Li Tai waved the war knife in his hand, and slashed down, and the broken arm of the Hu pawn in front of him flew out, but his knife momentum did not delay for a moment, and his wrist turned over, and it was a severed head.

This is the third time that Hu has organized a breakthrough from the evening to now. Stumps and broken arms are scattered everywhere around Tucheng, and the enemies have also been mainly strong soldiers at the beginning, and now even Jihu women have joined in.

This breakthrough lasted for most of the quarter, and as the sound of killing faded and saw that there was no hope of breaking through, these soldiers retreated back to the earthen city.

"The earthen wall, though not high, is always an obstacle. Why should these pawns rush to cross the wall and die? ”

Seeing that there were many new corpses of Hu pawns on the battlefield, Li Tai was also a little strange. Since they landed on the plateau, they have not had time to organize an attack on Tucheng, and they have not shown much strength in attacking fortifications, but these Jihu seem to be expected to be difficult to defend the city, and they continue to break through and die.

"What they are afraid of is not only our royal division, the thief is cruel, not only abusing the villagers, but also killing his own kind and enriching himself. The beautiful land here has a lot of reserves, and if they are found to be damaged by the left near Hu Department, they will also attack in groups. If they stay here, they will die! ”

Lu Chuan, who was well aware of the situation, stepped forward to explain, and pointed to the blazing fire on the top of the hill and said: "The battle here should have been awakened by Zuo Jinhu, and he may have been sharpening his knife and feeding horses, preparing to rob him. It's just that I don't know the situation of the forces, so I can't watch it. ”

"I see, it's a bit difficult to do."

Li Tai frowned when he heard this, the main goal of his trip was to collect Jihu's war horses, and the most advantageous situation was undoubtedly to quietly attack these tribes through guerrilla warfare, and obtain enough horses when they were defenseless.

A thousand war horses is not too much, but it is not too much, and Hu Bu of a similar size has to get at least two or three to be counted. Exposing it too early will add many unpredictable variables to the next action.

What's more, there is also a Hu chief Liu Zhenqiang who has returned from the Eastern Wei Dynasty in this realm, and the size of his power is unknown, and he may have gathered a lot of people in secret, and if he meets him head-on, it will be exciting.

But then again, if the strong soldiers of Hu Bu Ding near the left are attracted here to take advantage of the fire, the remaining forces will inevitably be insufficient, and if they can be interspersed to avoid frontal engagement, the looting will naturally be smoother.

In short, this situation is a coexistence of crises, and the risks are certain, but it is not worth worrying too much.

After repelling Jihu's attack, the city fell into a dead silence, thinking that there were too many casualties and a little discouraged.

But Li Tai didn't want them to be too comfortable, and after a short rest, the team began to prepare for the attack.

Outside Tucheng, there are many slaves who have not had time to gather in a hurry, about more than 300 people, there are not many real Han people, and there are also many Qiang genera. But these mature beards that have been attached for many years are no different in the eyes of Ji Hu, and they are all called Hannu.

His subordinates still have to maintain their combat effectiveness, and Li Tai does not exert any spirit of great love and boundless love, so that these rescued slaves can work harder, cut down trees in the south plateau, and make some simple siege equipment.

These slaves were also very positive about this, and Jihu didn't treat them as human beings at all, and their hearts were full of hatred, wishing that Jihu in the city would die.

What's more, although Li Tai also enslaved them, he would also let them fill their stomachs, and the cattle and sheep scattered around could be eaten, and many slaves never dreamed that they would have the opportunity to eat meat for the rest of their lives.

The crowd cut down and built it with all their hands, and soon created two long ladders. When the long ladder was erected at the head of the earthen wall, it was as if oil had fallen into the fire, and the city was in a commotion, and many soldiers gathered here.

Seeing this, Li Tai was no longer in a hurry to attack the city, and took advantage of the fact that the Hu soldiers gathered more and more, and let people throw torches into the wall, and a louder commotion suddenly sounded inside the wall, and the smell of burnt was clearly audible.

The freed slaves were also very happy when they saw this, and without waiting for Li Tai to continue to command, they carried the long ladder to another section of the city wall, and waited until the Hu pawn was attracted to him, and took the initiative to set fire to it.

After a few encounters, the Hu pawns in the city also learned wisely, began to pour ointment, and took the initiative to set fire to the ladder. For a while, the sections of earthen walls were flickering with firelight, illuminating the area like daylight.

After Li Tai saw this, he simply asked people to pick up the corpse of Jihu that remained outside and threw it into the fire, and took the initiative to add fire and materials.

In this way, the morale of the Tucheng people was greatly damaged, and seeing the flesh and blood of their relatives being devoured by the tongue of fire, the fear and hatred of the Jihu in the city also surged.

Not long after, another team of Jihu soldiers came out from within. This time, Li Tai no longer sent troops to fight with him, but sent twenty cavalrymen with horse armor to kill the thief formation.

Twenty horsemen are like killing gods, there is no need to dodge the Jihu arrow knife at all, and the horse lance in his hand is swinging as much as he can, which can no longer be described as a battle, it is completely a one-sided slaughter!

These Jihu soldiers were originally inspired by anger and had the tendency to mourn to the death, but at this time, the bow and knife in their hands were extremely weak, and the slash of the battle was not enough to break the armor, but they were injured when they were touched.

Such a huge gap makes people desperate, and the so-called hatred and death have only become deaths, because they are no longer facing those unarmed and slaughtered Hanhu slaves, but real strong soldiers.

There were a lot of pawns who rushed out this time, but no matter how turbulent the impact of the crowd was, it was just a wave of stones, only to pieces, and the twenty armors were still steadily advancing.

