In any case, the Zhejia army was still led by Zhe Meiluan to join the team of the Eastern Expedition, Zhao Ta under everyone's strange eyes, they were incorporated into his own guards, and acted with the Chinese army, but looking back, he threw Zhe Meiluan to Zhao Xin, he just wanted to see what kind of wind this guy smoked, what kind of heart he had, and he had to make trouble for himself!

Crossing the pontoon bridge, ten miles forward to see the battlefield where the leopard will stay, the iron harriers have become dead harriers, scattered on the surrounding sand, from the dense bullet holes on their bodies, they are very sad to die, everyone is suffering after being shot by I don't know how many guns, who let them wear thick, knives can't cut in, they can only eat guns!

After traveling more than 20 miles, the leopard general came up, so that all the eight hussar battalions of the loyal and brave army were concentrated, plus the prince's guards, training camps and direct battalions to participate in the Eastern Expedition this time all arrived, and there were 10,000 soldiers.

"Sun Ji, you can catch Brother Cha!" Zhao Ta didn't need to ask, in fact, it could be seen from his face.

"Lord Wang, we fought with Brother Cha for a while, and he used an iron harrier to entangle us and took the opportunity to escape!" Sun Ji replied with a frustrated face, the Iron Harrier is the trump card of the Xia Army, everyone wants to fight with them, and they can only be called real warriors if they are destroyed.

"Hehe, you caught Brother Cha to my surprise, if you caught him so easily, then he wouldn't be Brother Cha!" Zhao didn't blame them. Kind words comforted. After all, it is not a bad thing to be able to destroy Chago's most threatening iron harrier.

"Brother Cha is really an old fox, we wiped out all the iron harriers, and chased them for dozens of miles along the horseshoe prints without finding them, so we had to return here and wait for the prince!" Jiang Wei said.

"They are sleepy and tired, and when they fled, they burned all the grain and grass and baggage, and they can't run far, you take me to see the place where they disappeared!" Zhao said.

The team stopped for a while, and Zhao Ta only took Jiang Wei and a team of guards to check, and when he arrived at the place, he had a headache. Chago is really an expert at escaping, and this place is a terrible choice, full of gravel, and it doesn't leave a horse's hoof mark at all. It is often windy at night, and some traces are either blown away or covered, making it difficult to trace.

"Lord Wang, we can't see the direction of Brother Cha here, we sent scouts to all directions, searched within a radius of five miles, and found no target!" Jiang Wei looked at the frowning prince and said, It means that it is not that we are incompetent, but that the enemy is too cunning, don't you also have a headache.

"An ant crawling leaves a mark. Not to mention the team of thousands of people, Zhuge Hong, you all come here, check carefully, search this place again, and mark all the stones that have moved! "Zhuge Hong is the best at tracking, and he is careful in doing things, so he is the most suitable for this.

"Lord Wang, when will we find these stones, so many of us are waiting here?" Jiang Wei's head is big, and this Gobi Desert is more than ten miles in circumference. Don't talk about 100 million stones, at least it can be calculated based on trillions, so when will it have to be turned.

"If you don't have any choice, you immediately gather the scouts to use this as a starting point and search in all directions. Come back here in an hour to report back! Zhao said with a smile.

Everyone took the order and immediately started to act, and Zhao Ta also joined the search team to look for clues. A broken grass trunk, a stone that moved its position, and ants that had been trampled to death were all found one by one, and the range of activity was demarcated. Scouts who searched the periphery also reported what they had discovered.

"Brother Cha is really a master!" Zhao Ta touched his chin and pondered, he had to admire Brother Cha's cunning, and analyzed from the various clues he obtained, after they got out of this Gobi Desert, they first let the horse team circle around twice, covering each other's hoof prints, and then divided into several roads to leave in different directions, making it difficult to see where the horse team was going, judging their location, if it wasn't for Zhao Ta letting the scouts search the range, it would really be difficult to lock the direction of their escape. …,

"Sandpile, you are familiar with the terrain here, help me staff if there is any place where you can hide thousands of men and horses, they will run over there!" Zhao Ta unfolded the map and called the sand pile for him to refer to it together.

