Entering September, there was still a calm between Qin Wuling and the grassland, and the Blood Eagle Tribe did not make any other moves except for letting the two tribes build a camp five hundred miles away from the new city, and it seemed that the Blood Eagle Tribe really had no plans to Dongkou this year after occupying the nearby grassland. Blocking around the new city was only to prevent Qin Wu from leading the cavalry to break deeper into the hinterland of the grassland.

But Ye Qing faintly felt a little uneasy, the barbarian tribe is not the kind of character who is content with the status quo, not to mention the information obtained from Jinyiwei, this Blood Eagle Tribe is still a very warlike tribe, and this year due to the new relocation of the tribe, the living materials are relatively scarce, to spend this autumn safely, the Blood Eagle Tribe must come to plunder the materials, Ye Qing believes that under the calm surface of the Blood Eagle Tribe, there must be some tricks brewing, as for the extent to which this trick has fermented, it is not known.

At this time in previous years, the smell of war could almost be smelled, and the two sides had already been extremely tense, but this year it was strangely calm, and Qin Wu led the people to be happy, thinking that after Hou Ye unified the chaotic land, coupled with last year's great victory, he had successfully deterred those grassland barbarians, and this year could pass in peace. But Qin Wuling's high-level leaders would not think so.

The uneasy Ye Qing came to the new city, accompanied by Li Xin, inspected the city defense of the entire new city, the main city of the new city has been built, the surface project of Weibao has also been completed, the periphery, one by one the enclosed houses are connected by fences and earthworks, and the people have begun to burn the wasteland and turn over the ground. They are going to plant wheat here, and in the coming year, it will be turned into fertile fields with waves of wheat, providing an endless supply of food for the new city.

Standing at the head of the new city, Ye Qing said: "Captain Li, has it been so calm in the past few months?"

"Yes, when the Blood Eagle Tribe first came, I was really worried, and I was on guard against the sudden attack of the barbarian iron cavalry day and night, but as the new city defense system matured, I slowly relaxed my mind, it seems that this Blood Eagle Tribe has already understood the events of last year, and it is not going to attack without understanding the strength of the territory. ”

Hearing that the experienced Li Xin also made such a judgment, Ye Qing's heart relaxed a little.

"Has the sentry of the two barbarian tribes in front of you been going on?"

"The sentinels on both sides have been strangling each other in this more than 100 miles of garden, and small-scale confrontations exist from time to time, these two tribes are extremely careful, our sentry can't get close at all, and once they get close, they will be chopped up by the other party with all their might, and in the past few months, I have lost hundreds of people. ”

Ye Qing's face changed slightly, "That is to say, "You haven't figured out what the hell are the two doing there?"

"I don't know" but I don't know what they want to do, I just have to keep an eye on them in the new city. Li Xindao "If they want to attack Qin Wuling, then the new city must be taken, we will hold here, and we will soothe the throat of the other party, and we are not afraid of what tricks they will play." ”

"What if the two ministries don't do anything there?"

"Huh?" Li Xin didn't react, looking at Ye Qing, a little flustered.

"I mean, the two barbarian tribes with a population of hundreds of thousands, seventy or eighty thousand elite soldiers, are stationed under their noses, and have built a huge camp, but one has not stored food, and the other has not stocked siege equipment, so where are they stationed for no purpose?"

Li Xin said in surprise: "This is impossible, in my opinion, the Blood Eagle Tribe wants to run Xishan into a second new city" But Xishan is not enough to take on this important task in terms of geographical location or other aspects, so it can only be a temporary temporary base, and the other party will definitely store food and build siege equipment for attack. Ye Qing slammed the city wall hard, "No, General Li, send a team of men and horses to raid Xishan and fight him in a blitzkrieg, I don't ask them to occupy Xishan, and I don't want them to cause much damage to the enemy, I just want to know, what is the other party doing in Xishan?" The Blood Eagle Tribe will never do this useless work, if the two have always had the intention of attacking you, or even if they have taken action, then I can rest assured, but the current situation is really weird. ”

Li Xin hesitated for a moment, and immediately replied: "Yes, I will immediately send a cavalry to fight near Xishan to find out the truth." ”

Turning around, he said to the soldiers beside him: "Quickly pass on Captain Li Dabing." ”

At sunset, Li Dabing led 10,000 Qin Wu to lead the iron cavalry out of the new city, rushing to the west mountain, and in the official hall of Li Xin in the new city, Ye Qing and Li Xin sat from time to time, silently waiting for Li Xin's return.

At midnight, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the city, and there were bursts of cheers from the city, the two looked at each other, Li Dabing came back, and after a while, Li Dabing broke in with a bloody body, saluted the two, and said, "Master Hou, my lord, I'm back!"

"How's it going?" asked Li Xin anxiously.

"It's okay, I rushed into the barbarian camp, went around in a circle and killed again, probably killed more than 100 people on the other side, and I lost about the same number of men, these barbarians have been dead behind me until I saw the cavalry that met us. ”

"I'm not asking you this, I'm asking what you see in the barbarian camp?"

