A radius of one mile near the Liaohe battlefield.

The morning sun has risen, but the red sun seems to be frozen by ice, and the sun shines through the clouds without half a minute of warmth. The thick snow on the ground still has no intention of melting, and the snowless places on the ground have already formed a thick layer of frost.

When a person walks on it, it is like stepping on a stone, and the kaka makes a sound.

More than half of the winter in Liaodong is covered in heavy snow, and the winter in Liaodong is even colder than the winter in the Central Plains. Even when there is no wind, it can make you feel like you are in an ice cave. It's as if there's a big ice cube on your body all the time, sucking up every bit of heat.

Cheng Yanjin led a team of wounded soldiers through the dense forests of Liaodong, he almost couldn't remember how long he had walked, but the fear in his heart drove him to walk with the people non-stop.

The occasional ray of sunlight peeping through the tall treetops let him know it was still daytime. The first time he came to Liaodong, he never thought that after arriving in Liaodong. What I saw was not the tall and majestic fortress of Liaodong City, nor the young hero Marshal Chen Pojun, but a big defeat as soon as he came, and walked through this deep dense forest with a thousand people.

I miss the days in Shandong, even if it's cold, put on a jacket and a top hat. You can also put a stove around your home and bake a few fiery pancakes, what a comfortable life. I really don't go out, I don't know what is good at home, and at this moment he even wants to go back to Shandong.

"Lord Cheng, the brothers can't walk anymore, stop and rest!" Several soldiers carrying an improvised stretcher said.

"Okay, just rest!"

One day and one night, nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Sui army launched a dragnet search within a radius of one mile on the entire Liaohe battlefield. Light cavalry, infantry, and squads of soldiers searched all the nearby hillsides, forests, fields, and streams.

Their first goal was to find Zhang Xutuo, and the second goal was to find Su Yue. There is also a very important task, which is to search for those Liao people's slaves. If they were willing to surrender voluntarily, the Sui army would spare them and capture them. If you dare to run, you will be killed on the spot. In the past day and night, tens of thousands of the 50,000 or 60,000 Liao slaves scattered in the mountains and forests have been beheaded on the spot, and countless corpses have been piled up in the mountains and forests.

In the distant forest, there was a commotion, followed by the sound of a trumpet. This is the signal used by the Sui soldiers in the mountains and forests to communicate, and when they hear that signal, the nearby search teams are desperately moving closer there.

Chen Gui galloped with dozens of horses, and after a while arrived at the noisy place, and as soon as he arrived, he heard someone shouting happily, "Found it, found it." "Hearing the voice,

Chen Gui couldn't help but guess the reason, and he hurriedly stepped forward.

A large group of soldiers were gathered in a dense forest, and on top of a tall pine, there were several figures faintly hidden. At this time, there was already a man on the tree who was climbing under the tree. Chen Gui recognized it at a glance, although this person was gray-headed and covered with face, it was Huang Ying, a general secretary who had a two-sided relationship.

"Lord Huang, why did you go up the tree?"

Huang Ying's face was a little red, and he said embarrassedly, "The rear army was ambushed, and we were separated in the chaos." There were soldiers everywhere, and they didn't know where to hide, so they temporarily took refuge in the trees, which made the general smile. Why haven't I seen you in Zhang Dashuai's army, may I ask which general you are. "Lian Gui, the marching commander of the right wing army in the camp in the east of Xialiao, has come to search for you on the order of the marshal.

Can Su Yueguo please be there? Chen Gui replied with a smile.

An old-fashioned voice came from the treetops: "The old man is here, the old man is here." The old man repeatedly persuaded Zhang Dashuai not to fight with the enemy, and to wait for Chen Dashuai to respond. Oh, Zhang Dashuai just didn't listen. This General Chen, where is Marshal Chen now? Chen Qing looked at Su Yue, who had a white head above the treetops, and couldn't help but be a little surprised that he, a prime minister who had seen huājia, could still climb such a tall tree, and couldn't help but admire. The prime minister is really not a mortal, even if he is a prime minister in his sixties and seventies, he can still climb a tree seven or eight feet high.

sent a few soldiers up to pick up the old prime minister, and Chen Gui asked someone to bring a horse for Su Yue to sit on. Wei Suyue heard that the Liao army had been defeated, and now the remaining 90,000 people were blocked on the bank of the Liao River, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief. If Chen Kefu is also defeated, then he really has nowhere to hide. ,

After inquiring about Su Yue, he still did not find out Zhang Xutuo's whereabouts, so Chen Gui had to send someone to escort Su Yue to Chen Kefu's side first, and then mobilized people to continue to find Zhang Xutuo's whereabouts. By the evening of the same day, the soldiers of the Sui army had already gone through the mountains and forests, and they found more than 3,000 defeated soldiers of the Sui army, including more than 1,000 people from Cheng Yanjin. In addition, the army also searched for almost 50,000 Goguryeo slaves, basically as long as there were two tuǐ walking within a mile nearby, they had been searched, but Zhang Xutuo still could not be found. But they didn't find him, but they found his horse and the broken iron spear.

