Although Li Tai's attack on Zuoguo City did not experience any difficult battles, when the news spread through Liu Aqi's troops in the Lishi area, the response was very enthusiastic, and many Jihu people flocked to it.

At the same time, Han Guo's search for and gathering the scattered Jihu masses in the area was also very effective. And as more and more people gathered, this effect also increased exponentially, and when the two sides converged in Zuoguo City, the gathered Jihu crowd far exceeded 10,000.

There are more than 10,000 people, there are no boundaries, Li Tai has no scribes to accompany him on this trip, and there is no way to organize the army, and the internal clan relations of these scattered Jihu have also been destroyed, and it is really difficult to count the specific number.

With so many people coming together, the destructive power is staggering. When Li Tai came to attack Zuoguo City before, he didn't have time to touch the dock walls he saw along the way, but when the Jihu tribe all over the mountains and fields flocked in, those dock walls were suddenly flooded with people.

Zuo Guocheng has been abandoned for a long time, and it has no other value except for some spiritual appeal in the Jihu group. If you gather a large number of people here for a long time, eating right away will become a big problem.

Therefore, the next step is to quickly choose a target for these people to attack, not only to let them vent their hatred and anger after being brutally persecuted by the Eastern Dynasty for several years, but also to obtain enough food to survive.

In order to meet these two points, it is obviously not possible to leave the stone area, and it is necessary to cross Luliang Mountain to the opposite side.

There are also two routes to choose from, the first is to continue north along Lishishui to reach the Red Ridge of Lishishan in the north, enter the Xiurong area and then turn eastward to kill Jinyang!

The second is to go southeast from Lishi, rush into the hinterland of Fenzhou through the Huangqi Ridge, break through a series of fortifications such as Liubi City, and then you can wash the rich Fenshui Basin in the south of Jinyang.

The two routes have their own advantages and disadvantages, and after some discussion with Han Guo, Li Tai still decided to choose the second route to the south, and Han Guo led these Lishi Hu people to cross the Huangqi Ridge to attack the cities of Fenzhou.

First of all, the route was shorter, with few difficulties and dangers on the way, and only when you reached the border between the mountains and the plains did you encounter a series of fortifications arranged by the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

And rushed here, for the Lishi Huzhong, the rear is a rugged and difficult mountain, it is not easy to retreat, but in front is the rich Fenzhou River Valley, just rush over to eat a large piece, then the fighting spirit will undoubtedly be more firm.

This realm of Fenzhou is located on the main artery of the supply line of the Eastern Wei army attacking Yubi City, once it is invaded here, it must be something that needs to be taken seriously, whether it is the Jinyang Tyrant Mansion or the Gao Huan army on the Yubi front, it cannot be ignored, and it needs to be solved as soon as possible.

In this way, the forces around Jinyang will be further withdrawn, further weakening its defensive capabilities. And Li Tai could wait for the opportunity and rush out of the Luliang Mountains along the North Road, causing a substantial collision to Jinyang.

He didn't expect to be able to really shake the defense of Jinyang City, but as long as he ran to Jinyang City and sprinkled a soak of urine and wrote a visit here, it would be a great feat, and when he returned to Guanzhong, he would be able to blind the dog eyes of those Beizhen veterans!

You have been fighting for life and death for so many years, have you ever touched the city wall of Jinyang City since you entered Kansai? It's exciting just thinking about it!

So after Han Guo and Liu Aqi grabbed food, grabbed money and took revenge, the Jihu masses went to the southeast in a mighty way.

People are really strange, there must be thousands of hearts and eyes in the blink of an eye between two or three people, and no one wants to make anyone, but the more people, the better it is to fool, and instill anything is full of enthusiasm, full of heroism, and it is not a problem to slaughter gods and destroy Buddhas.

Therefore, if you want to be a leader, you must have a conscience, and Li Tai can't say how much of these Hu people will be left after this turmoil.

Of course, even if Li Tai has a conscience and can give Jihu less, the only thing he can do is to seize the opportunity to make as many lively spots around Jinyang as possible, so that even if Gao Huan sends troops back to help, the first destination must be the more important Jinyang rather than the more important anti-Hu strongholds such as Liubi City.

At the same time that the Jihu people were rolling south, Li Tai was also constantly sending scouts to explore the north along the Lishishui, on the one hand, to monitor the movements of the Eastern Wei people and horses in the Xiurong area, and on the other hand, naturally to grasp the terrain.

At present, he is fighting in the enemy territory, and he has to act separately from Han Guo, a human navigator, so he naturally needs to master more geographical elements in order to avoid low-level mistakes made due to unfamiliar terrain as much as possible.

What makes Li Tai feel strange is that he broke through Wutu City in the first place, and then took Zuoguo City, and a short period of time has passed, and it is estimated that the big brother has to go through several moves with Wei Xiaokuan in Yubi City, but there is still no obvious movement of people and horses in the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the north, and the scouts sent by him are not even as many as those sent by himself.

