In chaotic times, skill points are added: from hunter to martial saint, only killing and no mercy!

"It's all my fault for failing to supervise him properly, which led to his suicide and disrupted your business, sir. Please punish me!"

Looking at the Xiongnu man who had bitten his tongue and committed suicide in his hands, Liu Ye was filled with remorse and quickly apologized to Li Yi.

Seeing this, Li Yi simply waved his hand.

This person will die sooner or later; the only difference is whether he orders himself to be killed or commits suicide by biting his tongue.

The questioning was merely an attempt to learn about the mandrill shaman so as to prepare in advance. Even without obtaining information from him, Li Yi was confident that he could handle the mandrill shaman's retaliation in the future.

After exchanging words with Han Jia and others, Li Yi learned that in addition to the mountain demon, there were also several yellow sheep and a group of Xiongnu people who were driven by the Xiongnu who bit off his tongue and committed suicide to launch a sneak attack and kill dozens of soldiers.

The enormous yellow goat beast that Han Jia dragged here is none other than the Yellow Goat King!

Looking at the numerous corpses of strange beasts, Li Yi ordered his men to cut off all the useful materials from the beasts and place them in boxes to be taken back to Yanmen Pass.

As for the remaining meat of the yellow sheep, it was used as an extra meal, and a mutton soup was made and distributed to the entire army.

Without the interference of strange beasts and the Xiongnu people, the dense forest was quickly searched.

The mandrill's body, stripped of many essential materials, was covered by many dry branches along with the corpses of thousands of Huns.

"burn!"

At Li Yi's command, dozens of soldiers threw out their torches and burned the thousands of corpses on the open ground.

Having resolved the issues in the dense forest and dispelled the unease that had been lingering in his heart, Li Yi led the group back to the Yellow Sheep Plain.

"Sir, where do we go now?"

Holding the map, Gu Muda asked Li Yi a question under the watchful eyes of Liu Ye and the others.

The soldiers followed him northward, hoping to achieve merit.

Having ventured over 400 li into the territory and only managed to capture a few dozen Xiongnu heads, returning now would indeed be unwise.

After a moment's thought, Li Yi addressed Gu Muda and the others:

"Search for two hundred li along the Huangyang Plain in the west, north, and east directions. If there is still no success, then head south back to Yanmen Pass!"

Upon hearing Li Yi's words, many soldiers immediately rubbed their hands together, their eyes gleaming with excitement.

Soon, Li Yi established Huangyangyuan as his base and dispatched a large army to search the surrounding area.

In about seven days, the area within a radius of two hundred miles was completely searched.

The open space on Huangyang Plain was completely different from what it had been seven days ago.

In addition to the two thousand troops brought by Li Yi, there were several thousand rescued Chen people, several thousand captured Xiongnu people, and forty to fifty thousand cattle, sheep, and warhorses.

Even more astonishingly, Li Yi used the nearly ten thousand heads of Xiongnu he had killed to build a mound of human heads!

"My lord, the three tribes, including Yangling, are now less than one-tenth of their former strength. According to the information gathered by our scouts, they have all led their remaining people to flee to the bitterly cold far north."

The three tribes of Yangling were the three Xiongnu tribes that had previously occupied the Huangyang Plain. After completing the blood sacrifice to the mountain demon shaman, they led their people to hide near the Huangyang Plain.

However, under Li Yi's skills, their hiding place was nowhere to be found. After Li Yi and his men found them, they were defeated one by one, leaving only some remnants who fled to the bitter cold land.

After reviewing the statistics of the spoils, Li Yi nodded slightly.

"Nowadays, there are no longer any significant Xiongnu tribes on this vast Xiongnu grassland outside Yanmen Pass."

"In the short term, the Xiongnu will not pose a threat to my Chen state."

After a pause, Li Yi continued:

"In that case, we should head back!"

"Tomorrow morning, we'll break camp and head south!"

As Li Yi's order was issued, the soldiers who had earned military merit and were waiting to return to camp for their rewards burst into laughter.

The people of Chen, who had been captured and enslaved by the Xiongnu, were so excited to finally be able to go home that they shed tears of joy. Some even said that they would build a shrine for Li Yi after returning to Yanmen Pass!

Without the help and obstruction of these Xiongnu tribes, Li Yi and his group's southward journey went quite smoothly this time.

More than ten days later, looking at the mountain fortresses outside Yanmen Pass, everyone cheered with joy.

Compared to the last time, Li Yi captured more spoils in this battle.

This further enhanced Li Yi's reputation.

Inside the central army camp, General Guan looked at the list of spoils of war handed over by Li Yi, his eyes filled with joy.

"You little rascal, you never disappoint me!"

"After this battle, the Xiongnu will not have the energy to invade Yanmen Pass for a short period of time."

"Next, we should focus all our efforts on the enemy, Qing Kingdom!"

Thanks to Li Yi's advice, the Qing army was defeated several times, which brought a brief period of peace to Yanmen Pass.

However, in other border areas between Chen and Qing, war had long been raging, and some places had even fallen into Qing's hands.

Li Yi looked at the intelligence report handed to him by General Guan with a rather solemn expression.

Fortunately, with these spoils, the supply pressure at Yanmen Pass was not too great, which would give them a slight advantage in future wars with the Qing Kingdom.

Seeing that Li Yi had finished reading the battle report, General Guan patted Li Yi on the shoulder and whispered:

"You have made a great contribution this time. After I write up a battle report and submit it to the court, the officials will discuss it and then reward you."

After a pause, General Guan continued, "But before that, I have a gift for you."

"What gift?"

Li Yi had no dissatisfaction with what General Guan said, after all, this was a standard procedure in the army, and the same thing had happened when he defeated the Xiongnu.

But the gift that General Guan mentioned did indeed pique Li Yi's curiosity.

Seeing this, General Guan laughed and kept Li Yi in suspense, not telling him what the gift was.

"Come with me."

With Li Yi by his side, General Guan walked deeper into the military camp, asking Li Yi about his family situation as they went.

Li Yi chatted idly with General Guan, but a guess popped into his mind.

This direction seems to indicate the horse farm within the Yanmen Pass military camp!

Soon, General Guan led Li Yi to a rather large camp.

Hearing the sounds around him, Li Yi's face showed an expression of "I knew it."

This camp is the horse farm in the Yanmen Pass military camp!

Led by General Guan, Li Yi and his party arrived at a heavily guarded horse pen.

"When you went north deep into the Xiongnu grasslands, the general sent a batch of warhorses."

"Among these, the General specifically mentioned that a fine horse was specially sent for you!"

Was it delivered to me?

Li Yi was startled, and then followed General Guan's direction, looking into the depths of the horse pen.

At the end of the stable, a tall horse, its body as red as blood, was swaying its tail.

"Could this be an Akhal-Teke horse?"