Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 121 Prologue to the Battle of Henan
The passion was inadvertently ignited at such a moment.

Li Huan also got off his horse, turned on the kettle, wetted the fried noodles, and ate them with big mouthfuls.

Huo Qubing grabbed some dried meat from inside the armor: "Father Zhong, what about the remaining women?"

Li Huan chewed the dried meat, thought for a moment, turned to look at Gongsun Ao and asked: "Are the generals in the army in need of women? If so, give these Qiang people to them to have babies?"

Gongsun Ao was shocked: "Old Li, these captured Qiang girls are all your private money. Take them back to Chang'an and sell them for money! Just send them out like this..."

"Pass this order, the warrior who is the first to knock down the Huns' flag will have priority in selecting beauties after the war!"

Li Huan knew very well that the most important thing about war was to inspire the courage of soldiers to fight the enemy bravely.

He didn't dare to give anything else indiscriminately, but women didn't have to worry at all and could just give it away.

Gongsun Ao rubbed his hands to deliver the order, and the scout general Su Jian rode back. He was shocked that Huo Qubing could easily find where the Qiang tribe was hiding.

On the grasslands, the Qiang people lived in the cracks between the Han Empire and the Xiongnu Empire.

His scouting army dispersed, but they didn't find it. Instead, Huo Qubing led the team out for a walk on horseback, and found it...

"Find a few Qiang women with children to lead the team. As long as the route is correct, they will be allowed to have a piece of land near Chang'an!" Li Huan continued.

Gongsun Ao shook his head and said, "Lao Li, Qu Bing'er just led troops and killed all the men. They are afraid of life and death, so it's fine if they can tell the way, and let them lead the way? What do you think?"

Li Huan looked at Huo Qubing: "Qubing, what do you think?"

"I think it's feasible, and I found that among these Qiang women, there are also us Han women who were snatched here." Huo Qubing's eyes were filled with anger. He regarded himself as a Han soldier, and this was the biggest concern for soldiers. shame!

Su Jian also nodded and said: "The status of Qiang women is very low. Sometimes they are even raped by the Huns in front of the Qiang people. The Qiang people are not allowed to kill the children they give birth to, and they are required to raise them well. Women talk There is no dignity, if Li Hou really promises them a piece of land on the edge of Chang'an, they will not hesitate even if he asks them to kill the man sleeping next to them with a knife."

"Great, let Su Wu bring the people over, we'll pick them now!"

Li Huan only drank half a pot of water and ate a fist-sized piece of wet fried noodles. Before he could finish chewing a piece of dried meat, Su Wu came over on horseback with twelve disheveled Qiang girls.

Most of these people are accompanied by a child, the oldest is no more than six or seven years old, and the youngest is even holding him in his arms, waiting to be fed.

Li Huan frowned, and Huo Qubing pointed at a woman with dark skin and said, "Father Zhong, she is the Han woman who was kidnapped a few years ago."

Seeing Huo Qubing pointing at her, the Han woman raised her head numbly and looked at Li Huan, tears falling down her cheeks.

Li Huan noticed that there were no children around her.

Su Wu came forward and whispered to Li Huan in a low voice: "Junhou, when she heard that it was our Han army arriving, she strangled the baby who was born with the Qiang people to death."

Li Huan's body trembled and he looked at the Han woman: "伱...what's your name?"

"General, my name is Zhao Qiao'er. I am from Yangqu City, Taiyuan County, where my parents moved to Jiuyuan County in the third year of Yuanguang..."

The Han woman's tears couldn't stop falling.

Li Huan spoke solemnly: "Do you know the way to Henan?"

"The girl recognizes it. The girl was taken to Gaoque by the Huns and then dumped in Lingzhou. The Qiang bought this place the year before last!"

"As long as you recognize it, my army will need you to lead the way later." Li Huan handed the kettle in his hand to Zhao Qiaoer: "After this battle, I will give you a piece of land near Chang'an so that you can live a stable life."

Zhao Qiaoer knelt on the ground, holding the water bottle, tears could not stop falling down.

Li Huan looked at the terrified Qiang girl who was holding the child in her arms, and raised her voice: "It's the same with you, as long as I lead the way with my army, I will also give you a piece of land on the edge of Chang'an City, so that you can live in peace in the future." In your life, no one can bully you anymore!"

None of these women doubted whether what the heroic Han general in front of them said was true or false.

In their opinion, Li Huan's army killed their men, so they now belong to Li Huan. They will do whatever Li Huan tells them to do. Even if he asks them to lie down immediately and open their legs, they will not do it. You will feel ashamed and embarrassed.

Women who feel ashamed and embarrassed have already been digested in the belly of the wild wolf.

However, Li Huan doesn't quite understand the law of the grasslands in this era, which is to always obey the strong!
Otherwise, these things would not have been produced.

