In the flat field, a group of Zhou horsemen spread on the main road. There was also a man in front of him dressed in the short clothes of the common people, pointing to a village in the depths of his line of sight and saying, "General, the Khitans stationed nearby are all there!" ”

A military general craned his neck to look east, his gaze resting on the banner in the village...... Ordinary villages obviously don't need to plant flags either.

The general immediately said: "Let's sweep these small places for the main force of the forward." Wang June! ”

"The last general!"

The military general stretched out his palm and stretched it forward, bent it to the right, and said categorically: "You lead the headquarters to attack from the left flank, and copy from the north side to the east!" ”

"Order!"

"Envoy Li, you go to the right flank."

"Order!"

In a few snaps of his fingers, the general immediately drew his sword, raised it upright, turned around and said loudly: "The rest of the troops will rush with me!" Kill all the bald haired people on the top of their heads, those who wear strange clothes! ”

The military civilian official behind him immediately reminded: "Does the general have the order to go to the peak when he kills civilians?" ”

The military general said coldly: "Someone runs to your yard to burn, kill and loot without your consent, what reason do you have to use a knife?" Hebei is our territory! ”

He said, pointing the blade forward. When the army heard the general's words, they immediately slapped their horses and accelerated, and the sound of horses' hooves and shouts immediately made a noise in the snow-covered fields.

The horses ran faster and faster, and a herd of horses rushed out, and the iron armor reflected in the snow, although there were only a few hundred horsemen, it seemed to be unstoppable.

At the entrance of the village, there was a simple arrow tower made of wood and thatched roof, and a fence and a gate were built. But the horses did not stop, and rushed straight to the gate.

"Whoosh......" A burst of arrows was thrown from the village. There was a clanging sound, like a stone thrown into the water, which did not affect the charge of the Zhou army horses wearing iron armor at all.

The sergeant on the arrow tower drew his bow and shot an arrow at a horse. Sure enough, the leather armor on the horse's body was not highly defensive, and with a neigh, a horse knelt on the ground with its front hooves, and the people on horseback fell with a scream.

But the Zhou army's horse team had rushed to the front in an instant, and many arrows were nailed to the wood of the "Papapa......" arrow tower, and the sergeant on it suddenly turned pale, and sure enough, he was hit by several arrows and fell from above. "Bang!" The corpse with the arrow smashed to the ground, like a bird shot down from the sky.

"Bang!" There was another loud bang, and the rider crashed straight over the wooden fence. A group of horsemen immediately rushed in through the gap. A group of Liao cavalry inside rushed up to meet the battle, and for a while, the sound of collision and fighting was loud.

The soldiers and horses of the Zhou army continued to pour in like a flood, and those Liao horses were immediately swept by a large number of men and horses and swallowed up into the tide of men and horses.

The horsemen on the left and right flanks also broke through the barrier and rushed in, under the gray sky, between the old houses, the sky was bright, and rockets were thrown onto the roofs. Torches were thrown around, and a fire ignited in a few moments, and thick smoke billowed from the village.

"Rumbling ......" The roar of the horse's hooves sounded loudly in the thick smoke, and only the soldiers of the Zhou army were seen on the road.

A dog barks with its tail and runs out of a burning room. A knight of the Zhou army leaned sideways on the back of a galloping horse, drew his bow and released an arrow with a "snap", and the dog barked and fell to the ground.

Soon, many Khitans and Xi people rushed out of the burning room, first kneeling on the side of the road and raising their hands diagonally and saying something, but no Zhou soldiers paid attention, but arrows kept flying out of the horses. Those people got up and fled, and were chased by the Zhou army martial artists on horseback, and when they caught up, they were stabbed, and the screams sounded from time to time in the firelight.

In less than half an hour, the village was reduced to a smoky ruin, corpses littered everywhere, and a smell of burnt paste filled the air.

Every time in a while, Shi Yanchao, the main general of the forward, rushed here with a team of men and horses, commended the generals who led the army on the spot, praised him for his good work, and recorded his first military exploits in the Liao Queen.

Some people along the road were not afraid of martial arts, and people heard that Wang Shi was on the Northern Expedition, and they came to deliver food and drink.

Shi Yanchao was very happy to see this scene, and ordered loudly in front of the people: "Order all the departments, the people of the Han people in Hebei, not a single one is allowed to be killed!" ”

But he soon spotted a woman holding her baby on the side of the road, crying.

Shi Yanchao saw that the woman was wearing a coarse cloth dress, which was completely Han dress, so he casually asked, "What is that woman crying about?" ”

A military general hurriedly replied: "The last general just asked someone to ask, the woman seems to be called Xu Erniang or Wang Erniang, but her man is a Khitan." The man was killed, and the house was burned down, so we didn't pay attention to crying there. ”

The military general added: "Most of the local women in the Khitan family were robbed. ”

Shi Yanchao looked displeased on the horse, frowned, and repeated: "Then why is she crying?" ”

The military general was slightly stunned, stretched out his hand to scratch the door of his head, and hurriedly said: "She was robbed, maybe she shouldn't care about the dead Khitan...... However, the Khitan is the father of her child, and she may feel pitiful when her child has no father. Handsome, the woman has a mother's nature and cares about the child very much. ”

Shi Yanchao said expressionlessly: "Such a simple thing is still going to teach you?" Without that child, wouldn't she have nothing to do with the Khitans? ”

The general was stunned, but immediately hugged his fists and said, "My subordinates understand!" ”

He turned the horse, left the caravan, rode back to the side, drew his sword from his belt, jumped off the horse, and walked over to the woman.

