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After dealing with the problems of the Huns, the army began to retreat to the southwest, and the rear was in that direction.

With the prisoners, they walked relatively slowly. It took three days to reach the rear location, and the army was all assembled.

But in the past few days while on the road, something happened in the southwest region.

In the southwestern region, the cattle and sheep of a tribe were attacked by wolves. After investigation by the tribe, it was found that these wolves came from the south.

But just after the wolf extermination operation, the wolves have no cubs and don't need food so much. Logically speaking, they would not take risks to attack the tribe in search of food.

But they were attacked by wolves, or wolves from the south, so the only medium-sized tribe left in the southwest region sent people to investigate.

And this is just a coincidence, after searching for a long time, I didn't find a tribe, nor did I find any traces, so where did so many tribes go?
This matter should be on Huo Shan, who let these tribes just receive the order, before they have time to act, Huo Shan wiped them out.

Now that the wolves want to raise their cubs, they naturally need a lot of food to supplement their milk. Without food, they are forced to attack the tribe's cattle and sheep.

When the investigators went back and reported, the tribal leader was dumbfounded.

'I didn't find it, what do you mean, so many living tribes can disappear?
It must be that you are not paying attention, so keep looking. '

Wouldn't it be a waste of time to go back and forth again? Huo Shan also successfully returned to the tribe and knew about it.

"You mean, there are tribes probing the areas we've swept?"

Huo Shan frowned and looked at Zhao Ponu.

Old Zhao nodded.

Huo Shan had a bit of a headache, what do you call this? If you don't find out sooner or later, you just found out at this time...

Next, he will launch an action against King Zuoguli, if this makes him vigilant, it will add trouble.

As for being discovered by them, Huo Shan is still somewhat confident, they should not be able to find out.

The battlefields that the Habayashi Army has cleaned are all foolproof. Even if they finish their investigation, they will only feel that the tribe has migrated or disappeared.

Huo Shan thought for a while, then called Zhong Gan:

"Arrange for these prisoners to depart as soon as possible."

"promise."

Arrange these slow-moving captives to leave as soon as possible, so that he can do whatever he wants without restraint.

Now that the Huns have discovered the problem, they will definitely not let it go. After all, the disappearance of so many tribes without a trace is a big problem.

"How many supplies do we have now?"

Zhong Gan knew this question well in his mind, when Huo Shan asked, he immediately answered:

"Returning to my lord, because the noodles and fried noodles are useless, they have always been about [-] catties.

About [-] catties of tea were used, and there are [-] catties left.

The refined salt used [-], and there are [-].

Coarse salt used [-] catties, and there are [-] catties left.

There are still [-] pieces of coarse salt seized.

There is enough fodder for war horses in January.

Feed the warhorses with fine materials once a day, and feed the rest of the horses once every five days, which is enough for more than a month.

Four catties of cooked meat per person per day is enough for the entire army for [-] days. "

Huo Shan nodded and said:
"Bringing your own salt is still limited, only for the Habayashi army and war horses.

The captured coarse salt can be given to Xiongnu Yicong and other horses, one tael every five days for a man, and one tael for a horse every three days.

By the way, how many horses do we have now? "

"Returning to my lord, I just finished recording the new captures. Not counting the [-] war horses and Habayashi's pack horses, there are a total of about [-] war horses."

Huo Shan smiled, Xiongnu and Wuhuan Yicong almost happened to be three horses.

The current situation is that there is no shortage of food and fodder, but what is lacking is salt, so it can only be limited, and it is impossible to eat openly.

If there is no limit to the salt, it will be very costly. The Habayashi Army will have to pay about 4000 catties per day based on 200 people, and they have used [-] catties in more than two months.

The remaining refined salt supplies nearly [-] Yulin soldiers, which should be enough for five or six months.

Coarse salt is supplied to war horses, and 6000 war horses are limited to one or two a day, which is 375 catties.

But one tael is only about seventeen grams, and the horses are tired every day. Logically speaking, it needs at least six or seven times the amount of salt to be enough.

But there is no way, as far as this condition is concerned, this is still the most top-notch treatment in this era.

The remaining coarse salt can also supply war horses for five or six months.

As for the others, there is nothing they can do. The [-] coarse salt blocks seized can be given to them, and they can also be supplied for about half a month.

If it is gone, it will be seized again. If it is not captured, then it will not be eaten, and it will last for a month.

Anyway, it is impossible for the Habayashi Army to supply them with salt. If people don't eat salt, they will lose energy and strength, and if they don't eat for half a month, they will have problems.

