East County.

On the north bank of Jishui, Fengqiu City.

After Li Mi listened to the report of the student Wang Bo with shame in his face, he reached out and helped him up.

In fact, he had already led the follow-up elite to Dongjun, but he had been stationed in Fengqiu, a hundred miles away from White Horse City, and this distance was deliberately controlled by him.

Like Wang Bodang, he looked forward to the Hebei Xia army coming to help after besieging White Horse City, so that he could besiege the city and fight a battle of annihilation in Dongjun, and then take advantage of the victory to wave his army north into Hebei. So he didn't lead the army to Baima, in that case, there were too many soldiers and horses in Baima City, and it was impossible for the Xia army to go south again.

It's just that he didn't expect that Xia Jun would be so capable of fighting.

Previously, Zhu Cang's defeat of Liyang could also be called a trick by the Xia army to capture the city, but in the battle of White Horse, this was obviously different.

"The Xia army is only about eight thousand?"

He believed in the report of his student Wang Bodang, and even if he was defeated, he would not exaggerate the number of enemies, let alone make up the elite of the enemy. Only 8,000 people can defeat the 80,000 army under the White Horse City, although the most important battle on the south bank, the Wei army at that time was only about 30,000, but 8,000 broke 30,000, which is still strong enough.

He sat there in contemplation.

The Xia army was so elite, and even dispatched armored horses, even if it was only half-equipped, but the number of thousands of horses still made him secretly frightened.

Not to mention that the Xia army also put out a Mo Dao military formation, in addition, everyone actually brought bows, and there were a lot of iron armors.

Today was a sunny day, the snow had not yet melted, but there was no wind and it was quiet.

Fengqiu is 100 miles away from Baima, and there are two cities of Yingcheng and Lingchang in the middle.

The scouts sent by Li Mi went north, all the way to the foot of the White Horse City, close to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and the Xia army in the city also sent light cavalry, and the two sides exchanged a few arrows, and the scouts hurriedly retreated.

"The Xia army didn't retreat?"

After learning the news, Li Mi's eyes flashed with excitement.

"They were so bold that they were so proud that they still refused to leave, and in that case, then don't go."

Li Mi decided to surround Baima again, and this time he wanted to surround the 8,000 elites of the Xia army.

Although Wang Bodang said before that this army is extremely sophisticated, well-equipped, with strong fighting spirit and high combat skills. But Li Mi thinks that this is just Dou Jiande's most elite soldiers and horses, and the number will not be too many.

As long as this elite is surrounded and eaten, Dou Jiande will be hit hard.

If he can still lure Dou Jiande south and fight another battle of annihilation in White Horse City, then the land of the nine counties of Hebei will belong to him.

"Lord, beware of Pengcheng Li Yuan, Qilu Luo family."

After Baima suffered a big loss, Wang Bodang became more cautious, and he couldn't help but remind him after seeing that Li Mi was going to start a decisive battle with Xia Jun in White Horse City.

"Pengcheng Li Yuan is not worried, if it weren't for the lack of time at the moment, I would definitely kill Pengcheng Li Yuan first, put him aside for the time being, and clean up Dou Jiande who dared to go south first."

As for the Luo family.

Li Mi was very jealous of Luo Cheng, but now Luo Cheng was still in Liaodong, and the information he sent to Liaodong was that Luo Cheng had just mobilized all the loyal troops after the autumn and launched the Battle of Fuyuchuan against the Yuan clan, although the battle was quickly won.

But Li Mi decided that after the war, it would take time to sort out the results of the war, and now that it was a cold winter, Luo Cheng should not be able to move south. Although there is intelligence that there are soldiers and horses crossing the sea from Liaodong to Shandong, Li Mi still believes that this is just Luo Cheng's desire to stick to the eastern region of Shandong in Donglaiqilu and does not want to lose this landing point in the future.

As long as the main force of Luo Cheng's loyal army did not move south, he didn't have to worry too much about the Luo family.

It was Wang Shichong in Luoyang who made him a little uneasy.

This guy and Pei Renji, one guards Luoyang, the other guards western Henan, plus Hedong, Shangdang, and Hanoi counties who are still loyal to the imperial court, so that his strength is still not weak.

Before Yang Guang was killed, he also ordered Guanzhong to send troops to rescue Luoyang, so Wen Sheng, the guard who stayed in the Guan, had also led about 20,000 Guanzhong soldiers and horses to join the Henan battlefield.

Although there has been no fighting yet, it is clear that they are planning a counteroffensive.

Li Mi already felt a little of his predicament at this time, although he killed Meng Rang and swallowed his Huaixi, he still did not live in the land of the four wars.

Alone.

But Luoyang just can't take it.

If he could be given another year and a half, Li Mi was confident that he would definitely be able to take Luoyang, but this damn Dou Jiande, he hadn't even swept away Hebei yet, so he actually stretched out his hand to Henan.

Thinking of this, Li Mi's fingers tapped on the table.

He sighed at the chaos of the situation, and was also a little envious of Luo Cheng's ability to have a stable base in the rear.

"Bodang, Wang Bo is now in Luo Chengjun?" Li Mi asked suddenly.

"Well, he surrendered Luo Cheng in Qi County a few years ago, and was later exiled to Liaodong, Luo Cheng recruited him to his command, and later became a county commander, and now it is said that he seems to be Ren Juncheng, and he can be regarded as Luo Cheng's reuse."

Li Mi nodded, "You have a good relationship with Wang Bo, you send someone to find Wang Bo, and ask him to pass a word to Luo Cheng for me, just say that I have been attached to the imperial court before, and now that the Son of Heaven has been killed, I, Li Mi, am willing to lead the land of the twenty-two counties of Huaixi, Henan, and be loyal to the Son of Heaven from Liaodong to Detian." ”

Wang Bodang was unexpected.

"Why do you want to pay tribute to Liaodong?"

"For we now dwell in the land of four wars, and we are all enemies in all directions. The art of war, distant and close attacks, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande are now in a situation where they are fighting with us endlessly, so we can't fight with Luo Cheng at the same time, and we will find a way to drag them down first. ”

It would be better if he could unite with Luo Cheng to destroy Dou Jiande first, as for the future, this can only be solved by the enemy in front of him first.

If he can't capture Luoyang and solve Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, then it will be difficult for him to continue, and he will collapse sooner or later.

"Luo Cheng may be heading south in the summer, so we don't have much time left. We must first defeat Dou Jiande who is going south, then break Luoyang, and then enter the pass, we must seize the overall situation before Luo Cheng goes south. ”

In order to gain time, Li Mi was willing to lead the land of 22 counties, 600,000 soldiers and horses, to the emperor of Liaodong to pay tribute to the emperor, and was willing to lead his troops to conquer the two puppet courts of Luoyang and Jiangdu for the imperial court.

After making these decisions, Li Mi personally led 100,000 soldiers and horses, and gathered tens of thousands of defeated soldiers of Wang Bodang, known as 300,000, and marched north.

Li Mi sent his most elite Wei warriors to the north, and then besieged White Horse City again.

The three generals Wang Fubao, Liu Heimin, and Cao Bao, originally had 13,000 men and horses, and at this time there were about 10,000 horses, which were blocked in the city by Li Mi's army.

Li Mi came down to the White Horse City under the escort of the pro-army in the city, looked at the black Xia army banner fluttering on the head of the city, and pointed at the city with a horse whip, "Destroy this elite of the Xia army, and there will be no one in Hebei!" ”