After cleaning up the battlefield, Ouyang Xuan decided to rest on the spot instead of returning to the hill to set up camp, mainly for the captured horses.

This time, only more than 200 of the 600 horses of the Mongols escaped and more than 100 were killed, while the Thunderbolts captured more than 230 horses.

Due to the very small number of horsemen in the field camp, they could not use these war horses for the time being, and they did not dare to send people back to Qiongzhou, so they had to be temporarily chained in the valley.

In order to protect these precious horses, the field camp had to camp in the ravine. In order to prevent the Mongols from attacking, Ouyang Xuan ordered three trenches to be dug at the mouth of the ravine, and each trench was built with sandbags to build a breast wall.

As for the surrounding hills around the ravine, secret posts were also placed in case of a sneak attack by the Mongols. After setting up camp, the Perak soldiers did not rest, but used the stream to clean the horses of the horses and slaughter the seriously wounded horses.

It was also difficult to clean up the more than 100 dead war horses. There was no salt with them on the trip, and the meat had to be smoked to prevent it from spoiling, and it was already dark by the time it was done.

Compared to the seizure of the war horse, Ouyang Xuan was a happy trouble, and the news he got from the captive made him worried.

Previously, he was going to send people to Mingshan Castle to fight the Mongols with the defenders, but he learned from the captured new annex that the Mongol army had occupied Mingshan Castle.

It turned out that Cheri sent another 200 men to raid the famous mountain city forty miles away in the first time of capturing Baizhang City.

The defenders of Mingshan City did not know that the defenders of Qiongzhou had fled towards Yazhou, and they did not know that Baizhang City had fallen into the hands of the Mongolian army, but they thought that there was a steep Baizhang as a barrier.

In a panic, the defenders of the city scattered and fled. The Mongol army did not chase and kill, nor did they set fire to the city, but closed the four gates and waited for Cheri to lead a large army to arrive.

This was not because the Mongol cavalry had suddenly become merciful, but because they had been running for days, and the men and horses were tired and tired.

The fact that the city was so easily captured by the Mongol army put the Thunderbolts in a dilemma. If you go to battle with horses, it is too much of a drag, and if you divide the troops, it is very easy to be broken by the Mongol army one by one.

Ouyang Xuan thought about it again and again, and decided to wait for support from the rear before making plans. To this end, he wrote three letters and sent soldiers with fast feet to rush back to Qiongzhou.

The first letter was addressed to Le Quanan and Zhou Jianshen. In the letter, Ouyang Xuan asked Le Quan'an to take charge of the defense of Qiongzhou City, and asked Zhou Jianshen to select another 300 elites from the surrendered Qiongzhou New Annexed Army to fill the Guizheng Battalion, plus the three companies of the Guizheng Battalion stationed in Qiongzhou, and arrive within three days of receiving the order.

There are 80 miles from Qiongzhou to Baizhang, and there are 40 miles from Baizhang to the famous mountain, and this 120 miles can be reached in two days if you take the official road, but in order to prevent possible attacks by the Mongolian army, Ouyang Xuan specifically asked Zhou Jianshen to take the official road from Qiongzhou to Baizhang, but you must take a small road to the famous mountain.

The second letter was addressed to Le Quanan and Qian Laoer. Ouyang Xuan asked Qian Lao Er to collect some ponies who were good at walking mountain roads and send ammunition to the front.

Le Quanan drew a company from the navy to escort him, and the walking route followed the march route of Zhou Jianshen.

The third letter was addressed to the teaching company stationed in Dayi, asking them to leave for Baizhang City immediately after seeing the letter.

Ouyang Xuan originally asked them to be stationed in Dayi to prevent the bandits in Heming Mountain from coming to seize the city again, but the current military affairs are urgent, and the matter of suppressing bandits and preventing bandits can only be postponed.

Everyone ate the horse meat feast, and the sky was full of stars. In this era, because there is no industrial pollution, the air is so clear, the starry sky is so bright, and there are countless fireflies flying around in the forest.

