Chapter 31: The Trek
"Last night's Han army, how did their army soul legion defeat, whoever said it in the most detail can get a good wine at dinner!" Yan Rou asked kindly, throwing out the reward at the right time.
Licking his lips, a few Xianbei little leaders poured what they knew and heard, like beans poured into a bamboo tube!
"I see!" Yan Rou gasped, there was such a big flaw in the tactics of the Liaodong Army! General Gongsun is such a good man! first tried the law by himself, and then fought the golden wolf ride, otherwise today's Liaodong Army is afraid that it will suffer a big loss!
"How did you know that there were two reinforcements from the Han army coming from outside Lulongzhai?" Zhao also approached, raised a question, the answer to this question is related to the next move of the Liaodong Army, for Liu Yu, Zhao still has a great degree of favor, and I don't believe that such a Han clan would sell information to Xianbei people!
"Outside Lulongzhai that day, Helian Bobo shot and killed several messengers, and after the letters he brought were solved, we knew the number and movement of your reinforcements." Xianbeiren's answer made Zhao Zhao's face turn pale, and he kicked a corpse on the ground, splashing a large cloud of dirty blood.
"Zijing, maybe it's just an accident!" Yan Rou also understood, secretly happy in her heart, but comforting in her mouth. Recruit this person can be literate and martial, and knows Xianbei and Wuhuan dialect, and he also respects the general, Yan Rou has always had high expectations for him, and in the next step of the discussion with Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia, in the future, the army will go south to the Central Plains, and the people who stay in the grassland will be recruited.
"Nope! This kind of method, I am too familiar with, it is the method of Bian Tianchou in the state pastor's mansion, and without Liu Yuanjun's approval, it is impossible for the messenger of Lulongzhai to set off! He lowered his head in pain and said in a deep voice the truth of the facts!
"What?!" Liu Bei and his entourage, who had already approached, heard this, Zhang Feibao's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it, could there be such a Han clan relative, recalling some of the actions and means of the eldest brother, faintly, the aura of the Han clan that was originally on the eldest brother also became dim.
Gongsun Xu was even more angry, fell to his knees with a puff, cut his face with a knife, and swore: "My Gongsun Xu, if you can't kill Liu Yu's old thief and Tian Chou thief, you will be a son of man in vain!" ”
He kowtowed to Zhao Yunsan again and said gratefully: "General Zhao, you killed Heliantu, the king of Xianbei in the east, today and avenged my father and uncle, and my grandson continues to thank you here." In the future, General Zhao will have something to do, even if the mountains are thousands of miles away, my grandson will continue to be on call, and he will never give up! ”
"Major General, please get up! That's a big deal! Xi Zhicai and Yan Rou glanced at each other, a smile appeared in their eyes, and they stepped forward to support Gongsun and continued: "Next, we will continue to rescue Lulongzhai, and the young general will first return to Youbeiping and grasp the power!" ”
Standing up neatly, Gongsun continued to salute Liu Guanzhang and the others, and said highly: "In today's battle, I can understand that ordinary troops without the Army Soul Legion will be given for nothing." After I go back, I will immediately rebuild the White Horse Righteous Servant, three uncles, and please help me a lot! ”
"It's nature." Liu Bei stretched out his hand to support Gongsun Xu, his heart was hot, if he could take this opportunity to find out the secret of the formation of the Army Soul Legion, it would be great!
If you can gain the trust of Gongsun Xu and obtain military power, it will be even more wonderful, as soon as he thought of this, Liu Bei's eyes became extremely hot, and his heart to return to Youbeiping was even more anxious than Gongsun Xu!
On the polar ice field in Mobei, Yan Zhanshu was the first to jump off the warship, breathing in the cold air, his spirits were lifted, looking back at the bow of the ship, Yan Liang, who was a little sick, laughed and said: "Zishan, come down quickly, when you get to the shore, your seasickness will naturally be cured!" ”
"Zishan, get off the boat quickly!" Gan Ning said with a straight face, the uncontrollable smile in his eyes revealed his true thoughts.
Among the generals, only Yan Liang reacted the most to the boat, vomiting all the way, and after a few days, he lost ten pounds, and his face was even more ugly, and it was inevitable that he would be teased by others.
