Li Hu led the army of the government soldiers to move very quickly, only on the fifth day after receiving the decree of the Sui Emperor, the army was assembled and swore to set off.

Lin Xiao also left Wudang Mountain with Li Qing and went to the Hetao area.

The Yellow River is harmful, and it is only profitable. It's about the Hetao area. This is not only the richest area of the Yellow River in the northwest region, but also the most suitable place for horse grazing, and whoever controls this place will be able to control the vast grasslands and desert Gobi deserts in the north.

From the era of the pre-Qin Empire, the era of the Han Empire, and the era of the Great Sui Empire, it has always been a battlefield for the grassland barbarians and the Central Plains peoples, and it is also the main source of cavalry and horses of the Great Sui Empire, and it is also the main direction of attack of the steppe barbarians this time.

Just when the army of Longxi Mansion arrived at the military fortress Jilusai at the southern foot of Yinshan in Shuofang County, Lin Xiao flew to the main peak of Yinshan with Li Qing, which was thousands of miles away from Li Hu's camp, and the base camp behind Jilusai where Li Hu was located was Yinchuan, which was used as the logistics supply and transfer center of the front army, Li Hu's eldest son Li Yanbo was in charge, and the third son Li Yu was responsible for road transportation and safety.

As the heir of the Li family and the next head of the family, Li Yanbo is stable by nature, not impatient or impatient, and most of the power of the Li family has now been transferred to Li Yanbo, so it is most suitable to have him in charge of the rear supply and transfer. And the third son Li Hao is also strong in martial arts, and his archery skills are passed down from Li Hu, but he is younger and more courageous than Li Hu today, if Li Qing can't appear in time, Li Hu originally planned to let the third son Li Hao be the vanguard of the army.

The weather in the grassland is very changeable, and on the second day when Li Hu led the army to be stationed in Jilusai, on the endless loess plateau in the north, yellow clouds rose all over the sky, and bursts of roar also resounded across the earth.

The experienced veteran immediately learned from the changes in the northern wasteland that it was not a sandstorm, but the arrival of the cavalry brigade of the steppe barbarians.

The population of the Xianxia World is far more than the population of the world where Lin Xiao was born at the same time, not only because the area of this world is more than ten times larger than that of the earth, but even the population is the same. In Longxi County alone, there are no less than one million people, and counting the entire Great Sui Empire, the population has exceeded one billion, according to the imperial military system, Longxi County has 150,000 elite soldiers, and the total number of Guanxi soldiers under the command of Li Hu this time also exceeded one million.

Because of this, the village chief of Wulongyan, that strong man Uncle Li can enter the central elite Yulin Army of the Great Sui Empire, and can also be a centurion, what kind of force is it. Because the total number of personnel of the Yulin Army in the entire Great Sui Empire was only 100,000, and the cavalry in the Yulin Army was only 20,000! If the cavalry of the Yulin Army was divided into light and heavy cavalry, then Uncle Li, who was the centurion of the heavy cavalry, was one of the forty centurions -- the centurion of the heavy cavalry was changed to the light cavalry, which was the position of the commander of a thousand horses, and if he was in the infantry, he would at least be the title of a loose general.

The name of the general of the Great Sui Empire is in the same vein as the Han Empire, and there are only two permanent general titles/positions in the entire central government, one is the general, the other is the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the other general titles are temporarily awarded when there is a conquest, and then it will be canceled after returning to the dynasty, so a centurion of the heavy cavalry of the Yulin Army is a lieutenant official position with real power in other troops. And now Li Hu's temporary title is General Pingbei, and the highest commander under his command is the captain with a scattered number, Uncle Li, as Li Hu's cronies, is also leading an army as a captain of the government at this moment, and is responsible for the security guards of the main camp.

The veteran soldiers in front sent the news of the arrival of the barbarians back to the commander's tent, and Uncle Li, who was the commander's bodyguard, was also able to listen to it. To tell the truth, none of the generals sitting in the big tent did not tremble because of this—this time the barbarians did use this place as the quickest way to break through the defense line of the Great Sui Empire—because just looking at the size of the barbarian army, there were 500,000 troops.

Although the barbarian cavalry will never be the opponent of the Great Sui Iron Cavalry, but the strength of the former army has already reached half of the imperial strength, so as the main force of the barbarians, it should be calculated more than three times that of the previous army, counting the non-strength of the rear army, the barbarians have invested three million troops here this time! It is already three times the strength of the empire!

Corresponding to the barbarian strength is that according to the calculation of one wizard per 10,000 people, there will be at least three hundred small wizards in a three-million-strong army, and fifty wizards and ten great wizards will go out with the army.

Uncle Li's heart is the same, although the disciples of the Li family are all extremely brave, but they also lack absolute combat power, if the Miss Li family is still there, it would be good.

There is more than one person who shares the same mind as Uncle Li, and it is not only the Li family's own children.

This time, Li Hu's soldiers were not only in Longxi County, where the Li family was located, but also other Guanzhong families sent their own family forces, and those sitting in the big tent included the Yuan family, the Zhao family, the Yu family and another Li family (Li Bi was the head of the family, Li Mi's great-grandfather), as well as the Hou Mo Chen family, plus Li Hu, only the Yang family of the royal family and the Yuwen family who moved to the Central Plains were not there among the eight major families in Guanxi.

