Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 124
The Yinshan Mountains were right in front of them. With Lou Fan Xiaowang leading the way, Su Jian had already arrived at Gaoque first. He even joined forces with Wei Qing's generals who stayed here to capture more than [-] Xiongnu troops alive.

Wei Qing's letter has been sent to Li Huan. Su Wu and Cheng Bu knew that they would lead part of the army back soon. In addition, the letter also mentioned that Li Huan's army should set off immediately to Qiantao Plain to stabilize the situation. Now On the entire Qiantao Plain, King Loufan fled, Little King Loufan was captured alive by Li Huan, and the Huns were massacred by Li Huan's army. At this time, more people were needed to stabilize the overall situation.

Therefore, Li Huan had no choice but to let Gongsun Ao and Su Jian take the lead, while he and Huo Qubing led their personal guards to walk slowly.

It's not that Li Huan is feeling proud or complacent, but that his butt just can't bear to continue running...

The frayed condition of his buttocks and inner thighs was far more serious than he thought. After the damaged flesh dried up, it became stuck to the fabric of his clothes.

The process of peeling off this layer after moistening it with a warm towel almost caused Li Huan to faint from the pain...

Huo Qubing, who did this work himself, was sweating profusely after finishing it. He felt more tired than leading his troops in a deadly battle with the Huns...

Li Huan was unable to go south for a while, so he had to lie down in Gaoque for a few days. Huo Qubing made a small stick with some horsetail hair boiled in boiling water wrapped around it to drive away flies for him.

This kind of scene is simply too beautiful to behold.

By the fourth day, Li Huan's condition had improved a lot, and it was not a big problem to ride again.

However, after these days, there is still no news about Zhang Qian, which makes Li Huan become worried.

The only thing he could rely on was that Zhang Qian had encountered a worse environment than this one and still survived.

The best outcome is that Zhang Qian is hiding in a corner of Yinshan Mountain, waiting for the situation to become clear before going down the mountain.

On the fifth day, the team could only go south. There was no sign of counterattack from the Xiongnu side. The battle reports of Wei Qing, Li Huan, Li Xi and others had already been sent to Chang'an City.

"Father Zhong issued a military order not to drink the water from the Yellow River, and all other water sources must be boiled before drinking, and those who disobeyed the order will be chopped off." Huo Qubing didn't quite understand: "Father Zhong also said the same thing when he was training at home. What’s the reason?”

"The reason is that there are many tiny bugs in the water that are invisible to our naked eyes. Some are healthy and non-toxic. Some will only cause diarrhea if you drink them. But some are highly toxic. After drinking, people and horses will suffer from plague."

Li Huan couldn't tell Huo Qubing directly, "I am a time traveler. In your original history, you drank the water that caused the plague and died young."

Huo Qubing shook his head: "I don't quite understand, but the generals in the army are quite complaining about this, but no one dares to tell you."

Li Huan turned to look at the guards beside him: "Go and find out. If anyone has any complaints about this, let him come to me and say it!"

"Got the order!" More than ten riders immediately galloped away.

Huo Qubing rolled his eyes and secretly thought that he had known that he would not talk too much.

"Father Zhong, General Su Jian came to report to the army and said that he requested to rebuild Lingzhou City and directly use the captured Huns to build the city. You haven't replied to him yet!"

"Why are you anxious? We can't rush this matter." Li Huan thought: "After this battle in Henan, it will be useless to build the city recklessly. Now that we control Gaoque, we already have the natural defense line of Yinshan Mountain. Wait Let’s talk about it after the imperial court relocates the people.”

"These days in Lingzhou, there have been constant battles. Capturing the scattered Huns cavalry is the top priority, but..."

Huo Qubing guessed something: "Father Zhong, are you trying to say that there is no news from Li Guang yet?"

"King Zuo Xian mobilized heavy troops to attack Shangjun, Yuyang, and Liaoxi counties. Li Guang was under great pressure. If he hadn't successfully attracted the Xiongnu garrison in Henan this time, how could we have won so easily?"

Li Huan frowned. He seemed to have thought of something. If he remembered correctly, this battle should have started at the end of this year...

