In the northeast of Youzhou City, along the Wenyu River, the river water has moistened many trees, which have long since withered in this season; But the snow hanging on the branches makes the withered trees seem to bloom with clusters of flowers, which is extremely beautiful.

The houses in the village were also covered with snow, as if they were hidden in the snow.

Dong Zunzhi rode a horse through the snow-covered forest road, reined in his war horse and looked into the distance excitedly. A moment later, Zhou Tong, Zhang Jiankui and other generals also rode up, the three horses were side by side, and the big men on the mounts were staring brightly ahead.

Even the front hooves of the war horses were shaved in the snow, as if they couldn't wait.

Directly on the road ahead, a long line of men and horses was crawling slowly, and there were also large carts drawn by herds of sheep and oxen.

Dong Zunzhi turned his head and said in a deep voice: "Look, they haven't discovered us yet." ”

Zhou Channel: "I guess I think we are our own people!" ”

Dong Zunzhi said with a smile: "This place is deep behind the Liao army, maybe they will really recognize the wrong person." ”

A large group of horsemen from behind also slowly stepped forward. Dong Zunzhi immediately suppressed his smile, raised his hand and shouted: "Order, stop the flag, and approach slowly!" ”

"Order!"

A large number of Zhou horsemen came out of the forest road and slowly marched forward, and the men and horses that came out from behind spread out to the left and right flanks, and the army gradually became larger, and it was obviously impossible to hide their whereabouts in the middle of the open field. Everyone was silent, except for the occasional cough and the sound of the horse's nose.

Dong Zunzhi carefully pulled out an arrow from the quiver, maintained a slow speed and continued to move forward, his eyes did not leave the prey for a moment. Like a leopard, he was lying on the ground and slowly approaching.

After a while, the riders who wandered out of front finally noticed something strange, and there was a shout in the distance. The crowd on the road suddenly appeared in panic!

Dong Zunzhi kicked the war horse and shouted: "Kill!" ”

The cavalry at the front immediately rushed out, and the horses behind also picked up. The silent army immediately shouted in a high-pitched voice, and the sound of horses' hooves roared suddenly.

Seeing such a surging situation of the Zhou army, the Liao army horse team was willing to come up and fight, so they turned around and ran. Dong Zunzhi shouted, and a military general led people to chase and kill, and the rest of the brigade frantically rushed towards the crowd on the road.

The Liao team was in chaos, Dong Zunzhi pulled his bow, and shot an arrow at a man who had just climbed out of the carriage, and the man threw himself halfway onto the wooden wheel.

The sheep fled in all directions, and the Liao people also ran wildly. The cavalry of the Zhou army chased and killed in all directions, and the crying and screaming around were noisy, just like the Shura field in the world, which was no different from slaughter.

Dong Zunzhi led people along the road to sprint farther along the road, non-stop, Dong Zunzhi and Zhou Tong's arrows did not stop, and there was no need to draw the bow to full, anyway, these Liao troops and tribal herdsmen did not wear armor. The war horses galloped all the way, the bowstrings "crackled" all the way, the arrows flew in the air, and the chaotic crowd on the road kept falling, and there were corpses everywhere.

Some Liao people knelt on the ground, raised their hands and begged. Zhou Jun rushed up, but he didn't understand it anyway, so he stabbed the spear at it. The rest of the men got up and ran desperately, collected their bows and arrows at one of the Zhou cavalrymen in front, drew their sabers from their backs, and accelerated their rush when they stared at one.

"Ah......h But the war horse had quickly approached, and the cavalry of the Zhou army raised their bright sabers high, waiting to rush closer, and when they slashed down, blood immediately splashed.

A detachment of cavalry made a detour to the west, driving the flock back in panic and running there, and the arrows flew along the way, slaughtering the sheep on the spot! There were also a few shepherd dogs with their tails between their tails and ......barking, and arrows also flew in, and the dogs were killed. The screams of panic and fear were terrifying.

The beans and grains on the cart were also ignited, and smoke billowed along the winding road.

Dong Zunzhi stood on the ground, rubbed the saber back and forth on the clothes of a dead corpse a few times, and looked back left and right, the ground was full of corpses stained with snow flakes in the snow, and there was blood everywhere. The fighting had not stopped, a wounded man was desperately crawling in the snow with round eyes, and Sergeant Zhou chased after him and stepped on his back, lifted the saber, and stabbed him a few times, blood splashed all over his face, and the person lying on the ground screamed like a ghost.

Dong Zunzhi put the knife into the scabbard, called the five generals, pointed to the long list of messy scenes and smoke on the snow, and said: "This road is from the side of Lulong (Pingzhou, the gateway to the Western Liaoning Corridor). We can meet a group of people delivering food, and there may be one in the future. Take a thousand horsemen and go north along the road. ”

Several generals responded with their fists clenched.

Dong Zunzhi assigned the order again, and ordered them to kill all living creatures, and fight quickly and never stay. He explained: "After returning, rendezvous in the direction of Xishan and look for the Chinese army brigade. ”

"Whoa!"

Dong Zunzhi turned his head to look at Zhou Tong, ordered 2,000 cavalry, and ordered Zhou Tong to lead his troops to the north entrance. There is a big incident on the road here, and we have to rush to another grain road as soon as possible to prevent the north entrance from running away if there is a baggage in the direction of the north entrance!

The remaining 3,000 horsemen followed Dong Zunzhi, and everyone did not clean up the battlefield, threw people's corpses and sundries into the snow, burned all the grain and grass, and then took one or two dead sheep and left.

