"Separate several combat brigades. Let the soldiers **** less dust, it's not good for your health!" Xiahou Yuan said to the messenger, the messenger choked and coughed and promised to leave. The army spread out a great distance, and more than 10,000 people seemed to be like a hundred thousand troops, and the ground shook and squeaked. Of course, if the main force of the Huns hadn't been defeated, Xiahou Yuan would not have dared to let the soldiers spread out like that. When attacked by surprise, the power is scattered, and it is easy to be divided, surrounded or defeated.

The autumn night fell faster, the wind was blowing, and the temperature dropped all of a sudden. There was even a layer of hoarfrost on the mane of the sweat-soaked horse. As expected of a good horse, the speed is not reduced, and the physical strength can be fully supported. Just chilled the riders on top.

According to the report of the forward team, there is a leeway and a water source in the front, which can be camped and rested. A logistics team has already rushed to the front and is preparing the tent. Set up fire. Such a good place will not be uninhabited. Sure enough, a village is here, and the herdsmen put thick yurts here, and it seems that they will live here for a long time.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the soldiers to see the faint light and the stars. It appears to be inhabited, and there are torches. Xiahou Yuan is not surprised by this, because the scattered Xiongnu seems to often have some self-defense militia organized by respected elders. It didn't take long for the large firelight to rise. It seems that the logistics team has arrived at the place and is making arrangements.

The soldiers cheered and ran into the valley, the low hills blocking the strong wind. Immediately it felt a lot more comfortable, but the temperature was still so low. The logistics of the army on the frontal battlefield in the north are better. There are military towns such as Shuofang as transfer stations, which transport a lot of materials to the troops. Among them are some thicker blankets, almost one per hand. Some soldiers have already received cotton-padded coats sent from home, as well as winter coats supported by the army, which contain thin cotton wool.

Each brigade sent patrols and sentries in the direction it was responsible for. Without saying a word, these warriors ran into the dark night in small groups. Under the command of the patrol captain and the overall planning of the combat brigade, they will be vigilant and observe every direction without dead ends. If there is danger, a warning will be issued in time. Some of these people are Minggang, holding torches, and some are dark whistle, lurking in the dark. They will patrol for an hour, and there is not much time, because these people are also on the march and need to rest. Someone will replace them soon, and there will be three shifts of sentry in one night.

The logistics department delineated the positions of the major teams, and they entered their own areas in an orderly manner. The tent is naturally made by yourself, usually around the fire, if it is not bright enough, you can start the fire yourself. Since the main force of the Xiongnu was defeated, the dark camp has disappeared, because there is no large main force around, and there is no need to hide. If you want to guard against an attack, just send more outposts. The tents set up by the logistics office are naturally for the first batch of patrol and sentry soldiers, as well as the command tents of the central army and the brigade. Soldiers set fire to cook, and some brought prey they found time to hunt during the day. They use this to eat meat. Of course, the Huns had more sheep, and the fallen troops occasionally requisitioned them, and most of the time they did not move the herdsmen's property. The mutton and pork will be brought from the rear. The pork has a strong taste and is not delicious. The meat in the rear was not very fresh, and there was nothing tasty from hunting.

After a while, the camp was quiet, and the soldiers quickly ate dinner and began to rest. Marching during the day is tiring. Of course, this is good, and no one bleeds. Since the main force of the Huns was defeated, everything has changed greatly, and the **** storm seems to have passed.

Xiahou Yuan did not go to inspect, he believed that this well-trained elite could do the strict sentry work. There were only a few messengers and civilians in the corner of the central army tent, and a few guards pulled a small tent to rest outside. Xiahou Yuan took off his armor, put his saber by his hand, and leaned his long weapon beside him, wrapped himself in a blanket and fell asleep. A fire burned in the center of the tent, and it gradually became dark, only a dim red light was emitted, which was the last faint light of charcoal.

He slept soundly and woke up only when the sound was loud. This is his weakness, but others don't know it, and Xiahou Yuan seldom tells others. But once woken up, he was able to wake up immediately.