Cao Ergou ordered his soldiers to extinguish all the fires in the camp, in order to prevent the campfire from providing a position for the Mongols who attacked at night.

In fact, although you can't see far under the starlight in the sky, you can still see a hazy figure more than ten meters away.

Everyone in the Perak army had a premonition that the Mongols' character of retribution would inevitably take advantage of this weather to attack at night.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the Mongol night attack came as scheduled. First in front of the trench at the mouth of the ravine, the new annex soldiers wearing dark night uniforms quietly touched the guards standing guard with shields and knives, and slashed past only to realize that it was a straw man in clothes.

After the new annex army retreated, the sound of the hooves of the Mongolian cavalry sounded again in the dark field. These cavalry did not come to attack, but they did not retreat, and their whereabouts were far and near.

Cao Ergou ordered people to fire a few shots at the sound, but to no avail. In fact, Cherry also understood that it was a dead end for the cavalry to rush into the ravine at night.

The reason why he ordered the cavalry to wander outside the ravine was to attract the attention of the Thunderbolts and provide cover for the real killing moves.

He sent two armies to the hills on the left and right sides of the ravine, preparing to attack the bottom of the ravine on both sides under the cover of night.

It's just that the plan is perfect, but the reality is embarrassing. The team walking on the left is dominated by the new annexed army, and most of these traitor troops are also indigenous to Qiongzhou, and there are also many mountain people, who are also said to be good at mountain marching.

It's just that these people surrendered to the Mongols because they were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they were willing to work hard for their lives. They had only heard of the tragic situation of being ambushed during the day, and when they came to this kind of difficult night attack at night, their hearts were already up and down, and they were already ready to apply oil to the soles of their feet.

The slope of this ravine became more and more difficult to climb higher, and by the time it was still more than ten meters from the top of the mountain, both the new annexed troops and the Mongolian soldiers who followed behind were already exhausted and panting.

The soldier who walked in front couldn't climb anymore, and was about to stop and rest for a while, but when he looked up, he found that several fist-sized objects had fallen from above, directly smashing under his feet, and even the fire, explosions, and pungent gunsmoke, the last thought in his mind before he fell

"Grenade?". Under the bombardment of grenades, the Mongolian troops who attacked from both sides over the mountains were repulsed without any suspense, and dozens of people were killed and wounded.

In fact, not many people were injured by the Thunderbolt grenades, and most of these dead and injured were injured by falling off a cliff.

Seeing that the sneak attack plan failed, Cheri had no choice but to withdraw his troops. It's just that Cherry has a bad anger in his heart, and he wants to get the horse back too much.

He would not be heartbroken no matter how many new annexes died, but those cavalry were all warriors of his own clan, and they lost more than 140 in the first battle - the more than 90 cavalrymen released could ride horses but were no longer able to fight, which made his heart bleed.

Those horses captured by the newly annexed army are important strategic resources, which must not be used by the enemy, and must be recaptured.

Therefore, in the next few days, although he knew that the Thunderbolt army was prepared, he still launched several sneak attacks, but they all returned in vain, but he lost dozens of people - fortunately, they were all soldiers of the new annex army.

The anger burning in his heart but having nowhere to vent makes Tori extremely crazy. In a fit of rage, he personally led the cavalry to burn and loot around the periphery, and even rushed to the city of Yazhou, which was forty miles away, and frightened the gate of Yazhou City closed.

He also sent cavalry to turn back to Baizhang Pass. However, they found that the burned city gate was tightly blocked again, and there were soldiers standing at the head of the city, and if they got closer, they would be bombarded by the artillery at the head of the city—the teaching company had already occupied Baizhang City.

In the past few days, support from the direction of Qiongzhou has been coming one after another, and now only Qian Laoer's baggage team transporting ammunition has not yet arrived.

Unlike other people who set off immediately after receiving the letter, Qian Lao Er sent someone back to Qianjiazhai to catch the horses and spent another day.

Moreover, although the ammunition transport pony is good at mountain walking, it must not walk too fast with weight on rough mountain roads, otherwise it is easy to damage the horse's hooves and joints.