The weather in the north is particularly cold, and after a few days of cold winds and howling, a thick layer of ice has formed on the Chaohe River.

Li Jian had already sent people to take small boats along the river to prevent the water from freezing, but the boats were few and the water was shallow, and there were still a few small boats frozen on the river last night.

"General Huang, the ice is frozen." Seeing Huang Tong climb up the wall, Li Jian hurriedly asked.

"The ice is close to two feet thick, I'm afraid the Hu people will rush through the pass soon." Huang Tong looked into the distance, although he couldn't see the enemy camp, but it seemed that a monster was crawling in the distance, just waiting for the time to come, he opened his mouth to devour people.

"I'm asking the soldiers to dig the ice to build a wall, and if the Hu people don't come tonight, they can build a two-zhang ice wall tomorrow morning, and then they don't have to worry too much." Huang Tong comforted Li Jian and said.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to make it through tonight." Li Jian said worriedly.

Li Jian and Huang Tong walked side by side on the wall, and when there was no one, Li Jian whispered to Huang Tong:

"It is not common for the Hu people to attack Yuyang in winter, after crossing Yanshan, instead of taking the mountain road to Yuyang, it is better to take the big road and go straight to the right Beiping, or not to go to Yanshan, directly to Liaodong, but this time there are 20,000 cavalry, although I don't understand why the Hu people are, but I always feel that something is wrong." Li Jian frowned and analyzed.

"I don't feel right, Yuyang's troops are as many as those in other counties, and it is not the best choice for the Hu people to go south, this time with such troops, I am afraid that the people who come are not good." Huang Tong echoed.

"General Huang, I want to lead the troops to withdraw from Yuyang and go directly to Shanggu, what do you think?" Li Jian analyzed, "This time, the Hu people are obviously menacing, if we fight against them here, I am afraid that we will lose everything." ”

"Master Hou, if you withdraw from Yuyang, the Hu people will go south, and the people of Yuyang will probably not survive one in ten, and their lives will be ruined." Huang Tong couldn't bear to say.

"I didn't know this, but I vaguely felt that if we didn't withdraw this time, we and these 20,000 brothers would probably die here." Li Jian said coldly.

"Hou Ye doesn't need to panic, if we try our best to defend, the Hu people can't attack for a long time, there is a shortage of food and grass, if we don't retreat, we have to retreat, if we retreat, the people of Yuyang will suffer, and then Hou Ye will definitely be pointed out by the world." Huang Tong said seriously.

Li Jian nodded, looking at the sunset that was about to set, he couldn't help but feel even heavier.

After Huang Tong and Li Jian finished chatting, they went to the Chaohe River to check the progress of the ice wall. The so-called ice wall, is to mine ice in the upper reaches of the Chaohe River, and then transport it to the Gubei Guan Chaohe River, pile it up, splash water and freeze it, and at the same time leave a hole, which is convenient for the spearmen to enter and exit the horse pole, and the archers can also hide behind it, the entire ice wall is expected to be close to three hundred zhang in length, two zhang in height, two layers up and down, at this time it has been repaired one zhang, and the soldiers are stepping up their actions.

It soon got dark, and Li Jian ordered torches to be lit on the Chengguan and Chaohe River, and the night illuminated by the blazing torches turned red.

All the military marquis did not rest, and they were all on standby at the wall.

As soon as I arrived, I saw the black pressure outside the gate shaking and the neighing of the war horses, it was the army of the Hu people coming.

On Yuyang's side, the crossbowmen and guards were already in place, although most of them had not slept all night, but when they saw the army of the Hu people, they were also instantly energetic.

Li firmly looked at it, the first person in front of the Hu people should be the general who flew Zhang Feihu's helmet that night, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but he could also feel a heavy sense of oppression, this person was indeed as magnificent as a mountain, and the war horse was one size bigger than others, and he could simply stop ahead, which could attract the attention of everyone.

Zhang Feihu saw this general at a glance, unconsciously touched his hair, and tightly grasped the long knife at his waist, which stabilized his mind.

"Who's coming?" Li Jian took a deep breath and shouted loudly.

But seeing that the big man on the other side didn't talk, the generals were angry, but the big man raised his right hand and waved it forward.

I saw that the Hu people's team was divided into two roads, all the way to the Chaohe, and all the way to the Chengguan.

When there are still two hundred steps away from the wall, the archers draw their bows and shoot volleys, and suddenly the Hu people turn over on their backs, but the speed of the war horses is extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, many cavalry have rushed to the pass.

Hu Ren didn't care whether the war horse was damaged by the wall, and threw the lock hook with the momentum, and climbed hard while dodging the rocks and rolling wood on the gate. The sergeants were also in a hurry for a while, and hurriedly swung their knives and slashed at the lock hook.

The Hu people also rained arrows under the gate, and soldiers continued to fall down with arrows.

Li Jian is also anxious, although he has also been in battle for a long time, but how can the mainland attack the city be so fierce, which war horse is not like a baby, his own 3,000 cavalry battalion, or Shi Yukai spent a lot of effort to form it for ten years, this Hu people rode a war horse to rush the pass, just a cursory look, no less than two hundred horses were killed!

Not to mention that there are thousands of heavily armored and heavy cavalry standing under a hundred paces, and the rain of arrows that has not fallen is shot by these cavalry, although the Hu people do not have large siege equipment such as ladders, but this fierce and fearless strength, the efficiency is much higher than that of taking infantry to fill in.

In less than half a pillar of incense, there was already a scuffle on the wall, and the Hu people were constantly climbing up, and they were already in close contact at this moment.

Li Jian was anxious, but he could only fight to kill the enemy, looking at this, Huangtong's side of the Chaohe River was not comfortable, I only hoped that Huangtong could hold on for a while, and wait for the Hu people to fight and then go to support.

