Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

In the flat field, a group of Zhou army cavalry spread on the road. In front of him was a man in short clothes, pointing to a village in the distance and saying, "General, all the Khitans stationed nearby are there!"

The general in front of him stretched his neck and looked east, his eyes resting on the flag on the village... Apparently, ordinary villages don't need to plant flags.

The general immediately said: "We have to clean up these small places for the main force of the forward. Wang Junshi!"

"The end is here!"

The general stretched his palm forward, then bent to the right, and said decisively: "Lead your headquarters to attack from the left wing, and encircle from the north to the east!"

"Decree!"

"Li Junshi, you take the right wing."

"Decree!"

Just a few moments before and after, the general immediately drew out his sword, raised it upright, turned his head and said loudly: "The rest follow me! Those with bald hair on top of their heads and those wearing strange clothes, kill them all!"

The military official behind him immediately reminded: "Is the general ordered to kill civilians by going to the top?"

The general said coldly: "Someone came to your yard to burn, kill and loot without your consent. What's the point of using a knife? Hebei is our territory!"

After he finished speaking, he pointed his sword forward. After hearing the general's words, the soldiers immediately patted their horses and accelerated, and the sound of horseshoes and shouts immediately made noise in the snow-covered fields.

The horses ran faster and faster, a group of horses rushed out, the iron armor was shining in the snow light, and although there were only a few hundred riders in the battle, it seemed unstoppable.

At the entrance of the village, there was actually a crude archery tower made of wood with a thatched roof, and fences and gates were built. The horses did not stop, and rushed straight to the gate of the village.

"Swish, swish..." A burst of arrows shot out from the village. There was a clanging sound, like a stone thrown into the water, which did not affect the charge of Zhou Jun's horses in iron armor at all.

The sergeant on the archery tower drew his bow and aimed at a horse and shot it down. Sure enough, the leather armor on the horse was not strong enough. With a neigh, a horse knelt down on its front hooves, and the man on the horse fell down screaming.

But Zhou Jun's cavalry rushed forward in an instant, "Papapapa..." Many arrows were nailed to the wood of the archery tower, and the sergeant's face immediately turned pale. Sure enough, he was hit by several arrows and fell from above. "Bang!" The corpse with the arrow hit the ground like a bird shot down from the sky.

"Bang!" There was another loud noise, and Yiqi knocked over the wooden fence. A group of horsemen immediately swarmed through the gap. The crowd of Liaoning rushed up to face the battle, and for a while, the sound of impact and fighting sounded.

Zhou's soldiers and horses kept pouring in like a flood, and those Liao cavalry were immediately swept and swallowed by a large number of people and horses into the tide of people and horses.

The horsemen on the left and right flanks also broke through the fence and rushed in several ways. Under the gray sky, among the old houses, there were little lights in the sky, and rockets were thrown towards the roof. The torches were thrown around, and a fire was ignited in a short time, and the village was full of smoke.

"Rumble..." The roar of horseshoes resounded loudly in the thick smoke, and only Zhou Jun's soldiers were seen on the road.

A dog ran out of a burning room barking with its tail between its legs. A Zhou army knight turned sideways on the galloping horse, drew his bow and fired an arrow with a "snap", and the dog barked and fell to the ground.

Soon many Khitan people and Xi people rushed out from the burning room, first they knelt on the side of the road and raised their hands sideways, saying something "Ji Li wah la", but the generals of the Zhou army didn't pay attention, they just kept flying arrows from the horse herd. Those people got up and fled, and they were chased by Zhou Jun Wufu on horseback. They caught up with a knife, and screams rang out from time to time in the fire.

In less than half an hour, the village turned into a smoky ruin, with corpses everywhere, and a burning smell filled the air.

Every so often, the vanguard general Shi Yanchao rushed here with a team of troops, and rewarded the military general who led the army on the spot, praised him for his good work, and credited him with the military exploits of the first battle after the Liao Dynasty.

Some people along the road were not afraid of Wu Fu. When people heard about the Northern Expedition of Wang Shi, they came along the road to deliver food and drink.

Seeing this scene, Shi Yanchao was very happy, and ordered loudly in front of the people: "Order all the ministries, and the Han people in Hebei are not allowed to kill any of them!"

But he soon found a woman holding a baby crying on the side of the road.

Shi Yanchao saw that the woman was wearing a coarse cloth dress, completely Han Chinese attire, so he asked casually, "Why is that woman crying?"

A military general hurriedly replied: "The last general asked someone to intervene just now. That woman seems to be called Xu Erniang or Wang Erniang, but her husband is from Khitan. The man was killed and the house was burned down, so we didn't care about crying there."

After finishing speaking, the general added another sentence: "Most of the local women in Khitan people's homes were taken by force."

Riding on the horse, Shi Yanchao looked displeased, frowned, and repeated: "Then why is she crying?"

The general was slightly taken aback, stretched out his hand to scratch his forehead, and hurriedly said: "She was robbed, maybe she shouldn't care about that dead Khitan man... But, that Khitan man is the father of her child, and her child has no father, so maybe she feels pity. Marshal, a woman has a mother's nature, and she cares about her child very much."

