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Chapter 717: Another Fire

Liao Bin and Zhang Liang finally succeeded in reassembling the scattered troops after dawn, which brought the army they could control back to more than 20,000, and the defeated troops could be gathered, but the morale of the rout could not be restored in a short time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Especially last night, the form of the great victory turned sharply into a complete defeat, they lost their large battalion, lost all their baggage, ordnance, food and grass. What worries them even more is whether the mountain wind will command the army and chase after them, if so, they will be greeted with another defeat.

However, the thing in the worry did not appear, while slowly retreating, while inquiring about the situation in Zunhua, the information obtained made them chagrined, the two were so angry that they almost spurted blood, the Dingzhou army did not pursue them at all, but hurriedly returned to Zunhua City, and moved their abandoned ordnance baggage back to Zunhua City, at the same time, the young men who were still rushing to Zunhua one after another were desperately repairing the city wall and repairing the fortifications, all the evidence showed, The other side simply does not have enough troops to engage them in a decisive battle in the open and bright field.

"Call back!" Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and held the handle of the knife tightly, and his entire face was slightly deformed because of the huge sense of humiliation.

"Let's fight back, kill a horse pistol!"

Liao Bin didn't make a sound, covering his face with his hands for a long time, trying not to show his frustration on his face, then he put down his hand and said calmly: "There is no chance." ”

Zhang Liang sat down dejectedly, he naturally knew that there was no chance. If last night, they could organize their forces and fight back, then it should have been the mountain wind that fled in embarrassment instead of them, and now, they have just gathered their troops, and with such low morale now, it is undoubtedly no chance to win again, and there will be no gain in vain, and since the mountain wind has arrived here, it means that the overall situation of the Qinling campaign has been decided, then, most of the Dingzhou army fighting in the Qinling area may rush back at any time, if they drag on here for a long time, they may not be able to retreat with their whole body.

The two of them glanced at each other, and they were both bitter with Jiang's face.

Shang Shoufu and Lord Yuan carefully planned this battle, because of Zunhua's unexpected strong resistance and failure, the only thing to talk about is to lay Qingyang, pull out the Dingzhou army nailed in Minzhou this nail, relying on Qingyang, the imperial court can be on the border of Minquan, build a line of defense that can be attacked, retreat can be defended, always threaten the whole state, and pull the military strength of Dingzhou, so as to reduce the pressure on Zhou Tong in Xingzhou.

It is conceivable that after Xingzhou Zhoutong lost the Qinling defense line, the door was wide open, and there was no defensive barrier to rely on, and the open terrain would become a horse farm for Dingzhou iron cavalry to gallop vertically and horizontally, and the current soldiers and horses of the imperial court, without absolute superiority in troops, would definitely lose in a field battle with the other party.

"Let's camp on the spot, take a look first, and at the same time send a sentry to Zunhua to find out the specific situation of the opponent, if there is really a mistake on the Qinling side, then General Zhang will definitely send us a warning." Liao Bin said.

Zhang Liang nodded, and this can only be the case for now.

Their caution allowed them to avoid greater losses, in fact, when it was dark the next day, Wang Qinian's division Tianlei battalion, who had just come down from the battlefield of Anfu Temple, was undressed and unarmoured, and rushed all the way towards Quanzhou, along the way, countless tired mules and horses, and the blood traces on the soldiers' clothes and armor were still there, and they rushed to Zunhua without having time to clean up, and when they arrived, many soldiers sat on the carriage, you lean on me, I rely on you, snoring like thunder.

This is also the Tianlei Battalion, known as the first field army in Dingzhou, to do this. As the most famous marine battalion in Dingzhou, Dingzhou is also extremely luxurious for its equipment, although it is known as an infantry battalion, but in order to save the physical strength of the soldiers, when marching, they rely on camels and horses, as well as a large number of carriages to move the army quickly, which makes their marching speed not much worse than the cavalry.

When the Tianlei battalion arrived in Zunhua, the entire city defense of Zunhua after a day of emergency repair, the main project has been largely completed, although there is no peripheral fortifications, but the damage of the city wall of Zunhua has been effectively repaired, and the collapsed city wall has also been built up by a large number of sandbags. A large number of trebuchets were obtained from the Minzhou camp, and the eight-ox crossbow was moved to the city, where it was quickly installed, and the city sharpened its knives, ready to fight against the opponent who would fight back at any time.

With the arrival of nearly 10,000 soldiers and heavy soldiers in the Tianlei Battalion, the mountain wind finally breathed a sigh of relief, the crisis finally passed, with the Tianlei Battalion, coupled with his own 2,000 personal guard cavalry, Minzhou after a bloody battle and quickly grew up the remaining more than 10,000 young and strong, he has more than 20,000 available soldiers on hand, and the whole state is finally safe.