The cause came from Han Anguo, who had committed suicide. Later, it was still Han Anguo and Li Guang who attracted King Zuo Xian's heavy troops to attack Shangjun, Yuyang, and Liaoxi.

However, with Han Anguo sharing the pressure for Li Guang, the governor of Shangjun was still killed by the Huns.

Now, it was just Li Guang who was planning to fight against King Zuo Xian's army. Li Huan was really worried that this veteran of the empire had bled and died, only to be punished by Emperor Liu Che in the end. That would be too frustrating.

Huo Qubing said dissatisfied: "If other people are capable, they can come and attack thousands of miles away. Is it easy for us to fight?"

Li Huan couldn't help but smile: "Qu Bing, I didn't say it was easy for us to fight. I did my best for this battle... Okay, let's not talk about this. Since Li Guang didn't have a request for help, Come here, I guess there shouldn't be any big problems, let's have someone count how many prisoners we have captured these days, put them in prison cars as soon as possible, send them to Chang'an, and present them to His Majesty."

Huo Qubing immediately said: "We captured 89 prisoners of war and beheaded more than [-] people. The exact number will not be reported until the heads are counted, but..."

"You want to say Holy Snow Master?" Li Huan narrowed his eyes.

"Father Zhong, do you want to keep this woman by your side?"

"Qu Bing, do you think we will have a chance to send troops to the Huns?"

Huo Qubing shook his head and said: "By taking Henan, we can defend the capital and prevent Chang'an City from being intimidated by the Huns' troops. But to be honest, for the Huns, it won't be a big deal."

"That's right! The reason why Gan Fu was able to reach the edge of Ganquan Palace back then was because Henan was not in our hands? But now that Henan is in our hands, we can further control Longxi, and we can also raise horses here. Once the number of war horses increases, why should we fear the Huns in the future?"

Li Huan's words were also full of sighs. This battle was lucky but full of dangers. If he went the wrong way, Li Huan's Marquis would be doomed.

Wei Qing can't go wrong, because this guy has fought like this in history, but it was just half a year ahead of time because of Li Huan's time travel.

Huo Qubing shook his head: "Father Zhong, there is something wrong with this woman. It's good to kill her. I asked her, and she said that when my uncle's soldiers and horses arrived, she was praying for blessings with the two princesses of the Aries King, but It seems like she has never said that to you, right?"

"This is not important. The important thing is that we will slowly master the terrain and orientation of the entire outside the Great Wall." Li Huan looked at Huo Qubing confidently: "As long as she follows me back, I will have a way to make her willing to fight for us in the future. Time to lead the way.”

Li Huan was originally very familiar with the journey beyond the Great Wall, but when he returned to ancient times, the topography remained largely unchanged, but the differences in the surface were too great.

Huo Qubing pursed his lips: "I understand, let her sleep on her!"

"You kid, what are you talking about? It doesn't matter whether I sleep with her or coerce her. As long as she can be willing to lead the way for us in the future, this is a good way."

In response, Huo Qubing just gave Li Huan a look of contempt and dignity.

In the abandoned city of Lingzhou, the newly built woodshed was filled with human heads pickled in lime.

After Li Huan arrived here, he and Huo Qubing personally led the entourage to count the heads.

Don't dare to be careless about this. If you count wrongly, you will be lying about your military achievements and you will be punished!

So, you can’t make any mistakes!

The human head pickled in lime has a strange smell, which cannot be said to be rancid, but it makes people feel an indescribable discomfort.

Li Huan clasped his hands behind his back and stared at the heads in the room. In the past, he would have been frightened to death when he saw these things, but now, he can watch them calmly, without even the slightest sense of fear in his heart...

Military merit is calculated based on heads, and it has continued on this land since the beginning of Shang Yang's reform.

Li Huan never thought about whether it was barbaric or barbaric, nor did he think about changing this military method that everyone acquiesced to and was extremely effective.

Counting heads is a delicate job, and after Li Huan and Huo Qubing have finished counting, they have to wait for the people from Chang'an City to come over and count them again. Only after they are recorded in the book can the real military achievements be realized.

Later in the evening, the sun set in the west, and the setting sun covered the entire Yellow River. This scene looked like it would be the same thousands of years ago.

