If it was Zhang Yue's soldiers, they would report directly to Zhang Yue, and the Shuofang soldiers seemed very undisciplined, and everyone saw it immediately. However, Zhang Yue's personal soldiers just watched, but they didn't run around. And the fifty knights of the Shuofang army gathered by the river to watch.

The reactions of the soldiers on the two sides were different, Xue Chucun saw the difference, his face was slightly embarrassed, and he turned his head to Zhang Yue and said: "Look at the saddle and belly belt on the horse's corpse, it looks like our spies, is it salvaged and checked?" ”

"Since you have this suspicion, then nine times out of ten it is true, I wonder if this river can be crossed by raft without rafting?" Zhang Yue asked thoughtfully.

"It should work! The water level may reach the horse's neck, for the sake of insurance, it is better to pull a rope ......" Xue was a little ambiguous.

"Okay! The horse carcass has come down from upstream, let's cross the river and go around to have a look! Zhang Yue said, took off the well-made one-stone and two-bucket silk wrapped lacquer horn bow from his back, took out an armor-piercing wolf's tooth arrow, and asked the soldiers to take out the tripping rope, or the rope used to catch the prisoners and connect it, and tie one end to the end of the arrow.

Zhang Yue then pulled the string and coiled it into a circle and laid it flat on the ground, looked at a small tree on the other side of the river, and pulled the bow like a full moon to shoot arrows. It's a pity that the arrow is heavy, and the rope doesn't seem to be properly placed, and it also has a weight itself, so it increases the reaction, and the arrow falls to the opposite river, which seems to be a little bit close.

"Let me try!" Xuan Chongwen laughed, he used a one-stone four-bucket horn bow, and his arm strength was stronger than Zhang Yue's, but the arrow was a military-standard armor-piercing arrow, but it had to be replaced if it fell into the water and drowned.

The soldiers in the back were all laughing, Zhang Yue pulled back the rope with a stinky face, cut off the soaked section in front, and threw it back to the soldiers, so that they could take another section, and then arrange the rope and tie it to the end of the arrow.

Xuan Chongwen really lived up to expectations, he opened his bow and aimed at the arrow, and with a string sound of "collapse", the heavy arrow flew away like a black shadow, passing through the branches on the other side of the river. He picked up the rope and pulled it hard, and the arrow on the end bounced off the tree and circled around the tree several times at once.

He did the same not far upstream, pulling up three ropes. Zhang Yue selected six soldiers who knew a little about water, first hit the horse down the river, and tried to cross the river along the long rope, but the water surface only reached the belly of the horse, and even the horse's back was not drowned, and the river was successfully crossed.

Zhang Yue then led more than 300 horsemen to cross the river in batches and assemble, along the west bank of Weirushui to the south, and at the same time sent sentinels to search the vicinity. About five or six miles to the south, the sentry cavalry reported: three miles ahead, it was found that more than 100 Qiang cavalry were chasing and killing more than 30 cavalry, which should be the secret spies of the Shuofang army.

Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and asked Li Chuyun and Xue Chucun to lead one hundred and fifty horsemen, set off immediately, and made a detour to outflank the enemy's rear. Zhang Yue led the remaining half of about two hundred horsemen, and Xuan Chongwen led half each, lined up in formation unhurriedly, waited for a while, and then slowly approached south.

The horse team is not moving fast, but the enemy is also coming this way. Yellow dust rolled on the gently undulating field, and more than thirty horsemen galloped towards them, and the sentry riders approached and shouted hello, guiding them to their flanks and backs.

The distance was close to Lixu, and the Qiang cavalry chasing after the Ouroboros quickly discovered the movement on this side, and immediately slowed down, probably because they found that the strength of this side was superior, and more than 100 cavalry turned a big bend and tried to turn around.

As soon as he rushed up a gentle slope, he found a team of horses rushing from a depression not far away, and the two sides immediately collided in the depression under the gentle slope. Xue Chucun is not weak, a long knife slashes left and right, charging forward.

