Because it is in the Hekou area, the coalition forces' retreat did not encounter any twists and turns.

Even when 30,000 to 40,000 Hu Nu had been defeated, the coalition forces could even take away the bodies of friendly troops and their own weapons when they retreated in an orderly manner.

In response to this, the leader of the Hu people felt a sense of chest tightness. Even if he went into battle and killed more than a dozen slaves who fled, he could not relieve his anger.

However, he was helpless with the coalition forces that looked like a turtle shell. Unless he ordered thousands of Hu cavalry to attack the formation of the opposite Xia army. Although doing so would not prevent the Xia army from retreating, it would cause heavy losses to the Hu cavalry under his command.

In the final analysis, it was because there were too few Linhu cavalry in Lincheng, with only seven or eight thousand people, and about half were wandering around Lishi and Zhongyang, attacking the local mountain villages. If the cavalry were also here, Pilou would probably try to issue an order to "attack the Xia army". However, at present, he could only watch the Xia soldiers retreat from the bridge to the other side, and at most they were angry and issued an order to shoot arrows to the Linhu cavalry, asking the latter to shoot more people while the coalition forces crossed the bridge to relieve his hatred.

Around the Si hour, after the last Wei soldiers crossed the bridge with shields under the cover of friendly arrows, Li He ordered the bridge to be destroyed.

"coward!"

"The Xia people are all cowards!"

Pilo summoned a group of Hu Nu who knew the Central Plains and asked them to curse at the other side.

Nearly 20,000 Shaoliang, Wei and Zhao Lianjun were furious when they heard this, and they also spoke up to curse the Hu people opposite.

"Sooner or later there will be a day of decisive battle with them."

Li He spoke seriously at the generals such as Fang Han, Zuo Song, Feng Pu, etc., and the generals nodded with serious expressions.

Judging from the results of the battle, today's coalition was not defeated. After all, they killed at least nearly 1,000 Hu Nu, plus nearly 1,000 Lin Hu cavalry. On the other hand, the Zhao army suffered about 1,500 casualties, while the Wei army suffered more than 2,000, including more than 200 Wei Wushangs. Therefore, from the perspective of the war loss, the coalition army had the advantage.

But from the perspective of the battle situation, the coalition forces were undoubtedly defeated, otherwise why should they withdraw to the West Bank?

After all, it is because the coalition forces do not have cavalry.

But the situation where the coalition forces had no cavalry would soon change. By then, it would be the time when his coalition forces fought Lin Hu head-on.

Not only Li He, Xia Yangjun, Fang Han and other generals understood this point, even Hai Fu, the leader of the Hai tribe who was watching today's battle, and Lao Ziwang, the leader of the Huns, knew in their hearts: Once this powerful Xia army has cavalry, Lin Hu is likely to be no opponent.

"Let's withdraw, too."

After a deep look at the Xia army that had retreated to the west bank of the river, the old man was afraid that there would still be six or seven thousand cavalry Pilou, who was still in danger of venting his anger on the Huns, took the soldiers away with him tactfully.

Although they not only did not get any benefits today, and even managed to save hundreds of soldiers' lives, Lao Qian thought it would be a big gain. At least they saw with their own eyes the strength of the Xia army, especially the Xia army holding the "Wei" flag. In less than 20,000 Hu slaves, the attack of the Hu people did not retreat. Compared with this Xia army, the Lindi Zhao army, who had dealt with them in the past decade, can be said to be weak.

"Maybe we should join forces with the Xia people to attack Lin Hu."

On the way to evacuate, Lao Tuo brought up this matter with his Xiongnu nobles, but his Xiongnu nobles did not agree.

Although on the grassland, among the three branches of Lou Fan, Lin Hu and Xiongnu, the Huns are the weakest in their tribes, but the Huns are Lou Fan's vassals, so the Huns are actually not afraid of Lin Hu. In order to compete for the ranch, sheep, women and slaves, wars often occur on both sides. If they can't win, they ask for help from Lou Fan. After all, the Lin Hu tribes have become stronger over the years, and they have faintly threatened Lou Fan. Lou Fan actually wants to weaken Lin Hu.

