At about two o'clock in the afternoon, He Ping sat on a big stone on the mountainside, quietly thinking about his next move, while nibbling on a large piece of barbecue horse leg, eating with his mouth full of oil.

The place was quite shady, and overhead was a large shady tree that blocked the scorching midday sun.

Now, the whole army has moved to the mountains.

After killing Yelu Ruan, the future emperor of the Khitan just now, He Daxian suffered some internal injuries, and simply lay on the ground to watch the rest of the battle, Wang Dali, who was also injured internally, and two Tuyuhun cavalrymen, as well as Shan Wu and Liu Qi, who rushed over, together with Captain Zhao, who was guarding them, watched the Khitan army, whose military heart had already collapsed, under the rush of the spearmen of the Captain B and the thousands of Tang Army foot soldiers who later rushed into the battlefield, it was completely finished in less than ten minutes.

Only about two dozen Khitan soldiers fled, and the corpses of men and horses were everywhere.

As soon as the battle was over, He Ping immediately summoned several captains to come over.

"Captain Huang has sacrificed his life for the country, at this critical moment, I want to take over the leadership of Ding Chen's battalion, which of you has an opinion?"

The captains were speechless for a while, and someone glanced at Huang Zhi, the captain of the A-shaped team.

The generals in this world have clear levels of ability, and they can't sit down if they don't have real strength to give you a high-ranking official. When Huang Zhi was in Jin'an Dazhai, he could only barely make a draw with this Captain Zhao Ping. Who knew that Captain Zhao Ping had seen a significant increase in his kung fu in the past ten days, and he shuddered just by staring at him. Now even the Khitan officer who couldn't pass Huang Qiang died under his hands, it can be seen that this Zhao Ping's kung fu is actually very profound, even more powerful than Captain Huang Qiang, but it was just not revealed for some reason before.

Where did Huang Zhi dare to have an opinion, and hurriedly bowed his head:

"The last general is willing to obey the dispatch of Captain Zhao and go to the soup to fight the fire."

When the other captains saw Huang Zhi's statement, they also expressed their allegiance to He Ping.

This is the first time He Ping has taken charge of a unit of his own that can fight independently, and he finally has the capital to rebel.

Although the battle just now was tragic, the result made all the officers and soldiers smile. There are more than 1,000 foot soldiers in Ding Chen's battalion, under normal circumstances, the Khitan cavalry of more than 200 people can completely kill them to the point of blood, and even none of them can escape! This is not counting the ability of the Khitan captain who is so fierce that he can't talk like that!

There is no way, cavalry is the natural nemesis of infantry.

Now that the battle is over, there are only more than 50 Tang soldiers who are seriously injured and killed, which is a miraculous victory for the Tang army.

More than eighty uninjured horses were collected from the site, which could be used immediately to form a cavalry team.

More than 200 Huanzhou miscellaneous soldiers who jumped into the lake and fled for their lives have been driven back by the Tang soldiers, and He Ping ordered the first time to behead the leader A Bo who led the troops to flee in public, and the others each beat five army sticks!

Can't fight more, these Tuyuhun people are malnourished, and their skeletons are brittle, He Ping still has to rely on them to form a cavalry unit.

"What's your name?" He Ping turned his head and asked the two Tuyuhun cavalrymen who were fighting with him to kill Yelu Ruan.

"Chief, my name is Adu, and his name is Ahsan." The two black, thin, little men replied timidly.

"Would you like to follow me as a pro-soldier? Whatever I eat, you will eat too. ”

In the ancient war period, two worthless Tuyuhun people who were eaten by wild dogs in the wilderness at any time, suddenly the governor took a fancy to them, and they were considered to have entered heaven. "Follow you, there's meat to eat." This is not something that everyone is qualified to say.

Adu and Ahsan burst into tears of happiness on the spot, lying on the ground like garlic and kowtowing their allegiance.

He Ping stretched out his hand, gently touched the heads of the two of them as if comforted, and quietly injected an intelligent aura into everyone's Heavenly Spirit Cover.

This is to make an insurance, in case the two of them have different hearts in the future, He Ping can explode their heads in a single thought.

"Okay, Wang Dali is your captain, and the two of you are the captains, hurry up and pick up the cavalry."

After forming the cavalry, the next step is to form the archers.

