In the early morning, the fields were covered with heavy snow.

Teams of cavalry wearing dark brown fur robes seemed to cover the land on both sides of the Huai River.

Surrounded by many guards, Wu Chi stopped on a hill on the south bank, looking at the troops crossing the Huai River.

Although the Huai River is frozen, the temperature in the river and Huai River is much warmer than that in the north. After the Huai River is frozen, the frozen layer is far less solid than that in the Beidixi River.

Wu Chi led the right troops to the south from Yingkou, responsible for cutting off the connection between Chushan and Huainan. Thousands of cavalry crossed the river in the first time, and they were cautious and carried out in batches.

"General Wu Chi! There are a small group of enemy troops appearing near Hu Tai Ridge. We approached the soldiers and horses at the foot of Hu Tai Ridge. We were unprepared and were killed and injured twenty or thirty people!" A knight rode his horse to Pinggang to report.

The earth was covered with heavy snow and the sky was brighter than usual. Wu Chi had noticed a small commotion in the south, so he summoned people to ask what was going on in the south.

Although there were many thousand households under him, the deputy thousand households commanded the troops and horses of various units and were in charge of sudden war situations in all directions, as the main general of the right, especially when he was raiding at night, he did not dare to neglect any minor changes.

He may not interfere, but he must master and understand any movements in Huangchuan, Gushi, Geyang and other places.

Wu Chi asked, "How many enemy troops are there?"

"Seventeen people, quite fierce." The Knight reported.

"..." Wu Chi nodded, saying that he knew about this and focused on the matter of the large army crossing the Huai River.

The first batch of 3,000 cavalry have basically crossed the Huai River, and there are six thousand soldiers who will follow the Huai River to cross the Huai River, occupying several broken cities on the south bank, and cutting off the connection between Chu Mountain and Shouchun.

The combat missions that Wu Chi accepted were to prevent the Huainan Army from reinforced Chushan (Huaishang) and also to prevent the Chushan Army from reinforced Huainan. However, Wu Chi knew very well that he led the right-wing troops across the Huainan, mainly to prevent the possibility of the Chushan Army in reinforced Shouchun.

Although the elite size of the Chushan Army was much lower than the troops that the Southern Dynasty could call in Huainan.

During the Battle of Ruying, Wu Chi, as the main reinforcement sent by the Prince of Pingyan Sect, led more than 30,000 infantry and cavalry under the Eastern Route Army (Pingyan Sect Palace) to participate in the battle, but was eventually flooded and isolated to the east of Miaowanggou. He could only watch the main forces of Yin Chao, Xiao Gan and other troops were eaten one by one by the Southern Dynasty with absolute superior forces.

This is not only the biggest setback since Chihu went south, but it can even be said to be the most tragic defeat of Chihu in the past decade.

Even though most of the casualties were surrendered to the superior army, the elites of Chihu and the tribes of the European tribes did not suffer any losses.

However, it was precisely because of the surrender of the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion that the loss was too heavy in the Ruying Battle, that the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion had to significantly accelerate the pace of the foreign cavalry replacing infantry battles, thus greatly reducing the scale of the cavalry.

Wu Chi came out of the Ruying Battle, but the shock and touch brought to him by this battle was something he had never encountered in half his life.

This time when he crossed the Huai River, his generals all hoped to choose the location for crossing the Huai River to be further east and closer to Shouchun so that they could get the battle. No one had any intention of organizing the civilians to transport a large amount of supplies to build cities and villages on the south bank of the Huai River to defend.

Wu Chi forcibly suppressed the restlessness and eagerness to fight.

He didn't think that the army of the four prefectures in the west of Beijing could really completely entangle the Chushan Army this winter.

Wu Chi still remembers a sentence from the Khan once reminded the generals of the Southern Expedition: Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements.

He felt that the current situation was very consistent with this sentence: After experiencing the Battle of Ruying, An Jing blocked the elite of Chushan outside the Huainan battlefield, which was more important than chasing and defeating, beheading thousands of southerners and tens of thousands of heads.

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The war horses galloped, the spear was like a dragon, and the snow light reflected on the bright sharp blade, making each slash and stab became more fierce and fierce.

Xu Yan saw a war horse standing with his legs, holding his hands and slashing the horse and slashing the sword in front of him. In addition to the powerful general, the enemy cavalry on his left and right were all good at fighting. His eyes suddenly became more sharp at this moment, but his face became more calm. He ignored the arrows shot from the outside and raised them with a long spear.

Xu Yan knew that if he could not kill the enemy as quickly as possible and be entangled by the dozen enemy cavalry in front of him, their trip would definitely be in danger.

At the foot of Hudianling Mountain, from the area of ​​Canmiao and Hewan, three teams of 100-man cavalry entered at dawn. When they head north to the bank of Huai River, they were even densely packed with Chihu cavalry who were crossing the Huai River at night.

They first attacked from the Cannon Temple. Although they took advantage of the enemy's inadvertentness and killed more than 20 enemy soldiers, they also stabbed the hornet's nest. When they met with Shi Qi, who was still sleeping in the woods in the river bend, the two or three hundred enemy soldiers were alarmed and surrounded and blocked from all directions. They could only escape from Hudaling Ridge to the south.

Although they had already arrived at the northern slope of Hutai Ridge at this time, dozens of barbarian cavalry had already bitten them and did not mean to give up just because there were deep mountains and forests in front of them.

Now not only does Xu Yan have to face more than a dozen elite enemy soldiers alone, Su Chong and others were also entangled by three or four times the enemy soldiers, and more than two hundred enemy soldiers were rushing to chase them in the north.