Shi Yanchao said expressionlessly: "I still need to teach you such a simple thing? Without that child, wouldn't she have nothing to do with the Khitan people?"

The general was stunned, but immediately cupped his fists and said, "This subordinate understands!"

He turned the direction of the horse, left the horse team, rode back and pulled out the sword from his waist, jumped off the horse, and walked towards the woman.

The woman looked at Zhou Jun's general with tears in her eyes, and heard him sigh softly.

The general walked up to the woman, glanced at her, stretched out his hand and scratched her forehead again. The woman stopped crying and looked at him suspiciously.

The general suddenly raised his sword lightly, and poked it on the swaddle in her arms. His movements were understated but quick and precise, drawing the sword back in no time.

The woman was stunned for a moment, then looked down, and saw that the swaddle in her arms was soaked in blood. Her face changed suddenly, she spread out her hand, and seeing blood on it, she lifted the swaddling clothes again, her body trembled suddenly.

"Ah!" The woman hissed miserably, calling for the baby repeatedly.

She rushed towards the general like a madman, and immediately several soldiers stood in front of her and grabbed her without saying a word. The strength of the woman is naturally not as strong as that of a group of forbidden soldiers, so she can't be afraid now, she has nothing to do with that general, she just watched him leave.

Shi Yanchao forgot about the trivial matter just now, and dispatched a large group of forwards and the main force to continue marching north.

... Zhou Jun's vanguard had 18,000 cavalry, and they did not encounter any decent resistance along the road, only sporadic conflicts occurred, and the Liao army strongholds along the way were swept away.

The main force of Guo Shao's Chinese army followed the forward and crossed the Juma River, and a large number of people poured into the border of Liao Kingdom.

The endless wilderness, with unmelted snow on the dark soil, this land looks like an old man, showing the traces of time. On several main roads, the herd of horses moved slowly northward, and countless flags fluttered in the wind.

The men and horses were all the forbidden troops of the Zhou army. There were countless people, and they wore similar armor. It was difficult for the soldiers inside to tell who was who.

Zhao Hu was one of them. He rode his horse silently among the crowd, just following the crowd. Horses walk slowly and feel slower, but infantry is still much faster on foot.

At this moment, he suddenly found a person standing there in a daze beside the broken wall in front of him.

Zhao Hu was immediately attracted attention, not only because the man looked strange, but also felt that the figure seemed familiar. He didn't say anything for a while, just staring at the man and moving on. The surrounding soldiers also noticed the woman, but no one paid any attention to her... An unarmed and disheveled woman is not worthy of the army's attention.

As he got closer, Zhao Hu finally recognized it, and his expression immediately became exaggerated. The slow movement also immediately became hurried, and rushed out of the queue as soon as he kicked the horse's belly.

"Zhao Hu!" Ten Generals shouted from behind.

Zhao Hu was impatient, but he was also afraid of military law, so he hurriedly shouted: "I know the people over there..."

Shouting from here, the woman also turned her head to look over. Zhao Hu ran in front of her, turned over and jumped off the horse, walked quickly over, his eyes widened: "Xu Erniang... Erniang..."

The woman named Xu Erniang also stared blankly at the young man in armor who came over: "Are you Zhao Hu?"

"Yes!" Zhao Hu's expression was very complicated, almost distorted. He walked up to Xu Erniang, opened his mouth, and finally spit out a sentence: "Erniang, you..."

Zhao Hu's mind was in turmoil for a moment, countless sporadic memories flooded into his mind, the figure of the slender figure beating wet clothes by the pond, looking at the torturer she dared not approach from afar... and the broken women's clothes and the blood on the straw in Xu's yard.

But now, the woman in front of her was pale, her hair was disheveled, and the long hair was still stained with straw dust, and the coarse clothes on her body were dirty and messy. She is no longer the girl she was back then, but now she is already a woman.

Zhao Hu gritted his teeth, his eyes were astringent and sore, his throat wriggled for a while, and there was a salty taste in his throat.

There were tears in Xu Erniang's eyes: "They killed my child."

Zhao Hu exhaled, and said in a trembling voice, "You have a child? Who killed your child?"

Xu Erniang raised her arm and pointed at the Zhou army on the road.

Zhao Hu lowered his head and thought for a while, and he could probably guess that her child was taken by the Khitan people who snatched her away, and the one who killed her child was Zhou Jun's vanguard.

Zhao Hu was silent for a moment, then said: "At that time your brother was killed by the Khitan people, didn't you know?"

"What?" Xu Erniang's eyes widened, tears filled her eyes, and she suddenly knelt down on the cold ground.

Zhao Hu stood there, the woman in front of him was the girl he had missed day and night, but now he didn't know what to say. What a pretty girl who used to blush at a glance, now she has become!

Looking back at this land, Zhao Hu didn't know where he was for a moment. I don't even know what caused all this...

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