After only a cup of tea, Xu Bugu persuaded more than 3,000 Hun cavalry, and escorted Hu Han and more than a dozen other Xiongnu Hu chiefs who participated in the rebellion to slowly walk.

Ma Chao ordered the people to light the torches, and saw that more than 3,000 Huns not only got off their horses, but even threw their weapons on the ground, so he was relieved. At that moment, he ordered Pang De to lead 1,000 people to take care of the more than 3,000 prisoners, and then ordered Ma Dai to collect the horses and weapons on the side.

After the situation was under his own control, Xiao Ma was completely relieved, looked at Hu Han, who was covered in blood and angry, and couldn't help but sarcastically say: "As the saying goes, those who know the times are Junjie, your little Hun is only a million people, how can you compete with my Han with a population of more than 50 million?" I really don't know whether to live or die! When the general breaks through the royal court and captures King Zuoxian and Baima Tong, he will escort you to Luoyang to behead. ”

Hu Han glared at Ma Chao viciously, gritted his teeth and said, "Han dog Hugh is rampant!" Although the population of the Han Dynasty is large, but after the Yellow Turban Thieves Rebellion, the vitality has been greatly injured, the Han Dynasty is mediocre, the court [***], the local division, the righteous army everywhere continues, if you don't opportunistically train this cavalry, my Huns can be defeated! ”

Brother Xiao Ma's heart moved when he heard this, and said secretly: I wanted you to live for a few more days, but since you discovered the secret of the stirrup saddle, then you can only shut up forever, thinking of this, he shouted in a deep voice: "Come on, cut down all these rebellious anti-thieves, and wrap the head in lime, it will have its own wonderful use!" ”

"Obey!"

At that moment, dozens of Shenwei battalion soldiers jumped out like tigers and wolves, their hands rose and fell, and after a miserable scream, there were more than a dozen headless corpses on the grass, which only frightened the Hun soldiers who were squatting with their heads in their hands, and their whole bodies trembled.

After killing these Hu chiefs, Brother Xiao Ma breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, looked at the sky-high fire in the north, and said lightly: "This general will lead troops to support the attack on the royal court, and King Shan Yu is interested in accompanying this general!" ”

Xu Bugu arched his hand and said: "This is exactly what I mean, but if the general kills all these rebels, won't he die in front of the Son of Heaven!" ”

Ma Chao smiled: "It's okay, isn't there still King Zuo Xian and White Horse Copper?" Besides, there are so many Hu Bu who participated in the rebellion, it is enough to catch a dozen or so, and in addition, the prince personally went to Beijing to ask for guilt, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will not be able to take the credit of the general? ”

Xu Bugu suddenly woke up and hurriedly promised: "General rest assured, Xiao Wang will truthfully report to the Son of Heaven and will never hide a single thing." ”

Brother Xiao Ma said angrily: "Only in the king, the Hun elite cavalry is the world's first-class warriors, although the general wins, it is only a miserable victory, consuming countless money and food, and the soldiers under his command are almost dead and wounded, the king must truthfully report to the Son of Heaven and the ministers." ”

When Xu Bugu heard this, he scolded Brother Xiaoma's family countless times in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "Exactly, the general was invited by me to lead an army of 50,000 to quell the rebellion. The general not only has a contribution to the Han River, but also the great benefactor of my Huns, please accept the worship of the little king! "As he spoke, he bowed down.

Brother Xiao Ma was overjoyed, and hurriedly held on to the bone, and said with a smile: "The king is really a person who understands the general situation, and he is very much in line with the general's mind, but I don't know if after your brother Yu Fuluo returns, who of you two brothers will be single?" ”

"This" Xu Bugu was embarrassed for a while, and finally said unwillingly: "My brother is the right virtuous king of the Huns, and he should succeed Shan Yu!" ”

"It should be" Brother Xiao Ma muttered two sentences, and suddenly shouted: "Ma Dai obeys? ”

"Mo will be!"

"Order you to take a thousand horsemen from your headquarters to guard these Hun troops in situ, and then march to the royal court after dawn, if there is resistance or escape, there will be no mercy!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Ling Ming rushed to the royal court with me to support General Yang, and he will definitely take the royal court before dawn!"

"Obey!"

After arranging the surrender of the Xiongnu troops, Xiao Ma Ge led 2,000 cavalry to the Xiongnu court with Xu Bu Gu and Pang De. The journey of more than fifty miles is only more than half an hour, at this moment Yang Yuan is commanding a mixed army composed of elite soldiers and slaves to attack the city, and the team of Ma Xiu and Ma Tie has abandoned the war horses, and nearly 2,000 soldiers are scattered in the four gates to suppress the defensive force of the Huns with bows and arrows.

The four gates were on fire, and the wooden gates were so blackened that they were about to be burned through. The arrow towers on the mound have long been emptied, and the resistance is very weak.

