Chapter 48 The Huns ransom the people

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On the morning of the fourth day of the sixth month, Zhou Fei sent someone back to report that the second commander of the Xiongnu led a team of 100 people to drive horses, cattle and sheep to the three-way pass, and was waiting on the T-shaped plain. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Gao Shun did not hesitate, and asked Ma Gui to inform the cavalry, prepare for battle, and deal with emergencies at any time; Then Li Qiang was called, and the two immediately rushed to the three-way crossing.

Hurry up, more than 10 o'clock, and arrive at the south fort of Jiabi Mountain.

The second commander and Zhou Fei, Cao Shan and others were already waiting in the south fort of Jiabi Mountain.

"Hello Commander!" Gao Shun greeted him from a long distance, showing great enthusiasm, they came to send wealth.

"I've seen the head of the Gao family, all the horses, cattle and sheep have arrived, and Captain Zhou has already counted them just now."

Zhou Fei reported: "General, we counted from the narrow area of the estuary, and counted each one, a total of 20,050 sheep, 2,005 cattle, and 3,320 war horses. ”

"How can there be a fraction?" Gao Shun wondered.

The commander explained: "Master Gao, we are afraid of losses on the way, so we brought more with us, which can be regarded as a gift to the head of the Gao family." ”

"Thank you, Commander, why don't you go to my castle for two days of rest? Let the officers and soldiers who deliver the goods rest here. Gao Shun said politely.

"And when are our personnel going to be put back?" The commander asked eagerly.

"Haha, Commander Thousand, we are doing business, we pay attention to reputation, since the ransom has been sent, how can we not let people go? How about putting it in tomorrow? ”

When the commander heard Gao Shun say this, he finally let go of his hanging heart, and it was one of his main tasks to rescue the captured people, and said with a smile: "Haha, the head of the Gao family is happy." ”

Gao Shun arranged for Zhou Fei to say: "Drive the cattle and sheep to the eastern triangular plain, and the horses will be free-range in the T-shaped plain first; Send a pair of pikemen to garrison the mouth of the Qinglian River in the south. ”

Put the livestock on these two plains to raise free-range, Gao Shun is very assured, the north of these two plains is the Zhujiachuan River, the river valley is dozens of meters deep, the river surface is from a few meters to dozens of meters wide, and the livestock cannot cross it at all; To the west is the Qinglian River, which has a similar structure; to the east is the Zhaozhuang Fort under construction; To the south is the steep Luya Mountain and its branches, and as long as 1 soldier is stationed in the Qinglian River Valley, not a single animal will be lost.

"It's the general!" Zhou Fei immediately responded.

Gao Shun said to Cao Shan again: "Take care of our friends." ”

"Yes, General."

"Commander, let's go!"

"Master Gao, please!"

Now is the friendly period, and the commander is not worried that Gao Shun will harm him, Haoqiang values interests and will not do unprofitable things.

The return journey was very slow, there was a distance of 15 kilometers from Jiabishan Nanbao to Zhaozhuang Fort, about 40 miles away in the Han Dynasty, they walked for nearly 3 hours, and it was 1 o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived at Taoyuan Fort.

Gao Shun immediately arranged for someone to have a banquet and ceremoniously entertained the commander.

At night, the commander was arranged in the guest room in the front yard of the city lord's mansion, and Gao Shun was alone transferred to guard 1 team of junior infantry; The backyard is his family, and there can be no accidents.

Thousands of people walked in the comfortable bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep for a long time.

He was thinking, this strong strength is too strong for his mother, not only to build a castle like Taoyuan Fort, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also to start construction of 3 fortresses at the same time, how much financial resources is needed? Moreover, the location of these 3 fortresses is very clever, only if all 3 fortresses are conquered can he threaten his Taoyuan Fort, and this Taoyuan Fort is also a difficult bone to gnaw; Fortunately, they made friends with them, otherwise, after they repaired the fortress, they could send troops to plunder the Xiongnu at any time, and the Xiongnu were simply unable to defend day and night, and if they counterattacked, it would be difficult to conquer so many connected fortresses, and even if they conquered, they would have to pay a heavy price.

After you go back, you must tell General Zuo, and deal with this Gao family master carefully in the future.

On the second day, the fifth day of the sixth month, according to Gao Shun's order, all the Xiongnu prisoners were released.

At the training ground of the infantry battalion, the soldiers took off their shackles and gave them their freedom, many Huns wept with joy, the tribe did not give up on them, and finally rescued them, and they no longer had to wear heavy shackles as coolies.

Many people became very arrogant, and they also believed that the Han people were forced to release them by military pressure from the Xiongnu.

