"Xu..."

Li Yuanhao's face was so gloomy that he could bleed. He reined in his horse and stopped, watching the horse thieves gradually flee away in front of him.

The iron kite behind him, as well as the auxiliary soldiers, also reined in their horses and stopped.

The Iron Harrier is a heavily armored cavalry, so it seems a bit difficult to chase Zhang Yuan and his party's cavalry.

In order to catch up with Zhang Yuan and his party, Tie Yaozi had already taken off his armor with the help of the auxiliary soldiers while running.

The auxiliary soldiers would jump on their horses and sit behind them to help them remove their armor while they were running.

Tie Yaozi's auxiliary soldiers are all Tie Yaozi's blood descendants. When Tie Yaozi dies, they will put on Tie Yaozi's armor and become new Tie Yaozi.

Therefore, there is a tacit understanding between their blood relatives.

Taking off one's armor immediately is something that others think is impossible, but they can easily do it on horseback.

even so.

Li Yuanhao led Tie Yaozi, but still failed to catch up with Zhang Yuan and his party.

Although they encountered some broken soldiers who had separated from the team during their pursuit, the number was not large.

During the pursuit, very few horse thieves fell into their hands.

It wasn't until the explosion sounded that Li Yuanhao realized that he might have fallen into a trap. This war might have been a ruse from beginning to end.

When the horse thieves were escaping, they were very fast and concentrated. They did not have any panic when escaping, and they ran along a road with great purpose.

The horse thieves who scattered along the way were incomparable to those who escaped in groups.

Li Yuanhao guessed that the horse thieves who were dispersed might be abandoned sons.

They may not know the truth at all and have been blindly following the leader of the horse thieves.

But those horse thieves gathered together definitely know the truth.

"Damn..."

Li Yuanhao cursed in a low voice.

When the leader of the horse thieves abandoned the horse thieves, he not only abandoned them decisively, but also made use of them.

The explosions coming from everywhere are proof.

"Go away quickly and find our brothers..."

Li Yuanhao reined in his horse and stopped where he was, shouting in a deep voice.

The auxiliary soldiers at the back exchanged horses with Tie Yaozi, and Tie Yaozi sent out a hundred people to look for those Tie Yaozi who had already been sent out.

"Hahaha……"

"Li Yuanhao, no matter how powerful you are, you still have to drink my foot-washing water... If I'm to blame, I blame you for underestimating the enemy... You shouldn't have chosen to chase us..."

"..."

After Zhang Yuan and his men escaped from the pursuit of Li Yuanhao and his party, he laughed heartily.

"Chief, where are we going now?"

Behind Zhang Yuan, a thin horse thief asked in a low voice.

Zhang Yuan pinched the horse's back and said loudly: "Go to the camp where the cattle and sheep are divided..."

“Aren’t you going to Populus euphratica forest?”

"certainly……"

Zhang Yuan replied matter-of-factly, and led the horse thieves to the place where Kou Ji kept his cattle and sheep.

Poplar euphratica is just a piece of fake news sent by Zhang Yuanfang to those horse thieves who escaped.

The reason why I chose Populus euphratica forest is because there are three must-pass roads leading to the Populus euphratica forest.

Zhang Yuan buried all the invincible mine cannons assigned to him by Kou Ji in one breath on three important roads that he must pass through.

Those horse thieves who escaped were the bait to lure the iron kite into the ambush.

As long as they enter the ambush, no matter who is killed, Zhang Yuan will always be the winner.

Those horse thieves knew that they had been deceived by Zhang Yuan, so they would not give up with Zhang Yuanshan.

If they died under the invincible mine cannon, it would save Zhang Yuan a lot of trouble.

The task that Kou Ji gave him was to hold off Tie Yaozi for as long as possible, but not to let him fight with Tie Yaozi.

The iron kite goes from concentration to dispersion, and from dispersion to concentration.

There was a lot of running in between.

It will take a lot of time.

After this battle, Tie Yaozi had traveled many miles and spent a lot of energy.

You need to take a rest before you have a chance to return.

At least before noon tomorrow, the three iron kite brigades led by Li Yuanhao will not pose any threat to Kou Ji.

"drive……"

Zhang Yuan sat astride the horse and ran freely on the withered grass.

In the distance, Li Yuanhao was sitting astride a horse, his expression becoming even gloomier.

The iron kites he sent out have returned to him. More than 300 iron kites were sent out, but only 290 people came back.

Dozens of them were killed in the pursuit.

"How did they die?"

Looking at the somewhat damaged armor, Li Yuanhao clenched his fists and growled questions.

Bu Luo Mi Bu knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice: "My soldiers were greedy for merit. After catching up with the horse thieves, they forced the horse thieves to surrender. They told them that the horse thieves would meet up in Populus euphratica forest, so they took the decision without authorization.

Chased out.

Then there was an ambush..."

"A bunch of idiots. I only ordered them to chase, but I didn't tell them to make their own decisions..."

Li Yuanhao roared angrily.

Since its establishment, Tieyaozi has never encountered such a big loss.

If the loss was in the hands of the Song army, or in the hands of the Qingtang or Liao army, he could barely accept it.

But it was hard for him to accept the loss in the hands of horse thieves.

A group of thieves who were not even soldiers in his eyes actually caused casualties among his most elite soldiers.

"Everyone deserves to die..."

"When I take Shazhou City and control the entire north of the Snow Mountain, I will crush them all to ashes."

"..."

Li Yuanhao promoted dozens of auxiliary soldiers on the spot, wore iron kite armor, and became the new iron waist.

At the same time, he ordered Iron Harrier to set up camp on the spot and recover his strength.

Just after Li Yuanhao ordered the iron kites to unload, Kou Ji led his troops and arrived ten miles away from Shazhou City.

There is a hill outside Shazhou City.

There is a river under the mountain.

The river is not spacious, but it is the river of life that the people of Shazhou depend on for their survival.

However, it is difficult to use the drinking water in this river now.

The Shazhou Uighurs, in order to cause trouble for the Xixia soldiers and horses, threw many dead cattle and sheep inside.

Many skeletal cattle and sheep that had been soaked or eaten by wild beasts were piled up on the shore, which looked very eye-catching.

After Kou Ji and his party arrived at Shanbao, Kou Ji issued strict orders to Liu Heng to control his men and told them not to hang out by the river or drink water from the river.

Why did the plague come and how terrible it is?

Kou Ji is far clearer than Liu Heng and others.

After occupying the hillock.

Kou Jice immediately reached the top of the mountain. There were some bushes on the top of the mountain that had been chopped down by the former army.

Kou Ji stood on the top of the mountain, looked up into the distance, and vaguely saw the shadow of Shazhou City.

Shazhou City had already become dilapidated under the successive attacks of Xixia soldiers and horses.

Huge gaps appeared one after another on many sections of the city wall.

The city was almost completely dark, making it difficult to see what was going on in the city.

There was only one place where some lights shone through.

Kou Ji guessed that it should be the palace of the Shazhou Uighurs.
To be continued...