The wind was howling, and hundreds of knights were riding their horses slowly through the frosty, uneven wilderness, it was none other than Yang Zhong and his subordinates, who had arrived here a few days earlier.

But at this moment, the appearance of this group of people was a little embarrassed, their robes were disheveled, their military appearance was untidy, and some soldiers did not even carry basic ordnance such as bows and knives. What's more, even on horseback, they are unstable, depressed, and crumbling, and they have to be tied to the horse's back with leather ropes, and they need the help of their left and right robes.

These centaurs still have all kinds of blood stains on their bodies, they should have experienced fierce battles, and the blood stains on their bodies can't tell whether they are their own or the enemy's.

After receiving the news, Li Tai, who went out to answer the news, couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw their appearance after meeting this group of people, and hurriedly came to Yang Zhongma and asked, "Yang Yuanjun, what accident did you encounter?" Is the loss serious? ”

Yang Zhong followed his advice and led his troops to this realm, but as a result, he and Li Mu's two teams lagged behind Yang Zhong, if the other party suffered any major losses because of this, Li Tai felt guilty, even if Yang Zhong did not pursue it, he didn't know how to face Dugu Xin.

Yang Zhong waved his hand after hearing this, and a little smile appeared on his face: "Li Zhen doesn't have to worry, it's a bit of an accident, but the loss is not big." When he explored the thief's nest before, he found that one of the thieves was stationed in a disconnected position from the other armies, and he was worried that the thief army would adjust its vigilance and lose this opportunity, so he led the crowd to destroy it first. When leaving, he was intercepted by other bandits, and he had to get out after a battle. ”

"Yang Yuanjun is really brave! I sent a letter to invite the envoy to come to help in the war, but I couldn't come in time, but I let the envoy fight alone in the army of thieves Hu, I'm really sorry! ”

Li Tai was also taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly clenched his fists and said, I really didn't expect Yang Zhong to be such a tiger, watching his battle only a few hundred people, but there are tens of thousands of Shuofang Hu and Lishi Hu people distributed in the surrounding area, and in the absence of friendly forces, he dared to go straight to the thief camp and break it, and successfully escaped, worthy of being the last elder of Wuchuan.

Although Li Tai also had the experience of hundreds of guerrilla bandits, he mainly relied on mobility to shoot and change places, and he had been evading the pursuit and attack of the main force of the thief army, but he was not so wild that he relied on that little man to go straight to the Jihu army.

Even if he has any risky moves, he either has a strong purpose and his own strength is insufficient, and he needs to be small and big, or he is forced to helplessly, and he is still a very cautious person in his bones.

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After all, for him, who is familiar with the historical context, he has his own plan for his life, and he often has one more dimension to consider people and things. With such a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, if he were to choose to do this like Yang Zhong, he would at least be able to seize the temptation and reward of Gao Huan to this extent.

Yang Zhong's people and horses have traveled a long way to the area along the Yellow River in Xiazhou, and they have fought several battles with enemy troops more than ten times their own body, and the current state is really worrying, and even some war horses need to be bloodlet to maintain their mobility, but it is only an overdraft of the vitality of the war horse, and there is almost no possibility of survival in this cold environment.

Seeing this, Li Tai stopped talking nonsense, and while ordering people to return to the camp first to prepare enough tents and supplies, he led Yang Zhong and his party back to the camp, and on the way sent a team of men and horses to summon the rest of Yang Zhong's men and horses hidden near the left to converge.

In the camp, Yu Wengui and Li Mu learned that Yang Zhong led his troops to arrive, and they also hurriedly went out of the camp to greet them.

Because of the rush into the thief camp and the rush of time, Yang Zhong's men and horses did not dare to stay for a long time to collect the spoils, but only cut off the head of the master of the thief camp they had broken and brought it out.

When Yang Zhong ordered the thief's head to be taken out and washed, Li Tai also ordered Liu Kuzhen and several other thieves who had arrived with the army to enter the camp to identify and determine the identity of this unlucky man.

After Liu Kuzhen entered the camp, he saw the head placed on the eucalyptus, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed uncontrollably, and couldn't help dancing on the spot, until Li Tai scolded twice, he didn't dare to continue to let loose the wreckage, knelt on the ground and still explained with a happy face: "Tell the governor and the generals, this deceased is named Liu Man, my half-brother, because he is the eldest among the brothers, he managed some clan affairs a few years ago, and a group of clan minions were driven by it, and even wanted to assassinate me." My father has always been wary of him......"

The relationship between the old father and the eldest son is quite delicate, and it is generally not easy to deal with, and if it involves the inheritance and distribution of power and interests, it will contain a huge crisis.

