The wall of Sishui Pass was eight zhang high (18.5 meters) and more than fifty zhang wide (130 meters) and a wide Sishui River flowed through in front of the pass. Although the pass was narrow at the Lishui River, the suspension bridge at the pass was ten zhang long (23 meters), two zhang thick (4.6 meters), and two zhang thick (0.45 meters), which was estimated to weigh 40 tons, and was pulled by eight thick iron chains.

This pass is not wide or narrow, and it can only provide 500 people with a single attack. If there are too many, it will only serve as a target for the defenders. If the soldiers are few, there will be no threat to the pass. And there are tens of thousands of people in the pass to guard the pass. If there are 30,000 people who are strongly attacking, even if the soldiers die, there will be no damage to the Lishui Pass.

If it is an ordinary city, you can also use a variety of siege methods. And such a powerful pass has no other way except for tactical and strong attacks. Even if you create a catapult, there is no way to deal with the heavy city without two or three months of continuous attacks. So the generals looked at Sishuiguan and shook their heads repeatedly, saying that they could not attack forcibly. When He Bai saw Sishuiguan, he wanted to turn around and leave.

However, when looking at the Yellow River waterway several miles away on the right, He Bai couldn't help but feel happy. The army had a navy, but could turn into the Yellow River to become a navy. Why do you have to attack the pass? Just take a boat west. Although there are many naval troops in Mengjin and Xiaopingjin ports near Luoyang, most of them were transport ships of three or five hundred materials. Moreover, they had not experienced water battles for many years, and their combat effectiveness was definitely not the opponent of the alpine navy.

However, in order to attack the enemy, you have to do something to cover up your eyes. But you can tentatively attack Sishui Pass, then turn to Xingyang City, pretend to attack Hulao, but secretly go upstream from the Yellow River and send naval troops to attack Sishui Pass.

The idea was settled, and He Bai had no intention of going to see the defense of the Sishui Pass. Just as he was about to call the generals to retreat, suddenly a cannon sounded at Sishui Pass, and the thick wooden suspension bridge was slowly landing. Countless iron armored cavalry ran out of the pass. It seemed that Dong Zhuo's army was plundering well in Luoyang, and the elite cavalry were already wearing iron armor.

Du Lei urgently advised: "Lord, the thief in Xiliang wants to take advantage of my few people and attack me, so you can retreat quickly."

He Bai shook his head and smiled, "I have always heard that Hua Xiong, the governor of the Sishui River, is a fierce general of the Xiliang army. He is brave and reckless. If he dares to attack me, I happened to lure him to kill him to shock the thieves of Xiliang. Du Lei, quickly let Yisong ambush all over the place and eat him first."

Chunyu Qiong advised: "As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. The lord has a worthy fortune, so why should he lure Hua Xiong with his body? It is better for the lord and Du Sima to retreat first, so let me lure the enemy here."

He Bai smiled and said, "Okay, okay, there are only two horses at the entrance of Sishui Pass for driving side by side. If Hua Xiong goes out, he will not be able to dispatch large troops. Why don't you be afraid of it? When all of them are dispatched, we will retreat again."

Sure enough, ten minutes later, after five hundred Xiliang cavalry came out of the gate, no soldiers were dispatched. A general led the five hundred cavalry and came first, shouting loudly: "Don't leave, take your life."

When He Bai saw that the two sides were only thirty steps away, he called on the generals to retreat eastward. At this time, the horses riding by the generals were not short Wuhuan horses, but seven-foot-tall good horses, which were not worse than the Xiliang army horses. The Xiliang Qiang cavalry was all wearing iron armor, and the speed was slower. Therefore, although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry came quickly, they could not catch up for a while. Instead, the generals who were good at shooting He Baicolon shot and killed many Qiang cavalry. The general was so angry that he screamed and just chased him.

However, if the horse is fast for ten miles, it is only eight or nine minutes. Just as I turned a hill, there was an iron whistle. Five hundred white horses all came out from the left and right, looking at the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that had already run into a straight line, rushing towards it slantedly.

The first thing to catch the enemy was naturally the cavalry tactics that He Bai had used. After three rounds of rapid shooting, more than 1,000 arrows were shot randomly, less than twenty people of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry fell off the horse. Obviously, the iron armor on the Xiliang Iron Cavalry played a role. The tension of the Yi Cong’s cavalry was too small, not as strong as the generals’ strong bows, and could not break the defense of the fish scale iron armor.

When Yi Congmen saw him, he immediately collected his bow and took the spear, and looked at the enemy cavalry fiercely and attacked. The Western Liang Iron Cavalry was suddenly ambushed and was shocked. Under the shooting of arrows, they all held the war horses and drove them away. When the cavalrymen who were still charging forward saw him, they only rushed forward for a few steps and stopped the rushing, showing the exquisiteness of the Western Liang army's cavalry.

He Bai saw the response of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, and couldn't help but applaud. The cavalry in the charge was ambushed and the slowdown was most taboo, as slowing down meant giving up the attack. Therefore, even though he knew it was death, he had to charge forward, so that the cavalry would be the way to deal with it. The Western Liang Iron Cavalry was inappropriate, and our army would definitely win this battle.

Sure enough, the White Horse Yicong was willing to miss this good opportunity. Before the Western Liang cavalry turned around and fled, they pushed their spears straight into the enemy formation. After a few breaths, they arrived. Screams were heard, mostly from the Hu people and Qiang sounds from Xiliang. However, this attack caused nearly half of the Western Liang army to be dismissed. As a result, assault was the king of cavalry.