Yang Yuan had already learned of Ma Chao's arrival through the scouts, and immediately handed over the command to his deputy, stepped forward and said: "The young master is clever, at this moment Dazhai is empty, and the Huns' feather arrows have been exhausted. ”

Brother Xiao Ma also found that the Dazhai was about to be broken through observation, and he stroked his palms and smiled: "Okay, the biggest fat of the Huns is finally going to be eaten by me, and the order will go down, so that a team of sergeants will shout in unison, saying that Shan Yu Bugu and Hu Han have been killed in battle, and the army led by them will be wiped out, as long as the people inside are willing to lay down their arms and surrender, they can spare their lives and not kill; If you continue to resist, when the village is broken, no matter men, women, old and children, chickens and dogs will be left! Those who capture alive and offer the king of Zuo Xian can be rewarded with 100 heads of livestock and 10 catties of gold! ”

"Obey!" Yang Yuan is responsible for logistics and transportation, and what he admires for Xiao Ma is that the five bodies are thrown into the ground, in less than half a month, the livestock, money, grain, and population transported back from the Huns have almost reached an astronomical amount.

After Yang Yuan left, Brother Xiao Ma sent someone to call Xu Bu Gu over, squinted his eyes and said: "According to what the prince said, there are still more than 5,000 strong people in this big village, and more than 3,000 old and weak women and children. ”

"This" Xu Bugu almost didn't scold when he heard this, and said in his heart, you know that my family is in Dazhai, and you still let me come forward to say surrender, isn't this obviously trying to kill them? But now he doesn't dare to offend Brother Xiaoma, in case this young general is angry, cutting off his head is as simple as pinching an ant to death, and he only said at the moment: "King Zuo Xian is one of the leaders of the rebellion, if Xiao Wang comes forward, he may be able to persuade some soldiers to surrender, but King Zuo Xian will kill Xiao Wang's family first, and ask the general to wave his army into the royal court, and only 5,000 people can't stop the general's army in a hundred battles." ”

Brother Xiao Ma smiled even more when he heard this, what he said just now was just a test of Xu Bugu, if Xu Bu Gu was willing to risk being killed by his family and persuaded him to surrender according to the plan, most of them could save the lives of thousands of Hun soldiers in the royal court. But between thousands of people and dozens of people, he chose the latter without hesitation, which shows that he is just a greedy person who is afraid of death, not the master of great talent, such a person is better controlled.

Seeing that the gate of the village was about to burn through, the sergeant Yang Yuan found also shouted, and hundreds of people used spears to provoke the heads of Hu Han and others and shouted: "The Huns inside listen well, Xu Bu Gu and Hu Han have been wiped out, my general has an order, if you immediately put down your arms and surrender, only the head will be punished, and the rest will not be killed, if you continue to resist, the chickens and dogs will not be left after the village is broken, and the person who captures the king of Zuo Xian alive can reward 100 heads of livestock and ten catties of gold!" ”

Hundreds of loud voices shouted in unison for miles, and the Huns inside naturally heard it clearly. King Zuo Xian even sat on top of the sheepskin felt, his face was pale, and he muttered, "How is it possible? The army of more than 100,000 was defeated like this, is this king wrong? Shouldn't you rebel? Shouldn't you attack and merge states? ”

The thousands of Huns guarding the village were even more desperate when they heard this, and the Han army had surrounded the royal court for several days, and the feather arrows in the village were also consumed. If the Han army attacks and enters the only way to fight to the death, as long as they can hold on to the return of the armies of Shan Yu Bugu and Hu Han, they can turn defeat into victory and kill all these Han dogs in one fell swoop. But after seeing the heads of Hu Han and the others with the help of the firelight, the high morale of the thousands of Huns immediately fell to the bottom, and they could no longer have the slightest heart to resist.

"Bang!" With a bang, someone threw away the long knife in his hand, and after someone took the lead, these Hun soldiers were like dominoes, and they lost their weapons one after another. Seeing that there was nothing to do, the Xiongnu generals also sighed, laid down their weapons and waited for the Han army to be absorbed. For a while, the soldiers near the four gates all laid down their weapons and stood there in a daze, waiting for the gate to be breached.

"Boom!" The walled gate that had been burned for a long time was finally burned through, and the Han army swarmed in after picking up the flames, and it was still a mixed army of Xiliang logistics elite soldiers and Han slaves who rushed to the forefront.

These Han slaves are also all wearing armor and holding standard weapons, although their combat power is almost zero, but it is enough to act as cannon fodder, and they can bluff to confuse the enemy, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. Therefore, even if the Huns resisted desperately, the fate of ruin would be at most, and at most a group of people would be killed or wounded.

Now that the Huns have given up resistance, things are much better. Yang Yuan commanded more than 10,000 miscellaneous troops to quickly control the scene, leaving some people to guard the surrendered troops, and the rest of the people quickly gathered the old and weak women and children in the royal court, and at the same time divided a thousand elite regiments to surround the main places such as the palace of the royal court, grain hoards, and warehouses.

Brother Xiao Ma and Xu Bu Gu also came to the palace under the support of the elite soldiers of the Shenwei battalion, only to see that there were still hundreds of Hun soldiers on both sides of the main hall holding knives and confronting the Han army, Yang Yuan saw that Brother Xiao Ma arrived and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said respectfully: "Young master, the Hun Zuoxian King is inside, do you want to bring someone to attack it?" ”

Brother Xiao Ma was naturally not polite, and was about to give the order to attack, only to hear a rough voice say: "Don't bother, by now, this king has become the meat on your chopping board, if you want to kill, you have to scrape and listen to the respect, why bother to lose a hundred or ten Hun warriors!" Before he finished speaking, a young man with a majestic figure, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a full beard walked out of the hall, and he looked to be about thirty years old.