Han Lian lost half of his men after being caught off guard by Niu Fu, but most of them fled to Yang Feng's central camp under his leadership, and then came to the front camp with a slight adjustment, plus the original 4,000 people, the entire front camp had nearly 8,000 thieves.

Although the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers was not as good as that of Liu Ming and others, they still succeeded in blocking this part of the men and horses in place, and were not able to break through to form an encirclement of the central battalion.

However, this situation was soon changed, and Wei Xuan and Xu Huang led people to attack from the east and west sides of the front camp respectively, which immediately caused local chaos. Because the combat effectiveness of both Xu Huang and Wei Xuan is a cut higher, and the numerical advantage of the previous thief soldiers has also been offset, in the case of not knowing how many officers and soldiers in the city will come out, and Yang Feng is not in the front camp, the courage of the thief soldiers is naturally insufficient.

At the same time, Niu Fu did not expect that the large camp in the east was more vulnerable than the camp of the thieves in the south, but these defeated thieves also chose to flee to the central camp. Obviously, these thieves had been explained in advance, and their refusal to flee easily was also a manifestation of military discipline.

When facing Yang Feng's hard bone again, Niu Fu was also unwilling, he led the cavalry, if he fought with the thieves within a range of dozens of steps inside and outside the camp, the cavalry's greatest advantage would not be brought into play.

So Niu Fu thought about trying his luck at the big camp in the west, but he found himself late, because it was also a place where there were at least six or seven thousand troops. In this way, if he chooses to attack this camp, he will face the flanking attack of Yang Feng's central battalion. Look at the north again, it is the most lively, I think it is Wei Xuan who took people out of the city, so he detoured to the north again, and sure enough, he saw that the front camp was brightly lit, and the scene of more than 10,000 people fighting together was very spectacular.

It's just that when Niu Fu arrived at the battlefield, the flag was also waving behind the front battalion, and Yang Feng's central battalion had all been dispatched to support. At the same time, a large number of men and horses also appeared in the Hu Cai camp in the west, and it was obvious that Yang Feng was preparing for a desperate decisive battle.

Of course, Niu Fu didn't want to be surrounded, so he found Wei Xuan, who was commanding his men to fight side by side with Xu Huang, and explained the situation on the battlefield to him.

At present, there are at least 24,500 thieves on the battlefield, and there are only more than 8,000 cavalry plus infantry.

Wei Xuan also lamented the importance of generals, and the soldiers led by Yang Feng were much stronger than Li Le or even Guo Tai. Of course, the most important thing is that the combat effectiveness of his own infantry is too weak, coupled with the lack of armor and the lack of that kind of decisive attack posture, if Wei Xuan now has three or five hundred heavy infantry in his hands and directly kills Yang Feng, he will definitely be able to completely disrupt the thief soldiers.

Since Niu Fu judged the situation and chose to temporarily withdraw his troops, Wei Xuan did not insist, and gradually withdrew from Yang Feng's front camp under the cover of Niu Fu's cavalry.

Subsequently, the infantry and Niu Fu's cavalry who went out of the city to fight all entered Xiangfen City. After taking inventory, this raid can be regarded as taking a small advantage. Wei Xuan's infantry lost about 1,000 people, Niu Fu's cavalry lost more than 300 people, the thieves were broken two camps, with 4,000 dead and wounded, plus nearly 2,000 people who resisted Wei Xuan's department in the front camp, and some escaped in the dark, the thieves lost at least 7,000 tonight.

Niu then explained why he risked huge casualties to launch a massive cavalry night attack. You must know that although the cavalry has a speed advantage and is also strong, if the horse stumbles and breaks the horse's leg in the dark night, it is very likely that the cavalry on horseback will be trampled into powder by the war horses of their companions.

At least thirty or forty of the three hundred people Niu Fu lost died in this way, and this was because the place where Yang Feng chose to camp was quite flat, and there was no time to dig a horse pit or something.

Niu Fu is ready to take advantage of the low morale of Wang Yue's thieves who were killed in front of the battle, and then leave Hedong! Because Dong Zhuo has sent a letter urging that the scale of the Qiang rebellion this time is relatively large, where Dong Zhuo is short of manpower, the key is that the commander is insufficient, and Dong Zhuo needs the support of Niu Fu and others.

Niu Fu also received Wei Xuan's generous gift, and helped before leaving, and then he had to rely on Wei Xuan, the Sima of another department, to deal with tens of thousands of thieves alone.

Wei Xuan wanted to scold his mother in his heart, but he also knew how harmful the Qiang people were, and the imperial court must have decided to let Dong Zhuo's army not enter Hedong and directly return to help.

Seeing Wei Xuan's depressed face, Niu Fu was also embarrassed to say: "After a little rest tonight, I decided to make a posture of raiding Mizawa to attract the thieves to rescue, and then find an opportunity to ambush the thieves on the way, and then I really have to leave." ”

Wei Xuan also knew that he couldn't command Niu Fu, and even if it was only Li Dao and Guo Yan who led the troops this time, he couldn't help it. After thinking for a while, he said sincerely: "General Niu, Xuan has a reluctant request, can you leave a song of cavalry, and let Xu Sima bring the three hundred cavalry in Xiangfen City as a mobile force to attack the thief soldiers?" ”

Niu Fu glanced at Xu Rong, Xu Rong's expression did not change like everyone else, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, this matter will not be the master." But at least half of the horses of those dead horsemen have scattered tonight, and if you send someone to find them, it will be yours. ”

Wei Xuan: "......"

