Chapter 194: Wind and Snow 5
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the wind carries the goose feather-sized snow flakes, pouring like a note, and in an instant, the earth is submerged in the white mist, no human eyes, holding a clairvoyant mirror, can not see much distance. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The snow-covered meadow was littered with footprints of varying sizes, and the craters formed by these footprints were very deep, and as the snowflakes slowly covered them, they became lighter and lighter at a visible rate, and it seemed that it would only take a few moments to disappear.
"That's right, they've just passed, and it's only a moment at most." A few white figures were looking for something on the grass, the leader lowered his body, and pulled with his hands for a while, and a few clear footprints appeared on the ground, the freshman should be the leather boots that people stepped on, some were horseshoes, and in addition to the continuous rut marks, the marks were very deep, and they were loaded with heavy objects.
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and inform the minister." A man was about to take out a microphone when he was held down by the man in charge.
"What's the hurry, such a big snow, they can't get up quickly, they follow closely, they may not be noticed, and if they look for it again, maybe they still have some backhand."
Couldn't help but get up from the snow, the leader pulled up the hood behind his back, covering the armor on his body, under the white cloak, there was a red light armor, this color was very dazzling in this white world, they had to be distracted.
In order not to make the sound of hooves too harsh, their horses' hooves were wrapped in thick straw ropes, which had another purpose, that is, non-slip. Several people got on the horse, and all of them bent down, and led the horse to follow the direction of the footprints, and slowly began to accelerate, and the horse's hooves tossed and undulated in the snow, making a muffled sound of "fluttering", like a chicken covered by a pot lid, unable to earn anything.
After running for about half an hour, the man at the head suddenly tightened the reins, and the horse under his crotch stopped suddenly, because he had a horse chew in his mouth, and did not neigh. It's just that a few people behind him were caught off guard and almost bumped into it, but fortunately, they were all familiar hands, and they were always vigilant in their hearts, so they staggered between the urgency, and they all stopped around him.
"Why is there any movement?" After listening to it for a while, they couldn't hear anything else in the wind except for a whimper, but when they saw the leader's face focused, they all consciously silenced.
It only took a moment for these people to understand why they were the leaders, and they could only be their subordinates. In the howling cold wind, there was a faint hint of other sounds, and if you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't be able to hear it at all.
"Sixth." The man at the head waved his hand, and one of his men dismounted, and fell on the snow, listened carefully for a while, then stood up and headed at him.
"That's right, it's a human voice, less than fifty paces away, at least a thousand people."
The man at the head raised his wrist, brought it to his eyes, looked at the pointer on it, and frowned deeply, as if he could not decide.
"It's too late, let's go our separate ways, Sixth Brother, you take someone around from that end to see how many people are at the bottom, and the rest will come with so-and-so."
Less than fifty steps, if it is not such a big snowstorm, it is clear to the naked eye, riding a horse is not done, and when the sixth took two people to go out far away, he led the rest of the people off the horse, while walking forward while estimating the distance, as the distance approached, the sound from the front became more and more obvious, people shouted that the horse was noisy like a bazaar, his heart sank, the enemy here is afraid that there are more than a thousand people.
In fact, at the moment when the Yuan army was launched, Li Tingzhi received news in the city of Chuzhou, and the trick of instigating the capital turned into a not very funny joke, but until he led the army to catch up, halfway through the trip, he did not have the slightest smile on his face.
The bad weather is a test for both sides, whether Yukou Town can hold on to it is a big variable, after all, there are only 20,000 people, and there is no strong city to defend, although he has been guaranteed by Liu Yu, his heart is not solid, in his mind, even if he loses Chuzhou City, he does not want Yukou Town to lose.
Marching in the snow, there is no difference between Xianggong and sergeant, "those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety", the plan made in advance is becoming a reality step by step, but Li Tingzhi did not have much excitement in his mind, but remembered a scene a few years ago. At that time, they were also in a hurry to relieve the siege, and the people who mastered the heavy troops were not only not their own cronies, but also did not listen to the orders at all, and finally had to not only risk death with thousands of township soldiers, but what they didn't expect was that they actually broke through the siege of the Yuan people and sent the materials into the city, and what was the final result?
His memory is fixed on the corpses that rushed down from the upper reaches of the river, each of them is full of arrows, these excellent men who are comparable to the army of the warp system, so they lost their lives in vain, and it didn't take long for the city that had been held for seven years to surrender, and the pain flashed on his face.
