Originally, Zhou Fei wanted to continue north, but the sudden heavy snow interrupted his plan and he could only stop the attack.

In order to save food, it is necessary to retreat as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a shortage of food, and the consequences will be unpredictable.

The first to demand a retreat were the Qiang and Wuhuan who were about to be sold into slavery.

The second to be asked to retreat were the Hun cavalry.

Finally, the Han cavalry, except for the troops under the jurisdiction of Guan Yu who stayed in Gaonu City, all the other troops withdrew to Gaoyang County and Yaxian County, fortunately there was a wide and smooth straight road, otherwise it would not be possible to even retreat.

The retreating troops can only wait for the weather to improve next year before they can continue to move north again.

The Huns no longer have the enthusiasm they had at the beginning, and they were enthusiastic when they began to exterminate the Wuhuan tribes, defeating many Wuhuan tribes in succession, and won a reward of 150,000 stone of grain, but in the subsequent war, they had few results, which made them very frustrated.

The Xiongnu Zuo Dadanghu, as well as the scribes arranged by Guan Yu, escorted the captured Qiang people from Yangzhou County to Gaonu in the south. Due to the fact that there were scribes to follow, the Huns did not dare to swallow up these prisoners of war and capture, so they could only be obediently handed over to the Han Dynasty.

Zhou Fei happily cashed in their food.

Before retreating, Zuo Dadang visited the Xiongnu General Zuo, hoping to exchange some foreign slaves, General Zuo had already had this intention, and the two hit it off.

Zuo Da Dang Hu Department is lacking women, and Zuo Da General Department is lacking is Qing Zhuang, the last war against Xianbei, the number of Qing Zhuang cavalry killed in the battle, there are many widows in the clan, he hopes to buy some Qing Zhuang back, strengthen the strength of the tribe.

Zhou Fei agreed to the request of the Huns, but according to the previous requirements, if they wanted slaves, they needed to pay forty stone of grain each.

After consulting with General Zuo, Zuo Da decided to leave 120,000 stone of grain and buy 120,000 stone of grain slaves, half male and half female, for a total of 3,000 people.

After replacing the vouchers, they are ready to select people.

Zuo Da Danghu wants to choose a woman between the ages of ten and thirty; General Zuo, however, wanted to choose a man between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five.

Xu Huang didn't understand Zhou Fei's decision and asked, "Junhou, do you really let the Huns pick so many slaves?" This strengthens them. ”

Zhou Fei smiled: "Hehe, how can you follow their wishes?" I have arranged for the scribes over there to divide all the slaves by age group, every ten years of age, and divide them equally into all ages, no matter how many they want, so that they will not be strengthened in a short time, but it will still increase their burden, but reduce the logistical pressure we have now. ”

Although this method is not perfect, but now that there are so many slaves, it can only be so, which will reduce a lot of trouble and save a lot of food.

At present, these Wuhuan and Qiang people do not know that they will be sold into slavery, and they believe that the Han people will relocate them to other places.

In order to avoid information leakage and reduce the riots of these people, the scribes made adjustments on the basis of Zhou Fei's order, no longer divided according to age groups, but according to tribes and families, and the Qiang people of the entire tribe were all sold to the Huns, and the insufficient part was made up by the scattered families of Wuhuan or Qiang people.

Zhou Fei felt that this method was better, so he readily approved the suggestion.

The Huns were very unhappy with this, seeing that the slaves they bought were old and small, even if some young men and women were either weak or ugly, but Zhou Fei was strong, and they could only accept this plan painfully.

What made them even more unhappy was that in the division of the pasture, Zhou Fei made another small move, and promised to give all the new land in Xihe County to the Huns; Now that the war is only half underway, and Shangjun has only recovered half of the area, the original promise has been halved, and only half of the pasture can be given to the Huns, and half of it is to the north.

Hearing the news, the angry Huns almost vomited blood on the spot, and scolded the Han people in their hearts for being too cunning, and they fell for the conspiracy of the Han people again. However, what Zhou Fei said is reasonable, they can't refute it, and the situation is stronger than people, their opposition is invalid, and they can only passively accept it.