Everyone in the Khitan cavalry team was equipped with bows and arrows, but the Khitans were more respectful of cavalry charges, and did not like to ride and shoot like the later Mongols, but bows and arrows were standard.

This is cheaper He Ping, and he picked up nearly two hundred good bows at once.

According to the configuration of Ding Chen's battalion itself, there were more than a dozen archers in each team, and He Ping gathered them all, and then selected some soldiers who seemed to have greater strength, and a total of 300 archers were allocated, and Wang Dazhui and Shan Wu were appointed as archers captains, each leading 150 people.

After adjusting the troop allocation, He Ping ordered to abandon the golden beach, and all of them went up the mountain to hide in the woods to enjoy the coolness.

Now he is the only one who knows that he accidentally killed the emperor's eldest grandson Yelu Ruan just now, and it is not clear how the Khitans will react, if the next wave of Khitans comes again, I am afraid that there will be at least more than a thousand horsemen, and the more than 1,000 foot soldiers of Ding Chen's camp have no ability to resist at all.

Today's lunch is very rich, and the more than 100 dead horses lying on the golden sand beach can finally let the Tang soldiers and soldiers who have not smelled fishy for many months have a horse meat feast and eat to their heart's content. Of course, He Ping still seriously, severely, very seriously, and repeatedly stopped the Tang soldiers' idea of wanting to roast and eat the corpses of the Khitan soldiers together.

Although we are in troubled times, we cannot disobey the heavens. This is the bottom line for immortal cultivators.

"Report, Lord Captain, the Khitans claim to have 300,000 iron horsemen entering the pass, and the forward brigade is besieging the city in Yingzhou."

Ahsan, who had just been sent out to reconnoiter in the direction of Yingzhou, came back to give the order.

"Got it, let's go rest."

He Ping is aware of this history. The Khitans actually dispatched 50,000 horsemen, deliberately stretched more than ten miles long, claiming to be 300,000 soldiers and horses, led by the Khitan Emperor (at this time the Great Liao Dynasty had not yet been formally established) Yelu Deguang himself. Yingzhou is only besieging but not fighting, they will eventually continue to go south, bypassing Yanmen Pass, directly out of Yizhou through the Yangwu Valley Trail, and arriving in Taiyuan to confront Zhang Jingda.

According to He Ping's plan to fight for hegemony, the best route for him in the next step is actually to leave the battlefield with the team, go northwest along the Dayu River, pass through Yunzhong County, and kill Hukou, which is the route of "taking the west exit" in the later Ming and Qing dynasties, and directly kill to Yunnei Prefecture on Xijing Road in the Khitan territory, where is a fertile prairie.

When I entered the prairie, the sky was high and the birds flew away. The Khitans were busy fighting with the Han people in the south, and they certainly had no time to take care of the situation on the Xijing Road, so they burned, killed and plundered in the Khitan territory, seized a large amount of wealth and population, and the establishment of the country could be expected.

But where is that simple.

After all, the Later Tang Dynasty is not dead now, and the regular army in his hand is the regular army of the Later Tang Dynasty.

For the Tang soldiers under his command, even if the Later Tang Dynasty dies, it will just be submitted to the Later Jin Dynasty, at most it is just a change of emperor, and they are far from being reduced to the point of going to the distant Western Regions grassland with you He Daxian to fight for life and death.

Therefore, He Daxian can't show a trace of rebellion now, and must take advantage of the Tang and Jin dynasties to fight for hegemony, coupled with the invasion of Khitan foreigners, and there is also a difficult area dominated by party members in the west, through several major battles and bloodbaths, slowly let this post-Tang regular army gradually follow him on the road of robbing and looting all the way to the Tang Dynasty bandits.

Then, the next direction can only be to go south, under the guise of going to Shuozhou, to pass through Yangfangkou first, enter the Lanzhou area of the rolling mountains, and then find a way to cross the Yellow River to occupy Fuzhou and Linzhou, and establish a base area in Hexi.

The initial idea was to pretend to be loyal and brave and find a way to go back to Taiyuan to participate in the war, but he was forced to travel all the way west, and finally entered Yunnei Prefecture from the Hexi region.

Just as he was thinking, another reconnaissance soldier came to report.

"Report, a large number of Khitan cavalry is coming, and more than two thousand horsemen are sighted!"