In the dark night, the patrol was only less than a mile away from the fourth dark sentinel point, the snowflakes were getting denser and denser, the temperature was getting colder and colder, and some of the recruits were shivering.

Along the way, they didn't find anything. Especially Ling Yi, who raised his senses to the apex without a trace of discovery, made Ling Yi a little puzzled.

According to Captain Yang's analysis before, the eastern front is the focus of the attack of the Northern Wilderness cavalry, and now there is no change, is it just the enemy on the western front tonight?

Since the Western Front is not a strategy to lure the enemy, why not wait until it snows before starting the attack, so that the sneak attack can be well concealed, and the speed of the Dongsheng reinforcements can be slowed down, there are too many problems that I can't figure out.

Ling Yi asked: "Captain Yang, even if the cavalry of the Northern Wilderness has attacked the border defense point of Laoguipo, there are not many herdsmen and a small number of villages under Laoguipo, and they have nothing to grab?" Besides, in this vicinity, only the Gupan Mountain is a little richer, but there are too many garrisons there, and they don't dare to go there!"

Captain Yang answered Ling Yi's question while beckoning the troops to move forward: "There is nothing to grab on our side, and their goal is not to merge the state!"

When Ling Yi heard this, he seemed to understand a little: "Are they going to sweep to Youzhou from here and leave the country from Youzhou?"

Captain Yang nodded in affirmation: "What you said is right, the military strength of the state is strong, they dare not sneak attack and rob, their target is the slightly weaker military strength of Youzhou." But there are mostly hills on the other side of Youzhou, which is not conducive to their march, so they usually sneak into Dongsheng from here, and then detour back to Youzhou to start plundering grain, and then exit from Youzhou, where the border defense is weak, so Youzhou is not prepared at all, and they can't defend against their breakthrough!"

"I see!" Ling Yi understood, and was about to ask a few more questions, but before he could speak, he only felt a faint flash of fire in the distance, but it quickly disappeared.

At this moment, Ling Yi was taken aback, hurriedly grabbed Captain Yang, and said, "Captain Yang, there seems to be a fire ahead!"

Captain Yang is also a decisive person, he did not hesitate at all, and directly issued the order to hide on the spot, this is a critical moment, there is no mistake at all, I would rather be careful than fall into the trap of the enemy!

Summoning two scouts and ordering them to go down, there is only a hundred feet away from the secret whistle here, just in case, let's find out the situation first!

After the scout went out, Captain Yang asked Ling Yi, "Brother Wu, have you seen clearly?

Ling Yi nodded affirmatively, he was very confident in his senses, whether it was sight or hearing, he was much sharper than ordinary people: "I'm sure it's the firelight, a flash, the time is very short!"

"All the staff are on alert, ready to move!" Captain Yang ordered directly.

Do a good job of vigilance, Captain Yang and Ling Yi explained: "The dark sentry can't use fire at night, unless it is to find an enemy attack, otherwise there can be no fire, if there is a fire, it means that this dark post may have been lost, they have no chance to light the beacon fire, it seems that your first battle is going to start here, and you will do as I say for a while, as a last resort, don't show your strength!"

"Understood!" Ling Yi nodded!

"After a while, you will place the recruits at the back of the team, and they will follow us to fill in the gaps, and I am afraid that they will not be able to stand the bloodshed in the first battle! By the way, have you ever killed anyone?" Captain Yang asked again.

Ling Yi nodded and replied, "When you completed the gang mission, you killed a few bandits!"

"That's good, don't be soft when you start to move, this is not a competition in the ring, but the battle of life and death, either you die or I die, you can kill at one time, don't use the second move, not only to ensure that you kill the opponent, but also to retain your physical strength, I don't know how long I will fight tonight! Don't have a psychological burden, as long as we are soft-hearted, it is us who will die, if we are successfully attacked by the Northern Wilderness cavalry, we don't know how many people will die behind us!"

Captain Yang said this to all the recruits, survival advice from veterans!

At this time, the scout who went to find out the situation came back, only to see him hurriedly report: "Captain, it's not good, it's the tiger and wolf cavalry!"

"Tiger and wolf ride!" Captain Yang was shocked when he heard this: "Do you see clearly? How many troops are there?"

"See clearly, their armor is the tiger wolf armor, and the tiger wolf mount is already on the mountain! About a tun of troops, there are still reinforcements on the mountain, but the mountain road is difficult to walk, it seems that the march is very slow, Zhao He has already touched the middle of the mountain to check the situation under the mountain!"

"How can it be a tiger and wolf horse? It's difficult tonight, I'll be in front with the veterans in a while, Ling Yi you are in the middle and rear support, and the recruits are in the rear to fill in the gaps, everyone be careful! This tiger and wolf cavalry is the most elite cavalry in the Northern Wilderness, they are all martial artists or above, and with the tiger, wolf and demon beasts, it is not something that ordinary cavalry can deal with, let alone us!"

Captain Yang arranged his tactics and said to the herald: "You go back to the third dark outpost, no matter whether we have lit the beacon fire or not, you will order the dark sentry to light the beacon fire, and then pass the news back!"

The herald was ordered to run back quickly, and if the troops supporting tonight could arrive in time, it would be interesting to see if the herald could pass the news out!