"Xianggong, Xianggong?" The call of his own soldiers made him wake up, and when he turned his head, he saw that the person who came was a sentry in his army, and it seemed that he had caught up from behind.
"There is no one in the Yuanren camp, except for those tents, there is nothing left, even in the stove that has been erected, there is not the slightest heat, they are afraid that they will run out of food." The spy snorted and revealed the scenes he saw.
"Where's Huaishui?" Li Tingzhi leaned forward, he cared more about this than the movements of the Yuan people.
"It's already freezing on the edges, and if the snow doesn't stop, it will freeze tomorrow at the latest."
So fast! As soon as Li Tingzhi's face sank, as soon as the Huaishui froze, the two sides of the strait were connected, and the plan to besiege the Yuan people in the Huaishui and the seaside would appear a big hole, and with his current strength, he would not be able to fill this hole, you must know that it could be a full 80,000 people, and he himself would be one more than this number.
Looking at the marching team that was trudging in the snow, he swallowed the words of urging, now the speed is already fast to the limit, even if the sergeants do not spare any effort, he has to take into account the risk ahead, the example of the pursuer being counterattacked, there are not too many in history, in this uneasiness, waiting for the second bad news.
"What, five thousand?" Yuan Ren did not make a desperate attempt as he imagined, but was ready to be attacked on his back, with these five thousand people blocking the front, wanting to let the army bypass without being discovered, the delay was unimaginable, he had no other plans at all, and immediately gathered his subordinates.
It is clear that about a quarter of an hour or so ahead, there will be a Han army of foot soldiers, they have only one purpose, to intercept possible pursuers, they have not been alarmed yet, but they cannot get around, the only way is to destroy them, and try not to take too long.
"Outflanking left and right, frontal assault, and solving the battle in half an hour, is there a problem?" After briefly introducing the situation, Li Tingzhi immediately came up with his own plans, which surprised those generals and schools.
Of course, they can't be blamed for this, in the field battle, quickly defeating a Yuan army, this is almost an impossible task, not to mention the time limit, half an hour, whether it can be unfolded is a question, but Li Tingzhi can't care so much, and goes straight to the general.
"Liu Xingzu, you are familiar with the terrain of Chuzhou, and the matter of bringing people to outflank will be handed over to you, 10,000 people on the left and right sides, set off now, remember, as long as the original phase is defeated, no matter which part is in place first, do it immediately, the sooner the better."
As for the front, Li Tingzhi's eyes patrolled back and forth on the several guards led by him, and finally stayed on Sun Liangchen's face, this person was reminded by Liu Yu again and again, just like Zhu Huan before, although he didn't know the reason, but since then, in his heart, he has more scruples, because it turns out that the latter's guess has not been wrong.
"My subordinates are willing to be pioneers."
Obviously, such a gaze made Sun Liangchen himself extremely uncomfortable, rather than being named, it was better to stand up by himself, like the left and right sides, he took his own headquarters, three thousand Taizhou soldiers and horses and seven thousand Huai soldiers, came out of the entire army of the queue, and moved forward quickly in a rapid marching posture.
"Yang Sifu, you are ready to respond."
"The subordinate obeys."
The battlefield is only so big, 10,000 people is already the limit, fortunately, the number of enemies is not much, he can't believe that the other party can block the attack of six times the enemy without filling his stomach!
Ping Keji is located between Chuzhou City and Yukou Town, roughly in the middle of the two, originally a town connecting the two, after the Qing Township, the people have already fled cleanly, and the town has also been demolished into white ground, there are collapsed houses everywhere, in addition to the ruins of the wall, there is not even a single piece of wood left, at this moment suddenly squeezed into more than 5,000 people, and suddenly it became lively.
Compared to the wilderness, there are at least some traces of human activity here, although those houses are not, but half of the wall can more or less block the wind, instigating them to stay here, for the purpose of monitoring and blocking, but no one thinks that in such weather, the Song people will catch up.
In view of this, they did not even send out their patrols, but only planned to stay long enough to hurry to join the army, and the ruined town was full of fires, and it was better to boil hot water at the same time to ward off the cold, than to eat the snow directly.
It's just that when the footsteps sounded around were so loud that even the wind and snow couldn't hide it, several Han soldiers and thousands of households gathered in a collapsed big house, who were about to enjoy the last meal, all jumped up in horror.
"Enemy attack!"
Shrill shouts rang out all around, and the foot soldiers sitting around the fire grabbed their knives and guns, but did not know where the enemy was, until a large mass of red shadows rushed in in the wind and snow, and the two sides entered into a fierce hand-to-hand combat from the beginning.