Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Some soldiers climbed up the ladder and saw a stove and firewood, as well as twenty crossbows and twenty bags of iron arrows.

The most amazing thing is that there is a wide window at regular intervals in the upper room. The window sashes can be pushed and pulled to move to both sides, and they are inlaid with large pieces of transparent crystal.

Through the window, the soldiers could see the shadowy mountains and stars in the distance, as well as a crescent moon.

"Oh my God! I want to live here and never leave!" The soldiers sighed and hurriedly put down their luggage and lit a fire in the stove.

After inspecting the fifteen long houses, General Zuo and his deputy generals ordered the soldiers to go inside to rest, and arranged for people to guard and patrol the upper floors, rotating every hour to ensure that every soldier could rest peacefully.

Afterwards, General Zuo abandoned the large cowhide tent and moved into the box house, squeezing together with the soldiers.

The only difference was that the general was wrapped in a quilt, while the others were covered by several people to one quilt.

Fortunately, after the stove was lit, the box house was very warm, and the soldiers would not be cold even if they did not have access to quilts.

It was late at night and everyone was fast asleep when they heard a soldier on the upper level shouting at the ladder entrance: "Enemy! Enemy!"

The soldiers were frightened and jumped up immediately!
General Zuo also sat up quickly, put on his outer robe and rushed to the upper floor.

Shen Xun was sleeping on the upper floor. He jumped up, grabbed a crossbow and went to a window.

I saw a large group of people slowly approaching from a distance. They did not light torches and approached silently.

When he got closer, Shen Xun saw that these people were all wearing fur hats, fur coats, and holding bows and arrows or spears in their hands.

It turned out to be the Huns!

There were so many people that I couldn't see how many there were, but they were coming from all sides.

Shen Xun suddenly felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

If my sister hadn't provided them with a sturdy and stable iron house tonight, I guess more than a thousand people like me would not be enough to fill their stomachs.

"Shoot!" Shen Xun gave an order, and the soldiers in the five windows fired crossbows at the Huns.

shhhhhhhh!

A rain of arrows flew out and pierced directly into the chests of the Huns, causing them to fall off their horses one after another.

The Hun leader who was surrounded was still puzzled because the scouts reported that there were more than a thousand Han troops stationed here, so they prepared to launch a surprise attack late at night.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the Han army camp, the row in front of them were suddenly shot and killed by arrows.

The screams of the Huns continued one after another, scaring the others so much that they quickly turned their horses' heads and moved out of the range of the bows and crossbows.

Looking at the dark circle of houses in front of them, the Huns were stunned.

When did the Han army build houses here?

They also built a circular fortress. How are we going to attack it?
But if we don't fight, since we have come all the way here and run dozens of miles, won't we be scolded by the Chanyu if we just go back like this?

"Attack with fire! Burn the Han army to death!" the leader ordered loudly.

He just didn't believe that the makeshift tent house could withstand the fire?
So the Huns wrapped kerosene on the arrows, lit them, rode their horses into the shooting range, drew their bowstrings to their full potential, and shot at the dark house.

Upon seeing this, the Han army quickly closed the windows, because the crossbows had a shorter range than the longbows, and they could not reach them even if they wanted to counterattack.

As rockets hit the box house, the Huns finally saw what was in front of them.

It was a long strange house with walls that seemed to be made of metal. Instead of catching fire when shot by arrows, it made strange noises.

"Stop! Stop!" Seeing that neither fire nor arrows had any effect on him, the Hun leader quickly ordered to stop shooting.

Because there is a limited number of arrows, and once they are shot, they are gone.

"Retreat first and wait until dawn!" The Hun leader didn't dare to let his men die again, and said bitterly: "I don't believe they can stay here forever?" With a whistle, a large group of Huns retreated.

The Han army watched helplessly as many war horses galloped away, feeling regretful.

"Damn it! Why did he run away?" Chen Wuhou was filled with regret and said to General Zuo: "Shouldn't we chase him?"

"What are we chasing? They have more than 800 cavalrymen, and we only have 400 or 500! How can we win?"

General Zuo waved his hand and asked everyone to rest quickly: "Go back and get some sleep! Who knows when the Huns might attack again!"

Everyone lay down on the upper floor, leaving only two people at each window to observe outside.

Shen Xun added some firewood to the stove, and by the light of the fire he wrote a letter to his sister, asking her to receive the evacuation notice before moving back into the house.

Otherwise, if the Huns surrounded them, his army of a thousand people would not be able to defeat the more than a thousand Hun cavalry.

Nothing happened that night. At daybreak the next day, the Han army rushed out to clean up the battlefield.

There were more than a hundred Huns dead on the ground. Some of them were not fatally injured, but were abandoned by their companions and froze to death in the Gobi Desert.

Ten scouts were also sent out to scout the enemy situation in different directions.

All the soldiers came out of their warm houses, walked on the creaking ice and snow, went to the stream, broke the ice to wash, filled the empty buckets, and put them back into the house.

Chen Wuhou asked General Zuo: "Should we stay here or continue on?"

General Zuo thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait for the scouts to come back first!"

If those Huns left, he would follow them. Anyway, he now had 300 more bows and crossbows. If he really faced more than a thousand Huns, he would not necessarily lose.

If the Huns did not go away last night, we should be careful, as they are probably waiting for reinforcements.

An hour later, two scouts came to report that two teams of Huns were gathering here, with about two thousand people.

"It is as expected!" General Zuo immediately ordered the soldiers to gather quickly. Some of them climbed onto the roof with bows and shields, ready for battle.

There were others guarding the windows, also holding bows and crossbows.

Shen Xun received another letter from his sister, asking him if he needed anything and she could send it to him immediately.

Shen Xun glanced at the roof and told her his thoughts.

After a while, a row of hay bales appeared on the roofs of the fifteen boxes.

The soldiers were overjoyed and quickly moved the bundles of hay to suitable locations to use as cover.

Then, a large number of Hun cavalry came slowly. This time they did not surround the Han army. Instead, they targeted a direction and began to attack fiercely, trying to cross the barriers of the houses and climb into the circle.

Unexpectedly, the hundreds of Han soldiers were not to be trifled with, and hundreds of bows and crossbows fired at the same time.

After several rounds of attacks, the Huns retreated in panic, leaving behind hundreds of corpses. Seeing this, General Zuo immediately led more than 400 cavalrymen to chase after them.

They were not chasing the Hun cavalry, but capturing the war horses that were left everywhere.

Shen Xun and Chen Wuhou also led people to rush out to help, leaving only 200 crossbowmen to guard the roof.

Half an hour later, the Han army brought back more than a hundred war horses and eliminated many injured Huns.

The Han army stripped off all the clothes and boots of the Huns, and also picked up many weapons and bows and arrows.

General Zuo was overjoyed. He asked the soldiers to put the things into the house and notified the troops to set off.

Of course, before setting off, Shen Xun was asked to inform the community god and have him pack up all the houses. (End of this chapter)