"Tie it up, tie it firmly!"

"Tighten, tighten..."

"This one is ready."

"This one is good too..."

Beside the jade-belt-like Chishui River, more than 100,000 cavalrymen were sorting out their belongings.

Dry food, weapons, water bags, utensils, felt blankets...etc. With three men and horses, they were more than thirty miles away from the front and back. Looking down from the top of the Baishan Mountain, the crystal clear 'Yudai River' looked like a section of the covered river.

It's like dyeing red or purple.

Not a single infantryman, auxiliary troops, nor a single strong man was left. The Zhou army from Chen Di had all withdrawn, and their focus was always on the Di tribe. Only the 120,000 to 30,000 cavalry from Hedong remained.

Zhu Biao raised his head and glanced at the light snow falling in the sky. It was not heavy, but the snow that started yesterday would last until two days later. This winter is really a cold winter.

Wuji's army rushed over. They rescued the millions of Hu herdsmen from the Youguli tribe, and also rescued the Wu division, which was left with only ten thousand soldiers fleeing in embarrassment.

As a result, the Zhou army, having achieved its strategic goal, began to withdraw from Shoujiang City. Zhu Biao also ordered his infantry and Ding Zhuang troops to withdraw to the east of Hedong.

He wanted to lead an army of 120,000 to 30,000 cavalry and have a good time strolling with Wuji on this vast prairie. As soon as Wuji showed any flaws, he would pounce on him and bite him hard.

And why did you choose this time to compete with Wuji?

One, of course, because the Hu people at this time were at their weakest. The severe cold winter caused them heavy losses;

Second, because there is no need to worry about water sources, the entire grassland is full of ice and snow. When Zhu Biao is marching, he no longer has to worry about Haizi and rivers.

People say that the prairie is vast, but they don’t know that marching on the prairie also has fixed routes. Otherwise, just drinking water for humans and animals can drive the most famous commander crazy.

Three hundred thousand Zhou troops retreated, and more than one hundred thousand infantry and armored men retreated towards the east of the river. The military supplies left behind were enough for 120,000 to 30,000 cavalry to survive on the ice and snow grasslands for three months.

While Zhu Biao was waiting for Wuji's army to come, he ordered the whole army to eat and drink wildly and feed the horses with beans. Within a few days, most of the lost vitality was replenished. Only hundreds of thousands of people ate it.

All the grains used were left over from the Zhou army. The Hedong army themselves mixed them with eggs, meat floss, locust meal, white flour, sorghum, shrimp skin, bone meal and other ingredients, and used hydraulic forging hammers to beat and compress the ancient food.

The high-energy compressed biscuits didn't move at all.

Zhu Biao wanted to lead his army to follow Wu Ji, and the first thing he had to ensure was military rations. Zhou Jun's rations not only provided less calories per unit, but also had a large volume and space. Compared with the compressed biscuits produced by Hedong, they were not at the same level.

Zhu Biao's brain was confused again. Compared with Zhou Jun's grain, he naturally chose the food produced in Hedong.

Use good steel on the blade, and when you make a circle, that's when you use good things.

There are about 400,000 horses in total, and nearly 10% of the excess horses are used to pull sledges, small sledges, grain trucks, and small sledges converted from baggage trucks. They are loaded with part of the horse meat, horse oil, and tents necessary for the army.

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Although each person in the army had two or three felt blankets, and a ten-thousand-year-old Hedong army could put together a tent when they spent the night, Zhu Biao still carried these things at a "big price".

"Report——"

"Commander, Hugou's Eagle Shooting Son is already thirty miles away from our army——"

Behind a mountain sheltered from the wind, Zhu Biao received the battle report he had been waiting for for a long time. "Send the order, the entire army turns to the southwest——"

Following Zhu Biao's order, a V-shaped marching route appeared on the white grassland in the next six days. The traces left by the army, the path pursued by four to five million angry Hu cavalry,

I drew a sharp stroke on the grassland.

"Go north, due north, march--"

In the early morning of the seventh day, it was a morning covered with white fog. The Hedong army, which had just woken up from their sleep, received the third order since setting off from Baishan Chishui - the entire army moved due north!

Southwest, Northwest, True North——

Zhu Biao has changed direction twice, and the four to five million Hu Qi following behind him have never been able to close the last one hundred miles. They are unwilling to give up revenge, so they can only follow Zhu Biao's changes like puppets.

change.

Of course, Wuji, Wushi and other "people of insight" have already felt that something is wrong. Although the self-army has an absolute advantage in strength, it is completely passive. This is a flaw that no amount of troops can make up for.

This situation must be changed, otherwise it will be very detrimental to yourself!

Wuji and other top Huqi officials, who did not know the People's Liberation Army's bullfighting tactics, or the words "the fat drags you down, the skinny drags you to death", could feel the danger of completely losing their initiative even if they were secretly aware of it.

But they really can't change it.

Speed, Hedong Army is fast.

Hu Qi, who could not catch up or stop him, could not change his situation except to divide his troops and encircle him. But if he divided his troops and encircled him, how could Wuji dare to make such a determined decision?

What he faced was not the Zhou army, Chen army, or the Han army in Hexi, Luozhou, and Yanzhou, but the Hedong army. The army under Zhu Biao was so powerful that no one would dare to do so without three or four times the strength.

Talk about victory lightly.

The total strength of his own army is only four times that of the Hedong Army. If it is divided into two, both armies will be in danger. If it is divided into one or three parts, the former will send the sheep into the tiger's mouth.

