After Zhang Chao heard this, he nodded his forehead and said, "In this way, the Huns still gave me face." ”

As soon as he said this, everyone laughed in unison.

After the atmosphere eased somewhat, Zhang Chao swept his gaze over everyone one by one, and everyone's faces became solemn again. "What is face? It's not given by others, but earned by yourself. If you want others to respect you, then you need to be strong enough, otherwise, the so-called face is just a joke. ”

"Our Han nation is the lord of heaven, and we originally ruled here, and we have the final say. But now because the emperor is mediocre and the civil war and natural disasters can't, some people of foreign nationalities want to turn over and become masters, so I want to ask everyone, do you agree? Zhang Chao's voice changed from small to loud, and the last sentence became a questioning roar.

"No!" This time, even strategists like Guo Jia answered with a roar.

"Yes, we can't agree, so I decided to use blood for blood, to use troops against the Huns, to let them know that the current state is not the state that can be bullied at will in the past, we Central Plains people have stood up, we are men who stand up to the sky." Zhang Chao watched everyone's bloody anger being mobilized, so he said while the iron was hot.

As soon as the words fell, a group of generals got up and asked for battle.

"Lu Bu, please fight!"

"Zhao Yun please fight!"

"Huang Zhong asks for battle..."

Until the end, even Gao Shun had to take the trapping camp and the Huns to fight hard.

The blood of all the generals was mobilized, and Zhang Chao was also very happy. This shows that his decision is expected, so he can take action. His eyes turned around Guo Jia, Jia Xu and Lu Su again, and seeing that the three of them also nodded silently to him, he simply said bluntly: "Okay, then the next thing we will discuss is how to deal with the arrogant Huns, and everyone can say whatever they have opinions." ”

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Wuji City, Zhongshan County, Jizhou.

In a large family surnamed Zhen in the city, a twenty-eight girl was watching the fish swimming in the water by the flower pond in the courtyard.

From a distance, this woman is graceful and slim. Looking at it closely, the hands are like soft wattles, the skin is like clotted fat, the collar is like a grub, the teeth are like a rhinoceros, the head of the mantis is like a moth eyebrows, the smile is clever, the beautiful eyes are longing, and she is the beauty of the world.

This woman is the latter in the legend of Zhen Miqiao in the south of the Yangtze River.

Just by this name, you can know what this woman looks like. In history, she first married Yuan Xi, the son of Yuan Shao, and then married Cao Pi, the son of Cao Cao, and was the biological mother of Cao Rui, Emperor Ming of Wei.

It's just that at this time, she was just a girl who had just reached the age of sixteen.

's father used to be Shangcai Ling (that is, the head of a county), and his family background was solid since he was a child, so Zhen Mi did not suffer much. There are three brothers and four sisters above, she is the youngest, and she is even more favored.

And because of his beautiful appearance since childhood, he is regarded as a famous pearl in the palm of his family by his family.

Zhen Mi's father died when he was three years old, the eldest brother Zhen Yu also died very early, and when he was fourteen years old, the second brother Zhen Yan also died, but fortunately, there is still the love of his brother Zhen Yao and sisters, but there is nothing to worry about. It's just that as she grows older, the distress in her heart also comes.

For a woman in ancient times, the most important thing in her life was to get married. Marrying a good man means having no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, on the contrary, if you marry the wrong man, then any unhappy thing will happen.

At the age of Zhen Mi at the age of sixteen, at that time, he was facing the matter of getting married. And today, there is a big chaos, the people are not living, as a weak woman, where is the possibility of escaping the world? That's what she's been worried about lately.

Zhen Mi has been very smart since she was a child, and she also follows her brother and sister to read and write, it is precisely because of this that her knowledge is still slightly different from that of ordinary girls, and she knows deeply in her heart that the current Han world is already in danger, and it may even collapse at any time.

In Jizhou, which is Yuan Shao's territory, he can still live a stable life. It's just that in the past half a month, the situation in Wuji City seems to be a little bad. Often in the dark, some screams and cries for help can be heard.

Although her brother and sister didn't say a word to her about what was happening outside, the smart Zhen Mi still knew that this was the voice of the Huns entering the city and robbing the people's homes.

To say that in the past, although the Huns had also recently invaded Wuji City, the number of times was generally very small. It often appears that it is to grab and leave, relying on the speed of a healthy horse to escape. But things have been a little strange lately, and they seem to have lived in the city for a long time. Although they don't do anything during the day, but at night, it becomes their world, and they can rob whoever they want, and the government also turns a blind eye and doesn't ask.

It is said that the reason for this is that Yuan Shao is going to move troops against Youzhou, and he needs the help of the Xiongnu, which gives them a certain amount of convenience, so that the people in the city are suffering. Although there has not been a big robbery of the Huns yet, and their targets are mostly ordinary people, who knows if they will become more and more bold?

