No one could have imagined that Zhao Cheng would be able to eat Xue Jing's troops in a very short period of time without trimming, and quickly bite Wang Xiu's route for a night march.

In fact, in Zhao Cheng's view, there is not much risk in following the tiger.

Even if Wang Xiu was cautious, but now he had two big defeats in a row, and he chose to retreat when he could break the city, which was an irreparable blow to their internal morale for a short time.

Although his troops are strong, they are foreign people from more than a dozen cottages, and he chose to give up Xue Jing in the Battle of Chizhou South Gate, and based on low morale, it is almost inevitable that there will be political friction within them.

Based on these favorable conditions, Zhao Cheng chose to follow them like a shadow, and always bit their footprints from night to go. Otherwise, once you stop and repair, the footprints in the snow will soon be covered by nature.

Before going out, Zhang Ji, who likes to study solar terms, said like a weather forecaster that there was another snowstorm, and he didn't know when it would come, but it was either today or tomorrow. This is the historical data of Chizhou that she backtested, and in the past fifteen years, if there is no warm winter and no snowstorm, once it appears, it will not be just once, it will generally be three times, and the interval between each time is not more than 20 hours.

Zhao Cheng doesn't have much experience with the weather, but believes in the "backtest" she made. It is actually the true meaning of history to be used for reference for future generations, and unfortunately most people can learn from history as "not knowing anything". Zhang Ji is different, she is really a respectable scholar.

In fact, before this, she complained more than once about the disability of the government, because about the impact of snowstorms on people's livelihood in previous years, the records of the government were vague, there was no specific weather change data, and it was a brief diary with a strong political purpose.

For example, when there were few dead people due to a snowstorm, they would try to exaggerate the damage as much as possible in order to obtain special assistance from the imperial court. If there are many deaths, it will be the other way around, and it will be an understatement, as if there is no severe cold. That's about it.

This time, it is the literature and materials that provide data support for Zhao Cheng's military decision-making that are the "library" of Weishan Academy. Although the academy does not have this discipline, Zhang Ji is also gathering the wisdom and experience of everyone, and according to the historical records of those predecessors who have precipitated in the academy, he intends to compile a set of systematic knowledge that can observe the changes of solar terms through celestial bodies and stars and many details.

To put it simply, she is not a Confucian, she is a person like Shen Kuo, but in a different direction, Zhao Cheng finds her more and more interesting.

The marching army was now thinking about this, and facing the biting cold wind. The whole team is not sleepy, but that doesn't mean they won't be tired.

This is another opportunity, if Zhao Chengbu is mentally tired, Wang Xiu's army will be even more tired when he temporarily retreats, and there will be a boost from low morale.

If Zhao Cheng's army faces the cold, Wang Xiu's army will be even colder.

Because Wang Xiu's tactics have always been based on the camp, he didn't take this situation into account. Zhao Cheng, on the other hand, planned to fight in the cold from the beginning, and made resource mobilization and full preparations for these.

After taking the risk of eating Xue Jingbu at the South Gate last night, the biggest benefit is that the cold-resistant equipment has been greatly strengthened.

Every war is full of many links of wits and courage, and accidents are bound to have accidents.

For example, more than 800 militiamen of Zhao Cheng's army have been marching with Wang Xiu's army from night to early in the morning, and they have begun to be harassed and suffered casualties.

Some small groups of rebels, such as five or six or seven or eight people, jumped out of the snow and attacked, slashing with knives.

Damn was walking on the road and was suddenly cut with a knife by someone who came out of nowhere, which is obviously an angry thing. So these rebels didn't hurt much, but they had already provoked the morale of the mob, and some of these rebels who came out to harass were stabbed to death on the spot.

Zhao Cheng's team was wrapped like a stuffed bear because of its strong resistance to the cold, so unless they were faced with a sharp knife used by a professional assassin, it was not a big problem to be cut a few times.

Seeing that some of his own people were stabbed to death, and the harassment and attack tactics did not work, the remaining dozens of rebels scattered and fled from different directions.

Chase, chase, chase!

The angry mob was really angry and began to pursue.

