Herders, with their scarce military experience, can draw some simple inferences.

The temperament of the Han people can be called fierce.

As for those Han soldiers, they must be called terrible!

A small Han village, but fifty or sixty men in the prime of life, facing thousands of Hun cavalry, guarded the center of the village for three whole days! The number of Huns killed and wounded by those Han strong men even exceeded the number of people they could fight!

A team of more than 200 Han infantry faced nearly ten times the Hun cavalry, and fought and left. In one day, they killed hundreds of Hun riders, rushed forward thirty miles, and successfully entered a dock fort still guarded by the Han people, which made the noble lord who commanded this battle both angry and afraid!

After trying the power of the Han people, the herdsmen privately talked about these "men"1, and they felt extremely frightened. Now the emperor of the Han people is in trouble and can't take care of them, the Xiongnu herdsmen. But what if in the future, the emperor of the Han people freed up his hands to retaliate against them?

As he thought, the herdsman straightened his neck and glanced around. Although the aristocratic lord of the tribe said that the Han people are now rebelling everywhere, they can't care about the "Great Xiongnu Kingdom" at all. However, as long as the herdsmen think of the strong combat power of those "men", their hearts shudder.

The surroundings are calm.

The herdsmen put their minds at ease and continued to nibble on the jerky and multigrain cakes in their hands, not bite. These things were his rations for a day, but he didn't dare to eat them too quickly. Otherwise, at night, people will not be able to sleep well if they have no food in their stomachs.

Suddenly, the barking of a sheepdog sounded.

The herdsman hurriedly stuffed the jerky and multigrain cakes into his bosom, turned over, jumped on the horse, and looked around at the height of the horse.

――Isn't there any movement?

- Not true! What is that?

Although soil erosion has begun to take shape on the Loess Plateau in the Han Dynasty, it will not be everywhere. Low grass edges, sparse trees, can still be seen everywhere.

The figure of the attacker approached step by step with the cover of these sparse trees.

At the first time, the herdsman took out the bow and arrow he carried with him. However, when he saw the weapon in the hands of the attacker, he immediately lost the courage to bend his bow and shoot arrows.

What the attacker was holding in his hand was a crossbow!

The crossbow is a weapon with a precise structure and complex production, which is not a good job made by the craftsmen of the steppe herdsmen. And none of the herdsmen in the entire steppe have the financial resources to use the high-priced, easily damaged crossbows. Except for those rich and powerful aristocratic lords.

It is said that the total number of crossbows owned by so many nobles in the entire Xiongnu court did not exceed five hundred.

Based on this alone, the herdsmen with a little insight knew that the attackers must be Han Chinese. After he hurriedly caught a glimpse of the scarf on the attacker's head, the identity of the other party could be completely confirmed.

You know, according to custom, the Huns either wore their hair loose, or tied their hair into various braids. Only Han Chinese wear a scarf on their heads.

Therefore, the herders clearly know that the only thing they have to do now is to do that:

- Run!

Flee back to the tribe and inform the nobles of the news of the appearance of the Han people and the Han army!

However, the next glance, the herdsman saw the flock of sheep around him, and his movements stopped.

These more than 50 sheep, but the noble lord asked him to graze! Losing the old man's sheep is a great sin!

The last time a companion lost a sheep while grazing, he was whipped twenty lashes by his executioner on the spot. If the more than 50 sheep were lost, the herders could not imagine what would happen to them.

The consideration of the old man's anger made the herdsman subconsciously clench the bow and arrow in his hand. However, when he saw the Han people not far away, he had already discovered his abnormal behavior, so he simply gave up hiding and spread his legs and ran towards him, and the herdsman's brain suddenly seemed to explode!

"The man is here!"

The herdsman threw down his bow and arrows in a panic, turned his horse's head, clamped his legs, and fled in the opposite direction to the Han army. While fleeing, the man shouted loudly in the Hun dialect:

"The man is here!"

