Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 125 The True Meaning of the Great Han Soldier

Li Huan frowned and suddenly had an unpleasant feeling in his heart: "What happened to Zhao Qiao'er? Could it be that the soldiers were dragged away as a Huns woman?"

"That's not true." The soldier looked frightened, and his words became hesitant.

Gongsun Ao looked upset and cursed angrily: "You bastard, do you want me to help you straighten your tongue?"

The soldier was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said miserably: "General, after Miss Zhao learned that our army had regained Henan and that King Aries and King Loufan were defeated, she knelt down facing south, and then hanged herself!"

"boom--"

Li Huan felt that his head felt dizzy for a moment, and he was almost unsteady on his feet.

Gongsun Ao roared in shock and anger, grabbed the soldier, and roared like thunder: "What did you say? Say it again!"

"Zhao... Miss Zhao learned that our army had regained Henan, she knelt down facing south, and then... then she hanged herself!"

The soldier's voice was trembling, with a hint of crying.

Li Huan took a deep breath to calm his turbulent heart: "Where is the body? Take me there."

Gongsun Ao let go of the soldier and roared like a wolf: "Lead the way!"

After passing through the camp, Li Huan came to the edge of a small forest. There were many people gathering here. The more than ten Qiang women were here. The rest were Hun women, but no men could be seen.

Li Huan saw Zhao Qiaoer's body under a big tree, with purple lips, pale face, cold and hard hands, and the stench of feces on his lower body...

A single thick hemp rope hung on the big tree behind him, as if mocking everything in the world.

Li Huan sat on the stone, stretched out his hand to rub his head, half-closed his eyes: "When did you find her hanging?"

"Yesterday...yesterday!" A Qiang girl knelt on the ground, trembling, worried that the Han general in front of her would become angry and behead everyone.

"Did she say anything?" Li Huan turned around and asked after being silent for a moment.

The Qiang girl's voice trembled: "She knelt down toward the south, kowtowed a few times, and said that she had no face to see her hometown people again. At that time, we were still sitting together, talking, eating meat and drinking milk.

She also said that when she returned to Chang'an, good times were about to begin. She just sat around the fire and stopped talking. Whatever we said, she just giggled.

After taking a nap, I woke up and saw her hanging on the tree without making any sound. "

"So she hanged herself the night before yesterday?"

Li Huan then remembered that the day before yesterday was the day she returned. If she had not immediately thought of counting heads at that time, but thought of Zhao Qiaoer, would she not have hanged herself?
Maybe, maybe not; if a person wants to die, no one can see him.

"She said nothing but this?"

The Qiang girl's lips trembled in fright, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at the other Qiang girls.

Many women looked at me and I looked at you. Li Huan looked at them and almost cried out of fright. He waved his hands and said: "That's it, people can't be resurrected after death. You clean the filth on her body and put something on her body." Clean clothes, I’ll have someone make her a coffin and erect a monument!”

Li Huan stood up, pointed to the woods behind him and said, "Behind here is a small hill. She was buried here. Does this hill have a name?"

A Qiang girl shook her head and said, "The Hun girls here call this Xiaolin Mountain."

"Xiaolin Mountain? It doesn't sound good. From now on, let's call it Qiaoer Mountain." Li Huan turned around, squatted down, looked at Zhao Qiaoer's livid face, and reached out to touch it gently.

These days, he has come into contact with too many dead people, but for some reason, when he sees other dead people, he has no feeling at all. He even feels that they are not human beings, but at most they are just rotten meat marinated in lime.

But now, he wished that the cold body in front of him could regain its vitality.

I have endured so much suffering.

Counting the time, when she was more than ten years old, she moved to Yunzhong County with her parents, but was kidnapped by the Huns.

The hellish life began, and now more than ten years have passed.

Li Huan looked down at her stiff hands, and suddenly realized that he was so cold-blooded. Even in such a miserable situation, he could not shed a single tear.

Perhaps, the war made me grow up, make me stronger, and become cold-blooded and ruthless.

"Behead all the Xiongnu soldiers we captured and build a Jingguan in Qiaoer Mountain. I want generations of Han people to remember that there is a man in Qiaoer Mountain who was kidnapped by the Huns for more than ten years. Han women, when we conquered Henan, thought they had no face to see the people in their hometown, so they hanged themselves here."

