The success of the initial raid made He Bai very happy, especially when there were horses to ride, it would become easier and easier to raid the thieves later. He Bai hurriedly ordered his soldiers to gather and count the number of people. Under the unintentional surprise attack, all 150 thieves were wiped out, and only a few of the army were slightly wounded. In particular, 99 fine horses and more than 100 spears were captured, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Taiyuan soldiers.

He Bai didn't say much, just waved his hand, and the whole army immediately headed towards Tunwai. In order to facilitate the detection of the thief horse for communication in advance, He Bailing's cavalry was located on the two wings, and the infantry was located in the center, in a formation semi-surrounded by crane wings, and continued to walk towards the next thief's grain station.

Following the horseshoe prints on the snow, within three miles, someone reported something different ahead. After a while, he heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and He Bai knew that this was the return of the thief's liaison officer, so he hurriedly ordered the foot soldiers to hide on the ground again with the help of the white cloak.

The cavalry of He Bai's army was not allowed to ride war horses, because when a hundred horsemen galloped together in the dark night, the sound would be particularly loud, and it could be transmitted far away. Therefore, they only led their horses and scattered on both wings, and the ambush was all undertaken by the foot soldiers. Only when this is not possible is it allowed to be hunted down on horseback.

However, He Bai was surprised to find that the thief rider, who was originally running briskly, suddenly stopped two hundred meters away from He Bai's army. When He Baizheng was suspicious, Cheng Qi suddenly shouted softly beside him: "It's not good, our army has just killed a lot of people, and the blood and qi on his body have not been eliminated. And the thief happened to be downwind, and he just smelled the blood on our army. ”

He Bai was shocked, the distance of the thief was not very good, the arrow could not reach, and the person could not catch up, so he hurriedly ordered: "Order, quickly surround and kill it, otherwise he will fall short if he escapes." ”

Cheng Qi said: "Don't worry, please continue to hide and stay still, and wait for me to kill him first." ”

With that, the whole person jumped to his feet and strode towards the thief. The thief was frightened and turned to flee. But when he saw that only Cheng Qi jumped up and chased after him, he was immediately happy. looked at the still quiet black curtain around him, so he breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and took his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at the rushing Cheng Qi without hurrying.

Cheng Qi suddenly pounced on a tiger and flipped forward, immediately dodged the arrow, jumped over again, jumped up again and rushed forward. The thief was taken aback, looked left and right, and saw a black expanse all around, as if it was really only Cheng Qi, and he couldn't help but bend his bow and shoot an arrow again.

Cheng Qi, who was rushing forward, hurriedly stopped his feet and slid sharply to the left, and a sharp arrow continued to fly backwards with a strand of Cheng Qi's long hair, until He Bai took dozens of steps before he was unable to fall. He Bai clutched the snow with both hands, and secretly worried about Cheng Qi in his heart. Another sharp arrow shot out of the air, and this time Cheng Qi could no longer avoid it, so he had to put the knife horizontally to his chest, just blocking the sharp arrow in his chest.

The crisp sound of "...... clink" is particularly loud in the middle of the night, and it can be heard at least two or three miles away. I saw Cheng Qi roar in a low voice, his body slightly crouched, and the whole person was like a cheetah, and the speed suddenly exploded.

It's a distance of seventy paces, and it's five or six breaths. Just when the thief panicked and opened his bow and shot again, Cheng Qi suddenly disappeared, and when the thief was stunned, another low roar sounded in front of the horse's head, and a snowy knife light instantly appeared in the thief's eyes.

He Bai, who was watching the battle, was also surprised to find that at a certain moment, Cheng Qi seemed to bring out an afterimage, and disappeared in an instant, and when he said goodbye, the thief and the good horse who sat down had fallen to the ground at the same time. He Bai led the soldiers forward to watch the results of the battle, and couldn't help but gasp, this thief and the war horse were actually cut off by Cheng Qi at the same time.

I saw that the knife edge was neat and smooth, and the human blood and horse blood were mixed together, and the thief and the horse were constantly twisting in the snow, and they were not dead for a while. Cheng Qi stood with the knife in his hand, gasping for breath.

He Baiyu secretly kept smacking his tongue in his heart, although he usually knew that Cheng Qi was good at long-distance running, he didn't want to have such a sudden outbreak in a short period of time. With a distance of more than 100 meters, it only takes five or six seconds to run, and it is even more flying than the legendary flying man. If it comes to the next generation, who can match the speed of Qi?

He Bai couldn't help but think of the Shenxing fierce general Mai Tie Staff in the Sui Dynasty in later generations, and he didn't want to get a fierce future that could be comparable to the Shenxing fierce general Mai Iron Staff. It seems that at this time in the Xiliang Army, there is also a Shenxing fierce general named Hu Che'er. I don't know which of the two of them is strong and which is weak? In the future, when you have time, you will definitely compare with the previous one.

Since Cheng Qi is good at running and speed, He Bai ordered Cheng Qi to go first, looking for opportunities to kill the liaison cavalry thieves in each tun all the way, and then wave his troops to attack the camp. Since then, the road has been extremely smooth, and every village will be broken. Five hundred light foot soldiers slaughtered more than nine hundred thieves overnight.

Among them, there were 600 thieves who were the elite cavalry of Guo Daxian's thief department, and all of them were swept away by He Bai's rapid blows when they were unprepared. The casualty rate of the army is only a few dozen, and this casualty is almost a miracle in ancient times when 1,000 enemies were killed and 800 were self-damaged, but this incident happened in He Bai's army.

