Tian Jing asked the scout to go to find the traces of the white wave thieves led by Hu Cai, and he led the brigade to march quickly. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the speed of travel is slowed down on a snowy day, the advantage is that as long as people and animals move, they will leave footprints on the snow.

The scouts sent out came back not long after to report that a large number of footprints had been found about twenty miles ahead, and it was judged that Hu Cai's troops were good. Tian Jing ordered the men to speed up the march and strive to catch up as soon as possible.

After chasing for a few hours, I suddenly saw a large open area in front of me. The field of vision was excellent, Tian Jing could already see Hu Cai's troops with the naked eye, and the enemy's speed was very slow. Tian Jing gave the order to run forward, but before he ran far, several people fell, and when he asked, he realized that his feet were slipping. Tian Jing was also stunned, and said in his heart that he had this feeling just now, so he didn't think it was strange. Ordered someone to take a look at the snow, only to find that the team of men and horses were standing on the glacier.

Tian Jing was scared, although it was winter, but how thick the ice on the river was and whether it could bear the weight of so many people he didn't know. Tian Jing called Mao An to ask, Mao An patted his head and said, "When the general asked, I remembered that there is a big river called the Shu River, and the Shu River forms a big lake in the south of this, called Zhangyang Pond. We didn't take this path when we came, so I only remember it now. ”

Tian Jing thought about it, this can't be blamed on Mao An, such a big lake is frozen, and the snow is covered with a lot, and it can't be seen. "How long will it take to take a detour if you don't walk on the ice?"

Mao An thought for a while, "I really don't know the small one, but I remember that the surface of this lake is very wide, and if you want to make a detour, I'm afraid it will take half a day." ”

Tian Jing was a little entangled after hearing this, he wanted to catch this Hu Cai, if he made a detour, then he would definitely not be able to catch up. If he pursues on the ice, he has no bottom in his heart if I am not safe in the end. He asked the soldier to sweep away a large area and lay down to look at the ice, which was at least as thick as a fist. And it's okay for Hu Cai's soldiers and horses to walk in front, as long as they follow their footprints, it shouldn't be a big problem. Tian Jing thought about it, how could the person who led the troops look forward and backward. The order was given to continue the pursuit.

But just in case, he also arranged for soldiers to connect the ropes around their waists in groups of ten, and the brigade walked separately, and if someone accidentally fell into the lake, the others quickly lay on the ice and slowly rescued the person who fell into the water. At this time, Tian Jing didn't dare to order people to run forward, and the men and horses carefully followed the footprints left by the white wave thief.

After walking like this for nearly an hour, seeing that there was a forest in front of him, he should be about to reach the shore, Tian Jing was relieved this time. As a result, at this time, they suddenly heard the sound of Kaka on the ice, and before everyone could react to what was going on, a big hole suddenly opened in the ice between them, and hundreds of people fell at once. Tian Jing walked in front, and he happened to be among the people who fell into the water. Tian Jing's first reaction was to hold his breath, and then he felt that his body was wrapped in river water, cold and biting, and when he poked his head out again. But he found that more than a hundred archers came out of the woods in front of him, and shot at the river. Tian Jing saw that he hurriedly asked everyone to bury their heads under the water, and as for whether they could avoid it, they could only resign themselves to fate. The heart said, this Hu Cai has been premeditated, but I am afraid that my life will be suspended, but it is a pity for these brothers who were born and died with me.

Behind Tian Jing, Zang Shun led the team, and when he saw that the river suddenly cracked, he asked all the soldiers behind him to climb down, and at the same time prepared to use ropes to save people. Zang Shun hurriedly asked the soldiers with shields to step forward to protect them. But after all, it was inconvenient to move on the ice, and more than a dozen people were killed and wounded in just one round of shooting.

Seeing that the enemy's second round of arrows came out again, Zang Shun's heart also sank to the bottom, and he knew that he would not be able to please today, but he was even more worried about Tian Jing's safety.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was suddenly heard in the distance, and in the blink of an eye, a team of cavalry in white clothes and white horses rushed to kill. The enemy archers were defenseless, and were immediately defeated by the cavalry, so they ran into the woods.

This cavalry was none other than Tian Jing's reserve Baima Yicong troops who let Li Kang and Leping lead the advance to Hedong that day. The more than 100 cavalry who came to lead the army was none other than Li Kang, seeing that he had driven away the enemy army, he let a group of men and horses abandon their horses and go into the forest to pursue, and he led people to stay and prepare for rescue.

Li Dang led people to use ropes to drag Tian Jing and other people who fell into the water to the shore. Later, Zang Shun and the others cautiously detoured to the thick ice and went ashore.

Seeing that Tian Jing was soaking wet, Li Dang asked people to find a big open to put on Tian Jing, and the others could only sit down and light a fire to keep warm. After a while, the people who had gone to pursue the White Wave Thieves returned, saying that the enemy was familiar with the terrain and ran too fast, and they were lost, and they did not dare to go deep alone for fear of being ambushed. Li Dang agreed and let them go down to rest.

Tian Jing roasted in front of the bonfire for a long time, and finally slowly eased up, and it was not so cold, before asking Li Dang about the situation after entering Hedong.