As the enemy was about to slash the sword, Xu Yan shouted angrily, as if a bloodthirsty beast woke up again in his body. The raised long spear was slashed down, and the slashing horse dagger was slashed away with a force of a thousand pounds.

"Crack!" The long blade of the spear and the sharp blade of the big blade collided.

When Xu Yan cut off the horse's sword, the long blade of the horse's spear was also underwent too many violent impacts today. This time, it could no longer hold on and broke from the middle.

However, the horse spear blade that Xu Yan used was two feet long, even if only half a trench blade was left, but the spear rod was nearly more than meter long, which did not affect the horse's battle at all. He used the long spear as a gun, and rushed like a poisonous dragon, and stabbed the enemy in the chest.

The eight-foot-long slash | horse sword, and the six-foot-long slash blade was cut off, and the most important thing was that he used too much force just now. The knife was broken, but his body was driven by the war horse. Seeing that Xu Yan's long spear in his hand was completely unaffected by the slash blade, he slashed into a stab without any delay in every move. Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, he had to abandon the horse in a mess and overturn his body to one side to avoid the edge.

Xu Yan was about to ride his horse over and kill him, but suddenly he was empty. He looked down and saw that the war horse, who had no idea how many arrows were shot under his crotch, could no longer hold on at this moment, and his front legs were kneeling forward as if he was stalking.

Xu Yan Wangqing fought, and was not wary of the situation in the war horse under his crotch. He was thrown out and had time to grab the broken spear and sting the enemy horse under him. He took this help and adjusted his body balance. He did not fall directly in front of more than a dozen enemy soldiers in a mess.

However, the situation he faces at this time is definitely not optimistic.

After the fierce battle, his physical strength has been squeezed to the extreme. Xu Yan felt that his arms were sore and numb, and blood was seeping out of his arm armor. Now he lost his war horse and was surrounded by dozens of cavalry with rich combat experience. Su Zun and the others were separated from a distance and could not protect themselves...

"roar!"

Xu Yan shouted loudly, but he still did not lose his fighting spirit. He slapped a piece of the spear, changed the horse spear to a stair spear, and rushed to Su Zun and others.

Of course, the dozens of enemy cavalry would not rashly hit Xu Yan's spearhead. The people who were caught off guard at dawn were not counted. When chasing, there were more than a dozen good men who had been through many battles and were killed by the young general of seventeen or eighteen years old in front of him.

Such a brave general would never have more than one slap in Chushan. The Qianhu General who was supervising the battle in the rear had also ordered that he would be captured or killed alive at all costs.

The enemy soldiers and horses moved quickly with Xu Yan.

"Swoosh!"

A cold arrow penetrated into Xu Xian's left calf without armor.

Xu Yan had been hit by several arrows in his legs before, and he didn't feel like he was straddling the horse's back. At this time, he was hit by another arrow and his left leg became weak and he almost fell to the ground.

Xu Yan knew how far he could not rush to the death, so he stood there, stood with his spear, and looked coldly at the encirclement cavalry.

"Swoosh" several sharp arrows shot from the side. Hearing the sharpness of the sky, Xu Yan held the spear in his hand, his heart was extremely quiet, but to his surprise, these sharp arrows were not coming to him. He turned his face slightly, but two enemy cavalry on his left hand were caught off guard and were shot off the horse by several sharp arrows shot from the woods to the south.

The leaves had withered, but more than a hundred soldiers with bows, crossbows and shields were seen fighting out of the valley behind the woods. The arrows were like locusts, covering the enemy soldiers with accuracy and ruthlessness.

At this moment, the enemy soldiers thought they were ambushed, so they dared not fight again. They were panicked and fled northward to avoid a distance.

Han Qihu came out with more than a hundred armored soldiers and quickly helped Xu Yan and others who were injured and could hardly stand up and retreated into Hutai Ridge.

Han Qihu was the Han family's son who was brought into Chu Mountain by Chen Zixiao, Zhang Xiongshan and others - the bandits in Tongbai Mountain. The deaths of the Huaiyuan family were too tragic. Although Chen Zixiao's return to Chu Mountain was deeply trusted by Xu Huai, it could not eliminate the gap between the generals and officials from Tongbai Mountain and Chen Zixiao.

Xu Yan was young and arrogant, and he always looked down on Han Qihu and other Han generals in Nantou. The relationship he usually gets along is very bad, but he was suppressed by Xu Huai, Xu Wuli, Shi Zhen and others. Apart from the occasional fight, he had no major problems.

Xu Huai once divided the estrangement and hatred was relatively shallow. The young Tongbaishan children were assigned to Chen Zixiao's command, hoping to eliminate the estrangement step by step. However, Xu Yan was a thorn and was finally kicked back to the Selected Front Army by Chen Zixiao who could not bear it.

After the Battle of Ruying, Xu Huai transferred Han Qihu to Luocheng and served as a general under Xu Xin'an.

Xu Yan didn't expect that when he was in a desperate situation, Han Qihu would lead his troops to rescue him. He felt awkward and shut up without saying a word.

Han Qihu was four or five years older than Xu Yan. Seeing his expression of shit on his face, he sneered and said, "Why, I am trying to save you? Don't be arrogant. I'm not here to save you. No one can predict it beforehand. Xin'an Army envoys saw that the enemy will cross the river on a large scale in the past two days. I led my troops to ambush nearby to see if there is any chance to slash their sharpness and ask you, the group of rash guys, to destroy our ambush plan!"
Chapter completed!