First of all, after Wei Qing led the army to Shanggu, Shanggu Taishou went out to greet him, serving tea and white water, and looked at Wei Qing with disdain and muttered to his master: "I don't know what the emperor thinks, I sent a little-known person to die, I really haven't learned the cruelty of the Huns, we have prepared coffins for them in advance, lest the emperor say that we are disrespectful to the emperor and are not well prepared." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Yes, yes. The master sneered and agreed.

When Wei Qing's guards heard this, they went up and grabbed the shirt of the Taishou and said: "What nonsense, the general of the chariot cavalry is the emperor's own seal, and he came to conquer the Huns, and this is the battlefield, be careful of your heads." ”

Taishou said with some disapproval: "What's the use of being arrogant to your own people, I sent you to kill the Huns, this Taishou just said that the emperor divided the troops and sent some generals to look away." ”

At this time, Wei Qing shouted loudly to the guard: "Stand back." ”

"No. ”

Wei Qing saluted Taishou and said: " Wei Qing knows that the Hun jackals have just plundered the people of Shanggu, killed their relatives here, and caused irreparable losses and pain here, Wei Qing is a slave, empathetic, and today is fortunate to have the emperor to take on this heavy responsibility, he knows that his ability is limited, and he needs your help, once he arrives at the battlefield, Wei Qing is not hesitant to break his bones, and he should make meritorious contributions to his life, and I hope that Taishou and you will support and join the team of meritorious deeds。 ”

Shanggu Taishou was embarrassed by Wei Qing's words, and hurriedly said: "The general of the chariot cavalry is for the country and the people, and today he has arrived in the upper valley to bring hope to the people on the border of the upper valley. ”

"Okay, Taishou is good, if this expedition defeats the Huns, the credit is Taishou, the army will set off immediately after replenishing some simple supplies in the county, and Taishou will send a soldier who can speak Xiongnu and is familiar with the habits of the steppe to follow us as a guide. ”

"This is easy to do, the general leads the soldiers to work in front, and the soldiers in the upper valley can't stand idly by. ”

"It is too good to guard Shanggu County from the Huns' attack again, and then do our answering work is also a great achievement. ”

"Yes. ”

In this way, Wei Qing led the team to rest in the upper valley for three days, and set off with the guide, as the saying goes, there are 10,000 people without borders, but these 10,000 people enter the prairie, it seems that there are not many, in the distance, it seems like a handful of ants are running forward, according to the guide's advice, first go to the place where the main force of the Northern Huns often appears, to see if you can meet the main force of the Huns, so you walked for two days without seeing a single soldier of the Huns, such an aimless search, the fighting spirit of the soldiers is slowly fading.

Wei Qing took out the map and marked the places he had walked in the past two days, because it was cavalry, it was roughly estimated that he had walked three or four hundred kilometers, consuming most of the soldiers' rations, Wei Qing thought: "If this continues, if the enemy is still not found within two days, it will almost be necessary to collect the troops and return to the camp, because the grain and grass do not allow the army to last too long on the grassland." ”

Wei Qing took the map and asked the guide: "Brother guide, isn't there a fixed stronghold of the Huns around here?"

"General, you know, the living habits of the Huns are that they have no fixed place to live, and they move when they are happy, and they generally can't stay in one place for ten days and a half months, and sometimes even they don't know which direction they want to go next. ”

"Well, that's right. When Wei Qing was frowning, he suddenly thought of the sheepskin map of the Xiongnu steppe given to him by his master Zhang Jiayang before leaving, so he took it out and looked at it carefully, and it marked most of the characteristic coordinates of the Xiongnu grassland in detail, and suddenly saw an inconspicuous place marked in the northwest corner, with two words written: Dragon City. Wei Qing immediately asked the guide, "What is this place?"

"General, this is the dragon city of the Huns. ”

"Is it a fixed city of the Huns?"

"Sort of, this is the place where the Xiongnu sacrifice their ancestors, ghosts and gods, and heaven and earth, and only major festivals and sacrifices will gather here. ”

"Is there anyone on a regular basis?"

"General Hui, there will be some Hun soldiers guarding the altar in normal times, and there will also be some Xiongnu nobles who live here perennially. ”

"Oh, good place, I got it. Wei Qing seemed to answer and seemed to be talking to himself.

"What did the general say?" the guide wondered.

"Kill them in Dragon City and raze their altars. ”

The guide said with a look of embarrassment: "General, the place we are in now is eight hundred miles away from Dragon City, and we are carrying so many supplies at present, I am afraid that before we arrive in Dragon City, our personnel will be exhausted, and the horses will not be able to run." ”

"Well, this difficulty can be overcome," Wei Qing said here, and then said to the herald, "pass my order, discard unnecessary and bulky weapons and provisions, keep two days' rations and the best material for the horses, eat and drink enough on the spot tonight, and feed the horses with good food, and set out tomorrow morning at midnight, and march with me in a hurry." ”

"No. ”

After everyone rested, they set off before dawn, and there was nothing to say all the way, and at noon on the third day, they saw a piece of white tents, Wei Qing led everyone to set up camp on the back of a hill, and did a good job of guarding, so that the people in the tent could not see, and then looked at the map and asked the guide: "Is this the Dragon City?"

