Xiaohua City was burned clean by the Huns, when the fire was dissipated, the houses burned down nine out of ten, the people of the town experienced the sorrow of yesterday night, witnessed the desperate struggle between the Han army and the Hun cavalry, and few people were crying at this time. After all, this time the Huns invaded, compared with the defenders, the casualties of the people in the town were very few, and there were only about 20 people together.

During the war, everything was simple, the soldiers and people of the Han army who died in Xiaohua City found a place outside the town and were buried, and the army divided into a part to clean up the town with the people, and built a shed for temporary living, as for the reconstruction of the entire town, it had to wait until the battle was over, and the support of the imperial court came down.

Now the 3,000 cavalry camped in Xiaohua City can be regarded as temporarily settled, and Qin Cheng and Li Guang's military orders are very clear, stick to Xiaohua City, and at the same time widely distribute rangers. It's just that Qin Cheng and Li Guang also know that at this point, the role of the rangers is already limited, because even if they find out that there are Hun cavalry invading villages and towns near and far, if the conditions are not particularly favorable, the Han army will not attack easily.

In the face of the unknown Xiongnu forces and the unknown actions of the existing Xiongnu four cavalry forces, the Han army's course of action is really as Qin Cheng said to Liu Mu yesterday: Wait.

Whether the Han army was waiting for the Huns to attack, or waiting for a favorable opportunity to attack, or something else, no one knew except Qin Cheng, Li Guang, and a very few people.

Qin Cheng and Li Guang led a large army to be stationed in Xiaohua City, while other border towns and small towns entered a period of wartime defense, and the people and troops easily did not leave the city, or even the fort. And the indispensable food for the crops in the field is also when the garrison sentinels from all over the country run for thirty or forty miles, confirm that there is no danger, and there is the protection of the army, and then let the people go out of the city to take care of it.

However, at the end of the year, there is not much work in the fields, but as soon as the spring of the next year begins, it will enter the busy agricultural period, compared to the Chinese New Year's Eve, which has to be deserted, most people are still worried about whether the battle will be finished at the beginning of spring next year. You must know that missing the spring rush is a year's loss.

This year's northern style was cold and unusually dry, and at this time, there was no rain or snow.

With the help of the Shanggu cavalry, the temporary shelter of the people of Xiaohua City was quickly built, and the people moved in.

The weather was overcast and cold, and the sky seemed to be covered by a huge cake, overcast, oppressing the already pale Xiaohua City.

Outside the city of Xiaohua, the sound of horses' hooves sounded on the roads leading to all directions, and the rangers rushed back from all directions, bringing the latest news of the Hun cavalry's movements.

Qin Cheng and the six military marquis of light and heavy cavalry stood in Li Guang's Chinese army tent, watching the rangers rush in one by one, and with the return of the rangers, Li Guang's face became more and more gloomy.

"Distant villages and towns, such as Changliang, Xiaohezi, Sandao, and nearby villages and towns, such as Ertai and Shagou, have been harassed by the Hun cavalry one after another in the past few days! This group of dog-mother-raised Hun barbarians, if they can't find anyone, they burn houses, burn fields, and do all kinds of evil, they are really hateful, hateful! Li Guang slapped the bamboo slip in his hand on the case, almost roaring, and the twitching of his facial muscles made his beard tremble.

"There are less than 2,000 Hun barbarians, and they treat my 3,000 Han soldiers as if they were nothing, and they are wanton in my Han territory, which is simply infuriating me! Where did this group of straight thieves get the confidence to be so arrogant, he is really not afraid that my Han Iron Army will attack his desert, destroy his royal court, and burn his holy city?! ”

Li Guang roared behind the general's case, but the senior generals standing in the tent could only bow their heads and be silent. Of the people present, which one is not bloody - fighting to stand here? No one would really be afraid of these Hun cavalry, not to mention anything else, even if these six military marquis themselves took their own deployment to kill any of the Huns, no one would say a word.

But for now, the generals can only hold their breath and suppress their anger.

Because Li Guang and Qin Cheng have made it very clear in the past few days, the whole army is sticking to Xiaohua City, and there are those who dare to speak out to fight, and military law is engaged!

Two days ago, Ma Dashan went to question Qin Cheng's military order, didn't he get a military stick?

It is precisely because of this that Li Guang is so angry. From another point of view, Li Guang's anger was not for the Huns, but for himself!