Just like the Zhen Mansion, more than a dozen nurses have been added in recent days, which shows that my brother has also become vigilant. It's just that there are more than a dozen people, can they really stop the ravages of the Huns?

Zhen Mi didn't know, and her mood became heavy.

It is said that a woman's sixth sense is particularly keen, and on the night when Zhen Mi felt panicked in her heart, the Huns in Wuji City made a move on the Zhen family.

Just as Zhen Mizhi thought, Yuan Shao asked the Xiongnu to join forces with them to deal with Liu Yu in Youzhou, which allowed them to do anything wrong in their own jurisdiction. And after half a month of committing crimes, the inaction of the local government has emboldened them. Thinking that robbing the people is also robbing, and robbing the rich is also robbing, so why not the rich people?

Unfortunately, the Zhen Mansion became the target.

The general of the Huns in Wuji City is named Cheng Ran, who is a general under Shan Yu's brother Hu Chuquan, and after walking around the city, he chose the target as Zhenfu.

So I will choose here, and Zhen Mi herself also accounts for a big reason. It was her reputation that was too prosperous, and Cheng Ran had the idea of snatching this woman to give to Hu Chuquan to refute her favor.

Poor Zhen Mi didn't know, and neither did the people in Zhen's mansion. At the end of the night, at the third watch, a hundred Hun warriors suddenly launched an attack on Zhen's mansion.

The door was quickly slammed open, and a vicious fight ensued. As the only man in the Zhen family, Zhen Yao took the initiative to take the courtyard to fight with the invading Huns, and the sound of sword collision was endless.

At this time, Zhen Mi lived with the two widowed sisters-in-law, and she would take care of her nephews in her spare time, but she was also dedicated. When she heard the shouts of killing outside the door, she hurriedly hid her two nephews in the wooden box next to her, which deprived her of the only time to escape.

In the compound, although Zhen Yao had exhausted all his strength, it was still too far behind the Xiongnu warriors who had been fighting all year round, and in addition to the lack of numbers, he was finally outnumbered and was pierced through the body by a sword, and fell to the ground and bled to death.

As soon as Zhen Yao died, the other nursing homes were in no mood to hold on, and they immediately fled, ran, and there was no power to resist in the huge courtyard. Next, under the leadership of Cheng Ran, the Huns rushed into the inner courtyard of Zhen's mansion, killing people when they saw them, and robbing good things when they saw them.

The Huns did not have much food, and in their opinion, it did not make much sense to rob the people alive, but they still had to provide them with food, so it was better to kill them. As a result, the entire Zhen Mansion from the seventy-year-old old man to the four or five-year-old children were all killed, and no one was alive except Zhen Mi.

Zhen Mi saw her brother and sister being killed, and when she saw her sister-in-law and nephew being killed, she was so angry that she fainted directly.

Cheng Ran looked at Zhen Mi as beautiful as a flower, and he was overjoyed when he was overjoyed. Handed over this person to Hu Chuquan, presumably it is just around the corner to be promoted to become wealthy.

After Cheng Ran, who was overjoyed, ordered people to remove all the treasures in the treasury of Zhenfu, he quickly left Wuji City with the other two hundred Xiongnu Khan in the city and went straight to Yanmen County.

It was January 193.

There are still three days left before the final deadline set by the Xiongnu for Zhang Chao to deliver grain.

and the state of Xinxing County.

This is the shortest way from Zhongshan to Yanmen. At this moment, there was a team of carriages and horses walking on the official road that should have been peaceful.

It's not necessarily true to say that it is a carriage and a horse. The team of nearly 300 people only pulled a carriage and a soft sedan chair. Except for the leader who rode horses, the others were on foot.

Because the people in the convoy were all young strong men, they didn't encounter any trouble after walking hundreds of miles along the way.

Seeing that he was about to get out of the territory of Xinxing County, and he would be able to reach Yanmen tomorrow, the man who led the cavalry couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This is a trouble to go on the road with treasures and women, which can be reached in less than two days on horseback, but now it has not arrived in four days, and it is really a person who is in a hurry.

Fortunately, when you arrive at Yanmen, you will be at home, and you must find a place to rest at that time. Just as the man was thinking this, a patrol of twenty people came in the distance. This is Zhang Chao's Class B troops, a civilian squad composed of townships and villages.

In order to prevent the Huns from suddenly appearing and looting. Today they are returning from patrol in front and preparing to return to the countryside not far away.

Coincidentally, the two teams of people and horses met one here, and after the man on horseback saw the twenty people from a distance, a sneer came out of the corner of his mouth, and then behind his right hand, he made a gesture to prepare for battle.

More than 200 Hun men were in a hurry every day, and the four days were already a little boring, and now when they saw the main general preparing for a battle, they suddenly became excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.