Li Dang said: "When I entered Hedong that day, I broke up my brigade and divided it into several hundred cavalry teams, and tried to avoid crowded places and quietly went north. I didn't find any major moves by the White Wave Thieves along the way, but when I arrived at the territory of the Southern Xiongnu Yufuluo after Fenshui, I found a problem. Those small grazing tribes all shrank to the vicinity of Pingyang, and seeing that there were centurions leading people to collect cattle, sheep and horses, I thought that the Xiongnu should have a large-scale operation. Li Dang paused for a moment and then said, "In order to find out the enemy's movements, Leping took people to the vicinity of Baibo Valley, but was discovered by a thousand-strong team of the Huns, entangled all the way, and killed and injured many of them. It wasn't until we crossed the Fen River and drilled into the mountains that we threw off our pursuers. I asked Leping to lead the brigade to monitor the enemy situation in the back, and I took these 100 people to hurry south to report the information to you. ”

"So according to what you've discovered, Uvro is going south?" Tian Jing asked.

"I don't think so, I feel like this Yuvro is going to send troops north and capture Nandan Yuting." Li Dare said.

"Then why does this Thousand Cavalry keep chasing you?" Tian Jing was a little strange.

"I can't figure it out either. Or did they not treat us as the Han army, but as the Xianbei people's exploration horses or the meticulous work of the old king of the Huns? After Li Dang finished speaking, he was a little unconvinced.

Tian Jing smiled when he saw Li Dang's worried look, "It is said that Shibei should be impressed in three days, and you will also think about problems, I will look at you a few times." If you can't figure it out, you won't want to think about it first, let's first organize the army and trap Anyi, and then we will have a foothold in Anyi, no matter if he goes south or north in Fuluo, we have a countermeasure. "In this way, your soldiers and horses will go north to Xie County with me, and send someone to inform Leping, so that he can wait to monitor whether there is any change in the Xiongnu. The brigade headed south to join us in Anyi.

The second day early in the morning, Tian Jing, Li Kang, and Leping went north with their men and horses, and arrived at the city two days later, only to find that the city gate was wide open, and there was no one in the city. On the one hand, it shows that the news that the Han army entered Hedong to exterminate the White Wave thieves has reached here, so the sporadic bandit army here abandoned the city and fled. On the other hand, it also shows that Hu Cai did not take this road, but chose another road to Hui'anyi. Otherwise, Hu Cai would definitely not allow himself to go north safely.

There was no one in the city, and there were no people in the surrounding villages. Tian Jing estimated that the people were hiding, whether it was hiding from the white wave thieves or hiding from the official army, in short, if you want to survive, you have to hide, after all, there are not many officials and soldiers at this time, and there are many of the remaining bandits.

After a one-night stay in the city, the troops continued north. The city and the county are very close, and it can be reached in a day and a half. Tian Jing didn't dare to think that Xie County was still an empty city, so he released a lot of scouts in advance to investigate the military situation. Fortunately, Li Kang's cavalry arrived, and the speed and reconnaissance range of the scouts were much larger.

According to the information sent back by the scouts, there is now a force of more than 3,000 people stationed in Xie County, and there are still thieves gathering in the direction of Xie County. Tian Jing thought to himself that this Han Xian Li Leding would not rush to Xie County to block him. Could it be that in addition to Hu Cai, there are other capable generals among the White Wave Thieves, and it seems that there is a tough battle to fight this time.

Tian Jing asked his subordinates to speed up and move in the direction of Xie County. Before noon on the second day, we rushed to understand the county seat, ten miles away from the city. After the soldiers rested, Tian Jing, Li Kang, and Leping led the troops to the city to call for battle.

I never thought that they had just arrived in the city, and the gate of the county seat was wide open. A thousand soldiers and horses came out of the city, and the first general was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, more than a foot tall, holding a huge mace in his hand, and standing in front of the formation was really majestic and vigorous.

Mao An, who was beside Tian Jing, saw that this person gasped and was about to hide back, Tian Jing stopped him, "Mao An, do you recognize this person." ”

Mao An was a little trembling when he spoke, "Why is this evil star?" General Hui, this person is the Wuqu Marshal of the White Wave Army, called the "iron-backed man bear" tall and invincible, tall and strong, it is said that he once tore tigers and leopards, split boulders, and also has the ability to be invulnerable, especially a mace is cast of mixed iron, heavier than 100 catties, invincible. ”

Tian Jing glared at him, "Are you talking about books here?" If you blow nonsense again and mess with our army's heart, be careful that I want your head. ”

Mao An was frightened when he heard it, "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare, I also heard what others said, so I wrote it down." ”

"Haven't you seen this person before?" Tian Jing asked.

Mao An hurriedly said, "I don't hide it, I know him, he doesn't know me, I heard that Wuqu Shuai defected to the Hun king Yu Fuluo two years ago, and Yu Fuluo named him the first warrior of the Southern Huns." I haven't seen him for more than two years, but I don't know when he will return to the White Bo Army. ”

Tian Jing was also puzzled after hearing this, "I have already defected to Yufuluo but come back, could it be that the Huns really want to go south to compete with our northern army?" This is tricky, and I don't know if Leping is safe and sound all the way? ”

On the battlefield, he naturally did not allow him to think about it, Li Dare saw that the big man on the opposite side was standing taller than the man on horseback, and there was a huge mace, and he knew that this person must be good at strength. didn't ask Tian Jing for advice, and rushed up with a horse.

Tian Jing didn't stop him, and shouted "Don't fight with him", so that Zang Shun could watch the enemy together.