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Before dawn, Shuozhou was as thick as ink, and the wind was cold. The bonfire at the top of the city was swaying violently. From time to time, a bunch of Mars was blown down under the city, bringing some light to the base of the city wall, and then extinguished.

Hundreds of cavalry came out from the south gate, and in a short while, they couldn't wait to pull up the speed. The figures quickly disappeared completely in the thick night, and the sound of horse hooves trampling on the snow was also blown away by the cold wind and could not be heard.

"Just let them go like that?" Pan Chenghu stood in front of the trunk and vaguely saw some snow particles falling from the night sky. He looked at Xu Huai with some regret, gestured to cut his hands on his neck, and asked in a low voice, "We really don't send a team of soldiers to chase them out? If we do them, we can also frame the Khitans!"

"This world is not too rule-wise, but too unruly," Xu Huai sighed, "It's not that you are a bandit, but the emperor ministers in the temple who wear bandits Chuchu, who are full of benevolence, righteousness, morality, but full of men and women prostitutes, who lose their conscience. Let them go. The Ge family has been generals for several generations, and they have reached Ge Boyi's generation's power and enjoy the glory and wealth of the world. They have no courage to escape fear of crimes. Ge Boyi detours many crimes through Lanzhou and escorts to Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou, and they have lost their last support. Do you think that in the court, those princes and ministers who usually call brothers and have close contacts with the Ge family, may they protect them? You are too proud of these princes and ministers!"

Even though the chief political affairs officer Chen Zhi and Ge Boyi were in-laws, and Duke Lu was born to Chen Zhi's daughter Chen Concubine, the chips in the Ge family were almost completely lost. Xu Huai could hardly imagine that Chen Zhi and Duke Lu would help Ge Boyi get rid of the crime of defeat.

At this time, he sent troops to attack the night, and finally defeated him. It was impossible for him to rush to encircle Ge Boyi, Ge Yu and others in the ice and snow before Lan. Why did he do this forever?

What is really worrying is still on the north side.

Unfortunately, this northern expedition was nominally a joint attack on Yan, but the court did not know about the military operations of the Chihu people east of the Daxianbei Mountains.

Xu Huai had no idea how the Chihu people's offensive progress was made against the Khitan Linhuang Mansion, Xijin Mansion, Liaoyang Mansion and other confidant places, but he could basically confirm that the news of Datong's defeat reached Chihu people, which would probably further strengthen their determination to go south to the Central Plains after destroying the Khitan?

"Mr. Zhu Qian has arrived! Wang Bing, Wang Fan, have all gone to the west city to welcome him. Wang Fan, come here to call you and Mr. Pan to come here too!" Xu Wukun climbed the top of the city and said to Xu Huai.

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Nearly 10,000 soldiers entered Shuozhou City from Dietouao overnight. It was not easy. In order to ensure that everything was foolproof, Zhu Han stayed until the end and dragged his troops to the end until dawn.

Xu Huai, Pan Chenghu, Xu Wukun, and Xu Wuji rushed to the Xicheng Gate. In addition to Wang Bing, Wang Fan, Lu Xiong, Zheng Shou and Cao Shixiong, the other two commanders Yin Chao and Wen Hengyue had already come to welcome Zhu Wei's return at the Xicheng Gate.

The handover of the command of the Western Route Army was much smoother than expected.

First of all, Xu Huai and others controlled Ge Boyi and others at the Xicheng Gate and shot Ge Huaicong. Wen Hengyue, the eighth general of the Tianxiong Army who was stationed in the Xicheng Gate, was shocked and did not make any noise.

Not to mention the temporary blockade of the military officers.

The vast majority of soldiers watched all this happen calmly, and even a few of them struggled in their hearts, and no one stood up to stand up for the Ge family.

When Ge Boyi agreed to hand over the command to Wang Fan, Cao Shixiong, Yin Chao, Wen Hengyue and others who still control the troops in Shuozhou City also accepted this fact very calmly, gathered their troops back to the barracks, and handed over the defenses of the four cities to Jie Zhong, Zhu Run, Xu Huai and other troops.

They no longer accused Ge Boyi of being stubborn, foolish and incompetent, and accused Ge Huaicong of his greed, cowardly fighting, resulting in tens of thousands of generals leaving their bodies in a foreign land, and the king's law was not tolerated.

They want to join Wang Fan, Zhu Han and others in this article to report their crimes.

They knew very well that the court could not ignore such a crushing defeat. They had even worried that the Ge family's father and son might drag them into the water to fight against the court's crime in order to protect their power.

The current defenders in Shuozhou, after hearing the main force was destroyed in Datong, were frightened and complained about the incompetence of the Ge family father and son; especially the generals of the Qing Shun Army complained about Cao Shixiong, and why did Cao Shili brothers think of joining the cowardly and incompetent Yue Ting? There were even military generals who blatantly accused them unscrupulously.

Cao Shixiong made contributions to the surrender, while Yin Chao and Wen Hengyue, as the chief general of the left-behind soldiers, did not need to bear responsibility for defeat. At this time, if they did not make a thorough cut with the Ge family father and son, would they still have to hold the Ge family father and son in a tree and hang themselves?

Xu Huai, Wang Bing, Wang Fan’s mentality towards Cao Shixiong, Yin Chao, Wen Hengyue and others was not difficult to understand, so in addition to allowing the three of them to continue to command their troops, Cao Shili and Meng Ping were even handed over to Cao Shixiong to be imprisoned.

The last group of soldiers who entered the city were mainly military generals and military officials who escaped from Datong City, with a total of five or six hundred people, many of which were children of the Ge clan.