"Lord Wang, there are a lot of places where thousands of people can be hidden in thousands of ravines here, no less than hundreds, if you want to search everywhere, I'm afraid you can't find it in a day or two!" Shadui grew up here since childhood, and lived a nomadic life with the tribe, so it can be said that he has traveled all over the mountains and rivers here, and knows more about the situation here than his own fingers.

"Well, which way do you think Brother Cha will go?" Zhao Ta nodded, knowing that what he said was true, Zhao Ren had already captured Xiazhou for more than ten days, and I am afraid that it would not be easy to be attacked by the enemy on both sides, and a peace negotiation delegation sent by the capital had already set off, and the second battle to clear the periphery of Xiazhou was about to begin, and the time left for him to hunt down Brother Cha would not be too long, if Brother Cha was allowed to slip away, there would be less important weight for negotiations, and maybe there would be changes, and the first evil was not eliminated was a major regret in this battle.

"Lord Wang, I also said that it is not very good, but if I am in the current situation, I will only flee to the northwest!" The sand pile looked at the prince and said.

"From here to the northwest is the Maosuri Desert, and there is also the Bald Tail River and the Tumao River in the middle, and he is afraid that it will be difficult for him to cross the sand sea without food and drink now!" Zhao Ta swiped his fingers across the map to find out the route he had passed, and he asked suspiciously.

"The prince doesn't know, this road seems to be difficult, in fact, from here to the northeast fifty miles is the north mouth of the Tumao River, along the edge of the Maosuri Sand Sea can avoid the fortress in the river, and then turn east from the Balwei River upstream to cross the river, although there is no pontoon bridge, but this season, as long as there is no heavy rain, some places are shallow people can ride horses, as long as they cross the desert of one hundred and ten miles in front, the front is the Mingtang River, and enter the territory of the Xia Kingdom." Sandpile explained.

"If Chago escapes by this route, there will be no abundant goods near the edge of the desert, and he has already killed horses for food when he escapes, how can he cross the desert without food?" Zhao Ta still didn't believe that a team of several thousand people could be without logistical support. Able to walk through this barren land for more than 200 miles. Can't they still eat people?

"Lord, that's not a difficult thing, at this time there is a river flowing through the edge of the sand sea, and there are still some places with abundant water and grass, which are suitable as summer pastures, I once went there with my father to graze, and I also fought with Weng Libu for the pasture, so my subordinates know something about it!" Shadui didn't seem to believe what he said, and hurriedly explained.

"That's right, to the east is Linzhou. To the west, there is the Tumao River, and he can only return to Western Xia by going to the northwest or through the Maosuri Desert, and he can't escape this range for a day and a night! Zhao Tan drew a circle on the map and said.

After analysis, Zhao Ta concluded that what Brother Cha lacked now was grain and grass supplies, and the only way to do this was to resolve this problem first. He was able to escape, but this was not a matter of eating and drinking for one or two people, but a stomach problem for three thousand people, which could not be solved by digging wild vegetables and fighting wild beasts, so he must have hid somewhere to raise food and grass, waiting for an opportunity to escape.

So Zhao Ta ordered Gao Zhong to lead the dragon generals and lion generals, and Zhao Yan to lead the tiger generals and leopard generals to carry out the eight battalions of hussars, with the battalion as a unit, ten miles away in a fan shape to carry out the search. The gaps were filled by the battalion scouts and the corps scout battalions, combed from east to west. Zhao Ta led the guards to command and dispatch in the center, and with the battalions and training camps directly under the army as reserves, he weaved a big net in a radius of 100 miles to catch the big loach of Brother Cha.

Zhao Ta led the army slowly, and the sound of trumpets came from time to time around it, breaking the loneliness of the field, which was the message of the loyal and brave soldiers passing to each other, and the hares and marmots shuttled and fled for their lives under the horses' hooves, but by noon the various departments had not found it. Walking to a lush riverside area, he ordered a meal and rest. …,

Under a big tree, Zhao Tan sat on the ground, scooping dry food in his hand and gnawing without a mouthful, and poured a few mouthfuls of water from time to time. He traveled all the way east. Except for their own troops, they did not see a single tribe of size, and it was difficult to see herds of cattle and sheep. The eyes are full of abandoned fields and artemisia grass without people. Last year, it was still a place with fragrant wheat flowers, but this year it has become a world of wild grass and beasts. If it weren't for this year's war, the fertile fields would be full of crops, and it wouldn't be long before the autumn harvest would have been, but the war had destroyed all this, and I wonder how many people would have died of starvation this winter.

