At dusk, in the Shehe River, about a thousand soldiers of Tiele and Luobu divided into several queues and galloped to the Sui camp on the mouth of the Xichuan River in turn to the sound of whining horns. They took turns rushing forward, shooting arrows at their horses from a distance, and then quickly retreating, even if it was a complete attack. In the face of the super longbow of the Sui army, these Tiele leopard riders were very clever and scattered, and they no longer rushed straight to the ditch, but only galloped with their superb riding skills.

The longbowmen of the three camps of the Sui camp faced the scattered cavalry formation of Tiele and Luo cavalry, and did not waste a salvo of arrows to cover the attack, but only waited for them to rush forward before giving aim and counterattack. The two sides have come and gone, and the fight is tepid.

Seeing that the knights under the tent were far away from the old man and shot arrows, and then turned around without looking back, Gu Luo also completely gave up the plan to continue to stay here, the morale of the army has been lost, and continuing to stay here will not break the Sui army, and now, he began to think about how to withdraw the troops smoothly.

A necessary condition for an excellent general is to know when to go up and when to retire. Just as the most basic condition for a good soldier is to enforce orders, a good general must know how to lead his soldiers in advance and retreat. Gu Luo is among the generals of Tongluo, and he is considered to be a tough and outstanding, but this time, he is still careless after all. I thought it was just to deal with the Xi people, but who would have expected that at this time, a Sui army would suddenly go north. Moreover, this Sui army actually took advantage of the favorable terrain of the Songshan River to lay down a lineup as hard as a turtle shell, in this river valley. Dong Luo's cavalry simply could not use the tactics of flanking and then breaking through in the center of their best flanks, even with their best tactics of galloping on horseback. It was also completely restrained by the Sui people's longbow and pocket-shaped three camps, as well as those trenches, horse rejections, and wooden fences.

Until now, Gu Luo did not think that the Tongluo cavalry was worse than the Sui army. It's just that the commander of the Sui army was quite cunning and occupied a favorable terrain. In such a terrain, the Tongluo warriors are like facing the fortified city of the Sui people in the Central Plains, and attacking the city is exactly what the Mobei warriors are not good at. If those Sui people are bolder. If he dared to go out of the camp to fight, Gu Luo firmly believed that even if the Sui people were twice as large as his own soldiers and horses. The warriors of Tongluo can also defeat them under their horses.

It's a pity that those Sui people are too timid, no matter what, they just stay in the turtle shell and don't come out.

After the final round of temptation, Gu Luo had already confirmed that those Sui people would not come out. Case. There's no point in staying here any longer. He has now decided to retreat and return to Mobei. Although he retreated to Mobei at this time, this time the troops were not only not harvested, but also lost a large amount of money and food in vain, and also lost more than 1,000 soldiers. But with 20,000 Sui people here, he didn't dare to attack Xi people again. Although he didn't want to admit it on the surface, he was already a little jealous of these Sui people in his heart.

Although most of the cavalry in his hands were recruits and auxiliaries, many of them were his direct subordinates. It is the guarantee of his status in the clan. If these soldiers are all thrown here, then he, the third son of the same Luo patriarch. In the future, it will be difficult for the clan to have the right to speak.

As the patriarch's father, how is he getting older, and the brothers are still fighting for the inheritance. Although Gu Luo felt that he did not have a chance to win the inheritance, if he had enough strength in his hands, no matter which brother became the new patriarch at that time, his position in the clan would not change. But if he didn't have the strength, then he might be swallowed by his brothers and there would be no bones left.

Even if the son he always liked died under the arrows of the Sui army, Gu Luo still had the idea of retreating.

"Retreat in the middle of the night." Calling the centurions and centurions who led the army, Gu Luo made his own decision.

Hearing Gu Luo's decision to retreat, the generals of Tongluo were relieved. They have never fought such a battle, and thousands of sons and daughters have died, but they haven't even touched a single hair of the Sui people, and it is estimated that the Sui army has zero deaths at all. How to fight such a battle, since it can't be fought, then of course everyone doesn't want to continue to stay here, and leave early and feel at ease.

But after breathing a sigh of relief, everyone couldn't help but feel depressed. When he came, the momentum was like a grandeur, and the progress was smooth, and the Ahui clan, the largest tribe of the Xi people, was also defeated in a battle. When it was time to harvest, it turned out to be this Sui army. More than 10,000 Xi people captured in the early stage have now all become corpses in front of the Sui people's formation, and these are all trophies for everyone. And if it weren't for these Sui troops, they would have more Xi prisoners of war, as well as a large number of cattle, horses, and livestock. Now that they were all in vain, they had to retreat in a hurry.

In the middle of the night, the scouts sent to spy on the Tiele people rushed back to report that the Tiele people had indeed withdrawn.

