The 20,000 cavalry on Fan Xiong's right flank took a river valley, which was much slower than that on the right. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The army marched more than ten miles through the valley and began to walk on the river, where the ice was thick enough to withstand the men and horses walking on it. The army dispersed and marched slowly toward the other side of the river.

As soon as he walked into the middle of the river, a loud explosion suddenly came from behind him. Subsequently, the sound of explosions continued, and after dozens of explosions in a row, the entire river surface began to shake, but the ice surface upstream had been blown upstream, and countless ice cubes mixed with the icy river water rushed downstream.

In the valley, there is no place to hide, and the horses are scurrying around. The torrent of ice soon rushed into the formation of 20,000 cavalry, causing the entire river to tremble, and the ice cracked one after another, and countless men and horses fell into the river.

Ice mixed with the river washed over the entire valley. After a full hour, the entire surface of the river was covered with ice floes and the corpses of men and horses, which actually blocked a narrow place downstream. On this cold day, as long as you fall into the river, even if you don't drown, if you climb to the shore, you will soon be frozen into ice and die.

Dozens of packs of explosives that opened mountains and cracked rocks easily destroyed 20,000 cavalry, which made Xuan Qi sigh at the cruelty of this war.

Fan Xiong sat on his horse, waiting for the two cavalry to attack, but he heard a rumbling explosion from a distance. Fan Xiong was a little puzzled, and when he heard the direction of the explosion, it was the direction of the cavalry on the right flank, and he immediately asked people to investigate. Thinking that the army on the left side had not moved for a long time, Fan Xiong began to be a little worried, but he also sent someone to investigate at the moment.

After waiting for half an hour, the spies came to report quickly, but the army on the right was completely annihilated. However, after a while, the spies on the left also responded quickly, explaining the situation. Fan Xiong trembled all over, and his chest, which was already a little stuffy, suddenly felt a pain, and a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and he had already fallen off the horse.

These 80,000 cavalry, but they are the real elite team in the rebel army, but now they are half gone at once, so how can Fan Xiong get over this breath. Seeing Fan Xiong fall off his horse, the soldiers quickly moved forward and helped Fan Xiong up. After a period of busy work, Fan Xiong woke up slowly, but a mouthful of old blood spurted out again.

Xuan Qi, who had just returned to the front of the formation, saw Fan Xiong fall off his horse from a distance, but he raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Rush!" The 50,000 cavalry was like a torrent, quickly approaching Fan Xiong's army. The main general fell off his horse, making the 40,000 cavalry a little confused, and they had long lost their will to fight.

Xuan Qi's army was like a sharp blade, cutting into the middle of Fan Xiong's army, which immediately caused a riot in Fan Xiong's army. In the sound of horses' hooves, some of the chaotic cavalry wanted to move forward, some wanted to go backwards, and they suddenly crowded together. The flying of heads and blood, the fierce collision between war horses and war horses, the sound of sabers breaking bones, screams, and neighing of horses are all mixed together, making the loess of the plateau full of eye-catching bright red.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and seeing that the sky was about to darken, the two sides withdrew their troops. Xuan Qi's army of 50,000 suffered more than 8,500 casualties. However, Fan Xiong's 40,000 cavalry suffered more than 27,000 casualties. The northwest has always been dominated by cavalry, and the two rebels together are only just over 100,000 cavalry, and these 100,000 cavalry can be said to be the elite of the rebel army. The battle lost more than 67,000 people, and the 10,000 cavalry led by Fan Yi's grain grabbing army were also all lost, plus the casualties in the previous battle of Qinzhou, there were less than 20,000 cavalry left.

After the First Battle of Longzhong, it can be said that the combat strength of the rebels on the two roads has rapidly decreased, and it is no longer enough to become three or four percent of the previous ones. Of the remaining 400,000 rebels, plus the rebels in Lanzhou City, among the 550,000, the displaced people accounted for more than 400,000.

Xuan Qi collected his troops and returned to Li Sheng's camp, but saw Li Sheng and his generals waiting for him in the tent. It turned out that half an hour ago, the capital sent an eight-hundred-mile expedited, and the Datong guard general Qin Yue opened and closed to meet the enemy without authorization, and was defeated by Helian Yinshan with a trick, and Datong was lost five days ago. Helian Yinshan with an army of 150,000 has now crossed the Taihang Mountain and penetrated deep into the Hebei area. Li Sheng was furious and hurriedly convened the generals to discuss.

At this time, Xuan Qi returned from a great victory, and everything was still in Li Sheng's hands, and if the troops came to Lanzhou City, they would inevitably sweep away the northwest rebellion. In this icy and snowy land, Li Sheng originally thought that the Xiongnu would not rashly invade south, but the current situation has made Li Sheng a little dilemma. After deliberation, the generals all believed that, first, the crisis in Hebei had to be resolved, and the rebellion in the northwest had to be quelled.

Xuan Qi stood up and thought that the situation in Hebei was the most important thing. Once the Xiongnu army occupies Hebei and forms a siege of Shanxi, I am afraid that the defense line around Yanmen Pass will fall into the hands of the Xiongnu. Today's rebels in the northwest, although there are many of them, most of them are homeless people, and their combat effectiveness is not strong.

Moreover, the famine and war in the northwest have made it difficult for the rebels in the northwest to continue their food and grass, so it is better to let the rebels retreat safely into Lanzhou City. First, it is not impossible for a large number of displaced troops to consume an astonishing amount of daily troops, which will inevitably make the rebels even worse and cause a mutiny; second, as long as the army in the northwest is strictly guarded against the areas of Longzhong, Qinzhou, and Longnan, it will be possible to put an end to the eastward advance of the rebels in the northwest.

Lanzhou has the Xiongnu in the north, Tubo in the south, and Tubo has the national teacher Sanji to guard the northern line, so naturally there is no need to worry. The only way out for the rebels in the northwest was to enter the Western Regions to the west and the Xiongnu to the north. Hundreds of thousands of troops, in the freezing cold conditions today, want to cross the Gobi Desert and go to the Western Regions, I am afraid that when they reach the Western Regions, there will be less than one-twelfth of them.

As a result, the rebels had no choice but to march north to plunder. The Xiongnu are now fighting on the eastern front, and the defense on the western front will inevitably be empty, and once the rebels enter the Xiongnu, it will inevitably cause a great chaos among the Xiongnu, and it will also have an impact on the war on the eastern front. Xuan Qi voluntarily received the order and let Li Sheng leave behind an army of 200,000, which was enough to level the northwest rebellion.

The generals listened to Xuan Qi's analysis, and they all nodded yes. Li Sheng immediately issued an order to leave the 50,000 cavalry who went to intercept the rebels, plus the 50,000 cavalry led by Xuan Qi, and 100,000 archers and pikemen to Xuan Qi, and let the Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu regions draw troops as much as possible to support Xuan Qi. Li Sheng even let Xingshu stay, assisted Xuan Qi, and told Xuan Qi that he must focus on stability and don't go lightly, and Xuan Qi agreed. Li Sheng let the rest of the army prepare overnight, rest well, and early the next morning, take the army all the way to the east.