The two horsemen mounted their horses, each tied a captive tightly and threw it behind the horse, and under Li Yanzhao's order, each carried a captive and galloped away towards the road from which he came. It was to send the two captives back to Jincheng County so that Han Sima could summon those who were proficient in Hu and interrogate them.

Not long after the two horsemen left, the sound of horses' hooves on the other side was already sounding, and in the blink of an eye, the dozen or so horsemen who had been sent to pursue the fleeing enemy cavalry had all returned. In front of the long horse, there was a bloody human head, and if you looked closely, it was the head of the Hun cavalry who had broken the formation and fled before.

In this skirmish, Li Yanzhao's troops planned to kill seven enemies and capture two enemies. Four war horses, seven collars of leather armor, nine good bows, and several arrows were captured. Those Guangwu cavalry almost collected all the dead bodies of the Hun sentry cavalry. Naturally, the belongings on the corpse were also missing.

Li Yanzhao did not prohibit his subordinates from looting the property of the enemy soldiers killed in battle. He knew very well that these men who had a day and no tomorrow, even if they were greedy and looted the belongings of the dead enemy, they rarely did it for themselves. Most of them are for the sake of their parents and wives at home. If it is prohibited, it will go against the strategy of governing the military that he secretly set up at the beginning.

It's just that although Li Yanzhao does not prohibit these acts of looting the property of the enemy's fallen soldiers, he also set a military rule for this purpose: If any soldier fights privately for robbing the enemy's property, he will be beheaded!

Under the restrictions of this strict military regulation, all the soldiers were extremely careful when doing such things. They knew that this hundred people would usually remove the exercises, although they had never treated everyone harshly. But if he issues a ban, he must order it. Li Bairen will always practice his words and do what he does. Therefore, no one dared to trespass without permission and challenge this strict military regulation.

Seeing that the battle was over, Li Yanzhao ordered his team to lead the troops to release a guard to the surrounding mountains and other commanding heights. Then, he divided his soldiers into two parts, one was responsible for digging pits to bury the corpses of those who had died in battle, and the other was divided and took the meat of the dead horses, which was used as military rations. One of his own men was killed and one wounded, and the two soldiers who were killed and wounded each sent a cavalry on horseback and returned to the county town.

Because there are their own soldiers on the nearby hills. Therefore, these soldiers are not afraid of an unsightly enemy army coming to snoop. They lit torches one after another, and by the faint light of the torches, they cut off all the usable parts of the carcasses of several enemy horses that had been killed in battle, and placed them on the tarpaulins that had already been laid aside, and then turned back to salt them and then dry them for dry food.

The not abundant farmland in Liangzhou, as well as the limited agricultural taxes, make these soldiers in the army have long been accustomed to using everything that can be used around them. Li Yanzhao also deeply agrees with this. In "Sun Tzu's War Chapter", it was said: "Therefore, the wise general will eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one hour, and be my twenty bells; One stone, when I twenty stones. ”

It means that when you go out on an expedition, you must learn to plunder as much as possible of the enemy's wealth, grain and grass for your own use. Plundering the enemy's grain and grass resources, the first enriches their own side, and the second makes the enemy suffer losses, and in the long run, plundering the enemy's army of one stone of grain and grass is equivalent to saving twenty stones of grain and grass consumption for one's own side.

Li Yanzhao will not forget that the army that rampaged across the Eurasian continent was almost undefeated in the early and middle years of the founding of that huge dynasty. The army that crushes all civilizations along the way, strengthens armies from all walks of life, and finally achieves hegemony through the ages is a combat mode with almost no supplies and no rear. Maintain the attrition of the enemy or the occupying power by plundering their armies.

Although the army of that era, their success was irreproducible, and the agrarian civilization could never be copied. However, although the military achievements are different, the ideas are the same. At any time, this kind of behavior of plundering the enemy, causing them to suffer losses, and enriching their own battlefields, is something that generals should vigorously advocate.

Half an hour later, the soldiers who dealt with the battlefield had all cleaned up the battlefield. The corpses of the enemy soldiers were buried, except for the heads that were cut off as proof of their exploits. The horse flesh on the dead horses of the enemy was also cut off, and the rest of the horse bones were also buried.

The cavalry who had completed the cleaning up of the battlefield affairs, at the signal of Li Yanzhao, wiped out any obvious traces of the battlefield, and then mounted their horses and headed towards the road from which they had come from the north.

This place is too close to Di Dao City, and he has just defeated a sentry cavalry team on the other side, so it is difficult to say whether Shi Wu will send a large number of sentry cavalry to search for it.

