Chapter 557: The First Contact War with the Huns
As a pioneer general, Li Mu led a two thousand-man Chiyou army to enter Dai County first.
There were people from Zhao who were fleeing south everywhere. Many burned villages and rotten corpses on the roadside made Li Mu clench his fists unknowingly.
The Chinese people are concerned about being buried in peace, and this scene can only show one thing - all the people who can bury the bodies are dead.
Li Mu had many years of service in Gaoque Pass, which was the northwest border in Zhao State and the place where the Huns dealt the most.
"Continue north, hurry!"
Li Mu's order was implemented extremely resolutely.
At noon the next day, when Li Mu discovered a village with thick smoke again, he suddenly realized that the Huns should be nearby.
"finally found you."
A cold sneer appeared on Li Mu's face.
Along the way, the tragic deaths of countless people in Zhao State had already made Li Mu feel angry, just like a volcano with magma surging.
Now, he finally found a breakthrough.
Under the search of the elite scouts of Chiyou's army, a figure of the Hun army was soon found twenty miles away.
"At least one thousand people?"
After hearing the reward, Li Mu issued an order without hesitation: "The whole army attacks!"
A Xiongnu army had just finished robbery and camped in a village in Zhao State.
From time to time, women's crying, screams, and the extremely despicable laughter of the Hun cavalrymen came from the village. Hundreds of bodies of men from Zhao were hung on wooden stakes at the entrance of the village, and their deaths were miserable.
Several Hun cavalrymen leaned on the wooden railings at the entrance of the village, holding wine bowls in their hands, chatting and laughing loudly.
"This Zhao woman is just excited."
"It's not bad. Although our Hun women are also good, their skin is too thick and they feel like stones.
Although the woman in Zhao State also does work, her skin is still much more delicate."
"I decided to bring a few more women back this time and give me a few more kids, haha!"
"Come on, drink and drink!"
These Hun cavalry originally assumed the duty of keeping watch, but they had almost never encountered any decent resistance in the half month of entering Zhao State. They had already completely relaxed their vigilance and had a great time drinking one bowl of wine they stolen.
Suddenly, a sound of horse hooves sounded, and several Hun cavalry looked up in shock and found countless Zhao cavalry appearing in front of them.
"Swoosh swish swish!"
Before these Hun cavalry could react, the dense rain of arrows had already fallen and shot them into sieves.
Li Mu was murderous and rushed into the village with a spear in his hand.
Many Hun cavalry were having fun in the village, sleeping, drinking, and then looking up in surprise after hearing the sound of horse hooves.
Li Mu rushed over and stabbed his spear hard. A Hun centurion had no chance to resist and was directly penetrated with a blood hole in his chest, and was hung up like a candied haws.
Li Mu shook his spear and the centurion's body flew out, and he smashed the two Hun cavalry who had just jumped to the ground with two bangs.
"No one left!"
Li Mu roared, and countless cavalrymen of Chiyou rushed over.
As Zhao Kuo's careful training for many years and invested countless resources, the Chiyou Army has long been the strongest cavalry in contemporary times.
Even if they fight head-on, it is very simple for the Chiyou army to defeat the same number of Xiongnu cavalry. What's more, the Xiongnu cavalry is completely in array and is scattered around the villages.
A massacre began, but unlike the situation that has been often performed in the past half month, this time the people who were massacred were no longer the people of Zhao, but the Hun invaders from the northern grasslands! Some Huns realized that something was wrong, so they rushed out of the house and jumped onto the horse, flying towards the back door of the village.
Just as these dozens of Huns rushed out of the back door of the village, another rain of arrows came towards them, directly shooting these Huns into sieves.
As the number one general under Zhao Kuo, Li Mu certainly would not make such a mistake of allowing the enemy to escape easily. He also arranged a cavalry of 500 people behind the village.
In just half an hour, this short battle ended.
Li Mu rode his horse in the middle of the village, and his spear was tapped on the ground. The tip of the spear dripped downwards, and the other hand was holding a head of the Hun general who died with his eyes open.
"How many Huns were killed?"
Li Mu asked.
A military judge replied respectfully: "Return to the general, the total number of heads in the current statistics is 1,224!"
Li Mu nodded and said coldly: "Send the order and throw all the bodies of these Huns to the edge of the mountain. Naturally, there will be scavengers to help deal with them! As for their heads..." Li Mu showed a cruel smile on his lips.
Half an hour later, a capital temple was built at the entrance of the village.
The so-called Jingguan is to cut off the heads of all the enemy troops, stacking them up like pyramids.
The scene was very bloody and shocking, and it was cold and speechless for a moment.
Li Mu pointed to Jingguan and said coldly: "Everyone, when you ordered me to lead you to come, you said something - those who offend me, Great Zhao, will be punished even if they are far away! The Huns burned, killed and robbed the territory of Great Zhao, and saw the tragic situation of countless casualties and injured people all the way.
Today is the beginning of my official revenge in Da Zhao!”
After Li Mu finished speaking, Chi Youjun and others raised their arms and shouted: "Big Zhao Wansheng!"
"The Huns will be punished!"
There was a blazing light in everyone's eyes.
Li Mu took a deep breath and turned to look at the entrance of the village.
There, hundreds of unclothed Zhao women and children stared at this side with trembling eyes, with some emotion in their eyes.
Li Mu thought about it, jumped off the horse and came to the oldest boy who looked fourteen or fifteen years old.
"May I have your name?"
The boy said with great restraint: "Yu, Yuhu."
Li Mu took out a steel dagger from his arms and placed it in Yuhu's hand.
"Wu Xinjun's army will arrive soon, and I will continue to go north to chase and kill the Huns.
Can you protect these fellow countrymen?”
Yuko took a deep breath and said loudly: "I can!"
There was also a certain light flashing in the boy's eyes.
Behind the boy, more boys stood up.
"General, we also need weapons, and we also need to protect our loved ones!"
Li Mu looked at these young men in Zhao. They were dressed in rags, and almost everyone had wounds on their bodies and faces, which were traces of being beaten.
If it weren't for Li Mu, these young men in Zhao would have been brought back to the grassland by the Huns and become herding slaves for the Huns all their lives.
Li Mu took a deep breath and waved his hand: "Give them weapons!"
After a moment, looking at the hundreds of Zhao boys holding weapons in front of him, Li Mu said in a deep voice: "Always remember what happened today, and always remember--no matter where, you must become stronger, so that you can protect the people you want to protect!"
Li Mu suddenly pulled the reins and led two thousand Chiyou knights away.
Chapter completed!