More than a month later, we gathered in Yi Village.

Xu Chu sent people back with more than 400 war horses, more than 500 sheep, more than 300 young men and women, and dozens of carts of various sizes and other items.

These were all stolen from the Huns, including people.

"Where are Xu Chu and the others? Didn't they come back together?"

Zhang Mo looked along the long queue and saw no one else except the hundreds of auxiliary soldiers and Han slaves who were escorting things back.

A soldier said: "The leader said that there are not enough horses, so he took people to rob the Xianbei tribe again."

"He's bold!"

Zhang Mo was shocked and angry when he heard this, "Where's Du Fei, why didn't you stop him?"

This guy simply doesn't care about life and death. He just wants to rob someone in his own territory, but he dares to go wild on other people's territory. He really thinks that the barbarians are all made of clay.

"Commander Du stopped us, but we can't stop him. Besides, the brothers all want to go too."

Temporarily suppressing his anger, Zhang Mo said: "Please tell me in detail what has happened in the past few months."

The soldier who answered the question glanced at Zhang Mo timidly. He didn't understand why the usually pleasant little boss suddenly got angry. Wasn't she the one who asked him to rob the barbarian? Where was the robbery?

Seeing Zhang Mo staring at him, the soldier hurriedly replied: "I will leave Jinyang, pass through Meng County and enter Yangqu, and then go to Yuanping...

Zhang Mo interrupted him, "Let's start from when we met the Hu people."

"Oh... I walked for half a month without encountering the Huns. I didn't encounter a group until a village near Wuzhou..."

After talking about the battle in Wuzhou County, the soldier added, "Later, we met the second group in Jiling and defeated them easily. We continued north and met the third group at a Wubao north of Jiling.

It's just that I was a little late when I arrived. Wubao had been captured by the Hu people, and all the young and old in the fort were killed. When I was waiting to enter, I bumped into the Huns soldiers abusing a woman. Several people were surrounding one, and the woman was covered in blood.

There is no good piece of skin..."

Xu suddenly thought that his little boss was also a woman. The soldier immediately stopped talking and secretly glanced at Zhang Mo. He saw that her face was ashen, but she didn't look embarrassed or shy. He couldn't help but be stunned. She was worthy of being a thief. She was indeed an extraordinary person.

"In short, it's miserable."

The soldier spoke miserably, but his expression showed no trace of pity or sympathy. He continued: "The barbarians are scattered all over Wubao. They are either busy robbing things or venting their anger. We will rush in suddenly and catch them off guard."

"All the masters of Wubao were killed. The young men and women servants that the Hu people wanted to capture as slaves had no one to rely on and were afraid of the Hu people, so they wanted to follow us. Commander Xu took them all with him."

"The team continued to walk north, but on the third day, they met another group of people on the road. These people had grabbed everything and were preparing to go back... This time we not only robbed dozens of horses, but also a large number of horses stolen by the barbarians.

In terms of money and food, Commander Xu only took the horses and returned the things to the prisoners and asked them to go home on their own, but these people cried and refused to leave and insisted on following us."

"When Commander Xu asked, he found out that their family members were all dead and their houses were burned down. Some wanted to follow and kill the Huns for revenge, while some did not dare to stay in Yunzhong anymore. Alas, most of them just wanted to follow us anyway. Commander Xu could not

, so he allocated some horses to send them back to Juyi Village first."

"Commander Xu deeply hates the Hu people, and Yunzhong is close to Xianbei, so he also wants to kill their tribe. Before I came back, they went north."

"In these battles, we have killed thirty-three people and injured thirty-nine people, and we have brought them all back."

Not only was he indifferent to the death of his compatriots, but the soldier's expression was also very dull.

When he was a moth thief in the past, dozens or hundreds of people would die every time he went out for robbery. In fact, he was already used to the people around him dying and changing, and changing and dying again. After following this little boss, many fewer people died in the village.

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Wounded soldiers came forward with boxes in their hands, "The bones are all burned."

Although Zhang Mo was a little sad, she no longer felt as distressed about the death and injury as she did at first. In troubled times, death is a normal thing. She had already made this mental preparation before she decided to rob the foreigner.

"Zhang Feng, go check and see if they have any relatives at home. If they have parents or underage children, they will be subsidized as usual."

Zhang Feng followed the order, and Zhang Mo looked at the hundreds of Han slave men and women who had been rescued, and said to Li Gui, "Take them to resettle them, return their belongings, and follow the rules of the village."

"yes!"

Li Gui responded and called his men to come and get the people.

