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Chapter 30 The Fruit of Victory

In a courtyard in Chang'an, a middle-aged man wrote a piece of silk quickly and put down his pen: "Come here! I'll send this letter to the king!"

A strong man took the order, took the silk and turned around and left.

Not long after, a sudden sound of hooves sounded, and a fast horse ran out of Chang'an.

Not long after the fast horse was released, two more horses rushed out of Chang'an one after another.

Two of these three fast horses crossed the Five Ridges and went south to enter the Lingnan area. One rode eastward, went eastward, and reached the shore of the sea.

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"Mr. Wei Qihou, look, these are our seizures." Feng Jing happily showed Dou Ying the results.

Countless cattle, sheep, horses, scimitars piled up into mountains, and the Huns who lowered their heads and had no fighting spirit. The ruthlessness of killing the Han people in the past was gone, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to show off.

After receiving the order, Dou Yingxing rushed to Yanmen County in just four days. At this time, Yanmen County was still covered by bloody smell and could be smelled dozens of miles away. Dou Ying originally thought that the good news was a bit exaggerated, but when he smelled the bloody smell, he knew it would be fake. He couldn't help but feel excited and rushed even more anxious.

As soon as he arrived in Yanmen County, Dou Ying drank a cup of tea, and after a breath, he asked Feng Jing to accompany him to see the results of the war. He didn't know if he didn't see it, but he was shocked. The results of the war were far beyond his imagination and were more than ten times the best he thought.

The Huns suppressed the Han Dynasty for decades, and the Han people were thinking about how to avenge their shame all the time, but they never could do it. Now, the decades of long-cherished wish has finally come true. Not to mention how excited Dou Ying was, as if she was twenty years younger, her face was red, and she almost sang: "Okay! OK! You guys beat me well! How many of these were captured?"

"In that battle alone, we captured nearly 20,000 war horses and captured nearly 3,000 Huns, such as the scimitars, leather armor, and tents of the Huns. That's countless. I sent the people of the city to clean the battlefield. Until now, I have thrown them out but have not been cleared." Feng Jing touched his hot face: "Mr. Wei Qihou, look, there are tents and scimitars everywhere outside the city. I don't know that it will be cleaned up in the year of the monkey and horses in the month."

Dou Ying looked out of the city and saw that the people were everywhere in the mountains and fields, cleaning up the battlefield, busy picking up the abandoned objects of the Huns.

Teams of people were carrying the bodies of the Huns and piled up one corpse after another. Dou Ying frowned and said, "The weather is already very hot, these corpses must be burned as soon as possible, otherwise, in the hot summer, it will cause an epidemic."

“That’s exactly that!”

Nearly 20,000 corpses were piled up in several hills, firewood was placed, and fired in a fire, and it took several days and nights before it was burned out.

"Have the pursuing army returned?" Dou Ying browly raised her eyebrows.

"No! Only the people are back." When we talked about the pursuit, Feng Jing became even more excited, and flames appeared on his face: "Wei Qihou, I didn't tell you that this pursuit is to drive cattle and sheep. Once the Shanyu was defeated, the people of the Huns became lambs to be slaughtered. Once our people arrived, they could only surrender obediently. The people alone seized more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, and there were five or six thousand horses."

"What about the army? Isn't it dangerous to pursue this kind of pursuit without food and grass?" Dou Ying was very worried.

"Food?" Feng Jing smiled and waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wei Qihou, don't worry about this. The customs of the Huns, whether old or weak, can shoot arrows or set up horses to kill the enemy. This time the Shanyu went south, and the people of the Huns followed hundreds of thousands of people behind. They brought the tents and drove cattle and sheep, and followed the Xiongnu army. If we were defeated, they would come to plunder. Unfortunately, this time, the Huns were defeated, and once our army arrived, they would become our prisoners. There were cattle and sheep behind the Great Wall, so there were no need to worry about eating."

The army fought in front and the people followed behind. This was not only the custom of the Huns, but also the custom of all nomadic peoples, such as the Huns, Xianbei, Turks, Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongolia.

It is precisely because of this that Chinese history records that the Chinese army has broken several times, even dozens of times, dozens of times, and dozens of times with a very small force. Some people think that this is the bragging of historians. In fact, that is true, and it is also counted as the people of the nomadic people. Because it is difficult to distinguish between nomadic soldiers and people. Soldiers are the people and the people are the soldiers, so they can only be counted as all of them.

Dou Ying was not familiar with the matter at the edge, and when he heard this, he suddenly realized: "That's good, that's good!"

Accompanied by Feng Jing, Dou Ying walked on the battlefield, watching the people who were cleaning the battlefield, busy and busy, and felt very moved that Zhou Yang was so incredible.

"The Flying General is back!"

The people looked north and cheered in unison.

Dou Ying looked up and saw a big banner with Li waving in the wind, rolling like a painting.

What came into my ears was the sound of hooves, which were the sound of countless cattle, sheep and horses.

At first glance, there were running cattle, sheep and horses all over the mountains, and a large area was filled with blackness, and there was no sight at all, as if a black cloud was floating.

The Han army can no longer call the army, it should call the herdsmen. They waved their whips, drove cattle, sheep and horses, shouting one after another, making people feel like they were in the depths of the desert. They didn't expect that this was outside Yanmen City.

Li Guang arrived at the horse and Feng Jing hurriedly asked, "General Fei, where have you chased me? So many cattle, sheep and horses!"

"This is called too much? If my people weren't enough, I wouldn't have come back." Li Guang's voice was particularly loud, which made people's ears buzz: "It's not just a pursuit, it's just a snatching thing. The Huns can ride horses and run away, and there are cattle, sheep and horses everywhere. When we arrive, we will leave, which is a tiring thing."

"How many?" Feng Jing wanted to know the number most.

Li Guang pondered for a moment: "There are probably more than 300,000 cattle and sheep. The horses are a little less, about 20,000. The Huns are hateful. They drove the horses away. The cattle and sheep could not run fast, so they stayed."

The Huns were skilled in cavalry shooting. When they heard that the battle was defeated in front of them, they rode on horseback and fled. They were infantrymen, so it was impossible to chase them.

"Where is the lieutenant of the slave?" Dou Ying was most concerned about Zhou Yang's movements.

"I don't know." Li Guang replied very simply: "They have four legs, and we have two legs, but they don't know where they have chased them. Wait, they will definitely gain more than us."

Li Guang's turnaround was just the beginning, with groups of Han troops coming back one after another. Every group of Han troops coming back would bring back countless cattle, sheep and horses.

Cheng Bushi's turn and harvest were so abundant that he was not inferior to Li Guang. There was no way to keep so many cattle, sheep and horses in Yanmen City. He could only send troops to mobilize the people to grazle outside the city.

For a time, Yanmen County became a huge ranch.

Five days later, Zhou Yang and the others finally came back.

Zhou Yang and his team's turn brought a perfect end to the Yanmen victory.

Cavalry is not comparable to infantry. Zhou Yang and others beheaded at least at level three. Just when they pursued, they beheaded 30,000 to 40,000, which is twice the battle at Yanmen City.

Of course, these killed Xiongnu included both the Shanyu army and the people of the Xiongnu. They tried to resist, and the Han army killed them without hesitation.

Zhou Yang and his friends brought back no less than 500,000 cattle and sheep and more than 50,000 horses.

In this battle, the Han army seized more than one million cattle and sheep and nearly one hundred thousand horses. Among these seizures, the most precious one was the horse.

With these horses, the Han Dynasty could build cavalry units.
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