If this is the case, then once they are entangled by the superior Hun cavalry, they will not be able to escape.

Glancing in the direction of Didao City in the south, it was just pitch black, Li Yanzhao was worried in his heart, so he led his cavalry and accelerated to the north.

He went more than ten miles to the north, and found a small hill about 100 meters high next to the dense forest, Li Yanzhao led all the cavalry to go up this hillside, sent guards everywhere, and built a temporary camp on this small hillside, and the soldiers rested for one night.

Early the next morning, the more than 50 horsemen who came out of the front set out on the journey of the sentry cavalry again. In the middle, there were several small waves of enemy sentinels. They were all occasionally killed by Li Yanzhao's troops, or deliberately let go by the hidden Guangwu Sentinels.

In addition to these small episodes, the Guangwu cavalry can be regarded as successfully reaching the outside of Didao City, and from a distance, I saw that in Didao City, as well as in the nearby temporary tent camp, there were Hun cavalry soldiers who were ready to go up and went south.

Shi Wunan went out of Di Road, and he went to the road up. Although Nan'an County is also in the southeast of Didao. If Shi Wu comes out of Shouyang, then most likely he will directly rush to Longxi. If he keeps going south, he will go upstream along the Taoshui. Most of them will take the march from the southern line, from the mountains at the western foot of the Qinling Mountains, bypassing Longxi and Nan'an County, and then taking Shangqi directly.

After discovering this news, Li Yanzhao wrote a letter by himself, copied another copy, and sent two cavalry guards to Jincheng County and Guangwu County respectively, so that Han Sima and Xin Taishou could see it. He still felt that the current emptiness of Di Dao was the best time to capture Di Dao.

As for that Han Sima, whether he would make a choice and let his subordinates come to attack Di Dao, Li Yanzhao felt unsure. Judging by his decision-making style of only accepting his own half of the policy. Han Pu is the kind of typical general who has a clear plan, has more than enough defense, and is not enterprising enough.

Although this person's behavior is also in line with military law, but from a strategic point of view, this is a good opportunity, but he can not win for Liangzhou in the vast land population of Longxi, if in the face of Liu Zhao's military attack in the future, lose this land as a strategic buffer zone Liangzhou, he will lose resistance, consume the enemy's vital forces, so as to obtain the capital for battles and strategic victories outside Liangzhou itself.

And he himself can only be trapped in a corner of Jincheng. If Jincheng is lost, Liu Zhao's army can cross the river from any point of the river, but Liangzhou, which has few major generals, does not have enough troops to fortify everywhere to prevent Liu Zhao's army from crossing the river. Then Liu Zhao Da could calmly capture Lingju and Guangwu. If Guangwu is lost, the state will be opened.

Thinking of this, Li Yanzhao couldn't help but be worried. After sending the messenger to report back, he still decided to lead the remaining cavalry and continue to go out of the sentry cavalry, in order to find out as much as possible about the current complicated situation in Longxi. In this way, the big people behind it can make the right decisions as possible to save the current precarious situation.

The cavalry marched for more than 20 miles, and had already crossed the boundaries of Didao and Sangcheng. After weighing the map repeatedly, Li Yanzhao finally made up his mind to let the cavalry divert through the mountains, hoping to avoid the enemy brigade that might be encountered on the road.

Now for Li Yanzhao's order, Shao Lei unconditionally obeys. Although the march through the valley was a chore, Shao Lei still ordered the whole army to turn around and march in the direction specified by Li Yanzhao.

The valley was steep because there were few pedestrians, so the strange rocks were craggy, and the valley was narrow enough to walk, so the speed of the horsemen was greatly reduced.

Nowadays, it is difficult to draw accurate military maps of equal scale, so Li Yanzhao can only look at the general route with the existing sketch map, and then order some of the vigilant horsemen with better foot strength to abandon their horses and climb the mountain. Observe the nearby terrain from the mountains, etc. Then, with flags and whistles, the message was conveyed to the brigade marching in the valley.

Thanks to these high guards, the cavalry did not suffer much trouble, although it was not an easy one. By the time Shen was in the afternoon, this sentry cavalry had traveled another seventy or eighty miles through the narrow mountains and valleys of Longxi.

Just as Li Yanzhao was about to order the whole army to find a camp and prepare to end the day's march, the guard post at the top of the mountain suddenly blew a terrible bamboo whistle, and then raised the order flag in his hand, quickly waved it downwards three times, and then followed by a rapid bamboo whistle.

"Hostile?" Li Yanzhao looked at the movements in the hands of the guard post, and his brows couldn't help but wrinkle deeply.