A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

After Huo Qubing launched two more surprise attacks, he went around in circles and repeated the same task in a different direction.

This was done to reduce the number of troops in the Right Valley King's tribe as much as possible.

Unfortunately, the Xiongnu were not fools. When they had only 2 soldiers left in their tribes, they refused to send any more troops to help them.

Of the 2 men, Huo Qubing only had 1000, and some of them were lost.

Huo Qubing frowned and pondered carefully. He finally decided to launch attacks on the surrounding tribes, in order to injure but not kill, and to relocate as many wounded, elderly and children as possible to the tribes.

As the number of elderly people and children in the Youguliwang tribe increased, Huo Qubing turned his attention to the cattle and horses.

He planned to use these cattle and horses to create a great deal of chaos.

In other words, Huo Qubing had not read any military books, otherwise he would have known that Tian Dan's fire ox formation was a typical example of a battle in history where a smaller force defeated a larger one.

Fortunately, apart from the royal court, the other tribes of the Xiongnu lived nomadic lives, following the water and grass, and did not have fixed places, so they naturally did not build cities.

That night, Huo Qubing targeted the place where the horses were stored in the Youguli King's tribe. He had deliberately avoided this location in the previous days, so the defenses there were relatively weak.

kill!

Huo Qubing took the lead, charging into the horse farm with 1000 men behind him. With one hand holding a torch, he began to burn the horses' tails, while with the other hand, he used a weapon to leave wound after wound on the horses' bodies.

The horses, startled by the flames and their wounds, ran wildly in all directions.

It is important to know that the Xiongnu tribes had a large number of horses. Although the warhorses went to the battlefield, there were still many Numa horses. The Youguli King tribe had tens of thousands of Numa horses.

There was no need for Huo Qubing and his men to injure all the horses. Horses tend to follow the same pattern; if one group of horses became disorderly, it would cause disorder among all the horses.

After causing chaos in different places, Huo Qubing and his men moved their operations to the area where the Xiongnu were raising cattle and sheep, and repeated the same tactic, causing even greater chaos.

Seeing the entire tribe of Right Valley King in chaos, Huo Qubing turned his attention to the location of the elderly, children, and wounded soldiers in the outer tribes, hoping that these people would cause even greater chaos.

As dawn broke, the entire Youguliwang tribe bore the marks of war, along with the corpses of many Xiongnu people, horses, cattle, and sheep.

To stop the frightened horses and cattle, the Xiongnu people expended a great deal of effort and painfully killed many before they could barely control the situation.

But no one expected Huo Qubing to be so bold. With only 1000 men, he did such a daring thing and didn't run away. Instead, he launched a counterattack.

All their previous efforts and sacrifices were rendered futile.

Large numbers of cattle, horses, and sheep scattered and fled, resulting in countless losses.

Countless ordinary herders were injured by the rampaging cattle and horses. The Xiongnu were very primitive in this regard, and even now they still practice the methods of witch doctors, which have extremely poor treatment results.

Even so, a large number of witch doctors followed the army to the front lines, leaving very few in the tribes.

There is simply no way to provide an effective treatment for these people.

They can only tough it out.

However, enduring this hardship requires physical condition. A large number of cattle, horses, and sheep were released, leaving behind some carcasses, but it is summer now, and the meat cannot be stored properly.

Two days later they will face a food shortage. If they are injured and have no food, it would be strange if they could recover.

"Send a message to the king, asking him to send back some troops. I want to devour these Han people alive!"

"A nobleman of high rank in the tribe roared."

Clearly, Huo Qubing's strategy worked.

On the front lines of the battlefield, numerous battles are taking place every day, with small skirmishes every day and major battles every three days.

The entire battlefield was permeated with the stench of blood, which lingered for a long time.

This scene left the other empires who had come to observe the two empires' combat strength completely bewildered.

What grudge could lead to such a brutal beating?

It's a real tit-for-tat situation.

The Parthian Empire and the Roman Empire were not yet at a point of life-or-death struggle.

There isn't that much animosity between the two sides.

This was the first time I had ever witnessed such a high-intensity war, with smoke and fire everywhere, and a war involving a million troops. It could be said that an entire empire was fighting.

The empire is not stupid. Ever since the last Xiongnu invasion, those people have harbored designs on the Han Dynasty.

After that war, everyone was secretly talking about fighting the Han.

After gathering intelligence, they discovered the scale of the war.

The Xiongnu were actually divided into the Western Xiongnu, the Northern Xiongnu, and the Southern Xiongnu.

Several other ethnic groups also participated in the war.

The Xiongnu alone had no fewer than 60 elite troops involved.

Even with such formidable fighting power, they were still driven back by the burly man.

The Xiongnu, who started the war, have not yet recovered, and the Han Dynasty has already begun its counterattack.

Whether the Han Dynasty suffered low losses in the last war or had an exceptionally strong ability to recover, it all points to one truth: the Han Empire was powerful enough.

Some countries in the Western Regions that had already submitted to the Han Dynasty also secretly sent people over, their eyes filled with worry.

Although they hoped to get rid of the Xiongnu with the help of the Han Dynasty, they did not want to see a country more powerful than the Xiongnu control the life and death of the Western Regions.

They loathed the Xiongnu because the Xiongnu had inflicted countless blood debts on their country, but what they loathed even more was the fact that they were not in control of their own lives.

Politics is rational; compared to these blood debts, they hope their country can live with dignity in the future.

However, if the Han Dynasty directly eliminated the Xiongnu, its power would inevitably expand westward.

At that time, they will be facing the Han Empire, which is even more terrifying than the Xiongnu.

This is the tragedy of a weak nation.

King Youguli was furious after receiving the message from the tribe.

How could something like this happen a second time? Are all the people who stayed behind in the tribe useless?

This time, none of our opponents were as monstrous as the King Zhongwu of the Han Dynasty. Yet, with only 1000 men, they were able to cause such devastation!

After careful consideration, King Youguli did not choose to directly divide his troops and return. Instead, he went to the royal tent, found Chanyu Junchen, and reported to him that there was a Han elite cavalry force in the heart of the Xiongnu territory.

After all, times have changed. With Lou Jing's help, the Xiongnu now have some characteristics of a kingdom.

The Xiongnu Chanyu was the king of the Xiongnu, but these kings no longer held the power they once had.

After hearing about the losses suffered by the Right Guli King's tribe, Junchen Chanyu was also pondering the matter.

"Has the Eternal Heaven abandoned us Xiongnu?"

Junchen Chanyu sighed inwardly.

First, the Wei family produced brave generals generation after generation, and then the Han Dynasty produced such a young general who was both brave and resourceful at a young age. No one in the Xiongnu could compare to him.

If things continue like this, how could the Xiongnu possibly be a match for the Han Dynasty?

At this moment, Chanyu Junchen finally realized that the biggest gap between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty was not military strength or national power, but the presence of talented and powerful generals and outstanding next-generation and successive generations of generals.