Li Huan, Huo Qubing, Gongsun Ao, and Su Wu were sitting outside the military tent, blowing in the wind, and eating roasted whole lamb. Such a scenery made him feel a little distracted for a moment. He felt like he was in the future, but looking at the ancients in front of him , but clearly realized that he had indeed arrived in this glorious and glorious era.

Wei Qing came to report again. After learning that Henan was lost, King Zuo Xian's army immediately retreated and did not continue the fierce battle with Li Guang's army. This was a great event.The fight between King Zuoxian and King Youxian on the grassland should keep them from looking south.

After all, King Zuoxian's goal of attacking the Han Dynasty and weakening King Youxian has been achieved. Now it depends on how he exerts pressure on King Youxian to make him surrender.

Of course, Li Huan also looked through the military newspapers for information about the governor of Shangjun.

The governor of Shangjun did not die, but in the previous positional battle, one of his arms was chopped off by the Huns warriors who rushed into the battle.

This makes Li Huan very excited. This is another person who has successfully changed his destiny.

However, Emperor Liu Che learned that the governor of Yuyang County was weak and directly handed over all the military and military command to Li Guang's generals, let alone going to the front line to fight in person, so he ordered this courageous thing to be killed. Son.

As for the rewards that the officers and soldiers of the three armies are most concerned about, no one is in a hurry, because at this moment, whether it is Wei Qing, Li Guang, or Li Huan, they are all counting their heads seriously...

In the past, on the border of the Han Empire, there was an error in the number of heads after a great war. This was during the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, when Wei Shang, the governor of Yunzhong County, reported the number of heads he reported and the number of heads verified by the imperial court. It was just six short, and he was immediately dismissed from his post and investigated.

Wei Shang was about to be doomed. Fortunately, another man named Feng Tang thought that such a thing was unreasonable. He directly remonstrated with Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and stated the merits and demerits. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty then pardoned Wei Shang's fault.

It was also because of this incident that the frontier army became more and more serious about counting heads.

Li Huan passed Wei Qing's military report to several people and read it. He leaned on the leather cushion and sighed: "We won like this. I can't believe it..."

Su Jian chuckled: "Li Hou is not satisfied with watching the battle? Then why not go to the Great Wall. Li Guang has probably greeted our ancestors several times in these days."

As soon as Gongsun Ao heard Li Guang's name, his face immediately showed disdain.

"Forget it, I haven't thought about going to the Great Wall and fighting the Huns day and night. At least for now, the time has not come yet."

Li Huan shook his head slightly. Of course he knew that the fiercest battle in the Han Empire was at the Great Wall. Although that was where a passionate man should go, why would he go to fight like this?

Let the Huns cut off their heads and then pile them in the military tent to count them slowly?

Su Jian chuckled and said: "If you can come up with new weapons and other good things, our army will be stronger."

"We can't rush these things." Li Huan drank kumis and took another bite of the greasy lamb chops, feeling extremely comfortable: "Where is Zhao Qiao'er who is leading the way for us?"

Su Jian paused while munching on the leg of mutton, and then said: "Let the general go find her now!" He turned to look at a soldier and shouted: "Go to Zhao Qiao'er, the general wants to see her."

Li Huan looked at the soldier who stood up with the leg of lamb and said, "The dozen or so Qiang women who led the way were also called over."

"I have the order!" The soldier immediately put down the leg of lamb and went to find someone.

Li Huan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, just go and eat it and catch it!" He threw his wine flask to the soldier. The wine contained in it was distilled spirits.

"I thank you, my lord!" The soldier caught the mutton ecstatically from the air and walked away while carrying the leg of lamb.

Li Huan felt that the logistics of this army was too poor. After all, Zhao Qiaoer was also the daughter of the Han family, and she was leading the way for him and others. Not to mention arranging a few people to look after him, he still had to find someone to find where he was now. ?

"Father Zhong, I'm full. I'll lead a team to patrol outside to see if we can catch the lone Huns who broke out."

Huo Qubing stood up and was about to jump on the horse. Li Huan didn't even swallow the meat in his mouth, and Huo Qubing had already ridden away on his horse.

"What a fool!" Li Huan glared, and immediately a large number of people in the bodyguard jumped on their horses and chased after Huo Qubing.