All the soldiers put their armor, halberds, and swords in order, and began to march cautiously towards the fourth outpost, the closer they were to the Tiger Wolf Cavalry, the better the effect of their surprise attack.

This hundred zhang distance seems to have no end, the faster the recruits' heartbeat, even if it is a veteran, knowing that the enemy facing is a tiger and wolf ride, the expression is also a lot more solemn, if it is an ordinary light horse, they are not afraid at all, but in the face of the tiger and wolf ride, no one has the confidence to retreat, even if it is Captain Yang, he only has the strength of the nine rank martial arts, in the face of the tiger and wolf ride, he also has a lot of difficulty!

Ling Yi was mixed in the middle of the team, holding a halberd in his hand, although he dared to directly challenge Wu Zun and killed a lot of bandits, but the first time he participated in a military battle, his heartbeat unconsciously accelerated a lot.

I can't tell you how it feels, it's not scared, it's not nervous, it's like excitement but it's not exactly excitement!

As the distance got closer, Captain Yang led the team slower and slower, and they faced not only enemy soldiers, but also enemy mounts.

Luckily there was no moon tonight, otherwise they would have been discovered.

In the last thirty zhang, Captain Yang signaled the team to stop, he explained a few words to the adjutant beside him, and he continued to advance forward with a dozen or so warriors, and then hid at a distance of ten zhang.

All this is in Ling Yi's eyes, and he has already seen the blurred situation on the dark post, it seems that it has been captured by a lot of soldiers in the Northern Wilderness, and vaguely, he also saw the backs of several tigers and green wolves, it seems that it is really a tiger and wolf riding.

At this time, the adjutant led the veteran soldiers to attack suddenly.

Ling Yi mixed in with the team and began to charge.

This side began to charge, and the dark post remembered the sound of the horn, and then a rain of arrows swept towards Dongsheng's side.

Shield-wielding soldiers, step forward to set up their shields, block the rain of arrows, and slowly advance forward.

Seeing that the rain of arrows could not form an obstacle and lethality, the tiger and wolf riders on the side of the dark post began to gather cavalry and began to fight.

The mountain road is narrow, and only one or two tigers and wolves can charge side by side.

There was a roar of tigers and wolves, and the twenty tigers and wolves of the Northern Wilderness began to charge, they wanted to use the narrow mountain road, use the powerful destructive power and impact of the mount, and shock Ling Yi and them down the hillside, here are all stone mountains, although they are not steep, but they will break their hands and legs if they fall!

The Tiger Wolf Cavalry was really the elite cavalry of the Northern Wilderness, so they started to charge, their speed had reached its peak, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed past the hidden position of Captain Yang and the others.

Approaching the Dongsheng team, I saw the deputy captain and three burly soldiers standing at the front of the team with their shields, leaning against the mountain, occupying the innermost side of the mountain road.

When they arrived at Lingyi, the entire road was occupied by them, as long as the shield bearers in front could resist the impact of the tiger and wolf riders, then when they came here, they were destined to have no road to settle down, and they could only be beaten down the slope by the shield bearers.

This tactic makes good use of the terrain and the enemy's advantage, converting the power of their cavalry charge into the power to push them down the hill.

The first collision between the enemy and the enemy unfolded, and the "clanging" cavalry charged and stabbed their spears into the erected shields.

The halberd-wielding soldier, hiding behind the shield, through the gap between the shields, began to attack the cavalry's mount.

The tiger and the wolf hissed in pain, so that they did not dare to get too close to the shield.

The Tiger Wolf Riders who rushed to the front had already noticed that the road was getting narrower and narrower, and if they continued to charge, they would only have the fate of being squeezed down the hill, so they began to slow down.

But the cavalry behind them did not know the situation in front of them, and continued to charge fiercely, so that the cavalry at the front had no place to stand.

Coupled with Ling Yi and other soldiers, they kept stabbing their mounts with their halberds, and after a wail, the first tiger and wolf rider fell down the hillside.

At this time, the tiger and wolf riders in the rear had already noticed the situation ahead and began to slow down, but even so, four more tiger and wolf riders in front of the companions were squeezed down the hillside.

The tiger and wolf riders who stayed on the narrow mountain road could not turn their heads at all, and could only wave their spears to attack, but in the face of the impermeable shield, they were not lethal at all.

The tiger and wolf riders in the rear began to turn around, and just behind them, Captain Yang and the warriors he led were killed.

The Tiger Wolf Rider attacked violently without the strength to fight back, and for a while the remaining Tiger Wolf Rider was surrounded at the edge of the mountain road.

With the attack of the halberd bearers and the advance of the shield bearers, the tigers and wolves continued to fall down the hillside.

When the last tiger and wolf rider was shot down the hillside, Ling Yi and the others ushered in another rain of arrows.

Now at the bottom of the hillside, only the howls of tigers and wolves and the screams of soldiers can be heard, and it seems that they are no longer able to move!

Defending against the rain of arrows, the patrol slowly advanced towards the dark sentinel point, and the Northern Wilderness Tiger and Wolf Rider did not dare to attack easily.

Unable to form a charge, the cavalry was forced to turn into infantry, and in front of the outpost, the vanguard of both sides had begun to attack each other.

With the defense of shield soldiers, there were no casualties on the patrol's side, but the mountain road was narrow, and relying on a few soldiers in front of it to attack could not cause damage at all, and both sides were anxious.