There are dead bodies everywhere.

Human and animal corpses were left exposed in the wild.

In many places, there were corpses piled on top of each other. It was obvious that some of them died on the road. In order not to block the road, someone threw them on the roadside.

Some of these corpses have just died, but some seem to have been around for a long time. In this weather, the entire corpses are already starting to rot, and the disgusting smell is floating in the air unscrupulously.

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Hande tied a piece of silk between his mouth and nose, but the smell still entered his nostrils tenaciously, making him dizzy and nauseated.

However, the most dangerous thing is not the dead people, but those who still have breath but are not far from death. Now they can only lie on the roadside, in the grass, under the big trees. There is a pair without any luster and

Emotional eyes stare at the people rushing on the road.

They were all once brave warriors.

But now, they were abandoned because they were injured and couldn't keep up with the main force, or for some other reasons.

These people are not using their bare hands.

They had knives, bows, and crossbows on their bodies, and maybe some of them had a hand cannon in their arms.

There is only one breath left,

Human instinct is to survive.

But now they can only wait here to die slowly.

They were abandoned by the court, they were abandoned by the army, and they were abandoned by their companions.

So they must be filled with resentment.

These people can no longer use common sense to figure out their psychology.

Maybe at some point, they would take out a hand cannon, throw it at the fleeing people, pull more people, and accompany them to the underworld.

It's not like they haven't seen anything like this these days.

Therefore, Hande's personal guards tightly gathered him in the middle. Their vigilant eyes scanned the surroundings for anything that could still breathe. Their crossbows were even more stringed and could be fired at any time.

This is a cavalry team of over a thousand people, of which about 200 are Han De's personal soldiers, while the rest are stragglers who followed them on the road while fleeing.

Hande didn't say he would accept them, but he didn't reject them either.

The Han family is a Han family living in Shangjing. When Daliao was founded, the Han family contributed a lot, so the Han family has always been one of the families with the longest history in Daliao. Compared with the Lu family, it has a deeper foundation. But this is

There were no outstanding talents in the two generations, so it gradually fell into silence.

As the eldest grandson of the Han family, Han De followed the southern expedition this time. He originally wanted to gain enough credit and lay a good foundation for the Han family's rise again, but no one expected that it would be such a disastrous defeat.

The last order given by Yelu Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition, to hundreds of thousands of troops was to break out of the encirclement individually and use Daming Mansion as the final assembly point.

This seemingly hazy order is actually the wisest decision at the moment.

The Jianghuai area was densely covered with water networks, and when the Liao army was making a desperate attack on Xuzhou, the Song army was using the water networks to send reserve groups to their rear.

The large army looks majestic, with a large number of people, but the goal is bigger, the baggage and food required are more, and the room for movement is smaller. And the rivers that come and go will become a handle in front of them.

Sharp blade.

Until the end, the Song army used convenient waterways to surround them, catch up with them, trap them, and finally destroy them.

Now it seems that the whole army has collapsed without organization and discipline, like a group of ants on a hot pot looking for a way out, but it will make the Song army somewhat at a loss.

After all, no matter how much the Song army took advantage of the convenience of water transportation and made many arrangements in advance, it was impossible to seal off such a vast area. There would always be gaps exposed, allowing some troops to escape.

Furthermore, such a scattered swarm of swarms made it impossible for the Song army to determine which team the commander of the Liao army was hiding in.

Because the largest force of the Liao army that is now fully retreating is only three to five thousand people, and such teams are everywhere, it is in vain for the Song army to find the main force of the Liao army.

And if you want to destroy such a team, it is not an easy task. The current Liao army is all impatient wild dogs. If they are really surrounded, they will have to fight hard. Without three or five times the strength, it will be very difficult.

It is difficult to be sure of complete victory.

Sacrificing a few such teams will allow more people to escape.

And if anyone is blocked by the Song army, it can only be said that that person is unlucky and becomes a cover for the entire army to successfully escape.

In Yeluzhen's view, every person's death is worth it.

It's just that Han De doesn't want to become such a tragic figure.

He is the eldest grandson of the Han family. With the Han family's background, as long as he can return alive, even if he cannot become famous everywhere, he can eventually occupy a good position in the court.

Han De prides himself on being versatile in both civil and military affairs, and always feels that the Han family can definitely flourish in his own hands, and that he will definitely be the person who makes Menlin glorious again.

Therefore, in this escape, he ran very fast.

He abandoned thousands of infantry under his command and only brought more than two hundred personal soldiers. These soldiers were all sons and daughters of the Han family who had followed him for generations, and their loyalty was absolutely reliable.