At this moment, the situation on Huangtong's side is better than that of Li Jian's side, although the ice wall is not as high as the wall, but because of the ice mining to build the wall, the frozen ice surface is not strong, and there are constantly Hu people and people and horses falling into the river, and the Hu people do not dare to rush when they see this, even if they rush to the ice wall, the hook is not easy to hook when thrown on the ice wall, but is hit by the spears that are constantly stretched out and the bows and crossbows that shoot out, and there are countless casualties.

Huang Tong led 5,000 men to defend here, and the sergeants switched defenses back and forth, but they were at ease. Seeing this, Huang Tong hurriedly brought another 1,000 elite soldiers to help Li Jian.

Li Jian fought the wall, because the space on the wall was limited, and the soldiers under him also took turns to change guards, and the injured soldiers were constantly carried down, and the new new force was on top again, and they survived the chaos in the early stage, and the two sides were also inseparable.

After a while, there were already thick corpses under the wall, some Hu Ren and some Yuyang. Looking at the soldiers who struggled to climb and kept falling, the big man couldn't help frowning, "It's too slow." He thought to himself.

No one wants to be defeated, no one wants to be killed by others, and on this small city wall, there is only killing and being killed.

Yuyang's soldiers saw that Li Jian had been wielding a knife to kill the enemy, his body had already been soaked in blood, and the long knife had been slightly curled, and everyone's morale was also greatly boosted, their eyes were red, and they gritted their teeth to insist.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in Yuyang's camp, and before Li Jian had time to watch carefully, he saw a military marquis desperately squeezing to Li Jian's side, and shouted loudly: "Master Hou, it's not good, there are unknown enemy troops killing us in the rear!" ”

Li Jian hurriedly cut down the Hu people next to him, turned around to check, but saw that the Yuyang defenders in the pass had already fought with a group of black-clothed and black-armored cavalry, because his attention had been on the pass, he never thought that there was a cavalry sneak attack behind him, and he was caught off guard, and the group of mysterious cavalry had already rushed into the camp in a chiseled formation, and they were about to break through the camp and go to the gate.

Li Jian's eyes were about to split, and he instantly understood where his worries came from, this must be someone colluding with Hu Ren to put himself to death!

Huang Tongzheng led the troops to support, and when he saw this group of cavalry, he also instantly understood, and immediately became sad and angry, and hurriedly ordered the reinforcements to guard the city gate, and led a part of the soldiers to rush over.

Huang Tong rode to the front of this group of cavalry, holding a long knife and slashing a few, just wanted to take the opportunity to kill a few, but saw a masked cavalry holding a snake spear, stabbed at Huang Tong, Huang Tong hurriedly dodged, and slashed out a knife, the masked cavalry raised a spear, and it was another stab, Huang Tong couldn't dodge, right in the lower right armpit, the pain in the heart hit instantly, Huang Tong also suddenly remembered who this person was!

"Wen silent! You dare to collude with the Hu people and mess with my Yuyang! Huang Tong shouted.

The masked rider didn't respond, and slapped his horse and rushed away from the door.

Huang Tong endured the pain, patted the horse and chased after him, but he was a right-handed knife, and his right hand was stabbed today, he was not this person's opponent in the first place, and it was even more difficult to defeat with his left hand alone, but Huang Tong was upright by nature, and he couldn't care about comfort at the moment, and just wanted to stop this group of cavalry from opening the gate.

The people guarding the gate are infantry short swords, where is the opponent of the cavalry, this group of cavalry rushed to kill, and more than half of the Yuyang soldiers were killed and wounded, and then the gate was opened.

The Hu people outside the door screamed and poured in like a flood, and suddenly closed the door and fought wildly.

When the mysterious cavalry saw the gate open, they did not like to fight, but turned their horses' heads one after another, and after a burst of killing, they drove away.

The cavalry of the Hu people in Huangtong poured in, and they hurriedly got off the horse, found Li Jian and said: "Master Hou, the pass is broken, the Hu people have come in, hurry up and retreat, if you don't leave, you will really die here!" ”

When Li Jian heard this, he also knew that he would definitely not be able to leave if he didn't leave, so he hurriedly beckoned his cronies around him, gave the order to go down, and retreated from Xiaguan.

Li Jian and Huang Tong came down, Huang Tong's war horse didn't know where to go, Li Jian saw that Huang Tong was injured, and hurriedly protected him, fought all the way, found two war horses, and then found the herald, immediately Ming Jin, he and Huang Tong did not love to fight, beat the horse and whipped to the south and fled.

When the sky was bright, Li Jian stopped his horse to rest, and when he turned around, he saw that alas, the 20,000 army, less than 200 followed behind him, most of them were his own guards, and he couldn't help but feel stunned.

"General Huang recognized the masked cavalry?" Li Jian looked at Huang Tong, who had lost too much blood and turned pale, gritted his teeth and asked.

"Master Hou, I recognize it, this person's martial arts are strong, far more than me, and the eight snake spears are even easier to recognize, this person must be Wen Jiawen of Handan County!" Huang Tong said indignantly.

"Wen silent!" Li Jian also gritted his teeth and read.

"Master Hou, everyone in Hu is fast, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's hurry up." Huang Tongqiang propped himself up and said.

"Wen Buyu can rush from Handan to break our Gubei Pass, I will definitely expect that if we escape, we will definitely enter Yuyang from Miyun to Juyong Pass, we can't go back to the county government, just take the road to Juyong Pass, so as not to fall into his ambush." Li Jian thought for a while and said.

"Leave it to the Hou Ye's arrangement!" Huang Tong and the others hurriedly said.

Li Jian led the remnants of the defeated army and rushed straight to Juyong Pass along the path.