Because the Han army can't go on the march!

The four Xiongnu, it is not appropriate to kill which one, the division of troops is even more inappropriate, and it is even more inappropriate for the army to leave Xiaohua City.

The problem is that even if the army wants to attack, it may not be able to find the Hun cavalry.

A small force of three or five hundred cavalry, coming and going without a trace, how to find it? Even if they find it, how can they catch it if they want to run?

So Li Guang has been waiting, waiting for the time when he and Qin Cheng are optimistic.

It's just that when the time comes, this kind of waiting is too torturous.

Li Guang lost his temper in the military tent, but after all, he did not give the order to attack blindly. This kind of waiting is torturous, but it is the best way to avoid unnecessary risks and losses in the moment.

All the soldiers came out of the military tent, all of them had unkind faces, and Qin Cheng was also contemplative.

"General Ji, how's it going? Is the general allowed to go to war? As soon as Ji Zhu came out of the military tent, he was pulled by Li Dang, he had been waiting outside the military tent for a long time, and many villages and towns near and far had been attacked by the Hun cavalry in the past few days, and he had already heard of it. Now not to mention the desire to make meritorious contributions, Li Dang only hopes to take a bad breath and teach the Hun cavalry a good lesson, so that they will not be so unscrupulous and arrogant.

Ji Zhu shook his head, and strode away with a calm face.

Li Dang scolded his mother angrily, but he happened to see Qin Cheng coming out of the military tent. Regarding the Han army's strategy of not fighting, even if others didn't know it, Li Kang knew that it was Qin Cheng's idea, not to mention that this matter had already been known by the whole army. Seeing Qin Cheng, the "culprit", come out, Li Dang was even more angry, ran over to block Qin Cheng, and said sharply: "General Qin, why don't we fight?" When will our army be ready to fight? ”

Li Dang has always been dissatisfied with Qin Cheng, since he was arranged by Qin Cheng to be a small team, he held his stomach and wanted to make some achievements to prove that he was stronger than Qin Cheng, a hillbilly, this time he went on the expedition, he had already made up his mind to perform well, but this battle had not been fought yet, Qin Cheng came up with an idea not to fight, which made Li Dang think in his heart that this was Qin Cheng's weakness and mistaken the army! I was already very unhappy with Qin Cheng in my heart.

Qin Cheng glanced at the menacing Li Dang, "Team Li is acting according to military orders." After speaking, he wanted to bypass Li Kang.

"Qin Cheng!" Li dared to shout, and he didn't care about his superiors and subordinates, so he dodged to block Qin Cheng again, and asked: "If you don't dare to fight, you can just stop the whole army from moving?" Anything that can't find a trace of the Huns, it's all bullshit! When didn't the Han army go to find the Huns for a decisive battle before, you cowered this time, but you missed a major military event, do you know?! ”

Qin Cheng's eyes were cold, and his body tensed.

"Li Kang, rebel, step back for me!" Just when Qin Cheng was about to solve the problem violently, Li Guang shouted loudly on the side, and walked over after speaking.

"Father......" Li dared to see Li Guang and wanted to say something.

"Shut up! Where is your part in speaking, and is there any military law in your eyes? Let me go down! Li Guang said coldly.

"Humph!" Li Dang snorted coldly, shook his head heavily, and strode away.

"This kid is getting more and more unkingly!" Li Guang scolded and said to Qin Cheng: "Next time he dares to collide with you again, you can do military law, don't take care of the general, it's really lawless for him!" ”

Qin Cheng smiled, "It's okay, the young general is just young and vigorous." ”

"The generals in the army are emotionally unstable, if this continues, not to mention when the time comes, if there is anything before this, I am afraid that there will be a loss!" Li Guang sighed.

"The general is too worried." Qin Cheng denied Li Guang's concerns, "The generals were just stimulated by the Huns, and they were just resentful for a while, and everyone could still figure out the truth after all." Even if there are individual generals who can't figure it out, the Shanggu defenders are highly disciplined and the generals have a deep prestige, and the generals will not behave out of line. ”

"You're so confident?" Li Guang said with a smile.

"If these can't be done, what else is there to talk about destroying the Huns? Even the most powerful Iron Rider is in vain. "Qincheng Road.

Li Guangleng paused, then nodded, and then asked a seemingly inconsequential word, "Are you ready?" ”

"Everything is ready." Qin Cheng said with a smile.