Gongsun Ao trembled with fright: "Old Li, it is unlucky to kill prisoners, as there will be disaster. Li Guang killed Jiang Jiang when he was young. You see, he has worked hard for most of his life, but he has not been able to be granted a title. This is unlucky. !”

Seeing Li Huan walking outside Qiaoer Forest in a low mood and ignoring him, Gongsun Ao immediately turned his head and whispered to the soldiers beside him: "Go find Qu Bing! Hurry!"

The soldiers responded and quickly disappeared in front of Gongsun Ao.

Gongsun Ao caught up with Li Huan: "Old Li! Old Li! Listen to me, these prisoners have been reported to His Majesty. If you go and kill them all now, Your Majesty will favor you and will not care. This matter, but what about the courtiers?"

"What's more! This time, the brothers put their heads on their belts and followed you to death. You can't just forget about the brothers just because of your own anger, right? Lao Li! Lao Li!"

"Li Huan!"

"Marquis Li!"

"General Guard!"

Li Huan stopped, looked back at Gongsun Ao, smiled sadly and sighed: "Then withdraw it and pretend that I never said this military order."

"Oh! That's right!" Gongsun Ao stepped forward and put his arm around Li Huan's shoulders: "Let's go, we two brothers said as we walked, do you know why the last time I led the army to fight, we were all fired?" 7000 people?”

"why."

"This must be because I found a group of Han people who were kidnapped by the Huns. Let me tell you, it was very exciting at the time. I led the people in front to fight with the Huns for their lives. These Han women were there. Run for your life behind."

Gongsun Ao was full of emotions: "I can't do anything? So I can only play positional warfare with the Huns. Good guy, the Huns just rushed forward as if they didn't care about their lives. I was carrying a sword and cut off three mouths." !" Li Huan thought of the exaggerated length and generous back of the sword, and immediately couldn't help but give Gongsun Ao a thumbs up. This guy is really a pervert.

"After I got off the battlefield, my wife wiped my butt for me. It took more than a month before my hands regained their strength."

Gongsun Ao sighed: "Old Li, I understand what you are thinking now. If we soldiers cannot protect the land under our feet and the Han people behind us, we should be the first to behead. But there is still hope for us in the future." Will you continue to go to the battlefield? Killing a few more slave thieves can comfort these Han family members who were tortured to death by the Huns, right?"

Li Huan shook his head and sighed: "You just killed 7000 people like this?"

"I was almost beheaded. The queen and Lao Wei paid for it. My family can't afford that much money to atone for our sins." Gongsun Ao laughed honestly: "We are not people who came from a mother's womb. , can also be like brothers and sisters, and treat each other with sincerity, then life is worth living in vain."

"Brother, you are right!" Li Huan laughed, and a sense of belonging to this era quietly took root in Li Huan's heart.

Huo Qubing was riding a horse, standing in the distance, listening to the laughter between Li Huan and Gongsun Ao, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the martial artist beside him.

The warrior had a naive expression: "Young General, that was not the case just now. The general wanted to kill the heads of all the prisoners..."

"Okay, I understand..." Huo Qubing waved his hand and did not embarrass the martial artist. But at this moment, he saw Master Shengxue walking towards Li Huan and Gongsun Ao.

"Go and call that woman over. I want to talk to her alone."

"Here!"

The soldiers walked over quickly and intercepted the Shengxue Division whose target was Li Huan.

Master Shengxue glanced at Huo Qubing sitting on the horse from a distance, and a strange look flashed across his face.

This bearded, masculine general was different from Li Huan. This man's eyes revealed murderous intent. Master Shengxue felt that whenever he got close to this man, he would feel suffocated when breathing.

However, she didn't dare not go there.

"I wonder what the major general summoned me to do?"

Huo Qubing was condescending and looked at Master Shengxue with cold eyes: "Do you think those Hun women who were dragged into the camp by our Han soldiers are pitiful? Do you want to come over and plead for mercy?"

Master Shengxue's eyes twitched a few times, feeling a little frightened: "The Han army is a king's army, and a king's army should have the bearing of a king's army; the Huns are uncivilized grassland people, so they behave like animals. Things to come.”

As she spoke, she observed Huo Qubing's expression. Seeing that Huo Qubing had a cold expression on his face from beginning to end, she continued: "I have such an idea, although essentially it is because I don't want to see these people." Suffering, but actually for the sake of the general’s reputation.”