Gao Shun, Li Qiang, Ma Gui and others accompanied the commander to the barracks to receive the prisoners.

Gao Shun said: "Commander Qian, the people who were captured twice are here, the first time 10 people were captured, the second time 648 people were captured, a total of 658 people, even the wounded have been healed, please count." ”

"Haha, we believe in the head of the Gao family too much, and we won't do that kind of boring little action, thank you to the head of the Gao family for healing the wounded of our clan." The commander was very happy, this master of the Gao family really did not break his promise.

Gao Shun smiled: "Haha, the commander is polite, we will be friends in the future; As a sign of our friendship, we prepared a few days' worth of dry food for each of us, and the water bladders were filled with water, which we could pick up at the camp gate when we left. ”

"Haha, thank you really for the hospitality of the head of the Gao family, you have considered it too comprehensively."

Hearing the conversation between the two of them, the heart of the fourth thousandth commander was simply blown up, how could there be only 10 people left in the second hundredth team? So he stepped forward and said loudly, "Thank you, Commander, for coming to our rescue, but why is there only 10 people left in our 200th team?" What about the others? ”

Gao Shun smiled: "Hehe, you're talking about the hundred-man team that came to attack us for the first time, right?" ”

"Yes!"

"Hehe, there are only 10 of them left, and everyone else is dead."

"I don't believe it, you must be playing tricks."

Gao Shun shook his head, very reluctant to deal with this kind of fool, but he still said: "You are wrong, we have not used conspiracy from beginning to end, especially in the end, we killed the opponent in a dignified manner, if you don't believe it, you can ask the remaining 10; At that time, I was afraid that I would not be able to speak clearly in the future, so I left 10 witnesses. ”

The second commander reprimanded: "What kind of system is it to roar like this? I'll talk about it when I get back. ”

"Yes." The fourth thousand-division commander is now powerless to argue with the second thousand-division, and now his strength has been weakened too much, and the other party is still here to rescue them, so he must be respected.

"Hehe, let the head of the Gao family smile; We'll go back now, and take our leave! ”

"Chief Xu Tun, send off the guests for me." Gao Shun said.

"Yes, host." For Xu Zhen, he is already very satisfied psychologically.

Li Qiang had already explained to Xu Zhen in advance, and he must give them gifts out of the three forks before returning.

Wei Wei led 1 Shi soldier to open the way in front; 658 Xiongnu prisoners followed on foot, followed by the 2nd Commander and Xu Zhen, as well as other cavalry.

Xu Zhen said to the second commander: "Commander, we must speed up and rush to the three forks to camp at night." ”

There were only three days' rations, and the hundred-man team still had some rations, but it was not sufficient, and they had to hurry as soon as possible, otherwise the dry food would not last until they returned to the base camp. So he shouted, "Speed up and go home early." ”

Fortunately, these Hun soldiers even had their leather armor stripped off and wore single clothes, so it can be said that they were advancing lightly, much faster than expected; They had to keep up with Wei Wei in front of them, otherwise they could easily fall behind, and they didn't want to be captured again.

Seeing these Huns running in embarrassment, Xu Zhen felt very happy, and his heart blossomed with joy.

After getting out of the three forks, the second commander asked to speed up, otherwise there would be insufficient dry food, and he led a team of 100 people to gallop in front, and more than 600 people trotted behind, and the scene was very spectacular.

After 5 days, return to the garrison of General Zuo.

General Zuo first scolded the group of prisoners: "You fools, do you know how much loss you have suffered for your tribe? After you go back, you must recuperate, after the autumn, General Ben will lead you to snatch back these losses, and whoever dares to be cowardly at that time, don't blame me for cutting him. ”

Subsequently, in the general's tent, the remaining 10 soldiers of the 200th Brigade and the 4,000th commander were respectively listened to the account of the war.

All the commanders were called in to accompany them.

Some people feel that the strength of the Han people is too strong, and some people feel that the conspiracy of the Han people is too powerful, which makes people unguardable, no matter how they think, anyway, they are now full of fear of the Han people in Taoyuan Fort, and no one wants to be arrested to do coolies, which is more uncomfortable than killing them.

Of course, there are also people who suspect that a little child can kill the Hun cavalry, which is unheard of; However, 6 people dared to lead the 1,000-man cavalry team by the nose, and finally led to the total annihilation, so that they had to defend.

Then the second commander told what he had seen and heard when he arrived at Taoyuan Fort, in short, the strength of this place was too strong to provoke.

The fourth commander said: "I would rather face the Xianbei 10,000 troops than fight these Han people, they are too cunning to understand the rules of war at all. ”

Hehe, are there rules of war in this era? The winner takes all!