As soon as Li Jian returned to the Yuyang County Guard, he heard a report from his sergeants.

"Report! Hou Ye, the Hu people are coming, and they have arrived in Gubei Town at this moment, and General Huang Tong has brought the Chang Sheng Army to support. ”

"I already know, recruit the guards quickly, and I will go to meet the enemy." Li Jian hurriedly ordered someone to lead the horse and prepare the saddle, put on armor and a knife, and waited for the guards to arrive, and hurried to Gubei Town.

The Guards are the close guards formed by Li Jian, with a number of 300, all of whom can ride and shoot well, usually suppress bandits and train soldiers, and take charge of military punishments.

When Li Jian arrived, Gubei Town had already fought outside the pass, Huang Tong had quite experience in leading troops, and had already ordered people to take precautions, and when he received a military report, the Hu people did not take advantage, so he ordered to lock the door tightly, and was on duty in batches.

"General Huang, how is the battle?" Li Jian jumped off his horse and hurriedly asked.

"There were two battles outside the pass, and there were injuries to each other, and the Hu people withdrew to ten miles of land, and they have not seen siege equipment." Huang Tong said.

"This year is colder than in previous years, and the Hu people must have suffered from the white plague and lacked food rations for the winter, so they had to go south to plunder." Li Jian looked around, and then said, "It has just snowed in the past few days, and now the cold wind is howling, if the temperature drops sharply in the next few days, they will retreat at this moment, I am afraid that they want to wait for the tide river to freeze and pass along the river." ”

"That's what I'm guessing." Huang Tong said worriedly.

"How can General Huang retreat from the enemy?"

"Hu people are good at riding, and they are all cavalry this time, their horses have good endurance and fast speed, and it is difficult to defeat them head-on."

"How many troops did you bring with you this time?"

"A few days ago, I was worried that the Hu people would attack, so I strengthened my defenses, and with the victorious army I brought this time, a total of 5,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 2,000 crossbowmen. The strength of the Hu people is unknown for the time being, and the scouts we sent did not return, and they are estimated to have been killed. ”

"Come on, pass the order, except for the guards and marquis, the rest of the generals will go to the camp to discuss matters." Li Jian ordered to go down, and walked into the camp with Huang Tong.

After a short time, several military marquis arrived in turn and sat down one after another.

"Now that the Hu people are coming, can the generals have a good way to retreat from the enemy?" In the tent, Li Jian took a knife to stir up the charcoal fire and looked at everyone.

The generals didn't speak, and after waiting for a while, a red-faced man got up and said in a buzzing voice: "Master Hou, the enemy army is not attacking this time, and the last general thinks that the top priority is to quickly send scouts to investigate, who is the leader of the enemy this time, and how many soldiers and horses are in command." ”

Li Jian saw that this person was the commander of the cavalry, the descendant he secretly recruited, Zhang Feihu.

"The scouts sent some time ago were all killed, there is no news, I am also having a headache about this matter, who of you dares to ask for an order, visit the enemy camp tonight!"

Li Jian said loudly.

"The last general, please order!" All the military princes knelt down and bowed in response.

"Flying Tiger, you take two hundred cavalry tonight and go to the camp, remember, only visit the camp, don't be greedy!"

"Dong Dali, you arrange five hundred crossbowmen to meet the flying tiger!"

"No!" The second general ordered to leave, select men and horses, and only wait for dark to explore the camp.

When it got dark, Zhang Feihu quietly went out with 200 cavalry.

Out of the Gubei Pass, all the way to the north is an open valley, the surrounding darkness is not visible, Zhang Feihu led the troops to wear black clothes, horses wrapped hooves and mouths and wood, quietly touched the tent of the Hu people.

After a short time, he had seen the brilliant lights of the Hu people's camp tent from a distance, and Zhang Feihu ordered several agile soldiers to abandon their horses and walk to search for the Hu people's secret outposts. Although Zhang Feihu did not fight much with the Hu people, he also had a lot of research, because it took about 200 steps for the war horse to speed up, and it reached high speed when it was 500 steps away from the enemy camp, and the impact on the enemy camp was the greatest at this time, so the Hu people generally set up a secret post about 1,000 steps outside the camp to monitor the enemy army and prevent it from being attacked and rushed to the camp.

