The Huns were good at running and were not good at attacking fortifications, and the field battle to lure the guards in Beiqu City was ineffective, in vain, and the morale of the men and horses was also slightly depressed, and they did not choose to attack the city again.

On the other hand, in order to plunder more grain and grass materials, the Huns would not choose to go under the city, but chose to bypass the Beiqu City that defended Senming, and continued to invade Pishi and other places in the east of the river.

At this time, Wei Qi and Niu Song, who were cautiously guarding the city, launched an attack on the Huns outside the city.

Because of the lure of the enemy first, and the soldiers of the city who were firmly on the ground had no intention of fighting, the Huns' camp would not be far away from the city wall.

The first few times, Wei Qi took his foot soldiers, as well as Ding Zhuang, who had been temporarily recruited and trained these days, with great fanfare, intending to attack the Huns from the front and attract all the attention of the Huns' cavalry in the direction of Wei Qi.

However, at the moment of tension, the guards of the city would rather lose some physical strength and arrows, and suddenly retreat to the city.

This repeated several times, and the guards in the city consumed a lot of physical strength, and the Huns' vigilance against the guards in these cities gradually relaxed.

The guards in the city were meant to fatigue them, so the Huns could not let them do what they wanted.

They no longer looked at the men and horses in the city who took the initiative to attack and retreat, but had a cold attitude of watching them suddenly rush out of the city, sometimes during the day and occasionally in the evening, and then hurriedly retreated.

It wasn't until the day when Wei Qi suddenly launched a real attack that the scattered and slackened people saw the city guards who were clamoring up, so they hurriedly began to pick up their weapons, passively gathered, and panicked to defend against the attack of the city guards.

The Huns, who had unsaddled their horses and unloaded their armor to rest, did not have time to put on their armor and tie their saddles, so they hurriedly rode bareback horses, holding bows and arrows, and galloped quickly, wanting to go around to both sides of Wei Qi's attacking team, delaying and pinching Wei Qi's soldiers and horses.

Just when the two sides were entangled and fighting, Niu Song took advantage of the situation and took two hundred elite horsemen, killed from the other city gate, and rushed to the back of the Huns in a roundabout way.

The Hun cavalry, who were still fighting, watched the cavalry in the city gradually approaching from the other side, and had to abandon the enemy in front of them, as well as the camp behind them, turned their horses' heads, quickly whipped their horses, and quickly left the battlefield in order to get rid of the enemy's pursuit.

Niu Song only sent a small number of soldiers and horses to pursue the fleeing Hun cavalry, and he himself led other horses and Wei Qi to join forces and set fire to the wind, and jointly broke the camp of the Huns, which had almost no fortifications, and defeated the Zahu men and horses who hastily gathered to resist.

Wei Qi and Niu Song pursued the Huns for several miles with the power of victory, and then ordered the army to be collected, and after a simple cleaning of the battlefield, they quickly returned to the city.

In this battle, Wei Qi and Niu Song broke through the Hun camp, beheaded more than 120 levels, killed and wounded more than two or three hundred Huns, although most of them were beheaded without horses and on foot, but also greatly thwarted the arrogance of the Huns, and successfully unraveled the siege of Beiqu City by the Huns.

In addition to a group of soldiers and horses in Beiqu City was frustrated, the men and horses who invaded Pi's were soon attacked by the Hedong soldiers, so the Huns who saw the bad situation chose to turn around and retreat without any baggage, they drove the livestock and baggage that had been captured in Puzi and Beiqu before, carrying large bags and small bags, bundles and piles of grains, all of them withdrew from the territory of Hedong County, and transferred and retreated to Xihe County.

By the time Ganling, Meng Tu and other generals who were ordered to gallop to the aid joined up with the soldiers sent by Cao Yuan with their cavalry, and then stationed in Beiqu and Puzi, the soldiers and horses of the Huns had already left Hedong County and fled to Xihe County.

Wei Qi and Niu Song, who held on to Beiqucheng, because they only had one soldier, did not dare to go out of the city to invite interception in the face of the retreat of the Hun brigade, and they could only go out of the city on a small scale to harass the Huns for a while, and then watched the Huns' cavalry soar away.

Ganling, Mengtu, Wei Qi, Niu Song and other civil and military had to stay in Beiqu and Puzi in this winter, while repairing the city walls, building beacons, garrisoning troops to strengthen the defense of the borderline cities with the Xiongnu, and on the other hand, providing relief and relief to the people who survived the disaster, and appeasing the Qianshou who had fled into the mountains and forests to return to settle down.

These important military and political affairs on the east, west and north borders of the river were all made into documents, and they were sent to the Anyi County Government on a fast horse, and they were presented to Taishou Yan Xing for instructions.

And for these uninvited guests who invaded at the end of the year, there were also differences of opinion among the county government, which also caused a controversy.

The Xiongnu were able to invade Hedong this time, mainly because the main enemies of Hedong County were distributed in the east, west and south directions, and in the Xihe County in the northwest, although it had been abolished by the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu and Qianghu dragons in the territory were leaderless and attacked each other, although there were occasionally a small number of rangers to invade and plunder, but this was only a disease of scabies, far from being able to pose a threat to Hedong County.

Therefore, Yan Xing did not deploy heavy troops in the northwest border cities, and then because of the invasion of Zhang Ji's Hongnong army, Hedong County fought in the east and south at the same time, and mobilized boat divisions to go down the river, and most of the soldiers and horses were transferred from each county in the county, making the defense of the northwest border cities even more empty.

