Lu Bu really dared to take it. With a flash of cold light, the Fang Tian Hua Ji exploded with a brilliant and terrifying element and pierced directly into the chest of the corpse. The terrifying weight of the big guy's corpse, coupled with the strange power of King Xiu Tu's throwing, bent the halberd shaft. The warhorse under Lu Bu's crotch also staggered and almost fell down.
She roared and swung her halberd, unexpectedly lifting up the corpse weighing more than 300 kilograms and smashing it back, causing King Xiutu to stagger. Then, the Fang Tian Huaji swam like a dragon out of the sea and, with the help of the force of the charging warhorse, fiercely stabbed King Xiutu in the belly!
"boom!!!"
In an instant, the flaming dragon and the acid-corroding dragon wrapped around the Fang Tian Huaji jointly detonated a horrific poisonous flame explosion. The billowing acid mist corroded and corroded King Xiutu's armor. The billowing flames heated up King Xiutu's iron armor to the melting point, and boiling molten iron dripped down.
The ice fragments wrapped in violent lightning blew up like a shotgun, leaving King Xiutu's belly covered with scars. Even though he was a giant with a height of more than four meters, half of his body was covered by this horrific elemental explosion.
"Great skills! What's your name?!"
King Xiu Tu roared, and grabbed the Fang Tian Hua Ji that was piercing into his body with his right hand.
Evil and creepy green flames gushed out from his hideous seven orifices, instantly covering his entire body, causing his four-meter-tall giant body to burn with dark green fire. The billowing flames shot up into the sky, forming a phantom of a god in the air. The whole person also entered the orc's WAAAGH!!! State, and his strength and physique were greatly improved!
"I am Wuyuan Lü Fengxian! White Horse Captain!!!"
Lu Bu tried to pull out the halberd, but found that he was already doubly violent. However, the strength of King Xutu was actually able to compete with his own. His right hand was like an iron clamp, tightly gripping the Fang Tian Huaji that was pierced into his chest, and he could not pull it out at all.
At this moment, King Xiutu also swung the giant axe in his left hand and looked fiercely at his head!
"clang!!!"
Lu Bu tilted her head and used her right shoulder to block a blow from King Xiutu's giant axe. Even with the top-level protection of the red dragon scale armor, she was still shocked by the blunt force of the giant axe and vomited blood. The warhorse under her crotch could not hold on, and its four hooves softened and it fell directly to the ground. This top-level Xianbei warhorse was actually knocked unconscious.
But this moment also gave Lu Bu the best time to counterattack. She had become accustomed to her mount not being able to keep up with her combat power. After the horse was stunned and fell, it went from standing on the stirrups to standing on the ground.
With a roar, Lu Bu directly entered the third stage. The Phoenix Blood Shadow wrapped around his body, accompanied by a gushing out of violent energy, suddenly spread its wings, and his entire body's strength soared to a terrifying 44, completely surpassing and suppressing King Xiutu.
Lü Bu clenched the halberd with both hands and swept it across violently, causing the Fang Tian Hua Ji to explode with a series of extremely terrifying elements, tearing a huge crack from the left side to the right side of the enemy's belly! The terrifying elemental explosion blew up the huge right hand and fat belly of King Xiu Tu, and the flesh flew everywhere. The explosion impact swept the remnants of the four elements and the broken limbs and flesh in all directions.
Flames, poisonous smoke, ice, and lightning raged wildly in the orc warlord's most vulnerable chest cavity, destroying his most fragile intestinal group. King Xiutu screamed in pain, vomited blood, and almost fainted from the pain!
The huge crack on the belly that was torn horizontally by the Fang Tian Huaji was blown into a bloody mess, like the big mouth of the god of death. With the ups and downs of King Xiu Tu's breathing, it continuously spewed out countless ignited, frozen, corroded, and burned intestinal fragments and blood.
The fragments of internal organs and boiling blood gushed out from the wound that ran across his entire abdomen like a waterfall, crashing to the ground.
At this moment, Lu Bu suddenly drew out his Fang Tian Hua Ji and swept it twice between King Xiu Tu's legs quickly, causing two bursts of four-element mixture to explode on the inside of his left and right knees, causing the four-meter-tall behemoth to lose balance and kneel down in a pool of blood.
Lu Bu was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He chopped King Xiutu's left wrist with the fifth halberd, causing a horrible explosion that blew his left hand into a bloody mess like his right hand. He couldn't even catch the giant axe, completely destroying King Xiutu's defensive posture.