The long wind howled in the cold night, and after waiting for a pillar of incense, several people returned, and the dark whistle had been resolved. Zhang Feihu led people to move forward.

When there were still 700 steps away from the Hu people's camp, Zhang Feihu ordered 200 people to be divided into two lines, with heavy armor in front and light horses behind, lined up in turn, adjusted the formation, flicked the horsewhip, took the lead, and rushed away.

Hu Ren had finished dinner at this time, the soldiers were resting in each battalion, the guards guarding the camp had just seen the black shadow, and before they had come to ring the gong to warn, Zhang Feihu's heavy cavalry had knocked over the fence, and with a flash of the long knife, a human head flew up.

It turned out that Zhang Feihu was also quite experienced in robbing the camp, and knew that he needed a quick battle this time, so he deliberately brought a hundred heavy cavalry, relying on the momentum of a heavy armor and horses, and knocked over the fence of the Hu people's camp.

These two hundred cavalry swept through the Hu camp like the wind, and they were not greedy for killing the enemy, and went straight to the deepest depths.

When the Hu people reacted, the camp suddenly shouted horses neighing, Zhang Feihu had run to the center of the camp, seeing that the Hu people reacted, they all got on the horse with swords, surrounded and intercepted, Zhang Feihu led people to rush in and fight, then turned around the horse, and returned back and forth.

Seeing that he was about to rush out of the camp, a tall horse suddenly flashed in front of him, and immediately a general was as strong as a mountain, with a fierce face, it was really like the reincarnation of the living Hades, Zhang Feihu's heart trembled, and before he had time to take a closer look, the general's spear stabbed at Zhang Feihu's chest, Zhang Feihu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly hugged the horse's head sideways, and as soon as the spear was picked, Zhang Feihu's helmet was picked at the tip of the spear.

Zhang Feihu was so frightened that he hurriedly urged the horse to run away, the horse whip was fiercely drawn, and the war horse under him roared, and he rushed to the gate in one breath, seeing that there were no pursuers behind him, he wiped the sweat on his head with his hand and breathed a long sigh of relief. The war horse under him sneezed a few times, his hooves were crooked, he fell to the ground, and he was exhausted.

It turned out that Zhang Feihu jerked all the way, and tired the war horse to death for ten miles.

Zhang Feihu hurriedly dodged and dismounted, closed the door and opened it, and entered by himself, still having palpitations.

When they entered the camp, Li Jian, Huang Tong and others were already waiting, and when they saw that Zhang Feihu had lost his helmet and was not injured, everyone was relieved.

"Flying Tiger, can you find out the enemy's situation?" Li Jian hurriedly asked.

"Report to the Hou Ye, the camp that the Hu people set up this time is the Huizi camp, about one mile wide and two miles long, throwing away the grain, grass, baggage, chariots and horses, and the preliminary estimate is that there will be no less than 20,000 soldiers this time!"

"There was no big banner in the barracks, but the last general rushed out of front of the camp gate, and saw a general, long fierce and vicious, the height is estimated to be one zhang, and the last general did not see clearly, as if a mountain was blocking in front of him, and before he could think about it, he picked my helmet with a spear." Zhang Feihu suppressed his fear, and thought about it carefully.

"Such a fierce general will definitely not be an unknown person, so you can send someone to Shanggu to see if there is any news of this person from your uncle." Li Jian said.

"General Zhang has led the troops to be well-informed, and the strength of the Hu people detected should not be much different, so many troops are coming to attack Yuyang this time, we are afraid it will be difficult to resist." Huang Tong said worriedly.

Li Jian nodded, "I don't know why the Hu people are going south so much this year, but I don't know how Shanggu, Yanmen, Yunzhong, Jiuyuan and other counties are, if they are all attacked by the Hu people, it will be really troublesome." ”

"Generals, don't worry, General Huang, you should return to Yuyang immediately, gather the remaining troops in the county, and at the same time send people to the nearby counties to listen to the news, and see if we are the enemy in one county, or if it is all the same."

"There are 20,000 enemy troops, and we also have 20,000 elite soldiers in Yuyang, the enemy attacks and defends, and the Hu people are not good at attacking the city, if the defense is tight, the Hu people will retreat without a fight, and the generals will take turns to defend the city, don't relax."