Li Dabing thought for a moment, "Master Hou, it's really strange, there is indeed no siege equipment in the barbarian camp you mentioned, and in terms of the intensity of their counterattack, there are not as many people as the original sentinels? In my opinion, there are no more than 100,000 people in the barbarian camp, including the old and weak, and at most 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry. ”

"If you attack the barbarian camp in front, how will the tribe behind react?"

"The two barbarian tribes are ten miles apart, and the two are arranged in a group, and when I rushed out, I was afraid that he would come out of the camp to intercept him, but to my surprise, although the other party was on guard, he did not participate in the pursuit of me. ”

With a bang, Li Xin slammed his fist on the desk, shaking the things on the desk and jumping up, "fooled" He said fiercely. The main forces of these two barbarians are afraid that they have already retreated.

"The soldier has worked hard, "You go and rest first," Ye Qing said calmly to Li Dabing.

Seeing Li Dabing turn around and leave the hall, Ye Qing turned to look at the map hanging on the wall, "Blood Eagle Tribe, what are you paying attention to?" suddenly turned around and said to Li Xin: "No matter what attention they play, but these two people, it seems that the Blood Eagle Tribe is planning to give it to me, Captain Li, the whole army pulled out these two nails for me." ”

"It's Hou Ye!" Li Xin said loudly, feeling ashamed and annoyed, he had been deceived by this gang of barbarians for so long, "It seems that after the two barbarians were stationed in Xishan, they quietly withdrew the main force in a small part and left an empty shell to confuse themselves in Xishan, no wonder the scouts on both sides spared no effort to kill their scouts, it turned out that they were afraid that they would discover the secret."

If Hou Ye hadn't found out the clues, he didn't know when he would have been hidden.

Watching Li Xin leave angrily, Ye Qing paced around the hall, why, why did L Yaer do this? It is easy to understand that he used his visit to consume part of the strength of the two barbarian tribes, but is it limited to this?

His fingers pressed on the map, moving inch by inch on the border line, suddenly, his fingers stopped, and where his fingertips pressed, a place name appeared in his eyes, "Hou Ye!" Ye Qing shouted.

Although Qin Wuling is surrounded by mountains due to its unique geographical location, there are only three exits before and after, but one is in the hinterland, which is the road that Ye Qing took to Xuancheng, and the other is the passage where the new city is located, and the remaining one is hidden in the mountains, which is somewhat hidden in the other two, and it is relatively dangerous on the way, and ordinary caravans will not take this road.

But for the barbarian iron knights, these are not problems, and it is estimated that the Blood Eagle tribe should have drawn elites to attack from there.

"Yang Fan!" he shouted.

"Master Hou, what's the matter?"

The "Eight Hundred Miles Expedited" was quickly transmitted back to Qin Wuling, and ordered Lieutenant Wang Feng and Lieutenant Qin Fei to rush to the aid of Dagang Town. ”

"Ahh

"Hurry up!" Ye Qing said loudly.

"Is General Li gone?" Ye Qing went out of the hall and recruited a personal guard. The guards pointed to a few fire dragons outside the city and said, "Hou Ye" Li Duwei has already set off, and Captain Li Dabing stayed in the new city. ”

"Call Li Dabing over"

Ye Qing was upset, "The elite of the barbarians will definitely attack Dagang Town, the Blood Eagle Tribe really doesn't make a move, and it will be very powerful as soon as he makes a move, he never thought that he would actually ignore the cavalry's wolf army for a long journey, and directly let them attack Dagang Town, but the problem is that he has very few garrisons in Dagang Town, and it is impossible to stop the barbarian iron cavalry, even if the other party is also sleepy and lacking."

Dagang Town was originally just a small town with 30,000 residents, and Ye Qing only had a garrison of 3,000 people stationed there, and his income and training were not bad, but after all, he had never been on the battlefield, and his combat effectiveness was not strong, and he did not expect that such a place would be attacked before.

miscalculated, I still underestimated the Blood Eagle Tribe

Ye Qing, who hurried back to Qin Wuling, received a bad report the next day, and the Jinyi Guard sent back the news that Dagang Town had been lost, and the raider was the barbarian iron horseman.

"How's the situation?" Looking at the messenger, Ye Qing was full of chagrin, the Blood Eagle Tribe successfully put itself together.

"After the barbarians occupied Dagang Town, they did not continue to advance, but stationed there on the spot, Qin Duwei estimated that the barbarian iron cavalry traveled a long distance, and it must have been extremely tired, although they successfully occupied Dagang Town, but they were unable to go deeper. Qin Duwei has joined forces with Wang Duwei, stationed in Qingshui Town, which is far away from Shahe Town, which is twenty miles away from Dagang Town, Qinghe Town is ready to fight, and has issued a combat mobilization order, and how to act next, still needs Hou Ye's order. ”