The Qing army withdrew, since the beginning of Chenshi, there was a steady stream of camps, Haoge stayed behind to break in person, he lost this battle, no victory is losing, looking at the Hanzhou City that has been repeatedly disabled but has been repeatedly repaired, Haoge knows that this is a hurdle in his life, this hurdle is not only Hanzhou City, but above the city, at this time it is also Cao Bianjiao who overlooks him from afar.

The Qing army retreated all the way north, first retreated to Deyang, and then joined Fu Lehe in Mianzhou, Tongchuan was under the attack of Cao Bianjiao, it was bound to be difficult to hold for a long time, it was better to give up directly, and Wu Sangui stuck to Langzhong, Haoge's arrangement, indeed as Cao Bianjiao guessed, he would not give up the entire territory he had obtained, and he would insert a few nails on the Sichuan territory in order to fight again in the future.

Cao Bianjiao followed Haoge with his men and horses, and always maintained a distance of thirty miles from them, not far or close, if Haoge wanted to reflexively attack, he also had enough time to arrange, he brought 20,000 people, and Li Dingguo's 20,000 people behind, only twenty miles away from them, each other, Haoge only 10,000 people, although they are all cavalry, but now it is like this, no one can eat anyone, it is just a kind of containment.

On the official road from Luojiang to Mianzhou, there are hungry people along the road, Cao Bianjiao looked at the hungry people lying on the road, everyone is hungry, described as withered, almost exhausted, there are many starving people on both sides of the road, Cao Bianjiao looked at this scene, it was also shocking.

On the bare hillside, there were large patches of dead grass, but the dead grass had been pulled out of the mud, and all the roots were gone, and even the trees on both sides of the road were brought down, not only the bark was stripped of people, but even the roots were nowhere to be found. I saw a woman carrying a basket in the far ravine struggling to peel the bark of a tree, and beside him there was a half-naked child, who put his hand in his mouth, and saliva came out of his mouth, and then he swallowed it back, and his eyes were full of greed for the bark, and he wanted to pounce on it and put it in his mouth. I saw that the woman was unkempt, her hair was messy, like a chicken's nest, and her body was covered with dirt and dirt.

This scene is like a sharp knife stabbing into Cao Bianjiao's heart, isn't everything Cao Bianjiao has done desperately to protect these people? But the people they protected fell into such a desperate situation, which made Cao Bianjiao's eyes moist! When I looked up again, I saw that someone was eating soil, and it was Guanyin soil, because the hunger in their stomachs made them care about nothing, even if it was to drink to quench their thirst.

"General ......" saw Cao Bianjiao turn over and dismount, Li Yan also called, this kind of scene, he is not the first time to see it, he has seen it even worse, people eat people, Yi Zi eats, he is also common, these are not enough to impress him.

"Where are you, people, and how did you end up in such misery?" Cao Bianjiao walked up to an old man and also asked.

"General, we are the people of Mianzhou, the Tartars want to coerce us to the north, we don't want to leave, so we all ran out, the food has been robbed by the Tartars, we have nothing to eat, we can only take one step at a time."

Since ancient times, the sons and daughters of China have been difficult to move, which Cao Bianjiao knows, especially ordinary people's families, even more so, and only those who are rich and noble, it doesn't matter where they go, because they are all nobles wherever they go, and they don't need to worry about anyone.

"Abominable ......" Cao Bianjiao slammed the horse lance in his hand into the ground, and his hatred was very strong.

Cao Bianjiao came to the high slope next to him and shouted to the surrounding refugees: "Folks, I am the general Cao Bianjiao, I am sorry for you, the Manchu Tartars invaded, harmed your homeland, you are all my Ming people, I am the general of the Ming Dynasty, but I failed to drive the Tartars out of your homeland, I am ashamed of you!" Cao Bianjiao is here to apologize to you! ”

No one thought that Cao Bianjiao would kneel to the people present, as the general of the Ming Dynasty today, even if Cao Bianjiao saw the emperor, he would be exempt from kneeling, but now Cao Bianjiao took the initiative to kneel down to these people in the world, which shocked and moved everyone.

"General...... General...... I can't help it......" The people cried out.

Li Yan went up to help Cao Bianjiao up, and said, "Right now, we still have some military rations, we can take them out to relieve the people's hunger and cold first!" ”

Cao Bianjiao nodded, and then shouted: "Brothers, you have all seen, these are my Ming people, what are we soldiers for, for such a little money, no, for the sake of the common people in the world, but also for ourselves, for our families, if we don't fight bloody battles today, then the iron hooves of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will step into your homeland next, the country is in trouble, we who are soldiers don't go to work hard, do we still want to let these defenseless people go?" For decades, the country has accumulated a lot of evils, the officials do not care for the people, and the soldiers do not want to serve the country, but I tell you, I Cao Bianjiao will definitely change all this in my lifetime, I only have two goals in this life, the first is to make the country rich and strong, so that my people will no longer be bullied and poisoned by foreign races, and the second is that the people's livelihood is rich, so that the old and the young are supported, who fights with me bloodily, who is my brother Cao Bianjiao. ”

"I am willing to fight bloody battles with the general!" The officers and men of the three armies shouted in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

"Good! Now these people have no food to eat, the military rations we carry are only enough for ten days, and the rest of the food will take eight days to arrive, I need to leave general food for these victims, are you willing? ”

"Yes! Willing! ”

"For the sake of our people of the Ming Dynasty, now we have to speed up, catch up with the Tartars, and no longer make more people suffer, after putting down the food, we will speed up the march, catch up with the Tartars, and rescue the people who were taken captive by them, because they are our parents, brothers, sisters, sons and nephews, we died in battle, but they can survive."

The morale of the whole army was suddenly high, and the fighting spirit was high, and Cao Bianjiao knew that the people's will and the army's spirit could be used.

"Mr. Li, you stay to deal with these refugees, resettle them to Luojiang first, speed up the journey of grain and grass in Chengdu, and arrive in Hanzhou City as soon as possible, and I will order Hunan to allocate grain to come to the relief, be sure to settle it properly, I will go to the Tartars to settle accounts."

When Li Yan heard this, he also hurriedly said: "General, after Haoge personally broke off, the soldiers and horses are elite, if you fight head-on, I am afraid that our army will not have an advantage, please be cautious." ”

He knew that Cao Bianjiao had a counterattack and took revenge, but the gap in strength was still there, and he couldn't stop Cao Bianjiao in a bad word, so he could only remind him vaguely at the moment.

"Folks, my people will stay, distribute food to you, and take you to Luojiang County to settle first, you don't have to worry, the court won't ignore you."

"Thank you, General, thank you!" The people got up and kowtowed to Cao Bianjiao to thank him, how many years, they have never seen such an army, the military rations to save their lives, they have always been soldiers to rob their life-saving food to supplement the military rations, the flame of hope that has long been extinguished is also burning again, looking forward to the Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty.

"Soldiers of the three armies, follow me on, take revenge!" Cao Bianjiao held his horse lance high and continued to move forward with the military horse.