"Was it right or wrong for me to provoke this war?" Corpses everywhere, people on the run, bankrupt merchants, barren fields, cattle and sheep dying of hunger and thirst, looted villages... The tragic scenes that he had only heard in legends in the past were all presented in front of Zhao Ta's eyes in the past few days, making him have to reflect on what he had done.

"Is this battle going to go on?" Zhao Tan asked himself again, the destructive power of the war is beyond doubt, due to the long-term use of troops against the Western Xia, the two roads of Shaanxi and Hedong were swept away, the prefectures and counties were heavily taxed and forced labor, the people were poor and displaced, and the husband died on the road. The Western Army, known as the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty, had about 400,000 people, and after more than ten years of losing half of them in the Battle of Var Xia, the generals such as Chongshi Dao, Liu Zhongwu, Yao Gu, etc. were all old, and the new generals such as Liu Yanqing, Yao Pingzhong and others were brave but did not know the soldiers. Because of the long-term service, the soldiers are tired of war, and the rewards and punishments are unfair, hunger and cold, the soldiers have no intention of anger against the enemy, but have a heart of resentment against the court.

"What is the purpose of fighting?" Zhao Ta fell into confusion, he came to this world by himself, made super weapons, trained a loyal army, and accumulated a lot of wealth, if he wanted to save his own life, he had done it. But if you say that in order to make a contribution and change history, is it too expensive to sacrifice so many people's lives, and is it worth it?

"Second master, second master, what's wrong with you?" Just when Zhao Ta was in deep distress and couldn't extricate himself, a call came from his ears.

"Oh, Zhao Xin, I'm fine!" Zhao Ta shook his head and said.

"Second master, your face is flushed, and you are sweating profusely, are you suffering from heat stroke, do you want to ask a military doctor to take a look?" Zhao Xin took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his head and asked with concern.

"No, I just suddenly thought of some problems, and it's hard to solve!" Zhao Ta pushed Zhao Xin's hand away and said with a wry smile.

"Is the second master for Brother Cha's business, let's dispatch so many people, if he can't escape, sooner or later he will become the second master's prisoner!" Zhao Xin handed the kettle to Zhao Tadao again, the prince's body has been weak since he was a child, and he is finally good when he gets older, but he is worried that the prince has been overworking these days and will relapse from his old illness, and there is a trace of worry in his words.

"Zhao Xin, do you say that I caught Brother Cha and killed him, or did I let him go?" Zhao asked again.

"I don't understand this. But I know that there are reasons for the prince to kill him or let him go. What we do is also a good thing for the country and the people, so we will do what the second master says! Zhao Xin replied affirmatively.

"Do you think everything I do is for the country and the people?" Zhao Ta felt a little amused and asked again.

"Of course, when the second master first arrived in the mansion, he treated his subordinates well, and even those of us who bought him treated each other with courtesy, and no one in the whole house was grateful; The second master built a dam in Zhuangzi, restored fertile fields, and built a workshop. Zhuangzi, both young and old, regard the second master as a reborn parent; Since then, the second master has repaired the wharf and opened a commercial port to benefit the people of Xiangyi, and the people of the county have all supported it; In Beijing, the second master plays Taoism. Fight traitors, get rid of bullies, and everyone in the capital has to say good; went down to Jiangnan, the second master dismissed the corrupt officials, dismissed and demoted Zhu Mian, who poisoned the people, and punished the officials who looted the people's fat and ointment, and the whole of Jiangnan called the second master a benefactor; When he arrived in the northwest, he cultivated civil affairs, trained elite soldiers, and defeated Western Xia in a row. Stabilized the border of Hedong, this time the summer has killed tens of thousands of enemies, if Henan is recovered, the two countries will stop the army from now on, recuperate, I am afraid that the people of the Great Song Dynasty will regard the second master as a hero, and everything the second master does is not for the country and the people? Zhao Xin said with his fingers crossed. …,

"Alas, but I always feel uneasy when I fight and kill a lot of people!" Zhao Ta made Zhao Xin a little embarrassed, and said with a sigh.

