The counteroffensive of the Liang rebel army finally came to an end, and finally ended the battle with the disastrous victory of the Dali army, and when Duan Zhong led the army back to Yanjing City, all the remaining troops added up to less than 40,000, in order to pursue the army of the Northern Liang and encircle and suppress the dying and struggling Daliang army in Yanjing City, Dali paid more than 20,000 soldiers' lives, and after this battle, Dali's military strength plummeted, and the army of Daliang has been wiped out and disappeared in this world. As soon as the news of Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong's death spread, the entire Daliang was in an almost desperate situation, and these two people could completely represent the fate of the Daliang country.

When Duan Zhong led less than 20,000 Dali troops back to Yanjing, what remained was a ruin and broken tiles, the magnificent royal gardens of the past, the majestic Daliang Palace, and even the city walls that the entire Daliang was proud of, all that was left was the scorched black walls, the blood-stained soil and the fishy lake water, and with a fire, it was not only the ancient capital with a history of thousands of years, but also the thousands of people who had not moved out of Yanjing City. These people thought that in the war, as long as they prepared enough food and hid in the cellar of their homes, they might not be affected, but in the end they died under a fire in Dali, some were burned alive by the fire, and some were smoked to death...... Whether it is the elderly, children or women, they all lost their lives in the fire, and the Dali army's approach is really harmful, and it is not less than the nature of the slaughter.

It took three days, Dali's army cleaned up the corpses piled up in Yanjing City, the moat outside Yanjing City was filled with corpses like mountain bags, the whole river water was dark red, and exuded a fishy smell, in this war, there were 150,000 Liang soldiers buried in this Yanjing City, 90,000 Dali soldiers buried on the city wall, the original extremely wide moat was actually filled by the corpses to fill tightly, in desperation, Emperor Zhengkang could only order the moat to be filled with soil, The corpses that can be burned are burned on the spot, the smell of corpses permeates the sky over Yanjing City for several months, the entire Yanjing City out of Dali's soldiers, has become a veritable ghost city, if the people know that under the land of this city, there are more than 200,000 soldiers' bones buried, I am afraid that no one wants to move to this thousand-year-old capital, but because the strategic significance of Yanjing is too important, so Emperor Kang did not give it up, but chose to clean up Yanjing City, and this cleanup, it took several months.

And during this period of time, what Dali needs to do is to rest on top of rest, the soldiers are too tired, almost all the soldiers are wounded, and after the battle, the casualties are heavy, the number of troops has decreased sharply, and it is impossible to replenish it in a short time. Although there were new soldiers from Jiangnan who continued to come to the north to support them, this number was far from enough, and the soldiers of the New Deal were far from the veterans in terms of quality and ability, and they could not be used at all without three months of training, let alone undertake the defense of the entire Northern Liang.

Since the start of the war, the territory of Beiliang has been in a paralyzed situation, there is no army in the city to take over, the county guard is not even a government officer who can be demolished, bandits are rampant, hundreds of people are forced to fall into the grass, the army requisitioned the troops again and again, the tax has increased by four or five percent, ordinary people can not survive at all, except for the grass for the coward, can not live at all, there is no army, the whole Beiliang suddenly became a hell, countless women were violated, the old people starved to death on the streets, The street children could not find their relatives, so they picked up wooden sticks and kitchen knives at a young age and started to kill people and goods, but Dali had no way to stop this phenomenon because of the lack of sufficient troops.

The people of the Northern Liang Dynasty are still martial, and they have always been known for their fierce folk customs, and many people have formed a righteous army to harass the small troops stationed outside the capital of Dali in order to oppose Dali's reckless military force. Although the threat is not only, but it is very troublesome, these people can often pick up a pile of stones and throw them at the garrison army, by the time the soldiers of Dali react and are ready to return the color with bows and arrows, this group of "rebels" has long since disappeared.

And this kind of harassment lasted for two or three months, until a large number of new troops from the south of the Yangtze River joined, and the Liukou were suppressed on a large scale, and the riot was reduced, but such a military force was still not enough to maintain law and order in the entire Northern Liang, and the Dali army tried to recruit troops from the local city, but there were not many people to enlist, and most of the people who came to enlist were those who were hungry and had no food, that is, even sixty or seventy-year-old old men and children living on the streets came to enlist. However, there should be a shortage of young and strong labor, which made the generals of Dali very distressed.