The sixth halberd that followed, under the horrified and fearful gaze of all the orcs, accurately pierced through King Xiutu's neck. The mixed explosion of the four elements directly blew up his cervical vertebrae and flesh! Lu Bu calmly cut off King Xiutu's head, which was mixed with fear and pain, and impaled it on a spear, holding it high, so that all the orcs nearby who were extremely shocked and terrified could see the fall of their leader.
It took only six seconds to kill King Xiutu with these six halberds.
"King Xiutu is dead! All the troops, follow me and charge! Kill all the Huns, leaving no one alive!!!"
Lu Bu took a breath. Without a warhorse, he simply charged on foot. This time, she scared all the orcs. What was going on? Didn't she just charge at King Xiu Tu's face? How come King Xiu Tu died after a few seconds? ? ? I thought this Han Chinese was super strong. What's the point of fighting? Run! ! !
When many greenskins saw King Xiutu dead and fled in panic, countless dark green WAAAGH!!! energies stretched out from the greenskins' minds and gathered in Lu Bu's body.
The green-skinned orcs were a very idealistic psychic race. When tens of thousands of green-skinned orcs thought that Lü Bu could kill even King Xiu Tu alone, he must be super strong. Lü Bu really started to become stronger and stronger. His already meters tall beautiful body was bathed in the dark green force field and became even bigger! Expanding! His exaggerated breasts, which were already swollen due to the abundant milk, were still growing! Casting two terrifying shadows on the earth.
At this moment, she was three meters tall, looking down on the orc boys who were two meters tall on average like a giant; at this moment, she was on the same level as Dong Zhuo, who had fought against the Qiang and Hu for many years and was deeply feared by the Qiang and orcs.
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Chapter 178: The Xiongnu Five-Star Chanyu
In the Battle of Zishi Gorge, Lu Bu took advantage of the long and narrow canyon terrain to prevent the Huns from taking advantage of their military strength. He led a thousand cavalrymen to directly defeat the Huns' ten thousand cavalrymen, and even accomplished the feat of beheading King Xiutu in battle!
When she held up the head of King Xiu Tu and continued to charge with the Han cavalry, the morale of the entire greenskin army was broken - the king is dead, so why are we still here? Run!
When the news of King Xiutu's death spread from the front team to the rear team, the entire greenskin army collapsed like monkeys scattering when a tree falls. No one wanted to fight anymore, and everyone rode on horses, wild boars, and scrooges, fleeing madly towards Xihe County, regretting that their mounts had only four legs. They ran faster than each other, and some greenskins even drew their swords and hacked their compatriots in front of them to death when they saw Lu Bu rushing towards them, and then stepped on his corpse and continued to flee!
This kind of chaotic army is the best stage for cavalry performances. Lu Bu led the entire army to charge repeatedly in the canyon until the horses were exhausted and foamed at the mouth, and then gave up chasing the greenskins.
After the battle, they took inventory and found that only 200 of their 1,000 cavalrymen died, while 2,000 Huns died on the battlefield and in mutual trampling. The cavalry assault resulted in a loss ratio of 1 to 10, and King Xiutu was killed.
The inheritance system of the green-skinned orcs is rather strange. They have learned the feudal hereditary system of the Han Empire, but have also retained the grassland system of the strong being king. This is also the fundamental reason for the disintegration of these orcs - just like after the death of the Great Khan, a bunch of Hun kings used force to fight for the position of the Great Khan.
King Xiutu died, and a group of chieftains under his command also wanted to compete for the position and become the new King Xiutu. Therefore, they had no intention of fighting the Han army. They all wanted to preserve their strength. After withdrawing to Xihe County, they would use force to defeat a new King Xiutu who could convince all the chieftains.
The remaining 800 Han soldiers rested for a while, ordered more civilians and auxiliary troops to clean up the battlefield, and distributed the spoils to their soldiers. Then everyone returned happily with a full load. Lu Bu immediately wrote a letter and asked a carrier pigeon to deliver the news of the victory to Liu Zhuang stationed in Fenyang.
"Very good! The army will march south immediately! While the Xiutu tribe is leaderless and fighting for the throne, we will drive them out of Xihe County in one fell swoop!"
Liu Zhuang was extremely surprised. He originally thought that Lu Bu would resist King Xiutu's fierce attack at the Zi Shi line, and then he would launch a surprise attack from behind, making King Xiutu in a dilemma, or even locking King Xiutu in the canyon between Lishi and Zi Shi.