At this moment, when he heard the call of the lord, he hurriedly jumped and jumped onto the shore, and suddenly felt refreshed, and sighed: "It's better to be on the shore, and in the future, I won't take a boat again!" Glancing back at the warship, a picture of the past that could not be looked back on provoked laughter.
After getting off the warship, Yan Zhanshu began to form a team, and asked the soldiers to put on the leather jackets they had prepared before, which was a war horse, and they also wrapped a layer of leather armor on their bodies to resist the cold wind.
Iron weapons and armor were unloaded and placed in special sleds, and pulled by pack horses, which were not only the main force of transportation, but also the best meat when food was scarce!
Seeing that except for the dozens of soldiers who drove the boat, everyone else was ready, Yan Zhanshu ordered loudly: "Go!" "The army began to march towards the south according to Guo Jia's guidance, and those warships also began to sail back! On the seashore of Mobei, only a large number of messy footprints have been left, confirming the traces of human arrival.
There are nearly one million people in the central Xianbei, each with 200,000 at the border of the eastern Xianbei and the western Xianbei, and more than 300,000 are grazing horses in the south.
It was this roundabout battle, and the biggest difficulty was not the final attack on Danhan Mountain, but the long-distance journey in the extreme north, in the cold weather, not only lacked supplies, but also had to consider a series of problems such as drinking water and cold protection, and ginger and garlic and other things were even more per person.
Similarly, although Xianbei in the east raised 400,000 troops, there were still 200,000 troops blocking the border of Xianbei in the middle, and nearly 100,000 horses were left behind in Laolai. Zhao Yun's combat tasks are also extremely heavy, but when it comes to the final stage, whether it is Guan Ning and Zhang Yan who stayed in Liaodong, or Liao Hua, who guarded Shanhaiguan, they will raise troops to go north to support.
Although he had made a lot of preparations in advance, when he really started the long trek to the polar ice field, Yan Zhanshu realized that he still greatly underestimated the impact of the harsh environment on the march.
The main effect of the cold weather on the march is the oncoming wind resistance, and the cold can be offset by a large part of the heat brought by the exercise, which is nothing.
The greater trouble came from the nightly camping and vigilance, and from the first night onwards, the howls of wolves echoed around them, bringing with them an ominous aura. On the ice field, at night, the temperature can dive into the water, which is generally close to freezing, and then drop by dozens of degrees!
When Yan Zhanshu got up the next day, he saw that nearly one-tenth of the soldiers had become ice sculptures in their sleep, and even with his big heart at this time, he couldn't help but twitch. You must know that these sacrificed people are the most elite soldiers in the Liaodong Army, and almost all of them have reached the realm of the early stage of the Divine Power Realm, not to mention ordinary county soldiers, even if they are placed in the border army, they are all Dubo-level officers!
Facing the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were cold and blue and their morale was extremely low, Yan Zhanshu felt that he had to do something.
"Gather the bodies of all the sacrificed soldiers!" Yan Zhanshu was silent for a while before giving the first order.
More than 400 corpses piled together, what is it like! Especially these people have lost their lives because of their own decisions! If he knew that this situation would happen, Yan Zhanshu would rather bring fewer people at the beginning, but as one of the de facto heroes, Yan Zhanshu's heart and strength have grown.
"Warriors of the Liaodong Army!" Yan Zhanshu rode a war horse in front of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army who were standing slowly, as if he had not faced his subordinates so directly for a long time, and now he looked over one by one, and saw a lot of familiar faces, they were still alive, this recognition opened a little ripple in Yan Zhanshu's heart, and quickly dissipated.
At this moment, they are in a state of self-blame and dazed because of the death of their siblings, which is not what Yan Zhanshu wants to see!
"Man is inherently dead, or lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai!" Yan Zhanshu's voice was mixed with his own spiritual strength and his true emotions, and he spoke almost like an aria: "Last night, four hundred and seventeen of our brothers who fought side by side left forever, and they died to completely eradicate Xianbei, the strong enemy of this great man!" Their death is heavier than Mount Tai! ”