The army discards its baggage and travels lightly!
Li Huan kept an eye on the twelve women, and he divided them among the army to guide them. These people all claimed that they were very familiar with the road from here to Lingzhou, but the life and death of these more than [-] people were all in their own hands. Of course, Li Huan couldn't completely believe a woman's words just because she could accurately tell the year and month she was kidnapped and how many tears she shed.

But fortunately, these women were really obedient and there were no problems with the path they were directed.

Su Jian was recording the march of the army. After about sixty miles, the army encountered the first Huns tribe.

This tribe is quite large, with more than [-] people.

But in front of thousands of crazy Han troops, these more than [-] defenseless people were like leaves falling into the rapids, torn to pieces in an instant.

Huo Qubing had quick eyesight and quick hands. He and Su Wu immediately led their troops around and beheaded the tribal leader who wanted to escape to Lingzhou to report the news.

Naturally, a bloody human head hung on the Han army's flag.

Blood and killing can make people more and more crazy.

After Li Huan watched those Hun men fall under the spears and arrows, a bloodthirsty mentality that controlled his life and death made him feel that his whole body was filled with infinite power.

"There are tens of thousands of sheep and thousands of cows here, Old Li, what should I do?" Gongsun Ao shook off the ring knife in his hand. The remaining human tissue on it made Li Huan's heart beat wildly. This was not fear, but excitement. .

"Tell the soldiers that this grassland is about to be conquered by us, and the cattle and sheep left here will always be ours. No one can take them away, and the Huns are still in Lingzhou!" Li Huan pulled the reins and raised his crotch. The war horse seemed to be able to sense his bloodthirsty mood.

Li Huan waved his spear and roared crazily: "Following the ruins of the Great Wall of Qin, we continue to move westward. All the Huns we see along the way will be killed without leaving any survivors!"

"kill!"

Gongsun Ao also raised his arms and brandished his sword and shouted!

"Boom boom boom!"

The earth trembles under the horses' hooves...

At dusk, the army had destroyed three Huns tribes and beheaded more than [-] people. All the cattle, sheep and women along the way were abandoned.

Li Huan originally thought that he would be tired, but after he finished asking questions, he personally wielded the ring-headed knife and hacked to death a Xiongnu tribe leader. This body instantly seemed to have awakened the most primitive bloodthirsty animal nature. He didn't know What's the point of being tired? He's madly urging the army to move forward.

The whole army seemed to be going crazy, but Su Jian remained calm. He even found Huo Qubing, pointed at Li Huan who was galloping in the distance, and asked: "Is this the first time that Marquis Anyang is leading an army?"

It's so unlikeable, he looks exactly like a warrior who has been on the battlefield for many years and has killed many people.

The battlefield is the place where evil is released.

The night was dark, and a white expanse of quiet water ahead blocked the way of the army.

The upper reaches of the Yellow River!

Lingzhou has arrived!

There used to be a city built by the Han people here, but it later fell into enemy-occupied territory by the Huns.The Huns did not rely on the solidity of the city as a basis for strength. The damaged Lingzhou City was directly trampled to pieces by the Han army's horse hooves.

But...there is almost no one in the city?

Li Huan was as excited as a drum, fearing that his whereabouts would have been discovered by the Huns long ago. When this was an empty city plan, Su Wu came to report on horseback, and Huo Qubing chased a Hun noble to the north.

"Leave the city and chase!" Li Huan pulled the reins and roared at the Pegasus to take the lead out of the city.

The bright moonlight illuminated the earth. Li Huan saw countless Huns corpses along the way. War horses were scattered beside the master's corpse, gnawing on the grass stained by human blood. From time to time, after touching the master's gradually cooling corpse, Another humming sound came from his nose.

"Report! General Gongsun Ao led his army and fought with a group of Huns who appeared out of nowhere!"

Li Huan ignored it. He had an intuition that Huo Qubing must be eyeing a big fish.

"Go to Su Jian and ask him to lead his troops to join Gongsun Ao. After defeating the Huns, catch up immediately!"

"Order!"

The scouts flew away on horseback.

"There's someone there!"

Someone shouted loudly. Under the bright moonlight, Li Huan saw a group of Huns cavalry fleeing north in the dark!
"Come up!"

Li Huan roared loudly, his voice was hoarse, but he was quite heroic!
The distance between the two soldiers and horses was getting closer, and some people in the Han army began to shoot arrows.

Among the Huns opposite, some were hanging on the sides of their saddles or sleeping upside down on their horses, firing their bows.

However, the range of the Huns' bows has never been as good as that of the Han army; the densely packed arrows of the Han army slanted past like locusts, and there would always be a few Huns who fell off their horses.