In this case, why did the Huns need to unite with the Xia people?

But Lao Qian had other ideas. He wanted to get rid of Lou Fan's control over his Huns. On this grassland where the strong were respected, if he had not been unable to defeat the powerful Lou Fan, how could the Huns have recognized Lou Fan as the main one, and would have paid many flocks of sheep, women and slaves to Lou Fan every year, seeking Lou Fan's protection?

Of course, there is no hurry to do this. After all, in his opinion, the biggest enemy of the Xia people is Lin Hu, and Lin Hu's strength is not weak, which means he has a long time to consider whether he should use the power of the Xia people.

Around noon, Li He, Xia Yangjun, Fang Han, Lin Zhan and others led their troops to retreat to Baiyi.

At this time, outside Baiyi City, the people who retreated from Gaolang to this place were resting outside the city, while Lin Yuan and some soldiers were waiting on the road.

Seeing Li He, Xia Yangjun and others leading their troops back, Lin Yuan took the initiative to face him and bowed to the forthcoming: "Lin Yuan will give me a lot of thanks to Doctor Ziliang for helping me. Otherwise, I, Gaolang, will be slaughtered by the Hu people... I am very grateful! I am very grateful!"

Seeing this, Lin Zhan also walked from the team to his cousin and expressed his gratitude to Li He, Xia Yangjun and the generals of the coalition.

Li He turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and helped Lin Yuan up and said, "Doctor Lin is injured, so there is no need to be too polite."

"Injured?" Lin Zhan exclaimed: "Cousin, are you injured?"

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "It's just that he was shot by a stray arrow, and he was injured in the flesh. Don't make a fuss."

At this time, Xia Yangjun also got off the chariot and stepped forward to see Lin Yuan.

Everyone chatted for a few words, then Xia Yang Jun asked Lin Yuan: "What are your plans next?"

Lin Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "The road to Lishi was occupied by Lin Hu, so he could only beg you to take shelter and ask Mr. Xia Yang to take shelter us for the sake of the friendship between the Three Jin Dynasties."

"Hey, that's not what I mean."

Seeing that Lin Yuan had a misunderstanding, Xia Yangjun waved his hand and said, "I mean, we can form a coalition of the Three Kingdoms to jointly expel Lin Hu... In fact, Ziliang sent someone to discuss with Dr. Lin Yi of Lishi, and Dr. Lin Yi also agreed with this matter."

Lin Yuan and Lin Zhan suddenly realized, and then Lin Yuan smiled and said, "My father also agrees with this matter, so there is no problem."

Lin Zhan immediately expressed his willingness to join the coalition forces.

Everyone chatted for a while, and then Lin Yuan took the Gaolang people into the city to settle down. The other generals, including Lin Zhan, performed their duties and counted the casualties.

Taking advantage of this time, Xia Yang Jun said to Li He: "The most urgent task is to train a cavalry as soon as possible. Today, our army had obviously defeated Lin Hu's infantry but had to retreat because we did not have cavalry. If there were five thousand cavalry, we would definitely win today!"

"Cabinets are not that easy to train."

Li He chuckled and shook his head slightly: "When will the equipment you promised to be delivered?"

Xia Yangjun looked at Li He in confusion: "I have to report this to the country. Where do I come from now? I can't let Wu Zu take off his wife, right? Wait... Are you urgently used?"

Li He thought for a while, probably thinking that Xia Yang Jun would know about the 'heavy cavalry', so he simply did not hide it and nodded and said, "I intend to form a heavy armored cavalry..."

Although Xia Yang Jun didn't know what the role of the heavy armored cavalry was, he also knew that Li He never aimlessly. He heard this and said with a smile: "Why am I? Isn't it enough to train Wei Wuzhu directly to the heavy armored cavalry you mentioned?"

