General Zuo was one of the commanders under King Zuo Xian of the Xiongnu, with more than 40,000 troops and more than 8,000 cavalry. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After receiving a report that his subordinates had quietly lost more than 3,000 people, dozens of them were missing, which was close to one-tenth of his subordinates, and he was very angry, so he immediately sent a thousand commanders to lead troops to inquire.

At first, he thought that he was being plundered by the Xianbei tribe or other Xiongnu tribes, and he didn't think about the Han people at all.

After the commander of the thousand troops arrived, the careful investigation for many days was fruitless, the traces of the battle were completely erased, and no corpses or traces of tribal migration were found.

After watching a number of former camps in a row, carefully analyzing and analyzing the situation at the scene, the commander finally found some strange things, such as some dilapidated tents still standing in the original camp, some small things were not taken away, and they were thrown everywhere, according to the clues of each camp, this is not in line with the style of the steppe tribes. In the end, the commander excluded the Xianbei and other Xiongnu tribes and determined that the Han people had done it. Now they were nominally the subjects of the Han Dynasty, and he did not dare to blatantly provoke a war against the Han, so he reported the matter to the Xiongnu General Zuo.

The Xiongnu Zuo General didn't care about this, and killed thousands of his people, which seriously weakened the strength of his tribe, and must not be forgiven, and the Han people must be repaid with blood, so he immediately sent someone to convey the order to the commander of the thousand commanders, and the Han people who dared to do something to the Huns must be exterminated, and avenge the dead Huns at all costs.

After receiving the order, the commander immediately sent several centurions out to inquire and ordered them to return within 2 days.

This territory is very special, with the Yellow River to the west, the Great Wall to the north, and the mountains to the east, with only a few small roads leading to the east side of the mountain range, and near the Xiongnu territory, there are not many Han Chinese left.

Several hundred-man teams returned in vain, but the second hundred-man team lost their traces, and they still did not return on the third day, nor did they send anyone to send back the news, and the commander decided that there was something wrong with this hundred-man team, and it must have been completely annihilated.

The commander was furious and was wiped out a hundred-man team, and his strength was greatly damaged; But this made him very cautious, and after thinking for a while he suddenly shouted outside the tent, "Someone! ”

"Commander, what do you command?" The guards who were on duty outside the tent immediately stepped forward to ask.

"Bring me all the centurions!"

"Yes, Commander!"

The 9 centurions soon came to the commander's tent, "Commander! ”

After everyone saluted, the commander said, "Everyone knows about the disappearance of the 200th team, right?" ”

"Yes!"

"I believe that the 200-strong team and the dozens of local disappearances are all the ghosts of the Han people, and I order that each of your 100-strong teams send a team to arrest some Han people in the east for interrogation, and you must interrogate the secret."

"Yes, Commander!"

This order would not have been difficult in the past, but now every centurion is very frightened, afraid that those they have sent out will not return; can quietly destroy dozens of Huns and thousands of people, and leave no traces, this skill alone is very powerful; Besides, to completely annihilate a Hun cavalry hundred-man team, at least thousands of cavalry troops must be encircled to do so, otherwise someone will definitely break out of the encirclement and come back to report the news.

However, they could not fail to carry out the orders of the commander, so they had to arrange them head-on, and instructed them to divide into two or three teams before and after, and to flee immediately in case of trouble, and they must not be completely annihilated by the Han people.

Although the commander of the thousand commanders had 10 centurions, the number of each centurion varied, ranging from more than 90 people to only 60 or 70 people, and they were very distressed for each loss of a team.

Now the situation of the Xiongnu is very difficult, there is a strong oppression of the Xianbei people in the north, which has greatly reduced the pastures of the Huns, and has completely retreated to the area south of the Yellow River, even the area south of the Yellow River is not completely owned by the Huns, and there are many Qiang people who have migrated to them, and they are also robbing the pastures of the Huns; In addition, in recent years, the continuous drought here has affected the pasture, the number of cattle and sheep of the Huns is decreasing every year, and many newborns and the elderly starve to death every year; Even so, the Han often transferred cavalry troops from the Xiongnu tribes, most of which went without returning, which reduced the youth and growth of the Xiongnu tribes, and the food, cloth, and money rewarded by the Han were shrinking every year, and their lives were very difficult.

Under the persecution of life, they would occasionally take advantage of the Xianbei tribe to fish in troubled waters when they went south to plunder, and let the people below go out to rob, but they did not dare to send a large army and blatantly make enemies of the Han people.

The Han officials have always turned a blind eye to the small actions below, and have never troubled them, as long as they don't make things bigger, but this time let them lose thousands of people, and completely annihilate them with a team of 100 people, is it tolerable?

The commander thought to himself, this time must teach the Han people a lesson, otherwise the land of grazing here in the future will not be safe, besides, the Huns' pastures have been greatly reduced, even if there is danger here, they don't want to give up these pastures.

On the morning of the second day, the scouts sent out yesterday returned one after another, and most of them brought back 1 or 2 Han Chinese, and the commander was very happy, and immediately ordered the 100 teams to interrogate them immediately, and they must get the secret of the whereabouts of the Huns here and the secret of the disappearance of the 100 people.

In recent months, the news of the village guards has been a hot topic in Yanmen County, and most of the local residents have heard about their western attack on the Xiongnu and the rescue of slaves, but they only know a little about it.

Under the severe torture of the Huns, these Han people successively told what they knew, and the Huns were not stupid, and gathered the news, and after identification, it was basically determined that it was the Taiping Village Village Protection Team, and according to the address of Taiping Village provided by these people, it was the direction in which the 200th team went to search. They wondered how the 200th team could run such a long distance.

After reading the interrogation information compiled by the 100-man team, the commander was furious in his heart, in order to save hundreds of Han slaves, they actually killed thousands of kind Hun people, and the 100-man team that went to investigate was completely annihilated, and this revenge could not be avenged.

In his impression, the Han people are not good at riding and shooting, that is, they plundered many war horses, and they cannot establish a strong cavalry unit in a short period of time.

Besides, he is not afraid of the Han border army, but he is still afraid of a village protection team? How many people can there be in a village? How strong can a village protection team be? The village guards were like flies and mosquitoes in front of his powerful cavalry troops, which could be killed with a single slap.

When they didn't understand the situation, everyone was full of fear of the unknown, but after understanding the situation, the mood was a lot easier, and those centurions had the same thoughts as the thousands, and they didn't put a village guard team in their eyes at all; Even if they have a cavalry force of several hundred people, if they want to completely annihilate a Hun cavalry hundred, they will definitely suffer heavy losses due to a fierce counterattack, and the other side should be in a weak period now.

This is a good opportunity for them to rob, not only to rob the property of the Han people in the name of justice, but also to rob some Han people as slaves, in order to make up for the shortage of labor force in their tribe; So the centurions scrambled to fight, and they had forgotten the lesson of the total annihilation of the 200th team.

Since General Zuo had asked him to avenge the Huns, such a small matter was not worth reporting to General Zuo again; Seeing that all the centurions wanted to fight, the commander decided to go out with all the people, and he tried to rob more, so he taught the Han people a heavy lesson.

So the troops immediately set off and went to Taiping Village to take revenge.

In their hearts, the Taiping Village Guardian Team is just an excuse, revenge is just a pretense, their real purpose is to plunder the wealth of the Han people and the Han population, only blood and knives can calm the anger in their hearts.