As for the cavalry in the county soldiers, it is impossible to compare with these people, the so-called arrogant soldiers and fierce generals are connected, if it is not for the brave generals who follow all the year round, it is definitely difficult to have such momentum.

The camp of Wei Xuan and others was not far from the camp of the Xiliang soldiers, and many recruits stood at the gate to watch the excitement.

Wei Xuan looked at it for a while, and also felt why Zhang Jiao failed back then, even if the rabble was one million, in the open field, such a cavalry of thirty or fifty thousand could sweep all the way. Or Zhang will tell the smart to hide in the Black Mountain, so that you can't find it.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning the Xiliang cavalry marched towards Donglu with two days' worth of dry food, and Niu Fu handed over the 1,000 people arranged by Taishou Yinde to Wei Xuantong.

Wei Xuan led about 3,500 new and old soldiers, plus 1,500 people, and marched slowly towards Fuze.

As Niu Fu and the others expected, Hu Cai, who originally had five or six thousand people stationed in Donglu, heard that Dongyan, the ancestor of the Xiliang cavalry, was so frightened that he immediately gave up Donglu and fled to Haoze, leaving only Niu Fu and the others with an empty city. Niu Fu and others succeeded in recovering a county seat in Hedong without much effort.

When Wei Xuan set up camp that night, he received a messenger sent by Niu Fu, informing them that they would rest for a night in Dongqi and that they would send troops to Huze tomorrow morning, so that Wei Xuan could march according to the plan to ensure the supply of grain and grass.

The infantry from Jiangyi to Huze is about three days' journey, and the speed of the baggage team is slower, Wei Xuan is ready for four days, and at the same time constantly sends scouts to Xiangfen and Xiangling to investigate the movements of the thief soldiers, and now Wei Xuan is worried that in the face of the menacing Xiliang cavalry, the thieves will choose to escape into Wangwu Mountain, or the army will go north to plunder Yangxian, Huoshan and other places.

Especially with the latter option, the situation that they have worked so hard to maintain is likely to be ruined, and even the thieves may retaliate against Xiangling before heading north.

As a result, neither worry appeared, and the next night, as soon as Wei Xuan arranged for the personnel to patrol the camp, a scout from Niu Fu's army came to report, Niu Fu and others were ambushed by thieves about twenty miles away from the county seat of Huize and were defeated!

When Wei Xuan heard the news, the first thing that came to mind was that Yang Feng must have brought troops to Haoze, and sure enough, after asking in detail, the messenger knew that when they marched to a valley outside Haoze City that afternoon, they were ambushed on all sides. There are at least 10,000 thieves in each direction!

Niu Fu and others relied on their own bravery and the well-trained Xiliang cavalry to break through in the direction of Dongqiu, and after about an hour of bloody fighting, they finally retreated to Dongqi at the cost of losing about 2,000 people, and then prepared to wait for General Dong's army to arrive before entering the mountains to encircle and suppress.

Wei Xuan knew that it was mountainous all the way to Wangwu Mountain in the east, and he also told Niu Fu and others, but when he saw more mountains, he was paralyzed, but it was too unreasonable to be ambushed by thieves on all sides.

You must know that in a cavalry team of 5,000 people, there will be at least two or three hundred people as scouts, considering the mobility of the cavalry, the distance of the scouts is generally at least twenty miles, which means that when Niu Fu and others are ambushed, the scout strikers should have arrived under the city of Haze.

This is obviously the carelessness of everyone under the leadership of Niu Fu, the general, Sima, and the military marquis, even the scouts don't take these thieves in their eyes, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and the truth of the art of war is even more ancient.

The good news is that Niu Fu and the others led by them are battle-hardened soldiers after all, even if they are surrounded on all sides, they will at least kill seven or eight thousand thieves in the process of breaking through! It can be regarded as an effective killing and wounding of thieves.

After receiving the letter sent by Niu Fu, Wei Xuan sent someone to Dongwu overnight to ask Niu Fu's next step, he did not approve of Niu Fu waiting in Dongfu City, so he suggested that he should be with his own soldiers and advance slowly.

Niu Fu's reply was only at noon the next day when he arrived at Wei Xuan's camp, Niu Fu refused Wei Xuan's request, and asked Wei Xuan to send some of the baggage to Dongyun, and he himself had better return to Jiangyi, because if Wei Xuan was surrounded by thieves in the field, it would be difficult for them to send reinforcements in the first place.

Wei Xuan had no choice but to retreat in the direction of Jiangyi with the team, and at night, there were people lurking in the White Tiger Hall on the side of Dongqi to send the news, Niu Fujun entered the city two days before and after completely different, and the next day not only the number was much smaller, but almost everyone was injured!

The word that everyone was injured frightened Wei Xuan, and he could imagine the tragic scene of 5,000 cavalry being surrounded on all sides in the valley and struggling to break out of the encirclement.

Maybe that battle was also because Guo Tai, Yang Feng and others repeatedly boosted their morale before they had the courage to surround Niu Fu.

Everyone is injured, and this is also the reason why Niu Fu insisted on waiting for Dong Zhuo's army to arrive before entering the mountain, because his team is basically fighting at the moment.

Wei Xuan immediately hurriedly asked Pegasus to inform Xue Li of Xiangling and Xu Huang of Xiangfen, so that they could get ready, and Guo Tai and the others would definitely have high morale after defeating Niu Fu. If they learned that Niu Fu Turtle could not retreat, it was very likely that they would go north again to attack Xiangling and Xiangfen.

Although the numbers are not very accurate, after Niu Fu's breakthrough battle, there are still more than 30,000 thieves in the five bands! That's twice as much as when we attacked Anyi.

