"Dadu Governor, the east of the valley mouth in front of you is more than ten miles away from the dry valley post. The last general arrived here the day before yesterday, and there was no trace of the enemy near the left side of the post road......"

In the valley, Li Zhi strode to meet Li Tai, who had just arrived in the valley with a large team, first briefly explained the latest situation, and then introduced a fellow Hu general to Li Tai: "This is Fei Lianmu, the commander of the southern garrison of Ganguyi, and the last general and others are selected to visit the camp for the army, and rely on the guidance of the main commander of the Fei Lian army." ”

The military lord named Fei Lianmu hurriedly saluted with his front fork, and said to Li Tai with a sincere face: "The thief army entered the territory of Kouzhou, and Governor Li Dadu led his troops to help without hesitation, and the soldiers of the lowly and subordinate battalions are deeply grateful, and they are willing to follow the Governor of Dadu to kill the thieves together!" ”

"It is incumbent upon you to kill the thief Jingbian, the military master of Fei Lian does not have to be polite, what is the current situation in Guangwu City? Can Wu Angong have a message? ”

Li Tai turned over and dismounted, while listening to the reports of Li Zhi and other forward scouts and Fei Lianmu, he commanded his men and horses to enter the valley and station.

This valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the south is a hill with a slope that is not too steep, but it is a more suitable place to station, which was originally a government-run pasture, and after the winter, the ranch personnel withdrew to Guangwu, so it was idle, but it could accommodate people and horses to be stationed temporarily.

Li Zhi and the others only arrived here the day before yesterday, and they didn't know too much about the situation, mainly to choose the camp and route for the rear army, and contact the local people in Dongxia Prefecture.

At present, there are still some armed forces in Dongxia Prefecture around the realm, some such as Fei Lianmu and others are generally duty-based, and some have not had time to withdraw to Guangwu City.

With the blockade of the surrounding area of Guangwu City by the thief army, they have all cut off contact with Guangwu City, and they do not know exactly what the situation in the city is, and the enemy information they can provide is also limited, but they have a very careful understanding of the surrounding geography.

In addition to the scouts' observations and the explanations of the local horses, Li Zhi and others also caught the eyes and ears of several scouts of the thief army, and submitted them together for Li Tai to personally interrogate them.

Most of these thieves and prisoners have been severely tortured and interrogated, and their attitude is not stubborn, and they almost answer all questions, but they have no valuable information after repeated confessions, and they are nothing more than from a tribe surnamed Liu, and they have followed the brigade of men and horses for many days to come here. It is not clear who the leader of them is, how many men and horses there are, and so on.

This is also a relatively normal situation, with more than 10,000 people and boundless borders, it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to have a clear and comprehensive understanding of the forces they are in. Some of the Hu soldiers were completely the personal property of the chief, and they only obeyed orders, and the news was even more closed.

Of course, it was not all without gains, although these captives did not know the general situation, they were still able to explain their camp life and situation clearly.

They are indeed from Shihu branch, at the beginning of this year embarked on the road of migration and wandering, tossing and turning between the river and the Fen West River area, has been indefinite, in the second half of the year all the way to the north and even once set foot in the original Wuchuan Town where the Mo Nan Bai Road is located, but after the autumn turned back, and crossed the south of the river not long ago.

In the process of this migration, at first, the food and drink of these tribal warriors could be provided regularly, but with the continuous consumption, the situation also deteriorated, and after the summer became the most difficult, the diet was almost unsustainable, many of the tribes, old and young, starved to death, and the size of the tribal team that traveled with them also decreased sharply. had no choice but to go all the way north, but before he could fully enter the Monan area, he was attacked by the Hu forces of Monan, and he could only return south again......

This experience sounded like a wolf-like and brutal thief, and it was clearly a poor person who was cornered and displaced.

Li Tai naturally did not have any sympathy for these thieves, but through the self-reports of several captives, he roughly outlined a context of the Eastern Wei Dynasty's attack on Shihu.

In order to ensure the stability of the surrounding area of Jinyang, Gao Huan made hard work, and frequently sent troops to attack Luliang Mountain, forcing Zhuhu in the mountains to move in order to avoid military disasters.

Although the Eastern Wei Dynasty was strong, it was obvious that these Lishi Hu, who were well versed in geography, did not suffer too cruel annihilation, but they had no fixed place to live and develop under the offensive of the Eastern Wei army.

As for why these Lishihu left the Luliang Mountains and went north to Monan, the prisoners couldn't explain clearly, and Li Tai didn't know very well.

