The next morning after breakfast, Hua Tianxiong dispatched a team of scouts to lead the remaining eighteen villagers of Huangjia Village toward the Iron Stone Pass. At the same time, Hua Tianxiong instructed the scout captain to relay a message to Wu Tian, asking him to help arrange accommodations for the eighteen villagers from Huangjia Village and to assist them in finding any missing soldiers from their village so they could be reunited.
After bidding farewell to the villagers of Huangjia Village, the Iron Stone Guards continued their advance, dispatching even more scouts to search the surrounding area. Given the recently annihilated Xiongnu hundred-man unit, Hua Tianxiong deduced that more Xiongnu troops had surely infiltrated the rear of the Zhao State. Time waited for no one; he would do what he could to help the Zhao State to the maximum extent possible.
Soon, as they were about to set up camp and rest that afternoon, the dispatched scout team detected another Xiongnu hundred-man unit, which was also in the midst of sacking another small settlement called Nanguan Village. Benefiting from the lessons learned in their first battle, the soldiers of the Iron Stone Guards showed a marked improvement in their combat performance. In less than a quarter of an hour, and with the advantage of a six-to-one numerical superiority, they completely wiped out this hundred-man unit with zero casualties.
Chapter 109