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Under the shade of the trees in the afternoon, Min'er and Cicada were on their knees, lazily kneeling on the ground, trying to pinch He Daxian's thighs.

The weather was very hot, and the two little girls were still wearing dense military uniforms, so they had to open their collars to disperse the wind, and their foreheads were also covered with dense beads of sweat.

Now it is the height of summer, on the warm hillside, there are many small yellow flowers growing on the grass, opening freely and loosely, soft and soft is beautiful, the breeze blows, and the slightest imperceptible sweet fragrance goes straight into people's noses. Not far away, in a small mountain stream, the rushing stream rushes among the rocks, and in the deep depression it merges into several muddy pools.

I really want to take a shower.

The two little girls looked up at each other and grinned, as if they had a heart.

Huanghuadui is a small hilly area with a radius of 20 miles, with many small peaks high and low, and it is still very advantageous for a small army of thousands of people to fight guerrillas. Although the slope is not too steep, it is not a big problem for the infantry to climb up, but it is a joke to let the cavalry charge up. Therefore, He Ping is not afraid of the Khitan cavalry attack, and the most worried is the rebel infantry from Yunzhou who are besieging Yingzhou, I don't know if they will come, or when Yingzhou will surrender, and it is also very troublesome to help the Khitan people attack or surrender.

Hearing the soldiers shouting that the Khitans were coming, He Ping hurriedly pushed away the two little girls, jumped up and went straight to the top of a small slope with a higher position. Here is one of the reconnaissance vantage points.

Looking from afar, the wind and dust are rolling at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and the momentum is monstrous.

Where there are 2,000 horsemen, there are at least 3,000 horsemen, and at least 500 horsemen are heavy cavalry!

It seems that the killing of Yelu Ruan is really a big deal.

"All of them go to the peak, Huang Zhi, Chen Tian, you two take people to occupy that peak."

"Sledgehammer, Shan Wu, you take the archers to defend these two places, if the Khitans rush up, shoot!"

"Vigorously, the cavalry has retreated, and I haven't let you move, don't let the Khitans see it."

"Du Bin, Li Chao, your two teams are lined up here, ready to fight."

Although it is predicted that the Khitans will not dare to rush forward, the necessary preparations still have to be made.

The dense Khitan cavalry covered the entire golden beach, turning back and forth several times, looking down from the mountain, it was really a big lump, as if it had stabbed an ant's nest.

There was an officer in uniform who rode a horse, and jumped and yelled and cursed for a long time with a horse lance, probably to invite the battle. Where will He Daxian pay attention to him, just pretend not to see, if you have the strength, please continue to scold, you are tired of scolding, there is a small lake over there to drink water.

"Herald, no one is allowed to move or speak without my orders!"

The Khitan cavalry of the brigade wandered around the mountain for a long time, and in the end, no one dared to rush up the mountain. When it was almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon, they finally withdrew in disgrace, probably because it was almost dark, and they all responded to the camp on the state side.

This was the case in ancient warfare, and if the cavalry of the brigade did not return to the camp after dark, something might happen.

A large tent was erected in the woods, which was the temporary captain's command post for this thousand-strong force, where He Ping summoned the captains and cronies of each team for a meeting.

The theme of the conference was "Where are we going".

"Yingzhou definitely can't go, 300,000 Khitan soldiers are going south, there are at least 5,000 Khitan vanguard cavalry and 3,000 Yunzhou rebels besieging the city in Yingzhou, we used to send them to death." Captain Zhao Ping and Captain Zhao made a start, focusing on the statement of 300,000 Khitan cavalry, and scared these Tang soldiers.

"It's not a good idea to be trapped in Huanghuadui, now the main Khitan army is still in Yunzhou, it is estimated that it will pass through Yingzhou in two days, and then we will be completely trapped in Huanghuadui, and we will definitely not survive." Huang Zhi, the captain of the B team, has rich battlefield experience, and immediately picked up He Daxian's words.