But he did not expect that the development of things would be far beyond his expectations. King Xiutu was killed by Lu Bu as soon as he arrived at the place. The orcs of the entire Xiutu tribe were in chaos. If he did not take action now, when would he take action?
"Master, there is no need for us to be so anxious."
Jia Xu, who was transferred from the position of the Hedong County Magistrate to the military advisor, sat lazily on a Hu bed, looking at Liu Zhuang who was about to send troops south, and tentatively put forward suggestions.
"You see, King Xiutu is dead, and the reason why the other chieftains are fighting for this position is because King Xiutu has the power to control the twenty chieftains under his command. Well, the chieftains of the Xiongnu are probably similar to the thousand households of the people and horses, but the number is not so certain."
“If you go south immediately, these twenty chiefs will be forced to unite and fight you in order to protect the Xiutu tribe’s property. After all, if the Xiutu tribe is destroyed by you, it will be meaningless for them to seize the throne. They may even be forced to give up all the property and connections accumulated over generations and join other Xiongnu kings, starting from scratch.
If we are unlucky, the merits and bravery of a particular greenskin orc in the battle with us will be recognized by all greenskins, and he will directly take over the throne of the new King Xiutu. That would be even more troublesome.
The Xiutu tribe has twenty chieftains and more than 20,000 greenskins. We have killed and captured 4,000 greenskins, and Lieutenant Lu has killed another 2,000. Now the remaining greenskins are still around 15,000, which is still an extremely powerful force. Their king was killed by Lieutenant Lu in battle, so he will only be more cunning and know how to protect himself better in the future. "
"But if we don't go south, these twenty greenskins will see that they are no longer a threat, and they will kill each other and compete to become the new King of Xiutu."
“What Wenhe said makes sense, but if we don’t go south and just watch these greenskins kill each other, their strength will certainly be further weakened, but they will still fight to produce a new king and unify the remaining forces.
No matter how you look at it, the orcs Xiu Tu King's tribe, which has been reunited, is more difficult to deal with than the twenty scattered chiefs, right? "
Liu Zhuang discussed with Jia Xu patiently.
Seeing that Liu Zhuang was the type who would listen to advice, was not self-willed, and was not carried away by victory, Jia Xu breathed a sigh of relief and began to explain in detail.
"It doesn't matter. We can find a few weak tribes and propose that as long as they rely on you, just like the Southern Xiongnu relied on the Han Dynasty, and send hostages, you can support these orc chieftains, give them money and food, and even military assistance, to help the chieftain win the civil war. As long as the vassal you support becomes the Xiutu King, then the entire Xiutu tribe will belong to you, Lord."
Jia Xu also perked up. He had been playing badly before because of the prophecy that Dong Zhuo would not die a good death and because no one was willing to listen to him.
Now Liuzhuang's future outcome is uncertain, but he is willing to give himself a high-ranking position and listen to his advice. In this situation, what's the point of giving up?
"From ancient times to now, the Han emperor has never directly ruled the Xiongnu. The price and cost of doing so are too high. It is better to control the Xiongnu kings. However, letting these Xiongnu kings control the entire Xiongnu tribe is the most time-saving and labor-saving. Isn't this how the Lord of the Palace controls the Xianbei people?"
"Wenhe, this is a good plan. Let's execute it this way. If it succeeds, and we can recapture Xihe County, Wenhe will be the first to achieve the credit!"
Liu Zhuang thought about it carefully and thought Jia Xu's method made sense, so he asked Jia Xu to be personally responsible for the matter and sent Han envoys to Xihe County to see which chief could become his agent. At the same time, he immediately reported the victory to the central government. Liu Hong had been driven crazy by the news of rebellion and invasion from all sides of the empire, and among the many bad news, he finally saw the victory news.
Lu Bu led a thousand cavalrymen and defeated more than ten thousand people led by King Xiutu in the canyon. He beheaded King Xiutu in battle and sent his head to Luoyang.
After seeing the huge head of King Xiu Tu, Liu Hong was so excited that he almost cried. Liangzhou had two battle lines, Youzhou had two battle lines, and Bingzhou had three battle lines! Not counting the numerous Yellow Turban troops in various places, the Han army was also fighting fiercely with the enemy on seven battle lines at the same time.
And now, God bless, the Han army on one front finally achieved a great victory! Even killed the Southern Xiongnu's King Xiutu!
