When the call of "King Qi's army has arrived" reached Li Yi's ears, Li Yi was overjoyed, thinking that it was really Chen Yue who appeared with the army. It wasn't until half an hour later that the fighting on the battlefield completely stopped, and it was discovered that it was not Chen Yue's army, but some green battalion soldiers.

Hearing them say that they were ordered by Jin Xin to come first, Li Yi nodded, but he sighed in his heart, Jin Xin did not hesitate to march to Zhangqiu at a speed of 100 miles a day for military merits, but he still did not arrive in time to participate in the battle, if he came to see the end of the battle, I don't know what kind of expression he should be damned?

The battle was indeed over, and the more than 100,000 Green Battalion soldiers had completely collapsed, most of them surrendered under the deterrence of the Ming army, and a small number fled into the frozen Daqing River to the north.

And the snowflakes covered the sky, and it was impossible to pursue it in this bad weather.

Treat the wounded, clean up the battlefield, and take prisoners. The soldiers were silently busy.

The blood during the battle gradually receded, and the body became colder and colder.

The snowflakes are blowing in the face, and the cotton hat on the head cannot be completely covered, and the snowflakes fly down the neckline into the clothes, which is extremely uncomfortable.

The whole body was cold, and the hands were even colder, so cold that they could barely hold the handle of the knife. The weather is freezing and the snow is heavy, in this case, continue to pursue, even if you catch up, the team will have to collapse!

Li Yi immediately ordered to take a short rest, eat some dry food to replenish his strength, and retreat back to Jinan by the same route. It is more than 60 miles away from Jinan City, and the army does not carry much baggage, so it is impossible to camp in the open air. But walking 60 miles in the snow is probably going to reach the limit of a person!

Of course, before retreating, Li Yi did not forget to send someone to send a message to Jin Xin, so that he didn't have to come again, but went straight to Licheng.

However, before the people sent left, Jin Xin had already arrived with a large team, looking at the corpses on the battlefield covered with ice and snow, and Li Yi's army who was about to withdraw after packing up, Jin Xin's face was extremely ugly.

"Hey, I was about to send someone to deliver a letter to you, but I didn't expect you to come so quickly." Li Yi hurriedly came over to greet Jin Xin.

"Hurry up, I didn't expect it to be late......" Jin Xin's face had returned to calm.

"The snow is getting heavier and heavier, so it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's retreat back to Jinan, right?" Li Yi said.

Jin Xin shook his head: "There are still more than 10,000 brothers in the camp in the south who are resting, and I have to go back." Don't worry, Hong Chengchou abandoned all his baggage when he fled, and those fell into my hands, those materials were enough to set up a large camp, and the food left was enough for me to feed 20,000 people for ten days and a half months. Let's wait until the snow stops! “

Li Yi nodded: "That's fine, I'll send someone to escort grain and grass to your camp." Alas, with such a heavy snowfall, the prince is still on the march, and he doesn't know how! “

……

At this moment, on the avenue two hundred miles away from here, Chen Yue looked at the snowflakes in the sky and sighed deeply, but he didn't expect it to be snowing. When the snow fell, the fighting had to stop. Among other things, the march alone would cause great difficulty.

Last year, it was because of the heavy snow that Hong Chengchou had to give up attacking Dengzhou, which made Wu Ping survive the most difficult time.

Now that it is snowing heavily, the offensive can only be stopped for the time being, and will be said until the snow melts.

Fortunately, Jiaodong Qingzhou has been taken, and Yanzhou Dongping and even Jinan are under the control of the Ming army. Except for the prefectures and counties in northern Lubei, most of Shandong has been recovered. The battle went fairly smoothly.

"Lord Wang, what should we do with such a heavy snow?" Li Yanzhi asked.

"I can't catch up with this battle, and I don't know if Li Yi and Jin Xin defeated Hong Chengchou. But now that Jinan is in our hands, the army can at least have a city wall to resist the cold wind, and there are food supplies, Hong Chengchou's army has lost the city, even if it is not defeated, it will not last long in this kind of ice and snow.

As for us, let's camp here to avoid the snow first, and then talk about it when the snow stops! “

……

On the north side of the Daqing River, in the ice and snow, a sparse army trudged with difficulty.

With the support of several guards and staff, Hong Chengchou walked with difficulty with a spear, and he still had a war horse to ride at first, but when he was resting, a rout suddenly jumped on a war horse and left, unable to catch up. The war horse was snatched away like this......

When the army is defeated, his prestige is lost, even if he is a scholar of the Inspector University, ordinary green battalion soldiers are no longer afraid of him.

And in this cold and freezing situation where supplies are completely lost, what a war horse means couldn't be simpler.

Not to mention saving physical strength, after the war horse loses its strength, it is enough to kill and eat meat, which is enough to last for many days, and maybe you can live through it.

There are still hundreds of people in Hong Chengchou's standard battalion, but the one who stole the war horse was also a soldier in the standard battalion......

As for the rest of the armies, who knows where they ran to? It was the Eight Banners of the Quasi-Tower Department who were still there at the beginning, and there was no trace at this time.

The sky was full of snow, blocking the view, and it was impossible to see the situation dozens of feet away. At that time, the battlefield was several miles wide, which meant that the soldiers escaped from the ice of the Daqing River, which was several miles wide, and it was not easy to gather them together again when the army was defeated.

Therefore, there are more than 100,000 troops, and now there are only a few hundred people around Hong Chengchou.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou was deeply worried, if it was a time of despair, would these soldiers under the standard battalion take his head and ask the Ming army to surrender?

"You are all good, everyone insists on persevering, and you can rest when you rush to Yucheng. You are all loyal and courageous people, and this governor and the court will not forget your achievements! ”

Although extremely tired, Hong Chengchou still struggled to move around the team, boosting morale.

Maybe the prestige still exists, plus Hong Chengchou has always been good to these standard battalion soldiers, plus there is no other way not to follow Hong Chengchou. These soldiers could only continue to obey Hong Chengchou's orders.

Fortunately, in the afternoon of the same day, the soldiers of the sentry reported that a village was still inhabited. Without waiting for Hong Chengchou's order, hundreds of soldiers rushed up and rushed towards the village. Suddenly there were cries and screams, and the defeated soldiers threatened the villagers with knives and guns to light fires and cook, and then drove the people out of the house and occupied the warm beds.

The best house in the village was dedicated to Hong Chengchou, and a rough girl brought a hot meal with trepidation, although the crude sweet potato porridge, Hong Chengchou still gobbled it up, as if it was the best food in the family.

After eating, he fell asleep, but he was awakened in the middle of the night, thinking that it was the officers and soldiers who were killed, but when he listened carefully, it was the screams of many women, Hong Chengchou instantly understood, it was the soldiers who had recovered their physical strength and were committing adultery, but at this time he was powerless to care, so he could only sigh and cover his head with a quilt and pretend not to hear.