Li Guang and the others returned to the city, and the Han army briefly celebrated.

Liu Zhang asked the doctor to examine the health of the Xiongnu children to prevent them from suffering from diseases.

They must not be allowed to die of illness, or they will lose a lot.

Some good-looking boys and girls will be selected to be taken care of individually.

They will be sent to Chang'an, and they will be given to those nobles.

Even if Liu Zhang didn't say so, some generals of the Han army would do the same.

It's an unwritten rule, and they can get a lot of benefit from it.

Those Hun children who are not good-looking, if they have good physical fitness.

They will be assigned to work in the fields or do other heavy work.

Xiongnu children with good physique will be auctioned, and those with poor appearance and physical strength will be auctioned.

can only be sold at a low price, as for their future fate?

No one cared, and Liu Zhang didn't sympathize with them.

How the Xiongnu treated the people of the Han Dynasty, how the Han army retaliated against the Xiongnu people.

Liu Zhang missed Xu Xuan because of this, and thought that she was also captured at the beginning.

was taken in by Liu Jia, and then became Liu Zhang's maidservant.

Liu Zhang still remembers the first time he met Xu Zhang, when she was relatively thin.

Her eyes are very watery, and she is also very well-behaved and obedient.

At first, the language barrier was not understood, and Liu Zhang's father asked the teacher to ask Xu Xuan to write and speak Chinese.

Liu Zhang stood in a daze, seeing so many Hun children who had been captured.

He couldn't help but think of Xu Xuan, she is getting more and more beautiful now.

Maybe many people covet her beauty and want to get her.

Liu Zhang was not too worried, Xu Xuan was difficult to conquer.

She seems gentle on the surface, and she is fierce like a wild beast.

"This time the record is very good, although some of the Huns have been run. We've got a lot of loot too, would you like to pick some? ”

Li Dang came to ask Liu Zhang to pick the spoils of war, which is also the rule in their army.

They won the battle and received a good booty, so they had the right of first choice.

Some of the loot will be sold for money, and some of it will be put into the treasury of the local government.

A part of it was equally distributed to the Han army participating in the war, so that everyone would have the enthusiasm to fight in the future.

"There are many beautiful Hun girls captured this time. If you fancy a few, just pick them out and belong to you. ”

This time, Liu Zhang's credit is the greatest, and everyone hasn't picked it yet.

Just waiting for Liu Zhang to pick first, the oldest of these Hun boys and girls is twelve years old, and the youngest is five years old.

It's a pity that they are all too young and need to be raised for a few more years.

"I think there are a few beautiful girls among them, if you don't pick them. That's a missed thing, they'll be given to the nobles as playthings. ”

Some aristocrats have a special penchant for young girls.

If it falls into their hands, the fate of these Hun girls is very tragic.

"Those good-looking Hun boys will be sent to the palaces of the princes and kings. You don't have to sympathize with them, because if you let them grow up, they are our enemies. ”

Li dared to tell Liu Zhang not to feel guilty, these Xiongnu treated the people of the Han Dynasty cruelly.

They have this retribution, and war is so cruel.

"I don't feel too much sympathy for them, that's their life. If those Huns want to save them, they can send troops to save them. ”

Liu Zhang wished that the Huns would come more, so he would kill more.

Liu Zhang did not kill innocents indiscriminately, as long as he did not resist the Huns.

At most, they became the slaves of the Han Dynasty's dignitaries, and if they resisted, they would surely die.

"It's good that you can think so, you said it before. The total population of the Xiongnu was only nearly 3 million, and this time the Xiongnu lost tens of thousands. ”

Li Dang felt very relieved that the population of the Xiongnu was getting smaller and smaller.

The threat to the Han Dynasty is getting smaller and smaller, and perhaps other nomadic peoples in the steppe will rise up in the future.

It is a new threat to the Han Dynasty, and they are inexhaustible.

The grasslands are also too big, and it is not easy to find them.

"Even if the Xiongnu decline, or even perish, there will be other nomadic peoples who rise."

The next to rise was the Xianbei tribe, who were now only subordinate tribes of the Xiongnu.

He would not let the Xiongnu go because he was worried about the rise of other tribes.

"Wait for people to boil some water, let them take a hot bath. Feed them and send them to other counties in the south after a while. ”

During this time, at least let them live a little better, and if they are sick, they will be cured.

Give them some clothes, Liu Zhang and they did their best to be benevolent.

The Xiongnu did not treat the people of the Han Dynasty as human beings, and of course they did not have a good life.

If the captured Huns were lucky, they would have met good masters.

