Chapter 17: A Snowy Night

On a snowy night, the wind was cold, there was no moonlight, and although it was dark everywhere, the snow in the field allowed Wei Chi Dun to barely see his face clearly, and at this moment, under the escort of the cavalry, he rode his horse and galloped towards the north.

Behind him, the enemy cavalry was in pursuit.

From the evacuation of the battlefield outside Chai Village to the present, I don't know how long he has fled, and Wei Chi Dun, who was originally commanding the army to attack Chai Village, is now panicking like a lost dog, with only dozens of horsemen following him, and the number of pursuers behind is at least more than 100.

The other cavalry, who don't know where they are now, will be defeated today, and I'm afraid that more than half of them will suffer casualties.

Holding superior forces, but fighting like this, Wei Chi was full of anger in his heart, but he was helpless, and regretted why he didn't bring more cavalry to the south.

If he hadn't specially left thousands of more cavalry in the hanging gourd to prevent Yuwen Wen in the city from breaking through, he would have more troops behind him today, and the cavalry that suddenly appeared would not have been able to successfully sneak attack, and he would not have lost.

And now, the embarrassment of the road rush has resurfaced the feeling of many years ago.

It was nearly ten years ago, when Emperor Tianyuan Yu Wenyun died suddenly, and his relative Yang Jian actually assisted the government to grasp the power, and Wei Chidun was in Chang'an at the time, feeling that the bloody storm was coming.

His father, the Duke of Shu Chi Yuan, was the governor of Xiangzhou at the time, and Yang Jian specially asked Wei Chi to go to Yecheng to pass the order, and let Wei Chi return to Beijing to attend the funeral of Emperor Daxing.

What is there to say about this kind of thing, relatives seize power, and it is clear that they have bad intentions!

Wei Chi Hui raised troops against Yang in Yecheng, supported Zhao Wang Yuwen to recruit his young son Yuwen Qiankeng as the emperor, and let Wei Chi Dian lead 100,000 troops to meet the imperial army, and the two sides confronted each other in Qinshui.

At that time, Wei Chi was full of confidence and wanted to give the enemy a head-on blow, but in the battle of Qinshui, he lost his family and fled back to Yecheng in a hurry.

At that time, I really lost so badly, and now, my soldiers are still there, and they haven't lost yet!

Thinking of this, Wei Chidun regained some fighting spirit, and his mind began to clear up.

The first priority was to get rid of the pursuers behind him, and these pursuers belonged to the cavalry that charged at the back of his own formation, which had come from the north before.

Wei Chi Dun has fought for many years, he dare not say that he is a famous general in the world, at least he has rich experience in war, he commanded the army to attack Chai Village, and released rangers to guard the perimeter, but there was an enemy cavalry touching in, what is going on?

The north of Chai Village is about 40 miles away from Song Ping, Song Ping is a city controlled by the official army, could it be that the guard general has rebelled?

After this idea came up, it was quickly vetoed by Wei Chidun, and Song Pingshou was carefully selected by him, more than one person, and they were also restrained by each other, and it was impossible to rebel.

Then the cavalry that sneaked up was most likely the strange army he had judged before.

The Hulin army feinted to attack Song Ping, attracted reinforcements to attack, and then retreated all the way south, and another strange army set up an ambush or sneak attack somewhere, annihilating the army pursuing the Hulin army.

This was Wei Chi Dan's previous judgment that the enemy might adopt a tactic, and now he was really attacked from the back by a cavalry, but he really couldn't figure out how this cavalry came out.

And the timing was well grasped, just when the Tiger Forest Army was approaching his own formation after a day of fighting, he rushed over just right, and came to a north-south attack.

Such a just right cooperation is really incredible, Wei Chidun can't figure it out, but he can figure out another thing: the cavalry chasing him is about to be unable to hold on.

The other party came from the north, and rushed into battle when the peripheral rangers did not have time to run to the main formation to warn, thinking that they were galloping all the way, so some of the cavalry in it chased him until now, where can the horses hold up?

However, the horses ridden by Wei Chi and his party were different, and the battle began in the morning, and these horses did nothing in their own formation, until the battle situation changed suddenly in the afternoon, and then they ran north with the men.

Therefore, Wei Chidun did not divide his troops to intercept the pursuers now, in order to buy time for his escape, but kept running forward and fighting for endurance.

Sure enough, the distance between the pursuers and them gradually lengthened, and after some time, the pursuers disappeared.

After running for a while, and making sure that the pursuers had been thrown off, the lieutenant and his party slowed down so that their mounts could slow down, and after running for so long, and not letting the horses rest again, once they were exhausted, what should they do on this snowy night?

Staying and finding a shelter for the night is too dangerous, and it is no joke if the pursuers catch up.

Wei Chidun estimated the time with experience, and estimated how far he had probably run, and finally felt that he should not be far from Song Ping, so he decided to continue his journey and rushed to the Huaishui side.

Song Ping is located on the north bank of the Huai River, if you want to go to the south of the light city, you have to cross the river, when Wei Chi Dan led the troops to pursue the Hulin Army, built a pontoon bridge on the Huai Water outside Song Ping City to facilitate the army to cross the river, and also transferred soldiers to guard the bridge.

Therefore, he planned to rush to the Huaishui pontoon bridge overnight to cross the river, call open the city gate, and immediately make arrangements after entering the city, collect the scattered cavalry, and fight again in the future.

Yu Chi Jing was defeated in Tongguan, Yu Chi Youqi was defeated in Guangling, and now it is his turn to be the head of the Yu Chi clan in Xizhou, and if he continues to be defeated like this, the foundation of the Yu Chi clan will really be shaken!

Thinking of this, Wei Chidun was a little anxious, because one after another accidents had caused the development of the situation to be completely different from what he had planned, and now the successive defeats will inevitably make the hearts of the people in the DPRK and China fluctuate, and some people will have different ideas.

Regardless of the wind and snow, Wei Chi and his entourage hurried slowly, and finally came to the south bank of Huaishui, and saw the outline of the dark village in the distance, Wei Chi ordered someone to go up first to say hello.

Huaishui pontoon bridge on both sides of the garrison, set up a small village in order to station, when it is dark will set up a horse to block the bridge, now in the middle of the night the black light blinds, Wei Chi is worried that the defenders think they are enemy soldiers, then a burst of random shooting will be very dangerous.

More than ten horsemen rode forward, and there were still dozens of steps away from Xiaozhai before they shouted loudly, "Military affairs are urgent!" Open the door! ", in order to attract the attention of the sentry on the arrow tower.

The grass on both sides of the road was littered, because the grass was waistless, and the defenders were worried that someone would use this as a cover to attack the camp, so they set fire to it before, and the field was like a dog gnawing at this time, and the weeds were uneven.

The ground was black grass gray and white snow, mottled in the night, and Tian Liuhu, who had been lurking in gray cloth for a long time and had a runny nose, stared at the uninvited guests not far away with wide eyes.

Around him lurked a large number of people, all covered in gray cloths, smeared with indigo on their faces, and armed with weapons in their hands.

"Young village master! Why are there still people coming in the middle of the night? It's all cavalry! ”

"Don't you be verbose, didn't we come here in the middle of the night?"

"Could it be someone sent by General Tian Bei...."

"General Tian Bei is leading his troops to retreat south, how can he have the spare strength to send people over to carry out a sneak attack...."

Tian Liuhu and the people around him lowered their voices and muttered, everyone braved the wind and snow to finally touch here, and was about to touch the enemy camp to kill people and set fire to break the pontoon bridge, but this group of cavalry who suddenly arrived disrupted the plan.

I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what do you do here?