Chapter 12 The Hun Camp

Not only Li Guang was unlucky, but he was not named a marquis in more than 70 battles in his life, and finally ended up drawing his sword and killing himself, and even his son Li Kang's fate was also very miserable.

As for Li Kang's later ending, Huo Guang is not sure now, because he, the traverser, is the biggest variable. Now that Li Kang's life has intersected with Huo Guang, it is difficult to say whether Li Kang's fate will change in the end. However, Huo Guang estimated that Li Guang's ending should be no different from history, after all, now that Li Guang is under Wei Qing, even if he changes some history, it is impossible for all the deployments of the Wei Qing Army to change in a short period of time, so Li Guang will not escape the tragic ending after all.

Huo Guang's understanding of Li Guang only stayed in the romance, for such a person who had no intersection and no stakes, it was impossible for him to do anything for this irrelevant person. Li Guang is destined to become history, and what Huo Guang needs to care about is what he should do in the next battle of Mobei.

When it was dark, Huo Quai's cavalry regiment finally arrived at the Sunit River that Zhao Anji said, saying that the river was actually a stream flowing on the grassland. Soon a series of things such as guarding and setting up camp were completed, and Huo Guang was also assigned a small tent that could accommodate one or two people. As soon as he got out of the Great Wall, the march was much harder, and it was already rare for Huo Guang to be able to get a tent independently, you must know that the average cavalry soldier could only squeeze a tent with a dozen people.

The night on the grassland is still relatively cold, and Huo Guang is not in the mood to walk around the camp, let alone be bored enough to look at the night sky of the grassland. Naturally, someone arranged this kind of thing to patrol the camp, and he hid in the tent early and slept alone. And Huo Quzhi deliberately didn't bother Huo Guang, after all, in Huo Quzhi's eyes, his younger brother was only in his teens, and this half-month trip was nothing to their long-term battlefield people, but it was still a big test for an ordinary teenager, and he also intended to let Huo Guang rest better.

In the first few days, the army marched all the way north and was very peaceful, not even a single Hun was encountered, in fact, not even a single person. In the past few days, the Han army marched during the day and rested at night, and in five days, the Han army marched for more than 700 miles, and the army had arrived at the border of Outer Mongolia in later generations.

And then it was the great desert, at this time the Han army finally stopped, this is not to say that the desert is blocking the pace of the Han army, but Huo Qubing is waiting for a person, the Han right Beiping is too guarding Lu Bode. This step was also the plan of the Han army, and this time the two armies met to concentrate their superiority on attacking Mobei.

Speaking of Lu Bode, he can also be said to be young and promising, and now he is only in his twenties and has become the Taishou of Youbeiping. You must know that the Taishou of the Right Beiping is not as idle as those Taishou in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which is close to the Xiongnu all the year round, and Lu Bode's men have also trained a strong cavalry.

After several days of continuous marching, the time spent waiting for Lu Bode also became a rare rest time before the Han army's war. However, being in the desert is said to be resting, and the soldiers who have no tasks can only sit and chat in the camp. Huo Guang didn't have anything to do, so he walked alone in the camp. Up to now, the Han army has not even seen the shadow of the Huns, and more than 20 days have passed, no wonder it is the second year that Huo Quai's last division returned to Chang'an in the Battle of Mobei.

Lu Bode arrived as scheduled, but to Huo Guang's surprise, Lu Bode only brought about 4,000 cavalry, and it was not nearly 10,000 cavalry as Huo Guang began to think. However, if you think about it carefully, it is normal that Lu Bode is only a county guard, and the four thousand cavalry under his command has exceeded most of the county soldiers. Huo Guang thought about this point by himself, his thinking sometimes stayed at the time when tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of troops were often described, and there were really many major wars of this scale in history.

So far, Huo Qubing has a total of about 55,000 cavalry, don't underestimate that there are only more than 50,000 people, which is actually the limit of the elite cavalry that can be mobilized during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The so-called elite, in addition to being skilled in riding and archery, is more important to be experienced in a hundred battles, and the entire Han Dynasty has to be experienced in a hundred battles, and it is necessary to be skilled in archery and horses, and there are almost so many people.

When Lu Bode arrived, Huo Qubing also held a simple welcome ceremony for him. Of course, marching is nothing more than the generals sitting together and eating meat, but Huo Quzhi is also a person who strictly abides by military discipline, and there is not a drop of wine at this welcome banquet.

Those who can attend this banquet are also the leading figures in Huo Quai's legion, and the worst of them are Li Kang, who has a rank of captain who is more than two thousand stones, of course, Huo Guang is a special case. The so-called two thousand stones is inferior to two thousand stones, and the first level of Taishou like Lu Bode is really two thousand stones, but the right Beiping Taishou is also a special case, because of the importance of status, in fact, Lu Bode enjoys the treatment of two thousand stones. Here 'medium' means full, that is, to enjoy 2,000 stones!

Lu Bode was only twenty-five or sixteen years old at this time, and he looked a few years older than Huo Quai, but the difference in status between the two was too great, Lu Bode was respectful, and he was also respectful to the other people here, after all, most people on this occasion had a higher status than him.

