The terrain of Crouching Bear Ridge was already much higher than the surrounding plains, and last night it was in flames, even if it was more than ten miles away, it was clearly visible.

Although the weather has turned cold, it can basically rule out the possibility of the Hu people burning the mountains and forests on the plateau to keep warm, so since last night, there has been no shortage of people from Zuo near Hu to peep closely.

But because it happened so suddenly, these people didn't dare to get too close, especially the people who heard the sound of fighting faintly in the night wind were terrified.

At dawn, the figure of a man and a horse descended from the plateau. Those who were too close were spotted and chased by the armor soldiers who had descended the hill in advance, and those who were hiding farther away were difficult to discern the details, but it was also certain that the stronghold on the hill had been swept away.

Although this kind of situation is not common, it is not unusual, and the fact that the beard on the hill is swept away and killed is only due to their bad luck and lack of prudence, but it does not make people feel much of a cold lip and tooth.

In the early morning, a large group of men and horses marched down from the hill and disappeared between the ravines. The eyes and ears around them should have tracked and investigated, but the cattle and horses carrying materials that were driven down the hill attracted the attention of these strangers.

"There shouldn't be a lot of murderers on this road, and it's not a nearby force, so I can't carry too many supplies, so I abandoned ...... on the spot."

Those fools quickly came to this conclusion, and while trying to carefully collect the cattle and sheep supplies, they sent someone back to report the news.

Soon, there were more and more Hu people gathered here, and more than a dozen Hu people, large and small, looked at the cattle and sheep scattered among the valleys, but they were worried that the enemy was not far away, and they did not dare to openly snatch and possess them.

This situation lasted until noon, when another group of hundreds of Jihu warriors rode horses, led by a powerful Hu chieftain who arrived late because of the distance of the territory.

After the commander arrived at the scene, after asking about the situation, he said loudly: "Hao Balang used to be my guard officer, and now that his department is in trouble, I will definitely avenge him!" ”

Speaking fiercely, he did not order his subordinates to pursue the enemy, but ordered the cattle and sheep in the valley to be collected, it does not matter whether to take revenge or not, collecting the inheritance is the first task.

"It's a bit inappropriate for Duhou to do this, right? After all, it was we, the pioneers, who frightened the thieves, and the Duhou was already a latecomer, and the top of the hill had not yet been reached! ”

After looking at the cattle and sheep materials for a long time, how could they be willing to let others pick them up, seeing that the latecomers were like this, several leaders who arrived first shouted and obstructed.

Jihu has many Xiongnu remnants, and its internal canal commanders are also many of the old customs of the Huns.

Most of its chieftains often call themselves Shan Yu, or Zuo Xian Wang, and the big and small Qu Shuai are called ten thousand cavalry commanders, thousand cavalry commanders, anyway, no one admits that they are self-named according to the scale of their respective forces, and the title of Duhou is also a kind of mutated honorific title of the Xiongnu bone capital marquis, which is of little significance in itself.

Rebel Hu chiefs such as Liu Lisheng, who claimed to be the Son of Heaven, were still relatively unusual, and most Hu chieftains were still accustomed to looking for sources of authority from their ethnic sources.

There is no subordinate relationship between the tribes, and if there is any subordination, it is that the weak often have to lead the tribes to serve as the guards of the strong, and carry out activities such as hunting and plundering.

Chief Hu was a little embarrassed when he heard these shouts of questioning, and roared angrily: "This part is my old subordinate, and you have already offended me if you don't save me when you see the danger!" The thief is hard to find, I will avenge this ministry and kill you first! ”

The atmosphere became a little tense for a while, and at this time, there was a majestic sound of horses' hooves from far and near in the north, and you could tell that there were many people and horses by listening to the sound.

"Could it be that the thieves have returned?"

Hearing this shout, the expressions of everyone present changed, whether they came first or later, they didn't know much about the reality of the enemy who attacked and plundered this place, but they could kill this film without leaving any armor here, and there must be a lot of people.

