"Your Majesty, we have won, we have won a great victory! The casualties of the Daxu army are not large, and it is not counted to kill the enemy! A military general came over and hugged his fists excitedly, with a trilling voice in his voice.

Guo Shao rode on a horse, looking at the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, for some reason, he couldn't be happy.

The wind in the air was very small, and the smoke of gunpowder made by a large number of artillery and arquebuses could not be dispersed for a long time, and the fog was heavy between the entire hillside and valley. It's a sunny day, but it seems to be full of haze.

As far as the eye could see, there were corpses, the two main cores of the battlefield, the loess was barely visible, and the corpses had piled up, spreading in all directions, and the fields were devastated and in ruins. Weapons and broken flags were everywhere, and even the execution ground was not so tragic.

Guo Shao has fought many battles, but he has never taken pleasure in slaughtering, and he has never hated life. Pain, killing, only makes him uncomfortable.

However, deep down, I vaguely felt that this was right. He was obsessed with trying to capture the sense of justice that brought about the slaughter...... It's better than defeat!

What Li Yueji said was remembered again: Why do you have to fight each other?

Guo Shao looked back at the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder was slowly surging, and said to the left and right, perhaps to himself: "You have all seen the attacks and massacres that have been subjected to various parts of Hebei. If I don't kill them today, they will kill the soldiers and civilians of the Great Xu Dynasty in the future! ”

Li Chuyun bowed and said quietly: "As martial artists, it is natural for the ministers to kill people in the battle array, and it is already good to not slaughter women and children." ”

Guo Shao glanced at him and said, "The founding of the country is reasonable. ”

Wang Puji looked into the distance, and could no longer see the scene of the pursuit, and hugged his fists and said: "The party has dispatched more than 100,000 people in this battle, and there is no other man to adjust. Take advantage of this victory to eradicate its forces! ”

Guo Shao listened and accepted Wang Pu's suggestion and said, "Order, Cao Bin's troops keep an eye on the remaining cavalry in the south. The infantry of the Praetorian Army, on horseback, took turns to pursue the fleeing infantry of their troops. The cavalry mainly focused on the Khitan cavalry that had gone away after the rout. ”

"Obey the order!" Wang Pu bowed with relief. Somehow, the civil officials were still worried that Guo Shao, who was a martial artist, was soft-hearted, but Guo Shao did not disappoint them.

Guo Shao suppressed his unfavorable emotions, pondered for a moment, and said: "Don't let Shi Yanchao chase after him, let Dong Zunzhi lead the main cavalry force of the First Legion." ”

Sometimes wisdom does not have anything to do with age, Dong Zunzhi is relatively young, but Guo Shao found that this guy is actually very good at judging the situation during the Northern Expedition. He is also very willing to give Dong Zunzhi the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, this person is a relatively high-ranking young and strong general.

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The forbidden infantry dismounted during the battle, but after the establishment of the country, after several expansions of the war horse, this time the number of forbidden troops dispatched was not large, for the sake of mobility, a large number of mounted infantry.

Even if the infantry was given horses, horse warfare was not very good, and the first Northern Expedition after Guo Shao took power was verified. However, it is still quite good to pursue the rebels, and if the defeated army organizes resistance, they will dismount and fight. Anyway, if you run on foot, you can't outrun a horse rider in a short time.

After Dong Zunzhi in the north received the military order from the Chinese army, the main force stopped the pursuit, and sent a small group of men and horses to follow the defeated Liao army horse team on the one hand, and sent people back to the military camp on the other hand, first took some tents, grain and straw, and extra horses, and then followed away.

After some delay, Dong Zunzhi's department followed unhurriedly, changed horses and rode every once in a while, and followed until the evening, but the distance from the defeated army was getting farther and farther away.

…… In the cavalry brigade of the Liao army, Yang Gon has disappeared. The Liao army had about 10,000 Khitan cavalry and 10,000 Xi infantry reinforcements. After the defeat of the cavalry, they fled. A lot of people died in the battle array, and some ran away along the way, and now there are only a few thousand horsemen left in the Liao army, and there are also a large number of party horsemen, although the whole horse herd is much better than when it was just defeated, but it is still in chaos.

In the evening, the horses ran through the slaughter, and then carried the people around for a whole day, and the horses continued to die of exhaustion.

The horsemen ran away from the direct rout of the battle formation, there was nothing, and there was a shortage of food; What's worse is that there are no tents or anything like that...... Everyone rushed into battle to kill, and it was impossible to charge with a tent! You can't even bring too many extra horses.

After a large number of people stopped one after another, they quickly shivered from the cold.

At this time, it is the first month, and it is spring according to the season, but the early spring night in the northwest can still freeze to death! In less than half an hour, the party cavalry had quietly fled.

The Khitans rarely ran away without permission, they were from Liao, and their only thought after the defeat was to go north and return to Liao. For long journeys, it is clear that traveling with a large group of people is the best option. Most of the Dangxiang cavalry were herdsmen on the grasslands north of Xiazhou, and they didn't want to stay on Suizhou's side.

Everyone shivered from the cold, the wilderness was dark, the mountains were very barren, and they had to use horses, knives and other weapons to cut down trees, because they didn't bring axes, firewood knives, and other tools. It is completely unable to meet the needs of the army.

It was difficult for the Khitan generals and the party generals to communicate, so they could only find someone who could speak Chinese to translate.

The generals gathered around a fire that had been raised with great difficulty, and it was crowded with people. Everyone discussed, and someone said: "Hurry up, you can go to Suizhou tomorrow, and go to Suizhou for supplies." ”

But the Khitan generals disagreed: "Once this battle is lost, the entire Pingxia land will not be able to stop the Xu army." We are tired of horses, even if we get to Suizhou, how to go? ”

Another humanitarian: "After arriving in Suizhou, if Xu Jun also arrives, we want to defend the city?" ”

Dang Xiang couldn't help but say: "You want to go, Pingxia is over, where are we going?" ”

Everyone sighed when they heard this, and there was a hopeless atmosphere.

Some people even suggested taking a breath and finding a decisive battle with the Xu army's pursuers, because the number of Xu army's cavalry was small. However, this method was soon denied.

After some deliberation, the group of people was helpless. In the end, all the tribes set off one after another to continue walking, and the dark valley, fortunately, the route could be determined by observing the Wuding River, otherwise you would have to get lost.

Many Khitan cavalry began to dismount and walk, and everyone led their horses on foot, everyone knew that if the horses they rode were tired to death, no one would give them horses, and in the end they might stay in this broken place forever!

All the way to dawn, it was simply sleepy. At this time, the Khitans found a few thatched houses on the side of the road, and were about to send people to get some supplies, but they saw that some party soldiers had already taken the lead, and they drove out some ragged women, children, and old people, and were asking where the food was hidden, and even the torn clothes were robbed, probably because they remembered the cold last night.

Suddenly, the soldiers stabbed an old man with swords and raised their swords at a child, shouting and cursing.

The Khitan people watched silently, and they didn't ask, the rebels passed by, and they didn't care if they were their own people. Besides, the party cavalry and the farming tribes here are not all the way. 、

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