The huge impact force and the defense of the iron armor made the spear pierce one man, but the spear was broken. Yisong quickly pulled out the ring-headed sword on his waist and cut towards the Xiliang Iron Cavalry behind the formation, fighting with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry who was unwilling to fight back. However, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had already suffered more than half of the casualties. From then on, the white horse Yi was even more than the enemy cavalry. They all used two enemies and one spear and short swords to kill the Xiliang soldiers, causing the heads of the Xiliang soldiers to roll and blood flow into a river.

The general of Xiliang shouted harshly, led dozens of horses and horses, and launched a desperate charge towards He Bai who was holding up the horse to watch the battle. Zhou Tai, Du Lei, Wu Anguo and other generals intercepted and fought. Most of the generals were brave, and the Iron Cavalry of Xiliang were not enough for them to kill. Just a hedge, they were all dismissed. Even the general of Xiliang was killed by Du Lei within ten rounds.

He Bai praised him again and again when he saw him. Du Lei's foundation was not bad. It seems that he has been practicing martial arts hard in recent years, but now it is not bad in Hou Cheng's past. After practicing for another two years, I am afraid he will be another powerful general.

Du Lei brought a head and reported to He Bai: "Lord, not Hua Xiong, but Sima, who is named Ma Qi."

He Bai nodded. Judging from the enemy's desperate pursuit to the response from the post-defense, the enemy general was just a mediocre person. It seems that Hua Xiong had just started fighting in the Kanto Alliance and did not know the strength of the Kanto Alliance, so it was not yet time to advance rashly.

"I want to kill a bear, but I come. It seems that Hua Xiong shouldn't have died at this time. Well, you go and command the end of the war."

Under Du Lei's command, the battle between the cavalry ended in just ten minutes. Except for more than 30 cavalry of Xiliang, the rest of the five hundred cavalrymen were wiped out. The damage of the Baima Yicong could not be ignored. Sixty-seven cavalry were killed and thirty-eight cavalry were injured.

Under the situation of intentional and unintentional war, it actually lost 20%. It seems that the war in the era of cold weapons is really cruel. This battle is the first time that He Bai used his troops to fight against the regular army in the court. Although the results are good, he has suffered a lot of losses. In addition, the previous losses of the scout war have already lost nearly 300 elite cavalry. The 1,500 private army from Changshan and Zhongshan have a loss rate of 300 cavalry, which is already at the point of pain.

He Bai also saw the spirit of the Western Liang army being fearless and fearless. He actually wiped out the entire army and did not flee. Even if he died, he would have to bite the flesh on the enemy. Dong Zhuo had an army of 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, how could the alive army fight hard?

Bai Ma Yi dismounted the horse and stripped the dead body of the scales and prepared to use it for his own use. He then packed up the soldiers who had already died in the army, tied them up and brought them back on the horse, and then led nearly 400 intact Xiliang horses from the Xiliang army, and brought them back together, and retreated to Juan County with He Bai.

When more than thirty cavalry fled to Sishui Pass, Hua Xiong, the chief general of Sishui Pass, was as deep as water. After asking about the past of this battle, he immediately shouted to Zhao Cen: "Ma Qibi is Hu Wencai's confidant. If he doesn't listen to me and fight He Bai, he will be killed. Then He Bai is a person that the prime minister must be afraid of, so he is not so easy to kill. But Ma Qibi died and killed me, but it made me angry again, which made me very angry."

After saying that, someone was kidnapped the more than thirty escaped horsemen and sent someone to Luoyang to hand them over to Hu Zhen for disposal.

It turned out that since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo raised his soldiers, annexed the defeated soldiers of friendly troops, summoned surrendered and rebels, and captured various Qiang people in Xiliang as soldiers. During the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, he had an army of 50,000, which was deeply hated by the court. There were five generals under him, namely the general Niu Fu, the general of the Central Army, Hu Zhen, the general of the Front Army, Dong Yue, the general of the Left Army, Yang Ding, the general of the Right Army, and Duan Wei. Hua Xiong and Zhao Cen were the lieutenants under the command of Hu Zhen, the general of the former army.

Hua Xiong's army was not inferior to Hu Zhen, and his martial arts were even more powerful than Hu Zhen. He was the bravest general of the three armies, so he was deeply loved by Dong Zhuo. Hu Zhen was afraid that his position would be taken away by Hua Xiong, so he hated Hua Xiong deeply and used his first-class status to suppress and bully Hua Xiong. Now that Ma Qi's death may not be a reason for Hu Zhen to take the opportunity to attack.

Li Su advised: "Hua Xiaoqi is deeply favored by the Prime Minister of Dong, so why fear Hu Zhen. Let's look at Dong's appointment as the chief general of the Eastern Guardian and facing the Sour Jujube Alliance, we know that Dong's expectations for the Hua Xiaoqi are very high. As long as the Hua Xiaoqi can defeat He Jun, I believe that Dong's prime minister will greatly promote the Hua Xiaoqi. At that time, Hua Xiaoqi will not need to look at his Hu Wencai's expression."

Hua Xiong was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed to Li Su, and sent a horse to Juan County to investigate the military situation of He Jun. On the afternoon of the next day, he heard that He Bai had already marched, with 20,000 people coming to Sishui Pass, and another 10,000 people heading southwest. He immediately guessed that He Bai was going to attack Xingyang, clear the side of Sishui Pass, and blocking the possible harassment of Hulao Pass.

There were few soldiers in Xingyang, and they were originally the forefront of Hulao Pass and the corner of the Sishui Pass. There were originally a large army guarding him, but Hua Xiong wanted to make his contributions in one battle, so he did not send heavy troops to guard him, but all gathered in Sishui Pass. Now He Bai divided his troops to capture Xingyang, which was in line with the Chinese hero.
Chapter completed!