"Here comes the man...... Yes! ”

In any case, the herdsmen did not expect that three sharp arrows would suddenly shoot out in front of them. Caught off guard, a powerful arrow hit the herdsman's thigh. Such a severe pain made the herdsman unable to clamp his legs anymore, and one was unstable, and he fell off the horse.

The herdsmen, who were smashed to pieces, finally woke up from their stupor. The first thing that catches my eye is two faces with their hair tied up. There was also a man with pigtails next to him, who knew at a glance that he belonged to the tribe of Tu Ge.

- Han Chinese ......

The herdsman groaned in despair. Then, a not-so-standard Hun dialect poured into his ears.

"What's your name!"

The Han man who questioned him was not very old, but he looked extremely sophisticated. The other two soldiers, although obviously older, were all subordinates of the young soldier in terms of expression and clothing.

In the face of these terrible "men", the shepherd did not dare to have the slightest thought of disobedience. There is something about these Han people that makes him fear from the bottom of his heart. This is the kind of thing that the shepherd has only felt at the side of the tribal leader, on the bravest attendants of the guard.

To put it bluntly, that kind of thing, that's ...... Murderous.

To cultivate murderous energy, it is easy to say, just kill a few more people.

But will killing someone really be as simple as it says?

At least for the herdsmen, he has sent two rounds of troops, but he has not even encountered the opportunity to see blood. Now that they encounter the murderous Han soldiers, the murderous aura that has not been restrained alone is enough to make the herdsmen tremble.

"Boss, this guy is so daring!"

Hearing the shepherd's bamboo tube pouring beans, he told everything he knew. There are some things that haven't even waited for Han Bing to ask. A Han soldier couldn't help but smile at the young leader of the Han army.

"Isn't that good?"

The young leader of the Han army glanced at his subordinates and said lightly.

"That's right. Forty miles to the west from here, is where the royal court of the Xiongnu barbarians is located. ”

After checking the prisoner's confession, the young Han army leader finally let go of his worries.

To tell the truth, although he had been in the army for four or five years, he had never seen such a vast and boundless grassland. Even if he believes that the "Little Heavenly Master" professor's method of identifying the direction is absolutely not wrong, the apprehension in his heart is not so easy to dispel.

The leader of the Han army is surnamed Liao, and he has a character specially given by the "Little Heavenly Master", called Yuan Jian. If you still have an impression, you should remember that this person originally followed the side of the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, "Guo Damu".

Later, when Guo Damu led the Zhuojun volunteers led by "Liu Guanzhang" and attacked the "Tianping Army" at night, in order to save Zhang Madness, he was killed by Guan Yu with a knife. Zhang Mad was grateful for Guo Damu's kindness, and since then he has taken Liao Hua with him as a personal companion.

At the beginning of this year, after Liao Hua turned eighteen years old, he was arrogantly released to the scout team and became a ten-man leader.

The name "Little Heavenly Master" is the title given by the old people in Taiping Dao to the leader of the Taixing Army. Since the sudden death of the "Great Sage and Good Teacher", Taiping Dao has begun to be leaderless. In order to stabilize the morale of the army in the army, Zhang Qi reluctantly accepted the title of "Little Heavenly Master", which is a bit of a god.

As a person close to him, Liao Hua naturally has a more detailed and accurate understanding of the current military goals of the Taixing Army than ordinary people. He vaguely knew that more than half a month ago, the "Little Heavenly Master" Zhang Madness had completed a negotiation with Bingzhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan, and determined the general principles of the war against the Xiongnu.

ps: 1 The word "Hanzi" is the name given to Han men by the northern ethnic groups in ancient times, about the Western Han Dynasty. If you dig deeper into the meaning, it is similar to the time when we called the Japanese "devils" during the anti-Japanese war. Roughly because, those ethnic minorities are often cleaned up by the Han army, and they are resentful, and they just ask for a little bit of money verbally.

The curse of the enemy is undoubtedly the glory of one's own side. Later, we probably felt that it would be more glorious to be called "man" by the enemy, and we began to call ourselves "man". The feelings in the hearts of the people who are called like this should be similar to the feelings in the hearts of the men who burned down the "Yasukuni Shrine," right?