The noise and shouting woke him.

Xiahou Yuan sat up and immediately grabbed the sword beside him. Several messengers also woke up and looked at him blankly. Two guards walked into the tent, wielding sabres to prevent anyone from breaking in and killing the general.

"Which side is the sound and the firelight?" Xiahou Yuan asked as he stood up and was about to walk out of the tent.

"To the southeast." The guard said.

Xiahou Yuan was stunned for a moment. The herdsmen's village was to the north of the camp. To the south is a hill. If it's a herder attack, it's probably from the north...unless they're attacked by well-trained skirmishers.

"Then I heard soldiers shouting in the Central Army... What's going on!" Xiahou Yuan said impatiently. "Tell the soldiers in other directions to go to bed!" "Understood..." The soldiers who had heard Xia Houyuan didn't care about him at all, and were not so anxious.

Sure enough, after a while, the third brigade in charge of the east sent a messenger to report. Fifty or sixty people attacked a corner of the camp. Two tents of soldiers of a combat group were burned, and several people were killed and injured. Now the brigade commander is organizing people to chase in all directions, be sure to catch the person who attacked 2.5.

"What is the post for eating!" Xiahou Yuan said dissatisfiedly.

"These people seem to be quite familiar with the terrain... They came in from a secret passage that we don't know about." The messenger said.

It's possible... which also seems to indicate that the attackers were pastoralists. Xiahou Yuan felt relieved, and just said, "Where's the commander of your brigade?"

"I'm leading a team to hunt now." Chuan Bing said.

"Why did the little thieves go in person!" Xiahou Yuan was not satisfied. "If it was just a pretense, and now a large group of people is coming to steal the camp from the southeast, wouldn't you be in a mess!" The messenger lowered his head and dared not say.

"When he comes back, tell him to come to the Central Army!"

"Yes!" The messenger resigned with a promise. .

Chapter 196 Raiders

It was not until the next morning, when the soldiers started to eat breakfast, that the brigade commander came over with dark circles under his eyes. Hundreds of soldiers arrested all night, and finally caught more than 20, and many people ran away. They made no secret that they were herdsmen in the large village next to them. However, if they were asked to name other people, they would definitely be scolded by these captives.

The soldiers of the third team were obviously very annoyed that a few herdsmen had made them so embarrassed that the entire battle team lost face. The three emergency teams and patrol teams, a total of several hundred people, rode fast horses to surround and chase. But these herders are slippery like loach. It runs faster than a rabbit, and is familiar with the surrounding environment, and it disappears when it goes around. Fortunately, the fallen horses are fast, as long as there is a little open space, they can quickly run over and arrest people. After tossing and arresting all night, only a dozen people were arrested, and the brigade commander was extremely annoyed. But when it was 10 days, Xiahou Yuan must be in a hurry to see him, so the commander of the brigade had to bite the bullet and escorted the prisoners to the central army tent.

"In the future, let your sub-commander command for such trivial matters!" Xiahou Yuan's first sentence was this. "You are the commander of the brigade. You must ensure that you can grasp the movement of the brigade at all times and organize the brigade to fight at any time. You cannot leave the command post!"

"Understood." The captain with dark circles under his eyes whispered. However, Xiahou Yuan didn't seem to care about this attack very much, which made the captain a little more relieved, because the result of their handling was very unsatisfactory.

"That... About fifty or sixty herdsmen, armed with machetes and torches, attacked our camp last night. Several tents were burnt down, seven soldiers were killed and ten wounded. Twenty-three were arrested later, and the others seemed to have run away. According to the prisoner’s account, it was indeed from the surrounding village, but the prisoner was unwilling to confess to other attackers.”

When Xia Houyuan listened to the first half of the report, he didn't seem to be interested. After the report was not enough, he raised his head. "This is not the first time our first column has been attacked at night, right?" Xiahou Yuan said lazily.

The brigade commander groaned, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Yes... The second brigade was also attacked by skirmishers before. Seven or eight of the skirmishers were killed on the spot, and the rest were all arrested. I Five were wounded and one was killed."

