At dawn, the soldiers of the Sui army who had cleaned up the barbarian pioneer camp overnight returned to the Sui army camp with strange faces.

There are no corpses of barbarian people and horses, only clothes and armor everywhere, as well as tufts of horse tails and hair, and the most is gray-white earth ash everywhere, which is inadvertently stepped on by the Sui soldiers, and it will fly lightly in the air for a long time, and it will not land for a long time.

At the beginning, it was still dark night, and there were basically no Sui soldiers paying attention, but they felt that the barbarian army camp was unclean, and there was garbage dumped at random everywhere, but as the sky brightened, the Sui soldiers who had been busy all night finally discovered the truth - all the locations where the dust came from, there would be a bunch of ponytails or a bunch of messy hair!

At the same time that the truth was revealed, fear and strangeness also shrouded the hearts of the Sui soldiers. So Li Hu received such a report in the big tent-

In yesterday's battle, our army lost 23,000 soldiers, 7,100 seriously wounded, and 36,500 lightly wounded, making a total of more than 76,600. Defeated the 500,000 army of the barbarian vanguard, of which more than 100,000 corpses were cleaned up on the battlefield by the Chinese army, more than 200,000 surrendered barbarian troops were captured, nearly 80,000 escaped, and the rest were missing,"

Speaking of this, the long history of the summary of battlefield operations reported below, glanced at Li Hu, and said in a low voice: "Those barbarians who are nowhere to be found were devoured by the fire that came from nowhere, and there are no bones left, and even the metal on their bodies has not been left behind, so it is really impossible to count. ”

Li Hu nodded, motioning for Changshi to continue the report, and bursts of sour water surged in his heart.

After Lin Xiao led Li Qing to sneak into the big tent the day before yesterday, Li Hu asked Lin Xiao, since the immortals have immeasurable mana and can overwhelm mountains and seas, why can't they just use a spell to capture the barbarian army in the future, or simply burn it clean?

Lin Xiao explained to Li Hu, it was not that the mana of the immortals was not enough, but that the karma in it was profound, and it was really not something that any monk who had achieved cultivation was willing to mix, even if Li Qing hadn't laid the foundation of the Dao, he would not have appeared in front of the two armies again, let alone fight on the battlefield, and he was also because he could use Li Qing's master-apprentice relationship and rely on the qi of the Li Hu family to cover up, so that he could use Taoism a little and not be counterattacked by the military spirit of the army.

Even so, Lin Xiao can't make more moves in Li Hu's army, because there are more shots, Li Hu's qi can't hide the fact that Lin Xiao is hiding in the army, and when the time comes, the barbarian shaman and the invited monk dare to use this as an excuse to cast spells on Li Hu's army, and then Lin Xiao can't deal with so many sorcerers and monks to attack the army.

Li Hu knew that what Lin Xiao said made sense, after all, it was impossible for millions of troops to be camped in one place, as long as they were slightly dispersed, it would be a place of hundreds of miles of joint camping. Lin Xiao even had three heads and six arms, and he couldn't defend such a large place at the same time.

However, the chief of the army then reported with a trilled voice, which once again made Li Hu concentrate: "The harvest in the barbarian army camp is all forage and grain, and there is no meat at all, even the hundreds of thousands of war horses we estimate have disappeared, and only hundreds of thousands of ponytails are left, if you count the horsetails alone, there is no difference with the number of our estimates, but where the horsetails are located, there are countless gray dust, and after the subordinates and colleagues saw it with their own eyes, they only had one understanding in their hearts, but they didn't know how to explain it to the general." ”

As soon as he heard what Changshi said about this, Li Hu had no spirit again, to be honest, Lin Xiao came back from investigation before, and told Li Hu about it, and the result was that Li Hu didn't fall asleep all night, as long as he closed his eyes, his mind was full of countless flying gnats, supporting sharp mouthparts, biting Li Hu's neck, and then sucking blood in a big gulp..................

As long as he thought about that picture, Li Hu had goosebumps all over his body, and he was uncomfortable. Now that he heard Changshi mention this matter again, Li Hu was even more reluctant to think more and say: "Just write according to the results of your guesses, and don't report to the old man again." The old man should rest for a while. ”

Changshi and several civil officials looked at each other for a moment, and then bowed to Li Hu together, bowed and retreated. Walking outside the big tent, several civil officials muttered quietly: "Could it be that the Duke of Guo already knew what was going on?" "Isn't it that the Grandpa Guo and we guessed the same?" "You don't know, the Grandpa Guo is surrounded by the gods, and there are hundreds of thousands of barbarians, as long as the immortals wave their hands, they will be crushed into powder." ”

Although the generals of this Xianxia world can't go to heaven and earth, their ears and eyes are stronger than Lin Xiao's original world, and several civil officials are also entanglement husbands who can immediately use knives and guns and open strong bows, but they are not weak scholars of the Southern Han Empire in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, their voices are not weak, although they try their best to lower their voices, but in the ears of generals like Li Hu, they are still very clear. Hearing their discussion, Li Hu sighed in his heart, and he was the last blind guess to say that there were immortals around Li Hu, but the 100,000 barbarian troops and hundreds of thousands of horses were not the handiwork of the immortals around him, but the barbarians cocooned themselves and played themselves to death! However, about 20,000 barbarians who were burned to death in the first battle yesterday were caused by Lin Xiao's unintentional handwriting.

