"With today's encounter, the Huns will strengthen their vigilance, and if they go out of the city to attack again, they will not be able to achieve much success."

"Next, we need to prepare well for the next tough battle that will take place in Mayi."

"——The Huns will definitely launch a fierce attack on Mayi, and will even try to capture Mayi at any cost."

"And the goal of our army is to kill and wound the Huns as much as possible on the premise of guarding Mayi and stopping the Huns north of the Great Wall of Zhao."

"In His Majesty's original words, it is to fight the living forces of the Huns as much as possible on the premise of ensuring that our side does not suffer too many casualties."

"Especially in this battle, the troika sent by the Huns to suppress Munan: Zhelan, Loufu, and Baiyang."

"As long as this battle can make these troikas suffer huge casualties, then in the next few years, whether the Huns want to go south to kowtow or stabilize the south of the Munan, they will have more difficulties and more worries than in the past."

"After all, although the Huns are called 'Huns', they are actually a hundred barbarian powers composed of the Xiongnu headquarters as the center and the nomadic tribes of the steppe as their wings."

"The losses suffered by the three tribes of Zhelan, Lou Fu, and Aries will be directly reflected in the influence of the Xiongnu headquarters and Shan Yuting on the south of the Mu, as well as the domination and suppression of the various departments in the south of the country."

Daibei Yanmen County, in the city of Mayi, the big tent of the Chinese army.

Calmly sat down on the main seat, and said these words with an indifferent face, Zhi Du stopped talking for a moment, and swept his gaze to the people in the tent.

Seeing that everyone was a little more relaxed than before, and there were more excited looks, Zhi Du pretended to bow his head and sip tea, and a smile quietly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Liu Sheng's pure vernacular, even a purely colloquial edict, played a considerable role in inspiring the morale of the army, especially the confidence and morale of the generals;

But after all, it is a line, and it is the only place in the whole world, and even above the history, to 'speak by facts'.

What really made the generals gathered in the tent at this moment relax a little and have a more optimistic attitude towards this battle was actually the result of the first battle.

- The corpses of more than 100 elite scouts of Zhelan!

In the past, as long as the head can be successfully cut and sent to Chang'an to verify the way out, it is already enough for the main general participating in the war, and even the main general and deputy general are awarded the title of marquis respectively!

Don't think that's an exaggeration!

Take the founding fathers who were destined to go down in history decades ago, as long as they were crowned marquis by virtue of their first-class merits, they would be about this order of magnitude.

For example, among the founding fathers of the Han Dynasty, the most well-known Marquis of Wuyang, Fan Xu;

This 'dog slaughterer and meat seller' in the impression of later generations became friends with fellow villager Liu Ji very early.

When the first emperor died in the sand dunes, he was immediately established at twenty, and the world was pulled into the dispute by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang with a roar, and the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion also turned into Pei Gong, so he let Fan Hao be his own housekeeper.

In the process of following the Long March of Surabaya Pavilion, Fan Xu first led the army to attack Huling and Fanghe alone, and defeated the army of the Surabaya County Supervisor and the County Guard in the area of Feng County, that is, the Qin soldiers stationed in Surabaya County, and then pacified Pei County.

In the records that can be found today, Fan Xu 'showed valor and won fifteen heads' when he fought with Sima Yi in the east of Dangxian, and repelled the enemy;

With these fifteen heads, Fan Xu was named a national doctor by Pei Gong.

Doctor Guo, what kind of title is it?

According to the Qin Twentieth Military Meritorious Lord, Fan Xu exchanged fifteen enemy military heads for this national doctor, which corresponds to the official doctor who is ranked at the sixth level of Qin Jue.

It doesn't look high—it's just a sixth-level title, and it's still farther than the horizon from the nineteenth, twentyth-level Marquis of Guannai and Chehou.

But don't forget: Fan Xu, like Pei Gong Liu Ji at that time, was a Chu person.

For the people of the Six Kingdoms like Fan Xu, especially if they were neither rich nor noble, that is, they were not princes and nobles, nor were they ordinary people after famous families, the Qin court treated them equally according to the first-class title.

In other words, these fifteen heads are likely to allow Fan Xu to complete the first status leap in his life, from the first-level knighthood to the sixth-level knighthood in one fell swoop: official doctor.