Su Jian smiled and said: "Li Hou, if you get rid of the disease, you will become a general in the future!"

Gongsun Ao sighed: "No, this kid has a very good brain, and this martial arts, hey! I really am not his uncle, I just lied to him, I feel that in another year or two, I am afraid I won't be his." rival."

"Oh?" Su Jian was surprised: "Is this the case?"

He was very aware of Gongsun Ao's bravery.

"In terms of strength alone, he is still far behind me, but when it comes to riding and shooting, I really may not be able to beat him." After Gongsun Ao said this, his face turned red, and he picked up the mare's kumiss with some hesitation. I drank a lot.

"He grew up in the army since he was a child. The martial arts he learned are all unique skills in the army. It's not surprising." After Su Jian said this, he suddenly thought of his sons. It seemed that besides his second son Su Wu, he could also If you catch your eye, the other sons are just mediocre...

However, if this is compared with Huo Qubing...

Su Jian immediately comforted himself in his heart, why should he compare with Huo Qubing? His son was not a ball of mud?
When night fell, the man was still not found, and Li Huan was not in a hurry. After all, when the army moved north, the entire Lingzhou area had been swept by the Han army.

Even if there were scattered Huns who escaped, they would hide as far away as they could, and no one would dare to come back.

War is like this. Once the momentum is gone, the defeat will be overwhelming and irreversible.

Under the light of the fire ahead, Li Huan suddenly noticed a group of soldiers forcibly dragging Hun women into the military tent?
What the fuck?

Such a thing actually happened under my command?
Li Huan turned around and glanced at Gongsun Ao, who had a lewd smile on his face: "Brother, this matter..."

"You forgot that you promised that the first person to kill the general and capture the flag would have priority in selecting beauties. This made the group of guys scream when they charged. What? Looking at these Hun women?"

"That's not true." Li Huan shook his head: "Of course we can't change what we promised, as long as my daughter from the Han family is not humiliated like this by the Huns."

When he said these words, Zhao Qiaoer's appearance came to mind again; what Su Wu said to him was that Zhao Qiaoer had a baby, but when he heard that the Han army had arrived, he strangled the child alive with the Qiang. !

"I'm really worried that you are one of those pedantic people. When brothers go to the battlefield, they hold their heads high and play with a few Huns women. If they still chatter endlessly, isn't that making people poke their spines? We use military merit to gain promotions. They just want to be punished for playing with a woman, where is the justice?"

Gongsun Ao laughed loudly, not taking this matter seriously.

Li Huan nodded, turned around and led the patrol team to the side. These soldiers were having a lot of fun. If he went to compete with one for himself, would he like it or not?Don't be inappropriate, do you want it?Then you always have to play with your brothers, right?

"In the past, I just said, be gentle and don't kill yourself. These Huns women are all good herders. In the future, this land will still need them."

Hearing this, Gongsun Ao looked puzzled again: "Old Li, this is with Wei Qing. These Huns women also belong to him. Take them back to Chang'an City and sell them for money. What are you..."

"Is there something like this in Wei Qing's camp?" Li Huan pointed to the distance. Wei Qing was almost the benchmark in the Han army.

Gongsun Ao's face showed a look of yearning: "Sometimes, he also plays with the soldiers, otherwise do you think, why when he leads the troops to fight, all the brothers are willing to die?
Li Guang is good. Li Guang's ancestor was Li Xin, the general of the Qin Dynasty. He was very particular about leading troops, but being particular about it was of no use. Can he win the battle?They also always say that Brother Wei relied on the Queen to rise to power. Is this military merit fake? "

Li Huan shook his head: "I have no objection to this matter. Just don't kill people. It's such a bad luck..."

At this time, Li Huan saw the soldiers who were looking for Zhao Qiaoer trotting over on horseback.

Horses are not allowed to run in the military camp, but this depends on the situation. If you are in an emergency or looking for someone, if you are not riding a horse, your line of sight will be blocked. Riding a horse, the viewing angle is higher, and the line of sight will naturally be wider.

"How's it going? Did you find Zhao Qiao'er?" Before the soldiers could speak, Li Huan asked with a smile.

The soldier turned over and dismounted, with a troubled expression on his face: "General, something happened. Zhao Qiao'er..."

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