"Where's the hydration bladder? Don't they all have hydration bags? ”

Guan Dutou was also frozen by a biting cold that his teeth chattered, but he still forced his tone to remain calm. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Why, is the hot water in your old water bag still hot? I'm afraid it's already an ice lump now, in this ice and snow, even the fire is probably frozen out, what can that hot water do? The weak voice that spoke before held back the trembling teeth, trembling, and took out the cowhide bag that had long been frozen into a hard lump on his chest.

"Dutou, if you don't let the brothers warm up, the brothers will not die at the hands of the Mongols, I am afraid that they will be frozen to death in this snow nest." Li Dali hissed with a crying voice. "Do you think that these brothers who are on duty all night these days have survived like this? Didn't they all secretly light the fire after the water bag froze into an ice lump? ”

Guan Dutou could also feel his hands and feet, which had long been unconscious, and looked at the brothers lying on their stomachs in the snow room one by one according to their memories, it was pitch black in the snow room, and he couldn't see anything at all, but he knew that those brothers were also looking at him. But Guan Dutou was very clear about the heavy responsibility that he and others were shouldering at the moment, so he took a deep breath and said.

"I can't control other people's actions, but today is my old Guan on duty at night, and I want to make a fire to keep warm, no!"

"All heads ......"

"Shut up, don't lie on your stomach in the snow nest with Lao Tzu, climb up the mountain with Lao Tzu to see if there are any Mongolian barbarians stealing camps, if you don't see it on a trip, you will climb down again, and climb up again, no one is allowed to be lazy." Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Guan Dutou without saying anything.

Hearing Guan Dutou's categorical words, the rest of Li Dali and the others also knew, and if they wanted to let their Dutou adults relax and make a fire to keep warm, they didn't even think about it, but fortunately, Dutou was still relieved, although it was windy and snowy outside, but at least moving was better than freezing to death in a cold and biting snow nest.

"I'll take the lead, Zheng Niu, your palace, follow me up one by one."

Ever since he heard Zheng Niu say that the rest of the night scouts relied on lighting a fire in the second half of the night to keep warm until the fourth watch, Guan Xing's heart was shrouded in an ominous premonition for some reason. According to the patrol duties of the army these days, the scouts who came out at the front should be on duty ten miles away from the camp at night, and will not return to the camp until the fourth watch is about to be light.

If it is really according to what Zheng Niu said, the scouts sent by the battalion are all making fires to keep warm, then in this snowfield, although there is falling snow blocking the view, but the light refracted by the snow can be enough to amplify the fire even if it is a bean, if the Mongolian army in Caizhou City really wants to attack the camp, then it will definitely be able to find out where those squatting scouts are, and it will not take much effort to pull out these scouts who are on duty at night.

In other words, the entire Xinyang Army camp was undefended.

Guan Dutou didn't dare to think about it, pulled away the branches that couldn't block much wind, and dragged his stiff legs and feet to climb out first. The remaining six Song soldiers twisted one after another in strange postures, and climbed towards the top of the low mountain along the ravine drilled out of the snow at the head of Guandu, against the wind and snow.

Climbing to the top of the small mountain with high wind and snow, seven heads lined up in a row, looking ahead.

Even though there was snow, it was still dark under the hill, and you couldn't see anything.

No one spoke.

There was only a cold wind whistling in his ears, and this whistling had become the only sound in this cold and biting world.

Zheng Niu moved his arm that had improved a lot but was still stiff, bumped into Guan Xing, who had been staring at the front silently, and pointed to the bottom of the mountain that had just climbed up.

Guan Xing didn't say a word, turned around and quickly crawled towards the snow nest of the mountain col, but the speed was much faster than when he came up before. Zheng Niu, Li Dali and others didn't know what to do, so they had to turn around and follow Guan Xing towards the col and climb down with their hands and feet.

"Phew!"

As soon as he returned to the snow room, he saw a little fire light from Guan Xing's waist, and the sudden light made Zheng Niu and the others involuntarily close their eyes to adapt to the sudden arrival of light.

"Critical ......"

"It's a little wrong, hurry up and light your fire folds, light all the rockets, and climb up with me, hurry!"

"Critical ......"

"This is a military order!"

Six canopys of grease-stained feather arrows instantly ignited in the igloo.

"It's all right, hurry up and give me your fingers flexibly, go up with me again, all the rockets are given to Zheng Niu, don't let the rockets go out, shoot the rockets out to me when you go to the top of the mountain, shoot as far as you want, shoot at me flat, and don't throw them."

"Moment, do you mean ......" Zheng Niu saw Guan Xing's solemn face with a slightly nervous look, and hesitated.

"I wish there was nothing!"

Everyone felt the tension in Guan Xing's heart, or the hands and feet were no longer as stiff as before after the movement just now, but the speed of going up the mountain this time was much faster than before.

"Whoosh!"