However, just this unintentional move, the other barbarian army lost 20,000, if this method is used a few more times, I am afraid that even tens of millions of soldiers and civilians will be the same fans, right? Fortunately, Lin Xiao made it clear why the cultivators did not interfere with the dynasty and could not easily attack mortals, otherwise Li Hu was very happy that Li Qing was apprenticed to Lin Xiao, but he was also very worried that Lin Xiao would use Li Qing's master-apprentice relationship to interfere in the future of the Li family in the future - the power of immortals was something that the Li family could not contend with!

There was nothing to say for a day, and nothing for a night - Li Hu ordered people to set fire to the original barbarian pioneer camp.

The blazing flames covered up all traces of the sins left by the original barbarian shamans.

However, the fire did not burn for long, because the Sui army had moved almost everything in the barbarian camp - even the clothes on the dead barbarian soldiers were packed up by the surrendering barbarians, and the original military tents were also owned by the surrendering army.

As a result, the fire actually burned only the countless withered yellow weeds in the original barbarian camp, leaving behind pieces of charred black marks.

The day after the fire was extinguished, the main force of the barbarian army came to Jilusai. They did not choose the ruins of the original camp of the vanguard army, as if they were on guard against something, moved to the side for ten miles, and re-established the camp.

However, in this way, the Sui army was a little awkward, because the original barbarian vanguard camp and the Sui army camp were just facing each other, and now they are staggered for ten miles, which means that the Sui army is facing the barbarian camp diagonally, of course, because the barbarians not only moved ten miles to the flank, but also wanted to withdraw from the land covered by the original camp, in fact, the two armies are now farther than the original, more than two hundred miles.

After the main force of the barbarian army arrived, there was no movement for three consecutive days, and on the fourth day, the Sui army scouts found that the barbarian army camp began to send troops, unlike the barbarian vanguard, there was no infantry, only the cavalry of the one color, and the cavalry of the brigade began to pour in the direction of the Sui army camp like a landslide and tsunami.

Li Hu got the report of the scout, did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, but it is a pity that even if the Sui army has a million soldiers, the number of cavalry is only 200,000, and the heavy cavalry created is only barely as much as 80,000, which is still just expanded after a battle with the vanguard of the barbarian army, after capturing a large number of barbarian war horses.

But fortunately, the Sui army is a defensive operation after all, and there is no need to travel hundreds of miles to attack the main force of the barbarians, as long as they set up a formation at the gate of their own camp.

This time, Li Hu moved out all the ordnance of the Great Sui Empire, in order to prevent the barbarian cavalry from desperately attacking the Sui army camp, relying on the advantage of troops, to defeat the Sui army camp in one fell swoop - to do this, what is needed is the most powerful weapon: the ballista!

As the name suggests, the ballista is a strong crossbow erected on the chariot, the crossbow arrows fired, it is better to say that it is a crossbow gun, the range is several miles away, in the face of the impact of the cavalry cluster, as long as a crossbow shot, it is enough to penetrate more than ten cavalry barbarian knights, originally belonged to the heavy weapons arranged on the city wall, is the biggest nemesis of the barbarian cavalry, and was also transported from the rear by Li Hu's eldest son Li Yanbo, who worked tirelessly to order his eldest son, Li Yanbo, to come in handy now.

It would definitely be a joke to say that the Sui army was not afraid in the face of the overwhelming millions of barbarian cavalry, but when he thought of his wife and children behind him, and when he thought of the victory against the vanguard of the barbarian army a few days ago, even his legs and stomach were still trembling, but what appeared in his eyes was no longer fear, but a murderous aura like blood.

At the same time that the cavalry of the barbarian army brigade arrived at the site of the barbarian vanguard camp in front of the Sui army camp, the Sui army also dispatched almost the entire army and laid a thick defensive array. Different from the previous face of the vanguard of the barbarian army, at that time, the sword and shield soldiers were in the center, and the cavalry was divided into two wings, which was a pure defensive formation, but now it is the cavalry, especially the heavy cavalry in the center, and the sword and shield soldiers are divided into two wings, which is a kind of offensive formation!

That's right, in the face of the cavalry-based formation of the barbarian army today, if the sword and shield soldiers are in the center and the cavalry is on both wings, it is bound to be impossible to concentrate the cavalry, and there is a possibility that they will be broken by the barbarian army, and when the cavalry is defeated by the barbarian army, then the Sui army will fall into absolute passivity. Without cavalry that can maneuver and fight, there is no way to advance, no way to retreat, and there is only one way to go for the Sui army to be defeated.

Therefore, Li Hu took the cavalry in the center and the infantry as the two wings, which was to concentrate the cavalry and give a heavy blow to the barbarian army that broke forward to avoid the loss of cavalry. Of course, the cavalry is in the center, and it is not simply only the cavalry, Li Hu arranged all the ballistae into the cavalry formation, which is to take the lead when the barbarian army charges, and weaken the stone of the barbarian cavalry charge!