……

On this ugly day, there was silence in the military camp of Xiaohua City, all the sergeants were asleep, the military camp was brightly lit, and several patrol teams were moving back and forth mechanically in the huge military camp. On the guard tower of the barracks, several sergeants could no longer hold back and dozed off.

A rustling sound sounded not far outside the barracks, and if you looked closely, you could barely make out that there were black shadows moving in the night, and black shadows and black shadows formed a black group.

Cavalry.

Hun cavalry.

The mouth is titled, and the horse is bound to the hoof.

It was slow, light, and careful.

Like a ghost, silently.

As the first horse, the robe tightly wrapped around the body, showing a thin figure.

Along the way, they have solved several Han army rangers without leaving a trace.

When the cavalry approached the barracks, they all stopped, and the rider at the head moved forward and coldly spat out a word, "Up!" ”

The sound is delicate.

More than a dozen knights turned over and dismounted, carried bows and arrows, and quickly approached the barracks.

The crowd stopped a stone's throw away from the camp gate, and two of them bent their bows and arrows and quietly aimed at the Han soldiers who were dozing off on the two guard towers near the camp gate.

The two Han sergeants who were on vigil were shot in the body silently, and before they could let out a scream, their bodies fell limply on the tower.

The dozen or so people stuck to the fence, and the man near the camp gate stretched out his head to look in, just in time to see a group of Han patrols coming from a distance.

The man gestured to his companion, and the group held their breath and pressed against the fence.

When the Han patrol passed, the man bent his bow and arrows again, but this time he shot an arrow in the direction he had come.

Over there, the thin knight at the head saw the iron arrow flying not far in front of him, and with a wave of his hand, everyone marched towards the barracks.

The dozen or so men from before opened the door of the barracks and opened the way for the cavalry to come in.

The cavalry rushed into the camp gate, and each of them suddenly took out a wooden stick from his horse, and when he looked closely, it was an unlit torch!

They want to burn the camp!

The thin knight at the head looked very proud of the corners of his mouth hooked up with a conspiracy that had succeeded.

However, the next moment, his expression froze.

Behind the barracks, countless cavalry suddenly rushed out, shouting and rushing towards them!

Even outside the barracks, shouts of killing sounded!

The thin knight who instantly realized the middle plan and decisively ordered: "Throw the torch and withdraw!" ”

The hundreds of knights who followed the thin knights instantly threw the torches in their hands to the nearby military tents, regardless of whether the torches burned or not, and then decisively drew their long knives.

At the door, the Hun cavalry in charge of the rear of the palace has already exchanged hands with the Han cavalry!

"Kill!"

"Kill these dog-mother-bred Hun thieves!"

"Kill! Don't let them run! ”

"Kill me!"

Inside and outside the barracks, the crazy Han soldiers launched a tidal offensive, and they had been holding back for too long!

"Kill, don't leave a single one!" Li Dang brandished his long knife, beckoned the deployment behind him, and took the lead in the Hun formation.

At this time, Li Kang, like a crazy leopard, saw the Huns and cut them, and his red eyes burst out with excitement. Blood quickly splattered him.

The cavalry of the two armies soon collided together, and the scuffle began around the barracks gate!

"Huslan, Centurion, Your Highness! Others, withdraw! Break out! The thin Hun knight gave the order in an orderly manner, and the long knife in his hand cut off the Han cavalry that rushed over from his horse.

Not a lot of space, not a lot of scuffle.

The 500 cavalry of the Xiongnu were surrounded in the middle, bearing the onslaught of the fury of the 1,500 Han heavy cavalry.

Qin Cheng and Li Guang stood outside the battlefield, quietly looking at the cavalry in front of them.

"Ji Zhu, lead someone to extinguish the fire!" Qin Cheng ordered.

"No!"

The Huns had just thrown away the torches in a hurry, and there was no time to light them, and most of them threw them directly as wooden sticks, so the damage to the barracks was really limited. Light horsemen are not suitable for hand-to-hand combat, and it is just right to put out fires.

The tragic melee lasted for a while, and a Hun hundred-man team protected the thin knight in the middle, and fought a bloody way out of the chaotic army and rushed out.

"Ran out." Li Guang and Qin Cheng looked at each other and smiled.

At this time, the thin knight who had just run out of the encirclement glanced back at the Han army camp and showed a smile.

Turn the smiles of all beings upside down.