Thick smoke billowed over Zhending City, and the flames were rushing, even if it was white, it was clearly visible, and the soldiers and people who had left the city all looked back in unison, and their hearts were filled with endless sighs and melancholy.

  After all, Zhending City is a place where many people have lived for a long time, and after living here for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some nostalgic feelings, although at the moment they are coerced and have to abandon the city and leave, but looking at the Zhending City that is about to become a pile of ruins, many people are crying loudly, confused tears.

  Du Qi had a gloomy face, in his opinion, leaving Zhending was the best choice, otherwise if the Bingzhou army came to attack the city, it would really be a place to die.

  He is now very disgusted with these people who have become homeless, if it weren't for Lu Zhao's explanation in the order to forcibly move the people of various cities to Xindu, Du Qi would not have considered taking these burdens away.

  These homeless people were slow to move, and if they were pursued by the Bingzhou cavalry, instead of helping his army in any way, they would be a heavy burden.

  Du Qi didn't understand, it's all at this time, why does Lu Zhao still plan to move the people from all over the country to Xindu, you must know that after most of the young people in Jizhou were recruited, these people were actually only left with some old and weak women and children, even if they moved to Xindu, they could not be used as labor, but consumed food in vain.

  The 300,000 new recruits of the Jizhou army are not allowed to serve as soldiers in the original county, but have undergone a large-scale transfer, the soldiers of Wei County may be transferred to Nanpi or Zhongshan, and the soldiers of Zhending may be transferred to Yecheng or Qinghe, in short, all the people will be transferred from their original places, but where they are transferred is randomly arranged.

  Therefore, Zhending's army, there are almost no soldiers from Changshan County, and its soldiers are all from other counties, and these soldiers are still eager to leave Zhending, if they have the opportunity to return to their hometown, it will be better.

  In order to appease the soldiers of the county, most of these people were concentrated in Zhending and several fortresses, and the entire northern defense line was carried out to clear the wilderness.

  Therefore, it must be dissatisfied to let these people leave their homes, but forced by Du Qi's power, these weak people dare not resist at all, and those people who refuse to leave the city are cruelly burned to death by Du Qi, and the city of Zhending has been reduced to a ruin, and no one can turn back.

  Du Qi had already given the order for the soldiers to drive the people away and speed up their march, for after they left the city, they could be attacked by the cavalry of the state at any time, and if they continued to delay in this way, and could not reach Xindu as soon as possible, then they would probably be completely annihilated on the way.

  At the same time, Du Qi also made arrangements for the marching army, according to Lu Zhao's requirements, when they left the city, they took away all the vehicles in the city, whether it was the baggage carts used by the army or the carriages and trolleys of the common people, all of which were requisitioned by the Jizhou army and arranged on the periphery of the team, connecting end to end, constituting a simple mobile fortification.

  The use of vehicles to set up obstacles, so that they can prevent the impact of cavalry to the greatest extent, although such obstacles are relatively simple, but relatively speaking, they can still play a certain role, which is probably their only life-saving charm.

  The army and the people walked forward in a daze, they did not know what danger lay ahead, but Du Qi understood that the distance from Zhending to Xindu, which was less than a hundred miles, was full of thorns, and the cavalry of the state army could appear at any time and deal them a fatal blow.

  The speed of the cavalry was terrifying, and with their marching speed, it was impossible to escape the pursuit of the state army.

  The only thing that made Du Qi feel lucky was that Lu Zhao let the defenders of all the cities except Xindu leave the city at the same time, and more than a dozen men and horses were advancing towards Xindu, so that the Bingzhou cavalry might not be able to keep busy and intercept this way, and that road might take advantage of the opportunity to escape.

  As for who will escape and who will be unlucky, it is all up to luck, Du Qi secretly appealed, let the Bingzhou army go to chase the other Jizhou army, it is best to let them reach Xindu safe and sound.

  It's a pity that this is just Du Qi's wishful thinking, the journey has not yet gone halfway, the color is getting darker, most of the ordinary people are women and children, old and weak, the long journey makes them miserable, at this time they can't walk, Du Qi has no choice, and has to let the army stop and rest.

  The air in February is still very cold, especially at night, the temperature drops below freezing, the cold ground is freezing, hunger and cold are pressing, wailing and crying all over the field, it seems particularly miserable, and the whole camp is in chaos.

  Raising his eyes and looking around, the fire in the distance is rushing, not only in the direction of Zhending, but also in other directions, presumably when the defenders of those cities leave the city, they are also the same as Zhending, setting fire to the city, presumably at this moment they are also like Zhending's army, sleeping in the wilderness.

  Fortunately, so far, Zhending's army has not been attacked by the enemy, but I don't know if other armies are so lucky?

  At the same time, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the distance, and Duqi, who was napping, suddenly woke up, there was an enemy attack!

  In this land, the Jizhou army has long lost control, don't Jizhou army has no formed cavalry, even if there is, they have to retreat in the city, because they are not the opponent of the Bingzhou cavalry at all, so at this time, when they hear the sound of horses' hooves, there is no doubt that the Bingzhou army is chasing and killing.

  Du Qi couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp, he was really afraid of anything, it was a blessing or a curse, and he couldn't avoid it, so he quickly got up from the ground and ordered the army to form a formation to resist.

  At this moment, it was the Xiaocai battalion that was killed, they had just annihilated a Jizhou army that had withdrawn from Xiaquyang last night, it was just a few thousand fish, Wen Qin did not give them a chance to escape, and after surrounding this army, it only took more than an hour to end the battle.

  The retreat of the Jizhou Army came relatively suddenly, and it disrupted the deployment of the Jizhou Army at once, and people and horses from all walks of life rushed towards Xindu, and the Xiaocai Battalion was really busy for a while.

  It's not much fun to chase and intercept these fish, if you want to catch or catch big fish, the current situation is really a fish in troubled waters, Wen Qin sent scouts to reconnoiter around, and soon locked the whereabouts of Zhending's army.

  This is a fish of tens of thousands of dollars, Wen Qin can't care about those teams, so he attacked overnight, chasing after the Zhending army, preparing to wipe them out.