Li Chuyun followed behind, he was holding a long knife, but he was not in a hurry to make a move, his eyes were sharply staring at the Qiang cavalry formation that had just rushed uphill, the white-bottomed sheep's head pattern banner fluttering in the wind, and he was a little surprised in his heart, this was not the emblem of the Dang Xiang Yeci clan, but the Dang Qiang tribe in the area of Hechi Xiaoguan.

He has been under the command of Ruan for many years, and his time in Xuzhou is not short, so he knows a little about the Qiang people. At this time, more than 100 cavalry and horses fought with Xue Chucun in the front formation, and the rear team rushed up the gentle slope, and when they saw that the front road was intercepted, they rushed downhill obliquely, ignoring the front team and running down the depression.

"Gecko Tail Docking...... Pursue! The Qiang people want to run! Li Chuyun shouted, beckoned some of the cavalry around him who had not yet entered the battle group, and went around the battlefield to chase and kill.

The distance is a bit far, and it will not be able to catch up for a while and a half, but his own horsepower is abundant, and he runs away and rushes out of Lixu, and soon approaches two hundred steps. And after a while, Zhang Yue and Xuan Chongwen attacked from the east and the west, blocking both sides of the depression, and gradually retracted and killed.

It was a bit difficult for the cavalry to really encircle, and a small number of Qiang cavalry escaped, but Zhang Yue and Xuan Chongwen didn't want to let go, and led the troops to chase after them for more than ten miles, and finally killed all the fish that slipped through the net.

At the end of the annihilation battle, at noon, Li Chuyun was directing the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, carry away the corpses of the enemy's soldiers and horses, and collect the captured horses and weapons. There were also more than 20 Qiang captives, and Xue Chucun and his own sample soldiers were interrogated separately, and they could understand the Qiang language and speak some of it.

Zhang Yue and Xuan Chongwen didn't understand at all, the two of them had already asked the rescued spies, and at this time, they were sitting far away, and they were eating the military food cake and looking strange, seeing that Xue Chucun had slashed and killed five or six prisoners in a row, and finally there was a timid one, and he said it all.

After Xue Chucun's interrogation, he asked the soldiers to take the prisoners down to be guarded, went to his own soldiers to testify, and ran back after asking the rescued spies, but his face was a little unpleasant.

"Why is Judge Xue so preoccupied, is the situation very bad?" Zhang Yue asked a little strangely.

"Judging from the confessions of the Qiang captives and the information obtained by our spies, the Yeci clan withdrew to the Baishanshu and Kipkou areas on the west bank of the Yellow River, but the county town of Wulan was still there, and they did not give up, leaving 5,000 ethnic soldiers to garrison. The Dang clan Qiang still controlled the area of Hechi and Xiaoguan, and did not shrink its forces; The Tuoba clan is stationed in Huining, and the Liang clan is still in the southeast. These three are horns of each other, let's go to fight Ulan, we will be intercepted by the Dang Qiang, go to fight Hechi, Xiaoguan, and guard against Tuoba and Yeci, it's really impossible to start!

Moreover, according to our spies, a month ago, Tuoba Bogu sent people to Lanzhou and Weizhou, and I don't know if Baohanqiang and Tangchangqiang will send troops, but there is no news yet. Xue Chucun said with a little concern.

"Go back first after cleaning the battlefield, and see what Feng Dashuai says!" Zhang Yue actually had an idea in his heart, but he couldn't be the master alone, and his strength was limited, so he had to reach an agreement with Feng Jiye, so that he could form a joint force. Even if you have to divide the troops, you must keep each other in order.

The battlefield was quickly cleared, and more than 40 uninjured horses and more than 100 pairs of saddles, weapons, and armor were captured. Zhang Yue didn't look down on this thing, leaving half of the war horse for the soldiers scouts, and the loot was taken away, and it would be dealt with later. The other half was given to Xue Chucun, and he was so happy that he shouted: Zhang Dujian is really fair and generous! (To be continued.) )