These families also all know that Li Hu has a son-in-law Li Qing who was accepted as a disciple by the immortals, who is born with divine power, excellent martial arts, and has the power of ten thousand people. But the six families converged together, and they still haven't seen Li Qing appear today, and the six families can't help but be a little flustered.

Li Hu can become the leader of the family after the Yang family and the Yuwen family leave Guanzhong, how can he not know this, but since Immortal Master Lin said that Li Qing will only appear before the big war, then he must be true to his word, so Li Hu is not in a hurry, just a little, the current strength does seem to be a little less.

Although based on Li Hu's battlefield experience, one million against three million, the Great Sui Empire will not lose the battle, but it is not a big battle to win, at most it is a stalemate with the barbarians outside the Saiwai. However, there is one section, the steppe barbarians can stalemate, but the Great Sui Empire cannot.

The government soldiers are the main force of cultivation in Guanzhong and Guanxi, and once they are pinned down on the Shuofang front, then the cultivation in the rear can only be carried out by the women and children at home, and the reduction of grain production is inevitable.

In fact, this is not all that Li Hu is worried about, the key is Emperor Sui. This time, the Sui Emperor's methods were very clever, because the news that the empire had received before was that the grassland barbarians had made an abnormal move and wanted to go south, but they did not say where they were going south, whether it was Shuofang, Wuyuan or Yunzhong, Dingxiang, and even the sword went sideways to Youzhou, so the Sui Emperor dispersed the troops in Guanzhong and Guanxi on the grounds of preparing for the border, so the number of troops that Li Hu could use was only one million in front of him, and there would be no other follow-up support, of course, it was not nothing, but it was necessary to wait for other directions to find out whether the barbarians on the opposite side were feints to attack, so that they could draw troops to help, but in this way, what is the difference between having reinforcements and not?

There are disadvantages to everything, and there are disadvantages than advantages.

Although the Sui Emperor dispersed the forces of Guanzhong and Guanxi, the six families that stayed in Guanzhong and Guanxi were different, whether it was Wuyuan, Yunzhong, or Dingxiang, there was more than one line of defense, but Shuo Fang was different, after Jilusai, it was a horse Pingchuan, and there was no danger to defend, so the five families except the Li Hu family came to help together and brought all their family forces to Jilusai!

Although the total number is not much, that is, about 100,000, but these family forces, but can be comparable to the elite of the Yulin Army - the commander of each family's armed forces is a veteran of the battlefield, and every family soldier can learn martial arts, and the general government soldiers only have the opportunity to learn some military kung fu when they are trained once a year.

But even if it is calculated in this way, the military strength under Li Hu's command is only comparable to that of the barbarians outside the Saiwai, but the barbarians still have shamans, and there are no in the army of the Great Sui Empire, if there is no commitment from Lin Xiao, it is estimated that the first thing Li Hu will do is to choose to withdraw and retreat to a place with dangerous terrain to hold on!

However, with Lin Xiao's commitment and Li Qing's battle, Li Hu's face now looks normal, and there is no worry about the disparity in strength. Li Hu's composure invisibly infected the rest of the members of the five major Kansai families, making them gradually quiet.

The member of the Hou Mo Chen family, who is known for his bravery and martial arts in the six Kansai families, is the younger brother of Hou Mo Chen Chong, the contemporary head of the Hou Mo Chen family, Hou Mo Chen Vulture, this person is five big and three thick, with a beard on his face, and there are a lot of pits and pits on his face, all of which are traces left by injuries in previous battles, which seem very rough, but this person is definitely thick and fine, and now he is most concerned about the problem of troops.

"Brother Li, although the younger brother is confident in this battle, but after all, we are short of troops, and now it seems that there will be a draw with the barbarians at most, but if you want to win a big victory, you still need at least 500,000 troops to cut off the back road of the barbarians. I wonder what my brother can do?"

"The brothers, according to the old man's idea, is to ask the brothers to lead the headquarters of the army, a total of more than 100,000 people, in an ambush outside the Yinshan battlefield, once the barbarians are defeated, the brothers can take advantage of the situation to rush out, there is no need for the brothers to cut off the back road of the barbarians, as long as it can impact it more chaotically, it is enough. As for the front, it will be carried by the Li family, the brothers don't need to worry, the old man is still confident that he will defeat the barbarians. As long as the barbarians are defeated and their back roads are disturbed by their brothers, the old man will lead the whole army to attack and finish the battle!"

The members of the five families, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why Li Hu can have so full confidence and go so far as to take care of the frontal battle, don't you know that he only has 1/3 of the barbarian army in his hands? Although there was a saying in the previous Han Empire that "one Han is the five Hus," it only appeared when the barbarians outside the Saiwai were very backward in armament, except for the shamans and wizards, and before that, the pre-Qin Empire and the Han Empire had been fighting against the barbarians for hundreds of years, and only then did they gradually gain an overwhelming advantage.

But now?