By the Hunhe River, Dayong watched expressionlessly as the soldiers dragged the bodies from the two wagons out of the carts and buried them in the snow.

After emptying the corpses, the carriage was soon filled with new Hermes-Epitek, and they trembled and huddled into each other, unable to move, their eyes glazed over, and there was no trace of life in sight.

Every gap in the carriage that leaked a little bit was blocked, and even so, there was still no warmth in the carriage.

The situation of freezing to death has not stopped since the departure, and Dayong has seen no less than three times when the whole vehicle was frozen to death. After watching too much, Dayong also became numb, and at first he still felt heartache, but now he doesn't feel it at all.

It is warm before the snow and cold after the snow.

After setting out from Shenyang, the temperature continued to drop, and in the past four days, more than 300 Han people have frozen to death.

Most of the Han people who froze to death were old people who were not in good health, and there were also a small number of women who were not well prepared.

Dayong didn't want these people to freeze to death, but he couldn't help it, all the clothes in the army that could keep them warm had been distributed to the Han people, but it was getting colder and colder day by day, but it was irresistible to manpower. He couldn't let the soldiers take off their clothes that were three layers inside and three layers thick for these Han people, if he really did this, I am afraid that none of the more than 20,000 people would want to go to Liaoyang alive.

So far, there are no children who have been frozen to death, only a dozen have been frostbitten, and the frostbitten ones are all ears and hands, as long as they can survive to Liaoyang, please Langzhong to see if there should be no big problem.

In order to deal with frostbite, Dayong has asked the army to take out the fat for the Han people as much as possible, but there are many monks and few porridges, and these oils have to be eaten, and they are all taken out to prevent freezing, and the soldiers can't do it without oil and water in their stomachs. It's cold, and no one can bear it on an empty stomach.

There were no tea bricks in the army at all, there was not much salt, and it was difficult to digest the beef and mutton after eating too much, so the little fat became the best food for the Jinzhou army to absorb nutrients. Although it is tiresome to eat too much fat, it is better than nothing.

It was snowy all the way, the dry firewood was basically used up by the team in front, and the houses of the banner people along the way were also demolished.

In the past two days, whether it is the military or the civilian, most of them eat cold food, and it is rare to make a fire and cook some hot food. The soldiers are okay, they have more oil intake and cold-proof clothing and food, and their bodies are stronger than ordinary people, so no one freezes to death, and those Han people are old and weak without these conditions, and it is inevitable that they will freeze to death. This is a natural disaster, but it can also be said to be a man-made disaster.

Speaking of which, the warm clothes of thousands of children are the best in the entire retreating team, better than the Jinzhou army, because a day after departure, Dayong saw that the children could not stand the cold, so he ordered the general to take out all the mink and bear skins carried by the general and distribute them to these children.

These mink skins, bear skins, and even tiger skins were originally intended to be sold in the customs in exchange for money and food to maintain the development of Dengzhou, but now Dayong wants to take them out to protect the children from the cold. It's not that no one has complained about this, because once these furs are used and then sold, they will not sell for a good price.

But Dayong insisted on this, he told his subordinates that the future of Daming is the children, and they fight for the children, if they watch the children freeze to death, he Shi Dayong is absolutely unacceptable. You can earn a little less money and eat less food, but in any case, you must ensure that these children can be evacuated to Liaoyang safely, otherwise they will work desperately for something.

Dayong has a very strong authority in the army, which can be described as a true word, and when he said this, naturally no one has any dissenting opinions, after all, there are only a few people who can bear to see children being frozen to death. Although most of the generals of the army have eaten human flesh, and it can be said that they don't blink an eye when they kill people, but they are also good people by nature, but they are forced by current events to become murderous, and in the end, no one wants to be a demon without humanity.

After all, there is little fur, most of them have been transported to Liaoyang, and the rest can only barely ensure that two or three children can cover one piece, Rao is so, the kindness of the Ming army also made the Han people grateful, and the parents of those children spontaneously kowtowed to the surrounding Ming army to thank them, which made the Ming army feel more warm.

Dayong once said to his generals that this is called "the situation between the army and the people", and the people will naturally support the soldiers. But if there is really a choice, I am afraid that those Han people would rather die than have any relationship with the Ming army, which is not to blame them, live in Shenyang well, although it is seen as a slave by the Eastern Captives, but after all, they can live, and now they are forced by the Ming army to leave Shenyang and embark on this road that does not know life and death, and it is strange to be able to thank the Ming army.

Dayong never denied that he did great evil and did small good to the Han people. But he can't help it, if there is a better choice, he won't let these Han people suffer like this.

After the dead were buried in the snow, Dayong turned his horse's head and continued to set off. Not long after leaving, more than a dozen young and strong people in the back team rushed impatiently to the snow graves, re-dug out the dead who had just been buried, and then took off their clothes and couldn't wait to put them on themselves.

This phenomenon is not once or twice, at first, the Ming army will still be disgusted by this behavior of stripping the dead people's clothes, but as more and more people are frozen to death, they will no longer pay attention to this kind of thing. The only requirement was that the Hermes-Epitek had to re-bury the people after stripping them of their clothes, or else they would be stripped naked and thrown in the snow.

Stripped naked and thrown in the snow in this weather is undoubtedly a dead end, and the young people of Hermes-Epitek did not dare to disobey the order, but consciously buried the person again after stripping them of their clothes.

Dayong also heard about this, and he told the people below that the living are more important than the dead after all, and if a piece of clothing can keep a person alive, then it is absolutely necessary not to stop those people from doing it, but to support them in doing so. However, it is strictly forbidden for the young people of the Han Dynasty to snatch the warm clothes of the elderly, children, and women.

Dayong's own face was also frostbitten due to the severe cold, and the half of his face that had been peeled off by the cannon was very itchy, sometimes the itch was unbearable, but Dayong always gritted his teeth and insisted on not scratching, he knew that if he scratched, it was likely that he would die because of this action. In order to prevent his frostbite from getting worse and worse, Dayong asked Guo Yi to take some bear skin and make a cotton hat similar to that of later generations, whether it was marching or resting, this bear skin cotton hat was always worn on the head, although it looked weird, but it was a lot of effects, at least the frostbite was stabilized, and it did not further expand.

Because of the lack of vegetables, snow blindness began to appear among the soldiers, and Dayong had no choice but to order the soldiers suffering from snow blindness to be placed in the carriage, try not to let them come out, and wait until Liaoyang to replenish vegetables, recuperate for a longer time, and the disease will naturally be cured.

On the 29th, Dayong and Cao Bianjiao met at the confluence of the Hunhe River and the Taizi River, and at the same time, a cavalry of the Jin Army appeared in the rear, and the banner was a white flag.