The retreat of the Tiele people was carried out quietly, they did not light the lamps, did not make noise, the camp was still the same, but nearly 9,000 men and horses slowly withdrew from the camp in turn, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.

Hearing the news, Wei Zheng, who was standing on the watchtower, relaxed and let out a sigh of relief.

In fact, at this time, the Sui camp was already mostly empty. The Sui army moved faster than the Tiele people, and soon after the sky was dark, Yi Feng had already personally gone into battle, taking away the chariot battalion and two infantry battalions, and nearly 10,000 horses at once. There were only more than 10,000 men and horses left in the camp, and there were also auxiliary troops such as the Engineer Regiment of the Baggage Battalion, Wei Zheng was really worried that these Tiele people would not act as expected, and if they refused to retreat, but had to stay and continue the attack, it would be troublesome. Wei Zheng sighed secretly, this Tiele person is really decisive.

However, although the Tiele people retreated decisively, he Wei Zheng couldn't let them retreat so easily.

Yi Feng led nearly 10,000 horses to make a detour to copy the retreat of the Tiele people, but if he wanted to stop the Tiele people, he had to walk a hundred miles more than the Tiele people. One hundred and eighty miles, even if you march quickly, in such snow, it will take at least three days. Wei Zheng had to buy time for Yi Feng to hold off the Tiele people for more than three days, so that they could not exit the Shehe River before Yi Feng blocked the valley mouth.

"Please General Shan and General Qin lead the cavalry battalion out of the camp, be sure to hold off these Tiele people, and not let them withdraw easily."

The horn sounded, and thousands of troops stepped on the ground like thunder. With the opening of the camp gate, the cavalry who had been well nourished for a long time finally got the opportunity to go into battle.

But in front of the cavalry battalion. But there was still a cavalry. This cavalry was led by Kedu, the young patriarch of the Ahui clan, with 800 Xi cavalry, and Su Zhi led 1,000 Xi cavalry to outflank and intercept with Yi Feng. And Kedu selected 800 young men from the Xi people who fled to the Sui camp to form a Xi cavalry. Shan Xiongxin and Qin Shubao received military orders. Their cavalry will be responsible for slowing down the retreat of the Tiele people, and Kedu will take the initiative to ask for help, and is willing to lead 800 Xi cavalry as the vanguard of the cavalry battalion.

The young Kedu looked at the Xiren warriors one by one, and a surge of excitement rose in his heart, "The time has come to take revenge and blood hatred, the damned Tongluo people killed more than 10,000 of our brothers and sisters, and now I want to leave." How can we allow it. Blood debts must be paid in blood, and every Tongluo person with the blood of Xi brothers and sisters on their hands must not be allowed to leave this place alive. Draw your sword. Let's fight for the Horde! ”

"Revenge, revenge, revenge!" Eight hundred Xi cavalry roared in unison.

Gu Luo, who had just evacuated the camp, soon heard the noise in the Sui camp behind him, and he stopped his horse. Turn your head and look back.

"Pounds. The Sui people found out that we had withdrawn our troops. "A Malay newspaper.

Gu Luo was not moved when he heard the news, but instead had a smile on his face, "What is the reaction of the Sui people?" ”

"The gate of the Sui people's camp has been opened, and about three thousand cavalry are coming out of the camp to assemble, as if preparing to pursue us."

Hearing that the Sui cavalry came out of the camp, Gu Luo was not surprised and rejoiced, although this retreat was decisive, it was also a decision made in desperation. In fact, he was still very unwilling in his heart. He did not admit that the Sui army was stronger than him, but only believed that the Sui army occupied a favorable position. Hiding in the camp and refusing to fight, the Tongluo army was not suitable for attacking a strong camp in such a terrain, and had no choice but to retreat. But if the Sui army dared to come out of the camp to fight, then he really couldn't ask for it.

Gu Luo dismounted, and all the generals of Tongluo also showed joy and dismounted one after another.

"The Sui people really think that we are afraid that the withdrawal of the army will not succeed, which is really arrogant."

"Then let these Sui cowards see what it means to be a horse war!"

"Kill them."

A group of Tiele generals shouted one after another, and in the face of the strong camp of the Sui people, they were helpless and were beaten passively. But if it were a horse war, who would they be afraid of?

"Well, don't scare these Han cowards back again. Si'an! ”

"The subordinates are here!" A strong man with blond hair, blue eyes and white skin stepped forward to respond.

"You lead the 1,000-strong team of your headquarters to meet you."

"The subordinates will beat the Han people to their knees and beg for mercy."

"No, you can only defeat but not win, lure them over, Lao Tzu will eat all these Han cavalry." Gu Feng said coldly, he had already observed that although the Sui army numbered 20,000 people, there were very few cavalry. If you take the opportunity to eat this cavalry, then maybe there will be a chance for this battle.

