On November 23, the northwest of Yangzhou City, in the sixth year of Baoyou in the Song Dynasty.

Under the blue-gray sky, Baoyou's first snowflake in six years finally floated down, rolling and landing on Chen Dexing's helmet. Hundreds of artillery soldiers were following him and standing on the mound. Everyone was panting and spitting out a long white air.

In their sight, they saw the defeated troops of the Mongolian army, abandoned their armor and ragged clothes, retreating towards the northwest. The Mongolian army, except for the Red Coat Army, which retreated first, had no system. Even the eight Mongolian Thousand-Man teams were fleeing in the retreat - this is a tactic commonly used by the Mongolians when defeating wars. They flee in dispersed and fleeing in a scattered manner. And they fought back from time to time during the escape, which often made the pursuing Song infantry suffer. Therefore, the Song army generally did not dare to pursue the Mongolian cavalry, and even Chen Dexing did not have such courage at the moment, but the retreating Mongolian Han army was a good prey!

Chen Dexing looked up at the sight of many retreating Mongolian Han soldiers. Most of them had no weapons in their hands, and many of them even lost their armor. No one dared to look back at these defeated soldiers, but they just ran away desperately to the northwest!

However, Chen Dexing knew very well that these Mongolian Han soldiers could not escape. Because they were close to the Yangtze River, they went northwest from here until the Huai River, and there would be no place for these Mongolian Han soldiers to be fed. The towns and villages along the way had either been washed by the Mongolians or were in a solid manner, and they could not be defeated by such defeated soldiers. Therefore, the Song army that was chasing at the tail did not need to chase them. Just hang behind them, shouting a few times like driving pigs and sheep, or shooting a few more arrows, killing a Mongolian Han soldiers, making him scream dyingly, and the rest of the defeated soldiers would be frightened and desperately fleeing.

Although this kind of pursuit and fugitive tactic is cruel, it is very effective. Both the Song and Mongolian Army do this. However, because the Song army lacks war horses, it rarely fights such pursuit and annihilation. In most cases, the Mongolian cavalry shouted to chase and attack the retreating Song army.

Even after such a great victory, most of the Song army did not dare to pursue too far. Only Chen Dexing's artillery army was fearless. They carried more than thirty thunders that had not exploded from the battlefield, and hung behind the large number of Mongolian and Han soldiers who had been chasing for a day and a night.

There were as many as thousands of defeated soldiers of the Mongolian army who fled, and the storm of Chen Dexing was filled with sight. However, these defeated soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit and did not have any establishment system, and could not be regarded as combat troops at all. In front of less than one-tenth of the pursuers, only the escape was left!

But these defeated soldiers in the north who were extremely famined were a lot of capital in Chen Dexing’s eyes!

It is capital, the capital of being an official, and the capital of saving Huaxia and helping Tiantian! There are at least seven or eight thousand of these defeated soldiers in front of you. If you can take them all for your own use, Chen Dexing will have an army of tens of thousands of people!

When Chen Dexing thought of having tens of thousands of troops, he was so excited that his whole body was hot, and even his lips trembled slightly. He forgot to issue an order for a moment. The artillery officers beside him all had uncontrollable expressions of excitement on his face. Everyone turned their heads and looked at Chen Dexing, waiting for his order.

A gust of northwest wind blew on his face, and Chen Dexing suddenly reacted and shouted: "My sons, shout with a certain family, those who surrender will avoid death! Those who surrender to Chen Dexing will survive!"

Everyone shouted loudly: "Those who surrender will not die! Those who surrender to Chen Dexing will survive!"

The soldiers who fled Mongolian Han army suddenly heard the shouts. Finally, someone stopped and turned around and looked at Chen Dexing's tall and mighty body riding on the horse. Suddenly someone knelt down with a plop and cried out: "The Mongolian Tartars left us and ran away, we can't go back to their hometown... We are willing to surrender!"

The crying sounded like a gun. In the wilderness, the fleeing Mongolian and Han soldiers stopped, either kneeling down on the ground, or simply sat on the ground, and all burst into tears and said they were willing to surrender.

Chen Dexing gently urged the war horse and slowly walked towards the surrendered soldiers who were crying. Wherever the horse's hooves passed, everyone made way to both sides and gave up a passage, allowing Chen Dexing to rode his horse to the center of these surrendered soldiers.

"Why are you crying?" Chen Dexing yelled suddenly, "You are not crying when you are a dog in the Tartars, but you cry when you are a human being under Chen's command. What's the reason!!!"

After he shouted, the crying of the surrendered soldiers suddenly stopped, and the wilderness suddenly became quiet, with only the howling north wind.

"Do you want to go back to your hometown?" Chen Dexing asked in a deep voice, and then asked and answered himself: "You must want to go back... Well, Chen Dexing, a certain family, is here, and you will swear with you. One day, I will be the one who will wipe out the Northern Territory and restore the Central Plains. I will return home in glory! Even if you die in battle and illness, the ashes of the tablets will be returned to their hometown, and temples will be built for sacrifices for generations!"

Chen Dexing suddenly opened his voice to the greatest extent and shouted: "You guys, can you please join Chen Dexing to join this oath, and make sure to sweep the north and restore my rivers and mountains, so that the elders in the north will no longer be slaves of the barbarians?"

Thousands of surrendered soldiers around you, look at me, look at you... They actually didn't believe Chen Dexing's words, but the situation is now pressing, and they had to believe it. Finally, they shouted: "We are willing to follow the general to sweep the north... We are willing to make this oath!"

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The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the snowflakes fell one after another, sweeping the world into a silvery white. Among the flying snowflakes, even the boundaries between the world were blurred.

The brigade of the red-coated soldiers was walking northwest in the wind and snow. Two large torque generators were suddenly appearing in the marching team, dragged slowly by dozens of soldiers from the Red-coated Army, and a red-coated officer rode on the horse and kept urging the soldiers to exert force.

Li Cuixian rode his horse behind these two large stone generators. His pretty face was covered with a scarf, revealing only a pair of bright eyes. Although he had just suffered a defeat and was leading his army to flee, there was no panic in these eyes.

Liu Xiaoyuan rushed up behind him. He was followed with shamelessness when Li Cuixian led his troops to retreat. Li Cuixian did not chase people, but just asked him to follow him. Someone came to report that he had found that the large Northern Army defeated soldiers were not far behind and were chased by the Song army. Liu Xiaoyuan immediately took people to check it out. As soon as he came back, he saluted Li Cuixian with a gloomy face, with a slightly anxious tone: "Li Qianhu, there are still seven or eight thousand people behind, all of us good men from the north. You can't watch them all be killed by the Southern Barbarians!"

Li Cuixian smiled: "When did the northern Han'er become valuable in Liu Ge'er's eyes?"

Liu Xiaoyuan frowned and said in a deep voice: "Li Qianhu, I am for your own good. The reason for yesterday's defeat is that your Red Coat Army retreated without orders. This matter will reach Dahan's ears, but I'm afraid there will be a thunderous anger. If you can save the Zhang family, Xiao family, Shi family and Dong family, someone will be able to speak for you."

Li Cuixian shrugged: "I did not retreat without orders. I followed the orders of Marshal Yeliugan to protect two stone-acting machines to retreat first when the war was unfavorable. Yesterday's defeat was also because the Southern Barbarians had stone-acting machines. When I sent this weapon to Sichuan to the Khan, I would have a generous reward. Therefore, I don't need the Zhang family, Xiao family, Shi family and Dong family to say good things."
Chapter completed!