Zhang Yuan could feel the other party's retreat, this was not that kind of timidity, but a retreat for the next more crazy killing. Just a battle, even if he didn't see him, Zhang Yuan deeply realized that not all of them were people with one tendon in this mountain barbarian, and there were many more cunning, crazy, and difficult opponents.

Obviously, the person who is currently in control of the mountain barbarians is such a guy, who retreated with a broken arm, and after retreating into the canyon area, he stopped, and even provoked the Xihe army, wanting to lead the Xihe army into the canyon area that is not suitable for charging, which shows how difficult and cunning these mountain barbarians are.

"It's really more difficult to deal with than expected, I'm afraid this battle will continue, and it may not be worse than the other two battlefields!" If it weren't for the fact that the Xihe Army itself was unable to resist the future strength of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Yuan had to take a risk and invade the Yuan Dynasty with his army, in order to seize the territory and accumulate strength before the other party could react.

He would never commit this kind of taboo of opening up two battlefields.

But now, in order to unify and integrate the land adjacent to the sea as quickly as possible, as soon as the war in the Han Dynasty ended, he sent the elite of the Xihe Army to the land near the sea, just to solve the battle as quickly as possible and unify the resources of the entire land near the sea to supplement the Han Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty.

When he got the news from Hu Chu and Ba Dinghan, Zhang Yuan already knew that this battle might continue, but if he didn't experience it himself, he would definitely not be willing to continue here.

Now, in front of the facts. Zhang Yuanzhi said that this battle must be a protracted war, and he will fight with the mountain barbarians. It doesn't matter how many enemies you kill, the important thing is stability, if you are too eager, you are likely to be caught by the other party, and then the situation will really be out of control.

Returning to the stone mountain, Zhang Yuan lived in the innermost tent and took stock of the whole situation.

Let's start with the land next to the sea. The Storm Plains have all been unified, and the grass barbarians are not suitable for jungle warfare, and their riding skills are no worse than those of the tribes on the grassland. And that fierce strength is not comparable to the grassland, if it is used as an ordinary foot pawn, it is simply a tyrannical thing.

However, it does not mean that it is useless. Opposite. After taking control of the storm Qingyuan, Zhang Yuan could already extract some of it from the land adjacent to the sea, so he had already arranged for people to recruit the young men of the major tribes long before he came, and he would draw out 30,000 horses in advance, of which 20,000 would go to the Han Dynasty and 10,000 to the Yuan Dynasty.

The grass barbarians were withdrawn and left, in order to prevent a comprehensive counterattack by the mountain barbarians in the mountains. After the idea of a victory or defeat in the first battle was invalid, the next step was to draw foot soldiers from the Han Dynasty. Of course, this is only auxiliary, the real thing is to resurrect and belong to the mountain barbarians, because in the first battle of Qingyuan, the mountain barbarians suffered heavy casualties, if it wasn't for the Xihe army to go up by themselves, maybe the mountain barbarians in the deep mountains would have already hit the storm Qingyuan.

As for the Han Dynasty, it is not what Zhang Yuan is most worried about, because of the propaganda of the founding of the country, the Han Dynasty will not do it in the near future, they will hesitate, they will be angry, they will investigate, they will accumulate strength, and then launch a thunderous offensive to destroy Xihe, the rebel who will build the country.

And the Yuan Dynasty, the battle has never ended, at most this time the Yuan Dynasty will requisition more strength to deal with Xihe, but is he really drawn out? As soon as the strength of the Xihe River was so mixed, the Qin Dynasty was the first to strike, and had already sent Bai Qi, the killing god, to the Qin and Yuan battlefields, as if he wanted to cooperate with the Xihe army and ruthlessly consume the strength of the Yuan Dynasty.

After all, as long as Xihe Shili stays inside the Yuan Dynasty for a day, the Yuan Dynasty will weaken day by day, and the rebel army will never be cut off, which is completely different from the Han Dynasty, who made the Yuan Dynasty a dynasty ruled by a foreign race?

Sure that he still has some time, there is no problem in opening up a new battlefield in a short period of time, the pressure in Zhang Yuan's heart has also been reduced a lot, and then said: "Come on, please Hu Chu come!" ”

Half an hour later, Hu Chu came and said, "I've seen the lord!" ”

"Get up!" Zhang Yuan helped Hu Chu up and asked, "How about the casualties?!" ”

"Three hundred younger!" Hu Chu said quite painfully, no matter how many enemies are killed, what kind of victory is it if his own people die? Three hundred, it doesn't seem like much, but it will hurt your muscles and bones if you accumulate a lot after a few times.

"So much!" Zhang Yuan couldn't help frowning a little: "Do you know the situation on the other side of the road?" ”

Hu Chu shook his head worriedly: "Tell the lord, the last general is not clear, the mountain barbarians attacked and scattered before, all of them were mainly tribes, but this time a few tribes were gathered, the number of people is so large, and they know how to retreat, this ......!" ”

"......," Zhang Yuan nodded silently.

The retreat of the mountain barbarians, after all, caused Zhang Yuan's vigilance, he is not afraid of the enemy's madness, nor is he afraid of the enemy's strength, the most terrible enemy is actually a poisonous snake, knows how to hide, knows how to retreat, knows how to protect himself, knows how to endure the enemy, is the most terrible enemy.

And this time, the mountain barbarians were defeated, but they retreated with broken arms, showing madness and high morale, but they did not lack retreat and protect themselves, in the face of such a powerful and brainy enemy, how could Zhang Yuan be more vigilant?

"I'm afraid the other party has reacted and united against us!"

"I'm afraid that the other party is planning a lot!" Hu Chu was slightly melancholy.

"Hmm!" Zhang Yuanzhi said that Hu Chu was right, since they joined forces, once Xihe was defeated, then no matter how the other party united, they would not sit idly by and ignore the big pie of Storm Qingyuan.

Zhang Yuan said: "Come on, go find the stream stone!" ”

Soon, Xishi came, knelt down and said, "Xishi has seen a great leader!" ”

"Get up!" Zhang Yuanxu raised his hand and said, "How many enemies did you kill this time?" ”

"Five, Xishi killed five warriors of the distant mountain gods!" Xishi said proudly that he didn't keep up when the Wushuang Cavalry charged, but he caught up with the pinching attack and showed great bravery.

"Not bad! Keep up the good work! Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "I came to you this time to ask you, do you know who is commanding these barbarians this time?" Or rather, how are they different from other mountain barbarians? ”

"I don't know!" Xishi's face was full of confusion, and he didn't understand the meaning of Zhang Yuan's words.

"However, the subordinates know that only the Mengshan tribe can make the other tribes obey their orders, and only a few young patriarchs of the Mengshan tribe can make the other tribes retreat!" Xishi knew Mengshan very well, although he couldn't understand Zhang Yuan's words, but he said what Zhang Yuan wanted. (To be continued......)