"In the first case, you are too far from the Second Brigade. In the second case, these herdsmen are really too powerful." Xiahou Yuan concluded. Indeed, compared with the second team, the third team is really embarrassing this time. The Second Brigade only killed one, captured all the attackers, and hacked to death seven or eight on the spot. And the third team actually killed seven people, only hacked five people to death, and let a bunch of people run away.

"Subordinates are negligent... It's definitely not that the combat effectiveness of the second brigade is not enough! It's subordinates who are negligent." The brigade commander panicked. "Please be punished by the general!" He even took out his command sword.

In Xiahou Yuan's army, the reason for defeat must not be attributed to the fact that the opponent was too strong. Xiahou Yuan thought it was a cowardly act. No matter how strong the opponent is, even a tiger will have to pull a tooth down. But this brigade commander would definitely not be willing to say that his team was weak, so he had to say that he was dereliction of duty.

"My soldiers are not weak!" Xiahou Yuan said sharply. Obviously, he will not admit that his soldiers are weak in combat. "Has the vanguard unit returned?" He turned to the first column commander beside him, "Get ready, let's drive into the village." Then, with round eyes, he said to the third captain, "Go back immediately and take your team!"

The village was really big enough, bigger than they had ever seen. There must be thousands of people in such a village. The vanguard team has already set off, and they have to continue to survey, verify the map, and even draw a simple map to prepare for the next station. According to the results of the reconnaissance, there was only one village in a radius of hundreds of miles, and there was no need to disperse the team. Xiahou Yuan directly ordered the first and fourth teams to leave. This column has more than 12,000 people. In addition to the logistics team and the vanguard team, it is divided into four teams, each of which is about 2,500 people. Now a team of about 5,000 people surrounded the village from different directions and blocked all passages. Of course, there is a special team, that is, more than 200 people in the artillery team. Xiahou Yuan's treasure was incredible. When he camped near the Central Army, he sent heavy troops to protect him. Xiahou Yuan thought that the artillery team should be by his side at all times, so he did not order to start.

Xiahou Yuan, as usual, did not ask any specific things. He just looked at the column commander, arranging for soldiers to surround. The village has taken an uncooperative attitude towards the Fallen Army, as evidenced by last night's attack, and they will be severely punished.

More than a hundred cavalrymen formed a horse team, swaggered into the village, and shuttled between the narrow tents. The soldiers shouted sharply: "Hand over the attackers last night! Or burn down the whole village!" But there was no answer, and the herdsmen closed the door. It was the first time Xiahou Yuan had seen such a distinctly inconsistent attitude. The elder did not come over for a long time, and no one claimed to be an elder himself.

Xiahou Yuan had a hundred despicable ways to drive the elders and yesterday's attackers out, but he was too lazy to do them, and he was too lazy to guide them. This was a headache for him, and he would rather engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat with genuine enemies on the battlefield. That way, he won't hesitate when he kills the enemy. It can be realized that what they face is not a vicious enemy, but this group of hostile and uncooperative people.

In a way, they are the aggressors and the herders are the victims. Of course, to a certain extent, the herdsmen are robbers, they are the army that protects the victims in the Central Plains. In other words... For a modern person like Luochen, he felt that this place belonged to China and should be unified. None of the herders who benefited from the looting were another kind of villain, and though they weren't directly involved, weren't they pretty much the same as looters? Moreover, many of their husbands and sons also participated in the looting and massacre. Now everything is reversed. It is not the army of the Xiongnu who entered the border towns in the Central Plains, but the army of the Central Plains who entered the villages of the Huns. .

Chapter 197 The Village

The commander of the third team looked quite annoyed: "These herdsmen are really arrogant! They won't obey Lord Luochen at all! Forget the bombardment!"

This idea makes people feel eager to try. With such a high-tech and powerful thing, let them look amazing. Although during the shelling of the Great Grassland War, the fallen soldiers also felt nauseous and cruel when they saw the terrifying scene of blood and flesh flying. But after thinking about it, the Hun soldiers who had always been arrogant were so panicked and frightened, and I felt quite happy.

