Chapter 501: Purge

On the snow outside Pyongyang, Su Dingfang couldn't help but smile when he looked at the soldiers in front of him who were sliding on the snow with ski poles in both hands.

These skis are really good stuff, and when you're on a snow march, it's a lot quicker. Unfortunately, on this ski, it is not suitable for short-weapon combat, and only long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows can be used. In this icy and snowy land, the bow and crossbow are easy to freeze and cannot be opened. However, Su Dingfang thought of grenades. Shoot it with a crossbow at a farther place, and when it reaches a close place, drop the grenade and run away.

Today, these non-commissioned officers who are contacting skiing are the 100 soldiers left behind by the reconnaissance battalion. After reading the manual, Su Dingfang immediately asked people to make hundreds of skis according to the sample, and asked the scouts to contact each other on the snow. If there is any suggestion or problem, you should report it to him immediately.

As the soldiers glide through the snow, the problems with the skis are gradually revealed.

On this side of Pyongyang, Liaodong, there are many mountains and forests, and the trees are thick, and skiing in the forest is extremely inconvenient to turn, and those skiing soldiers often can't control one of them, so they hit their heads on the trees. This caused many scouts to complain that the skis weren't flexible enough. This made Su Dingfang scold for a while, where is the lack of flexibility of the skis, it is obvious that they have not practiced the ability to ski.

However, in the process of skiing again and again, this skis still exposed many problems. For example, the rope that is tied to the instep of the foot is easy to loosen. Another example is that the back side is in contact with the snow, and the wear is very large, although it is covered with a layer of wax, but the wear is still serious.

According to these circumstances, Su Dingfang replied to Zhang Yunwen on the one hand, and asked the craftsmen to find ways to improve.

Finally, at the beginning of February, the craftsmen of Chang'an City came up with ways to improve it. After making a sample, it was again sent to Pyongyang.

Su Dingfang, who received a sample of the ski, began mass production of such skis in Pyongyang. And the produced skis were first equipped with the army. Soon, 500 of these skis were delivered to the Andong Prefecture.

At this time, the scouts who had gone out to clear the remnants of Goguryeo returned to Pyongyang with hundreds of human heads whose blood had been frozen.

On that day, these heads were hung at the head of the city of Pyongyang, and they swayed gently with the northwest wind.

The scouts who returned to Pyongyang immediately threw themselves into ski training. Every day in the mountains and forests outside Pyongyang, these scouts are skiing and training in shooting and bombing.

These trainings were specifically designed for those who robbed the Datang material convoy. Although Su Dingfang did not say it explicitly, the scouts couldn't guess the reason. After training hard one by one, it only took more than ten days to roughly master the skills of fighting on skis. This technique was developed by more than 300 scouts after training again and again. Every night, they will gather together as a team to summarize the results of the day's training, what skills have been discovered, and what tactical moves can be made by several people with cooperation. This was the case every day, and the Scouts quickly mastered the art of fighting on skis.

After initially mastering the skills of fighting on skis, the leading captain He immediately proposed to Su Dingfang a plan to wipe out the Sumo tribe.

After pondering for a moment, Su Dingfang finally nodded and said, "This purging plan was originally originally proposed after you waited for the training to be completed. Now that you are the first to put it forward, you must have a plan in mind, and I can't chill the hearts of all the soldiers! Okay, I'll agree to your plan. But since you volunteer, you need to make a military order! ”

Lieutenant He immediately made a military order without hesitation.

That afternoon, the scouts who had gone out for training never returned.

Walking north from Xiangping City, at the beginning, the terrain is flat, and the further north you go, the more undulating the terrain becomes. Walking more than 70 miles to the north, you can see a large mountain rising from the ground.

This mountain occupies a huge area, and the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and the weather is myriad. There are peaks and peaks, valleys and caves, and more mountains and forests. If it is summer, you can only see a green and wooded forest like the sea. But it was winter, and I could only see a pile of snow on the bare branches, and thick snowflakes on the ground. The snowflakes cover everything, making it impossible to know where the ground is and where the crevices are.

The Sumo people who robbed the Tang Dynasty's convoy of supplies lived in this mountain.

Su Dingfang has found out that there are three tribes in this mountain, two are Sumo people and one is Khitan. The attack on the Datang material convoy was done by these two Sumo tribes together.