"Don't worry about it, keep marching, don't be disturbed by any smoke."

Zhao Cheng decisively stopped everyone's behavior, "There is only one explanation for this behavior: Wang Xiu is really anxious, he is not sure about many things in the future, and his mentality is confused." So he didn't want to be followed by us. ”

Now Zhao Cheng's prestige is extremely high, so even if they are very angry and want to catch these rebels who jump out and cut people at will, they have to give up.

Just continue to ignore all harassment, even if it really hurts, don't care.

"Don't worry, follow me, there will be no big ambush."

Zhao Cheng relieved everyone again, "If Wang Xiu really wants to ambush us and others, unless he is well fed, he will definitely not deploy a small group of people to harass us, which is tantamount to reminding us." ”

It's easy to say, but in fact, in the battle of wits and courage since the siege of Chizhou, Zhao Cheng and Wang Xiu's mutual calculations are only mutual victories and defeats, and they can't really have an advantage.

It's just that he, Wang Xiu, is now demoralized and in a chaotic mood, while Zhao Cheng is still stable and can continue to make decisions calmly, and the morale of the team is also high.

This is what the remnant is king. In fact, to a certain extent, it is difficult to really distinguish the winner from the loser in strategy and tactics, and there is no saying that who is higher and who is lower, to see who persists longer, makes fewer mistakes, and has fewer pig teammates......

For Wang Xiu in the past, world affairs or fighting a war were very simple things. In the early years, with courage and insight, three or five people started a business, licking blood from the knife edge of the big quagmire in Chizhou, where thieves gathered, and accidentally came to the present.

At that time, only a few of the bandit leaders or gang leaders who made people look up and kill people without blinking an eye are still Wang Xiu's subordinates, and most of them have been buried in the sand.

These things have never made Wang Xiu feel difficult, but now it is really difficult.

Wang Xiu also understands now that many times it doesn't matter how capable he is, but it depends on who the opponent is.

encountered an opponent like Zhao Cheng, and there were too many unfavorable signals before, theoretically something was going to happen. But it is impossible to think about how the accident will happen now, because the road ahead has become extremely difficult.

The blizzard, which had just stopped for less than eleven hours, was coming again!

The wind blows staggeringly, and even if the snow wind is isolated by a face towel, it is still like a knife cutting when it blows on the face in the end.

The boundary was close to the Yangtze Ridge, where the grain transport team had an accident, and there was a snowstorm at the hour.

These are two shadows, which make Wang Xiu feel that the pill is a pill under the joint resonance, and there is no reason to think of keywords such as white agarwood can be used in "marching troops to fight Yangziling in a blizzard".

Since then, various modules within the rebel army have received a military order from Wang Xiu to reprimand: no wandering around, bypassing the Yangtze Ridge. As for the reason, there is no reason.

But the low morale, and under the encouragement of the biting cold wind, Wang Xiu's words were almost ineffective orders.

Not only is it slow to convey, but it also has to be questioned by the leaders.

It has not yet reached the point where the catastrophe is coming, but there are two big mistakes in a row, and the brothers besieged Chizhou in the bitter cold for half a month and it was useless, because of Wang Xiu's prudence. Now facing a catastrophic blizzard, he Wang Xiu wants everyone to bypass the Yangtze Ridge Pass in the blizzard and go for a long way?

To detour the mouth of the Yangtze Ridge, the distance is forty miles. This is not a road for the cavalry in peacetime, but for these mixed horse infantry troops now, when the morale is low, they are in a blizzard, which is equivalent to an extra day of delay before they can go to Lingzhi Mountain, not to mention, there is basically no cold-resistant equipment, and the team is afraid that it will be reduced by a quarter in the wind and snow?

As a result, Wang Xiu's order did not get a good response from the leaders, and although it had not yet been broken, it was divided into scattered modules, and most of them still walked towards the mouth of the Yangtze Ridge, eager to "go home" from this shortcut.

This situation was unacceptable to any commander, Wang Xiu held a grudge in his heart but did not say much, so he had to continue to follow the march towards Yangziling. Even if you have to deal with the internal liquidation, you have to wait until you return home, and the external situation has stabilized.