Now because of the cavalry, He Ping has designated Wang Dali to lead 80 cavalry as the A-shaped team, with the cavalry as the nearest guard force to the commander, and the original team of the A-shaped team led by Huang Zhi is organized into the B-shaped team, which is regarded as the personal guard of the foot soldiers.

"Then the only way now is to retreat to Shuozhou overnight along the west bank of the Sanggan River." Du Bin, the newly appointed captain of the Gengzi team, put forward Ho Tai Sin's long-awaited idea.

"From here to Shuozhou, more than 80 miles, set off as soon as it gets dark, and you can get to Shuozhou at dawn tomorrow morning." Chen Tian, the captain of the Xinzi team, roughly calculated the mileage of the march and echoed Du Bin's proposal.

"Although I am a little tired, as long as I enter Shuozhou, I will not be afraid." Huang Zhi agrees with this approach.

"Well, then we'll go as soon as it's dark. However, we still have to prevent Shuozhou from not letting us in, and if that happens, we can also take a boat along the Hui River. Wang Dali, you go and ask your cavalry, where can you loot boats near Huanzhou, and small sampans are also good, there are more of them. He Ping quickly approved the plan.

"Yes. But my lord, why won't Shuozhou let us in? Wang Dali asked casually.

"Ahem, just in case." He Ping suddenly realized that he had said a little too much.

In fact, at this time, the Zhenwu patrol commander An Chongrong, who was originally stationed in Shuozhou, the later famous general of the Later Jin Dynasty, had already defected to Taiyuan Shi Jingjiao with a thousand cavalry in the name of patrolling the border. Their post-Tang army went to Shuozhou, and the Zhenwu army in Shuozhou didn't take the initiative to come out to fight you, which is already polite, and they still want to enter the city? Don't even think about it.

But this news was strictly blocked, and only a few people knew about it at this time, and He Ping only knew what was going on after reading the history books. With his current identity as a small mountain field soldier, where is it possible to know so much about national affairs.

On the night march, there were many things to prepare, and the captains hurriedly went separately to organize.

Two hours later, when it got dark, He Ping took more than 1,000 people from Ding Chen's camp down from the other side of the mountain, along the west bank of the river, and embarked on the journey back to the south.

The army marched at night, silenced and forbade light.

It was a sunny day at night, the moon was very good, and although the vast northwest plain was covered by the darkness of the night, there were still some faint outlines of the mountains and trees in the distance. This is a typical mountain climate, with a large temperature difference between day and night, and the night wind blows around the empty land, blowing chills on people's bodies.

The whole team formed a long snake formation, except for the two torches in the lead, the other foot soldiers were side by side, silently following one after the other, hurrying forward, while the cavalry and captain-level officers rode horses to patrol and monitor both sides of the procession. The Sanggan River on the left hand side continues to rattle in my ears, and the mist sometimes fills the embankment, mixing with the night, hazy, making it easy to forget that I am still in this cruel and chaotic world.

He Ping was riding on a horse, with two little girls hanging on his body, one on his chest and one on his back. The two little girls were young and sleepy, and they had already slept soundly in the bumps along the way.

I can't help it, I can't stuff them into someone else's arms.

There are already many people in the team who know that the new captain has two little girls by his side, and they are only jealous at most, who dares to squeak.

After walking for less than an hour, I arrived in Huanzhou.

He Ping ordered to rest in place, then put down the two girls, and led the cavalry into the empty Huanzhou City.

The moonlight became brighter and brighter, casting a heavy layer of blue over the originally dilapidated urban area of Huanzhou.

The common people had all evacuated yesterday, and in the afternoon the Khitan cavalry came to search for a while, and the whole city was dead silent, without the presence of any people and animals, only the whimper of the night wind blowing through all kinds of strange broken houses.

The original Huanzhou miscellaneous soldiers led the way, and the group passed through the city, went out from the south gate, and came to the Huanzhou wharf by the Sanggan River.