When the Sumo people entered Xiangping City and exchanged their furs for food, they heard the defenders of Xiangping City talking in a whisper about transporting a batch of supplies. These people were remembered on the spot.

Back in the mountains, the two tribes of the Sumo people united and sent the strong men of the tribe to wait on the official road for two days, and finally waited for the arrival of the convoy transporting supplies. Then they grabbed some grain and cotton and took refuge in the mountains. Fearing retaliation from the Tang army, the two tribes began to migrate deep into the mountains that day.

At this time, at the foot of the mountain, a group of soldiers in white cotton clothes arrived here on skis.

The difficulty of going into the mountains to clear the tribe of the Sumo people is to find them, not to annihilate them. Three hundred people were thrown into this vast mountain, like a drop in the ocean. However, the scouts found two natives who had been in the two tribes of the Suma, and they led the way to the two tribes.

Led by the locals, the scouts first came to the first tribe of the Sumo people, and found that the building was empty. Peeling back the snow to reveal traces of a former camp and burnt ashes, it was only the traces that proved that it was once inhabited.

The Scout couldn't help but be disappointed when he saw this.

The same is true of the second tribe of the Suma.

To the delight of the scouts, however, they found the marks of horses' hooves and ruts three or four miles from the original site of the tribe. These marks were once covered in snow, but the cold wind blew the snow away, revealing the marks just enough for the Scout to notice.

Captain He immediately ordered the search area to be expanded, and twenty people were sent back to the first tribe to search for traces near their camp. And leave marks along the way. And he personally led nearly three hundred scouts to follow the traces that had been discovered.

The hard work paid off, and under the close pursuit all the way, more traces were discovered. These marks are almost all rut marks. Those Su Mo people are afraid that they are not used to the Han people's carriages, these rut marks are messy, and He Xiaowei even simulated the situation of the Su Mo people driving the carriage at that time through the rut marks.

In the end, outside a valley nearly thirty miles north of the original tribe, He Xiaowei and others discovered the scouts of the Sumo people.

The scouts were quickly cleared of the scouts. A bolt flew out, striking the scouts in the throat with precision. Before they died, they didn't make a sound at all, only drops of blood falling on the snow-white snow, which was particularly dazzling.

After dealing with the scouts on the outer perimeter, the scouts began to make their way into the valley. The terrain in the valley was complicated, and it was difficult to use skis, so I had to get off my skis and hike into the valley.

This tribe of the Sumo people, men and women, and children combined, was only more than 600 people, how could they stop 300 sneaky scouts? When the scouts entered the valley, they first seized the surrounding favorable terrain and aimed their crossbows at every wooden house of the tribe, shooting the warriors who rushed up. One by one, the warriors rushed out of the room, greeted by cold crossbow arrows and smoke-emitting grenades.

Almost one-sided slaughter. The male warriors in the entire Su Mo tribe were almost killed, and the remaining seven or eight people looked at the Tang army on all sides with fear on their faces, and weakly lowered the weapons in their hands.

It took less than half an hour from the beginning of the killing scouts on the periphery to the final escort of hundreds of millet people and grain trucks out of the valley.

Captain He looked back at the corpses all over the ground, and sneered: "With such combat power, you dare to offend my Tang Huwei!" ”

A hundred scouts were sent to escort hundreds of people from this tribe and goods such as grain and cotton back to Xiangping City, while Captain He took the remaining soldiers and chased after them following the marks left by the twenty scouts before.

This time, Captain He, they were not so easy. Although they spent a day and a night in the snow and ice to finally find the tribe, the men of the tribe had already gone out to hunt. Only more than 300 old, weak, sick and disabled remained in the tribe. Faced with this situation, Captain He did not give the order to attack, but waited quietly for the men who had gone out hunting to return.

When nearly three hundred men from this tribe returned to the tribe with two deer, a black bear, and hares and pheasants and other prey, Captain He gave the order fiercely: "Attack!" ”

As soon as the sound of the crossbow machine was remembered, these Su Mo soldiers who had been fighting for several days immediately reacted, dropped the prey in their hands, and were about to rush up to fight with the Tang army.

The Scout, however, leaned on his ski poles and fled at great speed. After that swipe, a grenade was thrown backwards.

"Boom-"

With a sound of explosions, the tribe was also taken down by the scouts.