"Second master. Master He doesn't often say, 'Kill one person for a crime, kill a hundred, be a thief, kill ten thousand.'" for male; Contrary to courtesy, it is rude. Contrary to the small way, for the thief, against the avenue, for the male, against the way of heaven, for the emperor for the hegemon', the second master is the god in the sky, doing a big thing, even if it is against the heavens, it is also a matter for the people and the country, God will not blame! Zhao Xin clasped his hands together and said seriously.

"Ha Luha, it seems that God sent me to shoulder the task of saving the people of the world and the earth!" Although Zhao Xin's words sounded naïve and naïve, they also made Zhao Ta temporarily relieved his heart, he killed so many people is not that no one said good, there are still people who support it, and the mood is much better, as for right and wrong, the Chinese pay attention to a coffin conclusion, then let future generations comment.

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Brother Cha and the three thousand summer soldiers seemed to have suddenly evaporated from the house, after a day of searching without yield, the sky was getting dark, Zhao Ta could only order to camp on the spot, and search again tomorrow, but he believed that Brother Cha still did not escape from his grasp, maybe he would lie dormant nearby and wait for an opportunity.

The next day, Zhao Ta focused the search on the river beach and river with lush water and grass to see if there was any trace of fire, Cha Ge was riding a horse when he fled, more than 3,000 people wanted to make a fire to cook, and the horse also needed to eat, drink and graze, so it must be close to the water source, and this place has always been arid, only near the river can grow lush pasture, which can meet the needs of a large number of war horses foraging.

The change of tactics soon had results, before noon, a team of scouts captured a horse wrangler, this person drove hundreds of horses to graze, there are few people here, the sudden appearance of so many horses is enough to make people suspicious, what is even more strange is that this person's horse masses are mixed with people can see at a glance that it is the war horse of the Xia army, but this person claims to be a tribe of an unknown small tribe, he said that these horses are the ownerless horses he captured, or they may be the defeated and lost military horses of the Xia army, but according to the rules, he caught it was his, there was nothing wrong.

Zhao Ta knew that this was once the border area of the Song and Xia Dynasty, in addition to the familiar Tibetan who accepted the leadership of the two governments, there were also the Shengbo who refused to join either side, they lived in a dangerous place, lived a self-sufficient life, did not deal with the outside world, and had their own rules with each other, he asked a little and looked at his hand, and then released him in the puzzled eyes of everyone, and then led the army to leave here...

Brother Cha followed Ling Jieji to find the tribe that lived in seclusion in the deep valley, remembered the old feelings, and gladly took them in, but this tribe is not big, only a few hundred people, living a life of half farming and half herding, suddenly so many people came, and it was crowded here. These uncles soon regarded this place as their home, blocked all the intersections, strictly forbade them to enter and exit, and at the same time requisitioned the grain and grass, cattle and sheep in the tribe, and let them help herd the horses.

In fact, this is also within the search range of the loyal army, but it is too remote, and all the traces left by the horses have been swept away, so it has not been found by the loyal army, but Cha Ge is not at ease, the scouts of the Song army searched back and forth, so that he was frightened, maybe he will find the mystery, what is more terrible is that this canyon is a dead end, once blocked, it will repeat the tragedy of the turbidity wheel river, it is not a place to stay for a long time, when he heard that the wrangler who went out was checked by the Song army, he decided to transfer overnight.

When night fell, the tribal leader knew that the person who had lived here for two days was the prince of the Xia Kingdom, and they drank wine together, and the prince asked him to gather all his subordinates to give a reward in person in order to express his gratitude, but when everyone was excitedly waiting for the reward of the prince, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed over, and the tragedy in the world was staged again under the bright moonlight. What the prince gave them was not gold and silver, but ruthless swords, and all the clansmen were killed, and the reason was simply that Brother Cha was afraid that they would reveal their whereabouts, so he learned Cao Cao, and would rather I bear the people of the world than let the people of the world bear me, after the massacre, Brother Cha stepped on the blood of the people of the clan and continued his escape. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )