With a swipe of the lance, it directly cut the throat of a Hu pawn, and the sharp lance was castrated, driving Li Tai and his crotch mount to rush forward and close to the zhang, and smashed down on the shoulder of a Hu pawn.

This pawn was not as decent as his companion who had been fatally hit just now, and half of his face had been scraped off the side edge of the lance, and his ears were wet and sticking to his shoulder where his collarbone had been broken.

Because he was busy running for his life, Hu Shu didn't feel the pain at the first time, he only felt that his face was suddenly cold and hot, and he opened his mouth to gasp after falling to the ground, and the hot blood poured into his mouth and nose, and before he could react, his chest was already trembling, and he was directly nailed to the ground.

Li Tai pulled back the horse lance with some difficulty, and several Hu pawns on the side had already fled left and right, and he felt that this horse weapon was really not suitable for hunting these combat units without negative armor.

In addition to its heaviness, increasing the physical load, the strength is also difficult to master, and the attack methods such as rubbing and smashing are okay, once the penetrating wound is caused to the enemy's body, the pullback will inevitably be stuck by the bone structure, increasing the consumption of physical strength.

But now everyone is busy chasing and killing the Jihu soldiers who have really completely dispersed, and he is not worried about throwing the horse lance directly on the battlefield, holding the lance in one hand and the knife in the other, and driving the war horse with both legs, harvesting the lives of all the people he chases.

As Li Tai led the crowd out and rushed to the battlefield, the fighting spirit of the Jihu army completely collapsed, and it was no longer the previous situation of fleeing and not dispersing, and the array of troops was directly smashed and exploded, adding a lot of difficulty to the pursuit of total annihilation.

Li Tai finally saw the fighting style of these Jihu tribes, and understood why the generals in charge of the army before shook their heads and sighed when they talked about Jihu, and looked depressed.

Fighting with such an opponent is really not a bloody boil. These soldiers themselves have taken victory and defeat very lightly, and even if they win, they will not be able to enjoy themselves.

But it also has to be said that the Jihu army really has the essence of cavalry and cooperative warfare, and after a battle, the manpower and horsepower are seriously depleted.

If the physical strength of these Jihu people and horses had not been fully consumed before, Li Tai's subordinates would have doubled, and it would be almost impossible to completely annihilate this Jihu team, and it would even be difficult to cause effective kills and behead the capital.

After a long pursuit, there were nearly twenty Jihu soldiers who died directly under Li Tai's sword, but looking around, there was still no shortage of Jihu people fleeing in the distance.

These guys can really run, even Li Tai can feel the breathing of the Hexi horse under his crotch gradually becoming rough and rapid, but the remaining figures of the Jihu soldiers fleeing are still extremely energetic.

After chasing and killing for more than half an hour, the scope of the pursuit has spread out to a great extent, and the people and horses from all over the place have returned one after another. After the capture and inventory, he confessed to the Jihu captives, but more than a dozen people were still escaped.

The good news is that the leader of this Jihu team has been captured, but Li Tai, who feels that he has been slapped in the face, is not happy.

He jumped off his horse and broke the tendons of more than 20 Jihu captives, and several Jihu captives who were already wounded could not bear the severe pain, or fainted or died suddenly.

Li Tai asked himself if he was not a cruel and tyrannical person, but after passing by the dock wall that was burned and bloodied, he had already subconsciously disregarded these thieves as human beings.

Not many of these Jihu captives were proficient in the Han Chinese language, and only the leader was barely able to communicate, but under the torture of timidity and trauma, he stumbled in answering the cross-examination.

The matter of interrogating the captives was handed over to Li Zhi, and Li Tai walked to the villagers who had been abused to the point of being inhuman, and saw that those people were both happy for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and they were also terrified when they looked at himself and others.

"You're all the bankers who are on the dock wall?"

Seeing that these villagers nodded in acquiescence, Li Tai said again: "The thief Hu has not been completely wiped out, there are still a few people who have escaped, and they may lure their companions back, and it is no longer safe to be close to the left." Our department still needs to continue to chase and suppress the thief, and I have no time to take care of you and others. Do you know what refuge there is in the left near? ”

The villagers didn't dare to answer rashly, and it took a while for a villager who was still burly to step out and walk up to Li Tai to bow down: "Thank you for the general's rescue, but the township guards against thieves and only seek secrecy, even if there are any villages, outsiders can't know ......."

Seeing the frightened and evasive eyes of the villagers, Li Tai guessed that this answer might not be true, probably these villagers were afraid of causing trouble to their neighbors and did not dare to tell the truth.

He didn't go any further, but said: "Our department will not stay here for a long time, and you will wait for the villagers to hide nearby, or go elsewhere." ”

After saying this, he had the dozen or so Jihu horses that had been seized on the battlefield and were still barely usable, although wounded, and returned to them the booty that had been left here, and he ignored them.

"Lord Lang, this team of thieves is the Heishui Hu, the leader's surname is Hao, according to what he said, he was ordered by Qu Shuai to contact the Luoxi Diao Yin Hu Department in the west, hoping that the Diao Yin Hu can make people and horses work together."

