Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 5 The Xiongnu Forced Captives to Go Northward

Zhuo County, where Beixin City is located, borders Yanmen County in Bingzhou to the west. The area between the two counties has been plagued by wars for years, so the governors of the two states have no time to take care of them.

Therefore, the narrow strip in the middle became the passage for the Huns from the north and the south to plunder in the south.

As long as the northern Xiongnu passed through Yanmen, they could pass through Changshan County, Shangdang County, and go straight to Sili, threatening the Hongnong area of ​​​​Hedong, Hanoi, and even approaching Luoyang, the former capital of the Han Dynasty.

As for the Southern Xiongnu in Bingzhou, it is even more convenient. If you find any direction to bypass Hanoi, you can go to Luoyang to rob.

Three years since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu made Luoyang his capital and changed Luoyang to Luoyang. It has been nearly 200 years ago.

Luoyang was once the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Over the long years, it has accumulated rich and splendid cultural customs. It was also the starting point of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty. It was once a famous city all over the world.

However, in the first year of Han Chuping (190), Dong Zhuo coerced Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to move the capital to Chang'an, burned Luoyang palaces, temples and people, and the prosperous Luoyang City was completely destroyed, and fell into chaos ever since.

After Dong Zhuo's death, Li Jue and Guo Si occupied Chang'an and fought endlessly. The area around Chang'an was also in chaos, and Bingzhou was poor. Most of the foreign races in the north would invade and plunder the relatively rich areas through Bingzhou.

After that, they will escort the population and property all the way north, and among them, the Southern Huns are the most close to the water.

In the past few years, the people in many states have been tortured, and it has become the ambition of people who care about the world to prevent foreigners from making troubles.

Yuan Xi's bet with Zhao Zilong came to an agreement under this background.

Yuan Xi received information from Jizhou that a group of bandits from the Southern Huns, after looting a lot of people and property near Chang'an in Luoyang, was heading north along the passage between You and Bing, and returned to Bingzhou via the vicinity of Beixincheng.

At that time, warlords from all walks of life were fighting endlessly, and they had no time to take care of this group of aliens. They watched them passing through Jizhou, Sili, and would arrive at Beixin City, Youzhou in a few days.

Therefore, Yuan Xi and Zhao Yun agreed to intercept the bandits of the Southern Huns, and the outcome would be counted by the head.

Yuan Xi was more than [-]% sure that Zhao Yun would agree to the bet.

It's not just that if he loses the bet, he will hand over Beixin City. For Zhao Yun, it is a very tempting condition to be able to occupy the city without fighting or hurting civilians.

Another important reason is that Yuan Xi knew from history books that Zhao Yun admired Huo Qubing the most, so he felt pity for the Xiongnu for harming the children of the Han family. Now that he heard that the Xiongnu could intercept and kill the Huns who plundered, he naturally went there happily .

Moreover, the Xiongnu traveled southward through seclusion and poisoned the people along the way. On their route, there was also Zhao Yun's hometown of Changshan County. For the sake of the elders in his hometown, Zhao Yun would also be biased when making decisions.

So in the end, as expected, Zhao Yun accepted the bet.

Then there is the most critical and most difficult step.

How to beat Zhao Yun.

Seeing Qu Yi's eagerness to challenge Zhao Yun, Yuan Xi felt a dull pain in his head.

Dong Zhao is good at planning, and Qu Yi is still powerful, but both of them lack sufficient understanding of Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun is definitely not that easy to deal with!
It was getting late, and in the valley dozens of miles south of Beixin City, a vanguard team of Southern Huns rogue bandits appeared.

There are about a dozen of them, all with loose hair and exposed left shoulders. Their tops are straight-breasted shorts, their bottoms are crotch pants, and their feet are leather boots. Each of them holds a longbow in his hand. , with two pots of arrows on his back, his eyes alert.

This is obviously a group of Huns forward scouts, all of them are good horsemen and shooters.

They looked at the mountains and forests on both sides, vigilant in their hearts, and they couldn't help looking left and right. Although the Xiongnu tribe they were in was known as a bandit, it was actually the elite of the Southern Xiongnu, with hundreds of young and strong.

Taking advantage of Li Jue and Guo Si's infighting in Chang'an, they plundered hundreds of women and a large amount of property, and prepared to bring them to Shanyu the Xiongnu.

For various reasons, they did not go back to Bingzhou from Zuo Fengyi (Pingyi), but took the route between You and Bing, and made a big circle.

Naturally, they plundered women for the purpose of bearing offspring. As for the males of the Han family, the Huns never kept any alive.

The customs of the Huns of the Han family are different. Women are weak and unable to resist, but there are many variables for men.