In order to prevent them from making trouble, they were also kept in the last group to withdraw from Dietouao while blocking the news.

The wind was cold and the red crust was covered with a dirty and broken felt blanket as a cloak.

He has been sleepless in military affairs these days and nights, and his body has been dragged to the limit. He didn't feel anything when he rode on the horse. He turned over and got off the horse and realized that his legs were frozen and his blood was not flowing smoothly. He almost fell to bite the dog, named Zhu Zhi, and Lu Wenhu held it from behind.

Zhu Han reluctantly stood up to salute Wang Bing and said, "This battle was defeated so badly. More than 30,000 generals were buried in Yunshuo like this!"

"It's a lucky chance to have more than ten thousand generals and soldiers escape!" Wang Bing said hoarsely, and walked over tremblingly and personally helped Zhu Han walk into the city.

It was already dawn from the west gate, but the crisis was not resolved, and everyone was still unable to sleep at night.

"... The Khitan spies in Sujinlou assassinated military soldiers on the street, causing the Han and Body to stand sharp. Xu Huai noticed the abnormality at that time and even caught two suspicious figures. However, the army was about to set out, and Xu Huai had been delaying a lot of time to capture the suspects and had no time to interrogate them, so he could only hurriedly take them on the road. However, after entering Datong City, he pried open his mouth. Only then did we learn that all this was the former governor of Fengzhou of the Khitan, Xiao Linshi, who was the defensive commander of Xijing Road, conspired behind the scenes, with the intention of seeing the indulgence of the Tianxiong Army and arousing conflicts between the Han and Body people, so that Jianrui, a foreign citizen who escaped into Datong City due to the difficulty of avoiding war, could rise up at the last moment, but it would be useless to try to dissuade Ge Huaicong from restraining military discipline. The sudden addition of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in Datong City suddenly increased in 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Except for the three thousand cavalry led by Xiao Linshi, the others were all Khitan and the foreign tribes, Ding Zhuang, and were not ambushed from other places. As a herd of the Western Capital, Xiao Linshi was demoted by the Khitan Emperor Xiao Yichun, and had many conflicts with Xiao Xinhan and others who were left by the Khitan Xijing. Tianxiong Army was trapped in the West City of Datong. Xiao Linshi's troops attacked from Shengdemen and the North and South City. Xiao Xinhan led the remnants to defend the inner city. The inner city was completely closed. Even after the collapse of Tianxiong Army, Xiao Xinhan did not send troops out from the inner city. We concluded that Xiao Xinhan was extremely guarded against Xiao Linshi, and it was impossible for them to work together to encircle the remnants of Tianxiong Army. So after the main force of Xiao Linshi's troops headed south, we decisively broke through the Wuzhou Mountain and retreated westward, decisively all the way without any danger..."

There was a fire brazier burning in the lobby. Zhu Wei, who was hungry for several times, didn't care about his moral integrity. He grabbed the cooked beef in his hand and chewed at the more detailed situation of allowing the army to break out from Datong and retreat west, saying that everyone would know.

Of course, let alone Cao Shixiong and others are present, even in private, Zhu Han would not tell Wang Bing about the secret discussion of Chen Zixiao, Xiao Yanhan and Xiao Linshi to stop the war, and Wang Fan knew about it.

Take Xu Huai's words, some things are destined to be done, but there is no need to let too many people bear this burden. They must also beware of the leak. They call Ge Boyi, Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and others to find excuses to shirk their guilt.

Zhu Han also knew very well that many things could not be explained clearly in his heart.

Although at the last moment, Xiao Linshi did not completely give up their intentions, he released Chen Zixiao, Xiao Yanhan, Wu Sanrong and others to secretly discuss the cession and stop the war. He really wanted to spread it from them. Not to mention Ge Boyi, Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and Cai Ying, the court ministers who usually don’t deal with them insisted that they had an affair with the barbarians, and even said that they led their troops back to Lanzhou with special goals after surrendering to the barbarians. How do they defend themselves?

Zhu Heng also made up his mind that if the matter leaked one day, he should have been criticized and scolded, and should not involve Wang Bing, Wang Fan and others.

"..." Wang Bing, Wang Fan and others finally found out the details of the rapid collapse of the Tianxiong Army in Datong. After Ge Huaicong and others were about to flee back to Shuozhou, they didn't even know who the opponent was.

Cao Shixiong guessed that it might be that Xiao Linshi was secretly supporting everything, but in the past three days, they were unable to send too many scouts and cavalry searches, so there was no way to verify it.

"Xiao Linshi led his troops into Yingzhou, Liu Shizhong, and Cai Yuanyou most likely did not dare to fight with him. It is very likely that he would lead his troops from Huangshui River to Yanmen Pass in the next two days."

Zhu Han told Wang Bing and Wang Fan,

"After Xiao Xinhan and Xiao Linshi's troops in Yingzhou were replaced, Xiao Xinhan was able to take more than 20,000 troops in Yingzhou back to Datong, together with Huairen, Jincheng and Fengzhou to draw troops from the north, and will gain the advantage again on the western wing. The Tianxiong Army, together with the remnants of the Qingshun Army, and the elderly, weak, sick and disabled in Lanzhou, may be able to barely raise 30,000 troops, but in fact there is no ability to defend Shuozhou. In order to avoid a large number of enemy cavalry wedge into the southern part of Shuozhou and block the retreat, Wang Bing Gong, Wang Fan Langjun, you should be led by Zhu Run and Lei Teng, and you should first escort tens of thousands of Han people in Shuozhou City to retreat south. Don't delay any more..."
Chapter completed!