"But I'm not a Huns, I'm a Han!"

Zhao Ponu glared at Zhao Xin angrily.

"I'm from Jiuyuan County, and I'm a real Han from the border county!"

Zhao Xin smiled: "Oh, then you go back to Dahan now and see if they accept you?" ”

Zhao Ponu choked and was silent.

He was originally a border citizen from Jiuyuan County, and belonged to the common people rather than a good family, and was arrested for fighting when he was a teenager.

Originally, the people in the border county area were martial arts, and everyone regardless of gender, could ride a horse and bend a bow, and their temper was often short-tempered.

A few half-grown teenagers are angry, and it is simply common for them to make a few reckless moves to each other!

As long as no one is killed, let alone the government, even the parents don't care!

It was also his bad luck.

At that time, it happened that the new Taishou took office, and he was a well-known cool official, and it is said that he offended too many people in the court and lost his favor, so he was assigned to the border county as a Taishou.

In the Han Dynasty, there were not too many similar examples.

When the cool official became the magistrate, the first fire was often not simply burned, but a part of the guys had to be completely scorched.

Zhao Ponu unfortunately belongs to this batch!

It's just a group fight, and the two sides use knives and guns, but the most serious thing is just scratches, and in normal times, it's not a problem at all!

As a result, at that time, he was punished to be a city dan for a lifetime!

What's that concept?

Let's put it this way, but none of the prisoners who are condemned to be prisoners will survive more than a year!

If you run into a boss with a black spot in your heart, you may not be able to survive for a month!

Lifetime?

That's simply hard work until you die of exhaustion, and the prisoners of this kind of punishment, whether they are overseers or colleagues, will not treat you as a human being!

Anyway, if you die, you will die in vain!

Zhao Ponu had no choice but to hold his breath and escape.

If the children of the border counties wanted to flee, they often fled from the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty to the north and entered the territory of the Xiongnu.

Then either they were caught by the Huns as sheep slaves, or they waited until the next time the Huns committed a border, and then they would find a person from Lizhai who had been slaughtered to disguise their identity and re-compile them into the household register.

Both of these are good luck.

If you're unlucky, on the vast grassland, countless ways to die are waiting for you!

Even if you are lucky enough not to die, after becoming a steppe savage, you will be no different from a beast.

Zhao Ponu is a little bit of luck and bad luck.

This kid's moral bottom line is quite high, and he would rather starve than rob the village, let alone do something to replace the identity of the dead.

I had to hunt alone in the steppe, and occasionally went to small tribes to steal something.

In the end, he still couldn't escape, and was caught by Zhao Xin himself during a hunt!

At that time, Zhao Xin had just returned to the Xiongnu, and was named the second king by Yizhi, and gave hundreds of Xiongnu tribes and thousands of affiliated tribes as Zhao Xin's "fiefs".

While Zhao Xinzhi is complacent, he is in urgent need of a trusted henchman.

happened to find that Zhao Ponu was a good player, a good horse archer, and he actually had a little talent in fighting.

He was alone again, helpless on the grassland, so he simply took him as his subordinate!

Zhao Ponu was so hungry that he only had one breath left, and his instinct to survive and Zhao Xin's fluent Chinese made him let down his guard and chose to surrender.

Later, during an operation to suppress tribes that disobeyed Zhao Xin's military orders, Zhao Ponu was promoted to centurion because of his bravery and good fighting, and became Zhao Xin's pro-army.

Then, in order to consolidate his prestige, Zhao Xin constantly suppressed and plundered the surrounding tribes who were unwilling to submit to the Xiongnu, or began to waver because of the military superiority of the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Ponu has made many meritorious contributions, and by now, he is already a captain!

In order to envelop him, Zhao Xin even gave Zhao Ponu tens of thousands of herdsmen to form a tribe by himself, and guarded around his Zhao Xin's royal tent.

He also gave more than a dozen Xiongnu tribes and hundreds of vassal tribes to Zhao Ponu.

It's not a matter of carelessness!

Even the generals and leaders of other Xiongnu, Wuhuan and other tribes under Zhao Xin have long regarded him as a real Xiongnu warrior because of Zhao Ponu's brave combat and boldness.

and those Han people who surrendered to the Huns, they are completely different treatments!

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is Zhao Xin's intention to cultivate another "Bank of China Theory" as his right-hand man in the Huns!

It stands to reason that the preferential treatment has been so far, and Zhao Ponu had to go into exile in the grassland because of the cool officials of the Han Dynasty, and he should be loyal to the Xiongnu from now on.

But quite the opposite!

It is entirely because of Zhao Xin's own kindness that Zhao Ponu has remained in the tribal sequence of the second king, and still thinks that he is a Han!

For the second king Zhao Xin, it is not so much "loyalty" as "righteousness".

It's all about repaying the favor!

Zhao Ponu himself never concealed this, and often emphasized with other Huns that he was a Han and did not want to be an enemy of the Han Dynasty.

But I don't know if it's the opposite, or if Zhao Ponu is too dazzling in the usual battle, but no one is dissatisfied with him because of this!

Especially the other Hu generals and leaders under Zhao Xin's account, they often joked with Zhao Ponu about this incident, as if he was really a Hun young man who mistook himself for a Han Chinese!

Even if someone is dissatisfied with Zhao Ponu's identity, they all use the tone of the elders to teach the juniors, and tell him bitterly that you are the warriors of the Great Huns, and it has nothing to do with the Han Dynasty.

Even if his name is "Broken Slave"!

Even this time Zhao Xin was ordered to attack Shanggu County, Zhao Ponu repeatedly expressed that he did not want to be enemies with the Han people and did not want to fight.

It turned out to be pulled out!

No one thinks that he is likely to betray, and they all think that this is a good opportunity for this kid to recognize the essence of his "Huns"!

It's not magical.

But thinking of the courtesy that Zhao Xin received in the Han Dynasty, he became the "former general" among the four generals who had the actual right to lead the troops.

Even a famous general like Wei Qing is relieved to let Zhao Xin lead an army to take on important combat missions when attacking the Huns!

Su Jian was still Zhao Xin's subordinate at that time, you dare to believe it if you want to obey Zhao Xin's military orders!

Zhao Xin surrendered to the Han, but he did not submit a letter of surrender, and became a mortal enemy with the Huns!

And after Zhao Xin was besieged by most of the Huns, he really rebelled without any psychological burden, which shows that this is not because Liu Che and Wei Qing are wise and wise, and there is no doubt about employing people.

Now, in Zhao Ponu's body, Zhao Xin, as a person who has surrendered and rebelled, actually repeated Liu Che's scene.

It can be seen that the human heart is sometimes so magical.

All in all, Zhao Ponu became a pioneer general in such a daze.

He led 10,000 elite Xiongnu headquarters and 30,000 cavalry of Wuhuan, Donghu, Kangju and other vassal tribes to approach Juyong Pass in a big way.

On the day that Tang Qi and Huo Qubing arrived at Juyong Pass and successfully met with Lu Fang.

The scouts of the Yulin Army, who were scattered by Huo Quai, hurriedly returned and reported important military information.

"The Hun striker, it's less than a day away!"