After settling these Han slaves, Zhang Mo couldn't help but start to worry about Xu Chu and others who had entered Xianbei territory.

Before Xu Chu and others set off, she went back to Jinyang to check Xianbei-related information: Xianbei originally belonged to the Donghu ethnic group. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Donghu were defeated by the Xiongnu Maodun Chanyu and divided into two groups, which retreated to Wuhuan Mountain and Xianbei Mountain respectively.

Taking the name of the mountain as their clan name, they are the Wuhuan and Xianbei clans in the north, who were ruled by the Xiongnu.

After the Xiongnu split, Xianbei got rid of their control and once defeated the Northern Xiongnu.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xianbei had a very powerful leader - Tan Shihuai.

This guy unified all the Xianbei tribes during the reign of Emperor Huan. Emperor Huan made many overtures to him, including making him a king and marrying him, but he was all rejected without mercy.

During Tanshihuai's reign, Xianbei maintained military suppression of the Han Dynasty and never suffered a loss for decades.

Although, before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Tan Shihuai died, the Xianbei Alliance collapsed, the western Xianbei rebelled, and Monan split into three groups from the east of Yunzhong: Budugen, Kebineng and the original alliance "Eastern Master"

Several small groups.

With Tanshihuai's great achievements ahead of him, even if Xianbei is divided now, I'm afraid it won't be much weaker. How can Xu Chu, with only a few hundred people, go deep into the opponent's territory without suffering a loss?

Although it is midsummer now, the grasslands of Inner Mongolia are vast. What should I do if I get lost?

The ancient climate was colder than modern times. Once winter came, the grasslands would be covered with white snow. There was a high possibility that they would get lost. She would not know where those people would die.

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"What? Are you taking someone to Xianbei to meet you?"

Suddenly in the small courtyard, Li Gui looked at Zhang Mo with surprise on his face.

"I'm really worried. I asked them to rob the Hu people. Now that they have entered Xianbei, if there is an accident, I will never feel at ease for the rest of my life."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Ever since she learned that Xu Chu and others entered Xianbei, she has not had a good sleep these days. Her eyes are black and black, her expression is haggard, and her originally round cheeks have also lost weight.

This girl was only a few years older than his own daughter, and Li Gui couldn't help but feel sad, "Let me go, I'll go find them."

Zhang Mo shook his head, "You stay at the village and I'll go there myself."

Li Gui said anxiously, "How can you, a woman, run so far? Moreover, if something happens to you, no one in the village will spare me! If you can't go, I will."

"I must go on this trip myself. The grassland is vast and you will get lost if you are not careful. And I know how to identify the direction. It happened that Xu Chu had someone send back some of his horses last time, so I took 400 people to pick them up."

Li Gui is not a responsible person. If you ask him to go there, he might not find the person, but he will lose himself.

She hesitated for a moment and then said: "If...there is an accident, the village will be left to you. My third brother knows this place and he will help you sell goods."

Li Gui looked anxious, "You said the grassland is vast, but how do you know where they have gone? Where are you going to find them? Also, what should you do if you encounter a group of barbarians?"

"I have my own way to avoid the Hu people. As for finding people, I will follow the return route I planned for them before. Give it a try. If I can't find anyone before winter, I will come back. I have asked people to prepare the supplies.

Okay, let’s leave early tomorrow morning.”

"Tomorrow? Isn't it too late? It's very cold in the grassland in winter. Bring more clothes, more charcoal, and food. You are afraid of the cold. Go over there... Oh, I'd better go there.

You little girl ran so far..."

Zhang Mo interrupted his ramblings, "I have made up my mind. Don't fight with me anymore. While I'm away, you have to keep an eye on the village. I'll ask A Chang to stay and help you."

She turned around and took out a letter from the desk, looking at Li Gui with some anxiety, "If I really can't come back, how about you do something for me in the future?"

Li Gui said in a muffled voice, "Don't say one thing, a hundred will do. Just give me your orders."

Zhang Mo put the letter into his hand, "I wrote down the specific time, place, what I did, and how to do it in detail. I also told Chang Na, and I also left a letter to my father. If so,

If things can be done, you will follow my father from now on, and he will accept you."

She solemnly confessed, "You can only open this letter if I haven't replied next summer."

Hearing her last words, Li Gui felt his eyes were sore. He held the letter in his arms and choked up, "I understand, you must be careful and come back. With so many people here, you can't put them away."

Leave them all to me, you know I don’t have much ability, I can’t manage them.”

Zhang Mo smiled softly and said, "I will be back."

She was very afraid of death and would not risk her life easily. She told her this just to prevent accidents.

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