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Chapter 1253: Pursuit

The cavalry galloped.

The team has been stretched for a long time. These days, they have been maintaining high-intensity marching. On average, they only have to rest for about one hour every day. The rest of the time is on the horse, and they are basically dealt with immediately. Since the formation of the cavalry battalion, Yu Chao has only done this when he is in high-intensity training, but the longest time is only one day and one night. But now, it has been five days and five nights in a row. One hour of rest every day has almost pushed every cavalry to the limit.

All the soldiers were extremely tired, and from time to time, someone would be injured due to falling out of the horse. Even Yu Chao himself felt extremely difficult. All of this was because of a message sent by His Majesty.

"If you can catch up, try to catch up!"

Since the Taiping City era, Yu Chao has been following Qin Feng. Qin Feng's order seems very ordinary, but Yu Chao understands the meaning of the emperor's words. Although he doesn't know what kind of storm this escaped Ma Chao will cause and make His Majesty at all costs, it must be his reason for His Majesty to do this.

In fact, they are in such a dangerous state now. If Ma Chao did not run away but hid in a secret place at this time, he would definitely give them a fatal blow.

Even if the Zhuifeng Camp is a man of iron, even if each of their cavalry is equipped with a double horse, it is impossible to bear such pursuit day and night.

"General Yu, look!" As soon as the Mercedes-Benzed, Deputy General Lin Kun pointed to the front, and a broken flag was flying sparsely on a small mound.

Yu Chao raised his hand, pulled his horse and slowed down. Behind him, thousands of cavalrymen slowly stopped.

"Send the order, rest!" Yu Chao said to Lin Kun beside him. But he rode his horse and slowly ran towards the small hill in front of him.

From a distance, corpses scattered on the hills and some dead war horses had been seen.

Yu Chao accelerated forward, and the guard behind him had surpassed him. He rushed up the hill, and after a while he returned, his face looking a little bad.

"General, there are dead people above. They are our Ming Dynasty caravans and guards, and they are from the Mingwei Escort Agency. The flag is also Mingwei Escort's flag!" An escort presented the flag he received to Yu Chao.

Yu Chao is very familiar with this escort flag. Over the past year, the flag of the Mingwei escort agency has bloomed everywhere on the territory of the former Qin State. They replaced the Ming army and engaged in local security, bandit suppression, and escort caravans.

Yu Chao turned over and dismounted and strode towards the hill.

The dead bodies on the ground were dressed in Mingwei Escorts, dressed in ordinary people, and dressed in some Thunder Sergeants. Yu Chao stopped beside a war horse and used the scabbard in his hand to push away the hair of the horse's body. Seeing the mark on it, it was indeed the escaped Thunder Army's horse.

"General, it seems that one of our caravans encountered this Thunder Army. They could only form formations on this small hill to defend, but in the end, the strength was too disparity and they were eventually destroyed." Lin Kun squatted in front of a corpse and observed for a while, "It should be two days ago, depending on the situation."

Two days! Yu Chao's face was as heavy as water. Even though he pursued him day and night, he only narrowed the gap between the two sides, and the Thunder Army did not escape slowly.

He walked up the hill, and the anger in his eyes became stronger.

Everyone died miserably. The carriage surrounded a small defensive lineup, with layers of dead bodies inside, and no survivor. All the supplies that should have been loaded on the carriage were robbed.

Yu Chao sat tiredly on the shaft of a damaged carriage, "Can you find out your identity?"

Lin Kun nodded: "Mingway Escort Agency adopts militarized management, and it also applies the management regulations of our Ming army. Every e-mail has an identity nameplate, but those merchants cannot check it."

"Put away all the nameplates of these escorts, take them back and give them to the headquarters of the Mingwei escort agency. As long as the identities of these escorts are found, who is the caravan they protected this time. People are dead outside, so we cannot bring their corpses back, but we always have to bring back a message. In the future, their descendants will still have a place to burn incense to the grave. Clean up the place and bury everyone!"

"Yes, General!" Lin Kun nodded.

Although he was extremely tired, a fire was burning in Yu Chao's heart. Along the way, he saw too many such scenes. Not only the merchants, guards, officials of the Ming Dynasty, and even the ordinary people of Qin, who were on this road, there were basically no survivors.

This Thunder Army is extremely vicious and not only steals objects, but also kills people.

Yu Chao really doesn't understand. It is understandable that you need supplies, food, and robbery if you want to escape, but why do you have to kill everyone? Is it just to vent your anger?

