On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the fifth day of the siege of the city of Texas.

At dusk, in the field northeast of Yangxin County, the sky is gloomy, and the cold wind blows the snow in the field, which makes it impossible to distinguish which is the snowflakes falling from the sky and which is the snow particles blown up by the wind in the ground.

Na Yan's face was hidden in his pocket, and his eyes stared gloomily into the distance, and there were more than a dozen peripheral scouts lingering under their noses, standing on the snow ridge in the distance, wearing black armor and seemingly standing still in the wind and snow.

It wasn't until the day before yesterday that they patiently set up an ambush to catch four live mouths, and under torture, they learned that the Southern Dynasty soldiers in front of them belonged to the left army of Jiangdong Qinwang's division, and were led by a capital supervisor named Lin Bin.

Since Yeji Khan succeeded to the throne, he has vigorously promoted the Han system and Sinology within Donghu, and Na Yan also knows the official system of the Southern Dynasty.

In other words, in Donghu, the 3,000 soldiers who led the independent army needed middle and senior generals above the deputy capital commander, even if the Southern Dynasty had many generals and generals, it seemed very inappropriate for the rules of the Southern Dynasty to lead the 3,000 soldiers who were independent into the army with only seven rank supervisors. Moreover, they have sent sentinels to reconnoiter clearly in the past few days, and the strength of the Southern Korean army in front of them is between 800 and 1,000 people, far less than 3,000.

In addition, the captured prisoners also confessed that the 3,000 soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army were all new soldiers who had only been recruited for more than two months, and they were directly brought to Jinan Mansion without training.

Natuzhen, who had become irritable in the past few days, directly stabbed the captive to death, no one would believe such nonsense, how could a new soldier who had only been recruited for more than two months and had not undergone any training continue to deal with the cavalry in such a vicious snowstorm for several days?

The captives said that the Jiangdong Left Army was so unbearable, it was simply an insult to the king's tent soldiers, could it be that the pride of Bulun Mountain and the king's tent guards had been biting and biting the rabbit-like weak pawns in the past few days?

Others can bear it, Na Tuzhen can't stand the captives who fell into his hands and let him slaughter him mock him like this, killing three prisoners in a row, until the last captive said that the Jiangdong Left Army was an elite unit secretly set up by the center of the Yue Dynasty in Jiangning, and Na Tuzhen spared his life.

Na Yan glanced back, saw Na Tuzhen riding over with the reins, and said, "On the Texas side, the situation will come to an end today and tomorrow......

"What can I do, go back and make a joke to Azig," Natu really chewed on the dead grass stalk he picked up from the snow in anger, and viciously spit out the stalk of the chewed grass, "it is a joke for Azig, and this nail must be pulled out this time; Let them go back to Jinan, it is still a stinging hard nail! His left hand, which had been held on the reins, was wounded, and he had cut off three fingers in the battle yesterday afternoon, and almost split half of his face.

Na Yan also understood the anger in Natu's heart, they were entangled with this Jiangdong Left Army for seven or eight days from the 17th, even if they continued to collect the outpost rangers in the Yangxin and Jiyin areas, they still suppressed the Jiangdong Left Army between Jiyin and Yangxin, and they were unable to go back to participate in the Dezhou War to gain military achievements.

Even if it can be said that it successfully prevented the elite of the Jiangdong Left Army from supporting Texas, but it has been fighting so badly in the past few days, Na Yan himself feels ashamed.

He also tried to lure this Jiangdong Left Army to the outskirts of Texas to gather superior forces to encircle and annihilate them, but this Jiangdong Left Army mostly used night marches to intersperse north and south in the snowstorm, and it was difficult for simple cavalry to contain them in the snow at night. The impact of the blizzard and the dark night on the cavalry was even greater than that of the foot soldiers, especially since they had to be wary of the Southern Dynasty defenders in the cities of Jiyin and Yangfu.

Na Tuzhen squinted at the Jiangdong Left Army scout in the distance, and didn't say anything about leading people to outflank the past from the side, seeing the clansmen's heads hanging on the side of the saddle of the Jiangdong Left Army Scout, he was so hateful that he wanted to tear his eyes, and he had to hold back the anger in his heart. These grandsons are more cunning than foxes, the key is that the main force of the armor behind these peripheral scouts is very mobile, even in the snowstorm weather, the interspersing of a range of twenty or thirty miles is easy to understand, and these peripheral scouts are likely to be the bait they put out. In the past few days, I have not only suffered a loss.