After finding his horse and gun, Chen Qing and Chen Gui went to look at the place again, there were traces of the aftermath of the battle, and there were red blood stains everywhere on the snow. The two of them looked at each other, and they both speculated that Zhang Xutuo could have died in battle. With this result, they brought iron guns, and except for a few soldiers and horses to continue the search, most of the rest of the soldiers and horses began to withdraw to the military camp by the Liao River.

When he saw the broken big iron spear, Chen Kefu called Zhang Xutuo's generals and 18,000 reinforcements of soldiers and horses. Now, after all of them are closed, there are more than 5,000 left, and basically everyone is injured, and nearly 1,000 people are still seriously injured, and they can't last a few days.

The rest are more than 1,000 crippled with broken hands and feet, and only about 3,000 can continue to fight after really recuperating. Among the generals under Zhang Xutuo, Luo Shixin and Qin Shubao were the two junior generals of the front army, and they were finally rescued by Chen Qing. Cheng Yanjin, who was in the rear army, had the cover of Zhang Xutuo and fled into the forest, and also escaped a catastrophe.

On the contrary, the veterans who have followed Zhang Xutuo for the longest time have basically followed Zhang Xutuo to the end. There were only three captains left in the Zhangxutuo Eight Winds Battalion in the entire Central Plains of Megatron and 3,000 remnants.

The Shandong Corps, one of the five most powerful elite soldiers of the Great Sui, was destroyed in this way.

Looking at the familiar big iron spear, Qin Shubao and the three of them couldn't believe it. Zhang Xutuo is in their hearts, that is the same general. How could such a person fall so easily in Liaodong.

"No way, Dashuai is definitely not dead yet!" Luo Shixin, who had always been cold, roared wildly. Chen Kefu knew that Luo Shixin was only fourteen years old, so he was transferred to the Qi County Mansion as a miscellaneous servant because of his mid-male service. Since then, he has followed Zhang Xutuo, and the two are called superiors and subordinates, but in fact, they are more like a father-son relationship. If it weren't for Zhang Xutuo's care, Luo Shixin would not have been able to start fighting at the age of fourteen, and even a child from a poor family had already become a captain of Zhengliupin when he was eighteen years old.

Shubao was also very sad, he first came to protect his children, and then entered Xiaoguo, and finally followed Zhang Xutuo. It is said that he has only been under Zhang Xutuo for two or three months, but he is also very cared for by Zhang Xutuo, and even promoted him to the rank of captain. Now that Zhang Xutuo is dead, he feels very uncomfortable for a while.

Only Cheng Yanjin only sighed slightly, and there was nothing in his heart to pass.

He originally came to vote for Chen Kefu, and together with Zhang Xutuo, he had only known each other for less than a month.

"Don't worry, Ben Shuai has sent someone to the Liao Array to ask for General Zhang's body, and I will send someone back to the Central Plains at that time. As for General Zhang's revenge, we will definitely take revenge, and I am also to blame for this incident, so that we can send someone to meet General Zhang as soon as possible, and there will be no such accident. Cheng Kefu patted several people on the shoulders and said in a low voice.

Cheng Yanjin said softly, "How can you blame the marshal for this, the marshal will not count, he knows about our arrival in advance." It's just that the general will inevitably die in battle, and Zhang Dashuai is a hero, and finally fell on the battlefield, but it is also the best destination for a general. ”

In the account, only Su Yue was still a little worried about Zhang Xutuo, thinking that he had been the prime minister for so many years, when had he encountered something as dangerous as this time, everything should naturally be blamed on Zhang Xutuo.

"Marshal Chen no longer has to blame himself, General Zhang is also a little confident and underestimated the enemy, so he has some big defeats. However, although the defeat was defeated, it also hit the Liao people hard, and made great contributions to the final defeat of Goguryeo by the Great Sui, otherwise, it would have been a mistake and the army and the country. I will write a detailed note on this matter and explain it to Your Majesty. ”

For this old prime minister, Chen Kefu really didn't pay too much attention to it. The dignified prime minister was dropped from the court to the barren land of Liaodong, and he didn't have to think about it to know that he would definitely not be treated by Yang Guang. Now that Zhang Xutuo is dead, his previous worries have also landed. For him, no matter how much Su Yue tosses, he doesn't have to worry about what goes wrong. On the contrary, now, he needs to find a way to get Zhang Xutuo's 3,000 soldiers and horses into the account.

"The three little generals are brave and brave, and this time they have made great contributions in the battle against the Liao. At present, Zhang Dashuai has left, but the war against the Liao people is not over. The meaning of this commander is that he wants to promote the three battalion commanders of my Liaodong camp first, if His Majesty has other high promotion orders in the future, this commander will naturally not stop your future, what do you think? "If you want to disturb, the best thing to do first is to be promoted, and by the way, you can directly include these three people in the Liaodong camp. In this way, they will become his subordinates completely, and I am afraid that they will not be able to use them for their own use.