King Xiutu was no small character. The surrendered Southern Xiongnu were divided into five parts according to the Han Dynasty's favorite number, led by five Xiongnu kings. One of the kings was the Great Khan. In view of the fact that the Great Khan had just died, the number of Xiongnu kings was reduced to four, and King Xiutu was one of them. Lu Bu directly killed one of the four highest leaders of the Southern Xiongnu!
If it were an official position in the Han Dynasty, Lu Bu would have killed a General of Cavalry or General of Chariots in battle, and would have been the second-ranked military leader after the general. How could Liu Hong not be ecstatic?
"Who is this Lu Bu, Lu Fengxian? I have never heard of her name before."
Liu Hong was delighted and asked the eunuchs around him. They were also confused. They looked through the files but could not find any information about Lu Fengxian. Finally, they found out who she was from the memorial written by Liu Zhuang.
"This person is the wife of Liu Zhuang, the governor of Hedong. She was the former general of the White Horse Camp, Qu Junhou. She was an unknown warrior who made outstanding contributions in suppressing the Yellow Turbans and resisting the Xianbei. She was promoted to the White Horse Captain under Liu Zhuang."
"Oh? A commoner, the wife of Liu Zhuang? Pass on my order. When Bingzhou Governor Ding Yuan went south to recruit soldiers, it was Hedong Governor Liu Zhuang who helped him hold up the Bingzhou defense line. Liu Zhuang was only a general of the imperial guards before, but this time he was directly promoted to the general of the northern imperial guards, one of the four great generals of the imperial guards, and he was allowed to manage the military power of Bingzhou together with Ding Yuan.
Since the previous Protector of the Xiongnu Lieutenant General died for his country and the Han army stationed in the Xiongnu was completely wiped out, Lu Bu was promoted to Protector of the Xiongnu Lieutenant General, and was given the power to recruit Xiongnu soldiers, suppress and manage the five Xiongnu tribes, and at the same time serve as the prefect of Xihe.
At the same time, the entire empire will be commended for the contributions of this couple! I want everyone to know that I never hesitate to reward loyal ministers and generals, and generals who are loyal to me will receive the greatest praise! "
Liu Hong promoted and raised salaries for Liu Zhuang and Lu Bu without hesitation, and gave the two most powerful positions of General of the Central Army to the couple in one go.
Let me put it this way, the General of the Northern Army was Lu Zhi's official position before. With this position, he had the authority to lead the five battalions of the Northern Army, command the troops of Jizhou to obey his orders, and jointly defeat the Yellow Turbans. He was one of the four most powerful Generals of the Central Army. Now that Liu Hong gave him this position, he was giving him half of the military power of Bingzhou.
The other three were General of the Southern Army, General of the Western Army, and General of the Eastern Army - well, this was Dong Zhuo's previous official position.
In modern times, the Lieutenant General of the Protectorate of the Xiongnu would be the official position of MacArthur, the five-star emperor of Japan. Although he was not a general in rank, he had terrifying power and was in full control of all military, political and financial affairs of the Xiongnu.
Now, these two official positions fell directly on Liu Zhuang and Lu Bu.
Not only that, with Liu Hong's vigorous publicity, the names of the two spread throughout the empire.
In Youzhou in the north, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei were very pleased to see their sister and brother, who were from the same school, making a name for themselves. However, they were also a little jealous. They took the time to train their troops and attack the two Zhangs who had proclaimed themselves emperors in Youzhou, hoping to take advantage of the chaos to achieve the same brilliant achievements as them.
In Yizhou in the south, after Liu Yan took control of Yizhou, in just a few months, he had become the veritable king of Yizhou. He built his own power from scratch, occupied Bashu and Hanzhong, and waited for chaos in the world. Once there was a change in the world, he would leave Qinchuan and enter Guanzhong to seek hegemony, like the story of Emperor Gaozu and Marquis of Huaiyin. He was indifferent to the affairs of Lu Bu and Liu Zhuang in Bingzhou.
In Liang Province in the west, Dong Zhuo was eager to see Liu Zhuang's impressive achievements. Ever since he arrived in Xiaquyang in Jizhou, he had a great impression of Liu Zhuang, who risked his life to rescue him. He had always wanted to bring him under his command or to marry him, but unfortunately he had never succeeded. This year, his granddaughter Dong Bai is twelve years old and can get married. How about sending a messenger to mention this marriage?
In Luoyang in the east, Lu Zhi, who was reappointed as the Secretary of State, was also very pleased with his disciple's impressive achievements. He had a martyr-like enthusiasm for the Han Dynasty, believed in the story of Yugong moving the mountains in the book, and firmly believed that he could change the Han Dynasty with his own strength.