At this time, a team of cavalry appeared in the northeast direction, and dozens of cavalry were sent to guard here, and after a while, the sentry horses sent here rushed over in cooperation with the comers, confirming that they were their own people. Na Yan looked at the outfit and scale of the person who came, and thought: The king has sent someone over?

The cavalry team that rushed was led by a black-faced young man, his posture was straight, he waved his hand at Na Tuzhen from a distance, and shouted: "Na Tuzhen, I heard that you have successfully contained the elite of the 800 Southern Dynasties who will support Texas, and the two gold medals I have been rewarded are really incomparable to yours, I don't know how many gold medals you will receive when you go back this time......

Natuzhen's face was so gloomy that he could drip water, and he scolded viciously, "What is this beast doing here?" ”

Azig came over on horseback, dismounted and saluted Na Yan, and said, "This is a warrant given to you by Yeji Khan, asking when you can win and return to the king's tent to pay your errands?" ”

Na Yan knew that Azig was frivolous, and he didn't care about his offensive words, so he opened the royal tent letter he brought with him, and said happily: "Okay, Dezhou has been captured, and Sun Jichang, the general of Linqing, also surrendered to the royal tent......"

"!" Na Tuzhen scolded lightly, it is naturally a good thing to take Texas and Linqing so easily, but it also shows more and more that they are incompetent on their side, the smile on Azig's face is almost grinning to the root of his ears, how not to make him hate and resent? said, "Since Azig wants to show off his military exploits so much, then the military exploits in front of him will be given to you as ......."

"Azig, how many royal tents have you brought?" Na Yan was not angry with Azig, although the king asked him to go back to pay the order and resume his life, but he didn't want to let go of the fierce rival in front of him.

"The king's tent soldiers brought two hundred," Chen Jige said, "I know that this bone that Yan Senling is eyeing is difficult to gnaw, and I have brought three hundred more clan soldiers over, and they are all under the command of Nayan Senling......"

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When he received the news that Dezhou had fallen and that the Linqing garrison had surrendered the city, Lin Jian led his troops to camp in a peach forest less than ten miles away from Nayan.

The leaves had withered, and the branches were covered with snow, and occasionally there was a crackling sound when the branches could not bear the weight of the snow and breaked.

Although Lin Jian didn't have much hope for Dezhou and Linqing, he was still disappointed when he saw such a result, and he didn't know what to say when he looked at the wind and snow in the sky.

"Are we pretending to retreat south, luring Nayan to intercept it, and then flee to Cangnan?" Ao Canghai asked.

"No, let's go directly to Cangnan!" Lin Jian said, "With the fall of Texas, the Eastern Capture can draw more troops to guard the Eastern Front, and we can't delay too long on the road." Let's go directly to Cangnan, no matter what, Na Yan, who has been aggrieved for so long, will not let us go easily...... We must overcome all difficulties and arrive at Cangnan Xiaobotou Village before dawn tomorrow. ”

The scouts in front withdrew, and also brought the latest enemy situation, Wu Qi grabbed the reins, let the horses under his crotch kick the snow, and said: "There is a cavalry from Texas to rush back to join the Nayan army, the number of which is about four or five hundred......"

"Then don't delay for a moment, the wounded are all on their horses, any baggage and wounded horses that affect the speed of the march will be thrown away, and the queen of the palace should bury more thistles in the snow......" Lin Jian decisively ordered.

There are more than 1,000 Donglu cavalry gathered in the northeast ten miles, and Lin Jian can't rely on the three or five hundred defenders in Yangxin County to go out of the city to help the battle, they are already at a disadvantage in terms of strength, he would rather be more violent at this time in the blizzard, weakening the mobility advantage of the Donglu cavalry, he believes that Nayan led the cavalry to chase, Donglu has taken Dezhou, Linqing, and the next thing is to attack Jinanfu, Donglu itself will send some cavalry to monitor the defenders of Dongfu County in Jinan Prefecture.

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Na Yan chased to the peach forest, and the horse dung left by the cavalry behind the palace was hot, and it was cut open with a knife, and it was still steaming white in the snow.

