Eagle Byzantium

Gao Wen looked at Zhao Liangsi's body lying in a pool of blood, sighed and told Markianius to bury Mr. Zhao's body immediately, so that he could finally live up to the surname he was given.

In the early morning, the entire Song army's fortresses surrounding the city of Mofu were caught in a sea of ​​fire, and half of the sky was stained with blood. In the end, only the Wuqi Army was still fighting desperately in the fortresses in the northern area, and the rest were fleeing, including the desperate Tiger Wing Army soldiers. Gao Wen's infantry had already raided the eastern fortress at the back, and cooperated with Guo Yaoshi and Melo's team to tightly surround the fortress in the northern area. The Ye Fanduni Brigade, which had detoured before, also joined the battle and successfully cut off the Song army's retreat to the Oxus River.

In addition, the Jingxi Army retreated to the city of Mofu for defense. In short, everyone had only one goal, to cover the escape of King Gongping.

When the sun rose over the Oxus River, only a thousand cavalrymen and hundreds of the Crane Controlling Army who escaped quickly were left to escort the King of Gongping, Tong Guan, and Lu Yihao.

Tong Guan and others on horseback looked back at the fortresses in the sea of ​​fire and thick smoke, and couldn't help crying, "Don't cry anymore, it's better to cross the Wuhu River and return to Bukhara City first." Lu Yihao personally drew his sword on the saddle and encouraged the cavalrymen and the chariot and palace team.

"Yuanzhi, you lead the carriage of the King of Gongping to Bukhara. When we see the troops of Liu Yanqing and Yelu Dashi, we will be safe. I, Tong, will take 300 cavalrymen and flee to the direction of Barihei to lead the enemy away." Tong Guan hurriedly threw down this sentence, and took 300 cavalrymen and ran directly to another road.

Many servants and bureaucrats secretly cursed Tong Guan's behavior, which was no different from deserting the battlefield.

But for now, this is the only solution. More than a thousand guards supported the carriage of the King of Fairness, stepping on the bumpy wilderness after the flood and severe cold. In the direction of the sky, silver-gray scroll clouds sank above the ground, and the dim sunrise was bleak and without light.

There was a burst of wailing and commotion. Everyone looked back and saw several dark cloud-like enemy cavalry in the wilderness. Almost all of them were Guo Yaoshi's men. Guo Yaoshi himself was wearing a battle robe with a group of flowers and a long beard, like a god descending from heaven. He rode under the battle flag and commanded the whole army to roll forward. The sound of horse hooves shook the earth. "Don't let Tong Guan go... Kill the treacherous ministers, clear the emperor's side... The sun and the moon can witness it" was heard one after another.

"What, there is an enemy heading towards Barihei? Zhen Wuchen, you are the best archer, I will give you 800 cavalry to chase them in different directions. No matter what tricks the King of Fairness and Tong Guan, the eunuch, play, don't let any of them go!" Guo Yaoshi jumped on his horse and waved the flag, deploying calmly.

Lu Yihao gritted his teeth and asked several Du Yuhou of the Control Crane Army to lead all the horses to the rear and refuse to fight. The rest continued to advance towards the Wuhu River (Oxus River). At this time, the whole team was in an unparalleled state of panic: the women and eunuchs were disheveled and unkempt, and many of them had no shoes or boots. The wheels of the King of Fairness's carriage were still stuck in the mud from time to time. Everyone went forward to push it with hunger, but how could they push it? So the crying shook the sky, and Lu Yihao was furious. He held a sword and killed several eunuchs in a row, and asked the horses to throw the bodies into the pit and let the wheels run over them, and then pulled out the carriage.

"Don't cry, those who cry will be beheaded!" Lu Yihao, a civil servant, was also fierce and ferocious.

So everyone ran desperately towards the Amur City ferry, and many weak people fell down and died along the way, and the bodies wearing various brocade clothes were lying on both sides of the wheel tracks.

Finally, Yelu Dashi's cavalry troops were deployed in the field ahead, densely packed, as if to meet the great prince Gongping, and the fleeing troops finally cheered.

But Lu Yihao felt something was wrong, so he rode to the front of the formation and pointed at Yelu Dashi under the umbrella, "Where is General Liu Yanqing?"

Yelu Dashi reined in his neighing mount, but did not answer.

Lu Yihao felt that things were not going well, so he asked again, "Did Yu Yue forget the oath he made with King Gongping?"

Finally, Dashi sighed and answered Lu Yihao loudly, "I am already independent and attached to the great emperor of Fulin, but Dashi also knows that if King Gongping perishes, it will be Dashi's turn to hide his bow and bird." After that, Dashi ordered the whole army to disperse and let King Gongping's carriage and Lu Yihao pass. "Envoy Lu, you escort the carriage across the river to Bukhara, and I, Dashi, will lead the troops behind. It's called pursuit, but it's actually protection."

At sunset, the emperor's royal camp was still chasing the remnants of the Pingbaozhai under the city of Mofu, while Guo Yaoshi and Melo led the cavalry and rushed all the way to the city of Amur. Seeing that Diogenes and Jocelan's troops were still stationed in the camp, Melo was very surprised and asked Diogenes why he didn't send troops to pursue.

Diogenes replied that the Khitan officer had led the troops to chase him.

Melo was speechless because he really didn't know what to say to the guard. What would happen if the emperor knew about this? But Melo remained calm and didn't mention Diogenes' dereliction of duty. He just asked him to immediately join the cavalry under his command and cross the river at night to chase the Great Gong Wang, "never let him go."

At this time, Guo Yaoshi, who was eager to win credit, told Melo that the Great Gong Wang had hundreds of cavalrymen on the way and fled to the city of Barihei.

Melo attached great importance to this information, "I have ordered Zhen Wuchen to lead a battalion of cavalry to chase him." Guo Yaoshi hurriedly said that he had made a reasonable decision.

"Hajib's Oghuz Cavalry Regiment also followed this road to strengthen the power of General Zhen Wuchen." Melo said that Zhen Wuchen needed backup, and Guo Yaoshi agreed.

At dusk, the scroll clouds began to grow thicker and thicker, rolling up along the sky - that was a sign of the coming storm on the grassland. Under the surging wind and clouds like huge waves, countless cavalrymen formed a rapidly advancing column, holding torches in the vast wilderness, and galloped towards the Oxus River that was as white as a silk ribbon.

Their goal was to hunt down the Great Gongping King at all costs, whether he was alive or dead.

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Soon, after crossing the Oxus River, the storm came, and the dark and gloomy world, the pursuit team first saw the camp of Yelu Dashi's army, and when the other side saw them, they also began to wave flags to indicate "friendly army".

But Melo rode to Guo Yaoshi and read the emperor's secret order orally through the interpreter, "Yelü Dashi's loyalty is extremely worrying. He may have allowed King Gongping to leave, and he killed General Liu Yanqing before, going back on his word."

"I have long seen that this Khitan thief has ulterior motives. It can be said that those who are not of our race must have different hearts!" Guo Yaoshi was angry, twisted his majestic eyebrows, and shouted angrily with a fist.

"So General Guo, you take the opportunity to rush over and cut off Yelü Dashi's head; I will lead the rest of the cavalry to continue chasing King Gongping. His Majesty said that as long as you succeed this time and kill Yelü Dashi, your power in the land of He will be unimpeded from now on, and you can pay a little tribute to Constantinople on time." After Melo finished speaking, he rode away.