Although it has been a night of tossing, it is a sneak attack on the enemy camp, an escape, and an ambush. The horsemen were physically and mentally exhausted, but they were all in good spirits and had no sleep.

After all the pursuers who were pursued by the enemy camp were able to move and fled for their lives, Ma Ping gathered everyone and counted his own losses first. According to the statistics, twenty-three people on his side are missing, but they are all soldiers who were shot off their horses on the way back after the attack on the camp.

Li Yanzhao was anxious to find his subordinates. However, looking left and right, everyone was there, and there was no one missing, and he put down a big stone in his heart, and felt relaxed.

Twenty-three of his own men were missing, and another thirty-eight were slightly wounded, but not a single one was seriously injured. Ma Ping summoned some veterans in the army who were proficient in external injuries to bandage the wounds of the wounded soldiers, and at the same time summoned the cavalry of the Guangwu Army to prepare to clean up the battlefield and check the capture. But when I heard most of the wounded soldiers in the army arrogantly saying to the old soldiers who bandaged their wounds, it was okay and it didn't hurt at all, and I couldn't help but smile on my face.

In this battle, their own losses were very small, and not only did they defeat four or five times the enemy troops who pursued them, but they also left the corpses of the wounded soldiers and horses outside the forest and fled, and even the leader of the enemy's pursuers was killed here. The morale of the sergeants and soldiers was naturally greatly boosted. Most of the wounded soldiers were new recruits, but they were as calm as veterans of a long battle. However, Ma Ping knew in his heart that if every battle went smoothly in the future, those recruits would gradually grow up. But how will these people's state of mind change if they encounter a difficult battle?

Ma Ping shook his head, thinking far ahead, the top priority now is to go to the edge of the woods, clean the battlefield, and check the capture. So the Guangwu army cavalry more than 100 people, all of them raised their swords, guns, swords, halberds, and followed Ma Ping to the battlefield on the edge of the woods.

"Whoever is wounded by the enemy shall mend the sword. All the enemy soldiers were beheaded and their bodies were buried! Wounded and dead horses are gathered in one place, and the meat is cut and then buried. Ma Ping looked at the corpses of enemy soldiers and horses in one place, and skillfully gave orders.

"Captain, our department requests to dispose of the corpses of military horses." Li Yanzhao hurriedly begged Ma Duwei.

"Accurate!" Ma Duwei agreed without thinking about it. Li Yanzhao's troops were all new pawns who had just entered the battle formation, and it was indeed a little difficult for them to cut off their heads for the first time.

Seeing that Ma Ping's subordinate cavalry carefully bypassed the trap, skillfully went up to mend the wounded soldiers of the enemy on the ground, and then cut off the heads, Li Yanzhao hurriedly gathered his subordinates together to find those wounded or dead war horses to cut horse meat.

There were still thirty or forty intact horses, all of which were gathered up and led into the forest. Li Yanzhao led everyone to find the wounded and dead war horses and cut the horse meat, cutting and cutting, but Li Yanzhao saw Liu Jiwu next to him stop, and then ran to the side of the road retching a few steps, vomiting a lot.

Before Li Yanzhao could react, Cui Yang, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Xing all dropped the knife in their hands to cut horse meat, and rushed to the side like Liu Jiwu and vomited. Seeing this, Ma Ping stood aside with his hands and laughed.

"Li Sima, the soldiers under your command still need to be tempered and tempered." Ma Ping said with a smile. The laughter made Li Yanzhao's heart chill. After getting along for so long, I never found out that Ma Duwei still had a bad taste for mocking his subordinates.

Liu Jiwu and the other four rarely saw the pickled things in the abdomen of animals, and at this time, while cutting horse meat, they watched the nearby old soldiers skillfully cut off people's heads. The blood-dripping human heads, and the pickled things in the stomach and intestines of the horse's belly from time to time emitted a bloody stench, irritating their nasal cavities and nerves. Finally, I couldn't bear to run to the side and vomit, and after I vomited, I heard Ma Duwei say something mocking, and then looked at his own strength, although he rolled his eyes, but he didn't blame them, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. So he held back a feeling of nausea, and returned to the side of the horses and began to cut the horse meat.