Na Yan sat on horseback, looking at the rut marks, horseshoe prints and footsteps that blew and buried the snowstorm and shallow but still showed clearly, this Jiangdong Left Army neither retreated south to Jinan Mansion, nor avoided Yangxin to hold onto the city, but turned northeast to Cangnan, and the woods were full of discarded baggage, obviously this Jiangdong Left Army fled in panic after knowing that Texas had fallen.

"To chase or not to chase?" Natuzhen was a little hesitant, something that would never have happened to him seven or eight days ago.

Azig asked, "What's there to ask about that?" Don't you chase? ”

"Chase!" Na Yan made up his mind, he couldn't guess why this Jiangdong Left Army fled to Cangnan in a hurry, but this Jiangdong Left Army was very cunning, maybe it was the old suspicious array that wanted to scare them back, but they went around in a big circle in Cangnan and then went back to Jinan, how could it be so easy for him to calculate?

Na Yan squinted at the darkening sky and the increasing wind and snow, God is fair to everyone.

Leaving all the wounded behind, he didn't believe that the 400 king's tent soldiers and 700 cavalry could not eat this Jiangdong Left Army, so he grabbed the reins and ordered everyone to dismount and lead the horses to pursue against the wind and snow.

Although in the dark night, despite the endless snowstorms, the outpost could still accurately identify the escape route of the Jiangdong Left Army. Chasing so tightly, the distance between the front and back is only seven or eight miles, Na Yan is not afraid of what tricks this Jiangdong Left Army can play, only to disperse the pursuit queue, the outpost should be more vigilant, and maintain physical strength as much as possible, and after catching up, he will launch a deadly charge against this Jiangdong Left Army.

Although most of them would be exhausted when they caught up, Na Yan believed that the situation of the Jiangdong Left Army would be worse than theirs, and as long as the situation of the enemy was worse than his own, it would be enough.

Walking against the wind and snow, Na Yan didn't know how long he had been walking in the night, in short, he was chasing with the traces of the Jiangdong Left Army, and the Jiangdong Left Army had no signs of dispersion, and when the sky was exposed, he could already faintly hear the sound of the waves, to the beach?

"Dogs/, they're just in front!" Natuzhen stood on horseback and pointed north.

Na Yan looked up, and in the distance, less than a mile away, the black and oppressive heads were clustered, and it was the Jiangdong Left Army that fled north along the seawall.

Natuzhen shouted to pull a group of people to lead the horses to the seawall first, and Azig also rode on horses with his subordinates, preparing to outflank the Jiangdong Left Army from the field under the seawall.

In front of the left side of the seawall, there was a stockade that showed a jagged wall in the morning eye, and Nayan pointed there: "What kind of stockade is that?" ”

"Xiaobotou Village!" The guards beside Nayan opened the map and found out the name of the stockade.

"I'm afraid of him," Natu scolded viciously, "The soldiers of the village dare to come out to help in the war, and Lao Tzu will pull out the village together today." I've been depressed for so long, just find some girls with fine skin and tender meat for everyone......" The king tent soldiers on the left and right shouted.

A stockade of this size, there are usually one or two hundred villaged soldiers, and it is not cost-effective to attack this kind of villager in the ice and snow, but there is no need to worry about what the impact of such a little villaged soldiers on their field operations, that Yan Xin wanted to annihilate this Jiangdong Left Army, it was to capture one or two stockades for everyone to vent, vent, he rode on a horse, dialed out a straight ridge knife with gold wire, so that his subordinates all rode on horses, waved the knife and pointed forward, and gave the order to pursue.

That Yan Zongma went up to the seawall, trying to find a high place to grasp the entire battle situation, looking at the two hundred Wang tent soldiers led by Na Tuzhen when they were about to chase after the Jiangdong Left Army, the closed gate of Xiaobotou Village suddenly opened, the horse's head was crowded, the saber was cold, and the two wings were for people to push the flying car running wildly behind, and I don't know how many armor cavalry rushed to kill the generals, and he sent a team of cavalry to monitor Xiaobotou Village almost resisted for a while, and then drowned the other party, And the fragile flanks of the Azig division, which wanted to outflank them in a roundabout way from under the seawall, were completely exposed and left without cover.

At this moment, Na Yan only felt a sweetness in his throat, his eyes were black, and he grabbed the reins tightly so that he didn't fall off the horse.

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