After that, Qin Shaofu Zhang Han led the counterinsurgency army, that is, the hundreds of thousands of prisoners who 'won a hundred battles and won a hundred battles', went east to Hangu, trying to support the building from the fall and save the imminent destruction of the Qin Sheji.

When resisting the army led by Zhang Han and counterattacking the city where Zhang Han was stationed, the national doctor Fan Hao took the lead in the city and beheaded 23 people.

The first achievement, plus twenty-three heads, allowed Fan Xu to be upgraded from the sixth-level knighthood to the seventh-level prince.

At first glance, Fan Xu's title upgrade this time seems to be a little inconspicuous, and he has only been promoted from level six to level seven, only one level.

But few people know: in the Qin 20-level military merit lord famous field house system, the fifth-level doctor is an extremely obvious watershed.

Qin's 20th level military merit lord Mingtian Mansion, the first level said: Gongshi, the second level said: Shangzao, the third level said: hairpin, the fourth level said: not more, the fifth level said: doctor;

The sixth level is said: the official doctor, the seventh level is said: the public doctor, the eighth level is said: the public passenger, the ninth level is said: the five doctors, the tenth level is said: the left chief;

The eleventh level is said: the right one, the twelfth level is said: the left watch, the thirteenth level is said: the middle watch, the fourteenth level is said: the right watch, the fifteenth level is said: less upper construction;

The sixteenth level is said: Da Shang Zao (Da Liang Zao), the seventeenth level is said: the head of the car, the eighteenth level is said: the chief of the big house, the nineteenth level is said: the Hou of Guannei, and the twentieth level is said: Che Hou.

It is not difficult to see from these titles alone: the first-level public scholar, the second-level Shangzao, the third-level hairpin, and the fourth-level hairpin still belong to the category of 'people';

But from the fifth level of doctors, it can already be regarded as a theoretical aristocratic class - although there are no specific privileges, at least they have the title of nobility: doctors.

Therefore, Fan Xu was knighted for the first time, and was promoted from a first-level official to a sixth-level official doctor/national doctor, in fact, he had completed the transition from 'people' to 'nobles' in one fell swoop;

And every time the title was upgraded after that, Fan Xu completed the transition from 'theoretical nobleman' to 'real noble' in order.

Understanding this, and looking at every title upgrade after Fan Xu, you can easily see the clues.

- Siege of Chengyang, Xiahu, break Li You (Li Si's son) army, beheaded a total of 16 levels, and was given the title of Shangzhong;

The so-called upper middle is actually a public passenger, which belongs to the eighth level of Qin's twenty-level military meritorious lords.

That is to say, this time, Fan Xu has only been promoted by one level, that is, from the seventh-level public doctor to the eighth-level public passenger.

- In the battle of besieging the commander of the East County, he repelled the enemy, beheaded the fourteenth rank, captured eleven people, and was given the title of five doctors.

It's still the same as before, from the eighth-level public ride to the ninth-level five doctors.

——Later, he broke the defenders of the Qin River, and the armies of Zhao Ben and Yang Xiong repeatedly took the lead in the battle, captured and killed meritorious service, and was given the title of secretary and virtuous king.

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From the first time to be knighted, to the sixth-level official doctor began to step by step, Fan Xu came to the end step by step, ranking fifth among the eighteen meritorious marquis of the founding fathers of the Han Dynasty, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Wuyang, with 5,400 households.

After Fan Xu's death, the Han family has the following summary in the 'merit book' for Fan Xu.

- Fought with Taizu, beheaded a total of 176 levels, and captured 288 people;

- Led his own troops into battle, defeated seven armies, captured five cities, pacified six counties, fifty-two counties;

- One prime minister, 12 generals, and 11 generals were captured.

The above is the lifelong achievement of Wuyang Hou Fan.

Heroic Warriors?

It can be called a great achievement.

But in terms of the first level of the victory, it is only one hundred and seventy-six, although it is enough to make people smack, but it is not to the level of inhumanity.

Although Fan Xu was named a marquis, not only for the sake of this total of one hundred and seventy-six heads, but if we take into account the heads of the Huns, it is not difficult to draw conclusions compared to the heads of the Qin soldiers and Chu soldiers at that time;

——can win the head of the 170-level Huns, although it is not enough for Fan Xu's 5,400 households, but it can barely go to 3,500 households of Xiao Chehou.

It doesn't matter how much food there is, how much tax it can bring, so it can be regarded as a marquis and the ancestor of a lineage;

To put it mildly, it has got a ticket to the core of power, and it is hereditary.