The next Dali army can no longer withstand any major war, but Xiao Li is not dead, there are still enemies, and the other party still has the possibility of a comeback, as long as Xiao He, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Northern Liang, is still alive, Xiao Beiding's second prince of the Southern Liang is still there, and Dong Zhongshu and Dong Daxue are still supporting, then Xiao Li will be able to reassemble the army in a short period of time to attack again, so Dali has to prepare for war, and complete the correction in the fastest time, either to meet a new war, or to completely consolidate the rule, Completely erase the girder from this world.

Dali from a small country, in an instant to become a unified continent of power, the interval is too short, whether in the strength of military force, or in the connotation of the country, are far from convincing the public, relying on sudden hot weapons to obtain the right to dominate is really difficult to stabilize in a short period of time, the great ideal to become the hegemon of this world, it will take a long time to stabilize their rule.

And in the next period of time, Duan Chong has been living in a hinterland in Yanjing City, and he has not gone out for half a month, the deaths of Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong have given Duan Chong too much shock and thought, seeing his best two brothers die under his nose, but he has no ability to stop it, such a mood is really difficult to describe, Duan Chong isolated himself in the small courtyard, and no one received him, even Zongzi and Jiang Mingchen were no exception, during which Emperor Kang came to see Duan Chong twice, But he was forced to leave by Duan Chong's silence, and didn't stay long, these days, Duan Chong's whole person was depressed, except for three meals a day and going to the toilet, almost all of them were spent in bed, looking at the ceiling in a daze.

In the past half a month, most of the time in Duan Chong's mind was blank, and the rest of the time may be used to think about life, and Duan Chong himself couldn't figure it out, but soon, Duan Chong realized that he had a lot of things to do, and Emperor Kang couldn't clean it up alone, and the mess after the war needed to be cleaned up, which was Duan Chong's inevitable responsibility.

After Duan Zhong came out of the house, the corpses in Yanjing City had been almost cleaned up, but the smell of corpses could not be dispersed for a long time, standing on the city wall and looking down, in the moat under the city wall, there were still many corpses floating that had not had time to be filled, the lake was still blood-red, and countless soldiers of Dali were busy dumping soil into the moat, but this was a huge task, and it was difficult to complete it in a short period of time, Duan Chong could only stand on the city wall and sigh, The shadows of countless people appeared in my mind, Xiao Beiping, Xiao Zhengrong, Princess Izumo, Wang Zhikun......

However, before Duan Chong recovered from his sadness, Duan Chong received a secret letter from the northwest, this letter seemed very heavy, it was from the hand of the Grand Captain of the Xiongnu tribe on the grassland, and Duan Chong, the handle of the Hun tribe on the grassland, Duan Zhong had always been in his hands, so the first-hand information on the grassland, Su Bujie would pass it on to himself through the secret letter, and this time, the news from the Grand Captain of Su Bujie made Duan Chong stunned for a long time.

Xiao Li didn't die, this is something that Duan Zhong knows.

Xiao Li still has some remnants of troops under him, which is also a matter of Duan Chong.

But Xiao Li's men still have 30,000 soldiers and horses, but Duan Chong did not expect it, and Duan Zhong did not expect that after Xiao Li escaped, he fled directly to the grassland, and captured Uwei Dashan Yu with his own military cultivation, forcing the entire Xiongnu troops to obey his orders.

In the letter of Captain Su Bujie, there is no mention of how many soldiers and horses Xiao Li has integrated, but under Duan Chong's preliminary estimate, it will not be less than 100,000, which is an extremely terrible number, plus the 30,000 Liang soldiers under Xiao Li, the remnants of Dali plus the newly recruited soldiers who have no experience and have not been on the battlefield, it is impossible to be an opponent at all, if it is really as Su Bujie said in the letter, it will be a disaster for Dali next.

And in the letter, Xu Bujie expressed the hope that Dali could send troops as soon as possible to help the Xiongnu quell the rebellion, at this moment Xiao Li has controlled the Xiongnu, ordinary letters can not be delivered at all, if it is not for the secret communication channel with Xu Bujie, Duan Chong would not know what happened, and the Xiongnu did not know how heavy the losses of Dali's army were, and they were unable to send troops, for this, Duan Zhong could only smile bitterly.

Duan Zhongzhong replied with a heavy letter and told Su Bujie that he must tell himself as soon as there is new news, so that he should not worry, but Duan Zhongzhong is becoming more and more painful, and the spark can still burn the prairies, not to mention that this Xiao Li's army is by no means an ordinary spark.