After Li Wei's army set out, the speed of the march was not fast in the past few days, and after sending elite men and horses to clear the Baibo Liukou on the front line of the muddy water, nearly 20,000 troops cautiously crossed the muddy water. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the city of Linfen became closer and closer to the besieged city, the number of Baibo bandits encountered along the road also grew, and these Baibo troops were no longer the small bands of bandits led by various commanders they had encountered before, but also began to take shape and were fully armoured.

These thieves have grown from robbers everywhere to a thief army attacking cities, and this is a big trend, speaking of which, Dong Zhuo's army also bears a certain responsibility.

Since the first year of Zhongping, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the beacon fire in various places has not been broken, and the thieves and grass bandits have swarmed into chaos, and the men and horses of these mountain and forest thieves are also in the continuous fighting with the pursuing county soldiers, the strong soldiers who guard the dock fort, and the opponents of their own fires, and have transformed into a volunteer army that has begun to take shape in the army.

Just like Chu Feiyan who started an incident in Hebei, he initially led the rabble to besiege Gaunt Tao with Zhang Niujiao, but the city was not captured, Zhang Niujiao was shot by the officers and soldiers defending the city, Chu Feiyan took over the helm, and the people's hearts were not attached, and he had to change his surname to Zhang to stabilize the hearts of the people in Zhang Niujiao's team.

Up to now, the grass robbers led by Zhang Yan have become the "Black Mountain Army" in Changshan, Zhao County, Zhongshan, Shangdang, and Hanoi, absorbing such as Sun Qing and Wang Dang, who were also grass robbers who originally occupied the mountains and revolted in various places, and the number of people is claimed to have reached one million.

Naturally, the temporary appeasement policy could not really calm the chaos in Hebei, so a part of the Montenegrin army still went south to attack Hanoi, trying to threaten the capital of Luoyang and test the bottom line of the imperial court. Zhu Jun, who was second only to Huangfu Song in meritorious service when quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion, was appointed as the Taishou of Hanoi and led his troops to repel this part of the Montenegrin Army and ensure the safety of northern Luoyang.

There is the Black Mountain Army in Hanoi and the White Wave Army in Hedong, but although the White Wave Army is much smaller than that of Hebei giants such as Zhang Yan, it is lucky. They met Dong Zhuo's Xiliang and Qinhu soldiers and horses, Dong Zhuo was bent on preserving his strength and grabbing benefits in the struggle between the DPRK and China, where was he willing to fight the Baibo army here in Hedong.

So he played in the name of "the ministers sent an edict to Fuluo, the soldiers were hungry and refused to cross the river, and they all said that they wanted to tell the Jingshi to first punish the eunuchs to eliminate the people's harm, and begged for money from the Taige", and turned around and rushed to Luoyang, allowing the Baibo army and the Huns to converge, forming a tail that could not be dropped.

Now Li Dao is leading the army, looking at these Baibo soldiers and horses that have become a climate, and he secretly regrets that when he was in Hedong, he did not take advantage of the fact that they and the Huns did not converge soon and had an unstable foothold, and broke them, which is why today's nightmare of these Baibo and Huns can also compete with their own armies.

Although the main force of the Baibo army did not have more than 100,000 troops, there were still 50,000 or 60,000 horses, plus the thousands of elite Hun cavalry, the advantage of troops was much greater than the soldiers and horses in Li Wei's hands. Li Dao had already learned the cunning and intractability of these Huns a few days ago, and he did not dare to rashly march to relieve the siege of Linfen at the moment, so he could only fight steadily, build a strong camp, support each other across the Fenshui and Linfen City on the other side of the river, and confront the main force of the Baibo army besieging Linfen along the Fenshui line.

During the confrontation, while sending a small number of men and horses to test each other with the main forces of these Baibo troops, Li Wei couldn't help but stretch his neck, twist his eyebrows and look at the Baibo Valley in the north, and silently read in his heart:

This time, the fake son of the Xu family must not let himself down!

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Twenty miles south of the White Wave Valley, on the edge of a forest, a skirmish was nearing its end.

