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Although I was wearing shoes specially prepared for this swamp, I could still feel the mud at the place where I landed sinking downward, and then bubbles with a rancid smell kept rising, and then the water quickly flooded the instep and ankle...... This soil is frozen in the winter and then thaws in the spring. In the process, the soil becomes a viscous mud with no bearing capacity.

Zheng Sen's feet continued to sink downward, and then something soft, elastic held his foot, which was the reed root beneath the mud. The roots of the reeds were joined together like a dense net that covered his feet. The reason why Huang Shichang chose to use a knife to cut a path out of the reeds to walk is because the roots of these reeds buried deep in the mud can play such a role.

In front of Zheng Sen, Huang Shichang was constantly chopping down reeds with a machete, and then lowering them forward.

"Son, step on the reeds." Huang Shichang also reminded him.

"Thank you." Zheng Sen said as he laboriously lifted his feet out of the muddy water and stepped on the reeds that Huang Shichang had just chopped down. With the addition of these reeds, the amplitude of foot sinking is really much smaller.

More than 1,000 people led the horses to walk in this swamp, and the soldiers and horses were connected together with ropes, so that if someone or the horse made a mistake, they would have time to respond to the rescue.

"Brother Shichang, how far have we come? How far does this swamp go? Walking in muddy water always exerts extra physical strength, and after walking for half an hour, Zheng Sen already feels a little tired.

Huang Shichang changed the machete in his right hand to his left hand, and wiped a handful of sweat with his free hand, he and some other scouts have been taking turns cutting reeds in front to open the way forward, and the physical consumption is naturally greater.

"Shizi, it's almost half way through." Huang Shichang said, "In one more hour, we will be able to pass through this swamp." ”

Half an hour is halfway there, but that doesn't mean the remaining half of the journey can be completed in another half an hour. As both men and horses begin to get tired, their speed will become slower and slower. But the time saved through this swamp is far more than an hour and a half.

"Let's go, when we get out of this damn quagmire, we can get some rest." Zheng Sen turned to the soldiers and shouted, "Brothers, work harder!" We have to get to Liaoyang before the Tartars and scare them to death! Keep it up! ”

The soldiers also shouted: "Destroy the Tartars!" Keep going! "Obviously, even in this quagmire, everyone's morale is still very high.

The shouts spread far away, and the wild ducks and red-crowned cranes that were nesting nearby were alarmed. They quacked and flickered their wings and flew up.

After another hour or so, Zheng Sen finally led his horse to the solid, dry ground. At this time, his riding boots were already soaked, the clothes on his body were also soaked with sweat, and the war horse was also covered with wet sweat.

"First send out a reconnaissance unit to control the nearby area, and the others eat and rest on the spot. Half an hour later, we continued our journey. Zheng Sen ordered.

The scouts rode off into the distance, while the other soldiers opened the bags their horses carried, pulled out their rations, and ate lunch with water from their kettles. The warriors quickly finished their stuffy tactical rations, which had been ground up with starch, whale meat, whale oil, and some other unknown substance, and then took out the soybeans from the bag and sprinkled some egg powder into them to feed the horses. Long-range running is physically demanding for horses, and they must be given something high in protein and energy in the process.

Compared to the warriors, the horses ate much more slowly. It took them about a quarter of an hour to finish eating. Then the horse team rested for a while and continued to move in the direction of Liaoyang.

Zheng Sen estimated that even if Duoduo ran fast, if everything went very smoothly, it would take a whole day to run more than two hundred miles from Da Liaohe Fort to Liaoyang, and when he ran away, it was estimated that all the cavalry would become infantry. Considering that it was already noon when the Qing army fled, he might not even be able to walk half the distance before nightfall, and Duoduo could only reach Liaoyang City at noon the next day. At that time, they must have been sleepy, the system was chaotic, and they had no combat effectiveness at all. And their own team should be able to reach the vicinity of Liaoyang in the second half of the night to early in the morning. After resting for a while, it was just right to stop Duoduo under Liaoyang City. Zheng Sen plans to replicate the battle of Tang Taizong in the shallow water plain and pursue Zong Luo? Until the enemy army is under the city of Jingchuan, he broke the enemy army under the city, thus forcing the enemy army to surrender. Zheng Sen also planned to eliminate these fish that slipped through the net under the noses of those Tartars in Liaoyang City. One guy completely broke the morale of the Manchus.