No one will become rebellious after encountering a powerful cavalry of thousands of people. They can easily steal what they need and then go far and go there, and there is no need to kill people at all.

It can only be said that the commander of this army has completely lost control psychologically. He killed people not for strategic goals, but just to vent his resentment.

"If I fall into my hands, I will cut you into pieces!" Yu Chao thought in his heart angrily.

Take out the map from your arms and look at the route drawn by the charcoal pen. This is a straight escape route to Qinghe County. So far, Ma Chao's goal has been very obvious. They are going to cross Qinghe County and cross the Luoying Mountains to Chu State.

Yu Chao is now very worried about Qinghe County. As the location of a county's prefecture, it has the largest population, and more Ming Dynasty merchants and guards are concentrated there. If Ma Chao conquers it, the losses will be greater.

He wanted to fly there with wings, but after a glance under the hill, the soldiers who had gotten off the horse were lying everywhere. Some were biting half a piece of jerky in their mouths, and some were holding kettles in their hands, but their people were already asleep.

The soldiers were too tired.

"Stay for an hour and then set off!" He said to Lin Kun beside him. "The soldiers who were responsible for burying the bodies here, and the aftermath also took a rest for an hour afterwards, and then set off to chase us. This place is still one day away from Qinghe County. Tomorrow, we must go somewhere."

"General, will Ma Chao attack Qinghe County City?" Lin Kun asked worriedly.

"I don't know." Yu Chao shook his head. Ma Chao could no longer use common sense to guess. Who knows what this lunatic would do crazy?

An hour later, the loud sound of the war horn sounded, and the sleeping soldiers jumped up from the ground like a spring, rubbed their faces hard, turned over the horses, and quickly formed a team.

When the sound of the military horn sounded again, under Yu Chao's leadership, they rushed towards Qinghe County City with lightning. Behind them, only a small number of people were left, and they carried the bodies into the deep pit that had just been dug out and buried them.

The broken Mingway Escort flag was inserted on the grave.

A day later, Yu Chao finally saw the flag of Qinghe County City. Seeing the Ming flag still flying on the city tower of the county city, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Qinghe County City is still there.

He rode his horse to the city, but saw the city gates closed. On the top of the city, countless people were patrolling back and forth with weapons. Seeing the flag of the Zhuifeng Camp, the people on the city wall couldn't help but cheer loudly.

The city gate immediately opened, and several civil servants and a man in the Mingway escort uniform walked out strode out.

"General Yu, you are finally here! This is Huang Guozhong, the governor of Qinghe County." The civil servant led by the leader bowed to Yu Chao.

Yu Chao quickly turned over and dismounted and saluted Huang Guozhong. The garrison of a county had already been granted the title of chief official. Even now Huang Guozhong is just an empty county magistrate, who wants no one, no money, and no soldiers, but the county magistrate is the county magistrate, and the level is much higher than that of Yu Chao.

"Yu Chao has seen the governor of County Huang, and Yu rushed all the way, afraid that Ma Chao would poison the county town, but fortunately everything is fine!" Yu Chao said.

"I have to thank Mr. Guan Ningguan. If Mr. Guan hadn't been there, I'm afraid General Yu would have only seen Huang's head hanging high above the city tower of this county city today." Huang Guozhong pointed to the man wearing the Mingwei Escort Service escort service next to him and introduced: "This is Mr. Guan Ningguan, the chief escort of the Mingwei Escort Service."

"Guan Ning met General Yu!" Guan Ning strode up, but saluted Yu Chao. Yu Chao was not surprised, and returned the salute. Most of the escorts in the two major escort agencies, Mingwei and Tianwu, were soldiers who retreated from the army. If Guan Ning had such great appeal to form the Mingwei escort agency, then his previous position in the army should have been quite high.

"If Mr. Guan hadn't received the news in advance, he had withdrawn everyone near the surrounding area into the county city, and organized Mingwei, Tianwu Escort Agency's escorts and all the Qingzheng City we could find to defend and guard the Qinghe County City, they would have been in seclusion. The Qin army attacked tentatively and saw that there was already a precaution in the city, so they led their troops to retreat."

"I wonder if Lord Huang can prepare some supplies for our army, we still have to pursue them." Yu Chao said.

Huang Guozhong shook his head and said, "General Yu, it's too late. A day ago, they had left Qinghe County. With their feet, they were afraid that they had entered the Luoying Mountains now."

"Even if they escape to Chu State, I will chase after him." Yu Chao said angrily.
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