Chapter Eighty-Five: The Black Forest
When he learned that Zhao Chun was going to change his strategy and wanted to change the original route of the march and no longer go to the border of the Black Ice Tribe, he actually ran to Zhao Chun and said, "Commander Zhao, why don't we go to the border line and seek support from other tribes?"
"On our way to the border, the Black Ice Tribe has set up five lines of defense, and hundreds of thousands of troops are surrounding us, do you think we can break through with our little strength?" Zhao Chun looked at him with a smile.
"Which direction are you going to transfer?"
Zhao Chun didn't answer him directly, but stared at him for a full minute, until he saw that his heart was furious, and when he was about to collapse, he said, "Which direction do you think is better?"
"If we don't want to meet them head-on, there are two directions, one is the direction we came from, we can retreat to the Batu Caves, and the other is to the direction of the Western Black Forest of the Black Ice Tribe, this Black Forest is the first forbidden place of our Black Ice Tribe, and its danger is even higher than that of the Batu Caves, because there are not only all kinds of primitive beasts inside, but also all kinds of swamps. Poisonous miasma, etc., and these are covered with ice and snow, it is difficult to find in advance, the most unapproachable thing is that in the center of the Black Forest, it is said that there is a group of cannibalistic women, even high-level monks are not their opponents, so for thousands of years, no one in our Black Ice Tribe dared to approach that place, only hundreds of miles around it are classified as forbidden places. "Takeuchi is indeed a good guide, very intimate to introduce Zhao Chun to everything in the Black Ice Tribe.
For Takeuchi's introduction, Zhao Chun felt very satisfied, if he didn't understand the situation, he could only lead everyone to retreat to the Batu Cave, even if he took the direction of the Black Forest, he might be forced to a dead end by the enemy because he didn't understand the situation.
"Well, I think the Black Forest is not bad, let's move in that direction!" Zhao Chun pondered for a moment.
"What? You're crazy, that's the first forbidden place of the Black Ice Tribe, in the past, all countries exiled the most heinous people into it, and no one has been able to come out yet, there are too many terrifying legends about that place, let's go to that place, don't we jump into the fire pit? It's better to go to the Batu Cave or break through to the border, so that we can have a little more life. Takeuchi was taken aback and said, the reason why he took the initiative to tell Zhao Chun about the Black Forest was to remind him not to go in that direction, but this guy, which pot is not opened. If it weren't for the fact that this guy had so many brilliant records before, he really wondered if this person had a head in water.
"How do you speak? You dare to question Commander Zhao's ability? Don't you want to live anymore?" said Laura, who came in at some point.
Takeuchi has quite a shadow of this Laura, that area is almost in time for a total solar eclipse, both before and after he was captured, he has suffered from Laura, although Laura is nominally his fiancée, but in fact he wants to call her the little ancestor.
"I ...... I didn't mean that, I was worried about everyone's safety. Takeuchi said with a bitter face.
Laura wanted to say something, but Zhao Chun stopped her and said, "You can rest assured, I made this choice after careful consideration, and as for the reason, you will understand it when the time comes." ”
"Hmph, you know how powerful our Commander Zhao is, right?, how can he think things that a waste like you can understand?" Laura taunted Takeuchi proudly, leaving him with only a beautiful back of his head, and went out.
After Takeuchi left, Zhao Chun called Xiaolu, Xuehe, Shenju, Fei Lihai and others over to discuss the feasibility of transferring to the Black Forest.
Everyone disagreed at first, thinking that the Black Forest was too dangerous, and if the enemy forced them into the Black Forest, they didn't need the enemy to come in and attack, and the dangerous Black Forest would swallow up the nearly 30,000 troops.
Zhao Chun had to explain his plan and strategic intentions to them in detail. Finally, it was stated that the troops would operate only on the edge of the Black Forest and that they would be led by people familiar with the terrain.
After listening to Zhao Chun's plan and detailed explanation, everyone reluctantly agreed, after all, their current situation is not optimistic, whether it is to break through in the direction of the border or return to the Batu Caves, it is not the best choice, and they are even facing the danger of being surrounded and annihilated at any time, only in the direction of the Black Forest can they be put to death and survive.
However, when the officers and soldiers were mobilized for the transfer, they did not elaborate on the transfer in the direction of the Black Forest, but only proposed that in order to get rid of the enemy's tracking, they needed to move quickly.
Except for the new workers, the rest of the people have long been accustomed to Zhao Chun's emergency transfer, if the commander-in-chief does not ask for a rapid march one day, they will feel abnormal, after all, this is a lone battle in the enemy's territory, countless enemies are chasing after the buttocks, if they do not rush to march to occupy a favorable fighter, just wait to be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy.
The Black Forest is about 500 kilometers away from the town of K, and if the previous marching speed was followed, it would take five days to get there, but now after the march with so much military rations and supplies, the speed is naturally much slower, and it will take more than a week to arrive, so the possibility of being caught up by the Black Ice Tribal army is greatly increased.
However, according to Zhao Chun's analysis, if the army of the Black Ice Tribe learned that they had moved in the direction of the Black Forest, they would probably be happy in their hearts, since there was a chance to let this troublesome rebel army die on its own at a very small cost, how could they refuse? Therefore, they would definitely not pursue too closely, and they might even deliberately slow down, only following behind Zhao Chun's troops far away until they were forced into the Black Forest.
Zhao Chun's judgment proved to be correct, and three days later, the scouts came back to report that the enemy's vanguard was only a hundred kilometers away from us.
Zhao Chun was originally going to stop and fight an ambush battle and annihilate this presumptuous vanguard force, but this force had nearly 20,000 people, and they were only half a day's journey away from the large army behind, plus there was no good ambush terrain nearby, and if you wanted to ambush them, you must pay a great price, and the most important thing is that the ambush had little impact on the battle situation, so Zhao Chun had to give up. Every battle is about the life and death of thousands of people, and he has to be cautious and thoughtful in all aspects.
Along the way, the surrounding area is very desolate, the vegetation is sparse, and there are only a few small villages along the way, which make a living by hunting and growing several hardy food crops, but not even a small town, let alone a large city.
This made Zhao Chun feel a little puzzled, the territory of the Black Ice Tribe was not small, the population was sparse, and there was no shortage of various resources such as food, why did they launch a large-scale war with the outside world so frantically? Could it be just because of the ambition of the leader of the bamboo pine?