This kind of battle was so sudden that the Huns were completely unprepared. They didn't even carry many arrows with them. They chased each other for less than half an hour, and no one on the Huns side was shooting arrows.

The number of hundreds of Huns cavalry also dropped sharply to just over ten.

Li Huan did not have the skills to shoot arrows on horseback, but the soldiers following him, in addition to his original two hundred guards, were six hundred tribesmen sent by the two marquises of the Chen family. All of these people were good players.

"Don't shoot, aim at the horse's butt!" Li Huan didn't have much time to waste. He was worried that Huo Qubing would have problems. After all, he was only 14 years old. Even with Su Wu by Huo Qubing's side, he couldn't give Li Huan much sense of security.

If the future military god of the Han Dynasty was accidentally captured to herd sheep like Su Wu, he might as well draw his sword and kill himself on the edge of the Yellow River to apologize.

The warriors in the army originally cherished their war horses, but now that they heard Li Huan's order, none of them dared to hesitate, and the dense rain of arrows instantly tilted towards the dozen or so horsemen.

In an instant, seven or eight people fell off their horses.

Before the second round of arrows was fired, the leader suddenly turned his horse's head, roared and raised his whip, and charged towards Li Huan.

This is like knowing that there is no way to escape and wanting to die with dignity.

When Li Huan saw this man with a golden crown on his head, his heart suddenly jumped wildly.

The land in Henan is divided into Qiantao Plain and Zhongtao Plain. The Xiongnu Chanyu divided the pastures here between two Xiongnu kings, one was King Aries and the other was King Loufan.

Could it be...that this guy is one of the kings?
"Capture this man alive!"

Li Huan gave the order decisively.

The personal guards around him immediately spread out to the left and right wings, and in the blink of an eye they had surrounded this man and the remaining Huns cavalry.

The man with the golden crown waved his riding crop and wanted to charge to death, but he was knocked off his horse by a spear just as he faced him.

To Li Huan's surprise, this man actually rolled to the ground. He seemed to have good skills, but as soon as he stood up, he was slapped by Li Huan's mouth.

"Snapped!"

There was a loud sound, and Li Huan felt a sharp pain in his hand, and the golden crown was flung away. The man staggered, and before he could stand still, his neck was already covered with long knives that shimmered with cold light.

"Who are you?" With his long hair hanging loose, this man actually looked at Li Huan with an arrogant look.

Li Huan raised his hand and pulled out his mouth again: "I am Dad Xun!"

Blood was bleeding from the corners of this man's mouth and nose, and his eyes were filled with hatred and anger as he glared at Li Huan.

Li Huan's hand hurt from the beating, so he raised the scabbard and slapped the man hard until his face was covered in blood and his nose was flattened, and he began to beg for mercy randomly, then he stopped.

Li Huan sneered: "Stop pretending to be cool in front of me, and be honest!"

A soldier got off his horse and handed the golden crown that had fallen to the ground to Li Huan. Li Huan weighed it in his hand and found that it was quite heavy.

The blood-stained Xiongnu noble gasped a few times before opening his mouth to speak, but he spat out a mouthful of blood, and he could vaguely see teeth that had been pulled out by the scabbard.

"I am Xiao Wang Lou Fan. Even if you catch me, you shouldn't humiliate me like this."

Li Huan looked at Lou Fan Xiaowang's swollen eyes and his face covered with blood. He raised the scabbard and started to slap her head and face again.

Prince Lou Fan immediately knelt down: "General Han, I surrender!"

"Where did King Lou Fan run away from?"

Li Huan held the scabbard with no expression on his face. The ring-headed sword was surrounded by cold light and was aimed at Prince Lou Fan.

"I don't know either. You came over suddenly. Before we could figure out what was going on, my guards rushed into the tent and told me to get on my horse and run for my life, saying that the Han people were coming."

Li Huan looked at the coat he was wearing. It looked like it was thrown around randomly, and he couldn't help but believe it.

"Then where was King Lou Fan in the first place?"

Little King Lou Fan said: "On the grassland here, my father's royal tent and I are not too far away. When I was running for my life, I saw that the royal tent was on fire!"

Li Huan immediately thought of something and put away the scabbard: "Tie this guy up and take him away. Maybe the person Qu Bing and Su Wu are chasing is King Lou Fan himself!"

He looked back at the vast night grassland, and there were shouts of killing from all directions.

"Send someone to find Gongsun Ao and Su Jian and tell them that this is the headquarters of King Loufan. Now that King Loufan is on the run, this is a golden opportunity to seize the King of the Huns!"

"Order!"

Immediately, a group of ten cavalrymen rushed out into the dark night.

Li Huan looked at Loufan Xiaowang who was tied up on the horseback. He just grinned and Loufan Xiaowang was already trembling with fear.

"Know the direction and keep chasing!"

(End of this chapter)