Chapter 54: Dust

At this moment, Xiao Li's cold face, which had not changed for thousands of years, finally had an expression, and it was a convulsion mixed with pain and resentment, the scars on his face looked extremely terrifying and hideous, and the light from his eyes was like a flame, wanting to swallow Duan Chong's body in an instant, but Duan Chong was indifferent to this, just looked at Xiao Li quietly and said, "You are defeated!" ”

And Xiao Li looked at Duan Zhong for a long time without saying a word, but his clenched fists had already indicated everything, and after a long time, Xiao Li finally gritted his teeth and said, "You...... Ruthless enough! ”

Duan Zhong touched his nose: "Thank you for the compliment, is the Third Highness going to fight with me?" Let's leave it at that! ”

Xiao Li's teeth were bitten and rattled loudly, but after a long time, he stomped his feet suddenly, but a crack three or five zhang long appeared on the ground, and then he turned around and jumped and disappeared above the head of the palace.

Watching Xiao Li leave, Duan Chong let out a long breath, which can be regarded as a relief, now that the overall situation has been decided, this battle, there are enough 80,000 Dali soldiers who have paid for their lives, of which only the two thousand "poison daggers" under Duan Chong have been lost, and the remaining less than 300 people, but the remaining 60,000 Dali soldiers are the last elite troops of Dali, and all of them have been preserved through the secret passage, and the 200,000 troops of Dali may have survived in this fire. It's good to save one out of ten, but in the midst of the fire, manpower is too small.

Seeing that the overall situation had been, Duan Chong didn't dare to stay in this fire for more, and walked out of the city, at this moment, Duan Chong was worried about Emperor Zheng Kang's comfort, for fear that Xiao Li would do something extreme in desperation, and came to the edge of the camp next to the secret road outside Yanjing City, and saw Emperor Zheng Kang sitting unharmed in the middle of the army to command the battle, Duan Chong was relieved, and at this moment, the overall situation of the battle in Yanjing City has been, and most of the more than 100,000 Liang soldiers have been swallowed by the flames at this moment. The rest are also crowded at this small city gate, and more people will be swallowed up by the smoke of the fire in a short time, and they will be surrounded and blocked by Dali soldiers who can rush out of the city gate, and there are very few Liang soldiers who can escape, and all of them have become routs and scattered, and they can no longer be organized.

This time Duan Zhong gave up the lives of tens of thousands of Dali soldiers, originally wanted to wipe out all the troops of Daliang, but he didn't expect to miss a lot, but before the fire ignited, a force of 20,000 people went out of the city, and when Duan Chong returned to Zhengkangdi, after the news of the spies, Duan Chong had to know that it was Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong who led the army to leave, Duan Chong was suffocated when he learned the news, these two people are undoubtedly the last thing they want to face, so before formulating this fire attack strategy, Duan Chong also tried not to think about the fact that these two were in the army, and now that Xiao Zhengrong and Xiao Beiping escaped proudly, Duan Chong didn't know what kind of emotion he should have at the moment, happy, lost, or ...... Anything else?

This Liang's army has been defeated, and it is impossible for Liang to gather most of the army in a short period of time, even if he has the name of a righteous teacher, there are many people behind him, and it is unlikely that he wants to make a comeback in a short period of time, and Duan Zhong and Zheng Kangdi will not give Liang a chance to make a comeback again, and will definitely use his iron and bloody wrist to wipe out all the sparks that may be ignited at the first time, this is the strategy that Duan Zhong and Zheng Kangdi have set at the first time, so the next work, Duan Zhong wanted to lead the army non-stop to chase and kill the remnants of the Great Liang Army, and completely erase the name of the Great Liang Kingdom from this world.

Looking at the billowing black smoke coming out of the city, Emperor Zheng Kang took a deep breath, but turned his head to Duan Zhong and said: "Chong'er, here I will leave 30,000 military horses to clean up the mess, you now immediately lead 30,000 military horses to chase the 20,000 Liang troops who escaped from the city, don't give Daliang any respite, we can't withstand any blows, we must finish our work in one battle, and cut the enemy to the roots!" ”

Duan Chong narrowed his eyes, Emperor Zhengkang naturally didn't care about Duan Chong's so-called brotherhood, and the next thing he had to do was to take Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong ...... Encirclement and annihilation, at this time, Duan Zhong felt that if these two people were better to die in the fire, it would save themselves so much pain. Although his heart was in turmoil, Duan Zhong still replied in a very sonorous voice: "Yes, Father!" Then he turned and left.

After a while, a team of 30,000 horses left the camp, regardless of the remaining half of the Dali army that was annihilating the remnants of the Daliang army, and chased straight towards the more than 20,000 Daliang sergeants who went out of the city, which was naturally the army led by Duan Chong, just because all the previous Daliang sergeants came out of the secret passage, and all the horses were abandoned in the fire of Yanjing City, so they could only chase on foot, and although the army of Daliang only had 20,000 remnants, there were many cavalry, and the marching speed was much faster than Dali's army.

Duan Zhong knew that in this station, the head of the enemy was not captured at all, if they were given time, it was very likely that they would pull out more than 100,000 rebel troops from the people, and at that time, Dali would not have enough military strength to resist, so at this moment, it was necessary to kill them all, and Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong saw the fire in the city, they knew that the situation was not good, seeing the fire spreading, countless Liang soldiers scattered from Yanjing City, and they couldn't stop it, and they couldn't reorganize it at all. He could only lead the army to flee overnight in a hurry, preserving the remaining living forces and preparing to make a comeback.

Although the chasing soldiers led by Duan Zhong are not good, but the speed of the rapid march is extremely fast, and after a night, you can already see the joining of the Liang army in the distance, and Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong are also aware that there are chasing soldiers in the future, and the general situation is not good, they actually left a large number of infantry to intercept, but they led the faster cavalry troops to flee to the east, Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong's camp was originally on the edge of Dongyi, and under the defeat, there was no place in the world, so they could only return first.

And Duan Zhong saw this situation, how could he let the two escape safely, but he left 20,000 soldiers to clean up and intercept the army, and personally led 10,000 elite soldiers to pursue Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong's troops, the sergeant of this Liang is cavalry, and Duan Chong is led by infantry, and the speed is naturally far behind, but this Daliang's army is a defeated army, and the morale is low, while Dali's soldiers are chasing all the way with a sharp energy, and they only rest for two hours at night, and they actually bite the tail of the Daliang army.

In the fourth night, the Liang army began to have a large number of war horses that could not run because of the day of hurrying, no matter how they were urged, these war horses were motionless, and in the end, Xiao Beiping and Xiao Zhengrong could only order the horses to be killed as food, and fled for several days, this supply of grain and grass was long gone, and by the day of the fifth day, nearly half of the war horses could not run, and the speed of the remaining war horses was greatly reduced. led the remnants of the army to move forward, while Duan Zhong directly left 7,000 soldiers and horses, and led the most elite 3,000 soldiers to break through the encirclement and continue to pursue.

On the sixth day, Dali's army had caught up with the tail of the Liang army, and seeing that the base camp of Daliang on the border of Dongyi was about to arrive, it was intercepted by Dali's army, in fact, the soldiers of Dali were already exhausted, completely relying on a spirit of victory to support themselves for a full six days and six nights of pursuit, the soles of countless soldiers were worn out, worn out, but still raised the weapons in their hands, and the army of Daliang fought together, this is a life-and-death battle, Daliang is a 5,000 routed army, and Dali is a 3,000 exhausted pursuit division, that is, when these two forces hit together, it was a resounding shouting and killing sound, at this time, the soldiers of Daliang are fighting for the life and death of Daliang, and the victory or defeat has no meaning, and the rest is just the instinct of survival.

Seeing the two armies fighting together, both sides were bloody, full of swords and swords, and the blade was rolled up and used as a weapon that could be used, and in the end, countless people scuffled, entangled together, and even maintained this posture until they died in battle, and the battlefield was full of broken corpses, limbs, intestines, and organs, and the smell of blood was disgusting.

And Duan Zhong just watched all this happen, and did not participate in the battle himself, because Duan Zhong knew that this battle belonged to the battle between real soldiers and soldiers, and he was not qualified to go to ...... remnants, so Duan Chong just quietly watched the progress of the battle, and at the most tense moment of the battle, Duan Chong slowly walked to the Chinese army and walked under the military flag of Daliang.

Under the military flag, there were two generals who looked at the battlefield with sad eyes, and only when they saw Duan Chong walking over, did they shift their perspective back from the battlefield, and Duan Chong wiped the blood stained on his body when he just walked over, looked at the two and said, "Senior brother, long time no see!" ”

Xiao Zhengrong and Xiao Beiping looked at Duan Zhong in a daze, but their eyes were indescribably complicated, Xiao Zhengrong's right hand was tightly pressed on the scabbard at his waist, his face was pale and pale, and after a long time, he finally let out an angry howl from his throat: "Die!" In an instant, he rushed up on a war horse with a sword, and the blade of the sword pointed directly at Duan Chong's neck.

Duan Zhong sighed softly, but one hand stretched forward, just holding down the head of the war horse that Xiao Zhengrong rushed to, and then he heard a war horse wailing, Xiao Zhengrong's mount fell to the ground with a bang, and even Xiao Zhengrong fell to the ground, and Duan Zhong just sighed softly: "It's over!" With that, he turned around and looked at the battlefield.

On the battlefield, there are not many soldiers left on both sides, the soldiers on both sides have been fighting together for most of the day, and the remaining soldiers add up to less than three thousand, but the reinforcements from Dali in the distance have been coming in a steady stream, as Duan Zhong said, this battle has been ...... It's over