According to Wei Xuan's estimate, it is unlikely that the thieves will attack Anyi and Dongqi again in the short term, because although Niu Fu's losses are very large, the cavalry combat power is terrifying, and if it is in the plain area, 30,000 people may not be able to block the charge of 3,000 Xiliang iron cavalry.

Thinking that he was happy in vain, and everything had to rely on himself, Wei Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart, he did not retreat to Jiangyi according to Niu Fu's request, but went to Xiangfen, and now even if he fights Xiangling, he will keep Xiangfen in his hands.

He led his troops in Xiangfen, Niu Fu was in Dongyi, and Wei Xuan gambled that Guo Tai and others would not dare to attack Jiangyi or Anyi in the west.

Calculating the strength of his own side, Jiangyi is currently relying on 500 reinforcements from 3,000 Qingzhuang and Wenxi, and the total defensive strength has also reached 3,005.

The captives that Wei Xuan recruited during this time had brought out more than 3,000 recruits from Anyi City, adding up to nearly 7,000 people. Except for Xue Li, who assisted in the defense of Xiangling City, the remaining 6,000 people plus 1,500 people all returned to Xiangfen.

If he can persuade Niu Fu, he will definitely let him be stationed in Xiangfen with the cavalry, because starting from Xiangfen, the cavalry can reach any surrounding county in one day, but Wei Xuan can't be the master of Niu Fu, and he has no friendship before, and persuasion is futile. What he is thinking about now is whether to give up Xiangling and die to protect Xiangfen!

Guo Tai, Yang Feng and others gave Wei Xuan an answer again, because on the question of whether to attack Xiangfen or Xiangling, Yang Feng and Guo Tai and others had a disagreement again.

Without the presence of Niu Fu and the imminent pressure of Dong Zhuo's army, the thieves were also rushing for time. The previous Yang Feng proved that his decision was true, if Guo Tai and the others fought steadily according to the previous plan, the Bai Bo army would occupy at least six or more county towns before Niu Fu and the others arrived, or even more, even if they retreated to Huze or Yishi at that time, the troops would be at least 20,000 more, and there would be plenty of money and food. Tens of thousands of people are in Zhu, a county town with plenty of grain and grass, and Dong Zhuo is full of cavalry, so he may not be able to calculate the time to get them.

But there is no if, Mrs. Guo also regrets it, but she refuses to admit defeat because he is a general.

Speaking of money and grain, Mrs. Guo and the others insisted on retaking Xiangfen, because he believed that Wei Xuan's office must have hoarded the money and grain they looted in Xiangfen City during this time. Taking advantage of the new defeat of Niu Fu, Dong Zhuowei realized that it was worth the risk of recapturing the grain and the strategic place of Xiangfen.

Yang Feng's idea was that Xiangfen was too close to Dongqi and Anyi, and once it was formed, the power of the cavalry attacking the camp outside the city Guo Tai had already understood, Wei Xuan was only one hundred and fifty-six cavalry, and now Niu Fu had more than three thousand in his hands. Let's estimate the strength of Wei Xuan's hands when he set off from Anyi 5,000 people, the thief defenders in Xiangling and Xiangfen City are 2,000 each, according to half of the prisoners, it is 2,000, Li Lebu's 5,000 people are surrounded, according to the calculation of 2,000 prisoners, now Wei Xuan has at least eight or nine thousand people!

Yang Feng didn't think that those thieves still had any loyalty and fortitude after they were captured. Wei Xuan has so much money and food in his hand, take out a part of it, and he will not desperately defend the city. And Wenxi is so happy that Xiangfen is only a one-day marching distance, and it doesn't matter if someone else is the county order, but it is Wei Xuan's eldest brother Wei Qi! The best rent in the city, the Pei family and the Wei family have been married for generations, and the people in the city are at least 50,000, and it is not more difficult for you to raise three or four thousand recruits in a short period of time than Anyi!

Therefore, Yang Feng's conclusion was that it was unwise to take 30,000 people to attack Chen Chi, who had nearly 10,000 defenders, and to face the attack of 3,000 cavalry at any time, and basically had no chance of winning.

The correct method should be to hold Huze to delay Niu Fu's cavalry, and then concentrate on sweeping the north of the county, Xiangling is incidental, and north of Xiangling is Yang County, Huoshan, and Daning and other counties, and even try Pingyang, but you can't waste time under Xiangfen City. Because East Lake always walks hundreds of miles a day, maybe it will arrive in a day.

Yang Feng and Guo Tai and others were not all the way, seeing that Guo Tai was going to Xiangfen City to find death, he once again proposed to divide the troops into two ways, and his own 15,000 people lost more than 2,000 in the defense of Huze, leaving more than 2,000 people to guard the Yi clan, ready to take the remaining 10,000 people to plunder Xiangling again, and then go north to Yang County.

Mrs. Guo and the others couldn't keep Yang Feng, and they couldn't give up the only base in Huze, leaving 4,000 people and more than 1,000 people, and more than 18,000 people went straight to Xiangfen.

What Guo Tai and the others thought was that Xiangfen was not as high as Anyi, and there was not even a moat, so it should be much easier to attack than Anyi.

It's just that when they came to the outside of Xiangfen City, they were dumbfounded, the few trees that were already few had been cut down, and they didn't even have a decent stone left.

Xiangfen is close to the Fen River, which is a lower plain, and the terrain is also very favorable for cavalry. Guo Tai has also seen Niu Fu and others rush left and right after the cavalry was surrounded, and almost killed the elite of the entire Baibo Army.