Seeing the increasing number of deaths of their companions, the pawns began to flee to the left and right, but they were greeted by merciless slaughter. Li Tai led the rear, with Gu Jia as the forerunner, and stopped all the fleeing Hu pawns, and for a time even the land in front of the city gate became muddy under the water of flesh and blood.

Gu Jia crashed directly into the city gate, and the light cavalry and foot soldiers in the rear also poured in, and the men and women left behind in the city were even more panicked.

"Split up!"

Li Tai led more than a dozen people and rushed directly to a place where there was still a tendency to gather stubborn resistance, and slashed several people in a row, killing them and scattering them.

After the destruction of the city, the Hu soldiers were completely desperate, many of them wanted to flee over the wall, and they were surrounded and killed by the rangers outside the city and the rescued slaves one by one, and very few were able to escape from this killing field.

The fires in the city's warehouses rose to the sky, and this was a part of the Hu soldiers who saw that there was no hope of escape and set fire to the materials. The light of the fire pointed out the direction of the enemy entering the city, and the men and horses from all sides gathered, and the bows and knives threatened the remnants of the Hu people to throw themselves into the flames, stop the spread of the fire, and salvage some of the supplies.

Another half an hour passed, and the resistance in the city was completely suppressed, and the remnants were gathered. Originally, there were more than 3,000 people in the tribe, but now there are only 4 or 500 people left, and most of them are old and weak, women and children, and most of the strong soldiers died in battle.

Ji Hu's fighting spirit was not so tenacious, but the attack was too sudden, and the best time to escape was missed, and Li Tai did not try to recruit the prisoners at all, so that they had no escape and no hope of survival.

After fighting in the middle of the night, the men and horses were exhausted. Cleaning up the battlefield had those rescued slaves to do the work on their behalf, and Li Taixian took a break from the communist troops, interrogating information and collecting seizures by the way.

This Jihu is not weak, out of a population of more than 3,000, Ding Zhuang accounts for seven or eight hundred, which is already a very healthy population ratio structure among the Jihu tribe, and it is precisely because of this that it is qualified to occupy the resting place with excellent resources in Woxiong Ridge.

There are also a lot of materials accumulated in the city, although some of them have been burned when the city is broken, but there are still several large warehouses of grain, cream, furs and other important materials.

During the battle just now, Li Tai found that there was no shortage of leather and iron armor among the elite of those Hu Pawns, and the combat effectiveness revealed was also slightly considerable.

The people and horses are strong, and a lot of materials have been accumulated in this year, if it were not for the coincidence that Li Tailai attacked and exterminated the clan in late autumn, this winter may usher in a period of rapid development, and it is even possible to grow into an upper-middle tribe.

There are no account books in the Jihu tribe, and there is no time to carefully count the materials, and looking at the size of their stables, the cattle and sheep are about three to five thousand heads. The most important horses were nearly 500, and there were nearly 300 people with strong teeth and feet who could serve as war horses.

Thinking about the fact that when he entered the township last year, he quarreled with the county government for dozens of cattle and horses, and Li Tai suddenly had a sense of arrogance. Sure enough, fighting to nourish war is the only way to strengthen yourself, and he's too late!

The harvest is gratifying, but it's unrealistic to want to take it all away. He is now alone in the depths, with neither the response of the countryside nor the cooperation of friendly troops, and being too greedy will only put himself in danger.

Horses are naturally to be carried, which can greatly increase transport capacity and mobility. In addition, there are more than 200 cans of cream and some cheese to eat, and some fur and forage that are easy to carry are also brought. The rest of the cattle, sheep, grain, etc., are not easy to carry.

However, Li Tai did not plan to cheapen the Hu Bu who was surrounded by secret peeping, so he first sent the horse supplies and 200 troops to settle down in the vicinity to avoid being made dumplings. The rest of the supplies in the city were carried by cattle and sheep, driven down the hill, and the cattle were allowed to flee from all sides.

As for the freed slaves, he could not afford to give them more care, so he could only leave them some horsepower supplies and some bows and knives and weapons collected from Jihu, and let them move west to the banks of the Luoshui River.

The remaining Jihu captives, Ding Zhuang and the old man, all had their thumbs cut off and sent to those Hanhu people together with the women and children, whether they killed or retained them at will.

When everything was taken care of, it was already dawn. After the group made a cooking on the hill and had breakfast, they added firewood to increase the stove, and then went down the hill, and after the two places converged, they went north.

Last night, when I interrogated the prisoners, I learned that within a radius of nearly a few dozen miles to the left of Woxiong Ridge, there were still five or six large and small Hu tribes, all of which were nominally under the command of the chief of the Hu Hao clan in this realm. Most of these beards are distributed between the eastern and southern areas of Woxiong Ridge.

However, these news may not be accurate. Although Li Tai and the others deliberately detoured, they went more than ten miles north and encountered a team of more than 300 people.

When the scouts of the two sides met, they were a little surprised and embarrassed, and then they went back to report back. Although Li Tai and his entourage were also sleepy and lacking horses, in line with the momentum of losing people and not losing the battle, they directly rode their horses to chase after them, but they only saw the smoke and dust of the Hu pawns fleeing in the wilderness.

This is the more annoying thing about the killing, if they can't just cover it in their lair, they can sneak their pursuers out of half their lives.

"Go back to Lying Bear Ridge, let's guard the ditch and fish!"

After a little muttering, Li Tai ordered again. I left before to avoid the battle and recuperate, but the movements of the Hu soldiers were so frequent, and they were not familiar with geography enough.

Now his army is nearly one man and two horses, and its mobility has greatly increased, unless Jihu's army of thousands of people is surrounded on all sides, it is also possible to fight.

(End of chapter)