In the wilderness, the sound of horses' hooves is anxious and messy, and in this cold and frozen winter day, even a faint breath can be transmitted over a very long distance.

The knights on the horse, all with haggard faces and disheveled robes, almost buried their heads in the flying horse's mane in order to avoid the surging cold wind, and their bodies clung to the undulations of the war horse, as if wrapped in a tattered felt cloth on the horse's back.

They don't know how long they have been running in the wilderness, and at the same time, they are also confused about the future, and they don't know where to flee.

This is a group of knights of the kingdom of Karma, even if ten days ago, their situation was not like this. They often avoid the main force of the Jin army in the south, haunt the various logistics lines of the Jin army, and constantly harass and plunder the logistics supply team of the Jin army.

Although their overall strength is far inferior to that of the Jin army, they are not dragged down by the city, and they can always gain something along the situation of the Jin army spreading out on the land of Hebei. Although the Jin army also had a strong ranger force to defend the logistics route, how could it be possible to cover the huge network of thousands of miles and covering counties, counties and towns?

These pawns were broken into pieces, often dozens or hundreds of people in a small team, and they did not provoke those nodes that were obviously heavily defended by large troops, but only focused on some small remote battalions.

Especially in those countryside between Yangping and Wei County, because the Jin army has begun to organize the people to return to farming, these people's strongholds often store a certain amount of grain and grain materials, but there are not enough troops to defend them, which is the best goal for them to start.

Of course, the skirmishes in these areas have no evidence of merit at all, and these pawns do not intend to do so, they just need to seize the materials for their own survival.

Although it was inevitable to operate in the occupied areas of the Jin army, in the eyes of these soldiers, life was much more unbridled than before. At the very least, the war gains are all laughed at by themselves, and there are no commanders and generals.

As for the longer-term future, probably even the Lord of Xindu doesn't know what the future holds, so why should they, ordinary Hu Ling, bother for this, being able to eat a full day is already earned for them.

However, such days did not last long, and the Jin army suddenly increased the slaughter and purging of the wandering soldiers in the realm. These soldiers naturally did not know that the Shang Bai Army, which had attracted a considerable part of the energy of the Jin army, had been destroyed, but the number of Jin army rangers patrolling in the suburbs had increased several times, but they felt deeply.

In the special realm, several slightly larger cavalry of the Karma army were swept and killed, and even their previous general, Zhu Bao, was tracked down by the cavalry of the Jin army a few days ago and killed, which made these cavalry rangers panic all day long.

Moreover, with the arrival of winter, the material transportation of the Jin army has gradually decreased, and order has gradually become in the countryside, which has further squeezed the space for their survival.

The scale of the soldiers who fled in the field was originally hundreds, and the Jin army materials were not intercepted for many days, even if people could still hunt for food, but the war horses could not be replenished in time, and the horsepower declined seriously. In such an environment where enemies are on all sides, horsepower failure is like sitting and waiting to die.

Because although they knew that the danger in the suburbs had increased several times, in order to survive, these people still had the courage to attack a remote village camp.

However, halfway through their attack in the camp, the cavalry of the Jin army patrolling around the area heard the news and launched a pursuit against them. The soldiers were tired and tired, and they didn't dare to collide head-on with the Jin cavalry, and they fled all the way and were separated all the way, and they didn't know how far they fled, and only more than 30 people were left.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance in front of them, and the pawns looked at each other with a look of desolation. Naturally, they didn't dare to expect that what was in front of them was a friendly army of the Qiang country, so they could only turn their horses around and continue to flee in another direction.

However, not long after the turn, smoke and dust rose in the other direction.

"How many soldiers did these southern thieves send......

The soldiers wailed, and even had no strength to curse, so they could only get up and turn around again, this time running towards a hill in the distance, although the countryside was empty, but the cavalry of the Jin army seemed to be everywhere, even if they could still grit their teeth and insist, but the state of the war horse was already precarious, the horse's nose spewed out a large cloud of turbidity, and the horse's body was covered with sweaty white frost, and it was possible to die of exhaustion at any time.

Although I know that even if I escape into the mountains and hide temporarily, it is only the difference between early death and late death, but it is good to be able to steal a moment of life.

But even this pitiful wish became a luxury, and in the middle of the run, a war horse suddenly staggered, and when the knight felt it, his face suddenly changed, and he lay on the horse's back and hugged the horse's neck tightly, and the other hand kept rubbing the horse's belly, and his mouth was chanting, as if he was cheering for the mount, and it seemed to be begging for the sky.

However, these were all in vain, the horse's legs had gradually stiffened, but he followed the inertia and rushed out of the zhangyu, and finally fell to the ground with a bang, convulsions and swings, and gradually weakened, and the knight then rolled to the ground, struggling for a moment and unable to get up, he could only helplessly wave his hand to his companion and shout: "Save me, save ......"