This gave the Huns the opportunity to invade.

Yan Zhu, Jia Kui, Pei Hui, Le Shen and other officials in the palace, Peng Shi, after discussion, all believed that it was necessary to increase the garrison and strengthen the defense of the cities on the northwest border, while strengthening the city walls and building beacons, and on the other hand, sending scouts and training the people from afar, so as to prevent the invasion and plundering of Hedong County by the Huns in Xihe County.

Xu Kun, Yang Feng, Yan Xing and other generals believed that Yu Fuluo's group of Xiongnu entered the Xihe River from Taiyuan, and the men and horses were tired, the food and grass were scarce, and they should be severely punished.

As a result, in the hall of the county government, there was a fierce debate between the scribes of the "Prudent War faction" and the generals and colonels of the "Brave War faction".

Yan Zhu believes that the number and scale of troops used in Hedong this year have exceeded the original estimates, and the fierce battles in Hanoi, Henan, Hedong, and Hongnong, as well as the post-war pension and relief, have already made Hedong's government treasury unable to make ends meet, and it is necessary to lose more than enough in the coming year to make up for the shortage of this year, so as to barely make up for the huge material and manpower consumption brought about by these battles.

This is based on the condition that there will be no more catastrophic years like this year in the coming year.

And the labor army went on an expedition to enter Xihe County to destroy the Huns of Yufuluo, which was of no benefit to the current Hedong County.

In terms of population, the Huns, like wolves and jackals, could not be used for themselves, and if they wanted to be destroyed, they would consume food and straw, lose men and horses, and if they fled, they would inevitably come back and try to retaliate.

On the land, even if the abandoned Xihe and other counties are recovered in a short period of time, they will not be able to hold on to them for a long time without the support of a large number of manpower and material resources in the future.

As for the measures to consolidate the territory, if soldiers and horses are stationed only on the border land far away from the hinterland of Hedong, and the people are not relocated to gather fields and valleys on a large scale, build cities and dig wells, then this kind of long-distance grain and grass transportation is by no means something that the warehouses and civil servants in the land of the Three Rivers can bear.

If the strategy of building cities and fields and migrating people to the border is implemented, it is something that can only be done with the efforts of one country. With the current situation in Hedong and the Hanoi and Henan regions that were acquired not long ago, it is not enough to absorb displaced people and enrich the population, and where will there be surplus manpower and material resources to recover the lost land and reclaim the Hetao.

What's more, the result of the expedition of the labor division, more is in vain, or a defeat, although the Huns are weak, but they are not ignorant and wooden, let the soldiers and horses in Hedong slaughter the straw people, they will also fight, will also flee, if not able to defeat the Huns in one fell swoop, then this expedition, not only in vain, but also seriously affect the security of the Hedong border and the follow-up military and politics.

Therefore, in accordance with the principle of calculating what is within the limits of income and exceeding, leniency of government and people, Yan Zhi hopes that Yan Xing can do what he can, and choose a steady and practical increase in troops and garrisons, rather than taking the risk of an expedition, which is not a safe and best strategy for Hedong.

Compared with the concerns of Yan Zhu and others, the generals did not have many constraints. Among them, Xu Kun was the most radical, he insisted that this year's great hunger, the Huns also suffered from serious locust plagues, droughts, is already the end of the crossbow, if they covet a moment of comfort and stability, do not seize the opportunity to calm them down, then the recovered Huns will continue to invade and harass the territory of Hedong.

When the time comes, the northern border of Hedong is repeatedly in a hurry, and how many manpower and material resources are allocated to guard against these hungry wolves who take advantage of the weakness, and where do they have the heart and energy to plot Guanzhong in the west and manage Hanoi and Henan in the east.

Of course, in Xu Kun's heart, he also has his own selfishness. After he defected to Yan Xing, he was eager to gain a firm foothold in the Hedong Army, and then took charge of the troops and horses, so he has been actively using troops, but unfortunately whether it is to return Hedong and Xihe to resist the enemy, or in the many major battles of capturing Hanoi and defeating Hongnong, because Yan Xing already has Ganling, Xu Huang, Cao Yuan, Zhai Hao, Wei Xuan and other generals, so Xu Kun is far from getting great success, and he is still far from the goal of taking charge of the troops and horses.

At present, even Zhao Hong can serve as the lieutenant of salt and iron, assist the county to strictly control the official camp Hedong salt and iron, and also command 500 salt and iron officials, but he is a Fengyi captain, but he can only obtain the right to command the army when he is about to fight, and after the war, he will be like a white body, and he will be listed under the command of the shogunate, and he will be a school captain in name only.

This situation, how can Xu Kun endure it. Therefore, he was anxious to defeat his current situation.

And the expedition to the Huns is the easiest opportunity for himself to seize.

Therefore, Xu Kun is more active than other generals.

Regarding the civil and military objections in the lobby, Yan Xing, who was at the top, did not express his position for a long time, but temporarily stopped the controversy and announced that the matter would be discussed later.

Yan Xing's obscure attitude made Yan Zhu, who was based on reason, impatient, and Hedong from the initial implementation of Tuntian and water conservancy, to the current political communication and harmony, and all kinds of waste, all of which were soaked in the hard work of Yan Zhu since entering Hedong.

Yan Zhu didn't want Hedong's foundation to be ruined because of the belligerence and dangerous battles of these generals, and he wanted to admonish again, but Yan Xing had already gotten up and turned into the side room, which made him speechless, so he could only walk out of the hall angrily first.