In the flat fields, a team of Zhou army soldiers spread on the road. There was also a man in short clothes in the public, pointing to a village deep in his sight and said, "General, the Khitans stationed nearby are all there!"

At present, a general stretched his neck and looked east, his eyes staying on the flags on the village... There is obviously no need to put flags on ordinary villages.

The general immediately said: "We must sweep these small places for the main force of the vanguard. Wang Jun Envoy!"

"The last one will be here!"

The general stretched out his palm and stretched forward, then turned to the right, and said decisively: "You lead the headquarters to attack from the left wing and surround it from the north to the east!"

"Get orders!"

"Envoy Li Jun, you go to the right wing."

"Get orders!"

Just in a few blinks of fingers, the general immediately drew his sword, raised it upright, and turned around and shouted: "The rest of him follow me! Those with bald hair on his head, those with strange clothes are covered in hair, kill them all!"

The civil servant of the military office behind him immediately reminded: "Is there any life for the general to kill civilians?"

The general said coldly: "Someone ran to your yard to burn, kill, rob, and plunder without your consent. What else should I say when using a knife? Hebei is our territory!"

After saying that, he pointed the sword forward. After hearing the general's words, the soldiers immediately slapped their horses and accelerated their horses. The sound of horse hooves and shouted immediately in the snowy countryside.

The war horses ran faster and faster, and a herd of horses rushed out, and the iron armor shone brightly in the snow and reflected light. Although there were only a few hundred cavalry formations, it seemed unstoppable.

There was actually a simple arrow tower built with wood and thatched roofs at the entrance of the village, and a barrier and gate were built. However, the horses rushed straight towards the gate without stopping.

"Swoosh swish swish swish..." An arrow shot out from the village. There was a tingling sound of impact, like a stone thrown into the water, without affecting the charge of the Zhou army's horses wearing iron armor.

The soldiers on the arrow tower drew their bows and shot them down at a horse. Sure enough, the leather armor on the horse was not very high. With a neigh, a horse knelt on the ground, and the person on the horse's back screamed and fell.

But the Zhou army's cavalry rushed to the front immediately, "Bapapa..." Many arrows were nailed to the wood of the arrow tower, and the sergeant on it immediately turned pale. Sure enough, he immediately got several arrows on his body and fell from it. "Bang!" The corpse with the arrow hit the ground, as if a bird shooting from the sky.

"Bang!" Another loud noise, and a cavalry actually knocked over the wooden barrier. A group of horse soldiers immediately rushed in from the gap. A group of Liao cavalry rushed up to fight, and for a moment there was a loud bang and a loud sound of fighting.

The Zhou army and the horses kept pouring in like a flood, and the Liao cavalry were immediately swept and swallowed up by a large number of people.

The horse soldiers on both sides of the left and right also broke through the barriers and rushed in several directions. Under the gray sky, there were bright lights in the air, and rockets shot towards the roof. Torches were thrown around, and a large fire ignited in a few moments, and thick smoke in the village was rolling.

"Rumbling..." The roar of horse hooves sounded loudly in the thick smoke, and only Zhou soldiers were seen on the way.

A dog barked his tail and ran out of a burning room. A Zhou army knight turned sideways on the back of a galloping horse, pulled his bow and shot an arrow, and the dog barked and fell to the ground.

Soon, many Khitans and Xi people rushed out of the fire room. They first knelt on the side of the road, holding their hands slightly and saying something, but they did not pay attention to the Zhou army soldiers, but they kept flying from the horses. Those people got up and fled, and were chased by the Zhou army warriors riding on horses. They caught up with each other and had a knife, and screams rang out from time to time in the fire.

In less than half an hour, the village turned into a ruin surrounded by black smoke, with corpses everywhere, and a burning smell of mucus filled the air.

Every time, the vanguard leader Shi Yanchao arrived here with a team of men, commended the generals who led the army on the spot, praised him for his good work, and recorded him the military achievements of the first battle of the Liao Dynasty.

Some people along the way were not afraid of martial artists. People heard that the royal army was expeditioning the north and came to send food and drinks together.

Shi Yanchao was very happy to see this scene and loudly ordered in front of the people: "I will order all the tribes, the Han people in Hebei, to kill them!"

But he soon found a woman crying on the side of the road with her child in her arms.

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

A general hurriedly replied, "The woman whom the general asked someone to ask about it just now seems to be Xu Erniang, or Wang Erniang, but her man is a Khitan. The man was killed and his family was burned, so we ignored him when we were crying there."

After the general said that, he added: "Most of the local women in the Khitan family were stolen by force."

