Huamachi is not the only salt water lake outside the Fortress. It is located within a hundred miles of its surrounding area, with more than a dozen large and small salt ponds, just like the stars dotted on this barren land. However, not every lake has lush vegetation. Many salt ponds have dried up because of the shallow water, leaving only cracked land mixed with loess and brine salt. Many places in the depths are white...

On noon this winter day, a battle that was determined at speed was taking place on this salt flat.

The Huns escaped with their legs tightly clamped in front of them, while the Qin and Rong infantry cavalry were chasing behind them.

Although all the Huns were knights and ran very quickly, there were differences in horses. Under their great power, the strong had already run away without a trace, but the Huns riding inferior horses were in trouble and were still caught up by the Qin cavalry who were surrounded.

Everyone had no formation, and there was only the enemy in front of them in their eyes. Within a radius of more than ten miles, small-scale battles were everywhere.

After a few days of fighting, Yiqu Bailang, Fu Zhi and others also understood that the dangerous paths were inclined and sprinting. This is the strength of the Huns and the Chinese cavalry were not matched. Their advantage lies in their equipment and the number of people.

Therefore, when the Qin cavalry caught up with the Huns, they ignored the arrows they shot. Except for a few unlucky guys who were directly hit by the vital points of the face and died on the spot, the bones were shot on the shoulders protected by thick leather armor, and there was only a short burst of pain on their chests, as if heavy raindrops hit their bodies, at most they broke the skin and could not hurt their flesh at all.

The Huns also learned their lessons, and they immediately began to change their goals and turned around and shot their horses!

The Qin people's horses were not covered with clothes, and they still bleed when facing the rapid cluster of arrows. However, only a few riders fell to the ground due to injuries to the mounts and had to stop chasing. The rest of the people were still trying to get closer. The Huns would slow down their horses when they rode and shot. In this way, even if they lucky enough to shoot down one of the Qin cavalry, the other nine people were constantly shortening their distance...

When they were three to five steps away from the Huns, the Qin and Rong cavalry drew out the long-handled sword for the Qin chariots and cavalry, and tried to poke the Huns off the horse.

The Huns also tried to take out their weapons to fight back, but their weapons were only shorter swords, one inch long and one inch stronger. Don't say that the lengths of both sides were several feet apart.

Fu Zhi's weapons are different from those of ordinary people. They use a heavier "shu" (shu), with a round hammer-shaped head and no edge.

Although he can't ride and shoot, he has a killer move, which is that he has great power and plays the common "stone throwing" in the army. He is like a strong man in the Olympics. After a few rounds, he can throw dozens of steps in one breath! He exceeds the pavilion!

At present, he was holding a sludge weighing dozens of kilograms in his hand, as if he was playing with a light wooden stick. When he was in Beidi County, he was playing with this weapon, and he praised it when he saw it. He even asked the craftsmen to make improvements to him, adding some thorny iron nails to the sludge and giving it a simple and rough name: "Mad".

At this moment, Fu Zhi took the mace to hit the ugly Huns on the side, first smashing the bow and arrow he raised in horror, then whispered upwards and hitting the Huns' chin, causing him to fall off his horse, leaving a piece of blood on the white salt flats, and his mouth full of rotten teeth...

In just a while, more than a dozen Huns were stabbed by good families, rolled onto the salt flats, and were trampled by the Qin cavalry behind them.

After dealing with these enemies, Fu Zhi saw that more than a hundred people were fighting in full swing in front of him.

When I looked closely, they were good families led by his good friend Qiang Hua. Qiang Hua's ancestors were Qiang people and practiced riding and shooting since childhood. Their 100 good families he brought were also good at bows and crossbows. Their fighting style was different from the 100 people on Fu Zhi's side who were good at close-up fighting. They fought in circles with the Huns, relying on bows and arrows to determine the outcome.

The Qiang Hua tiger's eyes widened, shouted and fought fiercely, letting the wind roar around him, and its hair fluttered in the air. It just kept running to the edge, then stopped the horse, drew the bow and arrow, and shot arrows at the Huns. It almost hit every shot. His subordinates also followed suit, but most of them used hand crossbows.

Fu Zhi and others immediately joined the battlefield, rushed straight to the Hu Qi, and quickly helped Qiang Hua solve the remaining Huns.

Fu Zhi approached and joked: "Qiang Zihua, aren't you trying to be a striker and go to the grain team to assist?"

Qiang Hua turned around and glared at him: "Fu Guokui, shouldn't you be guarding the county magistrate?"