But by this time, the men and horses were almost exhausted, and who would have exhausted their horsepower to carry them on the road, and the people simply ignored the man's begging, and continued to run forward.

The death of a war horse was like a signal, and the fleeing team had the sound of falling one after another, and the pawns who had not cared about the life and death of their comrades did not escape far, and crawled through the countryside one by one, looking at the sky with a desperate expression.

Soon, a team of Wang Shi wandered here, and found the pawns and horse corpses lined up on the way to the field. They rode up on horseback, looked at the soldiers who were tired and paralyzed on the ground, and had no power to flee, and if they found that the soldiers were not in good condition, they cut off their heads with a knife, and if the soldiers were still a little energetic in their begging voices, they wrapped their necks around their waists with throwing ropes, and dragged them in the field to continue walking.

The whole process went smoothly and met with little resistance.

Similar situations are not uncommon in the entire area occupied by the royal division, and they are frequently staged. Although the arrival of the cold winter suppressed the military activities of the Wang Division to a certain extent, the suppression of these soldiers was even greater, especially the timely defeat of the Upper Bai Karma Army, and the addition of enough cavalry strength to the middle battlefield, which further strengthened the control of the Wang Division over the recovered territory.

In charge of clearing the remnants of the field army, Xie Yi, whose cavalry has gradually increased to more than 15,000 in the past period of time, starting from Ji County, relying on the logistics network of the Wang Division to clear the realm, in a very short period of time, the culling and capturing of the territory of the army, the rogue and the resistance to the township tyrants nearly 10,000 people.

At this time, the winter material reserves of all the men and horses on the front line of the Wang Division were also preliminarily completed, and there was a large surplus of troops to maintain the logistics route. After the initial completion of the clearance work, Xie Yi led the main force of 8,000 cavalry to arrive at Shahe, where the forward camp in the middle was located, as scheduled in early November.

The general of Shahe was Xie Ai, the governor of Fangtou, and he was also very happy with Xie Yi's arrival on schedule, and personally left the Shahe camp to welcome the reinforcements along the way, and introduced Xie Yi's troops into the camp that had been arranged.

"There is no need to be polite during the war, Erlang is thirsty for war, and after a while, please ask the governor to arrange the war immediately."

Although both of them have the position of governor, Xie Yi was mainly responsible for the security of the logistics line before, and Xie Ai was the justifiable commander of the Eastern Route Army, who was half a level higher, and fully presided over the attack on Xiangguo in the future, and the rest of the frontline personnel, including the Fenwu Army, were controlled by Xie Ai alone.

In order to ensure that Xie Ai had enough authority to preside over the attack on Xiangguo, the itinerary that was originally scheduled to patrol the Shahe camp was interrupted to prevent the chaos of the many orders, so he took the initiative to avoid one seat and withdraw to Santai.

Of course, this is also because the rules and regulations of the three stations have been laid, and Weizhou will be formally established this winter, and a large number of administrative affairs, including personnel appointments, need to be personally seated by the general, and communicate with the Xingtai in Henan in a timely manner to ensure that the military and civilian reclamation of Weizhou will be rolled out as scheduled in the spring of next year.

Xie Ai was in charge of the front-line military power alone, and his gratitude to the general in his heart was even more incomprehensible, but he did not become arrogant because of this, and after he introduced Xie Yi into the camp, he quickly told about the current situation around Xiangguo.

Although the Xiangguo was defeated by the Fenwu army last year, and then abandoned by the lord of the Qian, it does not mean that the old capital of the Qianguo has become an undefended ruin, and the current power is still very strong.

First of all, the people and horses of the old military territory of the country led by Ma Qiu, Ma Qiu still has no lack of military strategic talent, although he was forced to leave, but he still brought back nearly 40,000 horses and horses to Xiangguo.

Among them, the main elite was siphoned off by Shi Hu, the main force, and more than 10,000 people were used to defend Xindu, but some of the original Xiangguo soldiers and civilians were retained, and the total strength was still maintained at around 50,000. It can be seen that although the lord moved the capital, he still did not completely abandon Xiangguo, and regarded it as a fortress to block the process of the Jin army's northern expedition.

"Ma Qiu lost his land and defeated his generals, and he was on the side for a long time, because he lacked prestige and could not coordinate with the army. In this way, the army that was entrenched in Shangbai was left from Xiangguo......"

The more critical the country, the more fierce the internal struggle, just like the Chinese and North Koreas, and the Xiongnu and Han States, the current state of Qian is also not exempt from vulgarity. Although Shi Hu ordered Ma Qiu to guard Xiangguo, he also arranged for Zhang Hedu, the general of the guards, to stay behind, divided the military power of Xiangguo into two, and left his son Shi Kun to control the second army.

However, at this stage of the war, the Shahe King Division mainly faced the old opponent Ma Qiu.