Chapter 179: The King of Puppet
After obtaining the official seal of the General of the North, Liu Zhuang immediately began the second round of deployment. After more than ten years of slacking off, Jia Xu was also excited about the power he suddenly got and the opportunity to realize his ambitions, so he started to work seriously.
The next day, Liu Zhuang sent part of his troops north to support the war in Yanmen County, to protect his father-in-law, Yanmen Prefect Guo Wei, and to fight against those troublesome Xianbei troops. He withdrew another part of his troops to his hometown in Hedong and hurried back to spring plowing and grazing. He only took the two thousand personal guards to garrison in Fenyang.
His division of troops into three groups made the orcs more convinced that Liu Zhuang had been attracted by the Xianbei troops and would not be able to go south to attack them in a short period of time. Without external pressure, they immediately fell into chaos. The twenty chiefs no longer shared a common hatred of the enemy, but instead fought for the throne of King Xiutu.
Jia Xu sent out a large number of spies, and even disguised herself as a civilian and a businessman, and personally entered Xihe County to carefully observe and study the civil war among the orcs. After spending half a month eliminating some chiefs who were too powerful or too cunning, three chiefs came into her sight.
The next thing is easy. Send spies to spread the news to nearby powerful chiefs that the three small chiefs have little military force and are very easy to annex. When these powerful chiefs arrive with their legions and want to force these small chiefs to surrender or even annex them directly, immediately send Han envoys to propose a proposal to these small chiefs who are forced into a desperate situation: if you return to the Han Dynasty and hand over hostages to show your obedience, the Han Dynasty will not only be willing to help you survive today's disaster, but also fund you to become the new King Xiutu.
Faced with such an attractive proposal, only one chieftain chose to refuse under the threat of the army approaching, while the other two chieftains agreed. Isn't it just joining the Han Dynasty? Our ancestors have joined the Han Dynasty for generations, and we only rebelled recently. It is not shameful to go back. At least we can become the Xiu Tu King with the support of the Han army. After all, our tribe is too weak, and without the support of the Han army, it is impossible to become a king.
Jia Xu carefully evaluated the strength of the two men, and finally locked his support target on the second chief: this orc was more straightforward, and sent his heir to Fenyang without hesitation, and swore that as long as the Han army could make him the King of Xiutu, the Xiutu tribe would never rebel against the Han under his leadership!
The third chief kept dragging his feet. He didn't hand over the hostages for a long time and was hesitant in discussing treatment and funding. It seemed like he was hiding some evil intentions.
Then let’s go with the second one.
Jia Xu began to vigorously support this orc chief and took the throne of King Xiutu. This orc chief was also a familiar face. He had served as a guide and led the Yuwen Xianbei south once a few years ago. He was Huyan Chu.
That's not surprising. After all, the last time the Yuwen Xianbei were defeated by Liu Zhuang in front of him and their entire army surrendered, Huyan Chu was also captured by the Han army. Huyan Chu had a more intuitive and profound understanding of Liu Zhuang's strength.
At this point, the style of the Orc Tournament in Xihe County began to undergo a 180-degree change.
An orc chieftain who was attacking Hu Yanchu suddenly realized, "How come your strength has improved so much?" In just a few days, all 500 orc cavalrymen were equipped with high-bridge saddles and iron stirrups? Although everyone is copying this thing, where do you get the productivity to make 500 pairs in a few days?
Not only that, the armor rate of Hu Yanchu's 500 orc cavalry increased from 0% to 40% overnight. He inexplicably created 200 heavy cavalry, which gave him some advantages on the battlefield.
But it doesn't matter. Hu Yanchu's troops suffered severe losses when they went south with Yuwen Xianbei last time, and they haven't recovered until now. Until now, they can only mobilize 500 people, while the strength of his own tribe is 1,200. No matter what, the strength on the battlefield is 1,200 to 500, and the advantage is on me!
Just when the chief was full of confidence, he suddenly discovered that another Han army had joined the battlefield. There were about a thousand people in total. These Han people were all dressed as civilians and looked like Han slave soldiers recruited on the spot by Hu Yanchu.
Slave soldiers, what's so scary about that? The Han Dynasty had suspended conscription for two hundred years. These forcibly conscripted Han peasants have no combat skills and no desire to fight. Their combat effectiveness and morale are pitifully low. I can defeat them with just a single charge!