This situation is also a bit abnormal, either Gao Huan has transferred too many troops south, so that the surroundings of Jinyang are only enough to protect themselves, and the harassment of the outside world is powerless.

However, this is obviously impossible, although Gao Huan's move to go to Yubi is too strong, but it will not even abandon Jinyang's nest, do you really want to have a limit with Yuwentai?

The remaining people around Jinyang should still be considerable, so Li Tai can't understand what kind of routine this is. Even if ordinary people feel itchy, they have to pick up their clothes and scratch lice, but now they are a little ignorant of him, is Lao Tzu not as powerful as lice?

Or maybe Jinyang wants to defend and maintain stability in the north, but he starts from below to dig back and forth in the Lishi area. If this is the case, it can be in Li Tai's arms, and he happened to collide with Lishihu who went south. Even if they are invincible to Shihu, they can still be bloody.

This also shows that in the eyes of the defenders of Jinyang, these intruders do not dare to leave the stone mountain and invade Jinyang, so Li Tai really has to raise the bar and can't lose the battle!

So after a few days of leaving Shihu Zhongnan, it was estimated that the front should have crossed the Huangqi Ridge, and Li Tai led two thousand cavalry along the Shishui Ridge, whether he could attack Jinyang all the way to the first place, first occupy the fortress of Xia Chi Ling, and grasp the initiative to advance and retreat.

When Li Tai's troops advanced northward, more than 6,000 Hu merchant armies who had completed the agglomeration and integration in Malingshu also arrived at Xiurong City in a mighty south, and took a short rest outside the city.

Six thousand Hu merchants were armed in front, and Yan Zixian personally led three thousand elite Jinyang soldiers behind, nearly 10,000 horses marched along the mountain road, limited by the terrain lined up into a long snake, on both sides are lofty mountains, giving people a serious sense of visual oppression.

The valley between the two mountains is located in a deep ravine, and the soil is red in the sunlight, hence the name. Both sides of this valley are strong walls, only this valley bottom can go north and south, in the north of the pass narrow above the fort, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you add to grasp it is equivalent to master this pass.

Both sides came straight to this pass, and both discovered each other's dynamics at the same time.

Not to mention what those Hu Shang armed people felt, when Li Tai learned that nearly 10,000 troops on the opposite side were coming here, he suddenly cursed in his heart, damn it? Obviously there are so many men and horses, but they still refuse to send troops to attack, and wait until they lead their army to the north to meet and block their way, what kind of evil is this?

He was a little annoyed and unwilling in his heart, although he didn't know how to allocate the troops left behind in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it was definitely not easy to gather these nearly 10,000 horses.

It must be known that as soon as the war starts, it is an incinerator, and the base camp of Jinyang will meet the material consumption of the front-line army at the same time, it will be difficult to support the defenders of the brigade in the city.

Therefore, these nearly 10,000 horses should be a result of all the mobilization forces of the Jinyang Bafu in the near future, and it will not be easy to gather so many in the short term.

Therefore, Li Tai only needs to wait patiently for a few days, and when this group is attracted to the south by the news of the Fenzhou Raiders, then he will not be hindered from advancing north. He wanted to fight a time difference between the north and the south, but he didn't expect to be beaten by the other party. After defeating the more than 2,000 people in their own department, these nearly 10,000 horses and horses went south to attack Shihu with their backs, and they could completely catch up!

Sure enough, you can't underestimate the heroes of the world, Li Tai sighed in his heart, there are masters left behind in Jinyang, and just the choice of a fighter includes the consideration of dealing with various variables.

The other party came earlier, he could rely on the tens of thousands of Ji Hu piles to stop them, and if he came later, he could directly rush out of the Chi Ling Ridge and go to the waves around Jinyang, so that he would not dare to move lightly.

But now that I've encountered it, it's superfluous to think about anything else. Although the brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, but this open valley space is also enough to arrange troops, he has seen the combat effectiveness of the elite of the Jinyang soldiers, and does not feel that his more than 2,000 people can defeat the elite of the other party several times his own, and it is the right plan to withdraw slowly while he has not yet officially contacted the battle, it seems that this soaked urine still has to be brought back to Suizhou.

Although he had already made a rational decision in his heart, Li Tai was still a little unwilling, and the pro-communist scouts stepped forward to see what opponent they were forced to retreat by, and the next time they came back, they might have to go to the grave of the big brother.

However, when he entered the middle of the Chizhiling Valley, after the people and horses on the opposite side poured into his field of vision, he was stunned for a moment, the scattered formation, the wild dogtooth line, how could there be a little bit of the elite state of the Jinyang soldiers?

Li Tai even suspected that he had seen it wrong, and continued to ride forward a distance, pinching his thigh by the way, but the other party's formation still did not change as far as he could see, this was by no means an elite Jinyang soldier, it was a group of rabble who got it out of nowhere.

What a bullshit master, look down on Lao Tzu! Li Tai turned his horse back, and after returning to his own position, he ordered the soldiers to put on their clothes and prepare to collect vegetables.