In any case, the Habayashi Army must not lack salt.

In the back, if it really doesn't work, you can share the Huns' righteousness, but the Habayashi Army must keep enough salt.

.........

"Let those prisoners rest well tonight, arrange for them to leave as soon as possible tomorrow morning, and then we will hide."

Zhao Ponu frowned next to him:
"My lord, the southwest region is currently investigating, maybe the region will be expanded to detect these captives."

When Huo Shan heard this, he was suddenly happy:
"Isn't that better? It's good not to be detected, but even better to be detected.

If they are detected by them, do you think they will move out, if they do, that is our chance, and we can deal with them by the way. "

Zhao Ponu hesitated for a moment, but still asked:

"Then these captives..."

"So I told you to hurry up, let them go faster on the road, and their route is two to three hundred miles away from the southwest area, and they won't be able to detect it for a while."

It is undeniable that he is a bit interested in using captives as bait.

But it doesn't matter to him whether he succeeds or not, even if the bait attracts enemies, there can't be many.

At the top of the sky, there are only a thousand people, and they can be dealt with directly, so they are still very safe.

.........

While Huo Shan and the others were chatting here, the fourth batch of captives from the southwest region had already arrived near Yunzhong.

As soon as they entered the range of the Great Wall, they were discovered by patrolling soldiers.

"Woo~"

"Woo~"

After the two parties confirmed their identities with the sound of horns and flags, the team led by Captain Yunzhong Zhongbu immediately went up to meet them.

When he saw the [-] to [-] cattle, sheep and horses and nearly [-] Hun captives, his mouth opened wide unconsciously.

It's not that he is ignorant, he has seen large tracts of cattle, sheep and horses before, but this is a seizure!

His age is relatively young, and his young age means that he has not seen the scene of hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses driving into the Great Wall 30 or [-] years ago.

And in the past 20 years, I have seen so many seizures!
"How many tribes have to be destroyed, I'm afraid I have to destroy a royal court!"

He squinted his eyes, swallowed his saliva and muttered to himself.

But at the moment no one pays attention to him, the other soldiers look like him.

"The cattle, sheep and horses seized by Champion Hou are almost [-]?"

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone discussed it enthusiastically.

"It's almost [-] that have been delivered, there must be more that haven't been delivered!"

"How do you explain this?"

Some people didn't understand why, and the team leader quietly pricked up their ears.

The tall soldier smiled triumphantly:
"Think about it, the champion marquis goes deep into the hinterland of the Huns, and he always wants to eat and drink, right?"

The crowd nodded.

"There are also those soldiers who came here a few times ago and they said that they have to eat and drink. They must not leave some cattle and sheep!"

"Oh~"

Everyone suddenly nodded.

"And..."

"What else?"

"Think about it, the champion Hou rushed to kill the tribe, just like the champion Jing Huanhou, he must have lost a lot of horses.

Don't you see it's all old horses and ponies?Then the good horse must have been left for supplementary use. "

"exactly!"

"It must be so."

"Then according to what you said, it must be over one hundred thousand!"

The team rate is also negligible nodded, and immediately shouted after listening:

"Wuhuan's people have also come over, silence me, stand in line, don't let Champion Hou's subordinates look down on me."

Everyone puffed up their chests reflexively.

They also thought that Champion Hou could lead them to fight against the Huns. If they left a bad impression on these people, they could just say that the soldiers in the clouds are not good enough, and that would be a bad thing.

The captain can peel off their skins!
Afterwards, the two parties met, and naturally they had a happy chat.

They were the first batch of Wuhuan cavalry to come, and they returned to Yunzhong in the past few days, waiting for the captives to arrive, so they rushed here immediately after getting the news.

Because the Wuhuan cavalry is under the command of the champion, it is natural to see them have a sense of superiority, but these people will praise them if they can't help it!
Each elder brother is tall and strong and short, and he doesn't know how to brag about these Wuhuan cavalry!

After chatting for a while, the two sides picked up the prisoners and captured them, and a group of people hurried towards the Great Wall.

For nearly a hundred miles, they walked for a long time. The cattle and sheep walked slowly, and they entered the Great Wall in the evening.

After they entered the Great Wall, they had a rest for one night. Captain Yun Zhong rushed over and warmly entertained them.

The largest of the Wuhuan cavalry is just a village head, in charge of hundreds of people, so it is natural to ask for such warm hospitality from the captain.

No, look, just open your mouth.

"Dare to ask Commander Mo Duo, where is Champion Hou now?"