However, when the chief actually confronted these Han slave troops, he obviously found a problem: Whose slave soldiers are so highly trained and carry a full set of Han infantry equipment?
Shields turned into wooden and iron walls in front of them, resisting the rain of Hun arrows all over the mountains. Thousands of spears and halberds turned into a dense forest of steel in the air, countering the cavalry charge, causing the Hun cavalry to crash into their heads and bleed. There were also 600 crossbows shooting rounds of deadly arrows! The Hun cavalry in charge of the charge were stunned! Countless people were inexplicably bloodied on the battlefield, and corpses were everywhere.
Not only that, there were as many as seven orc spellcasters who provided Hu Yanchu with a steady stream of spell support to counter the orc shaman's magic.
King Xiutu has a total of 20,000 tents and a population of around 100,000. With such a scale, he can only send out thirteen orc shamans. After the split, he can only send out one shaman for every one thousand tents.
How could Hu Yanchu, a small tribe with only 500 to 600 tents, produce seven spellcasters at once? Are these spellcasters orcs? Are they Han people disguised as orcs?
In the face of the mysterious assistance of the Han army, this 1,200-man orc army was beaten and screamed for help. They had no power to fight back. They could not break through the phalanx of the "slave soldiers" from the front, and were bombarded to death by spells and crossbows from a distance. The cavalry battlefield was attacked by a burst of orc cavalry equipped with stirrups. In a bloody battle, Hu Yanchu wielded a big knife and led 200 Hun heavy cavalry to charge left and right, as if they were in an empty space, and soon defeated the enemy's light cavalry that intercepted them.
Then, he pulled out the giant bone bow forged from dragon bones behind him, shot left and right, and rushed towards the position of the enemy chief, leading two hundred Hun heavy cavalry to launch seven consecutive charges!
The enemy chief barely held off the first six attacks, but completely collapsed during the seventh charge. His horse was shot dead by an arrow from Huyan Chu. He screamed and fell off the horse. Before he could get up, Huyan Chu rushed in front of him and chopped off his head with a knife!
"I killed Luandidu! I am the biggest! I am the strongest!!!"
Huyan Chu was covered in blood. Although he was exhausted and panting, he was in high spirits as he held up the head of the enemy chief to prove his strength to all the orcs.
The Xiongnu leader was killed by other orcs, which only means one thing: I think he is too weak, there is no way out if I follow him, the orc who kills the boss is the new boss! He is the biggest and strongest orc among us! There is only a way out if we follow him!
Therefore, based on the green-skinned orcs' very simple idea of being the biggest and the strongest, the other guys surrendered one after another and turned their allegiance to the new boss. Surrounded by the crowd, Huyan Chu's huge body, bathed in a dark green halo, became taller and bigger, and it looked like he was already two meters eighty.
The green-skinned orcs are such magical creatures. Their existence is extremely idealistic. They believe that big is good and tall is strong. When the number of orcs is large enough, they will think about who is powerful enough, that person will become extremely powerful and grow taller.
Chapter 180: I think you are very strong
In this way, with the support of Jia Xu and other Han families, Huyan Chu made rapid progress, killed two chiefs in succession, defeated three chiefs, and became one of the biggest leaders of the Xiutu tribe. He had a very strong military force and was very qualified to compete for the final position of the Xiutu King.
In order to ensure that Huyan Chu could become the King of Xiutu, Liu Zhuang also released all the 2,500 captured rebellious boys and more than a thousand orc cavalrymen and handed them over to Huyan Chu for management, allowing his power to expand again. In order to ensure the other party's loyalty, Liu Zhuang also ordered the chief of the Huyan tribe of the Xiongnu, as well as the eldest sons and heirs of a group of generals and other senior leaders to all become his hostages. After several batches, there were as many as fifty Xiongnu orc nobles taken as hostages.
Liu Zhuang personally taught them tactics, strategies, and Han culture, and trained these fifty orcs as orc personal soldiers according to the standards for training human and cavalry personal soldiers. These foreigners had no roots in the Han Dynasty and they could only rely on themselves. It was also Liu Zhuang who gradually raised these children, acting as both a teacher and a father to them. Therefore, these foreign personal soldiers were even more loyal than the Han veterans.
There are three main purposes of taking hostages.
The first thing is to ensure that the other party will not rebel. After all, someone like Ma Chao, whose parents and younger brother are all in the hands of Cao Cao, is an extremely rare case for someone who dares to rebel directly and kill his entire family.