The light cavalry continued to advance, and gradually there were already some villages in front of them. Most of these villages were originally developed and built by Hermes-Epitek. However, after Nurhachi rebelled and Liaodong fell, most of the Han people were killed, and the rest became enslaved, and these villages became Manchurian. Now that most of their young men have been sent out to fight, only a few old and weak women and children are left in these villages. Some of the old Tartars also saw from a distance that something was wrong with this team, but they could not do anything effective, so they could only send people on horseback to deliver messages to other nearby villages, while closing the gates of Zhuangzi and making a posture of desperate resistance.

It's just that Zheng Sen can't take care of them at this time, and even he doesn't care too much about the messengers they send, these messengers use inferior horses, and in terms of foot strength, it is almost impossible for them to go to Liaoyang, let alone reach Liaoyang before the light cavalry under Zheng Sen's command.

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Yu Xin has already broken through several blocking forces left by the Qing army in a row. At first, it was two yellow flags, but the heavy cavalry charged and crushed them. And then there were two blue flags, two red flags. Although none of these troops left behind could stop Yu Xin, the heavy cavalry had suffered serious horsepower consumption after several charges, and it was completely unable to keep up with the dragoons and light cavalry. However, they also completed their mission well, and they successively broke through the enemy army three times and intercepted and killed more than 1,000 enemy troops. Now they can rest in peace.

Yu Xin left the heavy cavalry behind, allowing the light cavalry and dragoons to continue the pursuit. Along the way, they began to find armor, weapons, and banners abandoned on the ground, and then they continued to encounter the stragglers and see the horses that had fallen on the road. Obviously, the horses of the Qing army were almost at their limit. The Mongolian horse used by the Qing army was originally a very powerful horse, but the Manchu Qing had just experienced a blockade and famine, and the nutritional status of the war horses was naturally affected, and the lack of concentrate made most of the war horses lose fat. This naturally also seriously affected the physical condition of the war horses, and the model army chased closely, and the horses of the Qing army have not been able to get effective rest, so they are naturally more and more unable to do so. In order to allow the horse to run a little faster, a little farther. The fleeing Qing army was forced to throw behind their armor, swords and guns, cloaks against arrows, bows and arrows, quivers, and everything else that could be thrown away to reduce weight. Even so, their horses continued to fall behind and even die.

At this time, a person who has been left behind cannot expect to receive assistance from others. Some of them ducked as far away from the road as they could, as far away from the road as they could. If they can run farther away from the road, the pursuers behind may not be able to deal with them. However, this is only temporary, and when the situation stabilizes a little, these guerrillas who are left behind will soon be wiped out.

In fact, if Yu Xin had accelerated his pursuit regardless of his horsepower, he would definitely have been able to catch up with Duoduo before sunset, but he deliberately controlled his speed, just kept approaching, constantly forcing Duoduo to continue to escape. In order to facilitate the pursuit, the light cavalry even threw away all their armor, and if they really forced the enemy to fight a decisive battle, although the model army would definitely win, it would certainly not be able to avoid losses. It is better to oppress the enemy like this, give them a little hope, and then let them themselves be constantly consumed in such a flight.

Time passed in this pursuit and escape, and under the fervent anticipation of Dord, the sky finally gradually darkened, and by this time only about half of the people who had fled with Dordor were left.

When it got dark, Dodor paused for a moment. But he didn't dare to stay for a long time, because if he couldn't take advantage of the night to widen the distance between him and the pursuers as much as possible, and wait for the chasers to catch up after dawn, they might never reach Liaoyang.

Of course, it is also very dangerous to force a march overnight, especially in this case. First of all, it is easy to lose the road and other things at night, and the Qing army at this time is demoralized and chaotic, so it is easier for such things to happen, so that there are not many people in the first place, maybe they will have to scatter a lot. But at this time, I can't care about these things. So after nightfall, Dords gave the horses a little breath, and hurried back on their way.

Yu Xin also did not stop to rest after nightfall, but in order to avoid chaos, he reduced the speed of the pursuit, let the cavalry dismount and walk, and the dragoons were ready to defend at any time, although he felt that the current state and morale of the Qing army were unlikely to counterattack them. Then he sent light cavalry and let them be in groups of 100 people, under the guidance of military dogs, constantly chasing and harassing the Qing army.

This move had a good effect at night, and in the darkness of the night, the Qing army could not see how many enemy troops were attacking, and soon chaos ensued, and even their own people were chopped in the dark. The whole team lost control because of the attack of more than 100 people.

In a panic, Duoduo didn't know how many enemy troops were coming, and whether he was surrounded, so he took hundreds of his cronies and Baijia, and relied on horses that were in better condition than the other bannermen, left them, and fled desperately towards the north

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