Fu Zhidao: "The county magistrate is far behind and commands the main force. He ordered me to come and chase Hu Qi together. Where is the leader of Yiqu?"

"I've chased it ahead long ago."

Qiang Hua pointed forward and Fu Zhi could see at the end of the salt flat. On the wasteland, there were two smoke and dust in front and back. The Great Yuan Rong Cavalry was chasing the Huns who escaped from the encirclement, and behind them were two thousand disciples led by Gong Ao and others.

They also saw more horses in front of them who had lost their owners and ran around the salt flats. There were also Huns who had lost their mounts rolling on the ground in a mess, like fish trapped on this salt flat.

Those Fengyan people who watched their tribes be raped and killed by the Huns for many days were angrily exerting revenge. They killed all the Huns who saw them. Only a few of them were bound by panting as prisoners...

Half an hour later, when the military carriage of the county magistrate Heifu arrived here, Yiqu Bailang also sent a cavalry back to report: "Yiqu leader and others failed to catch up with the Xiongnu commander, so they forced him not to return to the camp and continued to escape to the west..."

Heifu didn't blame them: "The Huns have been resting for a long time, but you went south and ran north for more than ten miles. Although they had changed their horses once, they were already weak and it was not ordinary that they could not catch up."

This siege was a strategy of taking advantage of the generals, a temporary decision, and a temporary selected location, so he did not expect to be wiped out. As soon as he asked about the results of the battle, the siege and cavalry killed more than 700 Huns, captured hundreds of people, and seized hundreds of horses. This was a good result.

What's more, the Huns did not dare to return to their camps more than ten miles away. The cattle and sheep that had plundered a large number of people from the Huamachi Lake in the camps naturally became the spoils of the Qin army.

"This battle is the first battle outside the border area, which caused the Huns to escape in a panic, and the loss of nearly a thousand soldiers is enough to strengthen the power of our Qin army."

After asking the translator to ask the captured Xiongnu prisoners, he learned that there were two commanders of the Huns, one was the right master, the other was the right Gudu Hou. The right master who fled with the main force of the Huns, and the one who led two thousand cavalry to the south was the Gudu Hou.

Wu Shiyan said: "The county magistrate has just been pursuing the Huns. It took nearly an hour. I thought the two thousand Huns would come back to help, but unexpectedly, they were still missing. Could it be that they really went to rob our military ration team?"

The cattle, carriage and horse teams that transported grain from the Later Army were mainly provided by their family, and Wu Shiyan was inevitably concerned about it.

Blackfu nodded and issued a follow-up combat order.

"One thousand people went to pick up Ying Yiqu, Gongao and other generals, brought the population of cattle and sheep from the Xiongnu camp back to Huamachi City. The remaining four thousand people followed our lieutenant south to help Gongsun County Wei!"

Fu Zhi and Qiang Hua both asked for the orders as the vanguards and set out the way, and the black husband refused to do so.

"The grain team may be dozens of miles south, and now an hour has passed. I think at this moment, I am still fighting fiercely with the Huns?" Fu Zhi whispered before setting off.

"I don't know if Gan Chong can hold on."

Qiang Hua was also very worried that two thousand cavalry attacked the grain team escorted by two thousand disciples, and no matter how they thought it was, they would be in danger.

After Heifu's words and deeds, they also realized the importance of the late baggage to the army. If the grain team is intercepted and all the food is burned, then the Qin army will still suffer greater losses in this battle...

They could only comfort themselves in this way: "The County Magistrate Gongsun is also a long-standing general. He has many battles with the cavalry of Zhao and Hu Rong outside the Great Wall. Generally speaking, the Houqi siege can only be released for twenty miles, but he has to release thirty miles. The Huns are still far away in the sky. He already knows his traces and should be ready to defend against the enemy!"

"Who told you that the grain team had only two thousand disciples escorted him?"

At this time, a voice came from behind, but it was Wang Wei, who was the first to serve as a personal guard in Beidi County.

Wang Wei is also a good family, but he is older and has been with Heifu for longer. He is more in touch with some confidential matters than Fu and Qiang. Fu Zhi also saw in the morning that the county magistrate summoned Yiqu Bailang, Wu Shiyan and Wang Wei to take the plan. When he left with a serious face, he bumped into himself.

"More than two thousand people, could there be other people?" Fu Zhi and Qiang Hua saw another glimmer of hope.

"The Beidi County cannot draw more soldiers, but Shangdi County is different. You must know that Your Majesty is supervising the battle at Gao Nu and ordered Shangdi to send troops to assist the Beidi."
Chapter completed!