Xu Huang was overjoyed, and after discussing with Zhou Fei, he decided to build two more counties on the territory of Xihe County, namely Luxury County and Lin County. Lin County was considered to be reorganized, and the location of Wubao County in later generations was only moved from the east bank of the Yellow River to the west bank of the Yellow River.

The location of Yu County was re-established, which was the location of Qingjian County in later generations, to commemorate the territory recovered by Guan Yu.

Although the Huns were unhappy, the Wuhuan people were very jealous, but their war exploits were too few, in addition to envy was the hatred of the Huns, and the food and military exploits obtained by the Huns were all obtained by killing the Wuhuan people.

After the arrangements were made, Zhou Fei ordered the Huns to return to Lishi with their slaves. The march in the snow and ice was a great test for them, and all the slaves marched on foot, following in the middle of the Hun cavalry, and they did not yet know what fate they would face.

For the Wuhuan cavalry and the Han cavalry, Zhou Fei also announced the number of rewards according to the results of the statistics of the scribes.

Although the reward received by the Huns was much less, it was already very satisfactory to those Wuhuan cavalrymen, so that on the basis of salaries, plus rewards, their families could easily survive the cold winter in front of them.

In the future, the taxes they bear will be lower, and their families will soon be able to live a good life, which makes the Wuhuan cavalry more loyal to the Han.

Zhou Fei was in a good mood, not only cashed in the rewards for all the officers and soldiers, but also specially increased the rewards, all Han officers, from the commander to the captain, could choose a maidservant, concubine or slave from the slaves.

The most positive are, of course, Song Xian and Zhou Cang, the two took the lead in choosing people, and each chose a beautiful little girl about ten years old, who is now a slave and a concubine in the future.

With the two of them taking the lead, the other officers put down their figures, were no longer shy, and rushed to choose people, lest they would be too late to choose.

Xu Huang was afraid of causing confusion, so he only made temporary requests, according to the rank, and selected them one by one, with senior officials preferred.

This move not only satisfied the officers, but also stimulated the ordinary cavalrymen, who secretly made up their minds to challenge the commander or even the commander with logistics and training, so that they could not only get a higher salary, but also have unexpected benefits.

Even those officers secretly encouraged themselves that they must be promoted to another level in the future, and they must not lag behind others.

The reward for Guan Yu was to allow him to select two thousand cavalry from the freed Han slaves, so that the number of his army would reach seven thousand, these Han slaves were all strong men, and they were all skilled in bows and horses, after a period of maintenance, when the body recovered, they would be very good cavalrymen, and they were full of hatred for foreign races, and decided to be a strong army.

The remaining Han slaves and the newly incorporated Wuhuan cavalry and Qiang cavalry were all under Xu Huang's jurisdiction, which greatly increased Xu Huang's strength, with more than 10,000 cavalry and infantry, and Zhou Fei had to increase his army and allow him to expand the cavalry and infantry to 20,000.

The sudden heavy snowfall relieved the Qianghudian in the north and west of Shangjun, so that the Han army would stop the pace of the offensive and even retreat, relinquishing the territory it had occupied, which would then be taken over by them and expand the pastures of their tribes.

The Xiongnu Youxian King was the most happy, now his strength is strong, he has occupied the territory south of the Yellow River in Shuofang County, seized the territory east of the Yellow River of the Xianbei people, and occupied the northwest region of Shangjun; If the Han army absorbs the Wuhuan people, defeats the Qiang people, and unites the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang's department, then he will move his sword against his right Xianwang department; The heavy snow stopped the Han cavalry from moving north, and he saw it as a reward from heaven for the Huns.

The most unhappy were Zhang Wen and others stationed in Chang'an.

They fought for half a year, without any results, but they did not think that as soon as Guangnian Hou came out, they obtained fruitful results, and made the Qianghu around Shangjun have the movement to move to Liangzhou, which will increase the difficulty of their extermination of Beigong Boyu and other bandits.