The woman looked at the general of the Zhou army with teary eyes, and sighed softly when she heard him sigh "sigh".

The general walked up to the woman, looked at her, and scratched his head again. The woman stopped crying and looked at him suspiciously.

The general suddenly raised his sword lightly and poked it at the swaddling clothes in her arms. His movements were understated, but quickly accurate, and he drew his sword back in no time.

The woman was stunned for a moment, and when she looked down, blood seeped from the swaddling clothes in her arms. Her face changed suddenly, she spread out one hand, and when she saw the blood on her hand, she opened the swaddling clothes again, and her body trembled.

"Ahh The woman screamed and screamed, and called the child in succession.

She immediately rushed towards the general like crazy, and immediately several sergeants stopped her and dragged her without saying a word. The woman's strength is naturally not as good as that of a group of forbidden army men, and she can't do anything at the moment, so she can't do anything about the general, so she sees him go.

Shi Yanchao forgot about the little thing just now in a blink of an eye, and dispatched the main force of the forward to continue to march north.

…… The advance of the Zhou army numbered 18,000 horsemen, and did not encounter any decent resistance along the way, only sporadic clashes, sweeping the Liao strongholds along the way.

Later, Guo Shao's main force of the Chinese army followed the forward and drove across the Juma River, and a large number of men and horses poured into the border of Liao.

Endless fields, dark soil and unmelted snow, the land is like an old man, showing the traces of time. On several major roads, the horses slowly moved northward, and countless flags fluttered in the wind.

The people and horses are all forbidden troops of the Zhou army, countless people, and the clothes and armor they wear are similar, and it is difficult for the soldiers inside to distinguish who is who.

Zhao Hu was one of them, he silently rode his horse through the crowd, and he only had to follow the people. The horses walked slowly, feeling slower, but the infantry walked much faster.

At this moment, he suddenly found a person standing there in a daze next to the remnant wall in front of him.

Zhao Hu was immediately attracted to attention, not only did the person look strange, but he also felt that the figure seemed a little familiar. He didn't say a word for a moment, just stared intently at the man and continued on his way. The surrounding soldiers also spotted the woman, but no one paid any attention to it...... A woman in disarray, unarmed and unarmed, is not worthy of the military's attention.

Walking closer, Zhao Hu finally recognized it, and his expression immediately became exaggerated. The slow movement immediately became hurried, and as soon as he kicked the horse in the belly, he quickly rushed out of the queue.

"Zhao Hu!" General Ten shouted from behind.

Zhao Hu was anxious, but he was afraid of military law, so he hurriedly shouted: "The person over there is a ...... I know."

As soon as she shouted, the woman turned her head to look at her. Zhao Hu ran in front of her, turned over and jumped off the horse, walked over quickly, and his eyes widened: "Xu Erniang...... Erniang ......"

The woman named Xu Erniang also looked at the young man in armor who came over in a daze: "You are Zhao Hu?" ”

"yes!" The expression on Zhao Hu's face was very complicated, and his face was almost distorted. He walked up to Xu Erniang, opened his mouth, and finally spit out a sentence: "Erniang, you ......"

Zhao Hu's heart was chaotic for a while, and countless sporadic memories came to her heart, beating her slender back in wet clothes by the pond, looking at the grinding person she didn't dare to approach from afar...... and the blood stains on the broken women's clothes and straw in the courtyard of the Xu family.

And now, the woman in front of her was pale, with a disheveled head, long hair stained with straw sink, and her coarse cloth clothes dirty and messy. She is no longer the little lady she used to be, but she is already a woman at this time.

Zhao Hu gritted his teeth, his eyes were astringent and sour, his throat squirmed, and his throat smelled salty.

Tears suddenly flowed from Xu Erniang's eyes: "They killed my child." ”

Zhao Hu exhaled and said in a trembling voice: "You have a child?" Who killed your child? ”

Xu Erniang raised her arm and pointed to the Zhou army on the road.

Zhao Hu lowered his head and thought about it, and could probably guess that her child was the Khitan who robbed her, and it was the men and horses of the Zhou army's vanguard who killed her child.

Zhao Hu was silent for a moment and said, "At that time, your brother was killed by the Khitans, don't you know?" ”

"What?" Xu Erniang's eyes widened, her eyes were full of tears, and suddenly her body fell to the cold ground.

Zhao Hu stood there, and the woman in front of him was the little lady he used to miss day and night, but now he didn't know what to say. used to blush at a glance at a beautiful little lady, but now what has become of it!

Zhao Hu looked back on this land and didn't know where he was for a while. I don't know what caused all this......