An urgent voice kept calling out. The voice seemed to be very close to my ears, but also seemed to be very far away, in the void.
Xiao Siwen slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying on the cold and wet ground.
My whole body aches and my bones feel like they are falling apart.
where is this?
Why are you lying on the ground?
Xiao Siwen looked around blankly, the surroundings were dark, and a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.
With the help of the weak firelight, Xiao Siwen looked at the clan soldier general Xiao Changsheng who had woken him up. He was about to scold him, but he reacted in an instant.
I am running for my life!
The damn Central Plains people actually pursued him relentlessly, biting him all day and night.
Xiao Siwen was in his fifties and lived in fine clothes and fine food, but he had never experienced such hardship.
Being so sleepy, he lay down on the horse and fell asleep.
Then somehow, it fell to the ground.
Xiao Siwen sat up from the ground dizzily.
Xiao Changsheng handed over a pot of kumiss and said, "Let's take a sip first to deal with it. There is not much food left."
When they were attacked, they escaped without any food or luggage.
Along the way, we were pursued by the Central Plains soldiers. We were unable to go to the countryside for supplies normally. We only had some dry food in our horse bags, which was all consumed as early as this morning.
Xiao Siwen drank two large gulps of kumiss to replenish some calories and gain a little strength in his body, and asked: "Where are we now? When can we return to Youzhou?"
It's too difficult, Xiao Siwen has already decided.
After returning home, I stayed in Nanjing and quit working.
Applying to be transferred back to Beijing, it would be better to be an official of any kind than to be left behind like this.
Xiao Changsheng replied: "The Gaoliang River is ahead of us. If we continue going north, we will enter Youzhou City after more than twenty miles."
At this moment, a dense and noisy clicking sound came into my ears.
Xiao Siwen jumped up like a frightened bird and said, "We're chasing you? Let's go, let's go quickly!"
Xiao Siwen hurriedly climbed onto the horse's back and led the soldiers to continue fleeing north.
At this moment, he had learned the news that Mu Langxi had been killed in battle.
Except for Mu Langxi, Xiao Siwen arranged three waves of rearguard troops during the day and night's pursuit, but without exception, they were all defeated by Gao Huaide, Hu Yanzan, and Dang Jin.
The most terrifying thing is that Gao Huaide's martial arts skills are too high and his archery skills are too good.
Whenever their commander dared to play the bone flute, Gao Huaide had the ability to rush within an arrow's distance and kill him.
The three waves of rear troops had the characteristic of running away if they couldn't be defeated. The casualties of the soldiers were not serious, but none of the generals survived.
Even if the fleeing Khitan cavalry did not have a leader, they could still gather in the direction of Youzhou in a roundabout way, and then gather in groups of three or five. As they ran, they would catch up with the large army by virtue of their small number of people and join them.
Although there are people who are constantly falling behind, there are people who are constantly being dispersed.
There were always around seven or eight thousand troops gathered around Xiao Siwen.
If it were any other Khitan general with such momentum, he would have already turned around and struck to see if he could take advantage.
In any case, if you can't take advantage, you will scatter in all directions, and you won't lose many troops.
But Xiao Siwen was so frightened that he did not dare to fight again and was afraid of losing his generals again, so he just fled north.
After crossing the Gaoliang River, Xiao Siwen finally arrived at Youzhou City before dawn.
"Open the door! Open the city gate quickly! I am Xiao Siwen, open the door quickly!"
Xiao Siwen's voice was a little hoarse, and he was so moved that he almost wanted to cry.
I was finally able to have a good night's sleep.
"Is it Xiao Liushou?"
A powerful voice came from the tower.
Xiao Siwen said happily: "Mengqi, it's me, it's me, open the door quickly, open the door quickly."
Xiao Siwen heard the voice of the person coming.
The visitor's name is Shi Fang, whose courtesy name is Mengqi and whose surname is Youzhou. He is serious and dedicated to learning. In order to study, he has not left home for twenty years. He has almost no friends and no one knows him. However, as soon as he came out of school, he became the top scorer in high school and became famous.
Youzhou. Starting from the Lulong patrol officer, step by step to today's deputy stay in Nanjing.
In the entire Youdu Mansion, his status is second only to Xiao Siwen.
Shi Fang looked at the mess below and frowned.
Luo Youdu can fly pigeons to send messages, so naturally they can too.
The defeat at Waqiao Pass and Xiao Siwen's situation had already spread to Youzhou.
However, Youzhou City took away 25,000 soldiers because of Xiao Siwen, and there were only less than 5,000 soldiers left.
Youzhou City was the core of Youdu Mansion. He did not dare to send troops to support him, so he could only watch the situation worsen step by step, unable to do anything.
Now Xiao Siwen led the chaotic soldiers to escape to the gate of Youzhou City. While Shi Fang was happy, he was also a little worried.
They were defeated and fled for more than two hundred miles, and the Khitan soldiers were in chaos.
How can we tell the difference between ourselves and the enemy at this time?
If some opportunistic people get involved, Youzhou will be in trouble.
When Xiao Siwen saw that Shi Fang still didn't open the door, he felt angry. Thinking that there were pursuers behind him, he shouted: "Shi Fang, open the city gate. Do you want to rebel?"
Shi Fang shouted: "Xiao Liushou, please let all the Han cavalry go to the north gate of Youzhou. Only the clan troops who are left behind can enter the south gate."
After Shi Fang's reminder, Xiao Siwen immediately woke up and looked around in surprise. He was surrounded by tribal soldiers. He breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered: "All Han cavalry go to the north of Youzhou City."
As soon as he gave the order, some of the cavalry were already ready to set off.
At this time, a sentence came from the crowd: "If you don't let us enter the city, you don't believe us? Do you want to leave us outside the city to be massacred by the Central Plains soldiers?"
As soon as he said these words, the Han cavalry who were about to set off stopped motionless.
Xiao Siwen's heart sank and he shouted: "Who has the courage to stand up? Whose subordinates and which army?"
There was silence for a while at first, but immediately someone broke out.
"You bastards of the Khitan people, I have worked hard for you. You have left our precious tribesmen untouched and left us as your queen. Now you are not even allowed to enter the city. You want to force us to death. Guarding us is like guarding against thieves. Brothers,
It’s better to rebel!”
Lin Renzhao mingled among the crowd, and when he saw that he could no longer gain the city, he immediately changed his tactics.
The Forbidden Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty recruited brave men from all over the world, and naturally there were people from Hebei in the army.
The accent of Hebei people is almost the same as that of Youzhou people.
After Lin Renzhao asked the Hebei soldiers to shout out what he wanted to say, he immediately became violent. He waved his huge mace and shouted: "Kill!"
He is a Fujian general with a serious southern accent.
But at this time, no one cares so much anymore.
Ever since Lin Renzhao disguised himself as a Khitan defeated army and mingled with the defeated soldiers, he had been thinking about whether he could capture Xiao Siwen directly.
However, no matter how embarrassed Xiao Siwen was, he did not touch the four thousand clan soldiers beside him, protecting him tightly.
After his sudden outburst, the more than 600 Zhou soldiers who were also mixed with him also started making noises.
He rushed directly towards Xiao Siwen's clan soldiers.