The battle went smoothly so that He Bai almost couldn't believe it, and at the beginning, he thought that this battle might be lost, but he didn't expect that there would be a time for success. In this way, the initial insistence is not necessarily wrong. Only by persevering to the end will there be a time when we will see the dawn of victory.

Rise from time to time, set aside to make a meal; Out of the hour and marched in procession; By the end of the day, more than 1,000 elites in Guo Daxian's capital city had arrived in front of the dock fort of Qiu and Yin Er's clan, which was located twenty miles north of the city. When the people of the two clans outside the fort saw the thief coming, they all panicked, left what they were doing, and fled towards the second fort one after another. After a short time, he fled into the fort and held on behind closed doors.

Guo Daxian led the troops to look at the appearance of the clansmen of the Qiu and Yin clans, and couldn't help laughing. If you dare to burn your own grain, you will know that there will be such a result. Guo Daxian's blood-devouring eyes looked at the second fort from afar, and secretly said in his heart: Strive to break through the two forts within today, and eliminate the last hidden danger in the county that dares to resist himself.

For the last resistance force in the capital, Guo Daxian knows the strength of his fortress. There is Fangshan behind Qiu's Wu Fort, there is a small river in front, and there are snow-covered fields on the left and right, so you can only attack the fort around its fort. However, on the small river in front of Qiu's Wu Fort, there is a large stone bridge seven or eight zhang long, although it is not wide, it can also be arranged with 200 troops as a containment.

Yin's Dock Fort is five miles southeast of Qiu's Dock Fort, built against the river, there are countless dense forests in its north, there are small hills and mountains in the northeast as the screen, and there are Z-shaped rivers in the west and south, and its fort can only be attacked from the northwest and southeast.

It is said that this Yin's village was originally in the south of the river, and the Qiu family in Hebei lived across the river, only because there were black mountain thieves in Changshan country for chaos, so they had to move to the north of the river and Qiu family to fight each other's horns. At this time, Guo Daxian was located in the old village of the Yin family, and used it as a siege base.

Not long after Guo Daxian led the troops, an army of 2,000 came from the east, and it was Guo Daxian's unarmored auxiliary troops located at the intersection of the two counties. After a short while, nearly a thousand horsemen galloped from the southwest, which was the most elite more than 1,000 horsemen under Guo Daxian.

The army under his command has arrived, Guo Daxian immediately ordered the Quartet, first ordered the unarmored auxiliary soldiers to divide 1,000 people, after crossing the bridge, go to Yin's Wu Fort, and besiege it from the southeast and southwest. After ordering 1,000 auxiliaries to cross the bridge, they went to the left and right of Qiu's Dock Fort to prepare for the attack on the fort.

Guo Daxian led more than 1,000 elites by himself, just in front of the stone bridge, across the river. When Qiu's Dock Fort is almost worn out by the auxiliaries, he will send his elite infantry into battle to strive for success in the first battle. Now that the Qiu family is gone, the Yin family can only survive.

Guo Daxian ordered: "The deputy commander of the elite cavalry can be divided into three parts, one with 300 cavalry to the west of Qiu's Dock Fort to standby, one with 300 cavalry to the southeast of Yin's Dock Fort to standby, and the deputy commander personally leads 400 cavalry to the north of Yin's Dock Fort to stand by. If the Yin clan dared to go out of the fort to rescue the Qiu clan, the deputy commander would take the opportunity to attack him. If Qiu and Yin Er abandoned the fort and fled, the three cavalry soldiers could take the opportunity to annihilate them. ”

"Report ...... Qu Shuai, the deputy commander of the elite cavalry, said: Because last night sent people to patrol and guard, and this morning rushed to come, even if the soldiers are not tired, the good horses under the seat are also tired. The deputy commander of the elite cavalry asked for a temporary rest for an hour, and after feeding the war horses uniformly, the troops were divided. ”

"Well......" Guo Daxian waved his hand and said: "Today's battle mainly relies on foot soldiers to attack the fort, and the cavalry only needs to fight when the two thieves abandon the fort or rescue, and the timing will be determined by the deputy commander." But don't carelessly let go of the thieves of the Qiu and Yin clans. ”

"Order."

Soon after, I saw nearly a thousand horsemen in the direction of Guo Daxian's main formation, and began to feed the war horses.

First take out the bag on the horse's back, which is already full of finely chopped wheat oranges. After the war horse was full, he changed to a bag full of wheat bran. When the horses had almost eaten, they took out a large handful of boiled soybeans and salt, as well as stone powder.

After the soybeans, salt, and stone powder are eaten up, they drive the horses to the river where they have not yet frozen to drink. When he finished drinking, he drove his horse slowly to digest the food in his belly. Everything is done well and finely, so that people can't find the slightest fault.

But where among the thieves would be so delicate and specialized in raising war horses, and caring for them like their own children. This is just the Taiyuan County soldiers who have long been transformed, and He Bai's subordinates Li Ping and Cheng Qi are subordinates.

Because there are many horses in the army, He Bai intends to train the soldiers of the army into dragoons, that is, the mounted infantry who usually march on war horses and dismount in battle in battle. Therefore, this thousand-foot soldier is also familiar with riding and maintenance of war horses. In less than half an hour, everything was done.