"That's pretty much it, I've been here a few years ago, and now it's a little bit different, and it looks much bigger than it used to be. ”

Wei Qing immediately ordered everyone: "Whisper, rest and eat on the spot, don't light a fire, keep quiet, and listen to my next order in two hours." ”

"No. ”

The sky gradually darkened, and Wei Qing gave an order: "The knife is unsheathed, and I will fight into Dragon City with me, flatten the altar, kill those who do not obey, and capture those who surrender." ”

"No. ”

10,000 horses like a gust of wind to kill the dragon city, the dragon city Hun gatekeeper began to think that it was their own team, ready to open the door, to the front to see that it was the cavalry of the Han Dynasty, one by one panicked, some have not found the weapon on the head of the head, some see that the general trend has gone to the hands of the capture, this time was caught off guard by the Wei Qing troops, never dreamed that the Han army could kill the dragon city, less than an hour, the battle ended, captured more than 1,000 Xiongnu soldiers, countless livestock, bulldozed the altar of the dragon city.

Wei Qing ordered, replenish supplies, bring the captive livestock to collect the troops, and return to Shanggu under the leadership of the guide, Shanggu Taishou saw Wei Qing's victory, shook his head excitedly and exclaimed: "The general is really majestic, the general is finally angry for the people and soldiers who died in Shanggu, and the general is mighty." ”

"The general is mighty, the general is mighty. The people of Taishou shouted in unison, and the scene was unusually enthusiastic.

Besides, the cavalry general Li Guang led 10,000 horses out of Yanmen and went deep into the grassland, although Li Guang's martial arts were outstanding, but he led the troops with characteristics, unique, did not require a neat square team, how comfortable the soldiers walked, so his 10,000 people walked aimlessly on the grassland as if they were stragglers, Li Guang relied on his extraordinary martial arts, proudly led the soldiers to walk in the front of the team, when he came to a narrow area with hills on both sides, suddenly the gongs sounded loudly on the high hills around him, and the horses neighed, Li Guang looked up and shouted: "It's not good, we have entered the encirclement of the Huns, everyone is ready to fight back. ”

Yes, the 10,000 people led by Li Guang were particularly favored by the Xiongnu military minister Shan Yu, the military minister Shan Yu personally led 60,000 people to surround Li Guang's 10,000 horses, Li Guang saw several times his own enemy army, but also desperate, led the soldiers to block left and right, front and back attack, killing countless enemies, after all, the number of people is very different, less than an hour, most of the warriors were wiped out, and the whole army was about to be wiped out, Li Guang thought to himself that it seems that this small life is explained in this steppe, I am too light on the enemy.

At this time, the military minister Shan Yu shouted loudly: "The one wearing the golden armor is Li Guang, and the one who catches me alive will be rewarded." ”

This shout, the warriors of the Huns had a direction, and a hula all rushed to Li Guang, it is conceivable that two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, and the heroes can't stand the crowd, and it didn't take long for Li Guang to be captured alive and killed in front of the military minister Shan Yu, and the military minister Shan Yu laughed when he saw Li Guang: "You are Li Guang, right?"

Li Guang snorted and said: "I am Li Guang, the Hun bandit, what can I do to this general, hurry up and have a good time, I, Li Guang, dare to come, I am not afraid of death." ”

"Hahaha, it's not so easy for General Li to die," the military minister Shan Yuyi waved his hand and instructed the samurai, "You show me a good look, escort General Li to the royal court, and this Shan Yu wants to entertain General Li well." ”

"No. ”

At this moment, Li Guang fainted to the ground, and the Hun soldiers inexplicably looked at Li Guang on the ground, as if Li Guang was a little injured and blood oozed out. ”

"No. So the Hun soldiers put Li Guang on a big net, and the net was pulled by two horses, so he carried Li Guang to the direction of the royal court, halfway through, Li Guang quietly opened his eyes and saw that the two knights carrying him did not pay attention to him at all, it turned out that Li Guang fainted because Li Guang pretended to be himself, when Li Guang saw a young Hun soldier very close to him riding a batch of good horses, he had the idea of escaping, while the guards next to him did not pay attention, Li Guang jumped up from the net, pushed the Hun soldier who rode the horse off the horse, snatched the soldier's bow and arrow, and then jumped on the horse and galloped out of the ranks, these coherent movements only happened in a few seconds, people don't have time to think, and when the Hun soldiers come back to their senses, Li Guang is already a hundred meters away on a war horse, the Huns and horses immediately chase, Li Guang took a bow and arrow to shoot many people in a row, and gradually disappeared out of the sight of the pursuers, so Li Guang picked up a life from under the noses of the Huns, Li Guang's escape process this time was like flying out of the chaos, so that the Huns were frightened, and soon called Li Guang the flying general.

Besides, not long after Gongsun Ao's team walked out of Daijun, it was surrounded by the army led by Yi Zhixian, the king of Zuogu Li, and more than 7,000 people were killed and wounded.

Gongsun He led the team out of the clouds, walked on the grassland for seven days and seven nights, and did not even see the shadow of the Huns, until the supplies brought with him were almost exhausted before he had to return to the clouds.

The four people returned to Chang'an with different results, and Liu Che warmly greeted Wei Qing's triumph.

Although Wei Qing was on the expedition for the first time, he was bold and calm, and he went deep into the danger unexpectedly, and went straight to Longcheng, the holy land of the Huns, capturing nearly 1,000 people and achieving victory. The other three roads, two ways failed, all the way to no avail, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty saw that only Wei Qing was victorious, very appreciative, very excited to seal the road: "Wei Qing fought for the first time, achieved a great victory, defeated the myth of the invincibility of the Huns, I specially named Wei Qing as the Marquis of Guannei." ”