In the future, she will have no worries about food and clothing, just like Xu Xuan, she is now Liu Zhang's wife.

He was already a free man, and his dignity and life were protected by the law.

"Look at those Hun girls who look good, you can pick a few. There are some good things that can't be cheapened by those dignitaries. ”

These trophies were all exchanged for their lives, and the Han troops who participated in the war could only exchange them for a small amount of money.

These Hun boys and girls have a clear price, according to the rules, after the selection of the generals to participate in the war.

Some of them will be given to the powerful for free, and the rest of the bad ones will be sold at a low price.

"Alright then, I'll pick some of the better Hun boys and girls first."

When they have bathed and eaten and drunk enough, they are making their choices.

Part of the Han army changed into civilian clothes, and they were going to sell the captured sheep today.

Cattle can be used to pull carts, and they generally don't sell them.

Cattle were very important arable labor and a good means of transportation.

Every time they fought against the Xiongnu, only sheep were more than the horses, cattle and sheep captured.

Li Dang took Liu Zhang to see the spoils of war, and the tents of the Xiongnu were burned.

But there are a lot of things intact, looking at the weapons made of various materials that are placed on the cart.

There is also a lot of leather armor, as well as a small amount of iron armor.

These iron armors were plundered from the arsenals of some counties on the border of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Zhang walked to the side of the cart.

Pick up an arrow, which is made from bones.

Some arrowheads are also made of stone, and there are not many iron arrowheads.

The manufacturing level of the Xiongnu was backward, and the weapons stored in the military arsenal in the border counties of the Han Dynasty were not the most sophisticated.

is worried that it will be snatched away by the Xiongnu, and some weapons and equipment will be transported with the Han army participating in the war.

The strongest and best-equipped Hun cavalry.

Only the left and right virtuous kings and Xiongnu Shan Yu are qualified to have them, and some of the Xiongnu do not even have armor.

Some of the Xiongnu wore rough leather armor, and the Xiongnu encountered this time were not the strongest in combat.

They dragged their families with them, and unfortunately they were served by Liu Zhang and them.

So far, Liu Zhang has not encountered the strongest Hun cavalry.

He was not too proud and watched the Huns use a variety of weapons.

This is the current situation of the Xiongnu, they are not as powerful and terrible as they imagined.

These weapons and equipment on the board car are worthless, and the Han army can't look down on them at all.

It's a pity to throw it away, but if you clean it a little, you can send it to the local people.

They generally assisted in maintaining law and order in the area, and were also responsible for defending against Xiongnu invasions.

If there was a combat mission, they assisted the Han army in combat.

"The quality of this weapon is too poor, even the leather armor is okay."

Looking at a lot of stone and bone weapons, they are naturally not as good as the iron weapons of the Han army.

Even if they used crude weapons, they caused a lot of trouble for the Han Dynasty.

Often able to snatch a lot of materials from the Han Dynasty border, the Han Dynasty border officials were angry and helpless.

They simply couldn't catch up with them, and the Huns were sometimes like a gust of wind.

Come fast and go fast. Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, decades have passed.

The problem of the Xiongnu has never been resolved. Every year a military strike was inflicted on the Xiongnu.

"One has to admire the will of the Huns, who use crude weapons. It can also fight with our Han army for so long, on the other hand, we have sophisticated weapons. ”

In recent years, the weapons and armor of the Han army have been replaced one after another, but thousands of Xiongnu have not been eliminated.

A record like Wei Qing and Huo Quai's is really rare.

Since Liu Zhang came to the border of the Han Dynasty and took them to kill the Xiongnu.

Every time the battle was fought, thousands of losses were inflicted on the Huns.

Liu Zhang's military talent is outstanding, and he needs to accumulate more combat experience.

"Weapons are one of the combat factors, what matters is mentality. Our weapons are good, and we may be a little proud. ”

Liu Zhang has always maintained a normal mentality, and he knows very well the truth that arrogant soldiers will be defeated.

The Xiongnu lived in the grassland for a long time, and the environment was quite harsh.

What they feared most was strong winds and snow, and the Huns would hunt between spring and autumn.

In the autumn, they would form a large group to go to the Han border to grab grain.

They were also preparing to survive the long and cold winter, which tempered the strong will of the Xiongnu.

No difficulty overwhelmed their will, and they generally chose the Han Dynasty counties with weak defenses.

They hurried and retreated, and it was difficult for the Han army to catch up.

After these battles, the Xiongnu suffered a lot of losses.

Presumably, the blow to the Xiongnu was also very large, and the population of the Xiongnu also plummeted.