Shi Yanchao rode on the horse with an unhappy look on his face, frowned, and repeated: "What's she crying?"

The general was slightly stunned, reached out and scratched his forehead, and hurriedly said, "She was robbed, maybe she shouldn't care about the dead Khitans... But the Khitans are the father of her child. She has no father anymore, so she may feel pitiful. The handsome man, the woman is motherly, and cares about the child very much."

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

The general was stunned, but immediately clasped his fists and said, "I understand!"

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

The woman looked at the Zhou army general with tears in her eyes, and sighed softly when she heard him "ah".

The general walked up to the woman, looked at her, reached out and scratched his forehead. The woman stopped crying and looked at him in confusion.

The general suddenly raised the sword gently and poked the swaddle in her arms. His movements were light, but they were soon accurate and immediately pulled the sword back.

The woman was stunned for a moment, looked down and saw the blood stains on the swaddle in her arms soaked out. Her face changed suddenly. She spread one hand and saw the blood in her hands. She lifted the swaddle again and looked at her, and her body trembled.

"Ah!" the woman screamed and screamed at the child.

She rushed towards the general like crazy, and immediately several soldiers stood in front of her and grabbed her without saying a word. The woman's strength was naturally not as strong as a group of imperial guards. She was unable to move at the moment, so she had no choice but to take the general and watched him leave.

Shi Yanchao forgot about the little thing just now and dispatched the main force of the striker's large stock to continue to advance north.

...The Zhou army vanguard had 18,000 cavalrymen. He encountered no decent resistance along the way, and only sporadic conflicts occurred, sweeping away the Liao army strongholds along the way.

The main force of Guo Shao's central army followed the vanguard and drove across the Juma River, and a large number of troops flocked into the Liao border.

There is an endless field, and there is still unmelted snow on the dark soil. This land is like an old man, revealing the traces of time. On several roads, the horses slowly moved northwards, and countless flags floated in the wind.

The troops were all Zhou army imperial guards, and countless people wore similar clothes and armor, and it was difficult for the soldiers inside to tell who was who.

Zhao Hu was one of them. He rode his horse silently in the crowd, just following people. The horses walked slowly, which felt slower, but the infantry walked much faster.

At this moment, he suddenly found a man standing there blankly beside the Canhuan Duan Wall on the front.

Zhao Hu was immediately attracted by attention. Not only did the man look strange, but he also felt that his figure looked familiar. He didn't say anything for a moment, but just looked at the man and continued moving forward. The soldiers around him also found the woman, but no one paid attention to it... An unarmed and messy woman was not worthy of the army's concern.

As he got closer, Zhao Hu finally recognized him, and his expression immediately became exaggerated. His slow movements immediately became rushing. He kicked the horse's belly and rushed out of the queue.

"Zhao Hu!" Ten generals shouted from behind.

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

As soon as he shouted here, the woman turned around and looked over. Zhao Hu ran to her front, turned over and jumped off the horse, walked over quickly, and widened her eyes: "Xu Erniang... Erniang..."

The woman named Xu Erniang also stared at the young man wearing armor and holding sharp edges over: "Are you Zhao Hu?"

"Yes!" Zhao Hu's expression was very complicated, and his face was almost distorted. He walked to Xu Erniang, opened his mouth, and finally said: "Er Niang, you..."

Zhao Hu's heart was extremely chaotic for a moment, and countless scattered memories surged into his heart. He was pounding the wet clothes by the pond, looking at the grinding people she dared not approach from afar... and the broken women's clothes and blood on the straw in the Xu family's yard.

Now, the woman in front of her face was pale, her hair was disheveled, her long hair was covered with straw, and her coarse cloth clothes were dirty and messy. She was no longer the little girl she used to be, but she was already a woman at this time.

Zhao Hu gritted his teeth, his eyes were astringent and sour, his throat squirmed, and his throat smelled salty.

Tears suddenly flowed out of Xu Erniang's eyes: "They killed my child."

Zhao Hu exhaled and said in a trembling voice: "Do 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, he could probably guess that her child was snatching her Khitans, and the one who killed her child was the Zhou army's vanguard.

Zhao Hu was silent for a moment and said, "Your brother was killed by the Khitans at that time. Don't you know?"

"What?" Xu Erniang widened her eyes, her eyes were filled with tears, and suddenly she softened her body and knelt onto the cold ground.

Zhao Hu stood there, and the woman in front of him was the little girl he missed day and night, but now he doesn’t know what to say. The beautiful little girl who once blushed when she looked at her, but now she has become what she has become!
Chapter completed!