In another five days, Zhu Biao led his troops and advanced 1,500 miles deep into the grassland. The weather finally began to get warmer. At the same time, the distance between the Hedong Army and Hu Qi gradually narrowed, and the Hu Qi forwards were only a few inches away from the Hedong Army rearguard.

About thirty miles down the river, the Hedong Army's Dysprosium Feng clashed with the Hu Cavalry Eagle Kites several times, and a pair of emerald-feathered hummingbirds borrowed from the younger sister also repeatedly 'killed' the Hu people's flying eagle kites that flew overhead for reconnaissance.

One after another, thin horses fell dead among the troops in Hedong. Wuji, who never divided his troops, saw the hope of victory!

So Hu Qi chased him even tighter.

Zhu Biao issued the fourth order in the eleven-day pursuit, and the army turned east——

In the next three days, small sledges began to appear next to the dead horses of the Hedong Army, and the small sledges hit tents without exception.

Hu Qi began to go crazy. Their horses were equally thin and bony, but their spirits were stronger than the scorching sun in midsummer.

Unless you are a martial arts master with deep internal strength, even the thick-skinned and cold-resistant Hu people themselves would not be able to bear losing your tent in such weather.

In the past three days, the speed of the Hedong Army has dropped from the previous 300 miles per day to 2560 miles per day. Hu Qi once took advantage of a false fire and organized an elite force of 50,000 people for an assault, but was

The Hedong Jingqi at the rear were repulsed. In that short but fierce fight, both sides suffered a total loss of more than 20,000 people.

Then Hu Qi returned to his "old appearance" and continued to pursue the Hedong Cavalry. However, the distance between the large armies on both sides narrowed from about a hundred miles to about fifty miles.

Zhu Biao released his fifth line of military power, and the entire army went south——

The Hedong Army wants to escape?!

Wuji was so full of excitement and joy that he couldn't restrain himself, and the entire Huqi army was filled with chest-exploding joy.

Chase--

Chase--

Chase--

Zhu Biao must not be allowed to escape with his troops and horses——

No one can calm down anymore.

"Then add fuel to their fire!" Zhu Biao said with a smile on his face as he looked at the "powerful" Hu Qi army. But his eyes were ice-cold, and there was only murderous intention hidden in them.

A large number of exhausted and thin horses fell to death on the road where the Hedong Army fled south. Sledges were overturned on the roadside, and tents were burned, but more tents were not burned in time.

On the third day of the march south, the dead corpses of the Hedong Army appeared on the roadside. Some were buried, and some were not buried in time.

No one in Hu's cavalry army suspected Zhu Biao of cheating anymore. Because he had been on the battlefield for so many years, Zhu Biao never abandoned the wounded, or even the bodies of his own soldiers.

The Hedong Army didn't even have time to bury the bodies of the fallen soldiers, so you can imagine how low their morale was. And there was another reason. It had been two days, and there were no traces of buried pots for cooking on the grasslands that the Hedong Army passed through.

There is no time for a hot meal. Is such an army still a threat?

At the foot of Gaoque Mountain.

Zhu Zhong knocked on the hard compressed dry food and laughed and cursed: "This damn thing is harder than a brick." But it was the compressed dry food that was as hard as a brick that allowed the Hedong Cavalry to last for four full days, until this day.

At the foot of Gaoque Mountain.

Zhu Biao ordered the whole army to stop, and then quickly lit a fire and cooked rice. This was the battlefield he had planned to fight Hu Qi to the death.

Gaoque Mountain is more than 200 miles in length and breadth. It is a tall mountain with the saying of "three tops, six platforms, nine valleys and eighty-one peaks". The main ridge line is more than 150 miles long, and the highest peak is thousands of feet above sea level. It is a famous mountain on the grassland.

One of the annotations. The peaks are vertical and horizontal, and they are as beautiful as a screen. Sometimes there are clear clouds floating on them, and the scenery is quite beautiful.

But no matter Zhu Biao or Wu Ji, no one cared about the magnificence of Gaoque Mountain at this time. They only had eyes for the other person opposite.

600,000 horsemen from both armies gathered at the foot of Gaoque Mountain, covering a large area of ​​darkness. Even when looking down from the top of the mountain, one could only feel that the thick red, black and purple colors had rendered a large grassland.

After a warm meal of broth, all the soldiers of the Hedong Cavalry Army were full of energy and full of energy. After half a month of waiting, the moment of bite finally came.

So what if there were one against four? None of them were afraid.

"Qi-watching technique!"

A white light flashed in Zhu Biao's eyes, but outsiders could not see it. The three data of the Hu Cavalry army five miles away, their morale, status, and fatigue came into Zhu Biao's heart. Then a knowing smile appeared.

flashed at the corner of Zhu Biao's mouth.

In the Huqi formation on the opposite side.

Wu Shi's expression changed, and Wu Ji's expression changed even more. They didn't know how to read Qi, but as experienced generals, they could at least see the momentum of an army.

The Hedong Cavalry on the opposite side was not at all as "downcast" as they expected, but instead had a majestic and vigorous fighting spirit that could be clearly felt through a distance of five miles.

The noble generals led by Hu Qi panicked, and they also felt that something was wrong. Countless eyes looked at the Nine-tailed White Banner and their great chanyu.

And feeling these expectant looks, Wuji's face became even more embarrassed.
To be continued...