He felt that he was running fast enough and Song Jun should have been left behind.

So when he saw the Song Army flag appearing in the distance, he thought he was hallucinating.

Zhang Ren held his sword and sat on a big rock, staring at the army that appeared on the opposite side.

Looks like we caught a big fish.

The horse is good, the armor is good, and the weapons are also good.

What's even more rare is that the hundreds of people among them are actually in a uniform configuration.

From this point, we can see that it is different from other Liao army units.

It's not the Pishi Army or the Shushan Army, but it has better equipment than them. This is definitely a big fish.

"Uncle Hui." Han De's voice was trembling, and he turned to look at the veteran beside him.

"Da Lang, there is no other way but to rush forward." Han Hui took a deep breath and said: "There is no way out on the left and right sides. It rained two days ago and the river water has risen a lot. We can only go along

If we charge forward on this road, this should be the last Song army that can stop us. If we charge forward, the sea and the sky will be brighter."

"Let the stragglers spread out and charge from the two wings, let's go in the middle!" Han De nodded.

"Dalang Mingjian!"

Han De turned around, looked at the seven or eight hundred cavalry stragglers behind him, and said sternly: "My troops are the main force, break forward, and you will attack from both wings. If you want to survive, you must sacrifice your life first!"

The seven or eight hundred cavalry stragglers saw the Song army stacked up on the road, with bows and crossbows. They were obviously a tough hedgehog. Now that Han De was willing to lead his elite attack, they were naturally happy to see the success.

Without waiting for Han De to say anything else, he shouted loudly and spurred his horses to spread out in a fan shape and charge towards the Song army in front.

Zhang Ren looked at the two wings of Liao Qi who were rushing forward, his eyes widened, and he looked back at Ren Zhong beside him and said: "Don't these dead barbarians know that there are paddy fields on both sides? Don't look at them now, but they are clingy.

There’s mud!”

Ren Zhong spread his hands and said: "Who knows, maybe they think there is solid land under these rice fields! But look, those real elites did not go to the fields to attack, but were preparing to break through us head-on!"

"You can command and clean up both sides, and leave the front to me!" Zhang Ren pulled out his sword and jumped onto his horse.

These Liao riders, who were holding bows and drawing swords and shouting wildly, after galloping forward for a certain distance, were horrified to find that their horses could no longer run. No matter how hard they whipped them, the horses that tried to lift them up could no longer move.

The horse's legs were already covered with mud.

They could only see in despair that the Song army on the opposite side raised the divine arm bow in their hands.

The smart ones got on their horses and hid behind the horses. The slow ones were still trying to get themselves and the horses out of trouble, until the arrows came and pierced their and the horses' bodies.

Han Hui took the lead and charged wildly.

A spear danced like a windmill, blocking himself and his horse from the flying arrows.

But no matter how carefully he danced his spear, there were still many arrows that broke through his protection and stuck on the horse and him.

The war horse neighed in pain, but under Han Hui's control, it still ran forward with all its strength. After taking a few more arrows, it made a final long neigh, and Han Hui pulled the reins and stood upright.

But Han Hui took advantage of the cover of the war horse, jumped off the horse, and rushed towards the layers of Song troops in front of him at the fastest speed in his life.

The Song Army's formation suddenly split open, and a group of cavalrymen rushed out from inside.

The first person to do so was Zhang Ren.

He laughed and waved the knife.

Before the sword even got close, the fierce wind was already coming towards him. Zhu Hui shouted loudly and raised his gun to meet him.

With a bang, Han Hui was directly hit by a knife, flew out diagonally, and landed in the rice field a dozen steps away with a bang. When she stood up with the severe pain, she was horrified to find that the strip in her hand was actually

It was dented directly from the middle, and the two arms were shaking non-stop at the moment, and they could no longer exert any force.

What frightened him even more was that the Song general who shot him away rushed into the Han family's soldiers, as if there was no one in the desert. Some of those Song soldiers had amazing arrow skills. They shot one arrow at a time and almost never missed it.

White Feather Army.

The one who stopped them was Bai Yujun.

It was only then that Han Hui finally remembered who the Song general in front of him was and the origin of this army.

Zhang Ren is quite famous among the Liao army.

Han Hui did not stop Zhang Ren's sword, but Han De was young and strong, and only blocked three swords before being knocked off his horse. When the sharp sword struck his head like a sword, Han De was horrified.

He shouted: "Don't kill me, I am the eldest grandson of the Han family in Shangjing!"
To be continued...