her voice and said: "I want to see Chanyu."

The two men obviously recognized her, and after a glance at each other, they led her into the mountain outpost, which was formerly a bandit's den.

"What are you doing here?!"

When Chanyu Huyan Bo saw Shen Ruofei, he was furious.

TN: 呼延博 Huyan Bo - Chanyu's name.

"Chanyu don't worry, I've been watching outside for several days, no one is following..." Shen Ruofei said hurriedly.

Huyan Bo has brown eyes and an even eyebrows, with a thick beard, almost half an inch long. He looked at Shen Ruofei with great distrust.

"The Zhenbei army is searching tightly these days! You shouldn't have come to me!"

Shen Ruofei said with her head held high: "What Chanyu promised me has not yet been fulfilled."

"Humph, I am now trapped here, not to mention three hundred taels of gold, you can't even get three copper coins!" Huyan Bo said angrily, "You hurry up and get out, and don't come to the outpost these days!"

"Is Chanyu trying to back out?!" Shen Ruofei questioned.

"I am a man of my word, and will do what I promised you, but can't you see that we don't even have enough supplies of food now? Greedy woman!"

When Shen Ruofei saw that he was going to break his promise, she cursed in her heart and couldn't stop.

"Then you need me even more, you can't get in touch with the army, and since I am from Dajing, I am the only one who can help you."

Huyan Bo did narrowed his eyes and thought about the credibility of Shen Ruofei's words.

"Ho, that's a good point." Huyan Bo's attitude changed instantly.

"Then your promise...?" Shen Ruofei sneered.

"Naturally, it counts! Woman, as long as you can help me spread the news, I will be very grateful! One day when I take over the whole of Dajing, I can consider making your father the king!" Huyan Bo's smile was slightly grim.

Shen Ruofei nodded her head, she was a woman with high aspirations and could not find hope in Emperor Xuan. She certainly knows that the Huns like to go back on their word. But she would rather take a gamble, a desperate gamble.

"Report—Chanyu, something is wrong!"

A Xiongnu man ran in a panic and knelt on the ground.

"The outpost has been surrounded by the Dajing army!"