In the early morning, the morning star was high in the sky above the Xiongnu camp, and the Xiongnu soldiers on night watch were still dozing off by the fire.

A sandstorm suddenly swept in from several hundred meters away...

Shouts of battle filled the air as a group of cavalrymen, waving the "Zhongshan" banner, charged forward like demons from a nightmare.

The Xiongnu soldiers were completely stunned!

For a moment, their brains went blank, and they couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.

However, by the time they realized what was happening, long spears had already pierced their carotid arteries.

That's how fast cavalry is!

Five hundred men charged forward side by side, hacking and slashing through the rows of tents as if they were in an empty field.

In an instant, the screams of men and the cries of women and children filled the air!

Jiang Ming's order was clear: kill without mercy!

These Yan soldiers went completely wild, and wherever their long spears went, blood splattered. The Xiongnu guards hadn't even picked up their weapons before they were stabbed through the chest, leaving no time to stop an effective counterattack!

One by one, the braziers were overturned, and the Yan soldiers used their long spears to hook the braziers and throw them onto the tents. Instantly, fires broke out, and the tents were set ablaze. When the people inside tried to escape... they were stabbed to death with their long spears!

The entire Xiongnu camp instantly turned into a living hell!

In fact, the number of people involved in a war is not the most important factor!

It all comes down to morale!

If you feel that the enemy has far more people than you, you'll back down before you even fight, and it's very difficult to win such a battle!

The dust kicked up by the Yan cavalry, along with their deafening battle cries, led the Xiongnu guards to mistakenly believe that tens of thousands of enemy soldiers had arrived.

The battle was hopeless, and they all began to flee for their lives.

Meanwhile, the Yan army pursued them, reaping heads...

According to the targets set by Jiang Ming, each soldier in this operation must kill at least three Xiongnu people.

To annihilate 1,500 enemy soldiers would be a great victory!

But once the fighting really started, each soldier's spoils were far more than that...

Besides the routed guards, there were also the elderly, women, and children in the tents. All in all, each soldier must have taken down at least ten people!

Jiang Ming rode his horse straight into the largest tent and saw a fat old man, weighing over 250 pounds, sitting up on a gilded and jade-inlaid bed, barely clothed... looking at him with a horrified expression.

Beside him were two naked Hun women, who screamed and wrapped themselves in animal skins!

"puff!"

Jiang Ming killed the old man with a single blow, his blood splattering all over the surrounding animal hides...

"ah!"

"ah!"

The two women were terrified and scrambled to the floor below the bed...

Jiang Ming didn't bother to tidy them up; his attention was completely drawn to an exquisite box on the headboard of the precious bed.

The box looked very much like the "seal box" used by the states of the Central Plains. It was exquisitely carved, but it was rectangular!

Like the Xianbei, the Xiongnu did not have the concept of "seals and ribbons," at least not in this era!

Jiang Ming curiously picked up the box and opened it, only to find a pure gold craftwork inside depicting a wolf howling with its head raised!

Judging by its weight, it must be at least 50 taels!

Jiang Ming didn't think much of it and simply tossed it into the leather bag...

There were also many boxes in the room, filled with gold and silver jewelry.

Jiang Ming immediately called his men in and looted them completely.

......

Because Jiang Ming had worked as a horse-herding slave here for a few days, all the nearby horses obeyed his command and swarmed over at his whistle...

Horses are social animals and have a strong herd mentality.

As long as Jiang Ming remembers a few signals to call the lead horse, the other horses will surely follow the herd, bringing their packs with them...

The massacre and looting of the Xiongnu camp lasted for more than an hour.

The Xiongnu camp was a scene of utter carnage, with corpses strewn everywhere... A rough estimate suggests that at least 5,000 enemy soldiers were killed!

After loading the spoils onto the horses, Jiang Ming didn't dare to delay and quickly led his men in retreat...

The results of this operation far exceeded Jiang Ming's expectations.

The amount of gold and silver in the Xiongnu's old camp should be at least no less than one million taels!

Each person received over 2,000 taels!

Sixteen taels equal one jin, so each person brought back at least 120 jin of gold and silver!

With the addition of other looted items, the two horses simply couldn't carry them all. Fortunately, they had other captured horses, and the vast army quickly retreated towards the Zhongshan Kingdom.

After running for more than ten miles, Jiang Ming led his men towards the direction of the Yan Kingdom...

......

Lone Wolf Mountain, at the mouth of the canyon.

The Xiongnu Chanyu was preparing to take advantage of the early morning to annihilate the Xianbei army, which had been struggling all night!

A soldier who had escaped from the camp knelt inside his tent, covered in blood.

"Great Chanyu! The Zhongshan Kingdom attacked our camp and killed all of our people! Waaah!"

"What?"

Upon hearing this, the Great Chanyu suddenly stood up, and the surrounding generals stared in astonishment, their eyes wide as bulls.

“Look closely! It’s from the Zhongshan Kingdom?” a general asked.

Yes! That's right!

The messenger soldier, weeping bitterly, replied, "In the Zhongshan Kingdom, they like to cut off ears to record military merits. After killing someone, they put the severed ear into a leather bag while shouting 'Huojie Huojie,' which is the language of the Zhongshan Kingdom!"

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