The sudden movement of men and horses eased the atmosphere a little, and after a short groan, Chief Hu, who arrived later, ordered: "Go and find out who is coming!" ”

Li Tai led his troops to go and returned, and rested on the road for more than an hour before rushing here again, and the scouts also found the Hu tribes stationed in the ravine, although there were not many single men and horses, but if they were gathered, they exceeded them by nearly twice as many people, and there were more than 2,000 horses.

In other words, there are more than 2,000 horses in this realm alone, and if you can eat them all, the main task of this trip will be overfulfilled, of course, the premise is that you can eat them.

A team of Hu people rode up to meet them, shouting and interrogating from afar, and did not directly flee or fight, it seems that there are more people, and the courage of these Hu people is greater.

Li Tai groaned slightly, raised his hand and summoned Li Zhi to command: "Tell them that we are Liu Zhenqiang's subordinates, and we are here to investigate the matter of the official army killing Hu and Sweep Kou!" ”

"Is this okay?"

After Li Zhi heard this order, he was immediately stunned, and he couldn't turn around.

"Give it a try, and you can also find out how deep Liu Zhenqiang's collusion with Hu Zhong here."

Li Tai said with a smile, their group of people does not belong to the official establishment of the Western Wei army, although the military robe is relatively sophisticated, but it does not make people know what their identity is. The armor of the previous battles was also removed and put away, and there was no obvious marking.

During the battle of Liangwei Shayuan, Da Xiwu even rushed to the enemy camp to inquire about intelligence. The Jihu army is chaotic, and there is not even a specific and unified military number system, so it should be better fooled.

Li Zhi was still skeptical, but he still replied with a shout in a ridiculous voice, although the other party did not believe it, but he only drank and ordered them not to continue forward, and then turned around and returned to the confession.

Not long after, there was really a Chief Hu who led a member to report what happened here.

Li Tai instructed Li Zhi to respond a few words decently, and ordered these Hu chieftains to lead the troops to the plateau, while his party was stationed in the same place, and caught a few sheep nearby and started an open-air barbecue.

This kind of self-assured style is more convincing than the previous one-sided words, and those Hu chiefs really believed Li Tai's nonsense and began to lead the crowd to ascend one after another.

Of course, they did not completely relax their vigilance, and still left hundreds of cavalry in the ravine on the left side of the hill to hold them back, in case they made any abnormal moves.

This situation also shows that the Liu Pingfu family still enjoys a lot of prestige and appeal in Jihu, but they cannot directly control and command these Hu tribes, and the connection between them is not close enough, and they don't even know what the military appearance and power of Liu Zhenqiang's troops are.

In this rather strange situation, Li Tai and the others rested at a barbecue on the north side of the plateau, while those Hu chieftains began to investigate up and down to search for the situation of the enemy who had been massacred.

A few roasted whole sheep were quickly eaten, and seeing that Ji Hu on the other side gradually relaxed his vigilance, Li Tai also sent a dozen people around the hill from time to time, making a gesture of careful search.

At this time, there was a fight and scolding on the plateau, and Li Tai signaled Li Zhi to lead dozens of subordinates to ride horses to the plateau to investigate, and soon replied that it was a dispute over the uneven distribution of spoils on the plateau.

Last night, there was a fierce battle, Li Tai and others did not stay for a long time, the cattle and sheep can be dispersed, but they still left a lot of materials, these beards are poor and evil, geese have plucked their feathers, so they scavenged on the plateau, naturally not angry with you more and less with me.

The Hu soldiers who stayed on the plateau couldn't hold back after seeing this, and gradually climbed the plateau in batches, but then the Hu people arrived one after another, and the Hu people gathered near the left saw that they were about to break through three thousand.

"This situation is a bit uncontrollable!"

Li Tai sighed secretly in his heart, seeing that a team of 100 Hu people was transporting the materials on horseback, and attracted the envy and onlookers of some latecomers, he directly ordered: "Recruit that Hu Bu over, and say that Liu Zhenqiang will preside over the distribution of spoils for them!" ”

Li was also a little floating at this time, and for the first time he found that he could still play like this, he did not question Li Tai's orders at all, and directly led a hundred people to the front to intimidate these Hu Zhong orders.

