This was just like being stalked by a pack of wolves: if you ignored them, they would trail behind you, waiting for an opening; the moment you closed in on them, they would rapidly retreat.
Li Xin could do nothing about it. The grassland was ultimately the domain of cavalry; they could neither catch up nor dare to pursue too deeply.
Yet the Dayuezhi forces did not dare to follow them all the way either. Once Li Xin led his army close to Gaoque Fortress, the various Dayuezhi factions stopped closing in and tailing them.
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