However, it is a pity that the opponent is obviously extremely shrewd, and the expected counterattack did not come, after Liao Bin set up camp dozens of miles away, there was no movement, but their rangers rushed to the city several times a day, and fought fiercely with the scout team of Zunhua several times, and after suffering a big loss, they also shrank back.

If the opponent doesn't come, the mountain wind will pass.

After waiting for three days, Liao Bin and Zhang Liang finally received Zhang Aimin's order to urgently retreat to Qingyang.

"Pull out the camp and retreat back to Qingyang!" Liao Bin stood up, Qingyang was already their only result this time, and they must ensure that Qingyang was not recaptured by the opponent, and the news brought back by the scouts had made them soberly realize that the battle of Quanzhou was over, and the next thing was probably a long border confrontation.

Riding on a horse, looking at the land that belongs to Quanzhou under his feet, Liao Bin felt angry and painful, this is where his family is located, the Liao clan has been running Quanzhou for several generations, but now it is defeated in his own hands, and he doesn't know if he has the day when he stands in Quanzhou City again, Liao's ancestral hall and ancestral grave are in Quanzhou, I don't know when, I can go to worship my ancestors again.

"Someone, pass my orders!" Liao Bin's face was gloomy as if he was about to drip water, and his tone was full of unwillingness, "Set fire to me and burn these crops clean!" ”

Zhang Liang sighed: "It's a pity, if the opponent can give us time, we will harvest it, which is enough to support our army for half a year." "At the foot, on the large fields of Zunhua, the crops are ripe, and it should be the day of harvest, but because of this war, it has been delayed.

"We can't get it, and the enemy can't think of it!" Liao Bin said coldly: "Burn!" ”

Thick smoke obscured the sky, and when the weather was dry, the fire was out of control, and even during the day, the raging fire still turned half of the sky red.

Liao Bin once again set fire to the mountain wind almost mad with anger, and his elite men exhausted their elite, with his own 2,000 personal guard cavalry as the vanguard, and the Tianlei battalion as the main force, poured out of the nest to pursue the Minzhou army, while Xu Kexing took more than 10,000 young people to defend the city.

The speed of the opponent's retreat was extremely fast, and the raging fire became the best way to cover the opponent's retreat, and the mountain wind that chased out of the city in anger reluctantly stopped, and more than 10,000 elite soldiers became firefighters, most of them went to fight the fire that was still spreading, and the other part desperately established a barrier to limit the fire to a certain range.

It took three days to bring the fire under control, and the establishment of the barrier barely saved some of the crops from the scourge of nesting.

And this army has been like the workers digging coal for a few days, covered with a thick layer of black dust, except for the whites of the eyes and the teeth when they opened their mouths, barely maintaining a little white. A significant number of people were disheveled, and a very small number should have been burned for mistreatment.

The battle of Zunhua made the entire area of Zunhua almost white, and the young men of Quanzhou suffered serious losses in this battle, only more than 10,000 of the 50,000 young men who arrived in advance remained, and almost all of the rest died in the battle of Zunhua. From the day after the mountain wind arrived in Zunhua City, under the auspices of Long Xiaotian, Quan Zunhua City began to dispose of the remains of these war dead.

The weather is extremely hot, the bodies of the war dead will soon be decomposed, the city of Zunhua is stinking, in the fierce wartime, the day is not safe, the people who are fighting for survival, do not take care of these, and now, this problem is the most urgent at the moment, the corpses are rotten, if not dealt with in time, it is likely to evolve into a plague, in this era, it is not a disaster.

There were no coffins and there was not so much time to bury, so the bodies had to be gathered together, cremated, and ashes collected. There were so many people who flocked to the whole state, and most of them were not organized, and almost 90 percent of the people did not know who their names were, and what part of the state they were, and this question could only be left to be slowly investigated after the war.

Outside Zunhua City, under the fortifications filled by the Minzhou soldiers, there are still countless corpses of the war dead, and the number of them has become something that can never be known.

Even the iron-hearted heart that has been honed by the great war, such as the mountain wind, after seeing the fierce resistance of the people of the whole state, and seeing the remains of those ragged and skinny people holding the most rudimentary weapons, and the most heroic deaths after seeing them fight the enemy, also burst into tears. It was these people who saved Quanzhou and thwarted an extremely insidious battle plan of the opponent, so that Dingzhou would still take the initiative on strategic ground in the future.

The people of Quanzhou who flocked to Zunhua began to evacuate and return to their hometowns, and at this time, Li Qing, who had just returned to Qinzhou from Yaqueling Fort, was also rushing to Quanzhou day and night.