"I'm not Liu Danyu's ministry, so I don't need to obey orders!"

When those nonsense people heard this, they were upset, and they glared and shouted.

"Dog slave bold! Even Hao Wanqi has to be ordered by my lord, not to mention these slaves! ”

When Li Zhi heard this, his face was furious, and he whipped him with a sense of substitution, grabbed the man's shirt and approached and reprimanded: "Fool, the captain is rescuing you!" Later those thief eyes will tell you about first-come, first-served? There is a deterrent from the captains of my family, they don't dare to move, and afterwards you all return to your department, just remember to be just kind and righteous. ”

The pawn was shocked and suspicious, but seeing that Zuo Jin's gaze was indeed not good, he didn't have time to distinguish whether Li Dao's coercion and temptation were true or false for a while, so he obediently followed and went to the north side of the plateau.

Seeing that it was working, Li Tai was immediately overjoyed, and when the group of Hu soldiers approached, he immediately ordered all of them to be arrested.

This move naturally attracted the attention of the surrounding crowd, and he used Li to shout to the crowd: "You wait for all the departments to come here to save the danger, all of them are full of righteousness, how can you get nothing because you are far behind others because of the long distance!" Liu Shan is in a fair ruling, those who come have a share, and they will receive it! ”

The latecomers were originally suspicious of the origin of their group, but after hearing Li Zhi's shout, they all high-fived and cheered, and when they sent their personnel to receive the supplies, their support was even more overflowing.

Chief Hu, who was still fighting on the plateau, was naturally very angry when he learned that his subordinates had been robbed, and he didn't care about collecting any more materials, so he directly led the rest of the people to go down to the hill to snatch back.

But as soon as they got off the hill, the other Hu people on the hill rushed up and threw the leader and the rest of the people in front of Li Tai and the others.

Seeing this, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that he really had a lot of help from those who had attained the Tao, and Ji Huli also had good comrades and the value of the united front, so he was even more enthusiastic about speaking fairly, as long as I, "Liu Duwei", were here, today's Woxiong Ridge would not tolerate injustice!

But how difficult it was to be fair, and soon those Hu chiefs who ascended the plateau first gathered their troops and confronted each other violently.

Li Tai ordered to kill the one hundred and ten Hu pawns who had just been captured, and Li Zhi also cooperated and shouted in Ji Hu language: "In the old years, Liu Danyu commanded Haoqiang, don't dare to disobey!" The same shall be true of those who disobey the order. Dismount and line up, if these greedy soldiers do not hand over the materials, they will not be allowed to go down! ”

"Shan Yu! Shan Yu! ”

This name alone makes the Humen under the slope obsessed, not to mention that it is also related to their own interests, these Humen are also noisy to get off the horse and enter the front to congest the intersection, and the Huhu on the slope is not allowed to go down.

Although the slope has the advantage of the people, but there is a righteous army at the bottom of the slope, Li Tai enthusiastically led the crowd into the front to press the formation, and led the horses of the soldiers under the slope to the side, clearing out a battlefield.

As the two sides confronted each other in this way, the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger, and gradually there was a tendency to escalate from verbal abuse to physical conflicts.

Li Tai and the others took hundreds of mounts, and then ordered their subordinates to start putting on armor and preparing for battle.

However, at this time, another group of dozens of strong and mighty Hu pawns galloped into the valley, and shouted loudly in front of them: "Hao Wanqi is coming, you wait for the hurry to meet you!" ”

Li Tai didn't understand the nonsense, and after listening to Li Zhi's explanation, he secretly said that it was not good, there were many people here, and there was also a bloody atmosphere, which naturally attracted the attention of the herald Hu pawn, and when the other Hu pawns informed them of their identities, the Hu pawn commander's face changed sharply: "Nonsense, Liu Danyu is ...... at all"

An arrow came head-on, blocking the shouting of the Hu pawn, and Li Tai led the crowd forward, shot at the Hu pawns who were still a little unclear about the situation, and then fled north on his horse. If you don't run, you can't do it, the fucking big boss of this realm is coming!

(End of chapter)