Chang Yuchun didn't answer, and he didn't know what to do. The bombardment is obviously not good, it is too cruel, this is not the characteristic of the fallen army. He pushed the matter to the column commander: "What do you think?"

"Uh..." The column commander didn't know what to say for a while. "General, why don't you just leave it to me... I'll deal with it..."

Xiahou Yuan thought for a while, but didn't say a word for a long time. The column commander thought that Xiahou Yuan would not agree, so he had to add: "I won't bombard it..." Xiahou Yuan slowly raised his head and said, "Don't massacre, just do it."

"Understood." The column commander said and left.

He called in more than a thousand soldiers from the Third Squadron and started knocking on the door from house to house. After the warning, if you don't open the door three times, you can directly split it with a saber. If they do not cooperate, they will burn the yurt. If a herdsman attacks a soldier, the soldier has the right to cut him down. Sure enough, after a few yurts smoked and after a few bloodsheds, all the herdsmen were concentrated in the open grasslands. Thousands of soldiers surrounded the herdsmen, their lives and deaths under complete control.

For some reason, Xiahou Yuan suddenly sighed. Because he followed Luochen and saw Luochen strictly forbid robbing herdsmen's property. You can't even enter the yurts at will, and keep them isolated from the herdsmen's villages. Facing the hostility of the herdsmen, Luo Chen showed great restraint. "We only kill enemies with weapons. Unless there are very special circumstances, we don't kill prisoners, let alone kill unrelated people at will." He clearly told the senior generals around him.

Among the thousands of people, there are not many young men. The war made the village's population disproportionately disproportionate. Xiahou Yuan couldn't hold back, and rode his horse to the side. The commander of the column was stunned for a moment, thinking that Xiahou Yuan was going to come to lecture in person, and hurriedly said: "General... Please give instructions to the general."

"You do what you want, and I won't interfere with you." Xiahou Yuan said. "I said you have full authority to handle it." Then he went to the side. A bunch of messengers also quickly surrounded the past.

These herders clearly know who the commander is. Even if there is no obvious difference in clothing, it can be seen from Xiahou Yuan's demeanor that he is a high-ranking general. He felt the eyes of some herdsmen staring at him, and when he looked over, those eyes quickly turned away. This is an old herdsman with a wrinkled face, his expression is dull, without too much expression, his complexion is dark, and he is inconspicuous in the crowd.

Xiahou Yuan looked at the expressions of these people with great interest. They were calm and dull. Both men and women were the same, but the women and children couldn't hide their panic. Even the men were a little nervous. But there are one or two herders who are really calm, without even the slightest expression. Xiahou Yuan realized that only a true veteran, a veteran who has experienced a brush with death, can be so calm when his life is on the line. Of course, there were also herdsmen with resentment, which made Xiahou Yuan feel at ease. They are indeed the level of herdsmen, otherwise there are so many veterans, then this village's fallen leaves are too powerful. Xiahou Yuan could even identify them on the spot. It was obvious that these people were the ones who carried out the attack. It was too obvious. But he was too lazy to say a word.

"Lord Luochen led the army to defeat Zhongping as a punishment for you to burn and loot the towns in the Central Plains. Now Luochen has occupied this place. Lord Luochen's orders will be implemented here in the future, and Lord Luochen will be your Xiongnu's Shanyu... no , higher than Shanyu, is the highest and most correct person!" the column commander announced sharply.

"You attacked our camp last night, resulting in the deaths and injuries of the fallen soldiers. This is your attitude towards the fallen soldiers? You will be severely punished!" The column commander waved his arms in a look of indignation.

"However, Lord Luochen and General Xiahouyuan have always been benevolent people. They ordered me not to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and not to point my sword at people who are not armed." The column commander glanced at Xiahouyuan as he spoke. "We don't point knives at the common people, but the people who attacked us last night! You slashed at us with knives first! Don't blame us for being rude! Now, people must be handed over and punished!"

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