"..." Li He rolled his eyes and looked at Xia Yangjun, his expression as if saying, do you think I'm stupid?

"You promised to train one thousand cavalry for our Wei State, just one thousand people." Xia Yang Jun said with a shameless face: "Put the overall situation first, the relationship between our two countries will basically not change in the next ten years, so you can rest assured."

Li He thought for a while, then Xia Yangjun said, "At the beginning of the year, I will see 3,500 sets of equipment from Wei Wuzhang in Baiyi."

"no problem."

Xia Yang Jun, who understood the hint, smiled: "It's okay to have four thousand sets!"

"That's what you said."

"Well……"

In short, when he was rushing to drive a sheep and letting a group of sheep, Li He discussed with Fang Han, and temporarily assigned Feng Pu and Zuo Song to two teams of Wei Wushou, and then transferred Peng Chou from the camp to the camp, and foxes and five hundred soldiers to the formation, preparing to form a heavy cavalry of 2,500 people.

Strictly speaking, this is not actually a heavy cavalry. On the one hand, even the heavy armor of Wei Wuzhang is not as indestructible as the iron armor, and on the other hand, there is no corresponding vest. The newly formed cavalry can only be said to be between light cavalry and heavy cavalry.

However, such a cavalry that is not like a person is very suitable for dealing with the Hu people. It can charge like a heavy cavalry, and will not be easily thrown away by Lin Hu's light cavalry because of the heavy burden of iron armor.

After learning about the incident, Fang Han naturally would not refuse. After all, this was also his first cavalry in Wei State.

When it comes to training cavalry, Li He still handed over to Hai Fu, the leader of the Hai tribe.

As for the five hundred cavalry and Liang's surprise soldiers, they are responsible for engaging in other surprise soldiers and riding them, making the three thousand surprise soldiers "transform" into crossbows.

If the two thousand five hundred heavy cavalry were a fatal hammer in the decisive battle, then the three thousand Liang crossbow cavalry were the real threat to the Linhu cavalry. They would compete with the Linhu cavalry for control of the wilderness. As long as they control the wilderness and restrict the actions of the Linhu cavalry, the threat of this light cavalry can be minimized.

In early October, Marquis Zheng and Huajia led more than 20,000 Yuanli troops to Baiyi, and Zhai Hu's nephew, Zhai Zhang, the doctor of the Pi family.

Anyway, it’s nothing to do when I’m idle. Li He and Xia Yangjun went out to greet each other. After all, Zheng Hou and Hua Jia were his old subordinates.

"Doctor Ziliang, Xiayangjun."

When they saw the two, Zheng Hou and Hua Jia brought their generals including Wu Ying, Wang Shu, Duan Fu and others to salute.

Looking at these people, Xia Yang Jun's expression couldn't help but be a little complicated. After all, the Yuanli Army in Shaoliang, from the number to the generals, to the soldiers, was all produced by his Wei Kingdom, but for various reasons, this army no longer fought for his Wei Kingdom.

But now that things have come to this point, even if Mr. Xia Yang feels regretful, it will be useless. The only thing he can do is to consolidate the relationship between Wei and Shaoliang, and not have similar regrets happen again in the future.

In the following month, given that winter was approaching and the coalition forces were not ready to carry out comprehensively with Lin and Hu, the 60,000 coalition forces of Liang, Wei and Zhao were temporarily stationed in Baiyi and Chiyi, and the cavalry training was stepped up.

According to Li He's estimate, after almost the beginning of next year, his coalition forces would be trained lightly and heavily, and he would be able to assist the infantry in launching a full-scale counterattack against Lin Hu. In the meantime, they expelled Lin Hu, recovered Xihe, Shangjun, and even counterattacked to the grassland where Lin Hu lived.

On the tenth day of the October lunar month, several knights from the Hai tribe came to Baiyi.

Hai Fu did not deceive Li He, but indeed moved the men, women, young and old of his tribe to Baiyi.
Chapter completed!