Five thousand elite cavalry, half of which are archers and crossbow riders, at this moment, under Liu Xie's order, the archers have already mounted a single fire arrow, just waiting for Liu Xie's order, they will light the fuse and shoot the rocket.

Huang Zhong beckoned his hand and ordered: "Individual fire and fire arrows, one team and two teams are ready!" ”

For every hundred men in a team, 2,500 archers are 25 squadrons. Each person only carries one flaming arrow, so it is impossible to release them all, so they need to be used sparingly.

Moreover, when Liu Xie came out this time, he didn't plan to attack the city, but only fought in the field, so he didn't carry large siege equipment, such as sunset crossbows, all of which were fine horses.

But he said that the shouting and killing in front of him soon followed, but he saw that two horsemen galloped over quickly, it was Ma Chao and Pang De, and Liu Xie asked the soldiers with loud voices to shout at them to come over quickly.

After the two of them ran over, they saw a large group of Huns behind them after a while.

Ma Chao approached and said, "Your Majesty, a large group of people are coming." ”

Liu Xie said: "See, you go to the back and have a good rest." ”

The opposing brigade came to a stop at a stone's throw and formed a confrontation with the Han army.

Liu Xie called over to Ma Chao and asked, "How are you going?" ”

Ma Chao said: "Back to Your Majesty, Pang De and I went to the Hun village, mixed into a camp, and saw a general dressed more elegantly, and I didn't know who it was, so I killed him when I went in." When he was hesitating, he alarmed them, and led a large group of people to chase after them, and he never wanted to lure them over, and asked His Majesty to surrender his guilt. ”

Liu Xie said: "Meng Qi is not guilty, and listen to what he says." ”

Liu Xie asked a soldier with a loud voice to shout: "Who is here, why are you here?" ”

The leader of the opposing party said: "I am the right virtuous king of the Huns, and I am also the chef spring!" is chasing a murderous fugitive, why don't you hand him over! ”

Murder fugitives?

This is called the kitchen spring, Liu Xie knows, the right sage king of the Southern Xiongnu, the younger brother of Yu Fuluo, and the uncle of Liu Bao, the left sage king who has been dead for a year.

Ma Chao said that he went to the Southern Xiongnu camp and killed a general in a daze, but he was so shocked that the right king came to chase him, so he killed this person must be a very important person.

Liu Xie turned around and asked, "Meng Qi, who will you kill?" ”

Ma Chao said: "I don't know, Your Majesty, wait a minute, I'll open it and take a look." ”

As he spoke, Ma Chao opened the burden on his waist, revealing a head inside, and Liu Xie's sharp eyes recognized that it was Yu Fuluo!

"I'll you!" Liu Xie inadvertently came up with a modern Internet slang and said: "Meng Qi, I want to give you a great credit, and it is Yu Fuluo that you killed this person!" ”

Liu Xie saw Yu Fuluo, it was still last year, he was trapped in Hedong, and was captured by Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, although there was only one side, but his memory was still fresh, and he didn't expect that after this guy was at ease for a year, he was actually killed by Ma Chao in a daze.

After understanding this situation, Liu Xie asked the other party: "Hu Chuquan, you are a huge tribe, and you can't even look down on one person, who can you blame?" And you came to me and asked for someone, you have to have a reasonable explanation, right? For example, who of you did he kill? And who is this person you are arresting? ”

Because there was a stone's throw away, Hu Chuquan couldn't see Liu Xie, so he didn't know that it was the emperor of the Han Dynasty who was talking to him, and Liu Xie was also a messenger.

was asked by Liu Xie, Hu Chuquan didn't know how to answer.

Liu Xie could already guess that the Southern Xiongnu must not have known that their Da Danyu had died, in order to stabilize the people's hearts, Hu Chuquan did not announce the news, and he was reluctant to say it at this time.

Similarly, Liu Xie has no intention of disclosing his identity.

During the battle of Hedong last year, he suffered a big loss and almost hung up, although now he did not put the Southern Xiongnu in his eyes, but he also had a sense of vigilance.

Hu Chuquan said: "Anyway, if he kills my person, you have to hand him over to me, and we will be fine." ”

Liu Xie is examining the strength of these two sides, and now he has 5,000 people, and the other party has preliminarily estimated that there are at least 20,000 people, and seeing the smoke and dust behind him, there may be a large team of people coming.

The scouts had already found out about the matter before, and the Southern Xiongnu who migrated to the border of Liangzhou had at least 60,000 soldiers and horses, and it seemed that this time they were dispatched.

Liu Xie asked the soldiers to shout: "You allow me to discuss with my subordinates, please wait patiently for a while." ”

Liu Xie saw that the other party did not rush to kill, it was estimated that he was afraid, and he had to wait until he was not able to gather before he started, and Zhao Yun's 20,000 horses also came from behind, so Liu Xie could only delay time in order to win.

Liu Xie called Ma Chao and Pang De and the others to come over and said, "You two, you may have to work harder." ”

Ma Chao said: "Your Majesty has orders, although he said, the ministers will go to the soup and go to the fire, and they will not give up." ”

Liu Xie said: "You two killed their leader Yu Fuluo, and his younger brother Hu Chuquan will definitely not be able to give up, I guess they must be out at this moment, so there may be some emptiness in the rear." The two of you will immediately take a thousand fine horsemen and make a detour to their lair, if his lair is on guard, forget it, if there are really not many troops, you will stir up in his lair, and Shunbina will take all their family members captive, pay attention, keep a mouth, I will be useful. ”

Ma Chao said: "Your Majesty, there are not many soldiers and horses here, I will take away another thousand, how will Your Majesty deal with it?" ”

Liu Xie said: "It's okay, I'm delaying time here now, and as soon as the Zilong army arrives, I will wave a large army to attack." Go quickly, gather people from behind, and don't alarm the Huchu Spring. ”

Ma Chao Pang De received the order and went to the rear army to transfer people and horses.

As soon as the two of them left, Yan Er asked, "Your Majesty, Yan Er is stupid, I don't know what Your Majesty means by this?" Although there are many Huchuquan troops, they are not our opponents, and when the Zilong army arrives, they will be able to exterminate them with the whole army, so why should they be hostage to their families? ”

Liu Xie smiled and said: "Yan'er, you don't understand this, there are several tribes in the Southern Xiongnu, and there are two or three million people together, even if you kill Hu Chuquan, they have other leaders, and they can't obey my Han." ”

Yan Er said: "Your Majesty wants to recruit them?" ”

Liu Xie nodded and said: "Yu Fuluo is dead, this Huchuquan is the big single Yu of the Southern Xiongnu, as long as he is recovered, the entire Southern Xiongnu will be pacified, and this province will have a lot of trouble." Moreover, I had a relationship with this Huchuquan last year, and I think he is not a rude and treacherous person. When the Zilong army arrived, I persuaded them to surrender. ”

Yan Er praised: "Your Majesty's strategy is not something that we can comprehend. ”

"Sister Yan'er, how can you learn to be afraid of horses?"

Saying this, Hu Chuquan on the other side was already impatient, and shouted: "Hey, I said that your Han army is finished?" Don't waste time, hurry up and hand over the prisoners, and we'll turn around and leave at once. ”