Everyone worked from dawn to sunrise, and finally discarded all the corpses of men and horses into two large pits that had just been dug, and everyone worked together to fill in the earth. Horse meat and heads are neatly stacked aside.

There are a total of 227 heads, and there is also an enemy leader equivalent to the level of a thousand governors on his side. Ma Duwei looked at a Jingguan with more than 200 people, and he was already smiling from ear to ear, he summoned Li Yanzhao over, kept patting him on the shoulder, and praised while patting: "Good boy! ”

Li Yanzhao looked at Ma Duwei, who couldn't close his mouth, but in his heart, he only said that Duwei had made a mistake and went crazy. But he rolled his eyes and pouted casually.

Under the arrangement of Ma Duwei, more than 100 cavalrymen of the Guangwu Army carried two heads and tied them to the horses, and the horse meat and other things were handed over to the rest of the cavalry to carry respectively. After the distribution was completed, the troops got up and mounted their horses and headed for the county town of Xiping.

After a long night's work, everyone was already tired, and at this moment they were already weak on the horse. Under the constant encouragement of Ma Duwei, everyone traveled for nearly two hours, but during the march, the sun was gone, and under the gloomy sky, the county town of Xiping was already in sight.

Seeing the return of many horsemen, Liao Hu had already ordered the city gate to be opened and everyone to enter the city. Liao Hu watched from the top of the city tower as all the horsemen returned with a full load, almost all of them carrying large pieces of horse meat. The Guangwu army is even more terrible, everyone has two heads tied in front of their horses! Surprised, he couldn't help but run down the city tower with a few guards, and waited at the city gate for the cavalry to enter the city.

Ma Ping rode on a tall horse, and when he saw Liao Hu outside the city gate, he couldn't help but arch his hand again and again: "Don't come to be unharmed, General Liao." ”

Liao Hu was slightly surprised to see the Guangwu Army's victory, and then bowed back and said: "Ma Duwei is clever and clever, and he has made meritorious contributions to killing the enemy." Liao was very impressed. ”

Ma Ping, who was riding on the horse, shook his head, pointed to the human head hanging in front of the horse, and said tepidly: "No, no, General Liao, these military merits are all yours." ”

When Liao Hu heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "Then thank you Captain Madu." ”

When Ma Ping heard this, he also laughed. For a while, the generals of the two armies laughed beside the city gate, like crazy.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao pursed his lips and walked into the city from the side of the two generals who were smiling opposite each other.

The sergeants began to get busy nervously. The Guangwu cavalry took off the heads hanging in front of the horses one after another, and stacked them under the castle tower to form a small Jingguan. The guards who looked directly at Xiping were surprised. Then the sergeants asked the soldiers of Xiping County to bring pots, buckets and other things, sprinkle the cut horse meat with salt, and pickle it. It's autumn, and the meat is still very spoiled. Salting is undoubtedly the easiest and quickest way to preserve meat for a long time.

At Li Yanzhao's suggestion, Ma Ping proposed to give most of these horse meat to Liao Hu, and only a small part of his soldiers were left for eating. In exchange for three days of dry food from Liao Hu, Liao Hu did not allow it. Later, Ma Ping reminded that the thieves might soon attack and attack the county town of Xiping. Liao Hu laughed when he heard this, and said: "I'm not afraid that these thieves will come, I'm afraid that they won't come!" "It's a heroic and dry cloud.

Fan Ting and Wu Jianbin also followed the military order and built the pontoon bridge overnight. At this time, he had returned to the team, and he was envious of the gains made by everyone at night. Ma Ping saw the thoughts of the two of them, and said lightly: "The time for our department to make contributions is still ahead, so you don't have to be anxious." When the two of them heard this, they both promised. I look forward to it.

The cavalry of Xiping County quickly made preparations, Ma Ping also got on the horse, bid farewell to Liao Hu, and prepared to lead everyone to leave Xiping, cross the Huangshui from the pontoon bridge outside Xiping City as planned, and then investigate the movement of the thief army, and then make the next plan.

The crowd was about to leave the city, but the gloomy sky was already raining. In a moment's time, it went down big. When the sergeants saw the heavy rain falling from the sky, they couldn't help but complain.

Li Yanzhao looked at the rain stars dripping in the sky, but he was excited.

"God help me!" Li Yanzhao clenched his fists and shouted.