Li Zhi stepped forward and whispered to Li Tai about the information obtained from the interrogation: "According to this leader's confession, Liu Zhenqiang, the son of Liu Pingfu, who had fled east across the river before, was attacked and harassed by Xihe Shilouhu, and had to sneak back, and returned to Dongxia Prefecture this summer, and has been instigating riots to regain his arms in Shangjun. ”

"Liu Zhenqiang? Is he very powerful? ”

Li Tai frowned when he heard this and asked.

"Liu Pingfu was originally the chief of Shangjun, with tens of thousands of people and more than 10,000 people at his peak, but after the seven years of the Great Unification were suppressed, the subordinates were scattered in many places, and after going from east to west, it is difficult to estimate how much residual power remains."

After hearing this, Li Dao shook his head and said, "But his clan has been in this realm for generations, and the residual power still exists in this realm. Most of the fleeing troops were also taken in by Zuo Jinhu Chieftain, and if they could be regrouped, the power should not be underestimated. ”

Although Jihu is not highly organized, it still has a basic ethical order, which Liu Pingfu was able to be named a state assassin by the Western Wei Dynasty before, and the rebellion caused the Western Wei court to suppress the rebellion so much, which shows that the power is strong.

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and after a little muttering, Li Tai also felt that he should not be greedy for merit, and his department of only five or six hundred people was really not good at being unscrupulous.

So he raised his hand and summoned his subordinate officer Lu Yan, told him the information he had just learned, and instructed: "Give you ten subordinates, immediately report the military situation here, tell a number of envoys in North China to reorganize their armies, and join the Daxingtai, I will continue to investigate in the territory, and the return date is undecided." ”

Lu Yan was a little unhappy when he heard this, he was chasing a member of the Hu soldier just now, and his blood was boiling, so he shook his head and said: "You can still fight hard in a lowly position, and it is better to repatriate the wounded than to do it......

Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Tai's eyes widen, and he quickly lowered his head, and responded with some grievances.

At this time, the strong man of the villagers also came up, glanced at the Jihu captives who were lying on the ground and wailed, and bowed down to Li Tai and wept: "These thieves have killed my villagers and ruined my homeland, and I beg the general to send them to the villagers for ......revenge."

"Lend them a few knives."

Li Tai casually ordered, and then ordered the leader of Naji Hu and the two lightly injured Hu pawns to be left aside as guides for follow-up, and it was useless for the others to stay.

Seeing that Li Tai agreed, the remaining villagers didn't even have time to take the knife, and directly pounced on those murderers to bite and vent, and the scene suddenly became extremely bloody, and even Li Tai, who was still killing people just now, turned his head and didn't look at it.

Soon, the soldiers died on the spot. Although they have received due retribution, the villagers who were tortured and killed by them and the manors that were burned down cannot be restored after all.

After the hatred in their hearts was vented, the villagers wept in the direction of their homes with tears in their eyes.

The strong villager who negotiated with Li Tai walked back again, knelt in front of Li Tai again and kowtowed heavily: "The general's great grace, the villager slave has nothing to repay, only this remnant life, I implore the general to take it in, as long as there is still a breath of breath, I will serve the general!" ”

Li Tai pondered for a while, and then asked: "Are you familiar with the terrain near the left side of Kuli River?" ”

"The township slaves used to participate in the river defense with the army, and the township team did not hide in the township after the battle, and their wives and children died in the previous disaster.

Li Tai originally saw that this strong man's speech and demeanor were not like ordinary villagers, and after careful questioning, he learned that he had served as a military lord in this realm as early as the early years of the Great Unification, and only because of Heishui Hu's several riots that swept away the forces of the left near township regiment, he returned to the hidden township, but after all, he still could not avoid disaster.

"Give him a pair of bows and knives."

Li Tai really needed someone who was familiar with the terrain of the countryside at the moment, so he took in this villager named Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan took the bow and knife, and practiced a little in front of Li Tai, and his skills and methods were considerable, even in Li Tai's trilogy, he could rank at the level of the middle stream. Considering that he has experienced new disasters and has been tortured by Jihu for a long time, his state is not in his prime, if he recovers, he will be a brave soldier!

After a battle, although it was not fierce, a lot of manpower and horsepower were consumed, and Zhu Jihu was thrown into the field, and Li Tai led his troops to transfer.

After this battle, in addition to rescuing the villagers, nearly seventy horses were confiscated, although most of them were not in good condition, but it was also a good start.

The surviving villagers took the horses and the returned belongings to other places, and Li Tai led his troops to escort them out for a few miles, and asked them to clean up the traces of their journey, and then led the people to turn north, through a field of reeds, and when it was about to fall into the night, they chose a sheltered camp near the left to camp and camped out.

Early the next morning, Lu Chuan, whose eyes were bloodshot, handed Li Tai a sketch that looked a little rough but clearly outlined, which marked the directions of some of the Hu parts in his memory.

Although the Jihu tribe often migrates and is highly reclusive, they also have a certain dependence on the geographical environment, and even if the sketch provided by Lu Chuan does not match the current Hu situation, it is better than Li Tai and his party headless flies.

After having the initial guidance, as the men and horses recovered their strength, Li Tai immediately ordered to find another target.

(End of chapter)