To avoid any enemy pursuit, they first stopped to rest for Two Quarters of an Hour, then turned and fled toward the southwest, because to the southwest lay a stretch of Mountain Forest—the very Mountain Forest where the Kele Tribe's White Jade Mine was located.
Of course, they did not go to the Kele Tribe's White Jade Mine. They only wanted to find a place to rest and reorganize for a day.
At this moment, they did not lack grain, fodder, or supplies. The only thing they needed was rest.
People needed rest, horses needed rest, and the wounded soldiers needed rest even more.
They found a mountain hollow to serve as a temporary place to recover.
At the same time, they buried the fallen Soldiers in the hollow.
They would not abandon the Severely Injured Soldiers. As long as there was still one breath left in them, they would bring them along. Perhaps those Severely Injured Soldiers would be jolted to death on the backs of galloping horses, but they would still bring them.
As long as there was the faintest chance, they would not give up on these Soldiers.
Just As Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze brought their troops to the foot of Bayandelehei City, Yang Zhengshan also led the army into the Wuliang Tribe's territory.
After fighting across four thousand li and marching at speed for nearly a month, the Soldiers led by Yang Zhengshan were now truly exhausted, men and horses alike.
Of the twenty-four thousand Soldiers, they had already left behind four thousand along the way, most of them auxiliary troops for the Heavy Armored Cavalry and Heavy Infantry. Placed in any other army, these auxiliaries could still be called elite, but in Chongshan Town's Town Garrison Camp, they could only serve as auxiliaries.
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