Qin Qiong held the reins of the horse in one hand and the horse lance in the other, leading two regiments of nearly 700 cavalry, and lined up in two cavalry phalanxes with the 800 Xi cavalry led by Kedu. Behind them, the cavalry battalion commander Shan Xiongxin personally led three regiments of 1,000 cavalry. After Yi Feng decided to lead his troops to make a detour to intercept the Tiele people, Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong asked for battle and wanted to follow the battle. However, Yi Feng did not bring this cavalry battalion of nearly 1,800 cavalry, but brought the chariot battalion and infantry battalion, and instead left them behind. This made Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong a little puzzled at first, but Yi Feng's explanation was that the elite cavalry was needed to slow down the retreat of the Tiele people. Yi Feng didn't plan to let the two-legged infantry chase the four-legged Tiele cavalry, which would easily be bitten back. The chariot battalion, on the other hand, moves slowly and is suitable for forming formations to block attacks, but it is not suitable for chasing the enemy. Therefore, in the end, Yi Feng kept the cavalry and let them take on the heavy responsibility of delaying Tiele's withdrawal.

There are only three cavalry regiments in Huaihuang, and the full strength of one battalion is only 1,800 cavalry, which is more than 1,000 fewer than the infantry battalion with a full strength of nearly 3,000 people. Using 1,800 cavalry to pursue the 9,000-strong Tiele cavalry is obviously very dangerous, even if 800 Xi cavalry is replenished, this is also a dangerous task. But fortunately, the task given to them by Yi Feng was to delay them, not to let them fight hard.

However, Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong were not afraid of the Tiele people, they were even very happy with this order, and finally they didn't have to hide behind and watch the longbowmen perform, and they finally had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Before Yi Feng left, looking at the excited appearance of the two of them, he had to warn again and again, don't take the enemy lightly, don't fight hard, just drag the enemy.

When the enemy retreats, I pursue, when the enemy is stationed in us, when the enemy is tired, I fight, and when the enemy advances, I retreat. Yi Feng gave the two of them a sixteen-character strategy to make them cautious.

Qin Qiong carried two angular bows, which were stored in the bow bag on the side of the saddle, and a pair of gold gongs given by Yi Feng himself were inserted in front of the saddle, which were also engraved with Yi Feng's words. On the body is a set of navy blue full-body plate armor that is newly configured only for battalion-level officers, that set of armor is extremely gorgeous, inlaid with gold and hollow jade, plus the crimson cloak and red bright helmet, this outfit comes out, on the battlefield, it is like a torch in the dark night, it is estimated to attract the attention of all enemies. However, there is no doubt about the superiority of the defensive performance of this limited edition armor, and so far, in the entire Huaihuang Army, only ten generals have received such armor from Yi Feng himself. Except for being a little too gorgeous and dazzling, this set of armor is actually lighter than the original fish scale armor, more comfortable to wear, stronger in defense, and convenient to move.

Seeing that the Tiele people in front of him had left behind a thousand-person team, and after the team continued to move forward, Qin Qiong's heart became more and more hot. 1,000 Tongluo cavalry, just want to defeat the Sui Xi cavalry of 2,500 cavalry?

The two cavalry got closer and closer, and Qin Qiong held the horse lance in his hand tightly, his heart full of fighting intent.

Before Qin Qiong gave the order, Kedu on the other wing had already issued the order to impact without hurrying.

After the red-eyed eight hundred Xi cavalry broke out a roar that rushed straight into the clouds, they raised their scimitars, kicked and hit their horses' bellies, and rushed straight towards the 1,000 Tiele cavalry formation that was facing the battle behind the palace. They had no fear, only a desire for revenge.

Seeing Xi Qi take the lead in attacking, Qin Qiong had no choice but to wave his hand, letting the standard-bearers and trumpeters around him wave their flags and blow their horns, and then launch a charge.

Kedu led eight hundred Xi horsemen to rush forward like a mad rush, and the swift war horses flew up with the snow on the ground when they charged, forming a snow mist one after another. The sound of heavy horses' hooves rumbled in the valley like spring thunder.

In the rapid gallop, the oncoming wind was whistling in the ears, the wind was neighing, the horses were roaring, and the Xi knight was screaming with his saber.

The Tiele cavalry also began to gallop, and the two cavalry rushed like two crumbling waves of snow, rushing towards the middle at the ends of the narrow valley.

The two sides began to immediately open their bows and release arrows, the arrows whistling and hedging and flying, flying all over the sky, people on both sides began to fall off their horses, but no one slowed down, they rushed faster and faster, and finally like two waves hit together fiercely, for a while people turned over on their backs, snow powder flew, blood splashed! (To be continued......)