Knowing this, looking back at the hundred or so Hun cavalry who died outside the city wall of Mayi today, especially the elite scouts of the famous and fierce tribe: the Zhelan tribe, this means that it is quite extraordinary.

Let's just put it this way.

Today, there are more than 100 Xiongnu heads, but if they can all be cut and recovered, then those who follow these 100 or so human hairs to Chang'an will definitely be the good news of 'Mayi victory'!

You can't blame the Han family for making a fuss;

In fact, in the past, in the war with the Huns, it was rare for the Han side to inflict such huge casualties on the Huns under the premise that their own casualties tended to be zero······

"Alas!"

"It's a pity that the head couldn't be cut back!"

"If you can take back the first rank, it may not be possible to accumulate merit and become a knight, or even an official?"

Not long after Zhidu's voice fell, there was such a low sigh that was obviously deliberately suppressed, but it was still unable to be suppressed because of excitement in an unknown corner of the tent.

And after this sound spread throughout the big tent of the Chinese army, the atmosphere in the whole big tent immediately became a little strange.

Oh, yes~

The Hun thieves who died outside the city today, even if there were not a hundred, said that there were eighty.

If you can take back all the heads, even if you have been sleeping since last night and have nothing to do with today's battle, you can add a lot of color to your resume: Yu Ma Yi fought with the general Zhidu of the chariot and killed the Huns and the elite cavalry.

And now······

"I can succeed today, but the Zhiche rode by surprise and caught the Huns off guard;"

"Fang just issued another military order, not to go out of the city again."

"In this battle, I'm afraid it's hard to win like this······"

With thoughts like this, the people in the tent were full of regret, anger, or a little embarrassed, and they all gathered on Zhidu.

Feeling the complex emotions implied in the gazes of everyone looking at him, Zhi Du finally took a deep breath and quietly stood up from his seat.

"In today's first battle, any general of my Han family will never give an order to go out of the city to meet the enemy."

"But I did."

"Why, I don't have time to tell the generals word by word at the critical juncture of this great enemy."

"The generals only need to know: Today, I have done something that no one else will do or dare not do, and I have done it."

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"This battle is the first time since Emperor Taizu Gao was under the siege of Baideng, my Han family did not avoid the war and beg for peace, but took the initiative to seek war."

"What is related to the outcome of this battle, I don't think I need to say more, all the generals can also understand."

"-Even in this battle, our chariot cavalry army failed to capture a single head and failed to kill even a single Hun, just being able to hold Mayi and stop the Huns north of Mayi can already be regarded as an unprecedented feat."

"Back in Chang'an, every soldier of my chariot and cavalry army will be a hero of my Han family."

"And at this moment, everyone who can be called by me to this Chinese military tent will also go down in history without exception······"

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"Okay."

"I really threw it away."

"——In this battle, if you don't bring the head of the Huns with 1,800 moments, then take the head of Xiang Shang, whose surname is my Zhi, to make up!"

"-The first one, take my Zhidu head!"

"So, do the generals still have concerns?"

There was hardly any hesitation in the words, and everyone in the tent who was shocked was stunned in place, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time;

When he came back to his senses, he hurriedly arched his hand, and even said "serious words" and "smiles", but most of his expressions on his face were much better.

Seeing that everyone finally drew their attention back to the tent, Zhidu finally sighed secretly.

Although he didn't show it, he also regretted that he couldn't bring the harvest back today.

But regret is regret, but Zhidu has no regrets at all, and he never thinks that he has made a wrong decision.

- The battlefield is changing rapidly, especially the infantry against the cavalry, and it is also the best among the Hun cavalry: Zhelan cavalry.

Shaking his head and throwing out the meaningless regret, Zhi Dufang sat down again on the main seat.

Just as he was about to say something more, he saw that the big tent was close to the tent door, and it was more than ten steps away from Zhidu, and a middle-level general was full of anxiety, and he suddenly bowed his hand to Zhidu.

"General Cavalry."

"The last general thinks that the most important thing at the moment should be within Mayi."

"This is not because the last general is alarmist, but because in the past few years, Mayi, and even most of the border cities have been breached, without exception, the inner should open the city gate to welcome Hu to enter the city."

"And this battle is very important, if you are worshiped for similar reasons, I am afraid that not only will you ride a chariot, but even we vulgar people will never have the face to see Your Majesty again······"

(End of chapter)