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

Two days later, the Huns in Luntou City could no longer bear the hunger and opened the city gates to fight.

Then the Han soldiers, all with rosy faces from eating, rushed over on their fat and strong horses.

Countless arrows whizzed in and flew straight into the Huns' ranks, followed by soldiers holding spears and halberds rushing over to finish off the attack.

In a short period of time, countless Huns were killed and wounded, and even the leader was shot by several arrows.

An hour later, the battle was over. Chen Wuhou cut off the head of the Huns leader and hung it on the back of his horse. Shen Xun also cut off the head of a small leader.

These are all military merits, and you can be rewarded for your merits if you bring them back.

Then it was time to clean up the battlefield.

The Han army first collected all the treasures that the Huns had looted from other places, a total of six large sheepskin bags, and handed them all over to General Zuo.

But they kept all the horses and swords they found, including those they stripped from the Huns.

The soldiers accepted all the clothes, furs, boots and pants that were offered to them. They stripped off anything that could be used.

Shen Xun searched the young leader and found a dagger and a scimitar, as well as the wolf-tooth necklace around his neck and the fox fur cloak on his body, and took them all for himself.

Chen Wuhou also looted all the things from the leader, keeping a jeweled waist knife and a fox fur coat for himself, and gave the rest to Shen Xun: "Offer these to the community god later. I want the thing on your wrist that can tell time."

Shen Xun didn't hesitate to take a large handful of beads and jade pendants, as well as a gem-inlaid belt, a pair of sheepskin boots, and a pair of trousers.

Sheepskin boots and pants can be washed and worn, or given as gifts.

As for those Huns who were slightly injured and could not escape, as long as they laid down their weapons and did not resist, the Han army did not kill them. Instead, they tied them up, strung them together and brought them back to the camp.

Shen Xun estimated that in this battle, the Huns suffered about a thousand casualties, two to three hundred escaped, fifty to sixty were captured, and more than two hundred lively war horses were recovered.

Now, his battalion of fifty people finally had mounts.

During the night rest period, the prisoners were tied up and locked in a container house, where they were guarded by dozens of people in shifts.

General Zuo also ordered people to cook a large pot of porridge and give each of them a bowl to prevent them from starving to death.

The Han army ate rice, boiled horse meat, and drank vegetable soup.

The captives looked at the Han army's greasy mouths and suddenly calmed down.

One of them suddenly spoke up: "I used to be a Han Chinese, and I'm willing to join your team."

A Han soldier sneered: "It's too late to say this now. When you killed our Han soldiers before, why didn't you say that you were also a Han citizen?"

The man lowered his head.

He is indeed a Han Chinese, but he secretly left the country with his family when he was young and lived on the grassland for more than ten years.

This year there was a severe drought on the grassland, the pastures were barren, and all the cattle and sheep starved to death. Many tribes had to migrate south to find food.

Unexpectedly, the temperature dropped sharply as soon as winter arrived, and then it snowed heavily, catching the tribe off guard.

Now that he has suffered another defeat, if he continues to hide his identity, he might be dead.

The desire to survive made the man raise his head again: "I am willing to do anything, please don't kill me."

"It's not up to us to decide whether to kill you or not. It depends on the general's opinion." A soldier said, "But if you behave yourself and don't cause any trouble, you might be able to survive."

As soon as these words were spoken, dozens of Huns turned their heads and looked at the soldiers with burning eyes.

Although they did not belong to the same tribe, there were several Han people in each tribe, so they could understand what the Han army said.

The soldier was startled and pointed his halberd at them: "What do you want to do?" Several captives shrank their necks and said: "We will all be obedient, don't kill us."

Soldier:.
Silent all night.

The next day, the Han army packed their bags and prepared to return to Wulei City.

Fifty or sixty prisoners pushed and pulled several fully loaded carts and walked in the middle of the team, occasionally looking back at the dozen or so large houses that had been left behind.

Although the appearance of these houses is very strange, there are still a lot of rice and other items stored in them. Could it be that they are all unwanted?
As the team moved further and further away, when several prisoners looked back again, they suddenly found that the dozen or so large houses had disappeared.

The captives were horrified and their hearts were beating wildly.

However, by the evening, the dozen or so houses appeared again.

The captives felt their scalps tingling, and those who had other thoughts in mind also crawled down, muttering to themselves: "It turns out that the gods protected the Han army, no wonder we lost."

After walking for another day, they finally approached the city of Wulei and saw from afar that the city was surrounded by a large number of Hun cavalry.

The city gate was burning at this moment, and it would probably not be long before the Huns broke in.

General Zuo sat high on his horse, looking at the cavalry in the distance, and waved his hand to order all the cavalry to charge towards the Huns.

Li Mao now had eight hundred cavalrymen, all of them wearing looted Hun fur coats, and running towards the Huns with crossbows in hand.

Shen Xun and Chen Wuhou were also among them. They led their troops in a fan shape and surrounded the Huns.

The Huns had already seen a group of people coming, but because General Zuo and his men did not raise the Han army's flag, they did not know who the newcomers were.

When they got close, bows and crossbows flew over, and the Xiongnu people shouted: "Han reinforcements! Han reinforcements!"

For a moment, the Huns were in chaos.

General Li Yu on the city gate tower still did not send anyone to help. He just watched quietly as his cousin's hundreds of cavalrymen chased thousands of Hun cavalrymen.

Finally, even his staff could not bear to watch and whispered, "General, let's send troops out to help General Zuo immediately, otherwise if the Huns react, General Zuo will be in danger."

The general glanced at his staff coldly and said, "Sir, you are wrong. My cousin has his own decision and will not do anything that will lead to defeat."

The aide stopped talking, but cursed him in his heart: "Idiot."

If I can return to the court safely, I would rather eat coarse food for the rest of my life than be the aide of Li Yu, that fool.

Shen Xun and others also realized that something was wrong in the city, so they stopped chasing and quickly returned to their positions.

At this moment, General Zuo had asked the captives to draw fifteen locations and signaled Shen Xun to write a letter to the gods as soon as possible.

Shen Xun had no choice but to write down the new address on a piece of paper immediately, anxiously waiting for his sister to call him back.

But it was not time to set up camp yet, and the letter and the key chain lay quietly on the carriage, without any movement.

"General! The Huns are surrounding us!" someone shouted, with anxiety in his voice.

General Zuo took a look at the letter and waved his hand to have the soldiers form a circle, raise their crossbows and point them out in unison, ready to shoot any Huns who came within range.

However, more and more Huns rushed towards this side fearlessly, trying to use human wave tactics to deal with the Han army's crossbowmen.

Shen Xun had no time to care about the key chain on the cart. He raised his crossbow and shot arrows at the enemy.

Suddenly, General Zuo shouted in surprise: "The community god has taken the letter! Everyone, hold on a little longer! We will be saved soon!" (End of this chapter)