Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan were not sure how much Liu Bao valued these prisoners.
The only thing they can do now is to compete with the Huns for endurance to see who can't hold on to the captives first.
The Huns, a scout came from the tent of King Zuoxian to report: "Report to King Zuoxian that the Han cavalry attacked the camp again and they took away our prisoners!"
Liu Bao frowned slightly, he did not expect that this time the Han army came for these prisoners.
In fact, it doesn't matter if we lose some prisoners. As long as we preserve our strength, we can go back to Chang'an and other places to capture another batch.
The main purpose of their visit this time was food, because last year's winter was very cold, and countless cattle and sheep froze to death. This year, there was a severe drought, and the cattle and sheep had no grass to eat.
Seeing that there would be a shortage of food for the winter this winter, the Huns chose to go south to clear grass and valleys, otherwise a large number of people would starve to death this winter.
Hangu Pass is a dangerous place, but since Dong Zhuo's death, there has been no official guard for a long time.
As long as the Huns occupy Hangu Pass first, the Han cavalry will no longer be able to harass them.
But Liu Bao still couldn't swallow the breath before him!
Along the way, Zhao Yundong made trouble and lost at least two to three thousand soldiers.
Every time they come to kill dozens or hundreds of people and then run away, they are as slippery as loaches. Even if they set up various traps and ambushes, they can't catch them.
Now, they actually protected the prisoners and escaped together, didn't they just give themselves the opportunity to fight head-on?
"Hmph! The Han army actually gave up speed and dared to protect a group of prisoners and leave?" Liu Bao sneered and said: "Send the order, follow me to pursue and annihilate the Han cavalry!"
"As you command!"
Liu Bao personally mobilized five thousand cavalry and charged towards Xia Houlan, Zhao Yun and others with great momentum.
Xiahoulan's 1,000 men would certainly not be able to stop the Huns. Zhao Yun weighed in and left only 100 men to lead the prisoners to continue to evacuate, while he led the remaining soldiers back to join Xiahoulan and intercept the Huns together.
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Five thousand Xiongnu cavalry will arrive soon,
Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan led two thousand people to stand in front of them.
Liu Bao looked at the disgraced Han cavalry, but he couldn't help but admire them in his heart.
"General Han, do you dare to challenge my warriors in battle?"
"Single challenge???" Hearing this, many of the cavalrymen in Zhao Yun's army couldn't help but smile knowingly, "Single challenge! That's really what I want!"
"It seems that the Huns don't pay too much attention to these prisoners. Playing with them can delay it for a while." Zhao Yun felt relieved.
The era of one Han enemy and five barbarians has passed. Today, the Huns benefited from the gifts from the Han court and had well-equipped soldiers and armor, but they still showed their ferocious fangs to the big Han.
Zhao Yun came to the front of the formation and shouted sternly to the Xiongnu Zuoxian King Liu Bao: "The Southern Xiongnu have always submitted to the Han court, but now you have betrayed your master and turned against you. Aren't you afraid that the Han will send out heavenly troops to annihilate you?!!"
King Zuo Xian sneered when he heard this and said: "Hanting? The little emperor is being pushed around by your Han princes. The princes are fighting against each other. How can there be any extra troops and energy to deal with us Huns?"
Zhao Yun raised his sword eyebrows, pointed his spear at Liu Bao and said, "You are such a villain, how can you believe it! Today I am going to see how capable you are!"
Liu Bao's expression remained unchanged, and he said to a group of extremely strong Huns around him: "Whoever kills the Han general, I will reward him with twenty cattle and sheep each!"
The reward was quite generous, and a group of Xiongnu generals became restless.
There was a Xiongnu who was holding a huge mace and was very tall and ugly. He roared: "I'm going! I'm going to kill all the Han people!"
Liu Bao looked for the sound, and it turned out to be Zuo Gu, one of his favorite generals. "Okay! Go ahead, Zuo Gu!"
"Yes!! Hahaha!" Zuo Gu was overjoyed, carrying a mace and riding a Hun war horse that was a head taller than an ordinary war horse, and came to the front of the formation.
Zhao Yun seemed to have no regard for his left bone at all. He still stared at Liu Bao with his eyes, even the spear in his hand was still held upside down, and he did not make any other movements.
The mace circled around his left bone, causing a terrifying whistling sound. He opened his mouth wide and said jokingly: "General Wu, when you see grandpa's majesty, are you scared to death?"
Zhao Yun still didn't pay attention to him. Zhao Yunli didn't even bother to pay attention to such a stupid big man.
Seeing that Zhao Yun still ignored him, Zuo Gu said angrily: "Let's see if grandpa doesn't beat you into a meat pie!"
After saying that, Zuo Gu kicked the horse's belly with both legs and rushed towards Zhao Yun with the mace in hand!
At this time, a general rushed out from behind Zhao Yun, with a white horse and an iron spear. The one who was all gray and frail was none other than Xia Houlan!
"Pfft!" Liu Bao couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw a guy who looked like a beggar rushing out from behind Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun didn't bother to take action against an enemy of this level, but Xia Houlan could just use it to practice his skills and improve his experience.
"Ugly! It's enough to deal with your young master, why does the general need to take action?" Xia Houlan shouted, charging towards the left bone with his gun drawn!
Zuo Gu hated people saying he was ugly. His eyes were cold at the moment, looking at the thin general across from him as if he was looking at a dead man.
He saw his left legs pinching the horse's belly again, and the horse's speed became faster and faster. In just a few breaths, he was already in front of Xia Houlan.
He rounded the mace in his hand again, and the howling wind made the scalps of those around him numb.
The huge and hard mace hit Xia Houlan head-on!
The blow was less than half a meter away from the Han general's head, but the Han general still rushed forward in a daze, as if he didn't even realize that he was about to be hit in the head.
Another inch further,
Zuo Gu seemed to have seen the scene where the opponent's head exploded like a watermelon.
Then he vaguely saw groups of lively and lovely cows and sheep running around in front of him.
As a result, the evil smile at the corner of Zuo Gu's mouth became even more intense.
"Pfft!"
After a slight noise that could not be detected, Zuo Gu and Xia Houlan passed by each other. The mace in his hand rubbed Xia Houlan's body and hit the ground. The force of the ground's counter-shock caused it to be ejected far away.
Before the Huns could figure out what had just happened, they saw the left body of the horse sitting on the horse shook for a while, then fell off the horse with a pop.
After his left bone fell to the ground, he lay on his back.
Only then did the Huns clearly see the bloody throat of the left bone through the firelight!
One fit!
Only one fit!
In the eyes of the Huns, the left bone of an extremely brave warrior died like this without even touching the corner of Han people's clothes?
The moment Xia Houlan intertwined with the left bone, his spear came first and penetrated the throat of the left bone. He died!
The left bone was killed lightly, and the Huns' faces all changed, and they finally put away their previous contempt.
This Han cavalry never faced them head-on.
After these few months of entanglement, the Huns all thought that the Han cavalry was afraid of their ability to fight head-on.
But looking back now, it seems that the Han generals still have some strength.
"That's it?" Xia Houlan shook off the blood on the tip of his spear, pointed at the Huns and asked, "Who dares to come and die again?"