Two successive waves of twelve rockets shot flat from the top of the hill without warning, appeared in the air, and drifted crookedly towards the bottom of the mountain in the bitter cold wind, expelling all darkness along the way.

Guan Xing, Zheng Niu, Li Dali and others' breathing instantly stopped!

Under the light of the fire, dozens of steps away, you can clearly see countless dense black shadows standing in the snow like snow ghosts, maybe it was the sudden firelight that stimulated the eyes of those figures, so that they couldn't adapt to the sudden light for a while, or the sudden arrival of a few feather arrows made those people forget how to deal with it for a while, and just watched the twelve fires fall in the dense crowd.

At this moment, it seems that the wind and snow have stopped!

The suffocating silence was shattered by a roar that pierced the wind and snow after just a few breaths.

"Enemy attack!"

Guan Xing never imagined that he would one day be able to let out such a loud and huge roar, of course, maybe it was just an illusion.

This burst of shouting broke the silence of both sides, and the whole world instantly came alive, the cold wind was still howling, and the snow was still falling. With the last remaining light, I saw a dense group of tall figures suddenly swooping towards the top of the mountain silently, and the footsteps crushing the snow instantly overshadowed the howling of the wind and snow.

……

Since the beginning of winter, Meng Hui accepted Jia Yidao's troops to send troops north to threaten Caizhou, Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Yingzhou and other cities in order to support Sun Kui's Jin army at the foot of Taihang Mountain.

Because Kouwen was not in a hurry to go north to quell Sun Kui's rebellious Jin army, when he retreated from Xiangyang City, the army left to guard the four cities was only 150,000 people, of which only less than 30,000 Mongolian elite cavalry was commanded by Shi Tianze in Tangzhou City (now Tanghe County, Henan), which was only more than 100 miles away from Xiangyang City. The rest of the Song army soldiers can really only be regarded as soldiers of the five scum of the war, more than 100 li, who is the 20,000 Mongolian elite horsemen who come and go like the wind, it is enough for the Song army guarding Xiangyang City not to dare to act rashly.

In addition to the 30,000 elite cavalry composed entirely of Mongols, most of the remaining 120,000 soldiers were cavalry and foot soldiers from the Western Xia, Jin, Tubo, Western Liao and other client states, and were led by four 10,000 commanders to guard the three cities of Caizhou, Yingzhou and Dengzhou, forming horns against each other, on the one hand, forming a semi-arc encirclement of Xiangyang City to cause enough oppression, and at the same time, they could join forces at any time to march south to force Xiangyang City and threaten the south bank of the Yangtze River at any time.

But what Meng Hui didn't know was that in addition to Shi Tianze's 30,000 elite cavalry sitting in Caizhou City, the remaining 120,000 troops were not divided into three cities as initially carefully investigated, but at the beginning of the heavy snowfall, they had quietly concentrated in the snow from Dengzhou City and Yingzhou City to Caizhou City at night, and the rest of the 100,000 troops were all concentrated in Caizhou City (now Qinyang County, Henan Province), which was more than 200 miles away from Xiangyang City under the command of Zhang Rou. At this moment, the Mongolian servant army in the cities of Dengzhou and Yingzhou is only more than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled.

From the beginning, no matter whether they were forced to retreat, Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou had no intention of really sticking to the four cities and getting along peacefully with the Song army. And Meng Heng took the initiative to go north to force the four cities, which also made Zhang Rou and Shi Tianze see an opportunity. In addition to Tangzhou City and Caizhou City, which are important places that must not be lost, Dengzhou City and Yingzhou City, which are too far away from Xiangyang City, are relatively not so important.

What's more, as long as Meng Hui is defeated, the entire north bank of the Yangtze River will be Mongolian, even if Meng Heng occupies Dengzhou City and Yingzhou City, what can it do?

Compared with the Song army, which had lived in the south for a long time and was accustomed to warmth, the soldiers of the Jin State, Western Liao, Western Xia, Tubo and other client states who had lived in the bitter cold land in the north for generations did not know how much higher their ability to adapt to the wind and snow and cold was much higher than that of the Song army.

Therefore, Zhang Rou carefully planned this snowy night attack on the camp, he knew that the Song soldiers would definitely not adapt to this wind and snow like heaven's help, as long as they could eat these more than 100,000 bold Xinyang troops, then it would be equivalent to breaking Meng Hui's arm. Xiangyang City may no longer be out of reach.

Along the way, Zhang Rou's vanguard swept through, clearing no less than dozens of secret posts densely scattered within a radius of more than ten miles, killing hundreds of Song army scouts, while lamenting the caution of the commander of the Xinyang army, Zhang Rou laughed at the weakness and incompetence of those Song army soldiers who lit fires for warmth.

The attack on the camp is in sight, and the big victory is imminent.

But Ren Zhangrou didn't expect that he would collapse only three or five miles away from the Song army's camp because of the twelve rockets like sparks!