The cavalry continued its movement all the way to the northwest, and when it met the village, a stream of men and horses shuttled through the middle of the village. The hooves of horses roared in the village, where were the people? The doors and windows were closed, but there must have been someone, for smoke was rising from many rooftops, and it had not yet had time to extinguish.

The army passed by the village and threw the dead sheep into the inner courtyard, and the family threw a few of them, and then left.

After the rear army entered the village, the villagers seemed to have found the dead sheep given to them, and they successively knew that it was the Zhou army who came. opened the door one after another, and a little daughter-in-law was sharp-eyed, and she saw Dong Zunzhi, a young man with ornaments and scabbards, coming up with hot noodle soup. But she didn't succeed, and immediately a general stepped forward, took a bite of the noodle soup and poured it into her stomach, and thanked her with a smile.

Dong Zunzhi said loudly: "Wang Shi patrols, send some prey to the villagers as New Year's goods, a little gift, Emperor Dazhou wishes the people of Youzhou a good year!" ”

A civilian official accompanying the army shouted loudly: "The king of the Northern Expedition, recover the homeland, the country and the people are safe, and the world is peaceful!" ”

The army and the people were elated and shouted this sentence one after another, and if no one took the lead, everyone would not know what words to shout to vent their emotions.

Dong Zunzhi instructed the civil officials: "Look where the village elder is, let him divide the sheep evenly, tell the villagers not to spread the word, and then find someone to cover up the horseshoe footprints left when we came, so as to prevent the Liao army from retaliating." ”

The civil official first agreed, and then said in a deep voice: "Let's send sheep, the Liao army kills indiscriminately, and the people's will is obvious, and General Dong doesn't need to worry too much about other things." ”

A crowd of people went around delivering sheep. Not long after, Dong Zunzhi got a report and found the grain team again on the road from Beikou to Youzhou!

Dong Zunzhi's young face showed crazy enthusiasm, and shouted: "We have found prey again, let's go to the north mouth first, and hunt with Zhou Tongbu from north to south!" ”

The army screamed, and the horses seemed to be boiling. Everyone rode their horses, and the war horses galloped indulgently across the vast fields.

……

"Bang!" Yelu Jing smashed the wine bowl to the ground, and his face was blue.

His fury immediately shook the nobles in the big tent, and everyone kept silent for a while to avoid the anger of the Great Khan, and no one was willing to hit the angry head......

However, the nobles of the tribe were also very unhappy at this time! Those sheep grain and grass are all transferred from each person's territory, even Liaodong is also the territory of the Khitan nobles, and what is lost is their own things, who can be happy?

When this battle came to this, Yelujing and the others knew that the tribes were very reluctant...... In the past, when we fought wars, we went to grab things, and there was always a harvest after bloodshed; In a battle like Shouyouzhou, not only can you get nothing, but you also have to eat your old book!

Now that the main force of the army is consumed here, it has been a confrontation and conflict for a day and a night, and the Liao army is camped behind the battle and takes turns to rest; Zhou Jun still did this. There was no way to attack the belly and back of the Zhou army's camp in a roundabout way, because the two wings had the heavy troops of the Zhou army's horse team.

"How long will it take?" Jereh turned his head to look at Jeruxiu. In a fit of rage, the Great Khan had no good words.

Yelu Xiuge said: "In the current situation, don't worry, the Great Khan must not be in a hurry, after a long time, there may be loopholes in the Zhou army......"

He added: "The Zhou army's horse team went deep into the north, but this group of men and horses could not be allowed to be presumptuous. ”

Emperor Liao asked, "Who is going to kill them!?" ”

The general Yelu slanted and said, "The minister is willing to go." The minister only needed 20,000 horsemen, first went eastward, and then, divided the unit to block and encircle the Zhou army at Beikou. ”

Emperor Liao said: "The Zhou army will definitely return from the east?" ”

Yelu slanted and said: "The Great Liao Army is in Zhuozhou in the west, and the Zhou Army is not so stupid to think about it, and it collides with the edge of the Great Army." Cutting off the back road from the east, the minister was familiar with the way of hunting. ”

So Jerod was ordered to lead his troops to surround him.

Unexpectedly, in the evening, it was reported that the soldiers and horses of the Zhou army had crossed the upper reaches of the Sanggan River (northwest of Youzhou City). Since the Zhou army has moved to the west, can Yelu still catch it? The Liao army predicted that the Zhou army would return by the east road, and the Yelu oblique division would go out to the east, and now it would be strange to temporarily chase westward, and it would be strange to catch up with it from a distance of 100 miles!

In the Liao army's big tent, Yelu Xiuge couldn't help but scold Yelu in public for being stupid and said: "The Zhou army is also looking for death when he goes to the west!" To the west of Youzhou and Zhuozhou is the West Mountain, covered with snow, and the cavalry of the Zhou army can still go over the mountains, where are they going to go west? The minister asked an army to go north and block the Zhou army in the east of Xishan! ”

Yelu Jing frowned and asked, "How many people do you want?" ”

Yelu Hugh said: "Only 10,000 rides!" Don't worry about the Great Khan, Youzhou is the territory of Da Liao, and the whereabouts of the Zhou army can't be hidden, and they will definitely be caught by the ministers. ”

He is full of confidence, and the cavalry does not run as much as they want, as long as they can grasp the opponent's movement in time, be good at predicting the direction, and estimate the opponent's horsepower, they still don't want to get out if they intercept the opponent, unless they turn around and run in a further north direction. It's just that if the cavalry of the Zhou army is determined to hide, it will be more troublesome, and the tactics need to be faster and more flexible.