"But, what I have heard tells me that tooth for tooth, blood for blood, the master of the king is also to my Han people, the Huns are not my Han people yet." Huo Qubing's mouth showed a strong arc of ridicule. : "I remember the general said that what you did is called moral kidnapping. To deal with a bitch like you, I just need to remind myself that I have no morals, so you can't kidnap me."

Sheng Xueshi's complexion was terrifyingly pale, and his whole body was trembling slightly.

Huo Qubing was still sitting high on the horse, looking at her condescendingly: "If you don't want to be one of those Huns women in the military tent, then you'd better think about it, the general left you and let you live with dignity for What?"

"Oh! By the way, I almost forgot to tell you that the general only likes young women, especially married women. He doesn't like you at all."

After saying these words, Huo Qubing drove his horse away. Now that Li Huan had calmed down, he was naturally going to lead his people to continue patrolling outside. Even if he couldn't catch the Huns' defeated troops, he would shoot some hungry people on the grassland. Wolf is also a good choice.

In this battle, except for the beginning, when he led a charge and the soldiers around him saw blood, but with Li Huan's intervention, there was no real life-and-death struggle.

Similarly, Huo Qubing also discovered a big problem; when he was training before, he would ride on a horse and shoot at fixed targets, but when it came to war, the Huns were not fixed targets. They were riding on horseback. Running fast.

Then, shooting wolves becomes a more suitable training method.

The land of Henan is already owned by the Han Dynasty, and it is inevitable to eliminate the wild wolves.

In one night, Huo Qubing led his army to kill hundreds of wolves, and even captured a few wolf cubs.

The next morning, Gongsun Ao laughed and roasted this thing...

Huo Qubing felt a little depressed. He planned to take it back and raise it for fun, but his uncle roasted it directly...

A few days later, no matter how much the Han army's cavalry searched, they could no longer catch the scattered Huns cavalry. Instead, they entered into a large-scale wolf shooting activity.

After Li Huan learned the news, he wanted to stop this behavior. However, after riding around for a while, he still saw a wild wolf a hundred miles away from the old site of Lingzhou City, so he stopped and stopped it. thoughts.

Originally, he was worried that too much hunting of wild wolves would affect the ecological balance of this place, but in fact, he really thought too much...

In this era, the entire empire was very primitive, and the population was so sparse that it numbered only tens of millions at best.

This sounds like a lot, but in the world Li Huan lived in before, it was common for a slightly larger city to have a population of more than [-] million.

However, the current situation is that on such a vast territory of the Han Empire, the total population is nothing more than that.

Can the current population of the two Henan regions, excluding soldiers, be found to be 5?It may have been an overestimation. It was estimated that even the surrendered Huns, Qiang, and other tribes that Li Huan could not name would not be able to raise [-] people.

What was the population of Yinchuan in later generations?

There is absolutely no comparison.

Therefore, before receiving further orders from Emperor Liu Che, Li Huan had no way to rebuild the old city of Lingzhou, so he naturally followed Gongsun Ao to learn the skills of archery on the back of a galloping horse.

When Zhao Qiaoer heard that the Han army was coming, he strangled his and the Qiang's baby to death with his own hands. When he heard that the Han army had regained Henan, he knelt down south and then hanged himself, which shocked Li Huan a lot.

Therefore, Li Huan felt that this sharp arrow of revenge would one day be shot from his hand.

In the distance, a gray wolf jumped out of the grass nest. Li Huan had just spotted the gray wolf, and Gongsun Ao had already raised his bow and shot an arrow as fast as lightning, all in one go!
The running gray wolf was instantly shot in the neck by an arrow, and his body rolled uncontrollably on the grass five or six times. The bright red blood flowed on the gray hair, which looked like a large area of ​​black.

Li Huan looked at the gray wolf who had not yet completely expired, and frowned. He... He felt that it was impossible for him to learn the magic of shooting a moving target with a galloping horse.

Gongsun Ao saw Li Huan's face wrinkled in pain and couldn't help laughing: "Among the Huns prisoners we captured, there are eagle shooters. Why don't we find a few of them? They can do better than me!"

"Better than you?" Li Huan was surprised. Gongsun Ao's archery skills were already at the plus level in his opinion.

(End of this chapter)