Moreover, since the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, the Han and the Huns have conquered for hundreds of years. The Huns are used to the sharp swords and arrows of the Han men. Now that the offensive and defensive trends are reversed, they will naturally not leave the Han men alive.

The few people in the lead looked at a few men wearing Orion clothes and Han hair buns on the hillside in the distance, who were squatting on the ground with their backs to them, as if they were paying respects.

A Xiongnu scout with a ferocious expression on his face galloped forward, drew his bow and set up an arrow, and shot at the hunters.

When several hunters heard the sound of bows and arrows, they hurriedly searched for big trees to scatter and hide, making the Huns scouts below burst into laughter and shouted, "Han dog! You are so cowardly!"

Normally, when they encounter this kind of civilians, they will flee in a hurry after shooting a few arrows.

However, what they didn't expect was that those hunters hid behind a tree, picked up the wooden bows in their hands, and shot wooden arrows at them!

Some Xiongnu scouts saw that the wooden arrow shot was quite crude, so they dodged their heads indifferently. As a result, the arrow flew past, but they smelled a foul smell.

He suddenly came to his senses, and shouted: "The Han dog is cunning, and has painted gold juice (dung water) on it!"

However, at the next moment, with a puff, the horse under his crotch was shot by a wooden arrow, and immediately stood upright, almost throwing him off.

The Xiongnu scout desperately pulled the reins, his heart ached, this war horse was extremely rare for their tribe, now that it was shot by an arrow coated with gold juice, if they go back, they will get sick and it will be difficult for them to go into battle.

He was furious, and called everyone to draw their bows to fight back, but the hunters shot surprisingly accurately, the two sides shot at each other, and several horses on the Xiongnu's side were injured by the arrows coated with gold juice.

But those hunters escaped unscathed under the cover of trees.

Looking at a companion who was extremely unfortunate to be pierced through the eye by a wooden arrow and died on the spot, the remaining Xiongnu scouts looked extremely ugly.

After discussing for a while, they divided into two teams. One team continued to explore the way, while the other team went back to report.

In the high mountains and forests, Yuan Xi did not go far, he led a group of men dressed as hunters, and watched from a distance.

The hunters who fought back just now were pretended to be scouts trained by his subordinates, Qu Yi, who were good at killing horse thieves.

Sun Li behind him muttered, "Brother, that Hu dog still dares to look at us, why didn't he catch up and cut them all to death?"

A veteran heard this, and heyed, "Sun Li boy, how can you talk like that, how many times have you said it, you want to call you son!"

"My son is the second son of Yuanzhou Mu, with a noble status, even if you are called brother, it is not appropriate for you, let alone such an inexplicable elder brother!"

After hearing this, Sun Li murmured, "Brother doesn't even care..."

Yuan Xi rubbed his nose and said with a smile: "It's okay, these Huns will make them look good sooner or later, but heroes don't suffer from immediate disadvantages. There are a lot of people behind them, and we will be in trouble if we are stopped."

"Stay away and see the situation first."

This team of scouts only consisted of seven or eight people, and it was okay against sporadic horse thieves and bandits, but it was powerless against hundreds of people.

Yuan Xi led the crowd up the mountain, until the last few Xiongnu scouts at the foot of the mountain left angrily, then climbed up a big tree and took out a cylinder from his bosom.

He put the cylinder in front of his eyes, and the scene below the mountain was magnified several times and became much clearer.

This is after he crossed, looking for a telescope polished by a craftsman with crystal, it took a lot of time and effort, and now only two pairs have been made, although it can only be magnified several times, and it is still a little blurry, but it can see much farther than the naked eye.

On the mountain road more than a dozen miles away, smoke and dust rose all over the sky, and a large army of Huns came.

Yuan Xi heard that there were a large number of bandits from the Xiongnu, and he didn't know whether it was luck or some kind of connection. He went north from Sili, crossed Jizhou in Hanoi, and traveled hundreds of miles without hindrance.

As long as they walked to Beixincheng, they could bypass the territory of the black mountain bandits in the west, then enter Bingzhou in the northwest and return to the court of the Southern Huns.

But no matter which force the Xiongnu rogues got the tacit approval of, even if Yuan Shao himself agreed, Yuan Xi did not intend to let them go.

Even if there are only a few hundred soldiers in the city, even if Gongsun Zan's army outside Beixin City is watching, even if he is punished by the Yuan family afterwards, he will kill this group of scourges who have poisoned the people.

Whoever commits a strong man will be punished even if he is far away.

Those who offend the sons and daughters of the Han family are right in front of them, how can they not be punished?

(End of this chapter)