But it is obvious that this is a stinky move, giving up the shelter of the Luliang Mountain region on which they depend, and it just so happens that this year Rouran married Gao Huan and played a pear flower pressed begonia, and the relationship between them is in a honeymoon period.

What is quite unpleasant is that after these uprooted Lishi Hus walked around for a long time, they probably still felt that this side of the river was soft persimmons, so they crossed the river and poured towards the Hetao area.

Li Tai also noticed that the entry of these departures from Shihu seemed to be received and aided by local indigenous forces, as several captives invariably mentioned that they had eaten a few full meals soon after crossing the river, and that the whole team had grown up, with many tribesmen who were not familiar with each other.

In addition to the confessions of the captives, the message transmitted by the Xia Zhou side also said that among these thieves, there were a considerable number of Shuo Fanghu involved. This one is really a trump card combination of the head snake and the transit dragon, a headache headwind.

Of course, most of these contents were made up by Li Tai through the limited information provided by the captives, and the real situation is uncertain, and there is still a lack of accurate judgment on the specific strength of the thief army.

Although it is said that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and not being defeated in a hundred battles, this is not a game of chess, how can there be so many clear battles in the world. Anyway, it's coming, what kind of opponent is it, or let's fight first.

Judging from the current situation, there should be no danger of Guangwu City falling in a short time, and Li Tai was also a little relieved, and was no longer in a hurry to march into the front and join forces with the defenders of Guangwu City, so as not to be reinforced by the thief army.

It is safer to pass the news of the arrival of reinforcements to the city as soon as possible, so that Li Mu can stay in the city with peace of mind, and he will establish a stable stronghold nearby, echoing with Guangwu City and containing the thief army.

At this time, whether it is marching or stationing in the field, the consumption of materials is very huge. Li Tai had the advantage of fighting at home, and he had to get the supply of grain and grass before he dared to order all the troops to go north and lead the troops to battle.

No matter what their specific strength is, these thieves are always flesh and blood, and they can't help but eat or drink. Moreover, a considerable number of them are from Shihu outside the country, and their own material reserves are already worried, as long as they can maintain a confrontation posture and do not let them have the opportunity to feed the war with war, they must be the first to collapse.

On the contrary, the sharp division that is now ignoring it is advancing lightly, first of all, it is not clear the specific strength of the enemy's army, and secondly, those who leave Shihu may have a tragic feeling of being put to death, and it is really difficult to predict what the battle situation will be. Wait until they can't hold it anymore and take the initiative to withdraw the troops, and then beat the water dogs, so that the results will be twice the result with half the effort.

Before all the soldiers entered the camp and settled down, Li Tai sent Mao Shi to insist on his warrant and led 600 light horsemen to the nearby Fushi City, taking over the defense of Fushi City, which was used to store the army's supplies and baggage and serve as a temporary base camp.

At the same time, he also sent the news of the arrival of reinforcements to the direction of Guangwu City, which is not too far from Guangwu City, if you are not afraid of exposure, you don't even need to send someone to run a distance, you can directly use the beacon smoke to contact.

There is a beacon tower to transmit news in the dry valley post, but because there were too few defenders here before, there was no information that had to be transmitted between it and Guangwu City, and the location was to be hidden, so the beacon tower has not been used.

Li Tai's thousands of troops have come here, naturally there is no concern about startling the snakes, even if the beacon smoke will expose the location to attract the thief army scouts to explore, you can also set up a killing array to hunt the thief army scouts, and this is one of Li Tai's goals.

It is true that they do not know the specific situation of the thief army, and the thief army is also at a loss for them, and the enemy who cannot see it is the most terrifying.

If you can ensure that the other party will never be able to detect all your strength, and at the same time have the distance and ability to rush and kill the enemy's camp at any time, the psychological pressure on the other party will undoubtedly be huge.

Therefore, when Fei Lianmu was ordered to return to the Dry Valley Station to prepare for the beacon fire, Li Tai also personally led hundreds of elite soldiers to follow him, and after exploring the surrounding terrain of the Dry Valley Station, Li Tai chose a suitable location for ambush and siege to ambush first, and then signaled that the beacon fire could be lit in the Dry Valley Station.

The condensed beacon smoke rose into the sky, and soon attracted all the eyes around the wilderness, and the first thing that reacted the most was naturally the defenders in Guangwu City, who knew best what the message was conveying, and had been looking forward to it for the past time.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived! Li Boshan really believes in people, worthy of entrustment, worthy of working with! ”

Looking at the increasingly thick beacon smoke in the direction of the dry valley station, Li Mu suddenly smiled, and the haze that he was worried about being surrounded by the thief army to block the retreat was swept away, and he slapped his hands hard, and said with a relieved face.