As soon as this sentence was asked, all the faces of the people sitting there changed, and Mo Duo also stared at the captain in the middle warily.

After watching for a while, Mo Duo got up and turned to leave without saying a word, but he had already decided in his heart to report this matter to the general.

The others scolded "pig brain" in their hearts, and they all got up and left together, leaving only the middle captain who stayed there with a dazed expression.

Champion Hou went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, what a dangerous thing, the whole northern land was blocked, just to keep the news from spreading.

And you're asking about the exact location here?

If you don't die, who will die!
If you want to die, don't implicate us.

In the early morning of the second day, the captives continued to drive their cattle and sheep. There was still some distance to the Hetao Grassland. According to their speed, it would take them two or three days to cross the river.

It was also a day away from Yunzhong, the prefecture of Yunzhong County, and they still had to bring news to Wei Qing.

Huo Shan didn't order them to bring news, but Wei Qing did.

In Huo Shan's letter, he didn't say anything about the war. Wei Qing was afraid that he would report good news but not bad news, so he ordered these people to come to him when they came, and he wanted to ask about the situation.

But in fact, as long as there are prisoners coming, it is a good situation.

The captain of Zhongbu in the cloud came to apologize before dawn. Of course, Mo Duo collected all his gifts and agreed to all his requests.

But after he happily left, Mo Duo silently added another charge of bribery in his heart.

This is a typical misfortune from the mouth.

If you ask such words, it doesn’t matter whether your thoughts are good or bad, they are all bad.

Coming to Yunzhong, Mo Duo told Wei Qing the news he got from the captives and the guards this time.

As for the matter of the soldiers' bones, Huo Shan had already explained to Wei Qing, and Wei Qing also made arrangements for them after they arrived.

After Mo Duo left, Wei Qing sat and thought for a long time, then suddenly smiled:
"This little thing is plotting a big one, and he is hiding it from the old man. Is it because he is afraid that the old man will disagree? Or is he afraid that the old man will do him bad things? Hehe!"

Although Huo Shan kept it from Wei Qing, Wei Qing could figure out what Huo Shan wanted to do based on what he knew.

He must be eyeing a big shot, otherwise why would he hide it from him.

As for what Huo Shan was hiding from him, Wei Qing also made a wild guess.

It's nothing more than fear that the news will leak out, or that he himself knows that he will take some actions in the future, which will ruin his business.

Wei Qing was indeed right in guessing that Huo Shan didn't give the battle report at first because he was afraid that the news about him in the Xiongnu would leak out.

But after waiting for more than a month, Huo Shan also felt relieved, since he hasn't leaked any news for so long, it should be fine.

Then he concealed from Wei Qing that it was really Wei Qing's idea.

If Wei Qing knew the location of Zuo Guli King's Court, Huo Shan really couldn't guarantee whether Wei Qing would directly lead the army northward, which seemed very possible to him.

And if Wei Qing directly leads the army northward, the Huns will definitely get the news, and the Huns will definitely run away.

As for why they didn't fight, they couldn't afford to fight in front of Wei Qing.

And once the Xiongnu ran away, it would destroy Huo Shan's plan, destroy his arrangement for King Zuoguli to reduce his wings, and also expose the news that there was a Han army in the hinterland of the Xiongnu.

Because as long as Wei Qing's army is dispatched, the Huns will not simply run away, but the entire Huns will move to the north. Wei Qing's name is so powerful.

A few years ago, that is, the year when Lao Zhao attacked Loulan, Gongsun He also sent troops to the Xiongnu. The purpose of their sending troops was that Liu Che wanted to restore them to the Marquis.

And Lao Zhao's result is clear to everyone, Zhuo Yehou!
As a result, Gongsun He ran for two or three thousand miles, but failed to find the Huns.

And Gongsun He's name in the Xiongnu was Wei Qing's deputy general.

And Wei Qing's lieutenant general was able to make the Xiongnu flee north for two hundred miles, avoiding all of them on the way forward, and not fighting him.

And when Wei Qing moves out, what kind of movement will be caused is unimaginable.

And this migration will inevitably find a lot less tribes, and then he will naturally be exposed.

So Huo Shan never told Wei Qing about his position, battle report, or his plans.

In fact, if Wei Qing wanted to know, he could just ask the captives.

However, this is a tacit understanding between the grandparents and the grandson. If I don't give you any news, just leave me alone and let me do whatever I want?
Wei Qing covered his mouth and coughed twice, looked at Beibei and sighed:
"Old, really old!"

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