"Lu Taishou, haven't you been asking which strange person made the stirrup? It is the Huo Guang brother in front of him. At first, Lu Bode was still very cold to Huo Guang, in his opinion, Huo Guang must have been gilded by a certain son of a family in the army. However, Zhao Ponu saw Lu Bode's thoughts, and took the initiative to introduce Huo Guang to him at the moment. Originally, Zhao Ponu's son and Huo Guang were about the same age, but because of Huo Qu's illness, Zhao Ponu said that Huo Guang's brothers did not suffer at all, and even had a taste of high climbing.

"Oh, it's you, disrespectful!" Lu Bode was also in awe when he heard this, and he still admired people with real skills.

"Lu Taishou's name Huo Guang has long been like thunder, and my brother has often mentioned Taishou these days." Huo Guang estimated that Lu Bode didn't know that he was Huo Quzhi's younger brother, and Huo Guang felt that there was no need to use Huo Quzhi's relationship, as long as Huo Quzhi's banner was pulled out, who in the whole Han would not give himself some face?

"Although my brother is gifted and intelligent, he is still young after all, and you will have to teach him more in the future." Huo Quzhi just opened his mouth at the right time, his simple sentence was undoubtedly to tell his subordinates, my brother, you will have to take care of it in the future, and this can be regarded as officially announcing Huo Guang to the political group where Huo Quzhi is located.

"We will obey the orders of the Hou Ye." The generals unexpectedly got up at this time and replied, none of these people have been in the officialdom for a long time, and they know that Huo Quzhi's simple sentence is actually very formal, and the attitude that should be done as a subordinate is not missing at all.

"Well, that's all for tonight. Early tomorrow morning, the whole army will march north, I am afraid that we will be able to meet the Huns in a few days. Huo Quzhi knew that the time was almost up, and said the last sentence, which was a summary of today's incident.

Two days after joining Lu Bode, Huo Qu's army arrived in the south of present-day Mongolia, which was once the main activity area of the Huns, but due to long-term grazing, there have been a lot of Gobi here, and even the remaining steppes are mostly barren, far less than the north.

At this time, the Han army finally encountered a small Xiongnu tribe. There was no battle in this tribe, and when the forward force Zhao Ponu arrived, this Xiongnu tribe didn't even have the heart to resist. Just because this tribe is too small, there are only less than a thousand people, and there are only two or three hundred soldiers who can fight.

When Huo Guang followed Huo Qubing to this Hun camp, Huo Guangzhi was very curious about how Huo Qubing would deal with these Huns? The Han Dynasty still took the enemy's head as the main basis for military merits, and hundreds of Huns here, as long as Huo Qubing was willing, he could all become military merits under an order, and this was also a real Hun head, even if the people who recorded military merits in the army could not say much. These heads may not be of much use to Huo Quai, but this is the first battle, and these heads are enough for a captain to get a marquis title of Guannai without a title.

The Hun camp has been surrounded by tens of thousands of legions, Huo Qubing was surrounded by a group of generals, and drove his horse into the Hun camp, and in an open space in the camp, nearly a thousand Huns were surrounded together. Huo Guang found that these Huns were dressed well except for a few people, most of them were in tatters, and looking at the layout and size of the camp, it was estimated that this small tribe was also down.

"Did you ask what?" Huo Quzhi asked after glancing at the group of Huns.

"Back to the Hou Ye, I asked it, King Zuo Xian had already moved the royal court north half a month ago." Zhao Anji, Marquis of Changwu, generally played the role of negotiating with the Huns, and it was he who answered Huo Quai's question at the moment.

"Tell them that Ben Hou is the Great Han Champion Hou. Take all the horses here and let's continue north! Huo Quzhi looked at the north, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Soon the 50,000-strong army left the Xiongnu camp in a mighty way, except for taking away hundreds of horses that were not good, the Han army took nothing else, and none of the nearly 1,000 Huns were killed. Huo Guang was a little strange, how could he let go of these Huns like this, but looking at the expressions of other generals and even soldiers, it seemed that they had known such a result for a long time.

"Brother, why don't you kill those Huns? Even if my brother doesn't need it, it can boost morale! Riding a horse beside Huo Quai, Huo Guang finally couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart.

"Look at the Gobi here, the grasslands are barren. This Xiongnu tribe is still here, which shows that it is not easy for them to survive. These are just ordinary people of the Huns, let them go if you don't kill them. Their horses were taken away to prevent them from tipping off other tribes. Our target is the Huns who dare to invade the Han Dynasty, such as Yi Zhixian and Zuo Xianwang, and the people are innocent after all. Huo Quzhi saw Huo Guang's doubts, and said in a serious tone.

These words subverted Huo Guang's understanding of Huo Quzhi, and Huo Guang found that he still knew too little about Huo Quzhi's brother! Looking at the generals around Huo Quai, Huo Guang suddenly found that seven of these people were Hun generals. Huo Guang, who was still a little puzzled, suddenly became enlightened!