After listening to Liu Kuzhen's explanation, everyone understood why this unlucky guy was camped in the core area but could not effectively coordinate with all the friendly forces, and it turned out that the root was here.

It can also be seen that Yang Zhong's eyesight is accurate and observant, even if he doesn't know the inside story of these people, he can just find a suitable target and successfully kill and retreat.

In addition to these results, Yang Zhong, who arrived in advance, also investigated the distribution of the thief army in this area, which greatly saved the time of several coalition forces to conduct reconnaissance again.

After a simple meal, Yang Zhong began to tell what he knew about the thief.

At this time, most of the Shuofanghu and Lishihu remnants who harbored evil intentions and did not obey the control of Xiazhou had been driven to this area near the Yellow River, and there were large and small tribal forces distributed in the wilderness within a radius of dozens of miles, at least fifty or sixty thousand people.

The vast majority of these Hu people were not born in this area, but were driven or migrated here, and their geographical environment was not as familiar as their original homeland, and the cold environment greatly limited their ability to migrate and escape.

If these hues can be successfully besieged, killed or captured, then the northern states and counties will be spared another large-scale hukou nuisance for years to come. Although northern Shaanxi is the survival paradise of Jihu, which is deeply rooted and difficult to completely purge, it takes a certain amount of time for the natural growth and growth of Jihu, including the wandering of Hu in other realms into this realm.

Speaking of such a prospect of victory, several people present were very excited. They are also fed up with the continued entanglement and fighting with these Jihu tribesmen, even if they can win and remain undefeated, the credit is not prominent enough, and in most cases, the thief Hu does not have enough oil and water, and every time they fight, the final calculation is not worth the loss.

Yang Zhong described the distribution of thieves and horses in this realm.

Considering that Lishihu has suffered heavy losses in Dongxia Prefecture and Xi'an Prefecture, and can still maintain such a scale of men and horses, it should be that some of the defeated troops have successfully escaped back to this realm, which shows that the life of the past year or so is not without gains, and has accumulated relatively deep experience.

Shuofang Hu is scattered around Lishihu, some of them are also more than 10,000 people, and the small tribes are only a few hundred, and the internal integration situation is very worrying, and there is no powerful chief who can intimidate the masses and command all the tribes.

After the coalition of several parties met, the strength of the troops was also considerable.

Among them, the largest number of troops is Yu Wengui's Xiazhou people, Xiazhou is the most powerful state in the northern states, and it is more convenient to be a landlord, after the thief army suffered a heavy blow and lost the initiative on the battlefield, the courage of the wealthy chieftains in Xiazhou has also become stronger, and they have actively responded to Yu Wengui's call, and the people and horses gathered have reached more than 15,000 people.

Li Tai and Li Mu's coalition army had more than 7,000 entrants, Li Tai brought 3,000 people, and the rest returned to Heishui Defense in the south with some of the loot obtained outside Guangwu City, in case Heishui Hu in the border took advantage of the war in Beizhou and made trouble.

Yang Zhong brought the least number of people, less than a thousand, but no one blamed him for this.

The Yanchi in Xi'an Prefecture was already under great defensive pressure in the autumn and winter, and it was necessary to maintain a considerable number of men and horses in the territory to deter Xiaoxiao, and Yang Zhong's willingness to come to help in the battle was already a surprise. What's more, Yang Zhong's station is the farthest away from this realm, but it arrives the fastest, and it also provides important information about the thieves and destroys one of them, which can't be called paddling in any way.

After some discussion, it was decided that the troops would march in separate directions, so that as many of the thieves and horses could be driven into the encirclement. Xiazhou has the most people, so they are responsible for the most directions, and Li Mu is also eager to make meritorious contributions and take the initiative to win the attack and encirclement in the south.

The rest of the men and horses were handed over to Yang Zhong to command, as a reserve force to deal with the various sides, and if the battle was too fierce, Yang Zhong led the army to support. Yang Zhong's headquarters, plus the 2,000 troops handed over to him by Li Tai, Yu Wengui transferred more than 2,000 people to make up 5,000 men.

Li Tai was not in charge of a specific combat mission, and he did not feel disappointed or distrusted by others.

After the first battle outside Guangwu City, he had clearly felt that his battle formation experience had reached a bottleneck period, and simply fighting with an opponent of Jihu's level could no longer bring significant improvement, so when assigning combat tasks, he was not too active in striving for it.

After all, it was freezing on this day, and instead of lying in the snow and drinking ice outside, it was better to stay in the base camp and sleep on the stove. And there is also an illusion that the three generals are driven by themselves and lead the troops to fight for themselves, although at the moment his Lu has not hindered the boss, but it does not prevent him from living the addiction of being the boss in advance.