The generals next to him were also greatly relieved, although the information transmitted by Fengyan was limited, and they did not know for sure how many people came to help, but as long as reinforcements arrived, it was good news that could make people's hearts excited.

After praising Li Tai, who led his troops to help, Li Mu's face suddenly changed sharply, and he waved his hand to the generals and said, "Is the wine and meat in the stove?" Hurry, stop quickly, put away, the reinforcements have arrived, the advance and retreat will be calm, neither in a hurry to break through, the supplies still need to be used carefully, in order to be prepared to hold on! ”

Fortunately, he didn't remind him, this shout, the sound of killing sheep and chopping meat in the entire cooking stove camp suddenly became loud, and those cooking soldiers were racing against time to send these flesh and blood ingredients into the stove, and soon the city was filled with a rich smell of meat.

When he learned that the fresh meat and livestock in the city were all cooked according to his previous order, Li Mu couldn't help but scold these greedy foodie subordinates, but after all, it was his own order first, and it was not good to severely punish Ku Ding for a while, so he could only scold angrily while holding a huge clay pot and waiting for the meat to be cooked and opened.

The defenders of Guangwu City were able to overdraw the city's material reserves because of Li Mu's oolong order, and their morale was strong because of the arrival of reinforcements, and the whole city was filled with laughter.

The camp of the thieves outside the city was not peaceful enough, and the smoke that billowed up was like a sharp blade, until the commanders of Chief Hu, who thought that they had the chance to win and completely controlled the defenders of the city.

The existence of a single Fenglin City has made these thieves dare not dare to go out and storm Guangwu City.

Therefore, not long after the smoke rose, several cavalry scouts rushed out of the thief camp, either straight or in a roundabout way towards the direction where the smoke rose.

The ambush site of Li Tai and others is a gourd-shaped valley pass on the slope, in addition to thorns and weeds and other shelters on the slope of the stone wall, there are several broken grotto pits, there are some Buddha statue fragments and dry and hard beast feces in the grotto, the smell is not good, but it can finally hide from the wind.

Ever since he annihilated the Heishui Huzhong in Baiyu Mountain last year, Li Tai has always been deeply impressed by Yu Wengui's sharpshooter team that everyone can shoot a five-stone strong bow, and has always fantasized that he can also form one.

At present, the more than 200 people who are ambushing with him on the mountain walls on both sides are the seed players selected by Li Tai in the trilogy to focus on training, although they are not as skilled as the elites under Yu Wengui, but they are all at the level of being able to hold three stone bows in a row, and in this already relatively narrow valley mouth, and it is a condescending position, the lethality must be very impressive.

"Come, prepare!"

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves in the open valley, Li Tai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took his fingers into the deerskin pouch around his waist, pulled out a little solidified grease and groped it on his palms and bowstrings, and then put on his fingertips and pulled up the bowstrings.

Not long after, a cavalry squad of more than 30 people appeared outside the valley, and a Hu pawn took the lead in riding his horse, first taking a look at the situation in the valley, and did not find any valuable scenery and signs, nor did he find Li Tai and others hidden in the pit of the stone wall, and made a gesture to the rear to move forward with confidence.

These pawns were also cautious, except for one person who explored the road at the beginning, they also entered the valley in two groups, and left a few horsemen to guard the valley mouth after entering the back road.

But no matter how cautious they were, they were still exposed to the noses of Li Tai and the others, Li Tai took out his feather arrow and put it on the string, aimed at a sturdy target in the Hu cavalry team, and reluctantly shot the arrow, and at the same time shouted violently: "Kill!" ”

He slammed his body into the target's chest, knocking his stout body off the horse's back, one foot still hanging in an awkward position on the side of the saddle.

The stone walls on both sides of the valley mouth fell like rain, and in an instant, more than half of the Hu cavalry who entered the valley were shot, and those Hu pawns were also a little stunned when they were caught off guard, until the second round of arrow rain came again, and the survivors came to their senses and let out the roar of the alarm.

After killing most of the thieves along the way, Li Tai did not rush to lead the crowd out of this realm, but slowly moved along the mountain wall with his bow on his back, wanting to attract more thief scouts to the left and create an opportunity for the nearby troops to continue to encircle and annihilate the thief army.