Xu Shouren led the special operations army to Liangzhou City until noon the next day, but he pounced, and learned from the people that the Bubu army had gone north overnight, and Xu Shouren knew that he could not catch up, so he could only hope that the training department could intercept his return to the north.

Xu Shouren ordered the special operations army to rest in Liangzhou City, and by the way, wait for the Yunyang Department to come to rendezvous before making plans.

The next day, Yun Yang carried Xu Shouren's 5,000 special operations troops left in Ganzhou and escorted thousands of prisoners of the Obstruction Army to Liangzhou.

After the two were combined, Xu Shouren led the special operations army to the north first, pursued the blocking army, and the Yunyang department rested in Liangzhou for a day, and then chased Xu Shouren's department.

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Zhao Kuangyin led his troops north from Lingzhou, claiming to pursue the remnants of the Liao army and the Liao army, in Zhao Kuangyin's heart, there was indeed a sense of guilt, how many Zhou soldiers fought for it, and the results of the battle in exchange for blood and life were let go by him lightly.

Zhao Kuangyin wants to remedy, he wants to remedy it too much. Now the military power is temporarily worry-free, if you want to return to Kaifeng to be unpunished, the best way is to bring back the war achievements, and now the most suitable war merit is to annihilate the escaped obstruction and the remnants of the Liao army.

After arriving in Huaiyuan, Zhao Kuangyin got the news from the Han herdsmen, the blocking and Liao army had gone west, Zhao Kuangyin immediately guessed the enemy's intentions, although Hexi was recovered by the Ming State, but the strength was quite thin, in addition to the original army of the various departments, the Ming army did not have a garrison to save zài, the enemy army went west, it is very likely to really occupy the land of Hexi, so as to connect the blockade with Hexi, and become a thorn in the northwest side of the Central Plains.

If the situation really evolves like that, I'm afraid that Zhao Kuangyin's palace commander will come to an end. Zhao Kuangyin knows. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and at that time, Chai Rong will be able to let him go. I'm afraid that Baili Wuji will not let him go.

So, Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth and ordered that the whole army should cross Helan Mountain, reach Baitinghai, and go south to Liangzhou, where the escaped enemy army must be annihilated.

At this time, it is late autumn, and the terrain of Helan Mountain is steep. The temperature difference between day and night is extremely large, and the top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round, so the marching conditions are so harsh. made the forbidden army under the command of Zhao Kuangyin suffer a lot.

Countless soldiers died on the way, some fell to their deaths, some froze to death, and some committed suicide. Among them, Chen Tuan's disciple accidentally slipped and fell off the cliff.

It took seven days. Zhao Kuangyin led the forbidden army across Helan Mountain, at this time, the non-war attrition had passed twenty percent, and thousands of forbidden soldiers remained on Helan Mountain forever.

At this time, the supplies had been exhausted, and the army was in a state of running out of food for one meal a day. On the day of crossing Helan Mountain, Zhao Kuangyin did an evil thing, leading the forbidden army to slaughter five villages along the north and south of Helan Mountain, and looting materials for military rations.

Afterwards. Lead the army to the west.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin didn't need to spend such a big price across Helan Mountain, just when he was going over the mountain. Xiang Xun received Yun Yang's request and had already led his army from Lingzhou to the west along the Great Wall. Zhao Kuangyin could have returned south to Lingzhou when Huaiyuan learned the news, and then marched west along the Great Wall, without having to kill so many forbidden soldiers on Helan Mountain, let alone slaughter thousands of civilians for supplies.

Zhao Kuangyin from the moment he let go of the enemy army, in fact, everything was chaotic, if it wasn't for Chen Kuangyin's disciple who came up with this idea, Zhao Kuangyin would have been robbed of military power by Chai Rong at most, but with Chai Rong's character, after a short time, he would still put the military power in Zhao Kuangyin.

If Chen Kuangyin's disciple hadn't fallen to his death, he would have persuaded Zhao Kuangyin to avoid causing the tragedy of Zhao Kuangyin's massacre of civilians.

But there is no if in the world, a qiē should happen as it happens, and even a qiē that shouldn't happen also happens.

Even if the rations of the civilians were robbed, for the more than 10,000 troops, it was still stretched, and in only two days, the food had been exhausted.

At this time, the army had entered the desert area with no inhabited people, and there was nowhere to go if they wanted to loot. At this desperate moment, perhaps because of the favor of God, the army arrived at the bank of the Baiting River after a day of cooking.

At the end of the Baiting River is the Baiting Sea, and Zhao Kuangyin was lucky to lead his troops to this most vast oasis in the west of the river.

Baitinghai is famous for its white water, and not far away is the famous Suwu Mountain, which is said to be the place where Hanzhonglang shepherded Suwu sheep. The vast grassland of "the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep", and the "sheep road" under the mountain is said to be the sheep intestine path stepped out by the sheep of the Zhonglang general on the grass.

Zhao Kuangyin did not repeat his old tricks, and Zhao Kuangyin, who was not a fierce person, exchanged weapons and armor for a large amount of grain with the local herdsmen in the way of exchange, so that the large army had room for preservation.

But at this time, more than 10,000 people who fled north of Ganzhou City led by Yelu Mo suddenly encountered Zhao Kuangyin's troops.

Zhao Kuangyin originally came to annihilate the department, and without saying a word, he dispatched troops to fight with it.

Yeluma was only a big bad luck, he fled from Zhao Kuangyin's men that day, and rushed to Liangzhou with great difficulty to meet with the reinforcements, and the good days only passed two days, and he was defeated by Yun Yang and Xu Shouren in a battle, and could only continue to flee north, for several days, along the Baiting River has been going north, originally thought that as long as he arrived at Baiting Sea, he entered the desert after repairing, and the Ming army just wanted to chase and couldn't catch up.

But he didn't expect to kill halfway to bite the gold, and this general of the Zhou army, who had once let himself go, unrelentingly stopped on his way back and launched an attack on himself.

Yeluma only couldn't understand at all what this general of the Zhou army thought, if he really wanted to annihilate himself, why bother so much.

But the battle had already begun, and Jeruma could only bury his confusion in his heart and command the army to resist the attack of the Zhou army.

The strength of the two armies is not much related, one is like an arrow, the other wants to make up for the merits, the mood of the two main generals affects the fighting spirit of the two armies, and the battle is extremely fierce.

But they were evenly matched, and after a day of fighting, both sides had losses. As night fell, the two armies camped by the Baiting River to prepare for another battle tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Kuangyin was worried that the lack of military rations would affect the morale of the whole army, and wanted a quick victory, so he ordered the whole army to annihilate the enemy at any cost.

And Yeluma was even more worried that the Ming army in the south would chase after him, and he also wanted to defeat the Zhou army in a battle.

As a result, the two armies unanimously chose a decisive battle.

The fight is in full swing, and a variable has arrived.

More than 20,000 troops who had been pursued by Xu Shouren crossed the west gate of Liangzhou and went north along the Baiting River, just in time to meet Yelumo and Zhao Kuangyin.

At this juncture, more than 20,000 reinforcements came, and Yeluma was ecstatic, and the morale of the soldiers under his command was even higher.

On the contrary, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but secretly complain, the strength of the two armies was comparable, but now suddenly more than 20,000 obstruction troops arrived, and the difference between the enemy and our forces was nearly twice as much, how could this battle be fought? (To be continued......)