Deng Jingshan silently finished reading the warrant sent by Zhang Zhongwu urgently, and was silent for a long time. He never imagined that this battle would be lost like this.

The fall of Zhuozhou put him in an extremely embarrassing situation, and his connection with Youzhou has been cut off.

"Prepare to retreat!" He raised his head, looked at the military officials under the hall, and said faintly.

Hearing this, dozens of civilian, military and military generals let out a long breath. Everyone knew that when Zhuozhou was captured by the Wuwei army, their retreat was inevitable. Otherwise, it will inevitably be dumplings made by Wu Weijun.

It was the middle of winter now, and the situation was extremely bad, but it was the bad weather that earned them the opportunity to retreat, if the weather was good and suitable for combat, how could they allow them to retreat calmly with Liu Chenglin, who was eyeing them on the opposite side? And in the direction of Zhuozhou, how could the Wuwei army not come to attack them?

"Where to retreat?" General Wang Xi stepped forward and asked.

Retreat, there are also different destinations, they can retreat in the direction of Youzhou, as reinforcements from Youzhou, go to Jicheng, as the existence of Zhuozhou Wuwei soldiers and horses, and the other way is to retreat to Jizhou Yuyang.

"The marshal ordered us to retreat to Yuyang." Deng Jingshan Road.

There was another long exhalation in the hall.

If they are allowed to go to support Youzhou, then their situation, to be honest, it is better to stay in Mozhou and compete with Liu Chenglin with the city wall!

As soon as they heard that they were retreating to Yuyang, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, there were bursts of sadness in their hearts. Since the retreat to Yuyang was the order of the marshal, it meant that the marshal had given up Youzhou, and what Youzhou meant to Lu Longjun was clear to everyone present.

Prior to this, Zhang Zhongwen had taken the lead in retreating to Pingzhou, and Zhang Zhongwu's main force had also left Youzhou, and was now heading towards Pingzhou, and Jizhou Yuyang and other places, as the gateway to Pingzhou, were Zhang Zhongwu's next strategic focus, and they would inevitably be supported by Zhang Zhongwu's large branch, and their withdrawal to Yuyang was equivalent to Zhang Zhongwu's handing over the heavy responsibility of guarding the portal to them.

Although he was entrusted with the heavy responsibility, everyone in the room could not relax.

In this way, it can't help but be Zhuozhou, Youzhou, and even Fuzhou and Danzhou, all of which were abandoned, and the territory of Lulong was cut in half at once, and what was lost was a place where there were many prosperous people. If you add Yingzhou and Mozhou, Lu Long's power is almost two.

Although the territory of Pingzhou, Yingzhou and other places is not smaller than the previous places, but those places are really bitter cold places, with many miscellaneous beards and wild people, and they are real barbaric places.

That place, for the most part, is still a barren land without civilization.

Thinking about it this way, everyone's prospects are really worrying!

Marching Sima Song Yu took a step forward and arched his hand: "Deng Tingshi, now there are a total of 35,000 soldiers in Mozhou, and about 7,000 Khitan cavalry, regardless of the secret jurisdiction of Dingkou in each county in Mozhou, there are 13,000 households in Mozhou City alone, and more than 80,000 Dingkou, what kind of charter is the retreat?" Please also stab the history of the stab. ”

Judge Ke Rong also took a step forward: "Assassin history, now there are 200,000 stones of grain and grass in storage, if it is only supported by the army, with a ration of two catties per person per day, it will not last for a month, and if it is rationed with one catty a day, it can only be supported for a month and a half, this is only the army, not counting the consumption of war horses and other livestock." I don't know if Yuyang and other places have prepared the grain and grass for our army to be stationed? ”

"Also, in the middle of winter, we don't have enough cotton clothes, quilts, tents, etc., and we need a lot of heating for the field march, and we haven't prepared yet. Inside the city, there are also walls, houses to protect against the cold, once we leave the city and enter the field march, even if the weather does not get worse, it will be a difficult march for us. If the weather becomes worse even more, I am afraid that the non-combat attrition will increase significantly. ”

Everyone in the hall was silent, such weather, the difficulties that a large-scale march might encounter, who would not have thought of the people present?

"This time we retreated, we only took the army, and the rest of the people didn't care." Deng Jingshan's voice was like the cold wind outside the house, which made the hearts of everyone in the house feel cold: "Everything is important to the army, give all departments three days to collect as much food as possible, including cotton clothes, quilts and other materials that can keep out the cold." ”

Some people in the room were excited, some people were unbearable, and some people couldn't help but take a step and wanted to say something, but before these people could speak, Deng Jingshan stood up directly.

"Deng is also a native of Mozhou, and he knows that this will inevitably bring a disaster to the people of Mozhou, but now he can't care about it, and those who become big things are not informal, so he can only wronged them first. Wait until we fight back to recover Mozhou in the future, and then give them compensation! After saying this, Deng Jingshan brushed his sleeves away.

Everyone in the room, you look at me, I look at you, and no one can speak.

Judge Ke Rong turned to face everyone and said loudly: "Everyone, since Deng Tingshi has already ordered this, then the needs of this march must be raised by the various ministries themselves, and the Mozhou Mansion Treasury is stored, and we will transport it to Yuyang as a later plan, we are very likely to hold on to Yuyang for a long time, so if we can save a little, we will save a little, I hope everyone understands, don't say that Ke is a dime." If you don't raise enough supplies for the journey, you can only ask for more blessings, Ke someone will have a bowl of water, this retreat, no one wants to get a grain of grain from Ke someone, a cotton coat, these are all prepared for the future. ”

Dropping this sentence, Ke Rong also turned around and strode away.

Marching Sima Song Yu shook his head, glanced at the generals, sighed, bowed his head and left the room.

A moment later, one of the famous generals mounted their horses and galloped towards their troops.

The so-called self-raising grain and grass and self-prepared materials are robbing.

Who's robbing?

Naturally, it belongs to the people of Mozhou.

Mozhou is so big and has such a population, it is obvious that there is no fast hand and slow hand. This is obviously not the time for mercy, and whoever is merciful is pushing his troops to death.

In Mozhou City, it immediately fell into extreme chaos.

On the streets, groups of soldiers with weapons in their hands broke down the doors, turned over the boxes and cabinets, whether it was clothing or food, all swept away, and the people resisted slightly.

It is said that it is a collection of grain cotton clothes, but at a glance at this opening, where is the limit? In the homes of the people, all the valuable things were looted cleanly, but there were countless women and children who had some posture, or even no posture, were insulted, and after the first night of surprise, from the second day, the city began to burn fires, and many Mozhou people rose up to resist, but for the army, their resistance was really insignificant. They may have caused some losses to the rioters, but in the end, all the rebels were killed.

The city of Mozhou is in real dire straits.

Deng Jingshan's headquarters troops and horses plundered inside the city, while the Khitan cavalry stationed outside the city was even more excited after their generals returned to the camp, which was their favorite thing. Although the snow was falling, the cavalry still left the camp, and the city was rich, but unfortunately they couldn't get anything, but those villages near Mozhou City were also considered well-off, how could they let it go?

Thousands of Khitan cavalry came out of the camp almost empty, roaring in all directions.

It's been so many years, and they haven't swayed their original temperament so much! Robbery, looting, they were the best at it!

Fifty miles from Mozhou City, there was a small village with less than twenty households, and although it was daytime, the village was as silent as death, because a group of more than 100 Wuwei cavalry sentries had arrived here last night and occupied the village.

Leading this team of sentinels was Captain Bai Qiuren, who had just been transferred to the Rangers. In view of the large number of Lu dragoons, Liu Chenglin, the right governor of Qianniuwei, vigorously strengthened the construction of cavalry under his command, and rich sons like Bai Qiuren, who were born in rich families and had excellent riding skills, were all transferred to Li De's ranger team.

This time, Bethuren led a team of more than 100 cavalry scouts and took the lead in entering Mozhou.

Bethuren sat on the edge of the fire surrounded by adobe bricks, drinking hot water, while looking at the shivering village elder sitting beside him, an old man in his early fifties, and asked something in a gentle tone.

Seeing that the other party was trembling, Bethuren smiled and handed the hot water in his hand to his hand.

"Don't be afraid, boss, we are soldiers, not bandits, even if we have a hostile relationship with Mozhou now, we will not harm you innocent people. It's just a break here today, a break from the storm, and then you'll leave. ”

The old man was holding a porcelain bowl in his hand, his teeth were fighting, the hot water kept spilling out, and he could only nod his head reluctantly, and he could say that these people were indeed soldiers, not bandits, but sometimes, soldiers were more terrible than bandits.

Bai Qiuren glanced at the family members of the village elders who were cowering in the corner of the house, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and several women painted their faces black with ash, obviously worried about something. Seeing Bai Qiuren's eyes sweeping over, the bodies of several women shrank deeper behind the men in front of them, and several little dolls were even covered with their mouths covered and hugged tightly in their arms.

The door was slammed open, and a cold wind rushed in with snowflakes.

"Captain, the sentry has found that about a hundred Khitan cavalry are coming towards the village." A soldier reports.

Bai Qiuren frowned, "Their noses are so smart? ”

Glancing at the village elder with a fleeting look of joy on his face, Bai Qiuren stood up: "Order everyone, leave the village for the time being, go to the woods on the side to hide, and see where they come from!" ”

Bai Qiuren walked towards the outside of the house, and suddenly turned back to the village elder and said, "Old man, if I were you, I wouldn't say anything." ”