The Liao army relied on the speed of the horses, grabbed the road, and quickly fled north, and the bitter ones were those Northern Han soldiers who had no horses, either scattered into the surrounding mountains and villages, or knelt on the side of the road and raised their hands to surrender.

It should be a white and flawless snowfield, but it was trampled and crushed by miscellaneous footprints, wheel prints, and horseshoe prints, and from time to time there were corpses, stumps, and food scattered on the roadside, which was the tragic scene along the way after the Liao and Han coalition forces fled in a hurry.

Under the personal leadership of Wang Jun, Qiu Hongchao, Yao Yuanfu and other generals led the cavalry to follow, and all the surrendered soldiers were left to the follow-up troops to deal with.

After chasing and fleeing, the troops on both sides rushed past Hongtong and entered the territory of Huoyi. At this time, the snow fell heavier, coupled with the narrow road from Huoyi to the north, the Liao-Han coalition army was constantly chased by the Great Zhou cavalry, accompanied by screams wrapped under the knife and horse, and the coalition soldiers fell off the cliff countless times.

Qiu Hongchao, Yao Yuanfu and others became more and more excited the more they chased, and they went north in one fell swoop to recover Lingshi and Jiexiu in succession, and when they were about to attack directly into the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty, Wang Junshuai of the rear army ordered it to arrive, and the front army stopped the pursuit and returned immediately!

Yao Yuanfu didn't understand, and sent his guards back: "Liu Chong poured out of the nest, united with Hu Cai, aiming at Jin and Jiang, now his morale is declining and exhausted, and he is fleeing in embarrassment, why not take advantage of this time to annihilate in one fell swoop to prevent future troubles?!" ”

Wang Jun soon sent a strict order, and the former army immediately stopped the pursuit, and the violators were punished for disobeying the military order!

Qiu Hongchao tried his best to dissuade the unwilling Yao Yuanfu, and led the team to return slowly, collecting horses, grain and other booty along the way, and of course, the Liao army prisoners.

What they didn't know at the time was that because of the hasty escape, when the Khitan army returned to Jinyang, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers left, and 30,000 cavalry were lost on the first trip to the south, and the 20,000 elites of the Northern Han Dynasty were almost lost. Due to the failure of the country, Xiao Yu was furious and nailed the great chief Hu Khan, who had lost Montichi due to alcoholism and caused the war situation to deteriorate, to the market, and it took fifteen days to kill Hu Khan, who had only one breath left.

After Liu Chong, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty who was defeated from Jinyang again, urgently raised a large amount of money and food, and sent away Xiao Yuju, who had been angry, he finally completely recognized what kind of mess he was facing: the Northern Han Dynasty itself was barren and the people were poor, and now they had to re-recruit and supply the army, support the government, and contribute money to the Khitan, and the country's financial and national strength were already overwhelmed and crumbling! Reality defeated passion, and Liu Chong's idea of going south and enterprising was completely thrown into the eighteenth layer of hell, and no thought arose from then on.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Just when Guo Wei was temporarily stationed in Jinzhou to clean up the battle situation, reward the heroes, and prepare to go south, Lin Feng, who was trapped in Shouzhou, began to feel lifted.

In the early morning of November 2, three groups of fireworks were lit on the north bank of the Huai River in the northeast of Shouzhou City, and this information was quickly reported to Lin Feng by the Beicheng guards.

Lin Feng consulted Li Yuanqing, who was in charge of northern intelligence, and learned that this was a way to report the incident that had been agreed in advance with the intelligence department personnel lurking in the north, and that the fireworks police signal was located in the northeast, it should be from Yanzhou, and a group of people guessed that it was only possible that Murong Yanchao was defeated.

Lin Feng and his subordinates sighed, and they all sighed and scolded Murong Yanchao for not doing enough things and more than failing! It's really mud that can't hold up the wall! However, this was originally an idle move, and Lin Feng didn't have much hope for it, and directly turned the page.

However, in the early morning of November 3, the identical fireworks alarm was ignited again in the northwest direction, and Lin Feng's heart suddenly twitched, now it can only be a warning signal from the Jinjiang region, could it be that the Liaohan coalition army was also quickly swept away by the Great Zhou?

Now, things are out of place! After removing the internal and external troubles, Zhou will definitely focus all his attention on the south, and Shouzhou will inevitably bear the brunt!

Lin Feng urgently summoned a group of confidant generals to discuss behind closed doors for two days, seriously reviewing the gains and losses of the city defense, and discussing the strategy of retreating from the enemy, but for a while, everyone had no better ideas. Lin Feng pondered the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign defense examples in his mind, and he really couldn't find many strange tricks to retreat from the enemy, and finally had to sacrifice the best move: recruiting the whole city to retreat from the enemy.

Not to mention, in the way that the whole city actively handed over, there are really tricks that can be used for reference:

A craftsman who had mined limestone proposed that lime boiled when it met water, which could hurt people's eyes, so he could throw lime cans on the city and pour hot water on them at the same time to hurt the enemy and retreat the enemy;

An official of the Datang Academy of Sciences suggested that a batch of simple hand crossbows could be urgently made through the principle of pulleys and springs, equipped with pointed wooden arrows, and mounted on the arms of the soldiers defending the city;

Adil, an external scientist of the Datang Academy of Sciences, handed over an extraterritorial remedy for defending the city: the dried manure of the use of people, with wolf venom, grass bird head, croton, soaphorn, arsenic, arsenic, and half a catty of oil, four taels of cats, and one catty of lime, put it in a pot and boil, put one and a half catties into a thin clay jar, and throw it outside the city as a dung cannon. The poisoner can put the black plum licorice in his mouth to ward off its poison. Archers can also dive their juice into arrowheads, and the enemy will be seriously injured.

After being reminded by the generals in the army, Lin Feng suddenly realized that Adil's recipe was not a strengthened version of the "golden juice" of the ancient city defense?

In the ancient siege warfare, boiled feces and urine can be used to the beautiful name "golden juice", which can not only burn the enemy, but also because the feces are dirty and there are many bacteria, the scalding wound is usually rotten and difficult to heal. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zeng Gongliang edited the military work "Wujing General Essentials", and also specifically discussed the role of "golden juice" in retreating from the enemy.

To be honest, it wasn't that no one had mentioned it before to use the "golden juice" to defend Shouzhou City, but he was silently rejected by Lin Feng, and he really didn't want to use such a cruel trick in the national civil war.

However, the situation is different now! The Southern Tang Dynasty was attacked on three sides, Huainan was full of beacon fires, and the Great Zhou, where all the strength was concentrated, must go all out to the south, once Shouzhou was lost, the entire Huainan Jiangbei region would look at the wind and fall, the Southern Tang Dynasty was bound to go, and the general trend of the world would also be determined, and all his efforts in the past two years would be in vain. At this point, it's no longer time to stick to the subtleties!

This time, Lin Feng handed over all the available methods of retreating to Lu Jiang and asked him to arrange for people to actively prepare. In the next few days, Lin Feng refused all visitors and outings, and took Feng Jingyun, Lu Jiang and others to retreat in the secret courtyard of the Shouzhou Academy of Sciences, concentrating on the study of secret weapons.

At this point, the cruelty of the Civil War quietly escalated again!