When a small group of Hun rangers were stationed here, the cavalry of Xu Kun and Yan Xing, who were rushing in, took dumplings from all sides.

Because the only Han army west of Fenshui was surrounded in Linfen City, and the Han army east of Fenshui was also blocked by the main force of the Baibo Army on the opposite bank and could not cross the river, so the Huns in their own territory relaxed their vigilance a lot, and there was no rotating sentry manpower, so they were awakened by Yan Xing and others sneaking to the vicinity.

Before the unprepared Huns approached the horses, most of them had been shot dead by Yan Xing and others with bows and arrows, and only a few or three Huns were lucky enough to grab their horses and wanted to break through and leave.

It is a pity that the encirclement has been formed, and the spears on all sides are as dense as the woods, erected and flattened, surrounded on all sides, and the crossbowmen are scattered on both sides of each side, stretching their bows and arrows.

The mount had no momentum, seeing how these bright blades could still break through the encirclement, and after running twice around the spear like a forest on the neighing horse riding the "sigh law", the remaining few Huns had to honestly dismount and surrender to these uninvited guests pretending to be Bai Bo and Huns.

In the past three days, he took a long detour, crossed the muddy water, avoided the people and horses of the Baibo and Huns, slept in the open air, and finally came to the vicinity of the Baibo Valley, and killed a small group of Huns out of the evil spirit of being attacked by the night that night, Xu Kun was in a good mood, and after pulling the mount to hide in the forest, he came to Yan Xing's side with a smile, and opened his mouth and said:

"Yan Ming, with a bitter face, the soldiers have a saying, 'The soldiers have merit, and the plan is no longer planned', and now they have safely bypassed the main force of the Baibo thieves and the Huns to arrive here, and a great achievement is impossible to hide, why, I am afraid that I will be rewarded for meritorious service, and I don't know how to squander it?"

Speaking of this, Xu Kun glanced at the other soldiers around him, and mysteriously leaned to Yan Xing's side and said:

"I'm in Luoyang, but I found a female lu, in the past, it was frequented by those powerful sons in the city, tsk, the little lady there, the body is so touched, slippery, a light scratch, can flow water······"

When Yan Xing heard this, his face changed slightly, and he leaned back, avoiding Xu Kun's squirting saliva, so as not to spray it on his face.

Xu Kun smiled, narrowed the distance, pointed at Yan Xing and said with a smile:

"Look at you, look at you, I haven't seen you scared when you charge into battle on weekdays, and when it comes to this, it's like this, hehe, isn't it-"

Xu Kun rarely led the troops to fight, without the constraints of his uncle's people around him, his heart was happy, and he didn't encounter setbacks along the way, seeing that the attack was about to succeed, his mood was also much higher, and he laughed at Yan Xing, who was more and more pleasing to the eye around him.

Yan Xing was afraid that he would be cranky, so he hurriedly stopped him from continuing to speak, and said:

"Wine is more feminine than a sword. Xu Sima, now that the enemy is broken, let's take care of the business first! ”

"Okay, let's get down to business first!"

Seeing Yan Xing's serious look, Xu Kun waved his hand, but he had no choice but to give up, find an open space next to him and sit down, pluck a weed, pinch his head and tail, and start to say in his mouth:

"The few Hun captives you caught, did you ask for information about Baibo Valley?"

"General Cao Tun is still torturing, and he will know soon, so you wait for a while!"

While the two were talking, Cao Yuan, who smelled of blood, walked over quickly, and wiped the blood on his hands with a linen cloth as he walked, and when he came to the two of them, he gave a military salute first, and said solemnly:

"Sima, Junhou, the information of Baibo Valley has been tortured!"

"Speak quickly!"

As soon as Xu Kun, who was hanging, heard this, he hurriedly spit out the grass stalk that he had just held in his mouth, and said to Cao Yuan.

"There are nearly 10,000 thieves and their families in the White Wave Valley, most of them are women, children, old and weak, and the goods and some of the grain and grass taken by the White Wave Thieves are also hoarded in this valley——"

"Great, it's really a godsend, Yanming, I'll just say it, this is really a god-throwing credit!"

Xu Kun almost laughed from ear to ear, it was precisely in order to keep his image in front of Cao Yuan and other newly invested military officials, so he didn't laugh out loud, Cao Yuan saw that his boss was overjoyed, but he didn't listen to his own words, he could only accentuate his tone, and added again:

"It's just that there are Baibo and Xiongnu men and horses stationed in the valley outside the valley, and I'm afraid that it will not be easy to sneak attack and attack the valley!"

"This!"

Xu Kun heard Cao Yuan's aggravated words behind him, his face instantly turned cloudy and gloomy, and the hand that he had just raised to boast of his prophetic wisdom to Yan Xing also fell. Instead, Yan Xing, who was listening calmly on the side, then spoke, and asked Cao Yuan:

"What about the garrison inside and outside the valley?"

"yes, let's be clear!"

Xu Kun also hurriedly said.

Cao Yuan nodded and continued:

"There are 2,000 soldiers and horses stationed outside the valley, one is the cavalry of the Huns, and there are 1,000 white wave thieves stationed in the pass in the valley."

"It seems that this white wave thief and the Huns are also guarding against each other!"

After hearing this, Xu Kun frowned and said this, originally this was just the defense arrangement of the Baibo thieves against the Huns, but now it has also brought great difficulties to his attack.

"In addition to these soldiers and horses, are there other soldiers and horses nearby?"

Yan Xing thought for a moment and continued to ask.

"The kite has already asked, it is said that the situation of the confrontation across the river in Linfen is becoming increasingly tense, and the other soldiers and horses of Bai Bo and the Huns have been transferred to Linfen, and there are no other soldiers and horses nearby!"

"Yanming, there can't be only one entrance to Baibo Valley, how many places can the two thousand people and horses outside this valley hold, I think, if I don't change another place, sneak into the valley, burn the enemy's grain and grass, and still be able to make a lot of money!"

"Never!"

Faced with Xu Kun's plan to bypass Baibo and the Huns outside the valley, find the entrance again, break into the valley, and risk burning the enemy's grain and grass, before Yan Xing could speak, Cao Yuan had already spoken out to dissuade him.

Faced with Cao Yuan, a newly invested general, who suddenly questioned his strategy, Xu Kun suddenly frowned, but he didn't have a good attack on the spot, so he had to say coldly:

"Why?"

Cao Yuan was originally a steady person, and he would not speak easily, but he was afraid that Xu and Yan would not understand the geography of the trough, and they would be greedy for great achievements and take risks, so he hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him, and hurriedly responded at the moment and said:

"There is a pass in the dangerous place in the valley, even if you sneak into the valley from another road, if you want to burn grain and grass, you need to break through the pass first, but I am afraid that our army will risk sneaking into the valley, and before we have captured the pass, the back road will be broken by the enemy soldiers and horses outside the valley, and then it will really be a horse without returning, please think twice about Sima and the army!"

Speaking of this, Cao Kite's face gradually turned red, obviously, with his understanding of the geography of Baibo Valley, it was difficult to agree with the adventurous plan of Xu Kun, a person who likes to use strange soldiers.

Yan Xing saw that Cao Yuan was thoughtful and responded well, he had already considered the use of troops when he tortured the prisoners, and secretly appreciated his talent in his heart, but in front of Xu Kun, he didn't speak directly.

He remained silent, turned his head to Xu Kun and persuaded him and said:

"Sima, this plan is indeed too risky, we have already arrived near the Baibo Valley, which is the ninth mountain of the mountain; This last step is better to be steady! ”

"But what if you don't go the other way?"

Xu Kun didn't have much disgust with Yan Xing's persuasion, he spread his hands and said helplessly.

Yan Xing pursed his lips, pondering a plan to break the situation, and his eyes turned to catch a glimpse of the blood of the captives splashed on Cao Yuan's armor, and he had a flash of inspiration, blurted out and said:

"Sima, do you remember the tactics of the Huns that night?"