Chapter 780 The Cold in Early Spring

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Your Majesty, we won and won a great victory!Daxu's army suffered little casualties, and it was impossible to capture the enemy!A general came over and clasped his fists and said excitedly, with a tremolo in his voice.

Guo Shao rode on the horse, looking at the sea of ​​blood, and somehow, he couldn't be happy.

The wind in the air was very small, and the smoke from a large number of cannons and collide guns could not be dissipated for a long time, and the entire hillside and valley were foggy.It was clearly a sunny day, but it seemed as if the sky and the earth were covered with haze.

The places you can see from your eyes are corpses. The two main battlefield cores are almost invisible. The corpses have been piled up and spread to all sides, and the fields are full of scars.

Weapons and broken flags were everywhere, and even the execution ground was not so tragic.

Guo Shao has fought many wars, but he has never enjoyed massacre and has never hated life.Pain and killing will only make him feel uncomfortable.

However, deep down, I felt that this was right.He persistently wanted to capture the sense of justice brought by the massacre...it was much better than defeat!

What Li Yueji said was remembered again: Why do you have to fight each other?

Guo Shao looked back at the battlefield where the smoke slowly surging, and said to his left and right, perhaps to himself: You have all witnessed the harassment and massacres suffered in various parts of Hebei.If I don’t kill them today, they will kill the military and civilians of Daxu Dynasty in the future!

Li Chuyun bowed and said quietly: As a martial artist, I am a good man to kill people on the battlefield. It is enough to not kill women and children.

Guo Shao glanced at him and said seriously: The founding official's words are reasonable.

Wang Pu looked into the distance with his eyes and could no longer see the scene of the pursuit. He clasped his fists and said: Dangxiang sent more than 100,000 people in this battle, and there was no other person to adjust.Take advantage of this opportunity to defeat and eliminate his troops!

After hearing this, Guo Shao accepted Wang Pu's suggestion and said: As the order was sent, Cao Bin's troops stared at the remaining cavalry in the south.The imperial infantry rode horses and took turns to pursue their infantry fleeing troops.The cavalry mainly focused on eliminating the defeated Khitan cavalry.

I obey the order!Wang Pu bowed with relief.Somehow, the civil servant was worried that Guo Shao, as a martial artist, was ruthless, but Guo Shao did not disappoint them.

Guo Shao held back his unfavorable emotions, pondered for a moment, and said: Don’t let Shi Yanchao chase him, let Dong Zunhui lead the main force of the cavalry of the First Legion.

Sometimes wisdom does have nothing to do with age. Dong Zunhui is relatively young, but Guo Shao found that this guy was actually very good at judging the situation during the Northern Expedition.

He was also willing to give Dong Zunhui a chance to make contributions. This person is of a relatively high level among young and strong generals.

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The imperial guards dismounted during combat, but after several expansions of war horses were made after Daxu's founding country, the number of imperial guards was not large this time. For mobility, a large number of horse-riding infantry were deployed.

Even if the infantry is given a horse, the horse fighting is not good. It was verified by Guo Shao's first Northern Expedition after he came to power.

However, it is quite good to pursue riots. If the defeated soldiers organize resistance, they will dismount and fight.

Anyway, if you run around on foot, you can't run past the horse rider in a short period of time.

After receiving the order from the central army, Dong Zunhui, the main force stopped chasing. On the one hand, he sent a small group of troops to follow the retreating Liao army cavalry, and on the other hand, he sent people back to the military camp, first took some tents, grain, and excess horses, and then followed.

After some delay, Dong Zunhui's troops followed him slowly, and changed horses and rode all the way to the evening, but they were getting farther and farther away from the defeated army.

...In the Liao cavalry brigade, Yang Gun was no longer sure where to go.

The Liao army reinforcements included about 10,000 Khitan cavalry and 10,000 Xi infantry. At that time, the cavalry rushed on the battlefield in the north, and Yang Gun was on the mountain to the west. After the cavalry were defeated, they fled.

Many people died in the battle formation, and some ran apart along the way. Now there are only a few thousand cavalry left in the Liao army, and there are also a large number of Dangxiang and horse soldiers. Although the entire horse group is much better than when it was defeated, it is still in a mess.

At night, the war horses rushed and ran, carrying people and running all day, and the horses were constantly exhausted.

The cavalry were defeated and ran away from the battle formation, with nothing, and a shortage of food; what's even more fatal is that there are no tents and other things... Everyone rushed in and rushed, and it was impossible to charge with the tent!

You can't even bring too many extra horses.

After a large number of people stopped one after another, they quickly shivered from the cold.

It is the first month of the year, and it is spring, but the early spring night in the northwest can still freeze to death!In less than half an hour, the Dangxiang cavalry had already escaped quietly.

Few Khitans escaped without permission. They were from Liao, and their only thought after their defeat was to go north to return to Liao.

It is obvious that the best choice to travel together with a large group of people.

The Dangxiang Cavalry were mostly herdsmen on the grasslands north of Xiazhou, and they did not want to stay in Suizhou.

Everyone was trembling with cold, the wilderness was pitch black, and the mountains were deserted, and even if they cut trees, they had to use weapons such as sabers, because they did not have tools such as axes and hatchets.It cannot meet the needs of the army at all.

It was difficult for Khitan generals to communicate with Dangxiang generals, so they could only find someone who could speak Chinese to translate.

The generals surrounded a fire that had finally risen, and were crowded with people.Everyone discussed and some people said: Go hurry up and you will be able to go to Suizhou tomorrow to replenish supplies.

But the Khitan generals disagreed: Once this battle was defeated, the entire Pingxia land could not stop Xu's army.We were exhausted. Even if we arrived in Suizhou, how could we leave?

Someone also said: After arriving in Suizhou, what if Xu Jun also comes, should we defend the city?

General Xiang of Dang could not help but say: You want to leave, Pingxia is over, where will we go?

After hearing this, everyone sighed and felt a hopeless atmosphere.

Some people even suggested taking a break and asking Xu Jun to fight to the decisive battle because the Xu Jun's cavalry was not large.However, this method was quickly denied.

After discussing it, the group of people had no choice.Finally, the tribes set off one after another to continue walking, and the dark valley. Fortunately, they could determine the route by observing the Wuding River, otherwise they would have to get lost.

Many Khitan cavalry began to dismount and walk, and everyone led their horses to walk. Everyone knew that if the horses they rode were exhausted, no one would give them the horses, and they might stay in this broken place forever in the end!

Walking all the way until dawn, it was simply a waste of people.

At this time, the Khitans found several thatched houses on the roadside and were about to send someone to get some supplies, but they saw some soldiers of Dangxiang who had already taken the lead. They drove out some ragged women, children and elderly people, and were asking where the food was hidden, and even snatched the torn clothes, probably because they remembered the cold last night.

Suddenly, the soldiers stabbed an old man with a knife several times, then raised their saber and pointed it at a child, shouting loudly.

The Khitans watched silently without asking whether the rioters passed by, and they still cared about whether they were their own people.Besides, the Dangxiang cavalry and the farming tribes here are not in the same direction.