After resting for an hour or so, the east had begun to turn white, and Niu Fu led the cavalry out of the south gate of Xiangfen again in the direction of Huze.

Yang Feng's first thought was that Niu Fu was about to attack again. However, when he saw the cavalry circling around his large camp and then heading southeast, he immediately sent scouts to follow him.

After breakfast, the news brought back by the scout confirmed Yang Feng's conjecture, Niu Fu saw that the hard attack on the camp was unsuccessful, and wanted to sneak attack Yu Ze, and then surround the point to send reinforcements.

But he had to save Hazawa, because not only did most of the grain and grass of the White Bo Army be stored there, but also the families of the army. Yang Feng didn't think that Niu Fu would be able to use two or three thousand cavalry to break through Huize City, but if his army continued to besiege Xiangfen, Anyi and Jiangyi and even Dongqi might send reinforcements, combining infantry and cavalry, and it would be dangerous if there was no general to command there.

So Haize Ze must be saved, even if he knows that Niu Fu is preparing to encircle the point and send reinforcements. Although Yang Feng had some military talent, he could not know that Niu Fu was about to leave Hedong, and he was even worried that the follow-up troops of the imperial court were about to arrive. Because if he were the decision-maker of the imperial court, it would be impossible to expect 3,000 cavalry to exterminate the 30,000 or 40,000 thieves who could escape into the mountains at any time.

This may be because smart people think too much, Yang Feng is sure that Niu Fu is preparing to stage a drama with Wei Xuan to encircle the point and send reinforcements. However, in order to ensure the safety of Hazawa, he had to return to the army.

And Li Le, Han Lian and others had no confidence in the field battle after being attacked by Niu Fu at night and broke the camp, and when they heard that Yang Feng decided to return to the army, they were a hundred in favor.

Xiangfen City was temporarily safe because of the retreat of Yang Feng's army, but Wei Xuan was not happy. First of all, because Niu Fu is about to leave Hedong, I think that after Niu Fu leaves, Yang Feng will definitely know the news in three or five days. Except for Niu Fu, the total strength of the two sides is about 1:2 now, but Yang Feng only has two cities, and Wei Xuan needs to defend this line from Xiangling and Xiangfen to Jiangyi, Anyi, and Dongyi. In this way, the situation is at best a stalemate, and it becomes impossible to eliminate the thieves as soon as possible.

Another thing that worried Wei Xuan was that Zhao Yun was also going to take Wang Yue's head to Anyi to meet Tong Yuan after Yang Feng left.

At the beginning, Tong Yuan agreed to stay in Anyi because Wei Xuan insisted on letting him wait until Weitong came back from Chenliu, and later Tong Yuan accepted Weitong as an apprentice, Wei Xuan proposed to let Tong Yuan wait for his postponed wedding, although Tong Yuan did not refuse in person, but he took Weitong to go north through Taiyuan, but he happened to meet Wang Yue, and as a result, he was seriously injured and recuperated until the Baibo Army uprising, and now more than a month has passed, Wang Yue has also been awarded, and Tong Yuan naturally has no reason to continue to stay in Anyi. You must know that the Bai Bo Army is not destroyed, where does Wei Xuan have time to get married?

Zhao Yun was ordered by his master to protect his personal safety this time, and since Tong Yuan might leave, it was very likely that Zhao Yun would follow. The troubled times have come, and Wei Xuan is of course reluctant to be a loyal and brave general like Zhao Yun.

But what reason do you have to keep Zhao Yun? As we all know, even if the Bai Bo Army is wiped out as soon as possible, how can Sima Meng, a county soldier in Hedong, keep Zhao Yun to serve him? Fortunately, he is already close to the water, and Zhao Yun has had close contact and cooperation, I hope that in the future, when Zhao Yun chooses to go out, he has already achieved something, let Zhao Yun take himself as the first choice.

Zhao Yun left Xiangfen, things have to be done, Wei Xuan asked Du Peng to temporarily command three hundred cavalry, and the war horses Niu Fu said were only found outside the city in the end, more than twenty horses were finally recovered, which can only be said to be better than nothing. And Yang Ling, the top four leader of Huo Mountain Thieves, has performed outstanding in these battles, and he also has a certain amount of resourcefulness, Wei Xuan decided to let him bring a song of soldiers and horses alone, and he is still a thousand people who are overcrowded.

In this way, in addition to Tao Kan, who went to Yanchi, and Wang Kai, who was in charge of Wei Qi's safety in Wenxi, the first to follow Wei Xuan, such as Wang Qiang, Guo Ye and others came to the Xiangfen battlefield.

Wei Xuan selected more than 20 people from the previous county soldiers and cavalry and Wang Qiang's 20 people from a team to form a scout team of 100 people, shuttled between Xiangling and Dongyan, and handed them over to Wang Qiang.

Xu Huang, Bai Shu, Liu Ming, Zheng Teng, Du Chong, Yang Ling, Guo Ye, and Xue Li each brought one, of which Xue Li assisted Lin Yi in Xiangling, and Liu Ming led a thousand people to Dongqi to replace the vacancy left by Niu Fu, and at the same time asked Anyi to send at least another thousand people to help defend Dongqiu.

In this way, in addition to the young and strong soldiers led by the people and the local county government in Xiangfen City, there were only 6,300 real soldiers left.